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In bodybuilding and weight training, using drop sets (aka dropsets, descending sets, strip sets, the multi-poundage system the stripping method, triple-drops, down the rack, or running the rack)[1] is a technique for continuing an exercise with a lower weight once muscle failure has been achieved at a higher weight.[2][3] It is most often performed on weight machines because reducing the weight quickly is thought by some to be extremely important, but it can also be performed with dumbbells and other free weights.
History[edit]
The approach of reducing resistance during sets was described in the late 1940s by Henry Atkins, editor of Body Culture magazine, who called it the multi-poundage system.[1][4]
In the 1980s, drop sets formed part of Joe Weider's Weider System.[1]
Example[edit]
While performing a biceps curl, the person lifting the weight would start with a 25 pound dumbbell and do as many repetitions as possible without significantly compromising form. Then a 20-pound weight would be used until exhaustion is reached. One could continue to "drop" down as many times as he or she wishes, but usually the weight is not dropped to below fifty percent of his/her one rep maximum.
Variations[edit]
There are many variations possible while using the same basic concept of reducing the weight used. One way is to do a specified number of repetitions at each weight (without necessarily reaching the point of muscle failure) with an increase in the number of repetitions each time the weight is reduced. The amount or percentage of weight reduced at each step is also one aspect of the method with much variety. A wide drop set method is one in which a large percentage (usually 30% or more) of the starting weight is shed with each weight reduction. A tight drop set would remove anywhere from 10% to 25%. These definitions are somewhat arbitrary, of course, and not everyone will agree on the exact definitions.
Effects[edit]
In adults in their 50s, 12 weeks of drop-set training conducted thrice-weekly can improve muscle mass, muscle strength, muscle endurance and tasks of functionality.[5]
Drop set usage can increase the hypertrophic response to resistance training.[6]
Some researchers have reported mixed or inconclusive findings.[7]
Cautions[edit]
As it is very easy to "over train" with drop sets[citation needed], it is highly recommended that no more than one to two drop sets be done per muscle group on any given workout. This technique is also not recommended as a long term regimen. The primary focus on drop setting is to "shock" the muscles by adding stress, thus incentivizing additional hypertrophy.
Other names[edit]
Drop sets and the technique also go by the names breakdowns, burnouts, descending sets, triple-drops (when a total of three different weights are used), down the rack or running the rack (when using dumbbells), up the stack (because with a weight machine, the pin is moved up the stack of plates with each drop in weight), strip sets (when you "strip" weights off the ends of a bar), or the stripping technique (so called because of "stripping" weight plates off with each drop in weight).
References[edit]
 1. ^ a b c "What Makes Dropsets So Good, But So Nasty?". Bodybuilding.com. 9 March 2018. Retrieved 15 October 2018.
 2. ^ Evans, Nick (1 December 2009). Men's Body Sculpting. Human Kinetics. ISBN 9780736083218. Retrieved 15 October 2018 – via Google Books.
 3. ^ Wuebben, Joe (15 October 2018). Stronger Arms & Upper Body. Human Kinetics. ISBN 9781450407977. Retrieved 15 October 2018 – via Google Books.
 4. ^ "The Tight Tan Slacks of Dezso Ban: The Atkin Multi-Poundage System - Henry J. Atkin". Ditillo2.blogspot.com. 16 January 2012. Retrieved 15 October 2018.
 5. ^ Johannsmeyer, Sarah; Candow, Darren G.; Brahms, C. Markus; Michel, Deborah; Zello, Gordon A. (1 October 2016). "Effect of creatine supplementation and drop-set resistance training in untrained aging adults". Experimental Gerontology. 83: 112–119. doi:10.1016/j.exger.2016.08.005. PMID 27523919.
 6. ^ "Effects of drop set resistance training on acute stress indicators and long-term muscle hypertrophy and strength" (PDF). Researchgate.net. Retrieved 15 October 2018.
 7. ^ "Can Drop Set Training Enhance Muscle Growth?" (PDF). Researchgate.net. Retrieved 15 October 2018.
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I have set up landed costs and created my first transaction. The bill that landed costs were applied to seems correct:
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My question is that the account where the landed cost expenses hit, now shows a negative balance in the amount of the costs that were applied, $3,408.25 and this is coming from the bill from our freight forwarder, Gallagher Transport:
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Why is this and how do I remove this in order to balance this account to $0?
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Hello there, @ RKN.
You can create a bill then add the expenses. Then check it if it's the same screenshot that shows negative.
Here's how to create a bill:
 1. From Home Page, choose Enter Bills.
 2. In the Vendor drop-down, select the vendor you'd like to create a purchase order for.
 3. Select the date.
 4. Fill in the other necessary fields.
 5. Hit the Save and Close button.
On the other hand, you can create a check transaction in QuickBooks Desktop. This is used when you want to recognize an expense and record payment all at once. Here's how to create a check:
 1. Click Banking at the top.
 2. Select Write Checks.
 3. Enter the necessary information.
 4. Click Save & Close.
After recording what you owe in QuickBooks Desktop, you can use Pay Bills to settle your payables for different vendors. Please check this article to see the steps: Pay bills in QuickBooks Desktop.
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Thank you MaryAnne. I have gone through then entire process of creating the bill for the import expense, applied these expenses to the bill that contains the product using the "Calculate Landed Cost" button on the bill for the product, and paid both bills. All seemed to function as expected, except that now we have this balance in the "Inventory Offset Account" and I cannot trace where this comes from:
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The yellow cells are the expenses that were entered under the bill for freight and are resulting in a negative balance in this account. How can I trace where these expenses are coming from as I don't think that neither the freight bill or the product bill point to this account.
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I appreciate you for performing the steps provided by my colleague. You'll want to run the verify rebuild tool, this helps to identify the most commonly known data issues in your company file and as well as resolve these issues. Here's how:
Verify data
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 4. Tap Verify Data.
Rebuild data
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 2. Press OK to back up your company file.
 4. Click OK when you get the message "Rebuild has completed".
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Thank you for suggesting the data verify option. I have done this and the issue remains. Does is sound reasonable that we create a journal entry to correct the issue for now and see if it persists on our next import?
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Hi _USER_,
Thank you for your prompt reply, as well as sharing an update on your current status.
The Inventory Offset account is a liability account. It's generated by QuickBooks Desktop (QBDT) when you enable the Enhanced Inventory Receiving feature.
You can run a custom report to reconcile it, which isolates the negative amount you stated earlier.
Here's how:
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 - From the Display tab, set Date Range to All.
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 - Pick Vendor from the Total By drop-down menu.
 - Click Item from the Sort By drop-down menu.
 6. Press OK.
Note: It's necessary to create an Item Receipt first, then enter a bill against it to relieve the Inventory Offset account.
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The attached diagram (taken from this Wikipedia page) shows what Pólya means. The red lines are the "internal bisectors" of the angles of the triangle ABC. The green lines (each green line is perpendicular to the red line through the same vertex) are the "external bisectors" of those angles. The blue circle is the inscribed circle. The three yellow circles are the escribed circles. Each escribed circle touches one side of the triangle internally, and the other two sides externally (in other words, when they are extended beyond the original triangle).
The four points of intersection are the points where three of the red or green lines intersect. These points are I, the incentre, and, the three excentres.

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uk us /miːn/ (meant, meant)
mean verb (EXPRESS)
A2 [T] to express or represent something such as an idea, thought, or fact: What does this word mean? [+ that] These figures mean that almost six percent of the working population is unemployed. What do you mean by that remark? She's kind of strange though. Do you know what I mean? "They all showed up." "You mean the entire family?" [T] used to add emphasis to what you are saying: I want you home by midnight. And I mean midnight. Give it back now! I mean it.
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mean verb (HAVE RESULT)
B1 [T] to have a particular result: Lower costs mean lower prices. [+ that] Advances in electronics mean that the technology is already available. [+ -ing verb] If we want to catch the 7.30 train, that will mean leaving the house at 6.00.
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mean verb (INTEND)
B1 [I or T] to intend: I'm sorry if I offended you - I didn't mean any harm. The books with large print are meant for partially sighted readers. [+ to infinitive] I've been meaning to call you all week. Do you think she meant to say 9 a.m. instead of 9 p.m.? They didn't mean for her to read the meant to do sth to be intended to: These batteries are meant to last for a year. This exercise isn't meant to be difficult. We were meant to have gone away this week, but Debbie's ill so we couldn't go. You are meant to rub the medicine on the affected area, not swallow it.
More examples
 - I didn't mean to be rude - it just came out like that.
 - He doesn't really mean it - he's just being contrary.
 - He's always making flattering remarks, but he doesn't really mean them.
 - I didn't mean to upset her - it was just a bit of fun.
 - He didn't mean it - he said it in the heat of the moment.
B1 [T] to have an important emotional effect on someone: It wasn't a valuable picture but it meant a lot to me. Possessions mean nothing to him.
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 - Her children mean all the world to her.
 - Gerald means nothing to me now.
 - Her career means everything to her.
 - Nothing means more to me than my children's happiness.
 - Her approval meant a lot to me.
uk us /miːn/
mean adjective (NOT GENEROUS)
B2 mainly UK not willing to give or share things, especially money: He's too mean to buy her a ring. My landlord's very mean with the heating - it's only on for two hours each day.
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B2 unkind or unpleasant: Stop being so mean to me! She just said it to be mean.
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mainly US frightening and likely to become violent: a mean and angry mob a mean-looking youth
mean adjective (GOOD)
[before noun] informal very good: She's a mean piano player. She plays a mean piano (= she plays very well).
mean adjective (BAD QUALITY)
[before noun] informal poor, dirty, and of bad quality: He was born in the mean streets of Detroit in 1945.
mean adjective (MATHEMATICS)
C2 [before noun] specialized mathematics a mean number is an average number: a mean value Their mean weight was 76.4 kilos.
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mean noun [S] (MATHEMATICS)
specialized (also the arithmetic mean) mathematics the result you get by adding two or more amounts together and dividing the total by the number of amounts: The mean of 5, 4, 10, and 15 is 8.5.
mean noun [S] (METHOD)
formal a quality or way of doing something that is in the middle of two completely different qualities or ways of doing something: We need to find a mean between test questions that are too difficult and those that are too easy.
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Lanthionine is a non proteinogenic amino acid found in peptides of microbial origin. It is a sulfide bridged alanine dimer (HOOC-CH(NH2)-CH2-S-CH2-CH(NH2)-COOH) which is synthesized from cysteine and dehydroalanine by posttranslational modifications of peptides.
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Eco Tech: Desalination plant in Australia will be powered entirely by renewable energy
Eco Factor: Water desalination plant in Western Australia will purchase renewable energy for power.
With the freshwater crisis looming large, specifically in places like Australia and Dubai, inventors have started looking for ways to convert seawater and make it potable. However, these desalination plants require a huge amount of energy, which mostly comes from non-renewable sources or use just a part of renewable energy.
To solve the crisis in Western Australia, a new $780 million plant is being constructed that will be able to produce about 20% of the requirements of fresh water. The noteworthy part doesn't just end here, as the developers state that the plant will entirely be powered by renewable energy, which will be purchased from utilities generating energy from solar, wind and geothermal sources.
Construction is scheduled to commence sometime later this year, with completion scheduled for 2011. Several green groups, including the WA Conservation Council, will keep a keen eye on the energy being used to make sure that plant developers aren't just making false claims.


in fixed (machine) precision, it is not possible to get arbitrary precision approximations with it.
INPUT:
 - a, b - endpoints of the interval
 - var - optional variable
 - xtol, rtol - the routine converges when a root is known to lie within xtol of the value return. Should be >= 0. The routine modifies this to take into account the relative precision of doubles.
 - maxiter - integer; if convergence is not achieved in maxiter iterations, an error is raised. Must be >= 0.
 - full_output - bool (default: False), if True, also return object that contains information about convergence.
 - imaginary_tolerance – (default: 1e-8); if an imaginary number arises (due, for example, to numerical issues), this tolerance specifies how large it has to be in magnitude before we raise an error. In other words, imaginary parts smaller than this are ignored when we are expecting a real answer.
EXAMPLES:
Note that in this example both f(-2) and f(3) are positive, yet we still find a root in that interval:
sage: f = x^2 - 1
sage: f.find_root(-2, 3)
1.0
sage: f.find_root(-2, 3, x)
1.0
sage: z, result = f.find_root(-2, 3, full_output=True)
sage: result.converged
True
sage: result.flag
'converged'
sage: result.function_calls
11
sage: result.iterations
10
sage: result.root
1.0
More examples:
sage: (sin(x) + exp(x)).find_root(-10, 10)
-0.588532743981862...
sage: sin(x).find_root(-1,1)
0.0
This example was fixed along with trac ticket #4942 - there was an error in the example pi is a root for tan(x), but an asymptote to 1/tan(x) added an example to show handling of both cases:
sage: (tan(x)).find_root(3,3.5)
3._PHONE_...
sage: (1/tan(x)).find_root(3, 3.5)
Traceback (most recent call last):
...
NotImplementedError: Brent's method failed to find a zero for f on the interval
An example with a square root:
sage: f = 1 + x + sqrt(x+2); f.find_root(-2,10)
-1.618033988749895
Some examples that Ted Kosan came up with:
sage: t = var('t')
sage: v = 0.004*(9600*e^(-(1200*t)) - 2400*e^(-(300*t)))
sage: v.find_root(0, 0.002)
0.001540327067911417...
With this expression, we can see there is a zero very close to the origin:
sage: a = .004*(8*e^(-(300*t)) - 8*e^(-(1200*t)))*(720000*e^(-(300*t)) - _PHONE_*e^(-(1200*t))) +.004*(9600*e^(-(1200*t)) - 2400*e^(-(300*t)))^2
sage: show(plot(a, 0, .002), xmin=0, xmax=.002)
It is easy to approximate with find_root:
sage: a.find_root(0,0.002)
0.0004110514049349...
Using solve takes more effort, and even then gives only a solution with free (integer) variables:
sage: a.solve(t)
[]
sage: b = a.canonicalize_radical(); b
(46080.0*e^(1800*t) - 576000.0*e^(900*t) + 737280.0)*e^(-2400*t)
sage: b.solve(t)
[]
sage: b.solve(t, to_poly_solve=True)
[t == 1/450*I*pi*z... + 1/900*log(-3/4*sqrt(41) + 25/4),
 t == 1/450*I*pi*z... + 1/900*log(3/4*sqrt(41) + 25/4)]
sage: n(1/900*log(-3/4*sqrt(41) + 25/4))
0.000411051404934985
We illustrate that root finding is only implemented in one dimension:
sage: x, y = var('x,y')
sage: (x-y).find_root(-2,2)
Traceback (most recent call last):
...
NotImplementedError: root finding currently only implemented in 1 dimension.
forget()
Forget the given constraint.
EXAMPLES:
sage: var('x,y')
(x, y)
sage: forget()
sage: assume(x>0, y < 2)
sage: assumptions()
[x > 0, y < 2]
sage: forget(y < 2)
sage: assumptions()
[x > 0]
fraction(base_ring)
Return this expression as element of the algebraic fraction field over the base ring given.
EXAMPLES:
sage: fr = (1/x).fraction(ZZ); fr
1/x
sage: parent(fr)
Fraction Field of Univariate Polynomial Ring in x over Integer Ring
sage: parent(((pi+sqrt(2)/x).fraction(SR)))
Fraction Field of Univariate Polynomial Ring in x over Symbolic Ring
sage: parent(((pi+sqrt(2))/x).fraction(SR))
Fraction Field of Univariate Polynomial Ring in x over Symbolic Ring
sage: y=var('y')
sage: fr=((3*x^5 - 5*y^5)^7/(x*y)).fraction(GF(7)); fr
(3*x^35 + 2*y^35)/(x*y)
sage: parent(fr)
Fraction Field of Multivariate Polynomial Ring in x, y over Finite Field of size 7
free_variables()
Return sorted tuple of unbound variables that occur in this expression.
EXAMPLES:
sage: (x,y,z) = var('x,y,z')
sage: (x+y).free_variables()
(x, y)
sage: (2*x).free_variables()
(x,)
sage: (x^y).free_variables()
(x, y)
sage: sin(x+y^z).free_variables()
(x, y, z)
sage: _ = function('f')
sage: e = limit( f(x,y), x=0 ); e
limit(f(x, y), x, 0)
sage: e.free_variables()
(y,)
full_simplify()
Apply simplify_factorial(), simplify_rectform(), simplify_trig(), simplify_rational(), and then expand_sum() to self (in that order).
ALIAS: simplify_full and full_simplify are the same.
EXAMPLES:
sage: f = sin(x)^2 + cos(x)^2
sage: f.simplify_full()
1
sage: f = sin(x/(x^2 + x))
sage: f.simplify_full()
sin(1/(x + 1))
sage: var('n,k')
(n, k)
sage: f = binomial(n,k)*factorial(k)*factorial(n-k)
sage: f.simplify_full()
factorial(n)
function(*args)
Return a callable symbolic expression with the given variables.
EXAMPLES:
We will use several symbolic variables in the examples below:
sage: var('x, y, z, t, a, w, n')
(x, y, z, t, a, w, n)
sage: u = sin(x) + x*cos(y)
sage: g = u.function(x,y)
sage: g(x,y)
x*cos(y) + sin(x)
sage: g(t,z)
t*cos(z) + sin(t)
sage: g(x^2, x^y)
x^2*cos(x^y) + sin(x^2)
sage: f = (x^2 + sin(a*


pele.optimize.MYLBFGS.adjustStepSize
MYLBFGS.adjustStepSize(X, E, G, stp)[source]
We now have a proposed step. This function will make sure it is a good step and then take it. This is known as a Backtracking linesearch
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 1. if the step is not anti-aligned with the gradient (i.e. downhill), then reverse the step
 2. if the step is larger than maxstep, then rescale the step
 3. calculate the energy and gradient of the new position
 4. if the step increases the energy by more than maxErise,
 then reduce the step size and go to 3)
 5. if the step is reduced more than 10 times and the energy is still not acceptable, then increment nfail, reset the lbfgs optimizer and continue
 6. if nfail is greater than 5 abort the quench
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Wise Folder Hider
Wise Folder Hider is a simple-to-use program to protect your sensitive information from being seen or accessed. It can easily hide any files, folders or even USB drives and keep them safe with a password.
To encrypt files, you need to create an encrypted partitioned drive first, then drag and drop your files and folders to the encrypted drive. The files and folders will be hidden and encrypted after you close the program. With its great protection, others will not be able to open, read, modify, delete, move, copy the encrypted files and folders, or even not be able to see them.
Hide files & folders
With Wise Folder Hider, you can easily hide your files and folders. Protect your private or important data from unauthorized access and deletion. The second level password for specific file, folder or drive also increases security.
Hide USB drives
In many cases, you need to share a USB drive with others and some sensible files will be read by others. With Wise Folder Hider 4, you can hide and password protect your personal file and folders on the USB stick with one click. Even the USB drive is lost, the important files will not be stolen.
Make encrypted files portable
The new version of encryption can let you manage the encrypted files in batches. What' more, the encrypted drive is removable and portable. You can use it just like using a USB drive or even create the encrypted drive directly on the removable drive.
- Limit time: 28th to 31st of May.
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Tree Spinach
Tree spinach (Chenopodium giganteum), also known as Purple Goosefoot or Magenta Spreen, is a large leafy annual, which can grow up to 2 metres tall, living up to its 'tree' nickname.
Originating from India, and commonplace in Mexico, tree spinach happily grows in the UK, and is a relative of amaranth and quinoa.
The younger leaves and growing tips, which are splashed with vivid pink, can be eaten raw in salads and larger leaves can be cooked as spinach. Cooked it tastes similar to spinach, with a nuttier taste, and some people say with a hint of asparagus. Cook as you would spinach: either steam for a few minutes, or sautee with a splash of oil (and salt and pepper) or with melted butter.
It can also be substituted for greens in many recipes. These patties sound good.
tree spinach on a plate
The plant has edible seeds which can apparently be cooked or ground into flour, perhaps an experiment for us in the future!
Written by Kelly, one of the new growers at the Croft.


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Brussels, 27 November 2003
Travelling with pets: Pet passports to be introduced in July 2004
The European Commission today adopted a Decision establishing a model passport which will allow pets and their owners to travel more easily within the European Union. New EU legislation(1) comes into force in July 2004 which will mean all cats, dogs and ferrets will need a passport to travel. The pet passport, a veterinary document, will provide proof that the animal has been vaccinated against rabies. This is the sole requirement for pets to travel to all Member States except Ireland, Sweden and the United Kingdom(2). The passport can also contain details of other vaccinations, including those not required by law, as well as information on the animal's medical history.
David Byrne, the EU Health and Consumer Protection Commissioner said: "This is great news for pet owners like myself. A pet passport will be accepted throughout the EU as proof that a pet has received the anti-rabies vaccination. It also makes it easier for vets to learn about the pet's medical history. This is a significant step for the free movement of people and their pets and a step that was made possible by dramatic advances made in our fight against rabies. Rabies is now close to being totally eradicated from the EU".
Why do pets need passports?
Harmonised veterinary controls on the movement of animals between Member States for trade have been in place for some time. The same rules do not exist for pets. Member States require many different documents to prove a pet meets the veterinary conditions required for travel.
Regulation 998/2003 harmonised the rules on travelling with pets to make it easier for EU citizens and their cats or dogs to enjoy the freedom of movement within the Union. From 3 July 2004 the Regulation will require cats, dogs and ferrets to have a pet passport. It will provide proof that the animal has been vaccinated against rabies. This is the sole requirement for pets to travel to all Member States except Ireland, Sweden and the United Kingdom.
The pet passport will be accepted in all Member States. It can also contain details of other vaccinations and clinical examinations to give a clear picture of the animal's health status. This will facilitate veterinary checks and provide evidence of good health for a pet travelling to third countries free of rabies or where the disease is under control.
What will the passport look like?
The pet passport will measure 100 x 152 mm with a blue cover and the yellow stars of the European emblem. The languages used will be English and the official language of the Member State where the passport is issued. The words "European Union" and the name of the Member State will appear on the cover, along with the passport number which is the ISO code of the Member State followed by a unique number.
What difference will it make?
Travelling with pets will become much easier. All the different documents needed for travel into each Member State will be replaced by one veterinary document, the pet passport, which will be recognised across the EU. Visits to the vet will also become much more straightforward as the passport can instantly inform the vet about the pet's medical history.
More information: IP/02/950. If you would like to receive a copy of the passport electronically, please send an e-mail to _EMAIL_, indicating the language.
(1) Regulation 998/2003.
(2) Pets travelling to Ireland, Sweden and the United Kingdom from the rest of the EU need to have an antibody titration test several months after the rabies vaccination to check it has been effective. The UK and Ireland also require pets to be treated for ticks and tapeworm (echinococcus) as part of the Pets Travel Scheme (PETS). Pets travelling to Sweden need to follow different procedures according to the country of origin.


51st Shadow Division
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51st Shadow Division
Unit Profile (as of 3078)
Nickname Azrael's Terran Guard
Parent Formation Shadow Divisions
Formed Late 3060s
Disbanded 3078
Unit Description[edit]
The Fifty-first Shadow Division was an elite Word of Blake military formation that didn't appear until after the Jihad broke out. The unit was staffed by a mysterious group of cybernetically augmented warriors known as the Manei Domini, who were solely answerable to Precentor Apollyon. The unit was one of the first Shadow Divisions to see combat.
Case White[edit]
The unit was among the last of the Shadow Divisions to have been formed for the Manei Domini; it first saw combat in March 3068 on Terra. The Division was rushed into action ahead of schedule to deal with the coming Case White invasion. They ravaged the few Com Guard units that survived their landings in Northern Europe. In particular, they faced the 166th Division.[1] These conflicts required the support of TerraSec to slow down the invading ComGuard forces while the Fifty-first moved into position.[2]
Since the ComStar landings, the unit had remained garrisoned on Terra. It dispatched Level II formations to local inhabited settlements of the Terran star system. These included Titan, Io, Mars, Luna and Venus. [3]
The Fifty-first was destroyed in 3078 on Terra.[4]
Rank Name Command
Commanding Officers of 51st Shadow Division
Precentor Azrael 3068
The unit specialized in operations in its home Terran system.
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Game Rules[edit]
The unit posses the common Shadow Divisions Force Specific abilities when using advanced rules in a scenario. When unit is being used on a planet or base within Terran star system, it presence negates all of the opposing special abilities. It also can use Forcing the Initiative and Overrun Combat abilities in a scenario. If the unit is deployed in combat scenario outside of the Terran solar system, it loses its ability to negate an opposing forces special abilities. [5]
 1. By the Sword
 2. Omega (Short Story)
 3. Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents, p. 107 - "The 51st Shadow Division's unit brief".
 4. Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 125, "Shadow Divisions Status"
 5. Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents, p. 143 "Rules" Annex - Special Rules for the 51st Shadow Division.


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Sharjah, UAE
ANARCHITECT was commissioned to design a public library as part of an initiative between the Government of Sharjah and Knowledge without Borders in support of '2016 - Year of Reading', aimed to make reading and books more approachable within a cultural and new contextual condition within the Emirate.
The practice created two mirroring library TMT structures (Thermally modified timber), one containing Philosophical and the other Psychological literature that would engage in a physical dialogue with one another in multiple configurations around an unexpected piece of nature (tree, or shrub) occurring in the urban realm.
We developed subtle differences between each library in a way that one of the structures would be oriented towards the courtyard, darker, and suitable for introspection of one's own mind and emotions, and the other would be more open and transparent, letting its readers observe the surroundings and responding and embracing the natural sunlight.
Client: Sharjah Investment & Development Authority (Shurooq)
Project Status: Design delivered for Construction
Area: 250 sqm


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Background. Although cancer has been considered as a chronic disease for those diagnosed, the long-term impact of cancer on the family caregivers' quality of life (QOL) remains unknown. Thus, the current study aimed: (a) to characterize family caregivers of cancer survivors, (b) to describe the multidimensional aspects of QOL of family caregivers of cancer survivors, and (c) to identify demographic and caregiving experience factors that may play significant roles in the caregivers' QOL around 5 years after the relative's initial diagnosis. Methods. A total of 1218 caregivers participated in the 5-year follow-up nationwide QOL Survey for Caregivers. Demographics and caregiving experiences were measured 2 years post-diagnosis of their relative's cancer. Multidimensional aspects of QOL were assessed, including mental and physical health, psychological adjustment, and spirituality at 5 years post-diagnosis. Results. Three groups of caregivers were identified: former caregivers due to the recipients being in remission, former caregivers whose recipients were deceased, and current caregivers. Current caregivers reported worst levels of QOL. Bereaved caregivers reported lower levels of psychological and spiritual adjustment than former caregivers whose recipients were in remission. In addition, caregivers' age and stress were consistent predictors of QOL across three caregiver groups at 5 years post-diagnosis. Conclusions. The findings help to increase evidence-based awareness of the long-term impact of cancer on the family caregivers' QOL. Findings also have implications for developing programs, whereby family caregivers in the various phases of caregivership will benefit by improving their QOL.
- long-term survivorship
- quality of life
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Psychiatry and Mental health
- Experimental and Cognitive Psychology


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Background: Epidemiological studies have reported an association between asthma and migraine, mainly in adults. Objective: To examine the association between specialist-diagnosed asthma and migraine among adolescents. Methods: The electronic database of a recruitment center was retrospectively searched for all 17-year-old draftees during the years _PHONE_. Diagnoses of asthma and migraine were made by certified specialists. The prevalence of migraine was compared among draftees with and without asthma. Covariate data on socio-demographics and associated medical conditions were recorded. Results: A total of 113 671 adolescents were available for analysis. Asthma was diagnosed among 4.0% and migraine among 1.9%. Migraine was significantly more prevalent among adolescents with asthma [174 of the 4581 subjects (3.8%)] compared to those without asthma [1946 of the 109 090 (1.8%)] [OR = 2.17 (95% CI 1.86-2.55; P < 0.001)]. Rates of migraine among subjects with and without allergic rhinitis were 6.3% and 1.7%, respectively [OR = 4.04 (95% CI 3.58-4.56; P < 0.001)]. On multivariate analysis, there was a significant association between migraine and both asthma [OR = 1.42 (95% CI 1.19-1.68)] and allergic rhinitis [OR = 3.18 (95% CI 2.80-3.63)]. Other factors significantly associated with migraine were female gender, urban area of residence, recent immigration to Israel, having three or fewer siblings, and abnormal body mass index. Conclusion: Clinicians should be aware that asthma and allergic rhinitis are potential risk factors for migraine in adolescents. A combined finding of these conditions and recurrent headache is highly suggestive of migraine and warrants a different diagnosis and treatment approach from sinusitis.
- allergic rhinitis
- risk factor


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Hi i m using given below method to convert in to string its working fine chrome but in IE its through exception Input string was not in a correct format. at this line
 s = TimeSpan.FromSeconds(Convert.ToDouble(time));
these are values i m passing to it
600, 298.8, 65505, 69, 70, 20.5, 20.5, 20.5, 20.5, 1840.4, 682, 1040.3
in chrome its working but in IE it gives exception on second value when i change the culture to french language please help me out what is the problem
public static String ConvertTimeToString(this string time)
 if (String.IsNullOrEmpty(time))
 return time;
 TimeSpan s;
 if (time.IndexOf(':') >= 0)
 s = TimeSpan.Parse(time);
 s = TimeSpan.FromSeconds(Convert.ToDouble(time));
 return s.ConvertTimeToString();
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The failure is probably in the call Convert.ToDouble. Your code probably executes in a CultureInfo that has ',' as decimal separator, but your values use '.'. I would advice you to use Double.TryParse using a CultureInfo that has '.' as decimal separator instead:
Double value;
if (Double.TryParse(time, NumberStyles.Any, CultureInfo.GetCultureInfo("en-US"), out value))
 s = TimeSpan.FromSeconds(value);
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You need to specify an IFormatProvider when you use Convert.ToDouble(time):
Convert.ToDouble(time, CultureInfo.InvariantCulture)
Specifying CulturInfo.InvariantCulture specifies a culture that expect floating points written as 1.234 (note the period). The source of your problem may be that you time is in the format 1,234 (note the comma). Or maybe it is the reverse: You don't specify an IFormatProvider and the current culture of you ASP.NET process uses comma as a decimal separator, but the string provided uses period?
If the decimal point used isn't consistent you should either fix it at the source (not sure what the source is here) or as a last resort you can replace comma by period:
Convert.ToDouble(time.Replace(",", "."), CultureInfo.InvariantCulture)
However, trying to parse a string and not knowing the what to expect is not the best thing to do.
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Thank you all very much specially Mr. Martin Liversage its working Fine now thanks again – Zaq Oct 11 '12 at 9:03
_USER_: However, that is not related to the browser the client is using. – Tim Schmelter Oct 11 '12 at 9:10
_USER_ it may be, I think. If the ASP.NET app is has in its config the browser may influence the CultureInfo of the executing code. – Fredrik Mörk Oct 11 '12 at 9:30
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Duke Statistics Printing Services
The goal of this page is to explain the Unix printing environment at Duke Statistics and some of the general guidelines for usage and maintenance.
Public Printers
The following printers are available for public use in the department. These are all available from the Windows and Linux desktop computers provided in the Department. The current print queues can be seen at this _URL_
Color Printing
Color printing from a terminal command line: use the following wyntax
$ lpr -P color214 paper.ps
To print transparencies, use Tray1 (the manual feed tray):
$ lpr -P color211 -o inputslot=tray1 slides.ps
Duplex Printing
$ lpr -P duplex214 paper.ps
will generate duplex output. Printing to mono214 will generate single-sided output on the same printer.
Default printer
Your default printer is set by the PRINTER environment variable. For a new account, this is unset (commented out) in your .cshrc file, meaning your print job will go to 214. To see the current value, type:
$ echo $PRINTER
Setting Default Printer in tcsh
To change your default printer, edit your .cshrc file (e.g. emacs ~/.cshrc). Look for the following section:
#setenv PRINTER mono112
 1. setenv PRINTER mono211
 2. setenv PRINTER mono214
 3. setenv PRINTER mono222
 4. setenv PRINTER mono223
The # at the beginning of the line denotes a comment. Uncomment the line of the most convenient printer and save the file. The change will only take effect in newly-opened terminal windows. For this change to take effect in other applications, you must logout and login again.
Setting Default Printer in bash
Edit your .bash_profile file and add the following line:
export PRINTER=printername
Save the file, then logout. Once you log back in, the variable will be set.
Using other (non-default) printers
Use the -P argument to lpr to select a specific printer. For example, to print to mono214, regardless of your default printer:
$ lpr -P mono214 file
Checking the status of the printer queue
The lpq command will return status information about the number of jobs in the queue, who owns them, their order in the queue, the job id (needed for lprm), etc.
To see the print queue on your default printer:
$ lpq
To see the print queue on a specific printer:
$ lpq -P mono214
Removing print jobs from the queue
The lprm command removes jobs from the print queue. To remove a particular job, use lpq (see above) to find the job_id for your print request. Then, use the lprm command to remove the job:
$ lprm job_id
To remove jobs from a specific printer queue:
$ lpq -P mono214 $ lprm -P mono214 job_id
To remove all of your jobs from a printer queue:
$ lprm -
How can I save paper?
The easiest and most effective way is to restrict printing to only those documents which must be printed.
When printing large documents, consider using duplex214 to save double-side the output. This will cut your paper use in half.
$ enscript -P duplex214 file.c
You can also "two up" your printouts, printing two pages on each side of the paper. For normal text files (e.g. C code), use enscript:
$ enscript -2rG file.c
Combining both options will cut your paper use by a factor of 4!:
$ enscript -P duplex 214 -2rG file.c
For PostScript files, psnup is best:
$ psnup -2 file.ps | lpr
When using latex or tex, only run dvips for the pages in which you are interested. (This will also remove the need for having the whole PostScript file). For example, say you are only interested in pages 10-20,25-26 the following will give you only what you need:
$ dvips -pp 10-20 -pp 25-26 -o \!lpr file.dvi
When printing PostScript files, gv may be used to mark and print only those pages in which you are interested.
Weird Behavior
Disappearing Jobs
If a job disappears from the queue but does not actually print, try the following:
 - Make sure there is paper in the printer. If not, feel free to add some. If you have just printed a large job, please refill the tray as a courtesy to the other users.
 - Check the status of the queue using lpq. If there are a lot of jobs ahead of yours:
 1. Remove your job(s) from that queue with lprm
 2. Check for open queues with lpc status all
 - If there are a lot of jobs ahead of yours and the top job is not active, send email to _EMAIL_. Include:
 printer name
 machine you are printing from
 output of lpq command
 - Use lpq to verify that you sent it to the correct printer.
 - If you can view a PostScript file on your computer (e.g. with gv), but only a fraction of the job actually prints, try manually setting the paper size to Letter.
 To create a Letter version of the ps file:
 $ psresize -PA4 -pletter file_a4.ps file_letter.ps
 To just print the file:
 $ psresize -PA4 -pletter file_a4.ps | lpr
 - If you can view a PostScript file on your computer (e.g. with gv), but none of the job actually prints, make sure there is a showpage near the end of the file.
Toner Cartridges
New toner cartridges are in room 211 by the photocopier. New cartridges will be in the sealed boxes. If you take the last unopened toner cartridge, please notify one of the staff members so we can ensure that there are always toner cartridges available. There will be a sign out sheet at the table in 214. Please sign the cartridge out and put the room number of the printer where the new cartridge is going. You may leave the old Cartridge in 214 to be sent in for Recycling.
 1. Remove the old cartridge from the printer.
 2. Take new cartridge out of the sealed box and rotate it. Do not shake it.
 3. Pull the tab on the side to remove the seal strip.
 4. Insert the new cartridge.
 5. Place the old cartridge in the box and return it to room 214.
Remote Access to printers
The Department print server is available for printing to public printers from many Duke-owned IP addresses. This includes, VPN, ethernet in Old Chem. Bldg. and the DUKEBLUE wireless network. The following directions will define any needed printers in your Windows and/or Mac based machines.
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Generic Win10 instructions NB: Any other version of windows is not explicitly supported and instructions are outdated, USE At Your Own Risk.
Add printer on Windows XP
You will need administrator rights on your computer to add a printer.
 1. Select Start -> Printers and Faxes
 2. Click Add a printer
 3. Click Next
 4. Select A network printer, or a printer attached to another computer
 5. Click Next
 6. Select Connect to a printer on the Internet or on a home or office network
 7. Enter the URL _URL_ in the URL: field, where NAME is the name of the printer you wish to add.
 8. Click Next
 9. Click on Have Disk
 10. Click on Browse...
 11. Browse into C:\Xerox\DIRECTORY where DIRECTORY is the name of the appropriate driver directory as given by the table above.
 1. If there is a .inf file in that directory, select it and click on Open.
 2. If there is another directory there, click into that directory, select the .inf file, and click on Open.
 12. Click OK
 13. Select Xerox Phaser in the Manufacturer column, if needed, and the appropriate printer model name, as listed in the table above.
 14. Click OK
 15. Click Continue Anyway if a Hardware Installation dialogue popup about unsigned drivers comes up.
 16. Select No for the Default Printer question
 17. Click Next
 18. Click Finish
Add printer on Windows Vista/7
 1. Download and run the printer driver installer program from the table above. If you have done this before, you don't need to do it again.
 2. Click the Start button.
 3. Click on Devices and Printers
 4. Click on Add a printer
 5. Click on Add a network, wireless or Bluetooth printer
 6. Click The printer I want isn't listed
 7. Select the Select a shared printer by name radio button
 8. Enter the URL _URL_ in the text field, where NAME is the name of the printer you wish to add, as listed in the table above.
 9. Click Next
 10. Click the Have Disk... button in the Add Printer Wizard dialogue window
 11. Click on Browse...
 12. Browse into C:\Xerox\DIRECTORY where DIRECTORY is the name of the appropriate driver directory as given by the table above.
 1. If there is a .inf file in that directory, select it and click on Open.
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On the Possibilities of Predicting Cohort Fertility Measures from Period Fertility Measures: Theory and Empirical Evidence
P. C. Roger Cheng, National Central University, Taiwan
This paper establishes a formal relationship between period and cohort measures, responds to the literature casting doubts on the usefulness of period measures as cohort estimators, and proposes three tempo-adjusted predictors of cohort quantum which are easy to implement. Empirical evidence from 23 European countries, Canada, and the U.S. suggests that our predictors provide satisfactory estimations and outperform some conventional methods in most cases, especially when the observed cohort experience is truncated at very young ages.
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The origins of the National University of Lesotho go back to April 8, 1945, when a Catholic University College was founded at Roma by the Roman Catholic Hierarchy of Southern Africa. The establishment of this College was a realisation of a decision taken in 1938 by the Synod of Catholic Bishops in South Africa to provide African Catholic students with post-matriculation and religious guidance.
The South African Government had declared its intention not to admit African students from outside South Africa into the University of Fort Hare, and the Natal Medical School (Wentworth) after December 31, 1953. Although this ban was relaxed for Basutoland students until 1958, the writing was on the wall.
National University of Lesotho Established in 1954 as the nucleus collection of the former PiusXIICollege, the Library moved to the current building that was constructed in 1964. The Library building was named after Thomas Mofolo when it became NUL Library.
National University of Lesotho Contact Details
Adventist University of Africa
Private Bag Mbagathi, 00503 Nairobi, Kenya
Telephone: (254) 20-_PHONE_, (254) 20-_PHONE_
National University of Lesotho Official Website: _URL_


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First occurrence of Dissakisite-(Ce) and Jamborite in New York (12.01.12)
Dissakisite-(Ce) - Ca(Ce,REE)(Mg,Fe2+)(Al,Fe3+)2Si3O12(OH) - the magnesium analogue of the more common allanite (Ce), was found in a specimen from the Henry Rudy Farm, in Orange County. It occurs as millimeter-size pink crystals associated with chondrodite, spinel, and phlogopite in marble (Franklin Marble). To our knowledge, this is the first reported occurrence of this mineral in North America.
Jamborite, (Ni2+Ni3+Co, Fe)(OH)2(OH,S,H2O), was found in a specimen from Antwerp, Jefferson County. It occurs as green sub millimeter-size crystals in a cavity in quartz. This is the third occurrence of this mineral in the USA.


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Counting and Solving Final Fantasy XIII-2's Clock Puzzles
February 6th, 2012
Final Fantasy XIII-2 is a role-playing game, released last week in North America, that contains an abundance of mini-games. One of the more interesting mini-games is the "clock puzzle", which presents the user with N integers arranged in a circle, with each integer being from 1 to \lfloor N/2 \rfloor.
A challenging late-game clock puzzle with N = 12
The way the game works is as follows:
To demonstrate the rules in action, consider the following simple example with N = 6 (I have labelled the six positions 05 in blue for easy reference):
If we start by choosing the 1 in position 1, then we have the option of choosing the 3 in either position 0 or 2. Let's choose the 3 in position 0. Three moves either clockwise or counter-clockwise from here both give the 1 in position 3, so that is our only possible next choice. We continue on in this way, going through the N = 6 positions in the order 103425, as in the following image:
We have now selected each position exactly once, so we are done – we solved the puzzle! In fact, this is the unique solution for the given puzzle.
Counting Clock Puzzles
Let's work on determining how many different clock puzzles there are of a given size. As mentioned earlier, a clock puzzle with N positions has an integer in the interval [1, \lfloor N/2 \rfloor] in each of the positions. There are thus \lfloor N/2 \rfloor^N distinct clock puzzles with N positions, which grows very quickly with N – its values for N = 1, 2, 3, … are given by the sequence 0, 1, 1, 16, 32, 729, 2187, 65536, 262144, … (A206344 in the OEIS).
However, this rather crude count of the number of clock puzzles ignores the fact that some clock puzzles have no solution. To illustrate this fact, we present the following simple proposition:
Proposition. There are unsolvable clock puzzles with N positions if and only if N = 4 or N ≥ 6.
To prove this proposition, first note that the clock puzzles for N = 2 or N = 3 are trivially solvable, since each number in the puzzle is forced to be \lfloor N/2 \rfloor = 1. The 32 clock puzzles in the N = 5 case can all easily be shown to be solvable via computer brute force (does anyone have a simple or elegant argument for this case?).
In the N = 4 case, exactly 3 of the 16 clock puzzles are unsolvable:
To complete the proof, it suffices to demonstrate an unsolvable clock puzzle for each N ≥ 6. To this end, we begin by considering the following clock puzzle in the N = 6 case:
The above puzzle is unsolvable because the only way to reach position 0 is to select it first, but from there only one of positions 2 or 4 can be reached – not both. This example generalizes in a straightforward manner to any N ≥ 6 simply by adding more 1's to the bottom: it will still be necessary to choose position 0 first, and then it is impossible to reach both position 2 and position N-2 from there.
There doesn't seem to be an elegant way to count the number of solvable clock puzzles with N positions (which is most likely related to the apparent difficulty of solving these puzzles, which will be discussed in the next section), so let's count the number of solvable clock puzzles via brute force. Simply constructing each of the \lfloor N/2 \rfloor^N clock puzzles and determining which of them are solvable (via the MATLAB script linked at the end of this post) shows that the number of solvable clock puzzles for N = 1, 2, 3, … is given by the sequence 0, 1, 1, 13, 32, 507, 1998, 33136, 193995, … (A206345 in the OEIS).
This count of puzzles is perhaps still unsatisfying, though, since it counts puzzles that are simply mirror images or rotations of each other multiple times. Again, there doesn't seem to be an elegant counting argument for enumerating the solvable clock puzzles up to rotation and reflection, so we compute this sequence by brute force: 0, 1, 1, 4, 8, 72, 236, 3665, 19037, … (A206346 in the OEIS).
Solving Clock Puzzles
Clock puzzles are one of the most challenging parts of Final Fantasy XIII-2, and with good reason: they are a well-studied graph theory problem in disguise. We can consider each clock puzzle with N positions as a directed graph with N vertices. If position N contains the number M, then there is a directed edge going from vertex N to the vertices M positions clockwise and counter-clockwise from it. In other words, we consider a clock puzzle as a directed graph on N vertices, where the directed edges describe the valid moves around the circle.
The directed graph corresponding to the earlier (solvable) N = 6 example
The problem of solving a clock puzzle is then exactly the problem of finding a directed Hamiltonian path on the associated graph. Because finding a directed Hamiltonian path in general is NP-hard, this seems to suggest that solving clock puzzles might be as well. There of course is the problem that the directed graphs relevant to this problem have very special structure – in particular, every vertex has outdegree ≤ 2, and the graph has a symmetry property that results from clockwise/counter-clockwise movement allowed in the clock puzzles.
The main result of [1] shows that the fact that the outdegree of each vertex is no larger than 2 is no real help: finding directed Hamiltonian paths is still NP-hard given such a promise. However, the symmetry condition seems more difficult to characterize in graph theoretic terms, and could potentially be exploited to produce a fast algorithm for solving these puzzles.
Regardless of the problem's computational complexity, the puzzles found in the game are quite small (N ≤ 13), so they can be easily solved by brute force. Attached is a MATLAB script (solve_clock.m) that can be used to solve clock puzzles. The first input argument is a vector containing the numeric values in each of the positions, starting from the top and reading clockwise. By default, only one solution is computed. To compute all solutions, set the second (optional) input argument to 1.
The output of the script is either a vector of positions (labelled 0 through N-1, with 0 referring to the top position, 1 referring to one position clockwise from there, and so on) describing an order in which you can visit the positions to solve the puzzle, or 0 if there is no solution.
For example, the script can be used to find our solution to the N = 6 example provided earlier:
>> solve_clock([3,1,3,1,2,3])
ans =
 1 0 3 4 2 5
Similarly, the script can be used to find all four solutions [Update, October 1, 2013: Whoops, there are six solutions! See the comments.] to the puzzle in the screenshot at the very top of this post:
>> solve_clock([6,5,1,4,2,1,6,4,2,1,5,2], 1)
ans =
 3 7 11 9 10 5 4 2 1 8 6 0
 7 3 11 9 10 5 4 2 1 8 6 0
 9 10 5 4 2 3 7 11 1 8 6 0
 9 8 10 5 4 2 3 7 11 1 6 0
 1. J. Plesnik. The NP-completeness of the Hamiltonian cycle problem in planar digraphs with degree bound two. Inform. Process. Lett., 8:199–201, 1979.


(x)=U_{p}(x) \mathrm {e}^{- |t|^{\frac {p}{p-1}} U_{p}(x) }\) has a single maximum by taking the derivative of gp(x):
$$\begin{array}{*{20}l} \frac{d}{dx} g_{p}(x)&=\frac{d}{dx} \left(U_{p}(x) \mathrm{e}^{- |t|^{\frac{p}{p-1}} U_{p}(x)} \right)\\ &=U_{p}^{'}(x) \mathrm{e}^{- |t|^{\frac{p}{p-1}} U_{p}(x) }- |t|^{\frac{p}{p-1}} U_{p}(x) \mathrm{e}^{- |t|^{\frac{p}{p-1}} U_{p}(x)} U_{p}^{'}(x). \end{array} $$
Note that the location of the maximum of gp is given by
$$ \frac{d}{dx} g_{p}(x) =0 \Leftrightarrow U_{p}(x) = \frac{1}{ |t|^{\frac{p}{p-1} }}. $$
(86)
Since Up(x) is a strictly monotone function (either decreasing or increasing depending on p), the equation in (86) has only a single solution and therefore gp(x) has only one maximum. Moreover, from (86) the maximum is given by \(\max _{x \in [0,1]} g_{p}(x)= \frac {1}{\mathrm {e} |t|^{\frac {p}{p-1} }}. \) This concludes the proof.
F.1 Proof of Lemma 2
First observe that
$$\begin{array}{*{20}l} h_{p}(x)&= \frac{p^{2}}{1-p} \cot \left(\frac{\pi p x}{2} \right)+\frac{1}{1-p} \tan\left(\frac{\pi x}{2} \right)-(p-1) \tan \left(\frac{\pi (p-1) x}{2} \right)\\ &= \frac{1}{1-p} \left(p^{2} \cot \left(\frac{\pi p x}{2} \right)+ \tan\left(\frac{\pi x}{2} \right)-(p-1)^{2} \tan \left(\frac{\pi (1-p) x}{2} \right) \right). \end{array} $$
Note that \(\frac {1}{1-p} \le 0\) for p>1 and \(\frac {1}{1-p}\ge 0\) for p<1. Therefore, we have to show that for all p(0,2)
$$ d_{p}(x)= p^{2} \cot \left(\frac{\pi p x}{2} \right)+ \tan\left(\frac{\pi x}{2} \right)-(p-1)^{2} \tan \left(\frac{\pi (1-p) x}{2} \right) \ge 0. $$
(87)
The proof follows by looking at p(0,1) and p(1,2) separately.
For p(0,1) note that
$$\begin{array}{*{20}l} d_{p}(x)&= p^{2} \cot \left(\frac{\pi p x}{2} \right)+ \tan\left(\frac{\pi x}{2} \right)-(p-1)^{2} \tan \left(\frac{\pi (1-p) x}{2} \right) \\ & \stackrel{a)}{\ge} \tan\left(\frac{\pi x}{2} \right)-(p-1)^{2} \tan \left(\frac{\pi (1-p) x}{2} \right) \\ & \stackrel{b)}{\ge} \tan\left(\frac{\pi x}{2} \right)- \tan \left(\frac{\pi (1-p) x}{2} \right) \stackrel{c)}{\ge} 0, \end{array} $$
where the inequalities follow from: a) using the fact that \( \cot \left (\frac {\pi p x}{2} \right) >0\) for all x(0,1) and all p(0,1); b) using the fact that (1−p)2≤1; and c) using the fact that 0<1−p<1 and the fact that \(\tan \left (\frac {\pi (1-p) x}{2} \right) \) is a monotonically increasing function for x(0,1).
For p(1,2) we look at two cases \(x \in (0, \frac {1}{2} ]\) and \(x \in \left (\frac {1}{2}, 1 \right)\). The reason we have to split the domain of x into two parts is because of the \(\cot \left (\frac {\pi p x}{2} \right)\). Note that \(\cot \left (\frac {\pi p x}{2} \right)\ge 0\) for all p(1,2) and all \(x \in (0, \frac {1}{2} ]\), but this is not true for the case of \(x \in \left (\frac {1}{2}, 1 \right)\).
Now, focusing first on the more involved case of \(x \in \left (\frac {1}{2}, 1\right)\) we have that
$$\begin{array}{*{20}l} d_{p}(x) &= p^{2} \cot \left(\frac{\pi p x}{2} \right)+ \tan\left(\frac{\pi x}{2} \right)+(p-1)^{2} \tan \left(\frac{\pi (p-1) x}{2} \right)\\ & \stackrel{a)}{\ge} p^{2} \cot \left(\frac{\pi p x}{2} \right) + p^{2} \frac{\tan\left(\frac{\pi x}{2} \right) \tan \left(\frac{\pi (p-1) x}{2} \right) }{ \tan\left(\frac{\pi x}{2} \right) + \tan \left(\frac{\pi (p-1) x}{2} \right)}\\ & \stackrel{b)}{=} p^{2} \cot \left(\frac{\pi p x}{2} \right) + p^{2} \frac{\tan\left(\frac{\pi x}{2} \right) \tan \left(\frac{\pi (p-1) x}{2} \right) }{ \tan\left(\frac{\pi p x}{2} \right) \left(1- \tan\left(\frac{\pi x}{2} \right)\tan \left(\frac{\pi (p-1) x}{2} \right) \right)}\\ & \stackrel{c)}{=} \frac{p^{2}}{ \tan\left(\frac{\pi x}{2} \right)+\tan \left(\frac{\pi (p-1) x}{2}


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genpoly
Create a polynomial using b-adic expansion
Use only in the MuPAD Notebook Interface.
This functionality does not run in MATLAB.
Syntax
genpoly(n, b, x)
Description
genpoly(n, b, x) creates a polynomial p in the variable x from the b-adic expansion of n, such that p(b) = n. The integer coefficients of the resulting polynomial are greater than and less than or equal to .
The b-adic expansion of an integer n is defined by , such that the ci are symmetric remainders modulo b, i.e., for all i (see mods). From this expansion the polynomial is created. The polynomial is defined over the coefficient ring Expr.
If the first argument of genpoly is a (multivariate) polynomial, then it must be defined over the coefficient ring Expr and must have only integer coefficients. The third argument x must not be a variable of the polynomial. In this case each integer coefficient is converted into a polynomial in x as described above. The result is a polynomial in the variable x, followed by the variables of the given polynomial. (x is the main variable of the returned polynomial.)
The first argument n may also be a polynomial expression. In this case, it is converted into a polynomial using poly, then genpoly is applied as described above, and the result is again converted into a polynomial expression.
If the first argument is an integer or a polynomial, then the result is a polynomial of domain type DOM_POLY; otherwise it is a polynomial expression.
Examples
Example 1
We create a polynomial p in the indeterminate x such that p(7) = 15. The coefficients of p are between -3 and 3:
p := genpoly(15, 7, x)
p(7)
Here is an example with a polynomial expression as input:
p := genpoly(15*y^2 - 6*y + 3*z, 7, x)
The return value has the same type as the first argument:
p := genpoly(poly(15*y^2 + 8*z, [y, z]), 7, x)
We check the result:
p(7, y, z)
Parameters
n
An integer, a polynomial of type DOM_POLY, or a polynomial expression
b
An integer greater than 1
x
The indeterminate: an identifier
Return Values
polynomial if the first argument is a polynomial or an integer. Otherwise, a polynomial expression.
See Also
MuPAD Functions
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SOOS Natural reserve
The SOOS natural reserve with its peat bogs and moors is the home of a number of endangered species of plants and animals. The mud volcanoes (mofettas or fumaroles) and mineral springs and gases emergences are another point of interest. Get enchanted by the intact nature.
There is a 1200 metres long educational path leading through the SOOS reserve on wooden walkways. The walk will widen your knowledge of zoology, botany and geology.
What you will see in SOOS:
- Well-preserved peat bogs and their biotopes
- Gas emergences and hot mineral springs
- Mud volcanoes (mofettas or fumaroles)
- Rare plant species
- Endangered animal species
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Minor planet number 4147 has been named in honor of former Beatle John Lennon.
The citation announcing the naming appeared on Minor Planet Circular 16247 (issued on 1990 Apr. 10), from which the following is extracted with permission:
(4147) Lennon = 1983 AY
Discovered 1983 Jan. 12 by B. A. Skiff at the Anderson Mesa Station of
the Lowell Observatory.
Named in memory of John Lennon (_PHONE_), musician and ex-Beatle.
With Paul McCartney, he wrote the early songs that helped make The Beatles
the most popular group of their generation. Perhaps the most famous Beatles
album is Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, which represents the
Lennon-McCartney partnership at its most fertile and innovative. From his
solo recording career, the song that will probably best be remembered is
'Imagine'. Violently anti-war, John, and his wife Yoko, also made many
public demonstrations of their desire for a peaceful world.
About (4147) Lennon
(4147) Lennon is in a 3.63-year elliptical orbit around the sun ranging in distance from 325.0 million km (at perihelion, closest point to the sun) to 381.6 million km (at aphelion, furthest point from the sun).
The next perihelion passage will occur on 2005 Nov. 21.4 UT.
The orbit is inclined by 5.7 degrees to the ecliptic plane (the plane of the earth's orbit about the sun).
There is little information on the physical properties of (4147) Lennon. Even its diameter is uncertain--a range of 7 to 15 km is probable.
You will need a telescope to see this minor planet as its maximum brightness is some 1/4091 of the brightness of the faintest objects that can be seen with the unaided eye.


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Author(s):
Ye, Q; Tillein, J; Hartmann, R; Gstoettner, W; Kiefer, J
Title:
Application of a corticosteroid (Triamcinolon) protects inner ear function after surgical intervention.
Abstract:
HYPOTHESIS: Opening of the inner ear during stapes surgery or cochlear implantation may result in trauma to inner ear structures and possible hearing loss. The dual aim of the present study was to evaluate the effectiveness of locally applied Triamcinolon* to protect the inner ear against surgically induced trauma and to exclude possible ototoxic effects. METHODS: In an animal model (guinea pig), a corticosteroid (Triamcinolon) was topically applied to the inner ear, either by extracochlear appl... »

Journal title abbreviation:
Ear Hear
Year:
2007
Journal volume:
28
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Pages contribution:
361-9
Language:
eng
Print-ISSN:
0196-0202
TUM Institution:
Hals-, Nasen-, Ohrenklinik und Poliklinik


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Why is drainage important?
When water saturated soils are stressed, either by loads being applied or the stresses exerted by an earthquake, water pressure in soils can climb drastically, thereby reducing the soil's stability.
Loading a water saturated soil can result in the water being "squeezed" out of a soil which can cause time dependent settlement issues. By installing AMPiers, this settlement can be accelerated, because the AMPiers are more permeable than the soil and allow water to escape the soil more quickly.
In an earthquake situation, AMPiers can also help the water pressure in liquefiable soils escape to the surface much faster than in untreated soil due to increased drainage properties of an AMPier.


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iDoceo combines a gradebook, planner, diary, and resource manager, with features for tracking student performance, organizing lessons, managing resources, creating seating plans, and integrating with Moodle, Google Classroom, and MS Teams.
What iDoceo does
iDoceo is a comprehensive digital tool for teachers that combines a gradebook, planner, diary, and resource manager into a single platform. It allows teachers to track student grades, attendance, and performance, organize their lessons and schedules, and manage various resources. The app also includes a seating plan feature and integrates with Moodle, Google Classroom, and MS Teams. All data is stored locally on the user's device, ensuring privacy and confidentiality.
Key features for teachers
- Gradebook: Allows teachers to manage icons, text, numbers, annotations, and rubrics. Supports custom calculations and can be linked to Google Classroom.
- Lesson Planner: Provides a space for teachers to organize their lessons and schedules. Supports both simple week schedules and complex rotating cycles.
- Diary: Helps teachers keep track of classroom activities and events.
- Resource Manager: Helps teachers manage various resources, including PDFs, audio files, links, images, and more.
- Seating Plans: Allows teachers to create up to ten seating plans per classroom with five different modes and backgrounds.
- Integration with Moodle, Google Classroom, and MS Teams: Allows teachers to link their current classes or import them from these platforms directly into iDoceo.
- iDoceo Connect: An online platform that allows teachers to post exams and rubrics for students to fill out.
iDoceo is available as a one-time purchase of $11.99 on the App Store, with no additional subscriptions or in-app purchases required.


How to communicate your value
Ben lost 98% of his eyesight overnight at the age of 16, yet he discovered ways that allowed him to focus and see the bigger picture.
In this two part video series, Ben shares his insights and wisdom to help you see beyond your personal limits and dream boldly.
Part one
Part two
Download a transcript of both of the above videos (Word, 21KB).
What you can do next
 1. Vision Australia offer employment services support where qualified consultants can help you to achieve your employment goals. Request a call back from employment services.
 2. Vision Australia have created a self-advocacy guide where you will find information on what you can do when you encounter barriers to participating in the community due to your blindness or low vision generally and in particular barriers to accessing employment. Vision Australia self-advocacy guide (DOCX, 791KB)
 3. A vocational counsellor can provide guidance around exploring your career potential and your strengths, and identify any gaps you may need to consider.


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AtomDiagramCoordinates
AtomDiagramCoordinates
is an option for Molecule and related functions that specifies the two-dimensional coordinates of the atoms.
Details
Examples
Basic Examples (2)
Create a molecule with specified diagram coordinates:
Use MoleculeValue to retrieve the coordinates:
Create a molecule without specifying coordinates:
Use MoleculeValue to retrieve the coordinates:
Wolfram Research (2019), AtomDiagramCoordinates, Wolfram Language function, _URL_
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Wolfram Research (2019), AtomDiagramCoordinates, Wolfram Language function, _URL_
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Wolfram Language. 2019. "AtomDiagramCoordinates." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. _URL_
APA
Wolfram Language. (2019). AtomDiagramCoordinates. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Retrieved from _URL_
BibTeX
@misc{reference.wolfram_2023_atomdiagramcoordinates, author="Wolfram Research", title="{AtomDiagramCoordinates}", year="2019", howpublished="\url{_URL_ note=[Accessed: 21-September-2023 ]}
BibLaTeX
@online{reference.wolfram_2023_atomdiagramcoordinates, organization={Wolfram Research}, title={AtomDiagramCoordinates}, year={2019}, url={_URL_ note=[Accessed: 21-September-2023 ]}


Crosstown Traffic
Integrated Media Systems Center and USC Annenberg School of Journalism have teamed up to analyze IMSC's massive and ever-growing traffic database. Traffic data, particularly in a city such as this one, is unique in its ability to send us signals about the economy, quality of life, safety, and social and economic status in Los Angeles. Each team br unique skills to this endeavor. The expertise of IMSC researchers in computer science, data management and statistics was essential in the curating and codifying of millions of bits of information. The Annenberg side was charged with figuring out what questions the data might be able to answer and what stories it might be able to tell us about the city we live in.


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In an effort to assist and educate operators about changes in inspections, installations, aircraft conformity, and requirements with modifications, Aviation Specialties Unlimited, (ASU) will offer a NVIS Aircraft Conformity Courses at the Air Medical Transport Conference (AMTC) in St. Louis. ASU Quality Assurance Manager and Chief Inspector Kip McDermott will present the course. The course will take place Wednesday, October 19th from 4:30-5:30 p.m. Space is still available if attendees of the show want to attend.
Included in the course is:
- Aircraft Modification Types / Methodology:
- Common types of modification
- FAA procedures and specification of NVG cockpit modifications
- STC test / verification / validation procedures: FARs and Guidance
- Scope of involvement of DAR and DER for NVG STCs.
- Conformity Inspections â€"specific requirements for NVG compatible cockpit Supplemental Type Certificates.
- Owner Operator requirements and continued Airworthiness standards
- Class A, B and C night vision goggles: Explanation of classifications and their effect on cockpit modifications.
- Maintenance procedures and practices for NVGs.
â€œIn this condensed course we cover topics that aid operations in assuring that their aircraft are NVIS conformed,â€ said McDermott.Â â€œAfter recently presenting this course in Dallas, we have seen a growing demand for this course and the information.Â We have an intimate knowledge of the FAA requirements and we are sharing our knowledge in order to help operators better understand the requirements.â€
McDermottâ€™s extensive background includes being a Turbine Engine Repairman, U.S. Department of Defense, Flight Test Crew Chief for Dyncorp Aerospace (European Theater) on UH-1, UH-60 and CH-47D; Certified Turbine Engine Test Cell Operator; Managing Supervisor on 2 Turbine Engine Test Cells for the Department of Defense and Dyncorp Aerospace; Airframe and Powerplant mechanic for life Flight; OAS carded Rotorcraft and Fixed Wing Aircraft for Helicopter Maintenance Corp.; Director of Maintenance for Executive Maintenance Corp.; Director of Maintenance for Access Air, a FAR Part 135 and EMS operator managing 18 fixed and rotor wing aircraft;
For ASU McDermott conducts FAA part 135 and 141 flight operations and FAR part 145 repair station activities to include engineering, installation and certification on numerous Supplemental Type Certificate projects (STC) with 18 STCâ€™s completed for the installation of Night Vision CompatibleCockpit lighting modifications.
- Rescue helicopter 'Juliet' retires from Northland fleet
- US Navy grant to fund AnalySwift research to improve helicopter service life
- COVID-19 – Helijet offers free flights for healthcare workers
- Bell 360 Invictus chosen for US Army Scout Rotorcraft Competition
- Airbus-funded helicopter booking platform Voom ceases operations
- VFS 2020 Annual Awards announcements
- COVID-19 – Australian Rotortech event postponed to October
- USHST Infrastructure Working Group Completes 6th Annual Helicopter Infrastructure Summit
- FAA certifies Onboard Systems dual hook for Bell 206L and 407
- Utah Rotor Pathway Program Receives $1.1 Million Grant
- COVID-19 – Air BP to supply free fuel to a number of air ambulance services in England and Wales
- COVID-19 – EASA processing new aircraft configurations for medical transport at high priority
- HSM-70 Change-of-Command
- FAA Grants NATA Requested Crewmember Relief
- Airbus Helicopters launches RTEX tool to monitor Service Bulletins
- COVID-19 – Omni adapts four aircraft to transport suspected cases of COVID-19
- FAA advice on expiring air medical certificates was released prematurely and is invalid
- COVID-19 – London Heliport announces temporary closure
- Lockheed Martin's FARA Enters Prototype Phase
- COVID-19 – 3 British Army AW159 Wildcats have been deployed to support UK with COVID-19


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Heart of Darkness Topic Tracking: Wilderness Imagery
Wilderness Imagery 1: Marlow describes for his shipmates the wild state of nature that must have existed when the Romans first visited England.
Wilderness Imagery 2: Marlow watched the jungle from his ship, seeing pure wilderness for the first time.
Wilderness Imagery 3: Marlow describes the wild and varied vegetation he saw on his journey, and the oppressive impression it had on him.
Wilderness Imagery 4: Marlow had an image, at the Central Station, of the surrounding wilderness waiting to outlast the invasion of the Company.
Wilderness Imagery 5: Marlow imagined the forest looking back at the manager and his uncle--the wilderness is personified.
Wilderness Imagery 6: The vegetation and wild natural state along the river overwhelmed Marlow--he imagined it observing him from all sides.
Wilderness Imagery 7: Marlow looked back and could see no trace of where the ship had come from--it was as though the jungle was closing in behind them.
Wilderness Imagery 8: Marlow says that the wilderness had taken control of Kurtz.
Wilderness Imagery 9: When he leaves the ship to look for Kurtz, Marlow ends up in the midst of the living, wild jungle he had been fearing all along.
Wilderness Imagery 10: Kurtz, cursing the wilderness, asked Marlow to close the shutters to keep him from seeing the "curtain of trees" around him.


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Around the Word
Around the Word, where the captivating wonders of nature await you in a thrilling crossword puzzle adventure. Prepare to embark on a journey that will...
Step into the enchanting realm of Around the Word, where the captivating wonders of nature await you in a thrilling crossword puzzle adventure. Prepare to embark on a journey that will not only challenge your wits but also enrich your vocabulary and broaden your knowledge.
In this engaging game, your task is to form words using the provided letters and solve intriguing crosswords that are inspired by the beauty and diversity of the natural world. From majestic mountains to serene forests, each puzzle presents a new opportunity to explore and discover the secrets of nature.
Will you be able to assemble the right words and conquer the challenges that lie ahead, or will you find yourself stumped by the complexity of the puzzles? With Around the Word, you have the chance to test your linguistic skills and expand your lexicon in an immersive and rewarding way.
So, join us on this unforgettable journey and experience the thrill of unraveling nature's mysteries one word at a time. Are you ready to embark on an adventure that will leave you spellbound? Let the exploration begin with Around the Word!
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Unless you're certain your plumbing does not contain lead, never use hot tap water for cooking or drinking. Hot water is far more likely to leach lead from pipes, especially if it has been standing in the pipes for a while.
People who are lactose intolerant have great difficulty digesting dairy products, leading to gas, cramps, and other symptoms. But the live cultures found in probiotic yogurts may ease some of the burden.
For many cheeses, especially aged European-style ones, the distinctive rinds are considered essential parts that add characteristic flavor and texture, usually thanks to microorganisms growing on them during the ripening process.


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Zynaptiq Unveil
Reverb Removal Plug-in For Mac & PC By Bill Lacey
Published February 2013
Zynaptiq Unveil.
Echo Location
There's more to Unveil, though, than just dropping it on a track and pressing a magic button. Before delving into its intricacies, it's worth considering what reverberation is. Perhaps because we are used to being able to apply it artificially, we often tend to think of reverb as being a singular entity. We add it, we take it away, we boost it, we lower it. Reverberation is really the result of a complex combination of factors: the shape and distance of surfaces, the acoustic properties of their materials, and so on. Unless you're sitting in an anechoic chamber (a room designed to be free of reflections), sound will bounce off the surfaces and be reflected back to the source. The reflections arrive back at the source at different times and amplitudes, but are generally too closely spaced to be perceived as individual echoes. Instead, they blend together perceptually in a way which defines for the listener the unique acoustic character of the physical space, and which gradually decays over time as the reflections progressively lose energy. When we look at Unveil, then, we need to consider what it has to deal with, and our expectations need to reasonable in accordance with the task at hand. Is our aim to remove all traces of reverb, or just some of it?
Technically, Unveil brings a fresh approach to the problem, not relying on gate/expanders, de-noising or phase-cancellation methods. Instead, it uses a "pattern recognition and proprietary de-mixing engine" to separate the reverb component — or 'background' signal — from the foreground component. It can operate in mono, stereo, or up to eight-channel surround if your CPU can handle the load. It is designed, in theory, to affect only those sounds that "do not appear to contribute a significant amount of information to the signal". Zynaptiq's documentation wisely says "reduce" rather than "remove", and this it can accomplish to varying degrees, depending on what you throw at it.
Getting Into Focus
This spectrogram shows the same dialogue file before (left) and after (right) processing with Unveil.This spectrogram shows the same dialogue file before (left) and after (right) processing with Unveil.
Unveil has a refreshingly unique interface that adds a few new items to your plug-in vocabulary. Thankfully, hovering the mouse over a control will reveal a small tool-tips window to explain the relevant operation. The most important, and the first, of a series of five spherical controls is labelled Focus. In essence, this controls the degree of reduction or boost in the amount of reverberation present in the signal. Higher values, towards the right side, remove reverb, while lower values attenuate the direct sound and increase the level of reverberation. Zynaptiq recommend having this set at its maximum when adjusting other parameters, so that the changes are more obvious, then backing it off until you achieve the effect you want.
If you're having trouble getting Unveil to 'lock in' on the reverberant sound, there is a bank of 10 sliders just above the Focus control labelled Focus Bias. These allow for more direct, frequency-specific targeting of the effect: set the Focus control to the centre so that the signal is unprocessed, and move the sliders to exaggerate or ignore frequency ranges where the reverb is more or less prominent.
Additional control parameters allow further refinement of the algorithm. To simplify, t/ƒ Localize helps manage 'pumping' artifacts or high-frequency oscillations, while t/ƒ Refract determines how much time the algorithm takes before reacting — the longer the time, the better the sound but the greater the chance of reverb slipping through — and t/ƒ Adaptation is used to tailor the analysis to match the release time of the reverb tail. Finally, the Presence control is used to restore lost high-frequency content. The Transient Threshold switch allows the user to specify that some transients should remain unprocessed, which can help retain impact. I/O Diff lets you audition a volume-compensated difference between the input and output signals, so you can hear what Unveil is 'throwing away', while the large display represents this difference visually, along with a representation of the Adaptation setting.
Lifting The Veil
I prepared a number of scenarios for testing Unveil: an on-camera interview recorded in a large garage with very reflective surfaces; an interview recorded using a camera-mounted mic; a mix with an absurd amount of artificial reverb applied to vocals and instruments; and a drum loop with too much live room sound mixed in.
Film and television location sound recording has been one area, in particular, that has been in need of an effective tool to reduce excessive reverberation. Both of my tests with dialogue were extreme examples of typical problems faced in location sound recording, and Unveil did a pretty good job of reducing excess reverberation in both scenarios. It also had a tendency to remove background environmental sound ("room tone"), though, and further tweaking was required to find the right balance. Anyone with experience in restoration knows that you often need to use more than one tool, and in this case using a tool such as CEDAR's DNS or Spectral Repair in conjunction with Unveil can yield a more satisfying result than pushing Unveil too hard on its own.
When using Unveil on a mix, there are a lot more variables to contend with, but I was able to reduce reverberation to make the mix sound more acceptable. It was necessary to employ a lighter touch in this situation. The drum loop was a little harder to work with than I anticipated. Finding the best balance between reducing reverb and preserving the transients on the hi-hat and ride cymbals took a little longer than expected. Taking the time to tweak the Focus Bias sliders made the difference.
Unveil is pretty effective at doing more than just reducing reverb. It's also relatively good at removing'mud' from recordings, and even at separating the reverb signal from the direct recording, which could be useful for up-mixing or game sound states. Unveil can boost or reduce high-frequency 'grit' in recordings, and match reverb amounts across different dialogue takes, and you can use it to move background sounds into and out of focus, to better match camera perspective.
Overall, Unveil is a worthy addition to any post-production sound kit and is unique in its ability to isolate reverb from the foreground signal, but it requires some understanding and practice to use properly. To that end, it comes supplied with a number of presets for specific situations that serve as good starting points. It's pretty CPU-intensive, and will no doubt stress all but the most powerful systems. In film and television applications, it may be more effective to adapt a strategy where users treat individual clips and print the results, rather than leaving it live on a multiple tracks and automating the parameters. High buffer settings in your DAW are a must!
The point at which Unveil appears to remove all reverb is the point at which the source starts to sound unnatural, lifeless and sometimes beset with processing artifacts, depending on the signal. Overdoing it with Unveil may produce results not unlike the improper use of noise-reduction software, and it's not all that difficult to make something sound worse than when you started — but sensible application, especially in conjunction with other tools, can yield exceptional results. My only worry is that once film and television directors discover how it can bail them out, best recording practices may be abandoned on location and we'll have even worse audio to contend with!
 - Very effective at isolating reverb for manipulation.
 - Has some useful creative applications in addition to its main function.
 - Easy-to-use interface with helpful visual feedback.
 - Modestly priced.
 - Can take to time to master.
 - Heavy load on CPU.
 - Over-use can produce obvious artifacts and lead to sterile-sounding material.
Zynaptiq Unveil is a solid weapon for film and television engineers to employ against poorly recorded location sound. The fact that it goes beyond that is a bonus. Spending time learning to use it properly should yield gratifying results.
€399 including VAT.
Published February 2013


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... Satellite cities differ from edge cities, which are suburbs with large employment bases and cultural offerings, in that satellite cities must have a true... Conceptually, both satellite cities and some types of edge city could be (and once were) self-sufficient communities outside of their larger metropolitan areas, but have become interconnected due to the... However, while edge cities may have their own government and share many characteristics with satellite cities, they are much more physically integrated with the core city and...
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 Lord, how long?
 Bible: Hebrew Isaiah, 6:11.
 Asking how long will the chastisement of the people last. God replies, "Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate, and the Lord have removed man far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land."
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UK-based orbital launch services company, Orbex, spent Monday 2 October with pupils from Farr High School, Thurso.
As part of a secondary school careers event, Orbex highlighted the job opportunities, different skills and the pathways that can lead to a career in Scotland's spaceflight industry.
Thanks to the rapid growth of the Scottish spaceflight industry, space job opportunities are generating high levels of interest, especially among young people. Kirsteen Mackay, Space Port Preparation and Support Manager, Orbex, joined representatives from five other key community employers at the event aimed at giving secondary school students the chance to learn about opportunities in the local area.
Kirsteen met with 55 students at Farr High School to describe how Orbex developed one of the most advanced, low carbon, high-performance micro-launch vehicles in the world. The young people were particularly interested in the way Orbex has succeeded in combining its business and sustainability goals. Its reusable rocket, Orbex Prime, is engineered to leave zero debris in orbit and its Sutherland spaceport aims to be the first, globally, to be carbon-neutral in its construction and operation.
Kirsteen addressed students' interest in all aspects of rocket design and development and helped students to understand the career opportunities in the commercial space industry. Kirsteen, who is also a director of the Melness Crofters' Estate, was able to provide her unique perspective on the skills and pathways that have enabled her to combine her passion and commitment to the land and local community with a career in high-tech.
Kirsteen, Space Port Preparation and Support Manager, Orbex commented: "It's been a privilege engaging with the students at Farr High School about the many opportunities available right here and now in spaceflight. Although our rockets go up into space, we as a company are rooted in the community and surrounding landscape. That's why we want to encourage local young people to get involved and inspire them to aim for a career in the space industry."
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The AutoComplete widget has a different purpose than the ComboBox/DropDownList, that is why it expose different keyboard navigation behavior.
The AutoComplete is more a suggestion box (just like the Google search bar). The widget shows suggestions in its popup and the user could loop through them without selecting anything (the items are just focused and not selected). That is why the user could reach the last one using DOWN arrow, un-focus it and focus the first one. This is the intended "loop" functionality.
The ComboBox/DropDownList, in contrast, directly select the next/prev item. They behave just like the native HTML Select element. Because the item is directly selected, we avoid looping the suggestion list, because this will result in unexpected selection. This could not happen in AutoComplete/MultiSelect because the user needs to hit ENTER explicitly.
The AutoComplete is designed to open its suggestion box only when there is initiated filter. It doesn't have toggle button by purpose. Again this is intended.
To sum up, the described AutoComplete behavior is intended and we cannot provide any workaround to change its implementation. If you would like more ComboBox/DropDownList components, then I would suggest you use them instead. For instance, you can hide the ComboBox toggle button, resulting in AutoComplete look and feel, but preserving the desired ComboBox behavior.
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text: The use of polyethylene glycol 400 (PEG 400) as an excipient in oral formulations can have profound and differing effects on drug bioavailability in men and women; therefore an understanding of the pharmacokinetics of this excipient is required. A direct injection electrospray selected ion monitoring mass spectrometry methodology was developed and validated for the quantitation of PEG 400 excreted in human urine after oral administration. The most abundant ions corresponding to PEG 400 oligomers at m/z 365, 409, 453, 497, 541, and 585 were used for selected ion monitoring (SIM). Pre-dose urine of volunteers was spiked with various amounts of PEG 400 to generate calibration curves over the concentration range 2.5-90 μg/mL for all SIM channels. The relative standard deviations of intra- and inter-day analysis of PEG 400 in human urine were lower than 11.8% and bias percentage was less than 9.7%. This specific method for relative quantitation of PEG 400 was then used to analyse urine samples with minimal sample preparation. Urine samples of twelve healthy volunteers (six men and six women) who received 0.75 g and 1.5 g PEG 400 on two separate occasions were collected over 24h. On average 36.5% of the orally administered dose of PEG 400 was recovered in the urine of the volunteers, with no significant difference observed between men and women.


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Advantages of macadamized roads.
Advantages of macadamized roads.(a) They were durable with three layers of small broken stones.(b) They were cheap to construct using stones as the basic material for construction.(c) They had a smooth motoring surface since the gravel layer was bound together by the weight of vehicles.(d) They were straight hence reduced occurrence of accidents.(e) They were easily drained due to their smooth surface and being raised.


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If you are familiar with CartoCSS, you know how intricate your stylesheet can get when building something like a choropleth map. With Turbo Carto, you remove the complexity of writing lines and lines of CartoCSS, and most importantly, with Turbo Carto, your styling is connected to your data. This is an exciting new way to think about thematic mapping for the web.
In this blog, I'll walk through the basics of Turbo Carto, outlining its syntax followed by some example maps.
Turbo Carto is built around the idea of ramps. You can apply a ramp to any traditional CartoCSS property used to define a map symbol's size (
-width), color (
-fill), and even opacity (
-opacity) based off an attribute in your data.
No matter which CartoCSS property you are ramping, Turbo Carto has a standard syntax you can follow:
property: the CartoCSS property you want to ramp with Turbo Carto
attribute: the attribute in your data you want to symbolize
values: how the attribute values will be styled (by color, by size, etc.)
filters: defines which
valuesare assigned to which attribute values
mapping: defines how
filtersare applied (=,>=,<=,>,<)
To see this in action, let's look at how we would build a choropleth map using traditional CartoCSS and then with Turbo Carto.
In the map below, we are symbolizing each block group by the percent of population 25 and older that holds a master's degree in San Francisco and surrounding areas.
The data are classified using the quantiles method with five class breaks. Each polygon is colored according to the class it falls using a sequential color ramp. Dark colors indicate high values, and light colors, low values.
The traditional CartoCSS for this map looks like this:
With Turbo Carto, we no longer have to hard code our class breaks. Of course this means fewer lines of CartoCSS to manage, but what's even cooler is that if the values in our data change, our map will automatically update.
For example, if the values for
masters_degree were updated, we no longer need to recalculate each class break and update the CartoCSS – Turbo Carto takes care of that!
To illustrate, take a look at the same map styled with Turbo Carto:
Let's take a closer look at how we are ramping
polygon-fill: is the CartoCSS property we want to ramp using Turbo Carto
masters_degree: is the attribute we want to map
#f3cbd3,#e498b4,...: is the sequential ramp used to color the polygons defined from lightest color (low) to darkest color (high)
quantiles(5): the classification method and number of bins
To use a Color Brewer sequential palette, we could easily modify the
values property to define that:
Which results in:
You may notice in our choropleth example, we aren't using
mapping. Turbo Carto has some defaults built in. Visit the Turbo Carto Repo to learn more about defaults related to
Using the same syntax, let's take a look at how to make a category map with Turbo Carto.
The map below shows the locations of 311 complaints for neighborhoods in Brooklyn, NY:
The next map symbolizes each point by complaint type. The top 5 complaint types are symbolized with unique colors and the remaining complaint types with a neutral gray.
To create this map, we are ramping the
category() filter, Turbo Carto reads the first 5 colors in the list for the top 5 categories in the
complaint attribute and then assigns the last color in the list (
#888) as the default for all other values.
Turbo Carto also makes bivariate mapping easier than ever before. On a bivariate map, two visual variables are used to symbolize two different properties in the data.
Using the same 311 example, the map below uses color to show the type of complaint (as seen above) and symbol size to show the number of each complaint type that occured at the same location:
To make this map, we are ramping
marker-fill with the categorical attribute
complaint, and ramping
marker-width using quantiles (with 5 classes), and varying the symbol size between 6-40 pixels depending on the number of a complaint type at a given location:
This blog post covers the basics of Turbo Carto. Stay tuned for more advanced examples in the near future!
Happy Map Designing!
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