How to Tell the Difference Between a Male and Female Snake?
How in the world do you tell whether a snake is male or female? It is so difficult, right? Well, I did some research on the topic and have written it down to share with you.
Male snakes can most easily be differentiated from females because they have thicker tails. If this does not clearly show the difference, a probe can be inserted in the slit in front of the tail to feel for a hemipenes.
Trying to tell by just looking for hemipenes is actually harder than it sounds. So, what are the best ways to tell the difference between boy snakes and girl snakes?
Tail Characteristics as a Way to Sex Snakes
Male and female snakes have very different shaped tails. Who knew? The first thing you need to know is, what qualifies as the snake's tail? In every snake there is a slit along the underbelly, toward the end of the snake, this slit is called a cloaca.
The length of the snake from the cloaca to the tip of the back end of the snake is its tail. Because females lack hemipenes, their tails are skinnier and fade evenly to the point. Male snakes, on the other hand, have thicker tails that stay thick until they quickly come to a point at the very end of their tails.
This is a good way to tell whether or not a snake is male or female when you have two snakes side by side, but trying to figure this out with only one snake can be rather difficult, so they have invented a few other ways to determine the sex of your snake.
Probing to Determine the Gender of a Snake
The first way and the best way to find the sex of your snake is to use a technique that is called probing. Probing is a process that involves sticking an instrument into your snakes' cloaca to determine if there are hemipenes or not.
To succeed in this technique it is important to, first and foremost, make sure you have the right tools. Manufactures make snake probes that can be bought in pet stores or online at places like Amazon.
It is important that when you go to probe a snake you make sure you have the correct sized prob, and that you have a rounded tip on your probe. Make sure that before probing your snake, you have figured out which size of prob to use.
For smaller snakes, use thinner rods and for larger snakes make sure to use larger rods. It is best to buy snake probing rods because you need to make sure they are rounded on the end or have a ball tip in order to ensure the safety of your snake.
When Probing a snake you must always remember these 5 important facts:
 1. Make sure to always have someone assisting you to hold your snake.
 2. Make sure that your snake is awake.
 3. Make sure you have done your homework and have the right sized probe.
 4. Make sure to always be sanitary.
 5. Make sure you know what you are doing before inserting the probe.
Once you have these 5 steps down, probing can actually be quite easy. First, make sure that your snake's belly is facing you. Then make sure your assistant has a good hold on them. Next, you will want to lubricate your sexing probe.
Then, locate the cloaca and slowly insert the probe. You will want to do this, slowly and gently, spinning the probe so that it is slowly moving forward. On a female snake, the probe will be stopped against a harder surface approximately 3 scales in.
On a male snake, the probe will find one of the two hemipenes and will slide into a softer stop. On a male snake, the probe should go into the snake to about 9 scales. Once you have figured out if it is male or female, slowly remove the probe.
Once again it is so imperative that you use the right sized probe in order to make sure you do not hurt your snake. Here and here I listed a few links to some nice snake probs that have really good reviews.
Popping Hemipenes (Caution!)
There is another way to find the gender of your snake although it is much more difficult and can actually be harmful to your snake if done wrong.
Popping the hemipenes at first sounds like we are going to pop a balloon or something, but to pop the hemipenes really is pushing the hemipenes out of the snake's body. This reverting of the hemipenes only temporarily makes the hemipenes visible on the outside of the snake.
In order to pop the hemipenes, you need to find the vent or cloaca of the snake and then apply slight pressure, using a finger, below the cloaca where the hemipenes would come out. Make sure that the pressure is gentle but also firm. If this is done correctly, a hemipenis should pop out.
This is not the preferred way of determining the sex of a snake for a few reasons though:
 - The first reason is that it can be harmful to the snake
 - The second reason is that it is very hard to do right
 - The third reason is that if you don't see a hemipenes pop out you can never be certain if it is because the snake is actually female or if it is because the process was done wrong and the snake really is a male.
For these reasons it is suggested that you stick to probing your snakes to find their genders.
Pros and Cons for Male Snakes
A lot of people wonder if there is even a difference in owning female snakes compared to male snakes, and vice versa.
The answer is that in general there isn't a huge difference, but there are some pretty interesting details that make some people prefer owning male snakes or female snakes.
Pros for Male SnakesCons for Male Snakes
*If you want a smaller snake, male snakes (in general) are smaller than females.
*Normally are cheaper to purchase than females.
*Only really need one when trying to breed snakes.
*Male snakes are not as large and so they can be less easy to handle for snakes that are already smaller.
*Male snakes cannot have babies and as such are not as valuable.
Pros and Cons for Female Snakes
As was stated in the previous section, unless you are a breeder there are very few reasons that one should buy a male snake over a female snake, but as stated before there are a few, so here is a list of the pros and cons about getting a female snake.
Pros for Female SnakesCons for Female Snakes
*They are more valuable because they can have babies.
*They tend to be bigger which can look nicer and be easier to handle.
*Female snakes tend to be more expensive because it is more beneficial to own a lot of female snakes when breeding.
*Female snakes can get to be a bit aggressive when protecting their young.
*Because female snakes tend to be larger, you may need to use a larger terrarium to house them.
How do Snakes Mate in the Wild?
Snakes are like all other reptiles and they have a need to breed. The breeding process starts with the female though. When a female snake has matured enough to mate and is ready to start the mating process she actually starts to release pheromones that come from the skin glands in her back.
As she is moving about during her day she will begin to leave an odor trail as she pushes off of resistance points in the ground. This is where the male comes in. A male that is mature enough to mate and crosses the path of this pheromone trail will begin to follow the trail until he has found the female.
Once he has spotted the female he will begin to court her. He does this by knocking his chin into the back of her head until she is ready. Once she is ready to mate, the male snake will wrap the bottom of his tail around hers so that their vents or cloaca are touching.
At this point, the male will insert his hemipenes' or penises into the female and will release his sperm. Although sex for snakes generally takes about an hour, it can actually last all day.
Female snakes reproduce about twice a year but depending on the climate this may differ. Snakes in colder regions typically only reproduce in the spring or summer whereas some snakes in tropical regions can reproduce any time of year. The weather and the amount of food the snake is getting all influence whether or not a snake will reproduce.
There are three ways in which a female snake can produce offspring. The most common way is for the female snake to lay eggs. Most snakes do not sit and watch their eggs like chickens and other animals, most snakes will leave their eggs once they are laid.
Like always though, there are a few exceptions to that rule. The second way that snakes produce their offspring is in live births. Not a lot of snake breeds do this but a few that do are certain types of Vipers and Boas.
The third way that snakes produce their offspring is actually a combination of the two. They have eggs but hold them internally until they hatch and then have a live birth. Rattlesnakes experience this form of pregnancy and birth.
How do Male and Female Snakes Reproduce in Captivity?
Although the same basic things must happen in order for snakes to breed in the wild and in captivity, it is quite a different process getting snakes to breed outside of their natural habitat. The breeding of snakes has become quite successful, but because of its complexities, it did not always start out that way.
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 4. After you create the license server on the NVIDIA Licensing Portal, go to the License Servers section and click the 2022-01-27_15-52-40.png icon to download the license file.
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The American Association of University Women (AAUW) presents a classic story followed by a related math session with hands-on activities and a variety of materials. This event is for Grades 1 - 3 accompanied by an adult. You're welcome to come to either the morning session from 10 - 11:30 am or the afternoon session from 1:00 - 2:30 pm. There is no registration for this event.
"A Quarter From The Tooth Fairy," by Caren Holtzman, is a story about a boy who buys things and then returns them. Each time he gets money back, he gets a different combination of coins totaling 25 cents. Learn about the value of different coins and adding money.
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(A) When 600 cm3 of air is pumped into flask A,what will happen to the balance?
(B) What is the volume of tbe air is flask A now? (C) What properties of air do this set-up illustrated?
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(A) When 600cm3 of air is pumped into Flask A, the balance will tip in favor of Flask A. This is because the additional 600cm3 of air has added to the overall mass of air in Flask A.
(B) The volume of air in Flask A is unchanged at 1000cm3. This is because the Flask is made of solid glass that cannot expand easily even as the pressure of air in the flask increases.
(C) The experiment demonstrates that air (i) has mass and (ii) can be compressed.
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(A) Same observation (but I think there is no need write explanation in the answer since not asked "why", correct?)
(B) 1000 cm3 (same thing no need explain because no "why"?) But if asked, it is because air has no definite volume and can be compressed to take up the same volume in the flask, rather than due to the material of the glass. [consider another experiment if we pump air into a flask and into a balloon in comparison.]
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Forced to tolerate, deal with, or manage someone or something. The executives want this in the final product no matter what, so it looks like we're stuck with it. Once you have kids with someone, you're pretty much stuck with that person for the rest of your life, even if you don't stay in a relationship.
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The Pacific Islands Ocean Observing System (PacIOOS) said it has deployed a second wave buoy in Kāneʻohe Bay, Oʻahu, installed as part of Hawaiʻi Natural Energy Institute's (HNEI) efforts to test in-water wave energy conversion devices at the U.S. Navy Wave Energy Test Site (WETS) in Kāneʻohe.
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Literature review, Perception of stressors, Stress, Stress in the intensive care unit

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 1. Abuatiq, Alham MSN, RN, CCNS
 2. Burkard, Joseph DNSc, CRNA
 3. Jo Clark, Mary PhD, RN
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The purpose of this article was to provide a historical review and analysis of the research literature focusing on patients', nurses', and health care providers' perceptions of stressors in the critical care setting. A narrative historical literature review method was used. The inclusion criteria include English-language studies of stressors as perceived by patients and health care providers from 1984 to 2011. Several studies investigated perceptions of stressors using the Environmental Stressors Questionnaire and the findings did not show any significant changes of stress perception over time since 1989 until the present. There is a need to further investigate stress perceptions in the health care setting using a mixed qualitative and quantitative approach to provide a more precise description of stressors and stress perceptions in the critical care setting.


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For example, if you took a 10 minute break and your timeout is set to the default 15 minutes, the 10 minutes where you were AFK will be logged. However, setting your timeout to 5 minutes would not log your 10 minute break.
WakaTime accurately detects the time you code in each file and project, down to the second.
This high-level state machine shows how:
 1. WakaTime starts a timer when you begin editing a file.
 2. The timer is stopped when you go AFK by reaching your timeout setting. When you go AFK, WakaTime rewinds the timer until the time you last edited the file.
 3. The timer is also stopped when you switch to editing a different file. In this case, WakaTime saves the time from when you started editing the original file until when you switched to the new file. The time is reset and we start over at step 1 with the new file.
Your public profile uses the default 15 minute timeout value with a time range of Last 7 Days from Yesterday.
We also subtract coding activity from language Other.
The leaderboards use the same formula as your public profile.
Setting your preferences to the defaults, matching the leaderboard time range, and subtracting coding activity categorized as language Other will show the same coding activity as your dashboard.
When working offline your coding actiity is saved in an sqlite3 database at $HOME/.wakatime.db. The next time you use your IDE when online, your coding activity is syncronized.
Data & Privacy
WakaTime sends heartbeat events triggered from user actions inside your text editor to the WakaTime API.
Heartbeat events contain data such as:
 - absolute path of current file [1]
 - current time as a UNIX epoch float (seconds.milliseconds)
 - whether the event was triggered from writing to a file
 - current project from a supported revision control
 - current branch from a supported revision control
 - total number of lines from the file as an integer
 - current cursor position as an integer
 - syntax language guessed from the file, for example Python or JavaScript
 - libraries and frameworks detected from the file, for example Flask or Rails
 - your computer's hostname, like MacbookPro.local or HOME-PC
Heartbeat events are sent:
 - every 2 minutes if you are actively using your text editor
 - when you switch between files
 - every time you write to a file
The easiest way to hide files/folders from WakaTime is adding them to the exclude array in your $HOME/.wakatime.cfg file.
For example, to prevent tracking all folders named private:
[settings] exclude = /private/
For Windows use escaped backslashes:
[settings] exclude = \\private\\
You can list multiple paths in your config file, and each path is a POSIX regular expression:
[settings] exclude = ^/var /private_\d+/
The above example excludes any path starting with /var and also any folder named private_123 where 123 can be any number.
You can also configure WakaTime to obfuscate file names by adding hidefilenames = true to your $HOME/.wakatime.cfg file.
This means only your project names will be sent to the website, so you can not see coding activity per file.
The hidefilenames setting also accepts a list of folders instead of just true or false, for example:
hidefilenames = /path/to/private/folder/ /another/folder[\d+]/matched/by/regex/
Note: Sublime Text users won't have a $HOME/.wakatime.cfg file, so create one using this example config.
Yes, you can export all your coding activity in JSON format here.
No, your coding history is saved even on the free plan. The dashboard limitation is to prevent overwhelming our servers with having to process too much data. However, your coding activity is kept and made available if you choose to upgrade sometime in the future.
WakaTime creates projects for you automatically, based on your coding activity.
This means you don't need to manually create a project, just use your IDE or text editor like normal.
WakaTime is a passive reporting dashboard, and automatic project detection fits with the philosophy of never getting in your way.
WakaTime recognizes the project's name one of four ways:
 1. Revision control software (Ex: Git, Mercurial, or Subversion):
 To set the project name for a folder, go to that folder in a terminal and type:
 git init
 Files inside that folder will be assigned to a project with that folder's name.
 * only renames projects for new coding activity
 2. Create a.wakatime-project file inside your project directory. Type the project name as the first line of this file and WakaTime will use that project name for all files inside this directory.
 * only renames projects for new coding activity
 3. Adding the project directory to your ~/.wakatime.cfg file under the [projectmap] section.
 * only renames projects for new coding activity
 4. As a last resort use custom rules:
 * Warning: this will rename projects from past coding activity. Use with caution!
To exclude projects from being logged in the future, add the project's path to your ~/.wakatime.cfg file under the exclude setting.
To delete a project, you must first remove it's coding activity using the Coding Activity Delete Tool.
After removing a project's coding activity, you can delete the project by visiting the project's dashboard and clicking the trash icon.
Make sure the plugin is correctly installed in your editor. ( Look for a WakaTime menu under File/Tools )
Check when your editor was last heard from using the User Agents API Endpoint.
If one editor isn't listed or hasn't been "seen" in a while, look for error messages in that editor's log file or in the common ~/.wakatime.log file.
If you use multiple computers, find when a computer's hostname was last heard from using the Machine Names API Endpoint.
The value is the Hostname and ip is the IP Address of your machine.
To see your recent raw coding activity, use the Heartbeats API Endpoint.
Please create a new issue in the appropriate GitHub repo with any error messages.
 1. All WakaTime plugins use a common core (wakatime-cli) for communicating with the API.
 This common core writes errors to $HOME/.wakatime.log.
 2. Errors from the editor plugin go to your IDE's log file:
 Locating your IDE's log file
 3. Please create a new issue in the appropriate GitHub repo with your error messages.
To generate a new api key on the website, go to your API Key page.
Make sure to update your api key in $HOME/.wakatime.cfg(for plugins using wakatime cli) or WakaTime.sublime-settings(for Sublime Text) with your newly generated api key.
Yes, all WakaTime plugins play well together. You can switch between multiple supported editors and your coding activity will be syncronized correctly. If you use revision control software, your project will be detected even when using multiple editors.


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A walk around Derry's walls reveals a splendid city.
A walk around the walls in Londonderry reveals a splendid city crammed full of history, heritage, interest and a vibrant cultural scene.
Londonderry, also known as Derry is the only remaining completely walled city in Ireland and one of the finest examples of Walled Cities in Europe. The Walls were built during the period _PHONE_ by the honourable, the Irish Society as defences for early seventeenth century settlers from England and Scotland.
The Walls, which are approximately 1.5km in circumference, form a walkway around the inner city and provide a unique promenade to view the layout of the original town which still preserves its Renaissance Style street plan to this day.
The four original gates to the Walled City are Bishop's Gate, Ferryquay Gate, Butcher Gate and Shipquay Gate. Three further gates were added - magazine Gate, Castle Gate and New Gate.
The Walls vary in width between 12 and 35 feet and are the most complete in Ireland and one of the finest examples of Walled Cities in Europe. The city claims Europe's largest collection of cannons whose origins are known precisely. Many of them thundered in anger over the two seventeenth century sieges. In 2005 the surviving 24 cannon were restored, and under expert supervision and often by hand, craftsmen, cleared the barrels of centuries of rubbish, stripped off layers of paint and corrosion and bathed, sponged and waxed the cannon back to their former glory. The cannons are displayed throughout the City Walls with the impressive Roaring Meg located on the double bastion.

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31.8: Current Growth And Decay In RL Circuits
The current growth and decay in RL circuits can be understood by considering a series RL circuit consisting of a resistor, an inductor, a constant source of emf, and two switches. When the first switch is closed, the circuit is equivalent to a single-loop circuit consisting of a resistor and an inductor connected to a source of emf. In this case, the source of emf produces a current in the circuit. If there were no self-inductance in the circuit, the current would rise immediately to a steady value of ε/R. However, from Faraday's law, the increasing current produces an emf across the inductor, which has opposite polarity. In accordance with Lenz's law, the induced emf counteracts the increase in the current. As a result, the current starts at zero and increases asymptotically to its final value. Thus, as the current approaches the maximum current ε/R, the stored energy in the inductor increases from zero and asymptotically approaches a maximum value. The growth of current with time is given by
Equation1
When the first switch is opened, and the second switch is closed, the circuit again becomes a single-loop circuit but with only a resistor and an inductor. Now, the initial current in the circuit is ε/R. The current starts from ε/R and decreases exponentially with time as the energy stored in the inductor is depleted. The decay of current with time is given by the relation
Equation2
The quantity inductance over resistance is given by
Equation3
measures how quickly the current builds toward its final value; this quantity is called the time constant for the circuit. When the current is plotted against time, It grows from zero and approaches ε/R asymptotically. At a time equal to time constant, the current rises to about 63%, of its final value, but during decaying, at the same time constant, it decreases to about 37%, of its original value.
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The History of Foreign Affairs Administration in Finland
In 1858 the Russian consul in London, Counselor Kremer, asked if the consulate could engage a civil servant skilled in the Finnish and Swedish languages. The official would serve as the consul's interpreter when Finnish ships' captains or other seafarers came to the consulate on business. The consul's request demonstrates that at an early stage of the Czarist period in Finland Finns already had a presence abroad as a separate group who needed the services of a foreign affairs administration.
In the absence of their own administration Finns used the services of the embassies and consulates of the country that governed them, imperial Russia.
When Finland became independent the country set up its own administrative machinery to handle external relations. Initially it was thought that each individual branch of government would be responsible for its own particular interests. That was why, for example, the Ministry of Agriculture appointed "agrarian attaches" to Copenhagen and Rome. Soon, however, it became established policy that the Finnish state would be represented abroad exclusively by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs and its external representatives: ambassadors, consuls and honorary consuls.
Finland acquired its first foreign affairs senator during J.K. Paasikivi's formation of the Senate in 1918. The man appointed was a bank director, Otto Stenroth, well known for his organisational skills. Using Swedish administrative practice as a model, a decree of 28 June 1918 established a "foreign affairs bureau" with three departments and 17 civil servants.
There was much discussion of whether representation abroad should be based on embassies or consulates. Shipping and foreign trade needed consulates. It was thought that Finland did not have the type of foreign policy interests that would have justified the opening of embassies. Concrete cases showed, however, the necessity of foreign policy. Finland could not, for instance, get its postage stamps accepted for international mail without joining the Universal Postal Union and had to be a state recognised by other states in order to become a member of the Union.
One of Finland's first moves was to send delegations around Europe to seek recognition of Finnish independence. Some members of the delegations stayed abroad and were appointed Finland's charges d'affaires in a number of capitals. By the end of 1918 Finland had 12 missions abroad and 13 honorary consuls.
The most crucial and urgent issues in foreign affairs administration were the consolidation of the political position and borders of the Finnish state as well as the revival of foreign trade and shipping. To tackle these challenges the Foreign Ministry opened a political department and a trade policy department which were augmented in 1922 by a legal department. Matters of protocol were handled by a single official, the person who presented foreign diplomats to the President of the Republic.
Into the service of foreign affairs administration came people from trade, industry and the arts who had experience of working internationally. Many of them were engaged in the expanding area of representation abroad. In 1930 there were 17 missions outside Finland.
Following the Great Depression, starting in the mid-1930s, foreign affairs administration entered a period of consolidation and enlargement. In 1935 the Foreign Ministry had a staff of 77, while missions abroad employed more than 100 people. Before the outbreak of the Second World War Finland had 20 embassies, four of which were outside Europe. In addition there were six consular offices headed by consuls sent from Finland. The network of honorary consuls covered the world.
For foreign affairs administration the years of war from 1939 to 1945 meant continuous, rapid adaptation to changing situations. The Winter War of 1939-40 brought Finland, for a moment, to the attention of the whole world. That situation was effectively exploited in order to obtain aid and sympathy. Eminent correspondents gathered in the press room of Helsinki's Kämp hotel.
The Second World War brought foreign policy into the lives of ordinary people. The Allied Control Commission which sat in Helsinki from 1944 to 1947 was a tangible example of the influence that other states had over Finland's destiny. The Ministry for Foreign Affairs had to simultaneously meet the obligations of the Interim Peace Agreement and rebuild the network of missions abroad. Moreover, the country had to extract itself from economic isolation.
After the signing of the Paris Peace Treaty in February 1947 the situation in Finland gradually returned to normal and the development of foreign affairs administration could begin again. A new decree concerning the Ministry for Foreign Affairs was issued in 1951: the number of departments was to be increased by one with the establishment of the protocol department.
The duties related to foreign affairs administration increased greatly from the middle of the 1950s for three reasons. As colonialism waned dozens of new independent states emerged. Consequently, Finland began to establish political and commercial relations beyond the borders of Europe. Secondly, international cooperation started to expand from the traditional areas into science, technology, education and social affairs. The third reason was the enormous growth of multilateral cooperation. Finland's accession to the United Nations in 1955 was only the tip of the iceberg of work that the Ministry for Foreign Affairs undertook in various international and regional organisations, including economic cooperation bodies.
During the 1950s and 60s the resources for foreign affairs administration did not develop adequately and rationalisation became necessary. Offices were established within departments in 1971. The development cooperation section became a separate department in 1972 and soon had a bigger staff than any other department in the Ministry.
In the 1970s the Ministry acquired its own internal inspection system and training unit. The Department for Development Cooperation was reorganised in 1987 and the following year the press and cultural centre became a department.
Another important development was that the Ministry, which had operated at some twenty different locations, moved to the district of Katajanokka, in Helsinki, in 1987.


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The latest experimental safety system from the British automaker is called Bike Sense, and it builds upon technologies the company has demonstrated recently, taking them a step further to make the road safer for those riding on two wheels. The system uses a combination of colors, sounds and vibrations to alert the driver of a potential hazard that might have otherwise gone unnoticed.
Demonstrated on an XJ sedan, the system identifies nearby two-wheeled vehicles as pedal-powered or motorized, and alerts the driver accordingly. If a cycle is passing a the vehicle's blind spot, the top of the seat will vibrate to virtually "tap" the driver on the left or right shoulder, prompting him or her to look over that shoulder for the hazard. LEDs inside the cabin will then illuminate amber to red in the direction that the bike is passing.
The system will even chime a bicycle bell or motorcycle horn as the two-wheeled vehicle approaches, and vibrate or stiffen the accelerator pedal if the driver keeps moving towards the obstacle. And if an occupant of the parked vehicle starts to open the door into the path of moving vehicle, it'll flash a light, sound an alarm and even vibrate the door handle to warn the occupant of the oncoming hazard.
We could imagine the alerts getting a little distracting, but JLR says the system is designed to prioritize potential hazards when their are groups of pedestrians, bicyclists and/or motorcycle riders on a busy urban street.
This is, of course, just the latest in a long string of new systems JLR has under development, following such technologies as the Transparent Bonnet, the Smart Assistant, the Virtual Windscreen for track sessions and the 360 Virtual Urban Windscreen for city driving.
- Jaguar Land Rover reveals its 'Bike Sense' research, which will tap the driver on the shoulder and ring a bicycle bell inside the car to help prevent accidents involving bicycles and motorbikes
- With nearly 19,000 cyclists killed or injured on UK roads every year, Jaguar Land Rover researchers are identifying the best warning colours and sounds that will trigger an instinctive response from the driver to prevent accidents
- Door handles will 'buzz' the driver's hand to prevent doors being opened into the path of bikes
- The accelerator pedal will vibrate if moving the car would cause an accident
- 'Bike Sense' is a concept technology that is being developed at Jaguar Land Rover's Advanced Research Centre in the UK
Whitley, UK: Jaguar Land Rover is developing a range of new technologies that would use colours, sounds and touch inside the car to alert drivers to potential hazards and prevent accidents involving bicycles and motorbikes.
Sensors on the car will detect when another road user is approaching and identify it as bicycle or motorbike. Bike Sense will then make the driver aware of the potential hazard before the driver sees it.
But rather than using a generic warning icon or sound, which takes time for the driver's brain to process, Bike Sense uses lights and sounds that the driver will instinctively associate with the potential danger.
To help the driver understand where the bike is in relation to their car, the audio system will make it sound as if a bicycle bell or motorbike horn is coming through the speaker nearest the bike, so the driver immediately understands the direction the cyclist is coming from.
If a bicycle or motorbike is coming up the road behind the car, Bike Sense will detect if it is overtaking or coming past the vehicle on the inside, and the top of the car seat will extend to 'tap' the driver on the left or right shoulder. The idea is that the driver will then instinctively look over that shoulder to identify the potential hazard.
As the cyclist gets closer to the car, a matrix of LED lights on the window sills, dashboard and windscreen pillars will glow amber and then red as the bike approaches. The movement of these red and amber lights across these surfaces will also highlight the direction the bike is taking.
Dr Wolfgang Epple, Director of Research and Technology, Jaguar Land Rover, said: "Human beings have developed an instinctive awareness of danger over thousands of years. Certain colours like red and yellow will trigger an immediate response, while everyone recognises the sound of a bicycle bell.
"Bike Sense takes us beyond the current technologies of hazard indicators and icons in wing mirrors, to optimising the location of light, sound and touch to enhance this intuition. This creates warnings that allow a faster cognitive reaction as they engage the brain's instinctive responses. If you see the dashboard glowing red in your peripheral vision, you will be drawn to it and understand straight away that another road user is approaching that part of your vehicle."
If a group of cyclists, motorbikes or pedestrians were moving around the car on a busy urban street, the system would intelligently prioritise the nearest hazards so the driver would not be overwhelmed or distracted with light or sound.
Bike Sense would also be able to identify hazards that the driver cannot see. If a pedestrian or cyclist is crossing the road, and they are obscured by a stationary vehicle for example, the car's sensors will detect this and draw the driver's attention to the hazard using directional light and sound.
If the driver ignores the warnings and presses the accelerator, Bike Sense will make the accelerator pedal vibrate or feel stiff, so the driver instinctively knows not to move the car forwards until the hazard has been avoided.
Bike Sense will also help prevent vehicle doors being opened into the path of bikes when the vehicle is parked. Bike Sense would warn all passengers of an approaching cyclist, motorbike or car through sound and light inside the vehicle. If any passenger continues to open the door, the door handle will light up, vibrate and buzz to alert them to the danger.
"By engaging the instincts, Bike Sense has the potential to bridge the gap between the safety and hazard detection systems in the car and the driver and their passengers," added Dr Epple. "This could reduce the risk of accidents with all road users by increasing the speed of response and ensuring the correct action is taken to prevent an accident happening."


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We present a new algorithm for transposing sparse tensors called Quesadilla. The algorithm converts the sparse tensor data structure to a list of coordinates and sorts it with a fast multi-pass radix algorithm that exploits knowledge of the requested transposition and the tensors input partial coordinate ordering to provably minimize the number of parallel partial sorting passes. We evaluate both a serial and a parallel implementation of Quesadilla on a set of 19 tensors from the FROSTT collection, a set of tensors taken from scientific and data analytic applications. We compare Quesadilla and a generalization, Top-2-sadilla to several state of the art approaches, including the tensor transposition routine used in the SPLATT tensor factorization library. In serial tests, Quesadilla was the best strategy for 60% of all tensor and transposition combinations and improved over SPLATT by at least 19% in half of the combinations. In parallel tests, at least one of Quesadilla or Top-2-sadilla was the best strategy for 52% of all tensor and transposition combinations.
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@article{mueller2020transposition,
 title={Sparse Tensor Transpositions},
 author={Suzanne Mueller and Peter Ahrens and Stephen Chou and Fredrik Kjolstad and Saman Amarasinghe},
 journal={ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures},
 year={2020},
 month={July}
}


can use either straight Person object or an IModel that provides us the person. This feature can be achieved by implementing the Wicket's IChainingModel interface. We have two issues here though. First one is the type of the name model. We define that the name must be String, but actually the compiler cannot make sure that name is bound to a String getName() JavaBean property. The second issue comes from refactoring, we use a String value to define the property name. If you refactor the Person object with your IDE and hange the getName() method to getLastName(), your application will broke and again the compiler cannot notice this.
Let's stop here for a while to look at the IChainingModel interface. Its main purpose is to allow using of a plain object or a chained model as the model's content. The PropertyModel could be used with a model that provides a person or with plain person object. If you look at the PropertyModel's source code, you notice that implementing the IChainingModel requires casting and, in my opinion, boiler plate code. The PersonFriendsModel we created earlier could be refactored to implement IChainingModel so that instead of taking only a model in as the content, it would also support taking a person straight in. Is this really necessary? Not really. If we want to use plain person, we could create a new static model from the person providing us the same functionality as IChainingModel would provide.
CompoundPropertyModel adds even more magic to the model handling. It serves as root model for many components that can bind automatically to it by matching the property name to the component id.
public class PersonForm extends Form<Person> {

 public PersonForm(final String id, final IModel<Person> personModel) {
 super(id, new CompoundPropertyModel<Person>(personModel));

 add(new TextField<String>("name"));
 add(new TextField<Integer>("age"));
 }
}
Here we create a form to show input fields for the person's name and age. There is no model attached to either text field, but we are still able to bind the "name" component to the person's name and the "age" component to the person's age. The compound property model we created in the constructor is the root model for the form and automatically binds the form components to the object's properties by the component ids. The same issues apply with the compound property model that apply with the property model, but we even add one more. Now we lock the component id straight to the property name. This means that we have a dependency from the HTML template straight to the domain objects property name. This does not sound very reasonable.
It is up to you if you want to use property models, but in my opinion they should be avoided due to the issues explained earlier. There are projects like bindgen-wicket that try to achieve the behavior of property models without losing the type safety. But even bindgen does not work that well with refactoring. How we implement the name model in a type and refactoring safe way then?
public class NameModel implements IModel<String> {

 private IModel<Person> personModel;

 public NameModel(final IModel<Person> personModel) {
 this.personModel = personModel;
 }

 @Override
 public String getObject() {
 return personModel.getObject().getName();
 }

 @Override
 public void setObject(String object) {
 personModel.getObject().setName(object);
 }

 @Override
 public void detach() {
 personModel.detach();
 }
}
The model has a lot more lines than the property model. Yes, that is true, but do you want to lose type safety and refactoring features and potentially break your application very easily. The model is in different file so you can still use it as a one liner, so there is no difference if you use property model or the model we just created. And you can always remember the fact that Java is just very verbose language.
Wicket also provides us ResourceModel and StringResourceModel that provide a powerful tool of creating localized content for your components. I will not discuss them in this post, because Wicket in Action book has good reference for those. I tried to bring up some real life examples how to use different kind of models and what their purpose is. I hope this gave you some more knowledge about Wicket models and how they should be used properly.

Reference: A clean approach to Wicket models from our JCG partner Tapio Rautonen at the RAINBOW WORLDS blog.
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The DC Office of Planning (OP) is pleased to announce that the Southwest Neighborhood Plan was selected for the 2016 "Outstanding Plan" award by the American Planning Association-National Capital Area Chapter (APA-NCAC).
The Southwest Neighborhood Plan is a small area plan OP developed between 2013 and 2015 that was adopted by the DC Council. The plan represents the first substantive community-wide dialogue with Southwest residents about how to shape the future of a community experiencing population growth and major new development.
The Southwest neighborhood, located south of the I-395 Freeway and the National Mall, underwent massive redevelopment during Urban Renewal in the 1950s and 1960s that resulted in a residential enclave reflective of Modernist architecture. In the past 10 years, Southwest has been undergoing significant changes. The 2002 Anacostia Waterfront Initiative brought renewed interest to the District's waterfront communities along the Southwest Channel and Anacostia River. Southwest's population, nearly 12,000, is expected to almost double over the next 20 years. Recent major changes in Southwest include the reopening of 4th St. SW, adjacent to the Waterfront Metrorail station, and the addition of new office space, retail and residential buildings, not far from The Wharf, a new mixed-use development currently under construction on 24 acres of land at 50 acres of waterfront.
"The Southwest Neighborhood Plan exemplifies the District government's commitment to supporting equitable development and promoting inclusive growth in our rapidly changing city," said Planning Director Eric D. Shaw. "The Southwest community served as dedicated partners in making this plan a progressive blueprint and a model for other neighborhoods."
OP developed the Southwest Neighborhood Plan through an extensive community engagement and participatory planning process with a commitment to advocate for the neighborhood's most vulnerable populations. The plan presents a vision, based on community consensus, of creating a thriving, active environment that preserves and enhances the Southwest neighborhood's culture and character. The plan includes 11 Guiding Principles that provide direction and values to the plan concepts and more than 60 actionable recommendations. The goal is to ensure Southwest remains a "model community," an inclusive and equitable neighborhood amid population change and development that integrates neighborhood-scale sustainability and quality physical design.
The Southwest Neighborhood Plan includes recommendations for investment in the Southwest Library, neighborhood parks, the 4th St. and M St. SW commercial corridors, and I St. SW as a "cultural corridor" to enhance social interaction that helps build community cohesion. The plan honors Southwest's demographic diversity and also acknowledges and celebrates diversity in its architectural stock and building scale, housing types, arts and culture, and community facilities. The plan is a model for how a neighborhood can shape its future development and play its part in a rapidly growing DC while retaining authentic character and values.
Since its adoption, the Southwest Neighborhood Plan is being consulted in Zoning Commission cases and will be integrated into the District's 20-year Comprehensive Plan as part of the amendment process OP launched earlier this year.
The APA-NCAC awards ceremony was held on Tuesday, Nov. 15 at the Atlas Performing Arts Center's Lang Theatre (1333 H St. NE, Washington, DC) from 6 to 8:30 p.m. The Southwest Neighborhood Plan is available at OP's website: planning.dc.gov.


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This month, the International Air Transport Association published Henley Passport Index 2023which shows the world's most powerful passports.
The Henley Passport Index measures visa-free access to 227 countries worldwide. It ranks the world's passports based on the number of destinations their holders can access without a prior visa.
A key finding of the index is what they call "a direct link between passport power and access to the global economy."
For example, a Japanese passport gives visa-free access to 193 destinations, which is a whopping 98% of the global economy. On the other hand, citizens of countries with the lowest ranking in the index, such as Afghanistan, Iraq (visa-free score of 29) and Syria (visa-free score of 30), are effectively deprived of various opportunities for economic mobility and growth.
Japan tops the index as the most powerful country in the world for the fifth consecutive year.
According to International Air Transport Association data compiled by Henley & Partners, in 2023, Japanese passport holders can visit 193 of 227 countries without a visa, which is 85% of the world's countries.
- Singapore and South Korea
- Germany and Spain
- Finland, Italy, Luxembourg
- Austria, Denmark, the Netherlands, Sweden
- France, Ireland, Portugal and Great Britain
- Belgium, Czech Republic, New Zealand, Norway, Switzerland and USA
- Australia, Canada, Greece and Malta
- Hungary and Poland
- Lithuania and Slovakia
Two more Asian countries took second place: South Korea and Singapore. Both passports allow passport citizens of 192 countries visa-free.
Germany and Spain came third with access to 190 destinations.
The American passport was ranked seventh with Belgium, the Czech Republic, New Zealand, Norway and Switzerland. All countries offer citizens visa-free access to 186 countries.
Although the Henley Passport Index says it expects the US to remain on firm ground. 7 on the list, last year's Global Citizen Solutions Global Passport Index named the US passport the most powerful in the world based on investment, quality of life and enhanced mobility indices in 2022.
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Is there a difference between linear array 3dB beam width and linear array bearing resolution?
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The answer will be NO, but to be precise especially in case of conventional beam forming.
Theoretical Derivation
The antenna electric field pattern of array antenna can be given by
where N is the number of antenna elements
d is the spacing between antenna elements
In order to find the beamwidth (3 dB), the above equation should be equated to and solve for
The solution will come to be as
where D is the total aperture distance and can be approximated as
For spacing of the equation simplifies and can be approximated as
Thus beam width of planar antenna can be represented as
Angular Resolution Using FFT Over Antenna Elements
In order the prove the lemma that the angular resolution obtained by performing the FFT across antenna dimension equals to the beamwidth of the antenna array, we have to obtain the angular resolution using FFT.
The below diagram shows the frequency obtained due to path difference between the antenna elements which occurred due to the angle of arrival other than the broadside angle
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The frequency resolution using FFT can be represented as where N is the number of samples but in our case it is equal to number of antenna elements.
The angular resolution can be found by equating the difference in frequency of different angles and
The frequency resolution becomes:
Solving we get and if we put and we get the same resolution as the beamwidth i.e
Thus for summarizing the above discussion using FFT we can only achieve the max angular resolution equals to the beamwidth of the antenna array which is equal to angular resolution = antenna array beamwidth = 2/N
Kindly note that this equality is true for the case of conventional beam forming only, there exist also some advance beam former where your angular resolution is better than the 3db beam width
This is the same answer which I provided on ULA beamwidth and angular resolution, might this will be helpful.
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I am new to Solidity, and have a question, that may sound silly, but I can't really figure it out. So, I have this simple function:
function uintTest(uint256 n) returns (uint256) {
 return n;
I thought, the max value for uint256 is 2**256, however, the function does not work for input numbers that have more than 16 digits, and in Remix, throws an "assertion failed" error. I can't understand why.
The max value is 2^256-1. The assertion you're hitting is in Remix. The full error message is:
Error encoding arguments: Error: Assertion failed
The issue is that Remix uses JSON to parse the argument list, and JavaScript only supports numbers up to 2^53-1. The reason you're seeing the issue where you do in terms of number of 9s is because
999999999999999 < 2**53-1 < 9999999999999999
To fix the issue, just put double quotes around the number you're passing in. It's safe to just always wrap your numbers in quotes to avoid such precision issues.
The reason 2^256 is not the correct number is that one of the possible values needs to be reserved for the zero value.
Imagine a 2 bit number - the max value is not 2^2 (= four) but rather 2^2-1 (= three). Brute forcing it:
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Paula Morris looked closer to home for the subject matter of her new novel, Rangatira. Photo / Supplied
Expat New Zealand writer Paula Morris has travelled the word in her novels, from the cemeteries of New Orleans to the haunted city of York and the New York PR scene (as well as the streets of Auckland), but the inspiration from her latest release, Rangatira, came from closer to home. It was in her blood.
Rangatira fictionalises a 19th century journey taken by Ngati Wai chief Paratene Te Manu, Morris's great-great-great uncle (if I'm deciphering her family tree correctly).
The novel opens with Paratene posing for the artist Gottfried Lindauer in Auckland in 1886, and thinking back to an extraordinary voyage he made 20 years earlier, to Victorian England. (The painting is now in storage at Auckland Art Gallery but, as you'll see below, Morris took novelist's liberties with the story of its creation.)
We asked Morris about where the facts peter off and the imagination begins, the pressure to do justice to Paratene's story and what's at the top of her Christmas book wishlist.
Q: When did you first become aware of the story of Paratene Te Manu, and why did you decide to write about it?
A: When I was researching my second novel, Hibiscus Coast, back in 2002, I came across James Cowan's book Pictures of Old New Zealand. I saw the Lindauer portrait of Paratene for the first time and read the transcript of Paratene's own account of his life, where he talks about his various taua (war parties) and battles as a young man, and about the trip to England in 1863. I also discovered that he was one of the last owners/inhabitants of Little Barrier, along with my great-great grandparents, Rahui Te Kiri and Tenetahi. There was so much dramatic possibility in this story: I knew it wouldn't leave me alone.
Q: Tell us about the process of researching and writing Rangatira - how long did it take and where did it lead you?
A: I wrote a short story first, in 2003 when I was a student at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and didn't do much research for this. (I am much lazier than people realise!) But after the story was published in a few different places the following year, I was nudged into re-thinking it as a novel. Everything blurs for me because I also seem to be working on 10 things at once, and moving to different places, and scrambling to earn a living. But I think research for the novel began in earnest in 2005. I spent a lot of time over five years in libraries and archives in New Zealand and the UK, and I also visited a lot of the places Paratene would have seen or known - Marlborough House in London, Birmingham Town Hall, Osborne House on the Isle of Wight, the sandspit at Ngunguru. Many people helped along the way.
Q: What effect has this journey of discovery had on you, as a relative of Paratene?
A: It's always interesting, trying to look at things from someone else's point of view, to make the imaginative leap. With a relative, perhaps you think more about resonances with your own life and character. When I think about the restlessness of Paratene's life, which was not untypical of Maori of his era, especially coastal iwi -all the moving from place to place at different times of year, or for protection, or warfare, or adventure, or commerce - I guess there are parallels of sorts in my own life. Paratene thought of several different places as home, and moved constantly between them. His decision to go to England was incredibly rash and eleventh-hour.
Q: Did your personal connection to the story make it easier to write, or harder? Did you feel an extra responsibility to do Paratene's story justice?
A: I'm not sure. For a long time the book was hard to write, but that was because I was unsure about the scope. Deciding to focus everything around the trip to England was key. It also meant I didn't have to research the entire nineteenth century!
The issue of responsibility is an interesting one. With any'real-life' story there are issues of representation to consider, and I didn't want to invent a Paratene Te Manu who bore little resemblance to the historical record. I read whatever I could of his voice - the oral history, some letters, newspaper reports, court testimony - over and over, obsessively, to build a fictional character from the pieces of the real man that remain, and to try to understand what was important to him, what he cared about.
But the responsibilities of a family member, a biographer, and a novelist are not the same. A novelist's chief responsibility is to the reader, I think. We're not restricted to (or by) facts, and our way of honouring an ancestor is unlikely to be a straightahead eulogy. We're looking for complexity, conflict, story. This is one of the reasons I decided to focus on the English trip, where there is a lot of source material, including an amazing detailed account by Paratene of the voyage over. There was plenty of story there, plus a lot of historical record - and photographs.
Q: What were your starting points for creating the character of Paratene, and at what point did artistic licence kick in?
A: Reading letters by him (and by others that mention him) was very useful, but it's like finding 50 pieces of a 500-piece jigsaw puzzle. You have a start, but there's a lot to make up! Artistic licence began the moment I read the oral history in 2002. I started imagining the possibilities, the omissions, the bigger picture, the reasons. Researching a novel based in family history is detective work for a case that can never be solved. You have to imagine a lot of the twists and turns.
Q: What are the main departures from fact in the book, and why did you decide to write them in this way?
A: The book imagines a meeting between Lindauer and Paratene, with them spending long hours together in a temporary studio in Auckland in 1886. Their conversations punctuate Paratene's story of the English trip, so I needed them to have substantial amounts of time together. It's unlikely that they ever met in real life; Lindauer probably painted from a photograph. But I liked the idea of them talking about England, because Lindauer went there himself in 1886. And they had in common the experience of being in a foreign country, unable to speak the language - Paratene in England, and Lindauer when he first arrived in New Zealand.
In the novel, Paratene and Horomona Te Atua have two invented excursions together that I couldn't resist: one to the Alhambra Theatre in Leicester Square, Victorian London's most notorious music hall, and one to the London studio of the painter James Smetham. The story demanded these scenes, just as it demanded that the two actual appearances in Birmingham Town Hall be conflated into one, for example.
Q: Describe the experience of seeing the Lindauer portrait of Paratene up close for the first time.
A: Brilliant. Very moving and exciting. I would love to see it again, hanging on the wall of the Auckland Art Gallery. I would fly home just to see it. I would visit it every single day.
Q: Favourite book, ever?
A: This is the hardest question of all. The first title to enter my head is Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis, so I'll go with that.
Q: What book is at the top of your Christmas wish-list?
A: Don De Lillo's story collection, The Angel Esmeralda.
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Item: Measurement of dynamic waterentry value for dry snow
Title: Measurement of dynamic waterentry value for dry snow
Proceedings: International Snow Science Workshop, Davos 2009, Proceedings
Authors: Takafumi Katsushima, Satoru Yamaguchi, Toshiro Kumakura and Atsushi Sato, Nagaoka University of Technology, Nagaokacity, Niigata, JAPAN 2Snow and Ice Research Center, National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention, Nagaok
Abstract: In soil physics, many people have discussed about mechanisms of developing preferential flow based on porous media hydraulics. In snow science, there are few studies on the preferential flow though the preferential flow governs a part of runoff process in a snowpack. Dry sand has a waterentry value which is a threshold value of the capillary pressure to start infiltration into dry sand. Water cannot infiltrate in the situation that the capillary pressure at the wetting front is less than the waterentry value. The preferential flow is developed in the upwardnegative gradient of the capillary pressure behind the wetting front, which is appeared in the case that the waterentry value is larger than the capillary pressure along the upper moving path of the wetting front. It is thought that the phenomena on the preferential flow in the sand are almost same as these in the snow and the waterentry value of the homogeneous dry snow layer is important to study the preferential flow in the snowpack. In this study, the waterentry values were obtained by measuring the capillary pressure at the wetting front penetrating into the underlying dry snow. The capillary pressure was measured with the high response tensiometers. The measured waterentry values were greater than the airentry value according to the water retention curve for drying process. The waterentry value with large diameter is larger than one with small. The some paths of the preferential flow were observed in these experiments. On the other hand, the waterentry value was not observed and the preferential flow was not observed in the experiment which used the smaller diameters of snow particles.
Keywords: preferential flow, waterentry value, homogeneous dry snow
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