Experiences of oppression among Middle-Eastern couples living in Denmark: Implications for marriage and family therapy
Date of Award
Degree Type
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Marriage and Family Therapy
Kenneth Hardy
Oppression, Middle-Eastern, Couples, Denmark, Marriage and family therapy
Subject Categories
Psychology | Race and Ethnicity | Social and Behavioral Sciences | Social Psychology | Sociology
There has been an increasing interest within the field of Marriage and Family Therapy over the last decades in uncovering and exploring how specific contextual parameters influence the life experience of minority groups. The identified experiences of minority groups include emotional and psychological responses directly connected to oppression, the effect of oppression on the couple relationship, and specific mental health needs. This dissertation adds to the existing knowledge in several ways. Specifically, the aim is to explore (1) how experiences of oppression may be present in a Scandinavian context, (2) how lived experiences affect the relationship of minority couples in Denmark, and (3) their specific mental health needs and implications for marriage and family therapists.
During this study eight couples (16 individuals) were interviewed to gain an indepth understanding of their experiences and meaning-making processes. The data was analyzed using a phenomenological method developed by Edwards and Titchen (2003) and based on the theory of Alfred Schutz (1967; 1970a). Results indicated that, as a consequence of their racial, cultural, and religious difference, the participating couples experienced that others tend to devalue them, seeing them as not-Danish, and being of lesser worth, affecting them emotionally and psychologically. This study identified several coping mechanisms commonly used by Middle Eastern couples in Denmark. This dissertation is ground breaking in Denmark, as it takes a first step toward exploring the experiences of minority couples and the emotional and psychological impact that the Danish context has on them. In addition, this dissertation makes a contribution to the field of marriage and family therapy by connecting theories developed in the United States to lived experiences in Denmark, enabling marriage and family therapists around the world to reflect on trans-cultural and trans-national processes and experiences in regards to oppression.


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Preparation and Characterization of Lanthanum Self-Assembled Nano-Films
Lanthanum (La) nano-films prepared by a self-assembled technique on a silicone-based material surface, was studied by using an all-round functional Turbiscan LAB stability analyzer and X-ray fluorescence analysis (XRF) as well as atomic force microscope (AFM). La content introduced in the assembled nano-film reached a maximum at pH value between 5 and 6. In the preparation of colloidal sol, no phase separation took place at 60 °C where the colloidal particles uniformly and stably dispersed in the solution. The optimum topographic feature was observed after 24 hours, whence self-assembled process was performed. The particle dispersion of the assembled film was uniform and compact at the optimum EDTA to La molar ratio 0.5.
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In general, a rate transition exists between two blocks if their sample times differ, that is, if either of their sample-time vector components are different. The exceptions are:
Blocks that output constant value never have a rate transition with any other rate.
A continuous sample time (black) and the fastest discrete rate (red) never has a rate transition if you use a fixed-step solver.
A variable sample time and fixed in minor step do not have a rate transition.
You can resolve rate transitions manually by inserting rate transition blocks and by using two diagnostic tools. For the single-tasking execution mode, the Single task rate transition diagnostic allows you to set the level of Simulink® rate transition messages. The Multitask rate transition diagnostic serves the same function for multitasking execution mode. These execution modes directly relate to the type of solver in use: Variable-step solvers are always single-tasking; fixed-step solvers may be explicitly set as single-tasking or multitasking.
Simulink can detect mismatched rate transitions in a multitasking model during an update diagram and automatically insert Rate Transition blocks to handle them. To enable this, in the Solver pane of model configuration parameters, select Automatically handle rate transition for data transfer. The default setting for this option is off. When you select this option:
Simulink handles transitions between periodic sample times and asynchronous tasks.
Simulink inserts hidden Rate Transition blocks in the block diagram.
Automatically inserted Rate Transition blocks operate in
protected mode for periodic tasks and asynchronous tasks. You cannot alter
this behavior. For periodic tasks, automatically inserted Rate Transition
blocks operate with the level of determinism specified by the
transfer parameter in the Solver pane.
The default setting is
possible, which enables
determinism for data transfers between periodic sample-times that are
related by an integer multiple. For more information, see Deterministic data transfer. To use other modes, you must insert Rate Transition
blocks and set their modes manually.
When you select the Automatically handle rate transition for data transfer option, Simulink inserts Rate Transition blocks in the paths that have mismatched transition rates. These blocks are hidden by default. To visualize the inserted blocks, update the diagram. Badge labels appear in the model and indicate where Simulink inserted Rate Transition blocks during the compilation phase. For example, in this model, three Rate Transition blocks were inserted between the two Sine Wave blocks and the Multiplexer and Integrator when the model compiled. The ZOH and DbBuf badge labels indicate these blocks.
You can show or hide badge labels. On the Debug tab, select Information Overlays > Automatic Rate Transitions.
To configure the hidden Rate Transition blocks, right click on a badge label and click on Insert rate transition block to make the block visible.
When you make hidden Rate Transition blocks visible:
You can see the type of Rate Transition block inserted as well as the location in the model.
You can set the Initial Conditions of these blocks.
You can change data transfer and sample time block parameters.
Validate the changes to your model by updating your diagram.
Displaying inserted Rate Transition blocks is not compatible with:
Concurrent execution environment
To learn more about the types of Rate Transition blocks, see Rate Transition.
Suppose you automatically insert rate transition blocks and there is a virtual block specifying sample time upstream of the block you insert. You cannot click the badge of the inserted block to configure the block and make it visible because the sample time on the virtual block causes a rate transition as well. In this case, manually insert a rate transition block before the virtual block. To learn more about virtual blocks, see Nonvirtual and Virtual Blocks.

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Learn how to create thumbnail images in Lotus Domino using LS2J in LotusScript.
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This tip resolves a problem faced by many developers who code for the Web: how to create thumbnail images in Lotus Domino. Until I came up with this code, I either ended up with a solution that required manual steps or else I had to use an external program.
The code below uses LS2J to create thumbnail images in LotusScript. LotusScript does not natively have any methods for manipulating images, but Java does. LS2J (which is a part of Notes/Domino on the Win32 platform) makes it possible to expose Java functionality to LotusScript.
This tip employs an agent that is called in the WebQuerySave event of a Domino form. The agent, written in LotusScript, checks the document for image files, and if any are found, creates thumbnail files for them and attaches them to the document. You could create an agent for the Notes client that does the same thing. The central part of the agent is the line that calls the method that creates the thumbnail file. This method (thumbnailObject.ThumbnailThis in the code) receives four parameters:
 - The filename of the image that is to be used as the source for the thumbnail file.
 - The filename that the thumbnail image should have.
 - The maximum width of the thumbnail image.
 - The maximum height of the thumbnail image.
I have a form that holds a Body-field and an upload control to allow Web users to attach image files. The form has the following in the WebQuerySave event: @Command([ToolsRunMacro]; "SaveWeb")
In the database I have an agent with the following code:
'Options
Option Public
Option Declare
Uselsx "*javacon" 'Which lets you
use Java from Lotusscript
Use "ThumbNail" ' A Java library that
 holds a function to do Thumbnailing
'Initialize
Sub Initialize
 Dim session As New NotesSession
 Dim CurDB As NotesDatabase
 Dim curDoc As NotesDocument
 Dim fileList As Variant
 Dim expression As String,
serverName As String, thumbnailPrefix As String
 Dim fileType As String, fileNameExcludingType As String
 Dim sourceFilePath As String, thumbFilePath As String
 Dim notesEmbeddedObject As NotesEmbeddedObject
 Dim bodyItem As NotesRichTextItem

 Dim js As JAVASESSION
 Dim thumbnailClass As JAVACLASS
 Dim thumbnailObject As JavaObject
 Set js = New JAVASESSION
 Set thumbnailClass = js.GetClass("ThumbNail")
 Set thumbnailObject = thumbnailClass.CreateObject

 Dim workingDir As String
 Dim maxX As Integer, maxY As Integer
 Dim returnCode As String
 workingDir = "c:\temp\"
'Hard coding - you should change this
 maxX = 100 'Maximum width of thumbnail in pixels
 maxY = 100 'Maximum height of thumbnail in pixels
 thumbnailPrefix = "t_" 'The prefix we will use for thumbnails

 Set curDb = session.CurrentDatabase
 servername = curDb.Server

 On Error Goto ErrorHandling

 expression = "@AttachmentNames"
 Set curDoc = session.DocumentContext
 Set bodyItem = curDoc.GetFirstItem("Body")
 If curDoc.HasEmbedded Then
 fileList = Evaluate(expression, curDoc)
 'Contains an array of attachmentnames
 Forall fileName In fileList
 fileType = Lcase(Strrightback(Cstr(fileName), "."))
 If (fileType = "jpeg" Or fileType = "jpg" Or fileType = "gif")
And (Left$(fileName, 2) <> thumbnailPrefix)
Then 'The code only works with these image types,
and we exclude old thumbnails
 fileNameExcludingType = Strleft(fileName, ".")
 Set notesEmbeddedObject =
curDoc.GetAttachment( fileName )
'We get a handle to the file that is to be the
source of a thumbnail
 sourceFilePath = workingDir & fileName
'The file name of the file - on disk
 thumbFilePath = workingDir & thumbnailPrefix
& fileNameExcludingType & "." & fileType 'The file name for
the thumbnail
 Call notesEmbeddedObject.ExtractFile(workingDir & fileName)
'Writing the source file to disk
 returnCode = thumbnailObject.ThumbnailThis(sourceFilePath,
ThumbFilePath , maxX, maxY) 'Calling the
thumbnailfunction
 If returnCode = "OK" Then 'If thumbnail creation was OK
 Set notesEmbeddedObject =
bodyItem.EmbedObject(EMBED_ATTACHMENT, "
",thumbFilePath) 'Attaching
the thumbnail
 Call curDoc.Save(True, True, True)
'We only save if we modify the document
 End If 'If returnCode = "OK" Then
 Kill sourceFilePath 'Deleting temporary files
 Kill thumbFilePath
 End If 'If fileType = "jpeg" Or fileType =
 "jpg" Or fileType = "gif" Then
 End Forall 'Forall fileName In fileList
 End If 'If curDoc.HasEmbedded Then

 Exit Sub

ErrorHandling:
 Print " Error (" & Err & ") - line: " & Erl
 Exit Sub
End Sub
Below is the Java Library that makes it possible to create the thumbnail – when we make the call for thumbnailObject.ThumbnailThis above.
You create a Java Library in the Designer in Shared code->Script Libraries, click New Java Library, and then remove the few lines of code that you get as a help for getting started, and paste the code below. Save and call the library "ThumbNail".
import com.sun.image.codec.jpeg.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.image.*;
import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
public class ThumbNail {
 public String thumbNailThis(String inputFilePath,
String outputFilePath, int maxX, int maxY) {

try {
 int thumbHeight;
 int thumbWidth;

 // load source image file
 Image image =
Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getImage(inputFilePath);
 MediaTracker mediaTracker =
new MediaTracker(new Container());
 mediaTracker.addImage(image, 0);
 mediaTracker.waitForAll();
 int imageWidth = image.getWidth(null);
 int imageHeight = image.getHeight(null);

 double imageRatio = (double)imageWidth /
(double)imageHeight;

 if (imageRatio<1) {
 thumbHeight = maxY;
 thumbWidth = (int)(maxY*imageRatio);
 } else {
 thumbWidth = maxX;
 thumbHeight = (int)(maxX/imageRatio);
 }

 resizeImage(image,outputFilePath,
thumbWidth,thumbHeight,100);
 } catch(Exception e) {
 e.printStackTrace();
 }
 return "OK";
 }
 private void resizeImage(Image pImage,
String pstFileName, int piWidth, int piHeight, int piQuality) {
 try {
 // draw original image to thumbnail image object and
 // scale it to the new size on-the-fly
 BufferedImage thumbImage =
new BufferedImage(piWidth,
piHeight, BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_RGB);
 Graphics2D graphics2D = thumbImage.createGraphics();
 graphics2D.setRenderingHint
(RenderingHints.KEY_INTERPOLATION,
RenderingHints.VALUE_INTERPOLATION_BILINEAR);
 graphics2D.drawImage(pImage, 0, 0, piWidth, piHeight, null);

 // save thumbnail image to OUTFILE
 BufferedOutputStream out =
new BufferedOutputStream(new FileOutputStream(pstFileName));
 JPEGImageEncoder encoder =
JPEGCodec.createJPEGEncoder(out);
 JPEGEncodeParam param =
encoder.getDefaultJPEGEncodeParam(thumbImage);
 param.setQuality((float)piQuality / 100.0f, false);
 encoder.setJPEGEncodeParam(param);
 encoder.encode(thumbImage);

 out.close();
 } catch(Exception e) {
 e.printStackTrace();
 }
 }
}
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Can one calculate the focus plane angle from the tilt-angle of the lens?
Can we compute the lens tilt needed to tilt the focus plane to a desired angle?

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Human factors science and safety engineering
can the STAMP model serve in establishing a common language?
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A symbiotic relationship between human factors and safety scientists is needed to ensure the provision of holistic solutions for problems emerging in modern socio-technical systems. System Theoretic Accident Model and Processes (STAMP) tackles both interactions and individual failures of human and technological elements of systems. Human factors topics and indicative models, tools and methods were reviewed against the approach of STAMP. The results showed that STAMP engulfs many human factors subjects, is more descriptive than human factors models and tools, provides analytical power, and might be further improved by including more aspects of human factors. STAMP can serve in minimizing the gap between human factors and safety engineering sciences, which can collectively offer inclusive solutions to the industry.
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Everything you need to understand or teach The Underground Man by Mick Jackson.
The Duke of Portland is an aging British aristocrat who lives in seclusion on his Welbeck estate. He is a somewhat eccentric man who has always kept to himself. As he has aged, both his physical and mental conditions have noticeably deteriorated. This causes him to engage in somewhat unusual behavior. Although local folks rarely see the reclusive Duke, news of his increasingly idiosyncratic conduct makes its way into the public arena. The information is quickly exaggerated and distorted and it is often alleged that the Duke is a physically deformed monster who hides himself on his estate in order to conceal his disfigurement.
When the novel opens, it is autumn and construction of an elaborate tunnel system on the Duke's estate has been completed. It is unclear what purpose the tunnel system serves since the parts of the estate that are connected underground can be just as easily accessed... View more of the The Underground Man Summary
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Group and school bookings include fun, informative tours of the Discovery Gallery and Cosmology Gallery. Group tours can be coupled with a two-course lunch or morning tea, provided by the Gravity Cafe.The main objective of the Gravity Discovery Centre is to provide exciting and inspiring science educational programs. We aim to ignite people's interest in Science. Students perform free fall object experiments from the Leaning Tower, engage with interactive exhibits and displays, and learn about our Solar System and the Big Bang Theory.
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I am trying to find a time for office hours that accommodates all of my students.
Does there exist a web app that will let me determine, say, two different 1-hour blocks of time for which my students are all free for at least half of each hour? I've already determined that for every half-hour block of time, at least two students have a conflict (and so my naive algorithm for solving this problem doesn't work).
There are of course hacks to do this: I could have each student create a google calendar and add them all to one calendar. I am simply optimistic that someone has already implemented a better way to do this.
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Don't know if your students have Google accounts, but Google Calendar has a feature of organizing events and will show you the calendars for all participants in order to find a spot when everyone is free.
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Lattice Engines announced commencement of a private beta for its Atlas Customer Data Platform (CDP). Lattice Atlas matches internal and Lattice Engines data sources, provides a single view of the customer, and supports a centralized audience platform for cross-channel creation and measurement. The formal launch is planned for the end of the year.
According to Lattice Engines, "Marketing organizations struggle to scale their Account-Based Marketing (ABM) programs because each application they deploy has its own data, segmentation, activation and measurement modules. This has led to a fractured buyer journey because banner ads, social ads, emails and sales calls communicate different messages, which creates confusion. Lattice Atlas solves this problem directly by integrating all the application data into a single place and providing the ability to manage this data, segment on it, and activate it through open APIs."
"A CDP connects existing systems to create a unified customer view that makes ABM possible. In a world that never stops changing, the power and flexibility of a CDP will help marketers deliver on the promise of ABM. The features you need in a Customer Data Platform (CDP) will depend on your business, existing systems, and intended use. There are a few key considerations when evaluating CDP solutions for executing ABM programs, including a unification of all data sources, segment creation, campaign execution and predictions."
- David Raab, founder of the CDP Institute
Lattice contends that ABM at scale requires a CDP supporting four key attributes:
- Unified Customer Data: After aggregating and consolidating customer data, a CDP must link identity, behavior, purchase history, and firmographics.
- AI-driven Audiences: The CDP must not only score accounts and contacts, but identify buying committees, assess buying stage, and recommend the next-best offer.
- Omnichannel Activation and Personalization: The CDP suggests highly personalized campaigns across relevant channels. The messaging must remain consistent across all of the channels.
- Enterprise Grade Governance: The CDP maintains data security and privacy while complying with relevant laws such as GDPR.
Lattice Atlas aggregates client data across platforms and appends it with data from the Lattice Data Cloud. First-party content is gathered from CRM, marketing automation, web visitor logs, transaction histories, product usage details, etc. The Lattice Data Cloud enriches the customer view with firmographics, intent data, and technographics. Lattice also maintains an ABM Identity Graph which organizes customer data by account, buying center, and contact.
"Lattice Atlas was a natural evolution of our platform," blogged VP of Products Chitrang Shah. "Since day 1, our approach has focused on being deeply integrated with each execution application and managing all data under one platform. Because of this we not only capture the largest amount of data, but also all that relevant metadata that describes it. Lattice Atlas is built on our understanding of these applications and their data to create the first CDP for enabling ABM at scale."
Audience creation tools predict conversion likelihood, purchase window, and likely spend. Atlas also supports next-best targets and next-best actions.
Lattice Atlas connectors support Marketo, Eloqua, Salesforce, and a set of REST APIs.
Other features include GDPR opt out for campaigns and all marketing communications, engagement thresholds to prevent marketing fatigue, and lead-to-account mapping.
The initial Atlas application will be Playmaker which offers prescriptive recommendations to sales teams. "Playmaker lets them quickly identify top products to sell across all audiences and programmatically deliver those recommendations to the sales teams," said Shah. "It also has built-in interactive dashboard to track the engagements (or lack of it) and its impact on the pipeline, enabling out-of-the-box visibility into play ROI measurements and the ways to improve it."
"The holy grail of B2B marketing is creating 1-to-1 experiences across the entire buyer's journey. This is why the B2B world is so interested in ABM these days. In order to craft personalized experiences at scale, our customers need a data foundation to better understand their target audiences, and an execution platform to engage those audiences in meaningful ways. With Lattice Atlas, we now enable companies to engage their buyers with 1-to-1 omnichannel experiences, making B2B marketing as personalized as B2C marketing," said Lattice Engines CEO Shashi Upadhyay.
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China heatwave: Temperatures of 40C expected this weekend
By Nadeem Shad
Parts of China are set to experience searing temperatures over the next ten days as a heatwave takes hold.
In some provinces, authorities are predicting levels to rise to at least 40C and the national government has warned that forest fires could occur.
Mercury levels will start spiking on Saturday - "Big Heat" day in the traditional Chinese calendar.
In Zhejiang, in the south-east, some cities are issuing red alerts, the highest warning.
The province normally experiences temperatures in the high 20s in July but this year local authorities are warning of 40C in the next 24 hours.
To deal with the hot spells many in China turn to air conditioning in their homes, offices and factories however it could cause trouble for the national power grid.
Demand could reach a new high over the summer and the Ministry of Emergency Management has warned that safe operations would face "severe tests".
In July, Shanghai's temperature hit a sweltering 40.9C, equalling its hottest day since records began in 1873, hitting this mark the first time in 2017, Reuters news agency reports.
The city had to issue its third extreme heat warning of the summer.
Heatwaves have become more frequent globally, more intense, and last longer because of human-induced climate change.
The world has already warmed by about 1.1C since the industrial era began and temperatures will keep rising unless governments around the world make steep cuts to emissions.


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M The Performance of Alcohol Fuels for Backpacking Stoves
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Light alcohol stoves are very popular, but there has been a lot of confusion over what sort of alcohol should be used and whether water should be added to the fuel. Part 1 of this series looked at the alcohols themselves. We look at what effect adding water to an alcohol has on the efficiency and safety of an alcohol stove and the sort of flame it creates.
The three common alcohols that can be used as fuel in our backpacking stoves are methanol, ethanol and isopropanol. 'Denatured alcohol' can be a mixture of some or all of these alcohols, plus other strange additives, while 'methylated spirits' has a known composition of 95% ethanol.
We will show that the performance of a particular alcohol stove fuel is generally related to the amount of heating energy in that fuel, and also what happens when you blend water into different alcohols. This has implications for what sort of fuel should be used with the smaller beer-can pots. Finally, we make some recommendations.
Tony Beasley is responsible for the experimental work in this series. Roger Caffin is responsible for the writing.
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Comparative lifetime experiments are vital when the interest is in learning the overall benefits of two competing products with respect to their reliability. In this article, point and interval estimations for the unknown parameters of two Weibull- Fre ́chet populations based on joint progressive Type-II censoring samples are discussed. The point estimations for the two distribution parameters are obtained by the maximum likelihood, Bayes and parametric bootstrap methods. Moreover, approximate confidence intervals and credible intervals of the estimators have been obtained and compared with four bootstrap confidence intervals. Furthermore, Bayes estimators have been developed under squared error loss and linear exponential loss functions using independent gamma prior distributions when Gibbs sampler within the Metropolis-Hasting algorithm is applied to generate Markov chain Monte Carlo samples from the posterior density functions. A real data set is studied to illustrate the application of the proposed criteria. Finally, extensive simulation experiments have been performed to study the performances of the different methods.
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"Inferences for two Weibull Fre ́chet Populations under Joint Progressive Type-II Censoring with Applications in Engineering Chemistry,"
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In college, therapists and assistants get very little education and training in the business and compliance aspect of outpatient physical, occupational and/or speech therapy services. If they do, it is usually limited to the basics of CPT coding, documentation and perhaps, some billing. In addition, many office managers and billing staff do not receive the proper education and training regarding when a Medicare beneficiary can be held financially liable for payment for outpatient therapy services. This webinar will focus solely on the advance beneficiary notice of noncoverage (ABN) form and will answer the following questions regarding the ABN:
- In what formats can I issue an ABN?
- Can I use the ABN form for my Medicare Advantage patients?
- Can I issue an ABN if I am not enrolled in the Medicare program?
- When can I issue an ABN to a Medicare beneficiary?
- When is an ABN not required to be issued to a Medicare beneficiary?
- How does the annual therapy threshold and targeted medical review impact me issuing an ABN?
- How do I complete the ABN completely and correctly?
- If Medicare ends up paying me for the services I thought they would deny, how soon must I refund the patient?
- When would I issue a voluntary ABN to a Medicare beneficiary?
- What is the difference between Option #1 and Option #2 in Section G of the ABN form?
- How does the Qualified Medicare Beneficiary Program that some Medicare beneficiaries are enrolled in effect the completion of the ABN and my ability to collect payment from the Medicare beneficiary?
At the conclusion of this webinar presentation, participants will be able to:
- List the formats in which an ABN may be delivered to a Medicare beneficiary
- Demonstrate how to correctly complete an ABN and issue it to a Medicare beneficiary
- Calculate the estimated cost to the Medicare beneficiary that you expect Medicare to deny
- Identify when it is and is not appropriate to issue an ABN to a Medicare beneficiary
- Describe the difference between the 3 Options in Section G of the ABN form
- Differentiate the differences in the completion of a mandatory ABN versus a voluntary ABN
- Explain how the annual therapy threshold and targeted medical review impact your decision on issuing an ABN
- Recognize when you can and can't collect payment from a Medicare beneficiary when an ABN has been issued
- Recall the timeframe in which you must refund payment to a Medicare beneficiary if Medicare ends up paying for the service(s) you thought they were going to deny
- Discuss how a Medicare beneficiary who is enrolled in the Qualified Medicare Beneficiary Program (QMB) may not be financially responsible even if an ABN was issued
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Rick Gawenda, P.T., graduated in 1991 with a Bachelor of Science in Physical Therapy from Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan. Mr. Gawenda is currently the President and founder of Gawenda Seminars & Consulting, Inc. He has provided valuable education and consulting to hospitals, rehabilitation agencies, private practices, nursing homes, and his peers in the areas of CPT and ICD-10 coding, billing, documentation, reimbursement, and compliance as it pertains to outpatient therapy services as well as denial management and the appeals process for Medicare denied claims. Mr. Gawenda's website, _URL_, provides a valuable source of information on rehabilitation rules and regulations, coding, documentation, and reimbursement.
Mr. Gawenda is a member of the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) and Michigan Physical Therapy Association (MPTA). Mr. Gawenda is the Past President of the Section on Health Policy & Administration of the APTA as well as Past President of the Michigan Association of Medical Rehabilitation Program Administrators.
Mr. Gawenda is also the author of "The How-To Manual for Rehab Documentation: A Complete Guide to Increasing Reimbursement and Reducing Denials" and "Coding and Billing For Outpatient Rehab Made Easy: Proper Use of CPT Codes, ICD-9 Codes and Modifiers".
Physical therapists, physical therapist assistants, occupational therapists, occupational therapy assistants, speech-language pathologists, private practice owners and practice administrators, billing companies, office managers at private practices, as well as compliance officers, risk managers, directors, managers, supervisors, and billers in skilled nursing facilities, hospital outpatient therapy departments, rehabilitation agencies, home health agencies, and comprehensive outpatient rehabilitation facilities.
In addition to the expertise and advice presented during this webinar conference, you'll also receive a handout (in PDF format) that will include related reference links.
A certificate of attendance will be available upon purchase of the webinar and may be adequate for credit in some states; you will need to contact your state licensing regulatory body to determine whether or not credit will be granted for this webinar conference listened to via a playback link of the live presentation that occurred on October 21, 2021.
LENGTH OF TIME FOR PLAYBACK or AUDIO FILES:
Time: Approximately 1 hour and 23 minutes (including Q&A time recorded)
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How to Find Prisoner Info and Mugshots
Exploring the criminal justice system on the web
If you're looking for a prison inmate, a mugshot, or more information about the United States criminal justice system, the internet hosts a number of websites that can help.
The resources below can be used to locate inmate pictures, find which facility an inmate is located at, see where prisons and jails are in each state, and learn other details related to the penal system.
A facility might not update its online information on a prisoner for 24 hours or longer after incarceration.
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The same website from above can be used to find more information about federal prisons, such as the prison's primary email address and phone number, its judicial district and county, how many inmates are in the prison, and more. Visit's Search Locations page for these details.
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Not every person who gets arrested gets their picture taken, and arrest information isn't necessarily public record unless you're a celebrity or similar person of public interest.
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Are Maoists 'political prisoners'?
Last updated on: September 25, 2012 18:28 IST
Bibhu Prasad Routray examines how that decision will affect India's battle to control and fight the Maoist menace.
Two judicial decisions in Kolkata have opened up a dormant debate on the status of the jailed cadres of the Communist Party of India-Maoist. Whether the arrested left-wing extremists should be treated as 'political prisoners'? Whether India should recognise the Maoist movement as essentially political in nature?
In August, the Kolkata high court declared seven suspected Naxalites, including CPI-Maoist backed leader Chhatradhar Mahato and Maoist spokesperson for Bengal and Gaur Chakraborty as 'political prisoners'.
Following the trend, on September 21, a sessions court in Kolkata bestowed a similar status on nine suspected Maoists -- including head of the outfit's technical committee, Sadanala Ramakrishna.
This piece attempts to provide answers to three important questions relating to this debate.
First, do the Maoists qualify to be 'political prisoners'?
Second, what could have prompted the judiciary in Kolkata to take such decisions?
Third, what are the implications of such decisions on the future developments with regard to Maoist activities in the country?
Extremism: Political dichotomy
Being given 'political prisoner' status has been the long-standing demand of the CPI-Maoist. It is one of the three pre-conditions laid down by the outfit for peace negotiations with the government.
Legal teams representing the Maoists have persevered to gain a 'political prisoner' status for all the high-profile Maoists lodged in different state prisons today.
This yearning for a 'political' status, however, coexists with a strategy that seeks to uproot all that is commonly understood as 'political'. For the Maoists, all forms of elections held in India are a sham. The outfit opposes the parliamentary form of government, regularly calls for boycotting polling, coerces candidates to withdraw from the electoral processes and kills those who disobey.
The mass resignation of gram panchayat members in various states under duress is a successful implementation of the Maoist strategy. The demand for a 'political' status, thus, represents bit of a paradox for the Maoists who display intense contempt for the political set-up.
The Maoist objective of replacing the prevalent structure of governance relies not on peaceful political means, but a doctrinaire violent protracted people's war aimed at annihilating all class enemies.
Although the Maoists justify their violence as a response to the 'active and structural' violence of the State, more often than not the 'annihilation' has been the first streak of actual violence in areas now dominated by the extremists.
This grand strategy of people's war has resulted at least 5,291 dead bodies of civilians and security forces since 2004, the year the CPI-Maoist was formed, till 2011, averaging 755 deaths per year and 63 deaths per month.
An overwhelming proportion among the fallen have been from the very classes and communities the Maoists claim to be seeking to 'liberate'.
The class war has further left school and gram panchayat buildings, road stretches, bridges, electricity and mobile phone towers destroyed. By no stretch of imagination, this trail of blood, gory and destruction qualifies to be a political struggle.
The CPI-Maoist's overt reliance on violence and mayhem is intrinsic to its larger strategy of weakening the State, ensure its retreat if not disintegration, thus allowing the Maoist functionaries a free hand to establish a janathana sarkar (people's government) -- an euphemism for an extreme form of authoritarianism devoid of any respect for commonly accepted legal principles including basic human rights.
Such forms of government are a reality in the territories under firm extremist control.
This extremist plan of action is more than evident from the profiles of the two of the 16 Maoists granted 'political prisoner' status by the judiciary. Chhatradhar Mahato, who started as a defender of tribal rights in the Jangalmahal area of West Bengal's West Midnapore district, swiftly degenerated into running errands for the Maoist leader Kishenji.
Mahato was a key figure in the numerous Maoist activities in the district including giving shelter to the extremist cadres and murdering cadres of the then ruling Left Front.
Mahato's People's Committee Against Police Atrocities was the front organisation used by the Maoists to build up their 'liberation struggle' in the area and provide their wanton violence a legal and humane facade.
Charges against 60-year-old Sadanala Ramakrishna are even more unambiguous. RK, as he is commonly known, was the head of the outfit's 'technical committee', overseeing manufacturing arms and spares and supplying them deep into the Maoist territories all over the country.
During his stay in Kolkata, from where he was arrested in February, the team headed by RK collected explosive substances, ammunition and oversaw a project to manufacture rocket launchers and other weapons.
Close to Rs 1 crore (Rs 10 million), ammunition, explosive materials, several diagrams and literature on rocket launchers were recovered from the arms factory he had set up in Kolkata.
It requires no complex science to understand that neither Mahato nor RK excelled in essentially 'political' activities.
Why the decision?
Given that the Maoist ideology and end game is fairly well articulated and understood in the country's strategic circles, the court decision could be treated with a sense of disbelief.
It appears that the judgments are based on an unwarranted focus on the end 'political' objective of the Maoists, while disregarding the'means' the outfit adopts to achieve such an objective.
However, this sense of bewilderment needs to be weighed in the wider context of the culture of political opportunism in West Bengal.
Maoists are not banned entities in West Bengal. While New Delhi and all the states affected by Maoist activities have proscribed the outfit, West Bengal has chosen to bypass such a decision.
The Left Front government considered the Maoist problem a 'political' issue, which it said should be fought politically. Only after the goons of the Left Front, the 'Harmad Bahini', were systematically butchered by the Maoists did the Budhhadeb Bhattacharya government agree to a central force-led initiative against the extremists.
However, the facade of a political fight against the Maoist was maintained till the very end of Left Front rule in the state. It is, thus, not surprising that the Communist Party of India has welcomed the latest court decisions.
Surprisingly, close to 18 months since the Left citadel was knocked off in West Bengal by the Trinamool Congress, the status quo has been maintained. In spite of Mamata Banerjee's proclivity to label all strands of critics -- students, cartoonists, farmers -- as Maoists, the chief minister has sidestepped the administrative expediency of proscribing the CPI-Maoist.
In these circumstances, unless the law enforcement agencies manage to prove their charges of sedition against the arrested extremists, nothing stops the courts from declaring the Maoists, 'political prisoners'.
The bigger picture
On the surface, the 'political prisoner' status bestows only rudimentary benefits on the arrested Maoists, which should have been granted to all prisoners under the long-pending prison reforms project.
Compared to the benefits some of our corrupt politicians manage to enjoy while behind the bars, the provision of newspapers, better food and a cot to sleep for the arrested Maoists vide the court judgment does not exactly threaten the existence of the nation.
The bigger issue, however, is the distinction the judgments establish between Maoism and other forms of extremism. It elevates Maoist activities to a higher level. It makes the Maoist violence an acceptable form of dissent articulation. And it attaches a stamp of legality behind ideology inspired use of carnage for political objectives.
This is no doubt a dangerous and unacceptable trend. Needless to say, the court rulings in West Bengal have been nothing sort of a moral victory for the CPI-Maoist.
Dr Bibhu Prasad Routray is a Singapore-based security analyst and a senior analyst at Wikistrat. He was deputy director at India's National Security Council Secretariat.
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Dow AgroSciences Pestwatch service for Wheat Blossom midge has started and, although the soil samples have yet to show signs of pupation, adult Wheat Blossom midges have been seen. Some fields are forward in their development and if adults are in flight, then these could be at risk. Growers and advisors are advised to go to _URL_ to monitor midge activity, assess their own risk more accurately and optimize spray timings to ensure effective pest control and to minimize impact on the environment.
Dow AgroSciences invest in the Pestwatch service to help provide the best advice to farmers, says Sarah Hurry of Dow AgroSciences. "Pestwatch starts by sampling soils for larvae. The average population of Orange Wheat Blossom midge (OWBM) taken from 18 sites in this year's qualitative baseline sampling is 2.5 larvae per kg soil. The highest population (17.6 larvae/kg of soil) was recorded in a sample from Boxworth in Cambridgeshire. No pupae were recorded in this round of sampling, but samples were taken before the recent rains. We have already received reports on our Hotline of adult midge activity in the Southern region and expect other regions to follow."
Sarah reports that Yellow Wheat Blossom midges (YWBM) appear to be more common this year than in previous years. "Yellow Wheat Blossom midge pupation is underway at all but two of the sites at which the pest was recorded. Adults emerge at the same time as OWBM, but tend to pupate in drier soils. They also lay eggs earlier as boots begin to split, rather than on the emerged ear. They are less persistent than OWBM, lasting about 3 years in the soil as opposed to 10 years."
She points out that the pest risk relies on the vulnerable growth stages of the crop coinciding with egg-laying activity. "Orange Wheat Blossom midge larvae overwinter in cocoons and require certain conditions (70 days at <10°C) to break diapause, after which larvae move towards the soil surface. They require sufficient rainfall to wet the soil to a depth of 10mm and a rise in soil temperatures to above 13°C to stimulate pupation. The average temperature at the start of May was 12.9ºC and, although a very dry spring, sporadic showers would be sufficient to trigger pupation."
Rising temperatures following rainfall stimulate hatch of adults from pupae. Air temperatures above 15°C are particularly favourable for flight. Adult midges mate at the pupation site and the females, which live for just 7 days, look for a suitable host crop to lay their eggs. In good conditions, each female can lay around 80 eggs on emerged ears, before flowering between GS53 and GS39. Eggs hatch in 4-10 days, depending on temperature. The emerged larvae move to the developing grain and feed for 2-3 weeks.
Growers are invited to use the Dow AgroSciences Risk Assessment Charts to help identify fields at high risk. "Susceptible sites are those wheat fields where the pest was noted last year, especially if no treatment was carried out. The economic risk is highest in crops intended for seed or milling, with a threshold for treatment being one midge per 6 ears. The threshold for feed wheat is one midge per 3 ears."
Sarah Hurry advises that if treatment is justified when thresholds are met or exceeded, growers should use Dursban WG at 0.6 kg/ha in 200 to 1000 litres of water. "Dursban WG will control all the life stages of the pest, giving the grower the widest window of opportunity and flexibility to control this damaging pest. In association with FWAG, Dow AgroSciences recommend a voluntary 12 metre buffer from the edge of the field as part of integrated pest management best practice."
She also reminds growers that Dursban WG gives effective knockdown of adult midges, persistence of 7 to 10 days to control further flights of adults plus persistence and vapour action to control larvae emerging from eggs laid by the first flight of adults.
Orange Wheat Blossom midge can cause substantial loss of yield and quality. Typically one larvae feeding per grain site can cause about 30% yield loss; with two or three larvae per grain site loss can be as much as 75%, or even higher if ear emergence is late. In addition larval feeding can induce premature sprouting in the ear and a reduction in Hagberg Falling Number. Secondary fungal attack can follow under damp conditions.
For further information, please contact Sarah Hurry, Dow AgroSciences on the Dow Technical Hotline on 0800 _PHONE_.


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Stress Management: "The Turn of the Tide"
Worry arises when we start to let doubts creep in about what could happen to us if things should go wrong in trying to reach our goals. Some people use a simple technique at the first sign of worry by switching on an imaginary "Cancel" button in their heads. Others with big worries may need a more structured approach such as the following one told by Stephen Covey in "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People". It is based on a story written by Arthur Gordon called "The Turn of the Tide".
Washing Away Your Worries: "The Turn of the Tide"
In "The Turn of the Tide", Arthur Gordon recalls a time when he was overcome by negativism and worry. In the end, he went to see a physician who told him to spend the following day in the place where he had been happiest as a child. Then he gave him four prescriptions in sealed envelopes, to be opened at 9, 12, 3 and 6 o'clock the next day.
Gordon duly went back to his favourite retreat beside the sea. At 9 o'clock, he opened the first prescription. It read: "Listen carefully." Gordon sat back and did as instructed. For the rest of the morning he tuned in to the sounds of the birds and the sea and felt a growing peace.
At noon he opened the second prescription. It read: "Try Reaching Back." Gordon thought about the meaning of this phrase and allowed the many memories of his past to come flooding back to him. Reaching back, he recalled times of happiness, achievement and fulfilment.
When 3 o'clock came, he opened prescription number three and read: "Examine Your Motives". Gordon thought of the work he was engaged on at present. Slowly it dawned on him that all his present endeavours were aimed at satisfying his own needs. He changed his thoughts and motives so that they were aimed at satisfying the needs of others.
Finally, at 6 o'clock, Gordon opened the last prescription and read: "Write your worries in the sand." He did as instructed, writing the few remaining worries he had and turned homeward, knowing that the lapping waves would soon wash all his worries away.
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Lessons for Stress Management from "The Turn of the Tide"
Here are 6 lessons from the story of Arthur Gordon and "The Turn of the Tide" that can help you in your own stress management:
- turn worrying thoughts inside out. Instead of thinking about the worst that could happen, think about the best that could happen. Worry in positives.
- keep so busy that you have no time for worrying
- live in daytight compartments where you can take one step at a time
- don't let a small niggle or failure cloud the rest of what you've achieved.
- don't over-react to worries. The chances are that what you fear won't happen anyway.
- write your worries in the sand and let the tide carry them away. Then forget them.


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Valley Library hosts a Summer Reading Program. Twin Rivers YMCA co-ops with Valley Library in the Summer Reading Program. The library staff reaches out to the community with interesting and educational children's activities throughout the summer.
In June, on Wednesdays 11th and 18th, from 10 am – Noon, Academy Science is visiting the Valley Library with its STEM focus on air rockets build and launch competition demonstration.
All participating youth and adults get personalized instruction in building a performance style competition air rocket and an opportunity to launch in sandlot style competition. It is typical performance for a first time rocketeer in this program to get one hundred feet altitude and two hundred fifty feet in lateral flight distance on the first or second try with the air rocket launch shot.
So come on down for some fellowship and science FUN!
June 18 Leader's note:
Over forty four rockets were designed, built, launched and recovered in this project.
We are generally in the Valley City Park, 400 West Vass Street, near the Large Pavilion on Sundays at Noon.
We will be at the Valley Sesquicentennial Celebration this August.
- Academy Science CEENBoT
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- Academy Science Club Poultry
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The MIT Kerberos Consortium, a security authentication and authorization group, announced Monday that Microsoft has joined its shindig.
The consortium, which launched in September with Google, Apple, Sun Microsystems and a collection of universities, noted Microsoft is coming aboard as a founding sponsor.
Kerberos aims to offer consumers the same single sign-on authentication and authorization system that corporate America has been using to allow employees to access network services with one log-on. Kerberos is an offshoot of MIT's Project Athena, which was developed back in the 1980s.
Microsoft uses the Kerberos network authentication protocol in such products as its Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, and Windows Server 2008. And Kerberos also serves as the main authentication tool in Microsoft's Active Directory.
"Microsoft joining the Kerberos Consortium is significant," Stephen Buckley, consortium executive director, said in a statement. "They represent a vast number of users of Kerberos. It is an important step forward towards our common ambition to create a universal authentication platform for the world's computer networks."
What's next? Given its past troubles with its passport authentication efforts, is the next stop for Microsoft the Liberty Alliance Project?


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A Pulangiyen youth group called Kabatan-on Lumadnong Pulangiyen (KLP) is regenerating 12 hectares of previously cleared forest areas in Bendum, an upland village in Northern Mindanao, by gathering lauan seeds from mother trees in the puwalas (maturing forest) and transplanting local tree species. This assistance in the natural regeneration of forests is expected to maintain and enhance the remaining natural biodiversity of the regenerating forests.
These youth are forming a life pattern under new circumstances and the first effort is to go back and reclaim the past knowledge of utilizing forests during both the seasonality of activity and over a longer cycle of shifting land use.
The forest area has declined and is retreating to the higher slopes. The youth now seek to draw the forest back down by regenerating 12 hectares that started with the previously barren log deck and areas cleared for unsustainable agriculture.
The KLP wants to establish the youth's role in the community, their identity and inheritance through the gaup (ancestral domain). They identify themselves by their rivers and is restoring their remaining forest to strengthen cultural integrity while seeking greater equity in a globalizing culture through recognition of their tradition. The KLP also seeks dialogue to strengthen and unite the cultures of Upper Pulangi and maintain peace in the whole area.


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- Volet de programme : Jeunesse Canada au travail dans les établissements du patrimoine
- Titre de l'emploi : Program Coordinator
- Nom de l'organisme : Teck Centennial Public Library
- Lieu de l'emploi : Kirkland Lake, Ontario
- Durée de l'emploi : 2017-05-02 à 2017-08-26 (17 semaines)
- Salaire horaire : 14,00 $
Teck Centennial Public Library seeks a dynamic, creative and responsible post-secondary student to lead the Children's TD Summer Read Club. Reporting directly to the Library CEO and Children's Clerk, the Program Coordinator will be responsible for planning, implementing a variety of programs for children, youth and families as well as promoting the TD Summer Reading Program. Programs may be delivered at the Library or at various locations out in the community.
Duties and Responsibilities:
-Plans and executes programs for children, youth and families, including, but not limited to, school age children.
-Research ideas for programs, establish themes, and organize materials and supplies.
-Design a performance measurement tool for evaluating the summer reading program.
-Evaluates completed programs and prepares reports as directed.
-Prepares and follows a specific summer program budget.
-Performs other duties as assigne.
The successful applicant should:
-Have completed at least one year of an Early Childhood Education, Bachelor o Education degree or diploma, Child and Youth Worker; or have comparable skills or experience.
-Must plan to return to school in the fall
-Be fluent in the English language; French will be considered an asset.
-Possess excellent and demonstrate organizational skills.
-Be competent with technology and some application software.
-Be able to work effectively and efficiently with minimal supervision.
-Obtain a clear vulnerable sector police check.
-Be a Canadian citizen or permanent resident, or have refugee status in Canada.
-Be legally entitled to work in Canada.
-Be between 16 and 30 years of age.
Term of Employment:
Start date: May 2, 2017
End date: August 26, 2017
Hours of work: 30 hours per week; Tuesday to Saturday
Rate of Pay: $14.00/hour + 4% vacation pay.
Qualified candidates are invited to submit their resume (complete with reference and covering letter) in confidence by Saturday, April 15, 2017.
Please apply by mail / e-mail to:
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In a recent paper in Current Biology, Fennessy and colleagues [1] conclude that there are four species of giraffe and that their numbers are declining in Africa. Giraffes (Giraffa camelopardalis) are presently classifi ed as one species, with nine subspecies, which are considered 'Vulnerable' on the IUCN Red List [2]. The present consensus of one species divided into nine subspecies has previously been questioned (Supplemental information), and Fennessy and colleagues [1] provide another viewpoint on giraffe taxonomy. The fundamental reason for different taxonomic interpretations is that they are based upon different datasets that adopt different statistical techniques and follow different criteria for nomenclature.
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The Pennsylvania Patient Safety Reporting System (PA-PSRS, pronounced PAY-sirs) is a confidential, statewide Internet reporting system to which all Pennsylvania hospitals, outpatient-surgery facilities, and birthing centers, as well as some abortion facilities, must file information on medical errors.
Safety Monitor, this column in AJN from PA-PSRS, informs nurses on issues that can affect patient safety and presents strategies they can easily put into practice.
Visit the Web site of Pennsylvania's Patient Safety Authority, at _URL_ for information on extravasation of radiologic contrast agents and useful resources in developing extravasation protocols. Refer to "Patient Safety Advisories" in the left-hand navigation menu. Then click on "Advisory Library," select the September 2004 issue of the PA-PSRS Patient Safety Advisory and click on "Extravasation of Radiologic Contrast."
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If you're a backpacker you need a reliable yet lightweight method for purifying and filtering water in the wild. Most commercial methods are either bulky and heavy or need supplies such as salt and/or batteries. Instead you can make a gravity water filtration system using two water bladders, a $17 Aquamira Frontier Pro filter or likewise, and a pack of chlorine dioxide purification tablets.
YouTube user and veteran backpacker Jason Klass demonstrates the light weight, versatility, and low cost (around $40 for everything) of this setup. Basically you fill your "dirty" water bottle directly from a river, lake, or stream, add a purification tablet, and connect your clean water bottle to the Aquamira filter. The other side of the filter is connected to the water resevoir you drink from. Hang the dirty water from a tree branch and keep the clean water on the ground and in half an hour you'll have a couple of liters of clean water to drink.
Why does this system use both a chemical and a mechanical filter? The aquamira filter is good at keeping out dirt and objects that would change the taste of your water but does not filter closely enough to remove most bacterias and viruses. A chlorine dioxide chemical treatment (same as what most municipal water supplies use) will kill 99.999% of all viruses and bacterias and shouldn't change the taste of the water. If you run out of purification tablets while on the trail you can always gravity filter the water into a pot and boil it.


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Clojure Goodness: Counting Frequency Of Items In A Collection
If we want to know how often an item is part of a collection we can use the frequencies function. This function returns a map where each entry has the item as key and the number of times it appears in the list as value.
In the following example Clojure code we use the frequencies function:
(ns mrhaki.core.frequencies
 (:require [clojure.test :refer [are is]]))
(def sample "Clojure is cool!")
(is (= {\space 2 \! 1 \C 1 \c 1 \e 1 \i 1 \j 1 \l 2 \o 3 \r 1 \s 1 \u 1}
 (frequencies sample))
 "Frequency of each character in sample")
(def list ["Clojure" "Groovy" "Cool" "Goodness"])
(is (= {\C 2 \G 2}
 (frequencies (map first list)))
 "Two words start with C and two with G")
(def numbers '(29 31 42 12 8 73 46))
(defn even-or-odd
 "Return string even when number is even,
 otherwise return string odd."
 [n]
 (if (even? n)
 "even"
 "odd"))
(is (= {"odd" 3 "even" 4}
 (frequencies (map even-or-odd numbers)))
 "list numbers has 3 odd and 4 even numbers")
(def user {:user "mrhaki" :city "Tilburg" :age 46})
(is (= {java.lang.String 2 java.lang.Long 1}
 (frequencies (map type (vals user))))
 "user map has two values of type String and 1 of type Long")
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Students and teachers are beginning preparations for the Stanford Achievement Test - Ninth Edition (SAT-9), which will be administered April 2-6 in West Virginia.
The SAT-9 enables schools to measure academic performance and gives educators valuable data to help tailor instruction to meet the educational needs of all students.
"Our students are tested in the areas of reading, vocabulary, reading comprehension, mathematics problem solving, mathematics procedures, language, spelling, study skills, science, social studies and listening on the SAT-9," said State Superintendent Dr. David Stewart. "This assessment is used by teachers and school systems to measure academic progress of students and to determine areas needing improvement. The state's Instructional Goals and Objectives are aligned with this assessment."
Jan Barth, executive director, Office of Student Services and Assessment, said that "schools prepare students by teaching the West Virginia Instructional Goals and Objectives throughout the year; however, in the days preceding the SAT-9 administration, most schools review subject matter and prepare students for testing."
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Definition
The logistic function is a function with domain \R and range the open interval (0,1), defined as:
x \mapsto \frac{1}{1 + e^{-x}}
Equivalently, it can be written as:
x \mapsto \frac{e^x}{e^x + 1}
Yet another form that is sometimes used, because it makes some aspects of the symmetry more evident, is:
x \mapsto \frac{e^{x/2}}{e^{x/2} + e^{-x/2}}
For this page, we will denote the function by the letter g.
We may extend the logistic function to a function [-\infty,\infty] \to [0,1], where g(-\infty) = 0 and g(\infty) = 1.
Probabilistic interpretation
The logistic function transforms the logarithm of the odds to the actual probability. Explicitly, given a probability p (strictly between 0 and 1) of an event occurring, the odds in favor of p are given as:
\frac{p}{1 - p}
This could take any value in (0,\infty)
The logarithm of odds is the expression:
\ln\left(\frac{p}{1 - p}\right)
If x equals the above expression, then the function describing p in terms of x is the logistic function.
Key data
Item Value
default domain all of \R, i.e., all reals
range the open interval (0,1), i.e., the set \{ x \mid 0 \le x \le 1 \}
derivative the derivative is \frac{e^{-x}}{(1 + e^{-x})^2}.
If we denote the logistic function by the letter g, then we can also write the derivative as g'(x) = g(x)g(-x) = g(x)(1 - g(x))
second derivative If we denote the logistic function by the letter g, then we can also write the derivative as g''(x) = g'(x)(1 - 2g(x)) = g(x)(1 - g(x))(1 - 2g(x)) = g(x)g(-x)(1 - 2g(x)) = g(x)g(-x)(g(-x) - g(x))
logarithmic derivative the logarithmic derivative is \frac{e^{-x}}{1 + e^{-x}}
If we denote the logistic function by g, the logarithmic derivative is g(-x)
antiderivative the function x \mapsto \ln(e^x + 1) + C = -\ln(g(-x)) + C
critical points none
critical points for the derivative (correspond to points of inflection for the function) x = 0; the corresponding point on the graph of the function is (0,1/2).
local maximal values and points of attainment none
local minimum values and points of attainment none
intervals of interest increasing and concave up on (-\infty,0)
increasing and concave down on (0,\infty)
horizontal asymptotes asymptote at y = 0 corresponding to the limit for x \to -\infty
asymptote at y = 1 corresponding to the limit for x \to \infty
inverse function inverse logistic function or log-odds function given by x \mapsto \ln \left(\frac{x}{1 - x} \right)
Differentiation
First derivative
Consider the expression for g(x):
g(x) = \frac{1}{1 + e^{-x}} = (1 + e^{-x})^{-1}
We can differentiate this using the chain rule for differentiation (the inner function being x \mapsto 1 + e^{-x} and the outer function being the reciprocal function t \mapsto 1/t. We get:
g'(x) = -(1 + e^{-x})^{-2}(-e^{-x})
Simplifying, we get:
g'(x) = \frac{e^{-x}}{(1 + e^{-x})^2}
We can write this in an alternate way that is sometimes more useful. We split the expression as a product:
g'(x) = \left( \frac{1}{1 + e^{-x}} \right) \left(\frac{e^{-x}}{1 + e^{-x}}\right)
The first factor on the right is g(x), and the second factor is 1 - g(x), so this simplifies to:
g'(x) = g(x)(1 - g(x))
Second derivative
Using the expression g(x)(1 - g(x)) for g'
From the above, we have:
g'(x) = g(x) - (g(x))^2
Differentiating both sides, we obtain:
g''(x) = g'(x) - 2g(x)g'(x)
This simplifies to:
g''(x) = g'(x)(1 - 2g(x))
We can now re-use the expression for g' and obtain:
g''(x) = g(x)(1 - g(x))(1 - 2g(x))
Using the expression g(x)g(-x) for g'
We have:
g'(x) = g(x)g(-x)
Using the product rule for differentiation and the chain rule for differentiation, we get:
g''(x) = g'(x)g(-x) + (-g(x)g'(-x))
Note from the expression that g' shows that g' is even, so we can rewrite g'(-x) as g'(x), and we get:
g''(x) = g'(x)g(-x) - g'(x)g(x) = g'(x)(g(-x) - g(x))
We can re-use the expression g'(x) = g(x)g(-x) and obtain:
g''(x) = g(x)g(-x)(g(-x) - g(x))
Functional equations
Symmetry equation
The logistic function g has the property that its graph y = g(x) has symmetry about the point (0,1/2). Explicitly, it satisfies the functional equation:
g(x) + g(-x) = 1
We can see this algebraically:
g(-x) = \frac{1}{1 + e^{-(-x)}} = \frac{1}{1 + e^x}
Multiply numerator and denominator by e^{-x}, and get:
g(-x) = \frac{e^{-x}}{e^{-x} + 1} = 1 - \frac{1}{1 + e^{-x}} = 1 - g(x)
Differential equation
As discussed in the #First derivative section, the logistic function satisfies the condition:
g'(x) = g(x)(1 - g(x))
Therefore, y = g(x) is a solution to the autonomous differential equation:
\frac{dy}{dx} = y(1 - y)
The general solution to that equation is the function y = g(x + C) where C \in \R. The initial condition y = 1/2 at x = 0 pinpoints the logistic function uniquely.
Points and intervals of interest
Critical points
The function has no critical points. To see this, note that the derivative is:
g'(x) = g(x)(1 - g(x)) = \frac{e^{-x}}{(1 + e^{-x})^2}
Note that the numerator is never zero, nor is the denominator. Therefore, the function is always defined and nonzero.
Intervals of increase and decrease
The derivative:
g'(x) = g(x)(1 - g(x)) = \frac{e^{-x}}{(1 + e^{-x})^2}
is always positive. So the function is increasing on all of \R.
The asymptotic values are:
\lim_


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I have a collection of notes on my iPad, written using a markdown editor/viewer (trunk notes) that does not understand latex, but does display greek. Is there a simple way to convert the greek letters (e.g. convert the UTF-8 symbol 0xCEB1, α) to their latex equivalents (\alpha)? I am using pandoc for the conversion, which is pasting a LaTeX header onto the output before conversion to TeX or ConTeXt.
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Do you need them also in text or only in math? – egreg Jun 21 '12 at 14:38
Both. I'm placing some short notes inline, and putting longer equations in center /center tags. The app doesn't understand latex, so I am displaying it as HTML on the iPad, but would like to translate the notes to LaTex on my computer. One path is markdown->html->pdf, but that is rather ugly. – Bill Jun 25 '12 at 2:51
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In ConTeXt (both MkIV and MkII with utf-8 encoding), Greek letters work out of the box in text and math mode. (You need a text font with Greek letters)
α $α$
With MkIV, Unicode characters behave like ASCII characters, so $\hat α$ is same as $\hat {α}$. In MkII, you need to use the latter form.
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I use the following code to make unicode symbols work both as normal text and in mathmode. But then xelatex is needed to compile it:
\def\textalpha{α} \catcode'\α=\active \defα{\relax\ifmmode \alpha \else \textalpha \fi}
Also you need some suitable font, STIX works for me.
If you want to actually replace the unicode characters in the source code, that is a different issue. I don't know what kind of tools are available in your environment. I would compile a list of replacements like α \alpha and then write a small script that executes those in order. E.g. there is the replace utility on linux which does one such replacement.
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I'll take a look at xelatex. Thanks – Bill Jun 21 '12 at 11:54
\usepackage{newunicodechar} and then \newunicodechar{α}{\ifmmode\alpha\else α\fi} is easier. :) However, with unicode-math and XITS Math as math font (also with other fonts, I believe) it works out of the box. – egreg Jun 21 '12 at 14:34
_USER_: Thanks for the hint. Of course as I only have to do this once in some custom package, it is not really an effort. Still having it work out of the box would be great. I actually did this when unicode-math didn't work properly yet. Also, pmav99 uses the xgreek package, is that necessary? – canaaerus Jun 21 '12 at 14:42
No it is not. I just copy pasted...! I'll remove it. – pmav99 Jun 21 '12 at 14:50
Expanding Canaaerus answer In xelatex, package unicode-math allows you to use greek characters in math-mode. Check the following minimum example.
% font selection for normal text
% Packages needed for mathematics
% Fonts
\setmainfont[Mapping=tex-text]{Linux Libertine O}
\setmathfont{XITS Math}
 a = α + b + β^2_i
For more info (in greek) look here
The fonts that you may use are the following ones (they must be installed in your OS' standard font folder)
 - Asana-Math. Free font created by Apostolos Syropoulos.
 - Stix
 - Xits, fork of Stix
 - Neo Euler
 - Latin Modern Math, OpenType version of the classic TeX font.
 - Cambria Math. Proprietary font, distributed with Microsoft software (e.g. MS Office)
Note though that a and \alpha are different symbols! If you want to convert α to athen the previous approach cannot be used. If that is what you need, then it shouldn't be too difficult to write a script (e.g. in perl or python) that would parse your notes and make the replacements.
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Your links to Stix and Xits do not work. Maybe you mean _URL_ and ctan.org/pkg/xits? – canaaerus Jun 21 '12 at 14:55
Thank you. I was copy-pasting that too. I will fix them. – pmav99 Jun 21 '12 at 14:57
Do greek letters also work in text mode with lualatex/fontspec/unicode-math? – Aditya Jun 21 '12 at 15:03
_USER_ I am not really sure. In principle, I believe they should but I am not a LuaLaTeX user. I am mostly interested in multilingual texts. Last time I tried, LuaLaTeX had some problems with greek, so I haven't spend time with it. – pmav99 Jun 21 '12 at 15:57
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Multi-robot exploration, potential field path-planning, autonomous systems
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In this paper we propose an approach, the Space-Based Potential Field (SBPF) approach, to controlling multiple robots for area exploration missions that focus on robot dispersion. The SBPF method is based on a potential field approach that leverages knowledge of the overall bounds of the area to be explored. This additional information allows a simpler potential field control strategy for all robots but which nonetheless has good dispersion and overlap performance in all the multi-robot scenarios while avoiding potential minima. Both simulation and robot experimental results are presented as evidence.
Liu, Tsung-Ming and Lyons, Damian M., "Leveraging Area Bounds Information for Autonomous Multi-Robot Exploration" (2014). Faculty Publications. 38.


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In this pilot program, HHMI identified scientists who are, or have the potential to become, scientific leaders. The International Early Career Scientist program awards each selected scientist $650,000 over five years with the goal of helping these talented individuals establish independent research programs.
The 28 scientists, who are at 22 institutions in 12 countries, have led their own laboratories for less than seven years.
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text: Accurately placing virtual objects in a scene is a challenging tasks in handheld augmented reality (HAR). To add and arrange virtual objects in HAR, users must manipulate 6 degrees of freedom (DoFs) of the virtual object, namely: position (3) and orientation (3). However, it is difficult to manipulate all DoFs with the two-dimensional display of the handheld device. We present SlidAR+, a method for controlling the position and orientation of objects in HAR. SlidAR+ is an extension of SlidAR , a technique that allows users to control the position of a virtual object by manipulating only 1 DoF. We use the direction of gravity as a constraint to improve the user's control and reduce the time it takes to adjust the orientation. Upon comparing it with a state-of-the-art object manipulation method, using SlidAR+, user were able to complete the tasks faster under our expected conditions and were also preferred by most participants.


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kikuchipy.io.plugins.ebsd_directory.file_reader(filename: str | Path, xy_pattern: str | None = None, show_progressbar: bool | None = None, lazy: bool = False) List[Dict][source]#
Read all images in a directory, assuming they are electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) patterns of equal shape and data type.
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Parameters:
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Name of directory with patterns.
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Regular expression to extract map coordinates from the filenames. If not given, two regular expressions will be tried: assuming (x, y) = (5, 10), "_x5y10.tif" or "-5-10.bmp". Valid xy_pattern equal to these are r"_x(\d+)y(\d+).tif" and r"-(\d+)-(\d+).bmp", respectively. If none of these expressions match the first file's name in the directory, a warning is printed and the returned signal will have only one navigation dimension.
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Whether to show a progressbar when reading the signal into memory when lazy=False.
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text: This paper illustrates the use of mixture of experts (ME) network structure to guide model selection for diagnosis of two subtypes of adult hydrocephalus (normal-pressure hydrocephalus-NPH and aqueductal stenosis-AS). The ME is a modular neural network architecture for supervised learning. Expectation-Maximization (EM) algorithm was used for training the ME so that the learning process is decoupled in a manner that fits well with the modular structure. To improve classification accuracy, the outputs of expert networks were combined by a gating network simultaneously trained in order to stochastically select the expert that is performing the best at solving the problem. The classifiers were trained on the defining features of NPH and AS (velocity and flux). Three types of records (normal, NPH and AS) were classified with the accuracy of 95.83% by the ME network structure. The ME network structure achieved accuracy rates which were higher than that of the stand-alone neural network models.


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