Policy and Procedure Statement on the Authorised Use of the Meal Entertainment Card
The purpose of this statement is to provide guidelines on the authorized use of the Meal Entertainment Card (MEC) and to communicate to employees the audit procedure and sanctions that will apply if the MEC is used by an employee to pay for unauthorized expenses.
Employees should note that on application for an MEC they are declaring that the MEC will only be used for meal entertainment expenses.
Strict adherence to this policy and procedure statement is a condition of use of the MEC and is required to ensure that the MEC complies with ATO rules.
The MEC is provided to employees as part of the salary packaging arrangements at your Employer. The MEC can only be used to pay for qualifying meal entertainment expenses as explained in the following.
1. What expenses can an employee pay with the MEC?
Meal entertainment expenses are expenses representing provision of:
(a) entertainment by way of food and drink; or
(b) accommodation or travel in connection with, or for the purpose of facilitating entertainment by way of food and drink.
While this definition taken from the legislation is a little vague, what is clear is that the provision of food or drink in all circumstances is not meal entertainment. In order for food or drink to qualify as meal entertainment, there must be some element of entertainment present.
Entertainment in this sense does not refer to a performance or the like, but more generally to some gathering of people to carry out some activity with a view to enjoying themselves.
In cases of doubt an employee needs to consider:
(a) Why is the food or drink being provided? For example, food or drink provided for the purpose of refreshment would not generally be meal entertainment, whereas food or drink provided at a social function for enjoyment would be meal entertainment.
(b) What food or drink is being provided? Light meals such as morning tea are less likely to be meal entertainment as opposed to more elaborate meals.
(c) When is the food or drink provided? Food or drink during working hours is less likely to be meal entertainment than food or drink provided after hours.
(d) Where is the food or drink being provided? Food provided in a social setting, e.g. hotel, restaurant, café, coffee shop, etc. is more likely to be meal entertainment.
2. Examples of expenses that are likely to be meal entertainment
- Breakfast/lunch/dinner with friends or family at a restaurant/café.
- Drinks/food at a bar or nightclub.
- Purchases of food or drink for a party, BBQ, etc.
- Drinks/food while on holidays at a resort/hotel, etc.
- Taxi travel to a club/restaurant, etc. for the purposes of obtaining food/drink.
3. Examples of expenses that are not likely to be meal entertainment
- Purchase of general household food and drink.
- Purchase of alcohol to be consumed generally at home.
- Tickets to movies, sporting or cultural events.
- Travel/accommodation costs for local or overseas holidays for recreation purposes.
- Foreign currency transaction charges when the MEC is used to pay for expenses overseas
4. What an employee should do if they are not sure if an expense is meal entertainment
If an employee is not sure that an expense is a meal entertainment expense, the employee should not pay for it with the Meal Entertainment Card. An employee can of course pay for such expenses with their Employee Benefits Card, if they have one.
5. What an Employee can't pay for with the MEC?
Employees should also not that the following transactions are not permitted with the MEC:
- Periodical payments or direct debits cannot be set up on the card.
- The card cannot be used to withdraw cash; e.g. from ATMs, or when making EFTPOS transactions.
6. How are overseas transaction charges on the card treated?
The MEC may be used to pay for qualifying meal entertainment expenses incurred overseas. However if used overseas, all transactions will incur a foreign currency transaction fees which will be separately identified on the MEC monthly statement.
Audit Procedure
The following outlines the audit procure and sanctions that will apply for unuathorised use of the MEC.
1. Simplygreen will randomly audit employee card statements provided by Westpac.
2. Employees will need to provide hand written annotations on any items appearing on the statement that are not obviously meal entertainment from the entry appearing on the statement (eg items purchased from a supermarket.)
3. The annotation needs to clearly explain the entertainment connection of the food or drink purchased (eg for birthday party on such and such date)
4. Items that are not food or drink do not qualify in any circumstances unless the items are travel or accommodation for the purpose of facilitating entertainment by way of food or drink. In these circumstances the annotation needs to identify the particular meal entertainment event connected with the travel and/or accommodation expenses charged to the MEC. (eg taxi travel for meal at such and such restaurant on such and such date).
5. Simplygreen may request further information from the employee where the information provided together with the statement is not adequate.
6. Employees need to write at the end of the statement the following:
"I declare that the hand written annotations on this statement are true and correct"
Employees should then sign their name and enter the date signed.
Sanctions for Unauthorised Use of the MEC
Employees are hereby put on notice that in the event of the use of the MEC to pay for unauthorized expenses, your Employer may cancel the employee's card without further notice and disqualify the employee from applying for another MEC for a period of time determined at the discretion


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The frog was probably enjoying a water pool that NASA scientists had put on the launchpad to protect the pad from damage, Universe Today reported. As the rocket lifted off, the amphibian was photographed shooting upward in a 2552 degrees F. (roughly) steam cloud. It has not been seen since.
NASA confirmed in a statement that the frog is not a joke: It really did launch a frog, the agency says. But NASA did not comment on whether it intended to launch the frog as part of its $263 million mission to the moon.
"The photo team confirms the frog is real and was captured in a single frame by one of the remote cameras used to photograph the launch," NASA said in a statement.
"The condition of the frog, however, is uncertain," it added.
The report of the frog's one giant leap comes just four years after a bat was incinerated during a launch of space shuttle Discovery. In that episode, a fruit bat was discovered napping on the shuttle's fuel tank just before blastoff. NASA said it hoped the bat would leave. It did not. The rocket boosters ignited.
The bat was posthumously named Brian.

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Isolation of soil fungi was done to find an enviromental friendly dyes for dyeing cloth. The aims of this study include isolation and identification of soil fungi from burning waste, cassava rhizosphere, and compost in Cibinong Science Center Area; and evaluation of dyes potential produced by the soil fungi in combination with alum and copper sulphate mordants. Thirty-six isolates of the soil fungi were successfully isolated from the burning waste, cassava rhizosphere, and compost. These include Aspergillus, Colletotrichum, Emericella, Eurotium, Fusarium, Mucor, Paecilomyces, Penicillium, Rhizopus, and Trichoderma. The soil fungi were dominated by asexual morph (77.78%) of which Aspergillus (3 species and 15 isolates) was found as the most common genus from the three samples. A total of 14 isolates were found potential as dye-producing fungi. These include Aspergil-lus sp. strain R-2 (1 isolate), A. fumigatus (3 isolates), Penicillium sp. strain GRC-1 (5 isolates), Penicillium sp. strain R-3 (1 isolate), Penicillium sp. strain RC-1 (3 isolates), Trichoderma harzianum (1 isolate); and Monascus purpureus (1 isolate; as control). Color intensity produced by fungal dyes in combination with alum and copper sulphate as pre-mordanting agents is higher than alum and copper sulphate as post-mordanting agents.
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Mudbox 2016 has some advantages, such as an intuitive interface, high-quality models, accurate texture painting, and smooth brush-based workflows. However, it also has some disadvantages, such as limited sculpting tools, poor performance, high price, and lack of innovation. Therefore, you may want to consider other alternatives or competitors that offer similar or different functionalities to Mudbox 2016.
If you are interested in trying or buying Mudbox 2016, you can download it from the Autodesk website or from other trusted sources. You can also check out some examples of graphic art created with Mudbox 2016 on the Autodesk Gallery or on other online platforms. You can also watch some tutorials or read some guides on how to use Mudbox 2016 effectively.
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Here are some frequently asked questions and answers about Mudbox 2016:
What is the difference between Mudbox 2016 and ZBrush?Mudbox 2016 and ZBrush are both digital sculpting and painting tools that can create high-resolution models with millions of polygons. However, they have some differences in their approach, features, interface, price, and compatibility. For example, ZBrush uses a proprietary technology called Pixol to create models with unlimited resolution and detail, while Mudbox 2016 uses dynamic tessellation to add resolution only where needed. ZBrush also has more advanced sculpting tools and features than Mudbox 2016, such as ZSpheres, ZRemesher, ZModeler, Dyn amic Mesh, and more. ZBrush also has a more customizable interface and brushes than Mudbox 2016. However, ZBrush is more expensive than Mudbox 2016, and it has a more complex and steep learning curve than Mudbox 2016. ZBrush is also less compatible with other Autodesk products than Mudbox 2016.
How much does Mudbox 2016 cost?Mudbox 2016 is available as a subscription plan from Autodesk. You can choose to pay monthly, annually, or for multiple years. The current prices are as follows:
You can also get Mudbox 2016 as part of the Autodesk Media & Entertainment Collection, which includes other software such as Maya, 3ds Max, MotionBuilder, and more. The current prices for this collection are as follows:
What are the system requirements for Mudbox 2016?Mudbox 2016 has the following minimum and recommended system requirements:
Windows 7 SP1 (64-bit), Windows 8.1 (64-bit), Windows 10 (64-bit), Mac OS X 10.9.5 or later, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 WS or later, CentOS 6.5 or later.
Same as minimum requirement.
64-bit Intel or AMD multi-core processor.
Intel Core i7 or higher.
RAM4 GB of RAM (8 GB recommended).16 GB of RAM or more.
Disk space1 GB of free disk space for installation.Same as minimum requirement.
Graphics cardA graphics card that supports OpenGL 3.3 or higher with at least 512 MB of memory.A graphics card that supports OpenGL 4.5 or higher with at least 2 GB of memory.
Display resolutionA display with at least 1280 x 800 resolution and true color (24-bit).A display with at least 1920 x 1080 resolution and true color (32-bit).
Pointing deviceA three-button mouse or a Wacom tablet.A Wacom tablet with pressure sensitivity.
Internet connectionAn internet connection for download, installation, activation, and updates.A high-speed internet connection for download, installation, activation, and updates.
Browsers for online help and documentation.The latest version of Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Edge, or Apple Safari.The latest version of Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Edge, or Apple Safari. Examples of graphic art created with Mudbox 2016
Mudbox 2016 can help you create stunning graphic art with realistic or stylized models and textures. Here are some examples of graphic art created with Mudbox 2016 by various artists:
The Last of Us Part II - Ellie: This is a fan art of Ellie, the main character of the video game The Last of Us Part II, created by Daniel Orive. He used Mudbox 2016 to sculpt and paint the head and hair of Ellie, and then exported the model to Maya for rendering. He also used Photoshop for post-processing. You can see the final result and the work in progress images on his ArtStation page.
Dragon: This is a dragon model created by David Lesperance. He used Mudbox 2016 to sculpt and paint the dragon, and then exported the model to 3ds Max for rendering. He also used Photoshop for post-processing. You can see the final result and the work in progress images on his ArtStation page.
Old Man: This is a portrait of an old man created by Hossein Diba. He used Mudbox 2016 to sculpt and paint the face and hair of the old man, and then exported the model to Maya for rendering. He also used Photoshop for post-processing. You can see the final result and the work in progress images on his ArtStation page.
These are just some examples of graphic art created with Mudbox 2016. You can find more examples on the Autodesk Gallery or on other online platforms, such as ArtStation, Behance, CGSociety, Sketchfab, and more. You can also create your own graphic art with Mudbox 2016 and share it with the world.
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There are different ways to hide an HTML element from the client, just hiding not removing.
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We need to hide p.hide element, so the user can't see it.
Display css property, display is the most important and most used css property to control HTML elements layout.
display:none; can be used to hide an HTML element from the view and it will appear as if it was not there on the page, means the HTML element will be hidden without blocking any space.
Example: Text 1 | Text 2 | Text 3
If we apply display:none; on Text 2, it will be: Text 1 | | Text 3
So to hide p.hide element using display property:
Visibility property is the CSS property to manage HTML visibility, unlike display which has different values to control the element layout, visibility is used jut for show and hide elements
visibility: hidden can be used to hide an element from the client, but it will keep the element space visible like this: Text 1 | | Text 3
When to use which? based on requirements and the case you have, you just need to test it on all browsers, and there will be an unrecognizable performance differences between different ways
Opacity property is controlling the transparency of the html element, so we can use it to make the element fully transparent and this will hide the element from the client view.
Just make sure to test it on all browsers because on older IE browsers it had some special ways to implement. (hope that no one still using old IE browsers, because the wont see many things any way 🙂 )
And the same as Visibility property, it will hide the element but will keep blocking its space, so the client will see an empty space instead of the element.
Background color and color
While it is rarely used, but we can change the background-color element css property and all child elements to be the same as the background color of the page or the same as container background.
Will need to change the text color as well to make sure that text is not visible as well.
And on some elements we may need to remove borders, that's why this way is not common to use.
We can hide text elements by setting font-size property to 0
Using the position property and top left we can make the control appear outside the client view.
Last way I want to mention on this post is using clip-path css property

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A storm-runoff relation for streams in the urban areas of Memphis was determined by a statistical evaluation of 59 flood discharges from 19 gaging stations. These flood discharges were related to drainage area, percent imperviousness of the drainage basin, and rainfall occuring over 120-minute periods. The defined relation is Q=m3A*777A - .02 tI,,,,P + 1j-227 (1120).539(t120).40 where Q is flood discharge in cfs, A is drainage area in square miles, IMP is percent imperviousness in the basin, and I120 is rainfall in inches, over 120 minute time period. The defined relation was used to synthesize sets of annual flood peaks for drainage basins ranging from .05 square miles to 10 square miles and imperviousness ranging from 0 to 80 percent for the period of rainfall record at Memphis. From these series of flood peaks, frequency relations were defined and presented for 2, 5, 10, 25, 50 and 100 year recurrent intervals.
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Preliminary evaluation of flood frequency relations in the urban areas of Memphis, Tennessee


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Roscoe Holcomb in 1962
Background information
Birth name Roscoe Halcomb
Born (1912-09-05)September 5, 1912
Origin Daisy, Kentucky, USA
Genres Folk, bluegrass, country, gospel, old-time music
Occupation(s) Miner, construction worker, Farmer, Musician
Instruments Banjo, Guitar, Harmonica
Years active 1958–1978
Roscoe Holcomb, (born as Roscoe Halcomb[1] September 5, 1912 – died February 1, 1981) was an American singer, banjo player, and guitarist from Daisy, Kentucky. A prominent figure in Appalachian folk music, Holcomb was the inspiration for the term "high, lonesome sound," coined by folklorist and friend John Cohen. The "high lonesome sound" term is now used to describe bluegrass singing, although Holcomb was not, strictly speaking, a bluegrass performer.
Life and performance style[edit]
Holcomb's repertoire included old-time music, hymns, traditional music and blues ballads. In addition to playing the banjo and guitar, he was a competent harmonica and fiddle player, and sang many of his most memorable songs a cappella.
A coal miner, construction laborer and farmer for much of his life, Holcomb was not recorded until 1958, after which his career as a professional musician was bolstered by the folk revival in the 1960s. Holcomb gave his last live performance in 1978. Due to what he described as injuries he sustained during his long career as a laborer, Holcomb was eventually unable to work for more than short periods, and his later income came primarily from his music. Suffering from asthma and emphysema as a result of working in coal mines, he died in 1981 at the age of 68.
Holcomb's discography includes:[3]
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Air Force Awards Helicon Phase I SBIR Contract to Demonstrate Feasibility of Novel Materials for Advanced Solid Propellants
Helicon Chemical Company has received an SBIR Phase I contract from the Air Force to demonstrate reactive composite materials that will provide breakthrough change in the performance of solid propellants for Air Force missile propulsion systems. This effort was proposed in response to an SBIR topic seeking technologies supporting development of novel weapons capabilities for the Air Force.
Helicon will demonstrate propellants in which currently used propellant ingredients are replaced by in situ grown aluminum nanocomposite materials. Using a novel, scalable in situ nanoparticle growth process, Helicon produces high-energy reactive composites with near-molecular-level intermixing of the aluminum fuel and polymer binder. In situ nanocomposites are safe to handle, insensitive, compatible with energetic ingredients, and impervious to moisture. Helicon's nanocomposite materials provide the increased performance required to meet Air Force goals without negative impacts to safety and using current energetic materials processing technology.
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1911.1 What is a compromise settlement?
A compromise settlement occurs when we accept an amount less than the full overpayment because full recovery cannot be accomplished and forgive repayment of the rest of the debt.
1911.2 What law permits compromise settlements?
The Federal Claims Collection Act of 1966 permits Federal agencies to arrange compromise settlements of overpayment claims.
1911.3 Can compromise settlements be appealed?
No, compromise settlements cannot be appealed because the settlement is at our discretion.
1911.4 When are compromise settlements acceptable?
Generally, we accept a compromise when one of the following conditions exists:
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Definition of Yaya
On the internet, there are a lot of meanings for the word Yaya, although it is not really clear what it means, there are 3 concise concepts about its definition.
Concept number 1:
In some Latin American countries such as Chile and Colombia, Yaya refers to a skin lesion. The lesions are superficial or small wounds, and can also mean a healed wound, that is, a scar.
For example:
 - Yayas in your body.
 - A little yaya.
Concept number 2:
In Spain, grandparents are known as Yaya. On the other hand, in other parts of the world, this word refers to a babysitter or person who takes care of child care.
But, in addition to caring for children from home, it is also related to medical care, that is, a home nurse in particular care for the little ones.
Concept number 3:
In the tropical areas of Cuba, there is the "Common Yaya" or "Yaya prieta", its scientific name is "Oxandra lanceolata (Sw.) Baill" and it has countless medicinal properties.
Among its benefits, it can be mentioned that it controls and / or helps with:
 - Hemorrhoids.
 - Diabetes.
 - Brain affections.
 - Psoriasis
Etymology of Yaya
Of Catalan origin, "iaio" and "iaia" gradually moved to Spanish as "Yaya", since in children's pronunciation, that is the sound that is emitted.
The singer 6ix9ine, American rapper, released a music video called "Yaya", last month causing so much fury that he came to position himself in the top # 2 of the most viewed.
The most relevant comments indicate that his single in Spanish has a very good vibe, color and everyone is noticing it.
The video has approximately 112,000,000 visits in less than a month and reflects that the number will continue to increase.
The word that gives rise to this article also expresses that an individual has an outgoing personality, with a lot of attitude and who is charismatic. Needless to say, the video is a "Yaya".


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The Antigua Labor Party (ALP) has held power since 1946, except for a period from 1971 to 1976, when the Progressive Labor Movement (PLM), led at the time by George H. Walter, held a parliamentary majority. Lester Bird, leader of the ALP, has served as prime minister since March 1994, when he inherited the party leadership from his father, Vere Bird. The party's preeminence continued after independence with electoral victories in 1984, 1989, 1994, and 1999. Other active political parties in 2003 include: the United Progressive Party, led by Baldwin Spencer, and the Barbuda's People's Movement, a coalitions of three small opposition political parties.
The ALP grew out of a trade union movement in the 1940s. Under colonial supervision and tutelage, the party became the dominant force in national politics.


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Switch is a special type of concatenation iterator that has n inputs. An expression is associated with each Switch operator. Depending on the return value of the expression (between 0 and n-1), Switch copies the appropriate input stream to the output stream.
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Piano to Bench distance, location, road map and direction
Piano is located in France at the longitude of -93.05 and latitude of 40.76. Bench is located in USA at the longitude of -111.68 and latitude of 42.5.
Distance between Piano and Bench
The total straight line distance between Piano and Bench is 1558 KM (kilometers) and 100 meters. The miles based distance from Piano to Bench is 968.2 miles. This is a straight line distance and so most of the time the actual travel distance between Piano and Bench may be higher or vary due to curvature of the road.
The driving distance or the travel distance between Piano to Bench is 1790 KM and 294 meters. The mile based, road distance between these two travel point is 1112.4 miles.
Time Difference between Piano and Bench
The sun rise time difference or the actual time difference between Piano and Bench is 1 hours, 14 minutes and 32 seconds. Note: Piano and Bench time calculation is based on UTC time of the particular city. It may vary from country standard time, local time etc.
Piano To Bench travel time
Piano is located around 1558 KM away from Bench so if you travel at the consistent speed of 50 KM per hour you can reach Bench in 35 hours and 40 minutes. Your Bench travel time may vary due to your bus speed, train speed or depending upon the vehicle you use.
Midway point between Piano To Bench
Mid way point or halfway place is a center point between source and destination location. The mid way point between Piano and Bench is situated at the latitude of 42.007530939166 and the longitude of -102.23597391194. If you need refreshment you can stop around this midway place, after checking the safety,feasibility, etc.
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The inter-relationship between diet, selflessness, and disordered eating in Australian women
Melissa Collins, Stephanie Quinton
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Personality traits and diet can be used to predict if a person is predisposed to disordered eating. Results of this study demonstrate a strong significant relationship between the personality trait of selflessness, diet group, and disordered eating. Vegans were most likely to display selflessness tendencies associated with disordered eating; however when selflessness was controlled for, vegans displayed substantially less disordered eating pathology than non-vegetarians. Objective: To explore the relationship between diet group (non-vegetarian, semi-vegetarian, true-vegetarian, and vegan) and disordered eating while investigating to what extent personality trait of selflessness mediates the relationship between diet group and disordered eating. Method: Cross-sectional data from 634 Australian nonclinical women who completed a series of online questionnaires including measures of diet group, disordered eating, and selflessness were used to examine associations between diet, personality (selflessness), and disordered eating. Results: Selflessness was found to be a significant positive predictor of disordered eating. Results confirm that selflessness played a suppressing role in the relationship between the vegan diet group and disordered eating, when compared to non-vegetarians. Surprisingly, vegans displayed significantly less disordered eating than non-vegetarians and semi-vegetarians. Discussion: Results of the current study imply that the role of selflessness on disordered eating, when broken down across diet group, may be more complex than first thought. If replicated, these results suggest that targeted treatment of selflessness in different diet groups may improve treatment outcomes for disordered eating. Further research should explore why diet groups differ in terms of selflessness and how this impacts disordered eating.
Original languageEnglish
Article numbere01774
Pages (from-to)1-11
Number of pages11
JournalBrain and Behavior
Volume10
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Early online date07 Aug 2020
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Implement Custom Activity Indicator With The SwiftUI
As you may know, SwiftUI does not have too many elegant indicators as the UIKit itself. So I have decided to implement some of the popular indicators that are already exist for the UIKit, but natively in pure SwiftUI. So it can be used for the iOS 13 with the SwiftUI 1.0 alongside with the newly widgets that apple is introduced currently. Since you know
UIKit views wrapped in UIViewRepresentable will not work in WidgetKit. When the views are encoded from your extension to be displayed they will appear blank
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So I planned to implement this following these steps:
 1. Find popular animations for the 'ActivityIndicator'
Find popular animations
After some research, I've found some popular animations and I decided to start with this:
Implement animations in the pure SwiftUI (compatible with v1.0)
We aim for making these attributes dynamic:
 1. The count of the elements
So we start with this:
Note that we have to implement the isAnimating variable as a _USER_ because we want to control it from the outside of the view.
Also, make the count unsigned because negative counts doesn't make any sense.
As an overview, we need some item to be repeated and create the whole indicator. To creating them, we need access to the index of the element along side geometry of the indicator, so we can calculate the position of that item:
Note that we want all items to be fitted inside the main view, and aspectRatio(contentMode:.fit) is here to help us with that.
For this specific animation, we need to apply horizontal offset to each element due to it's index and apply proper scaling and and opacity to it:
There is 3 helpers here:
These two return correct bound of the corresponding range.
And this is just for the sake of compiling time. It returns the size of the element.
Make it available as a simple view
We need a simple initializer with some default values, so:
So far so good! Now we can use it like:
Note that how default modifiers like the foregroundColor are working as expected?
The demo view is already as simple as this UsageDemoView()
Add a modifier for the style of the Activity Indicator
For now we are passing style arguments at the initialization time of the indicator. But its not very 'SwiftUI'ly. To have a modifier for that, we are going. to extend it with a function that takes style and returns a new view as default modifiers are doing this. This will be as symple as this:
Now we can modify the indicator like a native Apple designed API:
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Epipodophyllotoxins are substances naturally occurring in the root of American Mayapple plant (Podophyllum peltatum).
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- Takimoto CH, Calvo E. "Principles of Oncologic Pharmacotherapy" in Pazdur R, Wagman LD, Camphausen KA, Hoskins WJ (Eds) Cancer Management: A Multidisciplinary Approach. 11 ed. 2008.
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Why become a dormant company?
Although many businesses in the UK are constantly trading, some people choose to form or become a dormant company.
A dormant company is a business that has seen no significant economic activity during an accounting period, thus it stops trading; you can read more about dormant associations in our Transmit Start Ups guide. Here are some reasons why you might want to become a dormant company:
Future proofing
Preparation is key if you want your start-up or small business to succeed, thus if you have an idea for a trading company or are working toward starting a business you may want to open a dormant company. This way, whenever you are ready to begin trading you can jump right in, and begin growing your brand, but, in the meantime, you won't have to worry about filing detailed accounts for your dormant company. Furthermore, you may want to form a dormant company to pit your competitors at the post. Everyone knows the value of a good business idea and even a strong company name. So, why not prevent people from stealing your thunder and incorporate your stellar business today?
A trading break
Many businesses don't start their lives as dormant companies. Sometimes, an actively trading company may decide they want to take a break, and become dormant. Becoming a dormant company is helpful if you intend to continue trading in future. It simplifies the entire administration process, as you should submit abridged accounting forms to Companies House each year, which is less detailed, and so time-saving. Furthermore, it will also reduce the cost compared to if you remained a limited company, as dormant companies are not tax liable. Becoming dormant is also not as much hassle as dissolving your business – especially if there is a chance that you are likely to incorporate a similar business in future.
Some businesses may look to become dormant, for a period, if they hit any significant hurdles during their lifetime. For example, if the owner or director of the company falls ill or dies, a business may become temporarily dormant in order to assess the situation, and appoint new company officers. A company may also undergo a restructuring, and – as a result – no trading will be taking place, thus becoming dormant is a cheaper and more sensible solution. Furthermore, if a business is winding up then it may also choose to become dormant until its end to tie up any loose ends.
Holding assets
Finally, some people choose to register a dormant company so that they can hold a particular asset. For example, in the housing industry, one company – a dormant company – may hold several flats, while a larger, umbrella company handles the leasing. Thus, the holding company remains dormant, as it does not partake in any significant economic activity.
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Metal concentrations in blood and hair in pregnant females in southern Sweden.J Environ Health. 2010 Jan-Feb; 72(6):37-41.JE
The study described here was comprised of 100 pregnant females from two prenatal care units at the cities of Hassleholm and Simrishamn in southern Sweden. It included a questionnaire as well as whole blood (total mercury, cadmium, and lead) and hair (total mercury) sampling (collection period 2002-2003). The median values of total mercury (B-Hg 0.70 microg/L; range 0.27-2.1 microg/L), cadmium (0.30 microg/L, 0.05-4.8 microg/L) and lead (11.0 microg/L, 4.2-79 microg/L) in whole blood were low in the total material, as were the hair mercury concentrations (Hair-Hg 0.22 microg/g, 0.04-0.83 microg/g). In a multiple linear regression model, B-Hg was related to the number of fish meals per week and to the number of occlusal amalgam fillings (multiple r = 0.51; p < .001). The levels of mercury, cadmium, and lead in whole blood were lower than suggested biological reference intervals, and did not indicate risks for adverse health effects.


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Family name: Dipterocarpaceae
Meranti Tembaga trees in Taman Tugu
Meranti Tembaga is an indigenous rainforest tree amongst the 4,100 trees added to the Taman Tugu site, selected in collaboration with Forest Research Institute of Malaysia ("FRIM") and Malaysian Nature Society ("MNS"). This is one of the species being added which is considered as 'Near Threatened' on the International Union for Conservation of Nature ("IUCN") Red List of Threatened Species. This species is being threatened due to deforestation.
The tree is a large-sized tree can grow up to 60m tall and 100cm in diameter. The tree bark is greyish brown with shallowly fissured surfaced. The leaf arrangement is alternate and the stalked leaves have leathery leaf blades that are oblong or oval shaped. The flowering shoots of this tree are long and bear up to 12 pale yellow flowers. The fruits are green-yellow-ping nut with 3 long wings and 2 short wings.
The tree trunk contains dammar resin which is traditionally used in caulking boats and basket. The tree is the source of timber which is mainly used in furniture production and light construction such as door, windows, and flooring.
These trees grow on clayey to sandy soil, limestone, in forests, and on alluvial and dry sites of hillsides and ridges up to 600m altitude. These trees are native to Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Sumatera, and Borneo.


ip)
if __name__ == "__main__":
 random_ip_address = generate_random_ip()
 print("Random IP address:", random_ip_address)
Output:
Random IP address: 104.186.94.215
In this code snippet, we first imported the necessary modules: ipaddress for working with IP addresses and random to generate a random number. We then defined a function generate_random_ip() that generates a random IPv4 address.
Inside the function, we used random.randint() to generate a random 32-bit integer and then created an IPv4Address object using the ip_address() function from the ipaddress module.
Finally, we converted the IP address object to a string using str() and returned the random IP address.
In the main block, we called the generate_random_ip() function and printed the resulting random IP address. You'll see the output displaying a random IP address each time you run the script.
Now, generating a random IPv6 address follows a similar approach to generating a random IPv4 address. Here's how you can modify the code to generate a random IPv6 address as a string:
import ipaddress
import random
def generate_random_ipv6():
 random_ipv6 = ipaddress.IPv6Address(random.randint(0, 2 ** 128 - 1))
 return str(random_ipv6)
if __name__ == "__main__":
 random_ipv6_address = generate_random_ipv6()
 print("Random IPv6 address:", random_ipv6_address)
Output:
Random IPv6 address: 54e9:df42:fd1a:6380:1312:e866:2f7a:4a03
In this modified code, we used the IPv6Address class from the ipaddress module to generate a random IPv6 address. The random.randint() function generates a random 128-bit integer, which is then used to create the IPv6 address.
Finally, the resulting IPv6 address is converted to a string using the str() function.
This code will display a random IPv6 address each time you run the script.
Use the socket Module to Generate a Random IP Address as a String in Python
Python's socket module provides low-level access to networking functionalities. We can utilize this module to generate random IP addresses.
Here's a step-by-step approach:
 - First, we need to import the socket module to access its functionalities.
 - We'll generate four random numbers (each representing an octet) using the random.randint() function, with each number ranging from 0 to 255, inclusive.
 - Concatenate the four random octets using periods to create a valid IP address in dotted-decimal notation.
 - Display the generated IP address or use it for your specific application or simulation.
Let's implement this in Python:
import socket
import random
def generate_random_ip():
 ip_octets = [str(random.randint(0, 255)) for _ in range(4)]
 # Concatenate the octets to form the IP address
 ip_address = ".".join(ip_octets)
 return ip_address
random_ip = generate_random_ip()
print("Random IP Address:", random_ip)
Output:
Random IP Address: 101.131.185.15
In this example, we started by importing the socket and random modules. Then, we defined a function, generate_random_ip(), that generates four random octets for the IP address using a list comprehension.
The random.randint() function is used to generate random values for each octet. The octets are then concatenated using the join() method to form a valid IP address.
Let's have another example code on generating an IPv4 address using the random, socket, and struct modules in Python.
import random
import socket
import struct
ip = socket.inet_ntoa(struct.pack(">I", random.randrange(1, 0xFFFFFFFF)))
print(ip)
Output:
101.131.185.15
First, the random.randrange(1, 0xffffffff) function generates a random 32-bit unsigned integer between 1 and the maximum value of a 32-bit unsigned integer (0xffffffff in hexadecimal). This value is then packed into a binary format using struct.pack('>I', random.randrange(1, 0xffffffff)), specifying big-endian byte order ('>I').
The socket.inet_ntoa() function is then employed to convert this packed binary representation into a string format representing an IPv4 address in dotted-decimal notation.
Finally, the resulting random IP address is printed to the console using print(ip).
Conclusion
Generating random IP addresses in Python is made easy using the Faker library, the random module, the ipaddress module, or the socket module. Whether you need IPv4 or IPv6 addresses, these methods allow you to efficiently generate random IP addresses for your applications.
Use these techniques for various purposes, including testing, simulation, and populating databases with dummy data. Select the method that suits your needs and integrate it into your projects to generate the desired IP addresses.
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Using Foresight to Cope with Uncertainty
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In an increasingly uncertain world where resources are limited, foresight thinking and approaches provide a critical way for governments and communities to understand and plan for the future. Using foresight techniques can contribute to the development of policies that are robust and fit for purpose. Foresight practitioners have an important role to play in the design and implementation of these processes. However, more needs to be done to ensure that such initiatives are properly supported and the capacity of policy thinktanks and foresight practitioners strengthened in developing country contexts. Increasingly, foresight processes should harness advances in information and communication technology (ICT) to facilitate broader citizen participation in policymaking.


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City of Modesto — Rockwell Assessment
LWA designed a study to help the City of Modesto meet their 2009 NPDES Stormwater Permit requiring the evaluation of the impact of infiltrated runoff on groundwater quality and the effectiveness of the rockwells in removing pollutants of concern (POCs). LWA services included:
- Identification of the Pollutants of Concern (POCs),
- Characterization of groundwater hydraulics,
- Design and installation of continuous groundwater monitoring sensors,
- Set-up and maintenance of a website to display real-time water quality data from the sensors,
- Collection of groundwater samples,
- Oversight of the groundwater well installation, and
- Analysis and evaluation of the groundwater data in conjunction with the urban runoff data to determine the pollutant removal effectiveness.
To guide the locations for the up- and down-gradient monitoring wells at each rockwell site, LWA worked with the University of California, Davis to build a local groundwater flow model for the area of interest, and incorporated it in an existing larger scale regional computer model to determine water table elevations and flow direction.


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Thanksgiving Dinner Math Activities
How many people are coming over? How much food should we buy? How many pies should we make so each person gets a piece? These are the typical questions I hear each year. Many families prepare large meals for their family and friends; so it can be the perfect time to involve your children in dinner preparation to incorporate real-life conceptual understanding of mathematics. Here are some activities!
- Have your child determine what size turkey you need to feed everyone coming for dinner. (How many pounds should you purchase if you have 10 people attending and 1 ½ pounds per person?)
- Already purchased a turkey? Have your child calculate how much each person can have. (You have a 20 pound turkey and 8 people coming for dinner. How much turkey will each person be able to have?)
- Review elapsed time by helping your child write down the times that the turkey went into the oven and the time it came out. Younger children might need a little help calculating the number of hours if it crosses a 12.
- Setting the table. Simply counting out forks, knives and spoons can be helpful practice for many early learners.
- Math with pies can be extra fun! If everyone eats 1/8th of a pie, how many pies do you need to serve 14 people? And if you have 8 slices of pie, and two are left over, what fraction of pie is left over?
Incorporating math into everyday activities can help strengthen a child's conceptual understanding. What Thanksgiving activities do you do at home or in the classroom that encourage math learning?


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This Animal Planet show answers the question you all were wondering, but forgot to ask, "Who would win in a fight, a lion or a tiger?"
Lions are known as the "King of the Beasts," and can weigh as much as 530 pounds; they're almost 11 feet long and can stand four feet high. However, the tiger is the biggest and strongest of all the wild cats, and though it is only three feet tall and ten feet long, it does have an advantage in weight. Tigers can grow to 570 pounds.
Watch these kings of the jungle fight it out with their three-inch claws and long teeth. Don't cry foul; it's a computer simulation. No lions, tigers (or bears) were harmed in the making of this video.
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- Provision of a medical clinic called academy infirmary is being brought-up inside the campus. Quarterly medical check-up of cadets are being carried out by a residential doctor.Serious cases if any, are immediately evacuated for further treatments to Govt. Medical college and hospital or private hospitals in Kolhapur or if as per parents wish ward will be handed over to parents for further their choice treatment.
- Medical facilities for normal sickness are available inside the Campus. In case of any emergency cases, patient is evacuated to any one of the nearest and diagnostic hospitals for further treatment. However, all expenditures in this regard will be borned by the parents


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Simon Chamorro, Valiu: Revolutionizing the Venezuelan Remittance Economy, Ep 98
80% of Venezuelans today depend on remittances to survive. Almost seven million people have left the country since the protests against the Maduro government started, creating a massive diaspora, almost all of whom send money home to family members trapped in the country.
Simon Chamorro was born and raised in Caracas, Venezuela, so he has seen this problem firsthand. He co-founded Valiu to make it easier to transfer money from Colombia to Venezuela by streamlining remittances using cryptocurrency.
In this episode of Crossing Borders, Simon explains how Valiu is using cryptocurrency to solve real-life problems, and how it has the potential to combat inflation in economies across Latin America. Now living in Colombia, Simon also discusses the important lessons he has learned working with four startups in the Colombian ecosystem, his own experience in starting a company, and where Valiu is headed next.
Check out this episode of Crossing Borders to learn more about the current situation in Venezuela and how Valiu is helping streamline the remittance economy from across the Colombian border.


0.33, 0.81, 0.52, 0.41]
MERGE (italian:Cuisine {name:'Italian'}) SET italian.embedding = [0.31, 0.72, 0.58, 0.67, 0.31]
MERGE (indian:Cuisine {name:'Indian'}) SET indian.embedding = [0.43, 0.26, 0.98, 0.51, 0.76]
MERGE (lebanese:Cuisine {name:'Lebanese'}) SET lebanese.embedding = [0.12, 0.23, 0.35, 0.31, 0.39]
MERGE (portuguese:Cuisine {name:'Portuguese'}) SET portuguese.embedding = [0.47, 0.98, 0.81, 0.72, 0.89]
MERGE (british:Cuisine {name:'British'}) SET british.embedding = [0.94, 0.12, 0.23, 0.4, 0.71]
MERGE (mauritian:Cuisine {name:'Mauritian'}) SET mauritian.embedding = [0.31, 0.56, 0.98, 0.21, 0.62]
The following will find the similarity between cuisines based on the embedding property:
MATCH (c:Cuisine)
WITH {item:id(c), weights: c.embedding} as userData
WITH collect(userData) as data
CALL algo.similarity.cosine.stream(data, {skipValue: null})
YIELD item1, item2, count1, count2, similarity
RETURN algo.asNode(item1).name AS from, algo.asNode(item2).name AS to, similarity
ORDER BY similarity DESC
7.5.2.7. Cypher projection
If the similarity lists are very large they can take up a lot of memory. For cases where those lists contain lots of values that should be skipped, you can use the less memory-intensive approach of using Cypher statements to project the graph instead.
The Cypher loader expects to receive 3 fields:
 - item - should contain node ids, which we can return using the id function.
 - category - should contain node ids, which we can return using the id function.
 - weight - should contain a double value.
Set graph:'cypher' in the config:
WITH "MATCH (person:Person)-[likes:LIKES]->(c)
 RETURN id(person) AS item, id(c) AS category, likes.score AS weight" AS query
CALL algo.similarity.cosine(query, {
 graph: 'cypher', topK: 1, similarityCutoff: 0.1, write:true
})
YIELD nodes, similarityPairs, write, writeRelationshipType, writeProperty, min, max, mean, stdDev, p95
RETURN nodes, similarityPairs, write, writeRelationshipType, writeProperty, min, max, mean, p95
7.5.2.8. Syntax
The following will run the algorithm and write back results:
CALL algo.similarity.cosine(userData:List<Map> or String, {
 topK: 1, similarityCutoff: 0.1, write:true, writeProperty: "cosineSimilarity"
})
YIELD nodes, similarityPairs, write, writeRelationshipType, writeProperty, min, max, mean, stdDev, p25, p50, p75, p90, p95, p99, p999, p100
Table 7.106. Parameters
Name Type Default Optional Description
data
list or string
null
no
A list of maps of the following structure: {item: nodeId, weights: [double, double, double]} or a Cypher query.
top
int
0
yes
The number of similar pairs to return. If 0, it will return as many as it finds.
topK
int
0
yes
The number of similar values to return per node. If 0, it will return as many as it finds.
similarityCutoff
int
-1
yes
The threshold for similarity. Values below this will not be returned.
degreeCutoff
int
0
yes
The threshold for the number of items in the targets list. If the list contains less than this amount, that node will be excluded from the calculation.
skipValue
double
algo.NaN()
yes
Value to skip when executing similarity computation. A value of null means that skipping is disabled.
concurrency
int
available CPUs
yes
The number of concurrent threads used for running the algorithm. Also provides the default value for 'readConcurrency' and 'writeConcurrency'.
readConcurrency
int
value of 'concurrency'
yes
The number of concurrent threads used for reading the graph.
writeConcurrency
int
value of 'concurrency'
yes
The number of concurrent threads used for writing the result.
graph
string
dense
yes
The graph name ('dense' or 'cypher').
write
boolean
false
yes
Indicates whether results should be stored.
writeBatchSize
int
10000
yes
The batch size to use when storing results.
writeRelationshipType
string
SIMILAR
yes
The relationship type to use when storing results.
writeProperty
string
score
yes
The property to use when storing results.
sourceIds
long[]
null
yes
The ids of items from which we need to compute similarities. Defaults to all the items provided in the data parameter.
targetIds
long[]
null
yes
The ids of items to which we need to compute similarities. Defaults to all the items provided in the data parameter.
Table 7.107. Results
Name Type Description
nodes
int
The number of nodes passed in.
similarityPairs
int
The number of pairs of similar nodes computed.
write
boolean
Indicates whether results were stored.
writeRelationshipType
string
The relationship type used when storing results.
writeProperty
string
The property used when storing results.
min
double
The minimum similarity score computed.
max
double
The maximum similarity score computed.
mean
double
The mean of similarities scores computed.
stdDev
double
The standard deviation of similarities scores computed.
p25
double
The 25 percentile of similarities scores computed.
p50
double
The 50 percentile of similarities scores computed.
p75
double
The 75 percentile of similarities scores computed.
p90
double
The 90 percentile of similarities scores computed.
p95
double
The 95 percentile of similarities scores computed.
p99
double
The 99 percentile of similarities scores computed.
p999
double
The 99.9 percentile of similarities scores computed.
p100
double
The 100 percentile of similarities scores computed.
The following will run the algorithm and stream results:
CALL algo.similarity.cosine.stream(userData:List<Map> or String, {
 degreeCutoff: 10, similarityCutoff: 0.1, concurrency:4
})
YIELD item1, item2, count1, count2, intersection, similarity
Table 7.108. Parameters
Name Type Default Optional Description
data
list or string
null
no
A list of maps of the following structure: {item: nodeId, weights: [double, double, double]} or a Cypher query.
top
int
0
yes
The number of similar pairs to return. If 0, it will return as many as it finds.
topK
int
0
yes
The number of similar values to return per node. If 0, it will return as many as it finds.
similarityCutoff
int
-1
yes
The threshold for similarity. Values below this will not be returned.
degreeCutoff
int
0
yes
The threshold for the number of items in the targets list. If the list contains less than this amount, that node will be excluded from the calculation.
skipValue
double
null
yes
Value to skip when executing similarity computation. A value of null means that skipping is disabled.
concurrency
int
available CPUs
yes
The number of concurrent threads used for running the algorithm. Also provides the default value for 'readConcurrency'.
readConcurrency
int
value of 'concurrency'
yes
The number of concurrent threads used for reading the graph.
graph
string
dense
yes
The graph name ('dense' or 'cypher').
sourceIds
long[]
null
yes
The ids of items from which we need to compute similarities. Defaults to all the items provided in the data parameter.
targetIds
long[]
null
yes
The ids of items to which we need to compute similarities. Defaults to all the items provided in the data parameter.
Table 7.109. Results
Name Type Description
item1
int
The ID of one node in the similarity pair.
item2
int
The ID of other node in the similarity pair.
count1
int
The size of the targets list of one node.
count2
int
The size of the targets list of other node.
intersection
int
The number of intersecting values in the two nodes targets lists.
similarity
int
The cosine similarity of the two nodes.


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Liquid fuel creation from inexhaustible sources could be utilized as a part of transportation now that there is an expanding request worldwide because of constant consumption of petroleum derivative and developing worry for natural security. The objective is to produce liquid fuel from cassava peel, determine the quantity of the liquid fuel produced from cassava peels and make necessary recommendations. The materials used for the production of the liquid fuel are Cassava peels, H2SO4 (Tetraoxosulphate (vi) acid) and Water and the cassava peels that was collected in a polythene bag from cassava market, waste dump site at Orita Challenge Ibadan, Oyo State was washed with cleaned water thoroughly and all extraneous materials were removed, samples of cassava peel were then weighed on weighing balance to determine the weight of each quantity after peeling which were chopped into smaller pieces and were transferred into pretreatment chamber where volume of tetraoxosulphate(vi) acid was added and were thoroughly mixed for about 30 minutes before heating was applied in the fermenter chamber after the slurry have been pumped into the fermenter chamber. The heating process took place for another one hour, and then the steam passing through the condenser was cooled before collection at 78oC. Afterwards, its mass and volume of the liquid fuel produced were determined. At the end of this study, the Mass of cassava peels increase ranges from 1kg to 5kg sample, volume of water ranges from 5000ml to 9000ml, amount of concentrated H2SO4 ranges from 35.00ml to 55.00ml, moisture content ranges from 24.00% to 28.00%, temperature ranges from 74.50oC to 78.50oC, which shows that increase in the mass of cassava peels, volume of water, amount of concentrated H2SO4, moisture content and temperature leads to increase in the quantity of liquid bio-fuel produced. The result above shows that the lowest volume of the liquid fuel was obtained from 0.91kg of the sample in 1hr 30 minutes while the highest volume of bio-fuel was obtained from 4.85kg of the sample, at 1hr 50 minutes and time of production leads to increase in the quantity of liquid fuel produced. It is then concluded that the more liquid bio-fuel is produced when the fermentation process of cassava peels are done using concentrated Tetraoxosulphate (VI) acid than making use of cultured living organism as enzymes to speed up the rate of chemical reaction which may occur for days before fuel can be produced and recommended use of pilot scale plant for biomass production of liquid fuel instead of using laboratory methods for bio-fuel production which takes longer time.
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All the living organisms respond and react to changes in the environment around them. The changes in the environment to which the organisms respond and react are called stimuli such as light, heat, cold, sound, smell, touch etc.
Coordination in plants
Coordination refers to ordered working of different but interrelated parts to perform one or more activities smoothly. Since the nervous system doesn't exist in plants, they use a chemical system. Plants coordinate their behavior against environmental changes with the help of Hormones. Plants have various hormones that help them to coordinate growth and response to the environment. These are the chemical compounds which are released by stimulated cells. Hormones are diffused around the cell.
Different types of hormones present in plants are:
 - Auxins
 - Gibberellins
 - Cytokinins
 - Abscisic acid
Auxin is synthesized at the tip of the stem and help in plant growth by elongating the cell.
Gibberellin is concerned with the growth of the stem, seed germination, and flowering. Cytokinins are present in the areas of cell division as in fruits and seeds. Also helps in opening of the stomata. Abscisic acid inhibits the growth of many parts and responsible for the closure of stomata.
The hormones in plants known as Phytohormones coordinate their behavior by affecting their growth. The growth movements in plants are either directional or nondirectional.

Directional Movements
Directional changes are called tropic movements. Tropic movements are the one which occurs in the direction of the stimulus. Positive phototropism is responding by bending towards the sunlight which can be seen in shoots. Negative geotropism is growing away from the ground which is also shown by shoots. Roots exhibit negative photo tropism by bending away from the light and show positive geotropism by growing towards the ground. Chemotropism is a movement of growth in plants in response to the chemical stimulus like the growth of pollen tubes towards ovules.
Non- Directional Movements
Non-directional movements are called nastic response and concerned to movements of plant parts. Nastic movements are independent of growth, and plant cells have to change their shape for this movement to occur. These changes take place in the opposite direction to the stimulus.
in animals
Nervous system and the hormonal system are two important aspects of control and coordination in animals.
The nervous system
Neurons form the basis of the functional as well as the structural unit of the nervous system. The main job of these neurons is to receive the external stimuli and then send it to the brain, so that the brain in turn can read those signals and direct them to the necessary parts of the body to take proper action. For example, when you touch something really hot, then the neurons will transmit this message to the brain that you are touching something really hot and the brain will then send a message back to the hands through the neurons, due to which you will immediately move your hand from there. This transfer of messages takes place through electrical impulses which move throughout the body through nerve fibres.
Take a look at the structure of a neuron. See the dendrites? These are nerve ending tips that are specialised for receiving the outside stimuli and is present in our sense organs. The moment these dendrites receive a stimuli a chemical reaction gets sparked off due to which electrical impulses are generated which in turn moves from the dendrite to the nucleus then to the axon and then finally to the nerve endings. There is a gap present in between two nerve cells which is known as synapse. From the nerve endings of one neurone, the synapse takes in the message and then transmits it to the consecutive neuron and thus through a chain action, these electrical impulses are carried from one part of the body to another to reach the brain.
The hormone system
All the actions of coordination and control cannot be performed by the nervous system alone. This is because the electrical impulses which are used by the nervous system for transmitting information cannot be accessed by all the cells, especially the ones which are not connected to the nerve tissue. And on top of that cells need some time to generate impulses and carry them from one place to another. This is why the endocrine gland of our body, secretes hormones which get mixed into our bloodstream and can reach all the target cells. Hormones perform the function of chemical messengers.

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The Blackface sheep is the most common hill breed in Scotland. They are extremely hardy and can survive in the harsh climate associated with the hills of Scotland. All Blackface sheep have horns and have black and white legs and face. The fleece should be completely white. Their wool is mainly used to make carpets or mattresses.
When kept on the hill, Blackface ewes will stay within an area that they will get to know very well (this is called hefting). They will know the best area to find shelter, and the best area to find good grass. The ewe will pass this information on to her daughters. It is not recommended to buy in flock replacements for hill farms as the sheep may get lost, or die in the extreme weather as they do not know where to find shelter.
Blackface sheep are bred pure to produce flock replacements or small carcass weight lambs, generally for the European market. The Blackface ewes are often crossed with a sire such as a Border Leicester or Continental sire to produce ewes that are very prolific and will produce lambs for the meat market. Blackface ewes are also crossed with terminal sires such as the Suffolk to produce a quality prime lamb.
In hill environments, Blackface ewes will normally produce one lamb per year, on a lowland farm with good grazing they regularly produce twins, with triplets not being uncommon.


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Recent OHIO computer engineering, math grad shares transformative Peace Corps experience
Recent OHIO computer engineering, math grad shares transformative Peace Corps experience
Author: Baylee Demuth
For recent Russ College graduate Dylan Denner, BSEE '19, joining the Peace Corps was uncharted territory he was admittedly scared to pursue. It ended up being a decision that changed his life for the better.
Denner, a double major in applied mathematics and computer engineering, had several promising post-Commencement prospects. He'd already completed a Pathways co-op position with the NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland; was offered a job teaching at an inner-city charter school in Brooklyn, New York; and had looked into attending graduate school for mathematics. But then in fall 2018, Denner opened his email to find a chance to join the Peace Corps, and he knew it was an opportunity worth pursuing.
"When I evaluated Peace Corps, I was like, 'Wow, this is something that I just don't know what I'm going to get myself into,'" Denner said. "But something that I had learned throughout my undergraduate years was that the things that generally scared me ended up being the direction that I needed to pursue and push myself toward."
Shortly thereafter, Denner was accepted into the Peace Corps as a secondary math education teacher. He would take his education, leadership skills and teaching abilities to Ghana in June 2019 to work with 23 other individuals on a 27-month commitment.
Denner's experiences as a Russ College student had outfitted him for the challenge. He had helped found the Russ College's student chapter of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), where he led OHIO's rocket design and engineering team as chief engineer for two years. As president of the engineering honorary Tau Beta Pi, he developed a peer-led mathematics mentoring program for fellow students, and the chapter received the national chapter excellence award. And as a junior, he was named along with just 20 other students to the inaugural class of President Nellis' Presidential Leadership Society.
He applied what he had gained from those leadership and development opportunities to his teaching in Ghana.
"It was about working with students and getting them to find potential within themselves," Denner said. "And I think that that's what really drove me into joining the Peace Corps, that I felt like I had some success in doing that at OU, which was interacting with students and getting them to realize the potential within themselves."
Monica Burdick, Associate Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Tau Beta Pi adviser, had no doubts whether Denner was a fit for the Peace Corps, given his track record.
"Dylan is a true, inspirational leader," Burdick said. "I greatly admire his enthusiasm and vision, whether leading initiatives like the math instruction support team through Tau Beta Pi or sharing his love of learning and STEM through the Peace Corps. He's the type of person you know will make an impact on the world."
The experience began with a couple months of pre-service training about the Ghanaian education system, culture and lifestyle. Denner was then off to Ghana, and while teaching was his primary responsibility, he immersed himself in the community. He'd stay just eight months instead of his full term due to the mind-March evacuation of Peace Corps volunteers as the coronavirus pandemic was sweeping the world.
"I spent those eight months really just trying to learn and understand what my community did, why they did it – the culture, and the history and the reasoning behind things – because it's not always apparent at face value," Denner explained.
For Denner, the culture shock was difficult, but he learned to step away from what he'd always known and take the new lifestyle one day at a time, which ultimately helped him appreciate Ghanaian culture even more.
"Peace Corps has a platinum role, which is to treat others as they wish to be treated," Denner said. "And the reason behind that is because, with a cultural difference, how I wish to be treated is not necessarily a respectful way that others wish to be treated."
Denner said that living in a community in a Sub-Saharan African country taught him the world is actually a big place.
"We often say ours is a small world, but it's generally just the people that we interact with who make it so much smaller because it's a very large world," said Denner, who has applied to OHIO's graduate program in mathematics education. "I hope to be a university professor or lecturer, and that way, I can continue to have projects, and travel and work with different schools and do this type of work."
Colleen Carow contributed to this story.


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This project addresses the dual issues of disability and transferable skills in the teaching of archaeological fieldwork. It will increase awareness of disability issues in Archaeology and improve the integration of disability in fieldwork teaching.
The emphasis is on the development of a self-evaluation tool kit for physical and psychological abilities in fieldwork. This tool will increase students' awareness of their acquisition of transferable skills and promote careers management skills.
The project involved archaeologists working closely with specialists in Inclusive Environments to characterise the skills needed in archaeological fieldwork. In addition to engaging with teachers of undergraduate archaeology nationally, the project actively involved the Council for British Archaeology (CBA), the Institute of Field Archaeologists (IFA), English Heritage and Oxford Archaeology. The project has the potential to widen participation by challenging the stereotype of archaeology as a field discipline that may exclude disabled participants. It aims to effect a change of emphasis from 'disability' to ability: rather than excluding or categorising individuals, students will be engaged actively in assessing their own skills.
Using examples of good practice reported by the subject providers and students, and the results of the project, a guide to 'Including Disabled Students and Self-Evaluation in Archaeological Fieldwork Training' was also produced. The guide includes sections on:
- Models of disability
- The work of the Inclusive, Accessible, Archaeology project
- Making archaeological fieldwork training inclusive
- Making archaeological field trips inclusive
- Making archaeological excavations accessible to visitors
- Links to useful information.


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COLUMBUS, Ohio – Having the right kind of neighbors can help prevent teens from having sex at an early age, according to new research.
A study in Chicago found that some teens were more likely to delay having sex if they lived in neighborhoods where the adults kept a close eye on area children.
The teens who benefited from living in these close-knit neighborhoods were those who had the least parental supervision, such as might occur when both parents work outside the home.
The results show another reason why neighborhoods are important in the lives of residents, said Christopher Browning, co-author of the study and associate professor of sociology at Ohio State University.
"Teens may benefit when they live in neighborhoods where adults take responsibility for socializing kids, even those they may not know personally," Browning said. "These are the neighborhoods where residents share the same values and norms, and try to pass them along to youth."
While previous research has shown that good neighbor relations help prevent crime, Browning said this is the first study to show how how these strong relationships among neighbors may affect teenage sexual behavior.
"Crime tends to happen in public spaces, but this is different. Sexual behavior happens in private spaces, in people's homes, so it may not be as easy to regulate as crime. But in some neighborhoods, adults are making sure kids aren't unsupervised in empty homes after school."
Browning conducted the study with Jeanne Brooks-Gunn from Columbia University and Tama Leventhal from John Hopkins University. The study appears in the current issue of the American Sociological Review.
The data came from a larger project called the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods, which is designed to examine the role of neighborhoods in the lives of children.
The study included residents of 80 neighborhoods. In 1994-95, researchers interviewed people in each of the neighborhoods to calculate what they call "neighborhood collective efficacy." This is a measure of how close-knit each of these communities were. Among other things, residents were asked to rate how much people trusted their neighbors, and whether adults in the neighborhood could be counted on to watch out for children.
In 1995-96, 431 boys and 476 girls aged 11 to 16 and their caregivers, all from these 80 neighborhoods, were interviewed about a wide variety of issues, including early sexual experiences of the youths.
The results showed that the type of neighborhood didn't have any effect on the age of first intercourse for teens whose parents reported they kept a close eye on where their children were at all times.
But for teens who weren't as closely supervised, they were less likely to have intercourse at an early age if they lived in one of the close-knit neighborhoods where adults kept an eye out on local kids.
"When both parents are working, or children are being raised by a single parent, supervision may be more difficult. In these circumstances, it helps to live in a neighborhood where there are other adults who share the same values and who will help supervise teens," Browning said.
The results don't mean it is best if parents are constantly watching over teens, he said. Teens need to learn how to use their independence and it doesn't help them develop if parents are overprotective.
"But you need to know what kind of community you live in," Browning added. "If you live in the right kind of neighborhood and you give your teens some independence, they have the opportunity to see other adults who reinforce your norms and values. That's going to be beneficial in the long run."
Results showed that youth from high-poverty neighborhoods were more likely than those from other areas to have sex earlier. However, the effect of good neighbor relations was nearly as strong as the effect of living in a poor neighborhood, Browning said. "Poverty isn't the whole story."
The results also showed that parental monitoring had more effect on the behavior of girls than it did on boys.
"Boys at this age tend to take part in more risky behavior," he said. "The parents' capacity to control boys' behavior through monitoring is more limited, but strong neighborhoods where parents jointly supervise local teens can have an impact on boys' behavior."
Browning said the findings suggest anything that can be done to promote good neighbor relations will have positive impacts on families. Formal and informal neighborhood groups such as block watches and community organizations may have benefits beyond the specific issues they consider.
"Building strong communities will help in many ways, including preventing risky early sexual behavior among adolescents."
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Plant milk are extracts from plant sources, obtained by grinding or mashing plant products (seeds/nuts) with water and then further filtering out the liquid. It is the alternative animal milk. The study is aimed at comparing the antioxidant Vitamin constituents and some selected mineral composition of milk from local and foreign rice.Calcium contents for milk sample LRS and FRS were (103 ± 1.63) and (92.00 ± 6.38) of which LRS was higher. Magnesium contents tend to be higher in LRS(122.7mg) compared to FRS(75.33mg).The potassium and sodium content of LRS were higher with the quantity as 126.7mg compare to FRS which is recorded as 121mg for potassium and 88.33mg and 89.70mg of sodium for FRS and LRS respectively.Milk sample of LRS revealed 114.3mg of copper when evaluated and FRS revealed 104.3mg.Zinc content of LRS increased to 115.3mg while FRS decreased to 45.23mg, Phosphorous content of milk samples ranged from (116.7 to 138 mg/100 g). LRS(138mg) was higher in phosphorus than FRS(116.7mg).Vitamin A content of foreign rice milk sample ( FRS) had 0.13mg/100g when compared to the local rice milk sample(FRS) which had 0.12mg/100g. Vitamin C content of FRS was higher (1.33mg) than that of LRS (1.29mg).The vitamin E content of the two milk samples were evaluated and it was observed that LRS recorded a higher value of 0.43mg when compared to FRS(0.40mg).Milk extracted from local rice has proven to be a good source of minerals and vitamins among milk extracted from foreign rice.The minerals and vitamins in milk extracted from local rice can be consumed not only for its appetizing qualities but also for the higher nutritional qualities that can be obtained.
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Why does glass bending machine use electric cartridge heater?
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Why does glass bending machine use electric cartridge heater?
As we all know, the working environment of glass bending machine is embedded dry burning working environment, so this kind of heating method can only be well heated by electric cartridge heater. Then what factors effect the quality of electric cartridge heater?
In industrial production, The electric cartridge heater of 3D glass bending machine belongs to high surface load electric cartridge heater, so the high surface load of electric cartridge heater directly determines the material selection of other tubes. The imported high temperature magnesia powder is used for internal insulation to increase its insulation performance. At the same time, the lead wire is made of nickel stranded wire with ceramic beads, high temperature resistant lead and wiring mode It is better to use the inner lead because the temperature of the outer lead is not high and the surface load is low.
cartridge heater for 3D Glass bending
What are the processing procedures of electric cartridge heater? The processing procedure of the electric cartridge heater is as follows: the electric cartridge heater refers to the metal tubular single head heating pipe, and then the spring electric heating wire is put into the metal protective sleeve, and the gap part is evenly filled with modified oxide powder with good thermal conductivity and insulation. After the pipe is shrunk by the pipe shrinking machine, the electric heating wire is insulated from the air, and the central position does not deviate and touch the pipe wall Annealing, bending, welding fasteners and other processes.
The electric cartridge heater for 3D glass bending machine can meet the service temperature of 3D glass bending machine, and the heating pipe of 3D glass bending machine can be heated to 950 ℃, and the temperature of heating mold is uniform and stable, and the temperature difference is small. The thermal leakage current of single head electric heating tube is less than or equal to 1mA, and we know that the service life of electric cartridge heater is relatively long.
If you want to make the electric cartridge heatere of 3D glass hot bending machine use longer, you can only work on the material:
The electric cartridge heater of 3D glass bending machine is made of heating wire imported from Germany, high-temperature magnesium oxide powder with insulation and heat conduction customized from Germany, and seamless 800 pipe imported from Japan, with a service life of 9600h.
Moreover, the lead-out wires of the electric heating tube of the 3D glass bending machine are all of the quality leads: pure nickel high-temperature resistant wire imported from Germany.


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This paper investigates the noise reduction in the slot-induced ground bounce noise by using differential signaling. An efficient 2-D finite-difference time-domain method together with equivalent circuits for both the differential line and the slot is established and simulations are performed for a three-layer structure to characterize the ground bounce coupling. A simple model is then proposed to understand how the differential coupled microstrip lines can help reduce ground bounce. Different factors which affect noise reduction are investigated, such as the coupling coefficient, rising time, skew of differential signaling, and structure asymmetry in slotline. An experimental setup is devised to demonstrate the noise coupling between signal lines due to the slot-induced ground bounce and significant noise reduction by employing differential signaling. A favorable comparison between the simulation and measured results validates the proposed equivalent circuit model and analysis approach.
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When you open a list (.cil) in Volume Activation Management Tool (VAMT) 2.0 on a Windows 7-based computer, you may receive the following error message:
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We have measured the response of chromium-doped alumina screens to soft x-ray radiation and derived quantum efficiency curves for the energy range from 2.5 keV to 4.5 keV. Persistent luminescence (or afterglow) from this material is observed for several minutes following the removal of the x-ray source. It is also observed that the luminescence output rises gradually for several minutes before maximizing during x-ray irradiation. In the paper we discuss possible sources of this delayed luminescence and its consequences for application of these screens as soft x-ray detectors. Such screens have found application as narrow-band radiation detectors for a hot fusion plasma diagnostic.
Citation: Journal of Applied Physics
Issue: No. 2
Pub Type: Journals
ceramics and refractories, electrons and positron radiation effects, ionizing radiations, photoluminescence, quantum efficiency


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1/2″ Clamp-on probe for BC100 or BCC200
For self-calibrating measurements in flowing liquids
Self-calibrating measurements in flowing liquids are possible with the ultrasonic sensors belonging to the Bubble Counters. The probes are available for 1/4″ tubing. (Special sizes can also be manufactured upon request). The probes are marked with colored sleeves to assign you to the respective measuring channel (color coded socket on the meter). Due to the foldable locking lever, the probe can be placed and fixed around the tube without any problems and in a reproducible way. Due to our special measuring method, the influences of e.g. different tube materials or temperature changes during the operation can be eliminated. The use of disposables is therefore not necessary.