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In our pursuit of creating a harmonious and captivating environment for our feathered and finned companions, it is essential to find the perfect balance between aesthetics and functionality. Birdcages and aquariums are not just enclosures; they are homes for our beloved pets. In this comprehensive guide, we'll explore the art of harmonious birdcage and aquarium decor, ensuring that your pets thrive in a visually stunning and well-structured environment.
The Importance of Harmonious Decor
Before delving into the specifics of creating harmonious decor, it's crucial to understand why it matters. Beyond the aesthetic appeal, a well-decorated birdcage or aquarium can significantly impact your pet's overall well-being.
A cluttered or unappealing environment can cause stress in birds and fish, leading to various health issues. By creating a harmonious living space, you provide a sense of security and tranquility for your pets.
Promoting Mental Stimulation
Interactive and engaging decor can help stimulate your pets' minds. This is especially important for birds and fish, as they need mental stimulation to prevent boredom.
We all appreciate beauty, and your pets are no exception. A well-decorated enclosure is a joy to look at and can be a beautiful addition to your living space.
Let's start with creating a harmonious environment for our feathered friends.
Choosing the Right Cage
The foundation of harmonious birdcage decor begins with selecting the appropriate cage. It should provide ample space for your bird to move around, stretch its wings, and engage in various activities.
Perches and Toys
Birds love to perch, and having a variety of perch sizes and types allows your feathered companion to exercise its feet and maintain its overall health. Toys are essential for mental stimulation, so make sure to include toys like swings, mirrors, and puzzle feeders.
Good lighting is essential for both aesthetics and your bird's well-being. Natural light is best, but if that's not possible, use full-spectrum lighting to mimic the sun's effects. It can positively affect your bird's mood and physical health.
Consider a thematic approach to your birdcage decor. Depending on your bird's species, you can create a jungle, beach, or forest-themed cage. This not only looks great but also provides a stimulating environment.
Now, let's dive into creating an inviting space for your aquatic companions.
Selecting the Right Tank
Choosing the appropriate aquarium is the first step in creating a harmonious underwater world for your fish. It should be the right size to accommodate your fish comfortably.
Substrate and Plants
A well-chosen substrate, such as gravel or sand, adds to the aesthetics and provides a surface for beneficial bacteria to grow. Live plants can improve water quality and create a natural habitat for your fish.
Aquascaping is the art of arranging plants, rocks, and decorations within the tank. Creating underwater caves, rock formations, and hiding spots can reduce stress and provide a visually appealing environment.
Filtration and Water Quality
Maintaining proper filtration and water quality is essential. Clean, clear water not only looks better but also ensures your fish's health. Choose an efficient filtration system and perform regular water changes.
Maintenance and Care
No matter how harmonious your decor, it's essential to maintain it for your pets' well-being.
Birdcages and aquariums require regular cleaning to prevent the buildup of waste, which can be harmful to your pets.
Monitoring and Adjusting
Keep a close eye on your pets and their environment. If you notice any signs of stress or health issues, be prepared to adjust the decor or seek professional advice.
By creating a harmonious birdcage and aquarium decor, you provide your pets with a beautiful, engaging, and stress-free home. Your feathered and finned friends will thrive in this enriched environment, and you'll enjoy the aesthetic pleasure it brings to your living space.
The Art of Harmony
Harmony is a balance between elements in design, and achieving it in your birdcage and aquarium decor is an art in itself.
In both birdcage and aquarium decor, color coordination is crucial. The right color palette can create a soothing and visually appealing environment. For birdcages, consider the colors of the perches, toys, and even your bird's plumage when choosing decorations. In aquariums, the colors of the substrate, plants, and decor should complement each other.
Every bird or fish has unique preferences and personality. Pay attention to what they like and adjust the decor accordingly. For birds, if they enjoy climbing, provide more climbing toys. For fish, if they prefer hiding, add more plants or caves.
Establish a regular maintenance schedule to keep your birdcage and aquarium in top shape. Cleaning and replacing decor when needed ensures a consistently inviting environment for your pets.
Creating a Natural Habitat
In both birdcage and aquarium decor, the goal is to create an environment that mimics your pets' natural habitat.
Do thorough research on your bird or fish species. Understand their native environment, behavior, and preferences. This knowledge will guide you in creating an ideal space for them.
Incorporate natural elements that mirror the native habitat. For birds, you can add branches, leaves, and natural wooden toys. For fish, create a setting with rocks, driftwood, and live aquatic plants.
In your quest for harmonious decor, strive to mimic the natural world. Birds should feel like they're in their favorite forest or jungle, while fish should experience the tranquility of their home waters.
The Power of Observation
To truly excel in creating harmonious birdcage and aquarium decor, it's essential to be a keen observer.
Observe your pets' behavior closely. Do they spend more time on specific perches or around certain decorations? This information helps you fine-tune their environment.
Mood and Health
Pay attention to your pets' mood and health. Any signs of distress or illness can often be attributed to their environment. Changes may be necessary to improve their well-being.
Here are six short FAQs with concise answers regarding "Feathers and Fins: A Guide to Harmonious Birdcage and Aquarium Decor
Harmonious decor improves your pet's well-being by reducing stress, promoting mental stimulation, and enhancing the overall aesthetic appeal of their environment.
Select a birdcage that offers ample space for your bird to move, stretch its wings, and provide room for perches and toys.
Essential components include a variety of perches and toys, proper lighting, and thematic decor that suits your bird's species and preferences.
Choose the right-sized tank, utilize suitable substrate and live plants, practice aquascaping, and maintain proper filtration and water quality.
Color coordination enhances the visual appeal of the enclosure, creating a soothing and inviting atmosphere for your pets.
Conduct thorough research on your pet's species, incorporate natural elements like branches, leaves, rocks, and driftwood, and closely mimic the native habitat to create a natural and comfortable setting.
In the world of pet care, the beauty and well-being of your pets should always go hand in hand. By creating harmonious birdcage and aquarium decor, you not only make your pets' lives better but also enhance your own living space.
Remember that harmony is an ongoing journey. Regularly assess and adjust your decor to ensure it remains stimulating and pleasing. Your birds and fish will thrive, and you'll have the joy of sharing your life with them in a space that's as beautiful as it is functional.


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Technology's Role in Sustainable Infrastructure
Technological innovation has always played an enormous role within the infrastructure industry. But now, in line with global trends and the need to incorporate sustainability in large-scale infrastructure projects, it's vital to explore just how innovative design and technology can facilitate sustainable business practices.
Find out more about the role innovation plays in sustainable infrastructure projects with Peter Guthrie, Guest Lecturer on the Business Sustainability Management online short course from the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL).
If you look back over the last 150 years, we're living in the western world, at least, with, very largely, old infrastructure which has survived remarkably well. So ports, harbours, dams, railways have all greatly exceeded their anticipated design life at the time of construction. That's a blessing and a curse of course because we are now left with having to duplicate some of that infrastructure so that we don't abandon it when we increase the size of the network for example.
But the sustainability considerations around large-scale infrastructure projects is a hugely contested area. I think it's true to say that the performance of a piece of infrastructure, the performance of, for example, a sewer tunnel or a railway or a dam, the technical considerations, the design, the engineering, are all considered in great detail. And it tends to be a subsequent issue that sustainability has taken into account. So there is a kind of defensive position taken that you look at when you have a piece of infrastructure: How will the sustainability aspects be addressed?
Technology plays a huge role, and the innovation is a very important part of large-scale infrastructure projects. Having said that, the infrastructure provision tends to be quite conservative because it has such a long lifetime. Very often, technological innovation has to have some sort of proving ground elsewhere before a large-scale infrastructure project, such as a railway or a new highway, will be prepared to adopt this kind of technology before it can understand the longevity, and because there are very big implications if you embark on a new technology and you find that it's not serving the purpose. You have a piece of infrastructure very often which has a lifetime of 40, 60, 80, or 100 years, and if you make an error of judgment in the beginning with a technology that doesn't have that kind of durability, it can be very expensive.
So there are some examples of very exciting technological innovation, for example in tunneling. The tunneling industry has come a hugely long way in terms of moving from manual excavation of tunnels, particularly in softer ground, to automatic tunnel boring machines where very high-tech machinery is used in a largely personnel-free environment. And instrumentation, optical fibres, and so on are used to monitor the progress of the tunnel and also the condition of buildings and infrastructure of the surface. So that's a good example of where technological innovation has really changed the nature of an entire industry in the infrastructure sector.

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Pindus reveals its prehistoric past
Team of archaeologists discovers Paleolithic remnants in several areas of central Greek range
The Greek-Italian team has found 25 Paleolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic sites on the peaks of Mt Smolikas.
By Iota Myrtsioti - Kathimerini
The Pindus mountain range that runs down the middle of mainland Greece has revealed further interesting archaeological finds. In total, excavations taking place over the past three years have unearthed 25 Paleolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic locations nestled in the high peaks of Mt Smolikas, the lakes of Valia Calda and along small paths.
Farming tools found at the sites confirmed that the mountains of central Greece, which have not been extensively examined from an archaeological perspective, have many interesting things to yield, while also contributing to a shift in views about the role mountainous communities had in the overall history of the country.
The excavations that brought these finds to light were the first to be held at such a high altitude — 1,800 meters — in Greece. Conducted by a team of Greek and Italian archaeologists — Prehistoric Archaeology Professor Paolo Biagi from the University of Venice, specialist Dr Vassiliki Elefandi and Associate Professor Nikos Efstratiou from the University of Thessaloniki — they have opened a new chapter in history.
"The overriding opinion in [Greek] archaeology up to now was that groups of Paleolithic hunter/gatherers, as well as the first Neolithic farmers and livestock farmers were restricted to the plains and low altitudes," explained Efstratiou.
"Furthermore, taking into account the fact that even the most well-known mountainous Paleolithic locations — such as at the Vikos Gorge in Epirus — are no higher than 600 meters, the results of these excavations have been very surprising indeed," he added.
The team's efforts began somewhat tentatively some three years ago. Examining the areas in and around the villages of Samarina, Smixi, Philippi, Polynerio, Panorama and Lavda, around small lakes and passes on foot, the team found numerous open prehistoric sites that contained signs of their very ancient past, such as shards of stone tools. Around the area of Samarina, they found evidence suggesting the resting places of nomadic groups from the mid-Paleolithic period, while it is even possible that these groups were Neanderthals.
"We found what little there was left of camps and places where hunters stopped to rest or spend the night near springs, or constructing tools near sources of flint.
"The chronological order of these sites reveals that these few and constantly moving Paleolithic and Mesolithic groups roved the Pindus range until 8000 BC following prey such as deer, boar and hares. There is also evidence of Neolithic hunters who, as early as 7000 BC, began leaving their permanent villages, their livestock and fields on the plains and headed into the mountains occasionally to hunt."
What is interesting is that many of these locations were found at passes still used by herders and livestock farmers today.
"One of the most attractive things about these excavations in the Pindus is the fact that we can see that the practices of the people who live here go back thousands of years," says Efstratiou. "The Paleolithic and Neolithic gatherers that moved around in search of materials to produce tools gave way to occasional farmers from nearby settlements on the plains who went into the mountains to hunt and gather berries and seeds. Today, we have the nomadic livestock farmers who continue to give life to the mountains of Western Macedonia."
Posted on Sat, Aug. 06, 2005
Unearthing the past, looking to the future
Pieces of history
By CAROLINE SMITH
When Croatan Chief Ricky Bruner had timber cleared for his property this year, arrowheads fell from the roots.
That's when he knew he had discovered a piece of history.
Bruner discovered artifacts that belonged to a different tribe that lived on the property as many as 10,000 years ago.
Bruner, also known to many as Chief Running Wolf, had been clearing the land for construction of an outdoor American Indian museum.
Now, he plans to house the artifacts being found on the property in the museum.
This week, a team of archaeologists from North Carolina were excavating the 10-acre tract in Orangeburg.
"The oldest stuff is around 8,000 to 10,000 years old," said Bobby Southerlin, president and archaeologist at Archaeological Consultants of the Carolinas Inc.
Among the artifacts found were several generations of arrowheads, bits of pottery and part of a knife.
"What we really hope to find is a fire pit or the groundwork of a house," he said.
Southerlin didn't know which American Indian tribe had left the artifacts.
There were also European artifacts, such as pipe fragments and fired musket balls from more recent history.
The musket balls "were shot in a cluster," Southerlin said. "You wouldn't normally expect that. I'm wondering if there could have been fighting here, like the Revolution."
Southerlin and his team returned Friday to North Carolina. Once they finish examining the pieces in the lab, they may return to excavate more of the site.
Wilbur Cutter, 10, a member of the Croatan tribe, was helping.
"This is basically the first archaeological dig I've been to," he said.
The dig is "very interesting. I get to find a lot of artifacts dealing with our culture."
The outdoor museum is expected to be completed in two to three years. It will include a cultural center, a powwow arena and a living village.
"This way, we are preserving and protecting" the site, he said. "It also brings in tourism."
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Italian lake yields Stone Age canoe
(ANSA) - Rome, August 7
Italian archaeologists have uncovered a Stone Age canoe like those probably used by Europe's first farmers at a lake near Rome .
The 8,000-year-old pirogue - a canoe made from a hollowed tree trunk - was discovered on the bed of Lake Bracciano at a depth of just 12 metres .
The lake is a popular destination for modern-day Romans who go there during summer weekends to swim, sunbathe or hire a pedal boat when they want to avoid the crowded beaches on the coast .
The experts who carried out the excavation, led by local Prehistory Superintendent Antonietta Fugazzola Delpino, said the find will reveal a great deal about Neolithic sailing and boat-building .
Archaeologists think the Stone Age inhabitants of the area did not use pirogues just to move around Lake Bracciano - a large expanse of water filling an enormous volcanic crater. They say they were also used to take to the high seas .
Indeed, some argue Europe's first farmers arrived from the more advanced Near East by sea in these canoes. Their arrival ushered in the Neolithic Age as it changed the hunting and fishing societies bordering on the Mediterranean into agricultural ones. The founders of the Neolithic village of Marmotta, the site the pirogue was found at, are thought to have been among the first to make this trip .
The settlers probably chose this area because, with the lake and surrounding forest, there was plenty of food and wood for boats and houses .
Marmotta was a huge village-on-stilts at the time - a sort of Neolithic Venice. Archaeologist say something mysterious happened in the 53rd century BC and the settlement was abandoned .
As well as boats, underwater excavations have uncovered a wide variety of tools, ceramics and utensils in recent years .
Only a fraction of the village has been excavated so far. The pirogue, which is 9.5 metres long, is not complete. This has led experts to surmise there was a boat yard in the area at the time .
A similar vessel was found in the lake in 1994 .
The new find is currently being treated with special substances to conserve it, now that it has been taken from the muddy home which looked after it so long. Officials said the pirogue will be officially presented to the press in September, at the opening of a new archaeological centre. "The restoration will be undertaken by a specialist firm," said Carmelo Capone, an executive councillor of the nearby town of Anguillara .
"But it will be possible to organize special visits and school excursions, so people can see the restorers at work."
Published: 12th August 2005 10:20 CET
Swedish Iron Age burial ground discovered
Archaeologists digging near Strömnäsbruk in Småland have uncovered a burial ground with some twenty graves thought to date back to the Iron Age.
"We didn't expect to find so many," said Alexandra Nylén who, with her colleague from the Småland museum, Peter Skoglund, has been working in the area for the last two weeks.
"The grave field shows that there was a permanent settlement with cultivation here in the Iron Age, from 500 BC to 500 AD. This is from the end of the Iron Age," she said.
The archaeologists knew that there was a so-called 'ship's barrow', a type of grave with a large stone on top, at the location. But the dig revealed many other graves identified by piles of stones.
"This gives a new aspect to the history of this area," said Alexandra Nylén.
The local council must now decide whether to perform a thorough investigation of the area and whether to keep the settlement as it is.
Ancient Roman temple found
Digs are in the same area where busts of Caesar,Titus found
(ANSA) - Rome


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This is how you would write ·á in pazhaya lipi:
Notice how, instead of the á maatra, pazhaya lipi uses a line (attached to the last stroke of the letter, which, in this case, is ·) that, as I mentioned before, looks like the word hai in Urdu or, more simply, like a long, skinny capital "U" turned sideways.
This same ending stroke is also used for the following letters:
» Ä Í Ö Ù
The letters »á Äá Íá Öá Ùá are shown below in pazhaya lipi, so I can be sure you understand...:
Why not continue to the next lesson and see how to write µá and øá?

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DO PARTNERS CARE ABOUT THEIR MUTUAL LOCATION? Spatial awareness in virtual environments.
This paper reports on four experimental studies concerning regard to how people use space so as to solve problems collaboratively in virtual environments. Prior to presenting the results, it summarizes the wide range of literature concerning social uses of spatiality in human interactions. The experiments we conducted revealed that virtual space modifies and improves collaborative processes such as division of labor, grounding, communication, coordination, as well as the performance to the task. It concludes by proposing Computer Supported Collaborative Work practitioners? ideas about how to use these results in order to design more effective and more adapted environments.

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I've recently moved apartment again. One of my housemates in my apartment had always planned to move in with his wife at the end of the lease. I didn't want to be a third wheel (or a fifth wheel), so I'm moving on.
Another way to refer to being a person who accompanies a couple, usually awkwardly, is to say they're a gooseberry. Which seems quite unfair to gooseberries, as they're just innocent fruit. Where does this association come from?
Well first, let's look at where gooseberries get their name from. No-one's actually really sure of the precise etymology. Some people believe it might be a translation of Old French (grosele) or Germanic terms, and therefore not actually related to geese at all. That's unlikely though, as plant names that refer to animals are usually very deliberately chosen for the link between the two. So while we can't be sure exactly what the link between geese and gooseberries is, we can be pretty confident that the berry was named after the bird.
The term gooseberry first came to be used to refer to people in the early 18th century, generally meaning fool. This is probably simply an extension of the association of geese with foolishness or silliness. Which again, seems a bit unfair. Geese aren't particularly silly, are they? But then when a form of the word was first applied to geese, it probably didnt mean silly as we know it now.
Silly is derived from the Old English gesælig, which originally meant happy or fortuitous. The word gained slightly different meanings over the years, each one evolving from the last, so that at one time it could mean innocent or pious. I think it's the latter that people had in mind when they first started calling geese silly, considering the way they walk around with the heads help up in the air.
But the association of geese with silliness/foolishness stuck, and I think when people started to refer to someone accompanying a couple as a gooseberry, it was because they looked or felt foolish by doing so.
So the word has nothing to do with the berry, but is rather more directly related to geese, and the image we have of them being silly, probably because an earlier form of the word silly was used to refer to them as pious, but that meaning's been lost now.
Like the origins of a lot of words, it's a pretty convoluted thread involving subtle shifts in meaning over time, until the link between the term we use now and the original meaning which led to its current use has long been lost. It's interesting though, that we continue to use the word gooseberry in this way, even though there's no logical link between the literal and metaphorical uses of the word. Maybe it's the sound of the word, or maybe on some unconscious level we draw the connection between being the odd one out alongside a couple, and the silliness of a goose.
Or maybe it's just because nobody likes gooseberries!
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 1. Very interesting! This must be a totally British thing. In all my years I've never once heard or read gooseberry used to refer to anything but the fruit. "Silly as a goose", yes, I've heard that now & then.
 Perhaps the origin of gooseberry was that geese were wont to get into the patch and eat the berries? Or maybe cooks tossed them in the stuffing for roast goose? I can't really see a twist that would turn groseille (a currant) into goose, but maybe it derived from grosse baies (fat) berries
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- For Teachers
The resulting number is your Gunning Fog Index.
The Gunning Fog Index gives the number of years of education that your reader hypothetically needs to understand the paragraph or text. The Gunning Fog Index formula implies that short sentences written in plain English achieve a better score than long sentences written in complicated language.
For reference, the New York Times has an average Fog Index of 11-12, Time magazine about 11. Typically, technical documentation has a Fog Index between 10 and 15, and professional prose almost never exceeds 18.


Quick Answer: Is Airlift Movie Based On True Story?
Who is the wife of Akshay Kumar?
Twinkle Khannam.
2001Akshay Kumar/Wife.
Why did Iraq invade Kuwait in 1990?
In August 1990, Iraq invaded the country of Kuwait to its southeast in a bid to gain more control over the lucrative oil supply of the Middle East. In response, the United States and the UN Security Council demanded that Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein withdraw Iraqi troops from Kuwait, but Hussein refused.
What is the meaning of airlift?
: a system of transporting cargo or passengers by aircraft often to or from an otherwise inaccessible area. Other Words from airlift Example Sentences Learn More about airlift.
Who is real Ranjit Katyal?
Akshay KumarThe airlift, which began in the first week of September 1990, lasted 59 days and involved 499 sorties. Mathews was among the last to leave. Makers of Airlift recently acknowledged that Ranjit Katyal, played by Akshay Kumar, was a fictional character based on Mathews and another Indian businessman, Harbhajan Singh Vedi.
What is the story of airlift movie?
Who was the Kuwaiti girl in airlift?
In 2016 Feryna appeared in film Airlift as Tasneem alongside Akshay Kumar and Nimrat Kaur, set in Kuwait 1990 when Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait. She also acted in a short British film titled as A Secret Heart by director Cary Shawney. In this film, she is seen in the role of a British Jewish girl from World War 2.
How many Indians were evacuated from Kuwait?
170,000 IndianMore than 170,000 Indian citizens evacuated. The 1990 airlift of Indians from Kuwait was carried out from August 13, 1990 to October 20, 1990 after the Invasion of Kuwait.
How did Kuwait respond to invasion by Iraq?
The Iraqi invasion and occupation of Kuwait was unanimously condemned by all major world powers. … NATO members were particularly critical of the Iraqi occupation of Kuwait and by late 1990, the United States had issued an ultimatum to Iraq to withdraw its forces from Kuwait by 15 January 1991 or face war.
Is airlift based on true story?
The real story of this Malayali entrepreneur who coordinated the evacuation in Kuwait in 1990. Akshay Kumar claims to have lived the life of Mathunny Mathews in his head for nine long months, while essaying the real character in the current Bollywood flick Airlift. … The film has caught Indians by their heart.
Who was the heroine in airlift?
Airlift is a 2016 Indian Hindi-language historical drama film directed by Raja Krishna Menon, starring Akshay Kumar and Nimrat Kaur.
Who is nimrat Kaur husband?
Nimrat Kaur Height, Weight, Age, Husband, Affairs & MoreBioReal NameNimrat KaurMarital StatusUnmarriedAffairs/BoyfriendsNot KnownHusbandN/A35 more rows
Does Netflix have airlift?
Airlift – (2016) – Netflix.
Why is airlift banned in Kuwait?
This ban definitely reflects on the fact that the Kuwaiti people(at least the censor board) did take offence to what was shown in the movie, as the events showed in the movie projected them to be a government which fled during a major crisis(the iraq invasion), leaving their own behind.
How old is nimrat Kaur?
38 years (March 13, 1982)Nimrat Kaur/Age
When did Iraq invade Kuwait?
August 2, 1990 – August 4, 1990Invasion of Kuwait/Periods


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Re-Presenting Art History
Re-Presenting Art History: An Unfinished Process
Can reenactment both as reactivation of images and restaging of exhibitions be considered an alternative way of tackling the critical task to re-present art history (i.e., to present it anew) in the here and now, over and over and over again? The gesture of restoring visibility to something no longer present, reactivating or reembodying it as an object/image in and for the present, is here proposed as a (political) act of restitution and historical recontextualization. Examining the boundaries between past and present, original and copy (as well as originality and copyright), repetition and variation, authenticity and auraticity, presence and absence, canon and appropriation, durée and transience, the paper focuses on remediation, reinterpretation, and reconstruction as creative gestures and cultural promises in contemporary art practice, curatorship, and museology.
2022. re-presentation; contemporary art; postmodernism; curatorship; art history; Aby Warburg; museology
Interruptions and discontinuity are the very essence of Aby Warburg's conception of the temporality that affects art objects. Beneath the seemingly immobilized expressive gesture, the Hamburg scholar recognizes the vitality of the Pathosformeln that convey the intricacy of human multi-layered temporality, made of interruptions, resumptions, inversions, regressions, stops, accelerations, and survivals (Nachleben). In this sense, Warburg's idea of 'renewal', which he developed from his well-known investigation of the Italian Renaissance, does not quite overlap with the notion of rebirth: an expressive gesture can re-emerge and be renewed in a different time without dying and being born a second time with a different form.
2019. Aby Warburg; Pathosformel; Nachleben; Kreuzlingen; regression


innalzarsi a pinnacolo in Arabic
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French Phrases: parts of the body
This page gives French words for the main parts of the body. Note that parts of the body in French are usually used with the definite article (le, la or les), even though in English, you'd often use a possessive (my, his etc).
Face and neck
la tête-the head
le visage-the face
les cheveux-the hair
le front-the forehead
les yeux-the eyes
un oeil-the eye
le nez-the nose
les joues (f)-the cheeks
les oreilles-the ears
les lèvres (f)-the lips
la bouche-the mouth
les dents (f)-the teeth
la langue-the tongue
le menton-the chin
le cou-the neck
la nuque-the nape, back of the neck
la gorge-the throat
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The upper body
le dos-the back
les épaules (f)-the shoulders
la poitrine-the chest
les seins (m)-the breasts
les bras-the arms
les coudes (m)-the elbows
le ventre-the belly
les mains (f)-the hands
les doigts (m)-the fingers
les ongles (m)-the fingernails
le pouce-the thumb
le poignet-the wrist
la hanche-the hip
l'abdomen-the abdomen
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The legs and lower body
les fesses (f)-the backside, buttocks
les jambes (f)-the legs
les cuisses (f)-the thighs
les genoux (m)-the knees
les chevilles (f)-the ankles
les talons (m)-the heels
les pieds (m)-the feet
les orteils (m)-the toes
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The alter Command
The alter command allows circuit parameters to be changed for the next simulation run.
alter [device_list , param [=] value [param [=] value ... ]]
The parameters will revert to original values on subsequent runs, unless the alter command is reissued.
If given without arguments, a list of previously entered alterations of the current circuit, to be applied in the next analysis run, is printed. List entries may have come from previously given alter commands, or from assignments to the @device[param] special vectors.
The device_list is a list of one or more device or model names found in the circuit. The names are separated by white space, and the list is terminated with a comma. Following the comma is one or more name/value pairs, optionally an equal sign can appear between the two tokens. The name is a device or model keyword, which should be applicable to all of the names listed in the device_list. Note that this probably means that the device_list can contain device names or models, but not both. The device and model keywords can be obtained from the show command.
The alter command can be issued multiple times, to set parameters of devices or models which can't be intermixed according to the rule above.
The device_list can contain ''globbing'' (wild-card) characters with similar behavior to globbing (global substitution) in the WRspice shell. Briefly, '?' matches any character, '*' matches any set of characters or no characters, ''[abc]'' matches the characters 'a', 'b', and 'c', and ''a{bc,de}'' matches ''abc'' and ''ade''.
When the next simulation run of the current circuit is started, the given parameters will be substituted. Thus, the show command, if given before the next run, will not show the altered values. The internal set of altered values will be destroyed after the substitutions.
Examples:
alter R2, resistance=50
alter c{1,2,3}, capacitance 105p
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Troubleshoot Narrator problems
Here are solutions to some common problems with Narrator.
Note that Narrator is not available in all languages.
 - Narrator doesn't read what I expect it to read.
 Narrator provides basic screen reading capabilities that allow you to use Windows when you don't have a more full-featured screen reader. Narrator is not designed to read content in all programs. For more information about screen readers and other assistive technologies, go to the Microsoft Accessibility website.
 - Narrator does not pronounce some words correctly.
 Because some words are difficult for the software to convert to speech, Narrator might occasionally read the wrong words.
 - Narrator does not read notifications or the contents of some folders.
 Narrator cannot read notifications because they cannot be selected. For the same reason, it cannot read the contents of some folders.
 - I can't hear any text read aloud.
 There are three things you can try:
 - Make sure that your speakers are connected properly. If you're not sure how to do this, check the information that came with your speakers.
 - Make sure that the speaker volume is turned up sufficiently and your speakers aren't muted.
 - Make sure that your sound card is properly installed and the drivers are updated.
 To check for a sound card
 1. Open Audio Devices and Sound Themes by clicking the Start button Picture of the Start button, clicking Control Panel, clicking Hardware and Sound, and then clicking Sound.
 2. Your sound card is listed on the Playback tab.
 If you don't have a sound card installed, you'll have to get one for Narrator to work.
 To determine if the sound card is working
 1. Open Device Manager by clicking the Start button Picture of the Start button, clicking Control Panel, clicking System and Maintenance, and then clicking Device Manager. Administrator permission required If you are prompted for an administrator password or confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation.
 2. If the sound card has a yellow question mark next to it, the sound card might not be working. Try reinstalling the sound card driver. For more information, see Update a driver for hardware that isn't working properly.
 3. If the sound card appears twice in the list, you might have a ghost device. If so, delete the list entry with the question mark.
 - Narrator does not read some Help topics.
 Narrator cannot read the text that appears below collapsed headings in Help topics. To read the text of Help topics with collapsed headings, tab to the Show all link at the top of the topic and press ENTER to expand all the topics. Then press CTRL+SHIFT+SPACEBAR to have Narrator read the window again.
 - The INSERT key doesn't work as expected when Narrator is running.
 The INSERT key is used for Narrator commands, so when you press INSERT while Narrator is running, you won't be able to insert characters. To use the INSERT key to insert characters while Narrator is running, press INSERT+I and then the characters you want to add.


Laravel Working With Json Table Column Example
How to Store multiple values in single field laravel is the todays topic. Sometimes we need to store multiple key and value in single column in Laravel. But do you know how we can do that? we can use pivot table to solve this issue. But here i am going to use json column to store multiple records with key and value for respect to key.
From this laravel json tutorial you will also learn how to insert json data into mysql using laravel. In this tutorial we will insert multiple properties for a single product like size, price, value, color etc from a single method into a single field with json.
So let's se how we can store json data into database. So let's start laravel json column example tutorial.
Preview : Store json data form
store-json-data-laravel

Preview : After fetching json data
laravel-working-with-json

Step 1 : Create Model
In this we need product model. So let's create it to store json data.
php artisan make:model Product -m

Now open product model and update like below.
app/Product.php
namespace App;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
class Product extends Model
{
 protected $guarded = [];
 protected $casts = [
 'properties' => 'array'
 ];
 public function setPropertiesAttribute($value)
 {
 $properties = [];
 foreach ($value as $array_item) {
 if (!is_null($array_item['key'])) {
 $properties[] = $array_item;
 }
 }
 $this->attributes['properties'] = json_encode($properties);
 }
}

and open migration file and update it like below.
database/migration/create_products_table.php
 public function up()
 {
 Schema::create('products', function (Blueprint $table) {
 $table->increments('id');
 $table->string('name');
 $table->decimal('price', 15, 2);
 $table->json('properties');
 $table->timestamps();
 });
 }

Step 2 : Create Route
We need many route for storing json data into json column.
routes/web.php
Route::get('produc/create','ProductController@show_product_form')->name('produc.create');
Route::post('produc/create','ProductController@store');
Route::get('produc','ProductController@index')->name('produc.index');

Step 3 : Create Controller
In this step we need to create product controller. So create it and update this controller like below
app/Http/Controllers/ProductController.php
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
use App\Category;
use App\Http\Controllers\Controller;
use App\Product;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
class ProductController extends Controller
{
 public function show_product_form()
 {
 return view('create');
 }
 public function store(Request $request)
 {
 $product = Product::create($request->all());

 return redirect()->back();
 }
 public function index()
 {
 $post = Product::all();
 return view('index',['products' => $post]);
 }
}

Step 4 : Create Blade File
Now we are in the final step and all are set to go. So how to insert json data into mysql using laravel we will know. Now create below file and paste this code in your file.
resources/views/create.blade.php

resources/views/index.blade.php

Recommended : Avoid Pivot Table and Use Json Column in Laravel

Hope this Laravel json tutorial will help you.


Which Is the Most Low Maintenance Tortoise Breed?
The Hermann's tortoise is the most low maintenance tortoise breed. They are a resilient species, with a varied diet and are able thrive both indoors and outdoors. They usually live for around 50 to 75 years.
Adult Hermann's Tortoise
Taking care of a tortoise involves certain responsibilities unique to tortoises. It is challenging, and it's not something to undertake unless you are committed to caring for your pet consistently for many years.
For beginners or people who don't have the time or space for the most high-maintenance breeds, it makes sense to look into breeds that are are at least slightly easier to take care of (although there is no such thing as a breed that is 'easy' to care for). Not only does this help the you owner, but also saves the tortoise from being mistreated unintentionally.
Which Breeds Are the Ones Requiring the Least Maintenance?
There are several tortoise breeds that don't need as much maintenance as others. While you still have to take care of them, they are generally accepted as being more resilient than other species, so they might require slightly fewer responsibilities on your part.
They are great for people who have a busier schedule, as well as those who are just starting out as tortoise owners and don't want to jump into something that exceeds their knowledge, skill set, or available space they can allocate to their tortoise.
As such, if you're in a similar spot, then here are some breeds that require less maintenance:
 - Hermann's Tortoise
As discussed at the top of the article, of all breeds, the Hermann's tortoise is the one that needs the least maintenance. The Hermann's tortoise is a gentle species, and they are known for their affable personalities.
Perhaps it's telling that the Hermann's tortoise is one of the most common breeds that people keep as pets, and incidentally they were especially popular in the 70s and 80s (although many were not cared for correctly in those days).
Thankfully these days there is an abundance of literature available on Hermann's tortoises, which is a great help for the novice owner.
This tortoise is pretty small, usually reaching no more than 11 inches in length and weighing less than 20 lbs. This means their space requirements are slightly lesser than some larger species.
These tortoises are not fit to stay in colder environments. As such, you will need either to create a warm indoor enclosure for them all year round, or during spring and summer, a sun exposed outdoor enclosure.
The ideal temperature for a Hermann's enclosure is around 70℉-80F (21C-26C). Like all species, they should also have a basking spot and UVB light. Their enclosure will also need high walls, as they can climb and will actively do so given the opportunity.
When they reach three years old, Hermann's tortoises strongly benefit from hibernation. This will be for a few weeks for the first year or so, up to for 2 or 3 months once they reach adulthood. Once this period is over, you have to bring the enclosure to a warmer area so it can slowly heat up.
Their diet mostly consists of leafy greens, wild flowers and weeds, as well as the occasional bit of fruit as a treat.
 - Russian Tortoises
Russian tortoises are also fairly low maintenance, hence they are also commonly found as pets. They can live for over 75 years, so a slightly greater overall time commitment than Hermann's tortoises, but when it comes to their day to day care regime, things are relatively straightforward.
You can keep these tortoises indoors without issue. They do not necessarily need to hibernate, although they can do if you choose. If you keep them indoors in a warm environment, they will be active all the time. But if you keep them outdoors and temperatures get too low, they will naturally be drawn to hibernate. In order to do so, they'll need to be able to dig into the ground, so a natural, unpaved yard or garden is essential.
What makes Russians particularly great for beginners is the fact that they can adapt to different temperatures and environments more successfully than other breeds.
Like the Hermanns tortoise, Russians are also pretty small and also have a fun personality, which is what makes people fall in love with them. They need an 8-square feet enclosure, and their space should have a hot basking area, 30%-50% humidity, and UVB light.
 - Greek Tortoise
Greek tortoises (also known as Spur Thigh tortoises) are also great as pets. They can reach 10 inches in length, so they are a pretty small species that do well indoors. Overall, their lifespan is of at least 30 years or more, so they do require a substantial time commitment, although slightly less than some others.
An adult requires an enclosure of at least 4'x2' (1.2m x 0.6m) either outdoors or indoors. It's ideal that they have enough substrate so they can dig through it. They need a basking temperature of around 90-95°F (32-35 degrees C), and they also need a UV heat bulb.
These tortoises can hibernate, although it's again, it's not strictly necessary. They'll do so if the temperature drops too much, so you'll need to keep an eye on this.
The Greek tortoise diet consists of mixed grasses, spring mix lettuce, and weeds.
Which Breeds Are Not Low Maintenance?
While it's important to know which breeds are low-maintenance; knowing which require more maintenance is equally important. This way, you can rule them out if you're not ready for such a commitment.
The Indian Star Tortoise for instance is notoriously difficult to care for successfully. This sub tropical species requires an indoor vivarium or tortoise table, almost exclusively in colder climates, as keeping them warm is key. Because of this, basking bulbs with thermostats inside essential all year round, as is UVB lighting.
Being sub-tropical in origin Indian Stars need a reasonable degree of humidity which will need to be provided and monitored carefully.
The greatest difficulty with Indian stars is getting their living and feeding requirements just right. They are unfortunately highly prone to illness when things are out of balance, so taking care of them can be highly stressful if you don't know what you're doing!
Indian Star tortoises are known for the striking pattern on their shells
Leopard tortoises also require a lot of maintenance as despite being a larger species, you need to keep them indoors and have enough space for them to do so successfully. They may even take up a whole room! They grow up to 17-inches long and can weigh up to 40 pounds -not a small tortoise by any means.
Leopards need a basking temperature of 80-90°F (26-32 degrees C). Moist conditions are not ideal for them either. While they are herbivorous, their diet is a little different, as they eat grains, seeds, and nuts rather than grasses and greens, which may be more difficult to sustain in the long run, compared to the diet of a Hermann's or Greek tortoise for instance.
A Sulcata tortoise is also a challenge to take care of. As one of the largest tortoise breeds, it needs a LOT of space, preferably outdoors. Their ideal enclosure should have about 80 square feet (7.5 square metres). They also need ground material which is malleable enough for them to dig and burrow into (and a lot of it of course!)
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Release V6-0 is the latest version of SapphireTrend, Jemmac Software's world leading real-time process visualization package. Headline features in V6-0 include support for displaying digital values using symbols or text on strip-charts, logarithmic scales, optional Plot Title bars and additional Plug-in dll statistics in the Sapphire Collector.
The new pen 'Digitals' option allows the user to define a range of ordinal values for a pen and then use symbols to delimit state change as opposed to a continuous trend line. This significantly de-clutters Strip charts when trending digital values.
- In addition enumerations can be defined so that a textual representation of the data can be displayed in the Item Details Area under the plot. So rather than displaying an integer value of "1" and leaving the user to remember what that means, more meaningful values such as "Closed" or "On" can be displayed instead.
- As an alternative to displaying symbols on the plot, the user can set the symbol style to none and display a text string (Alias) instead, i.e. "Open", "Closed", "On", "Off", etc…
- Where enumerations are used, the actual numeric value can be read via the tooltip on the Pen Pointers (if displayed).
- Pre-defined sets of common digital definitions (for example based on tag definition type) can be stored for future use and loaded into stPro via a dedicated new Sapphire file type of ".SphDigital".
- Note: Template ".SphDigital" files are delivered in the "examples" folder under the Sapphire install path. The files are text based and use a format that is identical to the digital defintion sections as written to Plot files for plot containing digitals. This allows the plot files to be used to seed user and site defined templates for common digital tag types.
The Plot Title Bars can now be removed by right-clicking on the plot and deselecting View->Title Bar. For multi-plot Sessions this increases the visible plot regions height relative to the overall application window size. This gives more visible plot acreage for the same screen size.
- To maintain clarity a new option has been added allowing the plot title to be displayed within the plot window itself when the title bar is removed. Controls have been provided defining the location for the title (i.e. top-left, middle-left etc) and the size of the text to use. A new User Preference has been added for the title colour.
- Note: For added convenience the option to disable the Plot Title Bar and then display, position and size the title within the plot window itself can be quickly copied from one plot to others using the right-click "View->Apply to All" option.
Pens can now use Logarithmic scales instead of linear scales as was the case in previous releases. The setting is on a per pen basis and applies to all graph styles.
- Note: If a pen in logarithmic mode has scales that are out of range for logs (i.e. zero or less) the tick mark labels and the value displayed in the item details area will report that the scales are invalid.
Print Application Window
A new print option called "Print Application Window" has been added allowing a Session (single Tab) to be printed as a whole (including all the plots and maintaining the plot layout.
- Note: With the appropriate third party software installed, stPro can 'print' directly to a PDF document, Image files (via Snag IT or similar) etc.
For more details about SapphireTrend, see the Product page for it.


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Choyobun refers to the taxation that the Southern Court temporarily imposed on the territories of temples and shrines under their control in order to secure provisions and revenue during the period of the Northern and Southern Courts (Japan).
Choyobun contrasts with the Hanzeirei (Hyoro-ryosho (grant areas for the support of troops in the field)) administered by the Muromachi bakufu (Japanese feudal government headed by a shogun) that held the North Court around the same time. While the Hanzeirei was designed to temporarily collect half of the income from nengu (land tax), Choyobun was supposed to be a tax collection of one third. Due to scarce records, however, the details are unknown. Choyobun was imposed a few times from the Shohei era of Emperor Gomurakami until just before the unification with the North Court by the Meitoku Treaty, which was applied mainly in the southern part of the Kinki region where the South Court had influence, such as the Kii Province, Izumi Province and Kawachi Province. Although marginal records of the tax have been found from Mino Province and Tosa Province, in other areas the tax was almost never conducted due to the influence of the North Court and the Muromachi bakufu.
Emperor Chokei issued a Rinji (the Emperor's command) for an exemption of Choyobun for a village in Settsu Province in November of 1383, and in October of 1384 he issued an order of the same effect in the form of an Inzen (a decree from the Retired Emperor). It is presumed that Emperor Chokei abdicated the throne to his younger brother Emperor Gokameyama during the same year, making this knowledge valuable historical material showing the activities of the Emperor with many unclear records.


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Abstract—Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have revolutionized the world of distributed systems and enabled many new applications. And, measurement data or information exchanges happened in WSNs without location information are meaningless. It is extremely urgent to establish and maintain low cost and high efficient localization schemes for real-time large-scale surveillance systems. In this work, an improved DV-hop (Distance Vector-hop) based localization scheme IDV-hop (improved DV-hop) embedded in WLS (weighted least square) method is proposed for the purpose of surrounding surveillance, object localization for early warning, rescue operations and restructuring plan et al. Two critical parameters, correction coefficient kc and weighted coefficient ws,i, are introduced into IDV-hop scheme to improve location performance. And then, NS-2 simulations demonstrate that analysis results match well with simulation results. Besides, performance comparisons of IDV-hop scheme with other DV-hop based schemes are also proposed. Analysis and comparison results show that localization delay and accuracy of IDV-hop is improved largely relative to other schemes, especially for higher node density.
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Learn how to make an oceanic gope board in Part 3 of this series.
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How to Make an Oceanic Gope Board Part 3
Draw the shape for your Gope board. Make sure it is symmetrical and then cut it out. Next, fold the sheet of construction paper lengthwise. In cursive, write your name along the folded edge of the paper making certain that all letters set on the folded edge.
Fatten up the letters with the pencil and then cut out your name. Be careful not to cut apart any of your letters. Also, don't forget to cut out the openings in the letters and the areas along the folded edge. Glue the design onto another sheet of construction paper a bit different earthy color.
Cut out the name design leaving about a quarter inch border. Again, don't forget to cut out the openings of the letters then glue this onto your cardboard Gope board. Choose a border design from your patterns sheet and decorate with earth color such as browns, ochre, sienna, black and white, avoid blue and green.
Use markers or oil pastels. Apply a different pattern to your name design. For fun, choose some Papua New Guinea images to decorate the empty spaces of your board. Finish it off with some bundles of raffia and remember to have fun.


text: Electrically charged cellular polymer films can exhibit very high piezoelectric activity and are therefore more and more often employed in advanced electromechanical and electro-acoustical transducers. In this paper, we report an optimized sequence of steps for preparing such ferroelectrets from commercial nonvoided poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PETP) films by means of foaming with CO2, biaxial mechanical stretching, controlled void inflation, and bipolar electric charging. The nonvoided PETP films were foamed with supercritical CO2 at a suitably high pressure and subsequently annealed for stabilization. The cellular foam structure was further optimized by means of well-controlled biaxial stretching in a commercial stretcher and sometimes subsequent inflation in a pressure chamber. Bipolar electric charging of the internal voids was achieved through the application of high electric fields in an SF6 atmosphere. The new optimized PETP ferroelectrets exhibit quite large piezoelectric coefficients up to almost 500 pC N–1, for which unusually low elastic stiffnesses of only around 0.3 MPa are essential. The PETP-foam ferroelectrets possess unclamped thickness-extension resonance frequencies between approximately 120 and 250 kHz, and are thus highly suitable for several established as well as novel ultrasonic-transducer applications.


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The DateDiff function "Returns a Long value specifying the number of time intervals between two Date values."
DateInterval.Day is the Day member of the DateInterval collection, so the DateDiff function will return the number of days between the two dates, actually the number of Day "boundaries". By boundaries I mean if you gave it 11pm on day one and 1am the next day it would still return 1 day.
The formula is then converting or as someone once said to me "Coercing into a decimal" using the Cdec() function. i.e. it is converting the Long value returned by the DateDiff function into a Decimal value. I won't go into the difference between Long and Decimal datatypes here, suffice to say Long is a floating point type and decimal is an exact numeric type - exacts are generally safer to work with, but this conversion is probably unecessary in this instance because giving DateDiff function a Day interval is only ever going to return integers (not the datetype).
After the Cdec() function, the formula is then multiplying by -1. This is a common trick to convert positive numbers to negative, or negative numbers to positive. For some reason the author of the formula wants to change the sign of the returned value.
One flaw with this formula is that it assumes the date1 and date2 are always in a certain order. For example if Date1 is usually earlier than Date2, this formula will return a negative value because it is being multiplied by -1.
I don't think I can explain this more thoroughly, but it would be preferable if you explained why you need to understand this formula, especially the context of its use.
If you gave the formula these two dates 2013-02-01 and 2013-02-2 as date1 and date2 it would give you a result of -1.
If you gave it those two dates the other way around it would give you +1.


Pythia8 Generation of Z' Processes
The download and installation of Pythia8 can be found here. If the user does not have any experience with Pythia8 then it is recommended to follow the Pythia8 installation on that page in order to gain general familiarity with the event generator.
The production of Z\x92 decays within the context of the E6 models is a fairly straightforward process since Pythia8 includes the Z\x92 inherently within the standalone package. In order to generate the Z\x92 decays Pythia8 requires the setting of a number of parameters and hopefully this twiki page should guide the user towards successful generation.
The Pythia8 Online Manual is linked and the Z\x92 documentation can be found within the New Gauge Bosons section of the Process Select category.
Parameter Specification
This section will describe the parameters that need to be set in order for Pythia8 to do its job. The parameters included within this section must be modified before event generation and must be included in the generation code through the command:
where value is the parameter to be modified. In order to start the generation of Z\x92 decays the user must include:
NewGaugeBoson::ffbar2gmZZprime = on
which will set the process for the generation. Next the user should specify the final state particles that they would want in their event. If the user wants only a single type of particle, for example electron/positron final states, two commands must be in place:
32:onMode = off
32:onIfAny = 11
where the first command switched off all decay modes for the Z\x92, which has an ID of 32, and the second command then switched on the decay mode for only electron/positron final states. This twiki will assume electron/positron final states but the same could be done for muons where the user should input the muon ID into the string.
The mass of the Z\x92 that Pythia8 uses is set at 500 GeV by default. The way to modify the mass of the Z\x92 is with:
32:m0 = 1500
which will produce a 1500 GeV Z\x92 and can obviously be changed to any mass value.
Next up is to select the mode that the user wants to run the generation in. This will specify which of the particles: photon/Z/Z\x92 contribute to the event and will impact various distributions. For example, if Z/Z\x92 is being used then in the invariant mass of the final state particles there will be two peaks: one for the Z and one for the Z\x92.
Regardless of what is specified here the ID of the intermediary particle will always be assigned a value of 32 and the possible decay channels are specified by the decay channels that are allowed for the Z\x92.
The various modes are:
0: photon/Z/Z\x92 with interference
1: pure photon
2: pure Z
3: pure Z\x92
4: photon/Z with interference
5: photon/Z\x92 with interference
6: Z/Z\x92 with interference
And the argument that needs to be included is:
Zprime:gmZmode = 0
Forward-Backward Asymmetry Note: If you are planning on looking at AFB then it is going to be necessary to run with additional interference from the photon. If the user ran with strictly Z\x92 then the AFB will be approximately zero. When I ran my generation with photon/Z/Z' interference the correct AFB plot would eventually be produced.
Finally we get to the couplings for the Z\x92 which will define which of the E6 models the user is generating. Pythia8 allows for the specification of the axial and vector couplings to all the quarks and leptons in the Standard Model but the more general setting has the user specifying the couplings for the first generation and then assuming they are the same for the others. In order to accomplish this the user should add to their code:
Zprime:universality = on
So that now the only couplings that need to be specified are the ones for the first generation and Pythia will use these values for the other generations. It should be noted that Pythia8 uses its own convention for the Z\x92 couplings. Thus the user will not be able to take the couplings from a theory paper and directly place them into their code. If the user wishes to see the Pythia8 convention and how it compares with other conventions the relevant paper can be found here which will contain the expressions for each of the couplings as a function of the mixing angle on page 6.
And to set the couplings for the various particles the arguments are:
Zprime:vd = 0
Zprime:ad = 0.5055
Zprime:vu = 0
Zprime:au = 0.5055
Zprime:ve = 0
Zprime:ae = 0.5055
Zprime:vnue = 0.2527
Zprime:anue = 0.2527
where the values presented are for the E6 Psi model. Additionally the Z\x92 couplings for various E6 models within the Pythia convention already in decimal form can be found here: LINK.
An example of a Pythia8.cc file that generates Z\x92 decays is located here. This file will generate 10,000 events for Z\x92 -> e- e+ with photon/Z/Z\x92 interference within the E6 Psi model and saves it to a LHE file. The LHE file can then be converted to a root n-tuple using ExRootAnalysis.
Radiation and the Event Record
The next modification that the user may wish to do is to allow leptons the ability to radiate photons. By default Pythia8 has this option turned off and the LHEF initialization should be:
LHAupFromPYTHIA8 myLHA(&pythia.process, &;
If the user wanted to change the default so that leptons could radiate photons the string that must be included is:
TimeShower:QEDshowerByL = on
and the LHEF initialization must also be changed to:
LHAupFromPYTHIA8 myLHA(&pythia.event, &;
so that the event record will contain the radiated photons and their corresponding decays. If the LHEF initialization is not modified then the event record may be incomplete and the kinematics might not reflect the changes caused by the radiation.
Once the two changes are in place Pythia8 will generate your events with radiation and produce the correct LHE file. This file will contain thousands of particles for each event due to the radiation of photons and their corresponding decays. Since the photons will decay into electron/positron states there may be multiple pairs of final state electrons and the challenge becomes finding the pair that decayed from the intermediary Z and not the photons. This is complicated because of how Pythia8 handles radiation and how it modifies the particle record. In order to radiate photons Pythia8 will create a chain of the same type of particle with small changes in momentum between them (i.e. electron -> electron -> electron and the same can be true for the Z/Z'/positron). The differences in momentum between the electrons in the chain will correspond to the momentum of a photon in your event which was radiated by the electron. These chains of particles will prevent the user from looking at the first mother of the electron as it may return another electron and not the intermediary boson.
The simplest method of determining the electron pair that had decayed from the intermediary boson is to select the highest pt electron and positron. This will work the majority of the time and is a useful method when looking at particles that have went through a detector simulation.
However if the user wants to find only the electrons coming off of the boson then they will need to exploit the mother and child relationshipos. When converting the LHE file to a root n-tuple using ExRootAnalysis the user will be given two additional variables: Mother1 and Mother2. These designate the position in the particle index where the mother is stored and can be used to find the correct final state particles. There is one caveat: the particle index starts at 0 while the index in Mother1 and Mother2 start at 1. In order to determine the mother's ID of the current final state particle the user should write the following into their code:
int RealMotherIndex = Particle_Mother1[i] -1;
int MotherID = Particle_PID[RealMotherIndex];
where "i" is the index being looped over within the particle loop.
-- AaronVermeersch - 10 Jul 2013
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Predefined Entities
Predefined Entities / Traits in FamixNG
To analyze a system in a given programming language, Moose must have a meta-model for that language. For example, for Java the meta-model defines that Java programs have classes, containing methods, invoking other methods, etc. The meta-model describes the entities that compose a program in the given language and how they are related.
On another page, we explain how to define a meta-model: create new entities, define relationships, properties, etc. On this page, we present the library of predefined entities that is part of FamixNG and helps declaring new entities by offering typical properties / relationships that are needed.
In FamixNG, recurrent properties are modeled into traits. New entities are created as classes composed from these existing traits. Some common entities (like Packages) are also proposed, precomposed with common traits. Here we list all currently available traits.
FamixNG is still under development, and the library of available traits is subject to change. The following should nevertheless help users make sense of the more than one hundred traits available.
Categories of traits
First, one can divide the set of traits into four categories:
They are described as follows:
Association Traits
Association traits model the fact that an entity is used (referred to) in the source code. Such a reference creates an association between the using entity (refers to) and the entity that is used (is referred to). This includes the four associations of the old Famix: Inheritance, Invocation (of a function or a method), Access (to a variable), and Reference (to a type).
Associations should be thought of as n-to-m relationships between entities. For that reason, they are reified into their own traits. Associations define two roles (from and to) to identify both ends of the association. Using an association involves:
 - defining a class representing the association (for example, Access, using the trait FamixTAccess)
 - defining two classes at each end of the association (for example, Function using the trait FamixTWithAccess, and Variable using the trait FamixTAccessible).
There are five full-fledged associations in FamixNG:
 - FamixTAccess, from: FamixTWithAccess, to: FamixTAccessible
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 - FamixTInheritance, from: FamixTWithInheritance, to: FamixTWithInheritance
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 - FamixTInvocation, from: FamixTWithInvocation, to: FamixTInvocable, for OO programs, there is an extra receiver: FamixTInvocationReceiver
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 - FamixTReference, from: FamixTWithReferences, to: FamixTReferenceable
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 - FamixTTraitUsage, from: FamixTWithTrait, to: FamixTTrait
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To these five we added two more specialized "associations": DereferencedInvocation (call of a pointer to a function in C) and FileInclude (also in C). These do not reify the association as a separate entity, but they might do so in the future. For now there are only two traits to put at each end of the relationship:
 - FamixTDereferencedInvocation and FamixTWithDereferencedInvocations
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 - FamixTFileInclude and FamixTWithFileInclude
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Technical Traits
Technical traits do not model programming language entities but are used to implement Moose functionalities.
Currently, this includes several types of FamixTSourceAnchors that allow recovering the source code of the entities. A typical FamixTSourceAnchor contains a filename, and start and end positions in this file.
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Technical traits may also implement software engineering metric computation (TLCOMMetrics), or ways to model the programming language used (all SourceLanguage), or be used to implement the generic MooseQuery engine.
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Property Traits
Property traits model composable properties that source code entities may possess. Some examples are FamixTNamedEntity (entities that have a name), FamixTTypedEntity (entities that are statically typed), or a number of entities modeling ownership: FamixTWithGlobalVariables (entities that can own FamixTGlobalVariables), FamixTWithFunctions (entities that can own FamixTFunctions), …
There are 46 property traits currently in FamixNG including 38 traits modeling ownership of various possible kinds of entities (FamixTWith...).
Terminal Traits
Terminal traits model entities that can be found in the source code such as Functions, Classes, Exceptions, … These entities are often defined as a composition of some of the property traits. For example, FamixTClass is composed of: FamixTInvocationsReceiver (class can be receiver of static messages), FamixTPackageable, FamixTType (classes can be used to type other entities), FamixTWithAttributes, FamixTWithComments, FamixTWithInheritances, FamixTWithMethods.
The name terminal trait refers to the fact that they can be used directly to create a programming language concept (a class, a package), whereas property traits are typically composed with other traits to make a meaningful programming language concept.
There are 38 such terminal traits currently in FamixNG.


How are students engaging with their careers services?
Friday, March 29, 2019
Are your students engaging with your careers service? We've used responses from the 2019 Trendence UK Graduate Survey to show what students really think of their careers services and how they are engaging with the resources provided to them.
Here are some of our key findings:
Careers services' websites ARE a useful tool
The students who had engaged with their careers services' website found it to be a useful tool, with 69% stating that they had used the website to research and find information on their future career. This emphasises the importance of having a website that is functional, informative and easy to use. However, don't neglect the marketing of the resources available on your website – 11% of the students we surveyed didn't even know that there was a website for them to use!
University careers fairs lead to powerful engagement
In a previous article published on our insights blog, we stated the importance of engaging first-year students at freshers' fairs. The fairs are popular with first-years, with 63% of students reporting that they attended their freshers' fair. Nearly three-quarters (74%) of students also attended their university's careers fairs, with 62% stating that engaging with an employer at a careers fair would make it more likely they would apply for a role. This shows the importance of fairs as a promotional tool for employers as they seek students for placements and graduate roles. For careers services, fairs provide a platform to encourage students to engage with potential employers.
Digital channels are still important tools to engage students
Despite careers fairs being the preferred method of engagement for students with employers, digital platforms still play an important role. Half (50%) of the students surveyed said that receiving an email from their career services promoting roles would also make them apply to an employer, while 31% said that getting a personal message or seeing a post on social media (28%) would encourage them to apply. To emphasise the importance of a multi-channel approach to engagement, 20% of students said that seeing a video about a company on YouTube would increase the likelihood they would engage with an employer.
Most importantly, students are largely satisfied with their careers services
A clear majority of students surveyed were satisfied with their careers services – 65% of students were satisfied or very satisfied with careers fairs, 56% of students were satisfied or very satisfied with the employer fairs and 64% were satisfied or very satisfied with the availability of appointments. However, students were less satisfied with the scope of opportunities offered by their careers services in terms of part-time work and opportunities specific to their field of interest.
To conclude, students are engaging with the resources provided to them by their careers services. The combined approach of fairs and digital communications is successfully encouraging students to reach out and engage with employers. However, there is room for improvement, particularly in the scope of opportunities offered to students in terms of part-time work and for specific fields of interest.
Read the full survey here.
Trendence UK
The Trendence UK Graduate Survey is now its 12th year. In early 2019, 74,748 students took part, making this the most comprehensive assessment of how satisfied students are with the support provided by careers services. To find out in even more detail what your students think of your careers service offer, what uniquely motivates your student population when it comes to careers (and how this differs from other UK undergraduates) and how you can increase the level of participation and engagement amongst your users. For a demo of this type of in-depth analysis and an opportunity to use our data to help improve the outcomes of your graduates please contact or call _PHONE_ 7220.


Sea otters hold hands while sleeping so they don't drift away from each other
How cute is the sea otter! They are a marine mammal which can be found on the coasts of the Northern Pacific Ocean and are the largest member of the weasel family. They have the densest fur in the whole animal kingdom, ranging from 250,000 to one million hairs per square inch. Now that's a lot of fur!
There are a lot of different interesting sea otter facts, but the most talked about is how sea otters hold hands when they sleep. So, why do they do this?

Sea otters will often float in groups (called rafts) whilst they eat, rest and sleep. A raft of otters can be anything from two otters to hundreds! And, whilst they are rafting, it is well known that they will all hold hands to stay together in their group. Also, the sea otter will use sea plants that grow from the ocean floor which they will wrap themselves up in, which helps keep them from drifting away.
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text: NORTH CREEK On Tuesday, May 20, Dan Miner and Ken Leccese from radio station 98.5 WCKM in Glens Falls, visited the 4th, 5th and 6th graders of Johnsburg Central School. This provided an opportunity for students to learn about the field of radio broadcasting as a possible career. Mr. Miner and Mr. Leccese conducted a question and answer session in which the students gained an awareness of the requirements and education necessary to seek such employment. The students and teachers thoroughly enjoyed their guests, feeling the thrill of what it must be like to be behind a microphone entertaining thousands of listeners.


Pointing in Brick Walls
Loosely speaking, 'pointing' is the mortar between bricks. A more accurate definition is that it is the visible edge of the mortar-joint. The mortar is normally a mix of lime and sand, or from the 1920s cement and sand. A colouring is sometimes added. Black mortar uses crushed ash rather than sand.
In Georgian, Victorian and Edwardian houses, the pointing between bricks and stone had a major effect on the appearance of the buildings. The emphasis was always supposed to be on the brickwork, rather than the pointing. The ideal was no visible mortar. This could be achieved by:
 - using high quality engineering bricks
 - 'rubbed' brickwork, where the bricks were rubbed together until they fitted closely together, leaving a joint of 2-3mm
 - 'tuck' pointing, where a line of white, putty mortar was 'tucked' into a slot cut in stained mortar
 - stained mortar to hide the pointing
Most houses used, at best, the last of these, with flush or slightly recessed pointing. Styles of pointing included flush, tuck, bucket handle and recessed pointing. Weatherstruck pointing was never used.
types of pointing
The two pictures below show an example of tuck pointing. You can see how the bricks are pointed with a stained mortar and then a line of putty mortar set in. The white putty is a mix of silver sand and lime. Tuck pointing was used to disguise poor quality, chipped and irregular bricks.
 - 1907, Bromley, Kent; tuck pointing
 - tuck pointing
These are examples of other mortar and brick combinations:
 - black putty
 black putty in white bricks and mortar
 - white putty
 white putty in white bricks and mortar
In some places, the putty line is laid over the surface of the bricks:
tuck pointing
Lines are put on the surface to align the verticals from the footings to the top of the building; the putty was added from the top downwards but if the brick courses are not aligned, the tuck-pointing needs to match.
an example of new tuck pointing
The stopping was 'wiped' over the bedding mortar while it was still 'green'.


Resource Management
The Input Problem
Search and Backtracking within Lepl is implemented using generators. These are blocks of code that can be paused and restarted. Each matcher has, at its core, one of these generators. Backtracking is achieved by calling the generator to continue searching the input for alternative matches.
This can be a problem, particularly when parsing input from files. The parse_file() method calls parse_iterable() which iterates over the lines in the file. The streams created by parse_iterable() are lazy linked lists that only reference later parts of the input. That means that Python can reclaim (garbage–collect) the memory used by earlier input while the parser is still matching later input. However, this cannot happen (memory cannot be freed) if a generator keeps a reference to earlier input (which it needs in case it is called to backtrack and provide a new match).
So the generators used in Lepl to provide backtracking frustrate Python's garbage collection and lead to parsers consuming much more memory than would otherwise be necessary.
The Output Problem
As a parser consumes input it also constructs the output. In Lepl the output is a list of data held in memory. This output list is built by the parser until all the input has been consumed, and then returned as a result.
A large input often implies a large output. So even if we solve the "input problem" above, a parser will still use a lot of memory to store the output.
The Input Solution
To solve the "input problem" we need to discard generators, but we need generators while parsing because the parser needs to backtrack when it fails to match something. The solution to this apparent contradiction is to discard only the generators that we will not need.
In general we cannot find an exact solution (I believe; finding which generators we do not need is probably related to the halting problem), but we can implement a simple heuristic that works well in practice: we discard generators that have not been used "for a long time".
To do this, Lepl maintains a list of generators, sorted by last access time. When the list exceeds some size the least-used generator is deleted. This reduces memory use while allowing a reasonable amount of backtracking.
The list of generators is maintained by a GeneratorManager(), but you do not need to use this class directly. Instead, call.config.low_memory(). That configuration method takes a parameter queue_len which controls the size of the list of "valid" generators.
The Output Solution
We could reduce the amount of memory needed to hold the output if there were some way of returning the output incrementally. In normal use this is not possible with Lepl, but there is a "neat hack" that works quite well.
Remember that a Lepl parser can produce a series of matches. These are alternative ways of parsing the input, given the parser. But in most cases we are only interested in the first match — this is particularly true when using.config.low_memory() as described above, because the alternatives will be unavailable.
The hack is to return fragments of the output as alternative matches. This means:
 - Adding the matcher Iterate() at the "top level" of the parser. This will return each fragment in turn.
 - Calling parse_all() and then treating the generator as a sequence of fragments, rather than a sequence of complete matches.
An example will make this clear. Here is a matcher that simply matches every line:
>>> all_lines = Line(Token(Any()[:,...]))[:]
and here is the equivalent matcher than returns each line as a separate fragment. Note how the final [:] is replaced by Iterate():
>>> each_line = Iterate(Line(Token(Any()[:,...])))
We can use each_line as follows:
>>> input = '''line one
... line two
... line three'''
>>> each_line.config.no_full_first_match().lines()
>>> parser = each_line.get_parse_all()
>>> for line in parser(input):
>>> print(line)
['line one\n']
['line two\n']
['line three']
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Locations
A location is the relation between a soil profile and an Ident of the pipeline project. Once a soil profile gets assigned to a place on the pipeline, all necessary information should be available for calculation of the soil mechanical values at that point.
One can assign a soil profile as continuous to a specific Ident or discontinuous. For a discontinuous assignment one can assign a soil profile up to the Ident and one just after the Ident.
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1. Quote - Listen to the quote and guess what the slang means.
"What are the chances there is a God, really? He is a blank slate, and we saw him as black."
- Actress and comedian Sarah Silverman on representing God as a black person on The Sarah Silverman Program. (men dot style dot com)
1. Definition - Study the definition.
undeveloped, free of information or associations; the idea that all knowledge is learned, that you're born knowing nothing
2. Use - Learn how the slang is used.
This one goes back to Latin. The phrase tabula rasa is used by philosophers to discuss the idea that people aren't with any built-in knowledge.
Tabula rasa translates to English as blank slate and it has many simple uses in addition to the philosophical meaning. Anything that can be manipulated freely is a blank slate. If you're at a party and everyone has just arrived, you could say it is a blank slate. Everyone could dance, or sing, or play a game or sit and talk. It will be what you make it.
A slate is a flat piece of rock that ancient people used to carve messages into. It's sort of like a blank piece of paper. When you think about it, God is sort of like a blank piece of paper too. If you asked a group of people to draw God, they would all draw different things because there is no shared idea of what God looks like.
When an interviewer asked Sarah Silverman about how God is portrayed by a black man on her television show, she replies that God is a blank slate. He could be any race. Heck, he could be a giant alligator. Silverman is unsure if God exists, so she certainly has no idea about how he would look. So she filled in the blank slate however she liked.
1. Examples - Hear some example sentences.
"My little brother is new to the world of rock music. He's a total blank slate, so I intend to show him all the coolest bands and make sure he has good taste. "
"When you first start your blog, it's a blank slate. It can be whatever you want it to be. But as you gain readers, they'll develop expectations.


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Boards and Institutional Diversity: Missed Opportunities, Points of Leverage
Since the financial crisis of 2008, board agendas have been dominated by financial and enrollment concerns. Yet boards can also play a key role in addressing issues of diversity, equity and inclusion on campus.
Given the many points of leverage they can apply, boards are uniquely positioned to advance change in ways other institutional stakeholders cannot. This paper explores how boards and institutional leaders can forge a tighter link between governance and campus diversity, one that leads to positive progress on a difficult and nuanced set of issues.
The authors based their report on personal observations and a detailed examination of the literature on board governance and campus diversity.


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In recent blogs I have covered various aspects of the need for face-to-face (f2f) interaction in telework situations. Here I'll go into more detail so you can decide for yourself what's needed. What follows is a hierarchy of decision points.
Face-to-face interaction is usually most likely to be required where communication is sensitive or there is great uncertainty. Some examples:
- Marriage proposals
- High level diplomatic or political meetings
- Project organizational and/or review sessions
- Contract negotiations
- Performance appraisals
In short, f2f is desirable in situations where the involved parties need as many visual cues as practicable to make comfortable decisions. [Note that a previous blog pointed out that there is a difference between desirable and required.] As technology continues to improve it becomes easier to transmit subtle cues via telecommunications. As an example, the column Letter from China: Meet Dr. Freud in the 10 January 2011 issue of The New Yorker describes a series of Freudian analysis sessions in which the patients are in China and the analysts are in the United States. The communications medium? Skype. As is sometimes the case the interacting parties were more uncomfortable when meeting f2f for the first time than they were in Skype-mediated sessions.
Routine information exchange
At the other end of the spectrum is routine, no surprise, information transfer. Continue reading Face time, Part 2.5: Details


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Greetings Century and Metric Century Riders in Colorado!
Blue River Century and NEW Metric CenturySaturday, June 20, 2009 – Summit County, CO – _URL_
A scenic century and NEW metric Century up in Summit County, CO called the Blue River Century, benefiting the Lance Armstrong Foundation.
The Montezuma Metric is 62.1 miles with an elevation gain of 3350 feet.
For the Century, at the final aid station, choose between 3 different finish options, which are as follows:
1. Montezuma Finish (Intermediate) with approximately 99.42 miles and 5950 feet of elevation gain
2. A Basin Finish (Intermediate) with approximately 98.62 miles and 6470 feet of elevation gain
3. Loveland Pass Finish (Advanced) with approximately 105.62 miles and 7680 feet of elevation gain


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Economic Concepts Poster Contest
Economics Concepts Poster Contest
A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
Teachers of grades 1-8 use the Poster Contest to stimulate students' interest in the fundamentals of our economic system. The program also helps students learn about the economy and have fun doing it, while creatively demonstrating their understanding of the economy.
On average, 3,000 students participate in the program each year, gaining a better understanding of basic economic concepts by depicting them as artwork!
Students represent in a color drawing, one of six basic economic concepts. Teachers submit their entries to a regional contest in which twelve winners are selected, along with at least twelve honorable mention entries. Entries are judged on accuracy of concept representation and originality.
See the list of regional contests, and find out which one you should enter, on the How to Enter page.
The top twenty-four entries from each regional contest advance to the state competition from which twelve drawings are selected as state winners. Each year, a twelve-month color calendar is produced from the twelve state winners' drawings, and distributed in the fall of the year.
At both the regional and state levels, winning students receive monetary awards and certificates. Teachers also receive recognition. Regional contests may culminate in a reception for students, teachers and family.


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Using a tax reform implemented in Pakistan in 2009, I investigate intensive and extensive margin behavioral responses to taxes. The reform creates large tax rate variations between very similar taxpayers and thus generates compelling quasi-experimental variation, which is used to identify structural parameters important for tax policy.
Relying on administrative records for universe of income tax filers for the years 2006-2010, I characterize a host of responses triggered by the reform, which include reduction in earnings, shifting of income across bases, switching of business organization and movements in and out of the formal economy.
Structural elasticities governing these responses are large, and reflect the considerable welfare costs the reform imposes on the treated taxpayers. I also find evidence that the reform had signicant negative spillover effects on VAT.


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Section 3. Research Positions
There were 299 respondents who worked full time in research positions in the 1997 Salary Survey. Activities associated with research positions include basic or applied research, such as non-faculty positions in academic settings, employment as an investigator in a laboratory or a research institute, and research positions in private industry.
Most of the respondents were employed in university research centers (17%). This was followed by private research organizations (15%) and combined medical school settings (13%). Government research organizations claimed 12% of the researchers, while 6% were within both university psychology departments and other nonprofit organizations. Veteran's Administration (VA) hospitals housed 4% of the researchers.
The summary statistics and frequency distributions for research positions are presented in Figure 3. Summary statistics for 11-12-month salaries by years of work experience and employment setting are presented in Table 3.
The most frequently reported subfields were clinical (23%), social/personality (13%), experimental and industrial/organizational at 7% each, developmental, cognitive, and quantitative/mathematics/psychometrics/statistics at 6% each, and educational (4%).
The overall median 11-12-month salary for doctoral-level respondents in research positions was $50,000.


SAS Connector > Introduction to SAS Connector > SAS Connector architecture

SAS Connector architecture
The central component of the architecture for SAS Connector is the Communication component, which is also known as the SPI Server. The SPI Server is a multithreaded TCP/IP listener service. It is installed on the machine that runs SAS and handles requests from the Secure Agent.
When you use the SAS Connector to import SAS objects, the Secure Agent requests the metadata from the SPI Server. The SPI Server starts an SPI session to retrieve the information from SAS and then passes this information to the Secure Agent.
When you run a mapping that contains a SAS source or target, the Secure Agent starts a session with the SPI Server. The SPI Server accesses SAS data and passes it back to the Secure Agent for processing the data.


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Improving accident investigation with 3D models
Camborne School of Mines (CSM) is celebrating 125 years of pioneering research in the fields of mining and mineral engineering.
To celebrate the milestone the school, which is a centre for mining excellence and has pioneered the best in industry-led teaching, have organised a series of events including a distinctive Live Wall – an interactive forum showcasing CSM's highlights, milestones and achievements since 1888.
To mark the CSM anniversary we are taking a look back at some of their groundbreaking research.
CSM's research focuses on the key challenges of resource sustainability, environmental production and mine health and safety. A key project involved a collaboration between PhD student Matthew Eyre and 3D Mine Surveying International (3D MSI) to explore how 3D modelling can help with accident scene investigation.
Matthew helped the mine surveying company by using his specialist knowledge of creating 3D models from survey data to examine how creating a virtual model of an accident scene can benefit the accident investigation.
Using this software to investigate accidents helps to give a more precise representation of the circumstances; the 3D model tackles the problems of accuracy, time and witness verification and leads to a reduction in human error.
Understanding accidents and learning from them is an essential part of developing robust health and safety management systems and proactive risk assessments.
Effective accident investigation and training is essential in order to accomplish this, while providing a record of the incident in order to help explain the situation to people unconnected to the event itself. The use of 3D data to reconstruct a complex environment for use in training and proactive risk assessment is now being explored.
CSM have built close relationships with local, national and international business; these collaborations help solve business challenges and provide a range of services to promote advances in sustainable mining, geological exploration and renewable energy.
Their work has earned the team a strong international reputation. To help promote the school's world leading research in 2013 University of Exeter Vice-Chancellor and Chief Executive Sir Steve Smith went on an intensive two day trip to Kazakhstan to share expertise which will be of use to the next generation of Kazakh engineers and geologists.