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What is a Mechanism?
A mechanism is a mechanical device used to transfer or transform motion, force, or energy. Traditional rigid-body mechanisms consist of rigid links connected at movable joints. Whatever machines you see in your day to day life has some underlying mechanisms that govern its motion to produce the desired output. For example A NUT CRACKER works on the principle of MECHANICAL ADVANTAGE based on LEVER MECHANISM. This mechanism transfers energy from the input to the output.
Since energy is conserved between the input and output (neglecting friction losses), the output force may be much larger than the input force, but the output displacement is much smaller than the input displacement. As mentioned earlier these mechanisms involve relative motion of rigid bodies often at very high speeds which various problems like Frictional Losses, Non Linear behavior, Non uniform Heat dissipation, etc. Thus modern day scientists are working on mechanisms that more or less achieve the same motion and force transfer with the help of flexible links and linkless joints.
These 2 terms have tremendous significance when its comes to the emerging and exciting field of COMPLIANT MECHANISMS. So lets see what these wonders are and what are they capable of.
A compliant mechanism also transfers or transforms motion, force, or energy. Unlike rigid-link mechanisms, however, compliant mechanisms gain at least some of their mobility from the deflection of flexible members rather than from movable joints only. Basically not all the links of a mechanism need to be flexible for it to be termed as A Compliant System but some important links must be flexible. Fully compliant mechanisms are very unstable and unreliable.
Compliant mechanisms rely upon elastic deformation to perform their function of transmitting and/or transforming motion and force. From an overall perspective that considers performance, manufacturability, economy of material, scalability to micro and Nano sizes, adaptability to smart actuations and embedded sensors, resistance to wear, etc., compliant mechanisms are preferable over rigid body mechanisms.
Large number of compliant mechanisms are constructed of rigid links that are interconnected by Flexure Hinges design to undergo relatively low levels of rotation that traditional Revolute Pair Joints. A relatively less number of compliant mechanisms have compliant links in addition to the Flexure Hinges designed to undergo large deformation.
Currently available design techniques for compliant mechanisms can be grouped broadly into the following three categories based on the methods used as well as the type of mechanisms created using them.
- Flexural pivot-based compliant mechanisms.
- Flexible beam-based compliant mechanisms.
- Fully compliant, elastic continua.
Flexural pivot-based compliant mechanism
Flexural pivot-based designs use narrow sections connecting relatively rigid segments. Thus, compliance is lumped to a few portions of the mechanism. They are usually of monolithic construction. They can be systematically designed either by starting from an available rigid-body linkage or an intuitively conceived linkage. So in this type mainly the joints are flexible which connects rigid links with each other. The biggest problem faced in this type is the force and momentum transfer is very limited. Compliant mechanisms of this type are often restricted to a small range of motion. Their applications are in precision instrumentation and many consumer products.
Flexible beam-based compliant mechanisms
Flexible beam-based compliant designs extend the range of motion because the slender beam-like segments are designed to undergo large deformations. These are not always of monolithic construction, as they may have some rigid segments and kinematic joints. Thus, they are sometimes partially compliant. Unlike in flexural pivotbased designs, the compliance is distributed in flexible beam-based designs.
Design of Compliant Mechanisms
The first step in the design of a compliant mechanism is to establish a kinematicaly functional design that generates the desired output motion when subjected to prescribed input forces. This is called topological synthesis. Although the size and shape of individual elements can be optimized to a certain extent in this stage, local constraints such as stress and buckling constraints cannot be imposed while the topology is being determined. Once a feasible topology is established, performance constraints can be imposed during the following stage in which size and shape optimization are performed.
Topology synthesis—which involves generation of a functional design in the form of a feasible topology starting from input/output force/motion specifications,
Size and shape optimization—to meet performance requirements such as maximum stress, motion amplification or force amplification etc.
General Design procedure involves Systematic methods of design of compliant mechanisms starting from functional specifications. First is deriving the topology of a compliant mechanism given the desired input forces and output displacements. Next, is optimizing the size and shape of various elements of a compliant mechanism in order to satisfy prescribed mechanical or geometric advantage, stress constraints, size constraints etc.
Advantages of Compliant Mechanisms
There are a number of reasons why a compliant mechanism may be considered for use in a particular application.
One advantage of compliant mechanisms is the potential for a dramatic reduction in the total number of parts required to accomplish a specified task.
Some mechanisms may be manufactured from an injection-moldable material and constructed of one piece. For example, consider the fully compliant crimping mechanism shown in the figure below, along with its pseudorigid-body model. Due to symmetry, only half the mechanism is shown. The number of components required for the compliant mechanism are considerably less than for the rigid mechanism. The reduction in part count may simplify manufacturing and reduce manufacturing and assembly time and cost.
It is possible to realize a significant reduction in weight by using a compliant mechanism over their rigidbody counterparts. This may be a significant factor in aerospace and other applications. Compliant mechanisms have also benefited companies by reducing the weight and shipping costs of consumer products.
The reduction in the total number of parts and joints offered by compliant mechanisms is a significant advantage in the fabrication of micro mechanisms. Compliant micro mechanisms may be fabricated using technology and materials similar to those used in the fabrication of integrated circuits.
Disadvantages of Compliant Mechanism
Perhaps the largest challenge is the relative difficulty in analyzing and designing compliant mechanisms. Knowledge of mechanism analysis methods and the deflection of flexible members is required. The combination of the two bodies of knowledge in compliant mechanisms requires not only an understanding of both, but also an understanding of the interactions of the two in a complex system. Since many of the flexible members undergo large deflections, linearized beam equations are no longer valid. Nonlinear equations must be used that account for the geometric nonlinearities caused by large deflections.
I believe the field of Complaint Mechanisms is still in its nascent stage and lots of research and quality work needs to be done regarding the fabrication of proper materials and design of flexible linkages. On the brighter side some of the greatest and brightest minds of the country are working on this field to expand its applications.
Dr. G K Ananthasuresh from IISc Bangalore and Dr. Anupam Saxena from IIT Kanpur are among those few who have contributed quite a lot towards this field. I consider myself lucky to have got the opportunity to meet both of them personally here in NITK when they visited our college last semester for a 2 Day workshop on Kinematics and Mechanism conducted by Dr. Somasekhar Rao sir.
Below are the links to the references. Thank You


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if 或 elseif 语句中嵌套另一个 if 或 elseif 语句。if 语句基于最外层 if 语句执行。这使得VBScript 来处理复杂的条件更容易。
语法:
VBScript中的嵌套 if 语句的语法是：
If(boolean_expression) Then
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示例
为了演示的目的，找出正数类型在函数的帮助下完成。
Private Sub nested_if_demo_Click()
 Dim a As Integer
 a = 23

 If a > 0 Then
 MsgBox "The Number is a POSITIVE Number"
 If a = 1 Then
 MsgBox "The Number is Neither Prime NOR Composite"
 ElseIf a = 2 Then
 MsgBox "The Number is the Only Even Prime Number"
 ElseIf a = 3 Then
 MsgBox "The Number is the Least Odd Prime Number"
 Else
 MsgBox "The Number is NOT 0,1,2 or 3"
 End If
 ElseIf a < 0 Then
 MsgBox "The Number is a NEGATIVE Number"
 Else
 MsgBox "The Number is ZERO"
 End If
End Sub
当执行上面的代码，它产生了以下结果：
The Number is a POSITIVE Number
The Number is NOT 0,1,2 or 3


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Locate node in graph
k = findnode(G,nodeID) returns the numeric node ID, k, of the node in graph G whose name or index is nodeID. The numeric node ID is zero if the node is not in the graph.
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Create a graph, and then determine the numeric node index for the nodes named 'AB' and 'BC'.
s = {'AA' 'AA' 'AA' 'AB' 'AC' 'BB'};
t = {'BA' 'BB' 'BC' 'BA' 'AB' 'BC'};
G = graph(s,t)
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k = findnode(G,{'AB' 'BC'})
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k contains the row index into G.Nodes.Name for each specified node.
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String array
Example: k = findnode(G,'Chicago') returns the numeric node ID for the node in graph G with the name 'Chicago'.
Data Types: char | cell | string
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Numeric node IDs, returned as a scalar or column vector. The values of k are indices into G.Nodes(k,:).
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Are There Sharks in Greece?
Should you be worried?
Family swimming in an idyllic turquoise cove
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Sparkling seas and gorgeous Greek islands on the horizon — it's an idyllic vision of Greece. But should you be watching out for a shark fin slicing through those beautiful waters?
Sharks in Greece: Myth or Reality?
While there are sharks in Greece, most species are harmless. Sightings are extremely rare and, in general, shark attacks in the Mediterranean are also rarely reported. Given the vast number of people spending time in the warm and often shallow waters along the shores of Greece, encounters with sharks are few.
In the existing records of sharks in the Mediterranean, there is only one anecdotal tale of a fatal shark attack in the Greek islands, and that was reported nearly a century ago. Other official sources list a total of 15 shark attacks in Greece over the last 170 or so years. It's not clear what species of shark may have been responsible; one Greek fisherman swore he saw a great white shark in the Aegean Sea a couple of decades ago, but it was probably a small whale, which are also rare but present in Greece.
While there are some Mediterranean shark attacks reported each year, they seem to cluster around the shores of France, not Greece.
All sharks are rare in Greece, and those that are seen or caught by fishermen are usually from less-dangerous types—basking sharks, thresher sharks, and dogfish. In recent years, sharks have been found or caught around Milos, Symi, and Crete. Numbers have been declining over the past few decades; if you're actually a fan of sharks in Greece and elsewhere, and want to help with conserving them, you may want to check out the Shark Alliance's Greece page.
Sharks do make an appearance in Greek mythology, and that may mean that they were more numerous in ancient times than they are now. Lamia, a daughter of the sea god Poseidon, was known as a sea monster, while a son of hers, Akheilos, was a shark.
Greek mythology also has plenty of mythical sea beasts, including the multi-tentacled Hydra which may have been the inspiration for the non-Greek Kraken in "Clash of the Titans."
So if you're wondering if there could be a "Sharknado" in Greece, don't. Sharks are rare in Greek waters and are usually harmless.
Forget the Sharks: The Most Dangerous Sea Creatures in the Mediterranean
Other dangers are far more real and much more likely to impact your vacation in Greece.
 - Jellyfish: Real dangers include jellyfish stings and turning your foot into a temporary cactus by stepping on a needle-spined sea anemone barefoot. It's always good to be wearing sea sandals, both for the anemones and for the often-scratchy lava rocks which line the coasts of many of the islands. Sea sandals may sell out in Greece during the summer, so you may want to squeeze them into your bag rather than rely on picking them up in Greece. Children's sizes often sell out first.
 - Scorpionfish: Sea sandals are also likely to protect you from the sand-burrowing Scorpionfish, whose stings have been known to be fatal.
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Enjoy an endless view of the cloud forest
The Observation Tower
One of the best ways to enjoy the beauty of Mashpi is from the observation tower. From here, we can appreciate a wonderful view of the canopy and the complex structure of the tropical forest, and on clear days we can see the lodge, the Reserve's boundaries and a mosaic of forest, crops and little villages beyond.
The tower is a metal structure with a staircase that rises about eight stories (26 m or 85 ft), ideal for the wildlife lovers. Species spotted from here include toucans, woodpeckers, barbets, tanagers and parrots, as well as birds of prey.
The observation tower is located near the Sky Bike and we combine the two activities.
The combination of activities – Sky Bike, Observation Tower and hike – lasts about 3 hours.
This trail leads from the Sky Bike landing station to the road, following the course of the river. Here we can come across a very special palm: Irearthea deltoidea, famous for being able to 'walk' towards the light in order to improve its chances of growth.

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Roberts Memorial United Methodist Church is the oldest black Methodist Church in Alexandria. Prior to 1830, the Black Methodist in Alexandria, Virginia was members of the white Trinity Methodist Church. By 1830, the Black Methodist established their own Church called Davis Chapel after their white Minister. After 1844, Davis Chapel Church renamed their Church to Roberts Chapel due to a split within the Methodist Church on the issue of slavery. The Church was located between two Black neighborhoods called the "Bottoms" and "Hayti."
Prior to the civil war, Roberts Chapel organized a Sabbath school and a secular school, that met at the church until Alexandria retrocedes to Virginia in 1847. After the civil war, the school reopened.
Roberts Chapel members were freed and enslaved people. This section will talk about some of their members and the impact they had on the history of Alexandria.

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23 August 2000 - Tbilisi needs to develop a city environmental action plan to address urgent problems related to urban land use, green spaces, and water supply programs, concludes the State of the Environment 2000 Report issued by the United Nations Environment Programme's office, GRID-Tbilisi. The report is available online at _URL_
The Georgian capital city faces challenges of low public participation, high income disparity, and limited government resources. However, programs of co-operation with European sister cities and the recent incorporation of environmental education into school curricula nation-wide signal hope for future environmental improvements.
The State of the Environment Report includes detailed statistics and charts on topics such as air and water quality, demographics, health, and cultural heritage. The report was produced by UNEP/GRID-Tbilisi and UNEP's Cities Environment Reports on the Internet (CEROI) programme (_URL_), which assists local authorities around the world to develop local environmental assessments and publish them online by providing training, software, and technical services.
For more information, contact Zurab Jintcharadze of GRID-Tbilisi, _EMAIL_.


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Framework for scalable DeepLabCut based analysis including 3D tracking
Project description
Anipose is a framework for scalable DeepLabCut-based analysis. It supports both 2d and 3d tracking, handles calibration and processing all files within a group of folders.
The name Anipose comes from Animal Pose, but it also sounds like "any pose".
(NOTE: This is not yet ready for production, still some issues to fix to make the experience smooth )
Getting started
 1. Setup DeepLabCut by following instruction here
 2. Install Anipose through pip: pip install anipose
Input specification
Ideally someone who is collecting data should just be able to put all the videos into a single folder during a data collection run.
Different data collection sessions (e.g. on different days) are usually placed into different folders.
We'll need a config file to specify what to use for tracking and post-processing. However, it's cumbersome to remember to put a new config file for each new session, especially if the config doesn't really change from session to session.
It would be nice to be able to place a separate config file into each session though, to override the experiment config as needed.
It would be extra nice to reprocess the data if any of the config parameters change.
layout of folder for videos for 2d tracking
layout of folder for videos for 3d tracking
Example config file for 2d/3d tracking:
# Project name
project = "flypose"
# Change this to match deeplabcut folder (one with trained network)
model_folder = '/Data/Videos/DLC_Analysis/Running-Brandon-2019-01-29'
# How many folders are nested in structure?
nesting = 1
# Settings for a threshold filter
# Removes data outside threshold (probably errors in tracking), and interpolates
enabled = true
medfilt = 13
offset_threshold = 25
score_threshold = 0.8
spline = true
# labeling scheme...specify lines that you want to draw
scheme = [ ["head", "thorax", "abdomen"], ["thorax", "leg-1"] ]
Output specification
The output structure should match the input structure, with additional files resulting from the tracking.
The structure should be as follows:
Where FOLDER is a folder storing the output of a specific processing step.
It can be one of the following values:
 - videos-raw = input videos
 - pose-2d = 2d tracking for each of the input videos
 - pose-2d-filtered = filtered version of 2d tracking
 - calibration = camera parameters obtained from 3d calibration, along with calibration videos
 - pose-3d = 3d tracking for each group of input videos
 - angles = computed angles from 3d tracking
 - videos-labeled = videos labeled with the 2d tracking
 - videos-3d = 3d videos generated from 3d tracking
 - config = computed configuration for each session
Outline of processing plan
For each experiment, for each session
 1. Compress the videos into videos-raw
 2. Place the configuration files into config (based on defaults and session config)
 3. Perform the 2d tracking based on the configuration
 4. Label the individual videos with 2d tracking
 5. If 3d tracking is enabled
 1. Perform camera calibration
 2. Perform triangulation of 2d tracking
 3. Compute angles, if needed
 4. Generate 3d videos
Using the pipeline in the field
Ideally, there should be one repository with all the code, and the data is held separate. Each data folder should come with a configuration file of its own. The user should be able to invoke some pipeline script to process everything, and separate pipeline scripts for each step.
Perhaps something like:
anipose calibrate # run calibration of intrinsics and extrinsics
anipose label # label the poses for each video
anipose label-videos # create videos for each pose
anipose run-data # run only the data portion (no viz)
anipose run-viz # run only the visualization pipeline
anipose run-all # run everything (run-data then run-viz)
The program anipose should parse out the config within the folder, and figure out all the appropriate parameters to pass to the functions underneath.
Computing angle estimates
Although it's very useful to get 3D tracking estimates, we also need angle estimates.
However, not all angles make sense, it is up to the user to specify which angles she cares about.
This may be specified in the config.toml file as follows:
L1_CF = ["L1A", "L1B", "L1C"]
L1_FTi = ["L1B", "L1C", "L1D"]
L1_TiTa = ["L1C", "L1D", "L1E"]
The key above is the [angles] header, which specifies that whatever follows is an angle.
Next, each angle is specified by a name on the left, and by a list of 3 joints on the right.
Summarizing the data
After computing the whole pipeline for all videos, the final outputs of interest (the 3d pose coordinates and angles, possibly the 2d coordinates) are scattered across a lot of folders.
For further processing and analysis, it is often useful to have one central file with all the data. Hence, Anipose provides the command "summarize", which summarizes everything into a "summaries" folder. The output csv for each of angles, 3d, and 2d tracking coordinates has all the data from all sessions, and a few extra columns to show where the data comes from.
Configuring the standardized 3D pose
In order to properly compare across different trials, different animals, and different setups, the 3D coordinates must be standardized relative to a common reference frame.
Anipose should allow configuration of this by specifying 2 sets of points to use as axes, and which axes these should be.
The algorithm to determine the axes is as follows:
 - the first axis is taken as given
 - the second axis is orthogonalized with respect to the first
 - the third axis is the cross product of the first two axes
An axis is specified as a pair of points, with the axis going from the first to the second point.
Furthermore, it is often useful to set the zero to a standard reference point. Anipose allows this too.
An example configuration:
axes = [
 ["x", "L1A", "L3A"],
 ["z", "L1B", "L1A"]
reference_point = "L1A"
Calibration marker configuration
Anipose uses ArUco markers for calibration. They are superior to checkerboards in that they are more robust to blurring, rotation, and cropping. This makes them ideal for calibrating arbitrary camera setups.
In order to configure this, it should be possible to specify which ArUco board was used to calibrate the cameras. What should be configurable:
 - The type of board (ArUco / ChArUco)
 - the size of the board (number squares in X and Y directions)
 - ArUco marker dictionary (number of bits and number of markers in dictionary)
 - Length of marker side in appropriate unit (triangulation is set to this unit)
 - Length of marker separation (for ArUco) or square side (for ChArUco), in same unit
# aruco / charuco
board_type = "aruco"
# width and height of grid
board_size = [2, 2]
# number of bits in the markers
board_marker_bits = 5
# number of markers in dictionary (less is best)
board_marker_dict_number = 50
# length of marker side
board_marker_length = 4 # mm
# If aruco, length of marker separation
board_marker_separation_length = 1 # mm
# If charuco, square side length
# board_square_side_length = 8 # mm
Calibration: how to actually calibrate
TODO: Document how to calibrate cameras
TODO: Document where to place the calibration folder and how this is processed
TODO: document how to specify ROIs
TODO: provide example python/matlab code to automatically generate toml files
Here are some references for DeepLabCut and other things this project relies upon:
 title={DeepLabCut: markerless pose estimation of user-defined body parts with deep learning},
 author = {Alexander Mathis and Pranav Mamidanna and Kevin M. Cury and Taiga Abe and Venkatesh N. Murthy and Mackenzie W. Mathis and Matthias Bethge},
 journal={Nature Neuroscience},
 title = {DeeperCut: A Deeper, Stronger, and Faster Multi-Person Pose Estimation Model},
 author = {Eldar Insafutdinov and Leonid Pishchulin and Bjoern Andres and Mykhaylo Andriluka and Bernt Schiele},
 booktitle = {ECCV'16},
 url = {}
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text: We demonstrate and validate that concurrent and parallel transmissions are feasible for low data-rate impulse-radio ultrawide band (IR-UWB) physical layers. The optimal organization for a low data-rate IR-UWB network is to allow for concurrent transmissions at the link layer, and to use interference mitigation techniques at the physical layer. Indeed, low data-rate IRUWB physical layers can suffer from multi-user interference (MUI), especially in near-far scenarios. Therefore, we perform an experimental validation with a packet-based, low data-rate IR-UWB physical layer testbed. Our results clearly demonstrate that concurrent IR-UWB transmissions are possible. This shows that completely uncoordinated low data-rate IR-UWB networks are feasible. We also demonstrate that, in the presence of MUI, an interference mitigation scheme at the physical layer is indeed necessary. In particular, because it is the first component for the proper reception of a packet, we focus on packet detection and timing acquisition. We show that a traditional scheme is not robust against multi-user interference and prevents concurrent transmissions. On the contrary, a scheme designed to take MUI into account, even with a very simple interference mitigation scheme, allows for concurrent transmissions, even in strong nearfar scenarios. © 2009 IEEE.

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Cardinal Numbers
Cardinal Numbers are explained with Chart and Diagram.
Cardinal numbers are those numbers which show how many of the something in series.
Eg:- one, two, three etc.
Chart for Cardinal Numbers
How many balls are showing in the picture below?
There are six balls in the given picture.
Helping Topics
Ordinal Numbers
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What it takes to be a lawyer
So you have decided to embark on the path to being a lawyer. But before you do so, the below points offered the good & bad on being a lawyer in Singapore and aim to give you a different perspective on it.
The good side of being a lawyer
- When you are a lawyer, you always feel like you are the reason of your country being great.
- Lawyers contribute to their own fields as patriots.
- A lawyer is always termed to be a well educated and articulate person in the society.
- Lawyers write persuasively by the use of logic and then discuss every topic that comes up thoughtfully and analytically.
- They are intellectually curious that is they want to acquire more knowledge and update it to the modern or current trends.
- Lawyers value excellence in whatever they do, in themselves or doing to others. This is brought about because they have sworn to uphold the process of justice.
- They have sworn to keep clients' confidences, even from each other.
- Lawyers also love working together because they believe if they do so, the sum is much greater than the parts.
- I can't forget to mention that lawyers are among the best-paid experts in the legal industry and most advocates earn remunerations well above the national average.
The bad side of being a lawyer
- The career is exhausting when done through one's life. This is because one will always find herself/himself in the midst of trying to solve a conflict.
- The task that lawyers have of reading and trying to remain with current information is enormous.
- It is always a hard thing for the lawyers to leave their work at the office, and they carry it home too. This is because the profession is stressful and requires a high level of thinking.
- Some attorneys give lawyers hard criminals who they should negotiate for in court. This gives lawyers had time in court with their clients and the opposing side. They need to master all the details and beat the deadline provided by the court.


Setting Default Checked Value for mat-radio-button in Angular's mat-radio-group
mat-radio-button default checked
Learn how to pre-select a default option in an Angular mat-radio-group using the mat-radio-button component. This article provides a step-by-step guide for setting a default checked value for the mat-radio-button in the group, either by using the checked attribute or by programmatically setting the default value in the component code.
How to change the size of mat-icon in Angular Material
Change the size of mat-icon in Angular Material
Angular – This article explains how to change the size of mat-icon in Angular Material using the font-size property in CSS. It suggests adding a CSS class to the mat-icon element and defining it in the component's CSS file or global styles file. Alternatively, the font-size property can be set directly on the mat-icon element using the style attribute.
Solution: mat-form-field must contain a MatFormFieldControl error in Angular
Angular mat-form-field must contain a MatFormFieldControl
If you are using Angular material in your project and if you have any forms in the application then you must be using Angular Material Form Field Component from MatFormFieldModule And of the common error that we usually get is while working with Angular Material Form Field is: mat-form-field must contain a MatFormFieldControl.
Angular Material Button Example
Angular Material Button
Angular Material button module MatButtonModule(mat-button,mat-raised-button,mat-icon-button,mat-fab,mat-mini-fab) enhances the user experience of normal buttons tags by following Material design principles.


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AUTHORITIES have issued an extreme heat warning for the Western District, with temperatures expected to reach nearly 40 degrees on the weekend.
After an expected high of 33 degrees Celsius in Hamilton yesterday, the temperature is forecast to soar to 38 today before peaking at 39 tomorrow.
Relief is in sight Monday with the Bureau of Meteorology predicting the mercury will drop back to 23 degrees.
The temperature is tipped to return the mid-30s by next Wednesday.
Locals councils across the region this week took turns to issue health alerts for today and tomorrow.
They say the expected high temperatures have the potential to cause heat stress, which can cause significant health impacts and are urging residents to exercise extreme care during the heatwave.
Full story in the Spectator on Saturday, February 1, 2014


Zoom Radar
Zoom Radar
Instructions for use:
1. Select "hybrid" view for most realistic imagery
2. Use the "zoom in" feature while keeping your location centered on the map
3. Choose between Radar and Clouds for radar or satellite imagery
4. Click on any temperature reading to see detailed information for that location
5. Use the simple video controls to animate the imagery


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Objective: To evaluate the therapeutic effect and mechanism of extract of ginkgo biloba (EGB) in treatment of diet-induced non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) in rats.
Methods: The experiment was conducted in the Laboratory, Department of Gastroenterology, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China from June 2009 to December 2009. In this study, the rat model of NASH was produced by feeding high-fat diet. Sixty rats were randomly divided into 3 groups: Normal group: normal diet, drinking water; Model group: high-fat diet, single-distilled water 10 ml/kg gavage once a day for 12 weeks; and Treated group: high-fat diet, EGB 6 mg/kg gavage once a day for 12 weeks. At the end of 12 weeks, all rats were killed. The serum biochemical, fibrosis markers, superoxide dismutase (SOD), malondialdehyde (MDA), the pathological changes, and the expression levels of nuclear factor KB (NF-κB)p65 protein in the liver were observed.
Results: The contents of serum alanine transaminase aspartate aminotransferase, fibrosis markers, and pathological grading of liver fibrosis and the staining intensity of NF-κBp65 protein in the liver of rats in treated group were significantly lower than those in the model group. Activities of superoxide dismutase were elevated, but levels of malondialdehyde were decreased in the treated group as compared with the model group.
Conclusion: Extract of ginkgo biloba has antioxidant and hepatoprotective effects and can inhibit liver fibrosis in rat of NAHS.


What is Max assist?
Asked By: Dabid Strohkorb | Last Updated: 16th June, 2020
Category: healthy living senior health
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Maximal Assist: Maximal assist means that the physical therapist performs about 75 percent of the work during mobility and you perform 25 percent of the work. Minimal Assist: Minimal assist means that you perform 75 percent of the work to move and the physical therapist provides about 25 percent of the work.
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Regarding this, what does full assist mean?
Total Dependence (Two + Assist) Full performance by others during entire period. o Can be broken down into moderate assist (hands on assist required most of. the time by two persons to maintain task), heavy assist (high level of caution.
Secondly, what are FIM levels? The FIM is an 18-item ordinal scale, used with all diagnoses within a rehabilitation population. FIM scores range from 1 to 7 (1 = total assist and 7 = complete independence). The FIM measures independent performance in self-care, sphincter control, transfers, locomotion, communication, and social cognition.
Also Know, what are the three levels of assistance in transfers?
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 - Levels of Assistance. Independent, Supervision, Stand by assist/close guarding.
 - Independent. Patient is consistently able to perform the activity safely.
 - Supervision.
 - Stand by assist/close guarding.
 - Contact Guard Assist.
 - Minimal Assistance.
 - Moderate Assistance.
 - Maximal Assistance.
What is MOD independent?
Mod I = Modified Independence. Also: SBA = Standby Assistance, CGA = Contact Guard Assistance, Min A = Minimal Assistance, Max A = Maximal Assistance, Total A = Total Assistance or Totally Dependent.
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What are the 5 levels of medical care?
There are five levels, or echelons, of care, each progressively more advanced. Level I care provides immediate first aid at the front line. Level II care consists of surgical resuscitation provided by highly mobile forward surgical teams that directly support combatant units in the field.
What is a Level 1 patient?
Level 1 (PATIENTS at risk of their condition deteriorating, or those recently relocated from higher levels of care, whose needs can be met on an acute WARD with additional advice and support from the critical care team.) This level includes all complex PATIENTS requiring support for multi-organ failure.)
What does mod assist mean?
What is a level 3 nursing home?
What is a Level 2 assisted living facility?
Assisted Living Level II facilities offer an intermediate level of care with some assistance with personal care and health care services. Assisted Living Level 2 facilities provide: 24-hour supervision (does not include 24-hour continuous visual monitoring) 24-hour assistance in obtaining emergency medical care.
What is ambulation and mobility?
Mobility is the ability to move (which could include just the arms, for instance), while ambulation means walking, specifically.
What does assisted ambulation mean?
To ambulate with assistance means to help an individual get on their feet and start walking with the help of someone else or something.
What general actions would you take when assisting a person to ambulate?
To help a patient back to bed, have patient stand with back of knees touching the bed. Grasp the gait belt and help patient into a sitting position, keeping your back straight and knees bent. Allowing a patient to rest after ambulation helps prevent fatigue.
What is the correct lifting equipment to use for a person who can weight bear but is not able to ambulate?
A sit to stand lifter, like the Quickraiser, is used for persons who are able to weight bear. A sling lifter is designed for people who are unable to participate in the transfer and cannot weight bear.
What does functional mobility mean?
Functional mobility is defined as the manner in which people are able to move around in the environment in order to participate in the activities of daily living and, move from place to place. Movements include standing, bending, walking and climbing.
What is physical assistance?
Physical Assistance Care for Seniors
Right at Home offers physical assistance services for seniors, elderly or disabled with the trust, reliability and responsiveness that you are looking for in a home care provider. Keeping a senior loved one mobile is an important part of elder care safety.
What is bed mobility physical therapy?
The ability to move around in bed is called bed mobility. Your physical therapist can work with you – in the clinic, in the hospital, or at home – to maximize your bed mobility. He or she may prescribe specific exercises to help improve the way you are able to scoot, roll, and sit up or lie down on your bed.
How do you care for an immobile patient?
Position the patient with the head of the bed elevated 30 to 45 degrees unless medically contraindicated; turn and reposition the patient every 2 hours. Besides supporting respiration, proper positioning and repositioning helps protect the skin and minimize the potential for breakdown.
What does mod I mean in physical therapy?
Modified Independent Mod I Patient completes task using device (e.g., staff; but no actual assistance (e.g., hand placed lightly on back to steady patient without actual support).
What is a good FIM score?
This score is a value that ranges between 18 and 126. The FIM score can also be further broken down based on its motor and cognitive components. The motor component of the FIM score can range between 13 and 91, while the cognitive component can range between 5 and 35.
How do I get FIM certified?
Credentialing and Re-Credentialing
Once you complete a workshop to become credentialed as a FIM or WeeFIM clinician, you must complete and pass a credentialing FIM or WeeFIM examination with a score of 80+%. After the workshop, you will be allocated a FIM ID.
What is the FIM used for?
Objective. The Functional Independence Measure (FIM) is an 18-item measurement tool that explores an individual's physical, psychological and social function. The tool is used to assess a patient's level of disability as well as change in patient status in response to rehabilitation or medical intervention.


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 - We explore "top N" sector rotation strategies based upon momentum signals.
 - We find that too much concentration (i.e. N is too small) leads to poor performance, whereas performance does not appear to materially degrade for larger N.
 - We find that shortto long-term signals all appear to generate higher total returns than the S&P 500 and there may be room to benefit from diversification by using multiple signals.
 - However, in attempting to use momentum information in an optimization, we struggle to generate any value.
 - We find that the majority of "top N" returns actually come from the tilt towards an equal-weight sector approach, with momentum adding little-to-no beneficial information.
 - Of 1,000 randomly generated "top 4" sector strategies, 97% out-performed the S&P 500 from 2000-2012, highlighting the importance of decomposing strategy returns into the contribution of each step of the portfolio's construction. In this case, by more appropriately measuring the impact of momentum information after accounting for the return generated by equal-weight tilts, we find no benefit since the turn of the century.
In last week's commentary ("Es-CAPE Velocity: Value-Driven Sector Rotation," August 26th, 2019) we explored value-based sector rotation in the 20thcentury. Specifically, we deconstructed the Shiller CAPE US Sector Rotation strategy and ultimately found that the largest driver of performance was not value, but a momentum-based filter.
Given the success of the momentum-based filter and the fact that momentum often exhibits negative correlation to value, in this week's research note we wanted to explore the application of momentum-based signals in US sector rotation.
To perform this analysis, we will apply momentum-based signals to portfolios build from the SSgA Sector Select ETFs. After REITs were spun out of the Financial sector in 2016, a Vanguard REIT ETF was included in the investible universe. With the introduction of the Communication Services sector and a significant re-classification of Consumer Discretionary and Technology companies in September 2018, we utilized hypothetical indices that more accurately reflect the re-categorization (when historically applied) to generate momentum signals.
How Many Sectors?
To begin our analysis, we will start with a very traditional sector rotation model: a "top N" system. In this system, sectors are ranked on a quantitative signal and then the top N sectors with the strongest signals are equally weighted.
For example, in a top 4 12-month momentum system, sectors would be ranked based upon their prior 12-month total return and the strategy would allocate 25% of the portfolio to the top 4 ranking sectors for the next month.
The choice of N largely depends upon our expectations of signal strength, accuracy, and relative performance between ranks. For example, if the signal demonstrates a monotonic improvement in return (i.e. higher ranks imply higher returns) with a strong degree of accuracy, we might choose a small N to maximize our returns. The stronger the improvement, the more concentration risk we may be willing to bear.
On the other hand, if the signal is largely flat, with a drop-off in performance for lower ranking sectors, than we might treat it more as a screen, equally weighting a large number of sectors and avoiding just a few.
Below we plot the equity curves for different 12-month top N momentum strategies, where N is varied from 1 to 9. We have shaded the graph from darker-to-lighter blues in an effort to determine if there are any parameterization-based patterns that emerge visually.
We can quickly see that the more concentrated strategies – for example, Top 1 and Top 3 – have the lowest total returns. However, among more diversified strategies, there appears to be a large degree of consistency in their terminal wealth. This might suggest that momentum, when applied in the last century, served better in avoiding the worst sectors rather than picking the best.
Source: CSI Data; S&P Dow Jones; Calculations by Newfound Research. Results assume the reinvestment of all distributions. Results are gross of all fees, including, but not limited to, manager fees, transaction costs, and taxes. Past performance is not an indicator of future results.
Longversus Short-Term Momentum
Below we plot all the top 4 systems with momentum lookbacks ranging from 1 to 18 months. Again, we vary the shades from darker-to-lighter blues in an effort to determine if any visual patterns emerge.
Interestingly, we can see that both short- (1-to-3 months) and long-term (16-to-18 months) momentum appear to perform the worst on a total return basis, while more intermediate-term measures (10- and 11-month momentum) appear to perform the best.
Of course, in the short-term, results can vary dramatically and even a 20-year period is not sufficient to determine if a cluster of parameterizations is superior. If we plot rolling 1-year returns, we can see dramatic dispersion in results versus the average return of the different parameterizations. For example, fromJune 2007 to June 2008, the 1M variation under-performed the average result by over 1100 basis points, but from February 2009 to February 2010, it out-performed by over 2000 basis points.
With no statistical difference in Sharpe ratios over the period, we would suggest that – once again – different parameterizations represent an opportunity for diversification.
Tracking-Error Based
The above analysis suggests that sector-based momentum may be most effective if we simply try to avoid the worst sectors and apply an ensemble of parameterizations. One potential way of improving our model, then, is via optimization. Specifically, we can seek to maximize our momentum exposure subject to tracking-error constraints with respect to the S&P 500.
To implement this idea, we:
 1. Generate N-month returns for each sector
 2. Calculate a covariance matrix from sector returns (exponentially weighted over the prior 252 days).
 3. Given current S&P 500 sector weights, select portfolio that maximizes weighted N-month returns subject to a given tracking error constraint.
The goal of this process is for the optimization process – despite the added computational complexity and embedded estimation risk – to more intelligently apply our active risk budget.
We also construct a variation where instead of maximizing the weighted N-month returns, we will transform the N-month returns to ranks and maximize the weighted rank. This can be thought of as a regularization step, sacrificing potential non-linear information but reducing the impact of outlier returns.
The results here are a bit of a head scratcher, as we have almost completely lost any out-performance generated in the top N models.
Which suggests that, perhaps, the out-performance had nothing to do with momentum-based information, but rather something else entirely.
It Was Always You, Equal Weight
If we return to our foundational framework that any active strategy is really just the market-capitalization-weighted portfolio plus a dollar-neutral long/short portfolio overlaid on top, then we can really think of our top N portfolios in a two-step active process:
 1. Start with the S&P 500 and tilt to equal-weight sector implementation;
 2. Remove low-momentum sectors and re-allocate capital among the rest.
To more accurately demonstrate the impact of our momentum decisions, then, we really should be isolating the impact of each of these steps.
For example, plotting the weight differences over time, we can see that equal-weight sectors are typically overweight Utilities and Materials and underweight Technology. We would expect this to dramatically help in the dot-com fallout, but hurt us after 2008.
If we actually generate the performance of this long/short strategy, we can see the results almost perfectly line up with our expectations: it was a generally profitable trade in the new century through early 2012, at which point it began to reverse.
If we plot the S&P 500, an equal-sector portfolio, and a top 4 momentum strategy, we can see that there is actually very little performance differential between the equal-sector approach and the momentum strategy. In fact, the momentum strategy does not appear to add much value at all other than active noise.
Which very much confirms the results we saw in our tracking-error-based solution: in the last century, the edge has not been in momentum.
Rather, it would appear that a top N momentum strategy was merely able to back its way into harvesting the return benefits of the equal-weight portfolio. The question we must now ask is whether that represents skill in the signal or merely luck.
Given the abject failure of momentum to dislodge itself from the equal weight portfolio after 2012, our initial guess is "luck."
But to explore this idea further, we generate 1,000 randomly generated "top 4" strategies. At the end of each month, each strategy randomly selects four sectors and holds them in equal weight over the next month. Note that as the number of strategies increases, the average allocation across all strategies should approach an equally weighted sector portfolio.
We then plot the distribution of annualized excess returns (versus the S&P 500) of each randomly generated strategy from 7/2000 to 3/2012.
The grey bar highlights the zero excess return line and the orange bar highlights the annualized return of the top 4 momentum strategy.
Two things are immediately apparent:
 - Simply throwing a dart to select sectors from 7/2000 to 3/2012 proved to be a very effective strategy. In


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A LAKE RICH WITH HISTORY
Discover the history of Talkin Tarn
Originally formed 18,000 years ago, the tarn was the result of moving ice scouring the ground, creating glacial sand hills and a natural bowl. As the ice melted, the bowl filled, becoming the lake we know today.
People have been visiting Talkin Tarn for hundreds of years, evidenced by the old buckles, stone axes and urns that have been discovered within the water.
Delicious food and amazing activities
Plan your own adventure at Talkin Tarn
There are a variety of activities to take part in at Talkin Tarn. The 1.3 path around the lake is fully-accessible so everyone can enjoy a wildlife trail, and Talkin Adventures provides a range of exciting outdoor activities from raft-building to archery.
You can also sample delicious meals in the Boathouse Tearoom while you enjoy stunning views of the tarn.


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Jianfeng Gao, Xiaolong Li, Daniel Micol, Chris Quirk, and Xu Sun
23 August 2010
This paper makes three significant extensions to a noisy channel speller designed for standard writ-ten text to target the challenging domain of search queries. First, the noisy channel model is sub-sumed by a more general ranker, which allows a variety of features to be easily incorporated. Se-cond, a distributed infrastructure is proposed for training and applying Web scale n-gram language models. Third, a new phrase-based error model is presented. This model places a probability dis-tribution over transformations between mul-ti-word phrases, and is estimated using large amounts of query-correction pairs derived from search logs. Experiments show that each of these extensions leads to significant improvements over the state-of-the-art baseline methods.
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Considering the Diagram and Design Research
ResumoWhile there has been much written on the role of the drawing in architecture as aform of re-presentation and reflective practice, this paper argues that the diagram asa specific graphic type, is an essential generative component of design research andcentral to claims for innovation or the production of new knowledge throughcontemporary design, yet not understood in the context of design research moregenerally. As an abstract and highly idiosyncratic form of notation, the diagramuniquely situates innovation within visual forms of enquiry. This paper speculates onhow diagrams communicate, both internally to the discipline and externally to newextra-disciplinary research fields as a function of innovation, and in this sense, whatwork in terms of design research they do.Keywords: Architecture, diagram, Innovation, design research, representation
Oct 19, 2014
BURKE, Anthony. Considering the Diagram and Design Research. Revista Lusófona de Arquitectura e Educação, [S.l.], n. 11, p. 345 / 355, oct. 2014. ISSN _PHONE_. Disponível em: . Acesso em: 21 aug. 2017.


Mismatch of "Baseline Usage" between PPM and DWH
Article ID: 5338
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Clarity PPM On Premise
The "Baseline Usage" values in PPM and DWH do not match under certain circumstances.
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a Project
2. Allocate a team member
3. Assign this resource to a task, say Task 0
4. Assign this same resource to another task, say Task 1
5. Create a baseline
6. Lets say the "Baseline Usage" shown at this point is 250 (under the "Team" tab)
7. Running the Load Data Warehouse job will put Baseline Usage = 250, in the DWH
8. Go ahead and delete the assignment made on Task 1 at step 4
9. The PPM UI (under "Team" tab) will still report Baseline Usage at 250
10. But on running the Load Data Warehouse job, the Baseline Usage available in the DWH will be, say 150
11. This results in users seeing different values in the PPM UI (under "Team" tab) and in the DWH.
Caused by DE31586
Release: All PPM Releases
This happens because Load Data Warehouse job picks up Baseline Usage by filtering for "PRJ_BASELINE_DETAILS.OBJECT_TYPE" = "TEAM", but the Load Data Warehouse gets the Baseline Usage data by filtering for "PRJ_BASELINE_DETAILS.OBJECT_TYPE" = "ASSIGNMENT"


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THEORETICAL PROBLEMS OF INTEGRAL ASSESSMENT OF FINANCIAL CONDITION OF AGRICULTURAL ORGANIZATIONS
Issue № 6, 2022, article № 12, pages 107-111
Section: Competition of young authors
Original language title: ТЕОРЕТИЧЕСКИЕ ПРОБЛЕМЫ ИНТЕГРАЛЬНОЙ ОЦЕНКИ ФИНАНСОВОГО СОСТОЯНИЯ СЕЛЬСКОХОЗЯЙСТВЕННЫХ ОРГАНИЗАЦИЙ
Abstract: The financial stability of agricultural organizations is a generalizing result of their total entrepreneurial activity. Nevertheless, despite solid state support, many organizations in the industry fail to ensure their financial well-being. The reasons for this are mainly shortcomings in the systemic planning of their activities - operating, investment, and financial. This situation is largely due to the complexity of the methodological approaches to financial analysis published in the scientific literature. Since the starting materials for science-based system planning are the current and dynamic indicators of financial analysis. The paper analyzes various approaches to the integral assessment of the financial condition of business entities published in the economic literature. Alternative calculations were carried out according to the reporting data of Agrofirma Zai LLC for 2020. The results of solving the problem turned out to be completely different. It is well known that the quality of theoretical models for solving any issues is assessed by the level of their reflection of the true situation. However, the studied models of a comprehensive assessment of the financial situation of farms did not meet these requirements. It is established that such an indicator is the current liquidity ratio. It is functionally related to seven other coefficients that independently characterize the financial condition of organizations. In this paper, we carried out a method of factor analysis of changes in the current liquidity ratio in dynamics and in comparison with reference farms.
Authors: Ibragimova Railia Marselovna


Deacons who divorce
Question: If a permanent deacon gets divorced and remarried, would he still be a permanent deacon?
Allen Eberle, Hague, N.D.
Answer: No, a man in that situation could not continue to function as a permanent deacon. However, some distinctions are necessary so as to clarify the answer.
While celibacy is not required of a married man who becomes a permanent deacon, celibacy does apply to some permanent deacons. First, if an unmarried man becomes a permanent deacon, he is required to promise celibacy at his ordination and to remain celibate for the rest of his life. Secondly, if the spouse of a permanent deacon dies, he is expected to live celibately from that point forward.
In the unfortunate situation you describe of a deacon who is divorced, he also would be expected to live celibately from that point forward.
In the thankfully rare situation where permanent deacons become divorced, the local bishop usually permits such a deacon to continue ministering as a deacon. But the bishop also needs to ensure that the deacon did all he could to reasonably save his marriage, and did not casually cast aside his marital vows, which would be a scandal. Presuming this can be assured and that scandal can be avoided, the bishop can permit a divorced permanent deacon to continue ministering. But, as already stated, he must live celibately from that point forward.
What if the deacon were to refuse to follow Church law, either by flagrantly divorcing and remarrying or by remarrying after the death of a spouse? In such cases, he would be suspended from practicing his ministry as a deacon and likely be laicized. Since ordination confers a character, he would still, technically, be a deacon but could in no way perform the ministry of the diaconate.
Origin of Lent
Question: Where does the word "Lent" come from? In my native Spanish we just call the season cuaresma, which seems more descriptive.
Anna Gonzalez, Via email
Answer: You are right. The Latin title for this period is Quadragesima and is best translated, "40th day (before Easter)" or more loosely "the 40 days." Most of the Romance Languages keep this root in their words for the season (e.g. cuaresma, quaresma, carême, quaresima) and these are, as you say, more descriptive and less abstract.
The word "Lent" seems to come from Germanic roots wherein the words lenz and lente refer to the spring season when the days "lengthen." Thus the word "Lent" describes less the liturgical time frame and more the seasonal one. So, as the days lengthen and our thoughts move to Easter, beginning 40 days before, we spend time spiritually preparing for that greatest feast of the Church's year.
The notion of 40 days of course reminds us of the 40 days Christ spent in the desert fasting and praying in preparation for his public ministry. We are encouraged to go into the desert with him spiritually and thus also be strengthened through the spiritual exercises of resisting temptation, praying and fasting. "Giving up something" for Lent is not merely for its own sake, but rather to make room for other things. Thus, if we forgo some lawful pleasure, we can perhaps be freer to pray.


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Texas Southern University's (NAACP) chapter has spread the word on the importance of voting this midterm election. Throughout the campus and nearby neighborhoods chants of encouragement and excitement filled the air of Houston.
TSU's NAACP members met at the student center, organized and began the march to the neighborhood voting polls. NAACP members and TSU students shouted historical chants, held signs to encourage people to vote and reminded everyone of the meaning of Election Day. Once the group made it to the polling booths at Lockhart Elementary, students entered the school and casted their votes.


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The Caribbean can be a wonderful place to shop for exotic fruit, from the soursop variety to plantains. Jamaicans really pride themselves on growing fresh fruits and veggies and with varieties you can't get in too many other places. Here are some fruits to shop for in Montego Bay.
The Soursop is native to the Caribbean, and is of the same family as the pawpaw tree. It grows very well in humid climates and is used by many Caribbean countries in smoothies and desserts. In some Asian countries, it's called the thorny custard apple. The flavor of the soursop has been described as blend of pineapple with citrus flavors and makes an excellent creamy base for smoothies, ice creams and Asian style desserts.
Also called the Malay apple, this is an oblong-shaped fruit with a dark red skin that is similar to that of the pomegranate. It's used primarily for medicinal reasons, for diabetes and constipation remedies.
This is a glossy green fruit whose flesh is a deep green color very near the skin and the seed is large and yellow (as with all avocadoes, you cannot eat the seed). Most of the fleshy fruit when harvested becomes buttery and creamy and is used for side dishes and dips.
Jamaica may not be known for its chocolate, but it is certainly home to some fine cocoa plants. The cocoa plant has small white flowers that bloom when mature.
A popular Caribbean fruit which looks small and pale green or greenish red (depending on the ripeness level), the guava has an edible fleshy center with tiny seeds (also edible). These are great thirst quenchers and contain a lot of vitamin C and iron.


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Representing refugees: Canadian newspapers' portrayals of refugees of El Salvador's civil war, 1980 – 1992
Dubois, Danielle Jacqueline
During the civil war in El Salvador, approximately 38,000 Salvadorans came to Canada, making them the largest group of Latin American migrants to Canada in that era. The arrival of these Salvadoran refugees has received limited academic attention. My thesis examines how Salvadoran refugees to Canada were portrayed in Canadian newspapers. I specifically examine how Salvadorans were written about in the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star and Montreal's Gazette; I focus on three eras: 1980 to 1982, 1986 to 1987, and 1991 to 1992. I argue that, throughout these years, Canadian newspapers acted as discursive gatekeepers to the "imagined community" of Canada. Salvadoran refugees moved closer to this community, but were not granted full admittance.
refugees, El Salvador, Canada, civil war


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Bayesian planning is a formally elegant approach to learning optimal behaviour under model uncertainty, trading off exploration and exploitation in an ideal way. Unfortunately, planning optimally in the face of uncertainty is notoriously taxing, since the search space is enormous. In this paper we introduce a tractable, sample-based method for approximate Bayes-optimal planning which exploits Monte-Carlo tree search. Our approach avoids expensive applications of Bayes rule within the search tree by sampling models from current beliefs, and furthermore performs this sampling in a lazy manner. This enables it to outperform previous Bayesian model-based reinforcement learning algorithms by a significant margin on several well-known benchmark problems. As we show, our approach can even work in problems with an infinite state space that lie qualitatively out of reach of almost all previous work in Bayesian exploration.
Current exploration algorithms can be classified in two broad categories: Heuristic, and PAC optimal. While numerous researchers have used heuristic approaches such as epsilon-greedy exploration successfully, such approaches lack formal, finite sample guarantees and may need a significant amount of fine-tuning to produce good results. PAC optimal exploration algorithms, on the other hand, offer strong theoretical guarantees but are inapplicable in domains of realistic size. The goal of this paper is to bridge the gap between theory and practice, by introducing C-PACE, an algorithm which offers strong theoretical guarantees and can be applied to interesting, continuous space problems.
Bayesian reinforcement learning (BRL) provides a formal framework for optimal exploration-exploitation tradeoff in reinforcement learning. Unfortunately, it is generally intractable to find the Bayes-optimal behavior except for restricted cases. As a consequence, many BRL algorithms, model-based approaches in particular, rely on approximated models or real-time search methods. In this paper, we present potential-based shaping for improving the learning performance in model-based BRL. We propose a number of potential functions that are particularly well suited for BRL, and are domain-independent in the sense that they do not require any prior knowledge about the actual environment. By incorporating the potential function into real-time heuristic search, we show that we can significantly improve the learning performance in standard benchmark domains.
Bayes-adaptive planning offers a principled solution to the explorationexploitation trade-offunder model uncertainty. It finds the optimal policy in belief space, which explicitly accounts for the expected effect on future rewards of reductions in uncertainty. However, the Bayes-adaptive solution is typically intractable indomains with large or continuous state spaces. We present a tractable method for approximating the Bayes-adaptive solution by combining simulationbased searchwith a novel value function approximation technique that generalises appropriately over belief space. Our method outperforms prior approaches in both discrete bandit tasks and simple continuous navigation and control tasks.
Model-based Bayesian Reinforcement Learning (BRL) allows a found formalization of the problem of acting optimally while facing an unknown environment, i.e., avoiding the exploration-exploitation dilemma. However, algorithms explicitly addressing BRL suffer from such a combinatorial explosion that a large body of work relies on heuristic algorithms. This paper introduces BOLT, a simple and (almost) deterministic heuristic algorithm for BRL which is optimistic about the transition function. We analyze BOLT's sample complexity, and show that under certain parameters, the algorithm is near-optimal in the Bayesian sense with high probability. Then, experimental results highlight the key differences of this method compared to previous work.


Cypress: The Wood Eternal
Cypress: The Wood Eternal
 - Cypress: The Wood Eternal
Published Date
 - published 1941
There is frequently a wide variation of color with one shade
usually predominating in a given locality. For instance, the prevailing
type found in the deep swamps of the St. Johns River is amber, referred
to as yellow cypress, while that growing on the fringe or shallow swamps
of the St. Johns is decidedly darker and possessed of stronger grain. The
typical amber wood of the Apalachicola and other alluvial river swamps
occasionally gradates to dark brown or chocolate and when cut often
presents dark stripes on a lighter background.
Trees that show the dark-red bands of the heavier summerwood,
especially in the lower Mississippi River delta, are known as red cypress.
Wood from the northern regions is referred to as white cypress. In
southern lumber camps, logs that float high are also called "white"
regardless of actual color. In lumber camps along the Atlantic coast,
heavy wood which sinks or floats very low is called "black" while in
Gulf region the term refers more to color than buoyancy. Dark cypress
frequently is no heavier than lighter shades of the wood.
When thoroughly seasoned, cypress wood weight on an average
of about 28 pounds a cubit foot. It is considerably heavier than
redwood, spruce, and most cedars. The specific gravity green cypress
generally varies from about 0.80, or 50 pounds, a cubit foot to 62.35, or
the same weight as water, although it is often much lighter than this.
When dried it is sometimes found as light as cork and is frequently used
for floats on fishing nets.


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escript provides support for running short Erlang programs without having to compile them first and an easy way to retrieve the command line arguments.
escript runs a script written in Erlang.
Here follows an example.
$ cat factorial #!/usr/bin/env escript %% -*- erlang -*- %%! -smp enable -sname factorial -mnesia debug verbose main([String]) -> try \011N = list_to_integer(String), \011F = fac(N), \011io:format("factorial ~w = ~w\ ", [N,F]) catch \011_:_ -> \011 usage() end; main(_) -> usage(). usage() -> io:format("usage: factorial integer\ "), halt(1). fac(0) -> 1; fac(N) -> N * fac(N-1). $ factorial 5 factorial 5 = 120 $ factorial usage: factorial integer $ factorial five usage: factorial integer
The header of the Erlang script in the example differs from a normal Erlang module. The first line is intended to be the interpreter line, which invokes escript. However if you invoke the escript like this
$ escript factorial 5
the contents of the first line does not matter, but it cannot contain Erlang code as it will be ignored.
The second line in the example, contains an optional directive to the Emacs editor which causes it to enter the major mode for editing Erlang source files. If the directive is present it must be located on the second line.
On the third line (or second line depending on the presence of the Emacs directive), it is possible to give arguments to the emulator, such as
%%! -smp enable -sname factorial -mnesia debug verbose
Such an argument line must start with %%! and the rest of the line will interpreted as arguments to the emulator.
If you know the location of the escript executable, the first line can directly give the path to escript. For instance:
As any other kind of scripts, Erlang scripts will not work on Unix platforms if the execution bit for the script file is not set. (Use chmod +x script-name to turn on the execution bit.)
The rest of the Erlang script file may either contain Erlang source code, an inlined beam file or an inlined archive file.
An Erlang script file must always contain the function main/1. When the script is run, the main/1 function will be called with a list of strings representing the arguments given to the script (not changed or interpreted in any way).
If the main/1 function in the script returns successfully, the exit status for the script will be 0. If an exception is generated during execution, a short message will be printed and the script terminated with exit status 127.
To return your own non-zero exit code, call halt(ExitCode); for instance:
Call escript:script_name/0 from your to script to retrieve the pathname of the script (the pathname is usually, but not always, absolute).
If the file contains source code (as in the example above), it will be processed by the preprocessor epp. This means that you for example may use pre-defined macros (such as?MODULE) as well as include directives like the -include_lib directive. For instance, use
to include the record definitions for the records used by the file:read_link_info/1 function.
The script will be checked for syntactic and semantic correctness before being run. If there are warnings (such as unused variables), they will be printed and the script will still be run. If there are errors, they will be printed and the script will not be run and its exit status will be 127.
Both the module declaration and the export declaration of the main/1 function are optional.
By default, the script will be interpreted. You can force it to be compiled by including the following line somewhere in the script file:
Execution of interpreted code is slower than compiled code. If much of the execution takes place in interpreted code it may be worthwhile to compile it, even though the compilation itself will take a little while.
As mentioned earlier, it is possible to have a script which contains precompiled beam code. In a precompiled script, the interpretation of the script header is exactly the same as in a script containing source code. That means that you can make a beam file executable by prepending the file with the lines starting with #! and %%! mentioned above. In a precompiled script, the function main/1 must be exported.
As yet another option it is possible to have an entire Erlang archive in the script. In a archive script, the interpretation of the script header is exactly the same as in a script containing source code. That means that you can make an archive file executable by prepending the file with the lines starting with #! and %%! mentioned above. In an archive script, the function main/1 must be exported. By default the main/1 function in the module with the same name as the basename of the escript file will be invoked. This behavior can be overridden by setting the flag -escript main Module as one of the emulator flags. The Module must be the name of a module which has an exported main/1 function. See code(3) for more information about archives and code loading.
In many cases it is very convenient to have a header in the escript, especially on Unix platforms. But the header is in fact optional. This means that you directly can "execute" an Erlang module, beam file or archive file without adding any header to them. But then you have to invoke the script like this:
$ escript factorial.erl 5 factorial 5 = 120 $ escript factorial.beam 5 factorial 5 = 120 $ escript factorial.zip 5 factorial 5 = 120
- Compile the escript regardless of the value of the mode attribute.
- Debug the escript. Starts the debugger, loads the module containing the main/1 function into the debugger, sets a breakpoint in main/1 and invokes main/1. If the module is precompiled, it must be explicitly compiled with the debug_info option.
- Interpret the escript regardless of the value of the mode attribute.
- Only perform a syntactic and semantic check of the script file. Warnings and errors (if any) are written to the standard output, but the script will not be run. The exit status will be 0 if there were no errors, and 127 otherwise.


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The Birdwatcher's Guide to Digital Photography
Look, there's a peregrine falcon! Oh, did you see the hummingbird flit by? If you're a bird enthusiast, you know there's nothing quite as exciting as... Show synopsis Look, there's a peregrine falcon! Oh, did you see the hummingbird flit by? If you're a bird enthusiast, you know there's nothing quite as exciting as observing these amazing creatures in their natural environment. Now you can capture the excitement by taking great bird photographs with "The Birdwatcher's Guide to Digital Photography." This book is written by one of Europe's most successful scenic and natural history photographers, and provides a comprehensive guide that will teach you everything you need to know to take beautiful digital photographs of birds. Also featured are the following. - Explanations of the importance of selecting the right equipment, including different types of cameras, lenses, and camera supports. - Technical aspects of taking photographs in easy-to-understand language accompanied by helpful graphics and pictures. - Birdwatchers are taught how to approach birds, how to bait them, stalk them, and finally, how to take fantastic photographs of our feathered friends in the wild or the backyard.


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A Framework for Measuring Quality of Life in the Context of Polycentric Cities
MSc. Student: Mojgan Zarekani
Period: May 2013 - December 2014
Summary: The concept of quality of life has been the ongoing subject matter for numerous theoretical and empirical discussions in the fields' urban development. There are undeniable subjective (opinion-based) evidence which proves the existence of a link between an individual's perception of the living environment and quality of life. However, setting up an experimental framework for measuring quality of life is challenging since this type of investigation requires researchers to first answer the question of what factors could possibly impact individuals' perception of quality of life, in particular those related to neighbourhood development and available services. It is important to note that if appropriately chosen, variables factors affect the quality of life related to land development and land use, those can serve as metrics that could be used by urban developers, city/municipal planners to build attractive neighbourhoods, which in turn will lead to better thriving cities/municipalities, and promote sustainable social and economic development.
This thesis presents a methodology to measure the effect of neighbourhood development on the quality of life of citizens and assesses the impact of mixing objective (quantitative) and subjective (qualitative) variables on the evaluation of quality of life in the context of a poly-centric city for selected neighbourhoods. Poly-centric cities have more than one activity center comparing to mono-centric cities which have only one centralized activity district. A case study that involves four neighbourhoods in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, is used to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed methodology and illustrate its essential futures.
Edmonton Population and Area Growth from 1878 to 2012
Edmonton Household Travel Survey, 2005, Daily Trip Purpose from Home


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Accumulated taxable income refers to income of a corporation. This income is adjusted for certain items such as excess charitable contributions. It is reduced from the dividends paid deduction and the accumulated earnings credit. Accumulated taxable income also serves as the base upon which the accumulated earnings tax is imposed.
Under accumulated taxable income, aggregate amount allowable as a deduction under are the following:
1. the nonrecaptured capital gains deductions, or
2. the amount of the accumulated earnings and profits of the corporation as of the close of the preceding taxable year.


text: A novel DNA-based hybrid catalyst comprised of salmon testes DNA and an iron(III) complex of a cationic meso-tetrakis(N-alkylpyridyl)porphyrin was developed. When the N-methyl substituents were placed at the ortho position with respect to the porphyrin ring, high reactivity in catalytic carbene-transfer reactions was observed under mild conditions, as demonstrated in the catalytic enantioselective cyclopropanation of styrene derivatives with ethyl diazoacetate (EDA) as the carbene precursor. A remarkable feature of this catalytic system is the large DNA-induced rate acceleration observed in this reaction and the related dimerization of EDA. It is proposed that high effective molarity of all components of the reaction in or near the DNA is one of the key contributors to this unique reactivity. This study demonstrates that the concept of DNA-based asymmetric catalysis can be expanded into the realm of organometallic chemistry.


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"Chariots and Other Wheeled Vehicles in Italy before the Roman Empire" presents evidence for transport by wheeled vehicle in Italy before the Roman Imperial period, the beginning of which is often thought to be marked by Augustuss conquest of Egypt in 30 BC. The study begins with a glossary of technical terms and with evidence for roads and the animals that were used in draught. The major part is concerned with the vehicles themselves - two-wheeled chariots and carts and four-wheeled wagons - their construction, the ways in which their draught animals were harnessed and controlled, and the uses to which the equipages were put. A wide range of evidence is drawn upon including figured documents such as architectural terracottas, stone reliefs, vaseand wall paintings; bronze and terracotta models and the remains of actual vehicles, in a few cases accompanied by their harness teams recovered from tombs, primarily from central and northern Italy of the eighth and seventh centuries BC onwards. The concluding chapter looks at the history of wheeled vehicles in Italy before the Roman Imperial period. It traces local, Italic characteristics and possible foreign influences, and assesses the relative economic and social importance of the different kinds of wheeled vehicles and of other means of land transport - by pack and riding animals. In appendices the vehicles depicted in so-called Situla Art and the 'Celtic chariot' are discussed. Lavishly illustrated with over 170 plates and figures, this book is important for the history of transport, technology and draught.
Audience: Tertiary; University or College
Number Of Pages: 248
Published: 30th June 2012
Dimensions (cm): 28.8 x 22.2 x 2.2
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"Culture of Reading" Initiative, New Brunswick, NJ
A literacy coordinator/reading coach is an educator with knowledge of reading instruction and preferably second language acquisition.
Assess Literacy Skills
The GLP literacy coordinator/reading coach will liaise with teachers to determine student reading levels and specific areas of difficulty that the Global Literacy Project, Inc. reading enrichment program should target. As a coach, they will also meet with small groups of students to practice reading skills and provide periodic progress reports on student development.
Recruit and Manage Volunteers
The literacy coordinator/reading coach will assist in recruiting, training, and managing volunteer tutors who work one-on-one or with small groups of students. Coordinators provide on-going support to tutors so they too can refine their skills.
Support Early Literacy Development
If the program is for young children, the literacy coordinator/reading coach may provide parents with information and resources to help their children begin developing pre-reading skills such as concepts of print and phonological awareness. If the program is for adults, the literacy coordinator/reading coach can encourage students who have young children or grandchildren to apply their learning to help these children develop literacy skills from the earliest ages.
Campus & Community Liason
- Supervise student volunteers in the program with respect to volunteer activities in New Brunswick and outreach to the participating elementary to high schools.
- Conduct formal and informal trainings for student volunteers
- Maintain regular contact with faculty, staff, and students on campus
- Create materials, such as handouts, and other props that facilitate engagement between readers and students.
- Develop/compile and distribute various resource lists and literacy information as needed to volunteer readers and the directors and teachers of the partnering reading sites.
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Population on earth is rising, meanwhile we face significant issues with climate change.
Earth is behaving like a pot, which will soon boil over.
Maybe a solution to rescue earth is to extend its borders and live on other planets?
Medical appointments are annoying.
Not only because they are set in preparation to avoid illnesses or for fighting diseases after getting infected, they are also annoying because of waiting-time.
Here is how to spend less time waiting on medical appointments.
Water-Filter do prevent water from contamination.
They destroy viruses, bacteria, parasites and downplay bad chemicals.
Here is how they can get a special use in disaster areas and how they can rescue lifes.


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Map of flight path and driving directions from Asheville to Greenville.
Shortest flight path between Asheville Regional Airport (AVL) and Mid Delta Regional Airport (GLH).
How far is Greenville from Asheville?
There are several ways to calculate distances between Asheville and Greenville. Here are two common methods:Vincenty's formula (applied above)
- 500.352 miles
- 805.238 kilometers
- 434.794 nautical miles
Vincenty's formula calculates the distance between latitude/longitude points on the earth's surface, using an ellipsoidal model of the earth.Haversine formula
- 499.423 miles
- 803.743 kilometers
- 433.986 nautical miles
The haversine formula calculates the distance between latitude/longitude points assuming a spherical earth (great-circle distance – the shortest distance between two points).
Time difference and current local times
The time difference between Asheville and Greenville is 1 hour. Greenville is 1 hour behind Asheville.
Carbon dioxide emissions
Estimated CO2 emissions per passenger is 99 kg (218 pounds).
Frequent Flyer Miles Calculator
Asheville (AVL) → Greenville (GLH).


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One of the main challenges to adequately conserve the African fish fauna is to improve our so far unsatisfactory taxonomic knowledge of important portions of the ichthyofauna. In the present study, we attempted to unravel the taxonomic diversity of some species of Enteromius Cope, 1867, a problematic African fish genus, recently collected in the north-eastern part of the Congo basin. We used an integrative approach, combining DNA barcodes and morphological analyses. For one of the species complexes found, the E. miolepis/eutaenia species complex, we evaluated taxonomic diversity over a larger geographic scale within the Congo drainage system. Although initial literature-based species identifications allowed us to assign all examined specimens to four tentative species, DNA barcodes indicated the presence of 23 distinct mitochondrial lineages. The majority of these lineages appeared endemic to particular rivers, and in most rivers multiple lineages occur in sympatry. Subsequent exploratory morphometric analyses indicated that almost all these lineages are morphologically distinguishable and that they may therefore represent undescribed species. As only a part of the Congo basin and a subset of the species diversity within Enteromius were examined, it appears that the species richness of Enteromius in the Congo basin is severely underestimated.
'Barbus', COI, integrative taxonomy, species richness.


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The Letter (1926). Agnes Noyes Goodsir (Australian, _PHONE_).
Goodsir left Australia for England & France in 1900, and in the 1920s established herself as a painter of portraits, still lifes, & interiors that captured the evocative people, stories, & scenes of Parisian life. From about 1912, she shuttled between London & Paris, but finally settled in Paris at 18 Rue de l'Odéon. Her partner was Rachel Dunn, who is depicted in several of her paintings.
The Australian painter Agnes Noyes Goodsir was born in Portland, Victoria, the daughter of the Commissioner of Customs at Melbourne. She started her art education at the Bendigo School of Mines in the 1890s, and in 1899, she moved to Paris to continue her studies. From about 1912 she shuttled between London and Paris, but finally settled in Paris at 18 Rue de l'Odéon. Agnes Goodsir moved within lesbian circles in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s, her constant companion was Rachel Dunn, known as Cherry and depicted in several of her paintings, such as Girl with Cigarette 1925, The Letter 1926.


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Definition of LMAO
 1. It is an acronym that comes from the English phrase Laughing My Ass Off and its meaning in Spanish is "Me cago de la risa". This expression is used when indicating that something is very funny. For example: I saw a movie and the whole time I was LMAO.
 2. By extension, it is used as a synonym that something is funny or causes laughter regardless of its intensity.
The acronym LMAO comes from the English phrase laughing my ass off, which literally means "breaking my ass." From that perspective, other possible translations would be "I'm shit laughing" or "I'm dying of laughter". This term began to be used on the internet to mean something that is very funny.
This abbreviation is part of internet jargon and is clearly rude. However, the expansion of its use has led to it being used as a synonym for something that is funny without the need to refer to its literal meaning.
 1. A more vulgar derivation of LMAO is the acronym LMFAO which means "laughing until my fucking ass falls off". In this case, it is a direct use of foul vocabulary.
 2. LMFAO was an American electro pop duo that ran from 2006 to 2012. Some of the group's achievements were, for example, making their two albums among the top three dance albums in America.


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Modules are items used to enhance existing buildings' capabilities. They are expensive, require appropriate research, and are produced slowly, but can eventually greatly improve the efficiency of a factory.
Quick usage summary:
- For more products per second a speed module should be used.
- For more products per input resource a productivity module should be used.
- For more products per watt of energy an efficiency module should be used (except in rare cases when productivity modules are also used - then a speed module might be better).
Note that changing a machine's energy consumption directly affects how much pollution the machine generates. This is the case because the pollution production rate is directly linked to the machine's energy consumption, so this applies even when power is produced in a pollution-free way.
Types of modules
There are three types of modules in Factorio, each with 3 tiers of effect. Higher tiers have stronger effects but are more expensive. Note that the machine's properties (speed, energy consumption and pollution) cannot be reduced below 20% of the original value.
Speed modules increase the speed and energy consumption of a machine.
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Advantages & Disadvantages:
- Increases speed of machine.
- If used with productivity modules, it can increase the efficiency of the machine in terms of items produced per watt (or items produced per pollution generated).
- Increases energy use per cycle (exceptions exist).
- Increased energy usage means increased pollution generation (pollution depends on power usage).
Productivity modules add a purple "productivity bar" when placed inside item-producing buildings and labs. If the productivity bar is already present through completed research, the modules will simply speed up the bar. Each time the machine finishes crafting the recipe it is set to, an amount is added to the bar equal to the percentages of the productivity modules inside the machine. When the bar reaches 100%, an extra set of products is immediately generated without consuming any resources.
Productivity modules can only be used in machines that are set to make intermediate products. These are all the ores mined by electric drills, the stone brick (and anything else smelted in a furnace) and some of the items listed in the intermediate products tab. Exceptions to the items listed in this tab are: the satellite, the recipes that fill/empty a barrel, nuclear fuel, and nuclear fuel reprocessing. Productivity modules cannot be placed in beacons either. When a recipe uses the same item as an input and output (e.g. coal liquefaction and the kovarex enrichment process) the productivity bonus only applies to the net product.
Advantages & Disadvantages:
- Creates an additional free item occasionally.
- Increases energy use per cycle.
- Increases pollution generated.
- Slows the machine.
Efficiency modules reduce the required electricity to run the machine. The lowest amount of energy that efficiency modules can be used to achieve is 20% of the machine's base energy usage.
Advantages & Disadvantages:
- Reduces energy use per cycle.
- Decreased energy usage means decreased pollution generation (pollution depends on power usage).
- Cannot lower energy usage below 20%.
- If used with productivity modules, sometimes the efficiency gain is lower than what a speed module could achieve.
As a rule modules do not have diminishing returns (except that consumption is capped to -80%), that is if an assembler is making 2 items per second, adding 1 speed 3 module (+50% speed) will increase item production by 1/s, a second speed3 module will increase production by the same 1/s. Consumption modifiers work the same way, for example if a machine is consuming 180kW, the first efficiency 1 module will reduce energy use by 54kW, the second will also reduce energy use by 54kW. There is no difference between putting 2 speed 1 modules in one machine and 2 efficiency 1 modules in a second machine, than putting 1 of each in both machines - in both cases the total items produced per second and average energy required per item is identical.
There is however synergy between productivity modules and speed modules, productivity modules reduce crafting speed which lowers the production rate of items and increases the energy consumed per item, the speed bonus from speed modules increases production rate of items and lowers the energy consumed per item - in fact when dealing with productivity modules, the reduction in energy consumption from the increased speed from speed modules can be greater than the increased energy consumption. For detailed calculations on the synergy between productivity modules and speed modules refer to this discussion as well as this warning.
Filling the device with speed modules is useful when a resource is infinite but the amount of resource pools is low. The best example would be oil deposits. Another good place to use speed modules would be for assembly machines which make products that take a long time to make, for example engine units. Using speed modules allows more compact setups, because one machine can provide materials to more consumers than normal. If used together with productivity modules, they can also increase efficiency (in terms of items produced per watt or per pollution generated) of a machine.
Filling devices with productivity modules is recommended when resources are scarce. An example would be more advanced products not being produced enough due to bottlenecks. It will take longer and more energy, but the overall amount of products per time will be higher. Productivity is especially useful in recipes that consume a lot of resources per second such as electronic circuits, as this will result in a lot of free items being created and quickly cover the cost of the module. Also by saving the need to mine ore, smelt plates and process intermediates for those free items the additional energy cost can be easily covered.
Filling devices with efficiency modules is recommended for electric furnaces as these use a lot of power. Note that making higher level efficiency modules are not worth it in terms of power saved vs materials used to build a solar panel setup with same power output so the only incentive is to further reduce pollution or space utilization. Modules are also able to control pollution, as pollution depends also on energy usage. So reducing a machine's energy usage by 40% with a efficiency module 2 will also reduce its pollution by 40%. Beware as this also works vice versa! Also note that if you're using productivity modules, a speed module can sometimes provide better efficiency gains due to the fact that the machine will now be producing much more items per second. Efficiency modules also generally don't work well in beacons.
Examples of usage
Electric furnaces are huge power hogs at 180 kW per furnace. 1 basic efficiency module reduces it by 54 kW (−30%) – almost a solar panel worth of power. Electric mining drills normally create 10 units of pollution, using 3 basic efficiency modules on them reduces their pollution production by 80% to 2 units per minute.
Using productivity module 3s in the rocket silo reduces the total resource cost for 1 rocket launch by almost 30%, saving 26k copper ore per rocket launch.


Why isn't my Heat turning on with my Sensi?
If you are finding that your heat is not running, check the physical Sensi thermostat on the wall. Ensure that the Wifi symbol is present in the top left corner, and does not show an "X". If your Sensi is not connected to Wi-Fi, Ecovent will not be able to adjust it to ensure your comfort settings are met.
Follow these steps to reconnect your Sensi to Wi-Fi
If your Sensi is connected to the Wi-Fi and the heat is not running, check that the set point is above the current room temp:
 1. If the set point is below the current temperature, Ecovent has determined that your heat should not be running as a result of your room settings. You can raise your room temps in the Ecovent app and shortly after Ecovent will adjust your Sensi thermostat.
 2. If the set point is above the current room temperature, use this guide from Sensi to determine if your HVAC is set up properly and configured for your heat source.
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Exhibit: Walls that Speak: The Murals of Colorado
The exhibition, featuring murals from Denver Public Library's Western History Collection, will illustrate how Colorado's murals and muralists tell the state's history in a vibrant and compelling way. The murals displayed in Walls that Speak span the City Beautiful movement, the development of the Broadmoor Art Academy and subsequent Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, the Works Progress Administration era, the Chicano movement, and contemporary muralists.
The exhibition was made possible by collaboration between the Denver Public Library, curators Deborah Wadsworth and Megan Kemper, and book authors Georgia Garnsey and Mary Motian-Meadows. Other contributing institutions are the Kirkland Museum of Fine and Decorative Art, Denver, the Bailey Library and Archives of the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, and individual collectors.


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Measuring the dynamic response of structures due to blast loading is rather complex because of the high strain rates, the transient nature of the deformation and the interactions between the explosion and the structure. The blast response of structures has been an area of active research in recent years. Several studies have investigated dynamic deformations due to explosive blast loading on plates using strain gauges, accelerometers, velocity meters or pressure sensors which only provide point-wise information. This paper describes the use of a high-speed stereo-vision system combined with 3D digital image correlation (DIC) to obtain the full-field deformation of thin plates subjected to blast loading. The pressure distribution on the plates is calculated by finite element simulations and is validated by comparing the numerical deformation with the deformation pattern from the DIC. For the finite elements model the Johnson-Cook material model is used to simulate the behaviour of the plate. The tests are performed for different boundary conditions, more specifically: for different materials and thicknesses of the plate.
|Titel||SEM Annual Conference & Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics|
|Status||Published - 7 jun 2010|
|Evenement||Unknown - Stockholm, Sweden|
Duur: 21 sep 2009 → 25 sep 2009
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UTOPIA – Is climate smart forestry a utopia if the preferences of landowners are not considered?
Research Council of Finland, Funding from EU Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF)
UTOPIA – Is climate smart forestry a utopia if the preferences of landowners are not considered? The objective of the UTOPIA project is to develop methods to support stakeholders in implementing climate smart forestry, which advances carbon neutrality but also considers financial objectives. In the analysis, a landscape is composed of holdings and holdings are composed of stands. Holdings have typically different owners that have different preferences about what kind of management is practiced in their stands. We focus on supporting decision making in this setting and finding the most preferred solution among multiple conflicting objectives. University of Eastern Finland is in charge of the Work Package 2, aiming to identify to what extent the private ownership constrains climate smart forestry at the landscape-level, and to develop support solutions that produce climate benefits through negotiations between landowners. The project is funded by the Research Council of Finland and implemented in the Natural Resources Institute Finland, University of Eastern Finland and University of Jyväskylä.
Research Professor, coordinator of the project
Forest-Human-Machine Interplay - Building Resilience, Redefining Value Networks and Enabling Meaningful Experiences (UNITE) 01.07.2020 - 31.12.2024
Mikko NiemiPostdoctoral ResearcherSchool of Forest Sciences, Faculty of Science, Forestry and Technology
Veera TahvanainenPostdoctoral ResearcherSchool of Forest Sciences, Faculty of Science, Forestry and Technology
Sonam OjhaProject ResearcherSchool of Forest Sciences, Faculty of Science, Forestry and Technology