How to create a population pyramid
A population pyramid shows the distribution of various age groups in a population, for men and women. It's a great way to communicate the age distribution; to see, e.g., that a country has a very young or very old population. It's a common chart type, so most readers won't have problems reading this chart type.
In this tutorial, we will create a population pyramid with Datawrapper's split bar chart.
There are four steps in each Datawrapper chart creation pipeline: Upload Data, Check & Describe, Visualize and Publish & Embed. We will go through all of them:
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Upload data
In this first step, you can copy & paste data from Excel or the web, or upload your own CSV files. Here is a part of the data for our chart up there:
Age span Male Female
95-100 34000 138000
90-95 213000 490000
85-90 619000 _PHONE_
80-85 _PHONE_ _PHONE_
... ... ....
20-25 _PHONE_ _PHONE_
15-20 _PHONE_ _PHONE_
10-15 _PHONE_ _PHONE_
5-10 _PHONE_ _PHONE_
<5 _PHONE_ _PHONE_
Note how the data set should be structured:
 - One header row containing labels ("Age span", "Male" and "Female").
 - The first column defines the age buckets ("15-20", "20-25", etc.). Alternatively, years or single ages work.
 - The second and third column contains the number of people in this age bucket, for males and females. This number can be absolute, like in our cases, or relative (shares of the population).
This is how the data looks like once we copied it in step 1, Upload Data:
After finishing this step, click "Proceed" to get to the second step, Check & Describe:
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Check & Describe
Here, your data should look like above. If your first column contains dates (like years, days, weeks), Datawrapper will tell you that it detected the data format and will color it green. Numbers will appear in blue. To learn more about data column type detection, visit this article.
Finally, make sure that the box "First row as label" is ticked so that Datawrapper correctly assigns the values to the labels. Click on "Proceed" and Datawrapper will take you to the next step:
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Visualize
In this step, you can see four tabs. In the first tab, "Chart type", we see a grid of chart types. To create a population pyramid, we want to choose the chart type "Split Bars":
In the second tab, "Refine", we can configure our chart; e.g., we can change the colors of the bars To learn more about each feature, visit the article "Customizing your split bar chart". Here we will talk only about the settings that will define a population pyramid:
First, you want to make sure that the number format works best for this chart. You can find the number formatting in the panel "Labeling". If you have very high population values, choose the number format "123.45k" or "123.4k". In case your pyramid shows population shares, choose the format "0%" or "0.0%".
But our pyramid still doesn't look like a pyramid. To change that, we want to go to the next panel, "Appearance", and "Mirror Bars":
You can also play around with the space between the columns. Maybe you prefer no space between the male and the female numbers at all? We also turned on the bar background, to give the whole chart a less cluttered appearance.
Finally, we changed the custom range in the last panel, so that the bar background appears even for the highest value. Extending the custom range gives the whole chart a more tidy look:
In the last two tabs, you can add annotations and choose the design for your chart. Visit the article "Customizing your split bar chart" to learn more about these features.
Click on "Publish" to get to the last step, "Publish & Embed".
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Publish & Embed
Congratulations to your finished population pyramid! In this last step, you can publish your work and decide how to share it with the world. The best way to use a Datawrapper chart is by embedding it directly on your website. To do that, click the big blue button that says " Publish Chart". Then, copy & paste the embed code snippet into your website or CMS. You can also download your chart as a PNG or PDF by upgrading to a paid Single or Team account.
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AbstractBONN has chosen to concentrate on an innovative concept that will lead to the design and development of a single, integrated flight performance model for various aircraft platforms. This flight performance model, to be known as the Common Flight Performance System CFLIPS), also features an easy-to-use interface that will enable TAMPS Mission Planning Module (MPM) developers to quickly and easily develop their software, without requiring extensive expertise in flight performance modelling and TAMPS software development. The CFLIPS integrated flight performance model will dramatically decrease MPM development time. BONN will analyze existing Flight Performance Models (FPMs) to identify commonality in flight modes, functionality, and software implementation, to develop a common flight performance modelling methodology that can be applied to various aircraft platforms. As part of this analysis, BONN will also examine a versatile three-degree-of-freedom, point mass air vehicle maneuvering software module called Perform, which may produce a superior generic model to polynomials. BONN will design the CFLIPS integrated, data-driven, flight performance model, and a simplified Application Programming Interface (API) to the CFLIPS integrated flight performance model. BONN will also design tools to create tabular data for CFLIPS from electronic and hardcopy sources, such as GFE polynomials, existing MPMs, and flight manuals.
* information listed above is at the time of submission.

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Clearly we can't have three collinear points on a sphere. Look at the "on a sphere" case and assume there is a configuration where they do not all lie on a single sphere.
Any three points define a plane. The locus of points equidistant from these three is a line perpendicular to the plane (through the circumcentre). There are at most two points on such a line which are unit distance from the original three, $P$ and $Q$ say. These are the centres of two unit circles, and one of the remaining two points must lie on each sphere.
Note that $P$ and $Q$ are related by a reflection in the original plane. There are five sets of four points in the original configuration. Each set defines a unit sphere, and if two spheres are the same, then all are. So there are five spheres and the centres are related by reflections in the planes defined by triangles.
[From here is a bathtime intuition which, per comments doesn't work. However note that each pair of centres is related by a reflection, which may not map other centres to centres, and therefore creates an infinite group. I thought I could see the group acting on the centres, but I can't make it work - thanks for comments to put me right]
There is just one group of order 5 - cyclic - and this would imply that the centres of the five spheres formed a regular pentagon. Since this does not provide a suitable configuration, none exists. [Would need three points in each of five planes meeting in a single line, no three collinear]

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 1. Mt. Fuji, Japan
 NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)
 2001-01-01
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 The nearly perfectly conical profile of Fuji soars 3,776 meters (12,388 feet) above sea level on southern Honshu, near Tokyo. The highest mountain in Japan, Fuji is the country's most familiar symbol. The summit of this graceful, dormant volcano is broken by a crater 610 meters (2,000 feet) in diameter. The crater is ringed by eight jagged peaks. The five Fuji Lakes lie on the northern slopes of the mountain, all formed in the wake of lava flows. Mirrored in the still waters of Kawaguchi-ko, the most beautiful of the five lakes, is a reflection of Fuji. Part of Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park, Fuji last erupted for a two-month period starting in November 1707, covering Tokyo, some 100 kilometers (60 miles) away, with a layer of ash. According to legend, Fuji arose from the plain during a single night in 286 BC. Geologically, the mountain is much older than this.
 Considered sacred by many, Fuji is surrounded by temples and shrines. Thousands of pilgrims climb the mountain each year as part of their religious practice, hoping to reach the summit by dawn to watch the sunrise. This animated fly-by was created by draping visible and near infrared image data over a digital topography model, created from ASTER's stereo bands. The spatial resolution of both the image and topography is 15 m. The image is centered at 35.3 degrees north latitude, 138.7 degrees east longitude.
 The U.S. science team is located at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. The Terra mission is part of NASA's Science Mission Directorate.
 2. Distant Mt. Fuji, Island of Honshu Japan
 NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)
 1992-01-01
 This distant view of Mt. Fuji, on the main home island of Honshu, Japan (34.0N, 139.0E) was taken from about 450 miles to the south. Evan at that great distance, the majestic and inspiring Mt. Fuji is still plainly visible and easily recognized as a world renowned symbol of Japan. The snow capped extinct volcano lies just a few miles south of Tokyo.
 3. Sterilization of Fuji pressure-sensitive film.
 PubMed
 Liggins, A B; Hardie, W R; Finlay, J B
 1994-11-01
 Fuji Prescale film is a pressure-sensitive medium which produces a characteristic pink stain on the application of pressure. Up to a saturation level, increases in pressure will produce a denser stain, thereby providing a method of determining pressures within the interface between two articulating surfaces. The relationship between the magnitude of applied pressure and the optical density of the resulting stain is non-linear; this relationship also varies with ambient temperature and humidity, in addition to load rate, and therefore requires a calibration procedure prior to use. The use of Fuji prescale film for recording interface pressures within the joint space in vivo has been widely reported; however, the object of this study was to assess the effects of sterilizing this medium, with a view to future in vivo applications. Samples of Fuji film were sterilized using a standard ethylene oxide (ETO) gas process and their subsequent pressure-recording properties were compared to a control group of samples. The 'optical-density vs pressure' relationship for the sterilized group was significantly different from that of the control group (paired Student's t-test, P < = 0.001); however, both groups provided reliable data across the same pressure-range and both exhibited an excellent degree of repeatability (coefficient of variation < 2.5%). It was concluded that Fuji film will continue to produce pressure-stains following ETO sterilization; however, the calibration of this film will only be valid if it is conducted using film from the sterilized group. PMID:_PHONE_
 4. Diurnal variation of atmospheric electric field at the summit of Mount Fuji, Japan, distinctly different from the Carnegie curve in the summertime
 NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
 Kamogawa, Masashi; Suzuki, Yuko; Sakai, Rikuma; Fujiwara, Hironobu; Torii, Tatsuo; Kakinami, Yoshihiro; Watanabe, Yasuyuki; Sato, Ryoe; Hashimoto, Satoshi; Okochi, Hiroshi; Miura, Kazuhiko; Yasuda, Hiroshi; Orihara, Yoshiaki; Suzuki, Tomoyuki
 2015-04-01
 In fair weather, a clear diurnal variation of atmospheric electric field (AEF), which is distinctly different from the global diurnal variation, i.e., Carnegie curve, was observed during the summer time (July and August) of the year 2010 and 2011 at the summit of Mount Fuji, Japan (3776 m in altitude). The variation of the AEF at the summit showed a local time dependent feature, which means that the AEF increased at sunrise and decreased at sunset. This local diurnal variation is known as a mountain variation. The intensity of AEF in the daytime reached 1.5-3 times larger than that in the nighttime. From the multipoint observations of cloud images and AEF, the mountain variation was found to be attributable to the AEF generated by the positively charged top of a horizontally extensive sea of clouds below the summit. Since the sea of clouds grows with the temperature rise, the AEF variation follows local time.
 5. 75 FR 20423 - Fuji Heavy Industries USA, Inc., Receipt of Petition for Decision of Inconsequential Noncompliance
 Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
 2010-04-19
 ... Register published on April 11, 2000 (65 FR 19477-78). The petition, supporting materials, and all comments... National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Fuji Heavy Industries USA, Inc., Receipt of Petition for Decision of Inconsequential Noncompliance Fuji Heavy Industries USA, Inc. (Fuji), on behalf of Subaru...
 6. 7 CFR 319.56-27 - Fuji variety apples from Japan and the Republic of Korea.
 Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR
 2010-01-01
 ... 7 Agriculture 5 2010-01-01 2010-01-01 false Fuji variety apples from Japan and the Republic of... and Vegetables § 319.56-27 Fuji variety apples from Japan and the Republic of Korea. Fuji variety apples may be imported into the United States from Japan and the Republic of Korea only in...
 7. Seismic exploration of Fuji volcano with active sources in 2003
 NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
 Oikawa, J.; Kagiyama, T.; Tanaka, S.; Miyamachi, H.; Tsutsui, T.; Ikeda, Y.; Katayama, H.; Matsuo, N.; Oshima, H.; Nishimura, Y.; Yamamoto, K.; Watanabe, T.; Yamazaki, F.
 2004-12-01
 Fuji volcano (altitude 3,776 m) is the largest basaltic stratovolcano in Japan. In late August and early September 2003, seismic exploration was conducted around Fuji volcano by the detonation of 500 kg charges of dynamite to investigate the seismic structure of that area. Seismographs with an eigenfrequency of 2 Hz were used for observation, positioned along a WSW-ENE line passing through the summit of the mountain. A total of 469 observation points were installed at intervals of 250-500 m. The data were stored in memory on-site using data loggers. The sampling interval was 4 ms. Charges were detonated at 5 points, one at each end of the observation line and 3 along its length. The first arrival times at each observation point for each detonation were recorded as data. The P-wave velocity structure directly below the observation line was determined by forward calculation using the ray tracing method [Zelt and Smith, 1992]. The P-wave velocity structure below the volcano, assuming a layered structure, was found to be as follows. (1) The first layer extends for about 40 km around the summit and to a depth of 1-2 km. The P-wave velocity is 2.5 km/s on the upper surface of the layer and 3.5 km/s on the lower interface. (2) The second layer has P-wave velocities of 4.0 km/s on the top interface and 5.5 km/s at the lower interface. The layer is 25 km thick to the west of the summit and 1-2 km thick to the east, and forms a dome shape with a peak altitude of 2000 m directly below the summit. (3) The third layer is 5-12 km thick and has P-wave velocities of 5.7 km/s at the top interface and 6.5 km/s at the lower interface. This layer reaches shallower levels to the east of the summit, corresponding to the area where the second layer is thinner. Mt. Fuji is located slightly back from where the Philippine Sea Plate subducts below the Eurasian plate in association with collision with the Izu Peninsula. Matsuda (1971) suggested that Mt. Fuji lies on the same uplifted body as
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For the wine sector, we have developed a modern and effective installation for controlling environmental humidity in wineries, based on high-frequency technology.
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Both the wood of the barrels and the cork are materials that are directly affected by environmental humidity, affecting the final quality of the wines. If we maintain stable conditions in the ambient relative humidity, we will also extend the life of the barrels.
- Provides humidity through filtered and disinfected water.
- Extends the life of the fresh product, preserving all its qualities.
- Reduces the loss of products by 4%, increasing sales.
- Maximum safety and complies with current regulations (HACCP).
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It ensures the correct evolution of the wine during the aging and aging phases. An inadequate temperature and humidity directly influence the evaporation of the wine, with the consequent loss of product that this entails. With Aqualife ENOL, this problem disappears.


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the refrigerator and must be eaten before the expiration date if you get it from the local or food store.
However, if you prepare it yourself, it can last longer as long as the freezer keeps working. In all, you should avoid over fermentation, and keeping it for too long can make it over ferment.
What is black natto?
Black Natto is a natural food made from soybeans with the black mold of Bacillus subtilis var. natto added and has a very strong smell, strong taste, and sticky nature. The black mold that is added to the soybeans as a starter is fermented for about three weeks.
Its bacteria help to improve bowel function and blood circulation. This product helps prevent diabetes and high blood pressure due to its effect on improving blood sugar. It is also reported to be effective in preventing cancer-related diseases. Black natto contains vitamin B1, B3, and iron, which are often lacking in the Japanese diet.
In Japan, black natto has gained popularity in recent years as both health food and as a more palatable alternative to the standard soybean natto. Unlike regular natto which can be hard and clumpy, black natto is softer and creamier, making it easy to consume directly on rice or in fishcakes. Other than its unique appearance, many people say that this variety of natto packs an even stronger taste that can linger in your mouth for a long time.
Can natto be heated?
You can heat it alone in the microwave or on the stove, or cook it with other dishes. Natto should be eaten at room temperature and cold. Since natto is made from fermented soybeans, heating it or freezing it will make it taste bitter or awful, just like when you boil miso. Also, the smell will spread to other foods around it!
In traditional Japanese cuisine, natto is eaten either by mixing it with sauces and seasonings or by wrapping it in nori. In addition, natto has often been heated for the purpose of eating the dish during different seasons; for example, in summer it is combined with ice water or served warm, or on hot days it may be placed on a bamboo mat and held under cold water.
Why do Japanese eat natto?
Natto, which is often considered very repulsive by westerners, has been accepted and enjoyed as a part of Japanese breakfast for about 200 years. There are lots of reasons for that: Natto is healthy, I think most of you would agree with me. It delivers lots of protein and B vitamins. The fermentation process also gives natto almost twice as much fiber as raw soybeans — 5 grams in 2 tablespoons (35 ml).
The Japanese like to eat natto because it's a source of protein that's both nutritious and delicious. Soybeans contain essential amino acids and various vitamins, including Vitamin K that helps strengthen our bones, and Vitamin B2 is important for making red blood cells. Natto has even been shown to reduce the risk of heart disease.
Can you eat natto for dinner?
You can eat natto for dinner. It has no gastrointestinal or digestive setback which could cause you to ignore it for dinner. In Japan, it is good for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
The unusual traditional food has a powerful, heady aroma and distinct taste. In Japan, it is usually eaten in the morning or for breakfast with cooked rice and miso soup. Although natto may seem challenging to try, once you know how to eat this healthy probiotic delight, your next natto experience will be a memorable one.
Is natto sweet or salty?
It can be both. Natto has a sweet, nutty flavor if it's made with soybean powder and sugar. But, if you use the natto-rice mixture it's really quite salty.
Do you heat natto before eating?
The way you eat natto all depends on you. While some love to have it cold, some can't eat it without it being warm. Therefore, you can either have it hot or cold.
Once you take it out of the refrigerator, you can place it in the microwave and warm it under low temperature, and then reach out to eat and enjoy the meal.
Is it OK to eat natto every day?
It is said that natto contains more minerals than most other foods. It can be a delicious alternative to some foods, along with soybeans, soy milk, and soybeans. Natto is rich in vitamins B2 and B1, as well as phosphorus and magnesium. So, if you are benefiting from this nutritional food every day, you are not doing too much.
It is a meal you can eat every day. It doesn't have any side effects. In Japan where the food is common, they eat the food every day both day and night.
If you are serious about what does natto taste like, then you are in the right place. Usually, natto has a strong smell, an acquired taste, and a sticky texture but its health benefits and nutritional value makes it quite hard to overlook.


Ask an Expert - Door Darting
Ask an Expert - Door Darting
Expert advice on dogs darting to the door
Q: Every time I go to leave the house or open the door for visitors, Tennyson, my Border Collie, attempts to dart through the door. How can I stop this annoying behaviour? —Doorman in Detroit
A:Door darting is more than annoying; it's potentially life threatening. Some dogs run into the street and are hit by vehicles. Others become lost or encounter aggressive dogs. To keep your dashing darling safe, it is imperative that he is nowhere near the door when it opens, regardless of whether you are letting visitors in or leaving. Until training is complete, use a tether for management; wrap a leash around a banister or the leg of a heavy piece of furniture, then slip the clip through the loop. Whenever the doorbell rings, take a moment to attach the clip to Tennyson's collar before you answer.
Now for a training solution. Place Tennyson's bed away from the door but where he can see visitors arrive, and practice down-stays there. Once the behaviour is reliable, teach Go to bed, meaning, "Go to your bed, lie down, and stay until you are released." Begin by sending Tennyson to the bed from a short distance. Work gradually toward cueing him to go to bed as you stand together at the front door, since that's where he's most likely to be when he hears the doorbell.
Next, add an "environmental cue," meaning the cue comes from something in the environment rather than from you. Since you are concerned about door darting both when guests enter and when you leave, the cue we'll use is your hand touching the doorknob. To teach it, touch the knob, then say, "Go to bed." With repetition, Tennyson will anticipate that your hand on the doorknob is followed by the verbal cue, so he'll eventually start going toward the bed as soon as your hand touches the knob. It does take a bit of practice to accomplish this with the added distraction of visitors, but you'll soon be impressing your guests, and more importantly, ensuring that Tennyson stays safe.
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We have five rescued pups ranging from Preston the Greyhound to Ming, our new chihuahua mix. Ming is our latest arrival from our sister who could no longer keep her. All of our dogs have learned to stick to us like glue when we go outside. We have no darters. This changed with Ming. She was used to being locked up all day long and any chance at all she had to breathe fresh air was taken with vengeance. As soon as the door cracked a bit, she was off running as fast as she could and wouldn't stop until she was near exhaustion. This was both frustrating and frightening. Our sister told us that she did this, but that "she would come back eventually." Well, we couldn't take that risk, so we took the time when we were home to take her out in the front yard on a leash while our other dogs just freely mulled around as usual. Then we would release the leash after a few minutes and let her nose around. After several days, she learned that she didn't have to "run" for freedom and that she would get to go outside whenever we came home. Now she no longer bolts out the door, but instead after greeting us, we let her walk around in the front yard for a few minutes and then back into the house. All of our dogs know that they will be allowed to feel the joy of freedom at least a few minutes a day and they no longer feel the need to bolt off to get it. This training is worth the time. Otherwise you will always be afraid that they will slip out unexpectedly. Give your dog the chance to trust you in allowing some freedom and give you the chance to trust him or her not to run off. I prefer this to training our dogs that the door is something else that must be controlled. Instead, let them know that they need not have to flee for a little freedom. Once they get used to getting to go outside to nose about, they will lose interest in running off.
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This optical brainteaser presents a unique and fun challenge that can be used to teach the basic dimensions of color: hue, value and saturation. The 64 colors on the cube are combinations of cyan, magenta and yellow. Each cube is made up of 0%, 33%, 67% or 100% of the three colors. As you arrange the 64 smaller cubes to build the large cube, your challenge is to find the one truly harmonious solution to this puzzle. Instructions, color poster and color guide included. For ages 10 to 110! This is a great combination of art and science!
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Connect the AI Vision Sensor to App-based VEXcode V5
To utilize your AI Vision Sensor in VEXcode projects, the initial step is to establish a successful connection between the sensor and VEXcode. This requires:
 - An AI Vision Sensor.
 - A V5 Brain.
 - A computer with either App-based or Web-based VEXcode V5.
 - A smart cable.
 - A USB-C cable.
With these items in hand, proceed below to see the steps for connecting your AI Vision Sensor to VEXcode V5.
1. Connect the AI Vision Sensor to the V5 Brain with a Smart Cable.
2. Connect the AI Vision Sensor to your computer with a USB-C cable
3. Open VEXcode V5 and open the Devices menu.
4. Select Add a Device.
5. Select AI Vision.
6. Select the Smart Cable port that the sensor is connected to.
7. Select Configure.
8. The AI Vision Sensor's video screen will show what the sensor is seeing.
This may take a few seconds to update.
If it does not update, check your cable connections to the sensor and computer.
9. Below the AI Vision Sensor's screen is information about the AI Vision Sensor's firmware.
10. If the button says New Update Available, that means you need to update the firmware. Follow this article to learn about Updating the AI Vision Sensor's Firmware.
11. If it says Firmware is Up to Date then your AI Vision Sensor has the most current firmware and is ready to go!
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 DB Connection
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 DB Data referencing the selected table
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I am wondering how compass calibration works / why e.g. drawing an 8 or rotating the phone to all 3 axis works (or at least shall work) - I mean I would understand the calibration process, if an application would say me: Point to north, then press that button down there, but you can start at basically zero knowledge for the app, just by rotating your phone! How is that done? Also, do I need to enter a special calibration mode or can I draw these figures (like the 8) directly in Google Maps? How does Google Maps know that I am not just really moving the phone but want to calibrate the compass? Thanks for any hint!
Compass calibration works by detecting the magnetic field intensity of earth. But sometimes due to strong interference from other electronic devices like transformers compass sensor may get wrong idea about the magnetic poles of earth and can point in wrong direction. So to ensure that it asks users to recalibrate compass by rotating in figure 8 direction so that it can judge the magnetic intensity in all directions and then from that data it deduces the actual poles of earth.


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The Minister of Health, Jane Aceng has tabled the Uganda Human Organ Donation and Transplant Bill, 2021 for first reading. Aceng tabled the bill during the Tuesday plenary sitting chaired by Speaker Anita Among. The Bill was received and referred to the Committee on Health for scrutiny pursuant to Rule 129 of the Rules of Procedure.
The object of the Bill is to establish a legal framework for the regulation of organ, cell and tissue donation and transplantation in Uganda.
According to the Bill, Government aims at protecting the dignity and identity of every person and guarantee, without discrimination, respect for his or her integrity and other rights and fundamental freedoms with regard to donation and transplantation of organs, tissues and cells of human origin.
"Uganda does not have any law governing human organ donation and transplantation which is increasingly becoming an area of health care used to cure non communicable diseases that are rising rapidly. It is therefore imperative to enact an enabling law to address the existing challenges taking into account that healthcare is continuously evolving," the Bill reads.
The Bill seeks to address the current lacuna that is existent in both the law and the health care in Uganda in relation to organ, cell and tissue donation and transplant system. Due to the vacuum in the law, there has been concern about the increase in the illicit trade in and trafficking of human organs, cells and tissue.
"There is therefore need to regulate organ, cell and tissue donation and transplantation in order to enforce Principle XX of the National objectives and Directive Principles of the State Policy of the Constitution of the Republic of Uganda which provides that the State shall take all practical measures to ensure the provision of basic medical services to the population. This will protect Ugandans from being potential victims of organ, cell and tissue trafficking," the Bill states.


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[deck]While there's not much change on the fresh side, total potato crop production in Canada is down slightly from a year ago.[/deck]
CANADA'S POTATO crop production for 2014 is expected to be slightly lower than last year, according to the United Potato Growers of Canada.
Recent UPGC figures show a drop of just over three per cent nationally, with the biggest decline in Manitoba where crop production is expected to be down almost 15 per cent from a year ago. Quebec, with a close to nine per cent decline, and Ontario, with a nearly six per cent drop, are also down significantly from 2013. However, there are projected increases of about three per cent in both of the two main crop producers in Atlantic Canada, Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick.
Other figures from UPGC show virtually no change in crop production on the fresh potato side from 2013 to 2014. Of the main potato producing provinces, Prince Edward Island, at 10.5 per cent witnessed the largest increase, while Quebec had the biggest decline with a nearly 14 per cent drop.
The declines in total potato crop production can be attributed to cuts in processing acres in many areas coupled with unfavourable weather in most parts of the country at the beginning of the season.
Despite the cold, wet weather that delayed planting for many growers, this year's crop managed to catch up and was actually doing pretty well heading into harvest, according to Kevin MacIsaac, UPGC general manager.
"The crop was late planting but thankfully we had good growing conditions for some part of the summer," he says. "We're looking at pretty favourable yields, I think."
THE POTATO supply-and-demand picture was also shaping up to be "pretty decent" by summer's end, according to MacIsaac. "We're pretty well where we should be in terms of production," he says.
That's good news in terms of potato prices, although MacIsaac did caution that a continuation of a market oversupply trend in Idaho could result in some pricing pressure generally in North America.
FALL POTATO production is up in the United States compared to a year ago, according to Bruce Huffaker's North American Potato Market News. Huffaker expects U.S. growers to produce nearly 415 million hundredweight of fall potatoes in 2014, a 4.1 per cent increase from 2013.
Market information courtesy of the UPGC, UPGA and iindustry partners, and Bruce Huffaker, market analyst and publisher of North American Potato Market News.


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Design Principles for Promoting Intergroup Empathy in Online Environments
Interdisciplinary Journal of e-Skills and Lifelong Learning • Volume 12 • 2016 • pp. 225-246
This study examined a professional development program designed to support Civics teachers in their efforts to promote empathy among Israeli Jewish students towards Israeli Arabs. The design rationale for the program is that teachers should experience empathic processes themselves before supporting their students in such an endeavor and that meaningful empathic processes can occur online if activities are properly designed. All phases of the program were designed to support teachers to participate as part of an online community of practice. Sixty Jewish teachers participated in two iterations of the design study. Refinements were made in the second iteration to provide teachers with explicit definitions of empathy and specific instructions for reflection. Findings indicate that these changes were reflected in higher degrees of empathic responses among teachers. Teachers also indicated that being a part of an online learning community contributed to the learning process they experienced during the program. We interpret this as a first step in enabling teachers to assist their students to develop a more empathetic approach toward the minority group and conclude with a discussion of recommended design principles for promoting such an approach.
empathy, minority group, teacher professional development, teachers as designers, online learning community
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Why when I assign constant to variable and update it, constant is being updated to? Is it expected behavior or bug?
ruby-1.9.3-p0 :001 > A = { :test => '123' }
 => {:test=>"123"}
ruby-1.9.3-p0 :002 > b = A
 => {:test=>"123"}
ruby-1.9.3-p0 :003 > b[:test] = '456'
 => "456"
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Note that this also shows that "constants" in Ruby are not actually enforced to be constant. – Andrew Marshall Apr 10 '12 at 7:12
possible duplicate of Constant Assignment Bug in Ruby? – Andrew Grimm Apr 10 '12 at 7:25
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This is expected behavior, but why isn't always obvious. This is a very important distinction in languages like Ruby. There are three things in play here:
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 2. The variable b
 3. The hash { :test => '123' }
The first two are both kinds of variables. The third is an object. The difference between variables and objects is crucial. Variables just refer to objects. When you assign the same object to two variables, they both refer to the same object. There was only ever one object created, so when you change it, both variables refer to the changed object.
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This is because of the shallow copy mechanism. In your example A and b are actually references to the same object. To avoid that use:
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This will initialize b with a copy of A instead of pointing it to the same hash(i.e. this uses deep copy).
For more info see here what shallow and deep copy is.
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Thanks! That's what I wanted to know. – p0deje Apr 10 '12 at 6:00
It's probably not good that this answer doesn't mention references at all. – Andrew Marshall Apr 10 '12 at 7:12
Point taken. Thank you. – Ivaylo Strandjev Apr 10 '12 at 7:19
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I'd like to know if there is a way to determine if a variable contains a MooTools Class instance.
Here's the example below in jsFiddle: _URL_
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document.write('#1 instanceOf(aInstance,a) ='+ instanceOf(aInstance,a) + '') // aInstance is instance of a. Returns true.
document.write('#2 instanceOf(aInstance,Class) ='+ instanceOf(aInstance,Class) + '') // aInstance isn't instance of Class, so returns false.
Is there a way to make #2 happen?
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Eucharis ( Amazon ) Lily
The bulbous Eucharis or Amazon lily produces star shaped clusters of white flowers held high above the plant.
Each cluster contains 3-6 fragrant flowers. Amazon lily flowers are very showy, leaves are large and spectacular.
The large showy Amazon Lily white flowers are borne in an umbel of three to ten on an erect scape 40-80 cm long.
The flowers are beautiful in having a prominent corona, which is sometimes tinged with green.
The word "eucharis" comes from the Green eu-, meaning "good, true, original," and charis, meaning "loveliness, grace, and favor." It seems well-named, judging from this description.
Adding to the allure of the plant are the large, glossy, elliptic to oval leaves on long petioles that provide a perfect foil for the showy flowers. Leaves may be several inches wide, and they form a tight rosette that arises from the bulb.
The eucharist lily can bloom several times a year and prefers dappled shade when planted outside in the garden.
One can also grow them in pots to place them in the bathroom or even in balcony.
This Ecuadorian native is an excellent container plant and is happy in greenhouse, solarium or even on a windowsill, where a lightly shaded environment can be provided.
Facts About Amazon Lily
- Amazon Lily is a bulbous perennial plant.
- Amazon Lily plant leaves are basal and narrow into petioles.
- Amazon Lily is a beautiful shade loving plant from South America.
- The shinny dark green foliage is very attractive.
- The broad stalked leaves are 20-55 cm long and 10-20 cm broad.
- The glossy leaves of Amazon Lily plant are deep green, several inches wide and in the form of a rosette.
- The tall Amazon Lily spikes bear fragrant, waxy, long lasting white flowers.
- Mature clumps can flower at different times of the year but more often it will flower in the spring.
- It likes shade and sheltered areas and makes an excellent potted plant.
- The bulbs will go dormant if the temperatures goes near freezing.
- Amazon Lily plants can flower twice a year.
- All parts of Amazon Lily plant are poisonous if ingested.
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Rydberg blockade is a phenomena in 3 or more level systems of Rydberg dressed atoms.
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The wikipedia artilce on Rydberg atoms cites several papers from 2007 and 2008 that have "Rydberg blockage" in their titles. – dmckee Mar 9 '13 at 16:35
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In zero electric field, the interactions energy between two Rydberg atoms is $U=C_6 r^{-6}$. If the Rydberg transition is driven with an (effective) Rabi frequency $\Omega$, then the blockade radius is $$R_b = \left( \frac{\hbar\Omega}{C_6} \right)^{-1/6}$$ If one atom is excited to the Rydberg state, a second atom will be detuned by just enough to prevent a complete transition.
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If you want a neat inbox, you need to archive the emails you have already read that no longer have importance. Archiving mail allows you to access them whenever you need to retrieve them. However, the process is not complicated. The process is very easy and you can easily retrieve the email if you follow the steps.
The built-in mail app provided by Mac that you are using can also be clubbed with other third-party mail services such as Gmail or Outlook. Many people convert Apple mail to Outlook or Gmail using the built-in mail app. Therefore, you get numerous options for achieving your goal. Here is all the information you need to equip yourself to keep your inbox clean. All three scenarios are provided in detail, along with the steps you need to follow to perform your job successfully.
Archiving Gmail Emails on Mac
Using a Mac, you can set Outlook as default mail client Mac since you are not restricted only to the built-in mail app. You can still use Gmail. In such a case, you must store the email by clicking the achieve button that appears as a banker's box. You can easily find it at the right of the top of the page below the area where your search bar sits. Gmail also allows you to archive emails in bulk. But for this, you need to follow the below steps correctly:
 - Step 1: Open your inbox and select all the checkboxes displayed beside each email message.
 - Step 2: Select all the checkboxes that you want to archive.
 - Step 3: Finally, head to the Archive button at the top of the screen and click it. You are all set to enjoy a clean inbox now.
Archiving Mails in Your Mac Mail
Most people who use Macs tend to use the built-in mail app inside it. However, the method and steps you must go through to archive mail on a Mac are more or less similar to that of Gmail or Outlook. In the case of archiving a single mail, you can do it with the tap of your finger.
Click or tap on the Archive button which is situated right at the top of the window. Another easy way would be to right-click on a message you want to archive. You will see a context box that pops up, look for the archive menu and click on it.
Like Gmail, you can also archive emails in bulk as necessary. You must follow the steps which are mentioned below:
 - Step 1: Lead yourself to the command key on your keyboard and hold it down.
 - Step 2: Select all the messages that you want to archive in bulk by simply clicking on them.
 - Step 3: Look for the archive button at the top of your mail window and click it to end the process.
Archiving Outlook Emails on Mac
For people using Outlook, the method of achieving this is even simpler. You can do it by opening a message and selecting the Archive button at the top of the page. If you are unaware of the steps, you need not worry, as the method is similar to Gmail and Mac Mail. Follow the steps below to achieve your emails on Outlook in bulk:
 - Step 1: Lead yourself to the inbox and use the checkboxes beside each message.
 - Step 2: Select all the emails that you want to archive.
 - Step 3: Finish the process by clicking the archive button at the top of your screen.
Choose the Right Software for Yourself
These are all the steps that you need to know to ensure a tidy inbox. However, advanced technology has even allowed customers to use various mail services to automate the archive process. This acts as a great time saver for the ones with an unruly inbox that might take a considerable amount of time to clean and organize them. A variety of third-party software pieces is readily available in the market. This software is proven extremely useful for corporate officials who must check hundreds of emails regularly. If you opt for such software, you must choose depending on its various services and consider all your requirements.
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Octamed on the Amiga has a feature that assists one to create perfect slides/glides from note to note using effect commands(1xx,2xx or 3xx/5xx in Renoise).
One could simply select a few notes and let the program calculate the correct speed for noteslide command or 1xx / 2xx.
For example lets say i wanted to create a pitch slide from C-3 to C4 between rows 0-16.
In Octamed i could simply enter C-3 on row 0 and C-4 on row 16 select rows 0-16 and then chosse pitch slide(either using 1xx/2xx or 3xx), when using 1xx the program entered aproriate 1xx on all rows untill row 16 & targetnote was reached.
Or in the case of using 3xx the program would move the target note to the next row(row 1 of sourcenote was set on row 0) and calculate the slide speed and enter 3xx untill line 16 was reached.
I have looked around in the advanced edit and it's interpolation features but none seem to work well with pitch related commands, they work fine for volume and panning, maybe i'm blind?


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A newly proposed bill would require eggs from turkeys, ducks and pheasants to adhere to the state's egg laws, expanding it from just chickens.
The bill, which was introduced in the General Assembly this week, seeks to broaden the scope of Maryland's egg law to include eggs from any domesticated bird, not just domesticated chickens.
Other domesticated birds could include turkeys, ducks or pheasants.
Other proposed changes to the law include requiring that shell eggs produced by poultry other than domesticated chickens be sold by net quantity, such as by the dozen, rather than by weight. It also authorizes the secretary of agriculture to conduct examinations, tests and sampling for compliance and specifies what makes an egg spoiled.
The secretary of agriculture would also maintain and gain the power to enter any building, market, store, warehouse, production facility, food service facility, packing facility or any other place where shell eggs are produced, distributed, packed, donated, sold, offered or put out for sale.
There, they can sample, test or examine any egg, layer house, pen, cooler, packing facility, washing facility or "any other place or item to determine whether the environment of the facility where shell eggs are produced, packed, or held is in compliance," according to the bill.
The bill also clarified that an egg is adulterated or spoiled if it is contaminated by anything that can produce disease, poisonous or harmful substances, or any conditions "likely to cause contamination that may render the shell eggs injurious to human health."
According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1,373 farms in Frederick County in 2017 had a total of 1,130 broiler and other meat-type chickens in inventory. They also had a total of 71,018 layers, which are chickens that lay eggs.
Broiler chickens are chickens raised for meat.
The total market value of poultry and eggs sold in 2017 was $3.142 million.
Kelly Nichols, agricultural science agent at the University of Maryland Extension's Frederick office, said that several farmers in the county do have chickens and sell eggs, and that she would estimate the number of farmers who have eggs from other domesticated birds would be much lower than those who have chicken eggs.
Based on that assumption, Nichols said that while the number of people the bill would affect would be smaller, those people may need to fill out more paperwork and make sure they're current with any registration.
"The whole reason for the Maryland egg law is to ensure that people who are selling eggs are selling a quality product and it's safe for public consumption," she said.
The hearing for the bill is set for Jan. 16 at 2:30 p.m. before the Maryland Senate Education, Health and Environmental Affairs Committee.


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In the complex landscape of immigration and visa regulations, the "No Recourse to Public Funds" (NRPF) condition is a term that often arises. This condition, which is attached to certain visas in the UK, has significant implications for immigrants and their access to public resources. In this blog, we will delve into the details of the NRPF condition, understanding what it entails and how it affects those subjects to it.
Understanding the NRPF Condition
The NRPF condition is a restriction imposed on individuals who are in the UK on specific types of visas set out in paragraph 6 of the immigration rules. Essentially, it means that these individuals are not eligible to access certain public funds and benefits. The condition is in place to ensure that those granted temporary visas do not become a burden on the UK's welfare system.
Check if your immigration status lets you claim public funds
You're always allowed to claim public funds if you have any of the following:
- British or Irish citizenship
- settled status from the EU Settlement Scheme
- indefinite leave - unless you came to the UK on an adult dependent relative visa
- refugee status or humanitarian protection
- right of abode
You can't claim public funds if you don't have a right to be in the UK.
If you have any other immigration status
- Check your immigration documents, including:
- your biometric residence permit
- your decision letter from the Home Office
- your online immigration status if you have one
You're not usually allowed to claim public funds if it says 'no public funds' or 'no recourse to public funds' on your documents. This is called having a 'no public funds condition'.
If your immigration documents don't say you have a no public funds condition, you can claim public funds.
If you came to the UK as a visitor, you have a no public funds condition. This includes if you scanned your passport at an 'eGate' and didn't get any immigration documents.
Implications of NRPF
Having the NRPF condition on a visa means that individuals cannot access various public funds and benefits, including:
- Income-based Jobseeker's Allowance
- Income-related Employment and Support Allowance
- Housing Benefit
- Universal Credit
This restriction can pose challenges for individuals and families who may face financial difficulties while residing in the UK. It places the responsibility for financial support squarely on the visa holder and their sponsor (if applicable).
Which public funds are restricted from access due to this condition?
There is a definitive list of what counts as "public funds" for the purposes of the Immigration Rules at paragraph 6:
- attendance allowance
- carers allowance
- child benefit
- child tax credit
- council tax benefit
- council tax reduction
- disability living allowance
- discretionary support payments by local authorities or devolved administrations in Scotland and Northern Ireland which replace the discretionary social fund
- housing and homelessness assistance
- housing benefit
- income-based jobseeker's allowance
- income related employment & support allowance
- income support
- personal independence payment
- severe disablement allowance
- social fund payment
- state pension credit
- universal credit
- working tax credit
What services are still available?
Free school meals are accessible to individuals who do not have access to public funds. You can find comprehensive guidance on this matter here.
Benefits and services that are not explicitly mentioned in Immigration Rules at paragraph 6 of the regulations remain accessible. This encompasses contributory benefits, council tax reductions like the sole occupancy discount, and additional services such as healthcare and state-funded education. It's important to note that while there may be other eligibility criteria for accessing these services, such as passport checks for NHS access or specific qualifications for home tuition fees and maintenance grants, these criteria are not directly associated with the "no recourse to public funds" condition.
Benefits not within the definition of public funds include:
- Contribution based Jobseeker's Allowance
- Guardian's allowance
- Incapacity Benefit
- Contribution-based Employment and Support Allowance (ESA)
- Maternity allowance
- Retirement pension
- Statutory maternity pay
- Statutory sickness pay
- Widow's benefit and bereavement benefit
Exemptions and Limited Access
While the NRPF condition is generally strict, some exemptions and limited access to public funds in specific circumstances exist. For instance, in cases where leave was granted based on an individual's private life under Appendix Private Life, we examine paragraph PL 10.5 of the regulations:
The grant of permission will be subject to the following conditions:
(c) if the decision maker is satisfied that:
It's essential to seek professional advice to understand the specific rules and exemptions that apply to your situation.
The No Recourse to Public Funds condition is a crucial aspect of UK immigration policy, designed to ensure that individuals on certain visas can support themselves without relying on public resources. While it serves a purpose in maintaining the integrity of the welfare system, it can also present challenges for those subject to it. Understanding the conditions of your visa and seeking legal advice when necessary is crucial to navigating this complex aspect of immigration law effectively.
If you have questions or concerns about the NRPF condition or need professional assistance in dealing with immigration-related issues, don't hesitate to contact us. Our team of experienced immigration experts is here to provide guidance and support tailored to your specific situation. We're committed to helping you navigate the complexities of immigration law with confidence.


How to Measure the Uncertainty of Stock Prices around Earnings Announcement Days?
Stock prices often respond drastically to the information firms release to the market on quarterly earnings announcement dates (EADs) (see Figure 1). For instance, almost 20% of Google's total annual volatility is accumulated on EADs. Estimating the stock market risk ex ante (before the news release) is difficult as each of these announcements is unique. Our paper proposes a new way of measuring the uncertainty of stock returns around EADs using option price data.
The economic reason for the importance of EADs is related to the large amount of valuation relevant information and past company performance that is released to the market. Since this information is not known to investors before the earnings release, stock market uncertainty around EADs is particularly large. The main contribution of the paper is to develop a theoretical framework and practical estimators which capture the uncertainty around Earnings Announcement Days. We develop an option pricing theory which provides academics and practitioner alike with a new tool to study the risk around corporate events such as EADs.
After developing and introducing a new EAD uncertainty measure, we study how it may help forecasting stock market risk around EADs. First, we find that our measure produces accurate risk predictions and improves over widely used risk measures such as the dispersion in analyst forecasts. Second, our measure is robust and very easy to implement and is therefore straightforward to be applied in practice without the need for complicated mathematical or computational machinery. Fourth, we show that our proposed model taking into account EADs improves option pricing performance of between 15-20%.


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Household Food and Nutrition Security Strategic Framework
Community Food Committees for urban health and nutrition
The Household Food and Nutrition Security Strategic Framework represented a dramatic departure from South African food security policy and programming, calling for explicitly transversal governance approaches to address food security through food system interventions. Not only was the approach within the document novel, but so was the approach to framework development. The strategic framework was extensively workshopped within government and beyond. The government then sought to develop an implementation strategy through a series of facilitated stakeholder engagements.
Impact and innovation
Impact on urban food policy governance / Innovation from private sector
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29 January 2016 Impact of a deformed extreme ultraviolet pellicle in terms of the critical dimension uniformity
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The usage of an extreme ultraviolet (EUV) pellicle is regarded as a potential solution for defect control because it can protect the mask from airborne debris. However, some obstacles disrupt realistic application of the pellicle, such as its structural weakness, the risk of thermal damage, and so on. For these reasons, flawless fabrication of the pellicle is impossible. We discuss the influence of a deformed pellicle in terms of the nonuniform intensity distribution and the critical dimension (CD) uniformity. When we consider a 16-nm periodic pattern with dipole illumination, a transmission difference (max-min) of 0.7% causes CD uniformity of 0.1 nm. The deflection of the aerial image caused by gravity is small enough to ignore. CD uniformity is <0.1 nm, even for the current gap of 2 mm between the mask and pellicle. However, wrinkling of the EUV pellicle, caused by heat, can cause serious image distortion because a wrinkled EUV pellicle experiences both transmission loss variation as well as CD nonuniformity. The local angle of a wrinkle (as opposed to the period or amplitude of a wrinkle) is the main factor that influences CD uniformity, and a local angle of <∼16 deg is needed to achieve 0.1-nm CD uniformity for a 16-nm L/S pattern.
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Given a string name, look for a C/C++ variable in global scope with that name, returning it as a gcc.VarDecl, or None if it wasn't found
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY DOCK BOGGS FEB 7th 1898
Dock was an influential old-time singer, songwriter and banjoplayer. His style of banjo playing, as well as his singing, is considered a unique combination of Appalachian folk music and African-American blues. Contemporary folk musicians and performers consider him a seminal figure, at least in part because of the appearance of two of his recordings from the 1920s, "Sugar Baby" and "Country Blues", on Harry Smith's 1951 Anthology of American Folk Music collection. Boggs was initially recorded in 1927 and again in 1929, although he worked primarily as a coal miner for most of his life. He was "rediscovered" during the folk music revival of the 1960s, and spent much of his later life playing at various folk music festivals and recording for Folkways Records.


text: Much recent research has been devoted to the consequences of the completion of the internal market in 1992. Existing estimates of the effects of market integration remain very preliminary, however, and many important issues have yet to be adequately addressed. These formed the subject of a conference on "The Impact of 1992 on European Trade and Industry" held by the Centre for Economic Policy Research. This book reports the proceedings of that conference. The contributors to the volume address such issues as the gains to be expected from both "internal" and "external" economies of scale following integration, and the implications of 1992 for the Community's trade with both its traditional EFTA partners, the potentially valuable new East European markets, and the rest of the world. The volume also contains papers considering the effects of the completion of the internal market on the design of appropriate technology and taxation policies and a study of the role of Japanese foreign direct investment in European manufacturing.


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DescendantsLines is an in-development addon for Gramps which generates a graphical descendants tree using orthogonal edges and routing ("square edges").
- 1 Characteristics
- 2 History
- 3 Libraries
- 4 Current limitations
- 5 Installation
- 6 Usage
- 7 Tree compression and or modification
- 8 Development
- 9 Command Line Interface
- 10 See also
DescendantsLines presents an orthogonal family tree, currently in vertical mode only. In DescendantsLines, vertical mode, children in a family are ordered from left to right following the Gramps child order; and families are ordered right to left, top to bottom, following the Gramps family order.
2010: this script needs some updates for avoiding minor issues.
A modified script is available on the addons repository.
The program DescendantsLines, as the script in which it is based, is written in Python, using PyCairo and the Python XML library. Many Gramps modules are also used.
- Partial quoting of xml-syntax-like data. Data which resembles xml syntax (tags, etc) may cause error.
- Script ignores role on event (was added in 2007)
- Script ignores localized date handlers (using ISO date format, date quality in english)
- Memory limitation with a large database (DOM parsing)
- The last pixel column of each secondary line of each entry is wrong coloured (red instead black)
- The addon DescendantsLines does not use the Gramps document interface. (perhaps the Gramps document interface options should be hidden)
- DestinationOption does not have the usual error handling and user checking (e.g. for overwriting files)
- Size limit: Cairo surface size limit. (32767 for height and 32767 for width )
- Some PDF output size limit (currently crossing this limit will result in an empty PDF file)
Gramps 3.3 version
The Gramps 3.3 version of DescendantsLines can be installed through the Gramps Plugin Manager.
Gramps 3.4 version
To use the Gramps 3.4 version of DescendantsLines, on Gramps Trunk, now gramps34:
- Create the directory $GRAMPSHOME/gramps/gramps34/plugins/DescendantsLines/.
- Copy the files DescendantsLines.py and DescendantsLines.gpr.py from Gramps-addons trunk svn to the directory $GRAMPSHOME/gramps/gramps34/plugins/DescendantsLines/.
- Open Gramps and generate the report -- Reports -> Graphical Reports -> Descendants Lines. Choose the output path on "Destination" (default $GRAMPSHOME/DescendantsLines.png). The "Filename" option will contain an empty file after the report is run.
- The script currently runs in "debug mode" so it generates copious terminal output such as "Unknown event type:..." or "Unknown spouse:...". These warnings are harmless.
The options for the addon DescendantsLines are:
- S_DOWN - The length of the vertical edges from descendant to spouse-bar
- S_UP - The length of the vertical edges from spouse-bar to spouse
- S_VPAD - Length of vertical padding spacing between spouse and spouse-bar (?)
- FL_PAD - Length of padding spacing between S_UP edges (vertical edges from spouse-bar to spouse) and O_DOWN edges (vertical edges from spouse-bar to child-bar)
- OL_PAD -
- O_DOWN - The length of the vertical edges from spouse-bar to child-bar
- C_PAD - Length of padding spacing between children
- F_PAD - Length of padding spacing between families (?)
- C_UP - The length of the vertical edges from child to child-bar
- SP_PAD - Length of padding spacing between spouses
- MIN_C_WIDTH - Minimal width of child cells
- TEXT_PAD - Length of text padding
- TEXT_LINE_PAD - Length of text line padding
- output_fmt - The output format (PNG, SVG, PDF or PS)
- output_fn - The output filename
- max_gen - Maximum number of generations to include. (0 for unlimited)
- use_colors - Whether to use colored names indicating person gender in the output.
- name_format - The name format
- inc_places - Whether to include event places in the output
- inc_marriages - Whether to include marriage information in the output
- inc_dnum - Whether to use d'Aboville descendant numbering system
- style - The predefined output style
There are option and tree combinations which may generate overlapping edges and nodes. If using the inc_marriages option the S_DOWN - S_UP difference may need to be increased by 5-15 units depending on the tree.
- File:DescendantsLines-m-ep.pdf -- DescendantsLines, example Gramps data, inc_marriages and inc_places, PDF output.
- File:DescendantsLines-left.pdf -- DescendantsLines, Left-aligned text style, example Gramps data, use_colors, inc_marriages and inc_places, PDF output.
- File:Charlemagne-DescendantsLines.pdf -- DescendantsLines addon, inc_marriages and inc_places, PDF output, presenting a family tree of Charlemagne starting from Chloderic King of Cologne.
- File:PepinOfHerstal-DescendantsLines-left-dnum.pdf --DescendantsLines Gramps addon, Left-aligned text style, d'Aboville numbering (inc_dnum), descendants of Pepin of Herstal or Pepin II, PDF output. Data from _URL_
Tree compression and or modification
SVG format trees can be compressed and or modified manually using the program Inkscape, using the select and path tools; or using other SVG manipulating program. PNG format trees can be compressed manually by manipulating the image.
There is an in-development migration of this Gtk/cairo code to a draw plugin working into Gramps (font, style, path, canvas, output formats). This migration, DescendantsLines, does not use the Document interface of Gramps.
The idea is keeping Gramps XML parsing, but with a copy of the active database and use of current report environment (output formats, style, path).
- Add option to include event places. (done in Gramps-addons)
- Add option to include marriage information. (done in Gramps-addons)
- Using the library get_event_or_fallback() methods from gen.utils. (done in Gramps-addons)
- Add optional generation limit. (done in Gramps-addons)
- Make the XML export smaller. Use filter. (done in Gramps-addons)
- Add option for output format. (PNG, SVG, PDF or PS) (done in Gramps-addons)
- Add boolean option use_colors. (done in Gramps-addons)
- Use gen.display.name.displayer. (done in Gramps-addons)
- Add option for name display format. (done in Gramps-addons trunk)
- Add style variables and option, ref. text alignment, etc. (done in Gramps-addons)
- Use Gramps family order. (done in Gramps-addons)
- Add option to use d'Aboville descendants numbering system. (done in Gramps-addons trunk)
- Think of optional tree compression algorithms.
- Add option to include divorces.
- Add option to include spouse parents.
- Add option to include spouse ancestries.
- Add option to include arbitrary spouse ancestries.
- Add option to include arbitrary ancestries.
- Add option to include notes.
- Add option to include sources.
- Add option to include images.
- Add horizontal mode.
- Add optional text wrap width.
- Add optional text width with use of ellipses.
- Cairo provides hyperlink support. Names could be hyperlinks to html complete individual reports or to web report pages.
- This addon may with time become a general orthogonal family tree drawing resource for Gramps, for a View, etc., and outside Gramps as well. The PyCairo code can be connected to a view.
The hardcoded number option limits can be altered by users, by altering the code.
Pass 1: generate a tmp XML with only data needed for the report, to load it as input
- Enable Person selection (Gramps ID) - done
- Generate a temp Gramps XML database matching 'IsDescendantFamilyOf' filter rule - done
- Input path - done (need to set _USER_@: path_to_SVN/src on const.py)
- Clean-up - done
- simple Gramps XML template with events, persons, families objects (only export primary event role reference).
- 'localized' dates (does not follow last DTD, which uses english and ISO format).
FINISHED - it works fine!
Pass 2: use draw report environment
- Generate a plugins/docgen/PNGDrawDoc.py file
- Move Gtk code to draw report (if possible)
- Move cairo code to draw report (if possible)
- Output path
- Clean-up, pylint, etc...
Pass 2 (Alternate): use of user-defined (mega)-widgets
- Have a look at mega-widget request and implementation
- Output path through mega-widget
- Clean-up, pylint, etc...
Pass 2 (Alternate): use a DestinationOption
- Use a DestinationOption
- Ignore standard Filename option
Command Line Interface
Gramps provides a cli support for running reports and tools Gramps 3.4 Wiki Manual - Command Line.
- 4114: Would like to use stdin and stdout for command line import/export.
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area surface conversion
Amount: 1 square pole (sq pole) of area
Equals: 0.000025 Chinese píngfāng gōnglǐ (平方公里) in area
Converting square pole to Chinese píngfāng gōnglǐ value in the area surface units scale.
TOGGLE : from Chinese píngfāng gōnglǐ into square poles in the other way around.
CONVERT : between other area surface measuring units - complete list.
Conversion calculator for webmasters.
Area units calculator
Main area or surface units converter page.
Convert area surface measuring units between square pole (sq pole) and Chinese píngfāng gōnglǐ (平方公里) but in the other reverse direction from Chinese píngfāng gōnglǐ into square poles.
|conversion result for area surface:|
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Converter type: area surface units
This online area surface from sq pole into 平方公里 converter is a handy tool not just for certified or experienced professionals.
First unit: square pole (sq pole) is used for measuring area.
Second: Chinese píngfāng gōnglǐ (平方公里) is unit of area.
0.000025 平方公里 is converted to 1 of what?
The Chinese píngfāng gōnglǐ unit number 0.000025 平方公里 converts to 1 sq pole, one square pole. It is the EQUAL area value of 1 square pole but in the Chinese píngfāng gōnglǐ area unit alternative.
How to convert 2 square poles (sq pole) into Chinese píngfāng gōnglǐ (平方公里)? Is there a calculation formula?
First divide the two units variables. Then multiply the result by 2 - for example:
2.529285264E-5 * 2 (or divide it by / 0.5)
1 sq pole =? 平方公里
1 sq pole = 0.000025 平方公里
Other applications for this area surface calculator...
With the above mentioned two-units calculating service it provides, this area surface converter proved to be useful also as a teaching tool:
1. in practicing square poles and Chinese píngfāng gōnglǐ ( sq pole vs. 平方公里 ) values exchange.
2. for conversion factors training exercises between unit pairs.
3. work with area surface's values and properties.
International unit symbols for these two area surface measurements are:
Abbreviation or prefix ( abbr. short brevis ), unit symbol, for square pole is:
Abbreviation or prefix ( abbr. ) brevis - short unit symbol for Chinese píngfāng gōnglǐ is:
One square pole of area surface converted to Chinese píngfāng gōnglǐ equals to 0.000025 平方公里
How many Chinese píngfāng gōnglǐ of area surface are in 1 square pole? The answer is: The change of 1 sq pole ( square pole ) unit of area surface measure equals = to 0.000025 平方公里 ( Chinese píngfāng gōnglǐ ) as the equivalent measure for the same area surface type.
In principle with any measuring task, switched on professional people always ensure, and their success depends on, they get the most precise conversion results everywhere and every-time. Not only whenever possible, it's always so. Often having only a good idea ( or more ideas ) might not be perfect nor good enough solution. If there is an exact known measure in sq pole - square poles for area surface amount, the rule is that the square pole number gets converted into 平方公里 - Chinese píngfāng gōnglǐ or any other area surface unit absolutely exactly.
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Drilling mud agitator is an indispensable machine in excavation work, and it is also very important for excavation work. The drilling mud agitator plays a very important role in excavation. Mud mixer is one of the indispensable machinery in drilling operation, which is used to maintain the uniformity of drilling fluid and suspend solid particles. So specifically, what is the main function of drilling mud agitator in use?
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A lightweight library allowing diverse unit types, seamless implicit scaling between them and the ability to work efficiently with multiple factor-less base unit systems (e.g. MKS and cgs).
This is the second release of this library - details of changes made can be found in the History section at the end. There are some fixes, a covenient way of defining a unit as the inverse of another has been provided and it now correctly handles datum based measurements such as Celcius or height above a datum.
Contents
#Introduction, #Background, #Features, #Datum Measurements#Quick reference,
#Encapsulation of dimensional analysis, #Architecture of a unit type
#Code changes in the second release#Final comments#History
Introduction
This article could be of interest to anyone looking for a self contained and usable units of measurement library but is also an illustration of how templates can be used to extend the work of the compiler in checking and interpreting the code you write without generating any extra run time code.
It is not opaque template meta programming but it makes light use of some of the techniques on which template meta programming is built. It is lightweight in that it generates no extra run time code but also in that it overburdens neither the compiler nor a programmer trying to understand how it works. I did not approach this with a mastery of template techniques, instead I have developed a particular working knowledge of them in order to solve particular problems. I believe this 'engineering' approach may be a good match for the world that many programmers live and think in.
It does not require any of the features extended by more recent versions of C++. constexpr would be usefull in this context but it remains far from universally available.
If you just want to use this library to get things done then go directly to the #Quick reference section and use the #Features section as a further reference.
Background
A variety of units of measurement libraries already exist but for some reason their use doesn't seem to be popular. To be honest I have only given them a quick glance because I don't really need a units library. I just wanted to write one, motivated by an interest in using compile time template techniques to produce richer more intelligent data types. Of course what I have written is the one that I would like to use should I need one but also with an eye on its potential use by others.
As with many units systems it has at its heart Barton's and Nackman's approach to dimensional analysis described by Scott Meyers at
_URL_
This is based on template parameters representing basic dimensions such as Length, Mass and Time.
C++
template<int Length, int Mass, int Time> class unit
{
double value;
 ....
};
so
C++
typedef unit<1, 0, 0> LENGTH;
typedef unit<0, 1, 0> MASS;
typedef unit<0, 0, 1> TIME;
and
C++
typedef unit<1, 0, -1> VELOCITY; // LENGTH/TIME = <1, 0, 0> - <0, 0, 1>
typedef unit<1, 0, -2> ACCERATION; // VELOCITY/TIME = <1, 0, -1> - <0, 0, 1>
typedef unit<1, 1, -2> FORCE; // ACCERATION*MASS = <1, 0, -2> - <0, 1, 0>
This makes it possible to check that assignment, comparison, addition and subtraction can only take place between units that have the same dimensions and that multiplication and division produce units of the correct type.
The most basic implementation of this approach has an elegant simplicity:
C++
LENGTH metres(1);
LENGTH Kms(1000);
LENGTH m = 5*metres; //m is implicitly metres and its value is 5
LENGTH k = 2*Kms; //k is implicitly metres and its value is 2000
but it is slightly odd in its use of dimensions (e.g. LENGTH) as the data type (with implicit unstated units of metres) and variables as unit sizes. It is not directly units of measurement as the data type. Most units of measurement libraries provide a more sophisticated wrapping of this approach to overcome this and other limitations.
The following describes the features that have been built into this library.
Features
First of all to illustrate that this system doesn't suck you into any more complexity than your situation demands, if your only requirement is to work with length, area and volume then your units definition could be as simple as this:
C++
ulib_Dimension(1, LENGTH)
ulib_base_Unit(LENGTH, metres)
and this will enable you to write in your executable code:
C++
metres length=3;
metres width=4;
metres height=5;
sq_metres area= length* width;
cubic_metres volume= area * height;
You may also wish to use other units of length which you can define as scalars of the metres you have defined:
C++
ulib_scaled_Unit(Kms, =, 1000 , metres)
ulib_scaled_Unit(cms, =, 1/100 , metres)
ulib_scaled_Unit(feet, =, 0.3048 , metres)
and then in your executable code you can write;
C++
metres m=1500;
Kms k=m; //k will have a value of 1.5 (Kms) and m will have a value of 1500 (metres)
double ratio=k/m; //ratio will have a scalar value of 1 = 1.5 (Kms)/1500 (metres)
The scaling between metres and Kms is automatic and implicit and follows the rule of conserving quantity. That is, if a variable declared as metres holding a value of 1500 is assigned directly to a variable declared as Kms then the Kms variable will be set to 1.5 (the same quantity). Conversion factors no longer need to appear in your code or even any indication that a conversion should be done.
Defining units
The work of defining units is carried out entirely with the macros that follow.
First of all Up to 7 dimensions can be named and used. There is a well established custom of using three and making them Length, Mass and Time. Others are possible but not so popular.
C++
ulib_Dimension(1, LENGTH)
ulib_Dimension(2, MASS)
ulib_Dimension(3, TIME)
these named dimensions can then be used to define base units. In this case we will use the MKS base units of metres, kilograms and seconds:
C++
ulib_base_Unit( LENGTH, metres)
ulib_base_Unit( MASS , Kgs)
ulib_base_Unit( TIME , secs)
we can add units scaled from these as required
C++
ulib_scaled_Unit( Kms, =, 1000 , metres)
ulib_scaled_Unit( mins, =, 60 , secs)
ulib_scaled_Unit( hours, =, 60 , mins)
and we can build up a range of compoud units derived from binary combinations of existing units by multiplication or division. Here are some common unscaled compound units
C++
ulib_compound_Unit( metres_per_sec, =, metres, Div, secs) //VELOCITY
ulib_compound_Unit( metres_per_sec2, =, metres_per_sec, Div, secs) //ACCELERATION
ulib_compound_Unit( Newtons, =, metres_per_sec2, Mult, Kgs) //FORCE
ulib_compound_Unit( Joules, =, Newtons, Mult, metres) //ENERGY
ulib_compound_Unit( Watts, =, Joules, Div, secs) //POWER
we can also create compound units from scaled units
C++
ulib_compound_Unit( Kms_phour, =, Kms, Div, hours) //VELOCITY
and scaled units from compound units
C++
ulib_scaled_Unit( Kg_force, =, 9.806649999980076 , Newtons)
We can also define a unit as the inverse of another unit (added in 2nd release)
C++
ulib_Unit_as_inverse_of( Herz, secs)
Declaration
Once you have defined a unit, (say metres) you can declare variables using its name
C++
metres length;
its built in square and cubic forms
C++
sq_metres area;
cubic_metres volume;
its inverse
C++
inverse_of<metres>::type closeness;
or raised to any integral power
C++
to_power<metres, 4>::type variance_of_area;
The ::type ending is an appropriate reminder that inverse_of and to_power are type modifiers for unit declarations (a new concept that requires a new expression). They do not perform any operation on numbers.. They do not do anything at run tme.
In all cases the operations


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Artificial Intelligence and Robotics | Endocrine System Diseases | Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases | Radiology | Surgical Procedures, Operative
Background: Because obesity is associated with the risk of posttransplant diabetes mellitus (PTDM), the precise estimation of visceral fat mass before transplantation may be helpful. Herein, we addressed whether a deep-learning based volumetric fat quantification on pretransplant computed tomographic images predicted the risk of PTDM more precisely than body mass index (BMI).
Methods: We retrospectively included a total of 718 nondiabetic kidney recipients who underwent pretransplant abdominal computed tomography. The 2D (waist) and 3D (waist or abdominal) volumes of visceral, subcutaneous, and total fat masses were automatically quantified using the deep neural network. The predictability of the PTDM risk was estimated using a multivariate Cox model and compared among the fat parameters using the areas under the receiver operating characteristic curves (AUROCs).
Results: PTDM occurred in 179 patients (24.9%) during the median follow-up period of 5 years (interquartile range, 2.5-8.6 years). All the fat parameters predicted the risk of PTDM, but the visceral and total fat volumes from 2D and 3D evaluations had higher AUROC values than BMI did, and the best predictor of PTDM was the 3D abdominal visceral fat volumes [AUROC, 0.688 (0.636-0.741)]. The addition of the 3D abdominal VF volume to the model with clinical risk factors increased the predictability of PTDM, but BMI did not.
Conclusions: A deep-learning based quantification of visceral fat volumes on computed tomographic images better predicts the risk of PTDM after kidney transplantation than BMI.
artificial intelligence, body mass index, deep learning, fat, kidney transplantation, post-transplant diabetes mellitus
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Kim JE, Park SJ, Kim YC, Min SI, Ha J, Kim YS, Yoon SH, Han SS. Deep Learning-Based Quantification of Visceral Fat Volumes Predicts Posttransplant Diabetes Mellitus in Kidney Transplant Recipients. Front Med (Lausanne). 2021 May 25;8:632097. doi: 10.3389/fmed.2021.632097. PMID: 34113628; PMCID: PMC8185023. Link to article on publisher's site
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Kim JE, Park SJ, Kim YC, Min S, Ha J, Kim YS, Yoon SH, Han SS. (2021). Deep Learning-Based Quantification of Visceral Fat Volumes Predicts Posttransplant Diabetes Mellitus in Kidney Transplant Recipients. Open Access Publications by UMass Chan Authors. _URL_ Retrieved from _URL_
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