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Two basic components are required for generating a geometric fractal: an initiator and a generator. Multiple traversal strategies for both initiator and generator segments are proposed. It is shown how to generate many fractal images by changing the traversal strategies for the given initiator and/or generator. These fractals are referred to as traversed geometric fractals. A notation for representing and identifying segments of the initiator and the generator is presented. This notation is essential in producing traversed geometric fractals and deriving their properties. The generators are classified into various categories useful in analyzing the generated fractals' visual features.
Uday G. Gujar, Sthephen Y.M. Choi, Virendra C. Bhavsar, Prem K. Kalra, "Traversed Geometric Fractals", IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, vol. 13, no., pp. 61-67, September/October 1993, doi:10.1109/38.232099
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The definition of fiscal is something related to finances or public revenue.(adjective)
Fiscal is defined as an official person in some countries.(noun)
An example of a fiscal is the Crown Office and Procurator Service in Scotland.
See fiscal in Webster's New World College Dictionary
Origin: Fr < LL fiscalis < L fiscus, basket of rushes, public chest < IE *bhidh-, pot (> ON bitha, milk jug) < base *bheidh-, to weave, tie
See fiscal in American Heritage Dictionary 4
Origin:, from Latin fiscālis
Origin:, from fiscus, money basket, treasury.
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The history of the Depression era in Buffalo and Western New York will gain a little more attention – and likely become more accessible to the public – thanks to a new leadership grant awarded to the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library system.
The grant, just under $320,000, was made by the Institute of Museum & Library Services, which awards leadership grants nationally. The federal agency also awarded grants to 51 other museums and libraries across the country, library officials said.
The funding directed to Buffalo is intended as a two-year grant, library officials said, to fund an ongoing project known as "The Public Library as Digitized Commons – A Demonstration Project." The project got started in 2009.
The goal of the project is to create a first-ever catalog of resources related to Buffalo's history from the 1920s and 1930s, according to library officials.
An aim of the project is to make the region's Depression-era history accessible and searchable for the public, and to connect the public with this history in new ways.
"This project will generate deeper collaborations, new types of access to library and regional resources, and new ways to share the stories of our local heritage," Library Director Mary Jean Jakubowski said in a statement.
The Institute for Museum & Library Services is a source of federal support for 123,000 libraries and 17,500 museums across the country.


Japan's once-a-decade millipede train mystery cracked by researchers
A species of poisonous millipedes so numerous they stop the trains from running in Japan have been discovered to be living an unusually long life cycle.
Researchers from Shizuoka University in Japan were working to discover what led to entire train tracks being swamped by millipedes only once a decade.
Since 1920 it has been observed by Japanese train drivers that the invertebrates would form a "dense blanket" over the tracks, forcing them to wait until the millipedes cleared the tracks.
Millipedes flood train tracks in Japan. (Supplied)
New research published today theorises that the millipedes are living in an approximate eight-year cycle whereby a new brood will trek to a new habitat to eat food, lay eggs and die.
Eight years later, the new brood will travel again looking for food – and it just so happens they pass over train tracks.
If threatened or killed, the millipedes are known to emit the chemical cyanide, famously fatal to humans in concentrated amounts.
Samples of the millipedes. (Supplied)
"In Japan, however, eight-year periodicity had been suggested in a species of train millipedes that had frequently obstructed trains in the central mountainous region of Honshu, Japan," the researchers wrote in a paper published in the Royal Society of Open Science.
"We finally confirmed the eight-year periodicity of this millipede using detailed surveys of life histories over eight years.
"Seven broods were recognised, with almost no overlaps in their distributions."
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Phi Phi remains open as Thailand's national park system starts annual seasonal closure
Bangkok, 15 February, 2018 – Phi Phi Islands and Maya Bay remain open as Thailand's Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation (DNP) begins its annual cycle of temporary closure of national parks next month, which allows for natural rejuvenation during almost half the year depending on the schedule.
This is often due to extreme weather that may create unsafe conditions and to allow for some ecological recovery time. Several national parks close every year for certain periods between March and December (dates are varied depending on weather and park conditions).
To make sure parks are open, it is best to
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Lead-glazed earthenware, with carved slip decoration
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Most decorative tiles in medieval England had stamped designs filled with clay of contrasting colour. Here, however, a more refined design was produced by covering red earthenware with a light-coloured slip, which was cut away and incised.
The tile, probably from a church at Tring, Hertfordshire, is based on manuscript illustrations. It shows Christ resurrecting three children who had died while playing with him and visiting a well, scenes from his childhood described in the apocryphal gospels.


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Join this 1.5-hour tour of the Amsterdam Red Light District with a local guide. Learn about the liberal attitudes of the Dutch towards drugs and prostitution. Walk through the many narrow streets and see all the sights the Red Light District has to offer. Pass by the tinted windows of the Red Light District area, and see the area yourself for a better understanding.
Explore and learn about the notorious Red Light District. The first part of the tour leads through an old sailor neighborhood called the Zeedijk Street and Amsterdam's famous Chinatown. This part of the Red Light District used to be a no-go area but has totally changed to a safe and friendly part of the city. In this area you will see some of the oldest pubs and bars of the city.
- Join this exciting tour and explore the Red Light District through the eyes of a local.
- Have an unique experience by walking through the narrowest streets of the city; and learn about the history of sex work, coffeeshops and smartshops.
- Get to know about historical and political aspects of drugs and prostitution, and hear what locals say about this.
- Learn about the cannabis culture of Amsterdam.
Then walk to the Old Church, the oldest building in Amsterdam, here we are at the center of the Red light District. In this area you will see many things like the narrowest street of Amsterdam, the first coffeeshop, an indoor prostitute street and many smartshops. Al of this is located nearby and around the oldest church of Amsterdam! Walk through the famous prostitute streets with the red lights and learn about the history and current situation of the Red Light District. Learn why prostitution is legalized and how the name "coffeeshop" was created.
Then walk to the Dam Square where the tour will end. When walking to this area you will see some of the last sights of the tour like the Condomerie, the Royal Palace and the Dam Square.
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During this tour, the most important hotspot we will visit are:
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- Schreiers Tower
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- First coffee shop in the world
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Much of the allure of New England comes from the rich history that it contains. Part of the story of a place and its people is what they leave behind. But how do we ensure that this part of the story is not lost or pushed aside as development continues?
Salve Regina University and Roger Williams University house nationally-recognized departments of cultural and historic preservation. Their faculty members not only actively work and consult on many different types of projects around the world, but train the next generation of preservationists in how to keep the past alive.
Dr. Jon Marcoux searches for the past
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The Warriors Adventure Game is a pen-and-paper role-playing game taking place in the Warriors campaign setting. Players can create their own Warrior cat using the character creation rules, and have their progress through different adventures (scenarios).
A pen-and-paper RPG is a popular type of game played by two or more people. Players assume the role of a single character, having a set of attributes, created according to the rules and guidelines of the game.[1] There is also a game master, who supervises the game, presents the scenario, and decides on outcomes by applying the rules.[2]
A game consists of the party progressing through a scenario (adventure), usually with a certain goal to complete (such as defeating an enemy or finding an artifact).[3] Players describe the actions of their characters through speech, and within the rules, they have the freedom to improvise. Most actions are straightforward; for example, if the player's character looks around a cave, the game master will describe the cave; if the character leaves it, the game master will describe whatever they encounter outside the cave.[4]
The choices shape the direction and outcome of the game; actions succeeding or failing based on a pre-determined set of rules.[5] For example, whilst looking around a cave, a character may or may not notice an important object or secret passage, depending on the character's powers of perception. Characters may improve their attributes while progressing through the scenario.[6]
A game ends when the party either completes its goal, or if the goal becomes unreachable (for example, all of the characters are knocked out).[7]
Warriors Adventure Game
The Warriors Adventure Game is a version of the pen-and-paper RPG, described above. It was designed by Steven Brown,[source?] who worked on several well-known role-playing games, including Forgotten Realms and Dragonlance.[source?]
Character Creation
Players assume the role of cats that are to be created using a set of rules. Each character has the following attributes:
 - Abilities: Strength, Intelligence and Spirit. Each ability is represented by a number between 1 and 10. At character creation, the player can spread a total of 5 points among these.
 - Skills: actions that every cat is able to do with more or less success (for example climbing or sneaking). These are represented by a number between 0 and 5, and can be improved by training or practice. Each Skill is linked to an Ability. At character creation, the player can choose to improve three skills, and also receives a bonus improvement based on the Clan the cat is a member of.
 - Knacks: actions that a cat must learn before being able to use it (for example, herb lore or tracking). At character creation, the player can choose three knacks.
As they progress through scenarios, characters improve their abilities and skills, and receive new skills or knacks.
Once the players create their characters, choose a game master (called Narrator), and decide which scenario to play, the game can begin. There are several official scenarios, both on the Warriors website, and in the Omen of the Stars books. Players can invent and develop their own scenarios as well, thus the game has an infinite replay value.
The narrator describes the settings and reads the descriptions aloud, and the adventure progresses based on the players' decisions, the results of an action being determined by the characters' skills and knacks.
Official Scenarios
External Links
 - The Official Warriors Site, with the official rules and sample scenario. On the "Games and Extras" menu click on "Games", then on "Warriors Adventure Game".
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What Causes Sediment In Urine?
Sediment in the urine can result from urinary tract infection, kidney infection, bladder infection, kidney stones, vaginal bacteria, yeast infections in men and women, prostatitis, and parasites. Sediment has been related to bone mineral loss after spinal cord injury.
 1. How much sediment is normal in urine?
 2. What is the white sediment in urine?
 3. What causes flaky sediment in urine?
 4. How do you treat sediment in urine?
 5. What foods cause sediment in urine?
 6. Is it normal to have some sediment in your urine?
 7. What are the little bits in my urine?
 8. Is it normal to have debris in your urine?
 9. What does sediment in urine indicate?
 10. Is it normal to have a little sediment in urine?
How much sediment is normal in urine?
"Normal" urine sediment contains less than 5 RBC/hpf (seen often in cystocentesis samples) and 5 WBC/hpf, (seen often in voided samples). Voided samples also may contain squamous epithelial cells. A low number of transitional epithelial cells or sperm is normal, as are rare hyaline or granular casts.
What is the white sediment in urine?
If you notice white particles in your urine, it's likely from genital discharge or a problem in your urinary tract, such as kidney stones or possible infection. If you have significant symptoms that accompany the white particles in your urine, you may want to see your doctor.
What causes flaky sediment in urine?
Commonly, flaky debris in the urine comes from casts, which are abnormal cells, parts of cells, or even sloughed off tissue. This typically occurs in children with underlying urinary tract or kidney problems, or children who are catheterized.
Idexx - The Urine Sediment Examination
How do you treat sediment in urine?
- Antibiotics for the treatment of UTIs. - Specific medications or surgical procedures for the treatment of liver disease. - Certain therapies and medications for the treatment of kidney and bladder stones.
What foods cause sediment in urine?
Some foods and drinks may contribute to cloudy urine. These include foods that are high in phosphorus, purines, refined sugars, and salt, as well as alcohol and caffeine. However, sometimes cloudy urine is a sign of something more serious.
Is it normal to have some sediment in your urine?
Sediment looks like tiny white, reddish, and brown particles that settle in a urine collection device. A small amount of sediment can be normal in urine, but it is such a small amount that it is typically not seen. Sediment is not seen if you use the toilet because most toilets are white, as is most sediment.
Understanding Urine Sediment & Kidney Filtration
What are the little bits in my urine?
They're microscopic gritty particles that float in the urine and are often made up of various cell types and debris that sheds from the urinary tract. Most people who suffer from urinary tract infections are prone to sediment in their urine, which may contain bacteria, white blood cells, and protein.
Is it normal to have debris in your urine?
A small amount of sediment can be normal in urine, but it is such a small amount that it is typically not seen. Sediment is not seen if you use the toilet because most toilets are white, as is most sediment. Water in the bowel also dilutes the concentration of urine, so the sediment is not visualized.
White Stuff Or Particles In Urine: What It Means And What To Do
What does sediment in urine indicate?
Often people think sediment is an indication of a urinary tract infection, which is often is but not always. Sediment in the urine can result from urinary tract infection, kidney infection, bladder infection, kidney stones, vaginal bacteria, yeast infections in men and women, prostatitis, and parasites.
Is it normal to have a little sediment in urine?
Sediment looks like tiny white, reddish, and brown particles that settle in a urine collection device. A small amount of sediment can be normal in urine, but it is such a small amount that it is typically not seen. Sediment is not seen if you use the toilet because most toilets are white, as is most sediment.
Understanding Urine Sediment & Kidney Filtration


Citrix ADC
Configure a stream identifier
You configure a stream identifier to specify parameters for collecting statistical data from requests identified by a given selector. An identifier specifies the selector to be used, the statistics collection interval, the sample count, and the field on which the records are to be sorted.
The Citrix ADC appliance includes the following built-in stream identifiers for common use cases. All the built-in identifiers specify a sample count of 1 and an interval of 1 minute. Additionally, they sort the data on the REQUESTS attribute. They differ only in being associated with different built-in selectors. Each built-in identifier is associated with a built-in selector of the same name (for example, the built in identifier Top_URL is associated with the built-in selector Top_URL). Following are the built-in identifiers:
 - Top_URL
For more information about the built-in selectors, see Configuring a Selector.
Note: The maximum length for storing string results of selectors (for example, HTTP.REQ.URL) is 60 characters. If the string (for example, URL) is 1000 characters long, of which 50 characters are enough to uniquely identify a string, use an expression to extract only the required 50 characters.
You cannot modify a built-in identifier's configuration. However, you can create an identifier with a configuration of your choice.
To configure a stream identifier by using the command line interface
At the command prompt, type the following commands to configure a stream identifier and verify the configuration:
 - add stream identifier [-interval ] [-SampleCount ] [-sort ]
 - show stream identifier
> add stream identifier myidentifier Top_URL -interval 10 -sampleCount 100
To configure a stream identifier by using the GUI
 1. Navigate to AppExpert > Action Analytics > Stream Identifiers.
 - To create a stream identifier, click Add.
 - To modify a stream identifier, select the identifier, and then click Edit.
 3. In the Configure Stream Identifier page, set the following parameters:
 - Name
 - Selector
 - Interval
 - Sample Count
 - Sort
 4. Click OK, and then click Close.
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Print LCM of Two Integers in Python
Computations and programming when combined make a very deadly combination. As the ability to solve complex mathematical questions in itself is a great deal. But when one has to do the same thing by writing up a code, things get somewhat more complicated. Not to mention the language your coding in also determines whether it's going to be easy to difficult. So today we're going to write a program to print LCM of Two Integers in Python.
What's The Approach?
- Let us consider a and b to be the two Integers to find LCM of.
- Firstly we'll find the gcd of these two numbers, i.e, using a condition where if
abecomes zero we'll return
belse we'll recursively
return b % a, a
- Next, we'll return multiplication of a with gcd of two numbers, and again multiply it with b. The returned value will be our LCM.
Also Read: Print Cube Root of A Number in Java
Python Program To Print LCM of Two Integers
a = 15, b = 20
LCM of 15 and 20 is 60
# Python program to find LCM of two numbers # Recursive function to return gcd of a and b def gcd(a,b): if a == 0: return b return gcd(b % a, a) # Function to return LCM of two numbers def lcm(a,b): return (a / gcd(a,b))* b # Driver program to test above function a = 15 b = 20 print('LCM of', a, 'and', b, 'is', lcm(a, b))


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 > So it's not that these things "are separable >from presentation": we're really saying that >the presentation must always include all the >parts of the resource, including functionality >and structure.
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 My understanding is that presentational and styling elements or markup are not embedded or built-into markup that
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 An example from another context might help clarify my thought. When designing say, employee ID# for an org., one normally prefers not to build intelligence into the ID#. If the ID# were to convey employee's department and be the employee's unique identifier, he/she would have to be assigned a new ID# everytime the individual's department changed. Likewise "intelligence"or in our context, code that conveys presentational effects should be independent of code that conveys structure / functionality.
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Horizontal gradients in the wet path delay derived from four years of microwave radiometer data
Journal article, 2000
We have analyzed four years of inferred wet path delay data from a microwave radiometer operating at 21.0 and 31.4 GHz. We have applied a four parameter gradient model to the wet delays, using different lengths of the time series for the gradient estimation. The mean gradient, averaged over 15 to 1440 minutes, varies between 0.9 and 0.4 mm End has a preferred direction towards the north-east. Increasing the averaging time causes the estimated gradient to decrease. The 15 minutes mean gradient is 1.3 mm for the summer months and 0.7 mm for the winter months. Structure function results are also presented.


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National Museum of Wales
Cathays Park, Cardiff, CF10 3NP
National Museum Cardiff will be hosting a FREE fun-filled day of astronomical activities, shows and displays for all the family on Saturday 21 March, 10am-4pm.
Explore the Museum's meteorite collection, and use our impact simulator to discover the effects of a meteorite hitting your home town. Think you've found a meteorite? Bring it in and our museum scientists will identify it for you.
Interested in stargazing and wondering where to start and where to get help? Come along and talk to your local Astronomical Society! There will be stands from Cardiff, Bridgend, Abergavenny, Usk and Heads of the Valleys Astronomical Societies, offering information and help, telescopes on display, merchandise for sale, and various activities and experiments for children of all ages.
See spectacular 3D space shows with AstroCymru or explore the night sky with planetarium shows hosted by Abergavenny, Usk and Heads of the Valleys Astronomical Societies. Shows are bookable on the day at the front desk.
Have fun exploring our giant model of the solar system, and have a go at our planets quiz or craft activity.
Experience stargazing through the ages – find out what it was like to look through Galileo and Newton's early telescopes, and how today's high-tech telescopes compare!
Please note that this event has already taken place on 21/03/2020
Cardiff Astronomical Society is organising this event
Please contact Cardiff Astronomical Society directly for more details regarding this event or, if appropriate, contact the event venue.
The below chart shows if and when the skies will be at their darkest during this event. Moonlight is shown in light yellow and the Sun's twilight in light blue. Midnight on the date shown is shown as a white line with sunset to the left and sunrise the next morning to the right. A black background with stars shows the best times for stargazing.
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Implementation of a 10-Factor Definitive Screening Design for the Identification of Key Parameters Controlling a Two-Step Chemical Reaction
Sandrine Garcia, Synthetic Chemist, GlaxoSmithKline
The last stage of the synthesis of a pharmaceutical drug is a complex process involving two sequential chemical transformations resulting in a large number of parameters that may affect the chemistry. Ten critical parameters were identified as potentially having an effect on the reaction and studied in a definitive screening design (DSD) to determine their impact on the formation of the desired product. The DSD was chosen over a classical design because, for a similar number of experiments, the main effects can be unambiguously identified and curvature can be estimated. This approach minimised the resources required for a rapid understanding of the critical few effects controlling the chemical process. The setup and analysis of the design will be discussed to demonstrate how this enabled the identification of two parameters as having a significant impact on the outcome of the process. This provided the project team with the confidence to determine the operating ranges for those parameters and specify key control points.
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How do I operate the gas bottle changeover switch valve?
Manual changeover switch valves
Manual changeover switch valves
Your gas supply will stop when a gas bottle is empty.
You will need to:
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 2. You then move the changeover valve lever to point towards the other (full) gas bottle.
 3. Turn the hand wheel on the full gas bottle ON (anti-clockwise).
 4. Please remember to order a replacement gas bottle so you don't run out.
 5. Please note that, in the picture shown, the lever (blue) is pointing upwards just to make it more visible.
In actual use it would be set to the left or right.
How can I tell how much gas is left in my cylinder?
How to Check How Much Gas is Left in Your Gas Bottle
This test works with either 45kg home gas bottles or BBQ gas bottles:
Checking Gas Level
 1. Do NOT use boiling water, as you would risk scalding yourself. Water from the hot water tap of your home should work fine.
 2. Using care, SLOWLY pour the hot water down one side of the gas bottle.
Quick Tip
More water is better, as it will make it easier to feel the difference in temperature.
 1. A line of condensation may appear, indicating the gas level. If not:
 2. Wait a few seconds and then run your hand down the same side of the gas bottle, where you poured the water.
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If you feel no difference, the gas bottle may well be empty.
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We accept credit card payments; cash or cheques can also be given to the driver. Simply let the girls know when you place an order.
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Is LPG different to natural gas?
Yes. While similar, the two gases need different amounts of oxygen to burn. Appliances built for LPG usage have different burners than natural gas appliances.
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Iris Pius
Biographical information
Before the 1990s (possibly)
Physical information
Iris Pius was a witch. She was depicted in a portrait, which presumably hung at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, along with many others.[1]
Behind the scenes
 - Pius may have died sometime prior to the 1990s, as many portraits hung at Hogwarts Castle depict deceased individuals.
The name "Iris" means "rainbow" in Greek. Iris was the name of the Greek goddess of the rainbow. This name can also be given in reference to the English word (which derives from the same Greek source) for the name of the iris flower or the coloured part of the eye.
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Clothed male, naked female
CMNF, or Clothed Male(s), Naked (or Nude) Female(s) is a term for a paraphilia involving one or more nude women and one or more clothed men. It is generally used as a label for pictorial erotica or pornography, or a sexual fantasy depicting such a scenario; however, CMNF gatherings of men and women interested in this type of erotic pursuit do occur as well. CMNF is also a type of sexual objectification of women by men.
The general category of "CMNF" is fairly broad, encompassing several different types of scenario. The most common subdivisions of the genre involve either an activity under the rubric of male domination, exhibitionism or entertainment; combination of all categories is somewhat rare, although several web sites cater to the subgenres separately.
Also striptease is a form of CMNF since the vast majority of visitors to strip clubs is male, whereas the strippers are female.
The stereotype of the damsel in distress was also portrayed in the 19th century as an CMNF scenario: the powerful knight in his armour comes to rescue the naked, helpless female.
One-sided nudity in art is a topic that has been popular for a long time; e.g. many 19th century paintings of slavery and odalisques depict nude women, fulfilling voyeuristic phantasies of mostly male audiences.
The topic of one-sided female nudity is featured in the book "Topping from Below" by Laura Reese. The journalist Nora Tibbs investigates the death of her sister Franny. She meets the boy-friend of Franny, "M.", a music professor, and becomes his new girl-friend. He forces her to be nude all the time when she is in his house. Her one-sided nudity is one of many tokens of her submission to him.
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Development and Evaluation of Simulation Model for Force-free Control Strategies
Achala Pallegedara1Yoshitaka Matsuda2Naruto Egashira3Takenao Sugi2Satoru Goto2
1. Department of Science and Technology,Graduate School of Science and Engineering Saga University,1 Honjo-machi,Saga _PHONE_,Japan2. Department of Advanced Technology Fusion,Graduate School of Science and Engineering Saga University,1 Honjo-machi,Saga _PHONE_,Japan3. Department of Control and Information Systems Engineering Kurume National College of Technology,Fukuoka _PHONE_,Japan
摘要：Construction and evaluation of the two different strategies of force-free control of industrial type robot arm is presented in this paper.First,robot arm dynamic model for two link model and basic structure of force-free control method are described.Then two different force-free control architectures are illustrated.Two different force-free control strategies are forcefree control by dynamic external torque and force-free control by dynamic torque independent compensation,respectively.Analysis of the each type of force-free control strategy is carried out for the single link and two links perspectives of industrial robot arm configurations by means of simulations under Matlab/Simulink environment.The model characteristics of the force-free control are exploited to discuss the application scenarios.Moreover,analysis of the force-free control is carried out by using real robot parameters throughout the simulations.Since the forcefree control deals with external forces applied on the robot arm,it can be used to illustrate the interactive force control between a human and a robot arm by passive motion over an external force.
2012 IEEE 6th International Conference on Information and Automation for Sustainability（ICIAFS2012）


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Definition of Ley Sustantiva
- It is that one that regulates behavior on some specific matters, or prohibits certain acts. In other words; It is the law that regulates the actions of citizens.
- Set of norms that establish the rights and duties of citizens that are bound by an established legal order. Those who violate these rules may be prosecuted.
ORIGIN OF LEY SUSTANTIVA
Ley sustantiva (Substantive Law) comes from the Latin term legisthat determines all the rules that govern a specific territory. Added to that, the word "substantive" is added, which implies "something that exists independently". From this perspective, it denotes the basic laws that govern the behavior of the citizens of a place.
A Ley Sustantiva functions as a mechanism to grant a right or impose an obligation, punish its non-compliance and determines the procedure for its effectiveness.
CURIOSITIES OF LEY SUSTANTIVA
- In a state of law, the highest Ley Sustantiva is the Constitution or Magna Carta. This is the supreme Law that establishes, organizes and empowers the government of a nation under a system of fundamental principles for the fulfillment of the other laws.
- While the Ley Sustantiva determines what can or cannot be done, the Adjective Law is in charge of determining how due process should be carried out and each important aspect within a trial.


World Science Day for Peace and Development (WSDPD) is celebrated on 10th November every year worldwide. It is also known as World Science Day. The day aims to raise awareness about the importance of science in society, highlights the need to link science with our day to day life, and also encourages people to participate in scientific issues.
World Science day for Peace and Development ensures that citizens are kept informed of developments and new innovations in science and technologies. This day marks an understanding of the role that our scientists play in widening the understanding of our planet and making our societies more sustainable.
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) declared World Science day back in 2001 and was celebrated first in 2002. Since then, it has been supported by many global governmental and non-governmental organizations as well as scientific and research institutions.
The WSDPD has the following objectives:
 - To create awareness among the public about the role of science in the development of a peaceful and sustainable society.
 - To encourage National and International unity for shared science between countries.
 - To renew National and International commitments for using scientific innovations to the benefit of societies;
 - To find out the challenges faced by science and raising support for scientific projects.
World Science Day for Peace and Development has been helpful in generating many projects, programs, and funding for science. It has also strengthened cooperation between scientists living in regions affected by conflict – For example, UNESCO supported the creation of the Israeli-Palestinian Science Organization (IPSO).
Every year, the World Science Day for Peace and Development is celebrated with a different theme.
Last year the theme was "Open Science, leaving no one behind " whereas the theme for 2020 is "Science for and with Society". This year, UNESCO is celebrating via online mode and is doing a Roundtable on "Science for and with Society in dealing with COVID-19," theme. The 2020 Roundtable aims at sharing new ideas with UNESCO to improve the link between science and society to solve global challenges like the COVID-19 pandemic.
In this corona crisis, UNESCO has been working hard to bring science closer to society. It has also supported international scientific collaborations. From the perspective of science, UNESCO's response to COVID-19 has structured around three major pillars:
 1. Promoting international scientific cooperation
To manage the COVID-19 pandemic, UNESCO aims to support scientific cooperation. It also plans to promote the conversation between researchers, private practitioners, industries, health professionals, and the public. The aim is to provide open access to scientific knowledge, data, and hypothesis to everyone. Open science can bring positive changes in society.
 1. Improving access to water and sanitation
Billions of people don't have access to clean water and sanitation facilities. Furthermore, the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for safe water. UNESCO calls for increased access to clean and safe water which is necessary to avoid the spread of COVID-19 and to fight the pandemic. UNESCO provides scientific and technical advice and develops water policies and helps in the sustainable management of water resources to provide access to clean water and sanitation for all.
 1. Supporting ecological reconstruction
Destruction of natural habitats increases the spread of infection from animals to humans. COVID-19 spread is also an example of such Zoonotic disease. This highlights the need to rethink the links between people and nature. To help people understand more about nature, UNESCO has provided some sites, such as Biosphere Reserves and Global UNESCO Geoparks. These sites provide information on integrated approaches to conserve the world's cultural, biological, and geological diversity and promote sustainable economic development.
UNESCO calls on everyone to exercise their human right to participate in World Science Day for Peace and Development and benefit from science.


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La Verne Magazine
Orange Picking Season
by Julia Carachure
photography by Tom Galaraga
A taste of the citrus industry still exists in a small corner of the city.
Bonnie Brunell, secretary-treasurer of the Heritage Foundation, is a planning
committee member for the annual Heritage Park orange picking season event.
Oranges adorn the trees like Christmas decorations. Smudge pots that
used to heat the oranges on cold nights now sit unused beneath the trees.
A thermometer hangs nearby on a post, indicating the temperature that was
once crucial in making sure the oranges would not freeze and remained in
good condition before being shipped around the world.
Welcome to the last remaining orange grove in the city of La Verne:
Heritage Park. For residents, this is an opportunity to take a glance at
what was once the economic livelihood of the city. Residents get the opportunity
to pick oranges for $4 per bag, $6 for two bags from the first Saturday
in January until the last Saturday in March.
However, that was not always the case. Instead of one orange grove,
there was a virtual sea of orange groves spreading across the valley. The
trees lapped up to the foothills--a virtual green belt that defined Southern
California. La Verne was not alone. From the 1870s to the 1970s, most of
Southern California's cities were dedicated to the citrus industry. Residents'
lives revolved around the growing, packing and shipping of oranges that
were shipped to discerning consumers throughout the nation-and even the
world. Converging causes resulted in the industry's end: a virus called
"Quick Decline" destroyed the trees' roots; smog affected the
pollination process; but most significantly, the demand for area housing
made agricultural land more valuable for housing tracts than for orange
groves. By the late 1970s, the groves were being bulldozed at a phenomenal
Bonnie Brunell, secretary-treasurer of the Heritage Foundation, explains
why Heritage Grove is an important La Verne park. "It gives the community
an opportunity to see what it was like in the past. This whole area at one
time was citrus. This is one of the last orange groves left that people
can come in and actually pick their own oranges."
Brunell adds, "Some of the equipment that is around, like the smudge
pots, gives an idea of what it was like in the past. That is what we are
trying to do-to preserve that opportunity for the community and to give
them a chance to see the Weber House."
Kyle Bennett, 7, finds pleasure in the orange picking job.
Founded in 1984 by Craig Walters, then a city councilman for La Verne,
the Heritage Foundation was established for that purpose. Having grown up
in the area, Walters was determined to save the last remnants from the citrus
period in La Verne. An agreement was reached with a housing developer to
gain a large tract of land north of Baseline for that purpose.
Next to the orange grove is the small two-story 1894 Weber farm house.
Originally located about a mile south, the house was moved to its present
site and repaired by Heritage Foundation volunteers. There were holes in
the floor, the roof needed repair, many of the chimney bricks were missing
and the windows were broken. Now finished, the house is open only for elementary
school history tours. The children are allowed to see only the kitchen and
the living room. The upstairs area is blocked off. Currently, the Heritage
Foundation uses one of its rooms as an office. Another building on the property
is the Sloan barn-once located at Emerald Avenue and Baseline Road-is used
for equipment storage. A public restroom is located in the structure.
The "Orange Squeeze" is a two-year March tradition where elementary
school students tour the grounds and see a demonstration on how a smudge
pot works. A tractor ride takes the children around the grove, and, of course,
the children squeeze their own oranges and drink the freshly squeezed orange
Participating in the Citrus Tradition at Heritage Park
On a beautiful Saturday morning in March, the sun is shining brightly,
and wisps of clouds are lightly scattered in the sky. It is the kind of
morning that makes a person want to go to the beach, ride a bike or maybe
just stop by Heritage Park to pick some oranges.
The first two visitors this morning, Brian Bennett and his 7-year-old
son Kyle, are ready to pluck oranges to take home with them. "Give
me a plumb juicy one," says Brian to his son. Kyle walks around, dressed
in a T-shirt and jeans, wearing tennis shoes. Gloves cover his small hands,
which are holding an orange picker, ready to pull an orange to add to their
bag. Brian follows closely, and at the same time, he shows his son which
oranges to pick, and which ones to leave on the tree to keep developing.
He warns Kyle not to pick up the oranges that are lying on the ground
because no one knows how long they have been there. His father tells him
to pick oranges on the bottom branches of the tree. Kyle, having the advantage
of simply walking under the trees because he is small, walks around calmly
and pulls off oranges oneby-one. "It's fun picking these," says
Brian. At one point, he pulls an orange off, and part of the branch comes
along with it. Brian, with clippers in one hand, grabs the orange from his
son to check that he leaves a little bit of the stem on the orange, carefully
cuts the branch off and places it in the bag. He warns Kyle not to pick
the green oranges that are hanging highly on the tree since they are not
ripe enough. After a while, both father and son manage to pick all the oranges
they will take home with them that day. They are satisfied with their choice
Brian found out about the orange picking season through the city newsletter
and has been coming to pick oranges ever since. "We were just sitting
around home today, my wife has to work today so I was asking him [Kyle]
and giving him a list of things to do today and he said that orange picking
is what he wanted to do, right?" he says, turning to look at his son.
"Right," says Kyle, who is busy walking on a tree log that is
on the property.
While the citrus industry has ceased to exist, it is refreshing to find
one place where people can step into the past and remember a time when growing
oranges was once a way of life.
The Weber House was moved to its present site and refurbished by Heritage


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Walking-in-place techniques for locomotion in virtual environments typically have two problems that impact their usability: system latency (particularly troublesome when starting and stopping locomotion), and the fact that the change in the user's viewpoint may not be smooth and continuous. This paper describes a new WIP interface that improves both latency and the continuity of synthesized locomotion in the virtual environment. By basing the virtual avatar motion on the speed of the user's heel motion while walking in place, we create a direct mapping from foot-motion to locomotion that is responsive, intuitive, and easy to implement. In this paper, we describe the technique, analyze its starting and stopping latency, and provide experimental results on the suppression of false steps and general usability of the system.
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Process design artifacts have been increasingly used to guide the modeling of business processes. To support users in designing and understanding process models, different process artifacts have been combined in several ways leading to the emergence of the so-called "hybrid process artifacts". While many hybrid artifacts have been proposed in the literature, little is known about how they can actually support users in practice. To address this gap, this work investigates the way users engage with hybrid process artifacts during comprehension tasks. In particular, we focus on a hybrid representation of DCR Graphs (DCR-HR) combining a process model, textual annotations and an interactive simulation. Following a qualitative approach, we conduct a multi-granular analysis exploiting process mining, eye-tracking techniques, and verbal data analysis to scrutinize the reading patterns and the strategies adopted by users when being confronted with DCR-HR. The findings of the coarse-grained analysis provide important insights about the behavior of domain experts and IT specialists and show how user's background and task type change the use of hybrid process artifacts. As for the fine-grained analysis, user's behavior was classified into goal-directed and exploratory and different strategies of using the interactive simulation were identified. In addition, a progressive switch from an exploratory behavior to a goal-directed behavior was observed. These insights pave the way for an improved development of hybrid process artifacts and delineate several directions for future work.
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DHAKA: People with careers that expose them to bright or or artificial light, such as construction workers, fishermen, welders or actors, could be pre-treated with infrared light to reduce vision damage, say researchers.
A team at Australia's Vision Centre has found that treating eyes with gentle infrared light can help prevent the damage caused by subsequent exposure to bright light.
In their research, the researchers have shown that pre-treatment with near infrared light prevents a build-up of scar tissue in the retina causing subsequent harm to sight.
"There's a group of cells that look after our vision and work behind the scenes called Muller cells. They act to protect the retina by clearing toxins and inducing healing whenever there is injury to the vision cells.
"However, their protection is a double-edge sword for the eyes. When the retina comes under extreme stress, as when it is exposed to intensely bright light and loses a large number of vision cells, the Muller cells can overreact by multiplying and forming scar tissue behind the retina.
"We found that the treatment with mild NIR successfully inhibits the Muller cells from multiplying and forming scar tissue," the researchers said in a release.
Team leader Dr Krisztina Valter added: "Technically, our results showed that 670 nm light pretreatment ameliorates light induced changes in the expression of Muller-cell specific markers for structure, stress, metabolism and inflammation.
"Our findings indicate that it may be possible to pre-treat someone who knows that they will be exposed to bright lights and so reduce the potential damage it can cause."
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On top of hunting and farming, the Natives also helped us create this beloved cliché. To "bury the hatchet" means to create peace. The thought is that when hostilities are no longer needed, weapons, like the hatchet, can be disposed of as well.
When negotiating peace, the North American Indians would actually practice what we preach. They buried all of their weapons-their scalping knives, clubs, tomahawks-into the ground.
Apart of just showing good faith, this would also make it impossible for the fighting to continue. Thus came the popular expression; burying the hatchet. However nowadays, the idea of "burying" the hatchet seems counter-intuitive to most people, they would rather dig up the old ones.


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The picture below shows the most common locations for serial numbers.
Pianos often have numbers other than serial numbers.
(Such as part numbers, series numbers etc.)
It sometimes helps to use a flashlight when looking for the serial number.
The big S indicates where to look.
Grand Serial Locations
Picture courtesy of Pierce Piano Atlas
If you cannot find the serial number in any of the normal places, check underneath the piano.
If that doesn't work, it is possible it is inside near the action.
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Inauguration of the University
The University of Sydney was inaugurated on 11 October 1852 in premises formerly belonging to Sydney College, now Sydney Grammar School. The ceremony was reported in detail in the Illustrated London News on 29 January 1853.
The Governor of New South Wales' chair had a shield bearing the Royal Arms above it, with the arms of Oxford University to the right and those of Cambridge University to the left. Above the chair of Dr Woolley, Principal of the new university, were the arms of his old college, University College, Oxford.
The new university was represented by a blank white shield, bearing the motto "I will achieve." This, in the best traditions of heraldic puns, plays upon the notion of an achievement of arms as well as the idea of attaining a goal. The hope and expectation of achievement is enhanced by the white shield, as if it were a blank canvas ready to be filled.
A common seal, pictorial in nature, had been adopted in 1851, and served as a symbolic representation of the institution until the granting of the arms.


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Two monologues do not make a dialogue: the need for medical specialty–specific communication workshops: population-based study
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Aim Increasing attacks on healthcare personnel in India have highlighted the need for improved communication between staff and patients. Currently, communication skill workshops target doctors and nurses, overlooking a key player relevant to patient satisfaction—allied health professionals (henceforth, AHPs). This study evaluates the impact of communication skills training for diagnostic laboratory and blood bank personnel on patient satisfaction scores.
Method The impact of communication workshop for AHPs was tested through pre-workshop and post-workshop questionnaires to participants that tested how they handle communication with patients. Additionally, participants were also administered the questionnaire 4 months after the workshop to test knowledge retention. In parallel, the change in patient satisfaction towards AHPs was assessed by a pre-workshop and post-workshop patient survey.
Results Participants experienced a statistically significant improvement in communication skills, as measured by the pre-workshop and post-workshop questionnaires. This coincided with a significant increase in patient satisfaction scores after the workshop, as indicated by the patient satisfaction survey. The difference in communication skills scores between experienced and inexperienced personnel showed a marked decrease after the workshop, suggesting that such workshops can help inexperienced workers 'catch up' with more experienced workers. However, scores of all participants showed a statistically significant decrease after 4 months, suggesting that the use of such workshops can be enhanced through periodic refresher courses.
Conclusion Communication workshops for AHPs can play a crucial role in improving patient–hospital relations. These workshops can also help standardise services by bridging communication skill differences between experienced and inexperienced staff.
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, Target DB, Schema, and Table Name, Affected Row Counts, Error Message(s), Stack Trace (if available), Bad Data Condition (if there is one), and as much other information as we can harvest from SSIS. The difference between a Failure and an Error is that a Failure is expected in certain circumstances, but an Error is not expected.
In the Unusual Behavior condition, a message needs to be sent to the SendErrorNotice recipients, as in the Failure condition above. However, the Unusual Behavior notification will document the Package Name, Start Time, End Time and Elapsed Time, Data Source, Target DB, Schema, and Table Name, Affected Row Counts, and Bad Data Condition (if there is one), as well as documenting the Unusual Behavior that triggered this condition. For example, a package normally processes 100,000 rows, if it suddenly processes 500,000 rows, this would be Unusual Behavior. Likewise, for a package that typically takes 3 minutes to run, to take 20 minutes to run would be Unusual Behavior.
In the Bad Data condition, the package has not Failed, Errored, or experienced Unusual Behavior. It has experienced rows being routed to the Bad Data path(s) in the Data Flow. Details of the Bad Data need to be sent to the notification recipients that are indicated as SendBadDataNotice in their contact profile. These notifications should include the Package Name, Start Time, End Time and Elapsed Time, Data Source, Target DB, Schema, and Table Name, Affected Row Counts, Bad Data Row Counts, and Bad Data Row Details.
Multi-threading
Multi-threading allows the package to run faster when there are tasks that can be run in parallel. There are two multi-threading conditions that the Framework needs to handle:
 - Master Package Multi-threading of multiple child packages
 - Package Task execution within a package
Re-run ability
Packages should be re-runnable if the data has changed and we need to reload it. For example, bad data was detected, logged and handled. Now the bad data has been fixed, we need to re-run the package for today's data. This implies that the package would know that its last run had bad data, that the package actions need to be reversed and then the package can reload the data for the day. This is most often implemented as a clean-up step at the beginning of the ETL package that makes sure that none of the data it's about to put into the database is already there and removing it if it is. For example, the package was loading data into the final tables when the database ran out of space and threw an error. Once the space issue is fixed, the package would be re-run. First, it would remove the data it loaded in the first run, then it would load the data normally as if it had not been run before.
Restartability
Packages should be able to pick up from the task prior to the failure point and run properly (where this makes sense). There's no need to stage data we've already staged. Typically, when a package fails, it has already done some processing. Packages should be able to roll back the failed task and restart from that point. This is an advanced ETL framework activity. It can be very tricky to deal with restarting a failed package, especially if it has any complexity in it.
The Common ETL Framework Part 1
Defining a Common ETL Framework
SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) provides a mechanism to Extract data from some source, Transform it as necessary, and Load it into the tables in a target database (ETL).
Each SSIS package should implement a common framework for logging, executing, monitoring and error handling so that these details are abstracted from the SSIS developer and are "just part of the template" that they should use for SSIS package creation.
Package automation takes this one step further by automating the creation of packages based on metadata that is configurable at design time. I have selected Business Intelligence Markup Language (BIML) to perform this automation. I will demonstrate how to use BIML to configure and generate packages in future articles in this series.
What Does the Common ETL Framework Need to Do?
The Framework needs to provide the services and behaviors that are common to all ETL packages. These include:
 1. Auditing/Logging. Execution Start, Stop and Error auditing for packages and tasks as they are executed. Auditing/logging verbosity should be configurable so that we can enhance the logging when we need to debug something.
 2. Error Handling. Appropriate error handling. Reroute bad data on read and on write. Break the process only when necessary. Log data, connectivity and process problems.
 3. Notifications and Routing. Intelligent routing so that the appropriate systems and system owners are notified of a failure without spamming the whole department.
 4. Multi-Threading. Master packages need to manage the multi-threading and dependencies of their child packages, watching for errors and handling them appropriately (i.e. Stop or Continue execution of other child packages upon a failure).
 5. Restartability. Packages should be able to pick up from the task prior to the failure point and run properly (where this makes sense). I.e. No need to stage data we've already staged.
 6. Re-run ability. Packages should be re-runnable if the data has changed and we need to reload it. For example, bad data was detected, logged and handled. Now the bad data has been fixed; we need to re-run the package for today's data. This implies that the package would know that its last run had bad data, that the package actions need to be reversed and then the package can reload the data for the day.
 7. Load Strategies. The Framework should handle a variety of data Extract and Load strategies:
 1. Truncate and Replace loads. Where appropriate, table data can be truncated and reloaded. This technique is common for staging tables and for smaller datasets with no dependencies.
 2. Incremental loads. Where appropriate, data can be extracted incrementally and/or loaded incrementally, rather than a truncate and reload. This is often used to keep history. Incremental loads come in several flavors, some use a hash, others a date flag, others a set of change flags. Deletions require special handling in incremental loads.
 3. Cycle loads. Where appropriate, a dataset can be loaded with a Days Old flag set to -1; then a simple update can increment the Days Old flag by 1 to cycle the data by a day. A delete query can then remove rows that are too old to be kept.
 8. Data Retention. The Framework should also handle data retention during the ETL process. There are three strategies for removing data from the primary dataset: deletion, archiving, and flagging. A typical retention plan will employ all three to varying degrees.
 9. Stop/Cancel Job. The Framework should be able to interrupt a job, stopping it immediately, or canceling it at the next step. This also implies that the job is already Restartable or Re-runable.
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The identification of emergent structures in dynamical systems is a major challenge in complex systems science. In particular, the formation of intermediate-level dynamical structures is of particular interest for what concerns biological as well as artificial network models. In this work, we present a new technique aimed at identifying clusters of nodes in a network that behave in a coherent and coordinated way and that loosely interact with the remainder of the system. This method is based on an extension of a measure introduced for detecting clusters in biological neural networks. Even if our results are still preliminary, we have evidence for showing that our approach is able to identify these "emerging things" in some artificial network models and that it is way more powerful than usual measures based on statistical correlation. This method will make it possible to identify mesolevel dynamical structures in network models in general, from biological to social networks. © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014.
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|Titolo del libro:||Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies|
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The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection Division of Air Quality has issued a Notice of Violation (NOV) to Jay-Bee Oil & Gas Inc. for operating storage tanks on its Lisby Well Pad without the proper permits.
The natural gas drilling site is located in the Big Run area of Tyler County and the Lisby Pad includes four Marcellus wells that are in the initial production phase. Because six storage tanks at the site are used to collect natural gas liquids and can produce vapors, air quality permits are required.
The NOV, issued late Tuesday, requires Jay-Bee to provide dates when the tanks were installed and when each was put into operation; the amount of natural gas liquids produced at the site from commencement of operations until present; the potential emissions from all other sites not permitted by the DAQ; and a detailed explanation of the remedial measures taken to address the causes of non-compliance.
Inspectors from the WVDEP's Office of Oil and Gas and Division of Air Quality were dispatched to the Lisby Pad early Friday after receiving a complaint of a strong odor late the night before. The inspectors determined the likely cause of the odor was a nighttime inversion created by atmospheric conditions that trapped the gas vapors coming from the tanks. The WVDEP worked with the operator to implement measures to decrease emissions. Also, the operator plans to implement a secondary recovery system on the tanks to capture the gas vapors.
The WVDEP continues to monitor the situation and requested assistance from the agency's Emergency Response section to monitor air quality at the site. The air monitoring equipment, which indicates the presence of volatile organics, detected no dangerous levels. Air monitoring equipment on site and mobile equipment operated by local emergency officials also detected no explosive levels – even last Thursday night when the odor was at its strongest.
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Salvia columbariae is an annual plant that is commonly called chia, golden chia, and desert chia, because its seeds are used in the same manner as Salvia hispanica (chia). It grows in California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Sonora, and Baja California, and was an important food for Native Americans. Some native names include pashí from Tongva and it'epeš from Ventureño.
S. columbariae grows 10 to 50 cm (3.9 to 19.7 in) tall. Its stem hairs are generally short and sparse in distribution. It has oblong-ovate basal leaves that are 2 to 10 cm (0.79 to 3.94 in) long. The leaves are pinnately dissected and the lobes are irregularly rounded. The inflorescence is more or less scapose, meaning it has a long peduncle that comes from the ground level that has bracts. The bracts are round and awn-tipped. There are usually 1-2 cluster of flowers within the inflorescence. The calyx is 8 to 10 mm (0.31 to 0.39 in) long and the upper lip is unlobed but has 2 (sometimes 3) awns. The lower lip is about twice the size of the upper lip. The flower color can be pale blue to blue and purple tipped. The stamens of the plant are slightly exserted. The fruit of S. columbariae is a nutlet that is tan to grey in color and 1.5 to 2 mm (0.059 to 0.079 in) long.
S. columbariae can be found in dry undisturbed sites in chaparral, and coastal sage scrub. It generally grows at elevations lower than 1,200 m (3,900 ft). In cultivation, it prefers good drainage, sun, and dry weather.
- Salvia columbariae var. columbariae Benth. - California sage, chia
- Salvia columbariae var. ziegleri Munz - Ziegler's sage
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Part I. Provider Design Pattern Overview
The Provider Model Design Pattern was first introduced with the.NET 1.1 framework, specifically in the ASP.NET starter kits and was formalized in ASP.NET Whidbey as a membership management provider API (Application Program Interface). It's primary purpose is to separate the definition for an API from the implementation. This keeps the API flexible by enabling the core functionality to be flexible and easily changed.
More details on the origins of the pattern in the.NET 1.1 Framework can be found on MSDN:
The Provider Model Design Pattern is basically a fusion of the two GOF patterns: strategy and abstract factory. The API is defined and the functionality is "pluggable" through a variation of the strategy design pattern. This functionality is loaded into memory through a rough implementation of the abstract factory design pattern.
Here's a basic outline of the parts and how they interact.
- API Class: This is a class that defines and exposes all the desired functionality through static methods. There is no implementation in the API Class. The API Class keeps a reference to a Application Provider Base which is basically a wrapper for the API functionality.
For this article our API Class will be a store from which we can purchase products, specifically Coke, Snickers, and the diet pills that are needed from eating all the Snickers and drinking all the Coke.
Here are the parts of our class:
- We'll have API functionality to do basic store stuff like AddProductToStock, GetProductPrice, GetProductStockCount, and RemoveProductFromStock (the core methods)
- We have an Initialize() method which is used to load any existing concrete stores from the application configuration.
- We have references to all available providers.
- We have a reference to the default provider whose functionality is being wrapped.
Once implemented, all calls will be made to this API class, which will in turn, pass the request to the default provider.
- Provider Base Class: This is an internal abstract.NET class in the System.Configuration.Provider namespace that is used to define a provider. The Initialize() method takes information from the configuration file to construct the concrete provider. Eventually, we will be overriding the Initialize() method when building our own custom providers by implementing this abstract class.
- Application Provider Base: This is an abstract class used to mirror the structure of the API Class, and inherit from the ProviderBase class. The Application Provider Base inherits from ProviderBase and defines the structure for parent classes by exposing the API methods as abstract members to be implemented by a parent class.
In our application we'll call the Application Provider Base "StoreProvider". Notice how the Store Provider class has abstract definitions for the methods defined in the Store class and inherits from the abstract class ProviderBase.
- Concrete Provider: This class is where the methods of the Application Provider Base are implemented. The Concrete Provider overrides the Initialize() method in order to load information specific to the Concrete Provider from the configuration file.
So these are the four core classes needed to implement the provider pattern. The rest of the classes are either used to define what the provider is providing (which, in this case, is a Product class) or utilities for supporting building the objects on the fly or managing the application configuration file.
It takes a bit to wrap one's mind around the basic structure, but once you see how requests are executed against the static Store class and then passed to a reference of a StoreProvider which is implemented by a CornerStoreProvider, you get the basic idea of how the cogs of this machine all work together.
Part II. Details, Details, Details
Now that we have covered the basics, let's dig a little further into the structure of our program. Basically we are a building an API for interacting with a store and products within that store.
Let's look at the Product class.
This class is not part of the provider pattern, however, we are using it to move data back and forth. We are defining the name and the wholesale cost for each product. Each store will have it's own markup on each product so we can calculate the retail cost. I have also added static methods to get all available products: GetProducts() and Initialize().
The Store class defines our core API for interactions between us (the client), the store and products.
The Store Provider exposes these same methods in an abstract class as we discussed earlier.
The CornerStoreProvider is our concrete implementation of the StoreProvider.
The VendingMachineStoreProvider is another concrete implementation of the StoreProvider.
One interesting method implemented by both the concrete providers is Initialize(). This is the method called from the ProviderBase which gets called from the ProvidersHelper. This method overrides the ProviderBase implementation and then we are using it to load markup information specific to the store which is in the section of the configuration file.


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Lemma 10.147.1. Let $R$ be a ring. Let $f \in R[x]$ be a monic polynomial. Let $R \to B$ be a ring map. If $h \in B[x]/(f)$ is integral over $R$, then the element $f' h$ can be written as $f'h = \sum _ i b_ i x^ i$ with $b_ i \in B$ integral over $R$.
Proof. Say $h^ e + r_1 h^{e - 1} + \ldots + r_ e = 0$ in the ring $B[x]/(f)$ with $r_ i \in R$. There exists a finite free ring extension $B \subset B'$ such that $f = (x - \alpha _1) \ldots (x - \alpha _ d)$ for some $\alpha _ i \in B'$, see Lemma 10.136.14. Note that each $\alpha _ i$ is integral over $R$. We may represent $h = h_0 + h_1 x + \ldots + h_{d - 1} x^{d - 1}$ with $h_ i \in B$. Then it is a universal fact that
\[ f' h = \sum \nolimits _{i = 1, \ldots , d} h(\alpha _ i) (x - \alpha _1) \ldots \widehat{(x - \alpha _ i)} \ldots (x - \alpha _ d) \]
as elements of $B'[x]/(f)$. You prove this by evaluating both sides at the points $\alpha _ i$ over the ring $B_{univ} = \mathbf{Z}[\alpha _ i, h_ j]$ (some details omitted). By our assumption that $h$ satisfies $h^ e + r_1 h^{e - 1} + \ldots + r_ e = 0$ in the ring $B[x]/(f)$ we see that
\[ h(\alpha _ i)^ e + r_1 h(\alpha _ i)^{e - 1} + \ldots + r_ e = 0 \]
in $B'$. Hence $h(\alpha _ i)$ is integral over $R$. Using the formula above we see that $f'h \equiv \sum _{j = 0, \ldots , d - 1} b'_ j x^ j$ in $B'[x]/(f)$ with $b'_ j \in B'$ integral over $R$. However, since $f' h \in B[x]/(f)$ and since $1, x, \ldots , x^{d - 1}$ is a $B'$-basis for $B'[x]/(f)$ we see that $b'_ j \in B$ as desired. $\square$
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I was wondering if the equation was meant to be inside of /(f) instead of /(f).
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Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology. 2016, 7, pp. 767-775. eISSN 2190-4286. Available under: doi: 10.3762/bjnano.7.68
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We report the development of a novel method to determine the thermopower of atomic-sized gold contacts at low temperature. For these measurements a mechanically controllable break junction (MCBJ) system is used and a laser source generates a temperature difference of a few kelvins across the junction to create a thermo-voltage. Since the temperature difference enters directly into the Seebeck coefficient S = -ΔV/ΔT, the determination of the temperature plays an important role. We present a method for the determination of the temperature difference using a combination of a finite element simulation, which reveals the temperature distribution of the sample, and the measurement of the resistance change due to laser heating of sensor leads on both sides next to the junction. Our results for the measured thermopower are in agreement with recent reports in the literature.
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ISO 690OFARIM, Ayelet, Bastian KOPP, Thomas B. MÖLLER, León MARTIN, Johannes BONEBERG, Paul LEIDERER, Elke SCHEER, 2016. Thermo-voltage measurements of atomic contacts at low temperature. In: Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology. 2016, 7, pp. 767-775. eISSN 2190-4286. Available under: doi: 10.3762/bjnano.7.68
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 title={Thermo-voltage measurements of atomic contacts at low temperature},
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 journal={Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology},
 pages={767--775},
 author={Ofarim, Ayelet and Kopp, Bastian and Möller, Thomas B. and Martin, León and Boneberg, Johannes and Leiderer, Paul and Scheer, Elke},
 note={We gratefully acknowledge financial support by the Baden-Württemberg Stiftung within the Network of Excellence "Functional Nanostructures", by the DFG through SFB 767 and by the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Foundation.}
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The original collection was assembled for the World's Colombian Exposition of 1893 in Chicago. Over 10% (1438 ite ms) of the economic botany specimens date from this exposition with especially rich representation from the national exhibits of British Guiana, the Philippines, Japan, Brazil, Burma and India. These collections can essentially be considered the historic beginning of the Botany Department. The majority of collection acquisition occurred during the four decades following the World's Colombian Exposition
- Paris Exposition (1901)
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US government sources:
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Field Museum sponsored expeditions:
- Mrs. T. B. Blackstone Expedition _PHONE_ (Eastern Tibet)
- Mulford Biological Exploration 1921 (Bolivia)
- Stanley Field Expedition 1922 (British Guiana)
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- Marshall Field China Expedition 1923
- Marshall Field Brazil Expedition 1926
- F.M.-Oxford U. Joint Expedition 1926, 1928, 1942 (Iraq)
- Marshall Field Amazon Expedition _PHONE_ (Brazil, Peru)
- F.M. Venezuelan Expedition 1942
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As of 2004, the highway's northern terminus is in Sabula, Iowa at an intersection with U.S. Highway 52. Its southern terminus is in Presidio, Texas at the Rio Grande, where it continues in Mexico as Highway 16.
- When US 67 was commissioned in the original 1926 numbering plan, it extended from Fredericktown, Missouri to Dallas, Texas.
- The route was extended across West Texas to its present-day southern terminus in 1930.
- In 1934, US 67 was extended northward to Dubuque, Iowa. Between Davenport, Iowa and Dubuque, it incorporated the route of U.S. Highway 55. The remainder of US 55 (to Minneapolis, Minnesota) was absorbed by U.S. Highway 52.
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