What is dyne per square inch (unit)
Dyne per square inch is a pressure measurement unit
A dyne per square inch (dyn/in²) is a unit of pressure where a force of one dyne (dyn) is applied to an area of one square inch.OT?
 - TT?1 dyne per inch² = 1.529734123 × 10-7 atmosphere
 - TT?1 dyne per inch² = 0.0001162597933 torr
 - TT?1 dyne per inch² = 0._PHONE_ millitorr
 - TT?1 dyne per inch² = 0.0001162597933 millimeter of mercury
 - TT?1 dyne per inch² = 0.001580563516 millimeter of water
 - TT?1 dyne per inch² = 4.577157218 × 10-6 inch of mercury
 - TT?1 dyne per inch² = 6.22269101 × 10-5 inch of water
 - TT?1 dyne per inch² = 0.00015500031 millibar
 - TT?1 dyne per inch² = _PHONE_ × 10-7 bar
 - TT?1 dyne per inch² = 0.015500031 pascal
 - TT?1 dyne per inch² = 0.00015500031 hectopascal
 - TT?1 dyne per inch² = _PHONE_ × 10-5 kilopascal
 - TT?1 dyne per inch² = _PHONE_ × 10-8 megapascal
 - TT?1 dyne per inch² = 1.5500031000062 × 10-26 newton per picometer²
 - TT?1 dyne per inch² = 1.5500031000062 × 10-22 newton per angstrom²
 - TT?1 dyne per inch² = 1.5500031000062 × 10-20 newton per nanometer²
 - TT?1 dyne per inch² = 1.5500031000062 × 10-14 newton per micron²
 - TT?1 dyne per inch² = 1.5500031000062 × 10-14 newton per micrometer²
 - TT?1 dyne per inch² = _PHONE_ × 10-8 newton per millimeter²
 - TT?1 dyne per inch² = _PHONE_ × 10-6 newton per centimeter²
 - TT?1 dyne per inch² = 0.00015500031 newton per decimeter²
 - TT?1 dyne per inch² = 0.015500031 newton per meter²
 - TT?1 dyne per inch² = _PHONE_ newton per dekameter²
 - TT?1 dyne per inch² = 15 500.031 newtons per kilometer²
 - TT?1 dyne per inch² = 2.248089434 × 10-6 pound-force per inch²
 - TT?1 dyne per inch² = 0.0003237248786 pound-force per foot²
 - TT?1 dyne per inch² = 3.4845455925321 × 10-27 pound-force per picometer²
 - TT?1 dyne per inch² = 3.4845455925321 × 10-23 pound-force per angstrom²
 - TT?1 dyne per inch² = 3.4845455925321 × 10-21 pound-force per nanometer²
 - TT?1 dyne per inch² = 3.4845455925321 × 10-15 pound-force per micron²
 - TT?1 dyne per inch² = 3.4845455925321 × 10-15 pound-force per micrometer²
 - TT?1 dyne per inch² = 3.484545592 × 10-9 pound-force per millimeter²
 - TT?1 dyne per inch² = 3.484545592 × 10-7 pound-force per centimeter²
 - TT?1 dyne per inch² = 3.484545592 × 10-5 pound-force per decimeter²
 - TT?1 dyne per inch² = 0.003484545592 pound-force per meter²
 - TT?1 dyne per inch² = 0._PHONE_ pound-force per dekameter²
 - TT?1 dyne per inch² = 3 484.54559 pounds-force per kilometer²
 - TT?1 dyne per inch² = 0._PHONE_ pound-force per are
 - TT?1 dyne per inch² = 34._PHONE_ pounds-force per hectare
 - TT?1 dyne per inch² = 34._PHONE_ pounds-force per hectometer²
 - TT?1 dyne per inch² = 11 _PHONE_ pounds-force per nautical mile²
 - TT?1 dyne per inch² = 1.0 × 10-5 newton per inch²
 - TT?1 dyne per inch² = 0.00144 newton per foot²
 - TT?1 dyne per inch² = 1.5500031000062 × 10-21 dyne per picometer²
 - TT?1 dyne per inch² = 1.5500031000062 × 10-17 dyne per angstrom²
 - TT?1 dyne per inch² = 1.5500031000062 × 10-15 dyne per nanometer²
 - TT?1 dyne per inch² = _PHONE_ × 10-9 dyne per micron²
 - TT?1 dyne per inch² = _PHONE_ × 10-9 dyne per micrometer²
 - TT?1 dyne per inch² = 0._PHONE_ dyne per millimeter²
 - TT?1 dyne per inch² = 0._PHONE_ dyne per centimeter²
 - TT?1 dyne per inch² = 0._PHONE_ barye
 - TT?1 dyne per inch² = 15.500031 dynes per decimeter²
 - TT?1 dyne per inch² = _PHONE_ dynes per meter²
 - TT?1 dyne per inch² = 155 000.31 dynes per dekameter²
 - TT?1 dyne per inch² = 1 550 003 100 dynes per kilometer²
 - TT?1 dyne per inch² = 155 000.31 dynes per are
 - TT?1 dyne per inch² = 15 500 031 dynes per hectare
 - TT?1 dyne per inch² = 15 500 031 dynes per hectometer²
 - TT?1 dyne per inch² = 5 316 361 833 dynes per nautical mile²
 - TT?1 dyne per inch² = 1.0 × 10-12 dyne per microinch²
 - TT?1 dyne per inch² = 1.0 × 10-6 dyne per mil²
 - TT?1 dyne per inch² = 1.0 × 10-6 dyne per thou²
 - TT?1 dyne per inch² = 144 dynes per foot²
 - TT?1 dyne per inch² = 6 272 640 dynes per acre
 - TT?1 dyne per inch² = 4 014 489 600 dynes per mile²
 - TT?1 dyne per inch² = 1 296 dynes per yard²
 - TT?1 dyne per inch² = 5 184 dynes per fathom²
 - TT?1 dyne per inch² = 627 264 dynes per chain²
 - TT?1 dyne per inch² = 62 726 400 dynes per furlong²
 - TT?1 dyne per inch² = 3.4688329895236 × 10+25 dynes per astronomical unit²
 - TT?1 dyne per inch² = 1.3872775375774 × 10+35 dynes per light year²
 - TT?1 dyne per inch² = 1.4758234466616 × 10+36 dynes per parsec²
Foods, Nutrients and Calories
HOMESTYLE PREMIUM POPCORN, UPC: 023896177939 contain(s) 406 calories per 100 grams or ≈3.527 ounces [ calories | price ]
Campesterol food sources
Gravels, Substances and Oils
Substrate, Clay/Laterite density is equal to 1019 kg/m³ or 63.614 lb/ft³ with specific gravity of 1.019 relative to pure water.
Antimony trioxide, valentinite (Sb2O3) weigh(s) 5.67 gram per (cubic centimeter) or 3.277 ounce per (cubic inch).[...]
Volume to weightweight to volume and cost conversions for Engine Oil, SAE 0W-30 with temperature in the range of 0°C (32°F) to 100°C (212°F)
Weights and Measurements
Dekagray is a derived metric (SI) measurement unit of absorbed radiation dose of ionizing radiation, e.g[...]
 The units of data measurement were introduced to manage and operate digital information.[...]


text:
General Knowledge Questions and Answers - 7578
Questions and Answers
When did sauropods live?
Sauropods were plentiful during the Triassic and Jurassic periods. Very few of these gigantic creatures survived into the Cretaceous period.
Rock formed by deposition andconsolidation of mineral and organic material and from precipitation ofminerals from solution is called?
More Questions :

source: HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu


text:
Horace Mann alumnus Amos Kamil uncovered decades of sexual abuse at his school in a shocking New York Times Magazine cover story.
Here are some highlights from the article:
-Shortly after Kamil arrived at the school, he was warned by another student about certain teachers who were known as perverts.
-One former student says his art teacher, Mark Wright, asked to draw a portrait of him after-hours. He then allegedly made the boy strip and assaulted him.
-The same teacher performed physicals for boys' sports and allegedly assaulted boys then.
-Another teacher, Stanley Kops, coached the swim team and was known to allegedly join the boys in the shower. He later resigned after allegations of misconduct and committed suicide.
-Johannes Somary was a brilliant music teacher who allegedly took one student on solo trips to Europe, where the student accuses him of rape.
-Another student, Ben, eventually admitted to his parents he had a sexual relationship with Somary. When his mother confronted the teacher he said "That's how we Swiss kiss!" Ben eventually committed suicide.
-When the author tried to contact the school, they said: "The article contains allegations dating back, in some instances, 30 years, long before the current administration took office, which makes it difficult to accurately respond to the factual allegations therein. In addition, on June 13, 1984, there was a fire in the attic of the business office that destroyed some records."
-The school has since released this letter to parents responding to the article.

source: openbmb/Ultra-FineWeb


text:
Point-of-care (POC) tests developer RPS Diagnostics has received updated CE Mark for its FebriDx test to allow incorporation of all -in-one test format.
RPS Diagnostics can now launch the test in the European Union and all countries that recognize the CE mark.
FebriDx is a simple to use POC test that is anticipated to contribute towards a diagnostic solution to the worldwide antibiotic crisis.
It offers clinicians with a 10-minute evalauation of the body's immune response to an acute respiratory infection (ARI) directly from a fingerstick blood sample.
The single use, disposable test finds patients who have a clinically significant underlying infection. It supports in the differentiation of viral and bacterial ARIs via the rapid detection of both Myxovirus resistance protein A (MxA) and C-reactive protein (CRP).
The updated FebriDx test features an all-in-one plastic housing technology that includes a built-in safety lancet, blood collection and delivery system and a push button buffer delivery feature, which together can improve test convenience. It needs no additional equipment to perform or to interpret results.
RPS president and CEO Robert Sambursky said: "Obtaining the updated CE mark triggers the initial international commercial launch of the FebriDx test. This test will provide a cost effective outpatient solution to improve antimicrobial stewardship."
The timely results of FebriDx offer clinicians the ability to formulate a targeted clinical management and therapeutic decision plan during the initial patient encounter. With antibiotic misuse on the rise across the globe, there has been a rise in the antibiotic resistance, avoidable adverse events and it can help lessen healthcare costs.
More than 50% of all antibiotic prescriptions are not needed and are generated in the outpatient primary and urgent care setting.
Sambursky said: "The elegance of the FebriDx test lies in its simplicity. It's equally important not to miss treating an underlying bacterial infection as it is withholding unnecessary antibiotics from patients with clinically insignificant or viral infection.
"While most research and investment over the past decade has focused on rapid molecular testing to identify specific pathogens, FebriDx utilizes the body's own immune system to provide a broad, fast, accurate, and cost-effective method to identify patients who may benefit from appropriate antibiotic therapy."

source: m-a-p/FineFineWeb


Hacker News new | comments | show | ask | jobs | submit login
Compiling with Continuations, Continued (2007) [pdf] (microsoft.com)
47 points by chicken_lady on July 11, 2014 | hide | past | web | favorite | 8 comments
CPS is formally equivalent to SSA, is it not? What are advantages of using CPS over SSA?
It's not equivalent, but share some aspects. CPS straight forward semantics, but a semantic for SSA must carry path history along as phi-nodes have no local meaning (you must know where you came from).
I never really understood the big deal about SSA as it's just a really weak version of models from the functional world. (Disclaimer: I've worked on both sides of the fence).
Some discussion of the relative strengths and weaknesses here, with references: _URL_
(Including to the paper here, incidentally.)
See _URL_ for an in-depth comparison from a compiler hacker experienced with both styles of IR.
A summary is that there is no advantage to CPS, since it is SSA with a scope nesting requirement that gets in the way of some beneficial transformations.
This is an area where the compiler and programming language communities often seem to be talking past each other. In the post you linked, Weeks is talking about CPS and SSA as the datastructures manipulated by optimization algorithms. CPS is interesting primarily as a language in the formal sense of assigning semantics to programs. Whether you choose to represent those programs naively as a tree structure or with an efficient graph representation as in SSA, you're still using CPS.
This paper is really good because, unlike a lot of compiler literature, it treats both semantics and term representation.
Although I take your point about CPS in other disciplines, TFA advocates compiling with continuations. A criticism of its suitability for compilation would seem to be relevant.
Sure, and Weeks is totally correct regarding tree vs. flat representations, but I think identifying CPS with the former and SSA with the latter is misleading. The scoping discipline (respectively, dominator tree) is part of the language whether you represent it as subtrees or leave it implicit.
It would be more accurate to say that SSA is a particularly efficient data structure for representing a subset of CPS terms.
The last paragraph of the paper briefly touches on that:
This paper would not be complete without a mention of Static Single Assignment form (SSA), the currently fashionable intermediate representation for imperative languages. As is well known, SSA is in some sense equivalent to CPS (Kelsey 1995) and to ANF (Appel 1998). Its focus is intra-procedural optimization (as with ANF, it's necessary to renormalize when inlining functions, in contrast to CPS) and there is a large body of work on such optimizations. Future work is to transfer SSA-based optimizations to CPS. We conjecture that CPS is a good fit for both functional and imperative paradigms.
Guidelines | FAQ | Support | API | Security | Lists | Bookmarklet | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact
Search:


US Department of Energy
Date of this Version
AIP Conf. Proc. #811, pp. 54-59 (2006)
High resolution photoelectron spectra of xenon clusters of about 100 atoms, measured with photon energies of 20 to 60 eV are reported. Peaks due to the clusters are observed at lower binding energies than the corresponding atomic lines and exhibit different behaviors. The peak associated with the Xe 5p1/2 state at higher binding energy is relatively unchanged with photon energy whereas the Xe 5p3/2 peak changes its shape with increasing photon energy. The change is attributed to differences in the escape depth of the electrons at different kinetic energies and the bulk and surface components of the cluster.


text:
Title: Enriching the AR(p) process with skewed generalised normal innovations
Authors: JT Ferreira - University of Pretoria (South Africa) [presenting]
Ane Neethling - University of Pretoria (South Africa)
Andriette Bekker - University of Pretoria (South Africa)
Mehrdad Naderi - University of Pretoria (South Africa)
Abstract: The autoregressive (AR) process of order $p$ is of common value in many areas of research, not necessarily only in a time series environment. Usually, innovations are assumed to be iid normally distributed; this assumption may not characterise some true processes adequately due to the normal distributions restrictions regarding asymmetry. A skew generalised normal distribution is presented as an alternative to the usual normal assumption. It can account for not only skewness but also heavier tails that innovations might exhibit. This model is compared to previously proposed models, and its position as a valid contender as the choice of innovation process discussed via some simulation studies and data analysis.


National Pet Fire Safety Day – July 15, 2021
ThuJul 15
National Pet Fire Safety Day takes place every year on July 15, and it's a day to learn how to keep your pet safe in a fire. For many of us, pets are our most precious asset so it makes sense that we would dedicate a day to keeping them safe during one of the scariest things we can imagine. It was started by the Kennel Club and ADT Security in 2009 to help pet owners learn safety measures to protect their beloved pets and homes from fire, and it's a great opportunity to learn how to keep your fur baby safe.
History of National Pet Fire Safety Day
While our animals are oftentimes the culprit behind devastating fires, it's a little ironic that dogs (specifically dalmations) have become an American icon associated with firefighters today. Let's briefly explore how that came to be. A few hundred years ago, dogs were trained to trot alongside horse-drawn wagons and protect their occupants (and horses) from harm. Dalmations quickly became the ideal carriage dog for their strength, vitality, fortitude, and size. They also had a reputation for getting along well with horses and were known to have a calming effect while firefighters were battling a blaze. Overtime as motorized fire trucks replaced carriages, Dalmatians and other fire pups were seen less aboard fire trucks and more as on-site firehouse residents and mascots.
Today, many firefighters have pet Dalmatians, and firehouses around the country still have Dalmatians as station dogs. However, Dalmatians aren't the only dog in the firehouse. It's become common for firefighters (and sometimes entire fire teams) to adopt dogs rescued from fires. These lucky pups, whatever their breed, become symbols of the resiliency, bravery, and fortitude of firefighters and the individuals they help. They also take important steps into education and helping firefighters demonstrate fire safety and emergency preparedness for schools and community groups across the country. Teaching that pets cause over 1,000 house fires each year in the United States and the preventive measures we can take to protect our beloved companions.
National Pet Fire Safety Day timeline
13,000 B.C.
People Make Pets
Evidence suggests people bred dogs in Europe and Asia around this time.
6,000 B.C.
Sacred Dog Burials
Special dog graves include expensive items. Proof of their deep meaning to humans
Emotional Support Animals Protected
The Fair Housing Amendments Act allows people to keep their ESAs, despite landlords.
The Awareness Begins
The Kennel Club and ADT Security decided it was time to get serious about pet fire protection.
National Pet Fire Safety Day FAQs
How do pets start fires?
The NFPA says a stove or cooktop is the number-one cause of fires started by pets. Electrical cords can sometimes be seen by your dog as a chew toy. When damaged, they can spark and cause electrocution or a fire. Secure any cords and hide them behind furniture or other obstructions.
How do I get my pet out of a fire?
Keep a collar on your dog, and leashes and cat carriers in an easy-to-access spot near an exit point so you can grab them on your way out.
Where do you put the pet alert sticker?
Put one on each side of your house or one in every apartment window. Consider a second pack if you need more than 4 alert stickers.
How to Observe National Pet Fire Safety Day
 1. Get this useful decoration
 On July 15, get a free Pet Fire Safety Window Cling at your local volunteer firehouse. First responders will see this and know to look out for any pets inside.
 2. Share it to save lives
 Use _TAG_ to post on social media and raise awareness to friends and family about the day and ways that they can keep their pets safe from fires.
 3. Have a fire drill
 For families with kids, this tradition is even more important. Discuss your family evacuation plan, designate someone to carry out the pets and execute a fire drill on this day every year.
 1. Pyro Pets
 Pets cause over 1,000 house fires each year in the United States
 2. A Big Problem
 Nearly 360,000 house fires occur each year in the United States.
 3. Save a Life
 Over 40,000 pets die every year in house fires. Awareness can save lives.
 4. Furry (and Slithering) Heroes
 There are thousands of stories about pets, even snakes, saving humans from house fires.
 5. Have a Plan
 The #1 tip is to have an escape plan that includes your pets.
Why National Pet Fire Safety Day is Important
 1. Keep your pets out of trouble
 There are many ways to keep your pet from causing a fire. Blow out candles before leaving home, block off access to the kitchen or remove stove knobs if pets can reach it, and keep any and all wires out of chewing distance, especially from kittens and puppies!
 2. Have a pet rescue plan in place
 Discuss with your family who will be in charge of rescuing your pet in the event of a fire. Planning and practicing fire drills will help the family remain calm and help ensure that your pets are not forgotten during a chaotic evacuation.
 3. Make rescuers aware of your pets and their hiding places
 As part of your evacuation plan, include a list of your pet's hiding places, so that firefighters will know where to look in case your pets don't make it out with you. Also, make sure your pets have collars with up to date tags attached in case they escape on their own.
National Pet Fire Safety Day dates
2021July 15Thursday
2022July 15Friday
2023July 15Saturday
2024July 15Monday
2025July 15Tuesday


text:
Terje Tvedt's The Nile. The River of History is probably the most comprehensive book about the Nile ever written. Tvedt travels upstream along the longest river in the world, from the river's mouth to its sources. The result is a travelogue through 5000 years and 11 countries, from the Mediterranean to Central Africa. With insight and sensitivity, the writer shows and describes both the river's wealth and poverty, its greatness and beauty, as well as its historical and political significance throughout the ages. The book is lavishly illustrated.
Terje Tvedt wrote and presented the award-winning documentaries The History of Water and The Future of Water, a comprehensive story of how humans' battles with water have shaped the past and will shape our future. They contain detailed accounts from a global journey to almost 40 countries on five continents. The series have been broadcast on major TV channels all over the world. Tvedt also edited a nine volume book series based on the TV series.
"It's risky to hail a newly-published work a classic, but The Nile – the River of History definitely has the potential to be one. It's a magnificent work."


text:
Welcome to the world of ghostly tales and chilling experiences in Berlin! If you're a fan of paranormal activities, haunted places, and spine-tingling stories, this Berlin Ghost Tour is perfect for you.
What is a Berlin Ghost Tour?
A Berlin Ghost Tour is a unique and exciting way to explore the haunted history of this vibrant city. Led by experienced guides, these tours take you through dark alleyways, forgotten corners, and eerie landmarks.
Why Should You Go on a Berlin Ghost Tour?
Here are a few reasons why you should experience a Berlin Ghost Tour:
- Discover Untold Stories: Unearth the hidden secrets and legends that have been passed down through generations.
- Explore Spooky Locations: Visit haunted places and learn about the paranormal activities that have taken place.
- Immerse in History: Experience Berlin's history from a different perspective, blending spooky tales with historical events.
- Engaging and Entertaining: Professional guides create an engaging atmosphere, ensuring an enjoyable and educational experience.
What Can You Expect on a Berlin Ghost Tour?
During a Berlin Ghost Tour, you can expect the following:
- Expert Guides: Knowledgeable guides who are well-versed in Berlin's haunted history.
- Haunted Locations: Visits to spooky places with stories of paranormal occurrences.
- Chilling Stories: Gripping tales of ghosts, spirits, and unsolved mysteries that will send shivers down your spine.
- Interactive Experience: Engage in interactive activities and paranormal investigations, if available.
Types of Berlin Ghost Tours
There are various types of ghost tours in Berlin to suit different preferences:
Walking Ghost Tours
Walking ghost tours are the most popular option. You'll explore haunted spots on foot, taking in the atmosphere and hearing chilling stories along the way.
Bus Ghost Tours
If walking isn't your thing, you can opt for a bus ghost tour. You'll be driven to haunted locations while enjoying the comfort of a bus.
Private Ghost Tours
For a more personalized experience, you can book a private ghost tour. This allows you to customize the tour according to your interests and preferences.
Tips for a Spooky Experience
Follow these tips to make the most of your Berlin Ghost Tour:
- Dress Appropriately: Wear comfortable shoes and bring a jacket, as some tours may take you to outdoor locations.
- Arrive Early: Reach the starting point early to avoid any last-minute rush and ensure a smooth check-in process.
- Listen Carefully: Pay attention to the guide's stories and instructions to fully immerse yourself in the experience.
- Ask Questions: Don't hesitate to ask questions and engage with your guide to delve deeper into the spooky tales.
- Respect the Locations: Be respectful towards the haunted places you visit and avoid causing any damage or disturbances.
- Keep an Open Mind: Whether you believe in ghosts or not, approach the tour with an open mind and enjoy the thrill of the unknown.
Embarking on a Berlin Ghost Tour is an exhilarating way to explore the haunted history of this captivating city. With expert guides, chilling stories, and mysterious locations, you'll have an unforgettable experience. So, book your tour today and get ready for a spine-tingling adventure into the supernatural realm of Berlin!
(insert image credits here)


text:
It is really difficult to depend on any one source for Industrial financing and as such different sources must be tackled.
Some of the important sources of financing industries in India being as under:
1. Sale of Shares:
Each industry floats shares for financing its programmes. These are offered to the public. The money raised through shares is quite substantial and if the industry has established a credit, it can raise any amount for financing its projects.
2. Voluntary Deposits:
When the industries establish their credit worthiness, the individuals, who have surplus money, deposit their amounts with the industry. In this way also sufficient amounts are raised.
3. By Borrowing Money on Interest:
When the money raised is still needed the industry approaches big financiers or houses to loan them money on interest. This amount is raised only when the industry feels that the investment is sure to have returns. Usually the rate of interest paid is much higher than the bank rate and this attracts the people to loan surplus money to the industry rather than depositing that with the banks.
4. Industrial Financial Corporations and Banks:
Government of India has set up many financial corporations such as Industrial Financial Corporation of India, Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation of India, Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation of India, Industrial Reconstruction Corporation of India and Industrial Development Bank of India. All these agencies and bodies are quite prepared to finance the industries in the country, so that industrial progress of the nation in any way does not retard.
5. Financial Assistance from the Banks:
With the nationalisation of banks commercial banks are liberally coming forward to help the industries, both small scale as well as large scale, to finance their projects. These banks are of considerable assistance when the industry is in financial difficulty or when it is facing serious financial crisis.
6. Managing Agency System:
Managing agencies also invest capital in the industry with the result that these provide finances for the industries; similarly funds are also raised through debentures as well. But these methods have their own drawbacks with the result that these are not in common use in so far as funding of industries is concerned.
Sources of Finance:
Capital requirements of the industry on the basis of their use can be divided into two categories, viz.:
(a) Fixed capital, and
(b) Working capital.
Fixed capital is used to provide the necessary means of production to the industrial units, like land and buildings, plant and machinery, furniture and fixtures, tools and equipment, etc.
Working capital provides all the expenses that are necessary in order to manufacture and sell the product or service offered. It is either invested in stocks of raw materials, stores and finished products, loose tools and spare parts or is needed for granting credit to customers or for meeting day-to-day administrative and other expenses.
On the basis of time, the capital requirements of industry are classified into:
(a) Short-term capital,
(b) Medium-term capital, and
(c) Longterm capital.
Short-term capital is required for a period ranging up to one year; mediumterm capital is required for a period ranging from one to five years; and long-term capital is required for a period exceeding five years.
Sources of Industrial Finance:
Industrial units raise finance to meet their capital requirements from different sources, the important among these are as follows:
1. Shares and Debentures:
A company's owned capital is split into a large number of equal parts, each part being called a share. The company invites members of the public to buy as many shares as they like. The share capital of a company is ideal for meeting the long-term requirements.
A debenture is an acknowledgement under seal of debt or loan. Uniform parts of loan are called debentures. Debentures carry a fixed rate of interest to the holders and used to finance long and mediumterm requirements of the industry.
2. Public Deposits:
The system of public deposits has been the only source of working capital for some industries in some regions of the country in the past.
On account of the malpractices of the borrowing units, the system came in for much disrepute. The system has, however, been rehabilitated by the Reserve Bank after making suitable amendments of the Companies Act.
3. Ploughing Back of Profits:
This source, in fact, is the indicator of the inner strength and stability of any enterprise. Companies can use their reinvestible surplus to finance the expansion and modernisation of existing plants and establishment of the new ones.
4. Bank Loans:
The commercial banks provide short-term or working capital to industries. They feel hesitant to finance fixed capital needs of industries because of the risky nature of the shares. Banks also do not subscribe to debentures because it is very difficult to dispose them of at a time when they are very much in need of funds.
In short, however, it should be noted that during the last 20 years bank advances to industry have shown remarkable progress. Outstanding advances of the scheduled commercial banks to industries—large, medium and small-scale—have increased from Rs.2,068 crores in March 1968 to Rs.1,02,963 crores in March, 1995. In percentage terms, however, the share of bank advances to industry in total advances declined from 67.5 per cent to 53.2 per cent during the same period.
5. Foreign Capital:
Foreign capital is also an important source of medium-term and long-term finance to industry. Foreign capital is available to the industries, both in the form of loans and equity participation. The sources of foreign capital comprise international institutions like International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the International Finance Corporation, foreign governments and private investors.
6. Specialised Financial Institutions:
The most important sources of long-term finance to industry are the various financial institutions that have been specially set up to meet the credit needs of industry. Among these institutions mention may be made of the Industrial Finance Corporation of India, the Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation of India, the Industrial Development Bank of India, the Unit Trust of India and the Industrial Reconstruction Bank of India.
In brief, there are both internal and external sources of industrial finance. In the recent past, the specialised financial institutions are playing a dominant role in industrial financing.
Soundness of the Financing Agencies:
It is a matter of debate whether the present financial structure is sound enough to sustain the pressure of growing industrialisation of the country. Among all the financing agencies, the most effective and reliable source of finance are the specialised institutions or the development banks.
These institutions not only provide loans but also offer technological know-how and expert guidance to industries. The financial strength of these institutions, however, is not sound enough to meet all the credit requirements of industries.
Foreign capital is again an important source of industrial finance but it has its own limitations. Foreign capital is the most unreliable source of finance. Its availability depends upon the political ties with the ender countries. Moreover, certain political strings are attached with the foreign capital. In some cases, only project-tied capital is offered by the lending countries.
Nationalised banks are playing a useful role in the various development programmes by making finance available for different projects. But in the sphere of industrial activities, they have not been able to provide term loans to industries.
To sum up, the present financial structure is not strong enough to meet the challenges of growing industrialisation.


How Hiking Can Improve Your Mental Health
How Hiking Can Improve Your
Mental Health
Posted at 10:00 - 10th October - Sarah Booth
Many people have experienced the connection between hiking and happiness. However, it now seems that the benefits to your mental health can be scientifically proven. We think this is a great reason to highlight the ways that hiking can help improve your mental well being.
Increasing Creativity
Our subconscious brain processes around 11 million 'bits' of information every second, with our conscious brain processing around 50. Add pinging emails, bleeping notifications, social media scrolling and it's no wonder that we are struggling with overwhelm and mental fatigue.
Hiking provides the perfect opportunity to unplug from technology and plug into nature. Worries fall away as you start to focus on what surrounds you – the footpath beneath your feet, the sounds of nature, glimpses of wildlife, and breath taking views around every corner. Being surrounded by nature can help increase your creativity and problem solving skills by up to 50% because it helps to restore the pre-frontal cortex area of the brain – the area that is heavily used to deal with the multi tasking demands of every day life.
Creativity in the Wild: Improving Creative Reasoning Through Immersion in Natural Settings
Reducing Anxiety
Gregory Bratman
Hiking has also been proven to reduce anxiety because you are less likely to overthink negative emotions and experiences when you are outdoors.
Hiking in nature has a meditative quality, helping you feel inspired, empowered and connected to something greater than yourself. It allows you to escape, putting physical and emotional distance between you and your stresses until all you need to focus on is what you are there to accomplish.
Whatever you accomplish – whether it's your first hike or a long distance challenge – you feel a huge sense of pride in discovering what you are truly capable of when you get out there and give things a go.
Nature Experience Reduces Rumination and Subgenual Prefrontal Cortex Activation
Hiking is a sport that is growing in popularity, changing from a pastime associated with retired ramblers, to one that is enjoyed by many young people who are taking advantage of the benefits it provides to their physical and mental health.
Alongside this growth in popularity comes the opportunity to develop your social connections and friendships beyond the confines of social media. Hiking with others gives you the opportunity to meet like-minded people, make new friends, engage in real life conversations and find the support of a positive, proactive community who want to see you succeed. When all of this happens in a lush, inspiring environment, the impact to your mental health can be significant.
Finally, recent studies have shown that hiking can help to reduce the symptoms of ADHD in children as it significantly improves their attention span and ability to control their impulses.
"Two studies to date have examined the impacts of exposure to nature among individuals with ADHD. Both focused on children aged 7 to 12 years who had been professionally diagnosed with ADHD. In the first study 3196 parents rated a variety of leisure activities with respect to whether their child's symptoms were better than, worse than, or the same as usual after engaging in those activities. Parents also rated the general severity of their child's symptoms and provided information on the "greenness" of the child's typical play settings. Results indicated that symptoms were better than usual after activities in relatively green settings. Moreover, the after effects of activities taking place in green outdoor settings were better than those of activities taking place either indoors or in relatively built outdoor settings, and the greener a child's typical play settings, the less severe his or her general symptoms."
A Potential Natural Treatment for Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: Evidence from a National Study
It's exciting to see scientific research emerging in a field where historically the link between nature and well-being has been felt but not necessarily quantified. Why not use it as a starting point to get outside and discover how a hike in nature can improve your own mental health and well-being.
For information, advice and immediate support for any mental health issues you can contact


Refreshing form parts
When using form parts in AX 2012, you sometimes need to explicitly refresh their data based on an event in the main form. It may not be completely obvious how to do it, but it's not too complicated in the end.
Form parts are actually forms by themselves and if you know how to manipulate forms at runtime, you know how to work with parts too. The tricky part it getting a reference to a form part.
One of possible solutions is adding the following method to SysSetupFormRun class (so it's available to all forms):
public FormRun getFormPartByName(str _name)
 PartList partList = new PartList(this);
 FormRun part;
 int i;
 for(i = 1; i <= partList.partCount(); i++)
 part = partList.getPartById(i);
 if ( == _name)
 return part;
 return null;
As you see, it iterates all parts in the form and finds a part with the given name.
Then you can call it from your form to get a reference to a particular part and do anything you like with it, such as refreshing the data:
public void refreshMyFactBox()
 SysSetupFormRun formRun = this as SysSetupFormRun;
 FormRun factBox = formRun.getFormPartByName('MyInfoPart');
 if (factBox)
Note that if it's a form part, you have to provide the name of the underlying form, such as:
FormRun factBox = formRun.getFormPartByName(formStr(MyFormPartForm));
 1. Very small typo.
 There's a double end parathesis in
 FormRun factBox = formRun.getFormPartByName('MyInfoPart'));
 There should only be one.
 Then it will compile. 🙂
 2. Hi Martin, can something like this be used to send eplicit data to a form part?
 Let me explain. I have created an InfoPart on the SalesTable form to display certain attributes for an item. The problem is, the infoPart data doesn't display on a new SalesLine entry until it's saved (obviously because the infoPart is reading from the SalesLine table and until I save the line, the data only exists in the table buffer). However we need the infoPart data to display immediately upon entry of the ItemId on the new SalesLine before it's been saved. I can use a display method in the SalesLine grid and it is able to use the TableBuffer data to populate. (The text is too long to reasonably display in the grid however)
 I've been looking for a solution to my problem when I came across your blog post here. Could I "push" a string from aSalesLine display method to appear in the InfoPart before the line is saved/inserted into the SalesLine table?
 Thanks for your time.
 3. Hi Martin, i am working with D365 and i need to add a resizing option between the grid and the form part of the Pending Vendor Invoices list page.
 I am not sure how since the standard list page does not give a resizing option.
Leave a Reply
Your email address will not be published.


text:
It's known that people who live or work in rural areas are more likely to suffer and die from serious injuries compared to those in more urban environments. But while time and distance play a role in these higher mortality rates, new research suggests that limited access to early, high-quality trauma care in many smaller Ontario hospitals may be a factor.
- More than 50 percent of injury-related deaths in rural Ontario occur before patients reach hospitalTue, 26 Jan 2010, 12:23:37 EST
- Significant urban-rural disparities in injury mortality seen in ChinaTue, 12 Jan 2010, 11:38:02 EST
- High-quality care associated with lower cost in traumaTue, 22 Feb 2011, 9:31:45 EST
- Patients at small, isolated, rural hospitals in US more likely to receive lower quality of care Tue, 5 Jul 2011, 20:36:24 EDT
- Smaller hospitals can provide safe and high-quality surgical care comparable to larger counterpartsTue, 27 Jul 2010, 16:35:51 EDT


text:
- Store or remove valuables prior to staging to avoid damage when rearranging furniture.
- Prepack them for the move so they are not displayed during open houses.
- Ensure they are adequately insured. Jewelry, for example, may only have limited coverage under your regular homeowners' insurance.
Most people own a few valuables, whether they are irreplaceable keepsakes or expensive belongings. Staging, showing, and selling your home results in a lot more rearranging and traffic than usual, which is important to consider for keeping your valuables safe. To reduce the risk of breakage, theft or loss during the selling process consider the following:


text:
The March-May seasonal rains were below average over most of the eastern Horn
- Cumulative rainfall for the 2021 March to May rainy season was generally less than 85 percent over much of the eastern Horn despite moderate to heavy rainfall in late April and early May. The worst-affected areas received less than 55 percent of normal rainfall. The rest of the region experienced near-average to above- average rainfall during this period.
- In May, rangeland resources significantly improved across East Africa following the late seasonal rainfall. These rains are expected to provide short-term improvements to pasture and water conditions over the eastern Horn.
- In the main cereal production areas in East Africa's western and central regions, crop production prospects remain favorable for both the belg and long rain-dependent areas. However, below- average to moderately-to-significantly below-average crop production is anticipated over the eastern regions due to delayed onset and insufficient and poorly distributed March-May seasonal rainfall.
- The dry season over much of the eastern Horn of Africa has begun following the end of the March-May rains. Meanwhile, in the northern sector of the region, a timely onset of the June- September seasonal rains is currently underway.


Export (0) Print
Expand All
SelectObject function
The SelectObject function selects an object into the specified device context (DC). The new object replaces the previous object of the same type.
Syntax
HGDIOBJ SelectObject(
 _In_ HDC hdc,
 _In_ HGDIOBJ hgdiobj
);
Parameters
hdc [in]
A handle to the DC.
hgdiobj [in]
A handle to the object to be selected. The specified object must have been created by using one of the following functions.
ObjectFunctions
Bitmap
CreateBitmap, CreateBitmapIndirect, CreateCompatibleBitmap, CreateDIBitmap, CreateDIBSection
Bitmaps can only be selected into memory DC's. A single bitmap cannot be selected into more than one DC at the same time.
Brush
CreateBrushIndirect, CreateDIBPatternBrush, CreateDIBPatternBrushPt, CreateHatchBrush, CreatePatternBrush, CreateSolidBrush
Font
CreateFont, CreateFontIndirect
Pen
CreatePen, CreatePenIndirect
Region
CombineRgn, CreateEllipticRgn, CreateEllipticRgnIndirect, CreatePolygonRgn, CreateRectRgn, CreateRectRgnIndirect

Return value
If the selected object is not a region and the function succeeds, the return value is a handle to the object being replaced. If the selected object is a region and the function succeeds, the return value is one of the following values.
ValueMeaning
SIMPLEREGIONRegion consists of a single rectangle.
COMPLEXREGIONRegion consists of more than one rectangle.
NULLREGIONRegion is empty.

If an error occurs and the selected object is not a region, the return value is NULL. Otherwise, it is HGDI_ERROR.
Remarks
This function returns the previously selected object of the specified type. An application should always replace a new object with the original, default object after it has finished drawing with the new object.
An application cannot select a single bitmap into more than one DC at a time.
ICM: If the object being selected is a brush or a pen, color management is performed.
Examples
For an example, see Setting the Pen or Brush Color.
Requirements
Minimum supported client
Windows 2000 Professional [desktop apps only]
Minimum supported server
Windows 2000 Server [desktop apps only]
Header
Wingdi.h (include Windows.h)
Library
Gdi32.lib
DLL
Gdi32.dll
See also
Device Contexts Overview
Device Context Functions
CombineRgn
CreateBitmap
CreateBitmapIndirect
CreateBrushIndirect
CreateCompatibleBitmap
CreateDIBitmap
CreateDIBPatternBrush
CreateEllipticRgn
CreateEllipticRgnIndirect
CreateFont
CreateFontIndirect
CreateHatchBrush
CreatePatternBrush
CreatePen
CreatePenIndirect
CreatePolygonRgn
CreateRectRgn
CreateRectRgnIndirect
CreateSolidBrush
SelectClipRgn
SelectPalette

Community Additions
ADD
Show:
© 2014 Microsoft


text:
Large Dish Depicting Fish
The dish displayed here was used to serve fish. Fish were important symbols to Romans, Christians, and Jews in the ancient world, and the act of eating fish could therefore take on a degree of symbolic significance. Jews ate fish at the beginning of the Sabbath in this period in anticipation of the meal to be served at the start of the Messianic Age, when the faithful would dine on the flesh of the sea monster Leviathan. And within the Christian tradition, in the earliest depictions of the Last Supper the main course was fish.
- Culture: Coptic
- Medium: Pottery with paint
- Dates: 6th century C.E.
- Period: Coptic Period
- Dimensions: 4 3/4 x 18 11/16 in. (12 x 47.5 cm) (show scale)
- Collections:Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art
- Museum Location: This item is not on view
- Accession Number: 42.408
- Credit Line: By exchange
- Rights Statement: Creative Commons-BY
- Caption: Coptic. Large Dish Depicting Fish, 6th century C.E. Pottery with paint, 4 3/4 x 18 11/16 in. (12 x 47.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, By exchange, 42.408. Creative Commons-BY
- Record Completeness: Good (65%)


text:
(SOLVED) What is the difference between President Obama's net worth and the mean net worth of all members of the Executive Branch?
Type of Paper: Question-Answer
Academic Level: Undergrad. (yrs 3-4)
Paper Format: APA
Obama's Net Worth As of this writing, Barack Obama is President of the United States and he has a net worth of $3, 670, 505. The 17 members of the Executive Branch have a mean net worth of $4, 939, 455 with a standard deviation of $7, 775, 948 (based on data from opensecrets.org). What is the difference between President Obama's net worth and the mean net worth of all members of the Executive Branch? How many standard deviations is that (the difference found in part (a))? Convert President Obama's net worth to a z score. If we consider "usual" amounts of net worth to be those that convert to 2 scores between - 2 and 2, is President Obama's net worth usual or unusual?
Obama = _PHONE_
EB = _PHONE_, sd = _PHONE_
a) The difference is _PHONE_ -_PHONE_ =-_PHONE_
b) as the Sd is _PHONE_, and the difference is _PHONE_,where SD > Difference
so it lies within 1 standard deviation
c) We know the Z score formula is
Z = X- Mean /SD = (_PHONE_ - _PHONE_ )/_PHONE_ = -0.1631
d)as this z value of -0.1631 lies between -2 and 2, hence the value is normal and usual


text:
Do you ever wonder, looking at the food in your plate, where it has come from and who produced it?
Surely you have thought about what explains its price on the shelf! Kenyans love sugar, which they use liberally in their tea: on average each Kenyan consumes 400 grams of sugar per week, much more than their Tanzanian neighbors who consume approximately 230 grams. In Africa, only the residents of Swaziland and South Africa have a sweeter tooth.
Globally, 70 percent of the sugar that is produced is consumed in the same country and only 30 percent is exported. In principle this is good for customers in sugar-producing countries, as long as the supply is sufficient to keep prices low. In Kenya, this is not the case: there are occasional sugar shortages and, when they can be anticipated, prices rise to extraordinary levels.


text:
Lapbooking Made Easy by Catherine Jaime
Price: $0.99 USD. 1700 words.
Published on November 2, 2011..
A lapbook is a portable project filled with pictures and other neat information about a topic. It's a great hands-on way for students to start learning about a topic, or to wrap up a study. But many teachers/parents are intimidated by where to begin with these great resources. Our goal is to take the unknown out of lapbooking and show you how easy it is to incorporate lapbooks.


Why do I stick out my tongue when I concentrate? © iStock
Why do I stick out my tongue when I concentrate?
The answer won't surprise you when you find out how much brain power that muscle uses.
Much of your brain is devoted to your tongue. It is a huge muscle, constantly moving, that has to keep out of the way of your teeth, help you swallow and avoid choking you. It's covered with densely packed touch receptors that constantly update the mental map of the shape of your mouth. And your tongue is connected to the brain's language centres so it often moves to partly form word shapes as you think.
All this sends a huge stream of data to your brain. Sticking your tongue out or biting it, reduces its movement and cuts down on this torrent, which leaves more brain-power available to concentrate.
Read more:


text:
Water Resources Research vol:37 issue:3 pages:791-799
Govers showed that the flow velocity in rills eroding loose, nonlayered materials could be predicted from knowledge of discharge only (without significant slope or soil effect). The objective of this paper is to investigate to what extent the observed slope independence of flow velocity in eroding rills can be explained by the interaction between rill bed roughness and flow hydraulics. In a laboratory study, two situations were compared: (1) rills which can freely erode a uniform soil layer and (2) rills with a fixed bed geometry. During the experiments, rill discharge and flow velocity were recorded. After each experiment, a detailed topographic survey of the rill bed was carried out using a laser scanner. From these data the main hydraulic variables (mean values of flow depth, wetted perimeter, and hydraulic radius) were estimated. The experiments confirmed the slope independence of rill flow velocities on mobile beds. When the bed is fixed, the flow velocity in rills is clearly slope-dependent. The slope independence of flow velocity on mobile beds is due to a feedback between rill bed morphology and flow conditions. The roughness amplitude (which was assessed from the standard deviation of corrected height values) and the frequency of macroroughness elements (which was assessed by counting the number of peaks per unit length in a previously simplified longitudinal profiles) both increase and tend to counteract the effect of the increase in slope gradient on rill flow velocity. The final rill flow velocity appears to be characterized by a constant average Froude number.


Categories
Litter Size
How many babies does a Pallas's long-tongued bat have at once? (litter size)
How many baby Pallas's long-tongued bats are in a litter?
A Pallas's long-tongued bat (Glossophaga soricina) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.With 2 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 2 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 108 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 180 kg (396.83 lbs) and measure 4.8 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Phyllostomidae family (genus: Glossophaga). An adult Pallas's long-tongued bat grows up to a size of 4.8 cm (0′ 2″).
To have a reference: Humans obviously usually have a litter size of one ;). Their babies are in the womb of their mother for 280 days (40 weeks) and reach an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″). They weight in at 62 kg (137 lbs), which is obviously highly individual, and reach an average age of 75 years.
The average litter size of a Pallas's long-tongued bat is 1
Pallas's long-tongued bat (Glossophaga soricina) is a South and Central American bat with a fast metabolism that feeds on nectar.
Other animals of the family Phyllostomidae
Pallas's long-tongued bat is a member of the Phyllostomidae, as are these animals:
Animals that share a litter size with Pallas's long-tongued bat
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
Animals that get as old as a Pallas's long-tongued bat
Other animals that usually reach the age of 10 years:
Animals with the same weight as a Pallas's long-tongued bat
What other animals weight around 9 grams (0.02 lbs)?
Animals with the same size as a Pallas's long-tongued bat
Also reaching around 4.8 cm (0′ 2″) in size do these animals:


text:
Library will offer geneology class
You can learn to search for your family history at 6 p.m. Oct. 29 at the North Davidson Public Library.
A genealogy workshop will be presented by Tonya Hensley, genealogist and historian for the Davidson County Public Library System.
Learn how to start your research, find sources and records, use printed and electronic resources, use genetic genealogy and how to organize your information.
The program is free and open to the public, but space is limited and registration is required. Register at the library or by calling _PHONE_.


Version: 2.0.0 (latest)
Validation & Sanitization
Currently inputs received by the server are not checked. Everyone could send anything when requesting POST /api/todos. That's why client inputs cannot be trusted.
You will use the ValidateBody and ValidatePathParam hooks to validate and sanitize incoming data.
A hook is a decorator that is attached to a route handler (a controller method). It is executed before the method and is therefore particularly suitable for validation or access control.
The ValidateBody and ValidatePathParam check respectively the body and params properties of the request object. They take a schema as unique argument.
FoalTS uses Ajv, a fast JSON Schema validator, to define its schemas.
Let's add validation and sanitization to your application. In fact, you have already defined the todo schema in the create-todo script earlier.
import {
...
ValidateBody, ValidatePathParam
} from '@foal/core';
export class ApiController {
...
@Post('/todos')
@ValidateBody({
// Every additional properties that are not defined in the "properties"
// object should be removed.
additionalProperties: false,
properties: {
// The "text" property of ctx.request.body should be a string if it exists.
text: { type: 'string' }
},
// The property "text" is required.
required: [ 'text' ],
// The body request should be an object once parsed by the framework.
type: 'object',
})
async postTodo(ctx: Context) {
const todo = new Todo();
todo.text = ctx.request.body.text;
await todo.save();
return new HttpResponseCreated(todo);
}
@Delete('/todos/:id')
// The id should be a number. If it is not, the hook returns a "400 - Bad Request" error.
@ValidatePathParam('id', { type: 'number' })
async deleteTodo(ctx: Context) {
const todo = await Todo.findOne({ id: ctx.request.params.id });
if (!todo) {
return new HttpResponseNotFound();
}
await todo.remove();
return new HttpResponseNoContent();
}
}


text:
Almost one million school children think Professor Green is a scientist, says study
Almost one million school children aged five to 16 think rapper Professor Green is a scientist, according to research.
Children are more familiar with Mark Zuckerberg, the creator of Facebook (68% correctly identified him), than physicist Albert Einstein who discovered the theory of relativity (only 45% correctly identified him), the poll by Haier home appliances reveals.
Although one in five children (19%) know and love TV Professor Brian Cox, a large proportion are unable to identify a number of significant, heavyweight names from the world of science and innovation, including Charles Darwin (63% unable to identify), Louis Pasteur (75%), Thomas Edison (62%) and Isaac Newton (61%).
Despite spending an average 17 hours and 34 minutes in front a TV screen every week, almost half (45%) do not know that John Logie Baird invented the television. In fact, a quarter of eight-year-olds think David Cameron invented it (23.83%).
Other key findings from the survey are
:: Around a third five-year-olds (35%) think Boris Johnson discovered gravity
:: Almost a quarter of eight-year-olds (22%) think Stephen Hawking is a hairdresser
:: Around a fifth of seven-year-olds (22%) believe Thomas Edison created Facebook
:: Nearly a tenth of children (8%) think Charles Darwin was a reality TV star
:: Around one in 20 school children (6%) believe The X Factor judge Tulisa Contostavlos created penicillin.
Around a third of key stage three pupils (35%) do not know that Isaac Newton discovered gravity, despite energy transfer and physical processes being part of the school curriculum.
Jeff Moody, sales and marketing director of Haier Home Appliances UK, said: "It is eye opening to discover that children of today are more aware of popular figures like Mark Zuckerberg than men and women who have made iconic discoveries and inventions that have revolutionised the modern world.
"At Haier, we put science at the very heart of everything we do and we passionately believe the future of innovation lies in the scientific interest and imagination of the next generation."
The research was commissioned as part of Haier's Let Children Dream campaign and supports its partnership with the Science Museum and its children's Create It drawing wall where children are encouraged to dream up and draw their ideas and inventions.
:: Haier surveyed 1,000 children, aged between 5 and 16 on October 8.
That's some guestlist! Stunning images show huge dynastic wedding between Ultra-Orthodox Jewish families which attracted 25,000 guests
Man and woman arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to murder victim of Woolwich machete attack, named as Drummer Lee Rigby
'Sickening, deluded and unforgivable': Horrific attack brings terror to London's streets
Video: Woolwich attack - man with bloodied hands and knife addresses camera
Ingrid Loyau-Kennett, the mother-of-two hailed as a hero for confronting Woolwich attackers, thought: 'better me than a child'
- 2 'Sickening, deluded and unforgivable': Horrific attack brings terror to London's streets
- 4 Woolwich murder: They killed, then they performed - these men should be starved of our attention
- 5 Woolwich attack: The EDL will seek to exploit this evil crime for their own evil ends
BMF is the UK's biggest and best loved outdoor fitness classes
Get the latest on The Evening Standard's campaign to get London's children reading.
Win anything from gadgets to five-star holidays on our competitions and offers page.


text:
Landmarks asked for revisions to application to demolish 20th century freight terminal building and construct new brick-faced hotel. On August 3, 2015 the Landmarks Preservation Commission considered an application to demolish an existing building and construct a new hotel at 456 Greenwich Street in Manhattan. The lot under consideration lies partially within the Tribeca North Historic District. The existing structure at the site, originally built as freight terminal building in 1942, was heavily altered in the 1950s, and now functions as a garage. The building is identified as "no style" in the district's designation report. Landmarks previously considered an application for the alteration and redevelopment of the garage in 2014, but the project has since been abandoned. The new building would function as a hotel, with ground-floor commercial use.
The lot spans the width of the block, from Greenwich to Washington Street, with its longest facade on Desbrosses Street. Only the eastern portion lies within the historic district, which includes the facade facing Greenwich Street, and a segment of the Desbrosses Street face side.
Higgins Quasebarth and Partners' consultant Cas Stachelberg testified that the design would be uniform throughout the lot, though more bulk would be added to the portion outside of the historic district. He stated that the site is surrounded by five- and six-story 18th century warehouse buildings faced in masonry with cast-iron bases. He called the proposed design "clearly of the district, but also clearly of its time," and said it would retain the tradition of textured brickwork and the governing "utilitarian aesthetic." Stachelberg provided multiple examples of non-contextual short buildings in Tribeca that had been replaced by taller infill buildings with Landmarks' approval.
Architect Stephen Jacobs, of the Stephen B. Jacobs Group, presented the plan for the new hotel's design, which he described as a "contemporary contextual infill building." The building would rise to six stories at the streetwall, with a one-story, setback penthouse, into which a rooftop pool would be installed. The new building, which would have two bays on Greenwich Street, and sic bays on Desbrosses Street, would be primarily faced in brick with, with metal and glass openings. Large double-height square windows would span the second and third, as well as the fourth and fifth stories on all three facades. The large square openings would be divided into quarters by aluminum replications of steel I-beams, and further subdivided into multiple smaller windows. Jacobs said the contemporary nature of the openings prevented the design from falling into a false "historicism," while the "heavily articulated" brickwork was also intended to reflect historic architecture in a contemporary manner.
The first story would be demarcated from the upper floors by a metal cornice recalling historic corrugated metal canopies of the district. The sixth story would have smaller, vertical windows similar in design to the "attic stories" of the district's historic buildings. Multi-story mechanical equipment and bulkheads would be clustered on a portion of the roof outside of the historic district. A rooftop swimming pool would be built on the historic district portion of the penthouse. The penthouse and pool would be minimally, partially visible from public thoroughfares.
The Historic District Council's Barbara Zay called the project largely admirable, but criticized the double-height open squares and their failure to align with adjacent buildings, as well as an excess of glazing. Sean McCarthy, a resident of 452 Greenwich Street, expressed concern about the ratio of glass to masonry, the height of the proposed building, and the mass of the roof accretions, which would be visible from his building. Attorney Scott Schweber, representing a resident of the adjoining co-op at 449 Washington Street, said the development would block light and air to the building, which lies outside of the designated district.
Manhattan Community Board 1 issued a resolution recommending approval of the project, though requesting that the visibility of the rooftop accretions be reduced.
No commissioners objected to the proposed demolition. Commissioner Michael Goldblum found the approval contextual in its massing and materials and the proposal would constitute an improvement over the existing building. Goldblum questioned the large square windows, but determined that the design fell within the boundaries of appropriateness. Commissioner Michael Devonshire criticized the use of sand-struck brick in the proposal, which he said would clash with the historic hydraulic, water-struck brick predominant in the district. Though slightly "cringe-worthy," Devonshire did not find that the choice rose to the level of inappropriateness.
Commissioner Fred Bland suggested that the applicants use a stronger cornice above the sixth floor and also opposed the square opening for reasons of proportionality. Commissioner Diana Chapin found the large square windows "disruptive," and advised that they be replaced with rectilinear openings.
Chair Meenakshi Srinivasan commented that she was glad to see a plan that would replace the existing garage with a streetwall building, and called it a "great improvement" over the site's current condition. Srinivasan found the square openings integral to the concept presented, and said she was hesitant to ask the applicants to completely redesign the proposal. Srinivasan asked the applicants to refine the use materials and color in the proposal, and to reconsider the use of the sand-struck brick. The applicants were invited to present a revised proposal at a later date.
LPC: 456 Greenwich Street, Manhattan (17-2567) (Aug. 3, 2015) (Architects: Stephen B. Jacobs Group).
By: Jesse Denno (Jesse is a full-time staff writer at the Center for NYC Law)


text:
Patient registries can be a powerful tool. They can help researchers:
In discussions with NIH's Office of Rare Diseases Research (ORDR) on establishing an APBD patient registry, here is a recap of their thoughts:
- The process lends itself to developing a comfort level with a registry provider that will give the best product
- The selected solution should provide access to de-identified information and the ability to search and analyze the data
- The setup should facilitate the ability to provide de-identified data to the Global Rare Diseases Patient Registry and Data Repository (GRDR) established by NIH. This may result in leading other potential patients to our organization.
- Finalized patient registry questions can be shared with NIH ORDR.
- ORDR has developed an informed consent template that can be used in establishing APBD registry
What your donation will fund:
Annual maintenance fee $15,000
Naming opportunity available


text: Grandma, What's an Ulu For? is a title in the Nunavummi Reading Series published by Inhabit Education. This is a unique Nunavut-made levelled reading series that aligns the reading expectations of the Inuit language, English, and French. The reading series corresponds closely to the reading levels and expectations developed by the Department of Education in Nunavut. This approach to literacy provides educators and parents the tools they need to ensure that children are equally challenged and successful in all the languages represented in Nunavut. Author Jeanie Joanasie explains its history, traditional uses, and stories about it. In the 28-page reader a young girl asks her grandmother about the ulu and why it is so important to the Inuit. Grandmother explains all the ways to use it as a tool for scraping, cutting, sewing, slicing, chopping and grinding. Grandmother tells her granddaughter to respect the ulu and how to take care of it. This leveled reader is Level 10 and has a text identified as Fountas & Pinnell Level: K.


Field (agriculture)
From Infogalactic: the planetary knowledge core
Jump to: navigation, search
A field of sunflowers in Cardejón, Spain
In agriculture, a field is an area of land, enclosed or otherwise, used for agricultural purposes such as cultivating crops or as a paddock or other enclosure for livestock. A field may also be an area left to lie fallow or as arable land.
Many farms have a field border, usually composed of a strip of shrubs and vegetation, used to provide food and cover necessary for the survival of wildlife. It has been found that these borders may lead to an increased variety of animals and plants in the area, but also in some cases a decreased yield of crops.[1]
In Australian and New Zealand English, any agricultural field may be called a paddock. If stock are grazed there, the space may be called a run, e.g. sheep run; cattle run.[2]
Image gallery
See also
 1. Carpenter, Brent; Dailey, Thomas V.; Jones-Farrand, D. Todd; Pierce, Robert A.; White, Bill. "Field Borders for Agronomic, Economic and Wildlife Benefits". Curators of the University of Missouri. Retrieved 1 November 2015.
 2. The Macquarie Dictionary run n. Def. 113


text:
Probation, Trial Service, and Layoff Trial Periods
Probation, trial service, and layoff trial periods are intended to give a supervisor and staff member an opportunity to assess whether a new employment relationship is a good match for all parties. The duration covered by each evaluation period varies according to the type of period and the affected employee's classification. An overview of each of these periods is available on the central HR Web site.
The supervisor's ability to end an unsuccessful hire is less restricted during the evaluation period than after the evaluation period has ended. A supervisor or employee who determines that there is not a good employment match during an evaluation period should contact the College of Engineering Human Resources Team as soon as possible during the covered period.
The decision to end an appointment during an evaluation period may require action by College and University Human Resources staff, and by the Dean, who is the Appointing Authority for the College of Engineering; Supervisors should contact the College of Engineering Human Resources Team prior to taking any employment action.
In general terms, ending an appointment during an evaluation period involves the following steps. Supervisors are recommended to contact the CoE Human Resources team to discuss their specific situation. This process can occur at any time, but must be completed prior to the end of the evaluation period.
- At the beginning of an evaluation period, the supervisor conducts formal and informal training sessions with the new employee and monitors the employee's performance. During this period, the supervisor should be prepared to give informal feedback to the employee as necessary, clarifying performance expectations and addressing any performance concerns.
- If the supervisor has continuing performance concerns, s/he should alert the College of Engineering Human Resources Administrator and prepare to meet with the employee to address these concerns.
- At this meeting (referred to here as an "informal counseling session"), the supervisor will present the employee with a memo outlining performance concerns and stating performance expectations. This meeting is intended to help the employee understand the supervisor's concerns, allow the employee and supervisor an opportunity to strategize ways to work collaboratively to better match employee performance to supervisor expectations, and to alert the employee that s/he may not successfully complete the evaluation period. Thus, the informal counseling session and memo should include these features:
- The informal counseling session should:
- allow time for both parties to communicate their perspectives, and
- include time for discussing resources (e.g., increased communication, classes, informal training) and other strategies to better match the employee's performance to the supervisor's expectations
- The memo should:
- cite specific examples (including dates, descriptions of errors, behaviors or other problems),
- cite specific performance expectations related to the above examples, and
- include a statement such as, "It is my desire to work with you to help you be successful in your job; however, if concerns regarding your performance continue, you may not successfully complete your evaluation period."


Getting by on seaweed
 The silver drummer Kyphosus sydneyanus is found in the south Pacific and feeds exclusively on macroalgae.
The silver drummer Kyphosus sydneyanus is found in the south Pacific and feeds exclusively on macroalgae.
The southern hemisphere has a number of marine fish that exclusively eat macroalgae (seaweeds). Red, green and brown algae are rather different to each other (and land plants) in terms of their nutritional value, and many of the algal components are indigestible to vertebrates. What are these herbivorous fish really eating (are they targeting specific algal species?), and how do they gain energy and nutrition from such a diet? Do these fish rely on gut microbes to digest their algae diet, similar to ruminating animals on land? During my MSc I worked with Kendall Clements and Sue Turner at the University of Auckland to answer some of these questions.
 Even juvenile silver drummer are almost entirely herbivorous, which is very uncommon for marine fish.
Even juvenile silver drummer are almost entirely herbivorous, which is very uncommon for marine fish.
The first part of the project was characterising the stomach contents of silver drummer (adult and juvenile pictured above) of different sizes throughout the year in the Hauraki Gulf, northern New Zealand. Silver drummer appear to be fairly strict herbivores from an early age. This is rather unique for marine fish. The juveniles eat mostly red and green macroalgae, but gradually consume more brown macroalgae as they grow. Most of the red macroalgal species the larger fish consumed are epiphytes of brown macroalgae.
 The result of many days work staring down the microscope at small pieces of macroalgae from stomachs of silver drummer.
The result of many days work staring down the microscope at small pieces of macroalgae from stomachs of silver drummer.
Red and green algae tend to have more digestible carbohydrates compared to brown algae. It appears that the juvenile silver drummer eat a diet higher in starch-like carbohydrates compared to the adults. Not surprisingly, the activity of starch degrading enzymes in the intestine of juveniles was found to be higher than larger fish. So, how are the adults digesting their diet? Other researchers have suggested that some fish are able to digest their food using symbiotic gut microbes, much like terrestrial animals do. Do silver drummer use microbes to digest their apparently indigestible diet? Well, silver drummer certainly do have long digestive tracts! This is also characteristic of land animals that use microbes to digest plant material.
 Like terrestrial herbivores that digest via microbial fermentation, adult silver drummer have very long guts.
Like terrestrial herbivores that digest via microbial fermentation, adult silver drummer have very long guts.
If silver drummer use microbes for digestion, one might expect to find short-chain fatty acids (SCFA) in the intestine. These end-products of microbial fermentation can be absorbed by vertebrates, and are an important nutritional source for many terrestrial herbivores. There were indeed significant concentrations of SCFA present in the intestine of silver drummer, and the concentrations increased in adults.
SCFA.jpg
I worked with Sue Turner at the University of Auckland to characterise the microbes in the gut of silver drummer using molecular genetic techniques. I sampled intestinal contents of fish of different sizes, and used T-RFLP to assess microbial diversity, and DNA sequencing to identify the predominant microbial groups. The T-RFLP results showed that the diversity of bacterial groups (operational taxonomic units, OTU's) increases with fish size, and to a lesser degree, increases down the length of the gut.
 Changes in bacterial diversity in different sections of the gut and at different ages.
Changes in bacterial diversity in different sections of the gut and at different ages.
DNA sequencing was used to identify the dominant bacterial groups present in the T-RFLP analysis. Most of the bacteria were found to be related to members of the genus Clostridium. Several species of Clostridium are known to help terrestrial herbivores digest their food via the process of fermentation.
 Clostridia bacteria are common in the guts of many animals. The blue blocks represent bacteria from the gut of silver drummer.
Clostridia bacteria are common in the guts of many animals. The blue blocks represent bacteria from the gut of silver drummer.
Interestingly, a study by Isabel Pasch showed that these bacteria were also present in the guts of other herbivorous marine fish species found in New Zealand. Butterfish (greenbone, Odax pullus) have a similar diet to silver drummer (brown and red macroalgae), while marblefish (Aplocatylus arctidens) eat mostly red and green macroalgae.
 Comparison of bacteria isolated from the guts of three different herbivorous fish species.
Comparison of bacteria isolated from the guts of three different herbivorous fish species.
Summary of the results:
(1) as the silver drummer grows it changes from a diet containing digestible starch-like nutrients (red and green macroalgae), to a diet high in nutrients that are indigestible to the fish (brown macroalgae).
(2) silver drummer decrease the activity of enzymes that digest starch during growth
(3) the diversity of gut bacteria and concentrations of SCFA increases with age
(4) many of the gut bacteria in silver drummer (and two other herbivorous fish species) are related to Clostridium, a group of bacteria known to ferment plant material in the guts of many terrestrial herbivores
These findings suggest that juvenile silver drummer rely on their own digestive capacity to digest their diet, but as they grow they gradually switch diet and rely on bacteria to ferment the nutrients into SCFA, which the fish can then absorb.
This research has been published:
Moran, D; Clements, K.D. (2002). Diet and endogenous carbohydrases in the temperate marine herbivorous fish Kyphosus sydneyanus. Journal of Fish Biology 60:_PHONE_.
Moran, D; Turner, S; Clements, K.D. (2005). Ontogenetic development of the gastrointestinal microbiota in the marine herbivorous fish Kyphosus sydneyanus. Microbial Ecology 49:590-597.
Clements, K.D.; Pasch, I.B.Y.; Moran, D.; Turner, S. (2005). Clostridia dominate 16S rRNA gene libraries prepared from the hindgut of temperate marine herbivorous fish. Marine Biology 150:_PHONE_.
This research was funded by a Marsden Fund grant awarded to Kendall Clements.


text:
The International Society of Urological Pathology in 2010 recommended weighing prostates without seminal vesicles (SV) to include only prostate weight in prostate-specific antigen (PSA) density (PSAD) calculation, because SV do not produce PSA. Large retrospective cohorts exist with combined weight recorded that needs to be modified for retrospective analysis. Weights of prostates and SV were separately recorded in 172 consecutive prostatectomies. The average weight of SV and proportion of prostate weight from combined weight were calculated. The adjustment factors were then validated on databases of 2 other institutions. The average weight of bilateral SV was 6.4 g (range = 1-17.3 g). The prostate constituted on average 87% (range = 66% to 98%) of the total specimen weight. There was no correlation between patient age and prostate weight with SV weight. The best performing correction method was to subtract 6.4 g from total radical prostatectomy weight and to use this weight for PSAD calculation. The average weights of retrospective specimens weighed with SV were not significantly different between the 3 institutions. Using our data allowed calibration of the weights and PSAD between the cohorts weighed with and without SV. Thus, prostate weight in specimens including SV weight can be adjusted by subtracting 6.4 g, resulting in significant change of PSAD. Some institution-specific variations may exist, which could further increase the precision of retrospective analysis involving prostate weight and PSAD. However, unless institution-specific adjustment parameters are developed, we recommend that this correction factor be used for retrospective cohorts or in institutions where combined weight is still recorded.
- PSA density
- seminal vesicles
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Pathology and Forensic Medicine


text:
Jarofix Waste Material in Embankment Construction
Authors: Prakash, Ritesh Kumar, Rakesh Meena
Country: India View / Download Full Text PDF File
Due to the large-scale road infrastructural development in India, conventional soil is depleting very fast while different industries are producing a huge amount of waste materials as by-products. Utilization of such waste materials leads to sustainable road construction. Jarofix is one of the waste materials generated during the extraction of zinc from its ore. At present, the accumulated jarofix is about 35 lakh tons, while the annual production is about 6 lakh tons in India. Detailed R & D study was carried out to study the feasibility of jarofix in the construction of embankment. Jarofix sample was collected from Chittorgarh, Rajasthan and its geotechnical characteristics were investigated. Design and slope stability analysis of jarofix embankment of varying heights and slopes was carried out to decide its practical applicability in the field construction. The factor of safety was determined by numerical analysis under different water conditions, viz. partially saturation, steady flow, sudden draw down with, and without seismic
factor. Results of variation of factor of safety with height, saturation, and slope
are presented. Multiple linear regression analysis was carried out to evaluate the
effect of different design parameters on the factor of safety of the embankment. A typical settlement analysis of jarofix embankment is also presented in this
study. It is concluded that jarofix waste material has a good potential for
construction of embankment.
Keywords: Jarofix, Waste Material, Embankment, Road Construction
Paper Id: 1223
Published On: 2021-08-27
Published In: Volume 9, Issue 4, July-August 2021
Cite This: Jarofix Waste Material in Embankment Construction - Prakash, Ritesh Kumar, Rakesh Meena - IJIRMPS Volume 9, Issue 4, July-August 2021.


text:
Heating plate :
This is the main heating element of the rice cooker. It is an aluminum alloy disc with a built-in electric heating tube, and the inner pot is placed on it, which can be seen when the inner pot is taken out.
Temperature limiter :
It is equipped with a permanent magnetic ring and a spring, which can be compressed and is located in the center of the heating plate. When cooking rice, when the cooking switch is pressed, the toggle switch is driven by the suction of the magnet, keeping the power contacts open.
It consists of a spring-loaded sheet, a pair of normally closed contacts, a pair of normally open contacts, and a bimetallic sheet. As the rice cooks, the temperature in the pan will rise. Due to the different rates of thermal expansion and contraction of the two sheets that form the bimetallic strip, the bimetallic strip is bent upwards.
The switch is entirely mechanical and has a normally open contact. When cooking rice, press this switch, the heating tube is energized and the heating indicator light is energized at the same time. When the meal is ready, the thermostat appears and activates the toggle switch to open the contacts. After that, the heating tube is controlled only by the keep warm switch.
Current limiting resistor :
The appearance is mainly golden or white, and the size is like a 3W resistor. It is pressed between the heating tube and the power supply to protect the heating tube. The commonly used current limiting resistor is 185C 5A or 10A (depending on the power of the rice cooker). The current limiting resistor is a key element to protect the heating tube and can be replaced by a wire.


text:
Have you done the printing from an IOS device? If not! Then reading what an AirPrint printer is will be perfect. The favorable technology of wireless printing is known as AirPrint Technology. The iPhones only obey this branded technology.
Moreover, HP Laser Jet and HP Deskjet also work on its behalf. If you activate AirPrint technology, your mobile phone will print in a few steps. First, the Printer will adjust the copy number, and then it will start the print jobs. This way, you will get stunning printing without hurdles:
Table of Contents
How To Setup AirPrint?
AirPrint Setup is performed smoothly through the market printers. At the same time, the downloading and installation of other software have been blocked permanently. If you use the same wireless connection, the Printer and IOS device will be communicated in seconds:
How Do I Know If My Printer Is AirPrint Enabled
With the same internet connection, Apple devices prints conveniently. While a few points are there to help you in web page printing:
- First, tap on the Share tab.
- Choose the Copy or Send option, which has been prompted on the screen.
- Select the print of your wish.
- After it, you will have to see the AirPrint Support Window icon. By this, you can control the number of printed copies and different preferences. So it is up to you whether you like single or double-sided printing.
- If the AirPrint Settings attract you, use the send job print option.
- Thus your Apple IOS device will print the web pages and documents professionally.
Compatible Printers For AirPrint
A few printers lack software, so they will not work with AirPrint. But modern printers, due to their branded software, are compatible with the AirPrint. It will always work if a stable internet connection comes to the HP printer. Let us send the document from the HP printer in the presence of a smooth relationship. With the help of the select option, your HP printer will receive the printing jobs by the iPhone device.
Advantages Of AirPrint
AirPrint has lots of advantages that will solve your everyday problems. As it is a modern age, the use of simple things is rising. Sometimes ago, cables were used for a stable connection. But now we can connect the Printer and computer in seconds.
At the same time, the quantity of mobiles is also increasing in the market. That's why if we send anything to the AirPrint Printer, it takes time for the Apple devices. The presence of a protected network gives smooth printing. So use this effective technology of the HP printer through the IOS device.
Does Wifi Is Necessary For AirPrint?
Wireless printing is a superb technique that offers prints to the mac with the help of a USB. If the wireless connection is weak, use the Direct Print option of the HP printer. But the enabling of web content is necessary. While internet access for Apple devices will also minimum:
- Enable the Settings and Wifi option of the Apple device.
- If the Printer has a Direct name, then choose it.
- Write the digits 1 to 8 as a password.
- Use the Share tab after the opening of a document.
- Click on the Printer to choose it.
- Thus printer selection will finish the printing job.
After all, access your Apple device with a wireless network and avoid useless Bluetooth connections to learn the significance of what is an AirPrint printer.
Solution Of AirPrint Printing Issues
If AirPrint does not highlight your HP printer's option, something is terrible in the AirPrint. While a few common problems are as follows:
- AirPrint lacks a device in the Device List.
- Absence of Printers.
- Absence of Device's software.
- Then resolve the problems by the following steps:
- Enable the AirPrint option from the Printer to make documentation.
- Use the same connection for the Apple device and the Printer.
- Ensure the restarting of the router.
- Take the Printer and put it near the wireless router.
- Thus get the driver updates from both the Apple device and the Printer.
The network issues can minimize your Printer's working; prefer the home network connection. Also, ensure that your Printer works without the password.
The Apple printing technology which makes fantastic output for you is known as AirPrint.
By AirPrint, the Wifi Network helps to print without the other applications.
In addition to the Wifi network, AirPrint also uses a wireless network connection.
The #1 AirPrint printer is HP Color LaserJet Pro MFP M479fdw.
No, using AirPrint is free of all charges.
No, the wireless Printer will not work without the internet. So it would help if you got it excellent working with a stable internet connection.
In this post, I talked only about what is an AirPrint printer for you. Your path will be smooth every time if you read it with full attention. A printer that works according to AirPrint Technology is called an AirPrint printer. Through this technology, we can start printing from our IOS devices. Note that the HP Deskjet is one of the favorable printers with AirPrint Technology.
At the same time, you should constantly adjust the copy's number before its use. Let us achieve excellent outputs without spending anything and become informative persons about the AirPrint printer in a few minutes.


text:
Who Procues for Whom in the World...
WHO PRODUCES FOR WHOM IN THE WORLD ECONOMY?
For nearly two decades, the share of trade in inputs, also called vertical trade, has dramatically increased. This paper suggests a new measure of international trade: "value-added trade". Like many existing estimates, "value-added trade" is net of double-counted vertical trade. It also reallocate trade flows to their original input-producing industries and countries and allows to answer the question "who produces for whom". In 2004, 27% of international trade were "only" vertical specialization trade. The sector repartition of value-added trade is very different from the sector repartition of standard trade. Value-added trade is less regionalized than standard trade.
Add Your Comments


text:
Living in or visiting Breda? Information and useful links for students, locals and tourists.
Information about Breda
Breda is city in North Brabant. The name comes from "brede Aa" (wide Aa), meaning the confluence of the Mark and Aa rivers.
Breda was initially a direct fief of the Holy Roman Emperor, not gaining a municipal charger until 1252. In 1327, it was sold to the Duke of Brabant and eventually ended up in the possession of the House of Nassau, passing to William I of Orange, who made it an official residence.
This presence of the House of Orange-Nassau attracted other nobles, who built many large homes, including the first renaissance-style palace north of the Alps. In 1534 a fire destroyed 90 percent of the city, with only 150 buildings remaining out of nearly 1300.
Sites & Activities in Breda
Breda's historical role as a fortress can be seen in many of the buildings, including the Castle of Breda, which houses the Royal Military Academy, and the Kloosterkazerne, an infantry barracks established in a former monastery in 1814. In 1993 the military left and Breda's popular Chassé theatre is now on the site.
There is also a rich religious architectural tradition in Breda, with churches from the late medieval period through to 19th century neo-Gothic buildings and 20th century churches in styles such as the Delft School, the Bossche School and modernism.
Video about Breda


text:
CASCaded Mentoring And Design Experiences (CASCADE) seeks to increase the number of well-qualified engineers for South Texas. Project strategies focus on implementation of design experiences throughout the engineering undergraduate curriculum with linkages to Javelina Innovation Laboratory to provide access to authentic design projects. This will be overlaid with an innovative cascaded mentoring program to support student success. Initially, CASCADE will pilot the curriculum implementation of design experiences in the civil engineering (CEEN) and mechanical engineering (MEEN) departments, and will subsequently expand to include the chemical and environmental engineering departments (CHEN and EVEN, respectively).
The overall goal of CASCADE is to increase the quantity, quality, and diversity of TAMUK students who successfully earn an engineering baccalaureate degree. Building on TAMUK's STEP 1A project outcomes and institutionalization efforts, CASCADE will engage engineering students in design exercises and experiences throughout their academic undergraduate careers, and provide student support in an innovative configuration of cascaded peer-mentoring. Incorporation of engineering design experiences across the undergraduate curriculum with linkages to the university's engineering innovation laboratory for access to industry projects will contribute to increased student retention and persistence to graduation.
This page was last updated on: December 17, 2013


text:
Realm Charter School
One of the first in-district charter schools with Berkeley Unified School District, REALM underwent a second expansion within a converted industrial building dating from the 1940s. Previous projects readied the shell building and ground floor for educational use. This project built out the remaining second and third floor, and improved movement throughout the building by installing a larger staircase designed to work in conjunction with the existing elevator.
Working with the District's limited budget, AE3 was able to strategically adapt existing partitions and features to build out five new, 20-student classrooms complete with smart board and electronic learning aids, a multipurpose/athletic space, food service area, a "fab" workshop that will allow students to create STEM projects, and a new library. The design capitalizes on the building's industrial look and feel.
Location: Berkeley, CA
Role: Construction Management
Size: 12,000 SF


text:
Population movement, such as commuting, can affect water supply pressure and efficiency in modern cities. However, there is a gap in the research concerning the relationship between water use and population mobility, which is of great significance for urban water supply planning and supporting urban sustainable development. In this study, we analyzed the spatial–temporal dynamics of the population and its underlying mechanisms, using multi-source geospatial big data, including Baidu heat maps (BHMs), land use parcels, and point of interest. Combined with water consumption, sewage volume, and river depth data, the impact of population dynamics on water use was investigated. The results showed that there were obvious differences in population dynamics between weekdays and weekends with a ratio of 1.11 for the total population. Spatially, the population concentration was mainly observed in areas associated with enterprises, industries, shopping, and leisure activities during the daytime, while at nighttime, it primarily centered around residential areas. Moreover, the population showed a significant impact on water use, resulting in co-periods of 24 h and 7 days, and the water consumption as well as the wastewater production were observed to be proportional to the population density. This study can offer valuable implications for urban water resource allocation strategies.
Analysis of spatiotemporal population distribution and mobility based on the Baidu heat map.
Population dynamics mechanisms related to land use.
A novel idea exploring the impact of population dynamics on water use.
Valuable implications for optimizing and controlling water supply and wastewater treatment systems.


Zinc Countertops: Pros and Cons
A zinc countertop is hip, trendy, and very cool. But is it worth the price?
Image: Mio Metals/Copperworks
Zinc is an industrial-looking countertop material that's got unique characteristics. Primarily, zinc develops a patina with age that some home owners really like.
Zinc reacts with water, fingerprints, lemon juice, and all sorts of other things that land on a kitchen counter. Eventually, the marks blend together and leave the countertop with a beautiful, dark blue-gray patina. But that can take a year — a long time if you cringe at seeing a spot.
Zinc is also bound to disappoint if you try to keep a shiny new look by polishing the countertop frequently. It's possible, but why do so much work? You'd be better off with stainless steel, since it stays shiny with no special effort.
What's Likeable About Zinc?
1. Zinc is a less-pristine alternative to stainless steel because it's a "living metal" that changes color over time in reaction to its surroundings.
2. It's naturally non-porous, so you can clean it with just soap and water.
3. It has anti-bacterial properties similar to copper, making it a great surface for prepping food.
4. The metal is easy to work with, so it's easy to include decorative edges in various shapes and styles. Fabricators also can create an integral zinc sink by welding parts together and grinding seams smooth, making cleanup a breeze.
What's Not to Like?
1. Zinc is soft, so it scratches easily if you cut directly on it. Be sure to have cutting boards handy.
2. It can warp if someone sets down a pot hotter than about 300 degrees (set down a red-hot iron pot and the zinc could melt). Be sure to tell guests not to set hot items on your zinc countertop! Keep trivets nearby.
3. Price is an eye-opener. A zinc countertop costs $150 to $200 per sq. ft., depending on the thickness of the metal (you'll want 15-gauge material that's at least.060 thick). Stainless steel costs less, and granite is even cheaper.
Other Cost Considerations
1. Zinc is an expensive material that's not for everybody. Make sure your decision to install a zinc countertop is in line with the style and features of other homes in your neighborhood. Less-expensive options may have a better return on your investment.
2. You'll pay an additional 10% to 15% installation charge for unusual or complex countertop shapes.
3. Be sure to get several bids before committing to a zinc countertop. Ask if your countertop fabricator has had experience making zinc countertops, and ask to see examples of their work. Try getting bids from sheet metal fabricators, not just companies that specialize in installing countertops.
4. Some zinc sheets are "seconds" — meaning they already have stains and discolorations. If that kind of patina isn't objectionable, you can save 10% to 20% on your countertop by opting for seconds.


text: With rapid increase of number of vehicles on roads it is necessary to maintain close monitoring of traffic. For this purpose many surveillance cameras are placed along roads and on crossroads, creating a huge communication load between the cameras and the monitoring center. Therefore, the data needs to be processed on site and transferred to the monitoring centers in form of metadata or as a set of selected images. For this purpose it is necessary to detect events of interest already on the camera side, which implies using smart cameras as visual sensors. In this paper we propose a method for tracking of vehicles and analysis of vehicle trajectories to detect different traffic events. Kalman filtering is used for tracking, combining foreground and optical flow measurements. Obtained vehicle trajectories are used to detect different traffic events. Every new trajectory is compared with collection of normal routes and clustered accordingly. If the observed trajectory differs from all normal routes more than a predefined threshold, it is marked as abnormal and the alarm is raised. The system was developed and tested on Texas Instruments OMAP platform. Testing was done on four different locations, two locations in the city and two locations on the open road.