Preferences and Choice
Leander Otto Wiesheu
Student thesis: Master thesis
"Preference" and "Choice" are assumed to be intimately related. A common assumption is that preferences determine choice and that choices reveal preferences. The most preferred option will be chosen. In the present paper, these assumptions will be critically assessed. This will be done by discussing the formal properties of the preference relation and by discussing the underlying action-theoretic assumption of the thesis that the best available option is chosen. The phenomenon called "weakness of the will" will pose a problem for this interpretation. It will be concluded that preferences and choices cannot generally be defined in terms of each other.
EducationsMSc in Philosophy, (Graduate Programme) Final Thesis
Publication date2020
Number of pages41
SupervisorsThomas Poulsen


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Add an animation to a highlight annotation to appear as though you are drawing with a highlighter across the screen. This effect is ideal for drawing attention to:
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During this radical and wide-ranging reassessment of Renaissance paintings, Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine research the ways that eu tradition got here to outline itself culturally and aesthetically within the years 1450 to 1550. taking a look outwards for affirmation of who they have been and of what outlined them as 'civilized', Europeans encountered the returning gaze of what we now name the East, particularly the robust Ottoman Empire of Mehmed the Conqueror and Süleyman the significant.
The Pleasures of the mind's eye examines the delivery and improvement of English "high tradition" within the eighteenth century. It charts the expansion of a literary and creative global fostered via publishers, theatrical and musical impresarios, photo buyers and auctioneers, and offered to th public in coffee-houses, live performance halls, libraries, theatres and enjoyment gardens.
"In der Menge der Forschungen und Betrachtungen über die Kunst - die Kunst in dem weiten Sinne, der nicht nur die bildenden Künste in ihren verschiedenen Verzweigungen, sondern alle Arten des ästhetischen Schaffens umfasst - lassen sich zwei Richtungen unterscheiden, welche guy als die kunsthistorische und die kunstphilosophische bezeichnen kann.
Natural world artists face an issue in depicting fleeting moments akin to facial expressions, postures and flight. This e-book is designed to beat these difficulties and get each feather "just right". as well as being the emblem of the USA, Bald Eagles are one of many favourite matters for flora and fauna artists.
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This is a short brief country profile of Barbados, in relation to hurricanes and earthquakes.
An estimation of the potential economic losses to property caused by adverse natural hazards is a country's disaster risk profile. Economic assets such as residential and nonresidential buildings are at risk. These assets that are exposed to natural hazards are referred to as a country's exposure.


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The Form class represents a window within an application. This includes dialog boxes, modeless windows, and Multiple Document Interface client and parent windows. In VB6 you can use a Win32API call to SetWindowPos to get a form to always stay on top. This has been simplified in VB.NET by setting Form's TopMost property as TRUE.
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The Grass Cerith
As implied by its vernacular name, the Grass Cerith, Bittiolum varium (Pfeiffer, 1840), lives in seagrass beds. The Grass Cerith is one of the most common species of mollusks in that particular type of ecosystem, where it supposedly grazes on the microalgae that grow on the seagrass blades. Its shell is small, rarely reaching beyond 4 mm (about 0.16 inch). The shell sculpture shows spiral lines and weak axial ribs that intersect forming raised nodules. The last whorl usually has one or two thickened areas called varices. The shell color is extremely variable, usually light-to dark-brown, sometimes with darker mottlings or specklings. The species occurs in broad area of the western Atlantic and is very common locally.
The Grass Cerith, Bittiolum varium, from Sanibel. Photo by José H. Leal.


The island is part of the Bronx, although it's reached by a bridge from Queens. Bought by New York City in 1884 from the Ryker family, which had farmed it from the seventeenth century, the island in 1932 became home to a prison meant to replace one on Blackwell's (now Roosevelt) Island in the East River. Gradually enlarged to over four times its original size, Riker's Island today houses fifteen thousand prisoners in eleven jails, and a hospital. It is still, in small part, farmland: with the assistance of the New York Horticultural Society, inmates have been growing vegetables since the '80s.
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Using the ScatterX78 vacuum chamber, enabling very fast SAXS and WAXS data collection, the hydrothermal synthesis of nanoceria was monitored in real time. Particle and crystallite sizes as a function of synthesis time were accurately documented over the 36-hour combined SAXS-WAXS experiment.
We performed an extensive in situ study of hydrothermal synthesis of nanoceria by combination of X-ray diffraction and scattering techniques. Here we present the results of time-resolved SAXS-WAXS characterization of the nanoceria synthesis process at room temperature. From the experimental data the crystallite and particle sizes as a function of the synthesis time were obtained.


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Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson is an English actress and activist. Known for her roles in both blockbusters and independent films, as well as for her women's rights work, she has received a selection of accolades, including a Young Artist Award and three MTV Movie Awards
Emma Watson is a British actress, model, and activist known for her role as Hermione Granger in the "Harry Potter" film series. Here are some key points about her career and background:
- Early Life: Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson was born on April 15, 1990, in Paris, France, while her parents were living there. She later moved to Oxfordshire, England, with her family.
- Acting Career: Watson's acting career began when she was cast as Hermione Granger in the "Harry Potter" film series at the age of 11. She appeared in all eight films based on J.K. Rowling's beloved books, and her performance earned her critical acclaim.
- Post-"Harry Potter" Career: After the conclusion of the "Harry Potter" series, Emma Watson continued to act in both film and theater. She starred in movies such as "The Perks of Being a Wallflower," "Noah," "Beauty and the Beast" (as Belle), and "Little Women."
- Education: Despite her busy acting career, Watson prioritized her education. She attended Brown University and graduated with a bachelor's degree in English literature from Ivy League university.
- Modeling: In addition to acting, she has worked as a model and has appeared in campaigns for various fashion brands.
- Activism: Emma Watson is known for her advocacy work, particularly in the areas of gender equality and women's rights. She serves as a UN Women Goodwill Ambassador and launched the "HeForShe" campaign, which advocates for gender equality.
- Philanthropy: She has been involved in various charitable and humanitarian efforts, including support for education and girls' empowerment.
- Personal Life: Emma Watson is known for her privacy regarding her personal life. She has been in the public eye since a young age but has kept her personal life largely out of the media spotlight.
- Upcoming Projects: While taking a break from acting, Emma Watson has focused on her activism and advocacy work. She has expressed her commitment to using her platform to promote positive change in society.
Emma Watson's portrayal of Hermione Granger made her a beloved figure in the world of cinema, and her dedication to education and social causes has solidified her status as a role model for many. Her contributions to film, her advocacy for gender equality, and her continued commitment to making a difference in the world have earned her widespread respect and admiration.


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Thousands of public workers in Bolivia receive proficiency certificates in Indigenous languages.
President Evo Morales, Bolivia's first indigenous leader, participated in a ceremony on Sunday in which thousands of public sector employees received certificates for proficiency in Indigenous languages.
During his speech on Sunday, Morales emphasized the importance of restoring traditional Bolivian identities as well as learning through practice.
"We are beginning to recover our languages, which contributes towards the good of the people," Morales stated during the celebration.
Bolivia, which offers language courses to public workers, officially recognizes 36 native languages.
The Aymara language is one of the most common, along with Quechua and Guarani.
During the ceremony, Bolivia's current Vice Minister of Decolonization, Felix Cardenas Aguilar awarded Indigenous language certificates to around 3000 public officials.
Around 42 percent of Bolivia's total population belongs to 36 different Indigenous ethnic groups, making it the country with one of the highest percentage of indigenous peoples in the Western Hemisphere.
President Morales has implemented a series of laws that aim to promote Bolivian national identity including an education measure, which requires that every child must learn an indigenous language and culture alongside Spanish and more traditional subjects.


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Belief, Deconversion, and Authenticity among U.S. Emerging Evangelicals:
James S. Bielo
In this article I examine the status of belief among U.S. evangelicals organizing under the moniker of the "emerging church. As part of their cultural critique of the conservative Christian subculture, many emerging evangelicals recast their standpoint toward the role of propositional doctrine in their definition of an authentic Christian self. I join with colleagues in the anthropology of religion, in particular the anthropology of Christianity, who are rethinking the nature of belief as a form of relational commitment. I argue that emerging evangelicals seek a faith where humanhuman relationships are a precondition for humandivine relations to flourish. To achieve their desired sense of community emerging evangelicals create ritual structures that foster a highly relational religiosity. I illustrate this recasting of belief through analyses of narrative and institution making, grounded in three years of ethnographic fieldwork.


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The knife edge: a tailor made temperature measurement solution
06 April 2010
Accurately and automatically measuring the temperature of this polymerisation process led to a greater yield of the end product.
Kemira Water is the world's third biggest producer of polymers and the leading producer of coagulants for chemical water treatment. The polymers produced at the Bradford plant in West Yorkshire, U.K., are used for effluent water treatment for mining, municipal, and industrial companies.
The process begins in a reactor where various chemicals and powders are mixed to form a wet gel. The gel comes out of the reactor and enters an enclosed conveyor system that is about 25m in length. Travelling on the conveyor, the gel goes through the polymerisation stage, which changes it from a wet gel to a dry solid. The rate of polymerisation — a critical factor — is controlled by the speed of the conveyor belt and the temperature of the process, which is held to the range of 50° to 55°C.
Kemira Water runs eight reactors of this type, and each reactor has its own polymerisation conveyor to produce the product.
Handheld temperature probes
The company was experiencing difficulty monitoring the temperature conditions along the conveyors, and because changes in the rate of polymerisation were not being detected accurately or quickly enough, this led to plant upsets and downtime. Besides losing time, these events were causing significant wastage of raw materials, which then needed to be disposed of as waste.
The costs incurred not only covered raw materials, but also plant downtime and throughput. On top of this, the manual temperature measurement method — an operator with a handheld probe — meant that operator working time also had to be factored in to the costs.
Kemira's technical manager said he did not implement an automated temperature measuring solution because he doubted a supplier would be able to manufacture temperature probes robust enough to endure the forces involved in the application. As the gel passes down the conveyor, it gets thicker and more solid. At the wet in, near the reactor, the probe would not have a problem, but towards the dry end the more solid material, the technical manager feared, would break off a temperature probe from its mount.
They had to take action
Nevertheless, so much time and wastage was occurring with the manual procedure, Kemira Chemicals sought an alternative solution for reliable and repeatable measurement of the product's temperature. They talked with engineers at Endress+Hauser.
E+H came up with a new idea for a temperature probe. They designed a stainless steel knife-edged polymer thermocouple assembly (see figure, which is a cross section looking down from the top of the probe) 30mm long and 8mm wide. There are two knife edges, and, as E+H engineer Phil Burns explains, they are 'razor sharp, able to cut through the gel material.' Down the centre of the assembly is a 3.3mm bore for the type J thermocouple element to be inserted, so the temperature element is embedded in the middle of the steel knife.
The entire temperature assembly is 500mm and the blade part of the assembly, which sticks into the moving gel, is 200mm. This is long enough to take the average temperature of the layer of gel, from top to bottom.
Five or six temperature probes are placed at various positions on top of each conveyor line, allowing real-time measurement of the polymerising gel during the reaction. The gel product passed smoothly around the sharp knife edges. In fact, said Mr. Burns, since the product is cut up by a macerator — a big chopping machine — and bagged at the end of the process, the knife-edge thermocouple assemblies helped with the cutting process by getting it started at an earlier point upstream.
Kemira Chemicals now relies on the probes for real-time and accurate measurement of the polymer's temperature during reaction, ensuring the polymerisation process ultimately runs with less variation and also allows timely corrective actions to be taken when necessary. The 4-20 mA signals from the temperature probes are fed directly into the control system, which regulates the temperature and the speed of the conveyor. The temperature measurement has to be 'reasonably' accurate, to within two or three degrees. The process now works so automatically, operators only need to intervene when something goes wrong. The process has been optimised.
The Technical Manager at the Bradford site praised the Endress+Hauser solution. 'The units surpassed all expectations in these areas and will help aid greater understanding of the variables involved in this process for the future,' he said.
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The $7 million will go to range of storm water projects across Vancouver, Wash.
The city of Vancouver, Wash., announced it will receive more than $7 million in grant money from the state Department of Ecology for storm water improvement projects. The projects will range from improving storm water retrofits to expanding the city's inspection program for private storm water facilities.
According to The Columbian, the funding comes from the state's competitive Water Quality Combined Funding Program. The city also uses local storm water utility funds as matching contributions to acquire Ecology grants. Five storm water projects are scheduled for construction in 2020 to 2022.
With an estimated total cost of $1.2 million, the Lower Grand Area storm water retrofit project will install facilities to treat highway runoff in an industrial area. While the area currently is served by post-World War II infrastructure, there are limited drainage systems that provide no water quality treatment. The Blandford Basins storm water retrofit project will provide treatment and flow control within a wellhead protection area and the Columbia River watershed. The project will treat storm water runoff flows and ultimately protect the Columbia River with a total cost of $3 million.
The East Orchards Fourth Plain Corridor storm water retrofit project will retrofit existing dry well systems and use bioretention facilities, among other best management practices, to improve water quality. The estimated cost is $964,000. The Northeast Fourth Plain Boulevard also will receive water quality upgrades. The project will build 12 bioretention facilities and use deep tree root treatment systems to reduce pollutants in storm water. The new system is designed to protect groundwater and improve the watershed with a total price tag of $930,000.
Additionally, the city will expand its inspection program for private storm water facilities in the Burnt Bridge Creek Watershed. The expansion will include additional pipe locating, community outreach and technical assistance.


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Reports of invasive winter months increasing in Maine
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — An invasive moth that can damage hardwood and fruit trees has been spreading in Maine.
State officials are asking residents to be on the lookout for winter moths, which have spread into Maine from southern New England, where they have caused widespread damage.
The moth was first detected along the Maine coast in 2006 and has been spotted in the past year in Harpswell and Vinalhaven.
The Maine Sunday Telegram (_URL_ ) says state officials have reported 13 sightings of moths in Cape Elizabeth, as well as scattered reports from Scarborough, South Portland, Portland, Falmouth, Woolwich, Westport Island and Brunswick.
Residents are being asked to keep an eye out for the moths, which are likely to be flying in swarms this time of year, and capture some specimens if they can.
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New Alias (Alias Tab)
An alias is an alternate name that can be used to make a connection. The alias encapsulates the required elements of a connection string, and exposes them with a name chosen by the user. Use the Alias page on the Alias - New dialog box to specify the elements of the connection string for an alias. To change the connection string of an existing alias, see Properties (Alias Tab).
All values in the Properties grid do not have to be completed. Valid combinations vary depending on the protocol selected. See the topics listed below for examples of valid combinations.
By default, SQL Server connects to a local instance of SQL Server using the Shared Memory protocol, and to an instance of SQL Server on another computer using either TCP/IP or Named Pipes. Create an alias when you are using TCP/IP, named pipes, or VIA, and you want to provide a customized connection string, or when you want to use a name other than the server name for the connection.
SQL Server is not listening on the default TCP/IP port of 1433 so you want to provide a connection string with a different port number.
SQL Server is not listening on the default named pipe so you want to provide a connection string with a different pipe name.
An application expects to connect to a database on the server named ACCT, but that database has been consolidated as an instance named ACCT on a server named CENTRAL. The application cannot easily be changed. Create an alias named ACCT, with a connection string pointing to CENTRAL\ACCT.
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- Admiral William Smyth's Sailor's Word Book, 1867
Ullage of a cask is what such a vessel wants of being full.
- Edward Phillips' New World of English Words, 1706
The quantity of liquor contained in a cask partially filled, and the cpacity of the portion which is empty, are termed respectively the wet and dry ullage.
- Encylopedia Britannica, 1883
To Calculate the amount of ullage in a cask. To fill up again an ullaged cask.
- Sir James Murray's New English Dictionary, 1926


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Poppy seeds contain both Morphine and Codeine and can cause false positives for Opiates in urine tests. Most Opiate urine tests have a cut off level of 300 ng/ml. Ingestion of a single poppy seed bagel can produce an opiate level somewhere around 250 ng/ml three hours later. 3 teaspoons of store bought poppy seeds can result in 1200 ng/ml 6 hours later (1). We have read an estimate that 70% of DOT opiate positives are from poppy seeds. The U.S. Military uses cut off levels of 3000 ng/ml in order to minimize false positives.
The profile and levels of Opiates that show up in a urine test can generally be distinguished from Opiate use if care is taken...however it is not a simple thing and results are often mis-read by companies giving drug tests. If eaten recently and in great enough quantity, poppy seeds will result in positive morphine and codeine results, with morphine predominant. This can be distinguished from recent Codeine use because of the comparative levels of Morphine and Codeine present. However Codeine use in the past (not recent) can result in a similar profile as Morphine is a metabolite of Codeine. Codeine is eliminated from the system more quickly than Morphine, so an extended period after Codeine use, levels of Morphine may be higher than those of Codeine.
The Discovery Channel's MythBusters show did a piece testing whether poppy seeds could cause a false positive on an over-the-counter drug test. Two people were tested for opiates before the experiment began. Both tested negative on this initial test. One person then ate three poppy seed bagels and the other ate poppy seed cake. Both tested positive for opiates within 30 minutes of ingesting the seeds and continued to test positive until 16 hours after ingestion. The same brand of drug test was used in all cases. They called a number of manufacturers of over-the-counter drug tests and were told by all but one that poppy seeds could not cause a false positive.
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Malate dehydrogenase from Escherichia coli has been crystallized with polyethylene glycol and citrate buffer at pH 5·7. The enzyme was obtained from an E. coli strain in which the chromosomal malate dehydrogenase gene was contained on a pBR322 vector. Two types of crystals have been observed; a monoclinic C2 form and an orthorhombic C2221 form, which is found infrequently. Monoclinic crystals were used as seeds in several rounds of crystallization until large crystals suitable for diffraction analysis were available. A complete X-ray data set to 2·0 Å has been collected.
Bibliographical noteFunding Information:
The eMDH project was supported by the National Science Foundation, U.S.A. (L.J.B., DNB _PHONE_) and the NTH (T,.M.-H., GM33218).
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Estonian language is a type of Finno-Ugric language that is somewhat similar to the Finnish language being used by around 1.1 million individuals in Estonia. The language contains several loanwords from Greek, German, English, and Latin languages. The alphabet used in this language is based on Latin script. The unique phoneme length of the Estonian language has caused much interest on several linguists. Written examples of the Estonian language can be seen in some texts found in the 13th century. The language serves as the official language of the European Union and Estonia. Estonian language is being regulated by the Institute of the Estonian Language.


Free «The Proper Usage of Quotes» Essay Sample
I can positively say that my life hero is Mother Teresa. This woman is definitely one of the brightest personalities in history. Her life is an example of humanity, kindness and generosity. Because Mother Teresa helped people in spite of what kind of disease they had and what social class they belonged to, not asking them for money. Her kind heart was willing to help all suffering people around, and she did everything what was in her power could to achieve that.
Along with it, she was just an ordinary person, but her deeds made the whole world notice them for they were full of good intentions and spirit of kindness. Just as Shakespeare wrote long time ago:
How far that little candle throws his beams!
So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
So are the deeds of Mother Teresa, which shine in history of our civilization. The light of her deeds has been spreading until now. It keeps on inspiring people and teaching them good.
 As for me, having Mother Teresa as my hero, I'm trying to make my deeds shine, because I believe that this light can warm people around and make their life brighter.
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In this essay I've illustrated the usage of a quote, picked from the works of Shakespeare. I have used this quote in my essay, because it helps readers to understand the significance of good deeds, in particular Mother Teresa's deeds, in the history of humanity. Also with the help of the metaphors, taken from this quotation, I was able to describe my own feelings more colorfully and make the essay much easier for the reader to understand.
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently announced that it will host a public forum discussing the methods used to test for asbestos fibers in talc-based products, as well as the terminology and criteria that can be used to measure the carcinogen in consumer products. During that forum, the FDA will discuss preliminary recommendations from the Interagency Working Group on Asbestos in Consumer Products (IWGAC)—an interagency working group formed in 2018 to support the development of standardized testing methods for asbestos and other harmful particles.
The purpose of the IWGAC is to address the terminology and definitions of asbestos, recommend improvements for measuring asbestos in talc-based products, and recommend testing standards to test these products. The FDA forum comes two-years after the agency first began investigating reports of asbestos in talcum powder products, during which time it tested 50 such products and confirmed the presence of asbestos in some. One of those examinations in October 2019 revealed the presence of asbestos fibers in a lot of Johnson & Johnson's Baby Powder, which caused the company to voluntarily recall 33,000 bottles of the iconic product.
Specifically, the IWGAC recommends adopting the term elongate mineral particles (EMP) to be "any mineral particle with a minimum aspect ratio of 3:1," as to resolve ambiguity and disagreement of asbestos vs non-asbestos identification. Testing laboratories report all EMP having a length of over 500 nm and that testing methods specify reportable EMP identified as certain types of asbestos.


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Frequently Asked Questions – FAQ
Friend of the Sea is currently a project of the World Sustainability Organization, an international NGO whose mission is to promote environmental conservation. Friend of the Sea has become the leading certification standard for sustainable seafood products and services which respect and protect the marine environment.
Friend of the Sea works globally with the nation states, seafood and shipping industries, scientists, NGOs and the public and their certification awards sustainable practices in order to maintain the integrity of sustainable seafood. These certification schemes encompass both aquaculture (fish farm) certification to include key farmed fish species eligible for certification and fisheries to promote the sustainable use of the ocean and aquatic habitat and prevent overfishing and the use of fishmeal and Omega 3 Fish Oil.
Friend of the Sea also promotes pilot projects related to restaurants, sustainable shipping, whale and dolphin-watching, aquaria, ornamental fish, UV creams and others.
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Xojo Dojo is a free and easy way to get started with programming on the Raspberry Pi. With Xojo Dojo you can use the Xojo programming language, along with a few other special commands to make simple Pi programs that can use text, graphics and GPIO.
Download Xojo Dojo to your Raspberry Pi and unzip it. Go to the XojoDojo folder and double-click the XojoDojo executable.
If the file is nor marked as an executable file, you may have to manually do this by right-clicking on it, and selecting "Properties". Switch to the Permissions tab and in the Access Control section make sure Executable is set to "Anyone". Click OK.
When Xojo Dojo starts it displays an empty window that is the code editor.
You can type some code to get started. For example, this simple code displays text:
Print "Hello, World!"
Type that code and click Run in the toolbar. Xojo Dojo will switch to the Text tab and you'll see the output "Hello, World!".
Xojo Dojo includes several sample projects to show you some of its commands and capabilities. To look at an example project, click Open in the File menu and go to the Scripts folder in the XojoDojo folder. These are the included examples:
- Bounce: A graphics demo that draws a ball that leaves a multi-colored trail as it bounces around the screen. Press the Stop button on the toolbar to stop the demo.
- Boxes: A graphics demo that draws 1000 multi-colored boxes of varying sizes on the screen.
- BubbleSort: An implemention of the Bubble Sort sorting algorithm.
- DiceRoll: Simulates the rolling of two dice a certain number of times and then tells you how often each dice total amount occurred.
- DragonSweep: A graphics demo that draws a fractal "dragon". Based on an IBM PCjr BASIC program from Compute! magazine in March 1986.
- GPIOAlarm: With a piezo speaker wired to your Pi using the GPIO, this program makes it sound like an alarm. View the wiring diagram.
- GPIOButtonLED: With a a button and LED wired to your Pi using the GPIO, this program lights the LED when the button is pressed. View the wiring diagram.
- GPIOLEDBlink: With an LED wired to your Pi using GPIO, this program makes the LED blink. View the wiring diagram.
- GPIOTune: With a piezo speaker wired to your Pi using the GPIO, this program plays a short tune. View the wiring diagram.
- GuessTheNumber: Try to guess a number picked by the program.
- HelloWorld: Simple display of text.
- LongLoop: A long-running loop that outputs text.
- MazePattern: Displays a text output that looks like a maze (but is not a maze). Based on a Commodore 64 BASIC program from 10 PRINT.
- Olympic: Draws the Olympic rings.
- ShowPicture: Prompts you to choose a picture on your drive and displays it.
- Sieve: Calculates the Sieve of Eratosthenes, popular benchmarking program in the 1980s.
- SineWave: Displays a text-based sine wave.
Xojo Dojo uses XojoScript and can thus use all the language commands that are part of Xojo. Xojo Dojo cannot use any of the Xojo frameworks.
Xojo Dojo has its own small set of custom commands it can use, which are described below.
Clears the Graphics output screen.
Clears the Text output screen.
Draws a line from position x1, y1 to position x2, y2.
Draws an oval at position x, y and using with w and height h. To draw a circle, make w and h the same.
Draw the picture at the specified path at position x, y.
Draws a rectangle at position x, y using width w and height h.
Draws a string s on the graphics screen at position x, y. Optionally specify a width and whether the string is condensed if it cannot fit.
The end of line character to use with strings.
Stops a timer started with StartTimer, returning the milliseconds of the elapsed time.
Draws a filled oval at position x, y and using with w and height h. To draw a circle, make w and h the same. Change the fill color using the ForeColor command.
Draws a filled rectangle rectangle at position x, y using width w and height h. Change the fill color using the ForeColor command.
Sets the color to use for drawing and fill commands.
Read a value from a GPIO pin.
Write a value to a GPIO pin.
Set a GPIO pin as either input or output.
Initialize GPIO. WiringPi library must be installed on the Pi.
Sets up tones for a pin.
Sends a tone to a pin.
Used with GPIO DigitalRead and DigitalWrite commands to indicate a pin is for input.
Used with GPIO DigitalRead and DigitalWrite commands to indicate a pin is off.
Used with GPIO DigitalRead and DigitalWrite commands to indicate a pin is on.
Used with GPIO DigitalRead and DigitalWrite commands to indicate a pin is for output.
Generates a random integer between startValue and endValue (inclusive).
Switches to the graphics output screen.
Starts a timer.
Returns True when the user has clicked the Stop button on the toolbar. Use it to end your programs that run in a long loop.
Pauses your program execution. The default is 10 milliseconds, but you can specify your own value.
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Physics and Earth Sciences Mission Statement
The Physics and Earth Sciences Department at Framingham State University strives to provide an excellent education in physics, physical science, and the geological sciences for all students. We seek to inculcate in our students a scientific appreciation of the physical universe, an understanding of the underlying patterns and connections in nature as embodied in natural laws, and the quantitative and reasoning skills that are necessary for an individual to think like a scientist. Through innovative and interactive teaching methods based on current science pedagogy, we seek to enable the student to learn and practice the scientific method, relate content in the classroom to their daily experience, and to ponder the complex relationship between science, the environment, and society. The department is committed to encouraging diversity in our program.
Physics and Earth Sciences Major Learning Objectives
- Acquire basic knowledge and a conceptual understanding of the subject.
- Understand and apply the scientific method to solve problems.
- Develop math, problem solving, and reasoning skills appropriate to the subject.
- Acquire basic laboratory skills (if applicable).
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The chimps at Whipsnade Zoo in Bedfordshire got a Christmas treat this morning, waking up to wrapped presents of dried fruit and nuts in their enclosure. The group of six took just minutes to empty the stockings, and tear open the boxes of food.
The zoo says the presents are more than a bit of fun, and are part of a range of important enrichment activities which the chimps do from day to day.
– Jane Storr, Senior Keeper
"The group are very inquisitive, so giving them gifts like stuffed stockings and presents are a fantastic way of keeping them stimulated and encouraging their natural foraging behaviours."
Foraging is an essential skill for chimps to learn, requiring a combination of intelligence and dexterity. Recent research at the University of Portsmouth found that in the wild the animals pay great attention to what they eat and how, learning how to prepare their food from one another like a human family might do.
The breakfast of dried fruits, nuts and seeds that the chimps had today is a change from their usual morning meals of raw and cooked vegetables. On a regular day they have five or six smaller feeds, which include very small quantities of fruit and nuts.
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The Briar Toad is a poisonous species of toad with red skin, native to Northern England. It has distinctive blemishes on its skin, and it is "pudgy". It is particularly vulnerable to the Verdimillious Charm, and is resistant to Vermillious.
Behind the Scenes
- This toad bears a striking resemblance in the description of the Wide-mouth toad, due to their similar habitat, and being described as "pudgy" and having "blemishes".
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (video game) (GBC version)
Notes and references
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (video game) - GBC version


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RTX shows bigger calculation difference with CPU than GTX?
I have source codes to solve 2-dimensional shallow water equation using C++ and Cuda 11.2.
I have tested the exe file on GTX970, GTX1080Ti, RTX2070, RTX2080, RTX2080Super.
The results of calculation difference with CPU are as below.
GPU ====> Max. value of calculation result difference with CPU
GTX970 ====> 0.001
GTX1080Ti ====> 0.001
RTX2070 ====> 0.204
RTX2080 ====> 0.261
RTX2080Super ====> 0.221
The question is "Why RTXs have bigger difference than GTXs? "
Are there any build options for RTXs?
I use Visual studio 2019, Cuda Toolkit 11.2, and C++.
I applied sm_52 and compute_52( or sm_75 and compute_75), and "Use Fast Math : false" options.
My PC OS is Windows10 64bit.
Please help me.
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This is not a valid measure of correctness or accuracy.
Since code generation has an architecture-dependent component, on both CPUs and GPUs, numerical differences can result. For example, the compiler may re-arrange code to increase instruction-level parallelism, or apply fusion of FMUL and dependent FADD into an FMA (fused multiply-add) differently, or some math functions may have slightly different accuracy within the stated accuracy bounds.
If you want to assess accuracy, the easiest (but not entirely foolproof) way is to compute reference results in (much) higher precision, then compare against that.
If you merely need the issue to go away, try compiling with -fmad=false. Note: this will in all likelihood decrease both performance and accuracy of the GPU implementation.
Thanks njuffa,
You are right, it is not about accuracy.
So I have changed the title of this issue.
Previous title : RTX shows lower floating point accuracy than GTX?
New title: RTX shows bigger calculation difference with CPU than GTX?
I think its unlikely that anyone can give you a complete answer unless either you provide a complete code example, or someone decides to write a lengthy tutorial for you.
The only "build options" specific to RTX that come to mind are the ones you already mentioned: it's always good practice to compile for the architecture(s) you intend to run on, e.g. compute_75/sm_75 for a cc7.5 GPU.
Here is a brief tutorial. I would say there are two general categories of issues here.
 1. Those arising from machine calculation methods. For example comparing float to double, or with or with FMA contraction, are a couple examples. Such differences can easily give rise to differences in results, whether we are talking about comparing CPU to GPU or some other comparison. In addition, other more complex operations such as sin(), cos(), and other "library" match functions may simply be implemented differently on two different "machines" giving rise to different results.
 2. Those arising from order of operations (algorithm calculation methods). Floating point operations don't always have all the characteristics of basic math operations that we learned about in grade school/middle school. If you compare a serial algorithm/realization to a parallel algorithm/realization, its often the case that the math doesn't get done in exactly the same order. This can give rise to differences. A possible item to read here is this floating point whitepaper
Because the two GPUs you mention generally have different sizes (e.g. differing numbers of SMs, for example) a nice ninja-tuned parallel reduction that scopes out the size of the GPU being run on, then uses e.g. a grid-stride loop to size the grid to match the GPU, and then doing a parallel reduction, will likely give at least slightly different results depending on the GPU it is run on.
I doubt that is actually the issue in your case; I don't know what the issue is in your case. You're welcome to discuss it further, but I'm unlikely to provide any further response unless you provide a short, complete example that demonstrates the issue.
There are many questions on various forums that fit this general description (CPU/GPU differences), here is one example. Yes, I'm aware that one doesn't specifically focus on GPU-GPU differences. Here is one that discusses GPU-GPU results differences, in a general way. I'm sure you can find others.
Thank you, Robert_Crovella
I will review my codes carefully about your comments.
And if I have any positive results, I will let you know.
Thank you, Robert_Crovella.
I have reviewed my codes in detail, and it seems I have found the solution.
The summaries of my review are as follows.
 1. __syncthreads() function acted more strictly in RTX than GTX.
 (e.g. At a __syncthreads() in a "if" statement, RTX was hung but GTX was not.)
 2. GTX was more sensitive on the value of thread per block (TPB).
 When the TPB was changed, the calculation results from GTX were less sensitive than RTX.
 (** My calculation includes iteration process (implicit method).)
 3. When I applied larger value of TPB(e.g. 32, 64, 128, 256, 512), the calculation results from RTX became closer to the results using CPU. I think, this may be, larger TPB can sync more control volumes in a block even though cudaDeviceSynchronize() is not applied.
 (** The control volume is minimum calculation unit when using finite volume method (FVM).)
 4. When I applied TPB as 256 or a larger value to RTXs and 32 to GTXs, the calculation results from all the GPUs were very close to the results using CPU.
 (** In my first posting of May 27, TPB 32 was applied to all RTXs and GTXs.)
Again, thank you for your comments and encouraging.


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Topbuxus Health Mix was developed by Europe's largest Box grower. Based on a 'tonic' already being used to increase the health of the growing plants, essential elements were added and the results were delightfully effective!
Not only does Topbuxus Health Mix rapidly green up your Box but it strengthens the plants at the same time and increases their natural resistance to diseases such as Box Blight.
The nitrogen will stimulate growth, whilst the magnesium and sulphur will enable the plant to take up micronutrients, keeping the leaf green and healthy. The copper will have the effect of hardening the cell structure of the leaves and stems. This will make the plant much more impervious to the ingression of fungal spores. It will not only look much better, but it will be more robust and able to defend itself.
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The Triple-S Learning Approach
Making positive changes in rural water sector performance means influencing actors to move from building infrastructure to building services. Triple-S seeks to learn and share lessons on how actors can coordinate and harmonise with one another and support the shift from focusing on stand-alone infrastructure projects to delivering sustainable services.
Understanding how to improve rural water service delivery requires Triple-S to follow a unique, two-pronged approach to learning. First, Triple-S seeks lessons from changes in the rural water sector over time: What are the sector specific changes for sustainable service delivery at scale? How are development partners influencing rural water policies, practice, and financing strategies? Second, Triple-S endeavours to learn how to improve as a change agent: Are we using the right methods for enabling change? How can we improve?
The purpose of learning activities in Triple-S
The Triple-S learning is guided by the Principles Framework— eight principles describing essential conditions for delivering sustainable water services at scale. The framework supports Triple-S and partners' learning about the rural water sector and also influences Triple-S' strategy as a change agent.
To support the learning process, Triple-S continuously looks for internal and external lessons about changes in the rural water sector over time. Triple-S uses a continuous feedback loop (Figure 1) to design its learning activities and to find lessons for improvement.
The six purposes of Triple-S learning activities are to:
- Support joint learning in the sector.
- Provide evidence of locally inspired and validated solutions for service delivery, a learning sector, and harmonisation.
- Provide strategic guidance for Triple-S teams in Ghana, Uganda, Burkina Faso and internationally.
- Generate a critical account of the approach used in Triple-S to enable change.
- Track progress towards achieving activities and producing outputs.
- Inform stakeholders about Triple-S progress, and adaptations in strategy or approach.
What makes the Triple-S learning approach unique and what can we learn from it?
Triple-S staff, partner organisations, and target audiences are encouraged to learn through constant feedback loops. Continuous reflection on how activities are performing allows Triple-S staff and partners to strengthen activities that are going well and to adjust activities that are not working properly. The International work stream of Triple-S meets biannually to analyse progress towards influencing the policy, practice and financing strategies of development partners related to sustainable rural water services. Triple-S learning meetings focus on two important points:
Narrative 1: The extent to which progress is being achieved in influencing such policy and practice.
Narrative 2: How effective the strategies adopted by Triple-S are encouraging change in the sector.
Understanding the two narratives critically requires Triple-S staff and partners to dedicate as much attention to the content of the initiative—changing the sector to apply sustainable service delivery, as to the process—are we changing the sector in the correct way? Making learning the critical mirror to assess the overall progress of Triple-S allows for more effective improvements throughout the lifespan of the initiative.
By following the two-pronged approach to learning: understanding how the water sector is changing to provide sustainable services at scale, and understanding how an organisation is working as a change agent, Triple-S staff, along with current and potential new partners can understand mutually what is working and what is not for rural water supply. Together we can learn how to make water services last for rural populations.


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What is a Pennyweight of Gold? What is a Gram of Gold?
These are the most frequently asked questions we receive at GoldFellow. It's problematic for everyone as it doesn't relate to any measurement we currently use in our daily life. Pennyweights, however are still commonly used in the U.S. jewelry industry but we prefer to use the more accurate and globally recognized Grams (metric) as our unit of measure.
There are 20 pennyweights also referred to as DWT in an ounce. There are also 31.1 grams in an ounce. As we are talking about precious metals I'll use gold in my example throughout this post.
Many of our customers are weighing their valuables on home kitchen or postal scales of either mechanical or digital make. Most measure in grams and ounces, particularly when weighing food. The grams shown on your scale are not the same as the grams used in gold! You are measuring on a device that uses 28 grams per ounce while gold is measured in troy ounces. There are 31.1 grams per Troy ounce. The simplest way to use your home scale is to multiply the number showing as ounces by 20. That's it. If your scale shows 3.5 oz you have approximately 70 pennyweight. 1.5oz is about 30 pennyweight and so on. (Same for silver and platinum)
Ok, now for measuring your gold in grams. The scale shows 3.5 ounces. Multiply by 31.1 and it comes to 108.85 grams of gold. If it's 1.5 oz x 31.1=46.65 grams.
Lastly, if you would like to know a price per gram, follow this formula. $20 per pennyweight is$12.86 per gram. To convert simply divide $20 by 1.555=$12.86. Try $18 dwt divided by 1.555 and you get $11.58 gram
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Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Margaret S. Bedell, 1930
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This early-19th century bag is in its original condition; its miniscule copper beads intact. The size is worth noting as beads tended to get larger as the 19th century progressed. The central flower and vine motif is a standard element but the border decorations are somewhat unusual.
Margaret S. Bedell (_PHONE_) donated, by gift or bequest, over 500 objects to the Brooklyn Museum, including furniture, quilts, samplers, costume and Native American beadwork. Her collection of American and European beaded bags includes examples from Philadelphia and the Catskill Mountain region of New York State, as well as Italy, Austria, Germany, and Holland.


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Teachers Day is celebrated around the world to honour the selfless service rendered by educators who inspire and mentor students. It is a day to acknowledge the efforts of teachers who shape young minds and prepare students for the future. On this day, people express their gratitude towards their teachers, and students thank their educators for their guidance and support. The day is an opportunity to pay tribute to the exceptional work of teachers, who tirelessly contribute to society's growth and development.
When it comes to expressing gratitude towards teachers, it is not limited to traditional educators who teach in classrooms. Even the people we love and cherish the most can be our teachers in some way or the other. Your girlfriend is someone who has been a constant support, a friend, and a guide. On this Teachers Day, take some time out to express how much you appreciate her and how she has been a positive influence in your life. Send her heartfelt Teachers Day wishes to show her how much she means to you. In this article, we will provide you with some ideas for Teachers Day wishes to send to your girlfriend.
Teachers Day Wishes for Girlfriend
1. Happy Teachers Day, my dear! Your dedication to your students and passion for teaching never cease to inspire me.
2. I am grateful to have a girlfriend who is not only beautiful, but also intelligent and skilled in shaping the minds of future generations.
3. You make the world a better place every day by imparting knowledge and values to your students.
4. Thank you for being such a wonderful role model, both in the classroom and in our relationship.
5. Your hard work and commitment to your students are truly admirable. Happy Teachers Day, my love!
6. I am proud of you for all the lives you are touching through your teaching. Keep up the great work!
7. Your patience and kindness have the power to make a difference in the lives of your students. Happy Teachers Day to the most amazing teacher and girlfriend!
8. Your passion for teaching shines through in everything you do. Thank you for inspiring me and others around you every single day.
9. Wishing you a joyous Teachers Day celebration, my love. Your tireless efforts and enthusiasm for teaching are appreciated more than you know.
10. The world needs more teachers like you who inspire and empower their students to be the best they can be. Happy Teachers Day!
11. You have the ability to take complex concepts and make them accessible to your students in ways that they can understand. Your dedication to teaching is inspiring.
12. A happy Teachers Day to the love of my life, who happens to be an extraordinary teacher as well. You give your all to your students every day, and your impact is immeasurable.
13. I am grateful for the love and support you show your students. You are making a positive difference in their lives and in the future of our society.
14. Happy Teachers Day, my dear. The way you engage and motivate your students demonstrates your exceptional skills as an educator.
15. Your commitment to excellence sets you apart as a teacher. You are a shining example of what it means to give tirelessly to others.
16. You have an incredible gift for teaching, and your students are fortunate to have you as their guide. Happy Teachers Day, my love!
17. With every lesson you teach, you are cultivating a brighter future for the young minds in your care. Thank you for all that you do.
18. Your passion for learning is contagious, and it spreads to everyone around you. Happy Teachers Day to the most devoted and loving teacher and girlfriend!
19. Your unwavering dedication to your students never ceases to amaze me. You are changing lives for the better, one lesson at a time.
20. Your patience and kindness are among the many qualities that make you an extraordinary teacher. Happy Teachers Day, my love!
21. You challenge and inspire your students to be their best selves. Wishing you a joyful Teachers Day celebration, my amazing girlfriend!
22. Your endless creativity and innovative teaching methods are just a few of the things that make you an exceptional educator. Happy Teachers Day!
23. Your energy and enthusiasm for teaching are contagious, and they inspire your students to reach new heights.
24. Your caring nature and willingness to go above and beyond for your students make you a true gem in the teaching profession. Happy Teachers Day, my love!
25. Your students are lucky to have such a passionate and dedicated teacher as you. Keep up the great work, and know that you are making a difference.
26. Your unwavering dedication to your students is truly admirable. I am proud to call you my girlfriend and my inspiration.
27. You help to shape the future every day through your teaching. You are making a difference in the world, and I am honored to be by your side.
28. Happy Teachers Day to the most amazing educator I know and the most loving girlfriend I could ask for. Keep changing the world, one student at a time.
29. Your knowledge, experience, and unwavering commitment to your students are an inspiration to us all. Happy Teachers Day, my love!
30. You are a teacher, a mentor, and a friend to your students. Your impact on their lives is truly profound. You are an amazing girlfriend and an extraordinary educator. Happy Teachers Day!
1. What are some romantic Teachers Day wishes for my girlfriend?
Answer: Some romantic Teachers Day wishes for your girlfriend could be, "You may be my girlfriend, but to me, you're the most amazing teacher. Happy Teachers Day, my love!" or "Not only are you a fantastic girlfriend, but also an amazing teacher. Thank you for all that you do. Happy Teachers Day!"
2. How can I make my Teachers Day wish to my girlfriend stand out?
Answer: To make your Teachers Day wish to your girlfriend stand out, add a personal touch, such as recalling a specific memorable moment where she taught you something valuable or adding a funny inside joke you both share.
3. Is it appropriate to wish my girlfriend a happy Teachers Day if she's not a teacher?
Answer: If your girlfriend is not a teacher, it may not be appropriate to wish her a happy Teachers Day. Instead, you can wish her a happy Women's Day or simply express your appreciation for all of her efforts and hard work.
4. What are some creative ways to wish my girlfriend a happy Teachers Day?
Answer: Creative ways to wish your girlfriend a happy Teachers Day can include writing a personalized poem or song, creating a video montage of your favorite memories together, or surprising her with a special gift or dinner.
5. Do I need to be specific about what subject my girlfriend teaches in my Teachers Day wish?
Answer: You do not necessarily need to be specific about the subject your girlfriend teaches in your Teachers Day wish, but it may add an extra thoughtful touch if you do. Alternatively, you can simply express your appreciation for her hard work and dedication as a teacher.
On this Teachers' Day, let us appreciate the hard work and dedication of our educators who shape the future of our society. As you wish your girlfriend who is a teacher, remind her of the impact she has on her students' lives and how valuable her role is in shaping their future. Make her feel loved and appreciated for the effort she puts in each day. Celebrate her passion for teaching, and let her know how proud you are of the person she is. Wish her a Happy Teachers' Day, and thank her for all the lessons she has taught you.


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In my Interaction Design Foundations course, I explain to students that tangible interfaces are becoming widespread because they explore the human body as an input device. This makes the interaction more sociable and affective. In one class, I brought a Dance Dance Revolution pad for our students to experiment with and they took it to the next level.
Guilherme was shy to play, but accepted to participate in a bodystorming: I wanted to know what would happen if the position of the pad improved embodiment of the game. We put the pad in his shoulder and started to play.
The feeling of the game changed totally. Instead of executing mechanic movements in front of a screen, we've got an affective human interaction.
During the bodystorming, many ideas emerged how to hack the pad and use in clothes or garments, enabling more intimate dance, like Touch Tango DDR.
Alexandre proposed to make a fight game using the same interface. There is already a Mugen game tha explore the same gameplay of DDR:
This is the video of the bodystorming session.
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The cost of inland water transport. Inland waterway transportation refers to the operation of passenger and cargo services between ships on rivers and rivers. Compared with coastal transportation and ocean transportation, it has a smaller tonnage. Its cost reduces the calculation cost of passengers and freight, and also calculates the transportation classification cost according to different types of transportation. The classification cost mainly includes the following types: passenger transportation for passenger passenger transportation and towing freight transportation; oil transportation for oil tanker oil transportation, towing Oil transportation; transportation is the tugboat. Hanoi transportation expenses are generally divided into shipping costs and port charges. The cost of the ship refers to the various costs of the ship, including the ship's staff, the extraction and repair costs, accident losses and other expenses. The port charges refer to the port charges that are borne by the transport vessel and the port charges of the external units. The cost of inland water transportation is calculated by month, quarter and year. Generally speaking, the cost of the ship should be collected according to different ship types. For ships with larger tonnages, single ship collection can also be carried out separately. When calculating the cost of transport classification, the cost of the vessel collected by type of vessel should be distributed among the transport categories.
Inland navigation is an important part of the modern integrated transportation system and one of the main contents of rational development and comprehensive utilization of water resources.
In recent years, the roads along the inland river have accelerated the pace of construction. The comprehensive transportation network along the inland rivers will be further improved, and a situation in which multiple modes of transportation coexist and compete with each other is taking shape. The development of iron and road networks along the inland river will undoubtedly divert the supply of inland navigation within a certain period of time. However, the modern economy has a large demand for transportation, and it is also diverse: various modes of transportation have their own advantages and disadvantages, each There is a source of supply for its existence and development.
Compared with railways and highways, the Yangtze River Shipping has the advantages of slow speed and weak timeliness. At the same time, there are advantages of low investment, large capacity, low cost and low energy consumption. The transportation of bulk and containerized goods without timeliness requirements, especially the need for stable quantity, continuous delivery can meet their needs, and the price is not high. Shipping costs account for a large proportion of the bulk of the bulk of the goods, inland shipping has a clear advantage.
Railway transportation has the advantages of high speed and high capacity. The shortcoming lies in the large investment in railway construction, the occupation of cultivated land, and the transportation cost is higher than that of water transportation. It is suitable for long-distance passenger transportation and medium-long-distance bulk cargo transportation with strong timeliness.
Road transportation has the advantages of high speed, convenient transportation, convenient and flexible. At the same time, highway construction occupies a large amount of cultivated land, transportation energy consumption is high, cost railway is higher, higher than water transportation, suitable for passenger transportation and medium-distance cargo transportation.
Therefore, fundamentally speaking, as an important part of the comprehensive transportation system, inland navigation will still play an irreplaceable role in the overall transportation system of the basin.


text: We present the results of an investigation that compares matching SIFT local image features that have been extracted from a software-based retina model under two different forms of retina geometry, log(z) and log(z + α). Our retinas are sampled by receptive fields (RF) which are organized at a high density in the central foveal region of the retina and with progressively sparser density in the surrounding periphery in a configuration similar to that found in biological vision. We demonstrate our retinas using either point-based or variable-sized overlapping Gaussian kernel sampling of the input image and present visualisation results depicting the sampled retina responses back-projected as images in retinal coordinates. Multi-resolution, space-variant visual information is extracted on a scale-space continuum and SIFT interest point descriptors are extracted from these back-projected images in order to represent the visual appearance of local regions surrounding SIFT interest points. This paper describes the design, implementation and initial evaluation of space variant artificial log(z) and log(z+α) retina tessellations comprising a circular overlapping RF model. We compare the matching performance of the back-projected space-variant response using standard SIFT by plotting receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves. While the primary objective of retina sampled SIFT is to reduce feature data rates while focusing attention in the context of visual search, our preliminary matching results indicate that SIFT applied to the log(z + α) retina images outperformed SIFT applied to the log(z) retina by 5% and 4% at false alarm rates set to 10% and 20% respectively.


Implementing Custom Domain Name Resolution in TKE
Last updated: 2021-09-22 14:26:35
 Overview
 When using TKE or EKS, you may need to resolve the custom internal domain names in the following scenarios:
 - You build an external centralized storage service, and need to send the monitoring or log collection data in the cluster to the external storage service through a fixed internal domain name.
 - During the containerization of traditional services, the code of some services is configured to call other internal services with a fixed domain name, and the configuration cannot be modified, that is, the Service name of Kubernetes cannot be used for calling.
 Solutions
 This document describes the following three solutions for using custom domain name resolution in a cluster:
 Solutions Advantages
 Using CoreDNS Hosts plugin to configure arbitrary domain name resolution This solution is simple and intuitive. You can add arbitrary resolution records.
 Using CoreDNS Rewrite plugin to map a domain name to the service in the cluster There is no need to know the IP address of the resolution record in advance, but the IP address mapped by the resolution record must be deployed in the cluster.
 Using CoreDNS Forward plugin to set the external DNS as the upstream DNS You can manage a large number of resolution records. As all records are managed in the external DNS, you do not need to modify the CoreDNS configuration when adding or deleting records.
 Note：
 In the first two solutions, you need to modify CoreDNS configuration file each time you add a resolution record (no need to restart). Please select the solution based on your actual needs.
 Examples
 Using CoreDNS Hosts plugin to configure arbitrary domain name resolution
 1. Run the following command to modify the configmap of CoreDNS, as shown below:
 kubectl edit configmap coredns -n kube-system

 2. Modify the hosts configuration to add the domain name to the hosts, as shown below:
 hosts {
 192.168.1.6 harbor.oa.com
 192.168.1.8 es.oa.com
 fallthrough
 }

 Note：
 Map harbor.oa.com to 192.168.1.6 and map es.oa.com to 192.168.1.8.
 The complete configurations are as follows:
 apiVersion: v1
 data:
 Corefile: |2-
 .:53 {
 errors
 health
 kubernetes cluster.local. in-addr.arpa ip6.arpa {
 pods insecure
 upstream
 fallthrough in-addr.arpa ip6.arpa
 }
 hosts {
 192.168.1.6 harbor.oa.com
 192.168.1.8 es.oa.com
 fallthrough
 }
 prometheus :9153
 forward . /etc/resolv.conf
 cache 30
 reload
 loadbalance
 }
 kind: ConfigMap
 metadata:
 labels:
 _URL_ EnsureExists
 name: coredns
 namespace: kube-system

 Using CoreDNS Rewrite plugin to map a domain name to the service in the cluster
 If you need to deploy a service with a custom domain name in a cluster, you can use the Rewrite plugin of CoreDNS to resolve the specified domain name to the ClusterIP of a Service.
 1. Run the following command to modify the configmap of CoreDNS, as shown below:
 kubectl edit configmap coredns -n kube-system

 2. Run the following command to add the Rewrite configuration, as shown below:
 rewrite name es.oa.com es.logging.svc.cluster.local

 Note：
 Map the es.oa.com to the es service deployed under the logging namespace. Separate multiple domain names with carriage returns.
 The complete configurations are as follows:
 apiVersion: v1
 data:
 Corefile: |2-
 .:53 {
 errors
 health
 kubernetes cluster.local. in-addr.arpa ip6.arpa {
 pods insecure
 upstream
 fallthrough in-addr.arpa ip6.arpa
 }
 rewrite name es.oa.com es.logging.svc.cluster.local
 prometheus :9153
 forward . /etc/resolv.conf
 cache 30
 reload
 loadbalance
 }
 kind: ConfigMap
 metadata:
 labels:
 _URL_ EnsureExists
 name: coredns
 namespace: kube-system

 Using CoreDNS Forward plugin to set the external DNS as the upstream DNS
 1. Check the forward configuration. The default configuration of forward is as follows, which means that the domain name that is not in the cluster is resolved by the nameserver configured in the /etc/resolv.conf file of the node where CoreDNS is located.
 forward . /etc/resolv.conf

 2. Configure forward and replace /etc/resolv.conf explicitly with the external DNS server address, as shown below:
 forward . 10.10.10.10

 The complete configurations are as follows:
 apiVersion: v1
 data:
 Corefile: |2-
 .:53 {
 errors
 health
 kubernetes cluster.local. in-addr.arpa ip6.arpa {
 pods insecure
 upstream
 fallthrough in-addr.arpa ip6.arpa
 }
 prometheus :9153
 forward . 10.10.10.10
 cache 30
 reload
 loadbalance
 }
 kind: ConfigMap
 metadata:
 labels:
 _URL_ EnsureExists
 name: coredns
 namespace: kube-system

 3. Configure the resolution record of the custom domain name to the external DNS. It is recommended to add the nameserver in /etc/resolv.conf on the node to the upstream of external DNS. Because some services rely on Tencent Cloud internal DNS resolution, if it is not set as the upstream of self-built DNS, some services may not work properly. This document takes BIND 9 as an example to modify the configuration file and write the upstream DNS address into forwarders, as shown below:
 Note：
 If the external DNS Server and the request source are not in the same Region, some Tencent domain names that do not support cross-region access may become invalid.
 options {
 forwarders {
 183.60.83.19;
 183.60.82.98;
 };
 ...

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|Look up armenian in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.|
Armenian refers to something of, from, or related to Armenia, a country in the South Caucasus region of Eurasia:
- Armenians, persons from Armenia, or of Armenian descent
- Armenian language, the Indo-European language spoken by Armenian people
- Armenian cuisine
- Armenian alphabet
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- Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic, one of the republics that made up the former Soviet Union
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- SS Armenian, ship torpedoed in 1915
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- Armenia (disambiguation)
- List of Armenians
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Bring back some good or bad memories
July 10, 2020
Vintage Photos Showing Chinese People Wearing Fingernail Guards From the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries
The Chinese fingernail guard came from the Ming dynasty but became popular in the Qing dynasty. For having long fingernails was a sign of power and beauty and wearing fingernail guards protected the nails.
Both men and women of the nobility in ancient China wore their nails long. Long fingernails were a status symbol, showing that that person literally didn't have to lift a finger to do any work. Women usually have longer nails than men, so nail guards became an accessory worn both to protect the nails from breaking and to be decorative.
Nail guards were usually made from metals or shells, sometimes also jade. Historical artifacts show that they are usually made of gold, silver, bronze, or gilded metal, and embedded with pearls, precious stones or kingfisher feather. The length can be anywhere from 3cm (1 in) to 15cm (6 in) depending on how long the wearer wishes it to be.
Nail guards could be worn on one hand only, or on both hands; the latter would signal the wearer's higher status as it shows they do not need to use either of their hands. Some internet novels suggest that nail guards could be worn on all four fingers of the hand, except the thumb, but in reality this would make it extremely difficult to hold anything, so this is highly illogical.
Nail guards as historical artifacts usually came in pairs, which suggest they were worn on two fingers of each hand – the fourth finger and the pinky. This is also consistent as what is seen in paintings and photographs.
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 1. Those are pretty badass, tbh...made in China though, they probably broke after wearing them twice.
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Algorithm Positions Solar Trackers, Movie Stars
March 30, 2011
Math and programming experts at a federal laboratory took an algorithm used to track the stars and rewrote its code to precisely follow the sun, even taking into consideration the vagaries of the occasional leap second.
Now, the algorithm and its software are helping solar power manufacturers build more precise trackers, orchards to keep their apples spotless and movie makers to keep the shadows off movie stars.
The Solar Position Algorithm (SPA) was developed at the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory to calculate the sun's position with unmatched low uncertainty of +/- 0.0003 degrees at vertex, in the period of years from -2000 to 6000 (or 2001 B.C. until just short of 4,000 years from now). That's more than 30 times more precise than the uncertainty levels for all other algorithms used in solar energy applications, which claim no better than +/- 0.01 degrees, and are only valid for a maximum of 50 years. And those uncertainty claims cannot be validated because of the need to add an occasional leap second because of the randomly increasing length of the mean solar day. The SPA does account for the leap second.
That difference in uncertainty levels is no small change, because an error of.01 degrees at noon can throw calculations off by 2 or 3 percent at sunrise or sunset, said NREL Senior Scientist Ibrahim Reda, the leader on the project. "Every uncertainty of 1 percent in the energy budget is millions of dollars uncertainty for utility companies and bankers," Reda said. "Accuracy is translated into dollars. When you can be more accurate, you save a lot of money."
"Siemens Industry Inc. uses NREL's SPA in its newest and smallest S7-1200 compact controller," says Paul Ruland of Siemens Industry, Inc. "Siemens took that very complex calculation, systemized it into our code and made a usable function block that its customers can use with their particular technologies to track the sun in the most efficient way. The end result is a 30 percent increase in accuracy compared to other technologies."
Science, Engineering and Math All Add to Breakthroughs
An algorithm is a set of rules for solving a mathematical problem in a finite number of steps, even though those steps can number in the hundreds or thousands.
NREL is known more for its solar, wind, and biofuel researchers than for its work in advanced math. But algorithms are key to so many scientific and technological breakthroughs today that a scientist well-versed in the math of algorithms is behind many of NREL's big innovations.
Since SPA was published on NREL's website, more than 4,000 users from around the world have downloaded it. In the European Union, for the past three years, it has been the reference algorithm to calculate the sun's position both for solar energy and atmospheric science applications. It has been licensed to, and downloaded by, major U.S. manufacturers of sun trackers, military equipment and cell phones. It has been used to boost agriculture and to help forecast the weather. Archaeologists, universities and religious organizations have employed SPA, as have other national laboratories.
Fewer Dropped Cell-Phone Calls
Billions of cell-phone calls are made each day, and they stay connected only because algorithms help determine exactly when to switch signals from one satellite to another.
Cell-phone companies can use the SPA to know exactly the moments when the phone, satellite, and the bothersome sun are in the same alignment, vulnerable to disconnections or lost calls. "The cell phone guys use SPA to know the specific moment to switch to another satellite so you're not disconnected," said Reda, who has a master's degree in electrical engineering/measurement from the University of Colorado. "Think of how many millions of people would be disconnected if there's too much uncertainty about the sun's position."
From a Tool for Solar Scientists to Widespread Uses
SPA sprang from NREL's need to calibrate solar measuring instruments at its Solar Radiation Research Laboratory. "We characterize the instruments based on the solar angle," Reda said. "It's vital that instruments get a precise read on the amount of energy they are getting from the sun at precise solar angle."
That will become even more critical in the future when utilities add more energy garnered from the sun to the smart grid. "The smart grid has to know precisely what your budget is for each resource you are using — oil, coal, solar, wind," Reda said.
Making an Astronomy Algorithm One for the Sun
Reda borrowed from the "Astronomical Algorithms," which is based on the Variations Sèculaires des Orbites Planètaires Theory (VSOP87) developed in 1982 then modified in 1987. Astronomers trust it to let them know exactly where to point their telescopes to get the best views of Jupiter, Alpha Centauri, the Magellan galaxy or whatever celestial bodies they are studying. "We were able to separate and modify that global astronomical algorithm and apply it just to solar energy, while making it less complex and easy to implement," said Reda, highlighting the role of his colleague, Afshin Andreas, who has a degree in engineering physics from the Colorado School of Mines, as well as expertise in computer programming.
They spent an intense three or four weeks of programming to make sure the equations were accurate before distributing the 1,100 lines of code, Andreas said.
They used almanacs and historical data to ensure that what the algorithm was calculating agreed with what observers from previous generations said about the sun's position on a particular day. "We did spot checks so we would have a good comfort level that the future projections are accurate," Reda said.
"We used our independent math and programming skills to make sure that our results agreed, Reda said.
Available for Licensing, Free Public Use
The new SPA algorithm simply served the needs of NREL scientists, until the day it was put on NREL's public website.
"A lot of people started downloading it," so NREL established some rules of use, Reda said. Individuals and universities could use SPA free of charge, but companies with commercial interests would have to pay for the software.
Factoring in Leap Seconds Improves Accuracy
NREL's SPA knows the position of the sun in the sky over an 8,000 year period partly because it has learned when to add those confounding leap seconds. Solar positioners that don't factor in the leap second only can calculate a few years or a few decades.
The length of an Earth day isn't determined by an expensive watch, but by the actual rotation of the Earth.
Almost immeasurably, the Earth's rotation is slowing down, meaning the solar day is getting just a tiny bit longer. But it's not doing so at a constant rate. "It happens in unpredictable ways," Reda said. Sometimes a leap second is added every year; sometimes there isn't a need for another leap second for three or four years. For example, the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service (IERS) added six leap seconds over the course of seven years between 1992 and 1998, but has added just one extra second since 2006.
The algorithm calculates exactly when to add a leap second because included in its equations are rapid, monthly, and long-term data on the solar day provided by IERS, Reda and Andreas said.
"IERS receives the data from many observatories around the world," Reda added. "Each observatory has its own measuring instruments to measure the Earth's rotation. A consensus correction is then calculated for the fraction of second. As long as we know the time, and how much the Earth's rotation has slowed, we know the sun's position precisely."
That precision has proved useful in unexpected fields.
Practical Uses in Agriculture, Movie Making
One person who bought a license for the SPA software has an apple orchard, and wanted to keep the black spots off the apples that turn off finicky consumers, thus making wholesale buyers hesitate, Reda said.
The black spots appear when too much sun hits a particular apple, a particular tree or a particular row of trees in an orchard.
The spots can be prevented by showering the apples with water, but growers don't want to use more water than necessary.
SPA's precise tracking of the sun tells the grower exactly when the automatic sprinkler should spray for a few moments on a particular set of trees, and when it's OK to shut off that sprayer and turn on the next one. SPA communicates with the sprinkler system so, "instead of spraying the whole orchard, the spray moves minute by minute," Reda said. "He takes our tool and plugs it into the software that controls the sprinkler system. And he saves a lot of water."
Religious groups with traditions of praying at a particular time of day even have turned to SPA to help with precision.
A movie-camera manufacturer has purchased the SPA software to help cinematographers combat the precious waste of money when shadows disrupt outdoor shooting.
"They have cameras on those big cranes and booms, and typically they'd have to manually change them based on the shadows," Reda said. "This company that bought it has an automatic camera positioner."
Combining the positioner with the SPA's calculations, the camera can tell the precise moment when the sun will, say, peak above the tall buildings of an outdoor set. "They don't have to make so many judgments on their own about where the camera should be positioned," Reda said. "It gives them a clearer picture."
Learn more about NREL's solar radiation research and the Electricity, Resources, and Building Systems Integration Center.
— Bill Scanlon


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Naddod (Old Norse: Naddoðr or Naddaðr, literally "studded")[1] was a Faroese Viking who is credited with the discovery of Iceland. Naddod was also one of the first settlers on the Faroe Islands after Grímur Kamban became the first to settle there around 825. Naddod was born in Agder, which comprises the two Norwegian counties of Aust-Agder and Vest-Agder.[2]
Landnámabók, a medieval Icelandic manuscript, describes in considerable detail the settlement (Icelandic: landnám) of Iceland by the Norse in the 9th and 10th century. According to Landnámabók, Iceland was discovered by Naddod, who was sailing from Norway to the Faroe Islands, but got lost and drifted to the east coast of Iceland. Naddod came upon the shore of a land with a bay and mountains near what is today the Icelandic town of Reyðarfjörður. Although he climbed a mountain to look for smoke rising from fireplaces he saw no sign of humans. Naddod decided to continue his journey to the Faroe Islands, but as he returned to his boat it started to snow and so he named the land Snæland (Snowland). The island later became known as Ísland (Iceland). (See names of Iceland).
Naddod is probably the father of Ann Naddodsdóttir from Shetland.
 1. ^ Icelandic: Naddoður, Faroese: Naddoddur
 2. ^ Iceland: The First Settlers
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 - O'Donoghue, Heather Old Norse-Icelandic literature: a short introduction(Published by Wiley-Blackwell, 2004)
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Where are the greenest households in New South Wales?
The Northern Beaches Statistical Region (SR) recycled 99% of household waste, compared to 95% for all New South Wales (NSW) households in March 2003, according to figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics today.
Northern Beaches SR also led the way in the re-use of household waste (98%), compared to any other region of the state (80% for all of NSW).
From Bourke to Bankstown and from Dubbo to Deniliquin, other highlights from Regional Statistics New South Wales include:
Further information is in Regional Statistics New South Wales 2004 (cat. no. 1362.1).
Media Note: This publication includes information on labour force status, educational attainment, crime, population, births, deaths, building statistics, hotels and motels and local council finances for different regions of NSW. It also features information on environmental issues, community preparedness for emergencies, and census data on dwelling structure and tenure type.
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