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- It is not possible to clone Lonesome George now, but other endangered animals have been successfully cloned.
- In the future, cloning and further studying Lonesome George might be possible, so scientists are focusing on preserving his tissues now.
- Biobanks known as "frozen zoos" hold tissues and other remains of certain endangered animals.
The recent death of Lonesome George, the famed Galapagos tortoise believed to be the last representative of his subspecies, has many experts wondering how we should try to save other endangered and at-risk animals.
Cloning is one option. While cloning methods for reptiles are not as advanced as those for mammals, scientists also say they face other incredible obstacles.
"At the most, I could envision one male turtle of this subspecies cloned in future or maybe two males, but where are you going to get a female?" asked Martha Gomez, a senior scientist with the Audubon Nature Institute, which has one of the world's few "frozen zoos."
Frozen Zoos stockpile biological materials from a wide variety of rare and critically endangered species. The biological material is usually composed of gametes (sperm and egg cells), embryos, tissue samples, serum and other items. Together, they represent a bank vault of irreplaceable genetic information that can be preserved for possibly hundreds of years or more. In most cases, the materials are stored in holding tanks filled with liquid nitrogen.
Oliver Ryder, director of genetics at the San Diego Zoo, spoke to Discovery News as his team was racing to the Galapagos Islands to help preserve the tissues of Lonesome George. The San Diego Zoo operates one of the other few frozen zoos.
"This is an extremely urgent matter," Ryder said. "We had planned to meet in the Galapagos in two weeks to discuss preservation of the tortoises there. It is a bitter irony that Lonesome George died before we could even finish setting up the plans. It underscores the importance of preserving such animals."
"We are facing some logistical problems now, but we don't want to look back with 'what if's,'" he added. "This may be the only chance we'll have to preserve, document and study this tortoise subspecies."
Ryder believes discussions of cloning Lonesome George are premature at this point. Before that takes place, he thinks more must be learned about this particular tortoise's physiology and reproduction. Studying Lonesome George's remains may also help to reveal how tortoises often live to advanced ages, information that could one day lead to breakthroughs in extending human lifespans.
For cloning, researchers are focusing more on "species where we have detailed knowledge of their reproductive biology," Ryder said. That is one reason why cats, dogs and mice were among the first animals to be cloned. Scientists are now working to clone endangered relatives of such animals, in hopes of releasing those individuals into the wild to strengthen natural populations.
Earlier this year, Gomez and her colleagues successfully cloned endangered black-footed cats. An endangered wild ox, called a gaur, and a banteng (wild cattle) have also been successfully cloned. Work is underway to clone and otherwise increase the population of Sumatran rhinos, which presently number only about 200-300 in the wild.
While one healthy clone is an interesting novelty, clones must also be able to reproduce in order to be fully successful. Gomez said that kittens of cloned wild cat parents have died "due to problems with nuclear programing," but some normal kittens have resulted and continue to thrive.
Both she and Ryder say that there is no international policy calling for cloning and preservation of highly endangered species. Instead, isolated facilities and the work of dedicated individuals are responsible for the successes.
"The effort needs to be more widespread and organized," Gomez said.
Through published papers and talks, Ryder and his colleagues have repeatedly called for an organized global effort. It would need an "overarching international body" on par with UNESCO, he believes.
"The first step is saving tissue samples, as we're in the process of doing for Lonesome George," he said. "But we who are among the forefront would like to train others to establish frozen zoo biobanks in other countries."
"I am confident that one day such an international structure will come together, bringing in other conservation work, such as preserving habitat," Ryder concluded. "It's poignant to lose a subspecies like that of Lonesome George. People in the future will be looking back at us, wondering why we didn't act sooner."

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What is Texas sage used for?
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Leucophyllums can be used in a wide range of landscape situations, included focal points, visual and wind screening, accents, and wildlife habitat. With the onset of summer monsoons, leucophyllum explodes in a burst of color, giving it the nickname barometer plant.
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Herein, what is Texas sage good for?
Texas sage is a classic in the American Southwest. What is a Texas sage shrub? As a native plant, it provides cover for wild animals and birds and helps stabilize loose desert soils. This adaptable plant is drought tolerant and useful in areas with high heat and cold desert temperatures.
Subsequently, question is, how do you take care of Texas sage? Texas sage does not need rich soil to thrive and prefers dry but well-draining alkaline soil with infrequent watering. Stop watering the plant during winter. It is a water-conserving plant and only needs occasional watering. This makes Texas sage ideal for xeriscape gardens and dry soil is ideal for older plants.
Likewise, can you eat Texas sage?
It also helps that almost the entire shrub is edible some way. The blossoms, yellow or red, can be eaten raw or cooked. Their flavor is mild.
How quickly does Texas sage grow?
The Texas Sage is a fairly slow growing plant, and may take up to two years to become fully established and bloom reliably. Once established the Texas Sage is extremely drought tolerant, requires very little supplemental water, and will bloom after a good rain storm.
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How much water does a Texas sage need?
Water newly planted Texas sage every five to seven days for a few weeks until it's well established, allowing the top 2 inches of soil to dry out between watering sessions. After that, rainfall should be enough in most climates. If rainfall is below average, water the plant in summer to promote flowering.
Is Texas sage poisonous to dogs?
Commonly called barometer bush or Texas sage, Leucophyllum frutescens has green or silver leaves and seasonal blooms, most commonly shaded purple. Barometer bush is not typically toxic to dogs, but can shelter allergens and other poisonous animals or matter.
Does Texas sage attract butterflies?
Bloom Time
Texas sage most often blooms after summer showers and does bloom repeatedly in waves from spring through fall, especially after rains moisten the soil. Other benefits of Texas sage are its interesting foliage and its ability to attract butterflies and other beneficial insects.
Do bees like Texas sage?
Texas Sage Plant Features
The flowers attract bees, butterflies, and other polliantors.
Does Texas sage loose leaves in winter?
ANSWER: Leucophyllum frutescens (Cenizo), or Texas sage, is a dry land plant that responds very strongly to weather conditions. It often loses leaves following a cold winter. Texas sage can be pruned severely if desired without permanent damage.
Is Texas sage an evergreen?
As you might have guessed, Texas sage originated in Texas, but also in New Mexico, and across the border, in northern Mexico. It is an evergreen shrub, with grayish-green leaves and purple flowers. Texas sage also goes by the names of Texas Ranger and Silverleaf. It's a perennial which will bloom on its own every year.
Can you cut back Texas sage?
If left to grow naturally, Texas sage develops uneven branches and an unruly appearance. Pruning is not necessary, but an occasional trim keeps the shrub looking neat. Ideally, pruning should occur in late winter before Texas sage produces new growth.
Why is my Texas sage not blooming?
Texas Sage thrives in full sun and well-drained alkaline soil. They will tolerate a bit of shade, but too much shade will result in leggy plants that don't bloom heavily. Supplemental water in summer will help plants grow faster and bloom more, but over-watering or poor drainage will kill Texas sage quickly.
What is Cenizo good for?
Comments: Cenizo is popular for xeriscaping in Texas - it is a good choice for foundation planting and hedges, and is useful as a windbreak barrier or a screen. It is not unusual to see Cenizo as a sheared hedge, although light pruning to maintain a more natural shape may result in a healthier shrub.
What is Purple Sage good for?
Highly aromatic, Purple Sage is the most effective medicinal variety of Sage but stands cold the least. It can be made into teas to aide in digestion, used as an anti inflammatory agent for insect bites and can relive chest colds and congestion.
Can you cook with Purple Sage?
Purple sage can be used in place of common garden sage or when an added pop of color is desired. Purple sage develops optimal flavor when cooked in fat such as butter, olive oil, or bacon. Pan fry fresh Purple sage leaves until crispy for a uniquely colored garnish for quiches, pastas, risotto or other dishes.
What does it mean when purple sage blooms?
It tells you when it may rain! A drought-tolerant, evergreen shrub, this pretty, silver-leafed bush can bloom tubular-shaped blossoms that are a bold purple in color. Actual rainfall may not occur, but the plant is sensitive to changes in barometric pressure and humidity, and therefore it blossoms.
How do you prune a Texas Ranger?
Prune the shrub in the late winter or early spring when it is dormant. Cut out any dead or broken branches with a pair of pruning shears. Make each cut 1/4 inch above an outward-facing leaf bud, lateral branch or branch base. Remove any crossing branches that rub against other limbs.
Why is my Texas sage yellow?
How do you transplant Texas sage?
The shrub can get established and form a good root system during the cool, wet season when conditions are mild.
 1. Clear the planting area and remove rocks, weeds, roots and sticks.
 2. Soak the container the Texas sage is in 24 hours before planting.
Is Texas sage drought tolerant?
Very drought tolerant. Requires excellent drainage. The Texas sage is a fairly slow-growing plant, and may take up to 2 years to become fully established and bloom reliably. Once established, the Texas Sage is extremely drought tolerant, requires very little supplemental water, and will bloom after a good rain storm.
What does Texas sage look like?
Handsome and hardy, Texas sage is an outstanding South Florida landscape choice with its silvery foliage, purple flowers and drought-tolerant nature. The lavender to purple blossoms appear on and off all year amidst small, soft, silver or gray-green leaves.


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Why is the meter stick a math tool?
Because it measues distance between lengths of object of the SI(System Of International Units). Also if you give math the teachera bad answer she might swat you with one!
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a meter stick is used to measure objects
obviously there is 1 metre in a metre stick you are jokeing right a meter sitck one meter
A meter stick is ONE meter long.
1 meter, 10 Desimeters 100 centimeters, 1,000 millimeter
a meter stick is a device used to mesure with
A stick that is one meter long, commonly with markings for centimeters and millimeters.
A meter stick is a device one meter in length, with centimeters and millimeters marked out along it's edges for measuring.
So that they can make sure that their answers are correct.
You find a patch of dirt and use that as paper You then use the stick as a writing utensil
A stick that measures meters.
Measure things, add fishing line and fish. scratch your back, spank bad people, many others.
First of all, it is "what does a meter stick do?" And the answer is that it measures length in the metric units of decimeters, millimeters, centimeters and/or meters.
1- a meter stick is like a giant ruler (it measures i meter)
A brain, paper, pencil, compass, straight edge.
A meter stick is to measure the distance

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Projective transformation is a mathematical correction (implemented in software) used in the remote imaging field to produce distortion-free images. We present the application of projective transformation to correct minor alignment and astigmatism distortions that are inherent in dispersive spectrographs. Patterned white-light images and neon emission spectra were used to produce registration points for the transformation. Raman transects collected on microscopy and fiber-optic systems were corrected using established methods and compared with the same transects corrected using the projective transformation. Even minor distortions have a significant effect on reproducibility and apparent fluorescence background complexity. Simulated Raman spectra were used to optimize the projective transformation algorithm. We demonstrate that the projective transformation reduced the apparent fluorescent background complexity and improved reproducibility of measured parameters of Raman spectra. Distortion correction using a projective transformation provides a major advantage in reducing the background fluorescence complexity even in instrumentation where slit-image distortions and camera rotation were minimized using manual or mechanical means. We expect these advantages should be readily applicable to other spectroscopic modalities using dispersive imaging spectrographs.
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text: Pottery & Porcelain Marks – Arrows: Arrows have been used as marks since the early 19th century, about 1828, and are still used today. Earliest marks are a line with an upside-down v-shaped symbol on top. Later marks have two arrows, usually crossed, with a few lines jutting outward on each side at the bottom. These marks appear most often on earthenware, but they also appear on art pottery and stoneware. Harker Pottery Co. is one of the main producers of 20th century American pottery with arrow marks.


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A while ago I had the honor to work with Neal Larson on a paper on fossilized cephalopods found in Hajoula, Lebanon. Today it is again about enhancing the visibility of fossil bone and tissue structures using UV reflected and UV stimulated visible fluorescence photography, but as it is some years later, using more modern equipment now. I will also use my remapping technology consisting of a visible image, a reflected UV image and an UV stimulated visible fluorescence image and combine them into multispectral images.
Lens used was my CERCO f4.1 / 94mm quartz fluorite lens, light sources were a modified high power Xenon flash, as well as a NICHIA 365nm Power LED. Target was a fossilized fish from Solnhofen, Germany, approx. 100 Mio years old.
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Visible light image using UV/IR Cut filter:
Reflected UV image using Baader-U filter (310-390nm):
UV stimulated visible fluorescence (FL) using Nichia 365nm UV LED:
Combined VIS - FL multispectral image:
Combined VIS - UV multispectral image::
Combined FL - UV multispectral image::
It gets nicely visible that using UV light photography brings out much more details than normal visible light photography and by doing so, enhances the visibility of preserved bone and tissue structures quite a bit. Combining those different images into falso color multispectral images enhances the structures even more.
Stay tuned, more will follow on that fascinating subject...
More info on this very interesting field may be found on my site _URL_


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Definition of flyer :
1. A small operation not involving? considerable part of one's capital, or not in the line of one's ordinary business; a venture.
2. Anything that is scattered abroad in great numbers as a theatrical programme, an advertising leaf, etc.
3. One in a flight of steps which are parallel to each other( as in ordinary stairs), as distinguished from a winder.
4. One that uses wings.
5. The fan wheel that rotates the cap of a windmill as the wind veers.
6. The fly of a flag: See Fly, n., 6.
7. The pair of arms attached to the spindle of a spinning frame, over which the thread passes to the bobbin; - so called from their swift revolution. See Fly, n., 11.
measure, street arab, aviator, placard, banker's bill, airman, philippic, card, bank bill, folder, tirade, broadsheet, throwaway, beak, notice, broadside, government note, greenback, vizor, gamin, visor, eyeshade, nib, peak, circular, leaflet, pecker, invoice, booklet, bank note, handbill, aeronaut, flier, neb, account, banknote, posting, billhook, brochure, note, bill, poster
- But that policy did not always worksometimes the lone British flyer came out ahead, despite the odds against him. - "A Minstrel In France", Harry Lauder.
- The Jovian fleet was approaching so rapidly that a collision with the nearest flyer seemed inevitable. - "Giants on the Earth", Sterner St. Paul Meek.
- Far down the track he saw a glimmering dot of fire and heard the faint muffled whistle of the Flyer. - "Sundown Slim", Henry Hubert Knibbs.


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DESIGN. BUILD. LAUNCH.
WELCOME TO THE CANADA-WIDE UNIVERSITY COMPETITION
The Canadian Satellite Design Challenge is a Canada-wide competition for teams of university students (undergraduate and graduate) to design and build a small satellite. The satellites will undergo full launch and space environmental qualification testing, with the goal of launching the winning satellite into orbit in order to conduct scientific research.
The CSDC is an innovative and academically-challenging initiative which will advance space education in Canada, inspire students to pursue science and engineering educations and careers, and prepare tomorrow's leaders with the interdisciplinary teamwork skills which are necessary for success.
Unlike many university competitions which are focused on only one department, successful teams in the CSDC are comprised of students from many disciplines – not just from Engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, and Computer), but Science (Computer Science, and the department of any science instruments which are flown), and usually benefit by having students from Management, Commerce, or Education departments.
WHAT'S NEW AT CSDC
The Canadian Satellite Design Challenge held its second workshop on Feb. 20 and 21, in Toronto. The workshop was attended by 60 representatives from the 14 participating universities, making it the largest CSDC workshop ever held (which could have been aided by the...
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Annual Academic Testing
Each year, Shelton's Testing Department conducts annual academic testing throughout Shelton's Lower School (LS) Division. The purpose of annual testing is to:
- provide a standardized snapshot of each student's academic ability in specific foundational areas.
- provide a way for parents and teachers to see progress from year-to-year; and
- serve as an additional piece of data that divisional administration and teachers use to assist with designing and informing interventions.
Lower School students are tested in perceptual, visual-motor, pre-reading, reading, spelling, math, and letterand number-writing skills. Annual Testing Report, showing current and previous test scores, is sent to each student's parent(s) in May. Additionally, a meeting is held, where tests and scores are explained, and questions are answered.
Academic planning decisions are made by administrators, department chairpersons, and teachers within your student's division. If you have questions, you should contact the following:
If have a question about your student's identified learning difference and/or test scores, please contact any one of the following:


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Definition of Rayahs
1. Noun. (plural of rayah) ¹
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Definition of Rayahs
1. rayah [n] - See also: rayah
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Rayahs
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rayahs (current term)
Literary usage of Rayahs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Balkans: A Laboratory of History by William Milligan Sloane (1914)
"There was little interest as to the nationalities of The Creel the rayahs while Turkish rule was strong. They were nearly all Christians of the Byzantine..."
2. The Balkans: A Laboratory of History by William Milligan Sloane (1914)
"There was little interest as to the nationalities of The Greek the rayahs while Turkish rule was strong. They were nearly all Christians of the Byzantine..."
3. A Short History of the Near East: From the Founding of Constantinople (330 A by William Stearns Davis (1922)
"THE ARMY; THE JANISSARIES; THE CHRISTIAN rayahs THE ORGANIZATION OF THE OTTOMAN ARMIES Afar from the divan of the viziers and secretaries,..."
4. The Leisure Hour edited by William Haig Miller, James Macaulay, William Stevens (1876)
"It is more than doubtful whether the groat mas; of the Bulgarian rayahs left to themselves cherish any..."
5. The Balkan Question: The Present Condition of the Balkans and of European by Luigi Villari (1905)
"... that in which the Christian Powers begin to take an active interest in the conditions and sufferings of the rayahs or Christian subjects of the Porte...."
6. Travels in Turkey, Egypt, Nubia, and Palestine, in 1824, 1825, 1826, and 1827 by Richard Robert Madden (1829)
"try of the Christian rayahs. That resource avails no longer, at least to any thing like the extent to which it once did...."
7. Through Bosnia and the Herzegóvina on Foot During the Insurrection, August by Arthur Evans (1876)
"... the Men of Nevesinje—MasBacre of Sick rayahs by Native Mahometans hegins the War—Plan of Dervish Pasha's Campaign—Interview with the Governor-General,..."
8. Travels in the Three Great Empires of Austria, Russia, and Turkey by Charles Boileau Elliott (1838)
"Despotic act. — Shereef pasha. — Syrian government. — Condition of Moslims and rayahs. — Estimate of Mohammed All's character...."


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There's a new threat to privacy lurking in our midst: potato-chip bags, which scientists can watch closely to figure out what you're saying in conversations.
Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Microsoft and Adobe can reconstruct intelligible audio of speech by videotaping and analyzing the tiny vibrations of objects — like potato-chip bags — thanks to a new algorithm they've developed.
"When sound hits an object, it causes the object to vibrate," said Abe Davis, an MIT graduate student and the first author of a paper that presents the findings, in a statement. "The motion of this vibration creates a very subtle visual signal that's usually invisible to the naked eye. People didn't realize that this information was there."
In one experiment, researchers were able to reconstruct audio by filming the potato-chip bag from behind soundproof glass 15 ft. away. In another experiment, they were able to gather helpful audio by studying the vibrations of other substances, such as plant leaves, aluminum foil and a glass of water.
The researchers' methods, which typically require high-speed cameras that can take several thousand frames per second, can gather information about the number of speakers in a room, the gender of the speakers and the identity of the speakers, assuming they are given prior information about speakers' voices.
Once you pop, the spying don't stop.


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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The word score can have several meanings. Originally it meant: keeping count of something by making notches in a tally stick. This might be for keeping count of how much money they owed (e.g. how much tax or debt).
- A footballer who kicks the ball into the goal scores a goal.
- A person who helps to count the points during a game is "keeping score".
- a score is the sheet music written for a group of players such as an orchestra.
- A score can mean a "soundtrack" in a movie.
- Score is an old word for the number 20. It is used in the famous expression from the Bible: "three score years and ten" meaning: "seventy years old" (3x20+10) (Psalm 90). This was thought to be a normal life span. And in the beginning of the Gettysburg Address: "Four score and seven years ago..." = (4*20+7)years = 87years.
- a score is an American 20 dollar bill (banknote).
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2EQENV, C2EQSPEC and C2EQFIN, see the section "Updating the configuration files."
The UNIX directory where the collection process is to leave its data.
- Do not start the process until you finish updating your configuration.
- The first run fails with a CKR0945 message because the cutoff file does not yet exist. There is no harm in this failure; the file is created during this first job or started task. Just rerun.
Assigning a userid and preparing a directory to store the LEEF data
You must assign and prepare a UNIX directory where the LEEF data is stored for retrieval by QRadar. Like any UNIX directory, it must have both an owning user and an owning group. You probably want to use the home directory of the userid that runs the collection process (or a subdirectory of the home directory), and you probably want to use a dedicated file system.
zSecure provides three different jobs to create the required user and group, home directory, and file system:
1. Select the job that applies to your External Security Manager (RACF, ACF2, or Top Secret).
2. Adapt the job according to your conventions for users, groups, uids, gids, and data sets.
3. Depending on your choice for a batch job or a started task, uncomment the actions that create a SURROGAT or a STARTED profile, (for RACF, or the ACF2 or Top Secret equivalent). This step ensures that the process runs under the designated userid.
4. Specify the size of the file system, based on the amount of SMF data that is generated between two consecutive retrievals by the QRadar appliance. Allow for a margin to accommodate for SMF peaks or QRadar outages.
5. Run the job.
Make sure that the file system is mounted after subsequent IPLs. You might want to use the automount facility.
Updating the configuration files
If you want to use a new zSecure configuration data set (often called CKRPARM, although you can use any data set name), run job CKRZPOST. For information, see Chapter 6, "Deploying the software," in the IBM Security zSecure CARLa-Driven Components: Installation and Deployment Guide.
You can use an existing CKRPARM data set, but if it was created by an older level of zSecure, members C2EQENV, C2EQSPEC,and C2EQFIN might be missing. If so, copy these members from the SCKRCARL and SCKRSAMP libraries.
If you want further customization, also copy members C2EQ0ES, C2EQXES, and C2EQCES.
Then, customize the members:
1. Adapt member C2EQENV to specify your input: specify the UNLOAD and CKFREEZE data set that you refresh every day with the C2RJPREP job. See "Using a fresh CKFREEZE and UNLOAD each day" in the IBM Security zSecure CARLa-Driven Components: Installation and Deployment Guide.If you are using Top Secret, remove the UNLOAD allocation, because that does not apply to Top Secret.
2. Adapt member C2EQSPEC to specify your input and output:
a. Specify the same UNLOAD and CKFREEZE data set that you specified in member C2EQENV.
b. Specify the SMF that you selected as input, either as the name of a logstream, or by using the DSNPREF parameter. See "Making the SMF records available for QRadar" in the IBM Security zSecure CARLa-Driven Components: Installation and Deployment Guide.If you use the DSNPREF parameter, specify the DELETE parameter, so that the data sets that you created for this purpose during SMF offload are deleted after successful processing.
c. Specify the absolute path of the LEEF files. For log sources that do not occur in your system (for instance, for ACF2 when your system uses RACF, or the reverse), you can direct the output to /dev/null; this action avoids writing LEEF files that consist of only a zip header. For the other LEEF files, do not change the file name, and make sure that the directory part of the path matches the C2EQPATH parameter.
d. Specify the absolute path for the time-based cutoff file. This file is the one identified as TYPE=SMFHWIN and TYPE=SMFHWOUT. Make sure that you specify the same file in both cases.
Note: If you need to recover a lost SMF interval, blank out this file in order to prevent skipping the time period that you want to recover. After recovery is done, edit it back to the previous contents.
e. If desired, specify output options. The default options are in the zSecure-supplied sample member.
3. Adapt member C2EQFIN to specify the retention period (in hours) for the LEEF files.
4. Optionally, adapt members C2EQ0ES, C2EQXES, and C2EQCES as follows:
CARLa that is to be processed at the start of processing. You can use this member, for example, when IBM or vendor software writes badly formatted SMF records that cause errors. In this case, IBM Software Support can supply a set of CARLa statements to use until the problems with the OEM vendor are solved, or a more permanent solution is built.
You can also exploit this member to specify the right CCSID when translating, for example, double byte character set (DBCS) characters to UTF-8. For instance, for Japanese Latin extended Unicode, you can include the following CARLa statement:
CARLa EXCLUDEs for the SMF selection.
CARLa to customize the z/OS Log Source to also map installation-defined events. For example, you might have a product in place with its own SMF records.
Configuring QRadar to download the LEEF files
On the QRadar Console, specify the properties of the Log source. The following figure shows an example screen. See the Configuring DSMs Guide for QRadar for more information.
Configuring QRadar to show z/OS-specific event properties
QRadar shows a number of normalized event properties automatically. Additional fields can be added as custom properties in the QRadar user interface.
A list of appropriate fields that you will want to consider is listed in the document entitled QRadar Custom Event Properties for IBM z/OS in the IBM Security QRadar SIEM version 7.2.0 Product Documentation.
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Canto general is an expression of intercultural rhetoric in Latin American and unfolds at four defined levels: 1) the one of language, 2) of literary structure, 3) of figurative and symbolic structures and 3) of world vision. The poet displays an ample register, from the formal to the colloquial, while framing his work within the parameters of epic genre. His metaphoric spectrum is wide and pays tribute to the various pre-Columbian cultures. Furthermore, in Canto general we find the displaced individual, the decentered one that moves from one place to the other in a dynamic manner, and one whose memory is fragmented besides. Thus, Neruda traces Latin American history back from its origins to present day.
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A climbing peak may refer to a mountain or hill peak or a rock formation that has to be ascended by climbing. The term is common in Germany where it is specifically used of free-standing rock formations in the climbing regions of Saxon Switzerland, Zittau Mountains and other nearby ranges in the German Central Uplands that can only be summitted via climbing routes of at least grade I on the UIAA scale or by jumping from nearby rocks or massifs. As a general rule, they must have a topographic prominence of at least 10 metres to qualify. In Saxon Switzerland the Saxon Climbing Regulations do not require any minimum height, but define climbing peaks as
Another requirement is its recognition by the responsible sub-committee of the Saxon Climbers' Federation (SBB) and the responsible conservation authorities. For hikers these authorized summits may often be recognised by the presence of a summit register and abseiling anchor points.
In other climbing areas, such as those in Bohemian Switzerland, there are other exceptions. There, climbing peaks only need to have a significant rock face – the lowest side of which has to be less than 10 m high, but at least 6 m high.


text: In order to measure the resonance wavelength of plasma grating, the sensitivity of grating parameters to stress is studied, a new type of stress-sensitive polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) thin film plasma grating is proposed. Based on the principle of finite difference time domain (FDTD), a simulation model of periodic plasma grating structure is established. With the help of periodic boundary conditions, by applying stress to the grating and changing the parameters of the plasma grating (i.e. period, duty cycle and Au film thickness) to achieve the measurement of the resonance wavelength, the sensitivity of the grating parameters to the force is studied; and compare the simulation result with the theoretical value to get the relative error. The relative error is calculated by comparing the simulation result with the theoretical value. The results show that when the grating period is 0.7 μm, the duty cycle is 55%, and the gold film thickness is 0.02 μm, the response to force is most sensitive at this time; Secondly, comparing the resonance peak wavelength at different periods obtained by simulation with the theoretical calculation value, the results of the two are consistent; When the period is 0.7 μm, the wavelength of the resonance peak is 1.251 μm, and the relative error obtained by theory and simulation is less than 2%, and the result is more accurate. This method plays an important role in the fields of monochromator, spectrometer and sensor.


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Objective: In two previous randomized controlled trials Titov et al. demonstrated significant benefit from an Internetand email-based treatment programme for social phobia. The present study (Shyness 3) explores whether participants are able to complete this programme independently. Method: A total of 98 individuals with social phobia were randomly assigned to a clinician-assisted computerized cognitive behavioural treatment (CaCCBT) group, a self-guided computerized CBT (CCBT) group, or to a waitlist control group. CaCCBT group participants completed the usual Shyness programme consisting of six online lessons, cognitive behavioural homework assignments, email contact with a therapist, and participation in an online discussion forum. CCBT group participants accessed the same resources except for therapist emails. An intention-to-treat model was used for data analyses. Results: A total of 77% of CaCCBT and 33% of CCBT group participants completed all lessons. Significant differences were found after treatment between CaCCBT and control groups (mean between-groups effect size (ES) for the social phobia measures = 1.04), and between the CaCCBT and CCBT groups (mean between-groups ES for the social phobia measures = 0.66). No significant differences were found after treatment between the CCBT and control groups (mean between-groups ES for the social phobia measures = 0.38). CCBT participants, however, who completed the six lessons made good progress (mean within-group ES for the social phobia measures = 0.62). Quantitative and qualitative data indicate that both the CaCCBT and CCBT procedures were acceptable to participants. Conclusions: The reliability of this Internet-based treatment programme for social phobia has been confirmed. The therapist-guided condition was superior to the self-guided condition, but a subgroup of participants still benefited considerably from the latter. These data confirm that self-guided education or treatment programmes for common anxiety disorders can result in significant improvements.
- Clinician-assisted computerized cognitive behavioural therapy
- Randomized controlled trial
- Social phobia


text: Water retention in river plains is a common measure for flood routing. Discharge control is easily achieved by structures combining openings and weirs. Energy dissipation at the outlet is required to ensure the transition from supercritical to subcritical flow and to protect the downstream reach from scouring and erosion. Experimental investigations were carried out in a hydraulic flume at the Laboratory for Applied Hydraulics of hepia-Geneva with various patterns of alternate blocks on the ground sheet downstream of an adjustable sluice gate. The most relevant geometrical parameters of sharp edged blocks, width, height, longitudinal and lateral spacing and also the upstream and downstream flow conditions were systematically investigated. The main goal of the first order research was to provide a new easy-to-use formula for river engineers to estimate energy dissipation achieved by alternate immersed blocks downstream of an outlet and thus to design the most relevant arrangement of the blocks.


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Aggregating CAC Using Data Blending
By January 15, 2020August 19th, 2020No Comments
Welcome to our Measuring Metrics That Matter Series! Today we'll be discussing CAC (Customer Acquisition Cost) and its components.
In our last article, we talked about where to find spend on various marketing platforms, and what that looks like aggregated.
Now we're continuing with that and going deeper…
Table Of Contents
 1. Formulas
 2. Data Blending
 3. CAC Formula
 4. New Customer Data
 5. CAC Dashboard & Analysis
 6. Further Actions
1. Formulas
We've already explained some of the simple calculations a marketer can do when they have the "spend" metric.
For a quick review, they're down below.
Formulas That Use "Spend" In Daily Marketing Use
 - Profit= RevenueSpend
 - (CPC) Cost Per Conversion = Total Spend/ Number of Conversions
 - (CPE) Cost Per Engagement = Total Spend/ Total Measured Engagements
 - (CPM) Cost Per Thousand = (Total Spend/ Total Measured Impressions) * 1000
 - Ad Rank = Max CPC * Quality Score (Google Adwords)
In terms of finding the total spend, we've said before that we would get that information from our various marketing platformsInstagram, Facebook, Linkedin, Google Adwords, and Bing for example.
Then we can aggregate similar platforms' cost and separate those into buckets such as "Paid Search" and "Paid Social".
An example is shown below (in the live version it would be possible to see by date).
data blending
Source: PenPath Solutions
After you have it in neat buckets, there's so many types of other data you can blend it with! If you need a refresher on what data blending is, here's a quick guide as to why it's so useful.
2. Data Blending
The beauty in data blending is that you can create new calculations based on metrics unique to you and your company. This is valuable stuff and can change your marketing strategy for the better.
Why would we want to do that?
Based on that information, we can see how our marketing strategy is doing as a whole. From there we can tailor it to our customers' needs.
If our strategy is working, we can figure out how to do more. If not, we can see from new data where the bottleneck is.
In this article, we're going to grab metrics from different data sources and blend them to calculate CAC. This is the new calculation we are creating using blended data.
Let's learn more about it!
3. CAC Formula
The CAC formula, like the ones shown above, is an important marketing formula. It also uses spend as a component.
CAC= [Spend]/[New Customers]
What does it mean?
It tells us the cost to acquire a new customer.
The beauty of using this formula in a dashboard is that we can get a quick snapshot of CAC across all of our advertising channels or wherever we are using spend.
And we can get this information for the timeline we choose, whether it's 1 month or 12 months, across all platforms. This instant data is what makes dashboards so powerful.
How would this work for CAC?
We've already talked about where to get spend from in the last article. Now let's talk about which data sources we would use to pull our new customer information from.
4. New Customer Data
Our new customer data can be captured from a variety of sources. It depends on what type of company it is, what it sells and what types of software it uses.
Here's a table of some potential sources.
data blending
These are just some of the types of sources you can use for new customer information. Other sources could be Traditional Marketing (Tradeshows & Conferences) as well as Email Marketing (Marketo, Eloqua).
The great part is that whether you're selling products online, getting leads, or getting paid for a subscription revenue model, all of that is able to be tracked and analyzed.
Most importantly, conversion tracking needs to be enabled so that you as a marketer are able to see how your direct-response campaigns are doing.
This means that your tags need to be set up using tracking software, and that your UTMs are formulated the correct way to track the same campaign in multiple platforms.
If you need help, this is something PenPath can help you with.
Here are some other tips on how to make direct-response campaigns effective.
data blending Source: Google
If you have everything set up correctly, it will only make sure that your dashboard data is clear and easy to understand.
Let's go back to our CAC formula and see how it can be visualized in a PenPath dashboard.
5. CAC Dashboard and Analysis
The dashboard below uses the CAC formula mentioned above.
For this dashboard, we used a CRM to get new customer information. For most large businesses and B2B organizations this will be the case.
However, it doesn't necessarily need to be from there. For smaller organizations and eCommerce companies, there are of course other sources.
data blending
Source: PenPath
When looking at a dashboard, it's important to brainstorm some potential questions to ask. Here are some questions we would ask for this one:
 - What month had the highest CAC vs. the lowest CAC?
 - Are our new customers growing, decreasing, or staying the same over time?
 - Which channel are we generally spending the most on?
 - How about the least?
 - Does that change from month-to-month or stay the same?
 - What does this tell us about our strategy and if it's working or not?
In the next section, we'll see how this can be translated into an actual marketing strategy to get results.
6. Further Actions
The last question asked in the Dashboard & Analysis portion delved more into the action part of strategic marketing.
In other words, we're going from asking questions about the dashboard to asking questions on how we can improve our strategy.
How will this dashboard translate into results?
Based on what it shows, marketers could focus on different types of strategies.
In terms of getting leads, we could focus on prospecting, or identifying other potential customers and demographics.
In terms of getting more from online advertising, we could focus on retargeting or remarketing to people who have responded well to our served ads, or spent more time on the site.
The marketing strategy will be unique to each company, based on the company's needs.
Because a marketing strategy is custom for every business, it makes sense that its data and visualizations are as well.
After all, if you don't have analysis that's tailored to what metrics your company finds important, how can you create a solid marketing strategy?
(For more on creating a solid marketing strategy, our Part 1 and Part 2 series on the topic explains it well.)
This is why at PenPath, we help companies create dashboards unique to you.
As marketers and analysts, we have the know-how to be experts at the creative and analytical side of digital marketing.
A good dashboard can't come from bad data, so we help you set that up first.
We also create custom calculations and dashboards for companies based on highly technical needs, as well as streamlining the many marketing platforms out there for a cohesive solution.
If any of this sounds interesting, contact us for a pressure-free demo. We'll simply show you a live version of our dashboards (like the ones we showed above in the post).
Otherwise, keep reading our posts to understand how to stay at the forefront of marketing intelligence!
Rucha Shukla
Rucha Shukla
Rucha Shukla is an avid analyst who loves using data to answer big questions in business. You can tweet her _USER_.


Large Data Sets (Part 2 of 3?)
Our second topic for dealing with large data sets is sorting. The problem with sorting is you need to have all of the data available in order to produce an accurate sort. However, as we saw in the last article bringing down all of the data from server to client is incredibly expensive and therefore unrealistic. Even normal web applications rarely load all of their data from the database server to the app server when dealing with a large amount.
Instead of downloading all of the data to the client we'll let the database take care of sorting for us (which is one of the things a database is very good at). Let's build on our examples from the previous article and add sorting capability to the implicit paging solution. The examples can be found here and are a superset of what we did in article 1 (meaning that the old examples are there too).
Sorting
The first part to adding sorting support is in our data service. Remember from the last example we had a ValueListService which was similar to the ValueListHandler. I've now created a subinterface called SortedValueListService. The first method we care about is an extension of getElements called getSortedElements. We'll keep this method simple and only allow sorting on a single field plus a boolean indicating whether the sort should be in ascending or descending order. If you were to build on this you might change the sortField into some form of sort descriptor.
I've implemented this method in the CensusService and added the appropriate method to the CensusDAO. The CensusDAO is now much more closely tied to the MS SQL Server database as it uses a stored procedure to retrieve the data as we need to keep track of row numbers which requires use of temporary tables. The same would not be true in Oracle which supports rownum inherently and I'm not sure about MySQL but I'd bet it's not hard there either. My stored procedure is based on info I found on the 4GuysFromRolla.com site. The premise is the same as the normal getElements SQL, the only difference is that we need to throw sorting in and therefore can't rely on the ID being the same as the row number.
Now I need to update my Flex code to take advantage of sorting. Most of my changes to support sorting go in the SimpleDataProvider. I've added an implementation of the sortItemsBy method which is specified by the DataProvider "interface" but did not implement the sortItems method as that uses a comparator function (which means needing all of the data on the client). I then assume that the data provider will always be retrieving sorted data, so I changed it to always call the getSortedElements method instead of getElements. The SDP then maintains the sortField and sortAscending boolean to pass to the server whenever a new page is needed. When the sort changes we first check to see if all the data is available in which case the sort can occur on the client. However, that rarely happens so we essentially need to start over retrieving data from the server. Therefore all we need to do is set sortField and sortAscending variables, then clear the list and let the DataGrid simply ask for the correct data. You can see this implementation in Example 4.
Maintaining the current selection
If you played with the example you may have noticed that when you change the sorting options the DataGrid maintains its vertical scroll position but does not maintain the selection. This is the default DataGrid behavior and is fine for small amounts of data but might be frustrating if you're looking to use the sort to group similar items near each other starting from your selected item. Example 5 is one attempt at addressing this issue (and I'm not guaranteeing that it's the best). Another method is added to SortedValueListService called getSortedPosition which given the same search criteria as getSortedElements will tell you the 0-based position of the element you pass in. This requires another stored procedure in the database for MS SQL Server but would be similarly straightforward on another database.
Integrating this change into the Flex code is a little more complicated as I didn't want to corrupt the DataProvider itself with the concept of a selected item, as that is dependent on the view into that data. So what I decided to do is control the sorting operations myself instead of letting the DataGrid manage it. Now when the header is pressed I keep track of what the intended sort is, and then go ahead and get the index of the selectedItem and find out what its sorted position would be (this is all before actually modifying the DataProvider). Finding out the new sorted position requires a server call so it's possible that you'd want to use the busy cursor or some other mechanism to indicate that things are happening, but I didn't in the example. Once the new sorted position is known for the selected item we can go ahead and sort the list. Next we scroll the DataGrid to where the selectedItem should show up, and finally once that page has loaded we select the actual item. The reason we need to wait for the page to load before setting selectedIndex is that the DataGrid will clear the selection if it changes the underlying data. If you put a trace in the handleLoad method you'll see that a few pages are loaded after a sort even though they aren't the pages that should be visible. I think I'd probably need to change the DataGrid class to avoid this so we'll ignore that for now despite its minor performance impact. If we were going to generalize this I think we'd want to subclass the DataGrid so that it knows it's working with the pageable data provider along and give it a reference to an object that can provide certain information like the sorted position of an element.
Conclusion
So that's the basic approach for sorting large data sets. If anyone has had experience that might improve upon these by all means let me know. In the next article I'll write some things we can do to improve the perceived performance when dealing with large data, and then I think we'll try to move on to other topics.
18 Responses to Large Data Sets (Part 2 of 3?)
 1. Hans Omli says:
 I've seen this done in a similar fashion with explicit paging, but hadn't seen it done well with implicit paging. Nice work!I'd be very interested if someone works out the issues with maintaining the current selection.
 2. JesterXL says:
 Just in idea; not sure if Flex exposes an easy way to get at onEnterFrame, but you could create a temporary loop to sort manually that way, however, she'd be dog slow.The other way is to run an interval at about 100 milliseconds, and sort that way. The issue is your dupin' your array/dataset just to created a sorted one, but at least you have a faux "background process" doing it. In cases where the user is connected to the backend with a decent connection, and that connection is reliable, this is by no means any worth as paging, even in my limited expierience, is a lot faster. However, if it's one of many large datasets, and your perhaps saving locally in a SharedObject, this background parsing helps to keep what you have locally sorted without spazzing the client out. Either create a new array/dataset, and us an onEnterFrame/interval to create such.
 3. Matt says:
 Hey Jesse,I agree that background processing is a useful thing to do and an onEnterFrame handler might be the way to do it (we don't really expose it but we do have the doLater command which could be used for the same purpose). However Player 7's sorting has gotten pretty fast so I'm not sure there's a real need spread sorting of the data you have across multiple frames (unless the compareFunction is really crazy in which case if you do spread it across multiple frames you'll need to write the sort algorithm yourself as well). The problem with sorting just the data you have locally is that you'd then need to insert the data you bring down from the server into that sorted list, meaning you can't just replace a whole chunk of data but have to individually place each piece. I think the user-experience wouldn't be great here as data would fill in randomly, possibly moving the current item.Though I might be missing your point here.Matt
 4. nig says:
 Hmm.. Selection is *supposed* to be maintained after a sort in the dataGrid.. It does get cleared if you're resetting the DP (but I don't see that in the example). Usually if sorting breaks selection, it means that there's something wrong in the dataProvider's getItemID(). The grid uses the item's ID as a key into its selection hash.The getItemID here looks ok (and familiar), but it looks like the clear() method is destroying each item in the DP. Unfortunately, the ID of each item is stored on the item itself (very stealthily), so by destroying each item, you lose those original IDs, and selection.So, in order to maintain


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With renovations complete, Old Cathedral fully reopens with a classic look
The oldest Roman Catholic cathedral west of the Mississippi River is fully open to visitors once again.
The Basilica of St. Louis, better known as the Old Cathedral, never shut down during a multi-million dollar renovation that restored the church to its 1870s glory.
"We had to come up with some very creative ways to have people seated" for daily Mass, said the Rev. Richard Quirk, the Cathedral's assistant pastor.
The church's museum, which was gutted and expanded as part of the project, re-opened on Tuesday. Quirk said the renovated museum will highlight the role of faith in the history of St. Louis.
"Our museum will be interfacing with the new Gateway Arch museum, and there will be a path kind of connecting the two of them. So, as they grow and develop, we plan to grow and develop so people of all faiths can appreciate the role their faith and our faith played in the movement west," he said.
Quirk chaired the committee that oversaw the project. Planning took nearly six years, he said, and members had to initially decide whether to complete renovations from 1959 and 1960 or to "dig into the past."
The group chose the latter.
"The restoration we just completed is pretty much the way church looked in the heyday of St. Louis in 1870," Quirk said.
The extensive renovations can be seen both inside and outside. They include a new limestone facade and repairs to the steeple, in addition to a restored mosaic and refinished wooden floors, pews and confessional booths.
Adding to the retro look are a number of paintings from the 1800s that used to hang in the church, but had since been hidden away in storage.
"We consulted an art person here and had all those restored, and it's looking pretty amazing," Quirk said.
Quirk said about 200,000 visitors a year stop into the Old Cathedral. He said the renovations come at a perfect time with Easter nearing, because the colors and springtime sunshine make the Cathedral look "festive."
Follow Nathan Rubbelke on Twitter: @naterub


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Essential information during timeline analysis
During a forensic analysis, especially during timeline analysis, you deal with MAC timestamps, so it's important to know and understand the concept of time resolution.
The MAC(b) times are derived from file system metadata and they stand for:
- Changed ($MFT Modified)
- Birth (file creation time)
The (b) is in parentheses because not all file systems record a birth time.
Where are they stored?
Into two attributes, $STANDARD_INFO and $FILE_NAME:
$STANDARD_INFO ($SI) stores file metadata such as flags, the file SID, the file owner and a set of MAC(b) timestamps.
$STANDARD_INFO is the timestamp collected by Windows explorer, fls, mactime, timestomp, find and the other utilities related to the display of timestamps.
The $File_Name attribute contains forensically interesting bits, such as MACB times, file name, file length and more.
Timestamps are only updated with the attribute is changed.
Files can have either one or two $File_Name attributes depending on how long the file name is:
- Short file names ("file.txt") has only one $File_Name attribute.
- Long file names ("extremelylongfilename.txt") will have two $File_Name attributes.
- One for the long file name, and one for the DOS-compatible short name (EXTRE~1.TXT).
What are the differences?
- $STANDARD_INFO can be modified by user level processes like timestomp.
- $FILE_NAME can only be modified by the system kernel. (There are no known anti-forensics utilities that can accomplish this.)
There are general rules when it comes to files being moved, copied, accessed or created.
Each operation alters different metadata, here a table of time rules related to $STANDARD_INFORMATION:
While examining the $FILE_NAME timestamps the rules are pretty different:
How to detect Anti-Forensics Timestamp Anomalies?
Tool such as timestomp allow attackers to backdate a file to an arbitrary time in order to trying to hide it in system32 or other similar directories.
So, during analysis you can use analyzeMFT.py in order to check if the $FILE_NAME time occurs after the $STANDARD_INFORMATION Creation Time.
If this anomaly occurs, it is likely that an attacker has been alterated timestamps in $STANDARD_INFO using timestomp.
MAC times are pieces of file system metadata which record when certain events pertaining to a computer file occurred…en.wikipedia.org
Timestomp cannot be used directly to modify all (on average) 8 timestamp values in the MFT entry; 4 in…_URL_
The term MAC times refers to the timestamps of the latest modification (mtime) or last written time, access (atime) or…_URL_


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- The Sydenstricker family in China in 1894. From left to right: Absalom, Pearl, Edgar, Clyde, and Carie.
- The Sydenstricker family in about 1901: Pearl, Absalom, Grace, and Carie. Behind them stands Wang, the children's governess
- The Stulting family home, Hillsboro, West Virginia: Pearl Buck's birthplace.
- The 1938 Nobel Prize ceremony: Enrico Fermi and Pearl S. Buck.
- Pearl S. Buck at about the time of the Nobel Prize (1938).
- Pearl Buck receiving the Nobel Prize from King Gustavus V in Stockholm, December, 1938.
- Pearl Buck and a group of Chinese-American supporters during a break in her testimony before the House Committee on Immigration and Naturalization, May, 1943.
- Pearl S. Buck in her study at Green Hill Farm in the 1940s.
- Pearl S. Buck at Green Hills Farm in the 1960s.
- Pearl S. Buck with a Welcome House child in the 1960s.
- Pearl Buck and one of the Welcome House children in the late 1960s.
- A page from Pearl Buck's FBI file.
- Pearl Buck with other honorary degree recipients at Rutgers University, June, 1969. Front row, left to right: Rutgers president Mason Gross, John Archibald Wheeler, Pearl Buck, Henry Lewis, Germaine Bree. Back row: A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., Phillip Alampi, Leonard Baskin, Norman Mailer.
- Pearl S. Buck commemorative U.S. postage stamp (1985).


IELTS Writing Task 2 Sample 389 - Some countries have introduced a law to limit working hours for employees
IELTS Writing Task 2/ IELTS Essay:
You should spend about 40 minutes on this task.
Some countries have introduced a law to limit working hours for employees. Why is this law introduced? Do you think it is a positive or a negative development?
You should write at least 250 words.
Sample Answer:
There has been a drastic increase in working hours in some developing countries. Employees have been pushed to work harder and longer without any additional incentives than their wages. Therefore, many countries have passed new laws to control and legitimate duty hours. This will send a good message to workers and will lift their morale and dedication towards work.
There have been numerous examples, where companies are making their employees work longer than normal duty hours. The primary advantage of this is to increase their production by spending the same expenditure. However, this has led to severe problems. Employees are feeling immense pressure from their employers to meet targets and deadlines. This is one of the pivotal reasons that employees are more susceptible to illness. Therefore, some legislation required in working hours.
Newly introduces rules have substantial impacts on workers performance and health. They have become more responsible and productive. The quality of the work has also increased after applying these rules. In addition to this, people health conditions have significantly improved. Now they have more time to spend with their family that helped them tremendously mitigate their stress and tensions. Additional time also provides opportunities to make themselves social with their peer group.
To sum up, I would like to say that excessive works from workers have detrimental effects on their physical and psychological health. Limiting work hours will bring several changes in their lifestyle that would lead them towards better and successful life. However, in many countries employees are obliged to follow longer hours, as there is no law to protect them.
[Written by - Fahad Sultan ]
Sonam Gyamtsho
This essay topic was given in IELTS on 3/6/2017, though I didn't come through before. But when I went through it, It was ok with the similar information.
Thanks for letting others know that. This is why an IELTS test takers should review some of the essays from this website before taking the exam. Essay topics often repeat.
Marina Atef
This same topic came to my IELTS exam today (3/6/2017) in Egypt.
Nirav Soni
Today in my IELTS exam I was asked to write about this topic. Thank you, IELTS Mentor. Exam date is - 03-06-2017.


DICOM PS3.1 2022c - Introduction and Overview
3 Definitions
Attribute
A property of an Information Object. An Attribute has a name and a value that are independent of any encoding scheme.
Command
A request to operate on information across a network.
Command Element
An encoding of a parameter of a command that conveys this parameter's value.
Command Stream
The result of encoding a set of DICOM Command Elements using the DICOM encoding scheme.
Conformance Statement
A formal statement that describes a specific implementation of the DICOM Standard. It specifies the Service Classes, Information Objects, Communication Protocols, Security Profiles, and Media Storage Application Profiles supported by the implementation.
Data Dictionary
A registry of DICOM Data Elements that assigns a unique tag, a name, value characteristics, and semantics to each Data Element.
Data Element
A unit of information as defined by a single entry in the data dictionary.
Data Set
Exchanged information consisting of a structured set of Attributes. The value of each Attribute in a Data Set is expressed as a Data Element.
Data Stream
The result of encoding a Data Set using the DICOM encoding scheme (Data Element Numbers and representations as specified by the Data Dictionary).
Information Object
An abstraction of a real information entity (e.g., CT Image, Structured Report, etc.) that is acted upon by one or more DICOM Commands.
Note
This term is primarily used in PS3.1, with a few references in PS3.3. It is an informal term corresponding to a formal term that is introduced in PS3.3. In all other parts of the DICOM Standard this formal term is known as an Information Object Definition.
Information Object Class
A formal description of an Information Object, which includes a description of its purpose and the Attributes it possesses. It does not include values for these attributes.
Note
This term is only used in PS3.1. It is an informal term corresponding to a formal term that is introduced in PS3.4. This formal term is known as a Service-Object Pair Class or more commonly as a SOP Class.
Information Object Instance
A representation of an occurrence of a real-world entity, which includes values for the Attributes of the Information Object Class to which the entity belongs.
Note
This term is only used in PS3.1. It is an informal term corresponding to a formal term that is introduced in PS3.4. This formal term is known as a Service-Object Pair Instance or more commonly as a SOP Instance.
Message
A data unit of the Message Exchange Protocol exchanged between two cooperating DICOM Applications. A Message is composed of a Command Stream followed by an optional Data Stream.
Part
Subdivision of the DICOM Standard that covers related subject material.
Service Class
A structured description of a service that is supported by cooperating DICOM Applications using specific DICOM Commands acting on a specific class of Information Object.
Service-Object Pair Class (SOP Class)
The pair of an Information Object and either a DIMSE Service Group, a Media Storage Service, or a Web Service.
Essence ()
Video, audio or data type of source, as defined in [EBU-SMPTE-VSF JT-NM Phase 2 Report].
Flow ()
A sequence of Grains from a Source; a concrete representation of content emanating from the Source, as defined in [EBU-SMPTE-VSF JT-NM Phase 2 Report].
Grain ()
Represents an element of Essence or other data associated with a specific time, such as a frame, or a group of consecutive audio samples, or captions, as defined in [EBU-SMPTE-VSF JT-NM Phase 2 Report].
Rendition ()
A collection of time-synchronized Flows intended for simultaneous presentation, providing a complete experience of a Source Group, as defined in [EBU-SMPTE-VSF JT-NM Phase 2 Report].
Source ()
An abstract concept that represents the primary origin of a Flow or set of Flows, as defined in [EBU-SMPTE-VSF JT-NM Phase 2 Report].
DICOM PS3.1 2022c - Introduction and Overview


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The Making of the Powysverse Mythology
by William Latham
In 2001, Powys publisher Mateo Latosa and author William Latham embarked on a journey that resulted in the Space:1999 novels Omega and Alpha, a journey that involved creating a unified mythology to tie together the apparently random incidents that fans have called the Mysterious Unknown Force. Chasing the Cyclops tells the story of how the mythology was built, how the novels were plotted, and ultimately, how answering questions posed for a quarter century revealed still greater mysteries!
Published December 2010


1. Select "Preferences" from the "Safari" menu of the browser toolbar.
2. Click on the "Advanced" tab, then click on the "Change Settings" button.
3. Click on the check box labelled "Automatic Proxy Configuration."
4. Deselect the check box labelled "Use Passive FTP Mode (PASV)" if it is selected.
5. Enter the following URL into the field labelled "Proxy Configuration File":
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WARNING: Avoid common mistakes.
 - When using Copy and Paste to enter the URL, be sure there is NO space in front of the http://
 - Do not omit the http:// in the URL. It is necessary.
6. Click "Apply Now."
7. Exit the Safari "Preferences" window.


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The "spoons" as a musical instrument are the later cousins of the ancient,
Irish bones. Spoons are two pieces of flatware held in one hand and rhythmically
struck back and forth between the hand and thigh. Combined with a series of different
hand positions and finger manipulations, this instrument can produce intricate
rhythms. Spoons are made of varying types of wood and metal.
The WORLD BEATS video features live,
costumed performances of ancient, ethnic, percussive traditions. Aaron Plunkett
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How to Find out What Is Taking up Space on an iPhone (4 Steps)
By C. Taylor
The Apple iPhone has a finite amount of memory that must house photos, videos, music, apps and data. Without memory card support, you can't simply change cards to create storage space. Therefore, you'll eventually need to clean the iPhone to create space for new apps or files. The first step in creating space is knowing what is taking up the most space on the device.
Step 1
Tap "Settings" from the iPhone's home screen.
Step 2
Tap "General" and then "Usage."
Step 3
Look in the "Storage" section to see which apps and file types use the most space. The list is in descending order by the amount of memory used, so the top-most apps use the most space. If you need to see more than the top 10 memory-consumers, tap "Show All Apps."
Tap any listed item to see further details of its memory usage.


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I had a question about the specifics of finding a raw material deposit when prospecting squares with no already-known deposits. Are the locations of deposits pre-determined when the planet was created (or at some other specific time), or is a new deposit created when a scan is performed based on the probability given in the rules?
For example, lets say that from the equation given in the mining rules, I have a 20% chance of finding a deposit on a given scan of a square with no current known deposit. I then prospect that square. Which of the following scenarios is then true:
1. The database is checked to see if a deposit is there (one yet to be found). If a true comes back, there is then a 20% chance of finding it. If a false comes back, there is a 0% chance of finding it.
2. No such database exists. There is a 20% chance that a deposit is found, and if successful a new deposit appears.
If the latter is true, it seems that I could find a deposit on any square with a non-zero terrain probability if I just scan for long enough. (In the above example, I would have a 96% probability of finding something in the first 15 scans.)
In the rules it says "only 1 deposit can be found on a square at any given time," which makes me think that (2) is correct.
Sorry if this is a long question, but I wanted to be clear.
Screwed by Administrators who run the game with secret rules.
I was unaware of a percentage chance of locating. I believed the terrain with a deposit is given a certain number. If the number you have based on number of scanners and you're comp ops skill is higher then you find the deposit, if not you don't and won't until you make that number higher then the terrains.


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The PNE forces were supposed to enter the Congo System, overwhelm the Royal Torch Navy, and wipe out all life on the surface of the planet Torch with a kinetic bombardment. However, the Maya Sector Detachment learned of a planned operations by units of Havenite exiles and deduced the likely location of the operation. It sent its brand new Light Cruiser Squadron 7036 to Torch and intercepted the attack.
In the end, the PNE force was destroyed in the Second Battle of Congo (October 1921 PD), and its remnants didn't attempt the planned kinetic bombardment. The Kingdom of Torch survived without damage. (CS2)


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The Biome Changer Remote is used to interface with the Biome Changer Satellite.
To use the Biome Changer Remote it must first be linked to a Biome Changing Satellite and the Satellite must be in orbit around the planet the Biome Changer Remote is to be used on.
To construct a Biome Changer Satellite, the Biome Changer Remote must be in the ID Chip slot during the construction of a satellite in the Satellite Assembling Machine.
Like the satellite Id chips, the Biome Changer Remote can have its satellite link copied to another Biome Changer Remote in the Satellite Assembling Machine.
When multiple Biome Changer Remotes are linked to the same satellite, both the biome discoveries and the power pool are shared.
When first constructed the Biome Changer Remote has no biomes stored in memory. Biomes may be added to the satellite's memory a player must visit the biome he/she wants to add and shift right-click on the Biome Changer Remote and click "Scan Biome".
In order to select the target biome, a player must open the interface by shift right-clicking and clicking on a biome from the list. Then stand where you want to change the biome and right click the remote to transform a 20x20 area centered on the player.
Note: The satellite itself requires power storage and a power supply, the satellite will pull up to 100RF/t at 10RF per block.


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Copyright © 2011 Boorapa Singha and Jintana Sanwong. This is an open access article distributed under the
Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Suppose that is an infinite set with and is the symmetric inverse semigroup defined on. In 1984, Levi and Wood determined a class of maximal subsemigroups (using certain subsets of ) of the Baer-Levi semigroup dom and. Later, in 1995, Hotzel showed that there are many other classes of maximal subsemigroups of, but these are far more complicated to describe. It is known that is a subsemigroup of the partial Baer-Levi semigroup. In this paper, we characterize all maximal subsemigroups of when, and we extend to obtain maximal subsemigroups of when.


text: In the face of challenges like drought and growing demand in many European Union countries, it will be important to achieve a balanced mix of pricing and non-pricing measures to ensure efficient household water use. This report commissioned by the European Environment Agency (EEA) analyzes existing pricing and non-pricing measures for managing water demand in eight European countries. It finds that all monitored countries have mechanisms in place to provide an incentive for a more efficient water use in the domestic sector. But the evidence on the real incentives created by existing pricing (tariffs) for more efficient water use is scarce, if available at all. In some countries (Germany, Denmark, Spain and France) price does not appear to be a significant determinant of water demand. The report concludes that while water pricing will continue to be an important instrument to signal water scarcity and water costs, it should be complemented with non-price policies, such as education or awareness campaigns. The report is available to download on the Eionet website.


The Script Manager button accesses the script management system for building, configuring, and selecting your active script for live calls.
This button opens the home screen for the script management system. The script management system features are:
Script Manager
 1. Documentation - View our complete documentation for the script management system here.
 2. Create New Script - Create a new blank script.
 3. Script Name - Your script name. Is not shown to callers.
 4. Edit - Open the script editing system to edit the script.
 5. Delete - Completely and permanently remove the script.
 6. Duplicate - Make an identical copy of the script.
 7. Rename - Rename the script.
 8. Active - Select this script as the live script for callers. If multiple scripts exist, only one can be designated active. Active scripts will update within 5 minutes for callers.
Please review the complete documentation for our script management system here for more details and instruction.


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Does international patent collaboration have an effect on entrepreneurship?
Abstract.Entrepreneurship is one of the main pillars of growth in any economy. Achieving a high rate of entrepreneurship in a region has become the priority objective of governments and firms. However, in many cases, new firm creation is conditioned by relations or collaboration in innovation with agents from other countries. Previous literature has analyzed the mechanisms that foster entrepreneurship. This paper attempts to shed light on the influence of international patent collaboration (IPC) on entrepreneurial activity at country level taking into account the timing of this relationship. An empirical study is proposed to verify whether IPC leads to greater entrepreneurship and to analyze the gestation period between international patenting actions and firm creation. Using the Generalized Method of Moments, the two hypotheses proposed were tested in a data panel of 30 countries for the period 2005–2017. Results show the influence of IPC in promoting entrepreneurship in the same year, but especially in the following year. The study offers implications for entrepreneurs and public agents. IPC affects the integration and interaction of international agents in a country, favors the production of new knowledge, and increases positive externalities in a territory. All this facilitates the creation of new companies with a high innovative component.S


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The definition of Montagnais is a Native American Indian tribe from Northern Quebec in Canada.
Facts About the Montagnais
- Many of the current tribe still exist and live in the same area of Quebec today.
- It is commonly believed that the name of Quebec actually came from one of the names given the tribe, Kebik.
- Montagnais speakers refer to their native language as Innu-Aimun. Most Montagnais children can speak their native language.
- The Montagnais tribe were nomadic and moved according to the changing of the seasons.
- The Montagnais tribe depended on the environment to save in a number of ways including for their:
- Food - In the spring, salmon and eel were their main sources of food. In winter they depended on the hunting of both small and large game, such as porcupine, caribou, moose, and elk.
- Clothing - It was typical to see clothing made of buckskin or other animal skins and natural materials.
- Shelter - The Montagnais lived in wigwams and covered the wigwams with animal skins, reeds, mats and bark from trees.
- Transportation - In spring months, the Montagnais relied on canoes crafted from strong trees. In winter, when they were forced to follow the migration of caribou as their main food source, the Montagnais constructed snow shoes using components of the environment.
An example of Montagnais is the 13,000 Indian Americans living in Labrador and Quebec today.


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This article conceptually integrates research on the experience of nostalgia—defined as a predominantly positive, social, and past-oriented emotion—into the fold of video game research. We emphasize the role of nostalgia as an explanation for contemporary retro gaming trends, and suggest that nostalgia towards gaming events is a necessary area of research. To those ends, we broadly review existing literature on nostalgia before specifically focusing on media-induced nostalgia, and demonstrate how theoretical and empirical observations from this work can be applied to understand video game nostalgia. In particular, we argue that engaging in older gaming experiences indirectly (via memories) and even directly (via replaying or recreating experiences) elicits nostalgia, which in turn contributes to players' self-optimization and enhanced well-being. Moreover, as gamers and the medium mature together, nostalgic experiences with the medium are likely to become increasingly prevalent. The broad aim of this article is to offer future directions for research on video game nostalgia and provide a research agenda for research in this area.
- Retro gaming
- Video games


text: 1. The problem statement, all variables and given/known data A radius of a sphere is measured to be (6.45 ± 0.27) cm, and the mass is measured to be (1.78 ± 0.09) kg. Determine the density of the sphere in kilograms per cubic meter and the uncertainty in the density. 2. Relevant equations Use the following formula to calculate the uncertainty in the density: Δρ/ρ = Δm/m + 3Δr/r.) 3. The attempt at a solution I already found the density: 1583.62 kg/m3 I just want to know how to get the uncertainty. I don't know how to use the formula given. i always get a really low number with it.


Friday, January 25, 2013
The ParaSail "import" clause -- library level visibility
We have postponed implementing the "import" clause for ParaSail until just recently. That may seem somewhat surprising. Up until now, any ParaSail module could refer to any other ParaSail module, provided it used its full expanded name (e.g. a name of the form Acme::Killer_App::Driver). This works fine for small programs, but as programs grow larger, there is often a desire to be more restrictive (on the one hand) as far as interdependencies, and provide a shorthand (on the other hand) for long module names.
So now in ParaSail, you can both restrict visibility, and create shorthands, using a (Java-like) import clause:
 import Acme::Killer_App::Driver
will both give visibility on this Driver module, and provide a shorthand of simply "Driver" to refer to it. Alternatively, you can gain visibility on all of the modules in a hierarchy, along with shorthands for the top-level items in the hierarchy:
 import Acme::Killer_App::*
gives visibility on Acme::Killer_App::Driver, Acme_Killer_App::Utilities, etc. as well as allowing the use of the shorthand names "Driver" and "Utilities" directly in the source code that follows the import clause.
In the absence of any applicable import clauses, a default is provided based on the name of the module being compiled. If the module being compiled has the name "A::B::C" then the default import clause, when none is supplied, is "import A::B::*". That is, the module has visibility on the entire hierarchy of modules rooted at its parent module A::B, and can use the names of its sibling modules directly as a shorthand (e.g. can refer to A::B::D as simply "D").
Whether or not explicit import clauses apply to a piece of ParaSail source code, the following two implicit import clauses always apply:
 import PSL::Core::*
 import PSL::Containers::*
This ensures visibility on, and shorthands for, the standard ParaSail types such as Boolean and Univ_Integer, and the standard ParaSail containers such as Vector and Map.
Within a single source file containing multiple modules, a given set of import clauses apply to the modules following the import clause(s) up until the end of the source file, or to the next set of import clauses. Whenever a new set of import clauses is given, the new set completely replace any earlier imports. So there is no inheritance or accumulation of import clauses. Only one set applies at a time (after always adding in the implicit ones for PSL::Core::* and PSL::Containers::*).
So why did we choose this particular approach for the import clause, and how does it compare to that of other languages?
Programming languages take many different approaches to controlling visibility between standalone program units defined at the top level of some source file. C and C++ use a strictly textual _TAG_ approach, where what is defined by some included declaration is visible, and what is not declared in any included text file is invisible. There are many well known troublesome issues with such an approach, but it has the advantage of simplicity. However, some of the nice simplicity is lost when you add in the notion of "extern" declarations and single-definition rules and such. Much of the nastiness comes from nested includes, and multiple includes with redefinitions of macros which allow the various includes of the same file to have different effects.
Languages like Modula, Ada, Java, etc., adopted a module-based approach to standalone unit visibility, where an import clause or a with clause or something similar is used to indicate what other modules are available for use within a given module. The import clause specifies the name of the module or modules to be imported, using their programming language name rather than their file name. Some implementations of such languages require that modules be stored in files whose filenames are derivable from the module name, but that is not always required, and in Java is only required for a public class or interface, but not for package-visible classes or interfaces that come along for the ride in the same file. In module-based approaches, there is typically no transitive importing, in that each module must specify the modules on which it wants visibility -- it doesn't get visibility on a module B just because it imports a module A that imports B. It must import B directly.
Note that Ada does allow the body of a library unit to inherit the with clauses from its spec, as well as from its parent units in the library unit hierarchy. Hence a with clause on the spec for a package Acme would be inherited by the Acme package body, as well as the Acme.Killer_App spec and body, and so on. For most other languages, there is no inheriting of import clauses between source files, even when one is defining the implementation for a module and the other is defining the interface for the module.
The new language Go has an interesting approach, where filenames are used in the import clauses, but they are treated more like modules, in that there is no automatic transitivity, and the imported files never need be read more than once, even if they are indirectly imported several times. Go was designed in part in response to the unpleasant effects of the C++ _TAG_ rules, which in large systems can dramatically slow down compilation.
Other solutions to the C/C++ _TAG_ unpleasantries exist, some based on a "_TAG_ Once" approach which says that a given include file should only be read once, and others based on an idiomatic use of _TAG_/_TAG_'s bracketing the text of each include file.
Another dimension over which importing differs is the provision of shorthands for imported declarations. In Java, for example, no import clause is required if the programmer is willing to refer to an externally-defined class by using its full name (such as A Java import clause is primarily designed to provide a shorthand for a class/interface name (by writing "import"), or for all of the classes/interfaces in a given package (by writing "import*"). Java also provides an implicit import of java.lang.*, providing shorthands for all of the most basic Java classes and interfaces without need for an explicit import clause. Modula (and Python) provides a shorthand when using an import clause of the form "from M import A, B" which makes the names A and B directly visible.
Ada has a different approach to shorthands. The contents of any package may be made directly nameable using a "use" clause (e.g. "use Pkg;" makes Pkg.A nameable as simply "A").
So now back to the approach adopted for ParaSail. ParaSail follows the Java model as far as shorthands, in that an "import Acme::Killer_App::Driver" has the effect of making "Driver" usable directly within the code that follows. But unlike in Java, if the programmer gives explicit import clauses, then they restrict what modules the source code may use. If the name of a module is not covered by one of the explicit import clauses, and is not within PSL::Core::* or PSL::Containers::*, then no reference may be made to it, even with its full name. What this means is that if an import clause is present, it ensures that no unexpected dependencies on outside modules can occur due to some buried full-name reference.
ParaSail also eschews any inheritance of import clauses from other modules, such as the parent module or the interface of the module. Import clauses apply to a piece of source code, namely the source code that follows the import clauses, up until the next set of import clauses, or the end of the file. This means that identifying what other modules are relevant to understanding a given piece of source code is fully circumscribed by the applicable import clauses.
Thursday, January 10, 2013
Rev 3.8 release brings initial I/O library, import clauses
We are pleased to release alpha revision 3.8 of the ParaSail compiler and virtual machine, available at the same URL:
This release includes a number of new features, including support for the import clause, and a standard library now defining modules with names like PSL::Core::Boolean and PSL::Containers::Set (rather than simply Boolean or Set). There are some new I/O modules, including PSL::Core::IO, PSL::Core::File_Input_Stream, and PSL::Core::File_Output_Stream. These last two support simple textual file I/O. We will be providing additional libraries oriented toward a graphical user interface in an upcoming release. The reference manual has also been updated to cover some of the newer features. As usual, consult the release notes for more details on the 3.8 revision.
We will write a separate blog entry about the design of the import clause -- it brought out some interesting issues. Every ParaSail module has an implicit import of PSL::Core::* and PSL::Containers::* so the introduction of the import clause shouldn't cause any compatibility issues with existing code.


Provides simple summary statistics for a model produced using solve_ode. These include the final population sizes, the time and size of the maximum epidemic peak, and the duration of the epidemic.
summarise_model(sim)
Arguments
sim
A tibble of model output as produced by solve_ode.
Value
A tibble of summary information for a model simulation.
Examples
## Intialise N = 100000 I_0 = 1 S_0 = N - I_0 R_0 = 1.1 beta = R_0 ##Time for model to run over tbegin = 0 tend = 50 times <- seq(tbegin, tend, 1) ##Vectorise input parameters <- as.matrix(c(beta = beta)) inits <- as.matrix(c(S = S_0, I = I_0)) sim <- solve_ode(model = SI_ode, inits, parameters, times, as.data.frame = TRUE) summarise_model(sim)
#> # A tibble: 1 x 5 #> 'Final size: S' 'Final size: I' 'Epidemic peak … 'Epidemic peak' #> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> #> 1 0 100000 39 100000 #> # … with 1 more variable: 'Epidemic duration' <dbl>


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I have to build a street network with PostGIS that will be used with pgRouting.
I have two tables:
 1. the_network (182 lines): is a MULTILINESTRING table. Having columns "road_name" (varchar), "road_length" (numeric)
 2. buildings (104 lines): is a POINT table. Having "building_id" (integer)
The following code creates lines between buildings and the network. The 104 created lines are stored in "buildings_to_network_lines_table" which is GEOMETRY type.
SELECT ST_ShortestLine(a.geom, ST_Collect(b.geom)) AS geom,
 ST_Distance(a.geom, ST_Collect(b.geom)) AS shape_length INTO buildings_to_network_lines_table
FROM buildings a, the_network b
WHERE ST_Dwithin(a.geom, b.geom, 1000)
GROUP BY by a.gid, a.geom;
How to create a new table containing the black lines (the_network) and the red lines (buildings_to_network_lines_table)
Then I just want to create one table named the_network_full that contains all the lines of the_network and buildings_to_network_lines_table tables. I've tried to achieve this by a ST_UNION() function:
SELECT ST_Union(a.geom, b.geom) AS the_network_full
FROM the_network a, buildings_to_network_lines_table b;
xample
The results look good but unfortunately the resulting "the_network_full" table (type GEOMETRY) contains 18'928 lines (182*104) instead of 182+104=286 lines.
How can I merge these two tables into a new one?
 - Did you want a geometrical union? Seems like you want the union of tables: SELECT geom AS the_network_full FROM the_network UNION SELECT geom AS the_network_full FROM buildings_to_network_lines_table; – César Argul García Apr 9 '14 at 12:14
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You implicitly CROSS JOINed the tables so you got a cartesian product. Since you don't want to merge the geometries together you should use the UNION ALL which is an entirely different construct:
SELECT a.geom
FROM the_network a
UNION ALL
SELECT b.geom
FROM buildings_to_network_lines_table b
Now that you have a correct SELECT query you can use it in INSERT ... SELECT to put the data in new table.
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Finally the new version of the Realbook preset is here.
There are important news that will make editing the book faster and that will make the result more realistic.
Below are the news summarized in a few cryptic words:
- Quick System for Inserting and Deleting pages
- Realistic Random Distribution System
- New Cover Textures System
- Pages with Thickness
- Parametric Headband
- Adjustable position of the pages
- Landing option for closed and opened pages
- Global Scale Function
- Cover Bend Dimension
- Several Adds and Corrections
Take a look at the videos below to learn more.
If you need a book with a curved spine on the hard cover, just add an FFD deformer as a child of the Cover Base object and deform it. Don't forget to increase the number of X Segments of the Cover Base object.
If you need a book with a custom pages, for example with rounded corners or with thickness and so on, just follow these steps:
Go to the Layer Manager and make the hidden layer visible.
Create your own geometry for the page (with rounded corner, with thickness, …) and make it child of the Piano geometry. Adjust the position and the dimension (depend on your poligon).
3. Now disable the Piano geometry.
4. Return on the Layer Manager and hide the layer again.
5. Duplicate the page.


The Mesa College Humanities Institute serves as an internal vehicle for cultural, interdisciplinary, and Mesa College community priorities. All institute activities are intended to increase student engagement, recruitment, and retention.
1. Cultural Enrichment:
To offer lectures, seminars, concerts, plays and interaction with scholars and creative artists.
2. Curriculum Enhancement:
To enhance curriculum connections that will enrich students' educational experiences.
3. Staff Development:
To provide opportunities for interdisciplinary collaborations.
4. Outreach/Partnerships:
To foster relationships with community including working with K-12 schools and promoting community partnerships with Arts, Sciences, Historical and/or Cultural organizations.
5. Global Awareness:
To offer programs intended to promote global awareness and multicultural understanding.
6. Annual Campus-Wide Events:
To annually encourage and support a tradition of representing multicultural voices from diverse communities. Annual Mesa College events include: Women's History Month, Black History Month, Annual Chicano Latino Heritage Celebration, Asian Pacific American Heritage Celebration, Annual Languages Department Conference, Social Sciences Occasional Lectures Series, Annual César E. Chávez Celebration, Native American Heritage Month, and the Annual Festival of Colors.


text: The first place to visit along this tour of western Virginia and West Virginia is the Pearl S. Buck Birthplace Museum. The famous writer was the first woman to win both the Nobel and Pulitzer Prizes in literature. See Droop Mountain Battlefield, the site of the largest Civil War battle (November, 1963). Next, travel to the Monongahela National Forest and visit Cranberry Glades, a botanical area home to plants that typically grow only in the Canadian tundra. Continue north to Charleston and tour the state capitol building. The capitol boasts a 300-foot-high dome and is made of steel and smooth limestone. The building was designed by the architect of the U.S. Treasury and U.S. Supreme Court buildings, Cass Gilbert.


What does "Case Hardened" mean when it's stamped on a piece of metal?
Steel is an amazing substance. By mixing in different elements and heating and cooling it in different ways, you can create surprisingly different properties. Some steels are easily bent, while others are so brittle they shatter. Some rust and others don't. The huge variety of steels means that they work in many different situations -- everything from a surgical scalpel to a skyscraper's massive metal frame can be made of steel!
The idea behind case hardening is to have two different types of steel at two different points in time. During manufacturing, what you would like is a relatively soft steel that is easy to bend and machine. For a lock's shank, however, a soft steel is not good because it is easy to cut with a metal saw. So after the piece is formed, you harden it to make it very difficult to cut. Case hardened steel is usually formed by diffusing carbon and/or nitrogen into the outer layer of the steel at high temperature. The carbon combines with the steel to make it nearly glass-like in its hardness. The core of the metal stays soft. This gives you a piece of metal that you cannot cut with a saw, but also will not shatter.
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