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Pennsylvania-based Consol will try to sequester as much as 20,000 tons of the greenhouse gas that is believed to contribute to global warming.
Vice president of research Steve Winberg said Consol is donating three coalbed methane wells near Buchanan, Va., for the pilot project. The State Journal said the yearlong experiment is set to begin this fall.
Michael Karmis, of Virginia Tech's Center for Coal and Energy Research, said teams will test the ability to inject CO2 and whether it can help recover coalbed methane.
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The definition of smooth is even, flat and not rough.(adjective)
Smooth is defined as to get rid of wrinkles, lumps or ridges in something.(verb)
An example of smooth is to iron a piece of clothing.
See smooth in Webster's New World College Dictionary
Origin: ME smothe < OE smoth, for earlier smethe < Gmc *smanthi < IE *som-, together < base *sem-, together, same
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adjective smooth·er, smooth·est
Origin: Middle English smothe
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Carlo Annibale Tononi (1675–1730) was a luthier who trained and worked with his father in the Tononi family workshop in Bologna, Italy until his father, Johannes Tononi, died in 1713. After his father's death, Tononi moved to the more important center of music in Italy--Venice.
In the late 17th century, Bologna was a great centre for art and especially of string playing, being Arcangelo Corelli's home town. By early 18th century, Venice had become a more important cultural centre (for music and Lutherie/ Instrument Making). Carlo Tononi moved to Venice between _PHONE_, where he became one of the foremost makers of the new Venetian School.
Before his death, Tononi modified his will to provide for his funeral. He requested that the proceeds from the sale of one of his cellos be used to pay for a mass to be said for his soul. On 21 April 1730, his executors published his will after his death.
- Tononi Records. "Carlo Tononi - "il Bolognese", a great violin maker in Bologna and Venice". Archived from the original on 9 September 2006. Retrieved 2006-11-02.
- Cozio.com. "Carlo Tononi". Archived from the original on 27 September 2007. Retrieved 2007-11-02.
- Vannes, Rene (1985) . Dictionnaire Universel del Luthiers (vol.3). Bruxelles: Les Amis de la musique. OCLC 53749830.
- William, Henley (1969). Universal Dictionary of Violin & Bow Makers. Brighton; England: Amati. ISBN 0-901424-00-5.
- Walter Hamma, Meister Italienischer Geigenbaukunst, Wilhelmshaven 1993, ISBN 3-7959-0537-0
- Die Geigen und Lautenmacher vom Mitteralter bis zur Gegenwart, Willibald Leo von Lütgendorff, Frankfurter Verlags-Anstalt, Frankfurt am Main, 1922.
- Italian Violin Makers, Karel Jalovec, Paul Hamlyn, London, 1964.
- Italian Violin-Makers, Karel Jalovec, Orbis, Prague, 1952.
- Italienische Geigenbauer (1957), Karel Jalovec, Artia, Prague, 1957.
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The School Improvement Project (SIP) was a series of pilot projects designed to promote better education outcomes for First Nations children in Manitoba.
SIP was implemented in four Manitoba First Nation communities - two northern communities (Fox Lake Cree Nation and Northlands Dene First Nation) and two southern communities (Brokenhead Ojibway First Nation and Long Plain First Nation). In total, approximately 350 students, 55 teaching and support staff participated in the project.
The initiative focused financial and human resources on baseline testing for all students in Grades 1-8, professional development of teachers, increased capacity for student transition, teacher mentoring and increased teacher/principal support for its pilot communities. The objectives of the project were to improve teacher instructional practices in English Language Arts, Mathematics, and Information and Communication Technology through professional development activities, provide the schools with the necessary material and resources to support these programs, and improve student achievement scores in both English Language Arts and Mathematics.
Starting in September 2007, SIP began assessing each student's level of learning and corresponding environmental impacts to determine how a student best learns. This information was used to help teachers tailor their teaching style and materials to best meet students' needs. Students were also grouped into clusters to address varying academic levels. Portfolios with assessments will travel with each student to aid them during their transition to new schools. As students progress through the education system, this testing will be done regularly to ensure that each child is learning and progressing. Tests will coincide with report cards in November, March and May.
The Manitoba First Nation Education Resource Centre (MFNERC) led this initiative in conjunction with the Province of Manitoba, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC), Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs, University College of the North, Manitoba Keewatinowi Okimakanak, and Southern Chiefs Organization.
The initiative was conducted over 18 months with an INAC investment of $2.7 million. The Province of Manitoba contributed approximately $250,000 through staff time and expertise to provide the four First Nations schools with professional development and teacher training.
All project schools have received shared professional development, ICT support and resources technology hardware (laptops, work stations, LCD projectors, printers, scanners and switchers), English Language Arts tool kits (classroom reading centres, guided reading kits, chapter books and novels, First Nations stories, Scholastic series, teacher instructional text supports, headphones/microphones, memory sticks, Franklin Electronic Spelling and Thesaurus), and math tool kits.
Manitoba First Nations have the lowest educational outcomes in Canada. Sixty-five per cent of all Canadians have completed high school compared to 37 per cent of First Nation citizens on-reserve. In Manitoba the number of First Nation graduates is only 28 per cent.


text: This rare instrument, combining a transverse flute and an oboe in the form of a walking stick, is made of narwhal tusk, a precious material once valued higher than gold and believed to be from the horn of the mythological unicorn. Georg Henrich Scherer was the last and most important member of a well-known eighteenth-century family of German woodwind makers. Among his clients was Frederick the Great, who played and owned a small collection of flutes. The king pursued a scientific interest in testing the acoustical attributes of different materials, which may account in part for the use of narwhal tusk. This instrument is said to have been a gift from Frederick to his finance minister. Scherer made a similar instrument, now in the Landesmuseum, Darmstadt. Walking-stick instruments became fashionable in the first half of the nineteenth century, but were usually conceived as a single instrument, be it a recorder, a fiddle, or a flute.


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I just learned about the transfer homomorphism, and I am having trouble internalizing it. I am learning from 'A Course in the Theory of Groups', and I was hoping that perhaps someone had a more intuitive explanation of the transfer to supplement the book's construction.
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The transfer tries to capture conjugacy in a homomorphism. This is a little hard to do so the definition is a little complicated. I give a simpler to verify definition from Kurzweil–Stelmmacher, then the standard product-of-conjugates formula and its specialization to the center and to a Hall subgroup.
Smoother definition
Kurzweil–Stellmacher gives a slightly nicer definition of the transfer: Let $H \leq G$ be a subgroup of finite index in the group $G$. If $R,S$ are transversals of $H$ in $G$, define $$(R|S) = \prod_{(r,s) \in R \times S \atop Hr = Hs} \overline{ rs^{-1} } \in H/[H,H]$$ Then one easily verifies that $$(R|S)^{-1} = (S|R), \quad (R|S)(S|T) = (R|T), \quad (Rg|Sg) =(R|S), \quad \text{and} \quad (Rg|R) =(Sg|S)$$ (At the moment, I couldn't do the last in my head, but $(Rg|R) = (Rg|Sg) (Sg|S) (S|R) = (Sg|S)$ since the outer factors cancel by the previous properties and the fact that $(R|S)$ lives in an abelian group.)
Hence the map $tr:G \to H/[H,H]: g \mapsto (Rg|R)$ is well-defined (by the last property) and a homomorphism since $$(Rgh|R) = (Rgh|Rh)(Rh|R) =(Rg|R)(Rh|R)$$
Some important properties
For g in G, consider the orbits of $\langle g \rangle$ on the cosets $G/H$. Let them have representatives $g_i \in R$ and size $n_i$. Then $$tr(g) = \prod g_i g^{n_i} g_i^{-1}$$ is a product of conjugates of $g$. In particular, if $g \in Z(G)$, then all the conjugates are the same, so $$tr(g) = g^{[G:H]}, \quad \text{if } g \in Z(G)$$ and a similar formula holds if we consider $tr(g)$ mod the subgroup $$H^* = \langle h^{-1} h^g : h,h^g \in H, g \in G \rangle$$ since modulo this subgroup, all $G$-conjugates are the same: $$tr(g) \equiv g^{[G:H]} \mod H^*, \quad \text{if } g \in H$$
In particular, if $G$ does not sufficiently swirl $H$, that is, if $H^* < H$, and if $\gcd([H:H^*],[G:H])=1$ (for instance if $H$ is Hall or Sylow), then the transfer map restricts to an automorphism of $H/H^*$ and in particular $G$ has a proper normal subgroup $K=\ker(tr)$ such that $H \cap K = H^*$. When $H$ is a Sylow $p$-subgroup, this $H^*$ is called the focal subgroup and is equal to $H \cap [G,G]$.
Notice that $H^* \geq [H,H]$ measures how much extra conjugacy (fusion) $G$ causes in $H$. The transfer allows us to pull $H^*$ back into $G$, and so we get a normal subgroup of $G$ that somehow measures fusion in $H$. Again this is most useful and precise when $H$ is a Hall or Sylow subgroup of $G$.
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Other good answers would include the definition from homology of groups, and the definition from character theory. This answer is closest to the material in Robinson, if I recall correctly. – Jack Schmidt Oct 2 '12 at 21:45
There is a way (in my opinion, quite natural) which leads not only to transfer map, but also to the induced representations.
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Why I wrote historical play 'Afonja' - Playwright, Sakky Jojo
Saka Aliyu PhD, (Sakky Jojo), published his first play Afonja in the year 2018. He had published a Prose earlier (Altine) in 2003 and he is into Poetry as well. We took him up with questions relating to his current work –Afonja- a historical play. First his biography, his goal of writing, the controversy surrounding the dramatic narrative of the play, the canons and the unique approach to them and the attention Afonja received in terms of performance and its use as a pedagogical drama text in tertiary institutions. Enjoy the interview:
UJ: Can we know who the playwright is?
SJ: My name is Saka Aliyu, as I like to be simply referred to. Sakky Jojo is the pen name I have been using since my undergraduate days at Usman Dan Fodiyo University, Sokoto. I grew up in Ilorin where I was born and thereafter in Sokoto. I trained as a historian, with a terminal degree from Leiden University. I worked briefly in Benin, then Kaduna before joining Bayero University in 2008 as a lecturer.
UJ: What is the goal of writing Afonja?
SJ: There were some goals of writing that play. One, it is history of my hometown and which I feel very much connected to. The story is a good recipe for playwriting, particularly the tragedy that it is. Secondly, I felt that being a controversial story, I need to bring out the story in proper perspective. I feel by doing so, I am doing some peace building. For when a story is given in its proper perspective, it will help dissipate controversies for those who care to know the truth. Two, the history of Ilorin with the rest of the Yoruba speaking nation can be controversial because of the contexts in which they occurred and interests and the misunderstanding that comes out of that. Personally I don't like controversies, for in the end it reeks of ignorance and half-truths. But then controversies are part of the gears that moves the world.
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UJ: Your canons of the play in particular, use of 'context' instead of 'Act' is unique, can you share light on this?
SJ: Variety, they say, is the spice of life. I was being innovative stylistically there. I was used to the 'acts' and 'scenes' myself. Then I noticed some playwrights using 'movements' and I was intrigued. I thought what a way not be cliché. So when I started writing Afonja, in the final round, I decided why not use something different and I thought 'context' is most apt. All scenes are contexts. It is just style and my little contribution to the lexicon of drama.
UJ: Some people believe that the Afonja story is controversial, what can you say to that?
SJ: It is indeed and one of the aims of writing the play is to chip at the edges of these controversies through story telling in historical perspectives. As someone whose history and identity is connected to that story, I felt the need to put the story in their proper contexts for clearer understanding. What you read in the media are often 'history in a hurry.' These are often sensationalized. The stories are deeper and more connected and complicated than can be easily grasped on the surface. At the heart of this controversy is Yoruba irredenta that from time to time tugs at the cloak of Ilorin as a politico-cultural entity. For me, as I said earlier, this play is also a peace building effort, hoping it will bring more understanding and less controversy.
UJ: How do you feel as a historian reconstructing history through literature?
SJ: It is a double honour for me. I found myself connected to two things, history and literature, both using story-telling as means of expression and finding expression in each other. While history attempts to reconstruct the past, especially the past of man as far as memory in its various forms can afford, literature tries to reflect the life of man as much as its mirrors can reflect. Unlike history, literature has leeways. It can twist in ways history cannot do. Literature can afford to be magical. Literature can augment history, which is what I have done in the play.
UJ: In your attempt at writing drama, why "historical Play" is it that you feel more comfortable as a historian?
SJ: Apart from the patriotic instinct, it just happened to be the first play that came to my mind. I think I am comfortable with other forms of drama. I have written satires, comedies and adaptations too. Afonja just happened to be my first full length play. I don't know if I will do other historical plays but for now, I think I have made my contribution in this area.
UJ: Afonja has received attention and has been performed in places as far as Ilorin, Ibadan, Gusau, Kano and several other places. Why the popularity?
SJ: I think the play was particularly propitious. It has done well beyond my expectation given that I did very little in terms of publicity. It was first staged in Ibadan by students of God's Blessing Comprehensive High School, Yemetu, whose teacher bought a copy. They were most splendid and ambitious. Unfortunately I could not attend the performance due to my busy schedule. A friend represented me and he was most impressed as well. I feel I owe the school a great deal for the honour done to me. I had sent some copies to Ibadan for sale and it was from those copies that one was bought and used to stage the play.
Then students of the Department of Performing Arts, University of Ilorin, also staged it and it was used in one of their courses. That, I owe to Professor Rasheed Adeoye who happened to be my mentor and technical guide in my first attempt at playwriting. It was studied at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria and Federal College of Education, Zaria and in my own university, Bayero University, Kano, where we now have a growing Theatre and Performing Arts Department as well as in the Department of English and Literary Studies. It is out of print now and I hope to reprint as soon as I can afford to.
My only regret is that it has not been critically engaged as much I would love to see. Perhaps, that is because I have not written the play as a controversy to favor or discredit one side against the other. Humans generally love controversy and one of my aims is to show that the controversies around the subject matter are largely out of context. With all modesty, you will need to be widely read to critically engage with the play. What I brought to bear on the play is the whole of my lived experience. It had taken me 18 years to finally finish the play and get it published and it was fifteen years since I published any work.
UJ: Can we say Afonja is an instance of Art in the service of history?
SJ: Yes, very much so and vice versa!
UJ: Is Afonja as reflected in your book a tragic hero and what manner of tragedy is explored in the play?
SJ: Afonja is indeed a tragic hero, in the Hegelian sense as I have written in the preface.
UJ: You talk of 'poetic license' in the preface to the play Afonja which you noted has been given wings throughout the play can you expatiate that further for the readers to get a clear picture.
SJ: Poetic license is the stuff of literature. It is the opportunity you have to spice up a story, to exaggerate or underplay, twist or even change storyline even for a historical story. It is the embellishments that make any story interesting. It is like the embroidery of literature that adds colour and beauty to the basic elements in the story. Since even for the historical events being reconstructed we do not have the minute details, we use imagination; say to put words, actions and even attires on the characters in believable ways. You will see stories within story, proverbs, and cultural norms in the play. I particularly used parameology (proverbs), made allusions to Yoruba medicinal practice, coded communications, incantatory and initiatic practice, Islamic jurisprudence and the multiculturalism that has been part of the Ilorin milieu since the era in which the play was set. You will see the play spiced up with four languages apart from English in which it is written.
UJ: What was it like writing the play?
SJ: I enjoyed writing the play, though it had taken me longer than it should. But that has its blessings. In the years it was in limbo I had gotten two additional degrees and thus sharpened my intellect and worldview. I started in 2001, then an unemployed graduate. Then I had to get my masters, did some social work, got employed as civil servant, then as an academic and then getting a terminal degree. Finally I decided I just have to break the jinx of not having a work published in almost two decades. That was the push that did it. I thought it a shame being called a writer and not having a major work out in one and half decade. We've got only so much time in this world.
UJ: How do you combine your writing with being an academic?
SJ: When I sent a copy to a friend at Oxford, who is also an academic, she had


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What items do people take with them when they flee their homes to retain a feeling of belonging? And how is pride in one's roots reflected through dress?
Things That Matter is a new exhibition about important things and the importance of things: objects of great personal significance that, at the same time, are closely related to the major social issues of today, such as migration and origin.
What happens to your culture when your country disappears?
The objects in Things That Matter come from all over the world and incorporate stories that are equally meaningful in the Dutch context. An example is a woven basket from the Marshall Islands. In the accompanying video Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner relates in the form of a poem why this object is of such importance to her culture and how this culture is on the verge of disappearing: rising sea levels will result in her island being the first to sink below the surface of the Pacific Ocean. The basket on display threatens to become the last tangible remnant of her culture, prompting visitors to the exhibition to reflect on climate change, sustainability and the significance of cultural heritage.
Behind the scenes
This video shows the French-Tunisian 'calligraffiti' artist eL Seed at work in the museum. He created the murals in the pavilion about the beauty of Arabic writing, which is part of the exhibition Things That Matter.
The Things That Matter exhibition is slated to run for five to seven years and has been realised with the aid of the BankGiro Loterij and in collaboration with Museum Catharijneconvent. Photo: David Vroom.

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We are delighted to report that the story book introduced by CLDF to explain the process of liver transplant to children, has won the Information for Children award at the 2018 Patient Information Awards which are run by the British Medical Association.
Joe's Liver Transplant Story, was written by Saskie Dorman as she sat by the bedside of her five year old son Joe, while he recovered from his liver transplant in 2016.
When Saskie, who is a doctor, was preparing Joe for his transplant, she realised that there were no books specifically to explain the process to children, so decided to write a story based on her own family's experience. She told our families officer about it during a visit to the ward and we were determined to make her story happen. We are proud to have done so and very grateful to the nurses, play therapists, surgeons, doctors and psychologists, as well as other parents of children with liver disease who provided input to ensure its accuracy.
The book was finally launched in January this year and is now being used as part of the paeidatric transplant preparation process at Birmingham, Leeds and Kings. Yesterday (September 25) a team from CLDF attended the annual Patient Information Awards in London, an annual event run by the British Medical Association (BMA) to encourage the production of accessible, well-designed and clinically balanced patient information, where Joe's Liver Transplant Story was announced as the winner in the Information for Children Cateogry.
Judges described the book as "…..a unique resource. It is vitally important in explaining a life-changing massive operation to young children" and added "it deals with a sensitive topic in a way that is highly accessible to its target audience."
Alison Taylor, Chief Executive of Children's Liver Disease Foundation commented: "A key area of our work is providing information on these very rare conditions to families who are affected. We know that the hospitals who use 'Joe's Liver Transplant Story' find it extremely y useful and now to win such a prestigious award is a great accolade and a real endorsement of the quality of the information we provide."
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Babka wielkanocna with chocolate coating
Babka or Bobka, also known as Baba, is the name of a sweet yeast cake from Central / Eastern Europe.
In Polish, Babka means "grandmother" but also " Napfkuchen ". The bowl cake, which is traditionally eaten at Easter breakfast on Easter Sunday, is traditionally referred to as baba or baba wielkanocna. Many in Poland still say Babka wielkanocna. One possible explanation for this is that Baba means "grandmother" in Russian, Belarusian and Ukrainian, and that is why the term became established throughout Poland. The association with grandmother is probably due to the shape of the pastry, that of a high cylinder with waves on the sides, so that the pastry resembles "grandmother's pleated skirt ".
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Babka is a soft, briochelike yeast cake that is traditionally eaten in Poland, Bulgaria, Macedonia and Albania at Easter breakfast on Easter Sunday (in Romania also on Christmas, New Year and Pentecost). The Easter cake traditionally does not contain a filling, but is covered with a vanilla / chocolate or icing or decorated with almonds. Sometimes raisins are mixed into the batter.
Jewish version
Chocolate babka with sprinkles
Another version of the babka goes back to the tradition of the Jews in Eastern Europe. It became very popular after 1945 in North American cities with high Jewish populations, e.g. B. Montreal, New York, Chicago, Miami and Toronto. This babka is made from two intertwined yeast plaits and is traditionally baked in a tall loaf pan. The cake is usually filled with cinnamon or chocolate. It is usually decorated with sprinkles on top. The comparable cake kokosh is also very popular in Jewish bakeries.
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Tiny 3D Glasses Prove Too-Hip Praying Mantises Have 3D Vision
Researchers attached little 3D glasses to the bugs' eyes with beeswax and tempted them with 3D prey on a screen.
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Researchers from the University of Newcastle have demonstrated that praying mantises see the world in 3D. To prove it, they made tiny 3D glasses that they affixed to the mantises' eyes using beeswax. Their findings were published today in Scientific Reports.
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After receiving their glasses, the mantises were put into a little "insect cinema" where they were positioned out of reach of a computer screen. Researchers then played images of bugs moving around on the screen to see if the carnivorous insects would strike out. The mantises would strike at the prey only if the researches changed the image to 3D, similar to how we might reach out toward something in a 3D movie. This proved that the insects do use stereopsis, or depth perception, to navigate the world and hunt.
The 3D vision of praying mantises was first demonstrated in the 1980s by Samuel Rossel, who used prisms to confuse mantises into striking too shallow or to the side of their targets. His experiment left some doubt, however, because he didn't directly compare the mantises' reactions to 2D and 3D images.
At first, the researchers from Newcastle used the modern type of 3D glasses—the ones with clear lenses rather than the red and blue of 1950s movie theaters—which filter out certain types of circularly polarized light from each eye to create two distinct images. But the mantises would not strike out at the 3D bugs on the screen. The researchers soon discovered that the insects were too close to the screen for the modern style of glasses to work properly, so they switched to the older kind. In this case, green lenses were used instead of red because praying mantises have trouble seeing red light.
It worked! With the glasses on, the mantises would go for bugs they were shown in 3D. The research team hopes to use this information to learn more about how sight has evolved in different species, and even to create algorithms that would allow robots to see in 3D. For now, we just can't get enough of these bespectacled praying mantis photos.
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Types of Projects
How do projects differ?
A useful way of defining differences between projects is according to differences in:
Risk to the University
Project Budget ($)
The relationship between the three aspects is not always simple. Low $ projects can still be complex and might involve significant risks to the University.
For example, a requirement to conform to a particular safety standard might involve a low $ project budget but the consequence of the project failing might result in high risks to the University.
Risks can be defined in both quantitative ($) and qualitative terms.
Loss of prestige or environmental damage are risks that are difficult to define in $ terms.
High $ projects can sometimes be less complex than low $ projects.
For example a large building complex might involve a high budget with high risks attached but because the building industry has well-established project management methods the level of complexity might be lower than for an organisational change project which has a much lower $ project budget.
One way of assessing the potential complexity of a project has been suggested by Turner and Cochrane who have developed a 'Goals and Methods Matrix'.
Goals and Methods Matrix
From this Matrix we can assess if the project is Well Defined. Projects can also be defined as "fuzzy projects", that is projects that have unclear goals, where some time is needed in defining the project. Both types of projects can be viewed in the following pages. Well Defined Projects and Fuzzy Projects.
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I'm having a hard time getting my head around the maths to locate a target in 3D given a number of known points (4 or more) and a value that indicates the signal strength (range 0–100).
I've looked at the simpler answer in the 2D case but I'm unsure how to generalise the idea of normalising the signal strengths for the 3D case. It might even be that this answer is too simple for my requirements. I know that in my case the signal strength is proportional to distance-2 but do not know the propagation constant.
I've also seen this question, but it's not quite what I'm after as I want to use the signal strengths from a larger number of nodes to improve the estimate.
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Sorry, no answer, but I think if you're trying to improve the estimate (in the overdetermined case), you're going to have to include some form of per-measurement error. Good luck with it. – BradHards Aug 4 '12 at 22:47
You could try to post the same question in math.stackexchange.com. – Chau Aug 5 '12 at 9:44
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The solution here was a simple one. I have a number of signal values, S, which are proportional to the distance d:
S = k / f (d)">
The function f is known, and the constant k cancels out in the interpolation, so all that's needed is to apply the inverse of the function to each of the magnitudes before normalisation.
In my case, it means I simply calculate the square root of the signal strengths.
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Railroads made great strides during the early part of the 20th Century in adding automatic block signal systems to their lines to improve safety. The Southern Pacific was one of the leaders in installing automatic block signals. The first automatic block signals on the West Coast were installed on the SP in 1904 between Oakland and Port Costa. SP only had automatic block signals on 3% of its main lines in 1902 (102 miles). By 1912 it had 75%, over 3,000 miles. In 1907 the US railroads installed automatic block signals on 2,005 miles of single track and 1,424 miles of two or more main tracks. The top company was the SP which installed automatic block signals on 991 miles of single track and 87 miles of double track that year. Second on the list was the UP with 431 miles of single track and 191 miles of double track. Subsidiary lines OSL installed 301 miles of automatic block signals and OR&N with 118 miles. Between 1905 and 1914 the US railroads had been installing an average of 2,448 miles of automatic block signals per year. This dropped to 1,748 miles per year during the 1915 to 1918 period.
This is a list of the number of miles (single or double track) protected by automatic block signals and the type of signals used on some of the major railroads in the West as of January 1, 1931. Total is the total mileage for the railroad: mainlines and branches.
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Available inall subroutines.
The IP address of the client making the HTTP request. May be an IPv4 or IPv6 address.
When a request is first handled by a Fastly data center, client.ip represents the IP of the end user. In configurations that use shielding, however, the value of client.ip when the request is processed by the shield data center will be the IP of the edge data center.
Fastly automatically sets a Fastly-Client-IP header as a copy of the initial value of client.ip, and this is therefore one means of accessing the original client IP upstream of the edge data center. However, this header is not protected and can be spoofed as part of the client's initial request.
To prevent spoofing of the value of Fastly-Client-IP, set it explicitly in VCL:
if (fastly.ff.visits_this_service == 0 && req.restarts == 0) {
set req.http.Fastly-Client-IP = client.ip;
}
A common use of client.ip is to enforce access control against an access control list.
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client.ip is used in the following code examples. Examples apply VCL to real-world use cases and can be deployed as they are, or adapted for your own service. See the full list of code examples for more inspiration.
Click RUN on a sample below to provision a Fastly service, execute the code on Fastly, and see how the function behaves.
Client public IP API at the edge
Quickly fetch the user's public IP from an API endpoint on your own domain, with no origin.
Custom conditions for triggering WAF
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Is there some form of a lock that I could use?
Maybe something using doors and watersource...
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possible duplicate of How do you create a waterfall elevator? – badp Dec 15 '10 at 17:11
I don't think this qualifies as a duplicate question. The answer is the same, yes, but that closing it for that reason is like closing "what is 2 + 2?" as a duplicate of "What is 1 + 3?". – Raven Dreamer Dec 15 '10 at 18:02
If you don't mind modding, the finite liquid mod might allow you to construct a real water lock with pistons (or doors?) – Zommuter Aug 24 '13 at 7:15
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Okay so the key mechanic that broke the traditional waterfall elevator was that boats no longer travel upward in a waterfall. However, boats will move rapidly upward in source blocks.
So what is a source block? A source block (also known as "still water") is water that is created during map creation or placed with a bucket. Water that "flows" from this block is informally known as moving water. So in order to create a modern boat elevator, we need to create a shaft of only source blocks.
Here is my construction.
1: I created a canal with a glass wall and an "entranceway" fitted with signs. These signs prevent water from flowing past them but still allow boats through.
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2: I build up a second layer of glass walls around my new shaft. Then I flood this layer with water. Note that I have to fill each of the four blocks in this layer of the shaft with water from the bucket - these are now all source blocks. Notice how none of them are moving. If the water is moving, you need to add more hits from your bucket.
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3: I keep adding glass layers and each time I do, I add a layer of source water.
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4: Here I've added a spillway at the top where the boat can float after it has risen up the shaft.
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There is much win in this post. – Kenneth Posey Feb 1 '12 at 1:18
This applies to versions before Beta 1.6.4
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Water won't pass through doors, open or closed. So your lock system would end up being more of a dam. – ElfSlice May 4 '11 at 0:27
_USER_ - "water cannot pass through doors". How does that disagree with your comment? – Raven Dreamer May 4 '11 at 0:36
_USER_ > I'm just not sure how you were planning to rig up a lock system using doors. :P – ElfSlice May 4 '11 at 1:13
_USER_ - you can easily get your boat's momentum high enough that you can travel through the air block without stopping. Same idea where you can put a switch (or other non-minecart track block) in the path of your minecart and still have it complete its circuit. – Raven Dreamer May 4 '11 at 2:28
_USER_ - honestly, I was only speaking from a "getting out" perspective. I haven't tried re-docking, as it were. – Raven Dreamer May 4 '11 at 4:39
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Colorado is home to over 500 species of birds and a lot of outstanding bird habitats, but have you ever seen this bird?
Owls of Colorado
Among all of the birds in Colorado, there are no less than 13 different species of owls including the popular great horned owl, the short-eared owl, the eastern screech owl, and the snowy owl - like the ones you see in the movie Dumb and Dumber.
One of the lesser-known Colorado owls is the burrowing owl which can be found throughout Colorado in various suitable habitats. These are small, long-legged, short-tailed, long-winged birds that stand 7 to 10 inches in height.
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What is unusual about the burrowing owl is the fact that is that it doesn't live in trees, but usually in dry, open areas with short grasses and no trees. These birds can fly, but they actually nest in underground burrows created by prairie dogs, squirrels, or badgers. That means you might see burrowing squirrels on golf courses, cemeteries, airports, vacant lots, and pastures.
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MultiKeyDictionary is a C# class that wraps and extends the Generic Dictionary object provided by Microsoft in .NET 2.0 and above. This allows a developer to create a generic dictionary of values and reference the value list through two keys instead of just the one provided by the Microsoft implementation of the Generic Dictionary<T,K>.
Background
While writing a massive socket management application, I needed the ability to keep a list of sockets that I could identify by either their remote endpoint (IPEndPoint), or by a string that represented the internal ID of the socket. Thus was born the MultiKeyDictionary class.
Using the Code
Using the MultiKeyDictionary class is simple- instantiate the class, specifying the primary key, sub key, and value types in the generic constructor, then start adding your values and keys.
For this example, let's say I wanted to create a dictionary which stores the string representation of a number, i.e., 'Zero', 'One', 'Two', etc. Now, I want to access that list of items via an integer representation and a binary (in string format) representation.
// Instantiate class with a primary key (int),
// sub key (string) and value (string)
MultiKeyDictionary<int, string, string> dictionary =
 new MultiKeyDictionary<int, string, string>();
Now you can add some values to the dictionary and associate the sub keys with the primary key.
// Adding 'Zero' to dictionary with primary int key of '0'
dictionary.Add(0, "Zero");
// Associating binary sub key of '0000' with primary int key of '0'
dictionary.Associate("0000", 0);
// Adding 'Two' to dictionary with primary int key of '2' and a binary sub key of '0010'
dictionary.Add(2, "0010", "Two");
Now you can easily pull values out of the MultiKeyDictionary in the same manner that you would a regular Dictionary:
string val = dictionary["0000"]; // val is set to 'Zero'
val = dictionary[2]; // val is set to 'Two'
Inside the MultiKeyDictionary
As stated earlier, the MultiKeyDictionary class is mainly a wrapper for a standard Generic Dictionary<TKey, TValue>. Internally, I keep a Dictionary<K,V> class (baseDictionary) that stores the primary key and value, as well as a Dictionary<L,K> class (subDictionary) that is created to store the sub-key to primary-key relationship.
/// <summary>
/// Multi-Key Dictionary Class
/// </summary>
/// <typeparam name="K">Primary Key Type</typeparam>
/// <typeparam name="L">Sub Key Type</typeparam>
/// <typeparam name="V">Value Type</typeparam>
public class MultiKeyDictionary<K, L, V>
{
 internal readonly Dictionary<K, V> baseDictionary = new Dictionary<K, V>();
 internal readonly Dictionary<L, K> subDictionary = new Dictionary<L, K>();
 internal readonly Dictionary<K, L> primaryToSubkeyMapping = new Dictionary<K, L>();
 ...
 ...
Notice above that I am also creating a dictionary that has the mappings for the sub and primary keys reversed, so I can quickly look up a sub key via a primary key. This is here so that when we remove items from the main dictionary, we can also remove the sub key mapping based on its hashed value as opposed to doing a costly for loop through the sub keys looking for the one with the corresponding primary key.
The following function shows how I associate a sub key with a key/value pair that has already been added to the underlying dictionary. While there is quite a bit of locking going on here, using the ReaderWriterLockSlim, it is essential that we maintain correctness when storing or reading data in this dictionary. On another note, you can associate a sub key with a primary key either by calling the three parameter Add function, or by calling the standard two parameter Add function and then calling Associate afterwards.
// Associate a subkey with a primary key after the primary key
// and value pair have been added to the underlying dictionary
public void Associate(L subKey, K primaryKey)
{
 readerWriterLock.EnterUpgradeableReadLock();
 try
 {
 if (!baseDictionary.ContainsKey(primaryKey))
 throw new KeyNotFoundException(string.Format(
 "The base dictionary does not contain the key '{0}'", primaryKey));
 if (primaryToSubkeyMapping.ContainsKey(primaryKey))
 // Remove the old mapping first
 {
 readerWriterLock.EnterWriteLock();
 try
 {
 if (subDictionary.ContainsKey(primaryToSubkeyMapping[primaryKey]))
 {
 subDictionary.Remove(primaryToSubkeyMapping[primaryKey]);
 }
 primaryToSubkeyMapping.Remove(primaryKey);
 }
 finally
 {
 readerWriterLock.ExitWriteLock();
 }
 }
 subDictionary[subKey] = primaryKey;
 primaryToSubkeyMapping[primaryKey] = subKey;
 }
 finally
 {
 readerWriterLock.ExitUpgradeableReadLock();
 }
}
// Add a primary key and value pair and associate the given sub key
public void Add(K primaryKey, L subKey, V val)
{
 Add(primaryKey, val);
 Associate(subKey, primaryKey);
}
Upon removing an item from the MultiKeyDictionary, the class looks up the sub key in primaryToSubkeyMapping and removes it from subDictionary, then removes the mapping itself from primaryToSubkeyMapping. After that, the baseDictionary entry containing the primary key and value pair is removed.
public void Remove(K primaryKey)
{
 readerWriterLock.EnterWriteLock();
 try
 {
 if (primaryToSubkeyMapping.ContainsKey(primaryKey))
 {
 if (subDictionary.ContainsKey(primaryToSubkeyMapping[primaryKey]))
 {
 subDictionary.Remove(primaryToSubkeyMapping[primaryKey]);
 }
 primaryToSubkeyMapping.Remove(primaryKey);
 }
 baseDictionary.Remove(primaryKey);
 }
 finally
 {
 readerWriterLock.ExitWriteLock();
 }
}
public void Remove(L subKey)
{
 readerWriterLock.EnterWriteLock();
 try
 {
 baseDictionary.Remove(subDictionary[subKey]);
 primaryToSubkeyMapping.Remove(subDictionary[subKey]);
 subDictionary.Remove(subKey);
 }
 finally
 {
 readerWriterLock.ExitWriteLock();
 }
}
The above examples and more are contained in the code download.
Locking Strategy
The locking strategy that I am using is fairly basic. After experiencing some problems with locking on a base-dictionary object and a sub-dictionary object, and trying to maintain those relationships correctly so that I don't have any locking issues, I've simplified the way I am locking in order to maintain correctness inside the dictionary, with only a slight performance hit.
I am now using a ReaderWriterLockSlim for all synchronization. Using the built-in read/upgradable read/write locks is simpler, as far as allowing the dictionary and all of its sub-dictionaries to be treated, and locked, like a single object. Also, since the majority of the functions that are being called (from my application, anyway) are reads, the performance is much better than if I were to lock on an object or two, since that would preclude more than one thread entering a read operation at one time.
See Microsoft's documentation on the ReaderWriterLockSlim here: _URL_
Wrap Up
So, that's pretty much it. There are other functions available that allow you to clone the two key tables, as well as the values, somewhat like what the Generic Dictionary offers you.
MultiKeyGenericDictionarySpike.zip contains both the source code and a sample console application that should enlighten any user on the usage of MultiKeyDictionary. MultiKeyDictionary.cs.zip contains just the source code for MultiKeyDictionary.
Points of Interest
Since the application that I am using this MultiKeyDictionary in is massively multithreaded, the execution of all of the various functions are designed to be thread safe. However, since I am not omnipotent, I wouldn't be surprised if I missed something. Comments and constructive criticism are highly encouraged.
History
 - Revision 1 - Initial upload (Jan. 27, 2009) - There is a known bug in this revision, which I am not going to fix (long story- but basically, it would adversely affect my main application). This bug is that you cannot


How to execute multiple commands through a text file with a Domino server
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Is it possible to execute scripts or a list of commands through a text file on a Domino server?
You can create a text file that lists the commands you would like to execute on the Domino server. The commands which you can include can be anything that can be typed at the server's console. To load the script you must use the < command (less-than symbol), followed by a blank space, and then the name of the text file you created. For example, if you need to execute these commands:
you can create a file called F:\MYFILE.TXT, and within this text file, enter the commands that are to be executed. After you save the.TXT file, enter the following at the Domino server console:
If there is more than one command in the.TXT file, they will be executed in the order in which they appear in the.TXT file.
All commands in the.TXT file could be encapsulated with
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In this post we saw how to setup cloud-init in a LXD profile in order to setup two network interfaces in a LXD container. You can read the cloud-init documentation in order to find what is possible to perform for the network configuration of LXD containers.
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Continue reading]]> LXD supports proxy devices, which is a way to proxy connections between the host and containers. This includes TCP, UDP and Unix socket connections, in any combination between each other, in any direction. For example, when someone connects to your host on port 80 (http), then this connection can be proxied to a container using a proxy device. In that way, you can isolate your Web server into a LXD container. By using a TCP proxy device, you do not need to use iptables instead.
There are 3³=9 combinations for connections between TCP, UDP and Unix sockets, as follows. Yes, you can proxy, for example, a TCP connection to a Unix socket!
 1. TCP to TCP, for example, to expose a container's service to the Internet.
 2. TCP to UDP
 3. TCP to Unix socket
 4. UDP to UDP
 5. UDP to TCP
 6. UDP to Unix socket
 7. Unix socket to Unix socket, for example, to share the host's X11 socket to a container. Or, to make available a host's Unix socket into the container.
 8. Unix socket to TCP
 9. Unix socket to UDP
Earlier I wrote that you can make a connection in any direction. For example, you can expose the host's Unix socket for X11 into the container so that the container can run X11 applications and have them appear on the host's X11 server. Or, in the other way round, you can make available LXD's Unix socket at the host to a container so that you can manage LXD from inside a container.
Note that LXD 3.0.x only supports TCP to TCP proxy devices. Support for UDP and Unix sockets was added in later versions.
Launching a container and setting up a Web server
Let's launch a container, install a Web server, and, then expose the Web server to the local network (or the Internet, if you are using a VPS/Internet server).
First, launch the container.
$ lxc launch ubuntu:18.04 mycontainer
Creating mycontainer
Starting mycontainer
We get a shell into the container, update the package list and install nginx. Finally, verify that nginx is running.
ubuntu@mycontainer:~$ sudo apt update
ubuntu@mycontainer:~$ sudo apt install -y nginx
ubuntu@mycontainer:~$ curl http://localhost
...
 Welcome to nginx!
Exposing the Web server of a container to the Internet
We logout to the host and verify that there is no Web server already running on port 80. If port 80 is not available on your host, change it to something else, like 8000. Finally, we create the TCP to TCP LXD Proxy Device.
ubuntu@mycontainer:~$ logout
$ lxc config device add mycontainer myport80 proxy listen=tcp:0.0.0.0:80 connect=tcp:127.0.0.1:80
Device myport80 added to mycontainer
The command that creates the proxy device is made of the following components.
 1. lxc config device add, we configure to have a device added,
 2. mycontainer, to the container mycontainer,
 3. myport80, with name myport80,
 4. proxy, a proxy device, we are adding a LXD Proxy Device.
 5. listen=tcp:0.0.0.0:80, we listen (on the host by default) on all network interfaces on TCP port 80.
 6. connect=tcp:127.0.0.1:80, we connect (to the container by default) to the existing TCP port 80 on localhost, which is our nginx.
Note that previously you would specify hostnames when you were creating LXD Proxy Devices. This is no longer supported (has security implications), therefore you get an error if you specify a hostname such as localhost. This post was primarily written because the top Google result on proxy devices is an old Reddit read-only post that suggests to use localhost.
Let's test that the Web server in the container is accessible on the host. We can use both localhost (or 127.0.0.1) on the host to access the website of the container. We can also use the public IP address of the host (in this case, the LAN IP address) to access the container.
$ curl http://localhost
...
 Welcome to nginx!
...
$ curl http://192.168.1.100
...
 Welcome to nginx!
...
Other features of the proxy devices
By default, a proxy device exposes an existing service in the container to the host. If we need to expose an existing service on the host to a container, we would add the parameter bind=container to the proxy device command.
You can expose a single webserver to a port on the host. But how do you expose many web servers in containers to the host? You can use a reverse proxy that goes in front of the containers. To retain the remote IP address of the clients visiting the Web servers, you can add the proxy_protocol=true to enable support for the PROXY protocol. Note that you also need to enable the PROXY protocol on the reverse proxy.
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Question: What Is The Rajput Caste?
Is Bisht a Rajput?
Bisht/Bist is a title used in communities living primarily in the Central Himalayas, Indian state of Uttarakhand.
Bishts are on most occasions Jajmaans/Rajput and sometimes Brahmins.
It was a title generally given to the chief of army or a war-lord..
Who is most powerful caste in India?
4 Major Caste Groups in India: According to VarnaBrahmans: Brahmans are at the top in Varna hierarchy. … Kshatriyas: Next to Brahmans are the Kshatriyas in varna ranking. … Vaishyas: Vaishyas rank below Kshatriyas, but fall within the ambit of ritually high Varna. … Shudras: ADVERTISEMENTS:
Is Chauhan a Rajput?
Chauhan, Chouhan, Chohan, or Chohhan, is a surname of the Rajput caste from north India.
Are Rajputs scheduled caste?
Any estimates of those claiming Rajput lineage or caste are necessarily inexact. The Indian census has not recorded caste affiliation since 1931 (except in the case of Backward or Scheduled Castes).
Is Solanki a Rajput?
Solanki is a clan name commonly associated with the Jats and Rajputs in India but which has also been borrowed by other communities such as the Saharias as a means of advancement by the process of sanskritisation.
Did Rajputs eat meat?
So what do the Rajputs eat now that their menu has been depleted by more than half? They were always meat eaters, since hunting provided them with entertainment and social status besides good food. Fish and seafood does not figure in their cuisine due to geographical location and topography.
Where is Rajput?
Is Rajput a powerful caste?
We have always seen Rajputs as zamindars, the powerful caste in Rajasthan. … But as the population increased, the land of the Rajputs got divided among families. Their land size has shrunk. Rajputs are no longer the big zamindars as they once used to be.
Is Rana a low caste?
Indian (Gujarat, Bombay city, and Rajasthan): Hindu and Parsi name meaning 'king' in modern Indian languages. … The name Rana was used as a title by some Rajput kings. As a surname, it is now found among Rajputs as well as several other communities.
Is Rajput a low caste?
The Rajputs, in states such as Madhya Pradesh are today considered to be a Forward Caste in India's system of positive discrimination. … But they are classified as an Other Backward Class by the National Commission for Backward Classes in the state of Karnataka.
What is the category of Rajput?
English: A Rajput (from Sanskrit raja-putra, "son of a king") is a large multi-component cluster of castes, kin bodies, and local groups, sharing social status and ideology of genealogical descent originating from the Indian subcontinent.
How many caste are there in Rajput?
There are thirty-six rajput clans. The following are further subdivided:Bargujar (Raghav), Bais, Guhila (Gehlot), Parmar,Naru, Chauhan, Nirwan, Paramara or Panwar,Solanki, Rathore,Tomar/ Tanwar, Kachwaha. The various subdivisions of these clans are detailed below.
Is Rajput higher than Jatt?
There is no comparison. Jats are a race and Rajput is a caste. … In exchange Brahmins gave Rajput status of being a high caste but made Rajputs lose all connections to their Jatt heritage. Rajput genes are hence most mixed with other Hindus and not same as the genes found in Hindu Jaats, Sikh Jatts or Muslim Jatts.
Is Thakur a Rajput?
Das noted that while the word thakur means "god", it is also used to refer to the father–in–law of a woman. It is also used for a Brahmin, Jat, and Rajput. … Sons of thakurs were given the Sanskrit title of Kumara ('prince'), popular usage being Kunwar in the North and Kumar in Bengal and South India.


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Linear shallow-water wave theory applied to step topography
A planar monochromatic wave, hI incident on a ridge, produces a transmitted wave, hT and a reflected wave, hR
The dispersion relation is w / k = c where c = square root(gh) for normal incidence
The transmissivity is defined as the ratio of amplitudes T = | AT | / | AI |
Effects of Cross-Ridge Phase q = kL
Minimum transmission (Tmin) occurs when q = 90°, 270°, 450°,...
100% transmission occurs when the cross-ridge phase shift q = kL is exactly q = 180°, 360°,...
Effects of Ridge Depth on Transmissivity
The actual transmissivity is close to Tmin when q < 90°, i.e. for ridges that are narrower than a quarter wavelength as computed from the ridge-top depth h
At higher frequencies w, rapid fluctuations occur between and T=Tmin << 100% as w varies (T~100% when e << 1 is a highly idealized result)
Smoothing Smith/Sandwell Topography
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The poet effectively portrays the theme of celebration by using the repetition of simile in the first stanza. The speaker comparing her 'heart is like a singing birdÃ¢ÂÂ¦.an apple treeÃ¢ÂÂ¦a rainbow shell' illustrates that she is in love, pleased and happy. In addition, a 'singing bird' is a metaphor for transformation of seasons from winter to spring, which could also indicate Christian.
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Work Package 2
Dissemination and communication
The objective of the dissemination and communication work package is to raise the awareness about the outcomes of the project and the developments that have been achieved within the Science for Prevention Academic Network. Within this work package, all key stakeholders such as public administrations, academics, relevant enterprises and research institutions, scientific and industrial experts are involved, in order to foster the impact of the project activities and results. This work package shall ensure that the project objectives, activities and methodologies developed within the project are widely promoted to the target groups defined by the dissemination and communication plan on European level and beyond.
Description of work and role of partners
Task 2.1 Development of Dissemination Plan
This task is devoted to development of effective dissemination and communication strategy and coordination of the dissemination activities within the project consortium partners. The aim of this task is to identify and structure the activities leading to the promotion of the project's activities and results. The plan shall define the target groups, key messages, media channels and responsibilities. Measurable criteria of the dissemination efforts shall be selected in order to effectively evaluate each dissemination activity. The dissemination plan shall define principles to be followed by all dissemination activities in order to avoid confusion and misconceptions and to foster the quality of project communication.
Task 2.2 Realization of Dissemination Plan
This task shall be devoted to development of the project logo, promotional material, press releases, articles, leaflets, newsletters, videos, etc. Prevention Science awareness raising activities shall be linked to activities of the European Society for Prevention Research Conference (EUSPR), the European Public Health Association (EUPHA), European Institute of Studies on Prevention (IREFREA), European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA), the active participation in top prevention related conferences, trade fairs and brokerage events (e.g. FP7 Proposers' Day). All dissemination activities shall be monitored and recorded during the project execution.
Task 2.3 Final Conference
Final project conference held in Brussels shall be organized informing about the project results, impact and future activities. The target audience shall include prevention relevant enterprises and research institutions, policy and decision makers, clusters, scientific and industrial experts across Europe.


Pebble motion problems
The pebble motion problems, or pebble motion on graphs, are a set of related problems in graph theory dealing with the movement of multiple objects ("pebbles") from vertex to vertex in a graph with a constraint on the number of pebbles that can occupy a vertex at any time. Pebble motion problems occur in domains such as multi-robot motion planning (in which the pebbles are robots) and network routing (in which the pebbles are packets of data). The best-known example of a pebble motion problem is the famous 15 puzzle where a disordered group of fifteen tiles must be rearranged within a 4x4 grid by sliding one tile at a time.
Theoretical formulation
The general form of the pebble motion problem is Pebble Motion on Graphs[1] formulated as follows:
Let be a graph with vertices. Let be a set of pebbles with . An arrangement of pebbles is a mapping such that for . A move consists of transferring pebble from vertex to adjacent unoccupied vertex . The Pebble Motion on Graphs problem is to decide, given two arrangements and , whether there is a sequence of moves that transforms into .
Variations
Common variations on the problem limit the structure of the graph to be:
Another set of variations consider the case in which some[5] or all[3] of the pebbles are unlabeled and interchangeable.
Other versions of the problem seek not only to prove reachability but to find a (potentially optimal) sequence of moves (i.e. a plan) which performs the transformation.
Complexity
Finding the shortest path in the pebble motion on graphs problem (with labeled pebbles) is known to be NP-hard[6] and APX-hard.[3] The unlabeled problem can be solved in polynomial time when using the cost metric mentioned above (minimizing the total number of moves to adjacent vertices), but is NP-hard for other natural cost metrics.[3]
References
 1. Kornhauser, Daniel; Miller, Gary; Spirakis, Paul (1984), "Coordinating pebble motion on graphs, the diameter of permutation groups, and applications", Proceedings of the 25th Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS 1984), IEEE Computer Society Press, pp. 241–250, CiteSeerX 10.1.1.17.3556, doi:10.1109/sfcs.1984.715921, ISBN 978-0-8186-0591-8
 2. Auletta, V.; Monti, A.; Parente, M.; Persiano, P. (1999), "A linear-time algorithm for the feasibility of pebble motion on trees", Algorithmica, 23 (3): 223–245, doi:10.1007/PL00009259, MR _PHONE_
 3. Călinescu, Gruia; Dumitrescu, Adrian; Pach, János (2008), "Reconfigurations in graphs and grids", SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics, 22 (1): 124–138, CiteSeerX 10.1.1.75.1525, doi:10.1137/060652063, MR _PHONE_
 4. Surynek, Pavel (2009), "A novel approach to path planning for multiple robots in bi-connected graphs", Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2009), IEEE, pp. 3613–3619, doi:10.1109/robot.2009._PHONE_, ISBN 978-1-4244-2788-8
 5. Papadimitriou, Christos H.; Raghavan, Prabhakar; Sudan, Madhu; Tamaki, Hisao (1994), "Motion planning on a graph", Proceedings of the 35th Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS 1994), IEEE Computer Society Press, pp. 511–520, doi:10.1109/sfcs.1994.365740, ISBN 978-0-8186-6580-6
 6. Ratner, Daniel; Warmuth, Manfred (1990), "The -puzzle and related relocation problems", Journal of Symbolic Computation, 10 (2): 111–137, doi:10.1016/S0747-7171(08)80001-6, MR _PHONE_
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Looking for an outdoor adventure to engage Pre-K-12 explorers this school year?
STEM Challenges will give your group the chance to explore and discover the Fort Worth Botanic Garden while providing hands-on Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) activities related to a variety of garden spaces. Field trip groups will also receive materials to complete an Engineering Design Challenge, where students will apply their field trip observations and findings to complete an engineering project back in the classroom or at home!
This program is at capacity through July 2023. Self-Guided Field Trips are still available, or we would love to see you in the Fall!
Tuesday – Friday 10:00 am – 12:00 pm or 11:00 am – 1:00 pm
$7 /student $5 /adult
Minimum fee of $140 for groups of 20 participants or fewer
Discounted rates are available for Title One schools. Details available upon submission of a completed date request form, linked below.
Each experience includes:
Spring 2023 is now at capacity, but these STEM Challenges will return in Fall.
-Pre-K – 2nd: Sensational Seeds – Discover the processes and cycles of plants and weather through hands-on STEM activities such as seed dissection and a meteorology station. Then apply your findings to the Engineering Design Challenge back in the classroom!
-3rd – 5th: Ecoregion Exploration – Discover Texas as you explore a variety of ecoregions and habitats including forests, deserts, and prairies in the Fort Worth Botanic Garden! Learners will investigate natural resources and gain a greater understanding of energy conservation and habitat preservation. Then apply your findings to the Engineering Design Challenge back in the classroom!
-Middle/ High School: Sustainable Systems – Discover how our water and soil systems work together! Investigate the Garden to gain a greater understanding of conserving natural resources through sustainability practices. Then, apply your findings to the Engineering Design Challenge and create your very own sustainable landscape back in your classroom!
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Homeless people who do not get enough to eat use hospitals and emergency rooms at very high rates, according to a new study. One in four respondents to a nationwide survey reported not getting enough to eat, a proportion six times higher than in the general population, and more than two thirds of those had recently gone without eating for a whole day. The report will appear in the Journal of General Internal Medicine and has been released online.
"The study is the first to highlight the association between food insufficiency and health care use in a national sample of homeless adults," says lead author Travis P. Baggett, MD, MPH, of the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) General Medicine Division. "Our results suggest a need to better understand and address the social determinants of health and health-care-seeking behavior,"
Baggett and a team of investigators at MGH and the Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program analyzed survey data from 966 adult respondents to the 2003 nationwide Health Care for the Homeless User Survey. They found that homeless people who did not have enough to eat had a higher risk of being hospitalized in a medical or psychiatric unit than did those with enough to eat and also were more likely to be frequent users of emergency rooms. Neither relationship could be explained by individual differences in illness. Nearly half of the hungry homeless had been hospitalized in the preceding year and close to one-third had used an emergency room four or more times in the same year.
Baggett explains the study was sparked by his clinical experience caring for homeless individuals. "Homeless patients with inadequate food may have difficulty managing their health conditions or taking their medications. They may postpone routine health care until the need is urgent and may even use emergency rooms as a source of food. Whether expanding food services for the very poor would ameliorate this problem is uncertain, but it begs further study." Baggett is an instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School.
The senior author of the JGIM study is Nancy Rigotti, MD, MGH General Medicine. Additional co-authors are James O'Connell, MD, and Monica Bharel, MD, MGH and Boston Health Care for the Homeless; Daniel Singer, MD, MGH General Medicine, and Sowmya Rao, PhD, MGH Biostatistics. The study was supported by a grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration of the Department of Health and Human Services.
Celebrating the 200th anniversary of its founding in 1811, Massachusetts General Hospital is the original and largest teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School. The MGH conducts the largest hospital-based research program in the United States, with an annual research budget of nearly $700 million and major research centers in AIDS, cardiovascular research, cancer, computational and integrative biology, cutaneous biology, human genetics, medical imaging, neurodegenerative disorders, regenerative medicine, systems biology, transplantation biology and photomedicine.
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text: The Sedimentation Pollution Control Act of 1973 (SPCA) is a North Carolina law regulating activities that disturb natural ground cover. It authorizes local governments to enact ordinances regulating construction activity to prevent erosion and pollution by sediment and allows parties injured by activity in violation of the law to recover damages. In Applewood Properties, LLC, et al. v. New South Properties, LLC, et al., decided March 20, 2012, the North Carolina Court of Appeals reviewed an order by the trial court granting summary judgment to defendants and dismissing SPCA claims filed against the defendants. The court found that while the defendants may have engaged in soil disturbing activities, there was no sediment deposited into water as a result of those activities.


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Pimafix is a commercial antifungal and antibacterial product made by Aquarium Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (API)
The company claims "Treats fungal infections and both internal and external bacterial infections. Will not adversely affect the biological filter, alter the pH, or discolor water. Safe for reef aquariums and live plants. For use in fresh or salt water. PimaFix has been formulated to work in combination with Melafix to enhance effectiveness against fish diseases."
PimaFix contains active ingredient 1.0% Pimenta racemosa (Bay or Bay Rum oil), water and an emulsifier (<5%) to blend the oil into the water. According to the US patent office the bay oil is "selected from the group consisting of Pimenta racemosa and Pimenta dioica". Common names bay rum tree and allspice respectively.
Use 5ml for every 40l of aquarium water. Repeat dose daily for 7 days folowed by a 25% water change or until problem has gone.
- See Melafix.
So it is prudent to increase aeration of the water during treatment. Read article 'Melafix and Pimafix - How They Work and Don't Work' below for more detail.
API says that this product only kills certain species of bacteria and fungus. So at best this product could be said to be a 'weak' antifungal and antibacterial treatment. If you need a stronger treatment see the fungus article for alternatives.
- Product MSDS - English API 9 Nov 2005
- United States Patent 6,537,591 25 March 2003
- PLANTS Profile for Pimenta racemosa (Mill.) J.W. Moore bayrumtree USDA
- PLANTS Profile for Pimenta dioica (L.) Merr. Allspice USDA
- Sara A. Burt and Robert D. Reinders (2003) Antibacterial activity of selected plant essential oils against Escherichia coli O157:H7 Letters in Applied Microbiology Department of Public Health and Food Safety, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands 36: 162–167
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[en] This paper presents research and education activities of the power systems group of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of the University of Liège. These activities cover power systems stability, security, reliability, and markets, within the contexts of expansion planning, operation planning and real-time operation and automatic control. The paper also reviews the international collaborations of the team.
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Changes in climate factors such as warmer air temperatures and extreme fluctuations in precipitation as a result of rising CO2 concentration may significantly impact plant growth and crop productivity. Over the past several years a range of research initiatives have been conducted to better understand responses of the cotton system to this changing environment.
This review explores projected climatic changes throughout Australian cotton regions, summarises studies that assess the impact on productivity, and investigations to help mitigate potential negative effects.


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So you hate Nukes and like to use brute force to get somewhere? Than the Ares is the right ship for you.
Ares is a VTOL chraft with about 5800 d/v. It is able to land and takeoff from Duna.
The Lifter is reusable but needs support of the engines for landing.
A small Duna landing guide:
- Bring your Pe down to about 10.000 meters.
- Use your main engines to reduce horizontal velocity.
2.1 Use VTOL engines zu reduce vertical velocity. (this is important when your tanks are full,
the main engines have not enough TWR)
- Deploy the Parachutes.
- Use the VTOL engines to land.
- Let the F9 button cool down.
Due to weight restrictions at launch, center of mass does not align with center of thrust of VTOL engines.You need to refuel at Minmus and land with your main engines.
1 toggle main engine
2 toggle VTOL engine
3 VTOL control mode
4 normal control mode
6 toggle Airlock and ladder
7 toggle Scanner
8 toggle Rdiator and Solarpannel
9 toggle Survace harvest
0 toggle Drill
Fortot to update pictures. Frontal Fins are replaced with thrusters.
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create-http-endpoint
Creates HTTP Endpoints.
The dsconfig create-http-endpoint command takes the following options:
--endpoint-name {STRING}
The name of the new HTTP Endpoint which will also be used as the value of the "base-path" property: All HTTP requests matching the base path or subordinate to it will be routed to the HTTP endpoint unless a more specific HTTP endpoint is found.
--set {PROP:VALUE}
Assigns a value to a property where PROP is the name of the property and VALUE is the single value to be assigned. Specify the same property multiple times in order to assign more than one value to it.
-t | --type {type}
The type of HTTP Endpoint which should be created (Default: generic). The value for TYPE can be one of: admin-endpoint | alive-endpoint | crest-metrics-endpoint | generic | healthy-endpoint | prometheus-endpoint | rest2ldap-endpoint.
Default: generic
Properties used in options depend on the type of object to configure.
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|This work studied the AuGe to n-InP/ohmic contact system with the addition of Pt. It studied two contact schemes, i.e., Au/Ge/Pt/n-InP and Au/Pt/Au/Ge/n-InP. The specific contact resistances, the thermal stability, as well as the microstructure of the system, were systematically studied with the aid of scanning electron microscopy, Auger electron spectroscopy, Rutherford backscattering analysis, and x-ray diffraction. The processing condition to achieve the optimum contact resistance was also sought and it was found that a specific contact resistance of 2.15x10(-6) Ohm cm(2) could be obtained if the Au/Ge/Pt/n-InP contact system was rapid thermal annealed at 550 degrees C for 30 s. The system was also found to be able to achieve low specific contact resistances for a wide range of anneal temperature from 400 to 550 degrees C. It was found that the Pt existence in-between AuGe and InP improved the surface morphology, the contact interface uniformity, and the thermal stability. The system could withstand a thermal aging at 400 degrees C for 80 h with only a minimal increase on the specific contact resistance. (C) 1996 American Institute of Physics.
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10.6084/m9.figshare._PHONE_.v1 Michael P. A. Howe GrapEl – a simple spreadsheet application for managing and disseminating graptolite biozonal range chart data 2016 Geological Society of London graptolite taxa species biozone graptolite biozonal range chart data Biostratigraphical data Spreadsheet programs biozonal ranges GrapEl time units spreadsheet application chronostratigraphic units graptolite biostratigraphical data type specimens rock units 2016-06-21 11:03:27 article _URL_ <p>Biostratigraphical data frequently consist of tables indicating the presence, absence or relative abundance of taxa in a sequence of rock units or time units such as biozones or various chronostratigraphic units. Spreadsheet programs provide a simple means for managing this data and can be used for archiving and disseminating it, in addition to manipulating it. A simple spreadsheet ('GrapEl') is used to link the biozonal ranges of graptolite taxa to illustrations of representative or type specimens. Use of the filtering function enables the rapid selection of species from particular biozones, or species belonging to particular genera, and is intended to assist workers with a limited working knowledge of the faunas concerned. This approach is briefly compared to other uses of spreadsheets and databases in the management, analysis and distribution of graptolite biostratigraphical data. </p>


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Close your eyes, breathe in deeply, now exhale slowly… That was easy, wasn't it? Not for everyone…
This week's column will help you in selecting the right color foundation for your skin undertones. There are three categories of undertones that a person can fall into: red, yellow, and olive. To determine what undertone you are, you must first look at the undertones of your selected foundation. Pour out some foundation onto a plate or even your hand, and spread it. You're not focusing on how light or dark the shade is; you're focusing to see what the base color of the foundation is. You'll most likely see a red or yellow color in the depths of the foundation. Only a couple of companies make foundation with a green undertone in it. Therefore, chances are, if you have an olive undertone, you may have to find and add a green color corrector into a yellow-based foundation, so you don't end up looking jaundice.
Now for the test: take a drop of the foundation on the plate, dip your finger into it, and rub a small strip onto the inner part of your arm. Again, don't worry if the color is the deepest shade. After gently rubbing it in, does it look like the color would "disappear" into the arm had the shade been the right one? If you notice after testing a color that it is yellow and just sits there, you probably have a red undertone, and vice versa.
Now that you've determined what undertone you are, choose the shade or shades closest to the skin on your face as your eyes perceive it. Swipe the shade you feel is closest to your skin on the side of your jawline and neck – if the color completely disappears into your neck, then that's your color. You want the color to "disappear" into the neck so there is no line of demarcation and no need to apply foundation past your face area. Another suggestion: while you are in the store doing a swatch test, go outside with a mirror and look at your face in the natural light (not direct sunlight) – this will help you see if the color is a true match or a shade too light or too dark.
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Even when our prayers are ignored and troubles confront us, Rabbi Shoff teaches that it is the same God who sent the difficulties as who answered our prayers before.
I've put together some of the most frequently asked questions regarding bullies, friendship and learning disabilities.
His parents make it clear that they feel the right thing is for Avi to visit his grandfather, but they leave it up to him.
Orna Porat was a former Christian and a member of the Hitler Youth.
There is a rich Jewish history in this part of the world. Now the hidden customs are being revealed, as many seek to reconnect with their roots.
There are times when a psychiatrist will over-medicate, which is why it's important to find a psychiatrist whom you trust and feel comfortable with.
On November 22, 1963, Abraham Zapruder created one of the most famous, and valuable, pieces of film and became forever linked with one of the greatest American national tragedies when he stood with his camera on an elevated concrete abutment as President John F. Kennedy's motorcade passed through Dealey Plaza in Dallas. Exhibited here is […]
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Upon meeting the Zionist delegation, General Wu, a recent convert to Christianity, said, "You are my spiritual brothers.
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Many of my clients have small eyes. Often, they ask for certain color eye shadow or even a style that would not make the eye appear larger, but would actually make it appear smaller. In this week's column I'd like to give tips on how to make small eyes appear "larger."
I am in my late 20's and have heavy lids and small bags under my eyes. As I am still young and get plenty of rest, doctors have told me that it is genetic. My trouble with concealing the bags is not with the coloring (like people with dark circles) as much as it is with how to make the bags look smaller or less puffy and my eyes bigger. What are your suggestions?
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Which lipsticks will last throughout Shabbos is a common question I am asked. In fact, many women share this common problem where the lip color just "slides" right off within a few hours. There are a few products on the market that are formulated to last from 8-18 hours, and many of them can be purchased at your local drug store. Covergirl, Maybelline and L'Oreal all make long lasting lip color that can be found at drug stores.
What's so special about airbrush makeup? Is this a new technique in makeup application? These are a couple of questions I commonly get from my readers and clients. Airbrush makeup application has been used in Hollywood on models and actors for over 30 years. For approximately ten years, makeup artists have been using this on brides, businesswomen, or anyone that wants to look great for an event.
Blush is an important final step in your makeup application. Blush brings a glow to the face, as if a candle was lit from within. Many blushes come in powder form, but they also come in cream form, which is the form I'll discuss today. One of my favorite blushes is the MAC cream blush. The blush is very lightweight and gives off a nice dewy look – a look that is especially suitable to those with dry skin, since dry skin gives off a very dull, matte look.
When applying make-up most people focus on the eyes or lips, and sometimes forget to give attention to the eyebrows. Your brows can open up your eyes and face, and can also make you appear younger, so be sure to give them as much attention as you would your eyes and lips.
I have very prominent eyes; I was wondering what color and or style of makeup would suit me? I have dark brown hair and brown eyes, and medium-deep skin tone. I rarely put on makeup and if I do, it's only on my eyes. I am looking forward to reading your suggestions.
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Using Forklift as a Library
Instead of writing a plugin, Forklift can be used as a library to gain more control over what is loaded and when. This will walk through an example use of this. In this example the goal is to be able to provide a custom set of base boxes, our own roles, playbooks and pipelines.
First, make our example directory and clone Forklift:
mkdir example
cd example
git clone _URL_
First, add an ansible.cfg file:
[defaults]
nocows = 1
host_key_checking = False
retry_files_enabled = False
roles_path = $PWD/galaxy_roles:$PWD/roles:$PWD/forklift/playbooks/roles
callback_plugins = $PWD/forklift/playbooks/callback_plugins/
inventory = forklift/playbooks/inventory/vagrant.py
Now, make directories for playbooks and roles:
mkdir playbooks
mkdir roles
mkdir pipelines
Deploy a file with the base set of boxes the plugin requires:
vim base_boxes.yaml
centos7:
 box_name: 'centos/7'
 image_name: !ruby/regexp '/CentOS 7.*PV/'
 pty: true
Next, deploy a Vagrantfile that creates a box loader, adds the base boxes defined in the plugin and then call the distributor so Vagrant knows about the boxes:
require "#{File.dirname(__FILE__)}/forklift/lib/forklift"
loader = Forklift::BoxLoader.new
loader.add_boxes("base_boxes.yaml")
distributor = Forklift::BoxDistributor.new(loader.boxes)
distributor.distribute


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When the Republican National Convention rolled into town last year, some places closed their doors, while others became exclusive; if you didn't know someone important, you weren't getting in. During that brief period, the Weisman Art Museum did the opposite: It kicked it up a notch. During the RNC, the museum hosted a variety of activities associated with Unconvention, a movement that organized activities during the RNC and encouraged people to explore their political beliefs, voice concerns, and celebrate our country in a less corporate way. There was the "Hindsight Is Always 20/20" exhibit, a fascinating look at the buzzwords used during each presidency. There was the Unconvention circus party, a nonpartisan day of presidential speech readings, lectures, open discussion, film screenings, and stilt walkers. The evening concluded with student films projected on the side of the Weisman's iconic walls. And art of note wasn't confined to the political. This year's "Changing Identity" was a groundbreaking show featuring work by female Vietnamese artists, the first exhibit of its kind anywhere.
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|Origin:||Probably from Middle Dutch pegge|
a short piece of wood, metal, or plastic that is attached to a wall or fits into a hole, used especially to hang things on or to fasten things together:
Sarah hung her coat on the peg.
a table fitted together with pegs
a pattern made with coloured pegs on a board
a small plastic or wooden object used to fasten wet clothes to a thin rope to dry [= clothespeg; = clothespin AmE]
hanging wet clothesBritish English
a pointed piece of wood or metal that you push into the ground in order to keep a tent in the correct position
to make someone realize that they are not as important or skilled as they think they are:
Evans is an arrogant bully who needs taking down a peg or two.
a wooden screw used to make the strings of a violin, guitar etc tighter or looser [= tuning peg]
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something that is used as a reason for doing, discussing, or believing something:
As a peg to hang it on, the tournament had the 100th anniversary of Nehru's birth.
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From Security-as-a-Hindrance Towards User-Centred Cybersecurity Design
Authors: Rick Van Der Kleij
Abstract: Cybersecurity controls in the workplace are viewed by many people as a hindrance that results in wasted time. End-users often bypass controls to get their work done and because of this, even the technically most secure systems can become unsecured. One crucial reason for this could be a lack of attention paid to usability factors by the software development teams that de-sign controls. In this paper I investigate how to design cybersecurity controls in such a way that the user is more likely to behave in a secure manner when confronted with these controls. I put forward three practices that, when employed alongside each other, hold the promise to produce usable and effective cybersecurity controls.
Keywords: security-by-design, human-centered design, usable security
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