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The Influence of Self Efficacy on Cognitive Load In Online Learning In The Pandemic Covid-19 On Nursing Students
European Journal of Molecular & Clinical Medicine,
2020, Volume 7, Issue 11, Pages 2562-2575
Abstractonline Learning is enacted as an effort to prevent the spread of covid-19. Various limitations and obstacles encountered during the process of online learning in the pandemic demanded adaptation better than educators and learners. Students need to do self-adjustment in learning and are expected to have the self efficacy to master and complete a task in online learning. Educators need to do the management of cognitive load in learning. The purpose of the study to determine the effect of self efficacy against the cognitive load in online learning in the pandemic covid-19. Quantitative research methods are correlational, involving 316 respondents. The process of data collection is done online. The results of the univariate analysis showed the majority of respondents have the level of self efficacy is high enough (27,2%), cognitive load category (73,1%). Most of the respondents have ICL the moderate category (66,8%), the ECL moderate category (71,8%) and all respondents have a GCL category (100%). Bivariate analysis using the correlation provided by kendall's tau-b shows there is significant influence the level of self efficacy of respondents to rate the cognitive load of the respondents where the value of Sig. (2-tailed) is 0.048% ownership of < 0.05, with the degree of influence of level of self efficacy of the respondents on the level of cognitive load that is very strong (of 0.96). Based on the results of the study, it is expected that lecturers can optimize the ability of students and develop values/character that support to increase self efficacy of students and make improvements learning strategies to reduce cognitive load of students.
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Basx3D - 3D the HTML WayThe initial version of Basx3DTM 3D the HTML Way has been released. This version is pre-alpha and is released to assist in the development of the next release of X3D V4. Basx3DTM is a 3D scene builder using declarative 3D nodes.
The Future of X3D
X3D is the ISO standard for the display of 3D graphics on the Web (ISO/IEC 19775). Until the last year, it was necessary to have use a plug-in or specialized application to display and interact with 3D objects. In late 2014, the browser builders released versions of their browsers that provided a JavaScript interface to the underyling graphics system of your computer. This interface is called WebGL and is part of most HTML5 implementations. There are several different libraries that provide a simplier interface to the graphics.


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Chaplin, J. & Brabyn, L. (2013). Using remote sensing and GIS to investigate the impacts of tourism on forest cover in the Annapurna Conservation Area, Nepal. Applied Geography, 43, 159-168.
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Tourism is Nepal's largest industry, giving people in rural areas an alternative to subsistence farming. Tourism can have an impact on the forest cover of a region as trees provide firewood for cooking and heating and timber for building accommodation. In 1986 the Annapurna Conservation Area Project was established to ensure that tourism was managed more sustainably, which includes minimising its impact on the forest cover. This study assesses the impacts of tourism on the forest cover in the Annapurna region by comparing Landsat images from 1999 to 2011. This was achieved through spectral classification of different land cover and by assessing the change in forest cover in relation to increasing distances from tourism villages. A major problem with remote sensing in mountainous regions such as Nepal is shadow caused by the relief. This issue was addressed by only assessing areas which were free from shadow, which in effect meant a sample was used rather than the whole study region. The results indicate that there has been an 8 percent reduction in overall forest extent, but this change varies by region. In the northern, drier regions there has been a net increase in forest cover, while in the southern regions there has been a net reduction in forests. The influence of tourism facilities on forest is also variable. Around each of the tourism villages sampled there was a general trend of forest removal decreasing as the distance from each village increased, which indicates tourism does have a negative impact on forests. However, there was an opposite trend in the northern villages that were well inside the conservation area.

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RTET 2013 Syllabus for Level 2, Download RTET Paper 2 Syllabus 2013 (class 6 to 8)
To analyze the paper pattern of RTET it is necessary for the candidates to roll through the syllabus. The Level 2 paper consists of five sections. Child Development and Pedagogy, the first section, weighs 30 marks in total. The paper will contain only objective type questions, 30 questions from this section will be asked. No marks will be deducted for any of the wrong answer.
Language I and Language II are the second and the third sections. These include seven languages which are Hindi, English, Urdu, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Sindhi and Guajarati. Both the sections contribute equally in the paper. There will be 30 questions from each of the above sections, having one mark each.
The fourth section is Mathematics and Science. The subject includes 5 units in all. The first unit is Algebra in which different operations will be performed on numbers. The second chapter is includes problems based on Interest, ratio and proportion and percentage in which birth rate and death rate are calculated. The third unit is the game of figures. It includes geometry of lines and angles, plane figures, the area, surface area and volume based calculations. The next unit contains data figures that basically come under Statistics and Graphs. The fifth and the sixth unit includes the community and the language of mathematics, the problems of teaching, evaluation, nature of math and the rank of math in Curriculum.
Science includes five units too. The first one includes the study of Micro-organisms, Living Being, and the process of Reproduction and Adolescence in animals. The second unit includes the study of Force and Motion, Heat, Light and Sound. The next part of the syllabus includes perusal of Science and Technology throwing some light on our solar system, the structure of matter and chemical substances.
The last subject in the Level 2 RTET examination is the Social Studies. It comprise of reading of History of India, Geography and Civilization in India. A candidate must be good in all the above mentioned subjects to clear the RTET Level 2 examination.
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L2 Child Development and Pedagogy
L2 Language1 Hindi, English, Sanskrit, Urdu, Sindhi, Punjabi and Gujrati
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The final draft of this project represents a response approach to flooding events on the Cape Flats. These
events have drastic impacts such as loss of human life and economic loss. The response approach was divided
into three stages, where the first stage disaster groups were formed by using an axis system approach. In the
second stage LINGO was used to allocate identified relief centres to the disaster groups. LINGO was also used
in stage three where a routing strategy and supply amount was calculated to each of the disaster groups. By
integrating these three stages an optimal total system approach was created. Humanitarian crises need to be
responded to as quick as possible and by creating an approach beforehand will allow goal to be reached. The
presented approach indicates who should respond to which disaster group, how to respond and how much to
supply to the affected areas on the Cape Flats.
Thesis (B Eng. (Industrial and Systems Engineering))--University of Pretoria, 2009.


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Unforgettable French uses memory tricks to teach and reinforce major points of French grammar from the basics up to higher levels, to learners of all ages. It may be used:
- By anyone who wishes to gain confidence in speaking French
- As a revision aid, to consolidate the learner's grasp of grammatical points
- To complement whatever French scheme you are using
- By French teachers at all levels, from primary through to adult.
Unforgettable French is full of tried-and-tested memory tricks based on sound and idea associations to help you to engage your memory and remember key grammatical points. Using memory tricks to explain the "tricky" bits facilitates the learning process and what seemed difficult before is suddenly much easier to remember.
The memory tricks are presented in a highly visual, page-by-page format to help you to visualize the language better. The sheets can be enlarged to make mini-posters or used as "aide-mémoires".
& Click here for a Sample Page or Audio Clip ♫

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Project: Emerging Issues Workshop Partners: Galapagos Governing Council, Galapagos National Park, Charles Darwin Foundation, outside experts Status: Funding being sought
In the future, Galapagos Conservancy envisions bringing together experts from Galapagos and around the world every two years to identify new and emerging issues within or directly affecting the Galapagos Islands.
Within a workshop or symposium setting, partners and participants will include a subset of long-term Galapagos stakeholders. Fields of knowledge that are needed in these workshops include:
various science disciplines
natural resource management
Each workshop will result in a publication with new priority projects defined and potentially developed.


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Andasibe Reintroduction Translocation Project
Analamazaotra Special Reserve (ASR) is an evergreen rainforest, located 147 km due east of Madagascar's capital city of Antananarivo. ASR, also referred to as Andasibe after the neighboring local village, was initially part of a continuous forest that included Mantadia National Park to the north, Maromizaha Classified Forest to the southeast and Anosibe an'ala to the south. Although all four are now relatively isolated forest fragments, Andasibe-Mantadia National Park and especially ASR remain one of the most popular tourist destinations in Madagascar due to the guaranteed opportunity to view quite closely the Indri, Madagascar's largest remaining lemur. These rainforest habitats are home to vast biodiversity, including many endemic rare and endangered species. The endangered Diademed sifaka and the critically endangered Black and white ruffed lemur were once among the fauna found in Analamazaotra Special Reserve. In 1973 hunting pressures led to the regional extinction of the Diademed sifaka of ASR and three years later the Black-and-white ruffed lemur followed.
Beginning in January 2006, after more than four years of planning, Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo's Madagascar Biodiversity Partnership (MBP), in collaboration with Madagascar National Parks (MNP) and Eaux et Fôret, initiated the first ever attempt to recover a species' former distribution in Madagascar. Following the IUCN re-introduction/translocation guidelines, the MBP initiated the Analamazaotra Re-introduction/Translocation Project (ART Project) by re-establishing the Diademed sifaka and Black-and-white ruffed lemur back into their historical habitat range within Analamazaotra Special Reserve. Currently, the collaborative multi-disciplinary project has evaluated the biomedical, genetic, habitat, nutritional and reproductive parameters while monitoring daily the radio-collared translocated/re-introduced 26 Diademed sifakas and 8 Black-and-white ruffed lemurs. The Diademed sifakas have been translocated from three sites (Mantadia National Park, Sahanody Classified Forest and Ambatovy Classified Forest), and the Black and white ruffed from two sites (Mantadia National Park and Anosibe an'ala Classified Forest). In every case, the entire social or family group to be translocated was evaluated prior to the translocation event, and the group was chosen due to mitigating circumstances that existed in the forest of origin.
The ART project has succeeded by re-establishing the wild lemur populations, collecting data, preserving fecal samples for hormone analysis, increasing protection of ASR and habituating the re-introduced groups to human presence. This project has also helped the Malagasy community through the training of Malagasy doctorate and graduate students and two local field guides and educating the local communities about the biodiversity of their local eco-region.


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Can you name the ant that produces the most toxic venom known? On the pain scale of 0 to 4, where does the sting of the female tarantula hawk fall? How many dogs die each year from ingesting or mouthing Sonoran Desert toads, according to the Arizona Drug and Poison Information Center?
"Tread Lightly: Venomous and Poisonous Animals of the Southwest," published by Rio Nuevo Publishers in Tucson, has the answers. Written by an emergency room physician and a registered nurse, Rich and Margie Wagner, this authoritative and informative book covers almost every wild critter in Arizona that bites, stings or secretes a toxic substance.
The nearly 100-page book boasts 55 color photos, illustrating venomous creatures and look-alike species that only appear as if they might do harm. Some of the more threatening ones will surprise you. Although we all know about Gila monsters and rattlesnakes, not many Arizonans are conversant with the dangers of cone-nose bugs and buckmoth caterpillars.
Unlike some other guides, this one gives first-responder advice. It provides phone numbers and Web sites of local poison control centers, and describes the recommended first aid or antidote for each animal discussed. The authors also explain the difference between venomous animals (such as brown spiders) and passively poisonous ones (such as toads).
The presentations describe each species' range and habitat, diet, life span, physical characteristics, behavior and reproductive potential, as well as the effects of its venom. Rattlesnakes get the most ink, as well they should. Prevention of bites is stressed, and there is a good discussion on how one gets struck, along with a summary of rattlesnake biology and behavior. The reader learns which species and strikes are most dangerous. Good advice is provided regarding first aid treatments not to be given — crucial information if one is bitten while in a remote area.
Containing the most up-to-date information on everything from Africanized honeybees to the use of cell phones, "Tread Lightly" is the latest word on an ever-interesting subject. Every family in the Southwest should own a copy.
–David E. Brown
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Rare penguin took over from rival
The wing bones of the two penguin species differ in size
The yellow eyed penguin is bigger than its extinct relative
The arrival of humans in New Zealand may have led to the extinction of one penguin species - to the advantage of another.
Writing in the Royal Society journal Proceedings B, researchers say the extinct species lived in areas now home to New Zealand's rare yellow eyed penguin.
The extinction is thought to have occurred as recently as 500 years ago.
Early settlers wiped out many of New Zealand's unique animal species.
Scientists from the University of Otago, New Zealand, say they discovered the new species unintentionally when researching the genetic history of the yellow eyed penguin.
Although there are only around 7,000 yellow eyed penguins they have a wide range, being found on the sub Antarctic Campbell and Auckland islands as well as 700 km (435 miles) further north on the South-East coast of New Zealand's South Island.
DNA evidence
The discovery of the new species was something of a mystery according to Sanne Boessenkool, who led the research.
"They were around 10% smaller [than the yellow eyed penguin] they were very closely related, but we can't say if they had a yellow crown. There are no records of their existence from the local Maori people," she told BBC News.
European collectors took penguins to museums around the world
DNA samples were taken from the feet of stuffed penguins
DNA analysis compared modern penguins with samples from the feet of 100-year-old museum specimens and 500-year-old bones from both the sub-Antarctic islands and early Polynesian settlements on New Zealand's South Island.
The older bones found in South Island were smaller than those from the modern yellow eyed penguins and contained different DNA.
The DNA from the sub-Antarctic islands matched that of the modern birds.
This geographic variation and subtle differences in the structure and shape of the bones led the researchers to conclude that New Zealand's South Island had been home to a different, now extinct penguin and to designate this as a new species.
You get a complete shift in just a couple of hundred years
Sanne Boessenkool, University of Otago
Hunting Penguins
Sanne Boessenkool says it's hard to pinpoint exactly why the penguins became extinct but its likely they were eaten by Polynesian settlers who arrived from about 1280AD.
"The fact we find these bones in archaeological sites, villages or settlements, suggests hunting played a role. The birds were an easy target, easy to take and there were never very many of them,"
The new species has been named Megadyptes Waitaha. The Waitaha were the first Polynesian tribe to occupy South Island.
M. waitaha's rapid replacement by its close relative the yellow eyed penguin, Megadyptes antipodies, raises questions about current dating techniques and extinction theories, says Sanne Boessenkool.
"Often when we look back in time and date bones we don't think a couple of hundred years is important, but here you get a complete shift in just a couple of hundred years. These patterns might be more common, a view we don't consider when looking at large scale extinction events,"she explained.
The penguins moved further north
Yellow eyed penguins increased their territorial range
Shy and secretive
By the time Europeans arrived in South Island in the 1800s, the yellow eyed penguins had already taken over the sites left by its relative. The bird's breeding behaviour makes it an unlikely coloniser. Sanne BoessenKool has studied them in the field for many years.
"They are very secretive, shy and difficult to monitor, they don't live in big colonies, but build their own nest perhaps under some bushes," she commented.
Despite their fragile foothold the researchers say these incoming penguins probably survived on New Zealand's South Island due to a change in human behaviour.
Either the human settlers moved further north due to a lack of food following the extinction of the earlier penguins and other species, or they had begun to develop some of the conservation principles found in contemporary Maori culture and so saw a need to allow these penguins to survive.
Sanne Boessenkool is now investigating how and when the penguins moved across from the sub-Antarctic Auckland and Campbell islands.
"It is a mystery, were now looking at the ways it may have colonised, if its a small group or if they are still coming," she said.
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Floyd County Criminal History (Iowa)
Floyd County Courts resolve legal disputes, including criminal misdemeanors and felonies in Floyd County, Iowa. Courts operate at the Federal, Iowa State, or local Floyd County level, and they maintain records for all of their criminal cases, which make up an individual's Floyd County criminal history. These Floyd County public criminal records include homicides, sexual assaults, DUIs, drug charges, property crimes, and more. Criminal records also list trials, convictions, and sentences, as well as any plea bargains or settlements. Floyd County criminal history records include the defendant's name, personal information, the criminal charges brought against the individual, and any criminal case files created by Iowa law enforcement. A criminal history search shows an individual's criminal record, making it an important part of performing a thorough Floyd County background check. Floyd County Courts may provide online access to their criminal history records.
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Floyd County Police Departments provide local law enforcement services, including stopping crimes, arresting suspects, and conducting investigations in Floyd County, Iowa. As part of this job, Police Departments maintain a number of criminal history records, including Floyd County arrest records, warrants, and reports on jail bookings. These records make up an individual's Floyd County criminal record, including the criminal charges made during an arrest and any resulting legal cases from a police arrest. This can include felonies and misdemeanors such as fraud, probation violations, drug possession, manslaughter, and traffic crimes. Police Department records can include investigation materials and criminal case files, and searching criminal history records is an important step in performing a Floyd County background check. Police Departments make many of their criminal history records available online.
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Floyd County Probation Departments oversee court-ordered probations which have been imposed instead of incarceration in Floyd County, Iowa. Probation Departments maintain detailed records on individuals who are on probation, which is part of the individual's criminal history. These Floyd County public records include personal information on the individual and the criminal charges that led to probation. It can also include the terms of the probation, such as any requirements to seek treatment, attend counseling, or pay restitution to victims, as well as any travel restrictions or bans on contacting certain people that may be included in the probation order. Floyd County probation records also list the length of the probation sentence, and they are an important part of a background check. Probation Departments may provide online searches for criminal history records.
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Floyd County Sheriff Departments operates at the county or local level, keeping public order by investigating crimes, arresting suspected criminals, and stopping crimes in progress in Floyd County, Iowa. Sheriff Departments maintain records on all of their actions, including arrest reports, warrants, and jail bookings. These Floyd County criminal records make up an individual's criminal history, and they contain personal information, all criminal charges in a person's record, and any legal cases after an arrest. Criminal history records include felonies and misdemeanors such as Floyd County DUIs, drug charges, homicide, domestic violence, and probation violations. Sheriff Department records also include criminal case files and investigation records, which makes searching criminal history records an important step in conducting a background check in Floyd County. These records may be available online from the Sheriff Department.
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Energy demand dropping in Australia
In Australia, energy peak demand may be disappearing. For the past several years, the country has experienced periods in which the cost of energy would be pushed beyond $5,000 per megawatt-hour due to high demand. These "super peaks" generally lasted between 36 and 100 hours, but still cause a significant financial impact on the country when they occur. The super peaks are often caused due to the energy demands of citizens during the hottest seasons of the year or the energy needs of various projects occurring throughout the nation. As the country continues to focus on the adoption of alternative energy, it may no longer see these costly super peaks.
Exact financial information concerning the trend not yet released
The Australian Energy Regulator (AER), the country's regulatory authority of wholesale electricity, has released a new report documenting the disappearance of super peaks. The report shows that the country has experienced a significantly lower number of super peaks in 2011 and that this trend has persisted into 2012. Though the AER has not released precise information concerning the disappearance of the super peaks, it is expected that the trend will put some degree of financial pressure on energy companies in the coming months as they experience lower revenues. Savings generated by this trend are not being experienced by consumers at this time.
Super peaks offset by the adoption of alternative energy and efficiency standards
Milder weather and increased focus on efficiency and alternative energy are contributors to the disappearance of super peaks. Energy costs are beginning to be taken more seriously by consumers and businesses alike, leading to new consumption patterns that have all but obliterated the occurrence of super peaks. Australia's insistence on the use of alternative energy and the adoption of ambitious efficiency standards have driven down the demand for power significantly.
Time will tell whether super peaks are gone for good
Whether the trend will continue is uncertain. Australia may still experience high temperatures in the coming months which could lead to higher energy consumption. AER does not expect super peaks to make an appearance for the remainder of the year. If they do, their financial impact is expected to be offset by their absence through much of 2011 and 2012.
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What Does It Mean When A Hamster Stands Up?
Have you noticed that every now and then your hamster will stand up on their two back legs? Is this something you need to worry about? What Does It Mean When A Hamster Stands Up?
Hamsters will stand up on their back legs to have a good look and listen to things around them. They will also stand up when they are grooming themselves. If your hamster stands up as you approach them this is a sign of defensive behaviour.
Why Does My Hamster Stand On Its Hind Legs?
A hamster will stand on its hind legs to help them explorer their surroundings. By standing they can get a better view around them and have a good sniff as the air is most likely more free moving.
A hamster standing on its hind legs is also known as meerkating because they exhibit the same posture as a meerkat.
It is very important when a hamster is standing that you do not approach them and try to pick them up as they might show some aggression towards you. At this stage your hamster is in a exploring mode and they do not want to be distracted. If this is the case do not worry because it is normal for them to act this way.
They are in this hunting mode usually because they can smell or see something that is interesting, usually food related. Below is a video showing a hamster standing on its hind legs.
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Why Is My Hamster Standing Perfectly Still?
A hamster will stand perfectly still if they have smelt or heard something interesting or threatening and they are not sure where it is. This behaviour is witnessed commonly in wild hamsters, but also domestic hamsters.
It is also common for them to stand perfectly still for minutes at a time. This is a natural for them to do, it has most likely been inherited from wild hamsters because they are seen as prey in the wild and they stay perfectly still to avoid predators.
If your hamster is standing perfectly still you can approach them slowly and gently pick them up, make sure not to scare them and they should start to move around again.
Hamster Falling Asleep Standing Up
If your hamster is falling asleep while standing up it is usually because they have fainted or have not had enough quality sleep recently.
It is not common for hamsters to fall asleep standing up, if they do it once or twice it is nothing to be worried about.
If they are frequently falling sleep standing up then there is most likely an issue that needs to be looked in to. You will need to look at the following two items.
Monitor Sleep Pattern
A healthy hamster requires between six to eight hours of sleep a day. Hamsters also sleep during the day so it should be easy to monitor how much sleep they are having.
YouTube video
During the day keep a record of how much sleep they are getting. It is usual for them to get up a few times during their sleep to go toilet and have a drink.
If they are frequently having less then six hours a day you should take them to the vet as soon as possible.
Typically when a hamster faints they will fall or jump because they are not sure what is happening to them and they are scared.
It should be pretty obvious if your hamster is fainting, take a look at this video for the signs to look out for
YouTube video
The main causes of hamsters fainting include
 - Not eating enough food
 - Not drinking enough water
 - Suffering from an illness
If they are constantly fainting for longer than one day then you will need to take them to a vet to be looked at as soon as possible.


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Zhanyong Wan _EMAIL_
Wed, 11 Oct 2000 09:53:52 -0400
Hi Mark,
Thanks for the references you provided!
Mark P Jones wrote:
> My instinct (which perhaps somebody will prove incorrect) is that this will
> not help. Suppose, for example, that you needed to unify ([a],[b]) with f c
> as part of the type inference process. How would you solve this problem?
> Alas, there are several different, and incompatible ways:
> ([a], [b]) = (/\a. ([a],[b])) a
> = (/\b. ([a],[b])) b
> = (/\c. (c, [b])) [a]
> = (/\d. ([a], d)) [b]
> = (/\e. e) ([a], [b])
> Note that the /\-terms in each of these examples satisfies your restriction.
> So I don't think you'll be able to obtain most general unifiers or principal
> types with this restriction.
Let's put your example into the context of type classes:
 class T f c where
 method :: f c
Now when we want to use method as a ([a],[b]), ambiguity arises, as you
However, I think this just means we should allow *at most one* of the
following instances to be declared:
 instance T (/\a. ([a],[b])) a
 instance T (/\b. ([a],[b])) b
 instance T (/\c. (c, [b])) [a]
 instance T (/\d. ([a], d)) [b]
 instance T (/\e. e) ([a], [b])
In other words, the above instances are considered overlapping.
| As long as we only have one of these instances |
| in the program, there is no ambiguity. |
I'm sure there must be other ramifications (e.g. maybe now whether two
instances are overlapping becomes undecidable -- I haven't thought over
it yet), but it seems worth further investigation.
-- Zhanyong


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LAZZARIN, Helen Cristina; NAKAMA, Luiza and CORDONI JUNIOR, Luiz. Perceptions of dentistry teachers in the teaching and learning process. Ciênc. saúde coletiva [online]. 2010, vol.15, suppl.1, pp. _PHONE_. ISSN _PHONE_. _URL_
The didactic-pedagogical training of the university professor and of the quality of higher education must be revised due to the demands of the dynamic society and to the implementation of national curricular guidelines. Within this context, it was analyzed the perceptions of dentistry undergraduate of Universidade Estadual de Londrina teachers about the role of the teacher in the teaching and learning process. A qualitative research was carried out and data were collected through semi-structured interviews. Results showed that the teacher plays an essential role in the teaching and learning process, being the sole provider of knowledge. Teaching and learning strategies are based on oral transmission. Most part of the teachers got their didactic-pedagogical education from postgraduate Courses (Master's and/or PhD), that do not qualify teachers adequately for their teaching career. The teachers are not formally prepared for their teaching careers. In conclusion, findings from this study must be revised both regarding the training and the didactic-pedagogical upgrading in search of a general, humanist, critical and reflexive formation of the student.
Keywords : Health education; Faculty of dentistry; Higher education; Curriculum; Didactic-pedagogical training.


Language Translations for the Music Industry
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In case you haven't realized, the entertainment business is a multi-billion dollar company that reaches the crowds.
Movies, videos, TV shows, concerts, video games, video games, and other media mediums use music on a regular basis. But some events are just in one language.
Could you imagine the effects of getting your favorite tune interpreted all around the world? You can also hire excellent translation services in Australia for your music translation services by clicking right here.
Below is a debate about how language translation can enhance the position of the amusement market.
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Let us say there's a favorite tune from an Asian performer increasing viewpoints on YouTube, turning across the radio and clubs around. The tune might be a hit, but can you picture what's going to happen if it had been translated into English, Spanish, French, and lots of different languages? People throughout the world could sing and dance to their hearts content. Additionally, it could help children accommodate the lyrics better because they'll have the ability to comprehend the lyrics, and also grasp the tunes concept.
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Not only does having tune interpreted benefit various communities and cultures, but it also may generate more earnings for the amusement market.


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To gain an understanding how superconductivity might be happening we first
need to look at how conventional electrical resistance occurs. According to accepted
theory, resistance to current flow occurs because electrons keep bumping into
atoms as they flow through a conductor. Thermal activity also plays a role. As a substance
increases in temperature its atoms move more vigorously. This movement increases an
electrons resistance to flow because it increases the number of collisions.
Conversely as a substance cools the number of collisions, and hence the resistance,
The BCS Theory of Superconductivity
So how does superconductivity work? The standard explanation is BCS
An alternative explanation of Superconductivity
Is BCS correct? It is difficult to say, especially as it involves quantum
mechanics explanations that lay outside the boundaries of our real-world (and common
sense) experience. So Id like to present an easier-to-swallow alternative that fits
within classical mechanics.
Thus it is impossible for electrons to move through a compound without
experiencing a retarding force, even at absolute zero temperatures. This retarding force
should bring the electrons to a halt. Yet the electrons dont slow down; they
continue at a constant speed. The only way this is possible is that the electrons are
receiving a counter force in their forward direction.
The Duck Hunter
Imagine there lived a duck hunter. This hunter was not very successful
because, for some reason, he only shot ducks that flew directly overhead. The ducks flew
at varying speeds, some even hovering occasionally, and as they passed he would fire a
The duck in the left frame is hovering, i.e. moving with zero velocity,
and the duck on the right is flying with a constant velocity toward the right. As the
bullets pass through they exert force on the ducks. In what direction will these forces
Shooting at Electrons
What does this have to do with electrons? In the preceding chapters
electric fields were likened to bullets. Tiny electric field bullets emerge
from all sides of an electron and travel in straight lines. When these bullets strike
another electron they exert a force in the direction of their motion.
The frame on the left shows two electrons standing motionless above and
below each other. The frame on the right shows the bottom electron motionless and the top
electron moving to the right at a constant velocity. What will the force be on the top
Now suppose a proton was doing the shooting instead. What would the direction of force be on an electron moving overhead? Again we expect the field to flow through it on an angle however, due to this being an opposite charge, it seems logical that the force should be in the opposite direction:
Using vector representation we can split this force into its x and y components:
Notice that most of the force is still in the vertical direction (y axis) but there is now a small force component in the horizontal direction (x axis).
The proton tunnel
Expanding on the above, imagine there are two protons, above and below each other, and the electron is at their midpoint moving horizontally to the right:
The two protons will exert a diagonal force on the electron; however the forces will not be directly opposite. In the above diagram F1 and F2 are the forces from protons 1 and 2 respectively. Taking the vector components of each force we notice that the vertical components cancel, but not the horizontal forces because theyre in the same direction. The net result is this:
The horizontal forces combine yielding a net force to the right.
As it passes between the first pair of protons, the electron will receive
a net force to the right. This will propel it to the next pair of protons, whereupon it
will receive another force to the right... propelling it to the next pair
and so on,
and so forth.
It is possible to explain superconductivity within the boundaries of
classical mechanics by considering that electrons moving at right-angles to protons
receive a small force in their direction of motion due to field lines passing though
charged particles at an angle.
Copyright © 2012 Bernard Burchell, all rights reserved.


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Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) evaluates datasets to summarise their essential characteristics, which is frequently accomplished through visual approaches. EDA is used to determine what information may be collected from data before data modelling. It is difficult to look at a column of numbers or an entire spreadsheet and discover the most relevant qualities of the information contained within. It can be tiresome, uninteresting, and intimidating to gain insights from plain data, and it is understandable. To assist in this situation, Exploratory Data Analysis has been developed to be used.
Examples Of EDA In The Industry Of Data Science
So, now it's time for some examples that will hopefully give you a better understanding of what EDA is all about, what you should be looking for, and what questions you should be attempting to answer.
Example 1: Incomplete information
Anomalies abound when dealing with large amounts of data, One of them is missing some information. Even though the overall data set may be satisfactory, there may be columns inside the data set that contain blank values. This can cause your results to be skewed, and you will not create an accurate model for future usage.
- The "Missing Package Tool" in Python is an excellent tool for graphically identifying missing data, and it may be used to accomplish this.
This is, of course, for a significant amount of data. This provides you with a visual representation of how much information is missing and which variables.
Example 2: Outliers
Outliers are data points that fall on the extreme or even outside the normal range of values for a variable, providing you with a hint or a chance to investigate further.
It is possible to easily spot an outlier, where many clients purchase more than 50 things. An investigation can be initiated, and in many instances, it is discovered that they are resellers. This might be an opportunity to create a business-to-business relationship with the resellers and grow it as a different vertical.
EDA can be fairly extensive and time-consuming, depending on the type of data you have and how much of it there is. Unfortunately, there is no organised approach to performing EDA, although some strategies will provide you with the best outcomes from your EDA efforts. The following are some of the essential outputs of EDA that should be attempted to be obtained from the data:
- Identify outliers and anomalies in your data.
- Analyse the data to determine its quality.
- Determine which statistical models are most suitable for the data.
- Figure out whether the assumptions about data you or your team made at the outset of the project were correct or wildly incorrect.
- Retrieve variables or levels from the data that can be used to pivot the data.
- Decide whether to use univariate versus multivariate analytical tools in your research.
When working with large datasets, it's essential to perform exploratory data analysis to ensure you have the proper data for the statistical model you've chosen. You don't want to find out later that the data you're using isn't a good match for the statistical model you're trying to develop. Before any data mining, data analysis, or data modelling takes place, a sound EDA must be done.


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ABOUT THE MUSEUM
The Regimes Museum is the culmination of an effort to collect, preserve, and archive material and artifacts from some of the most notorious regimes of the 20th century. It is both a museum and an educational institution that offers resources to scholars and students while applying lessons of the past to the present.
Since 2003, the goal of the ever growing and expanding collection is to preserve the cultural, political, social, and personal artifacts and histories of individuals who were witnesses to some of the most notorious and infamous regimes of the 20th century in order to broaden the understanding of the nature of repressive regimes in the various forms, cultures, and nations they existed in. The repression, suffering, and destruction caused by rogue governments are a persistent and repeating phenomenon that can be seen throughout history and in its more modern forms in the 20th and 21st centuries. The permanent display focuses on what life was like for the victims as well as ordinary citizens through personal histories while also concentrating on the political apparatus, its leading figures and personalities, and their pride and joy; the armed forces, which tie the regimes to the wars they fought in. Our objective, beyond the preservation and displaying of objects and eyewitness accounts, is to become the premier educational institution that provides resources to students, scholars, and the general public while simultaneously helping our local community in honoring and supporting our veterans.
As Regimes Museum is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, our annual filings and other IRS documents are available for public viewing. Please click here to access this information. If you have any questions, or need assistance, feel free to contact us.


To: J3 12-136r2 From: Bill Long Subject: Coarray TS features Date: 2012 February 17 References: 09-184, 11-256r2, N1858, N1906 Summary: ======= Proposal 11 in 11-256r2 concerns the overall scope of the proposed Technical Specification for Fortran Coarray extensions. The consensus of J3 is that the scope should be limited. This recommendation is in keeping with the general purpose of a TS, which is to address circumstances "when there is an urgent market requirement for such documents". Of the remaining 10 Proposals in 11-256r2, these features, as described in this paper, are recommended by J3 for inclusion in the TS in this order of priority, assuming no serious technical flaw is found: 1) Teams 2) Collectives 3) Atomic Operations 4) Synchronization using events 5) Parallel I/O J3 recommends that these features from 11-256r1 not be included in the TS. 6) Remove restrictions on coarray components 7) THIS_IMAGE(X) be scalar if X has corank 1 8) Global pointers / Copointers 9) Asymmetric allocatable and pointer objects 10) Predicated copy_async intrinsic Beyond the Proposals in 11-256r1, no other features are recommended. Feature Descriptions: ===================== Feature 1: Teams ---------------- Teams provide a capability to restrict the image set of remote memory references, coarray allocations, and synchronizations to a subset of all the images of the program. This simplifies code for some applications that involve segregated activities (parts of a climate model, for example). Teams also provide a mechanism for limiting activity to a subset of the computer system that might result in better performance within the team (such as within a local SMP domain.) The simplest form of a team feature, as described in N1858, is not adequate. A richer form of teams is proposed with these characteristics: - A team of all images exists at the beginning of program execution. - An image is always a member of some team, and a member of only one team at a time. - Team variables, of type TEAM_TYPE (defined in ISO_FORTRAN_ENV), are used to identify new teams. The type has one public component with its value equal to the number of images in the team. - New teams can be formed with a new statement (SPLIT TEAM, or FORM TEAM) that defines the specified teams. The aggregate number of images in the teams shall equal the number of images in the current team. The new teams are composed of images with consecutive image numbers in the current team. A team variable cannot be defined other than by execution of the statement used to form teams. - A construct is provided to specify a new current team for the executing image. Possibilities are a WITH TEAM... END WITH TEAM construct, or a SELECT TEAM... END SELECT construct. Execution within the construct is on the context of the specified team. Image numbers are relative to the team, starting at 1 and ending with the number of images in the team. Collective activities, such as SYNC ALL, allocation and deallocation of coarrays, collective subroutine execution, and inquiry intrinsics such as THIS_IMAGE and NUM_IMAGES are relative to the team. All coarrays (including those with the SAVE attribute) allocated during execution of the construct shall be deallocated before execution of the construct completes. When execution of the construct completes, the current team reverts to its previous value. - Access to variables on images outside the current team is not permitted. The feature will require significant revision of the text in the standard, but the capabilities are sufficiently useful to justify the effort. Feature 2: Collectives ---------------------- Collective subroutines offer the possibility of substantially more efficient execution of reduction operations than would be possible by non-expert programmers. Corresponding routines are widely used in MPI programs. This feature has been the most widely requested in the discussion of coarrays. Intrinsic Collective subroutines: CO_SUM CO_MAX CO_MIN CO_BROADCAST CO_REDUCE See 11-193 for detailed descriptions of these subroutines. If Feature 1 (Teams) is accepted, the collective subroutines would not have a team argument. Instead, the collective operation is done by the members of the current team. If there is no form of teams implemented, a different method to specify a subset of the images is needed. An array specifying the list of images, similar to the array used for specifying an image list for SYNC IMAGES, should be considered. Feature 3: Atomic operations ----------------------------- Intrinsic subroutines implementing atomic memory operations provide the capability to write simple and efficient code for several common operations used in parallel programs. These capabilities are provided in other parallel programming models and have been available as extensions in some Fortran implementations (though with different syntax). A standard specification would improve the prospects for code portability. All of the proposed subroutines are intrinsic atomic subroutines, expanding the Fortran 2008 list of ATOMIC_DEFINE and ATOMIC_REF. Paper 09-184 provides a detailed description of ATOMIC_CAS. The other routines have similar semantics. The ATOM argument is atomically modified, based on the other arguments. If an optional OLD argument is present, it is assigned the value of ATOM immediately before the specified operation is performed. New Intrinsic Atomic subroutines: ATOMIC_CAS (ATOM, OLD, COMPARE, NEW)! Compare-and-swap ATOMIC_ADD (ATOM, VALUE [,OLD])! Atomic integer add ATOMIC_AND (ATOM, VALUE [,OLD])! Atomic bitwise AND ATOMIC_OR (ATOM, VALUE [,OLD])! Atomic bitwise OR ATOMIC_XOR (ATOM, VALUE [,OLD])! Atomic bitwise exclusive OR ATOMIC_SWAP (ATOM, VALUE)! Atomic swap ATOMIC_AX (ATOM, MASK, VALUE [,OLD])! Atomic bitwise and-xor The atomic and-xor operation replaces ATOM with ieor(iand(ATOM,MASK),VALUE). The atomic and-xor operation also provides the capability to perform atomic definitions of a subset of the bits of ATOM. Integrating this feature into the Fortran standard should be straightforward. New intrinsic procedures are added. Implications for the memory model semantics are already specified for execution of an atomic subroutine. Feature 4: Synchronization using events --------------------------------------- Events provide a capability for an image to signal (an)other image(s) which can then detect that the event has been posted. This replaces the NOTIFY/QUERY feature of N1858. It is superior to the old feature because the events are associated with user variables, so multiple events can exist for an image, and a library routine could establish events internally that would not interfere with notifications that might be occurring on an image separate from the library code. Terminology: An "event" is an abstraction of an issue of common interest to two or more images that is supposed to "occur" at a moment the "interested" images are "active". An image can "post" notification of the occurrence of an event to other image(s). An image can "query" for notification of the occurrence of an event, or it can "wait" for the notification of its occurrence. Functionality offered: 1. An image can notify other image(s) of the occurrence of an event. 2. An image can query the status of the event or wait for it to be notified. 3. Allow multiple images to wait/query for the notification of a single event. On waiting, one of them will quit waiting when notified. Syntax: EVENT POST (EVENT)! Post notification of the occurrence of EVENT EVENT QUERY (EVENT,STATE)! Query whether EVENT has occurred or not EVENT WAIT (EVENT)! Wait for notification on EVENT having occurred Semantics: EVENT is a data item accessible on all images interested in being notified of the occurrence of the associated event. EVENT is established as being a data item describing an event by the execution of EVENT POST on the image that wants to signal the occurrence of EVENT and by EVENT QUERY or EVENT WAIT on the image(s) that want to query or wait for EVENT to have occurred. Challenges/Questions: 1. It is an open question whether it is necessary to have a separate type for EVENTs; A scalar coarray of type integer might be sufficient. 2. Should definition of an event variable be prohibited other than by execution of EVENT POST or EVENT WAIT statements? 3. Another open question is how we specify that EVENT should start being "cleared", i.e., that the associated event hasn't occurred yet. 1. and 2. are decided/solved by defining a derived type for EVENT with a default initializer that sets it "cleared". 4. The following has to be translated to standardese to prevent illogical programs from being valid: The dynamical scope of EVENT must be such that it "exists" before, during and after all NOTIFY's and WAIT's/QUERY's on it are/have been processed. 5. The following syntax is proposed for (non-)local access to EVENT: POST(EVENT ) Notification on the local EVENT variable. POST(EVENT[n]) Notification on image n in the current TEAM. POST(EVENT[*]) Notification on all images in the current TEAM. QUERY/WAIT(EVENT) will likely refer to the local variable, as that is more efficient. Feature 5: Parallel I/O ----------------------- The purpose of the proposed parallel I/O feature is to allow multiple images to access the same file. This proposal extends the OPEN statement to allow a file to be connected to a collection of images. If teams are available, a TEAM= specifier that takes the values YES or NO is added to the OPEN statement. If the TEAM


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Baked Alaska (also known as glace au four, omelette à la norvégienne, Norwegian omelette and omelette surprise) is a dessert made of ice cream placed in a pie dish lined with slices of sponge cake or Christmas pudding and topped with meringue. The entire dessert is then placed in an extremely hot oven for just long enough to firm the meringue. The meringue is an effective insulator, and the short cooking time prevents the heat from getting through to the ice cream.
The notion of cooking a dessert with ice cream as its core ingredient within an insulated covering may have originated with a Chinese cook, who used pastry for the casing. However, facts surrounding this assertion are still scant, and thus are still in debate, in part because, according to librarian and food researcher Lynne Olver, no recorded knowledge of his training is known. As well, there is no evidence of this being a truly Chinese dish. Furthermore, several other origins are still up for debate. At this point, it appears baked Alaska is a combination of origins. Nevertheless, according to the June 1866 issue of the French journal Liberte a master cook (from a Chinese delegation visiting Paris) introduced the concept to French chef Balzac of the Grand Hotel. Taken with the idea, the French substituted pastry with meringue, and named the dish omelette surprise or omelette à la norvégienne; the Norwegian epithet was used as a consequence of its Arctic appearance and cold centre. Some assert though, that the discovery of meringue not melting – a concept attributed to Anglo-American physicist Benjamin Thompson in 1804 – led to the creation of what we know as baked Alaska. As a British loyalist, Thompson moved to England, followed by an appointment of Count Rumford under the employ of Bavaria. He investigated the heat resistance of beaten egg whites; the results demonstrated that while pastry would conduct the heat to the ice cream, beaten egg whites would do so to a lesser extent. Francois Rysavy, President Eisenhower's chef, claimed that, "baked Alaska is a Scandinavian delicacy". A popular dish in America, it is often thought that baked Alaska originated with Chef Charles Ranhofer in 1876 at the famous Delmonico's Restaurant in New York City who is said to have named it in honour of the newly acquired Department of Alaska. However, this dish is actually called Alaska, Florida in his 1893 cookbook Epicurean. In John F. Mariani 1999 book Encyclopedia of American Food and Drink baked Alaska is a term dating back to 1905 publication. It was "used by Fannie Merritt Farmer in the 1909 edition of her cookbook". Regardless of origins, the dish is usually considered delicious. It was popularised worldwide by the chef Jean Giroix in 1895 at the Hotel de Paris in Monte Carlo, Monaco.
The dessert was once a popular choice for dinner parties, especially during the 1960s and 1970s, but its popularity has waned in recent years. It is still a very common dessert on the final dinner of a cruise.
Another version calls for raspberry filling to be substituted for the ice cream, or even for the filling to be added along with the ice cream.
The process was simplified in 1974 by Jacqueline Halliday Diaz who invented a baking pan for Baked Alaska that forms a fillable hollow.
In 1969, the recently invented microwave oven enabled Hungarian physicist and "molecular gastronomist" Nicholas Kurti to produce a "reverse Baked Alaska", aka Frozen Florida (hot on the inside and cold on the outside).


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The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) launches Essentials for Parenting Toddlers and Preschoolers
The CDC's new resource for positive parenting, Essentials for Parenting Toddlers and Preschoolers is a free, online resource developed by the CDC. Designed for parents of 2 to 4 year olds, Essentials for Parenting addresses common parenting challenges, like tantrums and whining. Positive parenting skills and techniques can reduce parenting stress and provide parents with ways to handle their child's misbehavior. Skills focus on encouraging good behavior and decreasing misbehavior using proven strategies like positive communication, structure and rules, clear directions, and consistent discipline and consequences. Build the foundation of a positive parent-child relationship with Essentials for Parenting.
Essentials for Parenting includes:
- Articles with a variety of skills and tips
- "Frequently Asked Questions" answered by parenting experts
- Fun and engaging videos featuring parents, children, and parenting experts who demonstrate and discuss skills
- Free print resources like chore charts and daily schedules


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It is a gaseous hydrocarbon. It can be liquefied by cooling or compressing. Principle components of LPG are-Propane, Propene, Butane, Butene, Mixture of propane and butane.
Advantages of LPG
1. It mixes better with air due to complete vaporization.
2. It does not require fuel pump in fuel supply system.
3. It does not form gum.
4. There are no carbon deposits.
Disadvantages of LPG
1. For storage, heavy pressure cylinders are required.
2. Vehicles weight increases due to stored cylinders.
3. A special supply system is required to be used.
4. Its calorific value is lower than petrol.
5. Power generation is lesser than the power generation in gasoline engine.


Young Hall viewed from A Street in 2005.
Young Hall houses the Psychology and Anthropology departments. 198 Young is the lecture hall. The building is east of the MU and south of the Death Star
Young Hall is divided into northern and southern wings. The northern wing is inhabited by psychologists and the southern wing is mixed. The psychologists have staked out the first floor of the south wing and the anthropologists have been squished into the second and third floor. The dark, foreboding basement is occupied by grad students. Some think that trolls live in the basement, but it's not true—even trolls are afraid of the basement in Young Hall.
The psych department conducts research through a program called Experimetrix. These experiments are in the north wing. Often times, the experimentees can't find their rooms and get lost on the 2nd floor of the south wing. When this happens, the behavioral ecologists get out their stop watches and test theorems from foraging theory. Invariably, we take pity on them and point them to the north wing.
There are also some people locked up in rooms in the corridor connecting the north and south wings. However, nobody knows who they are or what they do. They are rarely seen and never complain when the lights go out. Sometimes we leave snacks outside their doors to tempt them out. It doesn't work. But the snacks are always gone in the morning...
In between the north and south wings is the courtyard. Here people often practice different artforms like juggling or martial arts or fencing; pretty fun to watch.
The basement of the north wing was used in the early stages of The Manhattan Project to figure out ways to process Uranium before the project moved to Oak Ridge, TN. The Basement still has slightly higher than normal radiation readings, but not enough to do any harm. Young Hall was originally called the Chemistry Building, and was constructed in 1941.
Leaving Young by the southwest doors, you might run into Stargazer.
Young Hall courtyard, a place of tranquility between the north and south wings of the building. (2/22/05)
Herbet A. Young, namesake of Young Hall and dean of the College of Letters & Sciences from _PHONE_, _PHONE_, and _PHONE_.
A stairwell in the northern (psychology) wing is wrapped in trippiness. What came first, the sign or the mural?
2011-01-30 11:44:25 Has anyone else heard of Young Hall being haunted? Once in the early morning I was waiting for a T.A. to come to her office in the basement, and I bent down to pick up something I dropped. I noticed that someone was standing directly behind me, and, thinking that it was my T.A., I immediately straightened-up and turned around—no one was there. —ArianeMetz
2011-02-13 23:06:58 It is so haunted, thanks for bringing something fun to the wiki! —tneeley


In 2011, the Court had to decide whether a criminal defendant who entered into a plea deal under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 11(c)(1)(C) could petition to reduce his or her sentence under 18 U.S.C. sec. 3582(c)(2) (which permits a reduction upon a change in the Sentencing Guidelines) if the Sentencing Guidelines were later amended to lower the sentencing range for the crime the defendant was pleading guilty to. The result, Freeman v. United States, was fractured, with four justices and Justice Sotomayor disagreeing as to the conditions required to permit the reduction: the plurality held that such plea agreements were based on the Sentencing Guidelines, and so always eligible for reduction, while Sotomayor argued that plea agreements could sometimes be based on the Sentencing Guidelines, but sometimes not. The lower courts then disagreed as to which rationale should be applied. Now, in a 6-3 opinion by Justice Kennedy in Hughes v. United States, the Court resolved the confusion and sided with the Freeman plurality, holding that plea agreements should be assumed to be based on the Guidelines unless expressly stated otherwise, and thus those plea agreements are eligible for reduction under Section 3582(c)(2). Justice Sotomayor, in concurrence, expressed regret over the confusion her Freeman opinion caused, deciding that this result permitted more needed predictability in criminal sentencing. Chief Justice Roberts, joined by Justices Thomas and Alito, dissented, arguing that the majority's rationale remained as unpersuasive as the plurality's in Freeman.


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 When engaged in a new hobby, it's natural that we want to progress as quickly as possible. For many beginner drummers, that means wanting to play beats faster. We all look forward to that moment when we can rock out at higher speeds to our favorite songs. There is definitely something exhilarating and hugely satisfying about drumming at faster tempos. Still, our obsession for speed can often lead to inadvertent neglect of the foundation that helps build control. There is… Read More


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interact with a user. These agents should combine planning and problem-solving capabilities as well as emotion-related features. The focus of the project is to study the interaction between an agent's emotional state and its resources (e.g., planning ability, memory) with the goal of carrying out a dialogue (in limited form) with the user.
A student undertaking this project should have previously taken CSC3309 (Artificial Intelligence).
This project is a continuation of a 1998 project. It consists of designing and implementing a computerized tutor based on an animation process which illustrates the workings of SPIM, a MIPS simulator which is used for teaching computer architecture at first and second year level. The animation, which was implemented in 1998, highlights the different components of the architecture and the data flow for a small set of MIPS instructions. The animator may be accessed at this web site. The computerized tutor will determine parts of the subject in which the student's knowledge is inadequate. This will be done based on traces of the data path clicked by the student. The tutor will then decide on appropriate help actions, e.g., presenting explanations of architecture components or giving hints about how to proceed. Some of the data collection software required to support the tutor was implemented over the summer of 1999.
There is a possibility of some funding with these projects. Students interested should speak to Mark Jessell, and also Ann Nicholson, the honours coordinator before nominating these projects in their preference list.
Mark Jessell Australian Geodynamics Cooperative Research Centre Dept of Earth Sciences Monash University, Clayton, VIC, 3168 Australia _EMAIL_ Tel (61)(3) 9905 4902 Fax (61)(3) 9905 4903Home-Page.


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Working in the field of digital interaction design, Copenhagen-based design agency YOKE has created an immersive light experience exploring light as material for creating temporary structures in urban space. Like a three dimensional sketch pad, the installation works as interactive light architecture. By inviting visitors to create temporary structures of light, the installation explores the fleeting urban spaces of tomorrow.
As a fusion between the Danish words 'construction' and 'structure', Konstruktur challenges the human perception of space. Placed directly onto the floor the installation appears as a minimalist sculpture without a pedestal. The rhythmic movements of the light beams thus create a volatile architecture that for a while changes the space.
By adding smoke, the light beams are made visible to the human eye. This transforms an otherwise intangible form into a physical object and creates a temporary cubic form. Here the light beams appear almost like solid columns in the space.
Each light beam operates individually and reacts to movement. A camera detects bodies moving in front of the installation, which creates a temporary dialogue between the light architecture and the visitors.
Despite its simplistic form language Konstruktur is the result of a long craftsmanship process. Carefully assembled by hand each lightsource consists of an LED, two lenses and a printed circuit board. Together they create a grid of 196 identical light beams.
Unlike the many prefabricated light sources that exist on the market today, the installation is based on a passion for light as material and craft. If you move close enough to the light sources, all the small parts of the structure are clearly visible, thus becoming part of the overall aesthetic of the installation.
Konstruktur was created as a flexible construction that can take on different shapes depending on the specific location and was first exhibited at KUBEN in Horsens, Denmark, in October-November 2017. From February 9th 2018 until March 18th 2018 Konstruktur can be experienced again at Horsens Art Museum, Denmark.


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Genset Starting Education Module #4:
Genset Start Battery Strengths, Weaknesses & Use Strategies
William F Kaewert
SENS – Stored Energy Systems LLC
Two different types of batteries, lead-acid and Ni-Cd, are commonly used to start gensets. These two technologies have different characteristics that specifiers and users need to understand in order to successfully use each type.
Lead-acid battery strengths, weaknesses and strategy of use.
The lead-acid battery is readily available, low in cost and likely to fail suddenly at end-of-life. The most successful approach to using lead-acid starting batteries is to regard them as consumables needing regular replacement. Regardless of replacement frequency, correct charging and battery maintenance remain essential because new batteries can fail as frequently as a few months after installation if not properly charged and maintained.
Summary of strengths and weaknesses of lead-acid start batteries
Ni-Cd battery strengths, weaknesses and strategy of use
Ni-Cd technology is inherently more robust than lead-acid technology, does not fail suddenly like leadacid and is very long-lived. The higher up-front cost and long life expectation of Ni-Cd batteries mean that they would never be considered consumables. Unlike lead-acid batteries, though, Ni-Cd cells are not kept in stock at local battery distributors, so in the event of a cell failure, replacement could be days or weeks away. When a cell fails, users must choose to either jump out the bad cell or deploy a temporary leadacid battery until the replacement cell arrives.
Ni-Cd batteries require a well-defined commissioning charge to achieve the manufacturer's specified performance when installed. These parameters are typically provided in the battery maker's installation and operation instruction manual. Some variants of Ni-Cd2 are much more difficult to fully charge than lead-acid types because recharge efficiency is worse than in lead-acid batteries.3 The user manuals for some Ni-Cd types specify that tworate charging4 is mandatory to achieving manufacturer's specified performance. Battery chargers used with Ni-Cd batteries therefore should be specified to include automatic boost charging after discharge.
As with lead-acid batteries, correct charging and battery maintenance are essential.
Summary of strengths and weaknesses of Ni-Cd start batteries
Summary of key points
- Lead-acid battery:
- Strengths include that it is readily available, is made in standard sizes, and is low cost.
- Weaknesses include sudden failure at end of life, loss of life when hot, loss of performance when cold, and short shelf life.
- The most successful strategy to achieving reliable engine starting with lead-acid starting batteries is to regularly replace them well ahead of the date of expected failure.
- Nickel-cadmium battery:
- Strengths include inherently robust design and construction, no sudden failure mechanism, long service life and relatively long shelf life.
- Weaknesses include higher initial cost and larger footprint than lead-acid, and lower availability of replacements.
- The most successful strategy to achieving reliable operation with nickel-cadmium is committing to use Ni-Cd batteries in the first place, then continuing to maintain them.
- Defined as time sitting idle in a warehouse after last charge. Shelf life is shortened by high ambient temperature.
- Pocket plate Ni-Cd technology is more difficult to charge than newer Sintered PBE or fiber plate Ni-Cd technology.
- Recharge efficiency of pocket plate Ni-Cd batteries is around 70%, meaning that the charger must deliver at least 140% of the ampere-hours (AH) withdrawn from the battery before the battery is fully recharged. The recharge efficiency of very shallowly discharged batteries is even lower because replacing the last AH of capacity is always more difficult than replacing the first AH when the battery is discharged. See SENS Genset Starting Education Module #6: Battery Charging Basics for additional information.
- Two-rate charging is the most effective way to reduce charging time. Ideally, two-rate charging temporarily increases charging voltage above the normal float voltage setting during initial battery recharge. This is called "boost charging". Excess voltage applied to the battery compensates for voltage lost to the battery's internal resistance. Operating at the higher boost voltage allows the battery to accept the charger's maximum current longer than it would at float voltage. A correctly engineered charger automatically reduces the charger's voltage to the correct float voltage value when the battery reaches full charge. See SENS Genset Starting Education Module #6: Battery Charging Basics for additional information.
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text: To examine whether high moral reasoning competence of adolescents is associated with low levels of bullying, and to understand whether moral disengagement mediates or moderates this relationship, 925 German children ranging from 11 to 17 years of age (M = 14.18, SD = 1.21) completed questionnaires on moral reasoning competence and moral disengagement in surveys at three different schools. The children were classified according to their bullying role, based on a peer‐nomination procedure. Multinomial logistic regression analyses showed that moral reasoning competence negatively predicted whether a student took an aggressive role. Moral disengagement partially mediated this relationship. Corresponding effects for defenders and outsiders were not found. These results extend previous findings about the effect of moral reasoning on bullying in primary school. The implications for the prevention of bullying are discussed.


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After strangely located seismic activity, you probably would like a shore-leave. Why not request a baryon sweep, so you can not only relax, but also return to a perfectly clean ship? Sounds too good to be true? Probably. The question you need to ask yourself is: clean of what?
What does it do?
This question is easily answered by reading the Memory Alpha page on the baryon sweep. Therefore, I quote: "A baryon sweep was a procedure used to eliminate baryon particles from a starship." So if I read this correctly, the sweep removes either certain – or all – baryons, which emit radiation, which is harmful in large quantities.
What is a baryon?
Maybe you haven't had it in physics yet, never got to it or simply forgot? But either way, the definition of a baryon is vital to understanding why I was so skeptical about the removal of baryons.
First, what is the standard model? If we break everything we know down to what we now think are the building blocks for everything in existence, we get the colourful chart you see to the right. I am absolutely not going to bore you with the details! The important part is the purple region, where you'll find the quarks. Baryons are all particles made up of 'three quarks'. Actually this is not true, because the quantum world is a crazy party, but with 'three quarks' we mean three quarks that are not cancelled out by their antiquark counterpart. How many are there? Doing the math like I would have done with take 3 out of 6 quarks – in which order does not matter and recurrences are allowed – I would have come to ((6-1+3)!)/(3!*(6-3)!) = 1120 types of baryons.
However, some combinations are impossible and there are colour issues and a whole lot of things one could consider when asking this question. So somewhere between 75 and infinite.
What do you remove?
The baryon sweep definitely does not remove all baryons. Two of those who-knows-how-many baryons we all have heard of: protons (uud) and neutrons (ddu), the particles that make up all atoms we know! (With the help of electrons.) Removing all baryons means that you would literally shred any ship to pieces until all you have left are electrons.
So all these other baryons, how do they come to existence? Well, just like most things come to existence in quantum physics; you smash particles together, which probably happens when you travel at warp speed.
So does the baryon sweep remove all baryons other than protons and neutrons? I wish I could say yes, but probably no. Some baryons have this 'strangeness' which allows them to live long – something multiplied by 10^-10 seconds. That is really long for a baryon, but by the time you're out of warp speed, all the baryons other than protons and neutrons have died! Their lifespan is not even close to a second. Removing the baryons is not necessary, because they already died long before you could initiate such a procedure.
THEN WHAT DOES IT DO?
My friend hypothesized the baryon sweep removes only free baryons, so baryons that are not in an atom. Given what baryons decay into, these are protons and neutrons. Protons are the only stable baryon. Bare protons we also know as a hydrogen ion. Supposedly they survive and stay on the hull, they pose no threat because they are stable and therefore do not emit any type or form of radiation. Neutrons, however, have a lifespan of about 920 seconds and do decay in what we know is beta decay, which is harmful.
So my friend's hypothesis made sense, but what about my own? I stayed a little closer to science fiction and endless possibilities in the universe. What if this is the part where we get hypothetical? Warp speed not only smashes particles together hard enough to create rare baryons, but also enables them to combine to new sorts of 'atoms'. Just like a neutron is not stable outside of a nucleus, but could be inside, other baryons could – when combined – also become stable. Just like we have unstable atoms made up of protons and neutrons, there are unstable atoms made up of other or additional baryons. These atoms hypothetically could survive long, build up and pose a threat when not removed regularly.
The baryon sweep
So what is it? Well, up till now there are two hypotheses: First, my friend's, which says it removes free neutrons and possibly protons too. Then mine, which says there could, hypothetically speaking, be other sorts of atoms made up of rare baryons, which could be harmful when not removed. Either way, we can tell what it is not. It does not remove all baryons nor does it remove free baryons other than protons and neutrons (does not necessarily mean it does remove free protons and/or neutrons).
- Baryon sweep. Retrieved from: _URL_
- Nave, R. (Date unknown). Table of Baryons. Retrieved from: _URL_
- Fermilab, Office of Science, United States Department of Energy. (2006, June). Standard Model of Elementary Particles. [Image] Retrieved from: _URL_
- How many combinations can quarks form?. (2016, November). Retrieved from: _URL_


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Knot theory is a branch of topology that was inspired by observations, as the name suggests, of knots. But progress in the field no longer depends on experiments with twine. Knot theory concerns itself with abstract properties of theoretical knots — the spatial arrangements that in principle could be assumed by a loop of string.
In mathematical jargon, knots are embeddings of the closed circle in three-dimensional space. An ordinary knot is converted to a mathematical knot by splicing its ends together. The topological theory of knots asks whether two such knots can be rearranged to match, without opening the splice. The question of untying an ordinary knot has to do with unwedging tangles of rope pulled tight. A knot can be untied in the topological theory of knots if and only if it is equivalent to the unknot, a circle in 3-space.
Knot theory originated in an idea of Lord Kelvin's (1867), that atoms were knots of swirling vortices in the æther (also known as 'ether'). He believed that an understanding and classification of all possible knots would explain why atoms absorb and emit light at only the discrete wavelengths that they do (i.e. explain what we now understand to depend on quantum energy levels). Scottish physicist Peter Tait spent many years listing unique knots under the belief that he was creating a table of elements. When ether was discredited through the Michelson-Morley experiment, vortex theory became completely obsolete, and knot theory fell out of scientific interest. Only in the past 100 years, with the rise of topology, have knots become a popular field of study. Today, knot theory is inextricably linked to particle physics, DNA replication and recombination, and to areas of statistical mechanics.
An introduction to knot theory
Creating a knot is easy. Begin with a one-dimensional line segment, wrap it around itself arbitrarily, and then fuse its two free ends together to form a closed loop. One of the biggest unresolved problems in knot theory is to describe the different ways in which this may be done, or conversely to decide whether two such embeddings are different or the same.
The unknot, and a knot
equivalent to it
Before we can do this, we must decide what it means for embeddings to be "the same". We consider two embeddings of a loop to be the same if we can get from one to the other by a series of slides and distortions of the string which do not tear it, and do not pass one segment of string through another. If no such sequence of moves exists, the embeddings are different knots.
A useful way to visualise knots and the allowed moves on them is to project the knot onto a plane - think of the knot casting a shadow on the wall. Now we can draw and manipulate pictures, instead of having to think in 3D. However, there is one more thing we must do - at each crossing we must indicate which section is "over" and which is "under". This is to prevent us from pushing one piece of string through another, which is against the rules. To avoid ambiguity, we must avoid having three arcs cross at the same crossing and also having two arcs meet without actually crossing (we would say that the knot is in general position with respect to the plane). Fortunately a small perturbation in either the original knot or the position of the plane is all that is needed to ensure this.
In 1927, working with this diagrammatic form of knots, J.W. Alexander and G.B. Briggs, and independently Kurt Reidemeister, demonstrated that two knot diagrams belonging to the same knot can be related by a sequence of three kinds of moves on the diagram, shown right. These operations, now called the Reidemeister moves, are:
- Twist and untwist in either direction.
- Move one loop completely over another.
- Move a string completely over or under a crossing.
Knot invariants can be defined by demonstrating a property of a knot diagram which is not changed when we apply any of the Reidemeister moves. Some very important invariants can be defined in this way, including the Jones polynomial.
You can unknot any circle in four dimensions. There are two steps to this. First, "push" the circle into a 3-dimensional subspace. This is the hard, technical part which we will skip. Now imagine temperature to be a fourth dimension to the 3-dimensional space. Then you could make one section of a line cross through the other by simply warming it with your fingers.
Two knots can be added by breaking the circles and connecting the pairs of ends. Knots in 3-space form a commutative monoid with prime factorization. The trefoil knots are the simplest prime knots. Higher dimensional knots can be added by splicing the spheres. While you cannot form the unknot in three dimensions by adding two non-trivial knots, you can in higher dimensions.
- The Knot Book: An Elementary Introduction to the Mathematical Theory of Knots, Colin Adams, 2001, ISBN _PHONE_
- Knots: Mathematics With a Twist, Alexei Sossinsky, 2002, ISBN _PHONE_
- Knot Theory, Vassily Manturov, 2004, ISBN _PHONE_
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You can indicate that XXX is method name by writing XXX().
But in Objective-C, you can not write XXX() for XXX method.
If you write XXX, you can't tell if XXX is method name or other type of identifier.
How can you indicate that XXX is method name of Objective-C class?
Method call of Objective-C is different from other language.
in Objective-C, method call is:
[self XXX];
in other language, method call is:
In other language, for example, we can write in stackoverflow:
XXX() doesn't work
And we can know XXX is method thanks to ().
But in Objective-C, we can't say:
XXX doesn't work
Instead, to make it clear that XXX is method, we have to say:
XXX method doesn't work
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Could you post some sample code to illustrate the problem more clearly? Also, could you name it initMethod() to clear up the confusion? – FrustratedWithFormsDesigner Jul 20 '12 at 15:01
_USER_ thanks for your advice. I added a explanation. And init is just a example. To avoid confusion, I modified it to XXX. – js_ Jul 20 '12 at 15:27
You can tell it's a method because it's on the right side of the message call. In objective-c it's [object method] or [Class method]. If you are confusing properties, you have to remember that properties are just sugar. – Paul Jul 20 '12 at 15:51
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If you're talking about using init in documentation or some other place where you're describing the method, you can prefix it with a - if it's an instance method or a + if it's a class method. If the method takes parameters, leave them out and just concatenate the different parts of the method name, like: -initWithNibName:bundle: or +colorWithRed:green:blue:alpha:. Don't leave the colons out, though -- they're part of the selector. For example, you might write:
One way to create a color is by calling UIColor's +colorWithRed:green:blue:alpha: method.
Sometimes people include both the class name and method name, prefixed with the appropriate character and wrapped in square brackets:
One way to initialize a view controller is with -[UIViewController initWithNibName:bundle:].
That's not really a correct use of Objective-C syntax -- you'd never actually call a method like that -- but it conveys three important pieces of information: type of method (class or instance), class, and selector.
In code, of course, you don't need to do anything special to indicate what kind of identifier it is. Just use the method name in an appropriate context and the compiler will figure it out:
UIColor *color = [UIColor colorWithRed:0.5 green:0.5 blue:0.9 alpha:1.0];
NSMutableArray *array = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init];
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thanks for your detailed answer. – js_ Jul 21 '12 at 8:07
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I will typically use +[NSString stringWithString:] and -[NSString initWithString:], unless there is enough context to omit the + or - and class (then I would reduce it to stringWithString: and initWithString:).
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Terminology: It's not a method name, it's a message name, aka selector.
To your question: it's obvious from the syntax, message sends always take the form [receiver message_with_parameters], where receiver is an expression (it may be another [...]), so anything after receiver is a selector (that is, what you call method name). In case of selector without params, it is just its name (like is the case with [[Class alloc] init], in case of of selector with params, it looks like [3 between: 1 and: 5].
Or is your problem somewhere else? The question was a bit unclear.
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thanks. But i'm very sorry, my question was not clear. I added EDIT to my question. My question is about how to write method name, for example, in stackoverflow to let other people know that it is method name. – js_ Jul 20 '12 at 15:33
In that case, use'method Xxx' or use the '- selector' and '+ selector' syntax of Objective-C used to distinguish between instance and class methods. – herby Jul 20 '12 at 15:36
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- December 20, 2012
A survey by FIRE, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, a nonprofit organization devoted to the protection of civil rights on campus, has found that 62 percent of the college campuses it looked at nationally substantially restrict free speech on campus.
In New Jersey, the rate was 55.6 percent.
FIRE's report said that in most cases these policies had laudable goals -- in that they were designed to discourage harassment, bullying, and incitement. However, the application of these policies should not be any more restrictive than would occur off-campus. In other words, the First Amendment protects free expression unless it meets certain standards set by the U.S. Supreme Court. These standards include immediate threat of violence, repetitive and extreme harassment, and true threats and intimidation. If an off-campus standard is not met, it would be illegal to enforce on campus, according to FIRE.
In New Jersey, Princeton, The College of New Jersey, Stevens Institute of Technology, Kean University, and William Paterson University were all awarded "red lights" for substantially restricting speech on campus. Rutgers, Montclair State, Richard Stockton College, and New Jersey Institute of Technology were given "yellow lights" for having policies that could be interpreted to suppress protected speech or restricted only narrow categories of speech.


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Expected return and covariance from return time series
This example shows how to compute the estimated expected returns and the estimated covariance matrix.
RetSeries = [ 0.24 0.08 0.15 0.13 0.27 0.06 0.14 0.13 ]; DecayFactor = 0.98; [ExpReturn, ExpCovariance] = ewstats(RetSeries, DecayFactor)
ExpReturn = 1×2 0.1995 0.1002
ExpCovariance = 2×2 0.0032 -0.0017 -0.0017 0.0010
RetSeries— Return series
Return series, specified the number of observations
NUMOBS) by number of assets
NASSETS) matrix of equally spaced incremental
return observations. The first row is the oldest observation, and the
last row is the most recent.
DecayFactor— Controls how much less each observation is weighted than its successor
1(default) | numeric
(Optional) Controls how much less each observation is weighted than
its successor, specified as a numeric value. The kth
observation back in time has weight
DecayFactor must lie in the range:
< DecayFactor <= 1.
The default value of
1 is the equally weighted
linear moving average model (BIS).
WindowLength— Number of recent observations in computation
NUMOBS(default) | numeric
(Optional) Number of recent observations in the computation, specified as a numeric value.
ExpReturn— Estimated expected returns
Estimated expected returns, returned as a
ExpCovariance— Estimated covariance matrix
Estimated covariance matrix, returned as a
The standard deviations of the asset return processes are defined as
STDVec = sqrt(diag(ExpCovariance))
The correlation matrix is
CorrMat = ExpCovariance./( STDVec*STDVec' )
NumEffObs— Number of effective observations
NumEffObs is the number of effective observations
WindowLength emphasizes recent data more strongly
but uses less of the available data set.
For a return series
(n) is the most recent observation, and w
is the decay factor, the expected returns (
where the number of effective observations
E(r) is the weighed average of
The unnormalized weights are w,
w(n-1). The unnormalized weights do
not sum up to
NumEffObs rescales the
unnormalized weights. After rescaling, the normalized weights (which sum up to
1) are used for averaging. When w =
NumEffObs = n,
which is the number of observations. When w <
NumEffObs is still interpreted as the sample
size, but it is less than n due to the down-weight on the
observations of the remote past.
There is no relationship between
ewstats function and the
RiskMetrics® approach for determining the expected return and covariance from a
return time series.