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WEDNESDAY, Feb. 10 (HealthDay News) -- The burden of diabetes in rural communities points to a need for strategies to improve diabetes care in these areas, according to an article published in the Jan. 1 issue of Clinical Diabetes.
Cynthia N. Massey, of the Birmingham Heart Clinic in Alabama, and colleagues write that rural areas have a roughly 17-percent higher prevalence rate of diabetes than urban areas. Issues affecting diabetes control in rural areas include poverty, scarce diabetes education resources, and obesity.
The authors discuss several strategies that could be useful in improving diabetes management in rural areas. Studies on telemedicine have been associated with better self-management behaviors and reduced blood glucose. Weband cell phone-based interventions also hold potential. Telephone help lines have been linked to improved outcomes such as lower A1C levels, and lay community health advisors (CHAs) may help improve patients' knowledge and behaviors. Each approach, however, faces limitations, the authors note.
"Rural communities provide extremely challenging arenas for the translation of research into practice. Modalities such as telemedicine, Web-based interventions, help lines, and CHAs are promising. We must renew our efforts and continue to investigate the feasibility, applicability, and impact of each strategy and perhaps combinations of strategies in efforts to create synergy, overcome weaknesses, and enhance diabetes self-management in rural areas," Massey and colleagues conclude.
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Insect and Mite Pests of Apples
The following abstract describes a publication that is intended for print distribution or as a downloadable PDF. Please see links to the PDF file and ordering information on this page.
Knowledge of a pest's biology, including the stages at which it causes damage and its seasonal occurrence, and recognition of damage are essential to both conventional and alternative control methods in orchard pest management. This publication presents information on the damage symptoms and signs caused by many insect and mite pests commonly encountered in commercial as well as backyard apple orchards in the Midwest. A seasonal timeline shows the approximate time of occurrence for apple pests in central Missouri. This publication is part of a series of Integrated Pest Management manuals prepared by the MU Plant Protection Programs.
- Damaging pests
- More than 60 color photographs

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This facial expression is deemed one of 'the weirdest things' we can do
A wink: It can go either way. Either you can pull it off seductively, or look as if there is something in your eye. You never know how it's going to go down.
And because of its ambiguity, researchers have deemed it one of the 'weirdest things humans can do with their faces'. Unlike a smile, which is natural and less ambiguous, a wink is essentially a 'distortion of natural behavior'.
Professor Robert Provine explained to New York Magazine that "winking involves the hijacking of the biological maintenance behavior of blinking in the service of social signaling." How weird?
And even weirder is that people who can blink (Hint: Not everyone can, no matter how hard you try!) can either blink with their left or right eye, not both. You're not an ambidextrous winker, because dominant eyes do exist!
Given how much work goes into winking, it makes sense it's one of the more ambiguous expressions out there!
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Voyager 1 is speeding along at about 57,600 kph (35,790 mph) - fast enough to travel from the Earth to the Sun three and a half times in one year.
Both Voyagers carry a gold record 'greeting to the universe' (right) containing sounds and images selected to portray the diversity of life and culture on Earth.
Voyager 1 is in the process of escaping the solar system at a speed of about 523.6 million km per year, or about 1.4 million km per day.
Even at this tremendous speed, Voyager 1 will take at least 14,000 years (and maybe twice that or even longer) to emerge from the Oort cloud.
A 30-cm gold-plated copper disc, together with a needle and playing instructions, is mounted on the body casing. On it are recorded natural Earth sounds, 90 min of music, 115 pictures, and greetings in 60 languages.

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Make Way For Ducklings
Sunday May 12, 2013
Near the entrance to the Public Garden at Beacon and Charles Streets is the adorable Make Way for Ducklings statue. Anybody who visits the park, a popular destination for both adults and children, will no doubt notice the delightful statues of a Mother duck and her eight ducklings.
It was the popularity of the children's picture book by Robert McCloskey that led to the construction of the statue by renowned sculptor, Nancy Schon. McCloskey was an illustrator first, and author second, so retelling the Ducklings story tends to vary by individual based on their perception of the award-winning illustrations.
Each Mother's Day, a children's procession takes place in the Public Garden, which has become known as the Make Way For Ducklings Parade. The official name of the event is Ducklings Day. Young children dress up in duck-like outfits and trace the steps of the mallards within the Garden. A reservation is required, which allows access to the celebration. The event usually includes entertainment and a snack in addition to the procession. In 2013, the fee is $35 per family through online advance registration, and $40 per family on the day of event. Check-in begins at 10:30 am on Boston Common at the Parkman Bandstand.
Make Way For Ducklings was first published in 1941, and in 1942 it won the Caldecott Medal for its illustrations. More than two million copies of the book have been sold.
This enchanting story tells of how a pair of mallard ducks choose an island in the Boston Public Garden to raise their family. We first meet Mr. and Mrs. Mallard as they begin their search for a place to build their nest. Mr. Mallard suggests several locations, but to Mrs. Mallard, nowhere seems quite right. They decide to rest for the night on an island in the Public Garden lagoon, and then continue their search the next day.
The morning arrives and as the park comes to life, a Swan Boat passes by the ducks. Mr. and Mrs. Mallard mistake the human-powered catamaran for a real swan—at first believing they were snubbed by an arrogant swan—but then happily breakfast on the peanuts that the people on the boat throw to them. Just as Mrs. Mallard decides they should raise their family in the Public Garden, a passing bicyclist almost runs her over, and so their search begins again. After a very tiring day flying around Boston, Mr. and Mrs. Mallard decide to build their nest on an island in the Charles River.
They quickly settle into a routine of visiting the shore to get their daily meal of peanuts from a policeman named Michael. Soon afterwards, the ducks go through their molt and must wait until their feathers grow back before they can fly. In the meantime, eight ducklings are hatched by Mrs. Mallard, called Jack, Kack, Lack, Mack, Nack, Ouack, Pack and Quack.
Mr. Mallard decides it's time to take a trip to investigate the rest of the Charles River and arranges to meet Mrs. Mallard at the Public Garden after one week. While Mr. Mallard is gone, Mrs. Mallard shows her eight children how to swim, dive, and march along as ducks do. Remembering her near collision with the bicycle, she also shows them how to avoid the dangers of these strange wheeled objects.
The week passes quickly by, and Mrs. Mallard and her ducklings begin the journey to meet with Mr. Mallard. However, there are so many cars on Storrow Drive, that it's impossible to cross the busy highway to get to the Public Garden. Fortunately, their friend Michael the Policeman is on hand to stop the traffic and allow them to get across. To ensure the ducks' safety, Michael calls police headquarters and arranges with three other officers to stop all the traffic along the route, and Make Way for the gaggle of mallards. The ducklings march along in line, following closely behind their mother, just as she taught them. The people who see them along the way on Charles Street give them admiring looks and compliment them for being such a lovely family.
The story ends happily ever after with the mallard family making their home in the Public Garden, searching for peanuts and other food by day, and sleeping on their little island at night.
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These Giant Urban Flowers Bloom When Pedestrians Walk Under Them
HQ Architects have designed a set of giant flowers that bloom and react to pedestrians and transportation.
Located in Vallero Square in the heart of Jerusalem in Israel, the flowers have been installed as part of the municipality's effort to improve the urban space.
The four giant flowers, that are 30 feet tall, have been placed in key positions, enabling them to be viewed from all around the square and the nearby market.
Each of the flowers also provide a sense of movement to the square, as they bloom by inflating themselves when pedestrians walk by, but when there are no people, they close.
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- Castle Chapel: The Romanesque castle church was modelled after the south-eastern European churches of the second half of the 12th century by overbuilding earlier structures. The church holds the tomb of Gebhard XIV. Nowadays the church is used for a variety of cultural events, such as organ concerts.
- Prince's House: It was erected in the 12th century as a residential building with a connecting passage to the gallery of the castle church and has served various purposes over the centuries. The Prince's Residence was given its present appearance in the Baroque period. Nowadays, the hall and the cellar can be rented for weddings, birthdays or other family celebrations.
- Grain and Equipment Building (Museum, Bildersaal, Ottonenkeller & Café): Cardinal Albrecht of Brandenburg had this building erected in 1535. There was originally a Romanesque hall on the site, the oldest parts of which dated to around 1000, and which were later overbuilt. Around 1670/80, the rooms surrounding the former gatehouse were also used for grain storage, thus creating the size of the current building. The "Ottonian vault" is based inside the "grain and equipment building", which is located on the upper floors. The "Ottonian vault" offers space for approximately 30 people. It provides a heated space with amenities such as rustic tables - ideal for events such as wine tastings, knight's banquets and large birthday parties for children. The picture hall is located on the second floor of the "grain and equipment building" and serves as event location as well as for marriages.
- Tenant House: The tenant house was built in 1793 as a commercial and residential building. In the late 19th century, it was extended at the request of the leaseholder living there. These reconstructions characterize the appearance of the building until today. Nowadays, it houses the castle music school.
- Administrative building: The current administrative building was built in the late 18th century and had several predecessors. The remaining medieval tower next to the administrative building belongs to the older reinforcement of the west side of the castle.
The museums shop offers souvenirs, like costumes, plastic castles and weapons, books about the region and other castles, decorative glass, wooden and metallic presents, as well as mineral jewellery and music or gaming equipment.
- Side Weir:The building was built in the 17th century and used as a prison in the 18th century. Nowadays, there are two apartments which are rented by the hotel "Querfurter Hof".
- Brewhouse: It was probably constructed as housing in the second half of the 12th century or early 13th century. In 1669/70, the kitchen for the modern Prince's House was built in it. The term "brewhouse" is derived from the remains of the well and brewery outbuildings.
- Cheese Cottage: It offers accommodation inside castle's court, 65 square meters for 75€, suitable for 2-4 persons.
- Barn: The first reports of the barn construction date back to 1469. Modernization took place in 1669. The barn leans against the Eastern Romanesque wall of the castle and was one of five agricultural buildings that were originally at the castle
- Donkey Stable: Today's donkey stable was built in the Baroque period as a cowshed. The original building reaching up to the Paris Tower was reduced to its present dimensions in 1930. After 1945, donkeys were stabled inside. Nowadays, it houses the castle studio of the costume-dressmaker Anja Becker-Geipel.
- Open-Air atrium
- Castle Well: For many centuries, the well was the only source of water in the castle and already existed in 1500 although the time of its construction cannot be dated precisely. The well is 33 meters deep and has a water level of two and a half meters.
- Underground walkway and chambers
- Carolingian tower "Fat Henry" ("Dicker Heinrich" Keep): "Fat Henry" is the oldest of the three towers of the castle. It was probably erected in the second half of the 12th or in the early 13th century. With the height of 27,5 meters and a diameter of 14,5 meters, it is half as wide as high. Its wall thickness in the lower wall is 4,35 meters. It served as a watchtower and was also a representative status symbol of the lords.
- Paris Tower: In the second half of the 14th century, the Paris Tower was a residential tower, which housed the apartment of the gatekeeper. Until 1969, it served as a fire lookout tower. The keep is 57 meters high up to the top and the viewing platform is at a level of 30 meters in height.
- This tower is an early 13th century residential edifice topped off with a tower in the 14th century.
- The bastion (outer ward) was built in the 15th century and badly damaged during the Swedes siege in the Thirty Years War.
- Panoramic view platform: Beautiful view over the city of Querfurt
- Castle moat: The moat dug down into the rock to a depth of 18 meters in places.
- West Gate Complex: It dates from the 15th century. It was the main access of the castle. Its walls are over ten meters thick.
- Farmer's Museum – historic castle's sheep-farm: In 1498, the castle's sheep-farm was first mentioned in an inventory of the castle, as the "sheep-farm at the front of the castle" and served as an additional supply facility for the castle inhabitants. It is next to the castle.
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Blasius, Jörg; Eilers, Paul H. C. and Gower, John
Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 53(8),
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The elements of a biplot are (i) a set of axes representing variables, usually concurrent at the centroid of (ii) a set of points representing samples or cases. The axes are (approximations to) conventional coordinate axes, and therefore may be labelled and calibrated. Especially when there are many points (perhaps several thousand) the whole effect can be very confusing but this may be mitigated by:
1. Giving a density representation of the points.
2. While respecting the calibrations, moving the axes to new positions more remote from the points, and possibly jointly rotating axes and points.
3. The use of colour — when permissible.
4. Choosing more than one centre of concurrency.
The principles are quite general but we illustrate them by examples of the Categorical Principal Component Analysis of the responses to questions concerning migration in Germany. This application introduces the additional interest of representing ordered categorical variables by irregularly calibrated axes.
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International Early Career Scientists
Science is a multinational, cross-cultural endeavor that connects researchers across the borders created by discipline and continent. HHMI believes it is vital to encourage the careers and scientific creativity of scientists working abroad.
In this pilot program, HHMI identified scientists who are, or have the potential to become, scientific leaders. The International Early Career Scientist program awards each selected scientist $650,000 over five years with the goal of helping these talented individuals establish independent research programs.
The 28 scientists, who are at 22 institutions in 12 countries, have led their own laboratories for less than seven years.
Chosen scientists were from 12 countries—Argentina, Brazil, Chile, China, Hungary, India, Italy, Poland, Portugal, South Korea, South Africa, and Spain.


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First Congenital Chagas Case in U.S. Reported
Boy's mother said that she was diagnosed with the Chagas disease during a previous pregnancy, and was not treated for the disease, as well as having no signs or symptoms.
Reviewed by Robert Jasmer, MD
FRIDAY, July 6, 2012 (MedPage Today) — A Virginia boy born almost a year ago is the first case of congenital Chagas disease reported in the U.S., according to the CDC.
The boy was delivered by cesarean section at 29 weeks gestation in August 2010 after he was found to have fetal hydrops, the accumulation of fluid in at least two fetal compartments, the agency reported in the July 6 issue of Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
In the second week after birth, his mother – a 31-year-old immigrant from Bolivia – told physicians she had been previously diagnosed with Chagas and testing of the infant revealed evidence of Trypanosoma cruzi, the parasite that causes the disease, which is transmitted to humans by blood-sucking insects.
These insects are often called "kissing bugs" because they tend to bite people on the lips.
The boy is "the first documented congenital transmission of T cruzi in the United States," the CDC reported, adding, "additional, but unrecognized, cases likely exist."
The CDC said the boy's case is a reminder of the need for greater awareness of the disorder among healthcare providers.
The boy was born with ascitic fluid in the peritoneal cavity, pleural effusion, and pericardial effusion, the agency noted, and his physicians carried out a range of tests to discover the cause.
Blood tests for Toxoplasma gondii, rubella virus, and cytomegalovirus were negative, as were genetic tests for cytomegalovirus and enterovirus, a malaria smear, and a hepatitis panel.
Antibodies to herpes simplex virus were present, but cultures and genetic testing for viral nucleic acid were negative.
The boy was treated empirically with acyclovir (Zovirax) and given five days of ampicillin (Principen) and gentamicin (Garamycin) for presumed sepsis.
But testing for the parasite did not take place until the mother told doctors she had been diagnosed with the disease during a previous pregnancy in Bolivia and had not been treated.
T cruzi trypomastigotes — the extracellular form of the parasite — were found in a blood smear, serologic tests for antibodies against the parasite were positive, and polymerase chain reaction testing for T cruzi was strongly positive, the CDC reported.
After a 60-day course of benznidazole, the boy's symptoms cleared up and at 10 months repeat testing for the parasite was negative. Benznidazole and nifurtimox, the anti-parasitic drugs used to treat Chagas disease, are not approved in the U.S., but are available through the CDC for use under investigational protocols.
Testing of the mother showed she had Chagas disease, although she had no signs or symptoms and her electrocardiogram was normal.
The incidence of such cases is not well understood, the CDC noted, although an estimate based on home-country prevalence and birth rates among immigrants from areas where Chagas is endemic suggests between 65 and 315 congenital transmissions a year in the U.S.
The agency noted that U.S. obstetrician-gynecologists have "limited knowledge" of the disease, adding increased awareness is needed, especially among those who treat pregnant women from Mexico and South and Central America who might be at risk.
One difficulty, the CDC added, is that congenital T cruzi infection "has no specific clinical signs" and infected newborns may have no symptoms or only very subtle ones.
But "even severe disease might not be recognized because of the lack of defining clinical features and because the diagnosis is not considered," the agency said.
On the other hand, treatment in the first few weeks of life has a cure rate of more than 90 percent, the CDC reported.
Chagas was at the center of a controversy last month when a tropical medicine specialist called the disease the "new HIV/AIDS of the Americas."
Peter Hotez, MD, dean of Baylor College of Medicine's National School of Tropical Medicine in Houston, wrote in an editorial that there were notable similarities between people living with Chagas and those living with HIV/AIDS.
"Based on the chronic morbidities and high mortalities, the prolonged and expensive treatment courses, the lack of therapeutic options, and barriers to access to essential medicines, a patient living with Chagas disease faces formidable challenges that resemble those faced by someone living with HIV/AIDS," he stated.
But the president of the Chagas Disease Foundation called the comparison "unfortunate," adding that unlike HIV/AIDS, Chagas disease can be effectively treated in a short period of time.
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Statement on 'general education' in secondary education (01/12/2012)
In the context of the forthcoming reform of secondary education, minister of Education Pascal Smet asked for a statement on the concept of 'general education' and the use of European key competences as a framework. It is important to think about the general education that children need at the end of the third degree of secondary education, in order to be able to move to the labour market or to higher education. The challenge is not to add topics to the curriculum, but to have a common understanding of the concept of 'general education'.
With this statement, the Vlor wishes to start a large societal debate on the topic. The text has been prepared by the working group on the reform of secondary education.
The statement refers to the statements of EUNEC on Bildung from a lifelong learning perspective, Budapest, May 2011.


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'Living walls' can play a significant role in tackling toxic air hot spots in cities, says the report. It highlights the contribution of 'green building envelopes', such as moss and vegetated walls, vertical farming and roof gardens.
Worldwide, 3.7 million premature deaths in 2012 were attributed to exposure to poor air quality. Approximately 200,000 of these were in Europe and 900,000 in south-east Asia.
Green envelopes, often dismissed as "architectural window dressing", can reduce localised air pollution by up to 20% in some locations, rapidly reducing toxic air at street level, says Arup.
"Tackling rising air pollution is a priority to help improve people's health," said Arup global landscape architecture leader Tom Armour. "As our cities continue to become built up, 'grey' structures, such as walls and roofs, are a source of untapped potential for adapting into green spaces. When well-designed, green envelopes can have a positive impact on tackling air pollution, but can also deliver a wide range of social, economic and environmental benefits to make cities more attractive and healthier places to be."
The report called Cities Alive: Green Building Envelope reviews green infrastructure schemes across five global cities; London, Los Angeles, Berlin, Melbourne and Hong Kong to quantify the benefits of 'green building envelopes'. It is the fourth report in the 'Cities Alive' series which looks at ways to help shape a better world.
Advanced computer software was used to provide a visual representation of the flow of gasses, and help determine the effectiveness of green building envelopes to reduce pollutant concentrations. The report highlights plant species, such as pine and birch, that are particularly effective because of their ability to capture large quantities of particulate matter, including during winter when pollution concentrations are highest.
The study also highlights that green envelopes can reduce sound levels from emergent and traffic noise sources by up to 10 decibels in certain situations. To the human ear, this could make traffic sound half as loud. Increasing the quantity of vegetation in a city can also reduce temperatures. According to a US study, urban areas with a population exceeding 1 million can be up to 12°C warmer in the evening than surrounding areas, and in particularly dense centres, green infrastructure could reduce air temperature by up to 10°C. Green envelopes can also reduce peak energy consumption in traditional buildings by up to 8%.
As cities become more densely populated and increasing pressure is put on existing parks and open spaces to make way for further development. The report shows how green buildings can play a significant part in reducing urban stress and keeping people connected with nature. Vertical and urban farming are also highlighted as great ways of being able to create community spaces.


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Fossil Fuel Fired Industrial Boilers--Background Information, Volume 1: Chapters 1-9, Draft EIS. (See U.S. EPA Headquarters Library Copy _TAG_-202573).
This document provides background information for the fossil fuel-fired industrial boiler source category. Fossil fuels considered include coal, oil and natural gas. Background information for industrial boilers includes a survey of boiler types, sizes, operating characteristics, and existing State and Federal regulations. Uncontrolled emissions of particulate matter, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides are quantified and factors affecting these emissions are discussed. Control technologies for particulate matter, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides are identified and discussed with respect to the technologies' applicability to industrial boilers, developmental status, and factors affecting performance. Emissions data for each technology are also presented. Finally, environmental, energy and cost impacts of applying these technologies to fossil fuel-fired industrial boilers are presented and discussed. This information was developed in support of potential new source performance standards for industrial boilers.
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Time-discretization approximation enriches continuous-time discrete-space models for animal movement
Speaker: Josh Hewitt (Duke University, North Carolina, USA)
Joint CREEM / Statistics Division seminar
Continuous-time discrete-space (CTDS) processes for animal movement model trajectories across discretely observed spatial domains, which arise via gridded remote sensing products in 2D, or via underwater sound propagation models in 3D. CTDS models are approximately estimated from finite observations of animal location because the exact likelihood has O(N^3) computational complexity, where N is the size of the spatial domain. The usual approximation averages estimates from multiple imputations of the complete, unobserved trajectory. However, imputations typically discretize output from continuous-space surrogate models that do not account for complex boundaries like coastlines and bathymetry. As a result, parameter and location estimates may be biased by imputations that are inconsistent with respect to physical barriers. We remedy this issue by proposing a discrete-time likelihood approximation. We also develop additional theory and interpretation for CTDS model formulation, which supports the approximation. We demonstrate the improvement of the discrete-time approximation in simulation. We also demonstrate improvement in application, by combining GPS locations and depth measurements with bathymetry data to refine estimates of a beaked whale's position during exposure to anthropogenic sound.


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Fiber Optic Sensing for Aircraft Overheat Detection Designed to Improve Safety
Luna recently announced an exclusive development and licensing agreement with Meggitt Safety Systems with the aim of supplying specialized fiber optic components and technologies to enable a new generation of commercial aircraft overheat detection systems. Meggitt is concentrating on several new areas of technology for aerospace, including new materials, new processes and new sensors.
Optical sensors are inherently compatible with these technology trends, being low profile, lightweight and flexible. Luna's fiber optic sensors can be embedded in composite materials, included in the additive manufacturing process and perform well in complex geometries. These sensors are "heat agnostic," enabling non-destructive testing for the new materials and joining methodologies employed in the aerospace industry. Importantly, fiber optic sensors are also multiplexable, allowing for thousands of highly accurate and precise discrete or continuous measurement points along the length of an optical sensor fiber.
Luna is a worldwide leader in fiber optics sensors and interrogator measurement technologies. Luna and Meggitt are now working together to design and deploy a new generation of Bleed Air Leak Detection (BALD) systems based on fiber optic sensors and interrogators.
BALD systems detect hot air leakage events from bleed air ducts in aircraft and are critical for ensuring both passenger and crew safety. Traditional BALD systems employ electrical cable sensors manufactured with eutectic salts. New generations of aircraft based on innovative materials and manufacturing techniques require a higher performance and higher reliability solution.
With thousands of highly precise, rapidly responding temperature measurement points along the lengths of lightweight fiber optic sensor cables, these new fiber optic based BALD systems provide the high degree of measurement accuracy required to rapidly pinpoint the location of a bleed air leakage events as they occur in composite aircraft. This real-time information enables timely and effective responses by cockpit crews, ensuring passenger and crew safety. Ground teams then receive specific event location information, speeding up required interventions and inspections of affected areas of these composite aircraft, thereby reducing costly aircraft downtime. Fiber optic BALD systems also offer the benefits of lighter weight, higher reliability and simpler installation as compared to the traditional technologies.
Meggitt is a supplier to 15 airframers and five engine manufacturers. The Luna-Meggitt partnership provides a complete system of lasers, interrogators and sensors designed to enhance the safety and security of commercial air travel.


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The quantity of available water resources has been recognized as the key limiting factor for development of most of the arid regions. This paper focuses on the simulation–optimization for conjunctive use of surface water and groundwater on a large scale. In this study, Hetao Irrigation District in China, one of the largest irrigation districts in the Yellow River basin, is selected as a representative study area. The conjunctive management model of water resources is developed by means of dynamically coupling a large-scale hydrological model with an optimal allocation model. A groundwater level is adopted in the coupled model as the constraint condition and the optimal conjunctive utilization quantity of surface water and groundwater is set as the objective function. Finally, the coupled model is applied to calculate the optimal water supply quantity of surface water and groundwater and sustainable utilization scheme of water resources for 2020 and 2030 in Hetao Irrigation District. The modeling results demonstrate the conjunctive management model of water resources is an effective tool for appraising water resources in large-scale arid regions.
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A large-scale conjunctive management model of water resources for an arid irrigation district in China
Weifeng Yue, Chesheng Zhan; A large-scale conjunctive management model of water resources for an arid irrigation district in China. Hydrology Research 1 October 2013; 44 (5): 926–939. doi: _URL_
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Julia Robertson con Physical Therapy and Massage for the Dog
Interest in canine massage and physical therapy has grown as greater emphasis is placed on the general fitness and agility of dogs, as pets and as sporting animals. In this book the authors are concerned with the prevention, management and treatment of movement and allied disorders. It encompasses detailed assessments, treatment programmes that involve hands-on therapy along with dynamic remedial and strengthening techniques using exercise plans. Following succinct discussion of the relevant canine anatomy and physiology, the authors provide chapters on each of the key topics: movement and muscles; exercise; preparation for sports performance; rehabilitation techniques; massage and physical therapy; and common relevant pathologies affecting dogs. Physical Therapy and Massage for he Dog is of interest to all those involved in canine welfare including veterinary practitioners, veterinary students, therapists, dog owners and dog trainers.


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To make the task a little easier NetSupport supplies ready-made Administrative Templates containing the configurable options. When you install NetSupport, the Template files are copied to the NetSupport Manager/School program folder.
To enable certain configurations at the Client/Student or Control/Tutor using the NetSupport ADM Template file, you are required to enter an encrypted value, for example, the security key policy requires an encrypted security key to be entered. When configuring this through the ADM Template files, you cannot enter the security key in plain text as it will not be recognised, so you have to enter an encrypted security key value to the security key policy.
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Remember his crazy cubic chandeliers? Here he is again – Robert at the peak of his student career, creating something at once simple but with infinite potential. Control switches sometimes give users the ability to adjust light levels, a step up from the classic on-or-off switch to be sure, but these simple-looking, box-shaped pendant lights take things to another level entirely.
Each of the six sides to each cube is independently flexible, hooked together via a series of suspension wires that lets the user control their angle in three dimensions.
The resulting possibilities for illuminating a room become essentially endless, as one can bend, twist and tweak each side to create interesting lighting effects or effective light channels for functional use.
The culminating thesis work of design student Robert Hoff, these boxes are deceptive in their simplicity – one might be tempted to say 'well, anyone could have designed that' but if you are a designer you know from experience: making something simple is often much more challenging than making it complex.
"Light and shadow combine into modular light. What characterises the light objects, which are made of sheet metal, is their play with the surrounding room. Depending on light beam and angles, the light objects change the room and invite the user to shape it. In the initial position the light appears to be trapped within its geometrical cladding. However, turning and tilting the surfaces breaks the light space open, and releases it into freedom. Where previously sharp lines forced their way past the edges, smooth light surfaces now flood the room.Depending on the light beam one can discover ever new structures and shadings. It's a minimalistic yet fascinating interplay of the movable metal surfaces, which the user can give the element light a shape with. The boundary between product and sculpture dissolves."


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Wellesley College BISC 220 Cellular Physiology
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Enzymes Secretory Pathway Apoptosis OWW Basics
Purifying and Handling Proteins
The first step in the purification of a specific intracellular protein is extraction from the cells. Bacterial cells can be broken and their enzymes extracted or solubilized by a variety of techniques that may involve mechanical methods (grinding, etc.) or chemical lysis of the cells. The objective is to release the desired enzyme from the cells as gently as possible to retain activity of the enzyme.
Isolation and Purification: There are several methodologies that can be employed for the purification of enzymes, many of which are discussed in your text. These include:
 1. differential solubility
 2. ion exchange chromatography
 3. affinity chromatography
 4. molecular sieve techniques
 5. density gradients
 6. electrophoresis
 7. electrofocusing
Most of these methods rely on differences in either the net charge or molecular weights of the proteins. Generally cruder, less time consuming methods are used in the initial processing of cellular extracts. This is necessary not only because of the large quantities of protein to be processed but also because of the complexity of the protein mixture.
 1. pH: Enzymes have multiple charges on their surfaces, which must be preserved to maintain the native 3-D structure and hence enzymatic activity. Buffers are used to maintain the enzyme solutions at a desired pH. The buffer must be in the appropriate concentration, have the correct pKa, and must not adversely affect the protein. See your general chemistry text for a review of buffers and other inorganic chemistry terms.
 3. Protection Against Sulfhydryl Oxidation: Enzymes may contain many sulfhydryl groups (SH). One or more may be required for the activity of an enzyme. If these sulfhydryl groups become oxidized, they form intraor intermolecular disulfide bonds. If necessary, the most effective method of retarding such oxidation is the addition of a reducing agent to the buffer. Dithiothreitol (DTT) and β-mercaptoethanol (βME) are among the most common and effective reducing agents. β-galactosidase seems to be most stable in a reducing environment, so often β-mercaptoethanol is included in the solutions used to extract and assay the enzyme.
 4. Protection Against Heavy Metals: In addition to oxidation, sulfhydryl groups may react with heavy metal ions such as lead, iron or copper. Principal sources of metal ions are the reagents used to make up buffers, substrates, and water itself. Deionized or distilled water is used to make up reagents and a chelating agent such as EDTA (ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid) can also be added.
Basic Rules for Handling Enzymes
The following information is taken from a popular primer now published by Roche Pharmaceuticals, but first published in the December 1985 issue of BMBiochemica. by Boehringer Mannheim Biochemicals.
 3. Enzymes should be handled in the cold (0-4°C) at all times. Dilute for use with ice-cold buffer or distilled water. While using an enzyme solution or suspension at the bench, keep it in on ice.
 5. Enzymes, especially those that have been diluted, should be periodically checked for activity to ensure that any loss in activity is taken into account when designing an experimental protocol. Expiration dates on vials only refer to enzymes stored in the original form at the correct temperature.
 8. Vials containing lyophilized enzymes (as well as cofactors such as NADH and NADPH) should be warmed to room temperature before opening. This prevents condensation of moisture onto the powder, which can cause loss of activity or degradation. If the reagent is hygroscopic, mishandling may ruin the entire vial.
 9. Avoid repeated freeze-thawing of dilute enzymes and lyophilizates in solution. Store in small aliquots. Thaw one portion at a time and store that portion once thawed at 4°C. The stability of individual enzymes may vary greatly and often should be determined empirically under your exact conditions.
 10. Detergents and preservatives should be used with caution, since they may affect enzyme activity. Sodium azide, for example, inhibits many enzymes which contain heme groups (e.g. peroxidase). Detergents added at concentrations above their critical concentration form micelles which may entrap and/or denature the enzyme.
 11. Enzymes should be handled carefully. To avoid contamination of any kind, use a fresh pipette tip for each aliquot that is removed from the parent vial. Never return unused material to the parent vial. Wear gloves to prevent contaminating the enzyme with proteases, DNAses, RNAses, and inhibitors often found on fingertips. Never pipette by mouth.
 12. Adjust the pH of the enzyme buffer at the temperature at which it will be used. Many common buffers (Tris, glycylglycine, Bes, Aces, Tes, Bicine, Hepes) change rapidly as the temperature changes. For instance, Tris buffer decreases 0.3 units of pH for EVERY 10°C rise in temperature. A solution of Tris, adjusted to pH7.5 at +25°C will have a pH of 8.1 at 4°C or 7.2 at 37°C. The change in pH per 10°C temperature change for other buffers is: Aces, -0.20; Bes, -0.16 ; Bicine,-0.18; glyclyglycine, -0.28; Hepes,-0.14; Tes, -0.20 [Good, N.E., Winget, G.D., Winter, W., Connolly, T.N., Izawa, S., and Singh, R.M. (1966). Hydrogen ion buffers for biological research. Biochemistry 5, 467-77.]
 13. The absorbance at 280nm is widely used to quickly determine the protein concentration of an enzyme solution. However, this absorbance is due to the presence of tyrosine and tryptophan in the protein. If an enzyme (e.g. superoxide dismutase) contains low amounts of these two amino acids it will not absorb significantly at 280nm.
Resources: Detailed information is available on many enzymes. The following are excellent resources.
Affinity Chromatography
The use of metal chelate affinity chromatography for protein purification was first reported by Porath and colleagues in 1975. This landmark report applied the knowledge that histidine and cysteine form rather stable complexes with some cations such as zinc and copper ions. We now know that the amino acid tryptophan shares this characteristic with histidine and cysteine and that some proteins have specific binding sites for these metals. Porath et al. (1975) devised a method to tightly bind metal ions to a solid matrix such as agarose beads. The matrix resides in a column through which protein solutions are passed. Some proteins in these solutions bind to the matrix but can be specifically eluted by a low pH wash solution. Later work (Porath and Olin, 1983; Kagedal, 1998) showed that it is possible to release proteins from such columns using a strong soluble chelator such as EDTA or by chemically competing with the binding. For example, histidine binding can be disrupted by including imidazole in the protein elution buffer. The chemical structure of imidazole is similar to the ring structure of histidine, therefore it competes for the binding site on the cation matrix.
In today's lab, we are using agarose beads chelated with nickel to fractionate the 6xHis-tagged β-galactosidase. Nickel effectively binds histidine, and the combination of 6 histidine residues in a row at the amino terminus of β-galactosidase should lead to rather tight binding. After washing the nickel chelated agarose to remove any unbound or loosely bound protein, we will use a buffer containing 200 mM imidazole to release the 6xHis


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How a small British town used social connections to make residents happier and healthier
Hokyoung Kim for Quartz
By working together, community members can help one another out of the darkness.
 - Jenny Anderson
By Jenny Anderson
Senior reporter, Editor of How to be Human
For a long time, Helen Kingston had noticed that a lot of her patients seemed dejected. A general practitioner in Frome, a charming English village two-and-a-half hours southwest of London, she had plenty of patients who were understandably worn down by multiple illnesses, who came in up to 80 times a year and needed more than a doctor could offer in a 10-minute appointment. But there were also many who felt helpless in ways that were harder to define.
Austerity, the government's response to the 2008 financial crash, had led to dramatic cuts in jobs, children's services, social care, school budgets, and local councils across the UK. That created real stress and health problems. But it had also, she thought, eroded people's confidence to deal with the challenges life threw at them.
It wasn't just the patients. Kingston's fellow doctors were frustrated, too. They felt they were not able to offer the care patients needed, that they were only scratching the surface of their problems, both medical and non-medical.
Frome Medical Practice, where Kingston works, serves almost 30,000 people. But she had previously worked in a smaller practice, where she knew all her patients as people. She could tell that George was back in her office not because George had diabetes and depression, but because George had lost his wife and was feeling isolated and helpless, which was exacerbated by his diabetes and depression, and that to connect with people he needed extra support and help. She wanted to bring holistic and humanistic care to a larger setting.
So in 2013, Kingston applied for and received £110,000 ($142,000) of "innovation" funding from the Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), an offshoot of England's National Health Service that funds local GPs. She used it to hire someone to help manage patients who were being discharged from the hospital. But she also hired Jenny Hartnoll, a pathologically optimistic problem-solver, to map out community resources in Mendip county, population 115,000. Plenty existed: choirs, stroke support groups, exercise classes for people with health challenges, even Men's Sheds, places—in the UK and around the world —where men gather to tinker build and bond. Hartnoll built a website cataloging all of them.
Then, Hartnoll designed a multi-pronged approach to get that information to people. First, she developed an army of very lightly trained "community connectors"—community members who could get out the word of what Frome had to offer. Later, she and Kingston designed a small team of professional "health connectors" who could help people manage multiple conditions and challenges. The approach addressed both ends of the distribution of medical care: those with seemingly non-medical needs and those with deeply complex conditions.
Patients and doctors got happier. But something else happened, in 2018, that catapulted Kingston and Hartnoll's project from novel to national news: Emergency hospital admissions in Frome fell by 14% over three years. In Somerset county overall, where Frome is located, they rose 28.5%.
This was a big deal. In the UK, health care is paid for by the government which is expensive: From 1998 to 2013, emergency admissions rose by 47% in the UK, from 3.6 million to 5.3 million, costing the NHS £12.5 billion. Interventions to reduce emergency admissions have largely failed at a time when the NHS is often described as being at a "breaking point."
"We were absolutely astounded to find that as a result of trying to do what's best for people the population emergency admissions had gone down."
Frome offered a dramatic counter-narrative. "We were absolutely astounded to find that as a result of trying to do what's best for people the population emergency admissions had gone down," said Julian Abel, a retired palliative care doctor who teamed up with Kingston to study the data. "There are no other interventions ever that have reduced emergency admissions across a population, in spite of this being public policy for at least two decades," he said. They eventually published a paper in the British Journal of General Practice.
What's happening in Frome is happening in different ways all over the world. In Wales and Canada, in Scotland, Australia, and the US, communities are building better ways to support individual needs. In part, that's due to reality that the medical industrial complex can't solve every problem, and countries can't afford trying. But it's also an acknowledgement that modern society is conspiring against us a bit, leaving it to communities to try and build resilience and unlock what makes humans thrive.
When the NHS released its 10-year plan in January, it included some of the core elements from Frome: the plan called for investing in "link workers", or what Frome calls health connectors, and social prescribing, or having doctors prescribe community activities, similar in ways to what Hartnoll had been doing. "This represents a new relationship between people, professionals and the health and care system. It provides a positive shift in power and decision-making that enables people to feel informed, have a voice, be heard and be connected to each other and their communities," the plan reads.
The question of course, is what exactly made it work in Frome, and can it be replicated?
Jenny Anderson
The problem
On a cold, rainy Monday morning at the Cheese and Grain—a hip coffee shop in Frome—Jenny, 68, is talking about her 39 years as a surgical and recovery nurse. There was chaos, but also camaraderie. She had kids, and the juggling her many responsibilities was hard. But she was tough, she said.
She anticipated that retirement would be wonderful. And at first, it was. "The windows sparkled," she said laughing and sipping her tea. "Then, there was nothing."
Jenny didn't have many friends. She had worked her whole life. Suddenly, she felt herself going downhill. She didn't want to burden her kids (one lives in another country, the other is "very busy with her kids' schools") and while she has a husband at home, it was just the two of them, all day, every day. "You can talk to your family but they have to get on with their lives," she said.
A person she met suggested she try the Talking Cafe, a group of people who meet and chat every Monday from 9am to noon. "Why not?" she figured. She walked in, sat down, and sobbed.
Jenny's experience isn't unique. Talking to friends and colleagues—or making new ones—has become increasingly hard, as technology both connects us and crowds out the time we might actually spend together. Jobs bleed into home life, and there aren't as many collective places to gather: Libraries and parks are being auctioned off by councils to developers to raise money, and church membership is in free fall. In pursuit of Instagram-ready perfection, many of us sacrifice the familiar comfort of regular friends, whose imperfections IRL remind us that ours are okay too. Online, everyone can be perfect.
"Primary care in England is where they come when they aren't sure what they should do."
"Most of us have got friends and we neglect them a little bit," Kingston says. We think they'll be there when we need them, but it's harder to call asking for help when you haven't called in a year.
As a result, people may be leaning on their doctors for comfort and guidance they might have gotten from family, or friends. The average member of the public now sees a GP six times a year, double the number of visits from a decade ago (the population is up only 10% in that time). "Primary care in England is where they come when they aren't sure what they should do," Kingston said. People come in with medical issues—but often, it's more than that. "When you dig down it's a medical condition, and the impact of the medical condition on their lives."
Research in 2016 showed 20% of patients consulted their GP for what were primarily social problems; more recently, an NHS England report (pdf, p.10) said that had shifted to half. "People struggling with life alongside their health are less able to cope with ill health, or they find themselves 'medicalizing' this struggle in order to get help," said a recent report by London South Bank University's Health System Innovation Lab (pdf, p.8).
In Frome, Kingston and Hartnoll have worked to rebuild those lost support networks, to connect the community and the health care system better. Hartnoll, whose official title is "services lead" for Frome Medical Practice, came up with the idea of community connectors—essentially, giving people the green light to help anyone who seemed like they needed help. Starting in 2013, Hartnoll recruited connectors wherever people gathered: churches, cafes, schools, police stations. To keep it simple, she offered a training between 20 minutes and two hours. More than 1,000 showed up.
Hartnoll gave them a simple mandate: know what is available and point people to it. Say you're in line at the grocery store, and discover the person in front of you's mother had just had a stroke. You might say you'd heard of


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Homes of the World
The children will explore the different homes of people of the world. They will be shown how our homes can be of different designs and made of different materials pertaining to where we live in the world.
Children love to draw their homes. It is one of the first things they paint when they get to paint at the easel in school.
Show them pictures of homes throughout the world. Talk about the materials they are made from. Talk about textures on the surfaces of the homes, and why certain materials are used in different parts of the country. Tell them about an architect. Discuss how a home is part of the history of their family.
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A main character's name often gives you the first clue to what a novel is "about," especially when it's also the title of the book. A good example turns up in Olive Kitteridge, the collection of linked short stories that won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. A just-picked olive is as bitter — and the color olive is as drab — as the title character of the book appears at first to be. The salt added during curing removes the bitterness just as love, the salt in this book, removes some of Olive's. In Ireland a kitter is a left-handed person. And Olive is at least metaphorically left-handed: She's out of sync with others in her coastal town in Maine. A surname database says of Kitter: "This is an Olde English or Anglo-Saxon pre 10th Century name which derives from the word 'Cyta' and is a nickname of the medieval period generally given to one of fairly violent attitudes." Olive's views of life are "fairly violent," especially in the first story, when they are so angry they verge on caricature.
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I'm a female mathematician/statistician, and I think that your argument in the presentation would be strengthened by specifying exactly what those curves are that you are referencing. I tried to download the paper but couldn't find an active link in my university online resources. Will keep searching, certainly.
 The thing is, I've done some analysis of psychological measurement and I've noticed that psychologists have this tendency to treat everything as a measurement of normal means problem, up to and including making probability statements about them. And so my question is: Are those curves in your presentation population curves (ie, representing the spread and diversity of ability within the population), or are they margins of error resulting from the calculation of a sample average (a so-called "data point" that is averaged across your sample, with its associated error bars, normal as per the Central Limit Theorem when the sample size is large-ish)? It is one thing to compare the populations with your cutoff points (which are basically relative probability statements), but doing those comparisons on the confidence in average ability is much different, especially if the shapes of the curves differ. Means are influenced by outliers– they only match up with medians or modes if the population distribution is symmetric. Even if your confidence in the value of the mean is this bell-shaped distribution, depending on the shape of the population, there could be many more or fewer people extended out beyond those means. From my reading of the caption in the picture, it's looking at an effect size, which generally is a comparison of means.
 Not that I'm arguing for a biological distinction between men and women on mathematics skills, but universally, it seems like everyone except statisticians are terrible at stats.
 1. Terri
 I'll say it again: This is not intended to be a full scientific proof; this is meant to a be a quick explanation understandable by someone with fairly basic math skills. Years of presenting before audiences has taught me that a compelling simplification can be more persuasive and useful in building a mental model than a detailed analysis, especially when your intended audience is not skilled in your field of study.
 It's like explaining atoms to kids: you give them this initial model of the electrons rotating around like planets, and even though it's not entirely accurate as a model, it provides a basis for you to later explain the electron shell if they pursue further study in physics. This presentation is meant to be the basis for understanding that the difference between the means is not large enough to explain the gender gap by itself, since that basic concept seems to elude a lot of people.
 You asked specifically about the graph: I guess maybe you can't quite read the information below the graph in the slideshare embedded version (it's quite legible in the original, which you can download), but it's just a graph showing the approximate magnitude of the difference in the means, not showing the full distribution. The paper itself has some fascinating numbers about ability gaps over time, and I believe if you search for it in google scholar and click on a few of the pdf links, you can eventually find an online copy that doesn't require subscription.
 There *are* papers with more accurate graphs, but I didn't have any handy and, given that I'm trying to build simplified mental models here, it would have just added to the mental task load with very little benefit. As I said earlier, the tails represent few individuals, and wouldn't have much effect on the final stats. And on top of that, I'm relatively sure that genius-level math folk don't often go into computer science, so one would likely need to chop off the tail entirely… all in all, it would have added several slides and complicated the explanation to very little benefit. The key to great presentations is often knowing what to leave out.
 Should be easy enough to find better graphs if you to go a university library and ask a librarian, though. Alternatively, you could check the references from one of the many books on the subject of gender and ability. And finally, an organization like might have a reading list or provide some suggestions if you asked.
 12. Josh
 Just a comment to let you know I enjoyed the presentation. It was extremely clear, and I do indeed feel that I have learned something.
 Thanks :)
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Object-Based Thermal Image Segmentation for Fault Diagnosis of Reciprocating compressors
Rongfeng Deng, Yubin Lin, Weijie Tang, Fengshou Gu, Andrew Ball
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As an essential mechanical device in many industrial applications, reciprocating compressors have a high demand for operating efficiency and availability. Because the temperature of each part of a reciprocating compressor depends considerably on operating conditions, faults in any parts will cause the variation of the temperature distribution, which provides the possibility to distinguish the fault type of reciprocating compressors by differentiating the distribution using infrared thermal imaging. In this paper, three types of common fault are laboratory experimented in an uncontrolled temperature environment. The temperature distribution signals of a reciprocating compressor are captured by a non-contact infrared camera remotely in the form of heat maps during the experimental process. Based on the temperature distribution under baseline condition, temperature fields of six main components were selected via Hue-Saturation-Value (HSV) image as diagnostic features. During the experiment, the average grayscale values of each component were calculated to form 6-dimension vectors to represent the variation of the temperature distribution. A computational efficient multiclass support vector machine (SVM) model is then used for classifying the differences of the distributions, and the classification results demonstrate that the average temperatures of six main components aided by SVM is a promising technique to diagnose the faults of reciprocating compressors under various operating conditions with a classification accuracy of more than 99%.
Original languageEnglish
Article number3436
Number of pages11
JournalSensors (Switzerland)
Issue number12
Publication statusPublished - 18 Jun 2020
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Lips are a very delicate and important part of the human face as a beautiful and healthy lip acts as an icing on the cake. But, it is also true because of its delicate nature, it requires a lot of care and maintenance.
The face is the apple of one's eye and one cannot tolerate if any damage occurs to it, in front of their eyes. There is a very common issue that arises with the lips is the bleeding, which can make you a standing joke among the crowd. Bleeding lips not only gives an ugly look, but it is also very painful and irritating.
What can be the causes behind a bleeding lip? It is a common question of many, the causes or the secret behind the lip bleeding are:
1. Skin infection:
If there is an infection in the skin of a person then there are possible chances that lips will be affected as it is a delicate part of the skin. It is generally caused due to inflammation in the skin, which can affect the entire skin of the body or any one part. If you have any symptoms of skin infection, then you must go for medical care.
2. Lip injury:
It is a very normal reason that bleeding may occur when the lips get injured. If the living body part of a person is injured then it is obvious that it causes bleeding. Lip injury is not to worry cause as it can be treated and cured with the application of antiseptics and ointments.
3. Oral cavity cancer:
Lip is a very important part of the oral cavity of a human, hence, if a person suffers from the cancer of the oral cavity, then the lips are also equally affected. Even, of the major symptoms of this cancer includes sore and bleeding lips.
When it comes to the problem of cancer, it is recommended to get medical treatment as soon as possible. The treatment is available for this issue, including radiation and many others.
4. Surgical wound:
If there is, any wound on the body of a person then it is obvious that bleeding will occur from that point. These wounds are often caused due yo surgery, which may be due to strong medicines which are induced because of the surgical process.
These wounds which are caused due to surgery are referred as surgical wounds. One of the causes of bleeding of the lip is this surgical wound and it should be treated with care so that it gets completely cured.
5. Allergic reaction:
As it is noted before that lips are very delicate part of humans, which makes it weak when it comes to allergic reaction. If your lips are suffering from the allergic reaction, then it will bleed. Actually, this reaction is a response or the immune system to a particular allergen, in simple words, the struggle of the immune system with harmful allergens causes allergic reactions.
It is a very common phenomenon and its severity can range from mild to life-threatening. It can be classified as skin allergy and food allergy, it is very important to get proper medical attention if bleeding is occurring due to this reason.
6. Lip cancer:
One of the major symptoms of lip cancer is the bleeding from the lips. This type of cancer is a very rare form of cancer and is treatable with ease if caught at a very stage. This cancer occurs due to an uncontrollable growth of cancer cells in the lips of a person. It is very important to go through medical soon because with time it penetrates deeper into the oral cavity.
7. Skin cancer:
During a skin cancer, any part of the skin is affected and many times, bleeding from the lip is a major symptom because it is attacked first by the cancer cells. Before this cancer captures the whole body, it is advised to go through the required medical care.
Can you imagine your face without lips? Of course not, as a maximum of your daily tasks is performed with the assistance of lips only including, eating, talking, drinking and many others. So, it is very important to provide proper care for them as to get a revived and healthy one.


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The idea of going to college is one that resonates with Americans and is the desired route by a great many parents for their child, and could be considered the embodiment of the "American dream." The liberal arts have been pushed by many institutions, and much less emphasis placed on vocational education, now referred to as career technical education (CTE). Despite its long history in both America and among religious communities, a negative connotation has developed toward this technical or vocational path to earning a livelihood. When serving God and humanity, no path is identical "[a]s each has received a gift, [to] use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God's varied grace" (Peter 4:10). One's choice to attend an apprentice program should be a reflection of their gifted strengths, not due to societal pressure; education is what ought to be the encouraged standard, not exclusively college.
Historically, CTE was once a respected path to employment with firms aggressively recruiting students post-high school graduation. Until the 1950s, it was common for companies to provide extensive training as an investment in future employees, who were expected to forge a career with the firm. Over time, university enrollment became an easier feat, not only cutting interest in apprentice programs, but establishing them as a second rate alternative.
An early example is the General Motors Institute, now known as Kettering University, which became the established "anchor of a community" as they provided living wage jobs and helped build the nation's middle class, making the prospect of a college education became more affordable, prompting more students to select this option. (more…)
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Low-power has been a major concern in all real time application and the memory plays a crucial part in VLSI as it holds the temporary instructions and data needed to complete the tasks. This memory consumes power to a greater extent. For this criterion, a new 8T SRAM design is presented using 0.18um CMOS technology. This SRAM design gives a better performance at VDDmin than the other conventional SRAM cells. Another major problem underwent during write operation in SRAM is partial-selection of cells.


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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The yellow, usually spherical portion of an egg of a bird or reptile, surrounded by the albumen and serving as nutriment for the developing young.
- n. A corresponding portion of the egg of other animals, consisting of protein and fat that serve as the primary source of nourishment for the early embryo and protoplasmic substances from which the embryo develops.
- n. A greasy substance found in unprocessed sheep's wool.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The yellow and principal substance of an egg, as distinguished from the white; that protoplasmic content of the ovum of any animal which forms the embryo in germination, with or without some additional substance which serves to nourish the embryo during its formation, as distinguished from a mass of albumen which may surround it, and from the egg-pod or shell which incloses the whole; the vitellus, whether formative wholly or in part. In holoblastic ova, which are usually of minute or microscopic size, the whole content of the cellwall is yolk which undergoes complete segmentation, and is therefore formative or germinal vitellus, or morpholecithus. In large meroblastic eggs, however, such as those we eat of various birds and reptiles, the true germyolk forms only the nucleus and a relatively small part of the whole yolk-ball, which then consists mainly of food-yolk or tropholecithus. This is the yolk of ordinary language, forming a relatively large ball of usually yellow and minutely granular substance which floats in a mass of white or colorless albumen, inclosed in a delicate pellicle, or vitelline membrane, and is steadied or stayed in position by certain strands of stringy albumen forming the chalazæ. The quautity of germ-and of food-yolk relatively to each other and also to the amount of white varies much in different eggs, as does also the relative position of the two kinds of yolk. (See ectolecithal, centrolecithal.) In the largest eggs, as of birds, the great bulk results from the copiousness of the white and of the food-yolk, and the germ-yolk appears only at a point on the surface of the latter, where it forms the so-called tread or cicatricula. Some eggs contain more than one yolk, but this is rare and anomalous. See egg, ovum, and vitellus; also
segmentation of the vitellus(under segmentation), and cuts under gastrulation.
- n. The vitellus, a part of the seed of plants, so named from its supposed analogy with the yolk of an egg.
- n. The greasy sebaceous secretion or unctuous substance from the skin of the sheep, which renders the fleece soft and pliable; wool-oil.
- See yoke.
- n. The yellow, spherical part of an egg that is surrounded by the white albumen, and serves as nutriment for the growing young.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The yellow part of an egg; the vitellus.
- n. (Zoöl.) An oily secretion which naturally covers the wool of sheep.
- n. the yellow spherical part of an egg that is surrounded by the albumen
- n. nutritive material of an ovum stored for the nutrition of an embryo (especially the yellow mass of a bird or reptile egg)
- From Old English ġeolca, from ġeolu ("yellow"). (Wiktionary)
- Middle English yolke, from Old English geolca, from geolu, yellow; see yellow. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
"Boil it — hard-boil it — until the yolk is a firm yellow globe — a sun shining on manly hearts with cleaned-out ears."
"Soft-boiled inside the shell, they furnish a self-contained hot meal (best at just about five minutes, so that the yolk is still runny but the white more or less set)."
"Make sure to scrape the sides of the bowl after each egg yolk is added."
"That may take a few days and then that egg yolk is now cemented to the plate..."
"Because the yolk is very high in cholesterol, it makes sense for adults to not eat more than one whole egg a day."
"Its lower, vegetative half (the thick floor of the blastocyst) consists of large cells rich in yolk, while the upper, animal half (the thin roof) is made up of numerous small cells poorer in yolk."
"This is the yellow ball which we commonly call the yolk of the egg."
"Sometimes the pieces of pigeon are dipped in yolk of egg instead of oil."
"(corresponding to the vegetative half of the blastula, rich in yolk)."
"I did the fried egg made of a slice of ice cream topped with marshmallow cream the yolk is a blob of lemon pudding with angel food cake "toast"."
These user-created lists contain the word 'yolk'.
tiara's color lists rebuilt :)
( visual, colors, yellow, descriptive, randomness )
Words made of the following: yuiopghjklbnm. I've stood on the shoulders of giants... users mollusque and reesetee made similar lists before I even existed on Wordnik. :)
I marvel at the amazing variety of four-letter words in the English language. And that's not even counting really common (to me) words like fuck.
Words that, for various reasons, I wish we could do without.
Looking for tweets for yolk.


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Why when I assign constant to variable and update it, constant is being updated to? Is it expected behavior or bug?
ruby-1.9.3-p0 :001 > A = { :test => '123' }
 => {:test=>"123"}
ruby-1.9.3-p0 :002 > b = A
 => {:test=>"123"}
ruby-1.9.3-p0 :003 > b[:test] = '456'
 => "456"
ruby-1.9.3-p0 :004 > A
 => {:test=>"456"}
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Note that this also shows that "constants" in Ruby are not actually enforced to be constant. – Andrew Marshall Apr 10 '12 at 7:12
possible duplicate of Constant Assignment Bug in Ruby? – Andrew Grimm Apr 10 '12 at 7:25
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This is expected behavior, but why isn't always obvious. This is a very important distinction in languages like Ruby. There are three things in play here:
 1. The constant A
 2. The variable b
 3. The hash { :test => '123' }
The first two are both kinds of variables. The third is an object. The difference between variables and objects is crucial. Variables just refer to objects. When you assign the same object to two variables, they both refer to the same object. There was only ever one object created, so when you change it, both variables refer to the changed object.
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+1 for mentioning references vs. data ("objects"). – Andrew Marshall Apr 10 '12 at 7:13
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This is because of the shallow copy mechanism. In your example A and b are actually references to the same object. To avoid that use:
b = A.dup
This will initialize b with a copy of A instead of pointing it to the same hash(i.e. this uses deep copy).
For more info see here what shallow and deep copy is.
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Thanks! That's what I wanted to know. – p0deje Apr 10 '12 at 6:00
It's probably not good that this answer doesn't mention references at all. – Andrew Marshall Apr 10 '12 at 7:12
Point taken. Thank you. – Ivaylo Strandjev Apr 10 '12 at 7:19
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text: ||Neuregulin (NRG) has diverse functions in neural development, and one of them is the induction of acetylcholine receptors (AChRs) on the muscle fiber during the formation of neuromuscular junctions. NRG gene family includes NRG-1, NRG-2 and NRG-3. However, NRG-1 is the major form affecting the development of the nervous system. NRG-1 has two alternative splicing sites at the N-terminus; it could be an immunoglobulin (Ig)-like domain named Ig-NRG-1 or an apolar cysteine-rich domain named CRD-NRG-1. Ig-NRG-1 is expressed in neuron and muscle while CRD-NRG-1 is specifically expressed in neurons. The precise role of neuron-derived and muscle-derived NRG-1 during the early stages of development is not known. In order to study the NRG-1 expression in early embryo development, we isolated the cDNAs encoding Xenopus NRG-1 by cross-hybridization with its chick homologue. Two major isoforms, Ig-NRG-1 and CRD-NRG-1 were isolated. The amino acid sequence of Xenopus protein is 50 to 70% identical to members of the NRG-1 family. It revealed that Ig-NRG-1 and CRD-NRG-1 were generated from the same gene. cDNAs encoding different isoforms of Xenopus NRG-1s were identified, and these isoforms have two major variation sites: (i) the spacer domain with either 0 or 43 amino acids insertion, (ii) the C-terminus of EGF-like domain to derive either α or β isoform. When the EGF-like domain of Xenopus NRG-1s was expressed in mammalian cells, the recombinant protein was able to induce the expression of AChR and the tyrosine phosphorylation of ErbB receptors in cultured myotubes. Various splicing variants were expressed in different Xenopus tissues as revealed by PCR analysis. In situ hybridization showed a strong expression of NRG-1 in developing brain and spinal cord of Xenopus embryo. In addition, it was also prominently expressed in the myotomal muscle. These data suggest that in addition to motor neurons, the postsynaptic muscle cell can also contribute NRG during synaptogenesis.


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We investigate the role of perceptual organization in principal components analysis for vehicle recognition. The principal components analysis is a representative appearance based recognition algorithm that reduces the dimension of search space from the number of pixels to the number of dominant image components. However, its time complexity is high because it performs window operation.
To reduce the search space, we use line junctions with associated quality measures found in perceptual organization methods. Because lines in image or their groupings are inherited from three-dimensional structures, they can form a good initial hypothesis of search process. We define a corner feature as a small image area where the junctions are concentrated, and at the same time, characterize an object. In our application, the corner of the roof inside of the vehicle area is selected, and we name it the corner feature.
By combining principal components analysis and perceptual organization, we could construct an efficient vehicle recognition framework. We also present experimental results using real images of outdoor traffic scenes to demonstrate the efficiency of the algorithm.


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fixed over time, despite diverse technological, economic, and ideological currents shaping slavery in different eras.
Slavery received an enormous amount of attention among historians working during the late twentieth century, and every year historians continue to uncover more information about slavery. But the law professoriate has yet to examine the laws of slavery with adequate detail. With a few notable exceptions—I'm thinking in particular of Paul Finkelman and Ariela Gross—law professors have yet to properly examine slavery and all of its ramifications for the law. In light of Eugene Genovese's magnificent Roll, Jordan, Roll (New York: Pantheon Books, 1974), which is now quite old but which remains relevant and important to any understanding of slave laws in America, the lack of attention to slave law among legal academics is striking and even worrisome. Why have legal academics fallen behind in this critical area, and what are they doing to make up for this lacuna in legal scholarship?
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The steps below describe an easy way of creating mosaics from mapped hyperspectral files, making use of the command line GDAL utilities. They can be installed on Windows through OSGeo4W, and are available on Linux through the package manager (e.g., yum, apt-get).
The initial mosaic is a 'virtual raster', which comprises a text file with links to other files containing the data. It is created using the gdalbuildvrt command, available with GDAL and also in QGIS through the Raster, Miscellaneous menu.
gdalbuildvrt -srcnodata 0 f216_mosaic.vrt /path/to/file/f216073b_mapped_osng.bil /path/to/file/f216083b_mapped_osng.bil
The above command creates a virtual raster 'f216_mosaic.vrt' from two bil files, setting the no-data value to 0. The full path to each BIL file is passed in so they are stored in the VRT (useful if the VRT file is moved). You can also create a VRT from all '.bil' files using:
gdalbuildvrt -srcnodata 0 f216_mosaic.vrt /path/to/file/*.bil
The VRT file can be used as any other file in programs which use GDAL (e.g., QGIS, ArcGIS, TuiView). However, for displaying it is often more convenient to create band / spatial subsets using the gdal_translate, also available through QGIS under Raster, Conversion, Translate.
command. For example to create a three band subset using bands 38, 25 and 12 use:
gdal_translate -of GTiff -b 38 -b 25 -b 12 f216_mosaic.vrt f216_mosaic_bandsubset.tif
Note, as all the flightlines use a slightly different grid a nearest neighbour interpolation will be preformed to create a common grid. Standard GeoTiff's aren't compressed so areas outside the flightlines, which have no data, will take up as much space as pixels with data. You can reduce the file size by using compression. You can tell gdal_translate to create a compressed GeoTiff by passing in a creation option flag for example:
gdal_translate -of GTiff -co "COMPRESS=LZW" -b 38 -b 25 -b 12 f216_mosaic.vrt f216_mosaic_bandsubset.tif
Note, not all programs support compressed GeoTiffs.
To make the mosaic faster to display you can create overviews using the gdaladdo command:
gdaladdo f216_mosaic_bandsubset.tif 2 4 8 16


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5.2.3 ImagesBook Index5.2.5 Upload and link ("attachment")
5.2.4 Links
The format of links to other documents in the daisy repository is:
daisy:
for example:
The daisy link can furthermore include branch, language and version specifications:
daisy:@::
Each of these additional parts is optional. For example to link to version 5 of document 167, on the same branch and language as the current document variant, use:
The can be a number or the strings last or live.
If you don't know the id of a document by heart (which is likely the case), use the "Create link by searching" button on the toolbar.
A link can furthermore contain a fragment identifier. A fragment identifier is used to directly link to a specific element (e.g. a heading or a table) in a document. For this you first need to assign an ID to the element you want to link to (there is an "Edit ID" for this on the toolbar), and then you can adjust the link. The link editor dialogs make it easy by allowing to browse for available element IDs.
5.2.3 Images5.2.5 Upload and link ("attachment")


Still, you don't have to be stuck with a huge bill once your grain is dried to a desired level. Through sound purchasing decisions, you can slice fuel costs. Here's how.
The natural way. You may need to purchase little or no extra equipment. For example, natural air drying can cut drying costs with a sparse investment, says Bill Wilcke, University of Minnesota extension agricultural engineer. This method uses bins with full-perforated drying floors and fairly large fans. Fan size runs approximately.75 to 1.0 hp/1,000 bu. of corn for bins that are no deeper than approximately 18 ft.
"As farms get bigger, the key is not just energy efficiency," reminds Charles Sukup, president of Sukup Manufacturing, Sheffield, IA. "It's a combination of efficiency plus speed and what you sacrifice in yield losses by not getting the crop out on time. That's where a stand-alone dryer and speed become important."
Don't overdry. That's why companies still focus on speedy, high-temperature drying systems. "There probably isn't any dryer company designing a new dryer model based solely upon energy efficiency," says Warren Odekirk, sales and technical support manager for Growmark, Bloomington, IL.
Thus, some firms have engineered driers to more uniformly dry the grain column inside the dryer. "This makes dryers use less energy," Odekirk says.
Some companies design dryers to reuse heat from the drying and cooling of grain. Beard Industries, Frankfort, IN, claims that its Superb Energy Miser dryer cuts the fuel costs of conventional dryers by 50%. That's because the firm's dryer reycles exhaust through the system.
Beard Industries is researching more ways to improve energy efficiency, says company president Bill Beard. "But for now, the cost of fuel isn't high enough to make more changes economically feasible," he says.
If a farmer overdries grain by one to two moisture points, most computerized drying controllers can pay for themselves in one to two years, Odekirk says. Here's a two-step example Odekirk uses to calculate payback:
 1. Determine overdrying costs.
 2. Calculate energy savings.
Solar surge
Biomass boom?
During the energy-sparse days of the late '70s and early '80s, researchers studied biomass fuels such as wood, hay and crop residues to dry corn.
Biomass fuels showed potential because they were renewable and energy dense. Scientists believed that biomass fuels might help stabilize fluctuating external energy prices and even enable farmers to sell fuel. However, energy prices stabilized and research funds evaporated before biomass drying systems became operational.
Now rising energy prices are once again sparking interest in biomass fuels.
Bill Wilcke, a University of Minnesota extension agricultural engineer, says that, if you are considering using biomass fuels to dry corn, you should first answer these questions:
 - Can you harvest biomass ahead of corn harvest, or will it consume time and labor best spent to harvest corn?
 - What's the biomass fuel's expected moisture content? Will you need to dry biomass before you burn it? Remember that the higher the fuel moisture content, the lower the net energy production per wet pound of fuel.
 - Do you need special equipment and facilities to harvest, transport and store the biomass fuel? Or can you adapt equipment and facilities that you already own? If you have to buy special equipment, don't forget to include the cost of that equipment in your cost per British thermal unit (Btu) calculations.
 - Is the fuel difficult to use? Does the fuel flow on its own and can the fuel supply system be automated? Or will it consume considerable labor to supply the burner with fuel?
 - It may be easy to build an automatic fuel supply system for a fuel in pellet or granular form, but it would be more difficult to establish an automatic system that consumes logs or large bales.
 - Can you buy a burner that burns your biomass and will it supply the required number of Btus per hour? Several companies produce small biomass burners, but few firms produce the larger sizes needed for heated-air corn dryers.
 - If you decide to build your own burner, remember that it can be difficult to develop a design that provides optimum air amounts for complete combustion, is easy to feed, can withstand high temperatures for long periods of time and conveniently removes ash, clinkers or slag.
 - Will biomass removal reduce soil quality and increase erosion potential? For example, using all the cobs from a crop of corn may not boost soil erosion. However, removing all corn stalks may significantly raise soil erosion.
 - Is there a positive net energy balance for using biomass fuel? How much do you gain after you subtract energy required to grow, harvest and transport the biomass fuel from the energy produced by burning biomass?
 - Is the biomass more valuable as food, feed or an industrial feed stock than it is as a heating fuel?
 - Is use of the biomass fuel cost-effective? When you consider the costs for equipment, labor and other inputs for producing, harvesting, transporting, storing and burning the biomass product, is the cost per Btu competitive with other alternatives?
For more information on any of these topics, contact Wilcke at 612/_PHONE_ or send him an e-mail at _EMAIL_.


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Odds Slang for Probability?
Date: 02/06/97 at 15:44:00 From: Anonymous Subject: Odds and probability What is the difference between odds and probability? Or is odds a slang term for probability?
Date: 02/06/97 at 21:41:26 From: Doctor Wallace Subject: Re: Odds and probability No, odds is not slang for probability. There is a difference. A probability is a number from 0 to 1 inclusive, usually expressed as a fraction, which is the ratio of the number of chances of a specific event to the total number of chances possible. For example, if I have 4 marbles in a jar, 3 red and 1 blue, then the probability of drawing the blue is 1/4. There is one chance of a blue marble and 4 total chances (marbles). Odds are expressed as the number of chances for (or against) versus the number of chances against (or for). So, since there is 1 chance of your picking the blue, and 3 chances of your picking red, the odds are 3 to 1 AGAINST you picking the blue. For odds in favor, we just reverse them. The odds are 1 to 3 IN FAVOR OF you picking the blue. This can be a little confusing, so I'll say it again. If you express odds as AGAINST, you put the number of chances against first, versus the number of chances for. If you express odds as IN FAVOR OF, you put the chances for the event happening first. Note that this does NOT mean that the probability is 1/3 for or against in the above example. To convert odds to probability, we have to ADD the chances. So, if the odds against a horse winning are 4 to 1, this means that, out of 5 (4 + 1) chances, the horse has 1 chance of winning. So the PROBABILITY of the horse winning is 1/5 or 20 percent. I hope this helps. If you need more assistance, don't hesitate to write back! -Doctor Wallace, The Math Forum Check out our web site! _URL_
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Christopher Peacocke is Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University. Click here to listen to our conversation with him.
In this episode, Christopher Peacocke discusses what it is to hear an emotion in a piece of music. Even instrumental music seems to be emotionally charged–minor chords, for example, usually have a melancholy ring to them. But it isn't entirely clear why this should be. What it is about certain combinations of notes that makes them feel a certain way?
Christopher Peacocke argues that hearing an emotion in a piece of music can be likened to what happens when we think metaphorically. A tree in a painting might strike the viewer as having subtly humanoid features, for example. In this case, the viewer is seeing the depicted tree metaphorically as a person. Similarly, when we hear sadness in a piece of music, we are hearing the music metaphorically as a vocal expression of sadness.
Our guest concludes by noting how this theory of musical emotion can be used to explain the difference between romantic, classical, impressionist, and expressionist music.


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Tracking medfly predation by the wolf spider, Pardosa cribata Simon, in citrus orchards using PCR-based gut-content analysis
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The Mediterranean fruit fly, Ceratitis capitata (Wiedemann), which is often controlled chemically, is a major citrus pest in Spain; however, alternative biological control strategies such as those based on the conservation of polyphagous predators should be developed. The wolf spider, Pardosa cribata Simon, is an abundant predator found in citrus orchards in eastern Spain. In this study, we have evaluated polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based techniques as a means of detecting C. capitata DNA remains in P. cribata specimens. To do so, two pairs of C. capitata species-specific primers were designed and tested. Primer specificity was tested on species closely related to C. capitata and with other pests and natural enemies present in citrus orchards. Medfly DNA was detectable in 100% of P. cribata from 0 to 12 h post ingestion for both primer pairs, decreasing to 37% at 96 h after prey ingestion for one pair of primers. DNA detectability half-lives were of 78.25 h and 78.08 h for each pair of primers but no statistical differences were found between them. Pardosa cribata specimens were field-collected daily after sterile C. capitata pupae had been deployed in the citrus orchard. Afterwards, the wolf spiders were analyzed and DNA remains of C. capitata were detected in 5% of them, with a peak of 15% coinciding with maximum C. capitata emergence. This study is the first to reveal the potential use of DNA markers to track medfly predation by P. cribata in citrus orchards and provides a new tool to estimate the potential role of this spider in biological-control conservation programs.