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tend to weaken the structure." Once the concrete hardened, which took about 48 hours, the wooden form was loosened and configured to handle the next five-foot lift of concrete.
By August 1942, four million cubic yards of concrete (or 807 million gallons) had been placed, and by the summer of 1943, the dam was taking final shape. Water storage began in Lake Shasta in February 1944, and the last bucket of concrete was poured on January 2, 1945. When Shasta's five-generator plant came online in 1950, the project was complete.
At 602 feet, Shasta at the time was the second highest concrete dam in the world (behind Hoover at 726.4 feet) and was rivaled in mass only by the gargantuan Grand Coulee Dam, then under construction on the Columbia River in Washington. Shasta Dam is 883 feet thick at its base, 30 feet thick at its crest, and contains 6.5 million cubic yards of concrete weighing 15 million tons. At 487 feet long, its spillway was the largest manmade waterfall in the world, though it is eclipsed today by those at other dams, including Three Gorges Dam in China and Itaipu in Brazil.
Like those larger dams, Shasta also has been the subject of criticism, especially for its impact on the winter run of Chinook Salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha), which are listed as endangered under the Endangered Species Act. To protect the salmon but still minimize the loss of power generation, a multi-faceted Temperature Control Device, which ensures the release of cold water for the benefit of the salmon, was completed in 1997 on the face of the dam.
Plan Your Visit
Shasta Dam is on the Sacramento River, about 10 miles north of Redding, CA. From Redding, take Interstate 5 north to Exit 685. Turn west onto CA 151 (Shasta Dam Blvd.) and follow it to the dam. The scenic route includes a vista point turnoff with views of the dam, Shasta Lake, and Mount Shasta. A visitor center, which offers free tours, is situated at the dam. Hours are 8:00am to 5:00pm, seven days a week except for Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's Day, Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Presidents Day. The number of tours and times vary with the season. For tour times, call the visitor center at _PHONE_.
For more information on the dam, click here for Bureau of Reclamation's Shasta Dam website. Lake Shasta is a popular recreation area, offering boating, fishing, and camping. Click here for the US Forest Services, which administers the lake.
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The Evergreen state is more famous for its apples than the obscure hop vine and its cones, so necessary in the making of beer. But hops are big business in Washington, especially in Yakima County, which produces more hops than any other county in the United States. Farmers in the Yakima River Valley harvest 40 million pounds of hops every year or 77 percent of all hops grown in the United States. The Yakima Valley, nestled at the foot of the Cascade Mountains in south-central Washington, is one of the most fertile and productive farming regions in the world. Some call it the "Fruitbowl of the Nation" because it is rich in apples, cherries, peaches, pears, and apricots, as well as grapes, which, in recent years, have turned the valley into wine country.
Making all this possible in a region that receives no more than eight inches of precipitation a year is the Bureau of Reclamation's multi-faceted Yakima Project, which irrigates a narrow, 175-mile strip on both sides of the Yakima River, a tributary of the Columbia. Tieton Dam (pronounced Tie-it-ton), 40 miles west of the city of Yakima, is just one of several dams on the project, but it stands out. When completed in 1925, Tieton was the highest earthfill dam in the world. The Yakima Project as a whole is notable as an example of how irrigation of the arid West often began with private efforts that later joined with the Federal Government to ensure agricultural growth.
The Yakima Valley is dry, but its soil, comprised mostly of volcanic ash, is deep and rich in minerals. With central Washington's mild and sunny climate, water was all that was needed to transform this sage land into lush orchards and fields. The valley's fertile soil and the many tributaries of the Yakima River have long figured in the region's economy. Prior to 1852, Catholic priests built a ditch to irrigate a garden at their Indian mission on Ahtanum Creek. Other early settlers also irrigated on a small scale.
Times changed after 1884, when the arrival of the Northern Pacific Railway opened the valley to outside markets. Larger and more complex irrigation projects took root, including the important Sunnyside Canal, which served lands on the northeast side of the Yakima, from Union Gap to Prosser. The railroad was a key player in construction of the canal until the financial depression of 1893 forced it to withdraw. Work stalled until the Washington Irrigation Company acquired the project. By 1906, the Sunnyside Canal was 56 miles long, and another 47 canals and ditches ran up and down the Tieton, Naches, and Yakima rivers, irrigating a total of 150,000 acres. So successful were these private irrigation efforts that farmers in the Yakima Valley were touted, historian Christine Pfaff writes, "as among the most prosperous in the West."
Trouble brewed, however, when it became apparent that water in the valley was over-appropriated. With irrigation companies desperate to meet demands, tensions ran so high in 1905 that the Washington Irrigation Company blew up a storage dam built by the newer Union Gap and Irrigation Company. As early as 1903, landowners organized and got up a petition urging the newly formed U.S. Reclamation Service (today's Bureau of Reclamation) to get involved in the valley's water issues, which Reclamation did by sending engineers to Washington state.
When the engineers recommended expanding and enlarging the Sunnyside Canal, Reclamation purchased the canal and its lateral system from the Washington Irrigation Company for $250,000. Reclamation, a federal agency, thus expanded on work already begun by private enterprise. On December 12, 1905, Secretary of the Interior Ethan Hitchcock approved the Yakima Project and, within 35 years, Reclamation constructed six storage dams and three diversion dams, including one diversion dam in the picturesque Tieton River Canyon.
The canyon, formed by the Tieton River as it rushed down from its headwaters on the Eastern Slope of the Cascade Mountains, seemed an ideal place to build another storage dam and reservoir, which would furnish water to irrigate an additional 100,000 acres of project lands. In 1917, with the summit of Mount Rainier in the distance, Reclamation engineers began building Tieton Dam in a narrow gorge of the Tieton River Canyon. Ponderosa pines and intriguing basalt formations towered above the river as a construction camp took shape to house and feed a labor force that, at its height, reached 570 men. Workers were digging a tunnel to divert the river around the dam site when World War I brought a sudden halt to construction. Work did not resume until 1921 with Reclamation personnel taking the lead, but letting small contracts to others to cut and clear 2,700 heavily timbered acres.
When completed four years later at 321 feet high, Tieton Dam was the highest earthfill dam in the world. Its concrete core wall is anchored in solid rock nearly 100 feet below the riverbed, as well as on its abutments. As Pfaff and David W. Harvey explain, engineers used mining methods to excavate the core wall, digging shafts, then cutting horizontal cross tunnels and filling them with concrete. The finished core was five feet thick at its base, tapering to one-foot thick at the top. The dam's embankment was comprised of earth, gravel, and boulders excavated from nearby borrow pits, hauled on trestles and dumped at the site. Jets of water from high-pressure hoses separated and pushed the smaller material of sand and silt against the core wall, leaving the coarser material near the outer faces.
Two of the foremost engineers in water development in the West were involved in the construction of Tieton Dam; Frank Crowe later would be superintendent for construction of Hoover Dam, and Frank Weymouth would become chief engineer for the Bureau of Reclamation.
Tieton Dam and its 10-mile-long Rimrock Lake are part of a Yakima Project that today comprises six storage dams and reservoirs, five diversion dams, 416 miles of canals, 1,698 miles of laterals, 30 pumping stations, 144 miles of drains, two power plants and 73 circuit miles of transmission lines. The Yakima Project, encompassing 464,000 acres, is divided into seven divisions: Storage, Kittitas, Tieton, Sunnyside, Roza, Kennewick, and Wapato, the latter of which is operated by the Bureau of Indian Affairs. More than 45,000 acres not included in the seven divisions are irrigated by private interests under contract with the Bureau


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So I have this jsfiddle. I have two jquery ui plugins witch gives these two input fields values. So the user is not ment to edit the fields manually therefore they are set to readonly.
Now to the problem, is there a way for me to change the width of the input fields dependent of the content size? Setting just the width in css to say 300px or so will maybe work for Septemember, but if the user choses some other month like May then it needs to be alot less then 300px.
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What I did is to count all the characters and then set the width based on the results
date.style.width = (date.value.length * 7) + "px";
time.style.width = (time.value.length * 7) + "px";
Note: if you are going to use that a lot and not just 2 times, it will be good idea to make a function
This is also useful: jQuery count charecters and add class
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The size attribute of the input html tag of type text is meant to specify the visible width in characters. Thus
function adjust_width(element) {
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adding this to the jsfiddle did not do anything – halliewuud Sep 5 '11 at 19:04
_USER_ I guess because that jsfiddle included mootools but not jQuery. I wrote my example for jQuery since you mention you use it on your page. Try this one: _URL_ – silviot Sep 5 '11 at 19:19
Unfortunately, this will only size the input to approximate width of that many characters in the given font. Try strings with exceptionally wide or thin characters: value="WWWWWW" or value="llllll". – Trevor Burnham Jun 15 '12 at 22:36
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Gaming as a way to improve literacies skills in second language learners
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This conceptual paper examines how teachers can use video games to improve literacies in second languages. In particular, it analyzes how gaming is being used or could be used to improve literacy skills. This paper proposes possible ways these new tools could be integrated in the institutional system. Additionally, it looks at the key points of gaming that can make it a serious option in the classroom. Multiple English lessons and gaming sessions were observed in order to answer these questions. A concept coined by LSLP, LAV or Language as victory is the driving force behind the learning process attributed to video games. This key concept can be used to design a video game course where the students would have to use language as victory in order to successfully complete the game. This approach to second language teaching could potentially save hundreds of teachers all over the world hours of valuable time. This time can then be used to strengthen other language skills that need extra work....
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Abstract: The following study attempts to analyse an almost unknown aspect of Czechoslovakian-German relations during the so called "Second Republic" (October 1938 – March 1939), namely the railway traffic between the two countries. It is necessary to realize that railway traffic was the most common means of transport for both people and goods at this time and that it was in both countries' interests to keep it functioning. This paper focuses on the situations and problems that everyday passengers faced. Their experiences were the main factor on which public opinion of the railways was based. The contributory role of freight transport is also analysed in short because of its importance to the functioning of the economy. An important question, which this study attempts to answer as well, is the nature of relations between Czechoslovakian railway employees and their German counterparts. Did these relations copy those in "high politics" at the time? Or, could the professionals on both sides of the new borders cooperate to keep the traffic flowing? With the use of several examples, descriptions are given of experiences with colleagues on the other side of the border that were often positive and whereby both sides understood that it was necessary to keep the traffic flowing. Unfortunately, these efforts were on occasion disrupted by the decisions of political or military leaders.
Authors: Martin Liška
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Improving management of urolithiasis: feline sterile struvite uroliths, urethral plugs
May 01, 2004
Because of the increased prevalence of calcium oxalate uroliths in cats, we have been asked by many veterinary practitioners whether diets designed to minimize struvite crystalluria should be used less frequently. The objective of this article is to provide insight into the risks and benefits associated with management strategies designed to minimize feline sterile MAP uroliths and urethral plugs.
Distinguishing uroliths from urethral plugs There are physical and probable etiopathogenic differences between uroliths and urethral plugs. Therefore these terms should not be used as synonyms.
Feline urethral plugs commonly are composed of large quantities of nonmineral matrix (as much as 50 percent) mixed with minerals (Figure 2). Some plugs, such as those composed of sloughed tissue and/or blood clots, do not contain any minerals. The matrix components within the same urethral plug may vary (i.e. the distal end of the plug may be a combination of minerals and matrix, whereas more proximal portions may be composed of blood clots without crystals).
At this time, we recommend that the mineral composition of uroliths and urethral plugs be used to describe them since most therapeutic regimens designed to dissolve or prevent them are based on their mineral composition.
Of 645 urethral plugs submitted to the Minnesota Urolith Center by veterinarians in 2003, the mineral composition of approximately 87 percent were primarily struvite (Table 2). Less than 1 percent were composed of calcium oxalate. Although the prevalence of calcium oxalate uroliths has increased during the past two decades (Table 3), the prevalence of calcium oxalate in urethral plugs always has been infrequent (Table 4). Struvite has consistently been the most common mineral in feline urethral plugs.
Clinical significance The explanation as to why the prevalence of feline calcium oxalate uroliths dramatically increased during the past 20 years, while the prevalence of calcium oxalate in feline urethral plugs remained extremely low is not obvious, especially in light of the observation that male gender appears to be a risk factor for calcium oxalate uroliths and struvite urethral plugs.
For example, in North American university veterinary teaching hospitals, the yearly hospital proportional morbidity rate (HPMR) for urethral obstructions declined from 19 cases/1,000 feline evaluations in 1980 to seven cases/1,000 evaluations 20 years later. This trend coincides with a dramatic decline in the frequency with which perineal urethrostomies have been performed in male cats. The yearly HPMR for urethrostomies decreased from 13 cases/1000 feline evaluations in 1980 to four cases/1,000 evaluations 20 years later.
Need for change? Is their need for fundamental changes in dietary management of feline uroliths and urethral plugs?
In context of these epidemiological observations, let us return to the question about whether urine acidifying and magnesium restricted diets designed to minimize struvite crystalluria should be used less frequently because of their association with increased risk for calcium oxalate urolith formation.
To answer the question, let's look at canine distemper. Textbooks of the 1950s and 1960s mention canine distemper as the most serious disease of dogs, causing morbidity and mortality in all ages, breeds and genders.


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Learning from Experiments When Context Matters
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AbstractSuppose a policymaker is interested in the impact of an existing social program. Impact estimates using observational data suffer potential bias, while unbiased experimental estimates are often limited to other contexts. This creates a practical trade-off between internal and external validity for evidence-based policymaking. We explore this trade-off empirically for several common policies analyzed in development economics, including microcredit, migration, and education interventions. Based on mean-squared error, non-experimental evidence within context outperforms experimental evidence from another context. This advantage declines, but may not reverse, with experimental replication. We offer four reasons these findings are of general relevance to policy evaluation.
CitationPritchett, Lant, and Justin Sandefur. 2015. "Learning from Experiments When Context Matters." American Economic Review, 105 (5): 471-75. DOI: 10.1257/aer.p20151016
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- G21 Banks; Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages
- O16 Economic Development: Financial Markets; Saving and Capital Investment; Corporate Finance and Governance


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In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, learning health systems can provide a valuable infrastructure through which groups and institutions can mobilize to address common problems and rapidly disseminate evidenced-based findings across disciplines, according to Charles P. Friedman, PhD, Department Chair of Learning Health Sciences at the University of Michigan Medical School. Friedman is also a co-director for Harvard Medical School's postgraduate program, Safety, Quality, Informatics and Leadership.
Clinicians, researchers and health care leaders can also play an important role in this journey—helping their organizations to integrate science, data, culture and lessons learned—with the goal of ultimately leading to improved quality and safety in every aspect of their efforts, he says.
The Value of Learning Health Systems
"A learning health system marries discovery—data and analysis—and implementation into one system. Discovery is one side of the cycle, and implementation is the other," Friedman says. "It creates a cycle with lessons from implementation facilitating additional discovery, so the process acts like a continuous circle."
Yet, despite the growing recognition of the value a learning health system brings to an organization, Friedman points out that many institutions, and the nation as a whole, lack the capability to implement such an approach to mobilize clinical and public health resources to respond to a problem or crisis.
"COVID-19 has shown how important having a learning health system infrastructure is to quickly collect data, learn from it and form communities to address the issues. In the absence of broad learning health system usage, we have had to cobble together things to try and make a system, but we have been starting from scratch," he stresses.
This makes it important that leaders be trained in the key elements of this infrastructure, so they can help their institutions—and the field—embrace this model moving forward.
Creating a Continuous Improvement Cycle
For instance, in COVID-19, research is essential to inform how health systems are responding to patients with serious cases of this coronavirus; following the outcomes of different approaches can also inform research being conducted by scientists who are racing to understand the SARS-CoV-2 virus and how best to prevent and treat it.
To show this concept in action, Friedman describes a collaboration involving experts from the United States, Spain and Italy that envisions the multi-national framework necessary to collect and analyze high-quality data and to use the results to guide clinical responses to the pandemic. Such a system also serves as a valuable resource to help countries be prepared for future pandemics.
Learning Health Systems: Tackling Big and Small Problems
But not all learning health systems need to tackle such widespread public health problems. Leaders can also help their organizations establish learning and improvement cycles to solve smaller-scale but still very important problems as well, Friedman explains. He shares an example of how a learning health system can address a very specific issue—the mortality rate from cardiac arrests that occur outside of the health care setting.
"In order to survive with full neurological function, people who suffer from sudden cardiac arrest must have their circulation reestablished quickly," he says. Generally, only ten percent survive with full neurological capacity.
"We formed a learning improvement cycle to address this issue and are coming up with ways to improve the process of responding to cardiac arrest patients in ways that would improve the outcomes," he says.
"We included a community of many stakeholders, such as 911 call centers, paramedics, first responders and emergency physicians, to collect data to be analyzed. This is a difficult problem requiring a multi-stakeholder approach. It requires broad teamwork, good data and effective interventions to make the changes that are necessary to get circulation established more quickly," Friedman stresses. The findings can then be scaled to a broader audience.
"With a learning health system, there may be many such cycles going on at the same time. All cycles are supported by an infrastructure that provides a variety of services. The infrastructure is what makes it a system," Friedman stresses.
Many organizations that are moving toward learning health systems have improvement cycles under way that are focused on specific problems and then have the infrastructure in place to support these efforts.
The PedsNet Learning Health System Model
A single organization can become a learning health system, and a network can also form into a learning health system, Friedman explains. For instance, PedsNet is an online platform that serves as a national pediatric learning health system. Its goal is to bring groups together to improve pediatric care and outcomes. Rather than having pediatric organizations and research institutions working independently and inefficiently, PedsNet provides a hub that facilitates the sharing of data and informatics and helps group take a more integrated approach toward a common national vision. This model can also drive other similar efforts.
Friedman says that in COVID-19 and beyond, learning health systems are a framework that other groups and networks can also follow—both to manage everyday challenges and improve safety, quality and outcomes and also to disseminate information quickly and mobilize effective responses to pressing problems.
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The Mars Pathfinder mission was able to find out that the rocks of Mars can be studied in a way that is similar to the very same rock cycle on the Earth. Mars Pathfinder also verified that regions of Mars which looked like the remains of water flowing from Earth really are the remains of ancient water flows.
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Rationale: Early warning system (EWS) scores are used by hospital care teams to recognize early signs of clinical deterioration and trigger more intensive care.
Objective: To systematically review the evidence on the ability of early warning system scores to predict a patient's risk of clinical deterioration and the impact of early warning system implementation on health outcomes and resource utilization.
Methods: We searched the MEDLINE, CINAHL, and Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials databases through May 2014. We included English-language studies of early warning system scores used with adults admitted to medical or surgical wards. We abstracted study characteristics, including population, setting, sample size, duration, and criteria used for early warning system scoring. For predictive ability, the primary outcomes were modeled for discrimination on 48-hour mortality, cardiac arrest, or pulmonary arrest. Outcomes for the impact of early warning system implementation included 30-day mortality, cardiovascular events, use of vasopressors, respiratory failure, days on ventilator, and resource utilization. We assessed study quality using a modified Quality in Prognosis Studies assessment tool where applicable.
Measurements and Main Results: Of 11,183 citations studies reviewed, one controlled trial and 20 observational studies of 13 unique models met our inclusion criteria. In eight studies, researchers addressed the predictive ability of early warning system tools and found a strong predictive value for death (area under the receiver operating characteristic curve [AUROC], 0.88-0.93) and cardiac arrest (AUROC, 0.74-0.86) within 48 hours. In 13 studies (one controlled trial and 12 pre-post observational studies), researchers addressed the impact on health outcomes and resource utilization and had mixed results. The one controlled trial was of good quality, and the researchers found no difference in mortality, transfers to the ICU, or length of hospital stay. The pre-post designs of the remaining studies have significant methodological limitations, resulting in insufficient evidence to draw conclusions.
Conclusions: Early warning system scores perform well for prediction of cardiac arrest and death within 48 hours, although the impact on health outcomes and resource utilization remains uncertain, owing to methodological limitations. Efforts to assess performance and effectiveness more rigorously will be needed as early warning system use becomes more widespread.
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Dynamic Modeling and Parametric Resonance Analysis for Fast Transit Systems
Date: 2020/08/03 - 2020/08/03
Academic Seminar: Dynamic Modeling and Parametric Resonance Analysis for Fast Transit Systems
Speaker: Dr. Hao Gao, University of Southern California
Time: 9-10:00 a.m., August 3rd, 2020 (Monday)
Location: via Zoom (Meeting ID: 64711772740 Password: 6676)
Fast transit system is a class of systems with vast engineering applications, such as vacuum tube transportation (Hyperloop), maglev trains, cable transportation and weapon systems (railgun). Those applications share two common features: (1) subsystems (vehicles, cargos, or projectiles) conveyed by the supporting structure are moving at relatively high speeds; (2) subsystems are likely to move in a sequence and with certain patterns. Under the circumstances, unexpected vibration of the supporting structure with large and ever-increasing amplitude can be induced by the moving subsystems, causing instability issue and extreme stresses. Therefore, a systematic dynamic model of coupled rigid-flexible systems with accurate and efficient solution method becomes essentially important for this type of applications.
A semi-analytical method was proposed to give a systematic modeling for the coupled system. Instead of using finite element formulation, the coupled system is discretized via generalized assumed-mode method. It takes the analytical eigenfunctions of the structure as comparison functions to achieve good convergence and accuracy in solution. Another issue in the time-variant rigid-flexible systems is the inconsistent system dimension due to time-varying number of subsystems being coupled to the structure. To resolve this issue, an extended solution domain method (ESDM) was proposed by the author. It defines extended virtual solution domains in addition to the original structure domain so that all subsystems are always inside the extended domain and coupled to an "extended" structure. With the above two methods, transient response of the coupled system can be solved via numerical integration scheme.
Besides the transient response, system stability is also of great interest. To predict the stability and parametric resonance of the coupled time-variant system, a new form of governing equation based on sequential state equations was developed and a novel solution method was proposed by the author. By representing the system response with time-domain mapping matrix, an analytical stability criterion was established by the author for the coupled rigid-flexible system. Stability of the supporting structure excited by periodically passing subsystems is easily determined by comparing the spectral radius of the mapping matrix to unity. The proposed method is capable of handling flexible coupling between the supporting structure and moving subsystems which is not available in the literature for the parametric resonance of a supporting structure conveying moving subsystems.
The semi-analytical modeling and time-domain mapping solution in combination provides a systematic framework of modeling and dynamics analysis for fast transit systems. It allows people to perform not only dynamics analysis, but also stability prediction, parameter optimization, and vibration suppression/control for the coupled fast transit systems.
Dr. Hao Gao worked in the Dynamic Systems Lab (DSL) with Prof. Bingen Yang at University of Southern California and obtained his Ph. D. at 2019. After that, he joined the Virgin Hyperloop as a Dynamic Engineer in the System Loads Analysis Method (SLAM) team and engaged in the development of integrated vehicle model and dynamics analysis for the Hyperloop project.
With years of experience in dynamics and vibration analysis, his research interest is focused on modeling and dynamics analysis of distributed parameter systems, including rapid transit system, fast shooting weaponry, deployable structures and complex/periodic structures. He has developed a systematic method to model coupled rigid-flexible system with time-variant couplings. The proposed model and method allow people to perform dynamics analysis on time-variant coupled rigid-flexible systems and predict parametric resonance caused by the moving bodies.


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Automated dialers are standard in the industry, so most telemarketers are barred from calling consumers' cell phones without their consent..
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Why do telemarketers call and hang up?
It is because they have more phone lines that operators. There is a computer calling random numbers. … While many of these are legitimate telemarketers (an odd phrase too be sure), there is a similar scam where people call, intentionally hang up before/right after you answer, and hope you call back.
Is it safe to answer spam calls?
Many spammers won't leave a message. … NEVER SAY 'YES': If you do answer the suspicious call, or respond to a voice message from an unsolicited caller, do not answer "yes" or offer any personal information during the conversation.
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Enable the Built-In Spam Call Blocking On Your Android Phone To enable this, click the options button at top-right, then Settings > Caller ID & Spam. Enable Filter Spam Calls and your phone will use Google's database of known spam numbers to filter spam calls automatically. Your phone won't even ring.
How can I annoy my telemarketers?
When they're talking, (as soon as you know it's a telemarketer), start saying "No" to everything they ask. Even say "No" while they're talking. For best results, keep the same tempo but change your tone and loudness between "No"s.
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The national Do Not Call list protects landline and wireless phone numbers. You can register your numbers on the national Do Not Call list at no cost by calling _PHONE_ (voice) or _PHONE_ (TTY). You must call from the phone number you wish to register.
Do telemarketers call at night?
It establishes standards of conduct for telemarketing calls: Telemarketers can't call you before 8 a.m. or after 9 p.m. Telemarketers must promptly tell you the identity of the seller or charitable organization and that the call is a sales call or a charitable solicitation.
What to do if you are on the Do Not Call list and still get calls?
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Why do telemarketers call and not say anything?
The majority of silent or abandoned calls are made and caused by automated calling systems known as dialers, or predictive dialers. … If the dialer makes a call but there is no call centre agent on hand to deal with it, the person being called will hear silence on the other end of the line.
Is it a crime to prank call?
The most likely criminal law that applies to prank calls is harassment. However, depending upon your jurisdiction, other laws like laws prohibiting disorderly conduct, wiretapping, and even hate crimes may apply. Here's a look at a few ways your prank calls could potentially get you arrested: Harassment.
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The Past in Perspective An Introduction to Human Prehistory, by Feder, Kenneth L.
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Ideal for introduction to archaeology and world prehistory courses, The Past in Perspective: An Introduction to Human Prehistory, Sixth Edition, is an engaging and up-to-date chronological overview of human prehistory. Kenneth L. Feder introduces students to "the big picture"--the grand sweep of human evolutionary history--presenting the human past within the context of fundamental themes of cultural evolution. Written in a refreshingly accessible voice, this unique narrative personalizes the past and makes it relevant to today's students. Using a consistent chapter format--"Prelude, Chronicle, Issues and Debates, and Case Study Close-up"--Feder helps students master both what we definitely know and what is still debatable about the complex story of the human past.


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Mkomazi: 'Born Wild' book
Tuesday, November 09, 2010
Mkomazi National Park is a hugely important part of Tanzania's national Black rhino conservation strategy - the park holds 20% of Tanzania's Black Rhino population.
Chester Zoo has supported Mkomazi in various ways over the years, presently the focus is support of an environmental education programme - this has seen the purchase of an education bus and materials, plus the salary for an education officer. Chester Zoo education staff have been key to this project, helping Mkomazi set up an education programme for the local community. Previous support for Mkomazi has included infrastructure improvements, reinforcing the fence of the Mkomazi Rhino Sanctuary and help in funding the translocation of three rhinos to the park in 2009.
The success of Mkomazi has been due to the dedication and work of Tony Fitzjohn and the George Adamson Wildlife preservation Trust. Tony Fitzjohn has recently released his book 'Born Wild', telling his personal story from the time he worked at Kora in Kenya with George Adamson (of 'Born Free' fame) to the success of Mkomazi and the newly created National Park.
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IBM scientists developing AI whose sole purpose is to debate with humans – tick, tick, tick to assimilation – David Icke
A new study details the advances made by an artificial intelligence (AI) program developed by scientists at IBM whose sole purpose is to best humans in debates.
Project Debater, the AI in development for several years at the tech giant, picks a side and argues its case using a technique known as 'argument mining', wherein the machine parses and links together the most useful relevant sections of arguments by parsing a vast archive of some 400 million news articles on a given subject.
A new study published in Nature details the power, and limitations, of the system and its underlying architecture, especially when compared against previous 'triumphs' of AI over humanity.
Project Debater tested its mettle in a showcase debate against expert debating champion Harish Natarajan in 2019. Debater successfully formed a coherent, complex argument as to why preschool should be subsidized for families, including composing opening statements, rebuttals, and closing summations.
While observers ranked the AI's performance as decent, it still came up short against humanity's finest.
"[A] combination of technical advances in AI and increasing maturity in the engineering of argument technology, coupled with intense commercial demand, has led to rapid expansion of the field," explains argument technology researcher Chris Reed from the University of Dundee. AIs have surpassed humans at a variety of tasks including games like chess, Go, and Starcraft, as well as poker. To add insult to injury, on January 14, 2011, the IBM computer Watson soundly beat two humans on the popular television quiz show Jeopardy!
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Why does Git have tags? (instead of just branches)
They seem to be second-class citizens, or at least "different." They aren't pushed unless you specify that explicitly. Deletions of remote tags doesn't cause deletion in downstream repos.
This last point was a problem recently, as someone pushed a bunch of garbage tags with tons of commits from another repo. We could delete them upstream and gc the commits, but that wouldn't propogate, and the next time someone pushed a tag with
git push --tags, they'd repush those garbage tags and commits. So we had to make sure everyone deleted them.
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Why did Sweden choose, in the late 1960s, to abandon its long-standing nuclear weapons plans? A number of historical investigations have analyzed some aspects of this issue, particularly as it related to the public political debate in Sweden and the formulation of the Swedish defense doctrine in the postwar years. Some studies have attempted to explicate, from a more overarching perspective, why Sweden opted not to develop anuclear weapons capability, but these efforts have generally been hampered by heavy dependence on secondary source materials consisting of published English-language works. Taken together, these studies provide a far-from-complete picture of Sweden's historical nuclear weapons plans. The main reason for this lack of a comprehensive picture has been the paucity of primary sources. Today, however, the end of the cold war and the declassification of large parts of the relevant documentary record, especially concerning the technical preparations for nuclear weapons production, have created the prerequisites for a more penetrating analysis of this important historical issue. The purpose of this presentation is to summarize the research on Sweden's plans to acquire nuclear weapons based on primary sources. This overarching analysis is then tested against International Relation theories which have sought to explain factors of proliferation and non-proliferation.
Thomas Jonter is Professor in International Relations at the Department of Economic History, Stockholm University. His research is focused on nuclear non-proliferation and energy security. He is also project leader for different educational and research programs in Russia with the aim to initiate academic courses and programs in nuclear non-proliferation at different universities in the regions of Tomsk and Jekaterinburg. These projects are carried out in a cooperation between Swedish Radiation Safety Authority, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS), Monterey, United States, and Stockholm International Peace Reseach Institute (SIPRI). Professor Jonter is also chair of the ESARDA (European Safeguards and Research Development Association) working group for Training and Knowledge Management. Currently he is a visiting scholar at The Europe Center at Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University.
First, Professor Jonter explains that Sweden initiated nuclear weapons research in the 1950's because of the presence of a large uranium supply, ample technological and scientific knowledge, and concerns about self-defense. He cites wide support for nuclear research during that time, including from Prime Minister Tage Erlander, the Defense Ministry, and the military. In 1945 the Swedish National Defense Research Establishment created plans for a nuclear weapons program within a civilian nuclear power program, necessitating high levels of cooperation between military and civilian entities. Despite pressure from the United States to abandon nuclear research, uranium production began in 1955 along with the construction of two reactors. Eventually, social groups within Sweden protested and a debate emerged within Parliament, resulting in a decision that Sweden would only pursue research related to self-defense against the Soviet Union. Behind the scenes, however, nuclear weapons research carried on covertly for some time. Jonter addresses questions of whether the program was really weapons-based or simply scientific research, how the debates in Sweden were influenced by criticisms at home and abroad, the role of private investors in the Swedish nuclear research program, and the factors that ultimately allowed Sweden to publicly back away from a weapons program.
Professor Jonter then examines implications for the international system by analyzing the Swedish nuclear case in light of several international relations theories. He also considers the argument that "outward looking" states which are active in international trade are less likely to develop nuclear weapons. Jonter asserts that research on this topic would benefit from more historical analysis of primary resources, although the secret nature of nuclear records make them difficult to access.
A question and answer period following the presentation addressed such issues as: How does the Swedish case study compare with the Danish case? Did the Swedish government tie its hands with a public decision not to pursue weapons development? Is there evidence of Sweden having to balance nuclear weapons research with other military expenses? Why did the government switch from high levels of secrecy about the nuclear program decisions to a policy of openness and public discussion?


Apple invention would create custom comic book from game experiences
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First on AppleInsider: After a user completes a video game, their unique experience — complete with recorded images and other data — could be turned into a custom-built comic book or e-book, based on a new patent application from Apple.
Revealed by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office this week, the application entitled "Automatically Generating a Book Describing a User's Videogame Performance" describes a system that would take data from a game, such as a unique character or performance from a game, and turn it into a book, e-book or comic book that the user could read or share. This story would be tailored to specifically represent the experiences of a gamer.
The concept is particularly interesting as video games become more advanced and offer players deep character customization, building an avatar in their own image or however they see fit. In addition, many games now offer players the ability to make complex moral decisions which often affect the outcome of the game.
"However, after completion of the videogame, the user's interaction with the game (and any story presented in the game) is complete," the patent application reads. "Further, the user may be unable to directly access the saved game file to view any data recorded throughout the game."
Apple's application specifically mentions and includes images from the Xbox 360 and PC title Mass Effect, which gives users the option of choosing dialogue for their character. Players can choose to help or harm others around them in a complex world where users are forced to make sometimes difficult moral decisions.
"In games such as Mass Effect, the selection of a dialogue response may make available additional or different dialogue responses," the application reads. "Thus, the entire conversation between the user's player character and the non-player character may be written into the recorded data... and may vary during each gameplay session."
Apple's invention would allow users to easily relive the experiences they created through a game, or share with others how their gameplay experience may have been different. Gamers could also quickly recall their experience rather than playing through the entirety of a game, which in some cases can take dozens of hours to complete.
"The recorded data may include character information, dialogue from the videogame, and results and metrics reflecting the performance of the user in the videogame," the application states. "The recorded data may be inserted into a narrative data structure and have pregenerated text. In some embodiments, the recorded data may be used as the basis for selecting among a plurality of pregenerated text."
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The invention could even take into consideration how long a user takes to complete a puzzle in the game. That time, along with achievements, choices, conflicts, items collected and other events in the game, could be woven into the narrative.
Users could even purchase a physical copy of their own, customized comic book. The application describes a method to send the publication off to a server for printing.
Apple, in recent years, has become a major player in the mobile games market, taking an estimated 19 percent share in the U.S. However, portable games on devices like the iPhone and iPad are typically not as detailed and engrossing as those available for console systems like Microsoft's Xbox 360 or Sony's PlayStation 3.
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But recent rumors have suggested Apple could get into the console business in a roundabout way, with an updated Apple TV allegedly running the iOS mobile operating system. If the new set top box has access to the App Store and third-party applications like the iPhone and iPad, it could make Apple a player in the console game market like Sony and Microsoft.
The application mentions games on both portable devices and consoles, mentioning systems made by Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony in addition to its own iPhone and iPod touch.


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The Amazon Cyber Robotics Challenge has passed the halfway mark, but it's not too late for teachers and students to sign up. Since the fall, CoderZ and Amazon Future Engineer have been bringing real-world industry to Title I classrooms with this free, three-hour virtual learning experience. Students can sign up for the challenge to learn the basics of computer science at any time until the end of the current school year. They will also uncover how Amazon uses computer science and robotics daily to deliver customer goods.
Schools that support students from underserved communities who finish the challenge will have the chance to keep learning on CoderZ's cloud-based platform with its virtual robots and game-like "missions." For teachers who want to continue with CoderZ, Amazon will also sponsor free access to the yearlong curriculum for 100,000 students from underserved communities within the United States for a full semester during 2020 – 2021.
"We're truly delighted to be partnering with Amazon Future Engineer," said Ms. Yaarit Levy, VP Business Development at CoderZ. "This challenge has proved to be an excellent way to keep students engaged and learning even if they can't be together with teachers at this time."
The Amazon Cyber Robotics Challenge provides a unique learning experience for students in grades four and up where they can explore and practice coding skills while taking an inside look at real-world industry. Participating students will see how what they learn in class relates to future job opportunities. That makes this challenge a great bonus unit for any STEM/computer science class or curriculum.
Aligned to CSTA K-12 Computer Science Standards, the Amazon Cyber Robotics Challenge can be broken into four, 45-minute or three, 60-minute lessons for any class (Introduction to Computer Science, AP Computer Science Principles, science, math, etc.). As part of the experience, two Amazon Future Engineer Scholarship recipients introduce the challenge and guide participating students. As students make their way through the competition, the Scholarship recipients share details about their own personal journeys into computer science, which is helpful for younger students to hear firsthand.
Aside from the sponsorships, students' cyber robotics learning doesn't have to stop once they have completed the Amazon Cyber Robotics Challenge. They can continue their coding journey via CoderZ's comprehensive offerings such as CoderZ Adventure for elementary students, the Python Gym course for students in grades seven through 12, and the middle school curriculums Cyber Robotics 101 and Cyber Robotics 102. Teachers can even register their classes for the all-new CoderZ League Sprint Challenge that will be played in March.
Throughout the year, Amazon Future Engineer is committed to providing access to high-quality computer science education for hundreds of thousands of students from underserved and underrepresented communities. In addition to sponsoring continued access to CoderZ for more than 100,000 underserved students, the Amazon Future Engineer program more than doubled its own reach to more than 5,000 schools, benefitting more than 550,000 K-12 students across the country.
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CoderZ is an innovative and engaging online learning environment. Developed for students in grades 2 and above, the gamified STEM solution allows students to work at their own pace, easily programming real and virtual robots from anywhere in the world. The platform enables students to acquire computational thinking, problem-solving and creativity skills, together with coding and STEM learning, all via a flexible and scalable virtual solution. For more information go to _URL_.
The Amazon Cyber Robotics Challenge has passed the halfway mark, but it's not too late for teachers and students to sign up. Since the fall, CoderZ and Amazon Future Engineer have been bringing real-world industry to Title I classrooms with this free, three-hour virtual learning experience. Students can sign up for the challenge to learn
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- Finally, if the format of the data according to the original schema is too long but still human readable/listenable, use
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This specification is a work in progress. As additional aspects are discussed, understood, and written, they will be added. There is a separate document where we are keeping our brainstorms and other explorations relating to hAtom:
Version 0.1 was released 28 February 2006.
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God's Wives of Amun
The Kushite princess Amenirdis I was a powerful God's Wife of Amun
The adoption of king Kashta's daughter, Amenirdis I, as God's Wife of Amun made Kushite rule in Thebes legitimate. Occupied by a woman of the reigning royal family, the office of God's Wife had served as a mediator between the god and the king since the time of Egypt's New Kingdom. Each God's Wife adopted her successor. Amenirdis would have been presented for adoption by the Kushite pharaoh. The office of God's Wife was a power center in its own right and controlled vast economic resources belonging to the Temple of Amun at Thebes.
God's Wives enjoyed many privileges of royalty
Lavish coronation ceremonies marked the succession of a God's Wife to office. God's Wives received throne names and had their names written in cartouches just like the kings of Egypt. They were endowed with their own estates, property, staff, and administrators. Their tombs were on the grounds of Ramesses III's temple at Medinet Habu in Thebes instead of in the cemeteries in Nubia where most other members of the Kushite royal family were buried.
God's Wife Stela
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Burial customs changed under Egyptian rule
The New Kingdom conquest of Nubia brought with it a major shift in Nubian funerary practices. No longer flexed and laid on beds, bodies were now extended and often buried in coffins of mummiform shape with face or coffin masks like the ones in the New Kingdom and Napatan case. Egyptian jewelry was placed on the bodies and the furnishings of the graves were almost identical to those in Egypt, including items of daily life, ushebtis, and canopic jars. However, human remains from the burials are too fragmentary to indicate whether bodies had been mummified.
Pyramid building began in Nubia after the Egyptian conquest
Pyramids built in Nubia were modeled after small, steep-sided pyramids often used for private tombs in Egypt. After the Egyptian conquest, such pyramids, made of mud brick, soon appeared in several cemeteries in northern Nubia and also farther south at Napata. Chapels associated with the pyramids were decorated with tomb scenes in Egyptian style. Hundreds of years later, when Kushite kings ruled both Nubia and Egypt, their royal pyramids were also erected at Napata.
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Weeds that survive an initial herbicide application are often re-sprayed later in the season. However, according to University of Illinois Associate Professor of Weed Science Aaron Hager, the likelihood of controlling larger, moisture-stressed weeds continues to decline.
Moreover, herbicides applied late in the season are more likely to persist long enough to injure sensitive rotational crops. Nearly all herbicide labels (soil-applied or post-emergence) specify the interval between herbicide application and planting a rotational crop. Some of these restrictions are based solely on time, while others take into account factors such as soil pH and the amount of precipitation received after herbicide application when determining interval length.
"Soil moisture is often the most critical factor governing the efficacy and persistence of soil-residual herbicides," Hager says. "Many herbicides are degraded in soil by the activity of soil microorganisms, and populations of these microorganisms can be greatly depressed when soil moisture is limited."
Dry soils can also enhance herbicide adsorption to soil colloids, thus rendering the herbicide unavailable for plant uptake and degradation by soil microbial populations. Some herbicide rotational intervals are increased if a specified amount of precipitation is not received by a certain calendar date.
The intervals are established to prevent herbicide residues from reaching levels that will adversely affect the rotational crop. Respecting these intervals becomes particularly important with late-season herbicide applications and when soil moisture is limited.
"Please keep in mind that the labels of almost all post-emergence soybean herbicides indicate a pre-harvest interval or a soybean developmental stage beyond which applications cannot be made," says Hager.
Labels of some products may indicate both a developmental stage (before soybean bloom, for example) and a pre-harvest interval. Preharvest intervals indicate the amount of time that must elapse between the herbicide application and crop harvest.
Failure to observe the preharvest interval may result in herbicide residue levels in the harvested portion of the crop in excess of established limits. Moreover, labels on many postemergence soybean herbicides specify that foraging of, or grazing livestock on, treated soybean is not allowed.


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Mannatech's PLUS tablets can help keep your endocrine system healthy. A healthy endocrine system produces a full array of hormones that can regulate your cells and organs. Using our Real Food technology solutions, we created a blend of herbs and amino acids in PLUS tablets to help your body produce the hormones it needs to stay balanced and functioning optimally.
- Formulated with a unique blend of standardised nutrients, like those found in wild yam root, our PLUS tablets support your health in these areas;
- Furnishes raw materials for endocrine system support
- Supplies amino acids to help support the endocrine system
- Supports breast, prostate, bone and colon health
- Supports the health of the immune, nervous and cardiovascular systems.
Our PLUS product fills in the gaps
Your endocrine system is very busy and ultimately, influences almost every cell, organ and function of your body. When we don't eat right, we can miss out on important nutrients like plant sterols and amino acids that help keep our systems functioning well. Our PLUS tablets fill in the missing nutrients ands can help keep and help to give your body the crucial support it needs.
Can men and women use PLUS tablets?
Yes, men and women can use PLUS tablets. Our PLUS tablets contain healthful amino acids that both women's and men's endocrine systems can use.
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The endocrine system is the system that maintains hormonal balance in the body. A well-functioning endocrine system helps support the body's natural recovery from physical and emotional stress and works in harmony with the body's immune system.
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Proteomics/Introduction to Proteomics/Principles of Proteomics
The Process of Proteomics
The proteome, as defined above, is extremely dynamic. Protein expression in cells can change through time based on many internal and external environmental conditions. This dynamic nature can actually be both beneficial and a potential complication. If all proteins a cell ever needed were always present, it would likely be easier to correlate genes with proteins. However, variable protein expression allows us to look at what is up and down regulated with a given set of circumstances. This is very useful in determining proteins related to and affected by diseases and conditions such as temperature or presence of certain molecules in the environment (such as lactose in E. coli with the lac operon).
One of the important goals of proteomics as a field is to enhance understanding of the biological processes involved in protein construction and conformation. Each protein folds into a specific shape, which directly affects its function. Understanding how proteins fold, as well as how they interact with one another and other molecules, directly relates to understanding the biological processes occurring in cells. However, currently there are limitations to the speed at which proteomics-related data can be retrieved and analyzed. Structure determination is often the most time-consuming process, and is usually done by X-ray crystallography or nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Protein structure determination by NMR is relatively new, and may aid in obtaining structures for proteins which are found to be difficult to crystallize (such as those with many hydrophobic regions). There is also some work toward developing an automated process for structure determination by NMR, which if accurate would enable full characterization of proteins to be done at a faster pace than ever before.
There are many techniques used in the study of proteins, such as gel electrophoresis, liquid chromatography, mass spectrometry, etc for separating, identifying, sequencing, and determining other features of proteins. In later chapters these protocols and techniques will be discussed thoroughly to allow a better understanding of how the study of the proteome is being furthered. There are emerging visualization technologies being developed to help interpret the data for more detailed results during analysis. Protein microarrays, also described as protein chips or more specifically biochips, are techniques in development to determine protein concentrations, especially peptides and samples in very low concentrations. Chemical microarrays are other tools being used in proteomics, and this type of microarray is used in peptide analysis, as well as analysis of other small molecules.
There are high performance imaging software and tools that allow real-time scanning of 2D gels, more specifically western blots. Even the infra-red spectrum is being used to reduce noise in imaging of gels. Top-down analysis techniques are also in development and being practiced in order to increase sample sizes for improved time efficiency in the lab.
More proteomic technology advances include Free Flow Electrophoresis, which allow for higher affinity in size separation, and ProteomeLab's PF2D system, which has separation based on charge and hydrophobicity. Nanotechnology seems to be very promising field to proteomics, and some scientists are producing nano-particles as labeling devices, such as SERRS tags.
One difficulty being encountered in proteomics is the study of proteins present in relatively low concentrations in a cell. Since many proteins exist in very high concentrations, their presence can mask lower-concentration proteins. Along the same lines, it is very difficult to isolate these less-concentrated proteins, as the resolution of current methods does not allow visualization of proteins below a certain concentration threshold. Methods with fairly high resolution have the problem of not being able to isolate a large number of different proteins, and need a great deal of sample preparation. The difference between the highest and lowest concentration of protein in a system, or detectable with a certain technique is known as dynamic range in proteomics. Combining different techniques with complementary strengths shows a lot of promise in proteomics studies.
Another difficulty with proteomics is the analyses of the data gathered in the proteomical study (or studies). A single computer programmed to simulate a single protein folding for a specific function can take up to thirty years. However, there are a number of efforts intended to speed up this process. One way scientists are trying to analyze the data and simulate the different proteins folding is through distributed computing. Distributed programming is essentially using many computers -- interpreting their normal idle time, in contrast to a specific programming procedure, for example, in order to characterize and analyze data that a parent computer sent them. With this process, the time required to model one protein's folding can be cut from thirty years to ten days. These and other types of improvements show great promise in furthering the study of proteins.
High-throughput analysis and tools are being used to bypass these limitations in the data collection process. Some of the limitations or bottle-necks in proteomics include large and uncurated databases, low affinity to the separation of peptides, and the many types of post translational modifications (PTMs) of proteins that lead to much more complexity -- not only of Tertiary structure and Quaternary structure, but also actions, effects, and functions of a given protein. High-throughput proteomics incorporates large scale purifications methods, such as affinity tags. Some microscale productions are being used to examine protein profiles including protein chips and microfluid separations. High-throughput prescreening techniques are being developed as well to help assure sample quality and allow for quicker results from testing, like for cancer patients.


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fundraising successes (see "Major Benefactors," below). In 1992, the library's total materials budget was $5,020,443 (37th in ARL ranking); by 2001, this amount had risen to $9,492,530 (30th).
Certainly one of the largest undertakings of the Bishop years was the adoption and implementation of a new library information system to replace NOTIS. This change had become necessary since, by 1995, the university had mandated a departure from mainframe-based computer systems in order to embrace a more flexible client-server architecture for its systems campus-wide. It also had become clear within the library that a new system was necessary to more fully exploit developments in relational database design and to take advantage of data delivery in a communications environment that was increasingly networked—and gradually poised to exploit the potential of the World Wide Web. Bishop appointed a NOTIS Replacement Task Force in early 1996, chaired by music librarian Don L. Roberts. This task force returned a unanimous recommendation on behalf of the Voyager system, offered by Endeavor Information Systems, Inc.—ironically a product that was largely developed by engineers who had worked on NOTIS at Northwestern during the 1980s. The university allocated approximately $1 million for the purchase and installation of the Voyager system, and a contract with Endeavor was signed in summer 1997. Major steps in the implementation process, presided over by a system-wide implementation team chaired by assistant university librarian for technical services Roxanne Sellberg, were hardware procurement, installation of the software, complex data migration planning, programming, and testing, system configuration, and staff training. All modules of the system went live on August 10, 1998. A gala inauguration of the system, with a ribbon cutting by university president Henry S. Bienen and musical accompaniment by the brass faculty of the School of Music, took place on September 28, 1998.
The earliest benefactors of Northwestern's library were, not surprisingly, the university's own founders and trustees. In addition to Orrington Lunt and Luther L. Greenleaf in the 1800s, these included in the 1920s university trustee Charles Deering of Deering Harvester Company and his heirs who donated more than $1 million to build the Charles Deering Library.
The Deering family continued their philanthropy in subsequent generations, largely as a result of the quiet but persistent intellectual interests of Charles Deering's grandson Charles Deering McCormick. In 1970, he and his brothers contributed the funds for the construction of the south tower—Deering Tower—to meet Northwestern's need for a new, larger research library. Grover Hermann of the Martin-Marietta Corporation gave $2.5 million for the east tower and Frank C. Engelhart gave $4.1 million for the north tower. In the 1980s, Charles Deering McCormick pledged the leadership gift for the project to preserve the original Deering Library, by then recognized as a campus landmark. He and his wife, Nancy, also gave over $3.75 million to name the position of University Librarian and to create an endowment named in memory of their son, Hilleary H. McCormick, to support the humanities collections. Following her husband's death in 1994, Nancy McCormick made two gifts (1995 and 1997) totaling $1.3 million to endow and name the Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections in memory of her husband. She followed up with a $5 million gift of endowment in 2001.
Several other significant library donors emerged in the 1980s and 1990s. In the late 80s, Margaret Clover Symonds endowed the new conservation laboratory, an endowment that today continues to fund the conservation of materials in the collections. Marjorie I. Mitchell, a member of the library's Board of Governors, made major gifts to create the Marjorie I. Mitchell Media Center in 1990 and transform it in 1995 into the Mitchell Multimedia Center. Two others were George and Mary LeCron Foster, both noted anthropologists who had studied under Melville J. Herskovits as undergraduates at Northwestern. With gifts totaling $1.5 million, they created endowments for collections that named the curator's position at the Herskovits Library of African Studies and the Meso-America Collection in anthropology in 1997. In 2002, Gerald and Marjorie Fitzgerald created a $1 million endowment for the history collection.
During the 1960s and early 1970s, fundraising efforts for the library were planned and implemented centrally through the University's main development office, including the $12 million research library built in 1970 and the Seeley G. Mudd Library that opened in 1977. This changed by 1975, when the library hired an assistant university librarian for development, succeeded in the 1980s by a full-time director of development.
Beginning in May 1998 and coordinated by development director Harrie M. Hughes, the library participated in Northwestern University's first comprehensive campaign, Campaign Northwestern. Against an initial goal of $15 million and a revised goal of $22.5 million, the library raised $30 million before the campaign's end in 2003, helped by a lead gift of $10 million from the Miami Corporation, the investment company of the Deering family. The library's highest campaign priority was endowment, which grew in little over six years from $27 million in 1996 to over $70 million, of which $45 million was dedicated to collections. Moreover, the library's annual fund—an initiative of the library's very active Board of Governors—grew from $35,000 to over $200,000 a year, resulting in the library's ability, over a six-year period, to direct an additional $1.25 million beyond the collections budget and endowment income towards major acquisitions.
Northwestern University Library is administered by the University Librarian, whose position was endowed through a major donation from Charles Deering and Nancy McCormick in 1985. The university librarian is responsible to the university provost for the management of the library. Additionally, the provost appoints the University Library Committee to provide general oversight for the library and advise the university librarian. This committee includes both faculty and student representatives and is convened by the university librarian.
Administration of the library is in the hands of the university librarian and his cabinet of four Assistant University Librarians (AULs). Each AUL is the head of a division: Information Technology; Technical Services, Public Services, and Collection Management. Department heads within each division report to their respective AULs.
The university librarian and the AULs comprise the library's Administrative Committee. The Administrative Committee's mission is to provide advice for the university librarian and for one another; to make decisions in the areas of personnel and budgeting; and to provide leadership for the Library. The Administrative Committee together with all of the Library Department Heads comprise the Management Council. Management Council, an innovation of university librarian David Bishop in 1992, provides a regular forum for the discussion and resolution of issues relating to library-wide policies. It meets twice monthly for 90-minute sessions.
The two most notable staff organizations at Northwestern University Library are the Assembly of Librarians, created around 1970 by university librarian Thomas Buckman, which by constitution deals with matters affecting librarians' welfare and interests, such as promotion policies, professional development, and travel policy; and NULSA, the Northwestern University Library Staff Association, founded in 1939 under Effie A. Keith to provide for the social and general informational needs of the library staff.
In 1965, responding to the increasingly aggravated space needs of the sciences at Northwestern, Professor Robert Burwell (Chemistry) chaired a committee to study the library needs of the science and technology communities. The Burwell committee filed its report that same year. Following up on this work, Jeremy R. Wilson, then of the University's Planning Department, called for the creation a Science Library Committee to develop a program of requirements for a new facility.
The Science Library Committee was appointed in early 1968 and chaired by Meyer Dwass (Mathematics). In addition to faculty from various science and engineering disciplines, its membership included John P. McGowan, then associate university librarian, and university librarian Jens Nyholm. At a preliminary meeting on February 6, 1968, Jeremy Wilson and Professor Moody Prior (English), former dean of the Graduate School and a member of the committee that directed the building of the new Main Library, gave background information, advising that the committee "attempt to be as optimistic as possible about the availability of funds."
In this period, and of great relevance as a new facility was being planned, Northwestern's Science Libraries (Biology, Mathematics, Astronomy, and Geology) were made a single administrative unit. This would facilitate merging collections into a single building. Over the long period of planning for the Science and Engineering Library, several different scenarios for mergers were discussed. Initially the Physics, Mathematics, and Biology departments wanted to maintain satellite libraries; in the end, only Mathematics was retained as a separate library. Geological Sciences was willing to have its library merged into the new library on the assumption that the department would move to North Campus; since no new building in this part of campus was in the offing for them, their collection was maintained in Locy Hall.
The architectural firm of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and especially architect Walter Netsch had already been actively involved in Northwestern's campus planning and had designed many of the new buildings on the landfill campus. On March 9, 1973, the Science and Engineering Library Committee met for the


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Pacific salmon are an important food source for many animals like these Alaskan brown bears (Ursus arctos gyas). This photo is from Brooks Falls in Katmai National Park and Preseve, Alaska, USA. Brown bears congregate annually in large numbers at these falls to take advantage of the salmon run.
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Salmon are an iconic species in the Pacific Ocean where they have been an important food source for people and animals longer than recorded history. Their importance as a food source shaped both the culture of people living around the Pacific Rim, as well as the life history of the animals who live there. Recently, reports of the appearance of a marine virus common in farmed Atlantic salmon off of British Columbia, Canada has caused great concern. Fortunately, researchers are ready to find out what's going on.
An ocean salmon farm in Norway. Salmon anemia virus was introduced to Chile through eggs from a Norwegian hatchery.
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 1. What is the connection between the salmon anemia virus and farmed fish? What about the process of farming fish creates favorable conditions for disease?
 2. What kind of facilities are available for studying disease at the USGS Seattle facility? Why is it advantageous to have this variety of facilities in one place?
 3. Why is it important that the presence of salmon anemia virus in the Eastern Pacific Ocean could not be confirmed by other researchers? What could the initial report have been a result of? Why are wildlife managers concerned about situations like this one?
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CHERNOBYL 35 Years Later by Desiderio
On the 26th of April 2021, 35 years after the nuclear accident that took place on the night of April 26 1986 at 1:23:45 am, the cultural organization Art Company presents the VR Project "CHERNOBYL 35 Years Later", of the visual artist Desiderio, curated by Chiara Canali
Chernobyl was one of the most serious human and environmental disasters in the history of mankind. Over thirty thousand deaths. One hundred cities and villages emptied. Five million people destined to undergo medical checks. Thousands of malformed newborns across Europe. 2.800 square km of water, flora and fauna contaminated forever.
To commemorate the 35th anniversary of the Chernobyl tragedy, Desiderio devised a VR project titled CHERNOBYL 35 Years Later, which collects a series of short films and pictorial works made in 2009 on the occasion of the Apocalypse Wow! Exhibition at the Marco Testaccio art museum. The paintings simulate, in a post-apocalyptic light, a planet recently ravaged by devastating destruction, in which a giant snail moves slowly, ridden by the artist who wears a gas mask.
More specifically, the works of the Chernobyl series materializes the effects generated on humanity by the radioactive contamination through a pictorial sequence of portraits that depict children who hold in their arms two-headed pets or pets affected by peculiar genetic duplication diseases. The horror and devastation originated from human error are opposed to the childlike ingenuity of a youthful universe that considers "pets" the deformed beings that the works present.
Desiderio's painting is utopian and visionary and proceeds through flashbacks and flash-forwards, just like it happens in the language of the video; often he creates composition spaces which are similar to real cinematographic sets, artifice theatres, and which become expressive metaphors through which Desiderio criticizes the faults and errors of the past, with the hope they won't perpetuate in the future.


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It sounds like a plot straight out of a science fiction movie: A new strain of a deadly airborne fungus in Oregon is set to spread to California.
But there's no need to sound the alarm, doctors say.
The new strain of the well-known Cryptococcus gattii fungus is "worrisome" because it appears to be a threat to otherwise healthy people, according to a report released today by Duke University Medical Center.
The fungus had previously affected only people with weakened immune systems.
It is absorbed through the lungs and the symptoms of infection, which can appear two to several months after exposure, can include chest pain, shortness of breath, headache, fever and a cough lasting weeks, according to researchers.
Scientists at Duke have called for awareness and vigilance regarding the potentially harmful fungus, but doctors caution that while increased research may be wise, the new strain should not be of concern to the public.
To make a big deal out of this would be "a great example of the manufacturing of risk," said Philip Alcabes, a professor of urban public health at Hunter College School of Health Sciences in New York City.
One would be as likely to be hit by lightning as to be afflicted by this strain, said Dr. William Schaffner, chair of preventive medicine at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn.
He says the new development is "more of a curiosity" than a threat, one that should only provoke interest in microbiologists and infectious disease specialists.
Despite the caveats, the report, which documents the spread of the deadlier strain and calls for increased vigilance, is poised to trigger public concern.
As with past rare scares, doctors say, the novel and unpredictable nature of the threats can prove difficult to ignore.
Periodically, a virus, or a fungus or a bacterium "will cause a lot of fuss and receive a lot of attention -- unnecessarily," Schaffner said, and then it will disappear from the public eye.
For example, a few years back a rare infectious fungus that you can get from pricking your finger on a rose thorn got some attention.
"It's usually not deadly... but it's hard to diagnose without a specialist so it can go untreated," he said, and then become painful and troublesome.
It can be alarming, he said, "because who hasn't pricked their finger on a rose thorn?"
But that is also the point of his story: Almost everybody has been pricked in their life and almost no one gets the infection, but it's scary to think that something so seemingly harmless -- and random -- could ever wreak havoc in the body.
"It has everything to do with how you perceive the risk," he said.
Other microscopic threats have created buzz in the past, especially after one kind of fungus in a pile of mulch led to the death of a British gardener in 2008.
Another scare occurred in 2002 when one boy died and another was hospitalized after contracting a rare brain infection from an amoeba while swimming in a Florida lake.
The strange and seemingly random hazards are those that are most likely to cause public panic, Schaffner said, even though they also are the least likely to actually afflict anyone.


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Why does society oscillate between intense interest in public issues and almost total concentration on private goals? In this classic work, Albert O. Hirschman offers a stimulating social, political, and economic analysis dealing with how and why frustrations of private concerns lead to public involvement and public participation that eventually lead back to those private concerns. Emerging from this study is a wide range of insights, from a critique of conventional consumption theory to a new understanding of collective action and of universal suffrage.
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Maya Bernstein, Director of Education and Leadership Initiatives at UpStart Bay Area, discusses her vision of Jewish Education for the 21st Century, one which encourages the development of "Jewish educational activism". She describes how hevruta learning can be a model for how this type of ethical education can proceed.
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How to Grow Grasses on the Prairie
Ask This Old House landscape designer Jenn Nawada partners with an ecologist in Cheyenne, Wyoming to learn about different types of prairie grasses and how to care for them
Steps for growing prairie grasses
 1. Identify areas that have grasses that are invasive or non-native that are harmful to the area. Some non-natives, like alfalfa, are not harmful. Grasses like cheat grass, which is short and flat with red tips, are harmful to the environment and can cause massive wildfires.
 2. To eliminate invasive or non-native grasses, spray a selective herbicide. Wait a few weeks for the invasives to die off, and then introduce native grasses.
 3. To plant native grasses, rent a seeder and fill it with a seed mix of native grasses. Drive the seeder around a select area close to the property that will make it easier to maintain. The seeder will drill a groove in the ground, drop some seeds in the ground, and then drag the soil over the grooves to keep the seeds from blowing away.
 4. To irrigate the grass, install a snow fence to slow the wind and keep the snow on top of the grass. Identify the direction of the prevailing winds to determine where to install the fence.
 5. To install the fence, hammer the livestock fence posts into the ground and secure the livestock fencing to the posts, using ties that come with the fencing.
 6. Using zip ties, secure the snow fencing to the livestock fencing.
 7. Once the new grass is established, don't mow it. Allow the grass to grow naturally.
Jenn learned that the local conservation district can rent many of the tools required for treating or planting a yard with prairie grasses. Some of these tools can be rented from home centers, as well.
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