Rote Is Not Right - Three Reasons To Give It A Skip
Which one are you?
You're most likely a rote learner with a bit of concept learning and last-minute miracle seeking thrown in. Simply put, rote learning is the practice of memorising study material by repeating it multiple times. It has its short-term advantages but to take your learning potential further, you need to take the effort to actually understand what you're repeating to yourself.
Three Reasons To Give Rote Learning A Skip:
1. You'll Forget What You Learnt If You Don't Understand It
If you want to ace your prelims and final exams, you have to completely grasp what you're reading to get out of the "rote loop".
2. Studying Gets Too "Mechanical" When Only Learning By Rote
"Most Indian youngsters (about 80-85%) are not trained suitably for any job. Our education system which focuses on learning by rote is not good for becoming entrepreneurs."
- Infosys founder, Narayana Murthy [1]
Rote learning makes your studying pattern more mechanical which can make you feel disinterested towards it. This can go two ways - you'll either leave studying for your exam until the very last minute or get bored while making your notes. The solution for this is to add some variation!
You can try Ted Talk videos and Google Scholar to mix up your study pattern.
3. It Gets Difficult To Connect Concepts To Real Life
"The three kinds of blood vessels are arteries, veins, and caterpillars."
Clearly whoever wrote this has confused capillaries with caterpillars without realising its actual meaning! This is why it's pivotal for you to understand what you're learning to remember it much longer after the exam.
Want to learn more about blood vessels? Check out this PC resource:
Besides subject-specific websites, there are several PC tools to help you with every aspect of the study process. Right from watching the experiments mentioned in the textbook to efficiently organising all your notes in a way that enables you to master your subject material - with a PC you have an option to skip rote learning for exams.
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+ \Delta T_2$, where $\Delta T_2$ is a random time (independent of $\Delta T_1$) distributed according to the exponential distribution with rate $N\lambda$, and so on. \end{enumerate} In other words, the evolution of the wave function is the Schr\"odinger evolution interrupted by collapses. When the wave function is $\psi$ a collapse with center $x$ and label $i$ occurs at rate \begin{equation}\label{rate} r(x,i|\psi)=\lambda\left\langle\psi\,|\,\Lambda_{i}(x)\psi\right\rangle \end{equation} and when this happens, the wave function changes to $ {\Lambda_{i} (x)^{1/2}\psi}/{\| \Lambda_{i} (x)^{1/2} \psi \|}$. Thus, if between time $t_0$ and any time $t>t_0$, $n$ collapses have occurred at the times $t_0< T_1 < T_2 < \ldots < T_n < t $, with centers $X_1, \ldots, X_n$ and labels $I_1, \ldots, I_n$, the wave function at time $t$ will be \begin{equation}\label{eq:psit} \psi_t = \frac{L^{F_n}_{t, t_0} \psi_{t_0} }{\| L^{F_n}_{t, t_0} \psi_{t_0} \|}\, \end{equation} where $F_n = \{(X_1,T_1,I_1), \ldots, (X_n,T_n,I_n)\}$ and \begin{equation}\label{eq:long} L^{F_n}_{t, t_0} = U_{t-T_n} \Lambda_{I_n}(X_n)^{1/2} \,U_{T_n-T_{n-1}} \Lambda_{I_{n-1}}(X_{n-1})^{1/2} \,U_{T_{n-1}-T_{n-2}} \cdots \Lambda_{I_1}(X_1)^{1/2} \, U_{T_1-t_0}. \end{equation} Since $T_i$, $X_i$, $I_i$ and $n$ are random, $\psi_t$ is also random. It should be observed that---unless $t_0$ is the initial time of the universe---also $\psi_{t_0}$ should be regarded as random, being determined by the collapses that occurred at times earlier that $t_0$. However, \emph{given} $\psi_{t_0}$, the statistics of the future evolution of the wave function is completely determined; for example, the joint distribution of the first $n$ collapses after $t_0$, with particle labels $I_1, \ldots, I_n \in \{1,\ldots,N\}$, is \begin{multline}\label{nflashdist} \PPP\bigl( X_1\in d x_1, T_1 \in d t_1, I_1 = i_1, \ldots, X_n \in dx_n, T_n \in d t_n, I_n = i_n | \psi_{t_0} \bigr) =\\ \lambda^n e^{-N\lambda (t_n-t_0)} \| L^{f_n}_{t_n, t_0} \psi_{t_0} \|^2 \, dx_{1}dt_1 \cdots dx_{n}dt_n \,, \end{multline} with $f_n = \{(x_1,t_1,i_1), \ldots, (x_n,t_n,i_n)\}$ and $L^{f_n}_{t_n, t_0}$ given, \emph{mutatis mutandis}, by \eqref{eq:long}. \bigskip This is, {more or less}, all there is to say about the formulation of the {\sf GRW} theory according to most theorists. In contrast, GianCarlo Ghirardi believes that the description provided above is not the whole story, and we agree with him. We believe that, depending on the choice of what we call the \emph{primitive ontology} (PO) of the theory, there are correspondingly different versions of the theory. We will discuss the notion of primitive ontology in detail in Section \ref{sec:PO}. In the subsections below we present two versions of the {\sf GRW} theory, based on two different choices of the PO, namely the \emph{matter density ontology} (in Section~\ref{sec:GRWm}) and the \emph{flash ontology} (in Section~\ref{sec:GRWf}). \subsection{GRWm} \label{sec:GRWm} In the first version of the {\sf GRW} theory, denoted by {\sf GRWm}, the PO is given by a field: We have a variable $m(x,t)$ for every point $x \in \RRR^3$ in space and every time $t$, defined by \begin{equation}\label{mdef} m(x,t) = \sum_{i=1}^N m_i \int\limits_{\RRR^{3N}} dq_1 \cdots dq_N \, \delta(q_i-x) \, \bigl|\psi(q_1, \ldots, q_N,t)\bigr|^2 \,. \end{equation} In words, one starts with the $|\psi|^2$--distribution in configuration space $\RRR^{3N}$, then obtains the marginal distribution of the $i$-th degree of freedom $q_i\in \RRR^3$ by integrating out all other variables $q_j$, $j \neq i$, multiplies by the mass associated with $q_i$, and sums over $i$. {\sf GRWm} was essentially proposed by Ghirardi and co--workers in \cite{Ghi}.\footnote{They first proposed (for a model slightly more complicated than the one considered here) that the matter density be given by an expression similar to \eqref{mdef} but this difference is not relevant for our purposes.} The field $m(\cdot,t)$ is supposed to be understood as the density of matter in space at time $t$. Since these variables are functionals of the wave function $\psi$, they are not ''hidden variables'' since, unlike the positions in {\sf BM}, they need not be specified in addition to the wave function, but rather are determined by it. Nonetheless, they are additional elements of the {\sf GRW} theory that need to be posited in order to have a complete description of the world in the framework of that theory. {\sf GRWm} is a theory about the behavior of a field $m(\cdot,t)$ on three-dimensional space. The microscopic description of reality provided by the matter density field $m(\cdot,t)$ is not particle-like but instead continuous, in contrast to the particle ontology of {\sf BM}. This is reminiscent of Schr\"odinger's early view of the wave function as representing a continuous matter field. But while Schr\"odinger was obliged to abandon his early view because of the tendency of the wave function to spread, the spontaneous wave function collapses built into the {\sf GRW} theory tend to localize the wave function, thus counteracting this tendency and overcoming the problem. A parallel with {\sf BM} begins to emerge: they both essentially involve more than the wave function. In one the matter is spread out continuously, while in the other it is concentrated in finitely many particles; however, both theories are concerned with matter in three-dimensional space, and in some regions of space there is more than in others. You may find {\sf GRWm} a surprising proposal. You may ask, was it not the point of {\sf GRW} --- perhaps even its main advantage over {\sf BM} --- that it can do without objects beyond the wave function, such as particle trajectories or matter density? Is not the dualism present in {\sf GRWm} unnecessary? That is, what is wrong with the version of the {\sf GRW} theory, which we call {\sf GRW0}, which involves just the wave function and nothing else? We will return to these questions in Section \ref{sec:grw0}. To be sure, it seems that if there was nothing wrong with {\sf GRW0}, then, by simplicity, it should be preferable to {\sf GRWm}. We stress, however, that Ghirardi must regard {\sf GRW0} as seriously deficient; otherwise he would not have proposed anything like {\sf GRWm}. We will indicate in Section \ref{sec:grw0} why we think Ghirardi is correct. To establish the inadequacy of {\sf GRW0} is not, however, the main point of this paper. \subsection{GRWf} \label{sec:GRWf} According to another version of the {\sf GRW} theory, which was first suggested by Bell \cite{Bell87,Bell89}, then adopted in \cite{kent,T


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Scientists receive grant to study the leading cause of childhood blindness
The optic nerve could be the microscope into brain disorders that scientists need. An underdeveloped optic nerve – one that never fully developed its cells or one whose cells died off – could indicate other dysfunctions in the brain.
Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute scientists were awarded a $2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study the optic nerve. Konark Mukherjee, an assistant professor at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, will use the grant to study why, in some people, the optic nerve fails to develop fully, a disorder called optic nerve hypoplasia.
"Optic nerve hypoplasia is the leading cause of childhood blindness, but we don't know much about it," Mukherjee said. "Anything we find will be significant. It'll be completely new."
In the United States, optic nerve hypoplasia is responsible for 15 percent of childhood blindness, a figure that has doubled in the past decade and continues to increase. Yet there is no treatment to prevent or repair malformation of the optic nerve. Mukherjee and his colleague Michael Fox, an associate professor at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, want to change that.
"The idea is simple, but the research is complicated," said Mukherjee, who is also an assistant professor of biological sciences in Virginia Tech's College of Science.
The retina, located at the back of the eyeball, and its output, the optic nerve, are part of the central nervous system. Hypoplasia means fewer cells, so optic nerve hypoplasia literally translates to the optic nerve having fewer cells than it should. That's where the simple understanding ends.
"Does it mean the retinal output cells are fewer than normal?" Mukherjee asked. "Where does the disease begin? When does it begin? We need to know more than the name."
Although the exact mechanism of what causes optic nerve hypoplasia is unknown, scientists do know at least one of the molecules involved – a protein called CASK, which usually provides structural support and helps form the adhesion sites between synapses that neurons use to communicate. The support from CASK can become a hindrance if the protein is mutated or missing. The adhesion sites end up deformed and can lead to developmental disabilities, including autism spectrum disorders.
"Often, people with autism spectrum disorders also have visual defects," said Fox, who is also an associate professor of biological sciences in Virginia Tech's College of Science. "We're studying whether the CASK molecule is important in forming and maintaining the connections between the retina and the brain."
Fox and Mukherjee used a rodent model to study the optic nerve without the CASK gene. In a healthy optic nerve, axons transmit information along the length of the nerve, from the eye to the brain. In CASK-deleted mutants, the axons were missing.
The scientists realized that the cause could be either optic nerve hypoplasia, where the axons never develop, or optic nerve atrophy, where the axons form and then die off.
"Maybe optic nerve hypoplasia and atrophy are the same thing, and it's just the timing that leads us to call it hypoplasia or atrophy," Mukherjee said. The scientists could see that, whatever the cause, the axons were missing. "There were big open spaces where the axons should have been."
The missing axons weren't enough to answer the question of atrophy or hypoplasia in optic nerve development, though. The researchers needed to visualize how the optic nerve makes connections to neurons.
The scientists are now using fluorescent dye tracers to label the synapses between the retinal output neurons and their target cells in the brain.
"In optic nerve hypoplasia, we think the connections might be broken," Fox said. The preliminary data from Mukherjee and Fox's research suggest that there is indeed a connectivity problem.
Therein lies the next question – is the speaker or the listener responsible for the disconnect? Fox and Mukherjee suspect it's the speaker – the optic nerve. Without a CASK gene, the optic nerve may have all the information, but it will never form a way to communicate with the other neurons.
"You have to use it or you lose it. If the nerve can't make the right kind of connection, the axons degenerate and die out," Mukherjee said. "That's likely what we're seeing here."
Mukherjee and Fox plan to investigate the timing of the disorder next. After allowing the optic nerve to mature, they will delete CASK. If the optic nerve atrophies, they'll know that optic nerve atrophy and optic nerve hypoplasia are the same disorder rather than two distinct diseases.
According to Mukherjee, even more disorders may be involved, as evidenced by the children with optic nerve hypoplasia who also have autism spectrum disorders.
"We have to remember that the optic nerve is just the visible part of the central nervous system," Mukherjee said. "It makes sense that optic nerve hypoplasia wouldn't affect just the optic nerve; it could cause other problems or be a symptom of a different source."
The visibility of the optic nerve will continue to be helpful in their research, according to Fox.
"The eyeball, with the retina at its back, is a natural isolation chamber where we can do manipulations to see and fix connections to the brain," Fox said. "Eventually, as we learn more about those connections, we'll be able to develop therapies to correct visual system problems."
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I have a function that returns float results in the interval [0.0, 1.0]. I would like to visualize the results using color ranging from red for 0.0 to green for 1.0 (maybe through yellow for 0.5). How could I do that? Thanks!
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I think the simplest way is to work in HSL/HSB (hue saturation lightness), where the hue values 0-33% of the maximum will map to the range red-orange-yellow-green. The advantage of working is HSL (vs RGB) is that the resulting color range will be much better-looking (eg bright yellow in RGB contains a pinch of blue).
So basically you will create a value based on a constant S and L value, and a H that corresponds to
your_value * (1/3 of the maximum H value, often 255)
and then transform that value back to RGB for display. Don't know Python (shame on me) but apparently the colorsys module can do this transformation for you.
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That did exactly what I was looking for. Thanks a bunch! – mathias Jul 12 '11 at 8:07
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Assuming you have a way to present RGB values represented as 3-tuples (R,G,B) in the range of 0..1, it sounds like you want to go from: (1, 0, 0) to: (0, 1, 0).
You can just use: rgbs = [(1-i,i,0) for i in your_floats]
Then use any graphics library to visualize these 3-tuples as actual RGB colors.
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4th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing
Philadelphia, PA, USA
October 3-6, 1996
Improved Extended HMM Composition by Incorporating Power Variance
Yasuhiro Minami, Sadaoki Furui
NTT Human Interface Laboratories, Musashino-shi, Tokyo, Japan
This paper describes a way of improving extended HMM composition that can precisely adapt HMMs to both noisy and distorted speech. To do this, we incorporate the variance of power into extended HMM composition using quantization to approximate the Gaussian distribution of the 0th order cepstrum. Consequently, a distribution of noisy speech is approximated in the linear spectral domain as a mixture of log normal distributions. This method is evaluated by a four-digit recognition experiment when the number of digits is known. Two types of noise, computer room noise and car noise, are used and noisy and distorted speech data is made by adding these types of noise to speech data recorded using a boundary microphone. Results show that the proposed method improves recognition rates for noisy and distorted speech compared with our previous method.
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Bibliographic reference. Minami, Yasuhiro / Furui, Sadaoki (1996): "Improved extended HMM composition by incorporating power variance", In ICSLP-1996, _PHONE_.


Characterization of Mechanically Alloyed Powders for High-Cr Oxide Dispersion Strengthened Ferritic SteelIwata, Noriyuki Y.Kasada, RyutaKimura, AkihikoOkuda, TakanariInoue, MasakiAbe, FujioUkai, ShigeharuOhnuki, SomeiFujisawa, Toshiharumechanical alloyingODS ferritic steel powdermilling timemilling environment564High-Cr oxide dispersion strengthened (ODS) ferritic steel powders with the nominal composition of Fe–16Cr–4Al–0.1Ti–0.35Y2O3 in wt% were produced by milling of elemental powders and Y2O3 particles in argon atmosphere to investigate changes in the particle properties during mechanical alloying (MA). SEM observation and PSD analysis revealed that the MA powders milled for different times were composed of agglomerated particles having multimodal distributions with substantial size variation ranging from several μm to 350 μm. The mean size of particles rapidly increased at the initial stage of MA, then gradually decreased to 22 μm with increasing milling time up to 48 h, and kept constant thereafter. During milling of the Fe–16Cr–4Al–0.1Ti–0.35Y2O3 powder, MA within 6 h had mainly taken place between Fe and Al to form a bcc-Fe(Al) solid solution. The lattice constant of bcc-Fe steadily increased with a drastic increase in the solute concentrations of Cr, Al, and Ti in Fe. Alloying between Fe and alloying elements is almost fulfilled after milling for 48 h. The MA powder milled in air was much smaller than that milled in gaseous argon under the same conditions. Milling in an air atmosphere is effective to reduce the particle size of the ODS ferritic steel powder, although the pickup of oxygen from environment causes too high excess oxygen content.Iron and Steel Institute of JapanJournal Articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/2115/76321https://eprints.lib.hokudai.ac.jp/dspace/bitstream/2115/76321/1/ISIJ%20Int.%2049%2812%29_%_PHONE_%20%282009%29.pdf0915-_PHONE_-5460AA10680712ISIJ International4912191419192009-12-15enginfo:doi/10.2355/isijinternational.49.1914著作権は日本鉄鋼協会にあるpublisher


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What is the physical meaning of magnetic length $\ell_B=\frac{\hbar c}{e B}$ in 2D electron system under magnetic field? When $\ell_B \longrightarrow a$, where $a$ is the lattice constant, does that mean the Landau sub-band is nearly flat?
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The physical meaning is the length of electron trajectory along which this electron gains phase factor comparable with $2\pi$ from the magnetic field. Normally, it is rather large. When is is as small as lattice constant, it means that the magnetic field is comparable with electric field in the atom which is rather rare situation.
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First of all, the expression for the magnetic length that you give is wrong: there is a square root missing: $l_B=\sqrt{\frac{\hbar c}{eB}}$.
Secondly, to understand the meaning, you don't really need to think about lattices or phases of the electron wavefunction as the previous answers would have it. Instead, begin by thinking about a motion of a classical charged particle in a magnetic field. If it has an initial velocity in the direction perpendicular to the field, it will move in a circle whose radius is found from the second Newton's law: $m v^2/R = \frac{e}{c}vB \Rightarrow R=\frac{mvc}{eB}$ - the so-called Larmor radius.
Now let's ask ourselves, what would be the smallest radius allowed by the uncertainty principle? After all, the Larmor radius $R\propto mv=p$, but the uncertainty principle states that the two cannot be arbitrarily small simultaneously. In fact, the uncertainties in the particle's position and momentum are bounded by $\Delta x \Delta p \geq \hbar/2$. For a particle moving around a circle, $\Delta x = 2R$ while $\Delta p = 2mv$. In order to minimise the uncertainty we should replace $mv \to \hbar/R$ in the expression for the Larmor radius (I am ignoring the factor of 8 here - but we are after the physical meaning, not the exact numbers here). This gives $R^2=\frac{\hbar c}{eB}$ - which is the expression for the magnetic length! In other words, the magnetic length $l_B$ has the physical meaning of the smallest size of a circular orbit in a magnetic field which is allowed by the uncertainty principle.
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There is a deeper meaning of the magnetic length $l_B$. It is the lattice constant of a two-dimensional (2D) artificial structure. Let's consider a particle moving in 2D plane under a perpendicular uniform magnetic field of strength $B$. In classical mechanics, the system is obviously translationally invariant under any translation. However, in quantum mechanics, it is not so, because what enters the Schrodinger equation is the corresponding vector potential, which breaks this symmetry. Nevertheless, it is still possible to define an artificial lattice with primitive vectors $\vec{a}$ and $\vec{b}$, so that the translation by any $\vec{R} = m\vec{a} + n\vec{b}$ remains a symmetry, provided the area of the unit cell is $|\vec{a}\times\vec{b}|=l^2_B$. This means that, $l_B$ measures the lattice constant of this artificial lattice.
For more details, please see the book The Geometric Phase in Quantum Systems by A. Bohm et al. Also, this paper is very useful: PRL49:405(1982).
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Italians are all about la famiglia or family. In fact, it's common for family members to gather for weekly dinners and multiple family members to live under the same roof or neighborhood.
First, let's learn the various different members of the family. Notice that the article changes depending on the gender of the noun.
- maggiore or più grande (the oldest)
- minore or più piccolo (the youngest)
- di mezzo (the middle)
- il marito (husband)
- la moglie (wife)
- il fidanzato (fiancé)
- la fidanzata (fiancée)
- il cognato (brother-in-law)
- la cognata (sister-in-law)
- il suocero (father-in-law)
- la suocera (mother-in-law)
If you need to describe your marital status, you can use the following terms.
- sposato/a (married)
- nubile (single)
- dicorziato/a (divorced)
- separato/a (separated)
- vedovo/a (widowed)
Important Italian Grammar Tips
When having an Italian conversation about your family there are some important grammar tips you must keep in mind. For example, i parenti in Italian means relatives, not parents.
It's a false cognate that's often misused by second language speakers. The correct word for parents is i genitori. A more casual way to refer to your parents is to say 'i miei' (literally meaning mine).
When referring to a single member of the family, don't use the definite article. For instance, tua sorella is correct; and la tua sorella is incorrect. If there is more than one member, you should use the definite article as you would normally. For example, le tue sorelle.
This rule, however, becomes null if the single family member you are referring to is modified in some way (for example, with an adjective, a prefix, suffix or if the possessive is loro). In these cases, use the definite article. See examples below:
- il mio caro cugino (cugino is modified by the adjective caro)
- la mia bisnonna (nonna is modified with the prefix –bis)
- il mio fratellino (fratello is modified with the suffix -ino)
- la loro sorella (sorella is used with the possessive loro)
One additional fine point of the definite article concerns affectionate terms for family members. When using terms such as mamma and papà, if you use the article (i.e. la mia mamma / il mio papa) it possesses an additional affectionate meaning. Whereas if you use it without the article (mia mamma / mio papà) it simply expresses the relationship as your mom or dad.
Try It Out Yourself
Now that you know several useful Italian phrases and words for family, try to develop a sentence using the vocabulary above. Use the example below to help get you started.
"La mia famiglia è molto grande. Mia madre ha sette fratelli, e ho molti cugini. Non ho sorelle, ma ho due fratelli minori. I miei genitori sono sposati da 1979. Adesso ho anche due cognate. Non ho ancora nipoti."
(My family is very large. My mother has seven siblings, and I have lots of cousins. I don't have sisters, but I have two younger brothers. My parents have been married since 1979. Now I also have two sister-in-laws. I still don't have nephews or nieces.)
With these useful Italian phrases and words, you should be well-equipped to describe your family in Italian. Keep working with your Italian tutor on these useful Italian words and phrases for family so that when the topic comes up, you'll be ready!
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One of the mysteries of the English language finally explained.
- 'The paranoid type have prominent persecutory or grandiose delusions or hallucinations with similar content.'
- 'Delusional guilt can also cause persecutory beliefs such as the feeling that others are critical of the individual.'
- 'He had persecutory delusions as previously mentioned.'
- 'He asks whether the persecutory figures are still there.'
- 'However, in my attempts to understand I am not hampered by the persecutory activities of the state, religion or the mob.'
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For the full exchangeability case we have
mean(interim_oc_A(interim_map_post[,"theta[3]"]) * interim_oc_B(interim_map_post[,"theta[4]"]))
## [1] 0.354336
We have now calculated with increasing complexity the probability of success for various data constellations. As new trials are only conducted whenever previous trial results were positive, it is important to take note of the potential selection bias. Moreover, adding more historical data sources in this situation will likely increase the probability of success as illustrated by this summary of our preceding calculations.
Phase III trial A:
## only interim data of trial A
## [1] 0._PHONE_
## in addition with prior historical data PoC & phase II data
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## finally with the interim data of the phase III B
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Phase III trial B:
## only interim data of trial B
## [1] 0._PHONE_
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## finally with the interim data of the phase III A
## [1] 0._PHONE_
Appendix: MAP and MAC equivalence
In the preceeding sections we have used MAP and MAC equivalence already. The proof for the equivalence is presented reference in [2]. The formal deriavtion is shown at the end of this section
While MAP and MAC provide the exact same results, the difference is a sequential vs a joint analysis as (see also [2]):
 1. MAP: Summarize historical information as MAP and then update the MAP with the trial result (MCMC, then postmix).
 2. MAC: Directly summarize historical information and trial result in a single step (only MCMC on all data).
The two results above using MAP and MAC did not line up. The reason here is that the MAP approach used the historical data and the phase III trial A interim data only. In contrast, the MAC approach used the historical data and interim phase III data of both trials. To show the equivalence we need to align this mismatch of used data.
Run gMAP with base data and produce a large MCMC sample (10 chains) to get a very high precision.
base_map_mc_2 <- gMAP(cbind(logHR, sem) ~ 1 | study,
 tau.dist="HalfNormal", tau.prior=0.5,
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 chains=ifelse(is_CRAN, 2, 20))
Force an accurate fit with 5 components:
base_map_2 <- mixfit(base_map_mc_2, Nc=5)
## EM for Normal Mixture Model
## Log-Likelihood = -15197.16
## Univariate normal mixture
## Reference scale: 2
## Mixture Components:
## comp1 comp2 comp3 comp4 comp5
## w 0.44281924 0._PHONE_ 0._PHONE_ 0._PHONE_ 0.06392590
## m -0.28166106 -0.62860959 0.06052255 -0.54555809 0._PHONE_
## s 0.24384762 0.36623548 0.38586191 0.97720371 0.99418721
Now, combine the MAP prior (representing historical knowledge) with the interim data of trial A:
interim_A_combined_2 <- postmix(base_map_2, m=trials$logHR[3], se=trials$sem[3])
 1. Run the respective MAC analysis (thus we need historical data + phase III A trial, but excluding the phase III B data):
interim_map_mc_2 <- update(base_map_mc_2, data=trials[-4,])
interim_map_post_2 <- as.matrix(interim_map_mc_2)[,1:3]
 1. turn MCMC posterior sample into parametric mixture
interim_A_allcombined_2 <- mixfit(interim_map_post_2[,"theta[3]"], Nc=5)
## EM for Normal Mixture Model
## Log-Likelihood = 10712.57
## Univariate normal mixture
## Mixture Components:
## comp1 comp2 comp3 comp4 comp5
## w 0.24990957 0.20647428 0.20562020 0.20382428 0._PHONE_
## m -0.32088642 -0._PHONE_ -0.20462937 -0.30094713 -0.01236079
## s 0._PHONE_ 0.06386260 0.05669477 0.07056592 0.09996752
Now let's overlay the two posterior's
ggplot(data.frame(logHR=c(-0.8,0.25)), aes(logHR)) +
 stat_function(fun=dmix, args=list(mix=interim_A_combined_2), aes(linetype="MAP")) +
 stat_function(fun=dmix, args=list(mix=interim_A_allcombined_2), aes(linetype="MAC")) +
 scale_linetype_discrete("Analysis") +
 ggtitle("Posterior log hazard of phase III A trial at interim")
The PoS is essentially the same
## [1] 0._PHONE_
## [1] 0._PHONE_
Formal MAP and MAC equivalence
The stated equivalence requires that the posterior of a trial specific parameter
which is conditional on the trial specific data \(y_\star\) and the historical data \(y_H\) (MAC approach, joint use of \(y_H,y_\star\)), is equivalent to obtaining the MAP prior \(p(\theta_\star|y_H)\) based on the historical data and then analyzing the new trial with this prior.
\[ \begin{aligned} p(\theta_\star|y_\star,y_H) &\propto p(\theta_\star,\theta_H|y_\star,y_H) \\ &\propto p(y_\star,y_H|\theta_\star,\theta_H) \, p(\theta_\star,\theta_H) \\ &= p(y_\star|\theta_\star) \, p(y_H|\theta_H) \, p(\theta_\star,\theta_H) \\ &\propto p(y_\star|\theta_\star) \, p(\theta_\star,\theta_H|y_H) \\ &\propto p(y_\star|\theta_\star) \, p(\theta_\star|y_H) \end{aligned} \]
The equivalence holds under the use of the meta-analytic model.
[1] Neuenschwander, B., Roychoudhury, S., & Schmidli, H. (2016). On the Use of Co-Data in Clinical Trials. Statistics in Biopharmaceutical Research, 8(3), 345-354.
[2] 1. Schmidli H, Gsteiger S, Roychoudhury S, O'Hagan A, Spiegelhalter D, Neuenschwander B. Robust meta-analytic-predictive priors in clinical trials with historical control information. Biometrics. 2014;70(4):_PHONE_.
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Australian National Botanic Gardens
A weekly news sheet prepared by a Gardens' volunteer.
Numbers in square brackets refer to garden bed Sections. Plants in flower are in bold type.
11 February 2005
Rhododendron lochiae - click for larger image
This is a short walk abounding with colourful flowers to suit those with little time. On entering the gardens throught the main gates, the expanse of grasses with tall graceful nodding ochre flower heads is mostly of the kangaroo grass, Themeda australis [Section 175]. In the pots at the entrance to the Visitors Centre, plants include Rhododendron lochiae with bright red trumpet flowers on a low spreading shrub and a ground cover Goodenia sp. with bright yellow flowers. These are seen below the large arching fronds of the Birds Nest Fern, Asplenium australasicum. Against the wall a wattle, Acacia mollifolia [Section 221] is a tall, slender shrub reaching towards the path, with fine divided velvety leaves and sprays of golden fluffy flower balls.
The background to the statue of Sir Joseph Banks is Banksia serrata [Section 172], tall with dark foliage and large cylindrical green-grey flower spikes seen mostly at the tops of these shrubs. Banks Walk is edged with numerous, still colourful, kangaroo paws. They include Anigozanthos Bush Dawn [Section 210] with bright yellow paw flowers on long bare stems, Anigozanthos Bush Noon [Section 210] with yellow-orange coloured flowers and Anigozanthos Bush Glow [Section 210] with flowers coloured red. Prostrate and brilliant, Scaevola New Blue [Section 210, 174] have vivid blue flowers along the dense trailing stems. Below the notice Add colour to your garden with Australian Plants is another prostrate plant, Pelargonium rodneyanum [Section 174] with attractive magenta coloured flowers over the suckering plant.
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At the corner the attractive small shrubs, Crowea Festival [Section 174] are clad with pink star flowers. In the crescent garden, a suckering herb, Brachyscome formosa [Section 174] bears mauve daisies and Goodenia humilis [Section 174] is small and mounded with its yellow flowers to complement. Dampiera sylvestris [Section 174] is close by with its blue flowers on upright stems. Opposite and in the centre of the garden the glorious orange-red flowers crowning the Eucalyptus ficifolia [Section 174] could not be missed. Cross over the car park to the Tasmanian Section where probably many Gippsland Water Dragons, Physignathus lesueurii howittii [Section 149] can be seen basking in the sun. Entering this section, the NSW Christmas Bush, Ceratopetalum gummiferum [Section 142] displays its renowned reddened swollen calyces which followed the tiny white flowers, mostly at the top of the tall shrub.
This next section is in front of the Café building in the Ellis Rowan Garden where the Grevillea Deua Flame [Section 131] is a rather dense shrub which dangles its lovely red terminal flower clusters from pendulous branches. Opposite, a grouping of Crowea Coopers Hybrid [Section 240] is floriferous with its shade of pink star flowers. On the opposite side of this garden is a colourful patch containing Goodenia macmillanii [Section 240] with small upright stems of pink flowers, surrounded by Scaevola New Blue [Section 240], with its flowers so blue and behind, Senecio sturtianum [Section 240] with deep purple flowers and grey-green foliage on upright stems.
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Discusses soft computing, a collection of methodologies that aim to exploit the tolerance for imprecision and uncertainty to achieve tractability, robustness, and low solution cost. Its principal constituents are fuzzy logic, neurocomputing, and probabilistic reasoning. Soft computing is likely to play an increasingly important role in many application areas, including software engineering. The role model for soft computing is the human mind.
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The definition of a bruin is a bear.(noun)
An example of a bruin is the mascot of the Boston hockey team, the Blades.
See Bruin in Webster's New World College Dictionary
Origin: Du, brown
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Origin: Middle English
Origin:, name of the bear in History of Reynard the Fox, translated by William Caxton
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Hypnos (Roman Somnus)
Personification of Sleep, son of Night (Nyx) and Death (Thanatos). Like Death, he may be shown as a winged boy or adult, from the 6th century on, and in the classical period with wings in his hair. He is seen with Death carrying the bodies of heroes from the battlefield (Sarpedon), or crouching over sleeping figures (Ariadne, Alkyoneus).
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So if k > 4, so then in the equation y=mx+b it will be y=2x+4..I THINK
so thats 2 roots
so how do we solve for only one root or no roots
because if we make both equations equal to each other, we will get 4 every time :s this is where i am confused
WHAT WE ARE TRYING TO SOLVE FOR IS THE VALUE OF B IN y=mx+b for 3 equations soo 3 different values of b
If there aren't any intersection points then the value of is ANYTHING LESS THAN 4. So use a letter like and say that.
If there is only one intersection point then the value of IS 4.
If there are two intersection points then the value of is ANYTHING GREATER THAN 4. So use a letter like and say that.


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Matapa, also known as the empire of the Mwene Matapa; Matapa also spelled Mutapa, a Southern African empire ruled by a line of kings known as the Mwene Matapa. Matapa encompassed the territory between the Zambezi and Limpopo rivers, in what is now Zimbabwe and Mozambique, from the 14th to the 17th century. It is associated with the historical site known as Great Zimbabwe.
Oral traditions ascribe the dynasty's foundation to Mbire, a semimythical ruler of the 14th century. His great-great-grandson Nyatsimba, who ruled in the late 15th century, was the actual creator of the empire. During his reign the centre of the state was shifted from Zimbabwe north to Mount Fura on the Zambezi River. In the 16th century the Matapa empire was invaded by the Portuguese, who moved in from the east coast beginning in the 1530s. When the reigning Mwene Matapa attempted to expel them in 1629, they deposed him and forced his successor to grant them extensive trading and mining privileges. By the late 17th century, the Matapa empire was overshadowed by the Rozwi empire of southwestern Rhodesia.


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Dr. Susan David is a Psychologist at Harvard Medical School and is a founder and co-director of the Institute of Coaching at McLean Hospital of Harvard Medical School. In her Ted Talk about emotional agility, which you can find here, she discusses the concept of emotional agility, how society has made a push towards positivity, and inadvertently, how this may have led to additional suffering.
There is a push in our media, in our society, and in our homes to be positive; think positive, look on the bright side, or simply, smile! Dr. David posits that this push towards positivity often leads to denial of the truth and denial of our emotions. We can end up feeling bad about ourselves for experiencing negative emotions and negative thoughts because we're supposed to be happy and positive all of the time.
The truth is, life isn't always happy and positive. Certainly there are times in our lives when we are happy and things are going well and we feel good, but there are also times when things do not go our way and we just feel bad. Dr. David suggests that instead of trying to be positive during these times, and pushing those negative thoughts away, we need to embrace them, to learn to deal with and cope with them rather than trying to run away from them. Dr. David's Ted Talk mirrors much of what is discussed in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and, in particular, the idea that we must accept, rather than try to push away, negative thoughts and feelings. These things are a way of life and like a rollercoaster, sometimes we have to just wait it out.
I like to use grief as an example in my practice with clients. Our society treats grief as something that is normal – we are expected to be sad or to cry when someone close to us passes away. We also know that people we love may pass away, and as much as we do not like that thought, we have no choice but to accept it. We treat grief with a lot of respect, in most cases, and allow it to come and go naturally. I believe that we need to learn to treat the rest of our emotions with the same type of respect that we treat grief. When we are feeling anxious or sad, rather than beating ourselves up for these feelings we should be accepting that this is how it is right now, and allowing those feelings to come and go. Often, the more we try to control these feelings, the worse off we become. Either we actually end up enhancing the feelings that we started with, or we add additional distress, such as shame or frustration when we do not succeed in getting rid of the feelings.
I would like to challenge you to you try accepting your negative thoughts and feelings, and treating them with the same respect that you would grief. Listen to Dr. David's Ted Talk, and reflect back on your own experiences of trying to get rid of your negativity. Try something new, and see what happens.
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With Valentine's Day fast-approaching, and the holiday seasoning winding down, I found myself reflecting on the important people in my life, and how we choose to celebrate these people. When we think of birthdays, anniversaries, Valentine's Day, Christmas, and other important holidays, what do we think of? For me, the first thing that pops into my mind is gifts. Chocolates and flowers for Valentine's Day and anniversaries, expensive presents, gift cards, and even money for other important occasions. But is this how we really want to celebrate the most important people in our lives?
While gift-giving can be a great way to show a loved one that you've been thinking about them, spending quality time with loved ones is also extremely important. A study outlined by NPR in a December article suggested that people felt most loved during times of interaction rather than when receiving gifts. However, during busy holiday times, such as in December, people often feel additional stress at having to rush to spend time with people close to them.
During these times of high stress, such as Christmas, we often lose sight of being present. We become consumed with worries about making it to every family gathering, getting the right gifts, and planning out every detail of our holidays that we may forget to stop and enjoy the moment. Christmas may be over for this year, but we can still practice being more present with our loved ones. Take some time to breathe and ground yourself before attending that birthday party or anniversary dinner – leave the stress from work and home where they belong, and practice being in the moment.
Instead of focusing on gifts for your upcoming anniversary or birthday, why not begin a tradition that involves spending time with one another, or going on an adventure every year? Maybe you and you partner decide that every year on your anniversary you will try a new restaurant in a different city, or that every Christmas you will plan your annual trip together. Try shifting your focus from giving and receiving material items, to making new memories and living a fulfilled life.
All in all, I think we sometimes lose sight of why we take time out of our busy lives to see the people who are important to us. We want them to feel loved and appreciated, and know that they are important to us. So maybe try something new – make some great memories that will last a lifetime with the people that are most important in your life.
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What thoughts came up for you as you watched this video? Were you able to relate to what the individuals were saying? Did you understand why they answered the way they did? I'd like you to take a moment to reflect on a time when you made a mistake, and some of the things that you said to yourself. What sort of words did you use? How did those words affect you? Now think of the last time a loved one came to you and told you about a mistake. How did those words differ from the ones you told yourself? I'm willing to bet that there is a big difference in how you speak to yourself versus how you speak to others.
Why Self Compassion?
I'm sure you've heard the term self-compassion before. Maybe you wondered why it was important, or why people even bother talking about it. Maybe you thought you didn't need to be self-compassionate, or that it simply wasn't something that would impact your life. Kristin Neff (2012) suggests that self-compassion is more than looking on the bright side or attempting to avoid negative feelings. Self-compassionate people are able to recognize when they are suffering, but act kindly towards themselves. Neff (2012) further explains that studies have indicated that individuals with higher levels of self-compassion experience less anxiety and self-consciousness when asked about their weaknesses, display more wisdom and emotional intelligence, and often experience higher levels of social connectedness and overall life satisfaction.
If we can learn to be kinder to ourselves, we can learn to let go of our mistakes and shortcomings, and move forward from them. This doesn't necessarily mean ignoring them, but rather not allowing them to hook us into a pattern of self-depreciation and dislike. Instead, we can accept our mistakes/shortfalls/situations for what they are, learn from them, and move forward.
So how do I be Kinder to Myself?
Being compassionate towards oneself is similar to the way that we express compassion for others. As in the video above, it is clear that many of us are better able to be compassionate towards our loved ones than we are to ourselves. Learning how to be self-compassionate will not happen overnight; it may take time, practice, and trial and error.
Neff (2012) posits that there are three main components to having compassion for oneself:
 1. Self-kindness
 2. A sense of common humanity
 3. Mindfulness
In short, these three aspects of self-compassion involve being understanding towards ourselves and our downfalls; recognizing that we are not alone and that other people struggle as well; and practicing living in the moment and accepting some of our thoughts, feelings, and emotions. What self-compassion is not, is self-pity, self-indulgence, or self-esteem (Neff, 2012). To learn more about how you can be more self-compassionate, click here to read Kristin Neff's chapter on The Science of Self-Compassion.
Source: Neff, K. D. (2012). The science of self-compassion. In C. Germer & R. Siegel (Eds.), Compassion and Wisdom in Psychotherapy (pp. 79-92). New York: Guilford Press.
Anxiety is a funny thing – we all experience it, and many have suggested that it has its roots in evolution. Back in the hunting and gathering days, we had to be alert for any signs of predators lurking around, and our sense of anxiety would signal us to flee the area or prepare for a fight.
Today, as a human race we still experience anxiety on a daily basis, even in the absence of dangerous predators. As humans, we have a tendency to want to protect ourselves from danger, but in some instances, that perception of danger can be a little bit off. Anxiety typically leads to avoidance – the hunter doesn't hunt north of the forest because he knows there's a large family of lions that lives there. Similarly, we often try to avoid situations that are dangerous to


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Omega SOW is an application of Omega AI to the AML Compliance problem of the Source of Wealth identification.
The Omega SOW Product reads hundreds of thousands to millions of KYC notes written by financial advisors and answers a set of questions about SOW to satisfy compliance AML requirements.
Omega answers two main challenges of applying AI within the regulatory domain: very high level of accuracy and explainability of its decisions. Also, Omega is able to meet these additional challenges:
 - Notes are written in a "casual" business language. A financial advisor, who has a client on the phone, will try to quickly capture as much information as possible. This means that there are many abbreviations, many errors (in spelling and in grammar)
 - In some cases, information is entered in points and not in continuous sentences.
 - In many cases, notes are vague and even a human who is not specialized will have difficulty understanding the note.
 - SOW questions are interdependent. The first question in the demo must be answered correctly, in order to answer all the following questions correctly.
In the demo below, you can select an example note then click the "Ω Answer" button to have Omega read, understand, and answer pertinent SOW KYC questions in real time. A ½ second delay between questions is introduced to improve readability. You can change any note, and click the "Ω Answer" again.
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AI in Fitness for Smart Wearables and Virtual Trainers
The dawn of technology in the field of fitness and wellness occurred with the popular demand of electronic workout equipment such as heart rate monitors and later expanded to include wearables like GPS watches. The equipment with installed applications to track every movement and fluctuations is enhanced with the usage of AI technology. The integration has renewed applications for safe health:
- AI-powered coaching:
AI-powered fitness coaching apps are available for the users anytime, as and when necessary, with affordable training, monitoring, and customization of workouts accordingly to achieve fitness goals. There are apps connected to fitness equipment in personal gyms to report a detailed guide to personal fitness. Services like a guide to using the equipment, the formation of daily routines, measuring activity levels and nutrition are offered.
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AI wearables like watches have been booming in the market as it gives real-time metrics of the user health, which allows early diagnosis and prevention of health issues in some cases. The smart wearables can avoid injuries by giving suggestions while activities are taking place. Personal trainers can monitor the progress of the user and can report insights from the workout sessions without being present during sessions.
- Virtual assistants:
Virtual assistants, including chatbots, are programmed to answer and help users with a variety of questions to substitute manpower in carrying out repetitive tasks. They can operate round the clock with a positively encouraging tone for users starting their fitness routine. People with health conditions can contact these chatbots for support, therapy, and any wellness-related issues.
The fitness industry at a global scale is a huge market full of health clubs, fitness centers, and a plethora of wellness apps and smart devices that are regularly utilized. Given the global rise in weight issues and increasing obesity rates, alarmed people start weight loss programs and use smart solutions to work out.
The AI-powered tools have continuously reinforced users in times of emergency. Its utilization has been increasing with more people counting on it proving to be positively impactful.
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Artificial Climate Incubator
Artificial climate incubator is special-purpose thermostatic and humidistatic equipment with lighting attachment. It is able to accurately simulate the climate conditions in different environments and is applicable to research institutes, university laboratories and production sectors in sanitary & anti-epidemic, environmental protection, forestry and animal husbandry industries for culture preservation, plant cultivation and breeding experiments of molds, bacteria, and microbes.
■ LCD touch-screen LCD for display and control: 5.6" LCD Display, TFT16-bit true color, graphical interface system, and touch-operation. Provide users with a simple and convenient mode of operation.
■ Programmed multi-segment parameter setting: meet the needs of a variety of experimental conditions; The device can set up multi-segment parameters according to actual situation to control operation of equipment.
■ Inner glass door design: the device is equipped with a well-sealed inner glass door to facilitate real-time observation by the experimenter of the samples in the device.
■ Large rounded mirror, stainless steel liner design: the liner is constructed of SUS304 stainless steel, which effectively reduces dirt residual and microbial growth on the wall and facilitates user's daily cleaning and maintenance of the equipment.
■ Double safety early warning system: the equipment is fitted with an electronic safety warning device and a mechanical self-contained temperature limiter, which effectively prevent abnormal operation from causing the failure of experiments due to the sudden malfunction of the equipment.
■ Independent three-dimensional lighting liner: the liner in the incubator is surrounded by illumination on three sides, and achieves more accurate simulation of the natural environment. The completely independent liner ensures access to adequate strong illumination inside the incubator, realizes precise control of temperature and humidity and indirectly reduces the damage to the light source of the incubator due to changes in temperature and humidity.
■ Thermal circulation system: reasonable recycling of excess heat generated in the device during running, accelerating the heating process, effectively reducing the heating time, and in the constant temperature process, appropriately decreasing the heat output of the heating tube and effectively increasing humidity in the incubator.
■ C-changer defrosting technology: it automatically adjusts the refrigeration output according to different environmental needs, and in combination with the cycle thermal system, achieves defrosting effect automatically and quickly.
■ High-performance operating system: on the basis of WINDOWS CE system platform, device operating software loads large-capacity memory and high CPU to ensure efficient operation of equipment; users can also load necessary software into the equipment.
■ Multiple external interfaces: the device is equipped with USB interface and RS232 interface, making it easier for the user to operate the system by using the mouse, export a history of device operation and control the device remotely.
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|1.||(in England before 1926) the reversion of property to the Crown in the absence of legal heirs|
|2.||(in feudal times) the reversion of property to the feudal lord in the absence of legal heirs or upon outlawry of the tenant|
|3.||the property so reverting|
|4.||to take (land) by escheat or (of land) to revert by escheat|
|[C14: from Old French eschete, from escheoir to fall to the lot of, from Late Latin excadere (unattested), from Latin cadere to fall]|
|to chew (food) slowly and thoroughly.|
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in feudal English land law, the return or forfeiture to the lord of land held by his tenant. There were generally two conditions by which land would escheat: the death of the tenant without heirs or the conviction of the tenant for a felony. In case of felony, the land would lose its inheritability and escheat to the lord, who would then hold the land subject to the crown's right to exploit the felon's lands for a year and a day. In time, this exploitation right of the crown was commuted in return for a money payment or service rendered to the crown by the lord. In the case of a tenant convicted of high treason, however, his land escheated directly to the crown, and the lord forfeited all rights he had in that tenant's lands completely. The escheat of lands for felony was abolished by statute in England in 1870; and by a statute enacted in 1925, no longer does land escheat to its former owner solely for failure of heirs. In the United States, laws passed in all states provide that land will escheat to the state (county or city) if an owner dies without a valid will and if no heirs can be found. See also attainder.
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In 1882-4, Frances Groome's Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland described Airds Moss like this:
Airdsmoss or Airsmoss, a morass in the E of Ayrshire, between the Water of Ayr and Lugar Water. It begins about 1½ mile ENE of Auchinleck village, extends about 6 miles north-eastward, has a mean breadth of about 1½ mile, and is approached over most of its SE side, and crossed over a small part of its further end, by the railway from Auchinleck to Muirkirk. It was the scene, on 20 July 1680, of a sharp skirmish between 63 of the Covenanters and a party of dragoons, fatal to Richard Cameron: and it contains, at a spot where the deadliest of the strife occurred, a monument popularly called Cameron's Stone....
The present monument is neat and modern: but the original one was a large flat stone, laid down about 50 years after the event, and marked with the names of the Covenanters who fell in the skirmish, and with the figures of an open Bible and a hand grasping a sword. The skirmish of Airdsmoss is the subject of the well-known effusion, beginningIn a dream of the night I was wafted away,
To the moorland of mist where the martyrs lay;
where Cameron's sword and his Bible are seen,
Engraved on the stone where the heather grows green.'
A Vision of Britain through Time includes a large library of local statistics for administrative units. For the best overall sense of how the area containing Airds Moss has changed, please see our redistricted information for the modern district of East Ayrshire. More detailed statistical data are available under Units and statistics, which includes both administrative units covering Airds Moss and units named after it.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Airds Moss in East Ayrshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
Date accessed: 23rd May 2013
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Stochastic variational inequalities (SVI) model a large class of equilibrium problems subject to data uncertainty, and are closely related to stochastic optimization problems. The SVI solution is usually estimated by a solution to a sample average approximation (SAA) problem. This paper considers the normal map formulation of an SVI, and proposes a method to build asymptotically exact condence regions and condence intervals for the solution of the normal map formulation, based on the asymptotic distribution of SAA solutions. The condence regions are single ellipsoids with high probability. We also discuss the computation of simultaneous and individual condence intervals.
Department of Statistics and Operations Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill


Mentoring for knowledge retention and transfer
IMG_1113You want to improve knowledge retention and transfer within your law firm. You may have a strong supervision programme for junior members of staff, but do you need to do more? Would a mentoring programme help?
Firstly, do you really "get" the difference between mentoring, supervision and coaching? They have similar elements, but which is useful for transfer and retention of knowledge?
A supervisor is responsible for overseeing the supervisee's work and ensuring that he/she does their job as expected: mistakes are spotted and corrected, KPIs are met. Supervision is about monitoring.
A mentor is a guide or trusted advisor who interacts with the mentee in order to help them to succeed. Mentors have generally "been there before" and know traps and pitfalls. Mentoring is about relationships and guidance.
Coaching is about asking questions to help someone question their own actions and goals, in order to help them find the solutions they need by themselves. Coaches don't advise, but they tend to be task oriented and often work with people for a limited time, until the task in question is complete. You can use a coaching style in either a supervisory or mentoring relationship.
Once you clarify the difference between the roles, it becomes more apparent how supervision and mentoring can help you with knowledge retention and transfer.
Firstly, ask yourself what kinds of knowledge you need to transfer/retain. The dividing lines aren't as obvious as this suggests, but as a guide…
Supervision is often useful for transfer of:
 - explicit knowledge and some tacit knowledge,
 - declarative and procedural knowledge,
 - embrained, encoded and embedded knowledge.
Mentoring can be particularly useful for:
 - hard-to-reach tacit knowledge,
 - causal and relational knowledge,
 - Deep Smarts (see D Leonard's book),
 - embodied, encultured and embedded knowledge.
Which types of knowledge does your firm struggle with retaining/transferring? When you understand that and understand the differing approaches of supervision and mentoring, it becomes plain whether you should work on improving your supervision process or whether to improve/start a mentoring scheme.
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, Francisco Ayala makes a fundamental distinction between the capacity for ethics (i.e., the human capacity for a moral sense) and the expression of moral norms that can vary from one human society to another. The former, Ayala argues, is an inevitable byproduct of the biological evolution of high intelligence, which itself arose from selection pressures for other fitness-enhancing capabilities such as bipedalism and tool use; whereas the latter, by contrast, are products of cultural evolution rather than biological evolution. This distinction between morality and moral norms generally parallels the obvious distinction between the capacity for creative language and the particular languages that happen
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In the Light of Evolution Volume IV: The Human Condition to be spoken by particular societies. In developing this line of argumentation, Ayala invokes the distinction between an adaptation (something targeted quite directly by natural selection—in this case, higher intelligence) and an exaptation (something that arises by being co-opted to serve a positive role other than its original selection-promoted function). Ayala's distinction between ethics and moral norms is helpful but it nevertheless leaves open important questions regarding whether and to what extent particular moral norms (as well as a general moral sensibility) are genuinely adaptive for the human groups that display them (as opposed to being nonadaptive or perhaps even maladaptive on some occasions). Such questions no doubt will continue to intrigue sociobiologists and philosophers alike.
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CPR Labels are used to indicate if a person has received CPR certification. This allows easy and quick identification of personnel who have been trained to perform CPR during emergencies. These labels also provide a visible reminder to the employees that they are a valuable part of the workforce, entrusted by the company to help save lives of people when an emergency happens.CPR Labels help identify which employees are trained to perform CPR
CPR Labels are used to indicate if a person has received CPR certification. If a person has CPR training, they are qualified to provide emergency assistance to a person whose heart has stopped beating. The process involves the proper positioning of the patient, breathing, and compressions, which all help stabilize the victim and relieve distress. During CPR training courses, students are taught how to assist victims suffering and keep oxygenated blood going to the brain to keep the patient alive. Individuals can also obtain online certification from various websites.


Human Face to Enterprise Architecture
Nov 17, 2019
In the previous articles (Build Requirements Around Real Journeys and Design for Real People) we have explored the application of customer journeys to market analysis and requirements development. In this last article of the series we will discuss a method to use the customer journeys in enterprise architecture.
End to end requirements cycle
If we look at the previously proposed process end to end, it starts with the customer journey. The journey is mapped to the internal business processes, systems, and data sources. For both the customer facing and internal parts of the journey user stories are created to document the gaps between the as-is and to-be states - effectively form the backlog for the change. For each story, acceptance criteria are prepared in a way that enforces the expected behavior in the system. Ideally, those should be the scenarios that are likely to appear on the real life journeys and not the hypothetical future scenarios. These scenarios when implemented and tested feed back to the journey and underlying layers changing them as the new functionality is introduced.
The end to end cycle of experience driven development
Those familiar with the concept of enterprise architecture will notice some familiar notes here. Let us explore them further
Enterprise architecture through the lens of experience
According to the BABOK(r) Guide, an enterprise architecture is "A description of the business processes, information technology, people, operations, information, and projects of an enterprise and the relationships between them." [1] An organization's enterprise architecture generally describes how the business operates as a whole and defines the solution environment requirements. It also helps specify exactly which platform or other attribute of the environment is required for a particular solution.
The key challenge when defining an architecture of this scale is how to scope it. A project to build the architecture from scratch can last for months if not years in a large enterprise. Moreover, once built the architecture becomes obsolete really fast without proper updates and maintenance, which can cost a lot.
So businesses need to find a way to make this effort focused and to achieve a measurable ROI on these activities. Tailoring architecture slices to customer journeys is a way of achieving it.
Make architecture focused
The above mentioned process of end-to-end requirements development implies building an enterprise architecture blueprint in order to identify the requirements correctly. However, the nature of the process makes the blueprint focused exclusively on elements that are directly related to a single customer journey.
When performing market analysis and defining the journeys, an important step is to prioritize things accordingly. First step of prioritization is to define the customer personas or segments, that are of value or interest for the business. These may be the key target audience for the product or service, or they may be the most challenging segments (e.g. people likely to churn), so a business initiative can be focused on smoothing the experience for these people and reducing the likelihood of unwanted events.
When the key personas or customer segments are defined, the journeys can be prioritized next. The same user can have multiple potential journeys that interact with the business. They can come from a targeted acquisition campaign or discover the service organically. They may have a positive or negative previous experience with this type of services, etc.. Just like it is important to prioritize the customer types, it is important to prioritize the journeys for those customers.
Once those decisions are made, it is clear which customer journey the business is working with. This is when an enterprise architecture bit can be added into the picture. From the touch-points on the customer journey, an analyst can identify which internal processes, people and systems support them. In addition to these, the analyst can identify all the projects and initiatives that happen in the business in parallel, which may affect the journey. All of these data together forms a view of the enterprise architecture, focused around a specific prioritized journey. As the journey is considered to be of priority for the business, the elements identified during this exercise automatically become a priority. This is how a defined customer journey maps help build a focused slice of the architecture and help prioritize architectural effort.
Such architecture slices are often referred to as "service blueprints".[2]
A great summary of what a service blueprint does is given by the Nielsen Norman Group: "Service blueprints are companions to customer-journey maps: they help organizations see the big picture of how a service is implemented by the company and used by the customers. They pinpoint dependencies between employee-facing and customer-facing processes in the same visualization and are instrumental in identifying pain points, optimizing complex interactions, and ultimately saving money for the organization and improving the experience for its customers." [3]
Quantify ROI on architecture
It is always hard to calculate the return on investment when it comes to enterprise architecture work. Making the architecture customer centric simplifies this process.
Service blueprints help discover weaknesses in the businesses. Behind any unhappy customer there is a broken business process - the blueprint will help identify which processes lead to undesired results. It will also help to scope initiatives to improve those elements of the architecture that underperform. At the same time, as the elements are tied to experiences, it is easy to allocate business KPIs to them.
For example, let us imagine the data analysis shows our customers often abandon online checkout process at payment stage. The abandon rate is 75% on this stage. From the user interviews we have learnt that the payment form looks and feels external to the website, so people perceive it to be a scam. Building a service blueprint we identify the systems involved in the process. We may find out that the reason we cannot customize the payment screen is that it is a third party payment portal, so we don't have much control over it. Even though it cannot be customized visually, there might be a reason why this solution was selected. E.g. it may integrate nicely with downstream systems as a part of the business process. To resolve the problem, we may decide to change the process so the integration is not so important, or replace the payment system with another tool that satisfies both needs, or decide to bring this functionality in house. Introducing changes to this architecture will result in direct change in customer's behavior, bringing the abandon rate down. This change in customer behavior can be directly attributed to a new architecture decision, which can form a part of ROI calculations for architecture.
A similar process works with new opportunities that are identified on the customer journey. An opportunity needs a measurement or set of measurements to be assigned, so that the business can make a decision whether an initiative was successful. These KPIs will bring commercial flavor to architecture activities, as it will make it clear why an enterprise architecture is being considered and which outcomes it is aimed to achieve.
It is important a business (or customer's) KPIs are allocated to elements of your blueprint. This helps build a better system of internal metrics that measure the quality of the architecture, as those can be derived from the customers' level. This traceability helps keep the decisions focused on the valuable outcomes, and also supports the decision making process with real data rather than employees' opinions. As we have discussed in the previous article, decisions based on real evidence help solve real problems and avoid building products that no one dreams about!
How do we build a service blueprint?
In a nutshell, building a service blueprint consists of the following steps:
 1. Identify the customers
 2. Examine the customers' perspective of the service (customer journey)
 3. Identify the internal participants of the service (employees, technology and other actors supporting the journey)
 4. Link related activities and elements together
 5. Define and measure business KPIs for customer journey steps
 6. Translate those KPIs into internal metrics and make data driven decisions
Follow these steps, and you will elevate your enterprise architecture practice to a new level.
 1. A Guide To The Business Analysis Body Of Knowledge ®, Version 3, International Institute of Business Analysis, 2015
Author: Igor Arkhipov, Business Analysis Practice Manager
Igor holds Master of Business Informatics degree specializing in Business Process Modeling and Optimisation. Igor has broad experience as a Business Analyst and a BA Team Manager in the fields of software development, e-commerce and quality management. Igor's current role is a BA practice manager at Isobar Australia.
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What does it do:
When purchasing Gift Cards online, the recipient is now simply sent an email, informing them that they have a new Gift Card, and prompting them to claim it by creating an account (or adding their Gift Card to their existing account if they already have one).
What you need to know:
When purchasing a Gift Card online, previously, the purchaser was required to create an account for the recipient (or add the Gift Card to the recipients existing account).
Why is this good:
For privacy reasons, it is no longer possible for the purchaser to create an account on behalf of the recipient. The recipient is asked to create their own account. Each customer is therefore in full control of their own account and personal information.
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Myself Belts - Belts Kids Can Fasten Themselves Print E-mail
myselfbeltsmyself-belts Most toddlers "do it myself!" ideas send parents running for the hills - or at least to the nearest hardware store to load up on enough childproof gear to cover any big ideas your little tot might have. But there are some things we wish our kids could do all by themselves - undress quickly enough to use the bathroom without any assistance, for instance?
Look no further than Myself Belts, the greatest pants-keeper-upper since, well, the normal belt. Without the hassle of buckles and loops, these ingenious belts attach themselves to the child's belt loop, and let kids do the rest. Myself Belts close with a secure velcro front that allows for easy opening and closing, so that Mom no longer becomes the bathroom gate keeper.
myselfbelts-designs Give your child a sense of independence, especially during the potty-training stage, when learning to "do it yourself" is crucial. And for a little added fun, Myself Belts don't just come in brown leather but also in ABCs, sailboats, fire trucks, and more adorable patterns.
Next time your child asks to do something independently, make sure his idea involves a Myself Belt, and not a hose, soap, and the dog!


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HUBUNGAN KERUSAKAN TANAH DAN NERACA HARA SEBAGAI INDIKATOR PERTANIAN BERKELANJUTAN*)
(RELATION OF SOIL DEGRADATION TO NUTRIENT BALANCE AS
AN INDICATOR OF SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE)
Soil degradation and nutrient balance are important for ecological nutrient management in sustainable agriculture. Soil degradation in term of soil erosion is the single most important environmental concern in the developing countries. Eroded sediment also acts as both a physical and chemical pollutant. It has been become an ecological, social and economic problem. Loss of nutrient by erosion from agricultural areas in a sloping land is one of the major causes of land degradation in Indonesia, yet the process by which the nutrient is depleted has often not been answered by appropriate study. To relate soil degradation to nutrient balance becomes important tool for monitoring sustainable agriculture.
*) Artikel di Jornal JOGLO Vol. 23 No. 1, Juli 2011. ISSN: 0215-9546
**) Dosen Fakultas Pertanian UNISRI Surakarta
Selengkapnya: artikel joglo_riyo samekto


Ceramic capacitors have a three digit code, rather than the actual capacitance value listed. You can use this ceramic capacitor value calculator to calculate the actual value of your, or use the ceramic capacitor code calculator to covert the capacitance value into a code!
Capacitor Value Calculator / Capacitor Code Calculator
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About Ceramic Capacitor Codes
Ceramic capacitors are tiny! It's difficult to read their values even with the code. Imagine if we had to shrink their complete specifications down and print them on the capacitor! We'd need a microscope to read them! This is why manufacturers started using a three-digit-code to mark ceramic capacitors. You can either memerize the formula, or use a calculator to figure them out:
 - The Capacitor Value Calculator will convert the three digit code into a capacitance value.
 - The Capacitor Code Calculator will convert a value into a code.
"Breaking" the Capacitor Code
The formula that the capacitor value calculator uses isn't really all that difficult, and one that you could memorize and do in your head. Really, its not that hard!
ceramic capacitor code calculator
Let's break that 3 digit code!
The first two digits are the capacitance value in pF and the third digit is simply a multiplier. This is where you need a good memory, or the calculator! The multiplier is always a number between zero and six. If you find a larger number than six, it is not using the standard numbering scheme, or it may not even be a capacitor.
RELATED: What is a Capacitor?
Ceramic Capacitor Multipliers
Here's a simple table of the multipliers you can use to do this calculation in your head:
 - 0: multiply by 1
 - 1: multiply by 10
 - 2: multiply by 100
 - 3: multiply by 1000
 - 4: multiply by 10,000
 - 5: multiply by 100,000
 - 6: multiply by 1,000,000
Let's try a simple example of how this works. If you have a code of 130, then you would take 1 and 3 at value. The third digit is zero and means to multiply times one. Since one times anything is itself, 1 X 13 is just 13. So the value of a 130 coded capacitor is 13.
Another example of 103. Again we take 1 and 0 at face value. So 10. The third digit is a 3, which means we multiply 10 by 1000. This makes this capacitor a 10,00 pF capacitor (more easily written as.01 µF).
So you can see that calculating these ceramic capacitors isn't too hard. My problem is I can never remember the multiplier, and always wind up using the ceramic capacitor value calculator to figure it out!


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To explore the relationship between conductances,
and in particular how they influence the activity of motor neurons in
the well characterized leech heartbeat system, we developed a new
multi-compartmental Hodgkin-Huxley style leech heart motor neuron
To do so, we evolved a population of model instances, which
differed in the density of specific conductances, capable of achieving
specific output activity targets given an associated input pattern.
We found that the strengths of many conductances,
including those with differing dynamics, had strong partial
correlations and that these relationships appeared to be linked by
their influence on heart motor neuron activity.
Conductances that had
positive correlations opposed one another and had the opposite effects
on activity metrics when perturbed whereas conductances that had
negative correlations could compensate for one another and had similar
effects on activity metrics.
Lamb DG, Calabrese RL (2013) Correlated conductance parameters in leech heart motor neurons contribute to motor pattern formation. PLoS One 8:e79267 [PubMed]


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ZPL is a new array programming language for science and engineering computation. Designed for fast execution on both sequential and parallel computers, it is intended to replace languages such as Fortran and C. Because ZPL benefits from recent research in parallel compilation, it provides a convenient high-level programming medium for supercomputers with efficiency comparable to hand-coded message-passing programs. Users with scientific computing experience can usually learn ZPL in a few hours, and those who have used MATLAB or Fortran 90 may already be acquainted with the array programming style.
This guide provides a complete introduction to ZPL. It assumes that the reader is experienced with an imperative language such as C, Fortran, or Pascal. Though thorough and precise, it does not attempt to be a ZPL reference manual. Rather, it illustrates typical ZPL usage and explains in an intuitive manner how the constructs work. The emphasis is on teaching the reader to be a ZPL programmer. Scientific computations are used as examples throughout.


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Performance, scalability and reliability are requirements for many 24/7 web applications.Â Design, implementation and maintenance of such systems is still a challenge, and you probably will never start on a greenfield but have to integrate existing technologies.
Resoa Persistence architecture was developed under theÂ focus of grid persistence from the beginning. Finding a solution for a platform independent database clustering ofÂ several distributed service container nodes was one of the central requirement within Resoa's early stage design.
Resoa Master / Slave conception
Within a Resoa grid, only one node can act as a persistence MASTER for a service domain. MASTER nodes are responsible for
- synchronized transaction executions which require consistence checks
- synchronization of nodes, joining the grid during runtime
The SLAVE nodes task profile:
- Request the sequential task execution from domain MASTER. The processing of the task execution log must be finished before the accepting of service execution requests.
- Read requests are always performed against the slave storage back-end.
- Write/Delete transactions are passed to the domain MASTERÂ for execution
- Monitoring of the grid for a domain MASTER availability. If the domain master node crashes, a new master node must be assigned automatically.
The Resoa persistence Task Journal
Calling a persistor.store(myObject)Â can cause many statements (we call it 'Instruction') to the persistent backend as object relationÂ resolving might create additional instructionsÂ. In case of RDBMS persistence, all relations to complex types must be resolved, additionally there is the requirement of updating potentialÂ n:m relation tables.
Resoa runs its own persistence service model, designed within resoa.persistence.journal.xsd. Central class is org.resoa.persistence.journal.Task. All instructions within a task instance are performed under one transaction context.
Task instances are created for every WRITE/DELETE storage requests both on MASTER and SLAVE nodes. Slave nodes store an encrypted JSONÂ representation of every new task within a local domain specific folder (set by the property journalRootDir) before passing the instance to the domain MASTER node. The status of the persistence request changes now to STORAGE_COMMIT.
MASTER nodes are responsible for the task execution. In case of a successful storage transaction the task status changes to MASTER_COMMIT. All domain slave nodes are informed about the execution, the task is addedÂ to the domain execution log.
When receiving a task with status STORAGE_COMMIT or CANCELLED, slave nodes delete the local journal file again. Â STORAGE_COMMIT tasks are synchronously processed into the back-end storage, the task is addedÂ to the domain execution log. The handling of cancelled tasks depend on the Persistence policy (see below).
When a MASTER node crashes, the slave nodes willÂ assign a new domain master. The new master now process all outstanding task files in the journal directory and informs the remaining slave nodes by sending the latest execution logs (standard is 60sec).
The Resoa persistence Policies
Persistence in distributed MASTER / SLAVE systems always is a compromiseÂ between transaction speed and the accepted delay in SLAVE node consistency. Resoa currently offers 2 policies:
- LogfilePersistPolicy: On SLAVE nodes, client storage requests succeed, when the task journal file is written to disk. For MASTERÂ nodes there is no difference to the MasterCommitPolicy
- MasterCommitPolicy: Client storage requests succeed, when the domain MASTER node has successfully performed the back-end storage transaction. SLAVE nodes might run into a timeout in this cause, although the MASTER might set the STORAGE_COMMIT to the transaction. Check the policy implementation source file documentation for more information about timeout management.
Every node runs a TransactionLogger for persistence request, which run into an error or timeout.Â Check the org.resoa.persistence.TransactionLogger implementations for more information about.


Euclidean space
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Euclidean space is the space Euclidean geometry uses. In essence, it is described in Euclid's Elements. The Euclidean plane () and three-dimensional space () are part of Euclidean space, which can be generalized to any dimension n (in which case one writes ).[1]
Euclidian space is sometimes called Cartesian space.[2] A few other spaces and mathematical objects that are similar were added later. Euclid based his work Elements on certain axioms. Euclidean space can be described using such axioms.[3]
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 1. "Comprehensive List of Algebra Symbols". Math Vault. 2020-03-25. Retrieved 2020-10-12.
 2. Weisstein, Eric W. "Euclidean Space". Retrieved 2020-10-12.
 3. "Euclidean space | geometry". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2020-10-12.
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Octet: Selected Works from the School of Visual Arts, New York
Relational Aesthetics, a term coined in 2002 by Nicolas Bourriaud refers to a kind of art that interacts with its onlookers. Not based on formal concerns of aesthetic experience, audience participation is a necessary and required aspect of this type of work. Like the Situationists before them, practitioners in this field aim towards developing collective social experiences, and endeavors to fuse art with life.
Word As Image
To conceive of words as flesh, or breath or abstract signs, integrating words with the visual arts has had a cross-cultural history. From the Rosetta Stone to oracle bones, from bark cloth paintings, to illuminated manuscripts, words turn sounds into a concrete script. Simple lines and dots, dabs and flows, arabesques and undulating rhythms displace the articulating voice in the external world.
Identity and Identity Politics
What does it mean to be human? What does it mean to be part of a marginalized social group? How do race, religion, and/or gender, constitute an identity? The manner in which the self is defined is expressed through physical attributes, shared social values or political persuasions. In heterogeneous societies, such as America, a melting pot of citizens from Italian, Irish, Jewish, Arab, African, Chinese, Hispanic and Turkish descent among others, form distinct communities. Assimilating variegated cultural identities into the larger fabric of American life creates a multi-racial, multi-ethnic composite population. What does it mean to be an Asian-American or a Latino in the USA? Although we all share the primary structure of DNA, making us human, we each are also distinctly unique.


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Ever find yourself doing something without knowing exactly why? You might swat at a fly before you consciously realize it is there, or you might catch yourself scratching a bug bite you were trying to forget about. A new study published in Psychological Science could help explain why: half of the brain can be subliminally motivated while the other half is left in the dark.
Researchers at INSERM in Paris first measured how hard 33 subjects could squeeze a grip with each hand. Then they presented the subjects with images on a computer screen of either a one-euro coin or a one-cent coin. The coins were visible to only one eye at a time, and they appeared for only 17 milliseconds—long enough for subliminal, but not conscious, processing. After each coin image flashed, the subjects squeezed the grip with whatever hand they were holding it in—they were told they would win a fraction of the coin's value depending on the amount of effort they exerted. Each subject got to try all four possible combinations of eyes and hands: right eye with right or left hand and left eye with right or left hand.
Although the subjects could not correctly guess which coin they had seen—confirming that they were not conscious of what they saw—they squeezed harder when presented with the larger coin if the hand grip was on the same side of the body as the eye that had seen it. Their squeezes did not change depending on what the opposite eye saw, indicating that only half the brain was being motivated at a time. Motivation, therefore, is sometimes not only subconscious, explains co-author and INSERM cognitive neuroscientist Mathias Pessiglione, but it can also be "subpersonal," in that "one part of a person can be motivated while the other is not." So next time you are surprised to find yourself midaction, consider blaming it on the independent halves of your brain.
This article was originally published with the title Split Motivation.