Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Joseph Hyrum (Hy) Spackman 8 August 1889 - 10 May 1963
Joseph Hyrum Spackman was the youngest child of twelve children born to Edwin and Rosanna Black Spackman. His parents lived in England and came to America in 1880. They brought six children with them. They buried one child in England, a boy, named William George. (Born 26 August 1874 and died 24 August 1878). Those children who came with them, that were born in England were: Amos, Annie Maria, Charlotte, Henry Edwin, Alice, and Francis Albert (Alf) who was just a baby. They settled in Richmond, Utah where Sarah Jane was born in 1881. They then moved to Cove, Utah where Alma was born in 1883. Next a little girl was born and named Ellen. She died as a child. Then Brigham was born at Cove, Utah in 1887. Annie Maria had married Andrew Allen of Cove as his second wife. Things were bad at this time for the polygamists.
Andrew Allen hired Annie's father and mother, Edwin and Rosanna, to take Annie and move south. About 1887 they left and went to St. George, Utah. Here Annie's second child, Rosanna, was born in 1888. Charlotte met Thomas Sullivan and they married in 1888. They lived in St. George and Leeds, Utah for years. The Spackmans and Annie came back to Provo, Utah where Hyrum was born in 1889. (It is said that Grandpa Hyrum only weighted about 3 pounds at birth and that he could fit very nicely in a quart teacup.) They lived in Provo about a year and then came to Lewiston, Utah where they rented a place straight west of Lewiston down by the river.
About 1895 they then moved to Trenton and ran the Bullen milk ranch. They milked so many cows that they hauled their own milk to the factory. About 1900 they moved to the crossroads this side of Richmond where they lived until the time of Hy's father's death. I believe this was the first property they had owned since they had come to America. After Hy's father died his mother moved to Preston and lived in the house that Ted Spackman, Hy's son has. She lived there until the time of her death.
Hy's father has said that when he left England he had been employed as a caretaker of a stable of very fine horses, that were owned by a rich man.
None of Hy's mother's folks came to America that we know of. All of his father's family came, also his grandfather and grandmother.
This picture was given to Grandma by Grandpa when they were married. Grandpa is the one on the right. A story is told by Grandma about the young man on the left. Wen she worked at the meat market the power line was being installed down the middle of Main Street. One day she heard men yelling and carrying on outside. She went out and just as she got to the door, she saw a man fall to the ground. He had been electrocuted and was dead before he fell. It was a Merrill boy from Lewiston. After she saw this picture she found out that it had been one of Grandpa's best friends.
Hy worked around Richmond until about 1909. He worked for James Sheppard in Richmond for about 2 years. Sheppard had two wives and Hy would stay a week at one wife's and then move to the other one's for a week. He ran a header with six head of horses to head grain in what they called the south fields, west of the high school. He worked for Newell Bullen and Hershel Bullen at Richmond and Gentile Valley on the Black Canyon ranch which was near Central on the west side of the valley. While working on this ranch he would tell of how at night when they were watering, how he would hear the rattlesnakes. They would kill dozens of them during the day while they were working. In later years he would wake with a start after dreaming of hearing the sound of those rattlers.
Hy loved to dance. While working in Richmond he would drive a horse and buggy to Smithfield to go to the dances. He had a steady girl friend, named Rose Milligan, up until the time we met. She told Hy she was going to pull all of my hair out.
I met Hy in 1910 while he was working in Gentile Valley. I met him at his brother, Alma's, home in Richmond. When he came down to Preston and Richmond from up the valley he came in a white top buggy or he rode a horse most of the time. He was a good neighbor to a fellow who lived out by the ranch he worked on in Central, his name was Corbett. Some of the boys have told Nelda and Glenn of how kind Hy was to their mother and family. He worked in this part of the country until we were married in 1912.
Hy and I lived with my folks on the farm which Hy and my father had bought together, the first year that we were married. Spending three or four months at Richmond with his folks while Hy worked campaign at the Lewiston Sugar Factory. After a year we moved to the Pratt place where we lived for five years, Hy farmed and raised cattle. Many a night he would bind grain by moonlight, half of the night.
After five years we moved over to the farm and my mother and father moved to town, where they lived until the time of their deaths.
When the power plant was built up the narrows, Hy hauled cement, lumber, pipes, and everything up there. They had a half-way station where the canyon widens and a telephone, so if the weather was bad, Cap Smith, the contractor took the loads the rest of the way with mules. They would load here at nights so as to get an early start the next morning. Hy got the mumps that fall and was real sick for about a week. Edwin was about three weeks old. I took the mumps but was not real sick. We suppose Edwin had them as he never got them later, but we did not know at the time.
In the spring Hy would go for a week to camp at Mink creek to clean the water ditch. He would go in the wagon, so bedding and grub had to be ready for the week. We had a grub box with a lid, that we kept just for this purpose. Then there were frying pans, coffee pots, and the like to get ready. Sometimes it would rain before the week was over. I would always hate this because things would have to be done all over again.
Hy would take the horses and wagon and go to the canyon and get logs for posts and for other things. Sometimes for wood to burn.
Hy was a great hand to trade horses, mostly with the men in Richmond. About once a week some of the boys would have to take horses to Franklin, sometimes six or seven at a time, to meet someone from Richmond with horses that Hy had traded for. They would exchange and come back home. You never knew what kind you were getting. But we were lucky as none of the kids were hurt too much. I always worried for fear they would run away with the kids and they wouldn't be able to hold them and something would happen.
Hy hauled milk for 33 years. The boys would take turns as they got old enough. They hauled to Franklin for years with horses and wagons. In the winter with a sleigh. Later they hauled to the Sego Milk factory in Preston. Usually one boy would take the lower route, that was the lower half of the sixth ward, while Hy ate his breakfast and he would take it from there to town. Hy had a team of mules that was a really pretty team. The snow would get so deep and they would make such little tracks and could get around so easy. But it wasn't long and Hy traded them. I think later he wished a hundred times he had kept them. He always saw that the kids had ponies to ride. He was good to his horses, cows, and other animals. In fact sometimes he kept them too fat. The men who came from Richmond to trade horses, always said they could tell Hy's place as he always had a big hay stack.
Hy would work for a long time getting a matched team. He would get one horse and then look for a long time before he would get another to suit him. Just as soon as he would get them matched he would get a good trade and start over again. He would get some of the teams ready to pull at a pulling match. He loved to train them and pull things at home. We didn't pull at matches very many times. We had a horse named Black Old Cap that Hy would take up the canyon when they would go to log. They could take him up to the top, hook a log on behind and turn him around and let him go. He would go down the hill and someone would undo the log and turn him around and he would go up the hill alone. He could also unload hay onto the stack without anyone guiding him. Hy would tell him to pull up and when to stop and he would run the Jackson fork.
One time when we had three or four little kids, Hy and I had driven to Richmond to pick raspberries at his father's place. His father raised beautiful fruit and garden. We were coming back after dark that night in the buggy when one of the horses stumbled and broke


Larry Coryell, the "Godfather of Jazz Fusion", performing on the electric guitar
This Saturday, May 19th, jazz legend Larry Coryell is scheduled to appear at Chestnut Hill's Stagecrafters Theater for a highly anticipated performance. He will perform with blues and jazz musicians Victor Bailey and Jim Dragoni. Coryell has long been known for his jazz-fusion style, but in recent years, he has added another dimension to his music in exploring other genres. As a result, his own music remains rooted in jazz-fusion while incorporating the styles of other genres to create an unclassifiable sound that is truly unique.
Texas-born musician Larry Coryell has been honing his skills on the electric guitar since his childhood. Although he originally sought to become a journalist, he later realized that his true calling was to create and perform music. When his career as a professional musician began in the 1960s, Coryell began to release strings of albums with various groups. In 1973, he formed his own band, a widely praised jazz-fusion group called The Eleventh House. Ever since then, he has been writing, recording, and performing for a wide range of audiences on both electric and acoustic guitar, and he continues to tour regularly.
Today, Coryell's dynamic style has influenced musicians of many interests and genres. His multifaceted career has exposed him to diverse audiences and has contributed to the wide range of his interests in music. His participation in countless musical groups has helped him develop his eclectic style, which blends blues, jazz, rock, and world music, among many other genres. Fans of many types of music praise the unique sound of his songs, claiming that his solos, in particular, cannot be classified by any single genre.
The legend of Larry Coryell, known as the "Godfather of Jazz Fusion," has not gone unnoticed. Throughout his career, his frequent tours have taken him around the United States and Europe. In fact, just a week after his May 19th show, he is scheduled to appear at the Stadttheater in Hildesheim, Germany as evidence that his career is still on fire. His exciting life and career have sparked so much interest that in 2007, Coryell published an autobiography about his experiences, titled, Improvising: My Life in Music.
At his May 19th show, Coryell will perform as part of a trio, accompanied by bassist Victor Bailey and guitarist Jim Dragoni. Although Coryell is expected to be the star of the show, both Bailey and Dragoni are also renowned musicians with well-established careers. They both specialize in blues and jazz, but like Coryell, have dabbled in other genres throughout their careers. The potential of such a powerful and eclectic trio promises that their upcoming performance will be a musical experience unlike any other.
Stagecrafters Theater is at 8130 Germantown Avenue, and the show begins at 8 p.m. Tickets are available at
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 Larry Coryell is an American jazz fusion guitarist. He is a well known blues guitar player. His music include jazz, jazz fusion, jazz rock, post-bop, free jazz and so on…


- Hello! My name is Mrs. Ballmes and I am the STREAM Teacher. The acronym for STREAM stands for Science. Technology. Religion. Engineering. Art. Math.
 STREAM activities integrates all six subjects into a cohesive learning experience based on real-world applications. During STREAM activities, students are prompted to engage in the "Engineering Design Process". Following this process students will ask questions, imagine the possibilities, communicate and collaborate with others, plan, create and improve.
 Why STREAM?
 STREAM encourages independent and collaboratice learning. It allows children to develop their communication and problem-solving and encourages students to talk and write about their ideas and observations. This kind of educational environment enables students to develop concepts through investigation and exploration.
 STREAM is an interactive, hands on, fun experience had by all!


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Does the culture in the Appalachian Mountains lead to higher rates of suicide?
According to Dr. Lisa Curtin from Appalachian State University's Department of Psychology, the answer is "yes," as she shared the results of a study on suicide and depression in the high county with the Ashe Suicide/Depression Prevention Awareness (ASAP) task force on Tuesday, Jan. 8.
"Overall, each participant showed the symptoms that are normally associated with depression," said Curtain. However, Curtin also said some unique aspects of the area like social isolation contribute to higher rates of suicide.
She also prefaced her presentation by acknowledging rural areas with low-income families tend to have an above average suicide rate.
To conduct the study, the participants each had a non-formal interview called an "illness narrative." The average interview ranged from one to three hours in length. Curtain said her group just finished transcribing all of the material, and the study was completed by finding common themes mentioned by each participant.
One of the common themes was the feeling of social isolation and social withdrawal. According to Curtin, these feelings were tied to relationships.
Many of the participants in the study said they no longer enjoyed being with other people. More common among the participants was the feeling they were not loved by others.
For many of these participants, these feelings can become overwhelming and when they bubble to the surface, those participants embark on self-harming behaviors (cutting) and have suicidal thoughts.
Also, Curtin said members of the "mountain culture" have a greater collective sense of self than most Americans. This means members of the Appalachian culture build their self-perceptions based on how their peers view them.
"This culture dates back to the importance of kin for survival, an idea that's been passed on through the generations," said Curtin.
The conflict between social isolation and a sense of collective self plays a key factor in depression and suicide in the area, said Curtin.
Another major theme among the participants was their religious beliefs.
While many participants found a sense of meaning and comfort in the belief of a higher power, religion also became a "unique stresser" for others.
"For some people it was a source of helpful support and for others it was a source of conflict," said Curtin.
According to Curtin, the main theme associated with religion was the feeling "if I was right with God, I wouldn't feel this way." Also, the concept that thinking about suicide is a potential sin was a conflict with the sample group.
Many of the participant left their church's altogether, which caused more social isolation. Others felt inclined to stay in church only because of their families and peer group, creating another form of stress.
Many of the participants in the sample had experienced some form of trauma in their lives. Common trends included domestic violence, child abuse, and the feeling of loss.
According to Curtin, a key find in the study was how participants made sense of their problems. Many didn't view the source of their depression in terms of chemical interactions in the brain, but instead, saw depression as a part of who they are, almost like depressive symptoms are genetic. This mindset is known as Appalachian fatalism.
The participants' upbringing only feeds into that mindset. Many in the sample said they were raised to "pull themselves up by their boot straps" and they shouldn't need external help for their depression.
"All of these findings match up with the literature," said Curtin.
Many participants, even the younger members, have struggled with depression for a long time. One participant said she remembers feeling depressive symptoms as early as 12 years old, she said.
In spite of this, there are problems with the availability of mental health services in Ashe County, along with the rest of the Appalachian Mountains, said Curtin.
There is also a stigma against seeking professional help for depression and suicidal thoughts. This stigma, in part, caused a high turnover rate with participants and their service providers.
Many in the sample feared the negative consequences if a person in their social group, mostly in the workplace, discovered they were depressed.
Those in the sample who decided seek help reported positive results. Some found good results by taking antidepressants, while others felt more comfortable with alternatives like therapy, acupuncture, and practicing tai chi, said Curtin.
The study was based on a 23 person sample (9 males, 14 females) who were, on average, moderately depressed. The average age of the participants was 41 years old; the youngest participant was in his/her early 20's while the oldest participant was over 70.
Each participant was either diagnosed with depression or taking antidepressant medication. The 23 participants were gathered after 450 fliers were distributed across the regions health facilities.
"The fact that we only got 23 participants after distributing 450 fliers speaks to the stigma of suicide and depression in the area," said Curtin.
Curtin said these results were based on a relatively small sample, and the study may contain elements of selection bias. The participants who joined the study may feel less stigma about their depression than others who chose not to participate.

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History of mediation
Many believe that mediation has come from the United States, and exemplary prove that this term is mentioned e.g. in 1947 in the context of the regulation of conflicts of the labor union. However, a more detailed examination shows that the term of mediation has been used much earlier in Europe, so at the most, it could have been re-imported recently.
In the final document for the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648, it has been written, that the diplomat Fabio Chigi, sent by Pope Urban VIII, has worked successfully for five years as a "peace broker" ("mediator pacis") for five years "... without partiality, hard and sedulously...". Already 30 years ago, in the "Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation", the Elector of Saxony, tried to act, with three co-mediators on his side, as a "mediator" between the Bohemian Estates and Habsburg. In the "Danske Lov", a Danish codification of law from the year 1683, you can find the original term as well. In this law, the freedom of the parties for a peaceful conflict solution by "mediation" is mentioned. An additional decree from 1795 contains directives and detailed reasons to carry out mediations instead of court proceedings.
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Hiccups for Elephants Extension Activities
- Grades: PreK–K, 1–2
About this book
WHAT A CHARACTER! (Reading—Fantasy vs. Reality)
Discuss which animal in the story children liked best. Have children give examples from the book of why they chose this animal. Then ask children to discuss the way the illustrator portrayed this animal. Would the animal behave this way in real life? Why or why not? Ask children to point out the elements in the story that could not happen in real life.

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What can you drive on roads and pavements?
The Magazine answers...
Breaking the law
It was supposed to "revolutionise the way people travelled" but the Segway has been banned from the UK's pavements and roads. So what can you drive on them?
The Segway Human Transporter enjoyed more than its fair share of pre-launch hype back in 2001. Invented by US engineer Dean Kamen, he claimed it would "sweep over the world and change lives".
He expected it to be a huge hit in cities where traffic congestion clogs the roads. While it has gained popularity in a lot of European cities, it has hit a hurdle in the UK.
The Department for Transport (DfT) has invoked the Highway Act of 1835 to ban it from pavements, and EU vehicle certification rules it off roads. But with so many other forms of transport - from skateboards to mini-motorbikes - what is it legal to use on pavements and roads?
Question Mark - from original architect's doodle design for BBC TV Centre
When it comes to the highways, any device classed as a motor vehicle can only be legally driven by someone in possession of a driver's licence, road tax and insurance.
The vehicle also has to be registered and must be fitted with a registration plate or plates. Motor vehicles cannot normally be used on footways, footpaths or cycle tracks.
When it comes to self-balancing scooters, such as the Segway, the only place where they can be ridden legally is on private land, with the owner's consent. The same rules apply for mini-motorcycles.
To be used on roads they would have to be classed as mechanically propelled vehicle and a driver would need all the documentation and insurance mentioned above.
But to obtain registration, a vehicle needs to comply with basic European safety standards. The DfT says no self-balancing scooter does because of the absence of things like lights and speedometer.
Make way
Cyclists can use roads but are not legally allowed on a pavement unless its legal status has been changed to that of a cycle track. Anyone caught on a pavement by the police can be issued with a fixed penalty notice, prosecuted or given a warning. Fixed penalty notices cannot be issued to children under the age of 16.
Mobility scooters
OK to ride on pavements, but stick to walking pace
The only vehicles allowed on pavements are "invalid carriages". These vehicles are restricted to a speed of 4 mph and the users must have a physical disability. Powered wheelchairs and mobility scooters with a maximum speed of 8 mph are allowed on roads.
Unpowered scooters and skateboards cannot legally be used on pavements, footpaths or cycle tracks as they have no right of way, but the DfT admits it is not very practical trying to enforcement the law. Local bye-laws can be created banning them.
Rules concerning roller skates are not clear. It hasn't been established in case law whether these are classed as vehicles or not. If they are, they cannot legally be used on pavements, footpaths or cycle tracks. But, as with unpowered scooters and skateboards, enforcement is not considered very practical.
I was looking forward to the affordable version of these, as I hate walking and public transport. It seems absolutely stupid to use the Highway Act of 1835 to stop these being used on pavements, most intellegent people will use them correctly or stay out of their way on the pavements. Put an age restriction on them if you are worried about childish useage. However, using a highway code from 1835 just suggests the government needs to modernise. Clearly we need a sensible highway act for the 21st century. One that doesn't penalise alternatives to the car please!!!
Sophia Alexander, London, England
I am puzzled that yet again the Government manages to scupper a good idea with hardly a murmour. Surely we should be encouraging the use of slow (8mph or thereabouts is not fast)personal transport. Do the government really care about reducing congestion? It's the same with eencouraging the use of motorcycles, why have the government failed to live up to their promises of encouraging scooters etc for commuting? Surely the BBC should start questioning why we have incompetent people in such senior posts, it would not happen in industry where they would be moved/sacked.
steve cope, uk
In Leicester, it sadly is not a priority for the Police to stop cyclists who are on the pavement. I understand this is because of higher priorities and perhaps also because cycling on the pavement, although an offence outlined in the Highway Code, is not an 'arrestable offence'. Consequently, you take your life in your hands walking on some suburban streets having to move quickly out of the way as the cyclists hurtle by without warning - the absence of bells or lights is the norm.
andy, UK
It seems almost unbelievable the government are able to even consider calling upon an Act almost 200 years. Quite what relevance such an act can have on todays society does not even bare thinking about. Will we still be using the very same act in 100 years from now when we have skyways? The government really does make me laugh somtimes!!!
Matt, England
I'm in favour of the ban, but I feel it should be extended. Having been run over twice by motorised wheelchair users in the last 18 months whilst walking along a pavement, I feel it is time pedestrians hit back. Skateboarders, scooter riders and those on bicycles should all be reminded that pavements are for pedestrians. It is bad enough having your ankles clipped by pram-pushing parents without having to dodge those travelling so much faster. But who would enforce such a ban? Certainly not the police, as the bobbies on mountain bikes in Birmingham city centre spend more time racing around on pavements than on the roads. We need more pedestrian power!
Derek Belm, Lichfield, UK
This is rediculous. the guy who invents the segway claims it will be a brilliant tool for commutors in conjested city centres. The government is trying to get us to cut down on conjestion and fuel emissions from cars but decides to ban all seqways. whats the harm in limmiting them to cycle paths as them seem to travel about the same speed.
Craig Turp, UK
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Yes. One apparently is being used incorrectly because it should never be used in ordinary conversation. "Reverend" is an adjective that is used when writing out a clergyman's name (e.g., "The Reverend John Peterson"). It is analogous to using the title "Honorable" for certain dignitaries
(e.g., "The Honorable John Peterson"): Just as someone entitled by courtesy to the title "The Honorable" on his envelopes is called (for example) "Senator John Peterson" when speaking face to face, so a priest might be addressed "The Reverend John Peterson" on his envelopes but called "Father Peterson" face to face. And, just as the word "Honorable" must have the word the
preceding it, so must the word "Reverend." Calling anyone or addressing envelopes to anyone as "Reverend John Peterson" is incorrect.


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What about grammar? The 3x PIC Rule: Point-Identify-Correct
Although we do not copy edit papers, we do not ignore grammatical, mechanical, and style problems in students' papers. Instead, we draw a student's attention to the error: POINT, ask if the student can recognize and IDENTIFY the error, and finally, ask if the student can CORRECT the error.
When you see a problem, ask if the student can identify the problem. If yes, ask the student to explain the problem, and then ask if the student can correct the problem. If the student cannot identify the problem, you should do that. If the student cannot correct the problem, you should help the student correct the problem.
Repeat this process three times. Each time, encourage the student to point out, identify, and then correct the error or problem. After that, encourage the student to complete corrections of the error during the revision process. If a student still has difficulty identifying and correcting the error, refer the student to one of the faculty writing tutors.
Remember the 3x PIC rule: Point—Identify—Correct—x3


text: Jalapeno means "from Xalapa"- or Jalapa, the capital city of Veracruz, Mexico, where the pepper was traditionally cultivated, which explains the origin of its name. Enjoyed by the Aztecs before the Spanish conquest, they've become one of the world's great culinary peppers. Their flavor is bright, fruity, grassy, and somewhat like a green bell pepper. When dried and smoked, they become chipotles. Scoville Heat Units: 2,500 – 8,000.


Injective module
In mathematics, especially in the area of abstract algebra known as module theory, an injective module is a module Q that shares certain desirable properties with the Z-module Q of all rational numbers. Specifically, if Q is a submodule of some other module, then it is already a direct summand of that module; also, given a submodule of a module Y, then any module homomorphism from this submodule to Q can be extended to a homomorphism from all of Y to Q. This concept is dual to that of projective modules. Injective modules were introduced in (Baer 1940) and are discussed in some detail in the textbook (Lam 1999, §3).
Injective modules have been heavily studied, and a variety of additional notions are defined in terms of them: Injective cogenerators are injective modules that faithfully represent the entire category of modules. Injective resolutions measure how far from injective a module is in terms of the injective dimension and represent modules in the derived category. Injective hulls are maximal essential extensions, and turn out to be minimal injective extensions. Over a Noetherian ring, every injective module is uniquely a direct sum of indecomposable modules, and their structure is well understood. An injective module over one ring, may not be injective over another, but there are well-understood methods of changing rings which handle special cases. Rings which are themselves injective modules have a number of interesting properties and include rings such as group rings of finite groups over fields. Injective modules include divisible groups and are generalized by the notion of injective objects in category theory.
A left module Q over the ring R is injective if it satisfies one (and therefore all) of the following equivalent conditions:
 - If Q is a submodule of some other left R-module M, then there exists another submodule K of M such that M is the internal direct sum of Q and K, i.e. Q + K = M and QK = {0}.
 - Any short exact sequence 0 →QMK → 0 of left R-modules splits.
 - If X and Y are left R-modules, f : XY is an injective module homomorphism and g : XQ is an arbitrary module homomorphism, then there exists a module homomorphism h : YQ such that hf = g, i.e. such that the following diagram commutes:
Injective right R-modules are defined in complete analogy.
First examples
Trivially, the zero module {0} is injective.
Given a field k, every k-vector space Q is an injective k-module. Reason: if Q is a subspace of V, we can find a basis of Q and extend it to a basis of V. The new extending basis vectors span a subspace K of V and V is the internal direct sum of Q and K. Note that the direct complement K of Q is not uniquely determined by Q, and likewise the extending map h in the above definition is typically not unique.
The rationals Q (with addition) form an injective abelian group (i.e. an injective Z-module). The factor group Q/Z and the circle group are also injective Z-modules. The factor group Z/nZ for n > 1 is injective as a Z/nZ-module, but not injective as an abelian group.
Commutative examples
More generally, for any integral domain R with field of fractions K, the R-module K is an injective R-module, and indeed the smallest injective R-module containing R. For any Dedekind domain, the quotient module K/R is also injective, and its indecomposable summands are the localizations for the nonzero prime ideals. The zero ideal is also prime and corresponds to the injective K. In this way there is a 1-1 correspondence between prime ideals and indecomposable injective modules.
A particularly rich theory is available for commutative noetherian rings due to Eben Matlis, (Lam 1999, §3I). Every injective module is uniquely a direct sum of indecomposable injective modules, and the indecomposable injective modules are uniquely identified as the injective hulls of the quotients R/P where P varies over the prime spectrum of the ring. The injective hull of R/P as an R-module is canonically an RP module, and is the RP-injective hull of R/P. In other words, it suffices to consider local rings. The endomorphism ring of the injective hull of R/P is the completion of R at P.
Two examples are the injective hull of the Z-module Z/pZ (the Prüfer group), and the injective hull of the k[x]-module k (the ring of inverse polynomials). The latter is easily described as k[x,x−1]/xk[x]. This module has a basis consisting of "inverse monomials", that is xn for n = 0, 1, 2, …. Multiplication by scalars is as expected, and multiplication by x behaves normally except that x·1 = 0. The endomorphism ring is simply the ring of formal power series.
Artinian examples
If G is a finite group and k a field with characteristic 0, then one shows in the theory of group representations that any subrepresentation of a given one is already a direct summand of the given one. Translated into module language, this means that all modules over the group algebra kG are injective. If the characteristic of k is not zero, the following example may help.
If A is a unital associative algebra over the field k with finite dimension over k, then Homk(−, k) is a duality between finitely generated left A-modules and finitely generated right A-modules. Therefore, the finitely generated injective left A-modules are precisely the modules of the form Homk(P, k) where P is a finitely generated projective right A-module. For symmetric algebras, the duality is particularly well-behaved and projective modules and injective modules coincide.
For any Artinian ring, just as for commutative rings, there is a 1-1 correspondence between prime ideals and indecomposable injective modules. The correspondence in this case is perhaps even simpler: a prime ideal is an annihilator of a unique simple module, and the corresponding indecomposable injective module is its injective hull. For finite-dimensional algebras over fields, these injective hulls are finitely-generated modules (Lam 1999, §3G, §3J).
Submodules, quotients, products, and sums
Any product of (even infinitely many) injective modules is injective; conversely, if a direct product of modules is injective, then each module is injective (Lam 1999, p. 61). Every direct sum of finitely many injective modules is injective. In general, submodules, factor modules, or infinite direct sums of injective modules need not be injective. Every submodule of every injective module is injective if and only if the ring is Artinian semisimple (Golan & Head 1991, p. 152); every factor module of every injective module is injective if and only if the ring is hereditary, (Lam 1999, Th. 3.22); every infinite direct sum of injective modules is injective if and only if the ring is Noetherian, (Lam 1999, Th 3.46).[1]
Baer's criterion
In Baer's original paper, he proved a useful result, usually known as Baer's Criterion, for checking whether a module is injective: a left R-module Q is injective if and only if any homomorphism g : IQ defined on a left ideal I of R can be extended to all of R.
Using this criterion, one can show that Q is an injective abelian group (i.e. an injective module over Z). More generally, an abelian group is injective if and only if it is divisible. More generally still: a module over a principal ideal domain is injective if and only if it is divisible (the case of vector spaces is an example of this theorem, as every field is a principal ideal domain and every vector space is divisible). Over a general integral domain, we still have one implication: every injective module over an integral domain is divisible.
Baer's criterion has been refined in many ways (Golan & Head 1991, p. 119), including a result of (Smith 1981) and (Vamos 1983) that for a commutative Noetherian ring, it suffices to consider only prime ideals I. The dual of Baer's criterion, which would give a test for projectivity, is false in general. For instance, the Z-module Q satisfies the dual of Baer's criterion but is not projective.
Injective cogenerators
Maybe the most important injective module is the abelian group Q/Z. It is an injective cogenerator in the category of abelian groups, which means that it is injective and any other module is contained in a suitably large product of copies of Q/Z. So in particular, every abelian group is a subgroup of an injective one. It is quite significant that this is also true over any ring: every module is a submodule of an injective one, or "the category of left R-modules has enough injectives." To prove this, one uses


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Exploring The Potential Of Gene Therapy For Patients With Diabetes
- Volume 22 - Issue 2 - February 2009
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Gene therapy has entered the forefront of medicine and there may be potential benefits in all fields of healthcare. The potential for gene therapy to target disease has vastly expanded since the first successful human treatment for severe combined immune deficiency (SCID) emerged in 1990.
In podiatric medicine, one proposed target that has devastating consequences is the diabetic foot ulcer. As diabetes mellitus continues to become more common within the podiatric population, the necessity to care for wounds and focus on limb preservation is becoming more essential.
Currently, there are nearly 24 million people who have diabetes mellitus in the United States. Accordingly, nearly 8 percent of the country's population has diabetes.1 Diabetes not only plagues the geriatric community but the youth of our country. There are a multitude of complications that accompany this disease and podiatric physicians are on the frontline since diabetic foot exams and foot care programs can decrease amputation by 45 to 85 percent.2
There is a whirlwind of research around genetically modified proteins and viruses, and their potential benefits in helping to facilitate healing for diabetic foot ulcers. As the research continues on diabetic wounds, it is also becoming more clear that these wounds have altered blood flow, impairments with fighting microbial pathogens and abnormal chemokine expression, resulting in abnormal inflammatory responses.3
The healing process is very complex and there are a series of steps and certain components that need to be in place to ensure proper wound healing. To this end, Martin, et al., discussed the basic steps of inflammation, the formation of granulation tissue, angiogenesis and tissue remodeling.4 When looking at the gene expression in wound healing and the cascade of components that are necessary at certain moments in time to heal wounds, if one of those components is not present, it could delay the whole process.5
A comparison study of diabetic mice versus non-diabetic mice showed that pertinent components necessary for healing, such as IGF-I and IGF-II mRNA, were delayed in expression for the diabetic mice.6-9 There has been a wide range of research centering on the idea that diabetic wounds express menial levels or potentially fail to express some of the necessary components for healing. In the effort to aid in wound healing for those with diabetes, multiple research studies have looked at engineering these components that could be potentially lacking, delivering them to the vicinity of the wound whether it is via topical application or injection.6-9
A Pertinent Overview Of Gene Therapy
Gene therapy is defined as "treatment of a disease by introducing a new gene into a cell." 10 One can apply gene therapy to virtually any field of medicine. A gene is a sequence of DNA that "codes" for a certain cell function. The simplest building block of the gene is the nucleotide, which is comprised of DNA. Several genes make up a chromosome. All the chromosomes together constitute the human genome. There are approximately 25,000 genes in each human cell. The Human Genome Project identified nearly all the genes, although their functions have not been clearly defined. 11
One of the more challenging aspects to gene therapy is how to deliver the gene into the host cell. Different vectors can accomplish gene delivery. Transfer of naked DNA on plasmids (double-stranded DNA) has proven inefficient. Initial transfers used a retrovirus (single-stranded RNA) to replace the faulty gene. Adenovirus (double-stranded DNA) vectors have been in use but these vectors are not incorporated into the human genome, resulting in seemingly transient effects. 11 Accordingly, the properties of adenoviruses seem more suited to use in diabetic foot ulcers, in which a transient effect is necessary to heal the wound.


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Teaching Math in 1950: A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His
cost of production is 4/5 the price. What is his profit?
Teaching Math in 1960: A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His
cost of production is 4/5 of the price, or $80. What is his profit?
Teaching Math in 1970: A logger exchanges a set "L" of lumber for a set "M"
of money. The cardinality of set "M" is 100. Each element is worth one
dollar. Make 100 dots representing the elements of the set "M". The set "C",
the cost of production, contains 20 fewer points than set "M" Represent the
set "C" as a subset of set "M", and answer the following question: What is
the cardinality of the set "P" for profits?
Teaching Math in 1980:A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. Her
cost of production is $80 and her profit is $20. Your assignment: Underline
the number 20.
Teaching Math in 1990: By cutting down beautiful forest trees, the logger
makes $20. What do you think of this way of making a living? Topic for class
participation after answering the question: How did the forest birds and
squirrels feel as the logger cut down the trees? There are no wrong answers.
Teaching Math in 1996:By laying off 40% of its loggers, a company improves
its stock price from $80 to $100. How much capital gain per share does the
CEO make by exercising his stock options at $80? Assume capital gains are no
longer taxed, because this encourages investment.
Teaching Math in 1997:A company out sources all of its loggers. The firm
saves on benefits, and when demand for its product is down, the logging work
force can easily be cut back. The average logger employed by the company
earned $50,000,had three weeks vacation, a nice retirement plan and medical
insurance. The contracted logger charges $50 an hour. Was outsourcing a good
Teaching Math in 1998:A laid-off logger with four kids at home and a
ridiculous alimony from his first failed marriage comes into the
logging-company corporate offices and goes postal, mowing down 16 executives
and a couple of secretaries, and gets lucky when he nails a politician on
the premises collecting his kickback. Was outsourcing the loggers a good
move for the company?
Teaching Math in 1999:A laid-off logger serving time in Folsom for blowing
away several people was trained as a COBOL programmer in order to work on
Y2K projects. At 00:01, 01/01/2000 his cell door automatically opened and he
escaped. Should he be allowed to log again? Maybe this should be renamed
"progress"??
Teaching Math in 2000:In order to clear over grown forest, the U.S. Forest
Service sets the forest on fire. A process they call Prescribed Burn. The
fire gets out of control and burns peoples homes and threatens a Nuclear
Development Center. The Tax payer has to pay to fight the fire. Would
logging this area have been a better solution????


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Worried about your teenager's diet? Here is a bit of information for you. A new study has found that due to lack of certain nutrients in their diet adolescence have shown a lower standard of physical health. Because nutrition and fitness are intertwined these two findings could be related.
As an example, iron forms part of haemoglobin, which carries oxygen to muscles, and antioxidants such as vitamin C aid in rebuilding damage after intense training. Luis Gracia-Marco of the University of Zaragoza, Spain, and colleagues, have found that adolescents' blood levels of various micronutrients are correlated with how well they performed in certain physical fitness tests. Part of this study, which involved thousands of volunteers aged between 12.5 and 17.5 years in cities scattered across Europe, gathered nutrition and physical fitness data.
Researchers found that blood levels of certain micronutrients were closely connected with the volunteers' performance in physical fitness tests. For cardiorespiratory fitness, concentrations of haemoglobin, retinol, and vitamin C in males and beta-carotene and vitamin D in females was linked with VO2max (peak oxygen uptake). For muscular fitness, concentrations of haemoglobin, beta-carotene, retinol, and alpha-tocopherol in males and beta-carotene and vitamin D in females was associated with performing better on the standing long jump test.


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Aug. 16, 2011 An analysis of data that includes nearly 500,000 individuals indicates that the risk of bladder cancer among smokers is higher than reported from previous population data, and that the risk for women smokers is comparable with that of men, according to a study in the August 17 issue of JAMA.
More than 350,000 individuals are diagnosed with bladder cancer per year worldwide, including more than 70,000 per year in the United States. Tobacco smoking is the best established risk factor for bladder cancer in both men and women, with previous studies indicating that current cigarette smoking triples bladder cancer risk relative to never smoking, according to background information in the article. "However, the composition of cigarettes has changed during the past 50 years, leading to a reduction in tar and nicotine concentrations in cigarette smoke, but also to an apparent increase in the concentration of specific carcinogens, including beta-napthylamine, a known bladder carcinogen …," the authors write. They add that changing smoking prevalence and cigarette composition warrant revisiting risk estimates for smoking and bladder cancer.
Neal D. Freedman, Ph.D., M.P.H., of the National Cancer Institute, Department of Health and Human Services, Rockville, Md., and colleagues conducted a study to examine the association between tobacco smoking and bladder cancer using data from men (n = 281,394) and women (n = 186,134) in the National Institutes of Health-AARP (NIH-AARP) Diet and Health Study, who completed a lifestyle questionnaire and were followed up between October 1995 and December 2006. Previous studies of smoking and incident bladder cancer were identified by systematic review of the available literature.
During the course of follow-up, 3,896 men and 627 women were newly diagnosed with bladder cancer. Cigarette smoking was a significant risk factor for bladder cancer in both sexes. Relative to never smokers, former and current smokers had increased risk of bladder cancer in both men and women. Analysis of the data indicated that former smokers had a 2.2 times increased risk of bladder cancer and that for current smokers, the risk was about 4 times higher, relative to never smokers. "In contrast, the summary risk estimate for current smoking in 7 previous studies (initiated between 1963 and 1987) was 2.94," the authors write.
Ever smoking explained a similar proportion of bladder cancer in both sexes, with population attributable risks of 50 percent in men and 52 percent in women.
The researchers write that factors that may have strengthened the cigarette smoking-bladder cancer association include changes in the constituents of cigarette smoke (such as increased concentrations of beta-napthylamine), and increased awareness of bladder cancer risk in smokers, which may prompt earlier diagnostic workup.
"These results support the hypothesis that the risk of bladder cancer associated with cigarette smoking has increased with time in the United States, perhaps a reflection of changing cigarette composition. Prevention efforts should continue to focus on reducing the prevalence of cigarette smoking."
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Game Development Reference
Walk around using the arrow keys, and move your head using the mouse. Check that
out for instant graiicaion!
Fall through the floor
If the only jaw that dropped was that of your game character falling through the
floor, then go back to your character controller (the capsule thing) and move it up
higher above the terrain. Now also check you've checked the generate colliders box
in the FBXImporter tab when you select the terrain, as described earlier. Colliders
describe which geometry is solid so that your character doesn't move through it.
4. Use the Spacebar to jump, too. You should have a first person view like the
5. When you're done looking around your magniicent creaion, click on the Play
buton again to return to the editor.
6. Wowsers! Was it really that simple? Yep. Now, check the following.
Time for action - creating a web playable walkthrough
Go to File ¦ Build and Run. Now, select Web Player and click on Add Current
(see the next screenshot):


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In 2016, the funding that Edison provided for the DASIT Project gave us the opportunity to further our engagement in work in two areas that are very important to us;
- The health and well-being of women & girls.
- (STEM) science, technology, engineering and math.
BWW has continued to highlight the importance of educational and career opportunities in STEM for people of color, especially women and girls, through DASIT. Recent studies have indicated that the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) fields lack equitable representation of women and people of color. African Americans comprise approximately 3% of scientists and engineers; Latinos less than 4% and the representation of women in STEM fields is equally alarming with only one in ten STEM professionals representing as women of color.
With consistent support from Edison International, the DASIT Project has been able to promote and provide support to the STEM pipeline by providing engaging STEM activities for elementary, middle and high school students in the areas of Inventions and Innovations of people of color, solar technology and design and Aeronautical Science. Through these efforts, we work to dispel the overwhelming disparities and highlight the under publicized successes of people in color in STEM so students and communities can imagine and experience the impact STEM Education and Careers can have on youth and community development.
If you would like to learn more or are interested in volunteering your STEM skills and knowledge please contact Black Women for Wellness via e-mail _EMAIL_ or call us at _PHONE_.


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Document Management with Oracle Text
June 12, 2003
A few years ago, many projects started using the multimedia capability of Oracle databases. Powerful procedures for handling image, audio, video and the text data in various formats are incorporated in the database kernel code; even the default database installation has multimedia objects installed. Storing, retrieving and searching the text from documents stored inside the Oracle database are the most common usage of multimedia database capabilities. This feature, incorporated into the product was formerly known as ConText, later known as interMedia Text (iMT) and with the database version 9.X, it is known as Oracle Text.
This article covers:
Document Index Type
Oracle Text is an extension to the Oracle database that allows searching specific words in the tables of documents, using standard SQL expressions. Oracle Text is integrated in a number of Oracle products such as Portal, iFS and Applications. Supported document types are text, HTML, DOC, XLS, PPT, PDF and XML documents. txt/HTML data content will be stored in the clob column and other formatted document content in the blob column. The content can "also" stored outside of database via BFILES. For any kind of data content, the text engine is used for indexing and retrieving.
Overview of the Oracle Text product development:
There are three different index types: Context, Catalog and Ctxxpath. They are used all for document indexing, but each has a different functionality.
Context index is a "domain" index used for fast retrieval of unstructured text.
DML processing on a Context index is deferred. The actual index updates do not take place until an index SYNC is performed.
Catalog (CTXCAT) index is an online, "catalog" index, efficient for searching between small, simple text fields and with queries using some structured criteria, (usually numbers or dates). This index type supports only a basic functionality provided in a Context index. A Catalog index has all the characteristics of the normal database index.
Ctxxpath index is a special index installed during an Oracle Text
install. This index uses Oracle Text code and can be created only on


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Method for the deposition of diamond on a substrate
Latsch, Stefan A.
|Source||US Patent, 5,368,681. Washington, DC: US Patent and Trademark Office, 1994.|
|Summary||A method is disclosed for the deposition of crystalline diamond on a substrate such as a silicon wafer. A polymer (for example poly(methylmethacrylate)) is provided as a target for laser ablation using for example an ArF excimer laser or an Nd-Yag laser. The laser ablation is performed in the presence of a reactive gas such as oxygen or hydrogen. The substrate is heated to a temperature of between 450 and 700 degrees celsius.|
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The shared anger of mice and men: Scientific breakthrough linking humans to rodents could lead to new treatments for Alzheimer's and autism
By Rob Preece
It is one of life's great mysteries - how some people can fly off the handle and become aggressive and violent seemingly without warning.
But scientists now believe they know why some humans are more likely to show aggression than others, after they managed to block pathological rage in mice.
Researchers found that overly hostile mice and angry men share biological similarities which make them more susceptible to rage - a major breakthrough which could pave the way for new treatments for conditions including Alzheimer's disease and autism.
Breakthrough: Researchers found that overly hostile mice and angry men share biological similarities which make them more susceptible to rage
In a study published in the Journal of Neuroscience, researchers from the University of Southern California and Italy identified a brain receptor in mice, which malfunctions in overly hostile rodents.
When the scientists shut down the brain receptor, which also exists in humans, the excess aggression disappeared.
The findings are expected to help experts develop drug targets for pathological aggression, which is a component in Alzheimer's, autism, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.
Marco Bortolato, the study's lead author and an assistant professor of pharmacology and pharmaceutical sciences at the USC School of Pharmacy, told Science Daily: 'From a clinical and social point of view, reactive aggression is absolutely a major problem.
'We want to find the tools that might reduce impulsive violence.'
Scientists had already found that both male humans and mice respond violently to stress if they have low levels of the enzyme monoamine oxidase A (MAO A).
Similarities: Scientists found that both male humans and mice respond violently to stress if they have low levels of the enzyme monoamine oxidase A
'The same type of mutation that we study in mice is associated with criminal, very violent behaviour in humans,' Bortolato said.
'But we really didn't understand why that is.'
Bortolato and his USC colleague Jean Shih worked backwards to replicate elements of human pathological aggression in mice.
This meant not only low enzyme levels but also the interaction of genetics with early stressful events, such as trauma and childhood neglect.
'Low levels of MAO A are one basis of the predisposition to aggression in humans,' Bortolato.
'The other is an encounter with maltreatment, and the combination of the two factors appears to be deadly.
'It results consistently in violence in adults.'
The research found that, in excessively aggressive rodents lackomh MAO A, high levels of electrical stimulus are required to activate a specific receptor in the brain.
Even when this brain receptor does work, it stays active only for a short period of time.
Bortolato said: 'The fact that blocking this receptor moderates aggression is why this discovery has so much potential. It may have important applications in therapy.
'Whatever the ways environment can persistently affect behaviour - and even personality over the long term - behaviour is ultimately supported by biological mechanisms.'


text: Establishing the relationship between a given chemical exposure and human reproductive health risk is complicated by exposures or other concomitant factors that may vary from pregnancy to pregnancy. Moreover, when exposures are to complex mixtures of chemicals, varying with time in number of components, doses of individual components, and constancy of exposure, the picture becomes even more complicated. A pilot study of risk of adverse reproductive outcomes among male wastewater treatment workers and their wives is described. Wives of 231 workers were interviewed to evaluate retrospectively the outcomes of spontaneous early fetal loss and infertility. In addition, 87 workers participated in a cross-sectional evaluation of sperm/semen parameters. Due to the ever-changing nature of exposure and lack of quantification of specific exposures, six dichotomous variables were used for each specific job description to give a surrogate measure of exposure. Hence, no quantitative exposure-response relationships could be modeled. These six variables were independently assigned by two environmental hygienists, and their interrater reliability was assessed. Results are presented and further innovations in statistical methodology are proposed for further applications.


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COVERIT 2% 60ML: Coverit is one of the popular medicines, which has been widely used to treat hair loss problems from time to time.The medicine is highly suggested by most of the doctors because it allows people to take maximum benefits in a quick span of time.
Composition : the composition of the medication plays a major role for every patient because it helps them to understand the feature in a detailed way.The important component of Coverit is Minoxidil, which has been used to treat different kinds of hair loss issues from time to time.
How does it work: The medication is highly used in men, which play a major role for them to increase the hair growth from time to time. Most of the ladies would not prefer to take the medication because it causes a lot of side effects in an easy way.
How to use it : It is highly recommended for people to take a suggestion from doctors because it helps them to enjoy the maximum amount of benefits in an easy way.It is important for people to contact a doctor before taking the medication because it allows them to take the proper dosage to avail maximum amount of benefits in a quick span of time.
Side effects : Irregular heartbeats -Irregular heartbeats is one of the common side effects, which is highly experienced for people while taking improper dosage on a regular basis. A headache and eye irritation -" Headache and eye irritation are known to cause commonly for people because the medication is powerful compared to generic medication from time to time.
Precautions and warning: It is important for people to contact a specialized doctor before taking the medication.It helps them to enjoy the performance for a long span of time without affecting the quality on a regular basis


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Insert Line Breaks
Normally, the text entered as first parameter of MessageBox is displayed as a continuous line that the engine breaks where it sees fit according to line's total length and length of separate words. With a bit of hex editing, though, you can make it look more formatted.
Let's say, you want a MessageBox to report the amount of certain enemies you killed like this:
Score: Daedra Lords: 21 Golden Saints:37 Fargoths: 9999
If you try to make a MessageBox with line breaks in the CS, it will take it as several lines with different operators and refuse to compile it. You'll have to deceive the CS. First, you write an operator:
MessageBox "Score:|Daedra Lords: %.0f|Golden Saints:%.0f|Fargoths: %.0f", k_Dae, k_Snt, k_Far
Compile the script and save your mod. Now you'll need a hex editor like WinHex (or any that you prefer). Open your.esp with it and find the message text. It will be found there twice - first time in the body of a compiled script, second in the source text. You'll need the first one. Replace all symbols '|' with the hexadecimal code 0A (line feed) and save the file. Now, when you play the mod, the engine will recognize line breaks properly and display your MessageBox as you wanted it.
Just keep in mind that if you change and recompile the script, imposed linebreaks will be lost and you'll have to repeat the operation again.


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First - sorry for how dark it is! Considering the Vyle naga are a blind species dwelling underground, I felt a darker image was more fitting than the clear, bright one I did my work on. They don't really have lights down there, you know. 100% pitch black.
Mkay, so this took me a long time. It could have taken longer if i'd decided to hand-draw individual scales, but considering this isn't all that important I decided to spare my hand 8+ hours of cramping with those dang scales.
A mother naga has taken her three children to the cave pools to teach them to fish. How does a blind naga fish, you ask? Very patiently and by feeling the water's vibrations with the tip of her tail. It's tough to learn, but once you get the hang of it it's easy.
But of course, there's a problem. Her children aren't all that interested in learning today! One found a rat (much tastier for them than fish are), the youngest is too busy climbing on her, and the other is kinda scared of the water. What if he fell in?!
Their colorations are fun to figure out. Crosses even in the same breeding pair can make all sorts of differently colored kids, though it tends to follow that blues-whites-grays-blacks-browns-tans sort of scheme for this species.


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Specifies the type of key container access allowed.
This enumeration has a FlagsAttribute attribute that allows a bitwise combination of its member values.Namespace: System.Security.Permissions
Assembly: mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)
|No access to a key container.|
|Create a key container.|
Creating a key container also creates a file on disk. It is very important that any key container that is created is removed when it is no longer in use.
|Open a key container and use the public key.|
Open does not give permission to sign or decrypt files using the private key, but it does allow a user to verify file signatures and to encrypt files. Only the owner of the key is able to decrypt these files using the private key.
|Delete a key container.|
Deleting a key container can constitute a denial of service attack because it prevents the use of files encrypted or signed with the key. Therefore, deletion is a privileged operation.
|Import a key into a key container.|
The ability to import a key can be as harmful as the ability to delete a container because importing a key into a named key container replaces the existing key.
|Export a key from a key container.|
The ability to export a key is potentially harmful because it removes the exclusivity of the key.
|Sign a file using a key.|
The ability to sign a file is potentially harmful because it can allow a user to sign a file using another user's key.
|Decrypt a key container.|
Decryption is a privileged operation because it uses the private key.
|View the access control list (ACL) for a key container.|
|Change the access control list (ACL) for a key container.|
|Create, decrypt, delete, and open a key container; export and import a key; sign files using a key; and view and change the access control list for a key container.|
This enumeration is used by members of the KeyContainerPermissionAccessEntry class.
Many of these flags can have powerful effects and should be granted only to highly trusted code.
The most powerful of the flags are,,,,,, and. For specific threats that the use of these flags can present, see the member descriptions.
The following code example shows the use of the enumeration. This code example is part of a larger example provided for the KeyContainerPermission class.
Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP SP2, Windows XP Media Center Edition, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, Windows XP Starter Edition, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2000 SP4, Windows Millennium Edition, Windows 98
The.NET Framework and.NET Compact Framework do not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see.NET Framework System Requirements.


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Shift handles the camera work for drone pilots
That's why Perceptiv Labs developed Shift. It's a system that allows a DJI or 3D Robotics quadcopter's motorized camera to automatically keep a tagged subject centered in the frame, letting the user concentrate on flying.
The Shift hardware consists of a processor that is mounted on the drone (and plugged into its autopilot system) along with a "Shift Eye" that is mounted adjacent to the camera lens – that Eye lets both the processor and the user see what the camera is seeing. The combined weight of the two components, including battery, is less than 200 g (7 oz). One charge of the battery is good for about an hour of use.


Aptitude Test Part 2 Technical Skills and Skills-based tests – 4/6
In partnership with the experts at JobTestPrep
By Bsyn Support
Resource 23 Apr 2021
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Following on from our previous article on Aptitude Tests, we will now be covering more technical test types that you can expect in a Technical Graduate Role. Given the different styles, we show you various straight forwards ways in which to solve them.
Technical Tests
These are centred on assessing the candidate's ability for a wide array of technical jobs e.g. technicians, plant operators, engineers etc. Included in this category are spatial and mechanical reasoning, error checking and concentration tests. These tests do not, in most cases, require prior knowledge of technical concepts, but rather indicate your aptitude for technical skills.
Spatial Reasoning
Spatial reasoning, awareness and orientation are all different names for the same test which assesses your ability to examine and navigate two and three-dimensional spaces. These tests use images and diagrams depicting mirror reflections, cubes, perspectives and two-dimensional shape organization in the questions. For more information and examples of spatial reasoning tests, visit our Partner JobTestPrep's – spatial reasoning page.
Mechanical/Electrical Reasoning
Mechanical and electrical reasoning tests either evaluate the basic understanding of physics concepts, based on GCSE/high-school knowledge or the aptitude/intuition to understand such concepts.
Error Checking
Error checking tests are commonly found in recruitment processes as they are an indication of your attention to detail and error spotting skills. The tests normally involve a list of numeric and alphanumeric data and you need to spot the inconsistencies in the data itself. To see more examples of this type of test and to learn more, see our Partner JobTestPrep's – error checking page.
Concentration tests are used at a range of job levels where a high level of concentration is necessary to perform specific tasks. These are simple to look at but the speed and accuracy required to make these difficult to focus on, not to mention how you are shown the same or similar information over and over again.
Skill-based Tests
Unlike the aptitude tests mentioned above, skill-based tests do require prior knowledge of concepts associated with a particular field. For example, many companies are looking to hire candidates with specific knowledge in various computer programs.
Microsoft Office Assessments
The modern workplace requires employees to have a good working knowledge of many commonly used computer programmes such as Microsoft Office. Companies like Kenexa have developed assessments designed to test your knowledge in key programmes such as Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Access Depending on the job you are applying for, these tests may play a crucial role in determining if you are the right person for the job. For more on Excel, assessments visit our partner JobTestPrep's page on Excel Assessments.
Computer Programming Tests
Many jobs require employees to be familiar with various computer programming languages, such as C++, Go, PHP, JavaScript, HTML/CSS, Python, and SQL. The type of questions you will be asked can vary as some tests will ask you to identify the language used in a line of code. Other questions may ask you to spot an error in a line of code provided, and you can learn more about this type of test by visiting the syntax checking page. The third type of question may ask you to identify the outcome of various pieces of code. These are very technical tests that require a solid understanding of computer programming that is often crucial for the job in question.
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What does CUNT mean in Funnies?
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1. Depression can be a symptom of mild-to-moderate chronic infections, especially parasitic activity (not just large organisms living in the bile ducts, but microorganisms inhabiting compromised tissues). All parasites have their own biorhythms and will respond to lunar phases, solar phases, human host nutritional input.... Over time, they can build micro-environments with their byproducts that support multiple species. During courses of human intervention (dietary changes, drug interventions), some parasites can ex-cyst outside their normal habitat, and survive quite happily in their juvenile forms (even reproducing as such) until they can safely return to their preferred breeding ground. Rifing may disturb a foreign organism's habitat, forcing them to increase their activity in their own fight for survival. Your husband's depression could very well be a response to the ebb and flow of foreign organism/parasitic activity. I agree with you that you are onto something.
2. Yep, I would certainly recommend the enema's for the Herx - the great people on these sites advised me - went this afternoon and improved immediately.
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Health Benefits of Lemon Plum
Lemon plum is a fruit that is, imported from Chile; it has now become known in Canada and the United States.
The fruit is sweet, juicy. Having a similar shape of a lemon, it has one end rounded and another end with a point.
Lemon plums got its name due to the bright yellow colour when the fruit is unripe it has a sour taste.
The colour turns to dark reddish-purple when ripe from yellow to golden orange.
Lemon plums are useful for digestive health. They have a high fibre content, which is extremely helpful for digestion.


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End of a Journey
Without wanting to sound too deep and profound, your time at school is like a journey, and one which you are likely to be nearing the end of. Because of this, we find that the 'journey' theme works really well. They help the yearbook tell a story.
Here are some tips to put this look together
The First Page
If you are going for this theme, you are going to want to make the concept really clear from the very first page:
- A Road. As Boyz II Men once sung 'we have come to the end of the road', featuring a picture of a road, possibly the road leading to your school, on the first page makes it clear that you are going for a journey theme.
- Travel Itinerary: You could use a travel itinerary in two ways, firstly as a 'contents page', or alternatively as an itinerary for the future, with 'go to uni' and 'get a job' on the list.
- Passport to the Future: There are very, very, few places in which the image of a passport wouldn't immediately make people think of journeys. If you have some design experience you could edit an image of a passport to say something like 'Passport to a life after school'. You could be really clever and make the front page look like a passport and the first page could become the inside page of a passport, detailing the 'rules' and purpose of the passport yearbook.
Other design ideas
There are loads of things that you could use to symbolise a journey, here are a few that we think work really well:
- Maps, use maps as backgrounds, or as part of a collage with other photographs. Maps of your school surroundings, or places you visited on a trip would be a really great idea. Use pins and string graphics to show the different places you've visited.
- Stamps, postal or travel stamps make great elements in a journey themed yearbook. They can be used as a feature or just to fill up some unwanted empty space.
- Photos, use plenty of photos from school trips in your journey themed yearbook. It looks awesome when you make them look like Polaroid photos with a note underneath with the date and really brief description.
- Travel Tags, you know the things, the tags you put on your luggage when you go abroad. They don't have to be a central part of the design but can be useful for annotating or labelling pictures.
- Postcard, using postcards for your student and teacher pages can be a really effective way of including a photo and a comment. It also provides a clear guideline for how long the comments can be.
- Plane Tickets, Using plane tickets in your design looks great, they can be used to convey all sorts of information or simply as a decorative graphic.
Bonus Yearbook Idea:
You know when you walk into arrivals at an airport, there are always a group of people with signs that have someone's name on them.
You could include pages with pictures of your year group from year seven in 'arrivals'. Your tutors could be holding signs with your tutor group on them. Sign's are a great design idea that you could easily feature in this theme.


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On this day of April 28th 2006 there appeared before me,
- Mr Laurina Christina Klein, civil-law notary, practicing in Amsterdam
- Dr Suzette Antoinette Boon-Langelaan
- Dr. Bettina Overkamp
The persons appearing above have declared that they wish to establish a society which will be governed by the following articles:
- The Society bears the name:
- European Society for Trauma and Dissociation which is abbreviated to: ESTD The Society has its seat at Zeist.
The Aims of the Society are:
- Promoting the broadening of and increase in the knowledge of Trauma, Dissociation and all disorders related to chronic traumatization.
- Provide professional and public education about dissociation and trauma and all disorders related to chronic traumatization
- Support communication and cooperation among clinicians, researchers, historians and other professionals with a vivid interest or working in the above mentioned field
- Provide knowledge and education specifically to those countries in Europe who do not have easy access in the above mentioned field
- On behalf of the members or certain category of members the society may stipulate rights and enter into obligations to their charge
The Society has been formed for an indefinite period of time.
1. The Society recognizes:
- Full member
- Student Members
- Associate member
- Only full members are members as referred to in Book 2 Civil Code.
2. Full membership is open to residents of any European country including Turkey, Cyprus, Israel, Palestine and the states to the west of the Ural and Greenland in the west and who are professionally occupied with diagnosis, treatment, research or teaching in the field of trauma, dissociation and disorders related to chronic traumatization or board members of an organization in the above mentioned field.
3. Student members are those members who are still in training and have been issued a certificate of registration with a university or college of higher education.
4. Associate members are those members who meet the requirements mentioned in article 4.2 but do not live in a state within the area indicated.
5. All applications must be in writing to the Secretary of the Society. In the first instance, the Board will decide whether the applicant is accepted as a full or student member or associate member. The secretary is required to confirm the decision to the candidate as soon as possible. In case of non admission to membership, the applicant can appeal to the General Meeting. This appeal has to be sent to the secretary in writing within one month of the original decision. The hearing of this appeal will, if possible, take place at the next AGM where a decision will be made.
The Society recognizes supporters. A supporter is a "legal person" or a natural person who has applied to the board and has been accepted by the board. He/she supports the society financially by donating a minimum contribution to be determined by the General Meeting.
Membership is terminated:
- Upon the death of a member
- Through written cancellation by a member. This written cancellation can occur at any time but requires a period of notice of three months.
- Through written termination by the Society. The can occur at any time without the requirement of notice. This may occur when a member no longer meets the requirements for membership as laid down in the articles, or when a Member does not fulfil their obligations to the Society and also when the Society cannot in all fairness be expected to continue membership.
- By expulsion. This can only be implemented by the Board if a member acts contrary to the articles, the provisions or resolutions of the Society or unreasonably harms the Society.
In the case of a Board member, either termination or expulsion can only be implemented by a decision of the General Meeting. There is no appeal possible under these circumstances.
Any person whose membership of the Society is terminated or who is expelled from the Society will be notified in writing the grounds for the termination as soon as possible. A member may appeal to the General Meeting within 4 weeks of notification of termination. This appeal has to be in writing to the Secretary.
During the period of appeal and pending the decision of this appeal, the member will be suspended but has a right to attend in person the General Meeting in which the appeal is being heard and has a right to speak. Such a member does not have a right to a vote.
- In cases mentioned under Article 6 1 d., the Board can suspend a member for a maximum of 3 months if the Board considers that there are not enough reasons to decide on expulsion.
- The same applies to Article 6 2-4.
- Suspension of a member who is a member of the Board also means suspension from the Board during the same period. The termination of membership of the society also includes termination of membership of the Board.
1. Annual contributions are determined by the General Meeting. The General Meeting is authorized to set different categories of payment depending on:
- Membership Category
- Country of residence
"The General Meeting may also decide that upon commencement of the membership a registration fee, to be fixed by it, shall be due"
2. The Board decides in what manner and on what date at the very latest the financial obligations should have been met.
3. Unless the Board determines otherwise, persons who have been suspended, have been expelled or who have terminated their membership before the end of the financial year of the Society are obliged to pay their full contribution.
4. The General Meeting is authorized to attach further obligation to the Membership
- Management of the Society and all of its finances are implemented by the Executive Board.
- Following authorization at the Annual General Meeting, the Executive Board is authorized to enter into agreements by which the society undertakes to be a surety or joint and several co-debtor, or guarantees performance by a third party or provides security for the debt of another.
- The Board will be composed of at least 3 members. The number of members is decided by the Annual General Meeting. The roles of Chair, Secretary and Treasurer are decided by the members of the Board. They form the Executive Board. Only full members of the Society shall be eligible as board members. The board members are elected, suspended or dismissed by a decision of the AGM.
- Yearly after an AGM at least one member of the board has to resign following an agreed rotation schedule drawn by the Board. The Board can decide that more than one board member resigns yearly. Resigning members can be re-nominated immediately. When a member resigns as a Board member, he/she also resigns as Executive board member.
- Newly elected Board Members take office immediately after the AGM in which they are elected. They take the place of their predecessors. The AGM can decide on alternative time schedule for the acceptance of new board members.
- A member of the Executive Board or the Board can resign at any time.
- During times of vacancies, the Executive board and the Board are still authorized to take decisions.
- The Chair determines when and where a meeting of the Executive board and the board will be held. Such meetings have to be announced by the Chair or by the Secretary on behalf of the Chair.
- The Chair decides on the agenda and is obliged to include agenda items put forward by 2 or more members of the Board.
- Decisions are validated if there is a majority vote of the board (over half). Each member of the board has the right to one vote. If there is a tie, then the Chair has the casting vote.
- The Secretary takes minutes unless the Board decides that a list of decisions taken is sufficient. The minutes or the Decision List has to be formally approved by the Board, signed by the Chair and the person who has taken the minutes.
- The Society is represented by the Executive Board as long as this not in conflict with the law.
- Members of the Executive Board are required to act on behalf of the Board and the Society.
- The Executive Board is authorized to mandate a third member of the board to represent the Society within certain limitation that needs to be in writing.
- A General Meeting is held at least once a year within 6 months of the end of the financial year. The general meeting can extend this period for each subsequent year.
- Additional general meetings can be held if called for either by the Chair or the Executive Board. Furthermore the Chair is obliged to convene a general meeting if requested by at least 10% of the full membership. Such requests have to be in writing and specify the subject for discussion. If neither the Chair nor the Executive Board calls a meeting within 4 weeks of this written request, the members requesting this meeting are authorized to access the Membership list, set up an agenda, appoint a chair and someone to take minutes.
- The Chair of the Board runs the annual meeting. If the Chair is absent then the Board decides who will chair the meeting. These conditions are subject to the provisions mentioned in 13.2
- Each full member who is not under a suspension (see article 6, 4) can attend, speak and make proposals at the general meeting.
- Each full member shall have one vote.
- Each full member can authorize another full member to cast a vote as a proxy for him/her.
- A full member can act as a proxy for only one other full member
- General Meetings can establish rules and regulations which can be reviewed and changed.
- If neither the law, nor these articles nor the rules and regulations set up at the General Meeting resolve specific issues, then the General Meeting can decide on what action to take.
The agenda of the annual general meeting must include at least the following:
- The election of one or more board members
- The submission of the Annual Report by the Executive board
- The financial statement signed by all members of the Executive board and approved by members at the general meeting. If one member of the Executive board has not signed,


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A GATE student's general intellectual development is significantly advanced in relation to chronological peers. The process to be formally identified in the GATE Program begins with a determination of:
- Intellectual or Cognitive Ability - Tests include the Raven Progressive Matrices Plus, the Naglieri Nonverbal Ability Test, or the Weschler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC). A student must score at or above the gifted range.
In addition, the process may include up to three additional measures of a student's ability or potential:
- Achievement - Standardized achievement tests in math and reading/language arts include the CAT6 or CST – Student must score at the advanced level or indicate other evidence of above grade level achievement in math and/or reading.
- Gifted Student Characteristics - Student profiles are obtained from parents and current teacher.
- Impact Factors - Medical history, socio-economic status and participation in the English Language Learner Program are taken into consideration.
If a student has been identified in a previous district using criteria that meets or exceeds the criteria used in the Rocklin Unified School District, the student will be identified without further testing.


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Why do older male birds father more illegitimate children?
When female birds have chicks as the result of an extra-marital fling, the fathers are almost always older males, and scientists are finding out why.
Many birds, particularly songbirds like sparrows, form social pair bonds. They usually stick with one partner for life to raise chicks, but may have affairs that result in 'illegitimate' children. From previous studies, it is known that older males are more likely to sire illegitimate children, but exactly why has remained a mystery.
Now, a team of researchers led by Imperial College London have studied the behaviour of a captive population of sparrows at the Silwood Park campus to find out why older males are so successful. Their results are published this week in the current issue of Scientific Reports.
They tested two possibilities: that older males are better at coercing females into extra-pair affairs (the'male manipulation' hypothesis), or that females solicit more sex from older males than from younger males (the 'female choice' hypothesis).
The team observed more than 450 mating attempts by males, and found that older males did not try to make females cheat any more often than younger males, casting doubt on the male manipulation hypothesis.
In fact, they found that successful affairs were more often solicited by females, suggesting they are the ones to choose when, and who, to cheat with. However, the females did not choose older males more often than younger males, suggesting the 'female choice' hypothesis may not be correct either.
Lead author of the study Antje Girndt, from the Department of Life Sciences at Imperial and the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Germany, said: "There is a difference between what we observe and what the outcome is: we didn't observe older males cheating more often than younger males, but they do father more offspring. This suggests there is another factor at work, such as older males having more competitive sperm."
The researchers suggest that 'post-copulation' mechanisms might be driving the older male's success. An element of female choice might still be a factor, as female sparrows can store sperm internally for some weeks, and may 'decide' which sperm to use for fertilisation – although the authors admit this is hard to study.
The team study sparrows to investigate the evolution of monogamy in animals, and the behavioural and biological factors that drive it.
Lead researcher Dr Julia Schroeder, from the Department of Life Sciences at Imperial, said: "Sparrows are socially monogamous but sexually promiscuous, staying with one partner for the security of raising chicks, but with the males not necessarily raising their own chicks.
"We found that there is likely to be a biological effect, rather than a behavioural one, for why older males are more successful at siring illegitimate children. It has been thought that females might choose older males as they are more 'genetically fit', but our research casts some doubt on this."
Original Sourcehttps://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/186510/why-older-male-birds-father-more/ _URL_


Power, in terms of social relations, refers to the capacity to influence or control others. For example, in a traditional supervisor-learner relationship, the supervisor may be in a position of power. Roles as a supervisor include assessing the learner and potentially writing letters of recommendation. Relative to these supervisory roles the learner might feel she must consistently impress the teacher to the point that she might not disclose if she is struggling with a personal challenge interfering with learning, for fear that this might have negative impacts on the supervisor's perceptions and thus her ultimate academic progression.
While many resources discussing authorship practices encourage explicit conversations about authorship roles and eventual positions throughout the research process, fewer factor in power particularly nuanced attention to it. Not all power relations are this explicit and visible. There may be occasions that challenge assumptions or that remain unnoticed until something triggers attention to it.
Thus ongoing critical questioning about power is advisable. For example:
 - In this situation, who stands to benefit and who stands to lose?
 - What might each person gain and lose?
 - What gains and losses might I be overlooking?
Authorship ethics resources also explicitly outline that:
 - gift and ghost authorship are unethical practices,
 - even if someone has been paid to provide a service, if they meet the guidelines for authorship they should still be an author (financial payment does not replace authorship credit)
 - the issue of "need" (e.g. going up for academic promotion soon) should not trump actual contributorship.
 However, an often overlooked factor skewing whether and how someone sees these practices at all, is power. While being paid to conduct data analysis does not take away from the fact that the person has conducted data analysis; power relations could potentially position a lead author to view such work as a paid, non-intellectual service instead of an intellectual contribution. Power complicates authorship conversations because it can skew what and how we see in a situation.
Therefore, additional guiding questions could include:
 - Are the contributions of anyone on this authorship list overrepresented because they are in a relatively prominent or powerful position?
 - Are the contributions of anyone on this authorship list underrepresented because they are in a relatively disempowered position?
 - Has anyone been forgotten entirely?
 - Am I justifying any of these misrepresentations using ethically-fraught rationales like: pay for service, current career choice, or proximity to promotion?
In order to make every effort to engage in ethical authorship practices, all members of research teams should strive to consider ethics and power in all authorship conversations and decisions.


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SSC CGL Tier 2 Question Asked 2018 (12 Sep): The second day of the CGL Exam has come to an end and, as usual, we are back with the actual questions which were asked in SSC CGL Tier 2 exam held on 12 September 2019.
This article will carry questions from both the papers i.e., Paper-I: Quantitative Ability and Paper-II: English. SSC CGL Maths Paper was calculative & time-consuming. The level of the English questions was easier in comparison to what students faced in SSC CGL Tier-I (Quant) Paper.
Questions Asked in SSC CGL Tier 2 Exam (12th Sep. 2019)
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Questions asked in Quantitative Abilities Section of SSC CGL Tier 2 Exam
- In an isosceles triangle ABC, AB = AC = 12cm. A line is drawn from A up to a point D on line BC and AD = 8cm. Find the value of CD if BD = 5cm?
- Find the unit digit of (337)339 + (773)775 + (256)257?
- The price of petrol is increased by 19%. If a person wants to increase his expenditure by 12% only, by what per cent should he reduce his consumption?
- In a quadrilateral ABCD, the angle bisectors of B & C meet at point E. If ∠BEC = 56* and ∠A = 49*, find the value of ∠D?
- Find the circumference of the incircle of a triangle with sides 20cm, 21cm and 29cm?
- If the base of a pyramid is an equilateral triangle of side 8 m and the volume of the pyramid is 192 ∠3 cubic meter, then find the height of the pyramid.
- A cylinder having a height of 3/2 m and diameter with a length equal to 1 meter completes 14 revolutions in a minute. Find the area covered by it in one hour.
- In a triangle ABC, the bisectors of angle B and angle C meet at point P. If angle BPC is equal to 117 degrees, find the value of angle A.
- If x+1/16x = 3, then 16x3 + 1/256 x3=?
- In a triangle PQR, the external bisectors of angle Q and angle R are extended to meet at point U. If ∠QPR is equal to 136 degrees, find ∠QUR?
- Speed of a boat in still water is 18 km/hr. Speed of the current is 6 km/hr. If the boat travels 90 km upstream and 90 km downstream, find the total time taken by it?
- A sells an article to B at 20% profit. If CP is increased by 10% and SP is increased by 8%, then find the new profit percentage?
- A prism having a base in form of a triangle with sides 20, 21 and 29 cm has a volume 3150 cm3. Find the total surface area of prism?
- A number x when divided by 27, 20, 18 and 12 leaves a remainder 10 in each case. x is also divisible by 31. What should be added to x to make it a perfect square?
- The ratio of ages of A and B 5 years ago was 4:5. The ratio of their ages 5 years from now is 6:7. If C is 10 years younger than B. Then find the difference in ages of A and C?
- In a quadrilateral ABCD, an incircle touching AB, BC, CD and AD respectively at P, Q, R and S. If ∠ B = 90°, AB = 27, AD = 24 and DR = 6. Then, find the circumference of the circle?
- Find the ratio b/w 3rd proportion of 0.4 and 0.8 and the mean proportion of (a & b)?
- If principal = 7200 and rate = 5% p.a. compounded annually. Find the interest earned in 27/5 years?
- Find the number of factors of 3600?
Questions asked in English Section of SSC CGL Tier Exam 2018 (12 Sept. 2019)
- One who is afraid of height: Acrophobia
- Cultivation and harvesting of grapevine: Viticulture
- Where Eskimos Live: Igloo
- Study of dealing with the science of x-rays: Radiology
- Study of Earth's crust: Geology
- Where medicines are stored: Dispensary
- Living in a society with manners: Etiquette
- Full of beans
- At one's wit's end
- Backseat driver
- Pie in the sky
- In the dark
- Carried out
- Took to heels
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text: This article reports a variety of sensory and perceptual consequences of eliminating, via a rigid fingertip sheath, the spatially distributed fingertip force information that is normally available during tactile and haptic sensing. Sensory measures included tactile spatial acuity, tactile force, and vibrotactile thresholds. Suprathreshold tasks included perception of roughness, perception of 2-D edge orientation, and detection of a simulated 3-D mass in simulated tissue via fingertip palpation. Of these performance measures, only vibrotactile thresholds and texture perception failed to show substantial impairment. The results are discussed in terms of their implications for the future design of haptic interfaces for teleoperator and virtual environment systems.