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When most people think of peas, they remember them as the food that they loved to hate when they were children. Yet, many of these same people, since they have become adults, have a renewed appreciation for this vibrant and delicious legume due to its wonderful taste and texture.
There are generally three types of peas that are commonly eaten: garden or green peas, snow peas and snap peas.
Green peas are bursting with nutrients. "They provide good to very good amounts of 8 vitamins, 7 minerals, dietary fiber and protein," according to the website The World's Healthiest Foods. "Green peas' supercharged nutritional profile can supercharge your health."
According to this website green peas provide nutrients that are important for maintaining bone health. They are a very good source of vitamin K1, which activates osteocalcin, the major non-collagen protein in bone. Osteocalcin anchors calcium molecules inside of the bone. Therefore, without enough vitamin K1, osteocalcin levels are inadequate and bone mineralization is impaired.
Green peas also serve as a very good source of folic acid and a good source of vitamin B6. These two nutrients help to reduce the buildup of a metabolic byproduct called homocysteine, a dangerous molecule that can obstruct collagen cross-linking, resulting in poor bone matrix and osteoporosis. One study showed that postmenopausal women who were not considered deficient in folic acid lowered their homocysteine levels simply by supplementing with folic acid by itself.
In addition to affecting bone health, homocysteine contributes to atherosclerosis through its ability to damage the blood vessels, keeping them in a constant state of injury. Therefore the folic acid and vitamin B6 in green peas are supportive of cardiovascular health as well. In fact, folic acid is so important for cardiovascular function that a major 1995 study concluded that 400 micrograms per day of folic acid could prevent 28,000 cardiovascular deaths per year in the United States.
The contributions of green peas to heart health do not stop there. The vitamin K featured in green peas is instrumental to the body's healthy blood clotting ability.
Green peas are a very good source of thiamin (vitamin B1) and a good source of vitamin B6, riboflavin (vitamin B2) and niacin (vitamin B3), all of which are nutrients that are necessary for carbohydrate, protein and lipid metabolism. Green peas are also a good source of iron, a mineral necessary for normal blood cell formation and function, whose deficiency results in anemia, fatigue, decreased immune function, and learning problems. In addition, green peas are a very good source of vitamin C, which protects many energy-producing cells and systems in the body from free radical damage. Body tissues with particularly high vitamin C requirements include the adrenal glands, ocular lens, liver, immune system, connective tissues, and fats circulating in the blood.
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In most current-generation Catalyst switches, such as the Catalyst 4500 and 6800, CEF supports both load balancing based on source IP address and destination IP address combination and source and destination IP plus TCP/UDP port number.
CEF load-balancing schemes allow for Layer 3 switches to use multiple paths to achieve load sharing. Packets for a given source-destination host pair are guaranteed to take the same path, even if multiple paths are available. This ensures that packets for a given host pair arrive in order, which in some cases may be the desired behavior with legacy applications.
Moreover, load balancing based only on source and destination IP address has a few shortcomings. Because this load-balancing method always selects the same path for a given host pair, a heavily used source-destination pair, such as a firewall to web server, might not leverage all available links. In other words, the behavior of this load-balancing scheme may "polarize" the traffic by using only one path for a given host pair, thus effectively negating the load-balancing benefit of the multiple paths for that particular host pair.
So, optimal use of any load-balancing scheme depends on the statistical distribution of traffic because source and destination IP load sharing becomes more effective as the number of source-destination IP pairs increases. In an environment where there is a broad distribution of traffic among host pairs, polarization is of minimal concern. However, in an environment where the data flow between a small number of host pairs creates a disproportionate percentage of the packets traversing the network, polarization can become a serious problem.
A popular alternative that is now the default behavior in new Catalyst switches is load balancing based on source and destination IP to include TCP/UDP port numbers. The more additional factors added to the load-balancing scheme, the less likely polarization will exist.
Cisco Catalyst supports additional load-balancing methods and features by which to tune load balancing based on hardware model and software version. Consult Cisco.com for such configuration optimizations if necessary.
Hardware Forward Details
The actual Layer 3 switching of packets occurs at two possible different locations on Catalyst switches. These possible locations are in a centralized manner, such as on a supervisor module, or in distributed fashion, where switching occurs on individual line modules. These methods are referred to as centralized switching and distributed switching, respectively.
The Catalyst 6500 was a perfect example where there was an option to centralize switch everything on the supervisor or place specific hardware versions of line modules in the chassis to gain distributed switching capability.
The benefits of centralized switching include lower hardware cost and lower complexity. For scaling and large enterprise core networks, distributed switching is optimal. Most small form-factor switches leverage centralized switching.
In conclusion, the subsections of this chapter pertaining to switching methods and hardware forwarding included many specific details about routing and switching operations on Cisco switches. Among all the lengthy explanations and details, conclude this section with the following concepts:
 - The control plane (CPU/route processor) of a Cisco Catalyst was never designed to route or switch frames. The control plane is intended only to populate hardware tables with routing information and maintain routing protocols. The control plane may route frames in a few exception conditions.
 - Mediumto high-end Cisco Catalyst switches were designed based on the distributing forward model to scale to demands of campus and data center networks.
 - Cisco Catalyst switches leverage CEF (topology-based switching) for routing of frames as a means to implement a distributing hardware forwarding model.
 - Cisco Catalyst switches use either a centralized method or a distributed line module method of hardware forwarding, depending on specific platform model and configuration.
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Based on the work of Chuck Close, the process of creating the self portraits for this beginning painting class required students to take close-up photos of each other, and to create a grid on the photo and on their canvas.
Next, the image was transferred to the canvas unit by unit, mixing a different color for every unit. They have to average colors when different colors occur in the same unit.
Most paintings have one to three thousand units - an incredibly sophisticated optical color-mixing exercise. It is at the same time a reflection on how an image is constructed digitally.

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Joint Artificial Intelligence Center
Vision: Transform the DoD Through Artificial Intelligence
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As the JAIC's Director, Joint Artificial Intelligence Center, Lieutenant General Michael S. Groen leads the JAIC's progress in support of transforming of U.S. Joint warfighting and departmental processes through the integration of Artificial Intelligence, and enabling the empowerment and unification of bottom-up AI development by innovators across the Defense Department. In support of this, he ensures the JAIC is able to provide the foundational elements of AI and AI-enabling technical services and infrastructure, acquisition support, expertise, and best practices to the Department's AI ecosystem.
Photograph of Mr. Mark Gorak
As the JAIC's Deputy Director, Joint Artificial Intelligence Center, Mr. Mark Gorak serves as the senior advisor to the Director of the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC) and is focused on attracting and cultivating mission-driven, world class AI talent to rise to the challenge of harnessing AI, to accelerate the adoption and integration of AI throughout the Department of Defense at scale.
 - Accelerating the delivery and adoption of AI
 - Scaling the impact of AI across the Department
 - Establishing a common foundation that enables decentralized execution and experimentation
 - Evolving partnerships with industry, academia, allies and partners
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" with "get_maze" in the extra data.
- Do a standard BFS to solve the algorithm and generate a series of moves to solve it.
- Send the moves one at a time with a braodcast event to "com.hackerone.mobile.challenge4.broadcast.MAZE_MOVER" with the "move" extra data set.
- Send a broadcast event to "com.hackerone.mobile.challenge4.broadcast.MAZE_MOVER" with the serialized payload in the "cereal" extra data.
- Repeat 3-6 until the flag appears in the access log of my web server.
As stated before, step 3-6 has to be repeated a few times for enough levels to be solved and for the finalize() function to be called.
Running this on the victim emulator gives the flag.
This level had the same setup as the previous challenge. The goal is to submit an app which is ran on the same emulator as the vulnerable app containing a flag.
The functions exposed have the following signatures:
- public String censorMyCats(String string)
- public String censorMyDogs(final int n, final String s)
- public String getMySomething()
First we can look at the censorCats function:
This is just a vanilla stack buffer overflow which is just long enough to overwrite the saved return address but not more. So, to be able to use this we need either a one-shot gadget or some kind of pivot.
Next up is the censorDogs() function:
This function takes a string, base64 decodes it, stores it in a global buffer and a stack buffer. Then it uses the input length to decide how much data to return. This means we have a Heartbleed style memory leak where we can set the length to a high number to leak data on the stack. This enables us to leak the stack cookie which is required for the buffer overflow in the previous function to work.
Finally the getSomething() function returns the address of the global buffer which censorDogs() copies data to. This means we can write almost arbitrary data (memcpy stops on null bytes) to a known location. This buffer is no executable by the way so we can not inject shellcode here.
This means that we fully control the contents of rbx, r14, r15 and rip. Now, one possible strategy is to try to call the libc system() function with a command stored in the global buffer we know the address of. There are two problems we need to solve for that. First of all, we still have no idea where the system function is located and secondly we do not control the contents of the rdi register which should hold the argument to the system() function (standard x64 calling convention).
To solve the second problem we take the libc.so from the target Android version (given in the challenge description) and use a tool called xrop to search for gadgets. I simple used grep to search the output for registers I control and eventually found this gadget:
This is perfect, we put the adress of system() in r15 and the address of the global buffer in rbx and we are done.
The first problem is solved by a interesting property of Android. It uses ASLR so libraries are loaded in random location, however they use a shared memory model so that every process will have libraries loaded in the same adress. This means that adresses are random between reboots but not between two apps running at the same time. This means that we can create a small piece of native code in our app like this:
which we then use in the Java part to trigger out exploit like this:
Setting up this in the web listener and submitting the app results in the follow hit in the log
Shortly followed by the following output in my listener
Appendix: Mobile setup
When analyzing an Android app, there are three things we want to extract from it: the java code, the resources and any native code. Android apps come in the form of an APK file which is pretty much a zip file. To decode this file to get the resources and native code, we use a tool called "apktool", specifically the decode command. You call it with the APK file as an argument and it unpacks a directory with the contents of the app.
The resources and native code is directly accessible but the java code is not in a desirable format. To get the java code, we first use a tool called "dex2jar" to convert the "classes.dex" file into a Java jar. The classes.dex file contains all the JVM code in a specific format for the dalvik virtual machine. By converting it into a Java JAR file we can the use the Procyon decompiler to decompile the app into human readable Java code.
Now you are all set up to perform static analysis of an Android app.
In this web challenge we are given the address to a web server which serves an index page with instructions. The instructions says there is a RPC service somewhere on this server with a secret message we want to read.
After checking some typical standard paths such as "robots.txt", ".git", "index.php" and a couple of others I finally tried to see if there was a "rpc.php" and indeed there was. Unfortunately it just complained about the version being unknown. After exploring that rabbit hole for a couple of hours I figured I must have missed something and went for the brute force approach by running dirsearch. To make it run as fast as possible, I used whois to figure out where the server was hosted. It turns out it was hosted with Digital Ocean in their New York data center. So, I went to my DO account and set up a server there myself and ran the dirsearch from there. This yielded the following output:
Bingo! We found a README.html. This page describes the RPC API exposed by the rpc.php. By reading the documentation we find out that we can perform 4 actions:
- createNote(id, note)
However this requires an authenticated user via JWT token. One such token is given in the documentation. Decoding the JWT token in the docs tells us it belongs to user id "2" and is verified by a SHA256-HMAC. Here we use a classic JWT trick where we simply drop the the signature and change the declared signature algorithm to "None". This can be done in a number of ways but for example using PyJWT like this:
This means we can change our user id to id "1". Trying anything other than 1 and 2 only yields an error. Communicating with the api involves setting the method and params as get params, an Authorization header with the JWT token and an Accept header with the value "application/notes.api.v1+json".
Using the command we can create notes with a chosen or random key and chosen value, retrieve a message by key, delete all notes and list notes metadata. Note that this does not give us the note key but only their creating timestamp. When using the user with user id 1 we notice that there is one note staying even after calling the reset method. This is probably the secret flag note.
Looking at the html source of README.html we find the following comment:
This is interesting. In the first version, the timestamps returned when calling getNotesMetadata were always sorted in ascending time order but now they are instead sorted according to the order of their keys. We can use this as a sorting oracle. The way it works is we create a note with id "a" then check if this sorts before or after the secret note. We then try with "b" and "c" and so on until we the order of the timestamp change. We then know the first letter of the id and fixate it. We can then move on to the second letter and so on. This is easily scripted and after running for a few seconds we reveal the secret id to be "EelHIXsuAw4FXCa9epee". You can of course do it even faster by doing a binary search instead of a linear search but since we are working with such small values and short strings it's not really worth the extra effort. Retrieving this note gives us the base64 encoded flag.

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When you save a text in a constant or a variable, your are saving a string in Swift. Furthermore, you can see a string as a serie of characters. For that reason, you can access to the content of a string in various ways, such as Collection (Array i.e.) of characters.
Initialize a String
A string literal is a text writed with a double quote at beginning and at the end. So, if you need to save a text in a constant or a variable, you only must to assign a string literal to it.
let coach = "Ted Lasso" var team = "AFC Richmond"
NOTE: It is fundamental remember that strings are case sensitive. So, "a simple string" it is different of "A simple string".
If you need to save the value of two strings in another constant or variable, you can concatenate it.
It is as easy as use the operator
+ between the two values when you have to assign it.
let name = "Michael" let lastName = "Scott" let funnyBoss = name + lastName
Another way, it is to use the operator
+= to add text to a previous initialized string
var spy = "Bond" spy += ", James Bond"
In the above example, the final value of
Bond, James Bond
And, as a String is a Collection of characters, you can also use the method
var greet = "Hello, world" greet.append("!")
In the last code, greet value is
But maybe the most used feature in Strings could be String interpolation. It allows use constants or variables values inside a string.
In this case, you can do it, writing the constant or variable name, inside parenthesis "()", and starting with a backlash "". That is
let name = "Forest" let fullName = "Forest Gump" let introduction = "Hello, I am \(name), \(fullName)"
The final value of
"Hello, I am Forest, Forest Gump"
Finishing (althought it is not used often in real world apps) maybe sometimes you need to save larger texts in a string, and it could be difficult read the value for others programmers o for yourself. In this case, you can use a multiline string.
To save a multiline string, you only need to write three quotation marks at the beginning, and finish with another three in a single line. For example:
let text = """ To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? To die, to sleep; """
First triple double quotes doesn't need to be in a single line, but it helps to focus in text value.
You can see useful methods in the post Useful String methods in Swift
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how you can interpret them here. More...
If you find these logos useful in your own work, please consider citing the following article:
This page displays the phylogenetic tree for this family's seed alignment. We use FastTree to calculate neighbour join trees with a local bootstrap based on 100 resamples (shown next to the tree nodes). FastTree calculates approximately-maximum-likelihood phylogenetic trees from our seed alignment.
Note: You can also download the data file for the tree.
Curation and family details
This section shows the detailed information about the Pfam family. You can see the definitions of many of the terms in this section in the glossary and a fuller explanation of the scoring system that we use in the scores section of the help pages.
|Author:||Bateman A, Sonnhammer ELL|
|Number in seed:||64|
|Number in full:||18172|
|Average length of the domain:||64.10 aa|
|Average identity of full alignment:||53 %|
|Average coverage of the sequence by the domain:||50.27 %|
|HMM build commands:||
build method: hmmbuild -o /dev/null HMM SEED
search method: hmmsearch -Z 23193494 -E 1000 --cpu 4 HMM pfamseq
|Family (HMM) version:||19|
|Download:||download the raw HMM for this family|
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This visualisation provides a simple graphical representation of the distribution of this family across species. You can find the original interactive tree in the More....
This chart is a modified "sunburst" visualisation of the species tree for this family. It shows each node in the tree as a separate arc, arranged radially with the superkingdoms at the centre and the species arrayed around the outermost ring.
How the sunburst is generated
The tree is built by considering the taxonomic lineage of each sequence that has a match to this family. For each node in the resulting tree, we draw an arc in the sunburst. The radius of the arc, its distance from the root node at the centre of the sunburst, shows the taxonomic level ("superkingdom", "kingdom", etc). The length of the arc represents either the number of sequences represented at a given level, or the number of species that are found beneath the node in the tree. The weighting scheme can be changed using the sunburst controls.
In order to reduce the complexity of the representation, we reduce the number of taxonomic levels that we show. We consider only the following eight major taxonomic levels:
Colouring and labels
Segments of the tree are coloured approximately according to their superkingdom. For example, archeal branches are coloured with shades of orange, eukaryotes in shades of purple, etc. The colour assignments are shown under the sunburst controls. Where space allows, the name of the taxonomic level will be written on the arc itself.
As you move your mouse across the sunburst, the current node will be highlighted. In the top section of the controls panel we show a summary of the lineage of the currently highlighed node. If you pause over an arc, a tooltip will be shown, giving the name of the taxonomic level in the title and a summary of the number of sequences and species below that node in the tree.
Anomalies in the taxonomy tree
There are some situations that the sunburst tree cannot easily handle and for which we have work-arounds in place.
Missing taxonomic levels
Some species in the taxonomic tree may not have one or more of the main eight levels that we display. For example, Bos taurus is not assigned an order in the NCBI taxonomic tree. In such cases we mark the omitted level with, for example, "No order", in both the tooltip and the lineage summary.
Unmapped species names
The tree is built by looking at each sequence in the full alignment for the family. We take the name of the species given by UniProt and try to map that to the full taxonomic tree from NCBI. In some cases, the name chosen by UniProt does not map to any node in the NCBI tree, perhaps because the chosen name is listed as a synonym or a misspelling in the NCBI taxonomy.
So that these nodes are not simply omitted from the sunburst tree, we group them together in a separate branch (or segment of the sunburst tree). Since we cannot determine the lineage for these unmapped species, we show all levels between the superkingdom and the species as "uncategorised".
Since we reduce the species tree to only the eight main taxonomic levels, sequences that are mapped to the sub-species level in the tree would not normally be shown. Rather than leave out these species, we map them instead to their parent species. So, for example, for sequences belonging to one of the Vibrio cholerae sub-species in the NCBI taxonomy, we show them instead as belonging to the species Vibrio cholerae.
Too many species/sequences
For large species trees, you may see blank regions in the outer layers of the sunburst. These occur when there are large numbers of arcs to be drawn in a small space. If an arc is less than approximately one pixel wide, it will not be drawn and the space will be left blank. You may still be able to get some information about the species in that region by moving your mouse across the area, but since each arc will be very small, it will be difficult to accurately locate a particular species.
The tree shows the occurrence of this domain across different species. More...
We show the species tree in one of two ways. For smaller trees we try to show an interactive representation, which allows you to select specific nodes in the tree and view them as an alignment or as a set of Pfam domain graphics.
Unfortunately we have found that there are problems viewing the interactive tree when the it becomes larger than a certain limit. Furthermore, we have found that Internet Explorer can become unresponsive when viewing some trees, regardless of their size. We therefore show a text representation of the species tree when the size is above a certain limit or if you are using Internet Explorer to view the site.
If you are using IE you can still load the interactive tree by clicking the "Generate interactive tree" button, but please be aware of the potential problems that the interactive species tree can cause.
For all of the domain matches in a full alignment, we count the number that are found on all sequences in the alignment. This total is shown in the purple box.
We also count the number of unique sequences on which each domain is found, which is shown in green. Note that a domain may appear multiple times on the same sequence, leading to the difference between these two numbers.
Finally, we group sequences from the same organism according to the NCBI code that is assigned by UniProt, allowing us to count the number of distinct sequences on which the domain is found. This value is shown in the pink boxes.
We use the NCBI species tree to group organisms according to their taxonomy and this forms the structure of the displayed tree. Note that in some cases the trees are too large (have too many nodes) to allow us to build an interactive tree, but in most cases you can still view the tree in a plain text, non-interactive representation. Those species which are represented in the seed alignment for this domain are highlighted.
You can use the tree controls to manipulate how the interactive tree is displayed:
- show/hide the summary boxes
- highlight species that are represented in the seed alignment
- expand/collapse the tree or expand it to a given depth
- select a sub-tree or a set of species within the tree and view them graphically or as an alignment
- save a plain text representation of the tree
Please note: for large trees this can take some time. While the tree is loading, you can safely switch away from this tab but if you browse away from the family page entirely, the tree will not be loaded.
There are 2 interactions for this family. More...
We determine these interactions using iPfam, which considers the interactions between residues in three-dimensional protein structures and maps those interactions back to Pfam families. You can find more information about the iPfam algorithm in the journal article that accompanies the website.
For those sequences which have a structure in the Protein DataBank, we use the mapping between UniProt, PDB and Pfam coordinate systems from the PDBe group, to allow us to map Pfam domains onto UniProt sequences and three-dimensional protein structures. The table below shows the structures on which the Histone domain has been found. There are 705 instances of this domain found in the PDB. Note that there may be multiple copies of the domain in a single PDB structure, since many structures contain multiple copies of the same protein seqence.
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Most of us were taught when we were kids that sweets like chocolate will rot your teeth. While this may remain true for some types of our favorite sweet snack, that doesn't mean we have to take it off the menu all together. In fact, recent studies have found that dark chocolate, containing high percentages of cocoa, may actually be beneficial to your dental health. Dr. Marissa Miller at Discovery Dental wants Shelby residents to know the facts so they can satisfy their sweet-tooth safely.
How does it work?
Dark chocolate is known to contain high levels of antioxidants, which work with our bodies to fight bacteria and disease. Dark chocolate can contain up to four times the amount of antioxidants found in green tea! High levels of antioxidants found in saliva have been proven to help fight periodontal, or gum disease, and slow tooth decay.
What about the sugar?
Yes, chocolate does contain sugar, which is bad for your teeth. However, that is why we are recommending dark chocolate, which has lower amounts of sugar, and higher levels of cocoa (at least 70%). The high levels of antibacterial compounds found in dark chocolate actually counteract the effects of the sugars, making it a safe option for a sweet-tooth. In fact, studies have found one of these compounds to be more effective in fighting cavities than fluoride!
So I can skip my nightly brushing, if I have dark chocolate for dessert?
Absolutely…NOT! Even dark chocolate contains some sugar, and while some of its magical compounds help combat the effects of tooth decay, there is no substitute for regular brushing and flossing (at least twice per day) and regular checkups (every 6 months). Hopefully, however, we've helped rid Shelby residents of their fear, guilt, and aversion when it comes to chocolate and oral health. Chocolate lovers rejoice!
For more questions concerning your oral health and the effects of your favorite foods or beverages, please give us a call at 419-342‑4217 or stop by Discovery Dental, Dr. Marissa Miller will be happy to talk with you.


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Sometimes both heaven and Earth erupt.
Colorful aurorae erupted unexpectedly earlier this month, with
green aurora appearing near the horizon and brilliant bands of
red aurora blooming high overhead.
A bright Moon lit the foreground of this picturesque scene,
while familiar stars could be seen far in the distance.
With planning, the careful astrophotographer shot this image mosaic in the field of
White Dome Geyser in
Yellowstone National Park
in the western USA.
Sure enough, just after midnight,
White Dome erupted -- spraying a stream of water and vapor many meters into the air.
Geyser water is heated to steam by
scalding magma several
kilometers below, and rises through rock
cracks to the surface.
About half of all known geysers occur in
Yellowstone National Park.
that created these aurorae has since subsided, eruptions of White Dome Geyser continue about every 30 minutes.
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5.5. Tuning Virtual Memory
Describe the issue:
The current description of vm.swappiness have two shortcomings:
- it doesn't explain what swappiness really do: tune the trade-off between page cache and anonymous page.
- since rhel 6.4, swappiness==0 is more aggressive in avoiding swapping out. When the I/O activity is high, it increase risk of OOM killing.
Suggestions for improvement:
A value from 0 to 100 which controls the degree to which the system swaps. A high value prioritizes system performance, aggressively swapping processes out of physical memory when they are not active. A low value prioritizes interactivity and avoids swapping processes out of physical memory for as long as possible, which decreases response latency. The default value is 60.
A value from 0 to 100 which controls the degree to which the system favour anonymous memory or the page cache. A high value improves file-system performance, while aggressively swapping less active processes out of RAM.
A low value avoids swapping processes out of memory, which usually decrease latency, at the cost of I/O performance. The default value is 60.
Warning: Since RHEL 6.4, setting swappiness==0 will even more aggressively avoids swapping out, which increase the risk of OOM killing under strong memory and I/O pressure.
Adding docs-async to Devel Whiteboard, since this can be corrected asynchronous to the release schedule.
Any idea on what the turn around for this would be?
Latest version of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Performance Tuning Guide on the Red Hat Customer Portal:
Closing this BZ.


Correctly powering your old Boss pedal (ACA vs PSA simplified)
Choosing the correct power supply for your Boss pedal can be a slightly confusing task. In general, Boss compact pedals were designed to use one of two adaptors: ACA or PSA. Although both ACA and PSA adaptors (and all Boss compact pedals) use the same sized jack/connectors as each other, their specifications and requirements are different.
If your pedal was built before 1997 then it's most likely made to use what was called the ACA adaptor. Don't confuse this with what's often called an AC adaptor (used on pedals like the Digitech Whammy 4) as these will fry your pedal.
The ACA adaptor was made for the original Boss compact pedals back in 1977. The supply produces 12v's of "unregulated" DC power even though the pedals were designed to run off 9v's of DC power (like a 9v battery). This meant that the Boss designers implemented some internal circuitry in their pedals to drop the voltage down from the 12vDC that the supply produced to the 9vDC that the circuit needed. It's important to note that this circuitry only impacts the power supply input and not the battery snap.
I know what you might be thinking and yes, this was a really strange way to do things. However pedals were only new back then and they were still working out the kinks, so this is just how it was for a few years.
The first Boss pedal not to use this ACA system was the Boss DD-2 in 1983. Due to it's higher than average power requirements, the DD-2 was designed around the new PSA adaptor which produced 9v's of clean, regulated power. Boss continued using both of these power supplies side by side when designing their pedals for a few years until 1997 when they standardised all pedals and solely used the PSA system.
So how do you know which power supply your pedal needs? Firstly, take a look at the label underneath your pedal for a few clues..
The first thing listed on a Boss compact pedal label is the power requirements of that pedal. The table has two columns: AC Voltage and Boss AC Adaptor. The AC Voltage column gives a list of possible voltages from around the world (100v for Japan, 240v for Australia etc). The Boss AC Adaptor column shows you which adaptor is available in which region.
The most important information to note here is whether your pedal is asking for an ACA-XXX or a PSA-XXX adaptor. The first image you see is the label of a ACA powered Boss CS-1 Compression Sustainer, the second is a PSA powered NS-2 Noise Suppressor.
The other notable places you will find information about which supply your pedal needs is on the sticker next to the power jack or on the box (of a PSA pedal, ACA boxes don't tend to have this noted).
So what happens if you use the wrong adaptor? The short answer is not much. Using a PSA adaptor on an ACA pedal will cause the effect to sound weak and possibly muffled. The LED will also likely not turn on. This is all due to the fact that the power is being reduced to around 6v's internally and is not enough to power the pedal properly (much like an old 9v battery would).
To use your old Boss pedal with a modern power supply, there are a few options:
1) The pedals can easily be modified by bypassing the section that reduces the voltage. This often only uses a single wire and can be easily reversed whilst keeping the pedal 100% original. Contact your favourite pedal company (which is hopefully us..) and they can help out with this.
2) If you're using a daisy chain (or any power supply with what's known as "common ground") and have a PSA Boss pedal in the chain then this will bypass the voltage reduction circuitry and your pedal should function fine.
3) Some modern power bricks have 12vDC outputs or even variable power outputs that are capable of 12vDC. These outlets are usually perfectly capable of emulating ACA power. We use our MXR CAE power supply that has a pair of variable voltage outputs.
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A new study by the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research has uncovered a significant decline in the risk of birth defects amongst WA children born using Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART).
The study, published in the journal Obstetrics & Gynecology, showed a large decrease in the rate of birth defects between a similar Telethon Institute study carried out using data from the mid-90′s and that of the updated study which looked at a larger collection of data.
The more recent study, which included data up until 2002, showed the risk of birth defects amongst single babies born using Assisted Reproductive Technology in WA dropped from 10.9% between 1994 and 1998 to 7.5% in the four years following (_PHONE_), compared with a rate of 5.2% in the naturally conceived group.
Twins born via assisted pregnancies also showed a similar pattern of decreasing risk from the first time period to the second.
"Our study suggests an encouraging decline in major birth defect prevalence in children born as a result of assisted pregnancies in Western Australia," said Telethon Institute researcher Michele Hansen. "Changes to clinical practice may be largely responsible with improved culture media and better culture and storage conditions leading to the transfer of 'healthier' embryos.
"Whilst our study does still show that babies born using Assisted Reproductive Technology remain at a higher risk of birth defects, couples seeking to use these treatments can be reassured that the vast majority of infants are born healthy and do not have a birth defect." Ms Hansen said.
"We believe that providing parents with as much information as possible so that they can make informed decisions is important and we would encourage them to talk to their specialist about the prevalence of birth defects in ART pregnancies."
The Telethon Institute research team hope to continue monitoring birth defects to evaluate the impact of more recent changes to ART laboratory practice such as extended blastocyst culture and vitrification (rapid freezing of eggs and embryos).Date Created: October 5, 2012


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(PhysOrg.com) -- University of California, Berkeley, biologists and engineers including undergraduate and graduate students studied how lizards manage to leap successfully even when they slip and stumble, and found that swinging the tail upward is the key to preventing a forward pitch that could send them head-over-heels into a tree.
The scientists subsequently added a tail to a robotic car they named Tailbot and discovered that it's not as simple as throwing your tail in the air. Robots and lizards have to adjust the angle of their tail just right to counteract the effect of the stumble. Given an actively controlled tail, even robots can make a leap and remain upright.
"We showed for the first time that lizards swing their tail up or down to counteract the rotation of their body, keeping them stable," said team leader Robert J. Full, UC Berkeley professor of integrative biology. "Inspiration from lizard tails will likely lead to far more agile search-and-rescue robots, as well as ones having greater capability to more rapidly detect chemical, biological or nuclear hazards."
Agile therapod dinosaurs like the velociraptor depicted in the movie Jurassic Park may also have used their tails as stabilizers to prevent forward pitch, Full said. Their tail movement is illustrated in a prescient sequence from the 1993 movie in which the animated animal leaps from a balcony onto a T. rex skeleton while chasing the lead characters.
"Muscles willing, the dinosaur could be even more effective with a swing of its tail in controlling body attitude than the lizards," Full said.
Full and his laboratory colleagues, including both engineering and biology students, will report their discoveries online on Jan. 5 in advance of publication in the Jan. 12 print edition of the journal Nature. The paper's first author, mechanical engineering graduate student Thomas Libby, also will report the results on Jan. 7 at the annual meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology in Charleston, South Carolina.
From gecko toe hairs to tails
Full's research over the past 20 years has revealed how gecko toe hairs allow the animals to climb smooth vertical surfaces and, more recently, how their tails help keep them from falling when their feet slip and allow them to right themselves in mid-air. The research reported this week shows how the tail is used in leaping, providing inspiration for robots that can deal with tumbles that are inevitable if, for example, they are exploring rubble during search and rescue operations.
The new research tested a 40-year-old hypothesis that the two-legged theropod dinosaurs the ancestors of birds used their tails as stabilizers while running or dodging obstacles or predators. In Full's teaching laboratory, students noticed a lizard's recovery after slipping during a leap and thought a study of stumbling would be a perfect way to test the value of a tail.
In a research-based teaching lab associated with UC Berkeley's Center for interdisciplinary Bio-inspiration in Education and Research (CiBER), Full and his students used high-speed videography and motion capture to record how a red-headed African Agama lizard handled leaps from a platform with different degrees of traction, from slippery to easily gripped sandpaper.
They coaxed the lizards to run down a track, vault off an obstacle and land on a vertical surface with a shelter on top. When the friction on the obstacle was reduced, lizards slipped, potentially causing their body to spin out of control.
When the researchers saw how the lizard used its tail to counteract the spin, they created a mathematical model as well as Tailbot to better understand the animal's skills. With a tail but no feedback from sensors about body position, Tailbot took a nose dive when driven off a ramp, which mimicked a lizard's take-off. When body attitude was sensed and fed back to the tail motor, however, Tailbot was able to stabilize its body in midair. The actively controlled tail effectively redirected the angular momentum of the body into the swing of the tail, just as with leaping lizards, Full said.
Inertial assisted robotics
Tailbot's design pushed the boundaries of control in robotics in an area researchers call inertial assisted robotics, Full said, which drew the attention of attendees at last October's meeting of the International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. Their paper, presented by Libby and fellow mechanical engineering graduate student Evan Chang-Siu, was one of five finalists in a field of more than 2,000 robot studies presented at the meeting.
"Engineers quickly understood the value of a tail," Libby said, noting that when he dropped Tailbot nose-down, it was able to right itself before it had dropped a foot. "Robots are not nearly as agile as animals, so anything that can make a robot more stable is an advancement, which is why this work is so exciting."
Full and his students are now investigating the role of the tail in controlling pitch, roll and yaw while running.
Full is enthusiastic about the interplay between biologists and engineers fostered in the CiBER lab, which provides undergraduate students with an opportunity to conduct cutting-edge research in teams with graduate students where each team experiences the benefits of how biologists and engineers approach a problem.
"This paper shows that research-based teaching leads to better learning and simultaneously can lead to cutting-edge research," Full said. "It also shows the competitive advantage of interdisciplinary approaches and how involvement of undergraduates in research can lead to innovation."
Last year, Full briefed the United States House of Representative's Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Education Caucus on this very topic.
"Learning in the context of original discovery, finding out something that no one has ever know before, really motivated me," wrote former UC Berkeley integrative biology undergraduate Talia Moore, now a graduate student in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University. "This research-based lab course
showed me how biologists and engineers can work together to benefit both fields."
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More information: Thomas Libby, Talia Moore, Evan Chang-Siu, Deborah Li, Daniel Cohen, Ardian Jusufi & Robert Full. Tail-assisted pitch control in lizards, robots and dinosaurs. Nature, DOI:10.1038/nature10710


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Why is my baby's first four teeth green in colour?
Q: My baby's first four teeth are green in colour? Some people says that it might be as a result of night feeding, is this true? Please help. She is eleven months old and was admitted to a hospital as soon as she was born because she contacted hospital infection at UCH and later her PCV went down. She was transfused before she was discharged.
A:Green teeth could be because of the infection and medicines at time of birth. It is important to see a Dentist so that he check if it this or it cavities. If they are cavities then fillings would be needed.


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Writing something in a notebook is one of the important activities to make a habit. Notes are useful to help to remind of something that is received and processed by the brain so it is not easy to forget.
Writing something in a notebook is one of the important activities to make a habit. Notes are useful to help to remind of something that is received and processed by the brain so it is not easy to forget. People who are used to writing notes do not mean forgetful, but people who have a good mindset for anticipation. Moreover, the information written in a note is long term and can be seen at any time needed.
The Bible is a book that contains a lot of writings. It is very difficult to remember every part of the Bible. You will need a lot of time to remember if without the help of notes. When you use a notebook, you can note the highlights of the writing in the Bible and record the detailed part of the writing. Using notes is a more effective way than memorizing them without notes. Therefore, finding notes sold for notes can be easily found in many stores. There are various designs and sizes that are owned by the notes to adjust to the user.
Bible learning is a kind of study undertaken by several people who focus on understanding the contents of the Bible. In the notes made about the Bible, you will find the same writing as the one in the Bible or the updated text with writing style and points that can be understood by the person who wrote it. You can write verses and perspectives that you have when reading and studying the contents of the Bible. There are no provisions that apply when you write down notes because they are made for personal consumption.
In this digital era, you can write notes manually using a pen and book, or you can use digital notes on your computer or smartphone. When speaking which one better, it becomes relative because it requires adjustments to those who use notes. When you write notes in typing mode, it will be very effective for people who spend time in front of a computer screen or smartphone. As for people who more often carry notes everywhere, writing it by hand will be more effective for him. After all, typing and writing both will be very effective if done by yourself and not someone else's writing.


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If I have a triangle with the coodinates A(0,0) B (30,0) and C (30,40)
Is the centre of gravity 1/3 of the base and 1/3 of the height?
would this make it (10, 40/3)??
The area of the triangle is
You now need a triangle such that
The ratio of the main triangle's height to the base is
You need to have or
The center of gravity will occur along the triangle with the x coordinate equal to 21.2132.
You will need to do the appropriate calculations for the y coordinate.
You want to cut the large triangle so that the upper or smaller triangle is half the area of the larger triangle.


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Photo Rendering Tutorial
Photo rendering allows you to manipulate your photo and change the background. And, it's not as hard as you think. Learn more here.
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 Fixing Up Your Photo
 Photo rendering allows you to take raw images and add effects to them. This rendering is done via computer software programs like Adobe Photoshop or Corel VideoStudio. There are also some free programs like Photobucket and Google Picasa, but they will only give you limited editing capabilities.
 When you start rendering a photo, you will usually start looking at the obvious things like how it's framed, fixing the colors and adjusting any issues that may have occurred when taking the picture. Many programs allow you to add overlays, including different filters like polarizing filters or even a warm (orange) or cold (blue) filter.
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 Erasing Your Background
 Basically, the first step to everything is cleaning up the picture. Once the picture is the way that you want it to look, you will be really getting into the main part of the photo rendering process. The main goal of photo rendering is to remove the background from your main object. This way, you can use your foreground image in other images or simply leave it with a transparent background.
 Depending on your program, the actually process of photo rendering will vary. You can manually erase the background using the eraser tool. If you are planning on doing it this way, start erasing the areas as far away from the main object as possible. Once most of this is gone, zoom into your object, and reduce the size of the eraser so that it's as small as possible.
 You don't want to erase your main object, but you want to make sure that the entire background is gone. Keep zooming until you get to point where you can also erase the pixels individually. If you do happen to erase a section of the foreground image simply undo it. Once complete, you can create a cutting path to manually remove the object from the now clear background.
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 Creating a Cutting Path
 The only problem with erasing the background is that you are still going to have a little bit of the white left if your cutting path is not really close to the foreground image. So, you may want to start with the cutting path first.
 Start drawing your cutting path generally, and make your first cut. You will still have some of the background left, but most of it will be gone. Now, start zooming into the photo until you are really close to the foreground object. Plot each dot as close to the image as possible.
 Once the cutting path is complete, make your next cut. The image may still look a little boxy in some places. You can apply a feather eraser to the edges to blur them a bit to make them look more natural. You should also zoom in as close as possible to ensure that you are not erasing too much.


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constant reduction of per capita quality water for different uses.
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and the disparity in the rainfall distribution, the limitations of
renewable resources and the population concentration in the margins
of desert and water scarce areas have intensified the problem.
The shortage of per capita renewable freshwater and its poor
hard water resources, and the profusion of natural and artificial
pollutant have caused the deterioration of water quality.
Among methods of treatment and use of these waters one can refer
to the application of membrane technologies, which have come into
possibilities of production at different capacities, application as
comparison to Reverse Osmosis processes, it can revolutionize the
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Skip to comments.Penguins survived when dinosaurs died
Posted on 04/09/2006 10:31:04 AM PDT by Lessismore
New analysis of the world's oldest fossil penguins confirms some birds survived the mass extinction that killed the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, researchers say.
The penguins once lived in shallow seas off New Zealand's east coast 60 million years ago.
Now a molecular study, published in the journal Molecular Biology and Evolution, links them closely to modern penguins.
Co-author Associate Professor Ewan Fordyce from the University of Otago says penguins are specialised birds that evolved much later than other species.
"The fact that they have been found within a few million years of the dinosaurs' extinction is compelling evidence that modern birds must have evolved earlier and diversified during the time of the dinosaurs," he said.
"It also suggests that many of those bird lineages survived the catastrophe that wiped out the dinosaurs, so it's unlikely that there was a big turnover, with modern birds only emerging after the mass extinction."
The study incorporates genetic evidence of the evolutionary relationships between penguins' distant cousins like shearwaters, albatrosses, ducks and moas.
The researchers used DNA from these birds to provide a broad framework of family relationships which, together with the fossil evidence, is used to predict when those birds must have arisen.
"We're really confident we have ancient birds and really confident about the date," says Professor Fordyce.
"It's enabled us to establish an earlier timeframe for when groups of modern birds branched out."
Most of the New Zealand fossils, officially recognised as the Waimanu penguin genus, were discovered by amateur palaeontologist Al Mannering in the Waipara region just north of Christchurch.
Some 60 million years ago New Zealand had already separated from Australia and Antarctica and was a low-lying land mass much closer to the South Pole.
Waimanu manneringi would have developed in a polar habitat similar to today's yellow-eyed penguin, which it closely resembles.
Its long bill and condensed wing bones indicate that it would be quite at home eating and swimming in today's Antarctica, the researchers say.
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Oh, Oh! H.P. Lovecraft, Mountains of Madness, Ping List.
Piranha Penguins of Doom bump!
Good book, but that dealt with ruins that were 250,000 years old, not 65 million year old.
Funny that that the longest lasting large animals on Earth are gators and penguins.
There's got to be a cosmic joke somewhere about this.
"Pengoo-ins is practickly chickens..."
Actually the insects are the oldest-now the cockroaches, they're a cosmic joke!
Sometimes it's good to be the penguin.
I was talking about large animales, not small insects.
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This project involved the demolition, remediation and redevelopment of a former dye manufacturing plant which had operated in Buffalo, NY since the early 1900's and occupied nearly 40 acres of property. The highly contaminated site was cleared through the NYS Brownfield Remediation program, which created development incentives for the Heritage Discovery Center.
SCOPE OF WORK:
- Low-point drilling, draining, and flushing of chemical storage and chemical process tanks and piping, including demolition after decontamination.
- Asbestos abatement and hazardous material removal and disposal.
- Above-grade demolition of multiple industrial structures.
- Source area excavation of over 20,000 tons of contaminated soil including transportation, and disposal to permitted disposal facilities.
- In-situ chemical treatment of contaminated soils beneath the groundwater level.
- Construction, operation, and maintenance of a groundwater treatment system.
- Installation of a 35-foot-deep vertical bentonite slurry wall to prevent the off-site migration of contaminated groundwater.
- Repair and relining of an onsite stormwater drainage system.
- Processing and recycling/reuse of over 30,000 tons of concrete and masonry materials.
- Installation of a site-wide soil cover system.
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Who Is Robert Lucas?
Robert Emerson Lucas Jr. is a New Classical economist at the University of Chicago, renowned for his prominent role in developing microeconomic foundations for macroeconomics based on rational expectations. He won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1995 for his contributions to the theory of rational expectations.
- Robert Lucas is a New Classical economist and long-time professor at the University of Chicago.
- Lucas is best known for his development of rational expectations theory and the eponymous Lucas Critique of macroeconomic policy.
- Lucas received the Nobel Prize on 1995 for his contributions to economic theory.
Understanding Robert E. Lucas Jr.
Robert E. Lucas Jr. was born the eldest child of Robert Emerson Lucas Sr. and Jane Templeton Lucas in Yakima, Washington, on Sept. 15, 1937, Lucas received a Bachelor of Arts in History from the University of Chicago in 1959. He initially pursued graduate studies at the University of California, Berkeley, before returning to Chicago for financial reasons. In 1964, he earned his PhD in economics. Initially, he believed his academic life would center around history, and he only continued his economic studies after reaching the conclusion that economics is the true driving force of history. Significantly, Lucas claimed to have studied economics for his PhD from a "quasi-Marxist" point of view, based on Marx's idea that the vast, impersonal forces that drive history are largely a matter of economics.
Lucas became a professor at Carnegie Mellon University at the Graduate School of Industrial Administration, before returning to the University of Chicago in 1975. In 1995, Lucas was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics for developing the theory of rational expectations. He is currently professor emeritus at the University of Chicago.
Lucas is most well known for his contributions to macroeconomics including the development of the New Classical school of macroeconomics and the Lucas Critique. Lucas has spent much of his academic career investigating the implications of the rational expectations theory in macroeconomics. He also made important contributions to theories of economic growth.
Lucas built his career applying the idea that people in the economy form rational expectations about future events and the impact of macroeconomic policies. In a paper in 1972, he incorporated the idea of rational expectations to extend the Friedman-Phelps theory of long-term vertical Phillips Curve. A vertical Phillips Curve implies that expansionary monetary policy will increase inflation, without boosting the economy.
Lucas argued that if (as is assumed in microeconomics) people in the economy are rational, then only unanticipated changes to the money supply will have an impact on output and employment; otherwise people will just rationally set their wage and price demands according to their expectations of future inflation as soon as a monetary policy is announced and the policy will only have an impact on prices and inflation rates. Thus not only (per Friedman and Phelps) is the Phillips Curve vertical in the long run, it is also vertical in the short run except when monetary policymakers can make unannounced, unpredictable, or truly surprising moves that market participants are unable to anticipate.
The Lucas Critique
He also developed the Lucas Critique of economic policymaking, which holds that relationships between economic variables observed in past data or estimated by macroeconometric models are not reliable for economic policymaking because people rationally adjust their expectations and behavior based on their understanding of the impact of economic policy. The expectations about economic conditions and policy that shaped consumer, business, and investor behavior during the periods from which past data are drawn often will not hold once conditions and policies change.
This means that economic policymakers cannot reliably hope to manage the economy by tinkering with key variables, such as money supply or interest rates, because the act of doing so also changes the relationship between these variables and the variables that represent the targeted outcomes, such as GDP or unemployment rates. Thus the Lucas Critique argues against activist macroeconomic policy aimed at managing the economy.
Economic Growth and Development Economics
Lucas also made contributions to endogenous growth theory and to unifying growth theory (which applied mostly to growth in developed economies) with development economics (applied to less developed economies). This includes the Lucas-Uzawa model, which explains long-run economic growth as dependent on human capital accumulation, and the Lucas Paradox, which asks why capital does not appear to flow to regions of the globe where capital is relatively scarce (and thus receives a higher rate of return) as neoclassical growth theory would predict.


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Triangle Generator
Generate symmetrical triangle waveform at regular intervals
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The Triangle Generator block generates a symmetrical triangle waveform, with peak amplitude of +/−1. The figure shows how the Frequency and Phase block parameters affect the output waveform.
Dialog Box and Parameters
Frequency (Hz)
Specify the frequency of the triangle waveform, in hertz.
Phase (degrees)
Specify the delay of the triangle waveform, in degrees. When the phase is set to 0, the waveform starts with an amplitude of −1 and a positive slope.
Sample time
Sample TimeSpecified in the Sample Time parameter
Continuous if Sample Time = 0
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Zero-Crossing DetectionNo
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Variance - Excel
In order to do this section, download this Excel file called Baseball.
To download Excel files, you must configure your browser (Netscape) to recognize these files. If your browser has not been set up for Excel files yet, click here to learn how.
Recall in the introduction of this lesson, the question of whether the perception in America that all baseball players are overpaid was raised. The Excel file you downloaded contains the salaries for two major league teams, the Chicago Cubs and the Montreal Expos in 1994. The salaries have been divided by a million in order to make the numbers easier to work with. For example, Ryne Sandberg (cell A5), has a salary listed as 5.975. This actually means $5,975,000.
We will use this data to help us explore the answer to the question above.
 1. One statistic used frequently is called the range. The range of a data set is the difference between the greatest and least values in the set.
 1. Who are the Cubs players that are paid the highest and lowest?
 2. What is the range of salaries for the Cubs?
 2. In Excel you can do often tedious calculations quickly and accurately.
 1. What is the total payroll for the Cubs salaries? (CELL A33)
 2. What is the mean salary for the Cubs? (CELL A34)
 3. What do you think Willie Banks (CELL A24) would say if you told him the answer you found for the mean salary?
 4. Is the Cubs mean salary above or below the mean for all the teams? (Remember, this was $1.2 million dollars.)
 3. In column C,
 1. Find the deviation (COLUMN C) of each players salary from the mean. (Recall, the deviation is the difference between the mean and the data point.)
 2. Without doing any calculation, what would the mean of this list be?
 3. In your own words, describe how Mark Grace's salary differs from the mean salary for the Cubs.
 4. Now, describe Rey Sanchez's salary.
 4. In column D,
 1. Find the absolute value of the deviations. (COLUMN D) (Hint: In Excel, the command for absolute value is ABS().)
 2. Find the sum and mean of this list. (CELLS D33 and D34)
 3. In your own words, explain what this number means.
 1. Calculate the square of each deviation. (COLUMN E)
 2. Find the sum and mean of the square of the deviations (or variance). (CELLS E33 and E34)
 5. A statistic that is commonly used is called the standard deviation. It is calculated by taking the square root of the variance. In a sense, it is an undoing of the squaring that we did to find the variance. The standard deviation therefore is really a sort of "average distance" of each point from the mean.
 1. Calculate the standard deviation for the Cubs player salaries.
 2. In your own words, explain what this number means in relation to the Cub salaries.
 6. Now, for the Montreal Expos player salaries, find
 1. The sum and mean of the salaries. (CELLS G33 and G34)
 2. Each salaries deviation from the mean. (COLUMN H)
 3. The absolute value of the deviations. (COLUMN I)
 4. The sum and mean of the absolute value of the deviations. (CELLS I33 and I34)
 5. The variance and standard deviation. (COLUMN J)
 Use the data that you calculated about the Cubs and Expos salaries to answer the following questions. All answers should be defended using your the data and your calculations.
 7. Which teams' players on average make more money?
 8. Which team has a greater spread in their salaries?
 9. Which teams' salaries are more centered around the mean of their salaries?
 10. For what percent of the variance do Expo players Larry Walker and Marquis Grissom account?
 11. An outlier is a point that is significantly different from the rest of the data set. For example, if a data set contained, {1,2,3,4,40}, 40 would be an outlier since it is significantly greater than the other points.
 Would you consider Larry Walker's salary to be an outlier? How about Marquis Grissom's?
 12. If the owner of the Cubs decided to give everyone on the team a $500,000 raise, what would happen to the mean? to the variance? to the standard deviation?
 13. After analyzing the data, do you think baseball players are overpaid?
 In the middle of the 1994 season, Ryne Sandberg retired. Since he retired he did not get to keep most of his salary. Answer the following questions by deleting Ryne Sandberg's salary from the Cubs' list.
 14. Calculate the mean, variance and standard deviation for list minus Ryne Sandberg.
 15. Compare your answers to the ones you found above and answer the following.
 1. How much lower was the mean without Ryne Sandberg than with him?
 2. How about the variance and standard deviation?
 3. If Glenallen Hill (who makes $1,000,000) decided to retire instead of Ryne Sandberg, what would happen to the mean? Would the difference be greater than or less than if Ryne Sandberg retired? Answer the same questions for the variance?
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Although widely popular for their honey, the bee's greatest contribution to agriculture is as a crop pollinator.
When collected over several years, surveys can provide valuable information for wild turkey management decisions.
Adequate pollinators within the pecan orchard are imperative for optimal production.
It is recommended to make time, daily if possible, to watch each bull in action during the breeding season.
The intuitive approach to determining stocking rate adjustments uses producers' experience and historical information.


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Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)/Lake Indians
Called by themselves SENIJEXTEE and possibly identical with the LAHANNA of Lewis and Clark in 1805, a small tribe of Salishan stock, originally ranging along Columbia River in northeast Washington from about Kettle Falls to the British line. In 1820 Fort Colville trading-post was established by the Hudson Bay Company in their country, but they remained almost unchanged until Christianized in 1846, chiefly through the efforts of the Jesuit Father Adrian Hoecken, who in that year established the summer mission of St. Paul at the Falls. In 1870 they were officially described as living entirely by hunting and fishing, selling their furs to the traders, well fed and clothed, peaceable, friendly, independent, and Catholic in religion. They numbered then 239. In 1872 they were collected with other kindred tribes upon Colville Reservation in the same territory. With the other confederated tribes they are now attached to the mission of Saint John Francis Regis, at Ward, in charge of the Jesuit Fathers, assisted by the Sisters of Charity of Providence. They numbered 283 in 1908, a considerable increase over earlier figures. (See also KALISPEL INDIANS.)
BUREAU CATH. IND. MISSIONS, Reports (Washington), Reports of Commissioner of Indian Affairs (Washington); MOONEY in Handbook Am. Inds., I (Washington, 1907), s. v. Missions; SHEA, Catholic Missions (New York, 1854); DE SMET, Oregon Missions (New York, 1847); WINANS in Report of Commissioner of Indian Affairs (Washington, 1870).


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Regal Privet Plant - Ligustrum obtusifolium var. regelianum
The Regal Privet Plant is considered a fast-growing, hardy shrub. If left to grow on its own, it will create spreading branches that can mature into a beautiful, found-like hedge. This formation is what makes it so attractive as a backdrop to a garden in landscaping. It is capable of growing to hide things like foundations or walkway edges. The Regal Privet Plant has a wide range of zones, growing best in zones 3 to 7. It grows at a moderate rate in full sun to partial shade. It reaches a height of about 10 to 12 feet while spreading at approximately the same distances. One attractive quality about the Regal Privet is its excellent adaptability to some soil types. It prefers moist, well-drained soils that see a relative amount of sun when in a humid, southern environment, but it is also a hardy deciduous hedge when growing in more northern climates.
The Regal Privet Plant's upright growth is marked by green foliage and white flowers that bloom in the spring. It carries dark berries through the winter and is both adaptable and unable as a landscaping plant. Its dense foliage is what makes it so attractive for use in backdrops, but its berries are also appealing to some birds and wildlife who come to eat from them in the winter. The plants grow upright in oval to radiation rounded formations, then achieve an arching vase growth as they mature. If frequently pruned, these plants will form a hedge shape. The dark green leaves are semi-evergreen in the south and slowly deciduous in the north, growing opposite in elliptical to oblong shapes of 1" to 1.5" of length. The blossoms appear in May and June and appeal to some bees. The growth rate of Regal Privets depends on the frequency of pruning. The plants are useful in urban areas as they adapt well to stress.


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What is Digital Partnering?
Digital partnering is a pair group that uses technology to share ideas and work together.
Collaboration can be Simple Using OneDrive
Collaboration doesn't have to be time consuming. If fact, it can be as simple as sharing ideas.
OneDrive allows teachers to post student work to a Group. Members can view and comment upon work within the Group. This provides an excellent opportunity for digital partnering.
For example, consider the activity we completed today. I posted all the students' amusement park maps created using Microsoft Word into a Group folder.
Students acted as business consultants. They were divided into partners. Each student logged into their OneDrive account to view their partner's amusement park map. They examined the current attractions on the map. Using the Comments system they suggested five new attractions that would make the park even better.
In the following class, students will view their own map to read their partner's suggestions. They will then combine the suggestions with their own ideas to generate a list of possible new attractions for their park. This list of new attractions will be used to create a survey. Survey data will be organized in Excel and graphed. The graph will be analyzed to select a new amusement park ride.
Seven Benefits to Digital Partnering
There are several advantages to students working in pair groups digitally:
- Time to Think: Not everyone can generate ideas quickly. Some people need more time to think. Digital partnering allows a student the opportunity to work at their own pace to process information and develop a solution, without the pressure of their partner sitting beside them waiting for input.
- Efficient: Work can begin immediately. There is no need to move around the room and adjust seating, which can create a commotion and can be time consuming.
- Focus on Task: Students can focus their attention on the task without the distraction of their partner. Chatter about unrelated topics is eliminated.
- Increase Student Involvement: There is no coasting or allowing your friend to do all the work when engaged in digital partnering. Since each student is responsible for generating ideas and posting them to the Comments pane, they must participate.
- Spark Inspiration: Often when students hand in their work they think it is done and they never have to look at it again. However, by having a partner comment upon the work it can inspire students to look at their work in a new way. As students gain a fresh perspective this can spark even more ideas for how to improve.
- Equal Opportunity: Outgoing? Shy? The personality of the student does not matter. When students work together face to face, often the shy student may not contribute as much to the conversation. Not because they do not have the ideas, but because they are overpowered by the ideas flowing from their outgoing partner. Digital partnering gives everyone equal opportunity to share ideas.
- More Receptive to Feedback: Too often suggestions for ways to improve can be taken personally, especially in face-to-face interactions. A person may become offended and want to defend their work in front of a peer. Technology creates a comfortable distance between people. This allows each student to focus on the ideas presented not on "saving face".
Commenting, Idea Generation, and Digital Partnering
Commenting is a skill that takes time to develop. Often students are not familiar with how to provide feedback to peers. Sharing ideas, through a commenting activity, provides a focused, meaningful way to help students practice this skill effectively. It also prevents students from posting hurtful criticism or vague feedback such as good job on their classmate's work because they have specific task they must complete.
Over the next few months, the Grade 7 class is going to continue to use OneDrive to collaborate. We are building towards success by engaging in simple tasks. In the previous class, students viewed fellow classmates' amusement park maps and posted one thing they really liked about the park. Today we expanded the complexity of the task to use Comments in a new way.
To prepare students for the task, we reviewed an amusement park map together. On the overhead projector was a sample map. Students were asked to provide suggestions on attractions that are missing from the amusement park that visitors may enjoy. I modeled how to add a comment and post the ideas. Once familiar with the activity, students were partnered with a classmate. These are the steps they completed:
- Login to OneDrive
- Access the Group folder
- View partner's amusement park map in the Word Web App
- Critically evaluate the contents of the document to generate ideas
- Activate the Comments pane
- Select part of the document
- Post a comment that contains five new attractions that can be added to the park
- Close the Word Web App.
- Log off OneDrive
Here is a sample comment. It is unedited. At first glance you might notice the grammar errors. If you focus on those you will be missing something wonderful – the exchange of ideas.
Notice the excellent suggestions by George. Now notice, how the student responded to their partner's ideas. The reply is positive and acknowledges the suggestion they like the most.
What is so amazing about these comments is I never asked students to reply to their partner. On their own students discovered how to reply to a comment. As well, the quality of their replies was such a pleasant surprise.


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Leaning Within a Flexible Inflation-Targeting Framework: Review of Costs and Benefits
This note examines the merits of monetary policy adjustments in response to financial stability concerns, taking into account changes in the state of knowledge since the renewal of the inflation-targeting agreement in 2011. A key financial system vulnerability in Canada is elevated household indebtedness: as more and more households are nearing their debt-capacity limits, the likelihood and severity of a large negative correction in housing markets are also increasing. Adjusting the path of policy rates can be effective in reducing the buildup of household debt and the likelihood of a house price correction over the medium term. Such adjustments can also generate a fall in inflation and in output over the short term compared with the case without a policy-rate adjustment. Overall, the estimated benefits of a leaning adjustment tend to be smaller than its social losses, since its impact on the buildup of vulnerabilities is modest and the reduction in the incidence of house price corrections or financial crises is limited.


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Adjective: terrified 'te-ru,fId
 1. Thrown into a state of intense fear or desperation
 "the terrified horse bolted";
 - panicky, panicked, panic-stricken, panic-struck, frightened
Verb: terrify 'te-ru,fI
 1. Fill with terror; frighten greatly
 "The defendant was convicted of placing dynamite in a certain building with intent to injure, intimidate, and terrify human beings";
 - terrorize, terrorise [Brit]
See also: afraid, 'fraid [non-standard]
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The physical phenomenon responsible for blurring of images is the so-called spacial low-pass filtering. When the same phenomenon is applied temporally to sound, sound loses its higher frequency content.
The only legitimate meaning of blurry sound I see then is when there is so much echo or physical obstacles for sound to go around that it loses clarity. Therefore, sound heard in a large echoic chamber (like a concert hall, hangar or cathedral) can be physically blurry, and sound that you hear from behind the wall when someone is speaking there can be blurry as well.
Sound contaminated by interference (like bad radio channel) would be considered noisy, not blurry.
Also, this type of sound would not be considered distorted. Distortion (I'm in danger of getting overly technical here), is a different phenomenon, characterized by non-linear effects, e.g. you speak too loudly into a microphone and it clips, or when you encode audio with very low quality, that's an example of distortion as well. Blurriness would be characterized by linear audio processing, like superposing many reflections (echoes) on top of each other.
I've been an audio processing engineer for some time now, and we rarely use this terminology, it's usually more technical, but I guess blurry would work, and most people in the field would understand it as the same exact phenomenon.


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International Albinism Awareness DayUnity In Diversity!
June 13th is International Albinism Awareness Day; a day set aside to raise awareness of the struggles that people with albinism face daily. Albinism is a genetic disorder that results in a lack of pigment in the skin, hair, and eyes. This can make people with albinism susceptible to sunburns and eye problems. While there is no cure for albinism, there are ways to help people with this disorder live their best life. Raising a child is stressful enough, but when your child has a special need, it might feel like you're on your own. We'd want to use this time to express our gratitude to all of the parents who are raising children with albinism. On International Albinism Awareness Day, take some time to learn more about this condition and how you can support those who live with it.
Seven reasons why celebrating International Albinism Awareness Day is a must!
1. To show solidarity with the albinism community
When you offer your support for International Albinism Awareness Day, you send a message of solidarity to people with albinism worldwide. This year's theme is "Made To Shine," with the goal of celebrating the accomplishments and successes of persons with albinism all across the world. It's also a call to stand with people who have albinism as they face their problems. This day is an essential reminder that we are all in this together. By raising awareness about albinism, we can help break down the existing barriers for people with this condition.
2. To educate others about albinism
Many people are not familiar with albinism and what it entails. International Albinism Awareness Day is a great opportunity to educate others about this condition. When you raise awareness about albinism, you can help dispel myths and misconceptions about this condition. Educating others can help create a more inclusive and understanding world for people with albinism.
3. To celebrate the beauty of people with albinism
People with albinism are often marginalised and discriminated against because of their appearance. International Albinism Awareness Day is a chance to celebrate the beauty of people with albinism and to show that they are just like everyone else, deserving of respect and inclusion.
4. To Stand up against discrimination
People with albinism face discrimination and violence in many parts of the world. International Albinism Awareness Day is a chance to stand up against this discrimination and call for an end to violence against people with albinism. It is also a chance to celebrate the strength and resilience of people with albinism who have faced these challenges and continue to fight for their rights.
5. For Respect and Inclusion
International Albinism Awareness Day is a chance to call for respect and inclusion for all people with albinism. It is also a chance to celebrate the beauty and diversity of people with albinism. People with albinism often suffer from discrimination and exclusion. They are often treated as if they are not human and this is wrong. International Albinism Awareness Day is a chance for us to stand up against this discrimination and call for an end to violence against people with albinism.
6. What is the significance of the day?
The significance of International Albinism Awareness Day is to raise awareness about albinism and end discrimination and violence that people with albinism face in their daily lives. It is also a chance to celebrate the beauty and diversity of people with albinism. On this day, let us stand up for the rights of people with albinism and pledge to end discrimination and violence against them. Let us also celebrate their beauty and diversity.
7. To teach everyone there in unity in diversity.
The International Albinism Awareness Day is to raise awareness about albinism and to end discrimination and violence against people with albinism.
Why does albinism happen?
Albinism is a congenital condition in which the skin, hair, and eyes are completely or partially devoid of pigment. Albinism is caused by a mutation in one of several genes involved in the generation or distribution of melanin, a brown-black pigment generated by melanocytes, a kind of cell. Melanin is the pigment that gives skin, hair, and eyes their colour.
Genetic factors determine the amount and distribution of melanin produced by the melanocytes. When one of the genes involved in melanin production or distribution is mutated, it can lead to albinism.
What are the different types of albinism?
There are four main types of albinism, each associated with mutations in different genes:
Oculocutaneous albinism type 1 (OCA1): is caused by a mutation in the tyrosinase gene.
Oculo cutaneous albinism type 2 (OCA2): is caused by a mutation in the P gene.
Oculocutaneous albinism type 3 (OCA3): is caused by a mutation in the TYRP1 gene.
Ocular albinism (OA): caused by a mutation in the GPR143 gene.
What are the symptoms of albinism?
The most common symptom of albinism is reducing pigmentation in skin, hair and eyes. This can result in pale skin and hair, and light-coloured eyes. Other symptoms may include:
People with albinism often have vision problems due to the lack of eye pigment. Although persons with ocular albinism lose their central vision, they nevertheless have good side vision. This can cause reduced visual acuity and sensitivity to bright light.
People with albinism are at increased risk for skin cancer. They may also have other skin problems, such as sunburn, rashes and dryness.
Some types of albinism are associated with hearing loss.
June 13th is International Albinism Awareness Day. It can be difficult enough to raise a child, but when your child has a particular need, it can feel like you are doing it all alone. We want to take this opportunity to thank all of the parents out there who are caring for children with albinism. You are amazing! If you are looking for support, please reach out to one of the other organisations dedicated to helping families affected by albinism or us. Together, we can make a difference in the lives of these beautiful children.


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Idioms are groups of words that mean something other than their dictionary definition. They are idiosyncratic uses of language, peculiar to a specific dialect, profession, age group, or other cultural division. Understanding idioms allows you to fit in with whatever group uses them.
To understand common business idioms, you can search online to find how they are used. For example, the idiom "buzz words" refers to terms that are currently in style but superficial in importance:
"It's time to break from hackneyed buzz words that carry zero weight in the eyes of a recruiter or hiring manager." —Monster.Com
Your Turn For each of the following business idioms, write a definition and find an online example that correctly uses it.
 1. across the board
 2. brain drain
 3. can't wrap head around
 4. elephant in the room
 5. from the ground up
 6. in the loop
 7. on the same page
 8. reinvent the wheel
 9. stick to your guns
 10. take the bull by the horns
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Tuesday 2-5 pmBullock Science Center 112W
Gender and Education in Global Perspective
|Instructor: Sethi, Gayatri, PhD
Office: McCain G11A/ G37
Office Hours: Wednesday 1-2:30 pm
This course focuses on the intersection of education and gender, drawing on interdisciplinary research in global development and gender studies. It examines theoretical perspectives, policies, and strategies for making education more equitable globally.
In this course, participants will:
· Reflect on their own gendered educational experiences.
· Question normative assumptions concerning the role of gender in education.
· Analyze educational approaches and practices that reflect diverse conceptions of gender in relation to education.
· Develop a presentation about a global issue in gender and education for an audience of peers.
Participants will develop a 3-part gender and education autobiographical study:
1. Educational autobiography
2. Educational biography (based on interviews)
3. Global analysis of gendered educational biographies
This course builds on pedagogical approaches that rely on course participants "claiming their education" by practicing initiative, collaboration, responsibility and empowerment with respect to their own learning process.
Course materials will be posted on the course page:
Fall Break: October 6th
October 25th Biography Project Interviews (No Class Meeting)
December 6th Reading Day
December 8th-12th Final Exam/ All Projects/ Assignments Due


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From colour + -able.
colourable (not comparable)
 1. (obsolete) Colourful.
 2. Apparently true; specious; potentially justifiable.
 Doth the master make any bargaine, or dispatch that pleaseth not? it is immediately smothered and suppressed, soone after forging causes, and devising colourable excuses, to excuse the want of execution or answer.
 - 1612, John Smith, Proceedings of the English Colonie in Virginia, Chapel Hill 1988 (Select Edition of his Writings), p.178:
 they told him their comming was for some extraordinary tooles and shift of apparell; by this colourable excuse, they obtained 6. or 7. more to their confederacie [].
 - 2003, Ofer Raban, Modern legal theory and judicial impartiality, p.83:
 These three examples have what may be called a 'colourable' claim for a public justification: they do not appear to us as checkerboard statues because, looking at the distinctions they draw, we presume the required justification does exist.
 3. (now rare, sometimes law) Deceptive; fake, misleading.
 - 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.iii:
 Glauce, what needs this colourable word, / To cloke the cause, that hath it selfe bewrayd?
 1. (law) That which is in appearance only, and not in reality, what it purports to be, hence counterfeit, feigned have the appearance of truth.
 4. That can be coloured.
Usage notes[edit]
The sense "that can be coloured" is more common in American than in British English.
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Researchers recently found that a conjunctival limbal autograft (CLAU) can provide long-term ocular surface stability and good visual outcomes for patients with unilateral total limbal stem cell deficiency (LSCD).
This retrospective, interventional case series evaluated 27 eyes that were followed for a mean of 49.8±36.6 months. The main outcome measures were ocular surface stability, best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA) and postoperative complications.
The team achieved ocular surface stability in 77.8% of eyes, while 22.2% developed partial surface failure. They performed penetrating or deep lamellar anterior keratoplasty in 44.5% of eyes, noting that BCVA improved from 1.42±0.95 mean logMAR (equivalent to 20/400) preoperatively to 0.53±0.47 mean logMAR (equivalent to 20/70) at last follow-up. They add that 44.5% of eyes eventually reached BCVA ≥ 20/40. The study noted two significant side effects: microbial keratitis in 14.8% of eyes and ocular hypertension secondary to corticosteroid use in 25.9%. The researchers found no other complications in the donor or recipient eyes.
|Eslani M, Cheung AY, Kurji K, et al. Long-term outcomes of conjunctival limbal autograft in patients with unilateral total limbal stem cell deficiency. Ocul Surf. September 6, 2019. [Epub ahead of print].|


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Thursday April 30, 2020 - 9:00 AM MDT
Appropriate well density development is vital to maximize both hydrocarbon recovery and net present value. If the wells are drilled too close together, the wells will interact causing a negative impact on individual well performance. If the wells are drilled too far apart, recoverable oil and gas will be left behind. Appropriate modelling of well interactions on a multi-pad field scale has been seldom done. Utilizing CMG's unconventional simulation workflows, this webinar presents the results of a full field well placement study performed for an asset in the Bakken.
In the case study, a 10 well history match was performed where the wells were completed with different fracture designs. The results of the history match were utilized to predict the child-parent behavior of the fractures of future wells. Finally, a multi-pad NPV optimization was performed to determine the ideal well placement strategy.
The workflow presented in this webinar was successfully performed on a Bakken asset and is applicable for all unconventional formations and simulations studies. The concepts covered include appropriate model set-up, large scale history matching techniques, parent-child interactions with planar fractures, and field scale optimization.
Kevin is a Senior Reservoir Simulation Engineer with more than seven years of industry experience, especially in the areas of thermal recovery processes and unconventional reservoir simulation. He applies his advanced knowledge and experience to provide unparalleled support and training to customers. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from the University of Calgary.