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Can solar panels withstand hail and survive hurricanes?
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Like any outdoor equipment, solar panels are subject to the changing weather. Depending upon where you live, your panels may experience heavy rain, high winds, or even hail. In this article we'll examine how solar panel systems stand up to intense weather conditions, and what government organizations and industry groups are doing to improve their products and protect consumers from weather-related solar panel damage.
How well do solar panels withstand hail and hurricanes?
As a whole, solar panels are durable and hold up very well in inclement weather. A report from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) on 50,000 solar energy systems installed between 2009 and 2013 indicates that only 0.1% of all PV systems have been reported as affected by damaged or underperforming modules each year. We'll briefly examine two types of weather that have the potential to damage solar systems – hail and hurricanes.
Solar panels and hail
Solar panel manufacturers test their products to ensure that they are capable of withstanding hail storms. In most cases, solar panels are tested and certified to withstand hail of up to 25 mm (one inch) falling at 23 meters per second (approximately 50 miles per hour).
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In fact, not long ago, NREL's main campus in Golden, Colorado was hit with a severe hailstorm just last month. Of over 3,000 panels on or adjacent to the roof of a net-zero energy building, only one panel was broken during the storm. To get an idea of the intensity of the storm, the same weather system left shattered car windows and dents in vehicles and home roofs around the Denver area. The single broken panel appeared to have been hit simultaneously with several large hailstones in a very concentrated location, leading to micro-cracking of the surface glass. The conclusion: hail may be an impressive physical force, but solar panels are well-equipped to withstand impacts even from large hailstones.
Solar panels and hurricanes
With high wind speeds and heavy rain, solar panels may be at risk of being dislodged from their spot or damaged by high volumes of water. However, similar to hail, solar panels are typically tested by manufacturers to ensure that they can survive hurricanes. Most solar panels are certified to withstand winds of up to 2,400 pascals, equivalent to approximately 140 mile-per-hour (MPH) winds. Additionally, the typical aluminum and glass casings that hold solar cells and constitute a solar panel are highly waterproof, even during extreme rain.
As with hail, real-life extreme weather events have demonstrated solar's durability in hurricanes. During Hurricane Sandy, New Jersey was hit especially hard. New Jersey also has one of the highest solar power capacities in the United States. In the second quarter of 2012, just before the hurricane hit, the state had installed 103 megawatts (MW) of PV capacity. Analysis after Sandy hit revealed little to no damage to PV systems from the storm. According to a spokesperson for a solar system installer servicing over 200 customers in the regions of New Jersey hit hardest by the storm, a few metal casings covering wires from the panels were damaged by flooding, and one very large system had just two panels come loose.
More recently, Hurricane Maria's path through Puerto Rico has given insight into the durability of solar energy systems. A 645 kilowatt (kW) rooftop solar array on San Juan's VA Hospital installed in 2015 continued to operate 100 percent post-storm, even though it was exposed to 180 MPH hurricane winds. What kept this system intact while other local arrays weren't so lucky? As was the case with Hurricane Sandy, the racking and anchoring systems used to keep the solar panels in place were the ultimate factor in determining wind resiliency. By utilizing flexible racking devices, the VA Hospital system was able to work like a chain link fence to bend under stress rather than staying rigid and eventually breaking. Solar panels can be installed to survive the extreme winds seen in hurricanes, and can be a source of reliable power when other parts of the electrical grid are wiped out.
How solar stakeholders are ensuring that your panels can withstand extreme weather
In addition to the hail and wind certifications that solar manufacturers offer for their products, there are several organizations and initiatives within the solar industry currently working on making solar panels more durable, long-lasting, and cost-effective. Here is a brief overview of some projects in the works.
The Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy's SunShot Initiative, which aims to bring down the general cost of solar energy for all Americans, also supports initiatives to improve durability in solar panels. The SunShot Initiative funds NREL researchers to participate in the International PV Quality Assurance Task Force, or PVQAT, which focuses on designing solar energy technology standards.
PVQAT has 12 individual task groups working on implementing their approach to PV component and system quality and bankability. Their three-pronged approach looks to establish a rating system for PV modules based on climate and application of interest, a guideline for factory inspections and quality assurance during manufacturing, and a comprehensive certification of PV systems. Combined, these efforts ensure that modern solar panels will be manufactured with the highest durability standards available.
Additionally, the Durable Module Materials Consortium (DuraMAT), a group of national research laboratories and universities, is focused on improving the physical materials and designs of PV modules. DuraMAT is part of the Energy Materials Network (EMN), a Department of Energy program working on decreasing the time to market for materials critical to clean-energy technologies.
Install home solar panels to ensure a reliable energy source for years to come
Solar panels are one of the most durable and reliable energy technologies in the world, and industry efforts mean that they are becoming more resistant to severe weather damage every day. Installing a home solar energy system ensures that your home can produce its own power, even during severe weather events. When you register for the EnergySage Solar Marketplace, you can find the solar installer that's right for your home or business, and compare offers side-by-side to find the best deal for a long-lasting, sustainable, and reliable energy system.
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12 thoughts on "Can solar panels withstand hail and survive hurricanes?
 1. AvatarRobert L. Gumm
 I perceive three (3) potential sources of problems one might experience after having roof-mounted solar panels installed:
 1. Broken panels from over-sized hailstones such are experienced in the south and west
 2. Roof leaks caused by the effects of frequent freezing and thawing of water that seeps in at rooftop mounting points.
 3. Buildup of leaves, pine cones, and pine needles beneath the panels from large leafed shade trees and conifers upwind of the prevailing winds of the installation.
 4. Exorbitant costs involved with the replacement of damaged panels situated within a large plane of panels.
 2. AvatarSue Kamaidech
 The text above notes "little to no damage" to PV during Sandy. Not true.The largest single failure of PV experienced as of that date occurred on a NJ rooftop during that storm. It destroyed thousands of modules. See articles with photos below. Aerial photos from the customary Philadelphia airport landing path showed another similar failure on the same system the next summer, during a comparatively minor storm.
 3. AvatarJay
 We know what 170 mph winds do to standard poles and wire electricicity distribution systems. Puerto Rico is in crisis having relied on the former. Now they should be used as a test case for massive solar investment. Besides, their electric utility is in bankruptcy. Is this solution as obvious as it appears? Or do we want to bring in fleets of helicopters to replace the old network That snaked into tropical rainforest? See story on Bacardi building in San Juan.
 1. AvatarCarlos
 This article should be updated to reflect the massive damage done to solar panels in Puerto Rico from Hurricane Maria which I believe made landfall as a category 4. For example, the 25.5 MW Humacao Solar Project, which had 87,696 panels, received massive damage based on photos and video available on the internet. While I think Puerto Rico should absolutely modernize its electrical grid and rely predominately on renewable energy, there needs to be some thought on how to properly protect these important resources given the climate, so our fellow citizens have some chance to recover from these catastrophic events. As an aside, many of the blades in the Punta de Lima wind farm also appear to have been destroyed.
 4. AvatarDaniel
 I understand that Hurricane Sandy did a whole lot of damage… largely because coastal cities aren't built for them… but as a Floridian who has gone through 7 major hurricanes, Sandy is not a good baseline for *real* maximum sustained winds. I mean seriously, it only made landfall as a Cat 1. Not anywhere close to the Cat 3-5's we see in the South. If a Cat 1 can knock down ANY solar panels, I don't think that bodes well for stronger hurricanes…
 1. AvatarLM
 As a fellow Floridian, I agree. I need to know what happens at 170-180 mph winds. Anything else just isn't useful information.
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HP OpenVMS DCL Dictionary
Cancels wakeup requests for a specified process, including wakeup
requests scheduled with either the RUN command or the $SCHDWK system
Requires one of the following:
- Ownership of the process
- GROUP privilege to cancel scheduled wakeup requests for
processes in the same group but not owned by you
- WORLD privilege to cancel scheduled wakeup requests for any
process in the system
The name of the node on which the specified process is running.
You cannot specify a node name on a different OpenVMS Cluster system
from the current process.
The name of the process for which wakeup requests are to be canceled.
The process name can have up to 15 alphanumeric characters.
The specified process must be in the same group as the current process.
The CANCEL command cancels scheduled wakeup requests for the specified
The CANCEL command does not delete the specified process. If the
process is executing an image when the CANCEL command is issued for it,
the process hibernates instead of exiting after the image completes
To delete a hibernating process for which wakeup requests have been
canceled, use the STOP command. You can determine whether a subprocess
has been deleted by entering the SHOW PROCESS command with the
A local process name can look like a remote process name. Therefore, if
you specify ATHENS::SMITH, the system checks for a process named
ATHENS::SMITH on the local node before checking node ATHENS for a
process named SMITH.
You also can use the /IDENTIFICATION=pid qualifier to specify a process
name. If you use the /IDENTIFICATION qualifier and the
process-name parameter together, the qualifier overrides the
parameter. If you do not specify either the process-name
parameter or the /IDENTIFICATION qualifier, the CANCEL command cancels
scheduled wakeup requests for the current (that is, the issuing)
Identifies the process by its process identification (PID). You can
omit leading zeros when you specify the PID.
The CANCEL command in this example cancels a wakeup request for a
process named CALENDAR (which continues to hibernate until it is
deleted with the STOP command).
$ RUN/SCHEDULE=14:00 STATUS
%RUN-S-PROC_ID, identification of created process is 0013012A
The RUN command in this example creates a process to execute the image
STATUS. The process hibernates and is scheduled to be awakened at
14:00. Before the process is awakened, the CANCEL command cancels the
$ RUN/PROCESS_NAME=LIBRA/INTERVAL=1:00 LIBRA
%RUN-S-PROC_ID, identification of created process is 00130027
$ CANCEL LIBRA
$ STOP LIBRA
The RUN command in this example creates a subprocess named LIBRA to
execute the image LIBRA.EXE at hourly intervals.
Subsequently, the CANCEL command cancels the wakeup request. The
process continues to exist, but in a state of hibernation, until the
STOP command deletes it.

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Locally Efficient Estimation with Current Status Data and Time-Dependent Covariates
In biostatistical applications interest often focuses on the estimation of the distribution of a failure time-variable T. If one only observes whether or not T exceeds an observed monitoring time C, then the data structure is called current status data, also known as interval censored data, case I. We extend the data structure by allowing the presence of a possibly time-dependent covariate process which is observed up till the monitoring time C. We follow the approach of Robins and Rotnitzky (1992) by modeling the hazard of C conditional on the failure time-variable and the covariate-process, i.e. the missingness or censoring process, under the restriction that the missingness (monitoring) process satisfies coarsening at random. Because of the curse of dimensionality no globally efficient nonparametric estimators with a good practical performance at moderate sample sizes exist. We introduce an inverse probability of censoring weighted estimator of the distribution of T and of smooth functionals of this distribution of T which are guaranteed to be consistent and asymptotically normal if we have available a correctly specified parametric or semiparametric model for the missingness process. Furthermore, given a correctly specified model for the missingness process, we propose a locally efficient one-step estimator whose asymptotic variance attains the efficiency bound, if we can correctly specify a lower-dimensional model for the conditional distribution of T given the covariates. The estimator remains consistent and asymptotically normal even if this latter submodel is misspecified. We conclude with a simulation experiment and a data analysis.
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van der Laan, Mark J. and Robins, James M., "Locally Efficient Estimation with Current Status Data and Time-Dependent Covariates" (May 1997). U.C. Berkeley Division of Biostatistics Working Paper Series. Working Paper 64.
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For the new or experienced teacher, it can be difficult to think of activities and ideas for teaching Spanish to kindergarten students. However, activities and even crafts can be created out of anything related to the vocabulary. Students often learn better and enjoy their learning more if they get to make something that helps bring the learning to life. This is especially true among kindergarteners.
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Teaching Spanish Through Body Parts
An example of an activity to use when you are teaching Spanish to kindergarten students could be done with el cuerpo body vocabulary. Students can play Twister using the body vocabulary. This can be modified to be a student-centered activity if you have a student call out the body parts and colors.
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Using Songs in the Classroom
Another activity for teaching Spanish to kindergarten students is to bring songs into the classroom. Younger children have a difficult time sitting still and songs help them to get rid of this energy. Songs are also an invaluable tool to teach pronunciation and intonation. When learning a first language, children often learn to pick up the correct intonation of words by listening to songs and nursery rhymes. It is the same when learning a second language as well. Some of the best songs for practicing Spanish are sung with color words or the alphabet. For the alphabet, sing the Spanish ABC's to the same tune as you would in English. A great song to teach the color words is De Colores.
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Teaching Spanish Using Food Vocabulary
For food-themed days, bring in whatever food you are talking about at the time. Make Spanish vocabulary tactile and they will be unable to forget their food words. One craft involves using different pieces of fruit to make pretend faces. Segments of an orange, for example, can be shaped into a nose, a banana for a mouth, and cherries for the eyes. Students can get creative and make crazy faces out of fruit while actively using fruit vocabulary words. You could then take photos of their fruit faces and display them on a bulletin board with their vocabulary words written next to them.
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Using Crafts and Show and Tell Time
Kindergarteners also love to show off their toys. Let students bring in toys related to the unit you are working on, and they will have a clear mental image of what they are learning. Students also benefit by bringing things from home because it gives them a chance to ask about vocabulary relevant to everyday life. An example of this would be, if a kindergarten student brought her sweater in to show her teacher because she did not know the word sequins. Learning the word took her no effort because she had something in front of her that was directly tied to the vocabulary word in her mind. It also gave her a word to help her describe all of her favorite princess clothes when she was at home.
Activities and ideas for teaching Spanish to kindergarten students tend to revolve around bringing the language to life. Create an art project to show the new vocabulary, track weather and days of the week on a calendar, or make-up hand motions to accompany the vocabulary and the students will be able to learn more quickly and effectively. For example, for a house themed unit, create shoebox houses.
To introduce household objects and rooms vocabulary. This activity can also be used to teach fine motor skills.
- Construction paper
Each student can create a different room in the house. Using construction paper and clay, they can try to shape the different pieces of furniture within the house. They can also color the walls to look like wood and the ground to look like a carpet. Let them get creative with it! When everyone is done, have them show each other the different parts of the house using their Spanish vocabulary.
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- Bring in theme-related show and tell objects. For a transportation unit, they can bring in toy cars and airplanes. For a unit on clothing, they can bring in their favorite outfits and costumes to play dress up. In order to use each toy or outfit, they must speak entirely in Spanish and use the correlating vocabulary words.
- Use a calendar to track the weather and days of the week. This activity can be used to reinforce weather vocabulary that they already know, or to gradually introduce new words every week.
- During a unit on family, have them bring in pictures of their families and label it using sticky notes with the Spanish words for each family member. To extend this activity, you can also have them color a picture of their family members.
Teaching Spanish to kindergarten classes can be a rewarding part of your life. By bringing new activities and ideas into the classroom, you can keep your students engaged and you can teach more effectively.
- De Colores Lyrics and Song Clip; _URL_

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Why Desktop Email Still Makes Sense
All the fuss about Gmail's on-and-off outages on Tuesday garnered quite an outcry from net users, enough so you might think everyone but your Aunt Marge is using Gmail's web interface. PC World runs down Six Reasons Desktop E-mail Still Rules. Among those we (admittedly Gmail-positive) can relate to: better filtering and rules, drag-and-drop attachments, and the "Redirect" command. What advantages does your desktop client have over webmail?


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ESO studies impact of mega-satellite constellations on astronomy
News Release from the European Southern Observatory
An image of the sky at ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile about 90 minutes before sunrise. A new study of the impact of mega-satellite constellations, like those planned by SpaceX, OneWeb and others, shows that up to about 100 would be bright enough to be seen during twilight hours with most, shown by green dots, at low elevations. A few, shown in red, would be visible at elevations of 30 degrees. Image: ESO/Y. Beletsky/L. Calçada
Astronomers have recently raised concerns about the impact of satellite mega-constellations on scientific research. To better understand the effect these constellations could have on astronomical observations, ESO commissioned a scientific study of their impact, focusing on observations with ESO telescopes in the visible and infrared but also considering other observatories.
The study, which considers a total of 18 representative satellite constellations under development by SpaceX, Amazon, OneWeb and others, together amounting to over 26 thousand satellites, has now been accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics.
The study finds that large telescopes like ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) and ESO's upcoming Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) will be "moderately affected" by the constellations under development. The effect is more pronounced for long exposures (of about 1000 s), up to 3% of which could be ruined during twilight, the time between dawn and sunrise and between sunset and dusk. Shorter exposures would be less impacted, with fewer than 0.5% of observations of this type affected.
Observations conducted at other times during the night would also be less affected, as the satellites would be in the shadow of the Earth and therefore not illuminated. Depending on the science case, the impacts could be lessened by making changes to the operating schedules of ESO telescopes, though these changes come at a cost. On the industry side, an effective step to mitigate impacts would be to darken the satellites.
The study also finds that the greatest impact could be on wide-field surveys, in particular those done with large telescopes. For example, up to 30% to 50% of exposures with the US National Science Foundation's Vera C. Rubin Observatory (not an ESO facility) would be "severely affected", depending on the time of year, the time of night, and the simplifying assumptions of the study.
Mitigation techniques that could be applied on ESO telescopes would not work for this observatory although other strategies are being actively explored. Further studies are required to fully understand the scientific implications of this loss of observational data and complexities in their analysis.
Wide-field survey telescopes like the Rubin Observatory can scan large parts of the sky quickly, making them crucial to spot short-lived phenomena like supernovae or potentially dangerous asteroids. Because of their unique capability to generate very large data sets and to find observation targets for many other observatories, astronomy communities and funding agencies in Europe and elsewhere have ranked wide-field survey telescopes as a top priority for future developments in astronomy.
To be visible, a satellite must be above the horizon, illuminated by the Sun, while the observer is in twilight or darkness. In the middle of the night, when satellites and observers are both in Earth's shadow, spacecraft are not easily visible. But thousands of internet relay satellites are planned, and astronomers are still evaluating the potential impact on astronomical observations. Image: ESO/L. Calçada
Professional and amateur astronomers alike have also raised concerns about how satellite mega-constellations could impact the pristine views of the night sky. The study shows that about 1600 satellites from the constellations will be above the horizon of an observatory at mid-latitude, most of which will be low in the sky — within 30 degrees of the horizon. Above this — the part of the sky where most astronomical observations take place — there will be about 250 constellation satellites at any given time. While they are all illuminated by the Sun at sunset and sunrise, more and more get into the shadow of the Earth toward the middle of the night.
The ESO study assumes a brightness for all of these satellites. With this assumption, up to about 100 satellites could be bright enough to be visible with the naked eye during twilight hours, about 10 of which would be higher than 30 degrees of elevation. All these numbers plummet as the night gets darker and the satellites fall into the shadow of the Earth. Overall, these new satellite constellations would about double the number of satellites visible in the night sky to the naked eye above 30 degrees [3].
These numbers do not include the trains of satellites visible immediately after launch. Whilst spectacular and bright, they are short lived and visible only briefly after sunset or before sunrise, and — at any given time — only from a very limited area on Earth.
The ESO study uses simplifications and assumptions to obtain conservative estimates of the effects, which may be smaller in reality than calculated in the paper. More sophisticated modelling will be necessary to more precisely quantify the actual impacts. While the focus is on ESO telescopes, the results apply to similar non-ESO telescopes that also operate in the visible and infrared, with similar instrumentation and science cases.
Satellite constellations will also have an impact on radio, millimetre and submillimetre observatories, including the Atacama Large Millimetre/submillimetre Array (ALMA) and the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX). This impact will be considered in further studies.
ESO, together with other observatories, the International Astronomical Union (IAU), the American Astronomical Society (AAS), the UK Royal Astronomical Society (RAS), and other societies, is taking measures to raise the awareness of this issue in global fora such as the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS) and the European Committee on Radio Astronomy Frequencies (CRAF). This is being done while exploring with the space companies practical solutions that can safeguard the large-scale investments made in cutting-edge ground-based astronomy facilities.
ESO supports the development of regulatory frameworks that will ultimately ensure the harmonious coexistence of highly promising technological advancements in low Earth orbit with the conditions that enable humankind to continue its observation and understanding of the Universe.


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Tectonic hazards/Earthquake simulation
Earthquake simulation is a vibrational input that possesses essential features of a real seismic event. The very first earthquake simulations were performed by statically applying some horizontal inertia forces, based on scaled peak ground accelerations, to a mathematical model of a building. With the further development of computational technologies, static approaches began to give way to dynamic ones.
Dynamic experiments on building and non-building structures may be physical, like shake-table testing, or virtual, or hybrid ones. In all cases, to verify a structure's expected seismic performance, researchers prefer to deal with so called "real time-histories" though the last cannot be "real" for a hypothetical earthquake specified by either a building or by some particular research requirements.
Therefore, there is a strong incentive to engage an earthquake simulation, like, e.g., the earthquake simulating displacement time-history Cone presented on the left.
Earthquake simulations have been widely used in the research supported by The George E. Brown Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES).
Sometimes, earthquake simulation is understood as a re-creation of local effects of a strong ground shaking.
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'Contract' – the Folkestone Triennial
The Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) passed in 1995, was the first significant anti-discrimination legislation for disabled people in the UK and was the culmination of huge mobilisation calling for comprehensive social rights.
However, in its recommendations that 'reasonable adjustments' be made for social inclusion, in the 10 years immediately following the Act the employment rates of disabled people actually fell.
I took the DDA's perceived failings as the basis for manifesting it as a public document by (badly) singing it. Taking to the streets of Folkestone as a busker, I managed to strum a rudimentary D-D-A chord structure whilst delivering some 30 pages of the Act as an improvised 'song'.
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Why go to the GP when you could send your health avatar instead?
Fri 26 Apr 2019 | Iain Buchan
The health avatar will harmonise machine learning, data analytics, and cloud technologies to make healthcare more interactive, personalised, and fulfilling
Professor Iain Buchan, public health and clinical informatics researcher at the University of Liverpool, coined the term health avatar. It describes a "digital mirror" of the future, that will cultivate an accurate picture of a user's health and lifestyle over time using interoperable online services, new data streams and machine learning.
Among the many potential benefits of this digital reflection is the ability to match an individual's health fingerprint to the care optimal to it; enabling individuals to "shop around" for treatment. A community of digitised selves will also enable individuals to connect with their "avatar kin" and specialist researchers.
Techerati asked Iain to outline health avatar fundamentals and its implications for the future of healthcare, wellbeing and fulfilment.
Why health avatars are the future of healthcare provision
A person's health avatar is the interactive combination of their health and care records, programs, and preferences.
Sometimes it is a digital mirror, enabling a person to discover different potential health futures depending on lifestyle or self-care choices such as diet and physical activity alongside medication for type 2 diabetes. This digital mirror also allows a person to correct or fill in missing information through interaction, creating a more accurate picture of themselves, which in turn improves the record that guides their health professionals' decisions.
Sometimes the avatar is a personal assistant, transacting on a person's behalf, maybe ordering a repeat prescription or booking a visit for a blood test or consultation (which may be hastened or delayed, or moved between online or face-to-face, based on remote monitoring, and care pathway criteria).
Sometimes the avatar is the tutor of personal assistants, personalising interactions in ways that different assistants can learn from one another, leaving different signatures of your basic underlying "habit engine", needs and life-contexts.
There may be no initial business incentive for competing companies/clouds with different AIs to cross-fertilise in this way, so the avatar is necessarily disruptive. Indeed, in Europe, the GDPR right to personal data portability might be interpreted as covering such personal 'habit engines', meaning a person's health avatar must not be held hostage by being unreasonably binded to a single company's technologies.
"I haven't used the term "digital twin" as the data feasibly captured about a person's health & care journey are very sparse"
Collaboration doesn't naturally scale as competition does, but in a world facing increasing pressures on healthcare budgets, avatars that can 'shop around' for the best value care could be extremely valuable to society.
Why health avatar is a more appropriate term than digital twin
I haven't used the term "digital twin" as the data feasibly captured about a person's health and care journey are very sparse – future data will be more "high definition" but not conceivably close to a "twin". Measurement error and missing data will remain a challenge for machine learning and humans trying to distil the models that constitute a person's health 'programs'.
Most current models that predict disease risks and treatment outcomes have been developed for looking at one disease at a time and making decisions about improving services for the average patient with that disease.
Real patients may have multiple interacting diseases and life-contexts. Science and technology are a long way from understanding how to build the union of models that accurately reflect a person's health journey, learning more predictive accuracy with the data cumulating over a lifetime.
This kind of digital twinning is an important grand challenge, but long before it is achieved, relatively simple avatars can achieve much progress.
It may, however, be reasonable to characterise a person's avatar as a digital twin if it attends a virtual clinic appointment on their behalf – the ease with which a multi-disciplinary team could review a patients "health journey" in a timely way may have great value.
A representation of how personal health records can integrate with healthcare, commercial governance, and research entities:
Source: Big data hurdles in precision medicine and precision public health, BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 18(1) · December 2018
Interactions also extend beyond care providers. A person may wish their avatar to interact with researchers or their 'avatar kin' (people with similar health journeys) to advance knowledge and personal fulfilment. As a person's avatar becomes a more "high definition" view of their health it will overlap with wider wellbeing and happiness. So, the avatar starts to broker a value chain cutting across many markets.
The ethics and governance challenges ahead
If health is top of the ethical tree then the health avatar is the acid test of ethics and governance for the personal assistant of personal assistants. I suspect pursuit of the health avatar will need something akin to W3C very soon – the economic implications of avatar communities may become profound. A long journey, but the first few practical steps are ready to take.
The UK's formation of a grid of integrated care systems is a very promising nursery for the future health avatar. We need to focus that combination of personal records, programs, and preferences on bridging the care divides that commonly cause harm (e.g. discontinuities between social, primary and secondary care).
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. Sweep conveyors are usually buried under the grain when the bin is full, and operate only after gravity discharge is completed. Sometimes they are suspended above the grain surface and lowered with winches to perform their function. Either way, it should be born in mind that the investment in permanently installed sweep conveyors can be high, and is seldom warranted if they are to be operated only once or twice per year.
Nevertheless, where low throughputs are required, such as when a store is to be filled and emptied only two or three times a year, the lower capital investment in a large diameter flat store outweighs the additional capital and operational costs associated with emptying it. An analysis of capital and operational costs is usually necessary to evaluate minimum cost solutions where a store may be emptied more than (say) five times per year.
(iii) Construction Materials
The choice of construction material is usually between steel and concrete, though in some countries timber or masonry are still used as alternatives.
The choice between steel and concrete is dependent on a number of considerations, all of which ultimately come down to capital and operational costs. The fact that in most countries steel and concrete are both so widely used indicates that these costs are generally not dissimilar.
Where price considerations do not dictate the type of construction, the following observations may be helpful:
Some suppliers give warranties that their bins can achieve and retain their air-tightness. Where this is proven to be the case, this type of bin can be quite satisfactory for longterm storage. The extra cost of sealing such bins is in the order of US$ 5.00 per tonne.
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Mining Publication: Technology News 453 - Navigation and Control of Continuous Mining Systems for Coal Mining
The primary focus of the U.S. Bureau of Mines (USBM) is to make mining safer and more healthful for mine workers. The USBM research program is developing technology that will allow computer-assisted operation of mechanized equipment normally used in underground room-and-pillar coal mining, while permitting workers to be located away from the hazardous coal extraction area (the face). Advanced navigation and control technologies are being developed for underground room-and-pillar and highwall coal mining that can be applied to commercially available mining equipment. The technology being developed uses off-the-shelf components, minimizing the effort required to adapt it to mining equipment. Because the new developments are completely modular, only the modules required in a particular application need be used on the system.


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objects do not support the clear(), copy(), popitem(), or update() methods of the mapping interface. (Support for get() and setdefault() was only added in Python 2.2.)
Finally, Message instances have some public instance variables:
A list containing the entire set of header lines, in the order in which they were read (except that setitem calls may disturb this order). Each line contains a trailing newline. The blank line terminating the headers is not contained in the list.
The file or file-like object passed at instantiation time. This can be used to read the message content.
The Unix From line, if the message had one, or an empty string. This is needed to regenerate the message in some contexts, such as an mbox-style mailbox file.
An AddressList instance has the following methods:
Return the number of addresses in the address list.
Return a canonicalized string representation of the address list. Addresses are rendered in "name" form, commaseparated.
Return a new AddressList instance that contains all addresses in both AddressList operands, with duplicates removed (set union).
In-place version of __add__(); turns this AddressList instance into the union of itself and the right-hand instance, alist.
Return a new AddressList instance that contains every address in the left-hand AddressList operand that is not present in the right-hand address operand (set difference).
In-place version of __sub__(), removing addresses in this list which are also in alist.
Finally, AddressList instances have one public instance variable:
A list of tuple string pairs, one per address. In each member, the first is the canonicalized name part, the second is the actual route-address ('@'-separated username-host.domain pair).
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Carefully crafted light pulses control neuron activity
Specially tailored, ultrafast pulses of light can trigger neurons to fire and could one day help patients with light-sensitive circadian or mood problems, according to a new study in mice at the University of Illinois.
Chemists use carefully crafted light beams, called coherent control, to regulate chemical reactions, but this study is the first demonstration of using such beams to control function in a living cell. The study used optogenetic mouse neurons - or, cells that had a gene added to make them respond to light. However, researchers say the same technique could be used on cells that are naturally responsive to light, such as those in the retina.
"The saying, 'The eye is the window to the soul' has some merit, because our bodies respond to light. Photoreceptors in our retinas connect to different parts in the brain that control mood, metabolic rhythms and circadian rhythms," explains Dr. Stephen Boppart, leader of the study published in the journal Nature Physics. Boppart is an Illinois professor of electrical and computer engineering and of bioengineering, and also is a medical doctor.
The research uses light to excite a light-sensitive channel in the membrane of neurons. When the channels are excited, they allow ions to pass through, causing neurons to fire.
While most biological systems in nature are accustomed to the continuous light from the sun, Boppart's team used a flurry of very short light pulses - less than 100 femtoseconds. This delivers a lot of energy in a short period of time, exciting the molecules to different energy states. Along with controlling the length of the light pulses, Boppart's team controls the order of wavelengths in each light pulse.
"When you have an ultrashort or ultrafast pulse of light, there's many colors in that pulse. We can control which colors come first and how bright each color will be," Boppart said. "For example, blue wavelengths are much higher energy than red wavelengths. If we choose which color comes first, we can control what energy the molecule sees at what time, to drive the excitement higher or back down to the base line. If we create a pulse where the red comes before the blue, it's very different than if the blue comes before the red."
The research demonstrates that using patterns of tailored light pulses, you can make neurons fire in different patterns.
Boppart says coherent control could give optogenetics studies more flexibility, since changing properties of the light used can give researchers more avenues than having to engineer mice with new genes every time they want a different neuron behavior. Outside of optogenetics, the researchers are working to test their coherent control technique with naturally light-responsive cells and processes - retinal cells and photosynthesis, for example.
"What we're doing for the very first time is using light and coherent control to regulate biological function. This is fundamentally more universal than optogenetics - that's just the first example we used," Boppart said. "Ultimately, this could be a gene-free, drug-free way of regulating cell and tissue function. We think there could be 'opto-ceuticals,' methods of treating patients with light."
Retinal-based opsins are light-sensitive proteins. The photoisomerization reaction of these proteins has been studied outside cellular environments using ultrashort tailored light pulses1,2,3,4,5. However, how living cell functions can be modulated via opsins by modifying fundamental nonlinear optical properties of light interacting with the retinal chromophore has remained largely unexplored. We report the use of chirped ultrashort near-infrared pulses to modulate light-evoked ionic current from Channelrhodopsin-2 (ChR2) in brain tissue, and consequently the firing pattern of neurons, by manipulating the phase of the spectral components of the light. These results confirm that quantum coherence of the retinal-based protein system, even in a living neuron, can influence its current output, and open up the possibilities of using designer-tailored pulses for controlling molecular dynamics of opsins in living tissue to selectively enhance or suppress neuronal function for adaptive feedback-loop applications in the future.
Authors: Kush Paul, Parijat Sengupta, Eugene D. Ark, Haohua Tu, Youbo Zhao & Stephen A. Boppart
The paper "Coherent control of an opsin in living brain tissue" is available online. DOI: 10.1038/nphys4257
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Illinois researchers used ultrafast pulses of tailored light to make neurons fire in different patterns, the first example of coherent control in a living cell. Image: Stephen Boppart, University of Illinois.


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1. You can not write a letter to the Judge on a matter which is being heard by him in the Court,
2. You shall have to inform what you want to inform by fuiling application through lawyer,
3. Your informing his not enough. You shall have to sustantiate what you are saying through evidence,
4. So, go to the police station and negotiate with the I.O. and try to record his admission that he had seized your passport before, which he had not submitted before the Court,
5. After audio recording the admission of the IO, you send him a letter by speedpost calling upon him to return the passport to you or submit before the Court,
6. On the date of the next hearing, you submit the latter written to the IO alongwith the audio recorded evidence of his admission that he had already confiscated your passport,
7. In fact your lawyer should have informed the Court at the time the bail order was passed or in the bail petition that the passport has already been seized by the police.


156 1. Measure theory (iii) Show that the Hahn-Kolmogorov extension μ: B[R] [0, +∞] of μ0 assigns an infinite measure to any non-empty Borel set. (iv) Show that counting measure # (or more generally, c# for any c (0, +∞]) is another extension of μ0 on B[R]. Exercise 1.7.9. Let μ0 : B0 [0, +∞] be a pre-measure which is σ-finite (thus X is the countable union of sets in B0 of finite μ0-measure), and let μ: B [0, +∞] be the Hahn-Kolmogorov extension of μ0. (i) Show that if E B, then there exists F B0 containing E such that μ(F \E) = 0 (thus F consists of the union of E and a null set). Furthermore, show that F can be chosen to be a countable intersection F = n=1 Fn of sets Fn, each of which is a countable union Fn = m=1 Fn,m of sets Fn,m in B0. (ii) If E B has finite measure (i.e. μ(E) ∞), and ε 0, show that there exists F B0 such that μ(EΔF ) ε. (iii) Conversely, if E is a set such that for every ε 0 there exists F B0 such that μ∗(EΔF ) ε, show that E B. 1.7.3. Lebesgue-Stieltjes measure. Now we use the Hahn-Kolmogorov extension theorem to construct a variety of measures. We begin with Lebesgue-Stieltjes measure. Theorem 1.7.9 (Existence of Lebesgue-Stieltjes measure). Let F : R R be a monotone non-decreasing function, and define the left and right limits F−(x) := sup yx F (y), F+(x) := inf yx F (y) thus one has F−(x) F (x) F+(x) for all x. Let B[R] be the Borel σ- algebra on R. Then there exists a unique Borel measure μF : B[R] [0, +∞] such that μF ([a, b]) = F+(b) F−(a),μF ([a, b)) = F−(b) F−(a), (1.33) μF ((a, b]) = F+(b) F+(a),μF ((a, b)) = F−(b) F+(a), for all −∞ b a ∞, and (1.34) μF ({a}) = F+(a) F−(a) for all a R. Proof. (Sketch) For this proof, we will deviate from our previous notational conventions, and allow intervals to be unbounded, thus, in particular, including the half-infinite intervals [a, +∞), (a, +∞), (−∞,a], (−∞,a) and the doubly infinite interval (−∞, +∞) as intervals. Define the F -volume |I|F [0, +∞] of any interval I, adopting the obvious conventions that F−(+∞) = supy∈R F (y) and F+(−∞) = infy∈R F (y),
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Two Main Ways About How the Olympics Changed Canada
Any major global event always leaves a city and a nation very different from how it was before the event. The Olympics has been one of the main reasons why some cities have changed their infrastructure and improved their stadiums. Canada had the privilege of hosting the Olympics for the first time in 1976 and have done so in three other seasons. Here are two ways by which the Olympics have changed Canada.
An Inspiration to Several Generations
The 1976 Olympics in Quebec brought a lot of financial strain to the city. Taxpayers had to dig deep into their pockets to make the event happen successfully. However, the results of such a hard investment are still seen to date. Before the games, not many were enthusiastic about the Olympics. It seemed like any other world activity until it landed on Canadian soil.
Since then more people look forward to every Olympic season, even those that were not there when it was hosted in Canada. A lot of kids sign up for Olympic associated sports with the hope that one day they will make not only their family but also their country proud.
The Growth of Host Cities
Calgary had always been a small-town way before the Olympics came to Canada in 1988. Since then, the city still has some sporting events that attract the attention of the media. Mayor Klein might also have a good reason to thank such a significant event. He eventually landed the position of a province's Premier after the games.
Vancouver also has a lot to thank the Olympics for. After hosting the Winter Games in 2010, transport and infrastructure improved immensely. The games brought the construction of the Canada Line, which is an automated transit that only takes 20 minutes from the airport to the heart of the city.


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Presenter: Keith Kelley
Location: Newport, MAINE, United States
Link to presenter's K12Online Ning Profile page
Presentation Title: Thinking Outside the Box – Skateboard
Presentation Description: How do you build a hands on program that students like? I explain the process and steps to my skateboard program. I show actually video and pictures of students using the tools, designing, painting and building their skateboard.
Link to presentation's supporting documents:
On this day..
- K12Online09 Day 9 Presentations: 17 December 2009 - 2009
- Ways of Working - 2009
- Creative competitions In Plastica and Lenguajes visual of 4 ESO (16 years) - 2009
- Using computer games as a context for learning and social interaction - 2009
- Using VideoAnt Annotations to Provide "Audience-Based" Assessment to Students' Video Productions - 2009


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Shuang Liang successfully defended her dissertation entitled "Simulating the effects of climate change, wildfire, and fuel treatment on Sierra Nevada forests". Congratulations Shuang!
The Earth Systems Ecology Lab is recruiting 1-2 PhD students to begin fall 2017. Current research topics in the lab include: understanding factors controlling post-wildfire tree establishment, quantifying the influence of changing climate and wildfire on tree species distributions and carbon dynamics, and quantifying the influence of forest management activities on forest carbon dynamics. Additional detail about ongoing projects can be found here. Student support will include some combination of teaching and research assistantships and only US citizens/legal residents will be considered.
If you are interested in being considered, send your CV, a one-page statement of research interests, unofficial transcripts, and unofficial GRE scores to _EMAIL_. Additional details about student expectations can be found here. Review will begin on 7 November.


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In 1918, Dickson began working with the USDA and received a joint appointment at the University of Wisconsin in 1919. He worked primarily on cereal and forage crops, studying a wide variety of pathogens and diseases. He taught a field crop diseases course, for which he wrote the popular Diseases of Field Crops, first printed in 1947. He helped to develop soil temperature tanks at Wisconsin, worked on Fusarium head scab, and studied the role of soil temperature on seedling blight of wheat and corn. In the 1930s, Dickson made a trip to Europe and the USSR to collect germplasm for breeding programs in the United States.
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Neurotransmitter current not flowing through ion channels
(NC&T/CU) These results were reported July 22 in the online edition of the journal Nature Cell Biology by Cornell researchers Liang-Wei Gong and Manfred Lindau, applied and engineering physics, as well as their colleague Guillermo Alvarez de Toledo at the University of Seville, Spain.
Lindau explained that neurotransmitters and hormones are stored in neurons -- nerve cells -- in small packets, membrane-bound vesicles, typically 30 to 300 nanometers in diameter (a nanometer is one-billionth of a meter). When a cell is stimulated by electrical activity, calcium ions enter the cell and the vesicles release their contents by fusion with the plasma membrane surrounding the cell.
Prior experiments had suggested that the vesicles contain ion channels that carry charged neurotransmitters from the cell vesicle out of the cell, generating an electrical current flowing out of the cell.
Lindau and colleagues report in their paper that there is no such current present. Their experiments further showed that, instead, the charge compensation is generated by the influx of positive sodium ions from the outside into the vesicles, a process known as electrodiffusion.
"Therefore, the ion channels in these vesicles must play a different role that is yet to be discovered," Lindau explained.
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Passive resistance is strategic form of defense that avoids violence. It can include civil disobedience, hunger strikes, and other non-aggressive methods.
In 2364, several children aboard the USS Enterprise-D were kidnapped. Their kidnappers were from the hidden planet of Aldea, whose people had lost the ability to reproduce. The eldest child, Wesley Crusher, realized that since the Aldeans did not wish to harm the children, and violent struggle would be futile, the only effective resistance could be passive. He gathered the kidnapped children and instructed them not to take part in Aldean activities or training, to speak with the Aldeans, or even to eat the food they provided. While the resistance itself failed to free the children, they were released by their captors upon the discovery that the population's sterility was caused by radiation that would eventually affect the children as well. (TNG: "When The Bough Breaks")


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The enzyme, sphingomyelinase D (SMase D), splits a lipid called sphingomyelin that surrounds the channel embedded in the cell membrane. As a result, the channel opens to allow the passage of small ions into and out of the cell, thereby generating electrical currents.
The new study, published online earlier this month in the journal Nature, describes how SMase D opens one type of ion channel called a voltage-gated potassium channel (from brain, but experimentally expressed in the membrane of an oocyte, or egg cell) without changing the membrane voltage. The finding introduces a new paradigm for understanding the gating of ion channels and lays the conceptual groundwork for designing new drugs to control ion-channel activity in medical intervention.
Voltage-gated ion channels are embedded in the cell membranes of most types of cells. It has been known for over half a century that the channels open and close in response to changes in electric voltage across the cell membrane, hence their name. In some the cells, (commonly called "excitable"), such as nerve, muscle, heart, and hormone-secreting cells, the channels underlie electrical signaling. They selectively allow the passage of small ions such as sodium, potassium, or calcium into and out of the cell. The precisely controlled passage of ions generates the electrical currents that enable nerve impulse transmission, hormone secretion, and muscle contraction and relaxation. When there are changes to the channel, such as by mutations in a channel gene, disease can re
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text: Vladimir's research interests include various topics in the literary, philosophical and intellectual history of ancient Greece. He is particularly interested Greek thought on cognition, memory, sense-perception, and the emotions, and how it is expressed in the various genres of the ancient world. Vladimir's M.A. thesis examined the wax tablet model of memory in Plato's Theaetetus from the perspective of the wax tablet's literary history in the metaphorical language of tragedy and lyric. Beyond the field of Classics, he is intrigued by modern theories of metaphor, cognitive semantics and distributive approaches to cognition. When not researching, you will find him together with his wife, Maja, and son, Anton, or in the kitchen (he used to work as a professional cook).


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Crawler or spider, collector, parser, grabber :
1. Crawler is a program that is used to gather information from the web sites for subsequent placement in a user dashboard. Initially, the parsing is a careful process for accurate information search in a large piece of text, as well as partitioning data into meaningful parts.
2. Parsers are used in the following cases:
- Keeping information up to date. For example, to display prices, availability of stock, or promos.
- Full or partial copying of materials with the further placement of the materials on our website.
- Combining the flow of information from various sources in one place and it's continuous updating.
3. Comparing to human, the parser can:
- Quickly bypass thousands of web pages
- Carefully separate technical information from the "human."
- Correctly take away the right and throw unnecessary
- Effectively pack the final data in the required form
Now you know what the parser is and you can tell your friends about it if necessary ;)
Consequently, each competitors in the user dashboard has such Crawler operating every day in the back-end of Competera.


Was there ever a woman prophet?
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Was the blessed Mary (Virgin Mary) a prophet? And was there ever a female prophet?
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No, she was not a prophet. Because, the mission of prophecy is assigned for men. Fahreddin Ar-Razi said in his interpretation that the verse "And before thee also the messengers We sent were but men, to whom We granted revelation: if ye realise this not, ask of those who possess the Message," (Nahl, 16:43) shows us that there was not female prophet sent to humanity.
However, there is a subtle point here. Some scholars claim that there are six blessed women who had revelation although they were not prophets. These women were Eve, Sare, Hajar, the mother of prophet Moses, Asiye, and Mary.
There are some verses that can be interpreted that those women received revelations. For example, it is told in a chapter in the Qur'an that the angel Gabriel appeared as a human being to the blessed Mary and heralded Jesus to her.
Again, it is said in a verse, which addressed mother of Moses, that "And We revealed the mother of Moses, saying: Lo! We shall bring him back unto thee and shall make him (one) of Our messengers." (Qasas, 28:7)
There are two ideas here: Some scholars said that the word "revelation" in those verses meant "inspiration". And others said that those were really "revelations".
The ones who do not accept the prophecy of the women show the first verse mentioned above and repeated in the Quran three times in three different surahs.
As for the others, they based their ideas to the verses which implied revelations.
The common point is that even if these blessed women had revelations, it is absolute that they were not charged in the sense of spiritual and moral guidance of people and they were not prophets in this sense.


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The male testicle is psychologically just as important to a man as a woman's breast is to her.
There are many reasons why a male may need to have a testicular implant surgery performed. From accidents to genetics, anything can be the reason an implant is required.
Testicular implants are used to replace missing or removed testicles, most frequently due to the loss of 1 or both testicles due to accident or a medical condition which results in the loss of, or uneven appearance of the testicle.
Shockingly, thousands of men lose their testicles each year. Some of the most common reasons are due to conditions resulting from defects or disorders resulting from:
- cancer (prostate, testicular cancers)
- trauma (injury from sports, accidents, etc.)
- torsion (twisted testicles)
- agenesia/agenesis (failure of an organ to grow)
- cryptorchidism (failure of the testicles to descend into the scrotum)
- epididymitis/epididymo-orchitis (inflammation of the epididymis; epididymo-orchitis is inflammation of the epididymis and testes, often caused by bacterial infection due to catheters, or urinary infections) or mumps.
- intersex disorders, and sex reversals (SRS—sexual reassignment surgery)
- other conditions resulting from injury
This is a replacement for missing or undeveloped testicles, as in birth defects or lost through injury, or surgical removal. Implants are also done for cosmetic purposes to increase the look of the testicles and scrotal sac. They are non-functional of course. One or both may be done. I prefer the silicone implants because of their natural feel and appearance and life-long tolerance. They come in various sizes. Recovery is rapid with return to work in a day or two. Final healing is in about four weeks.
Testicle implants can be done individually or both at the same time. For more information regarding testicle implants call Dr. Giunta, toll free (in the US only) at _PHONE_ for your free phone consultation.


text: This paper experimentally and computationally examines the modal sensors integrated with a recently developed rotary ultrasonic motor (USM) driven by continuous wedge waves of the fundamental modes with the integer circumferential modal number. The traveling wave is formed from constructive interference of two equal-intensity standing waves induced by two comb transducers using dual sinusoidal excitations in 90 degree phase difference. The transducers and modal sensors are segmented in strips around the circumference of piezoelectric tube in the circular wedge-like motor stator. The latter are used to monitor the dynamic response of the stator during operation. The response of USM acquired by the proposed modal sensors has distinct vital characteristics in different frequency bands. The high-pass signals are used not only to note the variation in phase difference between excitations but to detect the resonant frequency, which is altered by payload, wear situation, etc. The low-pass signal reveals the revolution speed and dynamic reaction of the motor stator exerted by frictions and contact forces because of the rotor. The time-frequency response of stator is further characterized during the period in which the revolving direction of rotor is switched over.


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Coronavirus Disease Pandemic Response in Uganda: Government Trust, Risk Perception and Willingness to Adhere to Public Health Measures Among Social Media Users
Kalenzi, Prisca U
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Background: The Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) pandemic has greatly affected many nations, and continues to be a global public health challenge. There is progress in responding to the pandemic including universal access to vaccines in most of the developed countries while access to the vaccines in resource limited countries is still limited to only priority groups. Despite the availability of vaccines, promotion of preventive measures through public health risk communication remains essential. Effective risk communication depends on understanding population factors that affect the response. This study assessed government trust, risk perception and willingness to adhere to COVID-19 preventive measures among social media users. Methods: This was an online analytical cross-sectional survey in Uganda. Data collection was conducted from 16-27 October 2020 using an online self-administered questionnaire. Data was analyzed using STATA and generalized linear modelling with modified Poisson regression was conducted to determine association between the variables. Results: Of 1,014 respondents, most 69.3% (703) were males, 77.71% (788) had completed tertiary education and 72.3% (733) were salaried employees. Overall trust in government response to COVID-19 pandemic was 40.1%. Most of the respondents 69.9% (n=1008) believed that COVID-19 is extremely likely to spread across the country. However, over a half 65.4% (n=994) perceived little or no risk of getting infected with COVID-19. More than half 53.55% (1014) were willing to receive vaccination against COVID-19 in case it was available. Factors positively associated with trust in government response to COVID-19 included being a student (APR 1.56, CI: 1.14-2.12, p=0.005), being in the 36-59 (APR 1.36, CI: 1.16-1.60, p<0.001) and 60+ (APR 1.98, CI: 1.40-2.28, p<0.001) age groups. Being male was negatively associated with trust in government (APR 0.84, CI: 0.72-0.92, p=0.04). Risk perception was associated with trust in government (APR 1.37 CI: 1.42-1.65, p=0.001). There was high level of willingness to adhere to COVID-19 preventive measures among respondents in the 36-59 (APR 1.02, CI: 1.0-1.03, p<0.01) and 60+ (APR 1.03; CI: 1.0-1.04, p<0.01) age groups while low level of willingness was associated with little or no trust in government response to COVID-19 (APR 0.97, CI: 0.95-0.98, P<0.01). Conclusions: The overall trust in government's response was low. Majority of respondents believed that COVID-19 is extremely likely to spread across the country, but over a half perceived a low risk of getting infected with the virus. Respondents with low trust in government were less willing to adhere to COVID-19 preventive measures. Therefore, there should be interventions designed to improve people's trust in government, as well as focusing public health risk communication to addressing misconceptions and misinformation about COVID-19 and improving risk perception by clarifying the key vulnerable populations.


Google aims to improve online security with new certificate service
Most of the internet relies on a system called public key identification in order to provide security and authentication between systems. This relies on a number of trusted parties generating these secure certificates, which other users may then verify so as to ensure encrypted data is being sent to the right organisation, for example.
However, this infrastructure is not as entirely secure as many organisations involved heavily in the web would like. For example, there have been allegations of politically-motivated attacks on so-called "Root Authorities" (who provide a trusted source for certificate signing) in recent weeks.
To this end, Google have announced a new initiative which developers may like to leverage in order to improve the security of certificates that they see. It comes in the form of an API through DNS lookup, which can be used to verify that a certificate has not been recently modified, indicating a likely hijacking attack.
The Google Certificate Catalog is a database that Google's crawlers construct when they encounter certificates when they crawl the web. When a certificate is looked up in the Catalog via a TXT DNS query, if it shows up then it must be correctly signed and be applicable to the correct domain. The response also returns the first day, most recent day, and total number of days Google has observed the certificate in that state. Combine these features together, and you have a powerful method of augmenting security checks on security certificates.
Google is aiming to get browser vendors on board with the API, as it has done with its Safe Browsing API, and if developers want to get started using the API they can check out the website.
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lysine demethylase 6A
The KDM6A gene provides instructions for making an enzyme called lysine-specific demethylase 6A that is found in many organs and tissues of the body. Lysine-specific demethylase 6A functions as a histone demethylase. Histone demethylases are enzymes that modify proteins called histones. Histones are structural proteins that attach (bind) to DNA and give chromosomes their shape. By removing a molecule called a methyl group from histones (a process called demethylation), histone demethylases control (regulate) the activity of certain genes. Lysine-specific demethylase 6A appears to regulate certain genes that are important for development.
Lysine-specific demethylase 6A is also believed to act as a tumor suppressor, which means it normally helps prevent cells from growing and dividing in an uncontrolled way.
At least five mutations in the KDM6A gene have been identified in people with Kabuki syndrome, a disorder characterized by distinctive facial features, intellectual disability, and abnormalities affecting other parts of the body.
The KDM6A gene mutations associated with Kabuki syndrome delete genetic material in the KDM6A gene sequence or result in a premature stop signal that leads to an abnormally short lysine-specific demethylase 6A enzyme. As a result of these mutations, the enzyme is nonfunctional. A lack of functional lysine-specific demethylase 6A enzyme disrupts its role in histone demethylation and impairs proper regulation of certain genes in many of the body's organs and tissues, resulting in the abnormalities of development and function characteristic of Kabuki syndrome.
Although lysine-specific demethylase 6A is believed to act as a tumor suppressor, a loss of this enzyme's function does not seem to increase cancer risk in people with Kabuki syndrome.
Some KDM6A gene mutations are not inherited but occur during a person's lifetime. Such mutations, which are called somatic mutations, are present only in certain cells. Somatic mutations in the KDM6A gene have been identified in certain cancers. These include cancers of the breast, esophagus, colon, kidney, and brain, and cancers of the blood-forming cells called myeloid leukemia and multiple myeloma. Most of these mutations result in an abnormally short, nonfunctional lysine-specific demethylase 6A enzyme that cannot perform its role as a tumor suppressor, resulting in the development of cancer.
- bA386N14.2 (ubiquitously transcribed X chromosome tetratricopeptide repeat protein (UTX))
- histone demethylase UTX
- lysine (K)-specific demethylase 6A
- lysine-specific demethylase 6A
- ubiquitously transcribed tetratricopeptide repeat protein X-linked
- ubiquitously-transcribed TPR gene on the X chromosome
- ubiquitously-transcribed TPR protein on the X chromosome


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What is the deal with accents? Some news organizations and networks noticeably have begun to accent the names of individuals, places and things that carry a Spanish spelling. Some don't. ESPN is almost meticulous about it. PBS not so much. The New York Times does it; other newspapers – of all news organizations that should – do not. How Spanish names and words began to lose their accents has itself been lost in time. Most of the loss, of course, has to do with the disrespect for the language fueled by anti-Spanish sentiment leading up to and after the U.S.-Mexican and U.S.-Spanish wars. As important was the market of the time.
Now, amid the new demography of the country, seeing a Spanish name in print or on a television screen with an accent stands out as much as seeing the same name the very next day without one.


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RMRS-RB-1: Comprehensive Inventory of Utah's Forest Resources, 1993
O'Brien, Renee A. 1999. Comprehensive inventory of Utah's forest resources, 1993. Resour. Bull. RMRS-RB-1. Ogden, UT: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 105 p.
This report presents the results of an inventory of Utah's forest lands, completed in 1995. It is the first of its kind for the Interior West States in that it includes all forested lands, regardless of ownership or administrative status. It also includes information on a multitude of forest ecosystem attributes.
Included in this report are tables and highlights of area, numbers of trees, biomass, volume, growth, mortality, successional stage, understory vegetation, removals, and net change. Much of the information is organized by forest type, species, diameter class, or owner. The report also explains inventory design and inventory terminology, and discusses data reliability. Roughly 29 percent of the area of Utah is forest land, and about 83 percent of the forest land is administered by government agencies. Only about 5 percent of the forest land in Utah is reserved from being utilized for wood products. The most common forest type is pinyon-juniper, composing 49 percent of the total forest land. The tree species estimated to have the highest percent of the total number of trees is Gambel oak, with 25 percent. The tree species estimated to compose the largest percent of biomass is Utah juniper, with 24 percent of the total biomass and 25 percent of the total cubic foot volume. The total volume of wood in live trees in Utah is estimated to be over 15.3 billion cubic feet. The area of timberland not reserved from harvesting is about 4.9 million acres, or 31 percent of the forest land. The net volume of growing stock on nonreserved timberland is over 7.4 billion cubic feet, with almost 78 percent of that on lands administered by the National Forest System.
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"Biochemestry" of the ISM
The physical space among the stars inside a galaxy is called the Interstellar Space. Interstellar Space is not empty, as it could be erroneously inferred from the results of observing it with the naked eye or with optical telescopes. Instead, it is full of matter and energy. This matter and this energy contained in the Interstellar Space are called the Interstellar Medium (abbreviated ISM). Thus, the Interstellar Medium is the "content" of the Interstellar Space, which is its "vessel".
The matter that together with different forms of energy constitutes the Interstellar Medium and "fills" the Interstellar Space has very low densities compared to the density standards that we are used to handle on Earth; and this shall be the reason why it might seem that the Interstellar Space is empty.
The average density of the Interstellar Medium is about 0.5 atoms/cm3; but this is not an homogeneous density for the entire Interstellar Medium of a given galaxy, and the range of density variation between different places of space is quite large.
The areas where the Interstellar Medium is denser than the average are called Interstellar Clouds. Interstellar Clouds can be classified basically into two types:
 - DIFUSSE Interstellar Clouds.
 - DENSE Interstellar Clouds.
DIFUSSE Interstellar Clouds have a lower density than DENSE Interstellar Clouds, and this is one of the main differences between both types of Interstellar Clouds; but the most important difference between both types is perhaps that in DIFUSSE Interstellar Clouds the hydrogen atoms –hydrogen (H) is one of the main constituents of the Interstellar Clouds and the Interstellar Medium – appear fundamentally in their neutral form (one proton plus one electron) and/or ionized form (one proton); while in DENSE Interstellar Clouds hydrogen appears mainly in its molecular form (two hydrogen atoms covalently bonded: H2). For this reason, DENSE Interstellar Clouds are more commonly called MOLECULAR Interstellar Clouds, or simply Molecular Clouds.
Photograph of the Orion Nebula, a Molecular Cloud.
Among the elements that we can find forming the matter of the Interstellar Medium, Hydrogen (H) and Helium (He) are respectively about 70% and 28% of the mass of the whole ISM; the remaining 2% of the mass is constituted by elements heavier than helium. These elements heavier than helium are often found in the form of finely powdered particles dispersed between hydrogen and helium, and these partticles sometimes constitute true clouds that can be seen with telescopes.
The starting of the study of the composition of the ISM became possible after the development of a detection and analysis technique called Absorption Spectroscopy. In 1904, the German astronomer Johannes Franz Hartmann used this technique to study and analyze the light coming from the star Mintaka (one of the three constituent stars of the Orion Belt). The wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation coming from any star depend on the chemical composition of such star, and they change over time due to the movement of the star in relation to the terrestrial observer. Among the taken records Hartmann could see some calcium detections with wavelengths that had not suffered the variation corresponding to the movement of the star Mintaka. Hence, the detected calcium could not be located in the star's atmosphere, and should be instead between the star and the telescope. Since no terrestrial source of calcium was detected, such calcium had necessarily to be in interstellar space. This scientific milestone is the first palpable detection of matter between the stars, and thus of the Interstellar Medium.
Portrait of Johannes Franz Hartmann
Main stars of the Orion Constellation, where star Mintaka is located.
This detection of calcium atoms in 1904 was followed by the detection of sodium and other chemical elements, as also organic and inorganic molecules, always using the same technique of Absorption Spectroscopy. It was in 1937 when the first molecule was found. It happende to be an organic molecule: the methilidyne radical, which is the simplest of carbynes. Its formula is CH·, where the superscript "3 ·" denotes three non-bonded electrons of the atom of carbon.
Between 1937 and 1969 some other molecules were found, but it was since the 1970s when new molecules began to be detected almost continuously. It is quite relevant the discovery, in 1969, of water (H2O) and formaldehyde (H2CO). In 1971, Zuckerman, Ball and Gottlieb reported the first detection of methanoic acid (HCOOH), also called formic acid, a compound that is very well known here on Earth, as ants produce it as a toxic substance to protect themselves against predators and enemies.
Formic acid is a molecule that can exist in two distinct forms: two conformational isomers called trans and cis. The trans isomer is much more stable, and the conversion of trans to cis requires an amount of energy that, theoretically, is not available in the interstellar medium. The isomer detected so far had always been the trans one; but recently, in November 2016, a group of scientists from the Spanish CSIC reported the detection in the ISM of the cis isomer. The authors of the article argue that the conversion of trans to cis is possible due to the action of ultraviolet rays present in considerable quantity in certain regions of the ISM.
The two conformers of formic acid: trans and cis.
Since the 1970s, many other organic molecules have been detected, including acetylene (C2H2), methane (CH4), acetic acid, acetone and benzene.
Among all these findings, there are two that could be of special relevance for the study of the origin and the presence of life in the Universe. The first of these two findings occurred in 2004, when Vijh, Witt and Gordon reported the possible detection of pyrene and anthracene in the ISM. Pyrene and anthracene belong to a family of molecules called "Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons" (PAHs), which are a simple union of benzene rings. The data provided by Vijh, Witt and Gordon were not completely definitive and fail to confirm with complete certainty the presence of PAHs in the ISM. But two years later, in 2006, an article published by Mulas, Malloci, Joblin and Toublanc confirmed the presence of PAHs in the ISM. The second relevant finding happened in 2010, and it was the first detection in the ISM of a type of molecule called fullerene. Two fullerenes with the formulas C60 and C70 were detected. Such detection was reported by Cami, Bernard-Salas, Peeters and Malek. Fullerenes, as can be deduced from their own chemical formulas, are molecules formed by pure carbon. In the C60 fullerene, also called "buckminsterfullerene", carbon atoms are arranged three-dimensionally in the form of a soccer ball.
Appearance of the three-dimensional structure of the buckminsterfullerene molecule (C60).
The relevance of the detection of fullerenes and PAHs in the ISM is that these two types of molecules could be the basis for the development of biochemical evolution. Such molecules would be the starting point from which nucleic acids and proteins would emerge. Currently, the so-called "Hypothesis of the World of HAP", which was proposed by Simon Nicholas Platts in 2005, postulates that PAHs and fullerenes, which are assumed to have existed also in abundance in the primordial soup of the early Earth, played a very important role in the origin of life, because they mediated the synthesis of the first RNA molecules, which led to the so-called "RNA World", where there was only RNA that replicated itself, a world that would later be replaced by the "RNA, DNA, Proteins World" of nowadays.
If PAHs and fullerenes are present in the ISM and throughout the Universe, the genesis of life is potentially possible anywhere.


Get to know the Types of Press And Motor Press Body Tools
Motor press is often done for certain damage to motor components. Usually the damage caused by an accident or hit by a hard object that makes certain components change shape. If so, the use of a motor press body tool is indispensable.
Actually, press motor is not just for body or frame only. However, there are also several other types of motor press such as triangular parts, rim presses, disc disc presses, press as shock and many others. Although it looks simple, but the motor press there are many luckily.
For example, instead of replacing the body motor with a new spare part, then the press motor is more efficient. It also does not take time. But remember, not all motor damage can be compressed. Because only a few damages can bepressed using the best motor press body tool.
Given there is minor, severe or moderate damage. That is, when an accident is indeed damage to the motor is not the same. In some circumstances, it is recommended that you change the spare part so that the body of the other motor is not affected by the press motor.
Triangular Press
Triangular press becomes one of the most commonly used types of press in addition to the motor press body tool. So if a part of the motor is hit or falls, it's likely that the triangle will twist or bend aka no longer center.
To know if the triangle is bent or not, you can see from the front wheel with a straight front drill or not. If the drill runs to the left, while the front wheel is to the right, it proves that the triangle is crooked.
Similarly, if the drill runs to the right and the front wheel runs to the left, then the possibility of the square is also crooked. Is it just a triangle that can be pressed using a cheap motor press body tool? The answer is of course no.
It usually seep into other components such as the front axle, disc disc disc, as shock ahead of the DNA of other parts of the component around it. Special parts of the shock pipe are usually required to re-check and require a press at all.
As mentioned earlier, if the damage is already severe, it is worth replacing the spare part so as not to interfere with comfort and safety while driving. Because press using the motor press body tool does not guarantee to be 100% back as original.
The cost of the motor triangle press also varies because it corresponds to the damage. In the market the press tariff for this motor triangle is Rp 50 thousand to 100 thousand. But still depends on the motor press body tool used quality or not.
Press Body Motor
This press is considered more extreme than before because the cover of the triangular body needs to be removed first. The goal is nothing but toenter or straighten and restore a twisted chassis or frame due to an accident or fall.
To see if the chassis can be done press body or have to replace the spare part, you should see the rear spakbor with a straight rear wheel or not center. It can also be seen from the distance between the handlebar steering wheel and the front seat.
If it turns out that it is necessary to press body using a professional motor press body tool usually done the change of the comstir part first. Because the old steel pelor is damaged due to impact caused by falling or hard collision.
The cost for compressing the body motor also varies because it is adjusted badly or not the chassis in the motor body. It is also related to the experience of the press body motor itself.
Usually an experienced press with the best motor press body tool the price is quite high. The tariff range of this motor press body part is Rp 250 thousand to Rp 350 thousand according to the severe or not framework of the motor.
Press Wheels
Surely you already know if in the market there are two types of wheels that are often used in their respective motors. The type of rim in question is the rim of the fingers and also the racing wheel or the cross rim. The cause of damage to the body part of the motor is the same, it could be due to a collision or a hard impact.
Whether it's a collision, a crash or a bumpy road. Racing wheels are generally bent in the tread section or most severely broken. But it is different from the rim of the type of radius. The damage to the rim is caused by bends in the fingers and the tread of the rim.
The use of motor press body tools for wheels is simpler than the previous two types of presses. because it can be pressed rim or can also weld babet on the surface of the rim that previously broke. To make the rim results better, it is recommended to change this section only.
Those are the types of motor presses that are on the market. Of course each section has its own name. But instead of having to use a press body motor, for severe damage is expected to change to be safer.


Quick Answer: Is Hercules A God Or A Demigod?
What is the child of two gods called?
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A demigod is a being with partial or lesser divine status, such as a minor deity, the offspring of a god and a mortal, or a mortal raised to divine rank..
How was Hercules born?
Hercules was the son of Zeus, king of the gods, and the mortal woman Alcmene. Zeus, who was always chasing one woman or another, took on the form of Alcmene's husband, Amphitryon, and visited Alcmene one night in her bed, and so Hercules was born a demi-god with incredible strength and stamina.
Who is the female archer in Hercules?
Ingrid Bolsø BerdalYou can watch Ingrid Bolsø Berdal as the powerful archer Atalanta in Hercules, currently available on Blu-ray 3D, Blu-ray and DVD.
Are humans demigods?
All humans are children of God. Demigods are sons/daughters of gods too. … According to most mythologies that contain demigods, demigods are born from a direct conjugal relationship between a god and a mortal human. The offspring of this pairing is mortal but retains a portion of their parent's godly powers.
What is the child of a god and a demigod called?
1 Answer. They would still be a legacy, or possibly a demigod. A legacy is any mortal who is a second or further generation descendant of a god.
Can a demigod become a god?
Demigods are the children of Gods and Humans. They are mortal, however they possess superhuman abilities and the fighting prowess of a god thanks to their divine blood. … Demigods can become gods themselves if they are deemed worthy enough.
Who did Hercules love?
MegaraMegara was the first wife of the Greek hero Herakles (better known as Hercules). She was the daughter of King Creon of Thebes who gave her in marriage to Hercules in gratitude for his help in winning back Creon's kingdom from the Minyans.
Did Hercules have a weakness?
Hercules' weakness was his temper and lack of intelligence. He was notorious for getting himself into trouble because of his temper.
Are demigods still alive?
Oh yes! The term demigod or demi-god can refer to a minor deity, a mortal who is the offspring of a god and a human being, or a figure who has attained divine status after death. Thus, we are mortal flesh with an immortal spirit, fully human, and completely divine.
Why did Hercules kill himself?
Hercules Dies By Poison As their marriage progressed, Deianira eventually became jealous of a young maiden whom she thought had captured Hercules interest. … Hercules was in so much agony after he took the potion that he wished he were dead. Hercules eventually died and after he did, his mortal portion perished.
Is Hercules a God?
According to legend, Hercules was half god, born to a human mother and the kind of the gods, Zeus. He had superhuman strength and would endure such hardship because of his parentage. Hercules is known to be one of the few mortals who eventually becomes a god in Greek mythology.
Is Hercules a demigod in the movie?
Hercules is said to be the demigod son of Zeus, who completed the legendary Twelve Labors after he was betrayed by Hera, who drove him insane and caused him to murder his wife Megara and their children during a visit to King Eurystheus.
How many wives did Hercules have?
During the course of his life, Heracles married four times. His first marriage was to Megara, whose children he murdered in a fit of madness. According to Pseudo-Apollodorus (Bibliotheca, 2.4. 12) Megara was unharmed.
How did Hercules die?
Hercules then asked for help from the gods to end his life, and he received it. The Greek god Jupiter sent lightning to consume Hercules' mortal body and took him to live with the gods on Mount Olympus.
Can a demigod kill a god?
Nothing can kill a god in Greek Mythology, period. Not even other gods, not even other things older and more powerful than gods. … Not even other gods, not even other things older and more powerful than gods.
What happens if 2 demigods have a baby?
Q: If two demigods had a child, would that child be a quarter-blood, a demigod, or what? A: Most half-bloods at Camp Half-Blood don't live long enough to have children. … If they did have children, the kids would probably pass for normal mortals, since the godly powers get diluted with each generation.
Are demigods real today?
True demigods are extremely rare, and most people believe they don't exist at all, since any sort of "genetic" (not quite DNA, but close enough) traces can't be distinguished between angelic, fey, or demonic heritage, and so there's no reason to believe godly heritage would be any different.
What power does Hercules have?
superhuman strengthHercules possesses the typical powers of an Olympian god, including superhuman strength, durability, speed, reflexes, stamina and endurance.


What does the phrase "refrigeradores usados" mean?
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The Spanish phrase "refrigeradores usados" translated to "used refrigerators" in English. "Refrigeradores" is the plural term for "refrigerador," meaning refrigerator. "Usados" comes from the verb "usar," meaning "to use."
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"Refrigerador" is a masculine noun in Spanish, that can also be translated as "fridge" (United States English) and "icebox" (British English). The term can also be translated as "cooling system." In addition to meaning "to use" or "to utilize," the transitive verb "usar" can also mean "to wear." The past participle of "usar" is "usado," meaning "used" or "worn." An example sentence using the phrase "refrigeradores usados" is "Refrigeradores usados a la venta," meaning "used refrigerators for sale."
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An improved computer modeling program was used to calculate the saturation indexes of 50 waters from the Beaver basin in west-central Utah with respect to uraninite and coffinite. The mineral-solution study showed that the chemical environment of parts of the Beaver basin is favorable for the occurrence of sandstone-type uranium deposits. The ground waters from several areas are supersaturated with respect to uraninite and coffinite. Two areas, in particular, an area west of the town of Beaver and an area near the settlement of Manderfield, have been identified as most favorable for exploration. The methods described in this study can be utilized to evaluate waters from wells and exploration drill holes as indicators of proximity to possible sandstone-type uranium deposits in other alluvial basins in the western United States.
Miller, W. R.; McHugh, J. B.; and U.S. Geological Survey, "Application of Mineral-Solution Equilibria to the Search for Sanstone-Type Uranium Deposits in the Beaver Basin, Utah" (1981). All U.S. Government Documents (Utah Regional Depository). Paper 559.