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An industry-standard analytical solution for metallurgical applications, optical emission spectrometry (OES) is well-established for the analysis of a large range of metals and alloys (from Ag to Zn). It is the ideal technology for process and quality control in metal production and is routinely applied directly in-the-field for foundry production. OES offers the possibility to analyze elemental composition of alloys down to the the trace level with minimal impact on operating throughput, ensuring precise and reliable readings for up to 40 individual alloying elements in a single minute. It is also possible to investigate non-metallic inclusions using advanced OES methods.
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Optical emission spectrometry (OES) is a tried-and-tested analytical technique that is widely used to measure the elemental composition of metals and alloys. It is often referred to as spark OES as electrical sparks are used to ablate surface material from metal samples so that it can produce characteristic optical emissions. This introduces the first of two primary components in a typical OES analyzer: the electrical source.
An electrode is typically used in OES systems to generate a high voltage electrical discharge that causes surface material to heat to the point of ablation. Vaporized molecules then become excited by the argon plasma generated by the electrical arc, or sparks. This causes them to emit element-specific light in the ultraviolet (UV) and visible range – although multiple emission lines will be present, comprising a full spectrum of wavelengths determined by the elements present in the sample and their concentration. Making sense of this spectrum requires the second primary component: the optical system.
Light generated by the spark process is directed towards the optical system and is dispersed through a vacuum region within the spectrometer housing using a diffraction grating. These signals are acquired and converted into electrical signals using either CCD (charge-couple device) detectors or PMTs (photomultiplier tubes). CCD detectors typically obtain signals from wavelengths of interest directly from collected spectra, while PMTs transform photons into electrical signals and transform those into concentrations using calibration curves.
Spark OES analysis provides the fastest possible determination of all the elements in metals of interest with outstanding accuracy and precision. Among the many metals and alloys that spark OES is ideal for analysing are: iron (Fe) and steel, aluminum (Al), copper (Cu), cobalt (Co), iron (Fe), magnesium (Mg), nickel (Ni), tin (Sn), titanium (Ti), and various precious metals. Alongside this exceptional precision, spark OES is also the most commonly used analytical technique in metallurgical facilities due to their ease-of-usability and maintenance. Sample preparation is quick and easy, typically performed using a standard grinding or milling machine, which can facilitate extremely high throughput (up to 400 samples a day).
Each of these integrated components is critical to making spark OES one of the highest reliability techniques in the analysis of metallic samples. It is routinely used to test finished and semi-finished goods from metals production (plates, sheets, tubes, etc.) and can be used in the field for interrogating melt samples from both primary and secondary metal production processes.
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From routine elemental analysis to metals research and development, the Thermo Scientific ARL iSpark Optical Emission Spectrometer provides the solution that primary metals producers, foundries, fabricators in the automotive, aviation and appliance industries, contract laboratories and metal recyclers look for. Adapted to the harshest environments, ARL iSpark metals analyzers offer a high degree of functionality and features to achieve productivity and quality objectives.
The ARL easySpark metal analyzer is designed to meet the challenges and demands of small-to medium-sized plants and laboratories in the metal industry that require high-quality, yet cost-effective OES analysis to produce parts for automotive, aviation, aerospace and consumer products, among other industries.
Steel specifications are getting progressively more stringent while competitive pressures are driving demand for increased efficiency and lower production costs. The Thermo Scientific ARL SMS-2500 Robotics-Based Automation for OES is an automated quality control solution to optimize your steel production operation. Even the most complex samples are prepared and analyzed under reproducible conditions without operator intervention, so human variables and subjective factors are eliminated. The result is increased output, reliable results and reduced costs.
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Every career has its highs and lows, and some enter a dangerous state of "Day Prison." What is "Day Prison"? Most people begin a new position with lots of energy and want to impress others. Their effort is high and their passion is infectious. People who have a good start at a new job continue to perform and when they are really talented many have an extraordinary experience at work. Once they demonstrate their capability at a particular task they continue to be assigned that same work. Over time that task often becomes very repetitive and over time they lose some of their passion. Work starts to feel like a bit of a chore.
After a number of years where people feel that work is a chore they can easily enter another dimension at work called "Day Prison." People show up to work in the morning, and as they enter their work area they can feel the bars closing around them and the cell door locking. In day prison people are unmotivated, dissatisfied and far less productive than they could be.
In a recent Harvard Business Review article my colleague Jack Zenger and I shared a study where we examined data from 970 people in the same organization who, were between 35 to 44 years old and rated their engagement at work in the bottom 10%. They declared themselves in day prison. The demographics of this group were:
- Less male (-3.7%), more female (+2.4%)
- Less high school graduates (-5.9%), more Graduate Degree (+2.5%) and Post Graduate Degree (+2.2%)
- From all levels and positions in the organization including executives. We found three executives in "Day Prison."
- 36% had between 10 to 20 years tenure, 30% 5 to 10 years tenure
The sample included all levels and positions in the organization including executives.
We analyzed these items on a 360-feedback survey on which these people responded significantly more negatively. We then performed a factor analysis on all the other items to which they had responded, and we identified eight distinct themes that characterized the frustrations of these employees.
- Lack of pride and satisfaction with the organization. The most negative theme revolved around a lack of pride and their overall dissatisfaction with the organization. These employees were much less likely to recommend the organization to a friend and described themselves as much more likely to leave the organization. For most people, their dissatisfaction precedes the lack of pride in the organization. For some people they identify a situation where the organization mistreated a customer or did something wrong to them personally, that shook their confidence and caused a loss of pride.
- Minimal appreciation or recognition. Listen to the frustrations of friends, partners, spouses, and children and it is not hard to understand why this is the number two source of discontent. When we work hard and others seem to get as much or more recognition that causes a great deal of frustration. When the organization has a culture that is devoid of recognition for anyone, that is an even more frustrating situation.
- Absence of challenge and meaning in work. Having a difficult job may be frustrating but when people succeed at something that is challenging, most everyone experiences a higher level of personal satisfaction and pride. Some jobs are challenging at first but after the 10,000th iteration of doing the same thing, over and over again, it becomes monotonous and boring. We heard of a woman who for 23 years had been turning denim jeans inside out after the sewing was completed by others. That task was the complete substance of her job. The company had never suggested rotating between different monotonous tasks, nor somehow expanding the job. She could recognize flaws in the sewing along with defects in the materials, but her job was to turn them inside out. She did nothing to pass on her observations. Once a job is mastered many people face a very real dilemma in deciding if they just continue doing the same job or challenge themselves to try something new. A new job with additional challenges requires some risk and many people worry that they will fail. There is a real difference between having a job and having a career. A career is broader, more diverse and utilizes a variety of different skills but one has to be willing to take on additional challenging roles and take some risks.
- Unwillingness to go above and beyond basic requirements. Every day every person at work makes a series of decisions. Are they going to do a minimal amount of work required to keep their job, a bit more than that or are they willing to give 110% effort. This is often referred to as discretionary effort. These less engaged individuals resisted putting forth extra effort. For some the rationale was, I get very little from this organization and there I choose to only give them my minimal effort. For others, it is almost as if they were afraid of being worn out or used up. Their object in life is to conserve energy.
- The conclusion that they were not treated fairly. Basically, people in this group felt that they continually were getting the short end of the stick while others received undeserved benefits. Most people can think of a time when they felt they had not been treated fairly and the strong emotions that emerge from that emotional upset.
- Feeling of powerlessness. This group felt that they were not only treated unfairly but that any effort to point out unfair treatment, problems or concerns would not be addressed. They felt helpless, with no advocates and no influence. They simply did not matter.
- The company failed to appreciate and practice values such as teamwork, trust and valuing diversity. As these people observed the organization, what stood out to them was the failures of the organization to walk their talk.
- Minimal opportunities for growth and development opportunities. This disengaged group felt like a pair of hands that got used and abused. Others in the organization enjoyed opportunities may get opportunities to develop new skills, but they rarely did.
Whose Fault is This?
It is easy to take sides in this debate. If the individuals would only work a little harder, then they would get recognized, developed and appreciated. On the other hand, if the organization really valued people they would more uniformly offer developmental opportunities, treat people fairly and give them a chance to learn new skills.
This is like doing marriage counseling for an estranged couple where both parties blame each other. The only way to move forward in situations like this is to acknowledge that both parties carry some of the blame.
Life is not fair. Be willing to take the risk of trying something new. Quit looking for the faults of the organization. Raise the bar on your effort and see if that is recognized. It is not uncommon for a large percentage of the working population to feel that they are not being fully utilized. Over the years, we have asked groups of executives to write down in a piece of paper the percentage of their skills and talents that were currently being used by the organization. This was all executives, with no separation for levels of engagement. The extremely consistent answer over the years, and in varying industries was 40 percent. Feeling underutilized is not uncommon.
Asking people to do the same job over and over again for years is cruel and unusual punishment and it is not making the organization more effective. Another exercise we have conducted with leaders over the years is to ask them to reflect on their own curve of excitement and creativity in all the jobs they had experienced. We asked, at what point in time in a position does the curve begin to head south? Consistently the answer to that question has been 5 years. But the negative consequence of that is not only what it does to the individual, but what they then do in providing less than positive experiences to customers, and how they infect others around them.
Warning – Your Organization Has Some of These People
It should be noted that the company where we found these disengaged employees was one of the best high performing companies in the world. It's easy to read through the list of attitudes and assume that people like this do not exist in your company, but it's highly possible they are alive and thriving in their discontent. They may be working in the next cubical or office. They will not tell you about their frustration unless you belong to the club of highly dissatisfied employees, but you can identify them by their lack of enthusiasm and commitment. Find them a more challenging job, recognize their efforts to succeed, listen to their concerns and coach them to develop new skills. You will not only have a more satisfied employee, but you will also have changed the life of an individual for the better.


August 23, 2012 in Biology / Plants & Animals
Have you ever heard an opera singing ape? Researchers in Japan have discovered that singing gibbons use the same vocal techniques as professional soprano singers. The study, published in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology, explains how recording gibbons singing under the influence of helium gas reveals a physiological similarity to human voices.
The research was led by Dr Takeshi Nishimura from the Primate Research Institute at Kyoto University, Japan. His team studied the singing of a white-handed gibbon (Hylobates lar) at Fukuchiyama City Zoo, in northern Kyoto.
A gibbon's song is acoustically unique among primates, with a loud melody which can be heard over two miles away. In the wild use their songs to communicate with neighboring pairs, strangers and potential mates through impenetrable jungle where visibility is poor.
"The complexity of human speech is unique among primates as it requires varied soft sounds made by the rapid movements of vocal tracts," said Dr Nishimura. "Our speech was thought to have evolved through specific modifications in our vocal anatomy. However, we've shown how the gibbons' distinctive song uses the same vocal mechanics as soprano singers, revealing a fundamental similarity with humans."
To explore these similarities the team conducted the first acoustic investigation on non-human primates using. The gas is famous for making human voices appear high pitched by shifting the resonance frequencies of the upwards. The gas is useful for studying animal vocal mechanisms as it increases sound velocity and resonance frequencies.
The team recorded 20 gibbon calls in normal air atmosphere, before recording 37 calls in a helium-enriched atmosphere. The resulting sounds, which are available as audio files, reveal how gibbons can consciously manipulate their vocal cords and tract to make their distinctive sound.
"The lowest frequency of harmonics is amplified in a gibbon's song when performed in normal air," said Nishimura. "However, in a helium-enriched atmosphere the tuning of the vocal cord vibration and the resonance of the vocal tract are altered as the gas causes an upward shift of the."
This supports the theory that, as with humans, there is independence between the origin of the sound and the vocal tools used to manipulate it.
This shows that gibbons use the same process for producing speech as humans, whereby acoustic sound originates from the larynx and is controlled by a filter, determined by the shape of the supralaryngeal vocal tract. This manipulation forms speech and is known as the'source-filter' process of speech production.
Singing gibbons always, and with minimal effort, adopt the complex vocal techniques which are only mastered in humans by professional soprano singers. This discovery suggests the development of complex vocal abilities in humans was not due to unique evolutionary modifications. Instead it shows that humans share the biological fundamentals of vocalisation with other primates, but in speech have simply acquired another of its most sophisticated forms.
"This is the first evidence that gibbons always sing using soprano techniques, a difficult vocalisation ability for humans which is only mastered by professional opera singers," concluded Nishimura. "This gives us a new appreciation of the evolution of speech in gibbons while revealing that the physiological foundation in human is not so unique."
More information: Hiroki Koda, Takeshi Nishimura, Isao T. Tokuda, Chisako Oyakawa, Toshikuni Nihonmatsu, Nobuo Masataka, 'Soprano singing in gibbons', American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Wiley, July 2012, DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.22124
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A detailed, in-depth look at why selling content from within MMOs, to others can damage the business on the company in question, by looking at the effect it has on the costs of the MMO.
A great little site, going into depth abut the unicorn. Well worth a look.
An argument that playing multiple characters or alts on a roleplaying world, decreases the ability to roleplay in any depth. Well reasoned.
A short, poignant article on the effects in any game or social VR environment where an individual from the userbase shows promise, and is given more and more responsibility until they feel they are completely out of their depth.
The BBC have published an in depth piece following up earlier studies on addiction to the MMO World of Warcraft, examining both sides of the addiction phenomenon.
A second look at the history of Role-Playing, with more in depth coverage of how the different types of system which encourage role-play have evolved over time.
A much more in-depth look at the concept of designing multiple implants inside the body, so you can guarantee they will always connect perfectly, as demonstrated by the prototype LayerWise jaw and its successive implants.
CBS News have produced a 12 minute segment of their '60 minutes' documentary, which takes a look in depth at the development of BrainGate and other direct-implantation Brain-Computer Interfaces, or BMI.
This short article attempts to define what a MUSH is, for the completely uninitiated. By it's very nature, this article lacks any depth, but serves as an excellent grounding for those just entering the sphere of virtual worlds.
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Google plans to create a 3D oceanographic map, now called Google Ocean.
People will be able to see the underwater topography, called bathymetry; search for particular spots or attractions; and navigate through the digital env...
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Argosy Publishing, Inc. has released their 3D anatomic visualisation of the human body to the public through their Internet Explorer only site.
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so the hunter to locate his dog after it had gone into a burrow.
And of course, they had to be bold and tenacious.
Although the original German Dachshunds were larger than the Dachshunds we know today, you can still see the fearlessness for which the breed was developed in even the smallest varieties.
Give your Dachshund a squeaky toy and he'll likely "kill" it by destroying the squeaker as quickly as possible.
Remember, these dogs were bred not only to hunt prey but kill it as well.
In the 1800s, Dachshunds started being bred more as pets than as hunters, especially in Great Britain.
They were favorites in royal courts all over Europe, including that of Queen Victoria, who was especially fond of the breed.
Due to this trend, their size was gradually reduced by about 10 pounds.
Eventually, an even smaller version – the miniature dachshund – was bred.
A breed standard was written in 1879, and the German Dachshund Club was founded nine years later, in 1888. By 1885, Dachshunds had made it to America, and 11 were registered with the American Kennel Club that year.
The first one was named Dash. The Dachshund Club of America was founded 10 years later, in 1895.
During World War I, however, the breed fell on hard times in the U.S. and England because they were closely associated with Germany.
Dachshund owners sometimes were called traitors and their dogs stoned. After World War I, some U.S. breeders imported some Dachshunds from Germany and the breed started to become popular once again.
Today the Dachshund ranks sixth among the 155 breeds and varieties recognized by the AKC.
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Miniature Dachshunds of all varieties weigh 11 pounds and under at maturity.
Dachshunds that weigh between 11 and 16 pounds are called Tweenies.
While this isn't an official classification, Tweenies are not penalized in the show ring.
Some people who breed exceptionally small Dachshunds advertise them as Toy Dachshunds, but this is purely a marketing term, not a recognized
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Prominent Personality Traits
Their small size, Dachshunds are known for their daring nature and will sometimes take on dogs or other animals much larger than they are.
Additionally, some Dachshunds may exhibit aggressive behaviors towards strangers or other dogs.
They're known for being family dogs because they are notably good with children and make excellent watchdogs.
Dachshunds are intelligent creatures and very independent, which can lead to some stubbornness, especially during early training.
This can potentially lead a Dachshund to tear up furniture or go to the bathroom indoors if they are angry with their owners.
Since Dachshunds were bred to be hunters, the modern breed likes to dig, bark, and sniff out the unfamiliar.
Smart & Independent
Dachshunds are known for being very smart creatures.
Because of their intelligence, they will need to be almost constantly engaged with regular canine exercise, training sessions, and playtime.
Dachshunds are a great fit for people who don't work long hours outside of the home and can provide their pet with the attention they require.
The independent traits of Dachshunds make them very resourceful without the need for much instruction.
However, their independent minds can sometimes clash with their owners which will require patience and persistence when they are a puppy, especially during training sessions.
Dachshunds love being in charge which can result in canine aggression towards their owners.
They will need to be thoroughly trained from a young age to prevent this from becoming a problem.
However, once your Dachshund has accepted that you're the boss, he will be an extremely loyal companion.
The breed is known for "coming to the rescue" of their owners when strangers are present, and they will follow their loved ones around wherever they go.
As playful and extremely lively animals, Dachshunds like to make a game out of almost anything, even their owners sweeping the floor.
They love to play fetch and will chase after a ball, but the breed is known for not always bringing it back to their owners.
In order to keep them busy, active, and entertained, Dachshunds should be taken on long walks on a regular basis.
Behavioral problems in dogs are often associated with lack of exercise.
Dachshunds are very active animals and can exhibit bad behavior if they're inside for too long without the opportunity to move around and play.
Dachshunds are known for their stubborn temperament which can be very frustrating for owners when it comes time to train their pet.
Since they were bred to hunt and make decisions on their own, the independent streak creates stubbornness, making them difficult to train.
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Training A Dachshund
Training your dog takes lots of firmness, consistency, and patience.
Dogs have the instinct to be in a pack with a leader.
The most important part of training a Dachshund is for them to see you as their leader.
If they don't see you as being in charge, they may start to show aggressive characteristics.
House training is one of the most crucial parts of training a Dachshund.
Crate training on a consistent basis will help owners effectively house train their dogs.
One way to successfully potty train a dog is to praise them for going to the bathroom outside and ignore them going inside so that they seek out the reward.
It's important to be consistent with rewards and praise in order to effectively housebreak a Dachshund.
Dachshund owners often get frustrated when they try to teach their dogs something that they have no interest in learning.
As a reward, you may want to give them a treat or let them play with their favorite toy.
Verbal praise also works for positive reinforcement while training a Dachshund puppy.
While praise for good behavior is vital, it's important to remember that when your dog behaves badly, you should correct him instead of punishing him.
Their hunting instinct makes Dachshunds constantly ready to confront something unknown.
These instincts can trigger explosive barking and outbursts over even the slightest noise or movement in their territory.
The good news is that thorough training of your Dachshund will teach him to quiet down at your command.
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Families, Children, & Home Life
Dachshunds are not typically good with strangers and are known for barking at unfamiliar people or animals.
However, since they like being in a pack, they get along with children and do well as family dogs.
They will most certainly let their family know when something is approaching their home, whether it's a person, animal, or car.
Although Dachshunds make good family pets, owners should be cautious about having them around small children.
Because of their unique body type, the breed may become accidentally injured by children who pick them up incorrectly, or by being tripped over which can lead to an aggressive response.
Furthermore, they don't get along very well with large dogs and do best in a household as the only dog or with another Dachshund.
They sometimes get snappy with other dogs or may try to dominate them.
Because of their strong drive for prey, Dachshunds should not be taken off-leash unless they're in a fenced yard.
The breed is known for taking off suddenly if they see something that interests them and may not come back on command.
Dachshunds will do best in homes with a fenced yard so that they aren't dependent on their owners taking them for a walk to get some exercise.
Since Dachshunds were bred to burrow, the modern breed tends to like to dig which can lead to torn-up grass in your backyard.
Luckily, the digging behavior can be minimized if they aren't left outside unsupervised for long periods of time. When no one is around to entertain them, their desire to dig spikes.
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Is A Dachshund Right For You?
Because they're such instinctive creatures, owners must be careful when training Dachshunds.
If they think your actions are unfair, they may growl or snap at you.
They were bred to hunt which makes them determined and independent animals.
The right owner will be consistent with training and use positive reinforcement to reward good behavior.
Dachshunds love treats, so in order to train them quickly and effectively, a small food reward is best.
Furthermore, it's important to remember that training won't happen overnight.
Each dog will be different, and learning new habits can take weeks or even months.
Consider all the personality traits and training requirements of a Dachshund in order to decide whether it's the right breed for you.
Although these traits are common for most Dachshunds, remember that no two dogs are the same, and yours will have his own unique temperament.
If you decide to adopt one and are prepared to put in the work, a Dachshund will repay you with years of loyalty and companionship.
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The European Parliament adopted yesterday three reports on gender equality:
- The EU Strategy for Gender Equality: "Parliament welcomes the positive measures included in the EU's new Gender Equality Strategy but calls for additional actions and specific and binding targets.
In their report adopted by 464 votes in favour, 119 against and 93 abstentions on Thursday, MEPs describe the Commission's 2020-2025 Gender Equality Strategy as ambitious but regret that it is sometimes too vague and lacks defined targets to be reached by 2025 and clear monitoring tools."
- The gender perspective in the Covid-19 crisis and post-crisis period: MEPs examined the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on women and proposed measures to protect women's rights and enhance gender equality during and after the crisis. In a report adopted by 485 votes in favour, 86 against and 108 abstentions on Thursday, MEPs stress the need for a gender-sensitive response to all aspects of the COVID-19 crisis in order to enhance gender equality and to protect women's rights during the pandemic and post-pandemic period.
- Closing the digital gender gap: women's participation in the digital economy: "It is necessary to encourage women's participation in technical and high-level jobs by overcoming educational barriers from an early stage, say MEPs. In a non-legislative report adopted on Thursday by 598 votes in favour, 45 against and 40 abstentions, MEPs call on the Commission to address the serious gender gap within the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) sector, via concrete measures and appropriate funding aimed at increasing the participation and digital inclusion of women and girls."


Nutrition Australia submission to the Health Star Rating five year review
The Health Star Rating (HSR) Advisory Committee is undertaking a five year review of the HSR system, which will consider if, and how well, the objectives of the HSR system have been met, and identify options for improvements to and ongoing implementation of the system.
The HSR system is a voluntary front of pack labelling scheme that rates the overall nutritional profile of packaged food and assigns it a rating from ½ a star to 5 stars. It is a joint Australian, state and territory and New Zealand government initiative developed in collaboration with industry, public health and consumer groups. From June 2014, food manufacturers started to apply HSRs to the front of food product packaging.
Nutrition Australia submitted a response to several of the review questions, which is summarised below.
We congratulate the government for establishing the Health Star Rating and for taking feedback at this critical review point. We acknowledge the complexity of the initiative and with further changes it will be a convenient, easy to understand tool to assist consumers to make healthier choices.
Nutrition Australia considers the HSR has considerable potential as a successful public health intervention if:
 - foods and drinks are scored in a way that aligns with the Australian Dietary Guidelines by scoring whole and minimally-processed foods from the five core food groups, higher than foods and drinks which are not recommended for regular consumption.
 The Federal Government's Australian Dietary Guidelines (ADGs) recommend the types and amounts of foods we should aim to eat each day for overall health and wellbeing. This is based on the how many serves we should aim to consume from each of five core food groups each day: fruit; vegetables and legumes/beans; grain (cereal) foods; lean meats and poultry, fish, eggs, tofu, nuts and seeds and legumes/beans; milk, yoghurt cheese and/or alternatives.
 The ADG also categorises energy-dense, nutrient-poor foods and drinks as 'discretionary items' that are not recommended as part of a healthy, balanced diet.
 Nutrition Australia believes that the HSR does not currently score foods in a way that aligns with a recommended heathy diet according to the ADGs.
 It is imperative that any front of pack labelling scheme that aims to improve healthy eating aligns with the Australian Dietary Guidelines. The HSR should support the implementation of the ADG by steering consumerchoices towards foods from the five core food groups, and away from energy-dense, nutrient-poor discretionary items.
 - the HSR was made mandatory, and for all packaged food and drink items including fresh foods (eg, fruits, vegetables and meats), and premade items, such as salads and sandwiches.
 The HSR is currently a voluntary system, and not all items have a rating. As suchthe HSR only allows shoppers to make an informed choice between a limited range of items at present.
 Additionally, some consumers have expressed concern that the HSR appears on the more expensive 'big name' branded items, with limited use on the cheaper/home brand options. This limits shoppers' ability to select healthier cheaper items using the HSR as a guide.
 - the score could be used to judge the relative healthiness of items across food categories, not just within specific categories.
 The HSR allows consumers to compare the relative healthiness of items within the same category, but it doesn't allow consumers to compare items across categories. This isespecially relevant if they are seeking healthier options of any type, such as comparing a muesli bar to a cheese snack.
 Nutrition Australia believes the score should be able to be used as an indicator of relative healthiness compared to ANY other item.
In addition, we made recommendations regarding:
Consumer education
There has been a notable lack of mass communication to educate consumers about the HSR. Nutrition Australia beliesves the implementation of HSR should be one strategy and supported by consumer education across all media, and in partnership with nutrition and health promotion organisations.
Nutrition Australia considers the involvement of food industry in the design and oversight of the HSR a concern. The system aims to reduce the purchase and consumption of unhealthy foods and drinks, and as such, manufacturers of those foods (or their industry representatives) have a conflict of interest in designing such a scheme.
We believe that the food industry should be widely consulted in the development and review of the HSR system, but should be distanced from the final decision making and oversight of this particular, vital, public health initiative.


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If you can't resist a slice of cake or a freshly-baked cookie, then you've likely experienced the dreaded sugar coma phenomenon. The sluggish hangover that sometimes follows the buzz of eating sweets has been the subject of much scientific debate. Yet a new study published in Physiology & Behavior by researchers at New Zealand's University of Otago suggests that sugar comas impair cognitive functions such as response time and attention span.
As the study's authors note, the impact that the dietary sugars fructose (fruit sugar) and sucrose (the table sugar added to, say, coffee) have on cognitive functions receives less research and attention than glucose (the sugar your body makes from carbs). By testing out all three dietary sugars on their 49 subjects, as well as an artificial sweetener as a placebo, researchers found that both sucrose and glucose had "relatively negative effects" on their ability to complete cognitive tests such as arithmetic problems.
The reason fructose fared differently is likely because your body treats it differently. It's metabolized in the liver and doesn't cross the blood-brain barrier. Hence why those who had fructose performed better in cognitive tests.
So what do these new findings mean for sugar comas? "Our study suggests that the 'sugar coma'—with regards to glucose—is indeed a real phenomenon, where levels of attention seem to decline after consumption of glucose-containing sugar," Mei Peng, one of the study's authors, told PsyPost.
Yet in the past, studies mapping glucose's effect on cognition, especially memory, had wildly contradictory results. A 1994 study noted that subjects who performed one of these same cognitive tests called the Stroop Task—which shows that it's challenging to name the color of a word, such as blue, if it's written in green ink —saw an improvement in both memory and attention if the rates of their blood glucose increased right before the test. The same experiment found that people's ability to remember words from a list got better if they guzzled a glucose-heavy drink.
But tell that to researchers from Boston University's School of Medicine, who wrote last year about the link between sugary drinks and preclinical Alzheimer's Disease, which, of course, affects memory. Consuming more fructose doesn't seem to be the answer to our sugar woes, either. A 2012 UCLA study suggested that consuming tons of fructose in the long term "alters your brain's ability to learn and remember information."
Still, one thing everyone can agree on, particularly in the United States, is that sugar exists in places you don't expect. Both sucrose and high-fructose corn syrup are added to scores of food and drinks that range from ketchup to coffee creamer. The fact that people unknowingly consume huge amounts of various sugars suggests something even more pernicious: We may unwittingly experience mini-sugar comas all the time.
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Create a protective sphere
Hand gesture, fear, concentration
Orb Shield is the ability to create a sphere or barrier out of orbs in order to defend oneself or others. It is a form of Force Field which appears as translucent blue energy. This power is a highly focused advancement of Telekinetic Orbing, developed by Wyatt Halliwell and Paige Matthews.
Using this power, the possessor can:
- Shield against harm; most notably projectile attacks.
- Repel enemies and powers with the force of the shield.
- Project a shield around something in order to protect or contain it.
Wyatt Halliwell was the first shown user of this power. He was usually using it in a form of protective bubble, he used it in this form for the first time in the episode "Baby's First Demon", when he was attacked by a demon for the first time. Paige developed this power when being attacked by demons in the comic "Innocents Lost". While alerting Piper to a demon's approaching fire throwing power, Paige raised her arm, blocking the attack with an Orb Shield. She used this power at will for the first time in "Unnatural Resources", while protecting herself from falling debris and fireballs.
The Orb Shield can be manipulated by other powers. A demon was seen hitting the Orb Shield with a beam, which caused the bubble to fly away, along with everything inside of the bubble. In "It's a Bad, Bad, Bad, Bad World", Gideon was able to orb the protective bubble with Wyatt inside by channeling Electrokinesis into the bubble, establishing contact, and then orbing away with it. In "The Heavens Can Wait", Paige kept the shield around her sisters long enough for Phoebe to lift it with her Levitation and for Piper to move it across a battlefield with her Molecular Acceleration.
In "Sam, I Am", Wyatt created this shield over Piper's stomach while he was in her womb. This was the first time an Orb Shield was used, however, it had differed from the later usual spherical form. In "Prue Ya Gonna Call?", when Prue Halliwell acquires this power during the magical switch, she produces a small Orb Shield in front of her right arm, resembling the form Wyatt used from the womb in "Sam, I Am".
- So far, the Orb Shield was shown to protect four people at most.
- Although he used other powers from inside the womb, this was the first power Wyatt Halliwell used after he was born.
- This was the first new power gained in the Comics.


text: Every nation rely on latest engineering technologies to foster in today's technological era. Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) is one of the latest emerging technologies being the center of interest of today's researchers. All the researchers work hard to produce quick deliverables through Research and Development (RandD) and by applying different learning pedagogues. Currently, the learning pedagogues in Engineering RandD are Project Based Learning and Problem Based Learning (PBL). Based on these pedagogues, this paper propose and implements a hybrid pedagogy called Project Oriented PBL (PO-PBL) which is time effective and result oriented learning pedagogy. It has resulted in providing impetus to RandD in WSNs. Further the proposed pedagogy is divided into two paradigms namely PO-PBL Macro Model and PO-PBL Micro Model. We observed that PO-PBL Macro Model results in optimal number of deliverables in time restricted manner over large scale. Moreover, we have also implemented PO-PBL Micro Model, compared it with PO-PBL Macro Model and propose PO-PBL Micro Model as basis for designing self-learning algorithm for WSNs devices.


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Anterior cervical fixation system This is a plate design to perfectly adapt to the cervical region. Its rounded rims protect against incidental damage caused by the friction with the surrounding noble structures. Screw blocking system in solidarity with the actioning plate in just one step, innovative and safe (PAT: USA, Nº 5,951,558) prevents the anteropulsion of the screws. The mobile and fixed screws, enable fixations to be of rigid, semirigid and flexible construction. There are five different lengths of screws, they are self-tapping and so the operation technique is eased. Over-diametered screws to improve the fixation in osteoporotic bones. Color code to identify more easily the different kinds of screws. Type 2 anodize plate surface, improves the surface and diminishes the negative effect of friction among components.
- Surgical application:cervical
- Number of fused vertebrae:2 levels
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Supreme Court of Western Australia
The People in the Court
People in a Civil and Criminal Courtroom
The judge ensures proceedings are conducted according to the law. The judge is referred to as The Honourable Justice 'Smith' and is addressed as "Your Honour". The judge wears a black gown for both criminal and civil hearings. Judges in WA do not wear wigs.
The associate is a member of the judge's personal staff, and helps in the administration of the court including preparing documents, recording decisions and issuing orders.
Also a member of the judge's staff who calls witnesses and helps to keep order in the court.
A solicitor or barrister employed by the accused or defendant to defend the matter.
A solicitor or barrister who conducts proceedings on behalf of the State of Western Australia or the Commonwealth of Australia (for criminal proceedings), and on behalf of the plaintiff (for civil proceedings).
The person charged with committing an offence. This person will only be present for a criminal trial.
People called to give evidence on behalf of the prosecution / plaintiff or the defence.
A group of 12 people selected randomly to decide on the innocence or guilt of an accused person in a criminal trial. It is rare to have a jury in a civil trial.
Courtrooms are open to the public and members of the public are encouraged to attend trials to see for themselves how our courts operate.
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5.3.3 Slicings
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There is ambiguity in the formal syntax here: anything that looks like an expression list also looks like a slice list, so any subscription can be interpreted as a slicing. Rather than further complicating the syntax, this is disambiguated by defining that in this case the interpretation as a subscription takes priority over the interpretation as a slicing (this is the case if the slice list contains no proper slice nor ellipses). Similarly, when the slice list has exactly one short slice and no trailing comma, the interpretation as a simple slicing takes priority over that as an extended slicing.
The semantics for a simple slicing are as follows. The primary must evaluate to a sequence object. The lower and upper bound expressions, if present, must evaluate to plain integers; defaults are zero and the sys.maxint, respectively. If either bound is negative, the sequence's length is added to it. The slicing now selects all items with index k such that i <= k < j where i and j are the specified lower and upper bounds. This may be an empty sequence. It is not an error if i or j lie outside the range of valid indexes (such items don't exist so they aren't selected).
The semantics for an extended slicing are as follows. The primary must evaluate to a mapping object, and it is indexed with a key that is constructed from the slice list, as follows. If the slice list contains at least one comma, the key is a tuple containing the conversion of the slice items; otherwise, the conversion of the lone slice item is the key. The conversion of a slice item that is an expression is that expression. The conversion of an ellipsis slice item is the built-in Ellipsis object. The conversion of a proper slice is a slice object (see section 3.2) whose start, stop and step attributes are the values of the expressions given as lower bound, upper bound and stride, respectively, substituting None for missing expressions.


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The main difference between certain spectral problems for linear Schrödinger operators, e.g. the almost Mathieu equation, and three-term recurrence relations for orthogonal polynomials is that in the former the index ranges across ℤ and in the latter only across ℤ+. We present a technique that, by a mixture of Dirichlet and Taylor expansions, translates the almost Mathieu equation and its generalizations to three term recurrence relations. This opens up the possibility of exploiting the full power of the theory of orthogonal polynomials in the analysis of Schrödinger spectra.
Aforementioned three-term recurrence relations share the property that their coefficients are almost periodic. In the special case when they form a periodic sequence, the support can be explicitly identified by a technique due to Geronimus. The more difficult problem, when the recurrence is almost periodic but fails to be periodic, is still open and we report partial results.
The main promise of the technique of this article is that it can be extended to deal with multivariate extensions of the almost Mathieu equations. However, important theoretical questions need be answered before it can be implemented to the analysis of the spectral problem for Schrödinger operators.
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HTML::Template::Default - provide multiple template sources and use a default =============================================== SYNOPSIS use HTML::Template::Default; $ENV{HTML_TEMPLATE_ROOT} = "$ENV{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/.templates"; my $tmpl = HTML::Template::Default->new( filename => 'gallery.html', scalarref => \q{
}, #... other options just as you would pass to HTML::Template... ); DESCRIPTION I have code, scripts, and CGI::Application apps, that are in use by multiple clients. It may be in a shared hosting environment, for example. Clients, users, want to be able to have radically different looks for an application. So, I want my scripts to use HTML::Template, to let a web designer make changes to the template without knowing code. The most useful way I have of doing this is with this module. It allows you to provide a default template source as a scalarref, arrayref, or filehandle, in addition to providing a filename source. And what this code does, is that if it finds the filename on disk, it will use that, otherwise, your default provided is used. Usually HTML::Template crashes if it looks for a filename source and it is not on disk. It also crashes if you provide multiple sources for a template. Essentially, this allows you to provide multiple template sources to HTML::Template, the priority is to use filename source if found, otherwise it uses another source provided. The files are sought in $ENV{HTML_TEMPLATE_ROOT}, and any 'path' arguments provided to constructor. Just like HTML::Template works. So, if the webdesigner or user wants to provide their own template, they simply create the file on disk, and it's done. No code change, no change of config files, etc. If anything is wrong, they just delete their template file. An alternative to using this module.. This module allows me to specify a template for the user without having a file on disk. Because the other option which should work.. would be to provide multiple paths, and the user's path first, and then lastly a place where I will have my default template. Here's how you would use normal HTML::Template to do that.. use HTML::Template; my $template = HTML::Template->new( filename => 'gallery.html', paths => [ "$ENV{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/.templates", '/shared/.templates', ], ); This example should work, provided there is a gallery.html file in '/shared/.templates'. If one is found in "$ENV{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/.templates" first, that one would be used. The disadvantage of this approach, is that you must have a file on disk at some location where all users can read, etc. INSTALLATION perl Makefile.PL make test make install DEPENDENCIES Carp Cwd HTML::Template LEOCHARRE::Debug Test::Simple COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE Copyright (C) 2009 by Leo Charre leocharre at cpan dot org This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.8 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.


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Sensitive electronic equipment and the outdoors aren't always a good combination, thanks to the negative effect harsh elements like windblown rain, dirt, dust, UV rays, chemicals and extreme temperatures can have on such devices. So, to protect your telecom, A/V or IT equipment in outdoor locations, try one of our NEMA-rated wall mount outdoor cabinets or wall boxes from brands such as Black Box, FSR, Hoffman and more. If you need to mark the location of sprinkler system valves, and protect them against foot traffic, our Carson Light Duty L-Series vaults and enclosures are an ideal solution.
NEMA Ratings: What They Mean, and Why They Matter
So, you have some new equipment or wiring to install outdoors or in an industrial facility, and they tell you that not just any enclosure will do: it has to be NEMA-rated. "NEMA rated" is an easy term to throw around, but if you're new to the game, it may leave you wondering what NEMA is, what its ratings mean, and why on Earth they matter so much. Come with us on a quick tour of NEMA and its ratings system – things are about to make a lot more sense.
What is NEMA?
NEMA is actually the National Electrical Manufacturers Association, which was formed in 1926 when the Associated Manufacturers of Electrical Supplies joined forces with the Electric Power Club to create an organization that would set standards for the manufacture of safe and effective electrical products. At the time, the use of and demand for electrical devices was growing at an explosive rate, and the need arose for manufacturing regulations that would not only result in safer electrical products, but also simplify the process and ensure compatibility between devices. NEMA met that need, and has continued to develop and promote standards for the constantly-evolving electrical industry ever since.
What do NEMA Ratings Have to Do with Cabinets and Enclosures?
While NEMA originally set out to ensure the quality of electrical devices themselves, technology and industry developed to the point where electrical components and wiring began to need protection from the environments that they were used in. A simple way to provide that needed protection was to enclose vulnerable devices, controls and wires in cabinets. While NEMA isn't responsible for telecom and electrical enclosures per se, they did develop a rating system by which to grade and regulate them, and NEMA ratings have become the go-to standards for selecting enclosures with the right features and characteristics for a particular application.
NEMA-rated enclosures are all about controlling ingress and egress, a substance's ability to either enter or exit from a given structure or space – in this case, a cabinet. While the majority of NEMA ratings are either mostly or entirely focused on blocking ingress, or the entry of a material into an enclosure, there are also several that deal with preventing egress, or the escape of a substance from the interior of an enclosure.
NEMA Ratings and What They Mean
Here's our quick, in-a-nutshell rundown of the most commonly called-for NEMA ratings, and what each one means:
- NEMA 1: Indoor-use enclosures that protect internal components from solid foreign objects and contaminants (like falling dirt), and also provide limited protection to personnel by restricting their access to potentially hazardous components.
- NEMA 2: Indoor-use enclosures that restrict worker access to hazardous components, and protect the equipment stored inside against the ingress of solid foreign contaminants and dripping or lightly splashing water.
- NEMA 3: Indooror outdoor-use cabinets that limit personnel access to hazardous parts, and protect enclosed equipment from the ingress of contaminants like wind-carried dust and falling dirt, as well as moisture in the form of rain, sleet or snow. In addition, Type 3 enclosures are designed to remain undamaged even if ice forms on their outer surfaces.
- NEMA 3R: NEMA 3R enclosures are used indoors or outdoors, and not only provide workers with a degree of protection against making contact with hazardous parts, but also protect interior components from solid contaminants, water ingress in the form of rain, sleet or snow, and the formation of ice on the cabinet's exterior.
- NEMA 3S: 3S enclosures are used indoors or outdoors, and help to protect personnel by limiting their access to potentially harmful components. They guard enclosed equipment against the ingress of windborne and falling solid foreign contaminants, like dirt and dust, as well as water in the form of rain, sleet or snow. In addition, the external mechanisms on NEMA 3S cabinets are required to remain operable even when ice-laden.
- NEMA 3X: Used either indoors or outdoors, these enclosures prevent the ingress of water in the form of rain, sleet or snow, as well as solid particulate like dirt and windborne dust. A NEMA 3X cabinet reduces risk to personnel by limiting access to hazardous components, provides internal components with an extra degree of protection against corrosion, and isn't damaged by the formation of ice on its exterior surfaces.
- NEMA 4: Made for indoor or outdoor use, these cabinets and enclosures help prevent worker access to hazardous components, and guard against the ingress of water in the form of rain, sleet or snow, as well as water that is splashed or sprayed by hose. NEMA 4 enclosures prevent the entry of solid contaminants like dust and dirt, and are required to remain undamaged by the formation of ice on their outer surfaces.
- NEMA 5: Indoor-use enclosures that prevent personnel from accessing potentially dangerous components, and protect enclosed equipment from the ingress of solid foreign contaminants and objects like airborne dust, dropping dirt, lint, fibers, and fly-off particulate, as well as dripping or lightly splashing water.
- NEMA 6: These indoor or outdoor-use enclosures help prevent personnel from accessing hazardous parts, while protecting enclosed equipment against the ingress of solid foreign objects and water, whether exposed to hosing or temporary, limited-depth submersion. NEMA 6 cabinets must remain undamaged in the event that ice forms on the external surface of the enclosure.
- NEMA 6P: Made for indoor or outdoor use, these cabinets prevent workers from making contact with hazardous components, and help to block the entry of solid foreign matter, such as falling dirt. They also prevent the ingress of water, whether exposed to hosing or prolonged, limited-depth submersion. NEMA 6P enclosures provide an extra measure of protection against corrosion, and are required to remain undamaged in the event of exterior ice formation.
- NEMA 12: Knockout-free NEMA 12 enclosures are used indoors to help restrict personnel access to hazardous components, and protect enclosed equipment by preventing the ingress of solid foreign contaminants like airborne dust, dropping dirt, fibers, lint and fly-offs, as well as dripping and lightly splashing water.
- NEMA 12K: Indoor-use enclosures that are manufactured with knockouts and used to prevent personnel contact with hazardous components, as well as protect enclosed equipment from the ingress of solid foreign contaminants like dust, dirt, loose fibers, lint, fly-off particulate, and dripping or lightly-splashing water.
- NEMA 13: These indoor-use enclosures prevent workers from coming into contact with potentially hazardous components, and also protect enclosed equipment against the ingress of solid contaminants like dirt, dust, circulating fibers, lint, fly-off shavings, dripping or lightly splashing water, and oil and non-corrosive coolants that seep, spray, or are splashed.
For the complete specs and details on all of the NEMA enclosure ratings, check out their NEMA Enclosure Types report.
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int main(void)
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Well, as expected, printf is called after the 12th iteration,
because the page protection is incorrect. It is interesting to note that,
when changing the access protection to e.g. PAGE_NOACCESS, the process
will actually throw an exception and crash (because we didn't install an
exception handler.) This is because the main function is located on
the same page as the calculate_data function (or atleast in the
binary we built), therefore the no access page is triggered (after
returning from VirtualProtect), resulting in
an uncatched exception. (Note that this is exactly what a Reverse Engineer
would want, because after setting up an exception handler this would
result in something similar to single-stepping
Unfortunately, this method uses an API as well, which means a Reverse
Engineer could spoof the access protection of the particular page.
However, it presents a very nice method, assuming it is difficult for an
attacker to spoof the access protection (e.g. if it's only possible from
the kernel, because we execute the system call directly instead of just
calling the API.)
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T. C. Matise, M. Perlin and A. Chakravarti
With the advent of the Human Genome Project. the ability to rapidly construct comprehensive and accurate linkage maps based on genetic marker data from family studies is an absolute necessity. In addition to their usefulness in localizing genes for both simple and complex disorders, linkage maps are invaluable tools for genetic counseling using linked marker genes. Several computer program packages are publicly available which aid in the construction of linkage maps by computing multipoint likelihoods for specified locus orders. However, these programs work in a step-by-step fashion, requiring intensive user-intervention and analysis at each step. Such a repetitive process is amenable to computerized automation. We have developed and tested an expert system computer program, MultiMap, for automated genetic linkage mapping. This program greatly reduces the amount of user-computer interaction, increasing the accuracy and speed with which a map can be constructed. In addition, because the total mapping time is greatly reduced through automation, it is now feasible to explore and compare various mapping heuristics and mapping criteria in order to develop the most appropriate approach, or set of approaches, for genetic linkage mapping. MultiMap need not be restricted to the construction of genetic maps, but could be adapted to aid in the automated construction of physical maps as well.


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New technique for determining the optical constants...
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|Author(s)||C. Keefe, J. Pearson|
|Abstract||The traditional techniques of transmission and attenuated total reflectance (ATR) spectroscopy for determining the optical constants of liquids are not practical or reliable for very strong absorption bands. Specular reflectance can be used in these cases, but for volatile liquids it is impossible to separate the reflectance spectrum of the liquid from the absorption spectrum of the vapor above the liquid. Methods using special cells have been described in the literature to prevent the liquid from evaporating. In this paper, a similar technique that makes use of traditional transmission cells is presented. It is shown that this new technique generates k(νtilde) spectra for strong absorption bands that are accurate to approximately 2%.|
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Science & Math | News
Arkansas Department of Ed Provides Statewide Access to STEM Activities
- By Dian Schaffhauser
Students in Arkansas will have access to a Web-based tool to help them master math and science. The Arkansas Department of Education will be providing access to Penda Learning, a Web-based standards mastery resource for students in grades 4 through 10.
Penda uses avatars and competitions to engage students as they work through multiple activities, which are standards-aligned. Instructors can take advantage of the service's reporting features, which can report data by grade level, class, and student. That data can be imported by gradebooks and can show time spent on a given task as well as the activities and standards mastered.
"[Science, technology, engineering, and math] education is a key state priority and we are always on the lookout for innovative and proven STEM tools for the students of Arkansas," said Jim Boardman, an assistant commissioner with Arkansas' DOE Division of Research and Technology. "By giving our students access to Penda's engaging and standards-aligned math and science activities, we are supplementing our classroom teaching and helping teachers improve student proficiency."
Dian Schaffhauser is a writer who covers technology and business for a number of publications. Contact her at _EMAIL_.


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Smartphones have been around for at least several years now, but they still have certain limitations. Despite having a plethora of wireless technologies built-in--Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, 3G, etc.--there's no simple way to transfer "clippings" of data from one device to another. But a new research project at MIT called Sparsh is aiming to fix that oversight.
Sparsh (the Hindi word for "touch") isn't an app, at least not in the way we generally use the word. It's a tool that's supposed to be part of a mobile operating system, like "undo" or "select all," running within apps at all times. It creates a virtual cloud-based clipboard where any data, like a phone number or photograph, can temporarily live until it's "pasted" to another device.
For it to work, at least two devices need to be Sparsh-enabled. A user wanting to share data becomes, in concept, an avatar for a copy-and-paste-like function. The person touches data on a device, such as a photo or text, and Sparsh sends it to the cloud. The same person then touches another device, and presto! The relevant information is pasted in as if it had been copied from the same machine.
Sparsh isn't the only tool for transferring small amounts of device-to-device data on the scene. Indeed, a popular iPhone app called Bump allows people to trade photos, apps, contact info, and even music from one phone to another simply by bumping the devices together.
Bump is very cool, but it requires both the sender and recipient to be running the app. In addition, it's not open with what it can send or where it can send it--it only works from phone to phone, and while there are many options for things it can send, there are more things it simply can't. Sparsh aims to live in the devices we use at the operating-system level, meaning it would seem intuitive to use and be available within any app for almost any type of data. … Read more


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Selling malware in the underground marketplace is big business for black hats. Some have turned to copyrights and licenses in an effort to try to protect their revenue streams.
One might think that malware authors don't stand a chance of enforcing any type of copyright or licenses on their malicious code. However, that might not be the case. According to Symantec, some malware authors have threatened to convert their foes - namely anti-malware solution makers - into allies.
Symantec recently had a close look at a malware package called Zeus and found that it included a somewhat typical license agreement that restricts the user from redistributing or reverse engineering the package, among other restrictions.
However, the license agreement also came with a not-so-subtle warning: Should anyone be found in violation of the copyright or license then the developers threaten to send copies of the violating code to anti-virus companies.
At that point the anti-virus companies would most likely begin creating detection methods, which in turn would reduce the ability of the violating party to spread their malware. That sounds like a pretty strong threat, however Symantec pointed out that even with such a notice people began openly trading copies of the Zeus malware package on underground forums. And of course, Symantec security solutions can detect and remove the malware.


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"I used Castor Oil until my mid twenties, then I started using vasaline."
Castor Oil is one of the oldest forms of punishment for children, with use going back to the Neolithic era. Until the early 1980s parents found it almost as effective as spanking, although it has, along with lynching, suffered a downturn in recent years due to political correctness.
edit Why it works
It works because it was the earliest type of rat poison. So it would make the child sick when they drank it, thus inducing vomiting and "the shits" allowing all the negative and unhealthy toxins to be removed from the body. Side effects include massive body weight loss and death.
From medieval times Castor Oil was believed to hold psychosomatic, almost magical, healing powers, as the merest suggestion of administering it to a sick or invalided individual often produced an instant cure from the illness. Along with Cod Liver Oil and Cyanide, Castor Oil (collectively known as the Three C's of Health) was considered a multi-purpose "cure all". Castor Oil remains a staple ingredient of the Homeopathic Industry.
edit Medicinal use of Castor oil
The Israeli National Food and Drug Administration (INFaDA) has categorized Castor oil as "generally recognized as entirely safe and effective" (GREASE) for over-the-counter use as a laxative, with its major site of action the small intestine. However, it is not a preferred treatment for constipation. Castor oil can also be used to induce childbirth, but doing so is sometimes cautioned against because of the high velocity that infants can be discharged due to the added lubrication.
edit Then why don't we use it today?
Because the health administration says it was cruel. Recent research has suggested that we would have won the Vietnam War, Iran, and the Second World War if more of our troops had been allowed to partake of Caster Oil. Damning figures, indeed.


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Audio Description Performance
What is audio description?
Audio description is a verbal commentary that tells visually impaired theatre-goers what is happening on the stage during the parts of the performance where there is no dialogue (i.e. during fight scenes). The description does not interfere with the performance but fills in the gaps, describing facial expressions, costume, scenery and action sequences so that anyone with a sight problem can follow the plot fully and independently. Many visually impaired theatre-goers are enthusiastic about audio description.
How does audio description work?
The trained describer sits in a soundproof booth or box in the theatre and explains what is happening on the stage. Usually, the describer has seen the performance three or four times before and is well prepared to describe the performance. Visually impaired theatre-goers are equipped with a headset or earpiece before the performance and the description is relayed from the booth to the headset/ear-piece via an infrared or radio sound system.
Can theatre-goers sit in any seat in the theatre?
No, specific seats are allocated in the theatre, mostly in the Stalls or Dress Circle, so there is clear transmission between the describer and the headsets.


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Moving Away From Diets: Healing Eating Problems and Exercise Resistance
Authors: Karin Kratina, PhD, RD,
Nancy King, MS, RD & Dayle Hayes, MS, RD
Second Edition, 2003
5 new chapters, 276 pages
Quit dieting, heal eating problems, learn intuitive eating, overcome exercise resistance and manage weight naturally. Written for professionals, this easy-to-read book is also popular with those who simply want to get off the diet roller coaster.
Clinicians can immediately implement the detailed counseling strategies and techniques. Case studies outline the this approach in action.
Numerous handouts are provided so you can immediately begin using intuitive eating / nondiet in your practice.
Learn how to:
- reconnect with and trust internal signals of hunger and satiety;
- feel more comfortable in the body immediately;
- begin to eat more healthfully without the use of cognitive restraint;
- find a natural and healthy weight;
- overcome exercise resistance;
- decode eating behaviors and body image concerns.
The specific and detailed stepwise counseling strategies will shorten your learning curve and enable you to begin using intuitive eating immediately. Many find they enjoy their work more with this effective, compassionate approach to treating food and weight issues. Appropriate for:
- private practice
- university settings
- managed care organizations
- corporate wellness programs
Moving Away From Diets is an excellent addition to college level course work, appropriate for nutrition, counseling, health promotion and fitness curriculums. It is currently required reading at major universities across the US.
For the Public
This easy-to-read paradigm-shifting book provides valuable information and support for changing relationship with food and exercise. Learn how to manage weight without dieting; heal diet trauma; overcome exercise resistance and learn how to eat when hungry and quit when satisfied. Tools provided will increase awareness and support a new eating style.
- Weight, Health and Culture: A Time For Change
- Metabolic Fitness: A Non-Weight Centered Approach to Wellness
- Health At Every Size, Health for Every Body
- Size and Self-Acceptance: Hating the Body a Little Less
- Loving the Body You Have: Size-Acceptance
- Understanding Disconnected Eating
- HungerWork: Discovering Physically-Connected Eating
- HungerWork: Heal Disconnected Eating
- HungerWork: Promoting Joyful and Healthful Eating
- Joyful Movement
- Advanced Counseling Concepts
- Concepts in Action
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|Moving Away From Diets Handouts||$45|
|Eating Disorder Assessment and Treatment Tools||$30|
Moving Away from Diets is ordered directly from publisher.
And free...download handouts such as the Hunger/Satiety Food Journal for your own use, or to use with clients.


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I have noticed that in some countries many city elements such as streets (where they have names, not numbers), squares, parks etc. might bear important foreign figure names, capital city names (e.g. Tokyo, Paris).
One example that comes into my mind is Charles de Gaulle, who has many avenues and squares named after him across the entire world.
I wonder how does one country obtain things outside its territory named after import political or cultural figures.
Question: How can a country get a street / square / park in another country named after an important figure?


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Changing Londoners mental maps
The thinking behind the new system is to encourage more people to walk around London instead of driving or using already overcrowded public transport. By catching people at key decision points – such as tube stations – and providing them with the right information on walking times and local attractions, it is hoped that they will choose to walk.
According to TfL, information really is key in achieving modal shift. Research found that most Londoners mental map of London is based on the tube map which is geographically distorted and can be very misleading. For instance there are over 100 connections on the underground where its quicker to walk than take the tube! Legible London maps will often show users that their destination is closer and more walkable than they think.
(Via Kelly Clifton.)


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Interpersonal Communication Minor
The Interpersonal Communication minor serves students interested in improving their interpersonal communication skills and knowledge in personal or professional communication settings.
The coursework allows students to investigate communication in families, personal relationships and across the life span. Because not all interpersonal communication happens face-to-face, students also have the opportunity to learn about the role of the Internet, social networking sites, text messaging and other new media forms in the interpersonal communication process.
The Interpersonal Communication minor may benefit students interested in sales, human resources, counseling or teaching.
Students can complete the Interpersonal Communication minor in its entirety at Kent State Stark.


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Recommended for Middle School through High School.
A battery is a device that changes chemical energy into electrical energy. It is a common power source for many household and industrial applications. Batteries need to be of a certain strength, or electric potential, in order to power devices successfully. Electric potential determines how strongly electricity is pushed through a circuit, much like pressure determines how strongly water is pushed through a hose. After extended use, batteries can drain to a point where the device they are powering may not work properly or at all. Using a Voltage Probe to make a battery tester is a great way to determine whether the battery you intend to use has enough electric potential to run your device.
In this project, your challenge is to design and build a device for testing the usability of an AA battery using a Vernier Differential Voltage Probe. A battery will be considered "dead" if the voltage is below 1.2 volts. Your device, when activated, should cause the alligator clips on the voltage probe to touch the metal terminals on a battery. After testing the battery, your program should give feedback indicating whether the battery is good or needs to be replaced.
Sensors and Equipment
This experiment features the following Vernier sensors and equipment.
You will also need NXT Sensor Adapter and a LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 robotics system.


Medication errors targeted in new JCAHO survey process
Examining the six steps of medication process
In light of so many providers having difficulty meeting the standard of care for medication administration, the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations in Oakbrook Terrace, IL, is taking action.
One its 2004 national patient safety goals is to improve the safety of using high-alert medications. In addition, newly organized medication standards from the Joint Commission focus more on medication processes as a system than on individual standards, says Michael Jarema, associate project director of the Division of Standards and Survey Methods at the Joint Commission. For all surveys that take three days or longer, surveyors will walk through the six steps of medication process:
 - Selection and procurement: This is the process by which the organization decides which medications to have available and the process by which it obtains medications, including what to do if there is a shortage of a medication.
 - Storage: The provider addresses issues of medications that sound alike and look alike, as mentioned in the National Patient Safety Goals, including control of medications.
 - Ordering and transcribing: This area includes consideration of computerized physician order entry, verbal orders, and written orders, etc. It covers approved abbreviations, use of generics, indications for use, precautions, and 13 orders that require special attention, including an incomplete or illegible order.
 - Preparing and dispensing: This area covers preparation, issuance, and accountability for doses of a prescribed medication by a pharmacist or authorized individual. It includes review of medication orders for appropriateness, safe preparation, labeling, dispensing practices, and medication recalls.
 - Administering: The standards addressing this process cover giving a prescribed dose of a medication to a patient and describes safe administration processes such as verifying the medication, dose, route, time, and patient.
 - Monitoring: The standards addressing this process within an organization's medication management system focus on the responsibility for monitoring effects of medications and the organization's response to actual or potential adverse drug events and medication errors.
The surveyors might pinpoint a specific medication and "walk it through" the organization, Jarema says. They may ask, "How would you determine how you're going to use this drug in your facility? What are storage issues? How do you train staff?" For new medications, they might ask, "Does this medication require anything unique?" Surveyors might pull a patient's chart and ask about any medications the patient is taking that are considered high risk, such as warfarin. They might ask staff, "How is the medication approved for use in your organization? How did you decide to use it? How frequently do you review the medication you're using? How do you know providers are competent to use them?" If surveyors see a drug is administered in a specific area, such as pre-op, they may go to that area and talk to staff about storage and other safety issues, he explains.
Also, the Joint Commission requires facilities to have a regulation that provides a process for a nurse to contact a physician when an order isn't legible or is the wrong dose, adds F. Dean Griffen, MD, FACS, surgeon at the Highland Clinic at Shreveport, LA.
For more information, contact:
 - Kay Beauregard, RN, MSA, Director of Hospital Accreditation and Nursing Quality, William Beaumont Hospital, 3601 W. 13 Mile Road, Royal Oak, MI 48073. Telephone: (248) 551-094. E-mail:


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Animal Crackers Preschool incorporates the use of art, music, and physical movement in order to stimulate creative growth within the child. Each day includes singing and access to art supplies. We encourage outdoor play.
As children grow and evolve, so does the Animal Crackers Preschool program. We take into account the individual needs of each child when we plan and implement the lessons. We encourage children to take part in both individual and group activities. Our goal is to enrich, nourish, and promote positive intellectual, social, and emotional growth in each child.
Infants are an integral part of Animal Crackers Preschool's family-based environment. As with the preschoolers, infants are stimulated with art, music, and movement. We encourage them with age-appropriate activities, which change as they develop and grow.
Infants are from the beginning taught to socialize with others. We encourage them to develop with both directed and free play. The infant program includes toys and activities designed specifically for the needs of children in their age range.
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The Polynomial Method
The polynomial method is another basic combinatorial technique that occasionally works. One way to describe the method is as a way to translate a combinatorial statement into the vanishing of a certain polynomial modulo.
A demonstration of the method
Theorem: Every graph (or hypergraph) G with n vertices and 2n+1 edges contains a nontrivial subgraph H with all vertex-degrees divisible by 3.
(This is a theorem of Noga Alon, Shmuel Friedland, and me from 1984.)
Before the proof: If we want to get a subgraph with all vertex degrees even then we need n edges (or n+1 edges for hypergraphs). This has a simple linear algebra proof which also gives an efficient algorithm.
From-scratch proof sketch: Associate with every edge e of the graph a variable. Consider the two polynomials
P=, and
If the theorem is false then P-Q=0, as polynomials over the field with three elements. This is impossible since P is a polynomial of degree 4n while Q is a polynomial which has a monomial of degree 4n+2 with nonzero coefficient.
The theorem follows more directly from a theorem of Chevalley-Warning and even more directly from a theorem of Olson, but the above proof serves best our purpose.
Remarks about the polynomial method:
1) The polynomial method has many applications but only in specific cases. It is not nearly as widely applicable as, say, the probabilistic method.
2) Good basic references: A. Blokhuis, Polynomials in finite geometries and combinatorics. In Keith Walker, editor, Surveys in Combinatorics, 1993, pages 35-52. Cambridge University Press, 1993.
3) The polynomial method is related to the "linear algebra method" in combinatorics. Often, however, direct linear algebraic proofs lead to efficient algorithms while this is not known for applications of the polynomial method. For example, no polynomial algorithm to find the graph H in the above theorem is known, and there is a related complexity class introduced by Christos Papadimitrou. The polynomial method is closely related to arguments coming from the theory of error-correcting codes, and to arguments in TCS related to interactive proofs and PCP.
The modular EDP.
The following is an equivalent way to formulate the Erdős 1932 conjecture that the discrepancy for EDP is unbounded.
1) Consider the sequence as a sequence with modulo, where is a prime that we can choose as large as we want.
2) Then every number modulo can be expressed as a sum of the sequence along a HAP modulo.
Translating EDP (in this form) into a statement about polynomials modulo is cumbersome. But one thing we may have going for us is that it suggests a natural extension of EDP where the supposed-to-vanish polynomial is simpler.
Modular EDP Conjecture: Consider a sequence of non-zero numbers modulo p. Then if n is sufficiently large w.r.t. p, then every number can be expressed as a sum of the sequence along a HAP modulo p.
As in the original EDP we can consider general sequences or just multiplicative sequences.
The Polynomial identity required for the modular EDP
Here is the polynomial identity in n variables we need to prove over when grows to infinity with as slow as we wish. For every,,
These polynomials are not familiar but they are related to generating functions which arise in permutation statistics. In particular, when we look at the product
and expand it to monomials, the coefficients have a combinatorial meaning in terms of permutations and inversions.
Given a permutation, and an integer we can ask how many inversions are there between and a smaller integer. This is a number between 1 and.
The coefficient of in the above product is the number of permutations where there are integers contributing j inversions. The proposed identity (*) may be expressed in terms of modular properties of such permutation statistics.
Challenge: Prove the modular EDP using the polynomial method.
What does the LDH tell us about the modular EDP?
It is especially easy to apply the large deviation heuristic to the modular version of EDP. Suppose we want to compute the probability that all HAP-sums miss the outcome.
Given, the probability that is not is. So we are interested in the value of with. (Restricting our attention to multiplicative sequences will divide the exponents on both sides by.) Solving this equation gives us. The LDH heuristic comes with a firm prediction and a weak prediction. In this case the LDH gives
a) (Firm prediction) There are sequences violating the modular EDP when.
b) (Weak prediction) There are no such sequences when.
The firm prediction is correct by the logn discrepancy constructions for EDP and as a matter of fact the LDH itself gives an even stronger prediction of for -sequences. By restricting our attention to sequences we see that the weak prediction is incorrect and LDH for the modular EDP is blind to the special substructure of sequences. Note that the firm conjecture is far from being known when we extend the modular EDP and replace all integers by a random subset of integers, or by square-free integers, or by SCJ-systems of integers etc.