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Glossary of the main terms used in neuroConstruct
3D View of Cells
When a single cell is viewed in 3D (at tab Visualisation, select the name of the Cell Type in the drop down box and press View) there are a number of actions possible:
- Left click anywhere in the view and drag to rotate the cell
- Right click anywhere and drag to translate the cell
- Clicking the middle mouse button and dragging (or turning the middle wheel) will zoom the view. Note that if there is no middle button, there is a zoom slider bar on the GUI
- Pressing the 0 button will reset the view, usually centering on the cell
- Pressing the ^ button will open a window in full screen with just the 3D objects (good for capturing screenshots)
- Left clicking on one of Segments will highlight that segment (red) and any other segments in the same Section (yellow) (only when All solid is selected)
- When a Segment is selected, a summary of the 3D information on it appears, and the endpoints, etc. can be altered by pressing the Edit... button
- Clicking on part of a cell highlights that cell. Note this is easiest when the level of detail displayed is All Solid (see below). Selecting cells can also be difficult is other objects are close, e.g. transparent regions, synaptic endpoint spheres, 3D axes (turn some of these off via 3D Settings). If a cell can't be selected by clicking, the cell group and cell number can be selected in the drop down boxes.
- Multiple cells in a cell group can be selected too via the drop down boxes (e.g. all cells, a percentage of cells, etc.). These can then be plotted together as a group if a previous simulation has been loaded.
- When one or more cells are selected, checking the Transparent mode box keeps that/those cell opaque, makes cells it is/they are connected to partially transparent and turns other cells almost completely transparent.
- The background colour and preferred cell segment colour
- Whether the 3D axes will be shown.
- The resolution of 3D elements. Note for better 3D performance when viewing large cells/networks this should be set low (<12)!
- A number of items can be excluded or included from the 3D view, e.g. Regions (when viewing generated networks), Inputs, Synaptic Endponts (green for presynaptic location, red for post), etc.
- The level of detail to display (see below)
- All solid: all segments are seen in 3D detail. Note the resolution of these can be increased or decreased under 3D Settings
- Soma solid, neurite lines: segments in the soma group are solid, all other segments are lines through their centres
- Soma solid, no neurites: just the soma segments are shown in 3D
- All lines: all segments are represented by lines
- Original Compartmentalisation: a transparent view of the cell, showing the segments in 3D, white lines through their centres, blue spheres for their end points, and yellow lines linking segments which are electrically connected, but not physically linked. There will be a red sphere in the middle of each of the internal divisions, with small blue spheres connecting them. These red spheres correspond to the simulated points in NEURON as defined by the nseg value.
- GENESIS Compartmentalisation: this is a Compartmentalisation of the cell which converts it to a smaller number of compartments for GENESIS but retains the section groups, total surface area, total dendritic length and total axial resistance.
A Cell Type which represents a real neuron, but whose morphology is described with a much reduced number of segments. These types of cells are useful for investigating basic electrophysiological properties of cells, or in large networks, where simpler individual cells are needed to reduce simulation time. These cells can be created manually by adding a Cell Type based on the included examples (e.g. SimpleCell), viewing in tab Visualisation, clicking on one of the segments, and pressing Edit....
Abstracted Cell Mechanisms
A Cell Mechanism which has been split between model template and parameters, allowing easy mapping onto each of the available simulation platforms. Note: This is a pre-ChannelML approach to implementing Cell Mechanisms and shouldn't be used anymore.
Action Potential Propagation Speed
While the 3D structure of axons is important for creating the correct connectivity (e.g parallel fibers in cerebellar granule cells) the segments representing these axons need not necessarily be explicitly modelled, indeed physiological data on the channels present etc. can be quite difficult to obtain. Instead an average value for the speed of propagation of the Action Potential can be used for these segments, with the axonal propagation delay (calculated using the distance along the segments to the last fully modelled segment) added to the internal synaptic mechanism delay. To specify sections which should be modelled using Action Potential Propagation Speeds, select Cell density mechanism in the drop down box when viewing a single cell in the Visualisation tab. Note that reducing the number of explicitly modelled segments will reduce the simulation runtime.
If anti-aliasing is turned on, 3D renderings of both solid compartments and line segments will be smoother. This may have some performance overhead on some video cards, or may prevent the 3D view from displaying, and so should be turned off.
Arborization Defined Connection
The file ending given to morphologies saved in the file format used by Neurolucida.
Axes in 3D
A set of axes can be added in 3D (either when a single cell is being displayed or a generated network). The green axis represents the x direction, the yellow the y direction and the red the z direction. The axes measure 100 microns from the origin in positive and negative directions, the arrow on the positive. The ticks are at 10 micron intervals. Due to perspective the axes should only be used for getting bearings/a concept of scale in the 3D scene.
A number of checks can be carried out on the cells in a project to ensure they meet some minimum requirements for producing realistic results in the chosen simulators. It is not a complete list. At the moment these checks are:
- At least one membrane mechanism on each segment
- At least one passive conductance on each segment
- Each section has an appropriate internal number of divisions for the specified maximum electrotonic length
- At most one passive conductance on a segment (more than one can lead to erroneous calculations of Electrotonic length)
Cell density mechanism
A term used to describe the mechanisms which can be applied to cell segments to allow simulation of electrophysiological mechanisms. Density refers to the fact that the effect of the mechanism is dependent on the physical size (surface area/length) of the segment. A Channel Mechanism is specified as a conductance per unit area, or alternatively an Action Potential Propagation Speed measures the rate of propagation of signals along a segment to synaptic connections. Specific capacitance and specific axial resistance can be specified on a per group basis also. To specify which cell density mechanisms are present on a cell, select Cell density mechanism in the drop down box when viewing a single cell in the Visualisation tab.
A number of cells of the same Cell Type positioned in 3D space. These will be laid out relative to a specified Region and arranged according to a Packing Pattern. Only Cell Groups included in the selected Simulation Configuration will be generated.
Cell Group Priority
Specifies the order in which Cell Groups are placed. Higher priority Cell Groups are always placed first.
A general term for an electrophysiological process (currently either a Channel Mechanism, a Synaptic Mechanism or an Ion Concentration) which is placed on modelled cell membranes or at the interface of two cells to alter their internal electrical and chemical state. More on Cell Mechanisms in the main documentation.
A prototype cell containing information on its 3D morphology and the various Cell density mechanisms which determine its electrophysiological behaviour. Each Cell Group specifies a particular Cell Type and from these networks are built. Cell Types can be hard-coded (e.g. Simple Cell, Purkinje Cell) (which can form the basis of manually edited Abstract Cells) or ones based on imported morphology files, e.g. using GenesisMorphReader where a morphology file (ending in.p) as used in GENESIS is specified (more on importing morphologies). A Cell Type can be checked for validity. More on Cell Types in the main documentation
An implementation of a model of an electrophysiological process (e.g. a voltage gated ion channel, ion pump, etc.) which is placed on modelled cells' membranes to alter their behaviour. For NEURON these are usually implemented in NMODL. The preferred way to specify these in neuroConstruct is with a ChannelML file.
ChannelML is a language (using XML technologies) for specifying the dynamics of various subcellular processes (Channel Mechanisms, Synaptic Mechanisms, etc.) which are present on biologically detailed model neurons. It is a part of Level 2 of NeuroML. The ability to model these types of mechanisms is one of the key features of platforms like NEURON or GENESIS, but the implementation of the mechanisms is far from trivial, requiring both knowledge of the physiological processes and of a low level programming language. ChannelML seeks to separate the electrophysiological data from any specific implementation, defining a template for numerous types of cellular mechanism, containing only the relevant biophysical parameters (e.g. reversal potentials, (in)activation rate equations) which can be automatically validated for completeness. These


Anna-maya-kosha (anna =food +maya = made of)
The densest of the five koshas (sheaths) is easy for us to understand as it's made of matter as we know it.
"From food creatures are produced: whatsoever creatures dwell on earth.
Moreover, by food they live, and into food they finally pass.
Those who care for this body are nourished by the universe itself."
Taittiriya Upanishad 1000-600 BC
Organic and inorganic matter in the form of food builds our bodies from the earliest cell division, its intake as food maintains our bodies and then, when our physical life is over, molecules and atoms which make the physical body up contribute to the food cycle again.
In our physical yoga practice (asana and vinyasa flow), we take care of Anna-maya-kosha by
 - stretching, strengthening and relaxing muscles and tendons
 - encouraging greater range of movement in the joints
 - massaging and toning the digestive, respiratory, circulatory, reproductive and endocrine systems


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In order to quantify the effect of a requirements change, we used various risk factors.
These are defined as the attribute of a requirement change that can induce adverse effects on reliability and maintainability:
Failure incidence, maintainability (e.g., size and complexity of the code) and project management (e.g. personnel resources).

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Why did Jesus have twelve apostles?
It is no coincidence that Jesus chose twelve apostles, the same number as the twelve tribes of Israel that come from the twelve sons of Jacob (renamed Israel).
The apostles were invited, saying that one's invitation into this new group is not by birth or heritage, but by choice. Jews are Jews by birth. Christians are Christians by accepting the invitation to follow.
The apostles formed a newly organized group that would take the foundation of what the twelve tribes started and took it out into the world. It was no longer localized to a region, but spread globally.
The tribes were shepherds who lead a designated group of sheep around from place to place. The apostles were (mostly) fishermen who throw out nets and grab large groups of fish, of all kinds. The tribes focused on their own people. The apostles focused on Jews and Gentiles, those outside the Jewish region.
Jesus was saying by choosing twelve apostles that he was regrouping what the Jewish faith started and turning it into a more globalized movement.
The last book of the Bible, Revelation, pictures heaven with acknowledgements of what both groups did. Both are important.


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The steady stream of cases filed by unpaid interns claiming to be owed minimum wage and overtime compensation under the Fair Labor Standards Act remains on the rise after highly publicized court decisions and settlements. However, courts continue to struggle with how to determine if and when an intern should be paid for work under a law that was passed more than 70 years ago.
The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals became the most recent federal appellate court to chime in on this subject in a case arising out of Florida.
The Florida case involved a group of graduate students studying to become licensed nurse anesthetists (yes, the ones who help put people to sleep – clinically speaking, of course). These students were enrolled in a Master's program, which required participation in at least 550 surgical procedures before being eligible for licensure in Florida. Not surprisingly, this requirement was imposed to promote patient safety by ensuring students were able to perform the essential functions of their job once they joined this field. The interns sued claiming they should be paid for their 40-50 hour work weeks arguing that it was the medical clinics that primarily benefited from this free labor, not the interns. The Trial Judge ruled against the interns. On appeal, the 11thCircuit Court of Appeals did not decide whether the interns should be paid. Instead, it sent the case back to the Trial Judge to decide the issue using a different legal standard. The 11th Circuit rejected the test utilized by the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), which called for a rigid approach to the inquiry, in favor of a more flexible standard in line with the purpose behind modern internships.
Under this new test, the 11th Circuit stated that the federal courts in Georgia, Alabama and Florida should focus on the following factors:
- The extent to which the intern and employer understand that there is no expectation of compensation as part of the internship.
- The extent to which the internship provides training similar to that received in an academic setting, including hands-on training.
- The extent to which the internship is tied to the intern's formal educational program, such as the receipt of academic credit.
- The extent to which the internship corresponds with the academic calendar.
- The extent to which the internship is limited in duration to provide the intern with beneficial learning.
- The extent to which the intern's work complements (rather than displaces) the work of paid employees while providing significant educational benefits.
- The extent to which the intern and employer understand that there is no entitlement to a paid position at the conclusion of the internship.
In enunciating this new standard, the 11th Circuit expressly acknowledged that no one factor is dispositive. Simply because the employer obtains a benefit from providing an internship does not end the analysis, as some claimed would be the case under the DOL standard. The Court also noted the possibility of other factors not described above becoming relevant to the inquiry.
Some employers are rejoicing at this holding believing that for once, common sense has prevailed. But bear in mind that the 11th Circuit acknowledged that one size may not always fit all scenarios when it comes to the unpaid internship. There may be instances where an intern may be an employee for some purposes but still properly considered an unpaid intern for other purposes.
Looking forward, one thing is certain. Litigation will continue as the courts try to navigate through the murky waters of the unpaid internship. For this reason, unless your internship involves matters of life or death (such as learning how to properly anesthetize patients before surgical procedures), tread carefully if you dare.


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Some questions arising from the death of a robot in Austria.
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An artificial robot designed to stimulate the experience of sex with a woman has had to be repaired after hours of being groped and fondled at a convention in Austria. I have…questions.
 1. Didn't this all occur in a public space?
 2. I mean, even before you get into how essentially creepy the whole thing is, did this literally happen in public?
 3. Did men queue to do this?
 4. Was there a literal queue of men waiting to grope the sex robot?
 5. Did they make small talk in the queue?
 6. What was the small talk about?
 7. Did it relate to the matter in hand, as it were, or did they range across other topics?
 8. Were friendships formed as men discovered they shared an interest in the work of Martin Amis or the Red Hot Chili Peppers as well as fondling robots?
 9. Did they talk about their jobs?
 10. Were business cards exchanged?
 11. According to reports, the robot had to be sent back for repairs in a parcel, and some of its fingers were broken. Seriously, what?
 12. There was…fluid in the robot. Can I repeat my questions about a public space, in front of other people.
 13. Didn't anyone notice that the robot was in distress?
 14. Are we the baddies?
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Question What are the benefits of asynchronous messaging?
A Less coupling between the sender and receiver. B Blocks until message is processed C Suitable for transaction processing D Network is not required to be available E Can be implemented using EJB
Choices A, D are correct.
My doubts are Why Choices E is not correct.
what is meaning of Network is not required to be available?
1) Network is not required to be available - it might be not well worded statement, which means that message consumer may be offline when message is sent, and this won't mean messsage lost (should be reliable subscription though).
2) Why Choices E is not correct. If this mock is for old version of SCEA, it assumed EJB 1.1, and probably MDB EJB was introduced later (EJB 2.0, IIRC).
I think E is incorrect because it really does not states a benefit of using Asynchronous messaging. maybe this could be rewritten as "The use of MDBs improves the portability of the asynchronous system" or "The use of MDBs as async solution improves the reliability because the server will manage the persistence of the incoming messages."


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DELIVRD in the Appendix B) will be considered as successfully delivered and all stat values that match errors (e.g. Usually it's provided by the /etc/ssl/certs directory on Debian. One widely To handle retries and connectivity problems, Adobe Campaign sends these parts in reverse order and requests a SR only on the first part of the message, the last sent. General Syntax of Extended AT Commands, 17. You will need the debug output of the connector in order to see exactly what bytes you send to the provider. The SMSC will pack it into 7 bits per character before it is sent to the mobile. The document applies to Adobe Campaign Standard and Adobe Campaign Classic (Extended generic SMPP) unless specified otherwise. The stat field is important: it tells the status of the message. Setting this field to 1 makes the connector always respond "OK" even if the ID is invalid. When the SMS gateway receives the SMS The SMSC Service Provider uses the SMS Center platform and its features for managing connections to mobile operators including commercial conditions, and secure high performance on SMS messages like bulk campaign advertisements send by telemarketing customers.
Example URL to enable SMPP traces: In the config-instance.xml file, set the following parameters: Wait for 10 minutes to let the server reload external accounts.
These threads are all identical and share the same configuration. How to Send SMS Messages from a Computer / PC? SMS gateway software package is Kannel, which is written in the C What Makes SMS Messaging So Successful Worldwide? Solutions). There are a lot of BIND PDUs. This PDU will contain the ID of the MT. can be downloaded free of charge over the web. "date_time=20060101+1830"
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Suppose you are the developer of an SMS text messaging A MAP_OPEN construct therefore is directly related to a TCAP_BEGIN with a MAP application context, a MAP_CLOSE is a TCAP_END. Showing utility function gives preferences that are rational and convex.
Since the mobile phone only displays a message when its first part is received, retries on additional parts won't produce duplicates on the mobile phone. password you included in the above URL. TCP connections are always initiated by Adobe Campaign, even to receive messages. To convert unicode to hexadecimal, you can use online tools like this: _URL_ site design / logo © 2020 Stack Exchange Inc; user contributions licensed under cc by-sa. Check that the broad log is present and in the correct status with the correct dates.
How to Receive SMS Messages Using a Computer / PC? You can also use this setting to force a specific encoding to be always used by declaring only 1 line in the mapping table. How to Send SMS Messages from a Computer / PC? Another option is the Open Source Mobicents SMSC server, which supports SMPP, SIP and SS7/SIGTRAN interfaces, as well as HTTP REST APIs via Restcomm. Now SMPP is an open SMSC protocol whose Why would this NPC in Curse of Strahd ever attack Strahd? The problem did not appear when only one account is active at any time.
between SMS gateways of different SMS service providers or wireless This must be enabled when troubleshooting the connector and compared to the traffic seen by the provider.
In that case the error is found in a SR. Finding the root cause is the priority. For example, if a different SMS gateway is used, the Include a description of the expected result.
and GSM/GPRS modems. The number of threads cannot be changed by customers since it requires changing configuration files. If connection issues are difficult to diagnose, a network capture will provide a lot of information. protocols are proprietary. Due to the amount of messages we received, we may not be able to reply to all messages.
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The date is always formatted as an absolute UTC time format (the date field will end with "00+"). No personalization is available in this field. The transmitter connection is used for MT, and the receiver connection is used for MO and SR. Requests and responses for each kind of message are sent over the same TCP connection. investigate whether connector has been changed recently - and by whom (check External Accounts as a group). (Optional) Please provide us more details. CIMD (Computer Interface to Message Distribution) Een protocol ontwikkeld en eigendom van Nokia voor zijn Artuse SMSC. provider, you can start sending SMS messages using a protocol / If you have multiple accounts on the same Adobe Campaign instance that connect to the same provider, contact the provider to make sure that they actually distinguish connections between these accounts. Specifying short code is helpful for 2 features: TON (Type Of Number) and NPI (Numbering Plan Indicator) are described in section 5.2.5 of the SMPP 3.4 specification. If both fields match, the MO is sent and the additional action is triggered. Connections are kept alive as long as the MTA child is kept alive (also configurable in serverConf.xml). [1] These MAP messages may be transported using "traditional" TDM based signalling, or over IP using SIGTRAN and an appropriate adaptation layer. These settings are advanced settings that enable to adapt the Campaign connector to most SMPP implementation peculiarities.
Fortunately, there are open source SMS gateway software packages that [1] For the sake of simplicity, some of the interactions between the VMSC and VLR, and VMSC and Handset, have been omitted, and only the case when SMS home routing is not in use is shown. enquire_link is a special kind of PDU sent to keep the connection alive.
Adobe Campaign Classic acknowledges SR and MO once they have been inserted into the database. Example of a transmission with a maximum window of 4: The window helps increasing throughput when the network link has a high latency.
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Why Kids Are Good For Men
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Why Kids Are Good For Men
Scientifically Proven: The Real Impact Of A Good Father
Men with lower testosterone levels tend to have way fewer stints in jail cells or drug rehab clinics.
Fatherhood brings a myriad of new experiences to a man's life: Being handed a whining kid after a long day at the office, Saturday morning rink time with kids who skate on their ankles, kids barfing in your bed. So who says fatherhood is rewarding?
Fatherhood: a life-saver, literally
Well, science does. A new 19-year study shows that one of the best ways to become a better man is to become an involved father. The study followed more than 200 at-risk boys and looked at a host of deviant behaviors such as criminal activity, alcohol use and marijuana use, and compared them to various life changes. The results? The single most important factor that leads men to clean up their act is fatherhood. Even more so than finding a good woman. And the men who waited until their late 20s or early thirties to become fathers had the greatest benefits. Teen fathers didn't benefit so much.
So why are kids the magic that can turn a bad man good? While there are plenty of psychological and social factors such as the role of care-giving, teaching and the responsibility of being a provider, there is also one big biological factor: testosterone. Soon after a baby is born, a new father's testosterone drops. If he is involved in some form of daily care of that baby, his testosterone drops even more steeply.
Testosterone can be your enemy
Testosterone has long been known as a contributing factor to crime and other forms of deviant behavior in men. Men with lower testosterone levels tend to have way fewer stints in jail cells or drug rehab clinics.
But before you jump to the conclusion that men with lower testosterone tend to be the homey types who settle down behind a white picket fence and therefore show up on fatherhood studies, think again. Men with high testosterone levels are most likely to become fathers. One of testosterone's great features, besides influencing criminal activity, is that is fuels male-to-male competition for mates. So the highly sexual and aggressive dudes get the girl, and if they hang out and participate in fatherhood, they also get a good-guy makeover.
Oh, and let's not dismiss the importance of a close and loving relationship with a baby mama. Marriage and committed romance help a man lower a particular stress hormone. Adult committed love can reduce stress and increase a man's health. Single men often have poorer health than married men and fathers. Researchers speculate that this, again, could be related to lower testosterone levels that might protect them against certain chronic diseases as they age. Marriage has also been shown to help men recover from cancer easier and acquire more wealth.
But if you're just looking to clean up your act and walk the straight and narrow, try diaper changing. For bad boys, kids can be life-changing.
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We present an approach to building hlgh-level control systems for robotics based on Bayesian decision theory. We show how this approach provides a natural and modular way of integrating sensing and planning. We develop a simple solution for a particular problem as an illustration. We examine the cost of using such a model and consider the areas in which abstraction can reduce this cost. We focus on one area, spatial abstraction, and discuss the design issues that arise in choosing a spatial abstraction. Finally, we discuss an abstraction that we have used to solve problems involving robot navigation, and give a detailed account of the mapping from raw sensor data to the abstraction.


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Continental Congressman and lawyer John Dickenson (1732 – 1808) was born in Maryland, raised in Delaware, and served in Congresses representing both Delaware and Pennsylvania. He was one of the wealthiest men of Colonial America. In Delaware alone, he owned six farms along the St. Jones River.
Historic Herbs: One of these now historic farms is located in Dover, Delaware, and is called Poplar Hall. Of interest to historical herbalists visiting the site are the herbs displayed in the basement kitchen (original to the house) which include wormwood, tansy, marjoram, horehound, rosemary, peppermint, yellow bedstraw, feverfew, lemon balm, thyme, and lemon thyme.
More herbs dried and hanging in the storage room include lemon balm, lavender, spearmint, tarragon, basil, rue, anise, fennel, and rosemary, as well as feverfew, peppermint, tansy, rosemary, wormwood, and marjoram.
Wormwood tea was used for worms and tapeworms. Wormwood is an excellent strewing herb; it was put on the floor of dwellings to release a scent that bugs do not like. Wormwood, rue, and tansy were rubbed on tables to keep flies away. Tansy was used for worms.
According to Barbara Carroll, an historic guide who works at the Dickinson mansion house, spearmint contains no menthol and so was used to make mint jams and jellies and is good for upset stomachs. Peppermint, which contains menthol, was used for upset stomachs and to repel rodents, who don't like menthol. Barbara described a type of orange water liquid that was prepared in a colonial crock pot, called a pipkin. The orange water was made with one-fourth cup of orange peel and one cup of water. The liquid was left to sit overnight and would take on an orange flavor that was used to flavor cakes, pies, and cookies.
On the day of this author's tour through Poplar Hall (August 15, 2012), a lady's group was being treated to an herbal potpourri making activity, featuring rose petals, lavender, orange, cinnamon sticks (to be grated), peppermint, and spearmint. Our guide explained that colonists wore herbs as well as strewed the floors with herbs to keep themselves and their houses smelling nice.
Poplar Hall is a wonderful historic site to visit to appreciate "the good things of life" (specifically herbs, spices, aromas, plants, trees, and all of nature) and the old-fashioned ways that are becoming ever so popular once again today.
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More About John Dickinson: Although remembered as a delegate who did not sign the Declaration of Independence in 1776, he was a clear advocate for American rights and was known as the Penman of the American Revolution for writing Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania to the Inhabitants of the British Colonies (_PHONE_), in which he objected to Parliament taxing the colonies to raise revenue. Dickinson served in the military against British troops and later was an ardent supporter of the Constitution. At the time of the signing of the Constitution, Dickinson represented Delaware which became the first state to ratify the Constitution, hence Delaware's nickname as "The First State."

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Canadian Centre of Agri-food Research in Health and Medicine (CCARM)
The Canadian Centre of Agri-food Research in Health and Medicine (CCARM) is working to make Canadians healthier through research into agri-food.
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There was a time when most Canadians lived on farms. Today, it's three per cent.
The rest of us live in urban areas such as Winnipeg.
As you might have guessed, the agriculture industry has become more sophisticated, allowing high-quality Canadian food to be produced more efficiently.
The industry is also using agriculture materials for medical and industrial purposes.
Let's take a brief look inside some of the innovative work that's being done in agriculture, one of Manitoba's most important and vibrant industries.
The Canadian Centre for Agri-food Research in Health and Medicine (CCARM) is dedicated to understanding the health-related benefits of nutraceuticals, functional foods and natural health products, or health foods.
Dr. Peter Zahradka is the centre's Team Leader.
Here are some pulses, or legumes.
Dr. Peter Zahradka:
Here are some pulses. You might recognize them as beans, peas, and lentils, but in the agriculture industry they're better known as pulses; and they're grown right here in Manitoba.
Here at CCARM we've conducted clinical trials which scientifically prove that pulses like these can play an instrumental role in fighting diseases like atherosclerosis, or hardening of the arteries.
Our scientists are also conducting a clinical trial to see if flax has beneficial effects for people suffering from heart disease.
When food has a health-promoting or disease-preventing property, we say it's functional. And discovering the functional properties in food is a big part of what we do.
Our work helps farmers make science-based claims about their crops which, in turn, adds value to what they produce.
We can then work to develop new products that improve the health quality of life of Canadians.
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Emerging technology: Agitation in dry material feeding
Keeping dry materials flowing from metering devices into processing systems has long been a problem. Dry materials tend to be sticky, to bridge over the metering screw, or to pack in the hopper. This can cause discrepancies in feeding accuracy, consistency, and uniformity.
To feed dry materials accurately from a screw feeder, you must ensure two things. First, the screw flights must be completely filled with material of uniform density. This means that the material cannot compact or segregate. Material compaction and segregation will cause some flights to be filled with a denser material and others to be filled with a lighter material, which creates an erratic feed rate.


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On turning the page, the viewer sees the paint and ink of the preceding page through the parchment, creating a subdued image of the script, flower, ladybird, and mussel in reverse. But in the middle of this page, the stem from the flower, called a Maltese cross, which illusionistically pierced the other side of the page, here appears to rest above a narrow strip of the parchment. The shadow of this strip of parchment and the flower stem are the only elements that are painted on this side of the page. Through this defiant gesture, Joris Hoefnagel, the brilliantly inventive illuminator, continued his response to the work of master calligrapher Georg Bocskay from the previous page, dramatizing the ability of artists to create visual illusions.
Although sixteenth-century manuscripts frequently included fruit and flower borders and employed trompe-l'oeil devices, never before had the conceit of the pierced page been carried so far.


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Habitat: South Africa (Provinces of Cape and Karoo)
Cultivation: Sunny exposure, moderately high temperatures, poor watering (once every 10 days in the vegetative period): Faucaria does not need much attention to grow well.
Curiosity: The etymology of this plant derives from the Latin fauces by the similarity of the leaves (at least of some varieties) with the mouths of wild beasts: an effect given by the triangular compact form, with thorns (or teeth) along the edges. Also the names of some species take this similarity, such as the Faucaria felina or the Faucaria tiger.
FAUCARIA KEY FEATURES
The plants of the Faucaria genus are aizoacee that appear in the form of bushes, with the leaves (mostly thick, fleshy and triangular) that gather in rosettes. They do not reach, therefore, large size but overall they are very decorative plants for the peculiarity of the shapes and for the beautiful flowers. Their roots are fleshy; generally do not have branches but can sometimes come out with age. The flowering takes place from September to November: we must not forget that these plants come from the South Africa and thus have an inverted life cycle compared to those which live above the equator. Flowers are generally yellow or orange and large in proportion to the plant; a variety, Faucaria felina presents white flowers and, in the old classifications, was called Candida Faucaria. The petals are long and extremely thin, so that the flower as a whole remembers the shape of the mesembriantem.
VARIETIES AND TYPES
Previous classifications for Faucaria had a total of 33 species: the genus has recently undergone a major revision that has reduced the current classification to only 6 species and 3 subspecies. Most of the old species have been brought into the various subspecies of the feline Faucaria.
- Faucaria boscheana
- F. felina
- F. felina subsp. Britteniae
- F. felina subsp. Felina
- F. felina subsp. Tuberculosa
- F. gratiae
- F. nemorosa
- F. subintegra
- F. tigrina
TIPS FOR CULTIVATION
The Faucaries in general are easy to cultivate but need a slightly richer soil than the one required for the cactaceae.
These are our tips for cultivating:
- Sunny exposure is the most recommended, although the plant lives well even under medium conditions.
- The average temperature should be quite high and in general the plant should remain above 10 ° C. An adult and healthy exemplar could, however, survive even short frosts.
- Watering must be scarce all year : from April to October, it can be watered once every 10 days, in winter irrigation can be less frequent.
- The soil must be well drained and fairly balanced as components: a mixture of peat and inert materials, such as sand or lapillo, is the best choice.
- Fertilize in spring and summer once every 15 days, however using little fertilizer.
- Being small plants, they do not have frequent repotting needs.
Faucaria reproduces well both by seed and by cuttings. As a cuttings, fleshy leaves are in fact perfect because they root very easily. Cuttings can also be used when we realize that the plant is too old, since small plants do not have a very long life cycle; with age, in addition, the plant tends to change its appearance or to face various problems – for example, small branches may come out or roots can easily ruin.


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There is no need to finish the interior of the box, because it is protected from the weather and should you be fortunate to attract a colony, it will be necessary to discard the box at the end of the season of actual use. Discarding a used nest box is important because there is no practical way to sterilize a wood box. There are a wide variety of parasites, which feed off bumblebees and the nest contents during the season. Eggs of these parasites may be deposited in cracks and crevices. Nest boxes constructed of metal or plastic could probably be cleaned with steam or chemicals. Wood boxes are quickly made, and easy to replace.
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Performance delay when a full-text query is executed on a SQL Server with no connection to Internet.
To utilise the FULL-TEXT performance features in SQL Server 2005 the DBA might need to run a full-text query on a SQL Server instance. Occasionally the user might notice a delay in performance to produce the results of full-text query in a timely manner. This issue arises because Full-Text engine for SQL Server uses the word breaker that is related to the query which requires Internet connection to complete the process.
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Word breakers and stemmers perform linguistic analysis on all full-text indexed data. Linguistic analysis involves finding word boundaries (word-breaking) and conjugating verbs (stemming). The rules for this analysis differ for different languages, and you can specify a different language for each full-text indexed column. Word breakers for each language enable the resulting terms to be more accurate for that language. In the case where there is a word breaker for the language family, but not for the specific sub-language, the major language is used. For example, the French word breaker is used to handle text that is French Canadian. If no word breaker is available for a particular language, the neutral word breaker is used. With the neutral word breaker, words are broken at neutral characters such as spaces and punctuation marks.
The word breaker component uses the signature verification that involves a certification revocation check, during this check the process requires Internet connectivity. Due to unavailability of Internet access the query might affect a few seconds delay in providing results by loading the rest of word breaker process. By default the Full-Text SQL engine unloads a word breaker that has not been used for 5 minutes to reduce resource consumption.
Microsoft suggests users use their own discretion in opening an Internet connection during the Full-text query execution so as to avoid any vulnerabilities on SQL Server. If the SQL Server instance is behind a firewall, install a firewall client, and then open the 80 port that is required by signature verification.


Chiral magnetoresistance in Pt/Co/Pt zigzag wires
Yuxiang Yin, Dong Soo Han, June Seo Kim, Reinoud Lavrijsen, Kyung Jin Lee, Seo Won Lee, Kyoung Whan Kim, Hyun Woo Lee, Henk J.M. Swagten, Bert Koopmans
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The Rashba effect leads to a chiral precession of the spins of moving electrons, while the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) generates preference towards a chiral profile of local spins. We predict that the exchange interaction between these two spin systems results in a "chiral" magnetoresistance depending on the chirality of the local spin texture. We observe this magnetoresistance by measuring the domain wall (DW) resistance in a uniquely designed Pt/Co/Pt zigzag wire and by changing the chirality of the DW with applying an in-plane magnetic field. A chirality-dependent DW resistance is found, and a quantitative analysis shows a good agreement with a theory based on the Rashba model. Moreover, the DW resistance measurement allows us to independently determine the strength of the Rashba effect and the DMI simultaneously, and the result implies a possible correlation between the Rashba effect, the DMI, and the symmetric Heisenberg exchange.
Original languageEnglish
Article number122401
JournalApplied Physics Letters
Issue number12
Publication statusPublished - 2017 Mar 20
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Walsworth's Yearbook Suite curriculum is a powerful resource that yearbook advisers are using to engage their students with collaborative learning activities. Now is the perfect time to learn how to use the Suite in your classroom.
The Yearbook Suite covers it all in 11 units, from Theme and Design to Writing and Photojournalism. There are student workbooks for each unit, as well an all-encompassing Adviser Edition.
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Akhdam children in a Ta'izz neighborhood.
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Sana'a, Aden, Ta'izz, Lahij, Abyan, Al Hudaydah, Al Mukalla
Yemeni Arabic
Al-Akhdam, Akhdam or Achdam (singular Khadem, meaning "servant" in Arabic; also called Al-Muhamasheen, "the marginalized ones") is a social group in Yemen, distinguished from the majority by its members' Veddoid-like physical features and stature.[2] They are considered to be at the very bottom of the societal ladder, are socially segregated, and are mostly confined to menial jobs in the country's major cities.[3] According to official estimates, the Akhdam numbered between 500,000 to 3,500,000 individuals.
The caves of Al-Akhdam in Sanaa in 1942
Akhdam man or Khadem in Ta'izz
The exact origins of Al-Akhdam are uncertain. One popular account holds that they are descendants of Nilotic Sudanese people who accompanied the Abyssinian army during the latter's occupation of Yemen in the pre-Islamic period. Once the Abyssinian troops were finally expelled at the start of the Muslim era, some of the Sudanese migrants are said to have remained behind, giving birth to the Akhdam. Another theory maintains that they are of Veddoid origin.[2]
Anthropologists such as Vombruck suggest that Yemen's history and social hierarchy that developed under various regimes, including the Zaydi Imamate, created a caste-like society.[4] The Al-Akhdam formed a kind of hereditary caste at the very bottom of Yemeni social strata.[5] Intermarriage was also traditionally not practiced, as the Al-Akhdam were deemed untouchables.[2] Though their social conditions have improved somewhat in modern times, Al-Akhdam are still stereotyped by mainstream Yemeni society; they have been called lowly, dirty and immoral.[6] They also tend to work menial jobs.[3]
Studies by Al-Serouri et al. report lower education among the Al-Akhdam. Additionally, due to a poorer understanding of HIV risks, group members also have higher reported rates and risks of contracting HIV infections.[7]
Many NGOs and charitable organizations from other countries such as CARE International are reportedly working toward improving the living circumstances of the Akhdam.[8] However, Huda Sief disputes the extent of these efforts.[9]
Most Al-Akhdam live in segregated slums on the outskirts of Yemen's main urban centers.[3] Many of them reside in the capital Sana'a. Others can also be found in Aden, Ta'izz, Lahij, Abyan, Al Hudaydah and Al Mukalla.
According to official estimates, the Akhdam numbered around 500,000 individuals in 2004.[3] Other estimates put their number at over 3.5 million residents in 2013, out of a total Yemeni population of around 22 million.[1]
Besides their social position, the Akhdam are distinguished from the majority by its members' Veddoid-like physical features and shorter stature.[2]
Genetic studies by Lehmann (1954) and Tobias (1974) noted the sickle cell trait at high frequencies amongst the Akhdam.[2][10] According to Lehmann, this suggests a biological link with the Veddoids of South Asia, who also have a high incidence of the trait.[2]
 1. ^ a b Yemen's Al-Akhdam face brutal oppression
 2. ^ a b c d e f Lehmann, Hermann (1954). "Distribution of the sickle cell trait" (PDF). Eugenics Review 46 (2): 113–116. PMC _PHONE_. PMID 21260667. Retrieved 5 August 2012.
 3. ^ a b c d Robert F. Worth, "Languishing at the Bottom of Yemen's Ladder", New York Times, (February 27 2008)
 4. ^ GABRIELE VOMBRUCK (June 1996). "Being worthy of protection. The dialectics of gender attributes in Yemen". Social Anthropology 4 (2): 145–162. doi:10.1111/j._PHONE_.1996.tb00322.x.
 5. ^ "Caste In Yemen". Baltimore Sun. April 25, 2004.
 6. ^ Marguerite Abadjian (April 22, 2004). "In Yemen, lowest of the low". The Baltimore Sun.
 7. ^ Al-Serouri A. W., Anaam M., Al-Iryani B., Al Deram A. & Ramaroson, S. (2010), AIDS awareness and attitudes among Yemeni young people living in high-risk areas, Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal, 16(3): 242-250
 8. ^ Yemen Times
 9. ^ Huda Seif (2005), The Accursed Minority: The Ethno-Cultural Persecution of Al-Akhdam in the Republic of Yemen, Muslim World Journal of Human Rights, Vol. 2, Issue 1, Art. 9, (pages 10, 29)
 10. ^ Tobias, P.V. (1 June 1974). "An Anthropologist Looks at Malaria" (PDF). S.A. Medical Journal. pp. 1124–1127. Retrieved 5 August 2012.
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China wholesale Basketball Training Equipment - Basketball Training Machine DL2 – DKsportbot
Parameters: * Color: Light Green * Net weight: 123kg * Power: 180W * Frequency: 2.6-4.5s/ball * Voltage: AC 110V/220V Function: * Can practice shooting posture, holding skills, two-point and three-point shooting. Fixed-point shots, shooting on the move, jump shots, hollow shots etc. * 17 points in different modes of programming * Fixed-point, horizontal ball, spin, speed adjustment, frequency adjustment * Circulation net system, which can be used for 1-3 balls * Fixed point or horizontal shooting with 180 degree * The distance between two service wheels can be adjusted according to personal preference or habits, to control the intensity and speed of the ball * Practice physical strength and reaction speed * Fastest: 2.6 sec/ball, Slowest: 4.5 sec/ball


Barlow's formula
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Barlow's formula relates the internal pressure that a pipe[1] can withstand to its dimensions and the strength of its material.
P=\frac {2St} {D}
P = pressure
S = allowable stress
t = wall thickness
D = outside diameter
This formula figures prominently in the design of autoclaves and other pressure vessels.
The formula is named after Peter Barlow, an English mathematician.
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The design of a complex pressure containment system involves much more than the application of Barlow's formula. For almost all pressure vessels, the ASME code stipulates the requirements for design and testing.[citation needed]
The formula is also common in the pipeline industry to verify that pipe used for gathering, transmission, and distribution lines can safely withstand operating pressures. The design factor is multiplied by the resulting pressure which gives the maximum operating pressure (MAOP) for the pipeline. This design factor is dependent on class locations which are defined in DOT Part 192. There are four class locations corresponding to four design factors:[citation needed]
 - Class 1: An offshore area or any class location unit that has 10 or fewer buildings intended for human occupancy. The Class 1 design factor is 0.72.
 - Class 2: any class location that has more than 10 but fewer than 46 buildings intended for human occupancy; design factor 0.60.
 - Class 3: any location that has more than 46 or more buildings intended for human occupancy or any area where the pipeline lies within 100 yards (91 meters) of a building or a small, well-defined outdoor area (such as a playground, recreation area, outdoor theater, or place of public assembly) that is occupied by 20 or more persons at least five days a week for 10 weeks in any 12-month period—weeks need not be consecutive. design factor 0.50.
 - Class 4: any class location unit where buildings with four or more stories above the ground are prevalent; design factor 0.40.
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When six-year-old Lauren Rudolph was rushed to the hospital with severe abdominal pain, bloody diarrhea, and fever, doctors were mystified as to the cause of her sudden and terrifying symptoms. Just five days later Lauren would become the first victim of a mysterious bacterial pathogen. Hundreds of sick children began to show up at hospitals across the Western states, three more children died.
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After frantic research, health officials managed to trace the deadly outbreak to a singlesource: undercooked hamburgers eaten at the popular fast-food chain Jack in the Box.
Back in 1993, no one had ever heard of E. coli. Food poisoning might give you a stomachache but it wasn't regarded as life-threatening, and no one dreamed that giving a child ahamburger could have deadly consequences. The alarming E. coli outbreak that began withLauren Rudolph opened America's eyes to the dangers of undercooked meat, touching off amedia and political frenzy that would revolutionize the way we eat.
"The Jack in the Box outbreak is considered the meat industry's wake-up call," says bestselling author Jeff Benedict. "As soon as hamburgers killed kids, everything changed." Benedict conducted over 250 on-the-record interviews and poured over thousands of pages of documents to produce an incredible behind-the-scenes account of the Jack in the Box E. coli outbreak. Benedict chronicles how this outbreak, apart from causing severe injury, challenged everyone affected; from the group of doctors who had never seen a case of E. coli to the Jack in the Box executives who had to quickly devise new industry safety standards that went way beyond what any other restaurant chain had done previously or see their business fail.
In POISONED Jeff Benedict expertly guides readers through the unprecedented political and legal battle that followed America's largest outbreak of foodborne illness to date, told through the eyes of a vividly drawn cast of characters:
 - Roni Rudolph, the determined mother of the first E. coli victim, who would go on to become a food safety activist.
 - Bob Nugent, the blindsided CEO of Jack in the Box who never dreamed that undercooked meat could kill.
 - Brianne Kiner, a little girl sickened with E. coli who miraculously recovered from the brink of death, and her mother Suzanne Kiner, a woman determined to make the food industry listen to her daughter's story.
 - Dave Theno, the scientist hired by Jack in the Box to design new safety procedures for the entire industry.
 - Bob Piper, Jack-in-the-Box's larger-than-life defense attorney.
 - Bill Marler, the young maverick lawyer representing Brianne Kiner, whose audacious and unconventional tactics would win her the largest class action settlement in Washington state history.
Painstakingly researched and gut-wrenchingly immediate, POISONED tells the story of a pivotal moment in American history, one that graphically demonstrated the dangers of food-borne illness and would leave the food industry forever changed. Part investigative journalism and part legal thriller, POISONED is the definitive chronicle of the 1993 food poisoning drama that gripped the nation.
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Definition of cannonball in English:
1A round metal or stone projectile fired from a cannon in former times.
- Mortars, as seen in the top right and bottom left hand pictures, were used to fire cannonballs over walls into a courtyard to kill soldiers and cause general damage.
- Dozens of rounds of ammo, bombs and even cannonballs are fired at the trio, yet don't produce one scratch.
- Also uncovered were musket balls, cannonballs, a grenade and tools.
1.1 (also cannonball dive) North American A jump into water performed upright with the knees clasped to the chest.
- She ran down the hill, off the deck, and did a cannonball into the water.
- Yukirin quickly leaped into the water, doing a cannonball and splashing Fiona.
- Suddenly, Tyler did a cannonball into the water.
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My Archive My Future:
my archives-my future
In order to promote the culture of archiving, documentation and preservation of personal possessions among young people at different academic levels, the National Archives launched a nationwide campaign entitled "My Archive My Future". The campaign aims at introducing students to the methods of archiving and documentation of personal credentials in a systemic and modern manner that will enable students to preserve their official and personal possessions using safer and easier modern methods.
Objectives of "My Archive My Future" Project:
 - To promote awareness among students of the value of Emirati identity, documents and heritage as well as the value of pictures and valuable items that are part of the history of the UAE and its culture.
 - To motivate students to value a sense of national and social responsibility and to ensure that these values are transferred to future generations.
 - To promote student awareness of the importance of documents that are not simply pieces of paper but which can be proud fingerprints belonging to the UAE.
 - To educate students from early childhood of the importance of properly archiving their own certificates for future jobs and the need to save them from damage and loss for when they are needed.
 - To promote to students that they are the link between the National Archives and their family and the need for them to be an effective catalyst to ensure their family's history is kept alive.
Activities of "My Archive My Future" Project:
- Organizing "My Archive My Future" Campaign: to promote the culture of preserving personal archives, including various aspects and photographs of the student's life, such as academic certificates and reports, important newsletters and press releases, identification papers and health cards.
- Organizing the "Educational Archive" Competition: to encourage students to participate in interactive competitions, which will ensure their continuous participation in transferring archival knowledge in the educational sector. Awards will be conferred in the following categories:
- The best personal archive award.
- The best school archive award.
- The best archival material award.
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"How to Identify and Control Water Weeds and Algae" is the complete guide to identification, treatment options and measuring lakes and ponds to apply product to common aquatic plants. Identifying the type or species of plant(s) to be controlled is the first step in implementing a management strategy. This book is intended for government, commercial and private concerns responsible for maintaining the recreational, aesthetic and functional value of water resources. Recommendations are based upon decades of research in aquatic plant control and water management by industry, universities and government agencies.
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Recusants, ENGLISH.—The first statute in which the term "Popish Recusants" is used is 35 Eliz. c. 2, "An Act for restraining Popish Recusants to some certain place of abode", which was passed in 1593. The statute defines a recusant as one "convicted for not repairing to some Church, Chapel or usual place of Common Prayer to hear Divine Service there, but forbearing the same contrary to the tenor of the laws and statutes heretofore made and provided in that behalf". The Recusancy Acts are: 1 Eliz. c. 2, 23 Eliz. c. 1, 29 Eliz. c. 6, 35 Eliz. c. 2, 3 Jac. I. c. 5, 7 Jac. I. c. 6, and 3 Car. I. c. 2. But several statutes declare that other offenses shall be deemed acts of recusancy, and that those convicted of them shall be deemed "popish recusants convict".
As time went on there were other recusants who were not Catholics, but who for one reason or another refrained from attending the Church of England services. This fact must be remembered in dealing with the Recusancy lists, though, of course, far the larger number of recusants were Catholics. The number of recusants was very great, as may be seen by one instance adduced by J. S. Hansom in his preface to the list of convicted recusants in the reign of Charles II (op. cit. inf.); where on one day (February 24, 1690) the names of 1755 recusants were presented in the single town of Thirsk. The recusancy laws were in force from the reign of Elizabeth to that of George III, though they were not always put into execution with equal vigor. Lists of recusants for various counties exist in the Pipe Rolls preserved in the Record Office, London. Others are to be found in the British Museum, Bodleian Library, and in various local archives.
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Learning Pronouns and Adverbs in Italian
Modern English has five interrogative pronouns–what, which, who, whose, and whom–that are used to facilitate the asking of a question and that replace a noun in a sentence. Sentences using interrogative pronouns are intended to elicit more than just a "yes" or "no" answer. These pronouns can refer to places and things and can take on the suffixes -soever or -ever.
In Italian interrogative pronouns, or pronomi interrogativi, are also used to introduce a question or interrogative sentence. Quale and quali (which one or ones), che and che cosa (what–as it applies to a thing), chi (who or whom), and quanto or quanti (how much or how many), are examples of Italian interrogative pronouns. Below are some samples of sentences containing interrogative pronouns:
Che vuoi? = What do you want?
Che cosa è questo? = What is this?
Chi è tuo marito? = Who is your husband?
Con chi stai parlando al telefono? = With whom are you talking on the phone?
Quale vestito da sposa indosserai? = Which bridal gown will you wear?
Quante persone vengono alla festa? = How many people are coming to the party?
Quanti anni hai? = How old are you?
In Italian a question never finishes with a preposition. Most of the question words are invariable, meaning that they do not have to agree with the value of the noun, however quale (which) and quante/quanti (how much), must agree. Before singular nouns we use quale and before plural nouns we use quali. For example:
Quale macchina compri? = Which car are you buying? – The sentence is referring to (1) car
Quali libri leggere? = Which books to read? – The sentence is referring to books, plural
For quante/quanti the pronoun must match not only the quantity, but whether the noun is masculine or feminine.
Quanto = masculine singular
Quanta = feminine singular
Quanti = masculine plural
Quante = feminine plural
Quanto vino posso bere? = How much wine can I drink?
Quanta pasta mangerà Maria? = How much pasta will Maria eat?
Quanti soldi stai guadagnando? = How many money are you earning?
Quante paste mangerai? = How many pastries will you eat?
Quante bugie! = How many lies!
Used in the same way as interrogative pronouns, interrogative adverbs enable the construction of sentences that refer to verbs or actions rather than nouns. Examples of English pronouns include why, where, how and when. Italian interrogative adverbs, or avverbi interrogativi, are come, quando, perchè, and dove.
Come? = How (the manner in which the verb is being acted out)
Quando? = When (the verb's location in time)
Perchè? = Why (the purpose, the cause, or reason for the verb)
Dove? = Where (the verb's location in space)
Come posso dimagrire? = How can I lose weight?
Quando è il tuo compleanno? = When is your birthday?
Perché mangi così tanto? = Why do you eat so much?
Dove è Maria? = Where is Maria?
Insert the correct interrogative pronoun
- 1) Chi è quella ragazza con il vestito blu? = _______ is the girl in the blue dress?
- 2) Qual'è il nome della squadra rossa? = _______ is the name of the team in red?
- 3) A chi piace giocare a calcio? = _______ likes to play football?
- 4) Per chi Maria ha fatto questi biscotti? = For _______ did Maria make these cookies?
- 5) Quali nomi hai scelto per il tuo gatto? = _______names did you choose for your cat?
- 6) Chi hai visto ieri sera? = _______did you see last night?
- 7) A chi dovrebbe essere pagato l'assegno? = To_______should the check be made payable?
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Talk:- Influence of Massive Neutrinos with a Finite Chemical Potential on the Cosmic Expansion History and Large Scale Structure
Due to their high abundance, massive cosmic neutrinos would have a significant influence on cosmology, especially in terms of large scale structure. Ever since the discovery of neutrino oscillation, which confirmed that neutrinos have finite masses, many efforts have been made to constrain neutrino masses from cosmology. However, none of them has considered the possibility of a finite chemical potential, if the neutrinos are not majorana fermions. The work would be the first one to analyse the combined effect of masses and chemical potentials of neutrinos on matter power spectrum of large scale structure, through two physical processes, their influence on the cosmic expansion history, and the neutrino free-streaming. The result would serve as a correction to the constraints of neutrino masses from large scale structure.
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In response to viral pathogens, the host upregulates antiviral genes that suppress translation of viral mRNAs. However, induction of such antiviral responses may not be exclusive to viruses, as the pathways lie at the intersection of broad inflammatory networks that can also be induced by bacterial pathogens. Using a model of Gram-negative sepsis, we show that propagation of kidney damage initiated by a bacterial origin ultimately involves antiviral responses that result in host translation shutdown. We determined that activation of the eukaryotic translation initiation factor 2-α kinase 2/eukaryotic translation initiation factor 2α (Eif2ak2/Eif2α) axis is the key mediator of translation initiation block in late-phase sepsis. Reversal of this axis mitigated kidney injury. Furthermore, temporal profiling of the kidney translatome revealed that multiple genes involved in formation of the initiation complex were translationally altered during bacterial sepsis. Collectively, our findings imply that translation shutdown is indifferent to the specific initiating pathogen and is an important determinant of tissue injury in sepsis.
Takashi Hato, Bernhard Maier, Farooq Syed, Jered Myslinski, Amy Zollman, Zoya Plotkin, Michael T. Eadon, Pierre C. Dagher
Multiple mechanisms contribute to translation shutdown in late-phase sepsis.


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Ten thousand year old boats found on Britain's hillsides
Price: Free! Words: 4,040. Language: English. Published: July 1, 2014. Category: Nonfiction » History » History of things
On the hillsides of Britain are chalk and stone remnants of monuments that are between five and ten thousand years old. These monuments are curious for they are long and thin in shape, surrounded by moats and our ancestors placed their dead inside for their last journey - the problem is these symbolic images were built thousands years before ships were supposedly invented.


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Graphene often gets discussed in gee-whiz applications like post-CMOS electronics, or solar cells that can provide extremely high electricity-to-light conversion ratios.
However, it is perhaps in the more mundane aspects of our world that graphene is providing an important impact. The perfect example of this is graphene in concrete—a material that has been with us since the ancient Romans. In a feature at the beginning of the year, The Graphene Council reported on how the addition of graphene oxide is providing concrete with greater compressive and tensile strength.
Now researchers at the University of Exeter in the UK have developed a technique for adding graphene to concrete that provides such a wide gamut of new and improved properties that some are predicting that it could revolutionize the construction industry.
In research described in the journal Advanced Functional Materials, the University of Exeter researchers demonstrated that the addition of graphene to concrete could improve the material's compressive strength by 149 percent. This compressive strength increase was accompanied with a 79 per cent increase in flexural strength, a 400 per cent decrease in water permeability, and improved electrical and thermal performance.
The key to this development is that it is completely compatible with today's large-scale production of concrete. It simply involves suspending atomically thin graphene in water. The resulting process keeps costs low and results in very few defects in the end product
"This ground-breaking research is important as it can be applied to large-scale manufacturing and construction," said Dimitar Dimov, a PhD student at the University of Exeter and the lead author of the research. "The industry has to be modernized by incorporating not only off-site manufacturing, but innovative new materials as well."
What may grab the headlines beyond its improved properties is that the graphene-enabled concreted appeals to so-called green manufacturing.
"By including graphene we can reduce the amount of materials required to make concrete by around 50 per cent — leading to a significant reduction of 446 kilograms per ton of the carbon emissions," said Monica Craciun, professor at Exeter and co-author of the research. "This unprecedented range of functionalities and properties uncovered are an important step in encouraging a more sustainable, environmentally-friendly construction industry worldwide."


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I saw this in another answer
there are considered to be only seven or so actual plots anyway
Is this true? Is it like plots are generalized into a couple of types or forms? Where can I read more about this?
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It is true to a point. As you suggest, they are generalized form encapsulations of conflict. In other words, they are archetypes. Similarly, you will hear folks say there are only 32 plots at times, too. The number varies. Often one will be more popular than others for a while.
Understanding them can be helpful at times if you're studying story and story story structure.
Wikipedia has a nice summary of the seven basic plots. The resources and external links at the bottom might lead to other helpful articles. I didn't follow them.
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I have written several stories that fall into none of the seven categories. – what Apr 24 at 14:29
When I took an SF writing class from Joe Haldeman, he said there was only one basic plot: Trouble.
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There are books without trouble. I have this children's book that shows two characters baking a cake. No trouble. But a plot. – what Apr 26 at 17:17
In that book, the trouble is that the children are hungry and have no cake. :-) – Seth Gordon Apr 28 at 15:25
This site has lists of 3,7,20, and 36 respectively
I will post the list of 7 here:
"7 basic plots as remembered from second grade by IPL volunteer librarian Jessamyn West:
[wo]man vs. nature [wo]man vs. [wo]man [wo]man vs. the environment [wo]man vs. machines/technology [wo]man vs. the supernatural [wo]man vs. self [wo]man vs. god/religion"
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How about animal fables? No [wo]man in those, still have plot. – what Apr 26 at 17:18
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Dear (Prospective) student, welcome to the website for the Faculty of Education, National Open University of Nigeria. The Vice Chancellor of the National Open University of Nigeria, the Dean, heads of departments and lecturers of the faculty of Education, all welcome your interest in studying at the National Open University faculty of Education. This faculty prepares professional teachers/leaders in teacher education, and researchers, through the use of distance-learning programmes. This website contains information on:
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we hope this website will be able to answer most of your questions. Please feel free to browse the information contained within this website. Thank you for visiting our website.
The Vice Chancellor, Dean and Centre Directors welcome your interest in studying at the Faculty of Education, National Open University of Nigeria. The Faculty prepares professional teachers/leaders in teacher education and researchers through the distance-learning programme. The instructional methodology for distance learning is conducted through specially designed packaged materials including radio, television broadcast, CDROM and Internet complimented by face-to-face interaction. Network of study centres have been established to provide excellent and quality student oriented learning and support services. In due course, the National Open University students will access all library and information materials through the National VIrtual Library Project that will soon be fully launched. So there will be no barrier to becoming a skilled "teacher".
The Faculty of Education of the National Open University of Nigeria is regarded as the foremost Faculty of Education in Nigeria providing highly accessible and enhanced quality education anchored by social justice, equity, and national cohesion through a comprehensive reach that transcends all barriers.
To provide qualitative, functional and cost effective programmes through the ODL modes in teacher education and allied disciplines.
Our commitment to the above mission shall be realised through the following:
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So you want to be an international negotiator? It's quite easy really, simply a mix of playing on the credulity and greed of others, while masking the minority voice of reality with high sounding rhetoric.
Phase 1: Examine the landscape
1. Identify your negotiating community, and especially who are on your side, and who are not. So, for example, if you happened to be the United States, you might look to Canada for some support.
2. Identify your antagonists. In this case they are probably the non-1st world nations.
3. Identify the possible schisms among your negotiating opponents … in particularly try to see if you can group them into sub-categories.
4. Identify their priority negotiating points … what is it they are wanting most out of the negotiation.
5. Identify what your own constituency can live with, and what they would crucify you for at the next elections
Phase 2: Set the stage
1. Allow every party to make high level statements … this makes them feel important and that they are playing a role.
2. Make your own high level statement, use grand phrases that infer a lot but promise nothing. End on a note of challenge ("We must rise to our common but differentiated responsibility"), and a voice of encouragement ("Working together, we can do this").
3. Get your friendly partner nations to reinforce this message (you may have to agree to some trade concessions or such like, but that's a small price to pay, and you can always renege on them in future negotiations around those agreements — remember then this guidance document for those negotiations).
4. Suggest what your own commitment might be … choosing something that is mostly palatable to your own electorate. It does not have to be enough to achieve the goal, just so long as it's more than what most others will do. Remember, this is only a suggestion you are making, you're not bound by it.
5. Propose a carrot: say a block of funds for the non-1st world nations.
6. Let the discussions rumble, encourage other nations to see and express a vision of great opportunity and benefit.
Phase 3: Bringing it all together for your own benefit
1. Introduce the idea that access to the carrot should be prioritized on a needs basis.
2. Let the discussion reflect on the implications of this.
3. Selecting from your sub-categories of nations (see Phase 1, step 3) suggest that the least resourced nations have priority access, even if it means there is not enough carrot to go around.
4. Let the fire of schism flame up — stoking gently where needed.
Phase 4: Closure
1. Watch all the good intentions collapse amidst the infighting.
2. Take the moral high ground with a high level statement, note that you were willing and ready to play your part. Emphasize that the need is great (it'll make you seem like you believe it), and that you were ready to make great contributions.
3. Sadly reflect on the unfortunate inability to come to an agreement through no fault of your own, but because everyone else degenerated into self-interest competition.
4. After the event, conclude complicated bilateral agreements with those opponents who have resources you want, and embed in the small print all those clauses that make the agreement mostly, if not entirely, beneficial to yourself.
5. Prepare for the next round of negotiations in the following year, start at Phase 1, step 1 again.
Hypothetical example
Say there is a negotiation on climate change. The other nations in the negotiations will likely include less developed nations. One could suggest, say, an adaptation fund of some large value (large in the eyes of developed nations, but not necessarily really big compared to, say, your recent bank bailout costs). This will be more than enough of a carrot to disrupt any meaningful conclusion to the negotiations, and if you are successful, you get to keep your carrot anyway.
If you diligently follow the above, you will be able to perpetuate matters for an indefinite time, say 17 years even! And all the time you will be able to conduct business as usual and reap the benefits of the resources in other nations. Caution: hypothetically, in some situations there may be independent forces involved that even you can't control, but none of us really think this is likely, and even then we can probably geo-engineer ourselves out of this and also sell the technology to developing nations for a profit.
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Recently, RFID has emerged to be a promising technology to revolutionize the supply chain and logistics management. Currently there exists a sharp contrast between retailers in China and their counterparts in the United States with respect for RFID adoption. In the United States, big retailers like Wal-Mart are actively pursuing RFID by issuing mandates to their suppliers worldwide for RFID adoption. However, retailers in China never enjoy such a dominating role in pursuing RFID. To explore what is behind this phenomenon, in this paper, an analysis framework is proposed to develop decision support tools for RFID technology adoption analysis in retailers in China. The framework is realized in a service platform developed based on three principles to help reach mutual understanding between RFID vendors and customers in RFID technology adoption analysis. The framework is illustrated and validated through an example to demonstrate its feasibility to help to analyze the adoption of RFID technologies retailers in China. The technology analysis service platform integrates various tools enabling interactive and flexible analysis processes to understand how RFID technology can be adopted and used effectively in retailers in China and in logistics and supply chain management.


15 Terrifying Ancient Medical Practices
We all know medical knowledge was lacking centuries ago. However, there were more crazy ancient medical practices than you might think. See 15 of them.
If you're somehow lucky enough to have the smarts to make the first time machine and travel back to the ancient world, try not to get sick while you're there. Those ancients did some crazy, terrifying things in the name of "medicine." Some ancient medical practices seem insane and barbaric today.
Sure, Hippocrates might have said "do no harm" nearly 2,400 years ago, but there were still plenty of pseudo-medical practices going on that we're pretty sure did some harm. Even if some of these medical procedures did help the patient, they're still horrifying.
See 15 such ancient medical practices that may shock you.
15.) Heroin
Heroin used in ancient medical practices
Heroin might be the street name given to a form of morphine no longer used in American hospitals today, but it used to be a medication given over the counter. Herbs, among many other things, have been used to make medication since ancient times, but heroin took a special kind of pain away from issues.
People used it for headaches, coughs, and much more. They even gave it children, with one medical "professional" saying there was no risk in developing a habit of its use. Well, it did get rid of that cough once.
14.) Human Remains
Skulls used in ancient medical practices
For centuries, people assumed that the things that came out of humans, as well as their remains, could be used in medical treatments. Not only did people think urine could help their teeth, but they also felt human blood and skulls could be used to help treat sicknesses.
People felt this could be useful as far back as the 1500 and 1600s, which was a time when other, better medical knowledge was present. The poor who could not afford human blood, for example, would attend executions and grab some. Vlad the Impaler, you have more possible vampires near.
13.) Rocks
Rocks used in ancient medical practices
Not to be confused with "The Rock" Dwayne Johnson, a rock like you might find right outside was used as a tool for centuries. They might be part of some of the oldest ancient medical practices known to man. It was used most often in dentistry where a doctor of sorts used it to help knock a tooth out. Over time, hammers made more sense and slowly gained prominence.
Today, hammers and drills are still used in some forms of dentistry, just not to the extent as it was used ago. Rocks were also ancient forms of anesthesia too. We'll let you figure that one out.
 12.) Lobotomies
lobotomies used in ancient medical practices
While things like Lobotomies were eventually put to an end, people felt this practice was useful. They never once showed accurate results in this practice that could not be attributed to another source. However, this was not the first time a method like it existed.
Despite this, the concept behind a Lobotomy was that it could cure any horrible brain condition a mentally ill person might have. It was proven not to work, so seeing ancient medical practices as crazy as this go until the 1980s is shocking!
11.) Cocaine
Cocaine used in ancient medical practices
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People have used cocaine for several different things over the years. Just like most things, people thought it helped with headaches. Cocaine did help for this, as it helps in the sinus department. However, the real idiotic assumption was that it helped with depression.
To be fair, it is hard to be depressed when you're on a cocaine high, so technically, it sort of worked. However, using cocaine to cure depression belongs in the list of ancient medical practices we shouldn't try.
10.) Forced Seizures
Seizures used in ancient medical practices
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While doctors to this day will induce medical seizures, they are only done for specific reasons under proper care. Decades ago, the idea was less intelligent. The concept in the 1940s and 50s was the use of electroconvulsive therapy that shocked someone into seizing or convulsing. A common problem afterward was the brain damage or death the seizure called.
The concept of using seizures as treatment dates back to the 1500s, but the early use of electricity was pretty much zero. They'd use various forms of light to cause them, similar to how they can be started for some even today.
9.) Malaria Used to Treat Syphilis
Malaria used in ancient medical practices
If you have one life-threatening disorder, it makes sense to battle it with another potentially deadly thing, right? Well, not so much. However, malaria being used to treat syphilis during the 1920s.
The concept was invented by Austrian Physician Julius Wagner-Jauregg, who discovered that malaria-induced fevers had some effect on syphilis symptoms. The man even won the Nobel Peace Prize for this too. Seriously!
Forget the fact that fevers alone have been shown to help with numerous things, regardless of Malaria. To the shock of no one, several patients died from this. Ancient medical practices like this make you realize how lucky we are to live today.
8.) Arsenic
Arsenic used in ancient medical practices
Arsenic is often used today as a bioweapon of sorts, and it has been mostly eradicated from medical use in civilized nations around the world today. Before this, people used arsenic in several ancient medical practices around the world for a long time.
The typical things it treated were fevers and headaches. Funny enough, in small doses, arsenic can assist in several medically useful treatments. However, we no longer need it today due to having other medication that does not also kill people as easily as arsenic does.
7.) Castration
Castration used in ancient medical practices
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The medical use of castration was rare because men generally don't want this procedure. However, Babylonians felt that it could be useful as a last resort. Some people used this practice for what we'd call a UTI today or even a kidney infection. At the time, no one knew what these were or how to treat them.
However, the most common usage of castration came for eunuchs. For several harems under the Assyrians and Babylonians, the testicles needed to be removed to be a eunuch. Turkish people forced the removal of both the testicles and penis. By the way, they were not put to sleep to do this, and the testicles were crushed to do the castration. Ouch!
6.) Mercury
Mercury used in ancient medical practices
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People have used mercury for hundreds of years to help with countless different ailments. Its use is one of the most common ancient medical practices known to man. Ancient Persians and Greeks felt it was useful as an ointment while second-century Chinese felt it increased lifespan and vitality.
The most famous use of mercury gone wrong was with Chinese Emperor Qin Shi Huang, who thought a mercury pill would make him immortal. From the time of the Renaissance all the up to the 20th Century, we used mercury to treat sexually transmitted diseases too. Most who used mercury died from liver or kidney damage caused by it poisoning them.
5.) Sacrifice
Sacrifices used in ancient medical practices
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One of the ancient world's most common methods of warding off or curing illness and injury was to sacrifice something (often someone) to the gods. This practice might seem silly today, but it did not feel ridiculous if you were the cow, sheep, or human being killed to repair the health of the emperor, chieftain, or another important person.
You might even find this personal at times. Humans who were sacrificed often volunteered, shockingly. Some found it to be a great reward to die for someone else. They were what we call weird people.
4.) Ancient Anesthetics
knockouts were used in ancient medical practices
Modern anesthesia (and similar anesthetics) were not in regular use until well into the 19th century. However, there were a few methods for helping reduce the suffering of a patient during a medical procedure. They boiled down to essentially three things: drugs, alcohol, or being knocked over the head.
The latter was especially popular in ancient Egypt, where doctors started most surgical procedures by a Stooge-esque clunk to the noggin. Remember the rock from before? It was less common for Egyptians. They typically used something more practical when doing ancient medical practices like that of early brain surgery.
3.) Ancient Ophthalmology
Clean rooms used in ancient medical practices
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The Greco-Roman physician Galen (Greek by heritage, Roman by birth) is considered one of the first people to practice some modern surgical techniques. Galen was the first to implement such things as trying to use a clean, sterile area to perform operations in eye surgery.
We're still glad not to be one of the patients whose cataracts was being "cured" by injecting a needle directly into the eye, hoping to sort of suck the thing out.
2.) Bloodletting
bloodletting used in ancient medical practices
Believe us when we say there is nothing humorous about the "humors." The humors were those pesky (meaning nonexistent) bodily fluids that ancient and medieval people thought had to be kept "in balance" to keep you healthy. They were blood, black and yellow bile,


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Theme: The Role of Religion in the Education of Young People
By Ahmad Jalali
President of the General Conference of UNESCO
International Baccalaureat Organization Annual Meeting"
7 May 2002
"I am really delighted – indeed, honoured – to be invited here to this gathering. When I was looking at the list of participants I felt how heavy this weight is as far as UNESCO's ideals and in particular educational ideals are concerned, and I feel here that I am really participating in a mission which is consonant with that of UNESCO. I believe that UNESCO should become more and more connected to real think tanks, such as the IBO council and this gathering, and make use of your educational experiences."
"Respect for pluralism – or if I may say, as I prefer, plurality – is a basic principle. Everyone should be enabled to find their place within the community, in most cases local, to which they primarily belong and at the same time be given the means to open out to other communities' values, beliefs, systems and faiths.
In that respect it is important to establish a form of intercultural and intracultural education based on dialogue that will genuinely contribute to social cohesion and peace. Education must also give everyone throughout their life the ability to play an active part in envisaging the future of society. As in the case of tolerance, the aim is not to teach precepts and rigid rules which could slide towards indoctrination but to make the educational institution a model of democratic practice.
Education is thus a complex matter which covers accepting differing values, acquiring knowledge, and learning how to take part in public life.
It cannot therefore be considered as ideologically neutral. The student's conscience is necessarily challenged by it."


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Tacrolimus trough and dose requirements vary dramatically between individuals of European and African American ancestry. These differences are less well described in other populations. We conducted an observational, prospective, multicenter study from which 2595 kidney transplant recipients of European, African, Native American, and Asian ancestry were studied for tacrolimus trough, doses, and genetic determinants of metabolism. We studied the well-known variants and conducted a CYP3A4/5 gene-wide analysis to identify new variants. Daily doses, and dose-normalized troughs were significantly different between the four groups (P <.001). CYP3A5*3 (rs776746) was associated with higher dose-normalized tacrolimus troughs in all groups but occurred at different allele frequencies and had differing effect sizes. The CYP3A5*6 (rs10264272) and *7 (rs413003343) variants were only present in African Americans. CYP3A4*22 (rs35599367) was not found in any of the Asian ancestry samples. We identified seven suggestive variants in the CYP3A4/5 genes associated with dose-normalized troughs in Native Americans (P = 1.1 × 10 −5 -8.8 × 10 −6 ) and one suggestive variant in Asian Americans (P = 5.6 × 10 −6 ). Tacrolimus daily doses and dose-normalized troughs vary significantly among different ancestry groups. We identified potential new variants important in Asians and Native Americans. Studies with larger populations should be conducted to assess the importance of the identified suggestive variants.
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- immunosuppressant - calcineurin inhibitor: tacrolimus
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