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I want to transfer some data from one ASP.NET (WebForms) application to another, edit: where the first application redirects to the second. The two applications run in a load-balanced environment, so don't necessarily execute on the same server machine. We are talking about an XML blob in the size range a few hundred to maybe a thousand bytes, so it's a bit long for encoding and tacking it into the URL query-string. The user must also not be able to muck with this data (it's not security-critical currently, but exposing it to the user still seems like a bad idea).
Any suggestions on how to do it?
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I don't know all the details of your situation, but there are a few ways you could do this.
 1. You could insert the XML blob into a database from one site and retrieve it from the database from the other site.
 2. You could post your XML blob from one application to a receiver page in the other application which would then read the XML from the request.
 3. You could create a webservice in the second application with a method to receive the XML blob from the fist application.
 4. You could write the XML to file in one application and read it from file in the second application.
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#4 is definitely out because of the load balancing as well as usage (way too high risk of race conditions). – Michael Kjörling Mar 9 '12 at 13:22
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Just a quick idea off the top of my head...
If the data is entirely specific to the current user's session, and the two sites are running on the same domain.
 1. Generate a key for the client - something that is going to be reasonably unique, for instance something like md5(some guid + some header from the user's browser)
 2. Store the information in a key value store/database table, with the generated key from 1 as the key.
 3. Set the key as a cookie to the client.
This way you avoid ever sending the data to the client, and the 'key' should be random enough that it will be very hard to guess. If you also store the header and the GUID that you use to generate/salt the hash, you can then validate the key from the user's cookie against the headers sent in the request and deny access if all the details don't match up. This also has the benefit that you can store as much data as you can realistically cope with on the server side.
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You will probably want to look into either or.NET Web Sevices or WCF (Windows Communication Foundation).
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Store it in an encrypted cookie, You'll only add 1Kb to each request/response.
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OP says 'The user must also not be able to muck with this data'. Sticking it in a cookie would allow access to the data using Firebug etc. – mdm Mar 9 '12 at 13:32
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Maybe like a SSO or something like that.
In a database, a table with those columns:
Guid (Guid.NewGuid())
(maybe other columns like the user id...for security log)
The first webapp send the Guid through the URL. The second retrieve the Content in the database.
The date can be used to validate the data: you can only access to the content within X seconds.
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Should be fairly easy using cross site requests.
The first application should just return a page containing a form with the Action parameter pointing to the other application's url. The page should also contain a small javascript to postback the form as soon as the page is loaded. The body of the page contains the data you want to pass between servers.
This way you are using client's browser to do the job for you. Because page's body can be much longer than uri/cookie, this approach should work for you.
Note, that this is completely legal and at least few passive authentication protocols rely on such possibility.
Edit: The integrity of the data is achieved with cryptography. The data can be signed (the simplest approach) or encrypted+signed (which not only prevents users from modyfing the data but also from seeing the content).
Also note that if you don't have to involve client browser, you can use any communication protocol to pass the data directly between servers (TCP, HTTP).
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How would you stop a malicious user from seeing the data, if it is sent to the browser? – mdm Mar 9 '12 at 13:34
You can encrypt it or even sign it to validate at the receiver side. – Wiktor Zychla Mar 9 '12 at 14:22
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Thanks to all who responded! In talking this over with some other people at the office, in the end we decided that, since the data is actually made available by yet another web application, both of the applications that make use of the data will simply make a call to the third to get the data. The downside to that approach is the small amount of time it takes to make that call twice; the upside is that it virtually ensures that the two applications always have up-to-date data, and even a naïve implementation makes it very difficult for the end user to do anything with the data.
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claim that the hiker – whose name has not yet been disclosed by authorities – set out to explore the wilderness all by himself, and having come across a grizzly bear decided to spend some time photographing it.
Because the hiker got too close to the animal, the latter decided to fight back. Apparently, the bear did not display any signs of aggressive behavior prior to the attack.
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An analysis of the bear's stomach is soon to follow, and hopefully this will prove whether or not the animal killed by rangers was in fact the one responsible for the hiker's losing his life in this brutal manner.
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Birth: ABT 1610 in Hammell, prob. Denmark
Death: 1686 in Wilmington,,Delaware
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Dr. Timen Stiddem was probably born at Hammel in Skanderborg, Denmark (near Arhus), or the Netherlands (or possibly Sweden). He was living in Gothenburg, Sweden in the 1630s. He was no doubt anxious to learn about the new world being colonized by the Swedish, known as "New Sweden" (present day Delaware). Dr. Stiddem signed on as a ship's barber-surgeon for a voyage to New Sweden. Dr. Stiddem sailed four times for North America (arriving three times). He went to New Sweden the first time in 1638 aboard the ship called the Kalmar Nyckel, the first of Sweden's attempts to establish a colony in New Sweden. The Kalmar Nyckel landed at the "Rocks" or Fort Christina (present day Wilmington, Delaware) on March 29, 1638.
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Dr. Stiddem returned to Sweden and married. His first wife and children were murdered near Puerto Rico in 1649 during the ill-fated Swedish voyage to America aboard the Kattan (Cat). He returned to Sweden to remarry and sail again with his wife on Sweden's Tenth Expedition aboard the Írn (Eagle), which arrived in New Sweden on May 22, 1654. This was Dr. Timen Stiddem's last trip from his homeland, Sweden. He stayed and settled in New Sweden at Fort Christina, or what was to become Wilmington, Delaware.
Dr. Timen Stiddem (Timothy Stidham) was a prominent citizen and doctor in Wilmington. He is recorded in history as the first physician in Delaware (ref. J. Thomas Scharf, History of Delaware, p. 471).
In 1683, Timen Stiddem and his sons pledged allegiance to the King and England and obedience to William Penn.
Letter from Timen Stiddem to Axel Oxenstierna, 1651, requesting assistance following Timen's return to Sweden after the ill-fated voyage of the Kattan.
Deed from From Gov. Frances Lovelace, 1671, for lands along the Brandywine River. (Courtesy of the Historical Society of Delaware)
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Map of Wilmington, Delaware in 1867, showing Timen Stiddem's house (though not labled as such) at 14th and Poplar Streets (circled in white in upper middle). (Researched by Richard Steadham)
Three-dimensional map drawing of Wilmington, Delaware in 1874, showing Timen Stiddem's house (though not labled as such) at 14th and Poplar Streets (circled in white in upper right-hand corner). An enlargement of the area around 14th and Poplar Streets. (Researched by Richard Steadham)
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PHOTOGRAPHS and DRAWINGS of Timen Stiddem's Old Barley Mill in Wilmington, Delaware on the Brandywine River.
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Is $\pi$ periodic in any base-k numeral system, where k is integer? And what is the status of this problem?
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Yes. For example, in base $\pi$, $\pi$ is written $10$. – Chris Eagle May 6 '12 at 11:41
No, periodic numbers are algebraic (or even rational), $\pi$ is neither. – Asaf Karagila May 6 '12 at 11:41
Evidently, it depends on what you mean by "numeral system." – Gerry Myerson May 6 '12 at 11:44
_USER_ Eagle: how do you write numbers in base $\pi$? – Joel Cohen May 6 '12 at 11:56
_USER_: The same way you do for any other base. See _URL_-integer_representation for example. – Chris Eagle May 6 '12 at 11:58
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No. In order for $\pi$ to be periodic in base $k$, it must be true that $\pi \equiv m(\pi) \pmod{k}$ for some integer $m$.
By definition of mod, this means that $m(\pi) = \pi + nk$ $\Rightarrow$ $\pi = nk/(m-1)$, which is rational. Since we know that $\pi$ is irrational, we get a contradiction.
In fact you can apply the same argument for all irrational numbers. You can conclude that any irrational number is non-periodic in $k$.
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$\pi$ is irrational - that was settled hundreds of years ago. That implies that the expression of $\pi$ to any integer base $b$ will be aperiodic. If you have some other kind of numeral system in mind, please edit your question accordingly.
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According to the wikipedia article on non-integer representation in base $\pi$ the circumference of a circle of diameter $1$ is $\pi$, which is represented by $10_{\pi}$. This is the base $\pi$ representation of $\pi$.
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If $\pi$ were periodic in any base, then it would be rational, and therefore periodic in every base. This does not happen.
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I Have Control
One thing that really grates a teacher is when another teacher steps into a situation and takes over.
I'm talking here about behavioural incidents where more than one member of staff is involved. Most teachers will deal and manage a situation on their own but sometimes back-up is needed. The incident might be something you have no real understanding of or you are just out of your depth and are not coping. So you ask for help – there's no shame in that.
But sometimes a member of staff can observe your failing attempts and step in uninvited. This might be welcome on occasions but not if they do it in such a manner that it makes you look stupid. They might barge into a situation and get it all wrong making things worse. They might step in and save your bacon.
Either way, someone has to take control and exert their authority and restore order. This doesn't have to be dramatic but it does need to be professional. When someone is flying a plane, they have control. The co-pilot might be required to take the controls and so the exchange between pilot and co-pilot is
Pilot 1: I have control
Pilot 2: You have control
The management of a situation is vital so that everyone knows what they are doing. If you don't own the incident then the incident owns you and things can get out of hand. It needs to be agreed between teaching professionals exactly who does have control in a situation so there are no mixed messages being received by pupils. The pilot exchange brings clarity in a crisis because the communication is clear.
This doesn't mean the other pilot sits back and relaxes. Far from it – they still have an active part to play but the control is firmly in the hands of their colleague. They own the plane and for teachers that means owning the situation.
So, when a playground incident gets ugly, the last thing we need is 4 teachers all jumping in. Someone has to say, "I have control" and take charge and colleagues have to acknowledge this and say "You have control" which means that one person is making the decisions about what to do and what to say. Just by introducing this language we can professionalise a situation and make it less chaotic, especially in a restraint situation.
Clear lines of communication means there is less room for error and for teachers contradicting each other. The pilot flying is the teacher taking charge.
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- Write a complete Java program called CalcAvgDropLowest according to the following guidelines.
The program prompts the user for five to ten numbers, all on one line, and separated by spaces. It then calculates the average of all those numbers except the lowest n number(s), where n is given by the user, and displays all the numbers and the calculated average to the user.
The program uses methods to:
- get the numbers used to calculate the average,
- get the number of lowest numbers to drop before calculating the average,
- calculate the average of the numbers (except the lowest n number(s)) entered by the user, and
- print the results.
The first method should take no arguments and return an array of doubles.
The second method should take no arguments and return a single integer, the number of the lowest numbers to drop before calculating the average.
The third method should take an array of doubles (the return value of the first method above) and a single integer value (the number of lowest items to drop before calculating the average) and return a double (the average of all the numbers except the lowest n values).
The fourth method should take an array of doubles, an integer, and a double as arguments but have no return value.
If the user gives these numbers for calculating the average:
40.00 60.00 80.00 100.00 20.00
…and the user gives the number 2 to indicate how many of the lowest values should be dropped before calculating the average, then…
…the program should give as output:
Given the numbers 40.00, 60.00, 80.00, 100.00, and 20.00, the average of all the numbers except the lowest 2 numbers is 80.00.
- Write a complete Java program called MinMax that declares an array of doubles of length 5, and uses methods to populate the array with user input from the command line and to print out the max (highest) and min (lowest) values in the array.
3, Write a complete Java program called Scorer that declares a two-dimensional array of doubles (call it scores) with three rows and three columns and that uses methods and loops as follows:
Use a method containing a nested while loop to get the nine (3 x 3) doubles from the user at the command line.
Use a method containing a nested for loop to compute the average of the doubles in each row.
Use a method to output these three row averages to the command line.


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Everyone here at Logical Heating & Plumbing Solutions answer is yes, you should always consider any gas leaks to be an emergency. Here is why:
To put it simply gas leaks often can result in gas explosions. What should you avoid doing when a gas leak is detected is written here, however it's imperative that you always take the proper precautions in avoiding a gas explosion. As a gas explosion is incredibly dangerous and does threaten both life and property, as unsafe gas explosion will produce both life and property. Carbon monoxide poisoning is potentially fatal and is considered to be very dangerous because it is odourless, invisible and tasteless.
Here's what you should do:
- Always avoid using any naked flames or electrical switches from all appliances.
- Open any doors or windows if possible.
- Turn the gas off at the meter as soon as you smelt gas.
How gas leaks can be prevented:
Don't use an illegal gas engineer. If a person is not Gas Safe Registered, it's illegal for them to work with gas. Before you have any work done with your gas boiler or appliances, make sure the engineer you intend to use in on the Gas Safe Register. This can be checked either using the Gas Safe Register website and search for the engineer/business name on their database, or by asking to see the Gas Safe Register ID card, which every Gas Safe engineer is required by law to carry. Work that is not carried out to the proper safety standards can put everyone at risk.
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Personal Stories First World War, sheet music, bands, Battalion marches
What do a concert pianist, an Indian bandmaster and an Australian militia bandmaster have in common? Each of these individuals composed a march that would eventually be adopted as the regimental march of an Australian Imperial Force infantry battalion during the First World War. Many were popular songs of the period.
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This is a two-player race game. Each player gets 6 coins of same colour and keeps it in his home outside the game board as shown in Fig 3. This is the initial position of the coins and every time they are cut, they return to their respective homes.
Goal: To bear off all six coins, first.
Throw of six cowrie shells:
- One mouth up (Fig.2)- introduce one coin on starting square or move one square & play again
- Two mouths upmove two squares
- Three mouths upmove three squares
- Four mouths upmove four squares
- Five mouths upintroduce one coin on starting square or move five squares & play again
- Six mouths upmove six squares & play again
- No mouths up - move twelve squares & play again
How to play:
- The board is always kept in the centre during the game.
- Each player keeps his coins in his home as shown in Fig.1. The first square on the tail end near his home is his starting square ('a' is the starting square of player-1 and 'b' is that of player-2).
- Players alternately throw all six cowrie shells on the floor and move a coin as indicated by the throw of shells.
- The movement of the coins is different (shown by different arrows) for both players and is given as follows.
- Player 1: a-c-d-e-f-g-h-i-j-k-l-n-q-r and off. (Blue arrow in Fig.4)
- Player 2: b-c-d-k-j-i-h-g-f-e-m-n-o-p and off. (Red arrow in Fig.5)
- If a player's coin lands on a square occupied by opponent's coin, then the opponent's coin is cut and the player gets an extra turn to play.
- The cut coin returns to its home and has to be reintroduced on the starting square and go round all over again.
- The darker squares (rest squares) though, are safe places and no coins present here can be cut.
- Player-1 bears off his coin from 'r' while Player-2 bears off his coins from 'p.'
- The first player to bear off all his coins wins the game.
- Whenever a 'one,' a 'five,' a 'six' or a 'twelve' is got during a throw of cowrie shells, the player gets to play another turn.
- When a player cuts opponent's coin, he gets an extra turn to play.
- During an extra turn, either the same coin or some other coin can be played.
Points to remember:
- Both players' coins move in the same direction at two places - from 'c' to 'd' and then from above 'd' to 'n'.
- A player should cut his opponent in order to move his coins into the inner stem of squares (i.e.,'m' or 'l' to 'n'). Otherwise he has to move another coin or forfeit his turn until he cuts atleast one of the opponent coin.
- If a player has cut once, all the coins can move into the inner stem, not necessary for every coin to cut opponent.
- No limit for a player to cut opponents' coins.
- Each coin has to be first introduced (or reintroduced if it has been cut) on its starting square (on the throw of either a 'one' or a 'five') before it starts moving.
Some play this game using two stick dice instead of cowrie shells. Four sides of each stick dice contains 1, 2, 3 and 'null' dots. Both dice are rolled together on the gound and coins are moved according to the number of dots present on the top face of the dice when they come to rest.


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a distance matrix (such as the type at the back of a road atlas of Britain),
containing all the distances between all cities on the tour.
2. Find the shortest distance and link these two cities together.
3. Then, find the second shortest distance, and link these two cities.
4. Now, find the next smallest edge whose cities conform to the following
a) Both must have an edge degree ratio <=1 (i.e. neither can already be linked
to more than one other city)
b) Adding an edge between the cities must not result in a closed tour, which does not already include all the cities on the tour.
5. Repeat until all cities end up being connected to two other cities.
Identify the two closest cities
(shown in red).
Join the closest cities together.
They now have one edge each (signified by grey colouring). Now find the next two closest
Join them together. Now find
the two closest cities, where joining them will not result in a closed tour, and where
each has an edge degree of either one (denoted by grey shading) or zero (transparent circles).
If a city has an edge degree of two
(shown in black), it cannot be connected to any further cities. Repeat the previous step...
...until there only remain two cities
with an edge degree less than two...


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Joint Anglo-American working groups continue to be the focal points for technical exchanges under the 1958 Mutual Defence Agreement for Co-operation on the Uses of Atomic Energy for Defence Purposes.
Radiation simulation and kinetic effects technology Energetic materials Test monitoring Nuclear materials Warhead electrical components and technologies Non-nuclear materials Nuclear counter-terrorism technology Facilities Nuclear weapons engineering Nuclear warhead physics Computational technology Aircraft, missile and space system hardening Laboratory plasma physics Manufacturing practices Nuclear weapon accident response technologySeparate arrangements exist for exchanges under the Polaris sales agreement, as amended for Trident. The working groups concerned are the Trident working party group, the joint steering tasks group, the Trident joint re-entry systems working group and the joint systems performance and assessment group.
In the absence of hydronuclear and boosted-yield underground testing, a significant improvement in methodologies and experimental capabilities is needed to determine the nuclear parameters required to assess the performance and safety of stockpiled weapon systems. The United States Department of Energy established a committee consisting of Sandia, Los Alamos, and Lawrence Livermore national laboratories and the Atomic Weapons Establishment (Aldermasten, UK) to determine the advanced capabilities needed to assess the nuclear primaries of strategic weapons and to define the technologies required to provide these capabilities.
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標題: Infrared absorption of GeNNO isolated in solid Ar
作者: Jiang, Zih-Min
Glatthaar, Joerg
Lee, Yuan-Pern
Department of Applied Chemistry
Institute of Molecular science
公開日期: 14-十月-2009
摘要: Codeposition of thermally generated atomic germanium vapor and nitrous oxide (N(2)O) in Ar onto a substrate at 11 K produced infrared absorption lines in several sets. The most prominent comprises intense lines at 1443.7, 1102.4, and 784.0 cm(-1) that become diminished upon irradiation with UV or visible light. These lines are attributed to v(1) (NO stretching), v(2) (NN+GeN stretching), and v(3) (NNO bending + NN stretching) modes of singlet GeNNO. Two additional weak features at 1238.1 and 2859.2 cm(-1) are assigned as v(3) + v(4) and 2v(1) of GeNNO, respectively. Weak doublet features at 1259.3/1255.5 and 1488.9/1486.4 cm(-1) are tentatively assigned to v(2) of triplet GeONN and v(1) of singlet cyc-Ge-eta(2) [NN(O)], respectively. Quantum-chemical calculations on the Ge + N(2)O system with density-functional theory (B3LYP /aug-cc-pVTZ) predict five stable structures: GeNNO (singlet and triplet), singlet cyc-Ge-eta(2) [NN(O)], triplet cyc-Ge-eta(2) (NNO), GeONN (singlet and triplet), and singlet GeNON. Vibrational wavenumbers, relative IR intensities, and (15)N-isotopic ratios for observed species are consistent with those computed. Irradiation of singlet GeNNO with lambda = 248 or 193 nm or lambda > 525 nm yields GeO. (C) 2009 American Institute of Physics. [doi:10.1063/_PHONE_]
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ISSN: 0021-9606
DOI: 10.1063/_PHONE_
Volume: 131
Issue: 14
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Case Report: Alleged Plagiarism by a Thesis Guide
As a general rule, the author of a work owns the copyright in it. As such, a student would own the copyright in his or her research papers, thesis, dissertations etc., and any other person including a thesis guide, university, etc. would not be able to publish the works without the authorisation of the student, i.e., without obtaining a licence from the student. Even if such a licence were obtained, the student would have to be credited as the author of the work.
However, this legal position is not always honoured to the letter, and there may be grey areas, as this case shows.
High Court of Patna; Criminal Miscellaneous No. 31757 of 2000
Sutapa Bhattacharya obtained a PhD (from Bhagalpur University, Bihar) in 1988. Her thesis dealt with political mobilization and caste conflict in Bihar between 1967 and 1980, and her guide was Roma Mitra.
After obtaining her degree, Sutapa Bhattacharya permanently settled at Calcutta, West Bengal. Meanwhile, Roma Mitra, her PhD guide published a book entitled "Caste Polarisation and Politics" in 1992.
During a visit to Bhagalpur in April 2000, Sutapa Bhattacharya accessed the book apparently written by Roma Mitra, and determined that it was "virtually copied" from her PhD thesis. She then proceeded to file a criminal complaint against Roma Mitra (and the publisher of the book) for cheating and copyright infringement.
The Learned Judicial Magistrate, First Class, Bhagalpur took cognizance of the matter after conducting an inquiry. However, Roma Mitra approached the Patna High Court against the order of cognizance. The High Court set the order aside as it was barred by limitation. However, the Court stated that "it would not be appropriate to record any finding on the merit of the case" even though it acknowledged that there was "some substance in the argument" advanced by Roma Mitra's counsel.
When Roma Mitra approached the High Court, she made the following arguments (among others):
 1. Roma Mitra had not exactly copied from the thesis of Sutapa Bhattacharya. Further, "in a case of a guide and disciple, the allegation of copying from the thesis by the guide cannot be applicable unless it is a case of exact copying from the thesis".
 2. The thesis was prepared under the guidance of Roma Mitra who had allowed Sutapa Bhattacharya to access certain unpublished manuscripts [presumably, written by Roma Mitra herself] in order to prepare the concept of thesis.
 3. Sutapa Bhattacharya adopted the ideas, language and expression of Roma Mitra to some extent while conducting the research for her thesis and while writing it.
 4. Roma Mitra had published extensively on the Subject even prior to the preparation of thesis.
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Australian Forestry: The challenges of sustaining a strong regional journal
Australian Forestry is a peer-reviewed publication published by the Institute of Foresters of Australia that is important to both the forest industry and the forestry research community in Australia. In recent years the journal has struggled to remain viable in the face of a number of structural changes in the Australian forest industry and forestry research community, and increased tension between pressure on academic researchers to publish in journals with a high impact factor and the desire to communicate research results to an industry readership at tolerable cost. In 2014 the management of the journal was changed, including the establishment of a new editorial board to oversee a strategic review of the journal and provide strategic management into the future.
As part of this review an extensive survey was commissioned of members of the Institute of Foresters of Australia on their views of the journal. The survey was conducted to get a better profile of both the market within Australian foresters and the expectations of that market. Along with this survey the journal publishing report was reviewed for the previous 2 years. The review was intended to gain insight into the publication results but also see how the publication metrics aligned with the perceptions and expectations provided by the readership survey.
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Active For Life has created a fabulous activity to do while on your walks. And winter walking is great—no humidity, bugs, or mud. While adults might be keen to let our minds wander during a long ramble, or even practice a walking meditation, kids might need more of a mission to keep them engaged—or to even agree to the activity.
Enter mission: Nature mandalas, a simple yet rewarding activity for kids ages three and up. Added bonus: This is an experience that immerses the participants in nature.
- A bag to collect found/fallen objects in nature
- Pruners to cut found/fallen objects (for adult use only)
- Nature—a park, beach, playground, forest, or conservation area
Step 1: Prepare
Before leaving for the walk, do a quick online search of nature mandalas to spark excitement in the activity and to provide a visual reference of the sorts of materials to look for.
Step 2: Start walking
Pick an age-appropriate distance. You may need to spend up to 30 minutes walking over a variety of terrains in nature a find a diverse array of materials.
Step 3: Be on the lookout
Look for fallen objects in a variety of colours, textures, and materials. Great mandala-building materials include:
- Small fallen evergreen boughs or branches
- Long pine needles
- Sumac berries
- Dried flowers, grasses or plants
- Berries, like mountain ash berries
- Rocks of all sizes
- Fallen bark
- Sticks of varying sizes
- Leaves that aren't decomposed
Step 4: Say yes to most items
Use the pruners to cut down larger fallen branches into manageable pieces. Remember not to cut anything from a living plant or tree, but you can take a few dead flower heads (leave the rest as cover for wildlife). Make sure the adults handle the berries to prevent inquisitive youngsters from sampling them.
Step 5: Assess the haul
Once you have been walking for a while and have a good collection, inspect your findings. Ask yourself:
- Is there a good variety of colours? What do you see?
- Do we have different textures represented? What do you feel?
- Are there a variety of plants, trees, and minerals? What does each smell like?
Step 6: Find an open space to create the mandala
Now, you need a canvas. A swath of unmarked snow is ideal, but you can also use a patch of grass, a frozen ice surface, sand, a clear part of beach, a patio, deck, driveway, or the sidewalk.
Step 7: Start creating
Most mandalas are circles and often incorporate spirals or other patterns, but let your imagination run wild. You could create a shape like a peace sign or even try to design a bird, fish, or tree. Use a variety of materials and try to contrast colours to make details pop. Use rocks to weigh down some of the lighter materials in case of a wind gust.
Step 8: Stand back and admire the creation
Be sure to take some photos. You could even leave a note weighed down by a rock explaining that the artscape was created using only fallen objects along a nature walk and challenge the finder to do the same. This would create a great ripple effect of activity and artistry.
Winter walks are great, but sometimes it's nice to have a specific goal in mind. This activity also appeals to the artistic kids who just love to create. Remember to teach respect for nature and safety with found objects.
Next steps: Make a series of mandalas or artistic creations, take a photo each time, and create a collage or an album! Challenge the family to complete a series of walks and mandalas every month throughout the changing seasons. Keep moving, and keep creating!


Easiest Way to Make Perfect Cabbage Dumpling
Cabbage Dumpling. Low-Carb Cabbage Dumplings skip the flour wrapper and opts for a crisp-tender cabbage wrapper: all of the same flavors you love in an Asian-style dumpling cradled in a bite of veggie! The dumplings (which I doubled to have enough for the cabbage) were very heavy and bland. The dumplings need to be tiny.
Cabbage Dumpling Chop cabbage into large chunks and steam until clear in color; drain. In same pan melt butter, sauté onions, add seasonings and cabbage. Dumplings: Measure flour in to a deep bowl. You can have Cabbage Dumpling using 6 ingredients and 2 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Cabbage Dumpling
 1. Prepare of Cabbage.
 2. You need of Minced chicken.
 3. Prepare of Dried shrimp.
 4. You need of Black fungus.
 5. You need of Eggs.
 6. Prepare of Dumpling wrapper.
Make well in middle of flour. Start beating eggs and gradually mix flour into eggs; will make a stiff dough. If too dry add a little milk. Seasonings for pork and cabbage dumplings.
Cabbage Dumpling instructions
 1. Chop all the ings into tiny pieces..
 2. Mix all then add egg, white pepper, sesame oil, salt..
Pork and cabbage dumplings can have a few variations on what is in them, although some soy sauce and sesame oil are generally in all as part of the seasoning. I opted for a little cilantro and ginger to give a nice fresh flavor and the result was certainly really tasty. The soup, simply place the butter into a large saucepan and melt on a medium heat, add the shredded cabbage and stir until lightly golden. Place the chicken mince, garlic, chives or spring onions, egg, salt and pepper into a bowl and mix until combined. Make the dumpling wrappers: In a medium bowl, mix together the flour and salt.
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Each major protein database uses its own conventions when assigning protein identifiers. Resolving the various, potentially unstable, identifiers that refer to identical proteins is a major challenge. This is a common problem when attempting to unify datasets that have been annotated with proteins from multiple data sources or querying data providers with one flavour of protein identifiers when the source database uses another. Partial solutions for protein identifier mapping exist but they are limited to specific species or techniques and to a very small number of databases. As a result, we have not found a solution that is generic enough and broad enough in mapping scope to suit our needs.
We have created the Protein Identifier Cross-Reference (PICR) service, a web application that provides interactive and programmatic (SOAP and REST) access to a mapping algorithm that uses the UniProt Archive (UniParc) as a data warehouse to offer protein cross-references based on 100% sequence identity to proteins from over 70 distinct source databases loaded into UniParc. Mappings can be limited by source database, taxonomic ID and activity status in the source database. Users can copy/paste or upload files containing protein identifiers or sequences in FASTA format to obtain mappings using the interactive interface. Search results can be viewed in simple or detailed HTML tables or downloaded as comma-separated values (CSV) or Microsoft Excel (XLS) files suitable for use in a local database or a spreadsheet. Alternatively, a SOAP interface is available to integrate PICR functionality in other applications, as is a lightweight REST interface.
We offer a publicly available service that can interactively map protein identifiers and protein sequences to the majority of commonly used protein databases. Programmatic access is available through a standards-compliant SOAP interface or a lightweight REST interface. The PICR interface, documentation and code examples are available at _URL_ webcite.


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How Unique Device Identification Works
The idea of marking medical devices with a unique identifier has been around for many years, but was only passed into law in the USA in 2007. After a few years of discussion, the final rules regarding the Unique Device Identification system (UDI) were implemented in 2013, and now all medical devices must be marked in this way.
The motivation behind this move is simple enough – in the investigation of several clinical incidents, it was found that the medical devices in use could not be traced to a high enough degree of specificity. Implementing the UDI requirements was therefore an attempt to allow devices to be traced to their place of manufacture.
The rules for the UDI system requires device labelers to include a unique device identifier on labels and packages, except in certain cases where the law allows for an exception or alternative. Every identifier must be provided in a human-readable, plain text format as well as a form that uses automatic identification and data capture (AIDC) technology.
Devices intended for more than one use must have their identifier marked directly onto the device, and dates must be printed in a standard format that is compatible with international standards and practice.
The identifier is a unique alphanumeric code that consists of two parts:
 - a device identifier (DI), a mandatory, fixed portion of a UDI that identifies the labeler and the specific version or model of a device, and
 - a production identifier (PI), a conditional, variable portion of a UDI that identifies one or more of the following when included on the label of a device:
 - the lot or batch number within which a device was manufactured;
 - the serial number of a specific device;
 - the expiration date of a specific device;
 - the date a specific device was manufactured;
These identifiers will be issued by FDA-accredited issuing agencies. Device labelers seek such FDA accreditation, allowing them to label their products, and the laws regulating the UDI system specify what information such companies need to provide to the FDA in order to make this application.
Some exceptions and alternatives are also provided for in the UDI rules, to ensure that the cost of implementing it is kept to a minimum. In addition, it is expected that the system will go into effect slowly, being gradually phased in over the course of seven years, to allow manufacturers and other labellers time to adjust to the new regime.
Whilst the UDI system will inevitably impose new costs on medical device manufacturers and labelers, in reality most such organizations are already labeling their products with unique identifiers. The printers used today to print labels for medical devices are more than capable of printing complex, unique information onto medical packaging, whether this be made of paper or Tyvek.
For more information about UDI, please read our comprehensive Unique Device Identification Guide.


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(CMIS) Part of the OSI body of network standards.
Network management information services are used by peer processes to exchange information and commands for the purpose of network management. CMIS defines a message set (GET, CANCEL-GET, SET, CREATE, DELETE, EVENT-REPORT and ACTION), and the structure and content of the messages such that they might be used by "open" systems. In concept, it is similar to SNMP, but more powerful (and hence more complex).
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Global names are used to denote value variables, value constructors (constant or non-constant), type constructors, and record labels. Internally, a global name consists of two parts: the name of the defining module (the module name), and the name of the global inside that module (the local name). The two parts of the name must be valid identifiers. Externally, global names have the following syntax:
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transforming the unqualified name into a full global name.
To complete an unqualified identifier, the compiler checks a list of modules, the opened modules, to see if they define a global with the same local name as the unqualified identifier. When one is found, the identifier is completed into the full name of that global. That is, the compiler takes as module name the name of an opened module that defines a global with the same local name as the unqualified identifier. If several modules satisfy this condition, the one that comes first in the list of opened modules is selected.
The list of opened modules always includes the module currently being compiled (checked first). (In the case of a toplevel-based implementation, this is the module where all toplevel definitions are entered.) It also includes a number of standard library modules that provide the initial environment (checked last). In addition, the _TAG_ and _TAG_ directives can be used to add or remove modules from that list. The modules added with _TAG_ are checked after the module currently being compiled, but before the initial standard library modules.
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Sector-specific Case Studies and Examples
As part of our materials to strengthen Managing for Development Results (MfDR), we have developed Case Studies and worked examples of a Stakeholder Analysis, Problem Tree, Objectives/Vision Tree, Risk Analysis, and good practice Log Frame for five different sectors: Forestry, Agriculture/Trade, Climate Change; Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, and Education. These can be used in training or advisory services – or new ones can be developed for bespoke capacity strengthening assignments.
Quality Assurance (QA) checklists
CIDT has developed a modality of QA checklists that have proven helpful in guiding the review and assessment of the various elements of results frameworks. We use them to gauge the strengths and weaknesses of 'real' results frameworks, in order identify their strengths and possible areas for improvement. As a trainer or expert providing technical assistance, these checklists provide an objective way to assess a product from a technical perspective and to communicate the findings and suggestions. We have also assisted our clients (of advisory services) or participants (of workshops/trainings) to use these checklists. They have been a great asset to Peer Review exercises, enabling individuals to provide constructive feedback.
We also have a checklist for the review the quality of Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) plans, which can be used to assess and score the M&E component of project proposals, to facilitate peer review during M&E workshops/trainings, or to conduct a self-assessment of a 'real' M&E plan.


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applied cryptograhy perspective. Note that if the token is both signed and encrypted, the correct order is signed first and encrypted after as mentioned in the OpenID standard definition⁹.
Choosing encryption for OIDC tokens requires much pondering and back and forth conversations with— rightfully —security minded colleagues. This can be a source of delay and frustration. In the worst case, it can lead to poorly implemented security. Hopefully, this article has shed some light on how to select the algorithm that best suits a given use case.
I see a lot of articles including a TL; DR section so I also got mine here:
You have five standard ways of setting up OIDC token encryption:
 - Key wrapping: Choose the tamper-proof solution (AES GCM) if you can. Or maybe the password-based encryption (PBES2) if you have to.
 - Key encryption: RSA public/private scheme. Don't do that one because it is too slow. Do the next one.
 - Key agreement: ECDH public/private scheme. Fast and scalable solution. More complex than RSA but also more secure, and performance can be really good if you use the non standard curves.
 - Key agreement with key wrap: ECDH also same as the above. Better suited when OIDC tokens are distributed to different systems, as you may split the decryption key and share it with a centrally managed key distribution (or something similar).
 - Alternatively, forget about standards—just encrypt and share the key.
Thanks to Ali S, and Christian B who helped me with both part 1 and 2 giving me invaluable advice.
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Simple, Low-cost Water Purification Could Improve Global Health
Two Princeton engineering groups hope to use technologies based on inexpensive, easily available materials to give villagers in developing countries access to safe drinking water and help create local jobs.
One group led by Wole Soboyejo, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, has developed a ceramic filter made from a clay-and-sawdust mixture to remove pathogenic bacteria from water. Baking the mixture burns off the sawdust, leaving behind tiny pores that block microbes.
Currently available filters and treatment methods based on heat, the sun or chlorine are costly, inaccessible or ineffective. The clay filter developed in Soboyejo's lab eliminated water-borne diseases within weeks in a Nigerian village near Abeokuta, where the researchers have helped set up a factory. They are now transferring the technology to Burkina Faso and Kenya.
"Local people need to generate income from making these filters," Soboyejo said. "That's the key to making this sustainable."
Other than filter-maintenance, the biggest challenge is educating villagers about sanitation and the filter's benefits, he said. "You'd think it's as easy as telling people 'You should use these because it's good for you,'" Soboyejo said, "but that's like telling me to eat salad because it's good for me."
Another group led by Peter Jaffe, a professor of civil and environmental engineering, is using apatite, a phosphate compound, to make filters for well water that remove fluoride, which can deform teeth and bones if ingested in high amounts. Lab tests show that apatite composed of lime and phosphoric acid works as well as today's more expensive activated alumina filters.
Once the engineers optimize the filter's operation, they hope to test it in a village in India where excess fluoride is endemic and study the spent apatite's potential as a fertilizer, Jaffe said. "It would be irresponsible if we don't figure out what to do with the used material," he said.
Soboyejo and Jaffe, both funded by Princeton's Grand Challenges program on global health, are now collaborating to develop filters made from both clay and apatite that could remove pathogens and fluoride from drinking water at once.


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This video explains what metadata is, why it is important, and how you can organize your metadata to increase the FAIRness of your data on EBRAINS.
This video introduces the importance of writing a Data Descriptor to accompany your dataset on EBRAINS. It gives concrete examples on what information to include and highlights how this makes your data more FAIR.
This lesson provides a hands-on tutorial for generating simulated brain data within the EBRAINS ecosystem.
This lesson contains both a lecture and a tutorial component. The lecture (0:00-20:03 of YouTube video) discusses both the need for intersectional approaches in healthcare as well as the impact of neglecting intersectionality in patient populations. The lecture is followed by a practical tutorial in both Python and R on how to assess intersectional bias in datasets. Links to relevant code and data are found below.
This is a tutorial on designing a Bayesian inference model to map belief trajectories, with emphasis on gaining familiarity with Hierarchical Gaussian Filters (HGFs).
This lesson corresponds to slides 65-90 of the PDF below.
Similarity Network Fusion (SNF) is a computational method for data integration across various kinds of measurements, aimed at taking advantage of the common as well as complementary information in different data types. This workshop walks participants through running SNF on EEG and genomic data using RStudio.


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What the StratoSolar PV system does:
* Weather independent, photovoltaic solar power (PV)
* Locations up to latitude 60 produce market competitive electricity
* Electricity in utility scale systems from 10 MW to 1 GW in modular increments
* Cost competitive electricity without subsidy
Varying degrees of tracking are possible, and real systems will have results intermediate between flat plate and 2-axis tracking. At 20km sunlight can exceed 1.3kW/m2, which explains utilizations that exceed the theoretical 50% maximum achievable on the ground.
Stratosolar has a 23 page economic analysis of their system.
Nextbigfuture previously had an exclusive Sander Olson interview with Stratosolar president Edmund Kelly.
The OilDrum has an interview with Keith Henson (volunteer engineer with Stratosolar) about Stratosolar
A permanent high altitude platform could serve many additional purposes. Listed below are some examples of possible uses.
* Communications and observation platform
o Cell phone tower, data networks
o Radar for weather, commercial, military
o Science: astronomy, meteorology, earth science
o Laser communications network
The StratoSolar PV system has a reasonable operating cost mostly because the solar PV array (which dominates PV cost)
has a reasonable capital cost and a high utilization, with a resulting reasonable cost of electricity. The reasons for this are:
* The PV panels are exposed to 1.5 to 3.5X the solar energy of ground-based PV panels
* This means each square meter of PV panel gathers 1.5 to 3.5X the energy of ground-based PV panels
* The PV array uses no land. No land cost, or site development cost.
* The PV array support structure uses very little material due to light structural loads.
* All construction materials are standard, off the shelf, and low cost
* The PV panels are lower cost than ground-based PV panels due to reduced panel packaging cost
* The PV panels are higher efficiency than ground-based PV panels due to lower operating temperature and reduced reflection losses.
The extra capital costs incurred by the StratoSolar approach are the tether/HV cable, the winch, the gasbags and the hydrogen they contain. Adding everything up the capital cost of a StratoSolar plant in dollars per peak Watt ($/Wp) is the same as or lower than the same plant on the ground. (peak Watts is the standard way of defining the power output of PV panels) However the StratoSolar plant captures substantially more energy and generates substantially more kilo Watt hours (kWh) of electricity. Depending on geographic location the overall advantage in the cost of electricity generated in $/kWh over ground-based PV can exceed 3X.
Keith Henson Discussion at the Oildrum
After a year and a half of trying to find showstoppers, we feel confident that there are solutions to many of the problems identified. There is a lot of detailed engineering to do and there are problems we have identified but not solved—particularly how to construct the light pipe and the huge rotating aerodynamic shrouds. If anyone has ideas about how to construct objects of this size without wind destroying a partially completed section, please post your thoughts.
Hydrogen is expensive in terms of energy, about 50 MWh per ton. A tethered CSP plant would take a lot of hydrogen for buoyancy, around 5,000 tons. It also leaks hydrogen, around 1-3 percent per year. To fill one up would take 250,000 MWh or 250 GWh.
That's about 10.5 days for a one GW plant. The total energy investment for plastic, aluminum and steel wire, and a combined-cycle power plant is around 5 times as much as the hydrogen so the energy payback is about two months, about a tenth of the energy payback time for PV cells in a desert.
Wind: the biggest engineering problem
The optimization that led to a ~1 GW size is partly due to the volume of the buoyant support structures. The volume (and lift) goes up by the cube of the linear size while the area (and therefore wind resistance) goes up as the square of the size. Additionally, the light pipe losses go up as the reflectance raised to a power proportional to the length over the diameter.
Depending on the reflectance, the hollow light pipe optimizes at 30-50 meters. That size, and the resultant maximum wind drag for a cylinder, is just too high to be practical. A rotating aerodynamic shroud around the light pipe was required to reduce the wind drag into a manageable range (the shroud cuts wind drag by a factor of 10).
The shrouds turned out to be heavy, but large enough in volume that it was practical to offset their own weight and the weight of the light pipe and hold down cables with buoyancy cells. This prevents the exponential growth in cable size seen in space elevator designs when supported only from the top.
Even with aerodynamic shrouds, the models involve huge forces, 30-50 million Newtons of wind force, and four times that much excess buoyancy to keep the light pipe from bending over more than 15 degrees in a high wind. Made from inexpensive steel wire, the hold-down cables have a cross-section area similar to that of a medium-sized suspension bridge (upwards of 16 inches in diameter).
Every couple of years there is a high-wind event in the stratosphere that reaches 50 m/s (180 km/hr) for as much as a week. The 2-km diameter collector at the top simply can't take the stress of that high a wind, so provisions have to be made to fold it into an aerodynamic shape, and the power plant needs to burn gas or oil for that time if it is to be as reliable as a conventional power plant.
Can we start smaller? Not with the thermal type because the light pipe can't be made any smaller than a few tens of meters. If the pipe is a few meters, all the light is lost in the reflections.If you liked this article, please give it a quick review on ycombinator or StumbleUpon. Thanks
Understanding that it isn't optimal, is it possible to put PV into the stratosphere? The power could come down at 20-30 kV in aluminum conductors inside the tethers.
There are enough advantages to consider this approach, particularly in Northern Europe and Japan. If the cost per square meter for cells supported in the stratosphere is close to the cost of a ground solar there is some, but not a not a lot of advantage, for putting PV solar collectors the in the stratosphere instead of a desert.It's a different story in places where there is persistent heavy cloud cover such as Germany and Japan. There the advantage over PV on the ground is a substantial multiple because of the high and predictable light levels.
The minimum size would be a lot smaller, in the few tens of MW.


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Chicken Problems in Poultry and their Solutions
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There are several management problems that are commonly encountered in chicken production.
Some of the common problems with keeping chickens are:
 - Heat stress
 - Cannibalism
 - Egg eating
 - Egg defects
 - Sudden Noise
 - Cage fatigue
 - Rodents
Heat Stress in Poultry
Heat stress is a serious problem in poultry, especially if the house is not constructed properly or the birds are overcrowded in their house.
Heat stress can pose a serious problem for birds if not prevented or controlled early.
The effect could be in the form of reduced feed intake, reduced egg production, egg weight, shell thickness, growth rate, habitability, and fertility.
Management of heat stress in poultry is not technical at all
Heat stress can be prevented or managed in the following ways.
 - Providing an adequate supply of clean, cool water at all times can help to reduce heat stress in poultry.
 - Similarly, you should provide more drinkers during the summer since birds lose water from their bodies more than in the winter due to sunlight.
 - Ensure there's adequate ventilation in the poultry house so they can get fresh air all the time.
 - You can also reduce heat stress by sprinkling water on the roof of the house, especially during the hottest hours of the day.
 - For layers heat management, you should feed them at night when the temperature is very low.
 - If you have a large poultry farm, you can plant canopy trees around your poultry pens, this also helps the heat issue.
Cannibalism in Poultry
Birds pecking one another in poultry can gradually result in cannibalism.
It's always funny that once it starts, it could be disastrous.
Therefore, vent pecking in poultry is nothing to joke with, else, a great loss is beckoning.
Related POST : Swine Management Tips to improve Yield
Birds are regularly seen pecking each other's feathers without any issue.
However, sometimes, this pecking may turn into pulling out and eating feathers, and finally, it leads to cannibalism.
Why do chickens now peck each other to death?
The following are some causes of cannibalism among birds.
 - The poultry house is Poorly ventilated
 - There's a too-low salt level in their feed
 - The poultry environment is extremely humid or warm
 - Overcrowding
 - Inadequate numbers of feeders, drinkers, and laying nests in the poultry house
 - Too much lightning in the poultry house
 - Stress among the birds
 - Prolapsed oviduct in any other flock mate.
 - Having some birds of different age or size, and multiple colors different from others
 - Lack of laying nest or insufficient nesting space
 - High temperatures
 - Over nervousness injury
Treatment of Cannibalism in Poultry
There are a few and simple ways you can control cannibalism in poultry
When cannibalism is noticed, the following measures can be used to curb it.
 - Prompt removal of pecked bird, once the birds noticed blood, vent pecking increases.
 - Lighting should be dim to reduce their activities and activeness.
 - Wounds on any of the birds should be painted with GV (gentian violet) or coal tar to discourage pecking
Other strategic ways you can control cannibalism is to keep the birds busy by providing any of the following
 1. Make available green leafy vegetables for your birds
 2. Allow the birds out of their cage for a few minutes, this can help with stress, which is a trigger of cannibalism.
 3. Change the birds' feed
 4. Some poultry farmers also give a teaspoon of Apple cider vinegar in one liter of water and give it to their birds once a week.
Related POST : How to Make Broiler Starter and Finisher Feed
Egg Eating Habit in Poultry
Egg eating is also a common problem in the poultry business.
Actually, it is not bad for chickens to peck their eggs or that of other birds.
However, it is bad for a chicken to eat her eggs or eggs of other hens.
It's not bad from the perspective of animal nature, but for farmer's profitability, it is highly discouraged.
The reason chickens eat eggs has been found to be a deficiency in calcium or their instinct to make good use of the beak.
There are other triggers of the egg-eating habit in poultry.
The following can lead to the development of egg-eating behavior.
 - Nutritional deficiencies, especially calcium
 - Inadequate nesting facilities for layer chickens
 - The eggs are not picked promptly
 - Accidental breakage of eggs
Egg eating is a habit that is usually started by one or two birds in the pen.
This habit can be imitated by more birds in the flock.
Within a short period, it becomes a serious problem in the flock.
It is thereby important to consider the above-mentioned causes of egg-eating habits so it can be prevented or controlled properly.
And any hen that is identified as a habitual egg eater should be culled immediately.
Egg Defects in Poultry
There are many defects that can be seen on eggs.
These include abnormal egg size, soft-shelled eggs, and a high percentage of eggs with cracks.
An excessive number of cracked eggs may be a result of calcium, vitamins A and D deficiency.
Poor management such as insufficient litter material on the hardy floor, poorly designed nests such as a steep floor that can lead to rapid rolling eggs, inadequate nesting facilities, and infrequent egg collection can also lead to a high incidence of egg cracks.
Related POST : Factors to consider when selecting Pigs for Breeding
Sudden Noise in Poultry
Chickens are sensitive to sound and light. Chicken can start making croaking noises when they notice strange things in their environment.
Chicken can begin to squawk loudly when they become hysterical.
If they are in a cage, they will all attempt to escape from the cage or the pens.
Chicken crying or loud sound means they're afraid.
You should check them immediately once you hear them making a weird noise.
It may be possible they notice predators like snakes or other animals like rodents.
The fear can lead to a loss. The birds may start huddling together out of fright, leading to possible suffocation and death.
Therefore, avoid sudden noise or any form of disturbances such as blasting car horns, alarm, or gunshots.
Poultry Cage fatigue
Poultry cage fatigue is common mostly in layer chickens.
This defect is usually characterized by stress associated with housing birds in cages.
It manifests through the inability of the bird to reach water and feed, leading to starvation.
If this is prolonged and unnoticed, it may lead to their death.
Birds affected should be transferred to deep litter pens and an anti-stress therapy may be prescribed by the veterinarian.
Rodents and Birds
Rats cause economic losses to poultry businesses.
They can be controlled through the use of traps and appropriate poisons.
Wild birds should also be prevented from entering poultry houses.
Chicken Loses
Some chickens will die during the laying period.
Efforts should be made to reduce the incidence of mortality among the flock.


Old Sundial Found in Chalkidiki
One of the rarest sundials dating from the Greco-Roman period was found in Polichrono in Chalkidiki.This sundial is not a usual one as it shows the correct time at any given place.
It is noteworthy that in the Ancient Greek world, sundials consisted of a gnomon (indicator in Ancient Greek) in the form of a vertical post or peg set in a flat surface, upon which the shadow of the gnomon served to indicate the time.
This sundial has a surface which is separated in 12 parts representing 12 hours of the day. More particularly, the sundial consists of a hyperbola tracing the shadow's path at the winter solstice, a second one for the summer solstice, and a straight east-west line in between marking the equinoctial shadows.
A line from the base of the gnomon to the south of the dial running due north denotes noontime. The hyperbola is centered on this noon line. The winter hyperbola opens to the north, the summer hyperbola to the south. In addition to the center noon line, additional oblique lines are added on either side to denote the hours of daylight before and after noon.
Archaeologist of the 16th Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities, Betina Tsigarida, specialist in the area of Chalkidiki, was the one to find the sundial and was given it as a reward for her work.


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Galileo: The Added Value for Integrity in Harsh Environments
AbstractA global navigation satellite system (GNSS)-based navigation is a challenging task in a signal-degraded environments where GNSS signals are distorted by multipath and attenuated by fading effects: the navigation solution may be inaccurate or unavailable. A possible approach to improve accuracy and availability is the joint use of measurements from different GNSSs and quality check algorithms; this approach is investigated here using live GPS and Galileo signals. A modified receiver autonomous integrity monitoring (RAIM) algorithm, including geometry and separability checks, is proposed to detect and exclude erroneous measurements: the multi-constellation approach provides redundant measurements, and RAIM exploits them to exclude distorted observations. The synergy between combined GPS/Galileo navigation and RAIM is analyzed using live data; the performance is compared to the accuracy and availability of a GPS-only solution. The tests performed demonstrate that the methods developed are effective techniques for GNSS-based navigation in signal-degraded environments. The joint use of the multi-constellation approach and of modified RAIM algorithms improves the performance of the navigation system in terms of both accuracy and availability. View Full-Text
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Adapted future landscapes – from aspiration to implementation
This project worked with the Eyre Peninsula and South Australian Murray-Darling Basin Natural Resource Management (NRM) regions to develop a process of science based "optioneering" that explored future land use options that could be embedded in NRM Board planning and community engagement. The project sought to integrate a stakeholder engagement process called envisioning with the development of a web based planning interface called the Landscape Futures Analysis Tool. The envisioning process helped to identify the values that people influencing NRM use in making decisions about engagement, plans and actions, while the LFAT enabled easy assessment of the possible implications for land use and water resources arising from climate change, commodity prices and carbon pricing.
A series of facilitated workshops was used to explore the application of envisioning. It was apparent that all levels of the planning system, from state public servants to farmers, want the planning process "experienced" in the same way. Core principles relevant to future use of the envisioning process that were identified during the project include that envisioning can operate as a bridge between science and decision making that can integrate the contribution from multiple stakeholders with diverse perspectives and that we must be able to adapt the process to local variations in the social, political, agricultural and natural landscape.
The Landscape Futures Analysis Tool (_URL_ is underpinned by analyses that were mostly developed from existing models that were added to and refined for this project, partly on the basis of local experience. Climate change scenarios were based on relevant recent climate (S0), and a mild (S1), moderate (S2) and severe (S3) increase in temperature with accompanying decrease in annual rainfall. All data and projections were developed using regional spatial data stored and subsequently displayed as Geographic Information System (GIS) map layers.
The analysis finds that it will be possible to adapt to a changing climate if changes in land use are made. It also highlights that policy incentives are likely to be needed to guide and encourage changed practice. Use of the LFAT helped to demonstrate to end users that:
- agricultural opportunities in the region rest on the adoption of different management regimes or changes in land use on soil types identified as being negatively impacted by climate change;
- in both study regions, conservation priorities became concentrated in more southern latitudes and higher altitudes as warming and drying increased.
- a large gradient exists in carbon sequestration potential from the drier to wetter areas with economically viable carbon plantings indicated only in the wetter areas.
It is evident from evaluation of the project with the two partner NRM regions that the analysis and LFAT have been beneficial in raising awareness of the possible changes that can occur in the region and that many land use options can be considered in developing new NRM plans. Accompanying this is a greater appreciation of the need for capacity development through training. Science informed, climate-ready planning requires quality tools like LFAT, together with the predisposition of regional planners through willingness, capacity and commitment.
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Meyer, W, Bryan, B, Lyle, G, McLean, J, Moon, T, Siebentritt, M, Summers, D & Wells, S 2013, Adapted future landscapes – from aspiration to implementation, National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility, Gold Coast, 94 pp.
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Debugging Sikuli scripts
Discover automated application testing techniques for anything that is visible on the computer screen
This is the last topic with test automation is the debugging of scripts. A portion of all time working on script development will be spent running the script trying to debug problems with the scripts to get them to run reliably. Once you have a collection of scripts that you run on a regular basis without supervision, identifying causes of errors can become much more difficult.
There are two main techniques for debugging Sikuli scripts when running them in the test harness presented here. The first method is to look at the logs. If you look back over the test runner script, you can see that it logs a complete record of the console output to a file. These files end in.final.log. You can open these in your text editor, and see what your script did and get feedback about the errors. The errors in the logs will tell you what happened. For example, you might get something like this:
This one is telling us that Sikuli couldn't find the requested image on the screen. Or, you might see errors with your Python code.
In situations like this, it's handy to know that Sikuli scripts are just a collection of files in a directory. You can actually open it up and look at the images and Python code within it. Another handy technique is to record videos of your test runs. This allows you to review what happened during a test (passing or failing) to see what went wrong, or analyze the execution for possible improvements to execution speed. For Mac OS X, this can be done using QuickTime Player, which is included with the OS. For Windows or Linux, you will need to investigate a similar solution solution (the examples prepared for this book contain a working example for Windows), but the general technique should still apply. Let's see how this would work in practice.
Firstly, we need to create two additional scripts, one to start recording and another to stop it. The script is broken into two parts, so they can be executed independently. Here's the startup script (see startcapture.sikuli):
And here's the script to stop recording (see stopcapture.sikuli):
These are then pretty easy to integrate with our test runner scripts (see runtests_withrecording.sikuli):
Depending on your machine, you may also encounter some performance degradations when recording video along with your tests. To compensate, you can adjust the default amount of time that Sikuli will wait to find something from 5 seconds to 10 seconds, or more (you may need to experiment), by adding the following line to the end of your library.sikuli script:
This article helped you debug your Sikuli scripts either by looking at the logs or by recording videos of your test runs.
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Numerous studies, including one released last month by University of Louisville researchers, indicate that learning to play the piano as a preschooler sets a child up for later academic success. And now "Piano For Preschoolers" has introduced a new way for parents to teach their children the piano - complete with a Casio(R) keyboard.
Developed by Angie Crellin, a mother of two who has studied the piano for over 30 years, "Piano For Preschoolers" uses color-coded notes printed on a traditional musical staff to teach songs preschoolers already love, like "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star." A corresponding color strip sits behind the piano's keys and guides the child to the correct key for each note.
Crellin came up with the "Piano For Preschoolers" concept when her son, a preschooler at the time, expressed interest in playing the piano. Crellin's daughter had done the same several years before, but she had quickly lost interest once Crellin introduced popular beginning piano books to the lessons. Not wanting the same thing to happen with her son, Crellin decided to create a program that was fun for children and easy for parents to teach. Hundreds of hours of research later, she had "Piano For Preschoolers."
"The results were amazing," said Crellin. "My son loved playing real songs he recognized and couldn't wait to learn more. But the truly remarkable thing was that my preschool son started helping my second-grade daughter with her math homework."
Crellin's results correspond to those obtained by Dr. Frances Rauscher of the University of Wisconsin and Dr. Gordon Shaw of the University of California. The researchers, who have long studied the connection between math and music, compared the effects of musical and nonmusical training on preschoolers' intellectual development. They found that preschoolers who received piano or keyboard training performed 34% higher on tests measuring spatial-temporal ability than did other preschoolers. Those who received piano or keyboard training could think in pictures and see the pictures moving or changing shape over time - a crucial skill for later success in mathematics, science and engineering.
But the pint-sized students of "Piano For Preschoolers" don't care about all that. Most are just having fun playing for rapt audiences of parents and grandparents.
"The 'Piano For Preschoolers' program really seems to be boosting children's self-confidence," said Crellin. "Customers report their preschoolers are practicing the piano with no prompting from the parents. And that's really the key. No four-year-old will stay motivated to learn if she isn't having fun."
The entire "Piano For Preschoolers" system is $129.95 plus shipping. It includes: a music book of 17 familiar songs written in color-coded notes; the durable color strip to set behind the piano keys; a parent/teacher guide with step-by-step instructions for each lesson; and a free Casio(R) SA-75 electronic keyboard.
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