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The Bachelor's first year is common to all students. From the second year onwards, students choose one of the three study paths:
studies in environmental sciences offer a multiand interdisciplinary course that provides an understanding of various environmental phenomena and the human and social issues associated with sustainability. They cover both knowledge of physical, geological, chemical and biological processes in the environment and the questions raised by the current ecological crisis.
studies in geography are based around and at the intersection of physical and human geography. Physical geography deals with methods that describe, analyse and model the earth's surface and its environment. Courses in human geography aim to understand how societies organise themselves where they live and in their environment.
studies in geology focus on disciplines associated with earth sciences, such as mineralogy, crystallography, petrology, structural geology, sedimentology, palaeontology, geophysics and geochemistry. They also examine the evolution of the earth's system as a result of deep physical and chemical processes, but also how these processes have been expressed on the surface over the earth's natural history.
Faculty of Geosciences and Environment
Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Geosciences and Environment, orientation Geography, Geology or Environmental Studies
30 April. If you require a visa to study in Switzerland: 28 February.
At UNIL, the following Master's programmes are open without further conditions to holders of the Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Environmental Geosciences (depending on the chosen orientation):
Master of Arts (MA) in Foundations and Practices of Sustainability
Master of Arts (MA) with Computer Science for the Humanities as main discipline
Subject to changes.
The French version prevails. Only the official texts should be considered binding.
Last update: 26 August 2021


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In a comment on this post, the "Atmosphere Guy" brought up an interesting idea. His thought was that increases in solar Kp (fluctuations in the solar magnetic field ) and the resulting flow of high energy particles can accelerate the development of jet-streams, hurricanes, and cyclones on the earth.
With the formation of hurricane Dorian in the Atlantic, I have been tracking the Kp and A index and the growth of Dorian.
Track map of Dorian shows the location and intensity of the storm at 6-hour intervals. The color represents the storm's maximum sustained wind speeds as classified in the Saffir-Simpson scale.
Here is the Kp index in 3-hour intervals:
Do you think there is a connection between the growth of Dorian's power and the Sun's magnetic field activity? How?

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Dog bite injuries to a child's face are not an infrequent occurrence. They may require primary and revisional surgery. All result in permanent facial scars. This report describes the treatment and outcomes of dog bites of the face, scalp, and neck based on a case series of 107 children over a 10-year period.
The average children's age was 5.9 years. In cases where the dog was identified (95%), it was known to the victim and their family. The events leading to the dog bite were categorized as provoked (77%) in the majority of the cases.
The majority of wounds could be closed primarily without a significant risk of wound infection. Complex reconstructions were required in more severe cases. The majority of families (77%) opted for scar revision between 9 and 18 months after initial treatment to improve the aesthetic outcome.
Lawsuit actions resulted in 39 of the cases making good documentation an essential part of treatment.
Dogbite injuries to the face in children frequently require multiple scar revisions to obtain the best possible aesthetic outcome, and the family should be so counseled at the onset of treatment.


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Quantum Materials Secures Los Alamos Thick-Shell Quantum Dot Technology to Increase Brightness and Stability
(Nanowerk News) Quantum Materials Corporation and Los Alamos National Laboratory's (LANL) today announce Quantum Materials optioning Thick-Shell 'Giant' Quantum Dot patented technology with the potential of 10 to 100-fold improvement in solid-state brightness over conventional nanocrystal quantum dots (QD). High brightness leads to efficient use of materials and increased performance in electronic displays and solid state (LED) lighting.
"Blinking" is a tendency of quantum dots to flash off momentarily often noted as a challenge for certain quantum dot applications. LANL scientists also discovered that thick-shelling quantum dots dramatically reduces fluorescence intermittency by better separating absorption by the shell and emission by the core, significantly suppressing blinking (see diagram).
Commercial product lifetimes can be increased in QD-LCD backplane displays, solid state lighting films and projection lighting because the thick-shell technology has demonstrated the ability to extend the service life of quantum dots exposed to higher temperatures and/or high intensity light. Further, non-blinking quantum dots that can produce higher light output with less heat generation will spur new product development and optimized design.
LANL also achieved thick-shell "Giant" QD near-infrared (NIR) emission for a major advance affecting medical imaging applications, optoelectronics, lasers, telecommunication and solar photovoltaics. For example, targeted cancer cells will be easier to identify and track, and varied absorption and emission ranges offer tailored performance in electronics and solar designs.
Quantum Materials plans to integrate the LANL thick-shell technology into its quantum dot product line. The Company's automated process is capable of manufacturing industrial-scale quantities while maintaining tight uniformity and makes possible the reliable, economical production of thick-shell tetrapod quantum dots having the exact characteristics necessary for specific applications.
Stephen B. Squires, Quantum Materials CEO and Founder said, "We believe that the number of quantum dot performance improvements afforded by adding thick-shell technology to our Tetrapod Quantum Dots will set us significantly ahead of our competition. Our ability to manufacture uniform industrial-scale quantities of quantum dots engineered for optimal application-specific performance parameters will expedite acceptance of these new technologies by display and lighting manufacturers."
David Doderer, QMC VP of R&D added, "Combining LANL thick-shelling abilities with QMC's tetrapod quantum dots' properties of high uniformity, and narrow emission (higher color purity) will be revolutionary in affecting quantum dot lifetime, quality of performance, enhancing of stability, and color rendering."
The technology was made available through LANL's new Express Licensing Program. Dr. Jennifer Hollingsworth, of the Center for Integrated Technologies (CINT) at LANL is the Principal Investigator for Thick-Shell Quantum Dots.
About Quantum Materials Corp.
Quantum Materials Corp. manufactures Tetrapod Quantum Dots for use in medical, display, solar energy and lighting applications through an automated production process. Tetrapod Quantum Dot semiconductors enable a new level of engineered performance for consumer and industrial products. QMC's volume manufacturing methods assure economies of scale, reliability and uniformity to drive innovative discovery to commercial success. (_URL_)
Source: Quantum Materials (press release)
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3. Compared with the traditional dewatering machine, the squeezer is energy-saving, good drying effect and low noise; under normal circumstances, the squeezer needs dewatering machine and pipe dryer. The squeezer has high power consumption and low efficiency. Generally speaking, the power consumption of the extruder is 50% less than that of the dewaterer.
4. The material is fully wetted into the screw, and after the extrusion process, the material is fully plasticized within 1% of humidity.
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Up your bilingual recruiting game
How credit unions can recruit bilingual talent
Many credit unions are actively recruiting bilingual talent at all levels (from tellers all the way to the executive suite!) to better serve their linguistically diverse members. However, they are facing the same problem that other organizations face: that hiring and recruiting bilingual talent is challenging. By taking the following steps, your credit union will be able to save time, effort, and money, all while ensuring the most qualified bilingual talent serves your members and effectively communicates your credit union's value to the community.
Step One: Revise Your Bilingual Talent Strategy
Some credit unions think they can just hire a couple of Spanish speaking tellers and they are good. Understanding the language needs of your members and of your community (if you want to grow) is crucial. Do a comprehensive analysis to the commonly spoken languages in your area. While many areas have large Spanish speaking populations, don't just assume Spanish is the only language of your community. Try to figure out or estimate how many members or potential members have limited English proficiency and develop a plan to hire enough bilingual talent to serve them. For example, if 25% of your members speak primarily Spanish, then you should consider having at least 25% of your staff be fluent in Spanish and ensure that you have personnel to provide services such as mortgage lending, business lending, investments, etc. in Spanish. If not, your credit union could have a "gap" or "deficiency" where it cannot effectively serve its members due to the language barrier.
Step Two: Provide Detailed Language Qualifications in Job Postings
I have seen countless job postings for bilingual postings where the technical skills are clearly defined, but there is one very small line stating "bilingual (English/Spanish)". It was clear whoever created the job post had no real idea about the bilingual part of the job. If the language skill matters, then you do need to include detailed language qualifications and specifics for how the language will be used on the job. Explain how the candidate will utilize reading, listening, speaking, and writing skills in that language. Will the candidate be expected to translate mortgage documents into Spanish? Will the candidate be helping Mandarin speakers open member accounts? Will the candidate be a community liaison into the local Polish community?
Also, if being bilingual is truly a major component of the job, then bilingual skills should be heavily weighted in the decision process. Don't just say bilingual skills are required, make it required. Many credit unions place a surprisingly low weight on the bilingual skills, which puts the credit union at risk of hiring an unqualified (from the languages aspect) candidate. In however way your credit union weighs qualifications, make sure bilingual skills are either the biggest or one of the biggest factors in making a hiring decision.
Ask that when a candidate applies, that they demonstrate proof or explain why they are qualified for the role from a language perspective. Can the candidate prove the targeted language is their native language? If not, can they demonstrate they studied the language or have extensive work experience in the language? You must make sure the candidate's language skills are just as strong as their technical skills.
Step Three: Initial Language Screening
Languages are one of the most difficult skills to verify in the recruiting process. Few people who are bilingual have credentials that prove it. Often candidates develop the skill through years of study and practice. That is why it is so crucial to conduct an initial screen of the job candidate's language abilities. Unfortunately, some candidates, intentionally or unintentionally, claim to be bilingual when they really are not. Just because someone took a year or two of high school language courses or downloaded the Duolingo app doesn't mean they're qualified for a bilingual position.
Therefore, I suggest that credit unions implement an initial screening process so that they can identify the candidates with strong language skills for further consideration and eliminate the ones with weaker language skills. Some companies develop their own ad-hoc language screening processes, but these often consume valuable time and effort. ECLPS360 offers the Enterprise Cultural & Language Proficiency Screener (ECLPS), which is a platform where job candidates can take an automated assessment in either English, Spanish, French, Mandarin, Arabic, or Russian.
Step Four: Final Screening
After a small group of finalists have been identified, I highly recommend that an additional and more precise screening of the candidates take place, especially if it is a position where the language skills are critical. This level of screening is more intensive, and expensive, than then ECLPS described above, which is why it should be deployed at this late stage. Language Testing International, offers language assessments developed by ACTFL, the leading organization that advocates for the teaching and learning of languages. Not only will the candidate receive a nice credential in the form of a certificate, but the results will help make the final decision.
Don't look at the ECLPS and LTI assessments as a cost, but as an investment. In the same way you pay to inspect a home before buying it to uncover major issues, you should invest in effective screening methods to ensure the bilingual candidates are truly qualified. Hiring an unqualified bilingual candidate will cost your credit union far more than the screening and assessment costs.
Step 5: Retain & Develop the Bilingual Talent
Building the proper workforce does not end when the candidate joins the credit union. Make sure that you retain that talent (as they are in high demand and hard to find!) to serve your credit union for years to come. Just like with many other technical skills, look for professional development opportunities focused on the language. If you feel that a member of your team has room to improve their language skills, seek opportunities to raise their language skills and the investment will soon payoff.
Now you have a basic overview on how to improve the bilingual recruiting process at your credit union. Every credit union should have bilingual talent on their team to serve an America that is increasingly globally minded and diverse. Plus, that bilingual talent is the first step in gaining a competitive advantage over your competition and opening new markets for growth. I am also available to speak to and consult credit unions and industry associations about this topic.
Luis A. Valdez-Jimenez
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Residential Code Methodology
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has established a methodology for evaluating the energy and economic performance of residential energy codes. This method serves to ensure DOE proposals are both energy efficient and cost-effective. In addition, DOE will evaluate published codes, which will help states and local jurisdictions better understand the impacts of updating residential energy codes.
The DOE methodology contains two primary assessments:
- Energy savings
Energy and economic calculations are performed through a baseline comparison, modeling changes between representative building types. National energy savings are reported, in addition to economic metrics by state and climate zone. In considering cost-effectiveness, longer term energy savings are balanced against additions to initial costs through a life-cycle cost perspective. These first costs are referenced in DOE's Residential Cost Database, which serves as a supporting tool for the analysis.
The DOE methodology models code changes for single-family and multifamily homes across a range of climates, foundation and fuel types. Energy is modeled using DOE's EnergyPlus™ software for two residential building types:
- Single-family: A two-story home with a 30-ft by 40-ft rectangular shape, 2,400 ft2 of floor area excluding the basement, and windows that cover 15% of the wall area, equally distributed on all sides of the house.
- Multifamily: A three-story building with 18 units (6 units per floor), each having conditioned floor area of 1,200 ft2 and window area equal to approximately 10% of the conditioned floor area, equally distributed on all sides of the building.
In addition, DOE also examines variations by heating system and foundation type. This results in the analysis of multiple unique scenarios across each climate zone. DOE's EnergyPlus™ software covers almost all aspects of residential envelopes, HVAC, water heating, and lighting systems. In some cases, alternative methods are employed to more accurately portray the effects of a given change.
The DOE methodology accounts for the benefits of energy efficient home construction over a 30 year analysis period, balancing initial costs against longer term energy savings. DOE evaluates energy codes based on three measures of cost-effectiveness:
- Life-Cycle Cost: Full accounting over a 30-year period of the cost savings, considering energy savings, the initial investment financed through increased mortgage costs, tax impacts, and residual values of energy efficiency measures.
- Cash Flow: Net annual cost outlay (difference between annual energy cost savings and increased annual costs for mortgage payments, etc.).
- Simple Payback: Number of years required for energy cost savings to exceed the incremental first costs of a new code.
Life-cycle cost is the primary measure by which DOE assesses cost-effectiveness of residential energy codes. These savings assume: initial costs are mortgaged, homeowners take advantage of mortgage interest deductions, and some components retain a residual value after the analysis period.
|Mortgage Interest Rate||5%|
|Loan Term||30 years|
|Down Payment Rate||10% of home price|
|Points and Loan Fees||0.7% (non-deductible)|
|Discount Rate||5% (equal to Mortgage Interest Rate)|
|Period of Analysis||30 years|
|Property Tax Rate||0.9% of home price/value|
|Income Tax Rate||25% federal, state values vary|
|Home Price Escalation Rate||Equal to Inflation Rate|
|Inflation Rate||1.6% annual|
|Fuel Prices and Escalation Rates||Latest national average prices based on current Energy Information Administration data and projections; price escalation rates taken from latest Annual Energy Outlook.|
For more information on the DOE assessment of residential energy codes, please visit the following:

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Daily Links - 11 October
11 October 2005
Once a conflict ends, reconstruction begins. The 7th part of the Toolkit investigates the importance of gender-sensitive approaches to post-conflict reconstruction.
1325 on trial, Counsel Opening: lack of implementation of 1325
(Harriet Babbitt, womenwagingpeace.net, 03/03/04)
If women make a difference, did 1325?
Perceptions of the Darfur community on the effects of the conflict on women and girls
(Kathambi Kinoti, AWID.org, 23/09/2005)
Victim of sexual violence and head of the household: how does the horror of Darfur affect women and girls? Kathambi Kinoti reviews the UNICEF report
"I was a woman in a warrior's world". (Janis Karpinski, The Guardian, 11/10/05)
The Abu Ghraib prison commander on her experience during the abuse scandal.
From our archive: "Intimate enemies: the inner dynamics of peace" (Gabrielle Rifkind, openDemocracy.net, 27/2/2002)
Gabrielle Rifkind, a group psychotherapist, analyses why peace processes' failures can find their roots in human relations


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Q. In Acts 23 or 24, Paul talks to his accusers in either Aramaic or Hebrew—it depends on which translation one reads. What is the difference, and why don't the translations agree?
A. Aramaic is a Semitic language closely related to Hebrew. It uses the same script and is grammatically similar. You are probably referring to Acts 21:37–40. If so, Paul spoke in Aramaic, since the original Hebrew language was on the wane and he wanted to address the majority of the crowd he was speaking to. Jews would be more likely to listen to him if they heard him in their common language. Since Aramaic was similar to Hebrew, Paul's use of that language would show he was a devout Jew and honored Jewish laws and customs. But he spoke Greek when he was dealing with the Roman officials (vv. 37, 38); this use indicated to them that he was educated and refined, not just a common rebel of the streets who was inciting riots.
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This chapter contains an overview of the C++RTL specific data types and constants. A brief explanation of each data type along with sizes is provided.
Basic Data Types and their Sizes
This section lists the basic data types used in C++RTL APIs, indicating the size of each.
- mqbyte - Data defined to occupy 8 bits (unsigned).
- mqchar - Data defined to occupy 8 bits.
- mqshort - Data defined to occupy 16 bits.
- mqint - Data defined to occupy 32 bits.
- mqlong - Data defined to occupy 64 bits.
- mqfloat - Data defined to occupy 32 bits.
- mqdouble - Data defined to occupy 64 bits.
All required public constants are categorized and declared in common_def.h according to JMS specifications.
Messaging related constants are required while creating sessions and sending messages to a queue or topic on the FioranoMQ Server.
Following are the possible values of the acknowledgement mode that can be used while creating a TopicSession or a QueueSession:
- _TAG_ AUTO_ACKNOWLEDGE 1
- _TAG_ CLIENT_ACKNOWLEDGE 2
- _TAG_ DUPS_OK_ACKNOWLEDGE 3
Following are the permissible values for the message delivery mode that can be used in publish or send call. The persistence of a message is decided using these constants:
- _TAG_ NON_PERSISTENT 1
- _TAG_ PERSISTENT 2
Following are the string representations of the various message types that can be sent by a C client to the FioranoMQ Server. A call of MSG_getJMSType returns one of these values:
- _TAG_ JMSMESSAGE "Message"
- _TAG_ BYTESMESSAGE "BytesMessage"
- _TAG_ STREAMMESSAGE "StreamMessage"
- _TAG_ MAPMESSAGE "MapMessage"
- _TAG_ TEXTMESSAGE "TextMessage"
Following are some of the permissible values for message priority that can be used in publish or send call:
- _TAG_ MinPriority 0
- _TAG_ MaxPriority 9
- _TAG_ LowPriority 0
- _TAG_ NormPriority 4
- _TAG_ HighPriority 9
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Two-pore-domain potassium channels: This family of 15 members form what is known as "leak channels" which possess Goldman-Hodgkin-Katz (open) rectification. These channels are regulated by several mechanisms including oxygen tension, pH, mechanical stretch, and G-proteins. Their name is derived from the fact that the α subunits consist of four transmembrane segments, each containing two pore loops. As such, they structurally correspond to two inward-rectifier α subunits and thus form dimers in the membrane.
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Goldstein SA, Bayliss DA, Kim D, Lesage F, Plant LD, Rajan S (2005). International Union of Pharmacology. LV. Nomenclature and molecular relationships of two-P potassium channels. Pharmacol Rev 57 (4): 527-40.
Membrane transport protein: ion channels
|Ca||Voltage-dependent calcium channel (L-type/CACNA1C, N-type, P-type, Q-type, R-type, T-type) - Inositol triphosphate receptor - Ryanodine receptor - Cation channels of sperm|
|Na: Sodium channel||Nav1.4 - Nav1.5 - Nav1.7 - Epithelial sodium channel|
|K: Potassium channel||Voltage-gated (KvLQT1, KvLQT2, KvLQT3, HERG, Shaker gene, KCNE1) - Calcium-activated (BK channel, SK channel) - Inward-rectifier (ROMK, KCNJ2) - Tandem pore domain|
|Cl: Chloride channel||Cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator|
|Porin||Aquaporin (1, 2, 3, 4)|
|Transient receptor potential||TRPA - TRPC (TRPC6) - TRPM (TRPM6) - TRPML (Mucolipin-1) - TRPP - TRPV (TRPV1, TRPV6)|
|Other/general||Gap junction - Stretch-activated ion channel - Ligand-gated ion channel - Voltage-gated ion channel - Cyclic nucleotide-gated ion channel - Two-pore channel|
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William Gibson's Archangel – Comic Review
Amy Walker reviews William Gibson's graphic novel, Archangel...
Archangel, written by William Gibson and Michael St. John Smith, is a time travel action-adventure story that spans from modern day to post-world war two Berlin.
It tells the story of a different timeline, a world where America controlled the majority of the planet but has been ravaged by nuclear weapons. With the world destroyed and unliveable, the American leadership forms a plan to travel into an alternate past, to change their history and create a new world for them to take control over.
Having altered his appearance to look like his grandfather, Junior Henderson, the son of the President For Life, travels back to 1945 along with a group of marines and replaces his grandfather, an important military officer. Fortunately, a resistance movement feels that it is wrong for Henderson to alter an entire world in order to rule it, and as such sends a team of their own back in time to stop their plans.
Archangel splits its action between these two time periods, with the 2016 setting acting as support for the agent sent back to the 1940's. Whilst the majority of the narrative takes place in the past, these jumps back to the present allow for good narrative pauses in the story, and give us some additional context to the future timeline and the events that led to the destruction of their world.
The 1945 setting is well done, with the books art style complementing the location of a post war Berlin. Whilst many time travel stories, especially ones that involve alternate histories, tend to be set during World War Two itself, moving it to the time just after makes for a familiar yet refreshing change. The story unfolds at a brisk pace, yet never feels rushed or like things are happening too quickly, there's still time to build the world and to take character moments.
Despite only being five issues in length the writers manage to develop their characters well, they explore their histories and their motivations in ways that feel natural and not forced, and manage to add a lot of depth to even side characters. The single panel in which you discover that the character Fritz was held in a Nazi prison is a disturbing moment, and tells you huge amounts about who he is and what he's been through, simply with dialogue; 'I wore a pink triangle. A certain guard befriended me. There was food, of sorts. Other privileges, for one such as myself. Staying out of the death camps was one.'
A personal favourite character of mine for the series is Naomi Givens, am RAF Intelligence Officer who couldn't help but remind me of Peggy Carter. Much like the beloved Marvel character, Givens is a smart, quick thinking, and no nonsense character that drives the story forward; she takes to the concept of time travel especially well.
Archangel also manages to pack in several action sequences throughout the story despite so much of the narrative being given over to characterisation and world building, meaning that even the most hardened action fan will find something of interest, even if they aren't drawn into the story, which strikes me as impossible.
Learning that Archangel began as a television project, before being changed to a feature film, video game, and then finally a comic book, isn't surprising, as it has a very cinematic quality throughout, from the way the story unfolds to the way that certain panels are drawn. The book has a scope to it that many comics lack, and a care and attention to detail that make it feel like a very real and lived in world.
With Archangel now collected as a single volume it's the perfect time to check out the story if you missed the issues when they first came out, plus, reading it as one piece rather than waiting a month between issues is definitely the best way to experience this story.
Archangel is now in comic book stores from IDW Publishing. Let us know what you thought of it!
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This Housing LIN report explores the potential for almshouses to play a greater role in offering housing for vulnerable older people. Almshouse charities face challenges and opportunities in delivering specialist accommodation and improvements to existing housing.
The paper gives examples of successful developments, and governance and management initiatives that have helped transform almshouse provision to meet housing need and complement local strategies for housing, care and support. Set out in three parts, it explains:
- the distinctive characteristics of almshouses and what they can offer locally
- how progressive almshouses are adapting to enable them to off appropriate housing in the 21st century, and
- develops exciting ideas for the future of the almshouse movement


another part of the plant, under kosher law, the process has been contaminated. Likewise, in plants that produce both kosher and non-kosher or even dairy and pareve (non-dairy), engineers must carefully review details like returned condensate. The CRC makes frequent random inspections and is diligent in educating themselves to understand plant engineering, ensuring that kosher laws are not broken. This is of great service to the food processor by giving assistance to their process planning and provides a third-party certification of product quality. Rabbi Fishbane emphasizes that this requires a technical education supported through "constant attendance of seminars and lectures" and "not every agency's approval is acknowledged by the CRC." A specifying engineer needs to determine which agencies have the ability to make the types of inspections required for the specific application. Each heat transfer fluid manufacturer has the information on which agency they use. A note on kosher fluids is that the fluid also should be rated as kosher/pareve, which means it can be used for foods and additives intended for consumption on Passover and used all year. When the temperature requirement of the application exceeds 600oF (316oC) or surface temperatures on the heat exchange surface exceeds 650oF (343oC), a heat transfer fluid rated for incidental food contact should not be specified. What about kosher? Kosher law allows for a non-kosher fluid heating medium if that medium is made so foul that any contamination would make the food or additive that is heated inedible. By their nature, aromatic chemistries used for higher temperatures have a strong, pungent odor, especially when heated, and qualify readily for this exemption.
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One of the mysteries of the English language finally explained.
An order for the demolition of buildings.
- 'The authority has now agreed to demolish the houses under a compulsory clearance order, after the owners refused to renovate or sell them on.'
- 'No avoidable delay occurred in my Department between the making of the clearance order and the confirmation thereof.'
- 'Four days later, he signed the first clearance order, which provided for the demolition of unfit houses in the town.'
- 'Once a high and wide route is established, the clearance order for the movement follows.'
- 'A slum clearance order was challenged because civil servants, acting on behalf of the minister, had conferred with local officials and heard additional evidence after a public inquiry had ended.'
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March 15, 2012
Contact: John Ascenzi, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Phone: _PHONE_, _EMAIL_
A CHOP researcher is leading a collaborative, federally funded study to help veterans and active-duty service members better deal with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other stress-related conditions. The project, involving scientists from CHOP and Penn Medicine, aims to discover new treatments as well as to identify biomarkers—measurable biological substances such as hormone levels—that indicate a person's resilience to stress. Their findings may also have the potential to benefit a broader group of patients, including children and families dealing with stress-related health problems.
Seema Bhatnagar, Ph.D., a neuroscientist in CHOP's Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, is the principal investigator of a $3.5 million grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), part of the U.S. Department of Defense. Dr. Bhatnagar is collaborating with scientists from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in studying patients from the Philadelphia VA Medical Center and other military institutions.
Dr. Bhatnagar and her colleagues at CHOP's Stress Neurobiology Division have researched how differences in brain circuitry affect how animals react to stressful situations. They performed some of this preclinical work in earlier phases of the DARPA grant. Their new study aims to continue to validate their findings in animal models and to translate their basic science findings into human populations. For example, they are studying whether biomarkers may help predict which people are more likely to be resistant to developing PTSD when exposed to chronic stress.
"We are studying how to improve stress resilience in military personnel," said Dr. Bhatnagar. "Our goal is to identify novel treatments for stress, particularly for PTSD. Our findings may apply to people in non-military situations as well."
In addition to its Division of Stress Neurobiology, CHOP has clinical resources devoted to stress. For instance, multidisciplinary researchers at CHOP's Center for Pediatric Traumatic Stress develop medical interventions for stress-related problems in children and families who have experienced car crashes and serious illnesses.
To read the Penn Medicine press release about this new stress resilience study, click here: _URL_
To read about CHOP's Center for Pediatric Traumatic Stress, click here: _URL_


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The Battle of Fort Macon or, better, the Siege of Fort Macon took place from 23 March to 26 April 1862, on the Outer Banks of Carteret County, North Carolina. It was part of Union Army General Ambrose E. Burnside's North Carolina expedition during the American Civil War.
In late March, Major General Burnside's army advanced on Fort Macon, a casemated masonry fort that commanded the channel to Beaufort, 35 miles southeast of New Bern. The Union force invested the fort with siege works and on 25 April opened an accurate fire on the fort, soon breaching the masonry walls. Within a few hours the fort's scarp began to collapse, and in late afternoon the Confederate commander, Colonel Moses J. White, ordered the raising of a white flag. Burnside's terms of surrender were accepted, and the Federal troops took possession of the fort the next morning.


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We present a new phase-field fluid model and computation with minimized Cahn-Hilliard (CH) dynamics. Using the CH equation, the internal structure of the interface layer is determined by explicit smoothing flow discontinuities. This method greatly simplifies gridding, discretization, and handling of topological changes. The original CH equation, however, has intrinsic dynamics such as interface length minimization, i.e., the motion by minus the Laplacian of the mean curvature. When the CH equation is applied to the modeling of multiphase fluid flows, we want to minimize its interface length minimization property. The surface tension formulation also requires the multiphase fluid interface to be a hyperbolic tangent profile. Typically, under the advection of flow, the interfacial transition is not a hyperbolic tangent profile, i.e., it is too compressed or sharpened. Even though the original CH dynamics conserves the total mass, the enclosed area obtained by its interface is not preserved. To overcome these shortcomings, we propose a modified CH equation with an interfacial profile correction term. Several numerical examples are presented to show the accuracy of the proposed method. The numerical results demonstrate that the proposed modified CH equation preserves the enclosed area better than the original CH equation.
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|Journal||Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation|
|Publication status||Published - 2016 Jan 1|
Bibliographical noteFunding Information:
Y.B. Li is supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, China. J.-I. Choi was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korea government (MSIP) (No. NRF20151009350 ). The corresponding author (J.S. Kim) was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korea government (MSIP) ( NRF-2014R1A2A2A01003683 ). The authors are grateful to the reviewers whose valuable suggestions and comments significantly improved the quality of this paper.
© 2015 Elsevier B.V..
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Numerical Analysis
- Modelling and Simulation
- Applied Mathematics


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Structure (Plot and Building) (EN)2020/2021
The 1st semester, the Structure topic will introduce you to basic structural principles for constructing generic and complex building elements.
By meeting the objectives of this topic you will have gained knowledge and understanding of:
- for detailing structural layers and representation of different building elements in 2D drawings.
- basic principles for analyzing and choosing adequate structural solutions.
- generic foundations for 1-2 story residential buildings
- generic cavity brick wall for 1-2 story residential buildings
- generic internal wall with wood or light steel gauge studs
- a flat & pitched roof for 1-2 story residential buildings
- a window in a generic brick cavity wall
- assigning a building element location and associated dimensioning
A student who has met the objectives of the semester will be able to:
- constructing a foundations for 1-2 story brick buildings
- constructing a cavity brick wall for 1-2 story brick buildings
- constructing a flat & pitched roof for 1-2 story brick buildings
- placing a door in a generic brick cavity wall and in an internal walls
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practical application of learning objectives
The teaching is based on the understanding that learning is most efficient if students are given the opportunity to work with real-life assignments from, or inspired by, companies in relevant industries.
When choosing a project, the possibility of incorporating the academic and professional challenges throughout the semester into the project must be taken into account.
The students are given the opportunity to be involved in the various project phases, from preliminary analysis to realisation of the project. In connection with the project work, the students are faced with real-life problems to be solved based on the given theory, and are to organise the work in such a way that deadlines can be met. The students are furthermore provided with the necessary qualifications to work independently, thereby preparing them to complete the final project as an individual assignment.
This working method allows the students to gain an understanding of how problems are identified and analysed, how solution models are set up, and how the right solution is adopted.
The learning outcomes of the exam are identical with the learning outcomes of the subject(s)/modul(es)Exam in one or more subjectsType of examCombined written and oral examinationIndividual exam or group examIndividual or group, 1-4 max participantsExam languagesEnglishType of evaluation7-point grading scaleExaminersExternal censure
In the subject Structure (Plot and Building) (EN) you will receive 28 hours of instruction, which corresponds to 37 lessons (1 lesson = 45 min.) and 41% of your total workload for the subject.
The teaching primarily consists of the following activities: internal lecturers, project work, group work.
The preparation primarily consists of the following activities: group work, project work, study group.
Read about KEAs Study Activity Model
*KEA can deviate from the number of hours if this is justified by special circumstances


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a teacher to the section of Dade County rather vaguely described
as the Biscayne Bay region. The teacher traveled from place to
place teaching the children in their homes, and was paid $40 a month.
The first organized school established in the Biscayne Bay region
started with 10 pupils at Coconut Grove in 1886. Mrs. Henrietta
Trapp was the teacher. The first term was held in a one-room log
cabin, the property of Samuel Rhodes. Pupils were later transferred
to a small frame building which is still in existence.
In 1887 or 1888 a school taught by Harlan Trapp was opened
in Lemon City, now a part of Miami.
Miami proper established its first public school sometime during
the winter of 1895-96 at the corner of Northeast First Avenue and
Third Street with an enrollment of about twenty pupils. Prof. R. E.
McDonald was the principal.
The Biscayne school, a short distance north of Lemon City, was
opened during the same year. Mr. F. Page Wilson, the first supervisor of this school said, "The district was organized but it would
scarcely do, in an official report, to describe the exact methods by
which an eager community met the legal requirements for a new
The determination of early citizens to provide educational facilities for their children is illustrated in the story of Captain C. J. Rose
who came from Ohio in 1891 to take up a homestead in the territory
west of Miami, where a little community sprang into being. Their request for a school was granted when the required ten children were enrolled, but as there was some delay, the captain and his neighbors secured driftwood from the beach and built their own school house.
At that time the country about Miami was wild and undeveloped.
One Miami teacher in Coconut Grove "toted" a pistol because of the
prevalence of panthers in Brickell Hammock through which she
passed each morning on her way to the schoolhouse.
In addition to a few simple books, the standard equipment in
those early schools included a leather strap, a shotgun, a bottle of ammonia, and a jug of whiskey. The whiskey was used for emergency
treatment of snake bites; the shotgun to scare off inquisitive tramps
or prowling Indians. Ammonia is a long-standing remedy for the relief of scorpion stings while the leather strap, probably because it made
more noise, was thought more effective than the well-known "hickory
stick" for enforcing discipline.
The establishment of these first schools marked the beginning of
a long series of difficulties brought about by the rapidly increasing
population. Hurriedly constructed buildings were overcrowded from
the date of their opening, particularly during the boom. Twenty-six
schools for white children and six for colored, were erected between
1923 and 1926. In addition, the school board provided 150 one-room
portable schools at various locations to take care of the 1925 increases.
Attendance during that period rose from 11,733 m Z 9 2 3 to 3 I >77 m
The county began the year 1939 with an estimated enrollment
of 46,000 pupils, 1,345 teachers and 89 schools including, for white
children, 45 elementary schools, 16 junior high schools and seven
senior high schools; for negro children, 14 elementary schools, six
junior high schools, and one senior high.
Cafeterias operate in 53 public schools under the auspices of the
local Parent-Teacher Association units. Heavy duty equipment is
furnished by the school board while the P.T.A. supplies utensils and
tableware and is required to operate on a nonprofit basis and without
expense to the school tax funds.
One of the difficulties facing the city schools is that of providing
facilities for children of tourists. In midwinter months of each
school year approximately four thousand additional pupils must be
enrolled and assigned to proper grades. In Miami Beach during 1935-
36, the opening enrollment was 1,185 and the closing, 1,322, but at
one time 2,184 students attended school. Nonresident pupils in the
county are required to pay a tuition fee to provide funds for the hire
of substitute teachers.
Schools operate on the six-three-three plan. Elementary schools
care for children of the first six grades. Pupils remain in one room
throughout the day and receive instruction from one teacher. Junior
high schools are departmental. The day is divided into six periods and
the students pass from one classroom to another for instruction in
their various subjects. In the seventh and eighth grades pupils follow
a definite course of required studies but in the ninth grade certain
courses are elective.
Ninth grade credits are transferred to the senior high school and
included in requirements for graduation. High scholastic standards
are rigidly maintained and student graduates are accepted by practically all standard universities in the United States.
Specialization is a marked feature of every high school. Miami
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Edison High School has a successful radio department, a boatbuilding
department, and an agricultural department with a nursery which
supplies a great number of plants and shrubs used for beautifying
school grounds throughout the country.
Miami Senior High School, one of the largest in Florida, is the
only local school having a printing department. Its newspaper, the
Miami High Times, has for eight consecutive years won first place in a
national contest sponsored by Columbia University.
Besides these public schools in Dade County, there are four
parochial schools with an enrollment of more than two thousand pupils
and about 35 other private schools offering instruction in art, beauty
culture, business subjects, dancing, dramatics, music, as well as elementary subjects and college preparatory courses.
The latter guarantee the tourist pupil a minimum loss of time
arising from transfers from home schools. This is made possible by
personal supervision, home textbooks, home tests arranged by the instructors and returned to home schools for grading and recording.
Many of these schools feature out-of-door classes when weather conditions are favorable. Students pursue their regular studies gathered
in small groups about tables protected from the sun by large, bright
The University of Miami, a co-educational institution chartered
in March, 1925, opened in October, 1926, with a boom-time endowment of $8,500,000. Much of this endowment was lost in the depression years that followed and, when one creditor entered suit to collect his debt, the university was saved from extinction by the appointment of a Federal receiver. Later, the university purchased its assets
when they were sold by the receiver.
During those precarious years the university established a sound
position for itself in the community and its enrollment steadily increased until, with a student body of over thirteen hundred members,
it has become the third largest college in the State. It consists of a
college of liberal arts and four schools, granting degrees in education,
business administration, law, and music.
Most of the work is conducted in the University Administration
Building, a large three-story, triangular building originally designed
for a hotel, which contains the offices, class-rooms, laboratories,
studios, an auditorium, a theatre workshop and other facilities for
students. The university also owns a number of near-by buildings
used as dormitories, and a loo-acre tract of land, acquired for future
Features, noteworthy in a college of its size, are a law library containing more than twelve thousand volumes, and a smaller library on
Pan-American affairs and relationships widely used by the student
International Relations Club, sponsored by the Carnegie Endowment
for International Peace.
The university maintains a keen interest in promoting closer
business and cultural relations with Central and South American Republics and has arrangements with several of their universities whereby an interchange of students is effected. In the school of business
administration, the department of Latin-American Relations provides
intensive training for those students who plan to establish future connections in these countries.
Among the courses offered in this department are: South American History, Latin American History, Latin American Heroes, Spanish-American Colonial History, Latin American Relations, Latin
American Culture, Survey of Spanish Literature, History of Caribbean
Countries, Latin American Comparative Constitutional Government
and Institutions, International Law, Latin American Literature, Economic Geography of South America, Latin American Diplomatic Relations, Economic Legislation of South America, Latin American
Political institutions, Spanish Civil Government, and others.
In addition to special courses supplementing the regular courses
in the Spanish language, the university has, on its resident faculty
staff, several outstanding educators and statesmen from various Latin
Further efforts to promote good will and understanding between
the people of our two continents is evident in the success of a Pan
American Forum, or Institute, conducted at the university for several
weeks each winter.
AGRICULTURE IN BADE COUNTY
WITH the exception of the metropolitan area, Dade County is
essentially agricultural. The jungle of the early days hammock and glade matted with tough trailing vines, mangrove
swamp and forest has given way to long plowed furrows; fields of
green foodstuffs; citrus groves


Octopus Deploy Documentation
Authoring an Octopus Server extension
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This is the key NuGet package you will need in order to build an Octopus Server extension.
This namespace contains the interfaces and structures an extension can implement, which the Octopus Server will go looking for.
The key interface to be aware of is IOctopusExtension, as this forms the entry point for your extension and without it the server cannot load your extension. An example of its usage is as follows:
 [OctopusPlugin("Directory Services", "Octopus Deploy")]
 public class DirectoryServicesExtension : IOctopusExtension
 public void Load(ContainerBuilder builder)
The second important component here is the OctopusPluginAttribute, which provides the description and author metadata for the extension.
Octopus Deploy itself uses Autofac as its IoC container, and as such the extensions are provided with the container builder during startup, so they can register their own internal services.
Extension configuration
Many extensions will want to store configuration related to their own specific functionality, certainly all of the Octopus Deploy extensions do. To facilitate this, the server provides the extensions the ability to register their need to store a configuration object in the Configuration table in the database. Below is an example of a configuration object and its mapping class:
 public class DirectoryServicesConfiguration : IId
 public string Id { get; set; }
 public bool IsEnabled { get; set; }
 public string ActiveDirectoryContainer { get; set; }
 public AuthenticationSchemes AuthenticationScheme { get; set; }
 public bool AllowFormsAuthenticationForDomainUsers { get; set; }
 public class DirectoryServicesConfigurationMapping : IConfigurationDocumentMapper
 public Type GetTypeToMap() => typeof(DirectoryServicesConfiguration);
Things to note here are:
 - The configuration object is a POCO stored as serialized JSON in the database, so properties that are enums (as above) or POCOs themselves are supported.
 - The configuration object itself must implement IId, to provide the Id for the JSON data. This is typically a constant unique to your extension.
 - The mapping class must be registered as an IConfigurationDocumentMapper in Autofac when the extension is loaded.
Configuration stores and the configure command
Now that your extension has configuration, how do you set the configuration values? The pattern we're using involves a Configuration Store and a class that implements the IContributeToConfigureCommand interface. The IContributeToConfigureCommand interface is the key part. The store is a pattern that we've found works well for us (because in some cases we have data that may need to be migrated from the server.config into the DB), but is not mandatory. An example of an extension contributing to the configure command is as follows:
 public class DirectoryServicesConfigureCommands : IContributeToConfigureCommand, IHandleLegacyWebAuthenticationModeConfigurationCommand
 readonly ILog log;
 readonly IDirectoryServicesConfigurationStore activeDirectoryConfiguration;
 public DirectoryServicesConfigureCommands(
 ILog log,
 IDirectoryServicesConfigurationStore activeDirectoryConfiguration)
 this.log = log;
 this.activeDirectoryConfiguration = activeDirectoryConfiguration;
 public IEnumerable GetOptions()
 yield return new ConfigureCommandOption("activeDirectoryIsEnabled=", "Set whether active directory is enabled.", v =>
 var isEnabled = bool.Parse(v);
 log.Info($"Active directory IsEnabled set to: {isEnabled}");
 yield return new ConfigureCommandOption("activeDirectoryContainer=", "Set the active directory container used for authentication.", v =>
 log.Info($"Active directory container set to: {v}");
 yield return new ConfigureCommandOption("webAuthenticationScheme=", "When Domain authentication is used, specifies the scheme (Basic, Digest, IntegratedWindowsAuthentication, Negotiate, Ntlm)", v =>
 var scheme = (AuthenticationSchemes) Enum.Parse(typeof(AuthenticationSchemes), v);
 log.Info("Web authentication scheme: " + scheme);
 yield return new ConfigureCommandOption("allowFormsAuthenticationForDomainUsers=", "When Domain authentication is used, specifies whether the HTML-based username/password form can be used to sign in.", v =>
 var allowFormsAuthenticationForDomainUsers = bool.Parse(v);
 log.Info("Allow forms authentication for domain users: " + allowFormsAuthenticationForDomainUsers);
Services provided by the host
This section contains the interfaces and structures related to'services' that the extensions can consume from the Octopus Server itself. In this section, we'll detail a couple of interfaces you're most likely to need. To use them install the relevant NuGet package and take a dependency in your extension constructor.
ILog from Octopus.Diagnostics
This interface provides access to the server's logging infrastructure, so your extension can log Info, Warnings, Errors etc.
IKeyValueStore from Octopus.Configuration
This interface provides access to the server.config XML file, should your extension need to read/write configuration values there.
Building the extension
An extension is simply a.NET dll, so you can build it in any way that you would normally build your.NET code.
Extension points
At the moment you can only extend Authentication but we plan to expose more of Octopus internals in the future so stay tuned and check this page every now then for updates.
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In knitting, the word gauge is used both in hand knitting and machine knitting; the latter, technical abbreviation GG, refers to "Knitting Machines" fineness size. In both cases, the term refers to the number of stitches per inch, not the size of the finished garment. In both cases, the gauge is measured by counting the number of stitches (in hand knitting) or the number of needles (on a knitting machine bed) over several inches then dividing by the number of inches in the width of the sample.
Gauge on knitting machines
There are two types of classification of Knitting Gauges or Unit of Measure:
- A – Used for Cotton Fully fashion flat machines (Bentley – Monk, Textima, Sheller etc..) where "Gauge" is measured in 1,5" Inches (2,54 cm x 1,5) and the machine's gauge is expressed by the number of needles needed to achieve that gauge.
- B – Used for hand, mechanical or modern Electronic Flat Machines (Stoll, Shima, Protti etc..), where gauge is measured in 1 inch increments (or 2,5 cm) and the machine's gauge is similarly measured by the number of needles required to achieve that number.
Compared graduation scale Gauge (GG) A versus B system: A 30 GG (A) Cotton Fully fashion flat machine (30 needles in 1,5") is comparable to a 20 GG (B) Electronic Flat machine, a 27 GG (A) is an 18 GG (B), an 18 GG (A) is a 12 GG (B), a 12 GG (A) is an 8 GG (B), a 7,5 GG (A) is a 5 GG (B) and a 4,5 GG (A) is a 3 GG (B).
Factors that affect knitting gauge
The gauge of a knitted fabric depends on the pattern of stitches in the fabric, the kind of yarn, the size of knitting needles, and the tension of the individual knitter (i.e., how much yarn he or she allows between stitches).
- For example, ribbing and cable patterns tend to "pull in," giving more stitches over an identical width than stockinette, garter, or seed stitch. Even the same stitch produced in two different ways may produce a different gauge.
- Thicker yarns with less loft generally produce larger stitches than thinner yarns (reducing the number of stitches per width and length).
- Larger knitting needles also produce larger stitches, giving fewer stitches and rows per inch; changing needle size is the best way to control one's own gauge for a given pattern and yarn.
- Finally, the knitter's tension, or how tightly one knits, can affect the gauge significantly. The gauge can even vary within a single garment, typically with beginning knitters; as knitters become more familiar with a stitch pattern, they become more relaxed and make the stitch differently, producing a different gauge.
Sometimes the gauge is deliberately altered within a garment, usually by changing needle size; for example, smaller stitches are often made at the collar, sleeve cuffs, hemline ribbing or pocket edges.
Uneven knitting is a knitting technique in which two knitting needles of different sizes are used. The method is sometimes used when the knitter has a significantly different gauge on knit and purl stitches. It is also useful for producing elongated stitches and certain specialty patterns.
Knitting gauge in patterns
To produce a knitted garment of given dimensions, whether from one's own design or from a published pattern, the gauge should match as closely as possible; significant differences in gauge will lead to a deformed garment. Patterns for knitting projects almost always include a suggested gauge for the project.
For illustration, suppose that a sweater is designed to measure 40" around the bustline with a gauge of 5 st/inch in the chosen stitch. Therefore, the pattern should call for 200 stitches (5 st/inch x 40") at the bustline. If the knitter follows the pattern with a gauge of 4 st/inch, the sweater will measure 50" around the bustline (200 st / 4st/in) -- too baggy! Conversely, if the knitter follows the pattern with a gauge of 6 st/inch, the sweater will measure ~33" around the bustline (200 st / 6st/inch) -- too tight! Generally, the gauge should match to better than 5%, corresponding to 1" of ease in a 20" width. Similar concerns apply to the number of rows per inch.
Luckily, the gauge can be adjusted by changing needle size, without changing the pattern, stitch, yarn, or habits of the knitter. Larger needles produce a smaller gauge (fewer stitches per inch) and smaller needles produce a larger gauge (more stitches per inch). If necessary, further adjustments can be made by subtly altering the pattern dimensions, e.g., shortening a vertically aligned pattern. Ribbing can also be used to "draw in" the fabric to the proper gauge.
Measuring knitting gauge
To check one's gauge before starting a project, a sample of knitting (a swatch) is made, ideally in the stitch pattern used in the garment. The swatch edges affect the reading of the gauge, so it's best that the swatch be at least 4" square and more safely 6–8" square. Dividing the number of stitches used by the actual size of the sample gives the stitch gauge of that sample. Similarly, the row gauge is calculated by dividing the number of rows knitted by the length of the sample. Making a swatch also helps familiarize the knitter with the stitch pattern and yarn, which will lead to a more uniform gauge in the final garment.
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- June Hemmons Hiatt (1988) The Principles of Knitting, Simon and Schuster, pp. 415–432. ISBN 0-671-55233-3
- knitty.com article on gauge
- Measuring Gauge
- Needle Conversion Chart Shows conversion between current and past US and European knitting needle sizes.
- Yarn Weight and Gauge Chart Recommended needle and crochet hook sizes used to achieve gauge with various yarns.


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- Manage the ethical, legal and regulatory issues related to the practice of dental hygiene.
- Synthesize information in a critical, scientific and evidence-based manner.
- Promote interdisciplinary collaboration to improve the oral and general health of the public.
- Promote health and disease prevention activities for diverse populations.
- Assessment: Collect comprehensive patient data to identify physical and oral health status.
- Planning: Establish a dental hygiene care plan that reflects the realistic goals and treatment strategies to facilitate optimal oral health.
- Implementation: Provide treatment that includes preventive and therapeutic procedures to facilitate the patient's optimal oral health.
- Evaluation: Evaluate the outcome of the preventive and therapeutic procedures related to the patient's optimal oral health.


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 - When the cost of living in Maryland is compared with the USA nation, the overall expenses is 25% higher in Maryland than expenses in the whole This is due to higher rate charges in basic utilities.
 - Cost of Housing rentals: if people wish to buy a house in Maryland the lowest cost is $100,000, and the average price for homes remains to be $103,360. If people go for house rent, then the price would range based on facility starting from one bedroom flat $1,187 through wish people can hold their monthly salary.
 - Utility costs: the utility cost in Maryland is $139.68 which is higher than the nations utility cost and to the nearby states. People need to pay this cost every month until it is included with house rent.
 - Cost of Food and groceries: in Maryland the food and grocery costs are 3% higher than the whole nation's food and grocery cost. So it is better for people to have home cooking rather than having in restaurants which would cost more.
 - Transportation costs: the transportation cost is higher than whole nations cost in order to make people favor the passes are provided to use public transit which cost $68 per month. If not people wish to drive their own vehicle, then the average cost for gas is $1.844 which is 3% higher than the national cost.
Apart from all the higher cost people get medical cost somewhat lower than national cost about 3%. In addition to all these Maryland possess state income taxes which ranges of 2% to 5.75% and even more.
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US sanctions and rule of law
On June 2, 2021, the US government announced that the US Treasury had sanctioned three people and their networks in Bulgaria for corruption. The US government believes that corruption threatens the rule of law, economic growth, democratic institutions, and human rights. These penalties are specifically the result of the Magnitsky Global Human Rights Accountability Act.(1). On the same day, the US State Department imposed sanctions on three (former) public officials based on Decree No. 13818, preventing them from entering the United States.(2).
This raises profound questions about the impact of such US sanctions on the EU's work in the areas of democracy, rule of law and fundamental rights. The European Parliament's Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs to Monitor Democracy, the Rule of Law and Fundamental Rights held meetings and written exchanges with national authorities and EU institutions, noting that the urgency of the matter responds that often these challenges are not recognized.
In light of these developments, the Authority is requested to answer the following questions:
1. How does the Commission view the fact that a non-EU country, which is seen as an ally, is taking action against corruption in a member state? To what extent does this change the Committee's assessment of its own approach, and in particular its assessment of its previous actions on the matter?
2. What steps does the Commission intend to take to take decisive action against corruption at the state level? Will the Commission be more proactive in identifying and combating corruption and threats to the rule of law in member states? Now that the commission has stopped publishing anti-corruption reports, will it intensify its monitoring of corruption and draw conclusions and recommendations in its reports on the rule of law? How will the European Prosecutor's Office help? Will the Commission develop a common strategy to combat corruption in the European Union?
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Inside Dentistry
November/December 2010, Volume 6, Issue 10
Published by AEGIS Communications
A Conversation with Harold C. Slavkin, DDS
The university dean and former director of the NIDCR talks about the challenges facing dentistry, dental research, and the delivery of dental healthcare.
INSIDE DENTISTRY (ID): Dr. Slavkin, you have had a number of unique positions within the profession, including dean of a dental school and head of the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR). Could you tell us about those roles you've filled throughout your career? For example, what led you to a career in dentistry in the first place?
HAROLD SLAVKIN (HS): Well, after I graduated from high school in 1955, I enlisted in the Army and was trained to be a dental technician at Fort Sam Houston by Dr. Henry Sutro. Henry was a fantastic mentor and role model who encouraged me to consider going to dental school after the Army. As a dental technician stationed at Forest Glen, Maryland (connected to Walter Reed Hospital), I was assigned to fabricating prostheses for facial burn patients. I was motivated to complete undergraduate studies in English literature and then go to dental school—I did both at USC in Los Angeles. These were critical stages in my journey into dentistry.
As a dental student, I collaborated with other students on research; I attended several IADR meetings and upon graduation in 1965, I practiced part-time as a general dentist in Westwood Village, while I pursued a postdoctoral fellowship. I joined the full-time faculty at USC in July 1968. By this stage, I was dedicated to a career in academic dentistry with a focus on "nucleic acid biochemistry" as related to the head, face, mouth, and teeth—"craniofacial-oral-dental research."
A year later, in 1969, I was asked to become the chairman for the Department of Biochemistry and Nutrition in the dental school, and I served in this capacity for 6 years. In 1975, I took a leave of absence to serve as acting lab chief in the laboratory for Developmental Biology at the National Institute of Dental Research (NIDR) in Bethesda. I loved working and learning at the National Institutes of Health (NIH)—this was a superb experience.
Upon my return to USC, I worked with other faculty to create a new graduate program called "craniofacial biology"—an attempt to foster multidisciplinary research revolving around the critical questions of craniofacial birth defects, head-and-neck cancer, and head and neck trauma. Working with graduate and postdoctoral fellow students and through a broad array of scientific and international collaborations, I pursued studies to understand how teeth are formed, how enamel, dentin, and cementum are formed, what are the key genes involved in human craniofacial anomalies, and a host of other challenging problems. During this period I served as laboratory chief and director for the Laboratory for Developmental Biology in the Gerontology Center at USC (1972–1988), and then as the director for the Center for Craniofacial Molecular Biology (CCMB) from 1989–1995.
In 1995, I was recruited to become the sixth director of the NIDR, serving through June 2000—and I discovered that being in the right place at the right time can be enormously important. This was an incredible experience, rich in opportunities to influence research policy and enhance the reputation of "dental research" within the fabric of biomedical research. During this period, we worked to instill strategic planning, collaboration, and cooperation between all stakeholders (dentists, dental hygienists, physicians, nurses, pharmacists, biomedical scientists, health professions educators, patient advocacy groups, journalists, and Congress). I was blessed with a remarkable staff and with enormous support from my wife Lois.
During this time, working closely with ADA leadership, we were able to change the name of the NIDR to NIDCR, a name that more accurately reflected the depth and breadth of our work. We fostered research on oral health disparities, craniofacial birth defects, oral and pharyngeal cancer, innovations in biomaterials, and saliva as a diagnostic, as well as focusing attention on oral–systemic diseases, training, and collaborations with other Institutes. We were invited to serve as the lead agency for the first Surgeon Generals' Report Oral Health in America.
In August 2000, I officially returned to my alma mater to serve as the 11th dean of the USC School of Dentistry (2000–2008). As we worked closely with students, staff, faculty, alumni, and friends, it became evident that we needed to look beyond the walls of the dental school and become fully aligned with our parent university. At the same time, we needed to foster "student-centered learning" approaches within dental education, develop and expand lifelong learning through CE programs, update equipment and physical clinical resources, and advance a state-of-the-art practice to retain gifted faculty—while remaining focused on the "fundraising" that enabled these changes.
I returned to the University in January 2010 as a tenured professor engaged in research, teaching, and writings.
ID: When you were trained to be a dental technician, how was your aptitude identified, because otherwise it seems to me you would have gone a completely different route?
HS: Yes, I know. I think for me a lot of these roles were sort of accidents, when certain very impressive people arrived at critical junctions in my life—a young person's life. I was coming out of high school at 17 years old—really not academic and not thinking of the university—and a friend's father suggested going into the Regular Army as a volunteer. I got permission from my parents and randomly chose between being a medic or a dental technician. Dental tech took longer, so I thought that was the better choice—that's how I started. Then I realized that after the Army I could moonlight and pay my way through college and dental school. So I did dental technology for probably 8 years.
ID: But you were an English literature major as an undergraduate—we do not see that very often in dental students.
HS: It was suggested to me that dentistry would be a highly focused field, and so I really needed to get a broad liberal arts background, because I would never get that again. That was the coaching that I received, and I took that advice. I thought that I would like it very much, but it also seemed that before focusing on the mouth, it would be wonderful to play with some of the big ideas.
ID: When you started doing research as a student, was that simply to earn some money, like a work study program?
HS: No, it was patient-driven. I was assisting in the clinic, and they were discussing a second division block of the trigeminal. I had never heard of that, and there were no guidelines about where you put the needle, how far it goes in, and what the consequences are if you do not do it right. So I joined a couple of other dental students, and we invented a project and got a little grant from the dental school to get it off the ground.
Later a patient with amputation neuroma came in, and I had never heard of that before. So I teamed up with the head of our oral surgery department to do a case study.
ID: Looking back on these experiences, were there any surprises?
HS: I am greeted everyday with surprises! No two days are exactly the same. Life and living offer "teaching moments" everyday. I have come to believe that almost anything is possible; that change and being a change agent almost always comes with resistance and "push-back"; that learning for me is living (and living is learning); that my wife is my best friend; that children, grandchildren, and family are enormously important; that nurturing and mentoring are profoundly essential at any age; and that one's own health should never be taken for granted.
ID: Can you compare the ins and outs of running a large governmental research agency and running a dental school—which of those two jobs was harder?
HS: In a sense, my training allowed me to adapt to the federal agency—for example, the kinds of people who were leading the other Institutes, and the mindset at the NIH that all of the boats rise with increased funding (not in the same proportion, but they all rise). Harold Varmus as the leader had a very collegiate mix of people; it was very easy on many levels to adapt to that.
Ironically, being a dentist, and having been a dental technician and practiced in the private sector—the dental school was more difficult. Gaining consensus was much more difficult, the needs of the students as they perceived them were very different from the faculty, the differences between faculty backgrounds was enormous, the whole issue of paying the bills in a private school, and raising millions of dollars a year—it was more challenging for me.
ID: So did your job become one of a broader fundraiser?
HS: Yes. I raised much more money at the NIH, but the way you do it is very different. You raise it through your involvement with the Senate and the House and with other institute directors, and so the game is very different. Consuming lots of rubber chicken, raising millions of dollars—but doing it when it is $5,000, $2,000, or $25,000 gifts—it takes a long time to get to $3 or $4 million dollars a year.
ID: As someone who is steeped in research and academia, were you


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Wearable skin-mounted strain sensors for human motion tracking have the potential to assist in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of medical conditions related to musculoskeletal system by tracking human motion. Previous work at Dr. Araci's lab at Santa Clara University demonstrated the advantages of dilatometry to achieve ultra-high gauge factor (GF) in a microfluidic strain sensor. However, despite its high performance, the used passive readout method hinders its implementation for continuous monitoring of skin strain. In this thesis, various strategies were adapted to achieve continuous electrical measurement in dilatometric sensors, including the design of a hybrid nanocomposite-microfluidic device and the direct resistance measurement from the dilatometric response. As a result, a novel mechanotransduction mechanism based on capillary corner flow was established. This approach utilizes ultra-high electrical resistance modification due to the capillary flow of conductive ionic liquids in response to the elastomeric deformation of silicone microchannels. Modular dilatometric strain sensors implementing this method were developed and characterized here, achieving directional specificity and tunable performance. The devices' characteristics were tuned by controlling the liquid reservoir (LR) dilatation response and the morphology of the corner flow. A linear relation (R2 = 0.989) between liquid displacement and GF was found, hence the GF can be independently controlled by increasing the number of parallel LR channels (GFs of 97, 171, and 236 for 1X, 2X, and 4X, respectively). Moreover, varying the aspect ratio (AR) of the probe channel and the contact angles (CAs) between the three tested ionic liquids (IL1: [BMIM][Otf], IL2: [BMIM][N(CN)2], IL3: [EMIM][N(CN)2]) and the microchannels surface, the corner flow morphology can be controlled. A GF of 3000 in the dynamic range of 3-5% for CA=77.6° and 171 in the 3-20% range for CA=28.8° were obtained. Furthermore, probe channel AR~1 was determined to be the optimal condition for increasing the GF. Devices with IL1 presented a linear response (2.8% - 22% strain), small hysteresis (1.5%) and reproducible measurements for hundreds of cycles (2% error). Finally, the directional specificity and high sensitivity were demonstrated for distinguishing wrist and facial activity types and the subtle differences in a facial muscle strengthening exercise.
Yepes, Laura Rivas, "Ultra-sensitive and tunable microfluidic strain sensor with novel mechanotransduction method for the continuous monitoring of skin deformation" (2020). Bioengineering Master's Theses. 8.


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Partial probability distribution
A concept that's useful for some of my research: a partial probability distribution.
That's a Q that defines Q(A∣B) for some but not all A and B (with Q(A)=Q(A∣Ω) for Ω being the whole set of outcomes).
This Q is a partial probability distribution iff there exists a probability distribution P that is equal to Q wherever Q is defined. Call this P a full extension of Q.
Suppose that Q(C∣D) is not defined. We can, however, say that Q(C∣D)=x is a logical implication of Q if all full extension P has P(C∣D)=x.
Eg: Q(A), Q(B), Q(A∪B) will logically imply the value of Q(A∩B).
This is a special case of a crisp infradistribution: Q(A|B)=t is equivalent to Q(A∩B)=tQ(B), a linear equation in Q, so the set of all Q's satisfying it is convex closed.
Thanks! That's useful to know.
Sounds like a special case of crisp infradistributions (ie, all partial probability distributions have a unique associated crisp infradistribution)Given some Q, we can consider the (nonempty) set of probability distributions equal to Q where Q is defined. This set is convex (clearly, a mixture of two probability distributions which agree with Q about the probability of an event will also agree with Q about the probability of an event).Convex (compact) sets of probability distributions = crisp infradistributions.


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Japanese only has 48 main sounds to play with. English has 26 letters but the combinations thereof produces many more sounds. So since there are fewer sounds in Japanese, there are many words that have the same pronunciation but different meanings. For example, shi could mean death, poem, city, a man etc.
Also, "mon" is sort of a childish way to express dissatasfaction...
学校に行きたくないもん！ I don't wanna go to school!
If you under 7 (and I assume you are), this can be used, but usually when your trying to be funny.


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return_value := SCN_TO_TIMESTAMP(number);
SCN_TO_TIMESTAMP takes an argument that represents a system change number (SCN) and returns the timestamp associated with that SCN. The returned value has the datatype
This function is part of the flashback query feature. System change numbers provide a precise way to specify the database state at a moment in time, so that you can see the data as it was at that moment.
Call this function to find out the date and time associated with an SCN that you have stored to use with flashback query.
DECLARE right_now TIMESTAMP; yesterday TIMESTAMP; sometime TIMESTAMP; scn1 INTEGER; scn2 INTEGER; scn3 INTEGER; BEGIN -- Get the current SCN. right_now := SYSTIMESTAMP; scn1 := TIMESTAMP_TO_SCN(right_now); dbms_output.put_line('Current SCN is'|| scn1); -- Get the SCN from exactly 1 day ago. yesterday := right_now - 1; scn2 := TIMESTAMP_TO_SCN(yesterday); dbms_output.put_line('SCN from yesterday is'|| scn2); -- Find an arbitrary SCN somewhere between yesterday and today. -- (In a real program we would have stored the SCN at some significant moment.) scn3 := (scn1 + scn2) / 2; -- Find out what time that SCN was in effect. sometime := SCN_TO_TIMESTAMP(scn3); dbms_output.put_line('SCN'|| scn3 ||'was in effect at'|| TO_CHAR(sometime)); END; /