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TY - JOUR T1 - Gill Ventilation Volumes, Oxygen Consumption and Respiratory Rhythms in Carcinus Maenas (L.) JF - Journal of Experimental Biology JO - J. Exp. Biol. SP - 309 LP - 321 VL - 41 IS - 2 AU - ARUDPRAGASAM, K. D. AU - NAYLOR, E. Y1 - 1964/06/01 UR - _URL_ N2 - 1. An apparatus is described for continuously measuring gill ventilation volumes in crabs. 2. Large Carcinus pump about 1 c.c./g./min. and consume oxygen at the rate of about 0.03 c.c./g./hr. whilst smaller specimens pump up to 1.5 c.c./g./min. and consume up to 0.1 c.c./g./hr. Freshly collected crabs show persistent tidal and 24 hr. rhythms of pumping activity and oxygen consumption. 3. In response to oxygen depletion Carcinus shows increased rates of gill ventilation and increased percentage utilization. Prolonged exposure to increased carbon dioxide results in a short-lived inhibition followed by over-compensation and then progressive inhibition of respiratory activity. 4. The results are discussed in relation to previous work on respiration in other decapod Crustacea. ER -


Alkaloids: contain a N-containing heterocycle
Alkaloids are derived from various amino acids : ornithine, lysine, phenylalanine etc.
Over 3000+ known alkaloids exist:
Examples: Nicotine, caffeine, morphine, colchcine, ergots, LSD, strychnine, quinine, resperine
Alkaloids have many effects on humans and other animals:
Known effects on mammals:
Cyanogenic glycosides-These compounds are only toxic when they are broken down by the organism's enzymes and release HCN or prussic acid.
 - HCN attacks the cytochrome system, interfering with the electron transfer necessary for the production of a H+ gradient in metabolism. This leads to oxygen starvation and rapid death.
 - Cyanogenic glycosides are also toxic due to the release of nitrite.
Glc-O-(CH2)3 NO2 -------->NO2-
The nitrite released substitutes for the oxygen on hemoglobin, thus interfering with the transfer of oxygen in the blood. This compound is especially harmful to cattle, but the human nervous system doesn't seem to take as much damage from this compound.
Glucsinolates-These mustard oil glycosides, often found in wild Brassica can cause gastroenteritis, salivation, diarrhea, and irritation of the mouth. When these compounds are modified, they can cause hyperthyroidism.
Specific examples of alkaloids include:
Steroid alkaloids i.e.. Zygacine from the Death Camus plant induces vomiting, diarrhea, decreased heart rate, gastroenteritis, subnormal temperature- (simulated death state) - use din voodoo practices
Indole ring i.e.. Vincristine: reduced white blood count used in leukemia from the Periwinkle plant
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It was the end of 1942 when a German heavy tank with extra thick armor and a powerful main gun first appeared on the North African front. The new tank, long-desired by the German soldiers who had hard-fought battles against the allies, became known as the Tiger I Ausf. E. Development of the Tiger I began at the end of May 1941. The German Army Weapons Branch ordered the Henschel firm to vie with Porsche in producing a prototype. The first prototypes underwent trials on April 1942. The result of these and subsequent trial showed the superiority of the Henschel vehicle to the Porsche's, and thus production orders were placed for it. The Henschel's prototype had thick armor of 100mm at the front and 80mm on both sides, and the main gun was the then most potent, the 8.8cm KwK 36 L/56. The powerplant was Maybach's HL 210 P45, yielding 650 horsepower. Mass production started already in August 1942 with little alteration from the prototype. Starting from November 1942, air pre-cleaners were added on the rear hull plate. The mantlet was partly strengthened and "S" mine dischargers were fitted on five mounting points around the hull roof beginning from December. Moreover, a loader's periscope was fitted from January 1943. The Tiger I produced from November 1942 to July 1943 featured these modifications, are referred to as the early production. About 200 units of these early production versions were produced.
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GENOVA - Italy is waging war on a group of American invaders that are threatening the existence of their European peers. American grey squirrels, which were first introduced into Europe in 1948, have thrived in the parks of the northeastern region of Liguria since the 1960s.
With 10-inch-long bodies, equally long tails and a weight that can reach 21 oz., American grey squirrels are bigger than European red squirrels. These strong Americans invaders steal the Europeans food and carry diseases that are lethal to locals.
To defend the indigenous squirrel population, Liguria, Piemonte and Lombardia regions, as well as the Italian Environment ministry, have launched a project aimed at uprooting the estimated 300 American grey squirrels living in the Levante Genovese Park. The cost of the war against American squirrels nearly 2 million euros is partially covered by the European Union.
This squirrel war has its general, Andrea Balduzzi, a professor of natural sciences at the University of Genoa. At dawn, the professor and his student troops go after the invaders, armed with traps and cages. Once caught, the animals are transferred to vets to be sterilized before being released in natural parks. And it seems all is fair in love and war: squirrels caught outside the park are executed by euthanasia.
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An international egg thief is on the run in South America after Brazilian authorities lost track of his whereabouts. He had been released on bail after being arrested for the theft of four exceedingly rare albino falcon eggs.
Zimbabwean Jeffrey Lendrum, 55, has gained global notoriety for his daring escapades in which he has grappled his way down cliff edges and even hung out of helicopters in order to get his hands on highly valued falcon eggs for wealthy Arab clients, according to The Times.
His most recent heist took place in Patagonia, Argentina, where he managed to scoop the aforementioned albino falcon eggs. He was caught at an airport in São Paulo heading from Chile to Dubai after an anonymous tip-off but then vanished when released on bail to appeal against his sentence.
Lendrum, a former Rhodesian SAS man, was jailed in 2010 for stealing 14 peregrine falcon eggs worth an estimated £70,000 ($86,000) from nests in south Wales, the UK and is still believed to pose a threat to falcons on the British Isles.
Andy McWilliam, investigations officer for the National Wildlife Crime Unit, said: "I think he's been coming to the UK on an annual basis and taking peregrine falcon [eggs]. There has been an increase in value in peregrine falcons and increased demand in the Middle East."
Mr McWilliam interviewed Lendrum before he was jailed in Britain and admitted he had a grudging respect for a "worthy adversary". He said: "I remember we found notebooks and diaries among his possessions. I kept them because I was so impressed.
"He was visiting Sri Lanka during the breeding season of a bird called the black shaheen, a breed of peregrine falcon. The notes had details of most sites he had visited, including military activity in the area. He goes into detail on security at the airport: how often they search people and if they have X-ray."
It is reported that peregrine falcon eggs can fetch more than £5,000 each. The peregrine is the fastest bird in the world, reaching speeds of up to 242mph. The birds are protected by British law and by the Convention on International Endangered Species.


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Songworks 3 Tutorial Videos
1. The Edit Window
An overview of the music editing window
2. The Keyboard Window
An overview of the keyboard tools window
3. Entering Music in Step Time
How to enter music note-by-note in the edit window
4. Entering Chords
How to enter chord symbols in the edit window
5. Entering Text
How to enter either free or lyric text in the edit window
6. Entering Music in Multiple Parts
How to enter multiple voices on the same staff
7. Adjusting Staves
How to adjust the positioning of staves on the printed page
8. The Letter Keys Piano
Improvising melodies on the letter keys "piano" with optional chord accompaniment
9. Active Listening
Playing music by tapping the rhythm - for fun or for learning a part
10. Shape Notes
An explanation of shape notes and how you can use Songworks to write music with shapes.
11. Selecting Staff Items
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The students with their invention
A group of seniors from the Department of Electronic Engineering at The American University in Cairo (AUC) recently unveiled their newest invention, a conceptual prototype of an automatic meter reading (AMR), a system which reads household power consumption and relays the information gathered to personal electronic devices. Under the supervision of Ayman Hassan, an adjunct in the department, the group collaborated to create the device that automatically sends accurate readings to personal electronics, including a PC or cell phone. The inventors say that this device can also be used to send the information to the Ministry of Electricity and Energy to keep track of the readings.
The members of the six-man team are enthusiastic about the potential benefits of their invention. Amr Henna believes innovations such as this one are overdue and could benefit the Egyptian economy. "After the January 25th revolution we need to catch up with the latest international electronic trends that use automated systems and have them produced in Egypt. This will reduce the market price tremendously," he says. Ahmed Megawer, another team-member, agrees that "it is high time that we pick up with the smart systems invented worldwide. Power failures like the ones we experienced last summer could have been avoided if consumption had been monitored." Sherif Mourad considers the potential benefit of accurate readings for cash-strapped families. "Consumers should stop guessing the numbers of their power consumption and they should be positive that they are paying money only for the consumed amounts as determined by accurate readings."
According to Ahmed Abou-Auf, chair of the Department of Electronic Engineering, the system has further applications in that it can record power consumption in remote areas and large towers that are difficult to reach. In addition, it allows for households to monitor their energy usage independently, giving them knowledge, that, he says, can empower the families to change their consumption behavior. Abou-Auf says the students will continue to produce production prototypes, conduct additional market research, and develop a business plan. The university will provide all the labs and research material needed and facilitate funding from investors.


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Origin of the Term Layman
Today I found out the origin of the term layman.
The term layman has today come to mean "a person who does not belong to a particular profession or who is not expert in some field." It also has a somewhat less commonly known meaning of "a person who is not a member of the clergy", which is its original definition. Layman derived from the two existing words "lay" (from the Old French "lai", meaning "secular") and "man", hence the "non-cleric" meaning.
The term layman popped up around the 15th century and within about 100 years the term laywoman also became common. In both cases, outside the non-cleric definition, they first particularly seemed to refer to people who were not specifically accredited in medicine or law, with the definition broadening from there to include any non-expert in a certain field.
The term "laity" has a similar origin as layman, deriving from the Middle English "laite", which in turn derives from the French word of the same spelling. The French word "laite" comes from the Latin "laicus", and finally from the Greek "laikos", meaning "of the people" or "common" ("laos" meaning "people").
The exact definition of laity varies slightly based on what religious sect one consults, but in general this word just means people who are not ordained, but belong to a certain religious group. So, for example, in the Catholic Lumen Gentium, laity is defined as follows:
The term laity is here understood to mean all the faithful except those in holy orders and those in the state of religious life specially approved by the Church. These faithful are by baptism made one body with Christ and are constituted among the People of God; they are in their own way made sharers in the priestly, prophetical, and kingly functions of Christ; and they carry out for their own part the mission of the whole Christian people in the Church and in the world.
Interestingly, the word 'man' was originally gender neutral, coming to eventually mean the same as the modern day word "person", though originally was more accurately defined as "the thinker." In addition to that, the word "men" used to just mean "to think" or "to have a cognitive mind" and was also considered to be completely gender neutral. It wasn't until about a thousand years ago that the words man and men started to refer to a specific gender (males) and it wasn't until the late 20th century that it was almost exclusively used to refer to males.
- Before "man" meant a male, the word "wer" or "wǣpmann" was commonly used to refer to "male human". This word almost completely died out around the 1300s, but survives somewhat in words like "werewolf", which literally means "man wolf".
- Women at that time were referred to as "wif" or "wīfmann", meaning "female human". The latter "wifmann", eventually evolved into the word "woman" and retained its original meaning. The word "wif" eventually evolved into "wife", with its meaning obviously being changed slightly.
- One interesting convention that was thought up in the early 1900s to deal with this issue of "man" coming to mean both male and female and also sometimes meaning males exclusively is, in literature, to do the following: when referring to all humans, "man" should be capitalized as in "Man"; when referring to "man" as in "male", it is to be left lower case. This convention was used in such literary works as "The Lord of the Rings" and was a key point in the prophecy concerning the Witch-king of Angmar: "no man can kill me", meaning that according to the prophecy, a woman, Eowyn, could kill him because "man" in the prophecy was not capitalized.
- The surname of "layman" (though not actually spelled like that) actually predated the "layman" term as we think of it today by about 600 years. This name originally came through the Old English "leah", meaning "a glade", with "mann", meaning more or less "a person responsible for something". Thus leahmann, layman, leyman, lyman, etc. would mean "a person who cares for a glade."
- In some religious sects, a lay priest once referred to someone who is a priest, but is not ordained in any specific order. In Buddhism, however, a lay monk or lay priest was once considered to be someone who was a Buddhist monk, but did not live in a monastery, rather, lived among the people.
- The term "layperson" didn't come about until the 1970s, as an alternate explicitly gender neutral version of layman or laywoman.
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How does emotional stress impact my back pain?
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Emotional stress plays a very clear, however very complicated role in back pain, especially lower back pain.
For the purpose of this brief article we will try to provide a simple outline of how emotions (most commonly associated with the brain) can affect your body. I make note of one of my favorite books on the mind/ body connection and the role emotions can play on the fascia (connective tissue of the body).
Fascia or commonly referred to as connective tissue is integral to providing support and stability to our posture.
When we are physically challenged (fight or flight) our posture unconsciously braces to protect from physical danger. Our shoulders round forward to protect our chest and the vital organs, our head lowers in a braced position in behind our shoulder, our hips internally rotate to protect our reproductive organs, as we tense through our stomachs to prevent damage to the organs within our peritoneal cavity.
Whilst the above protective posture is really clear to see when we are physically challenged, how about how we look when we are emotionally challenged?
Let's look at the extreme…. The posture of a broken man or women.
Head drops down, eyes pointing to the pavement. Shoulders drop down in state of despair, knees buckle with no spring in the step, with the hips rotated inwards, all visual signs of someone who is just in an emotional slump.
Whilst the above two examples are extremes of how the body protects and braces. It does give a very clear example of how your body can be affected by the state of your mind.
The human body is not designed to handle constant intermittent emotional stress. One of the side effects of emotional stress is physical tension that builds up and stays tight. If you suffer from emotional stress, having tension in these areas will be very familiar to you.
 1. Neck and shoulder tension - (shoulder round forward to protect, causing the neck and shoulder muscles and facia to restrict)
 2. Chest tension and difficulty breathing deeply - chest restricted from rounded shoulders, diagram tension that affects lungs filling with air.
 3. Stomach tension - shoulder and hips rounded forward causes the deep muscles of the trunk to shorten and contract.
 4. Lower back - due to the rounding forward of the hips, shoulders and the tension present deep in the stomach, diaphragm the fascia of lower back is under constant tension.
Some people have constant back pain due to their emotional state. Other people's back pain only flares up when their emotional state boils over.
In short, whilst we don't always noticeably crawl up into a ball when we have emotional stress we are struggling to cope with, we do have very noticeable tension present that causes us pain, back pain being one such area.
In essence your body is going into a protective mode whether you are aware of it or not, to brace and protect you from the emotional challenges you are faced with.
There are effective techniques to manage our emotional stress; a few that I recommend are:
 - Sedeno method
 - Demartini method
 - The power of now.
On a more physical level you can help prevent tension building to the point where you are in days of pain, by strengthening your postural muscles.
If you feel strongly that your back pain is purely brought on by your emotional state and you want to understand the body/ mind connection to place together all the dots, I strongly recommend you read the book "Molecules of Emotions" by Candice Pert.
I will forewarn you, if this subject is of interest to you, then you will not be able to put this powerful, thought provoking book down.
Here is a brief description of the book:
Candice Pert is the absolute authority on the mind/ body connection. A scientist, whose life journey dove her deep into both the esoteric and science worlds. With the rare ability to quantify eastern medicine views with hard western science, some of her discoveries were simply remarkable.
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Adaptive Filter Implementation
randn. For the "unknown" system, use a fourth-order, low-pass elliptical IIR filter. Thus, the reference signal can be generated with the following MATLAB commands:
>> x = randn(1000,1);%random input signal >> [B,A] = ellip(4,0.25,10,0.25);%IIR filter >> d = filter(B,A,x);%reference signal >> figure;freqz(B,A)%view frequency response
whilecommands). Plot the squared-error versus sample number as the filter adapts over time. Also, use
freqzto plot the frequency response of the adaptive filter coefficients,
W, at the end of the simulation. Finally, use
figure;stem(dimpulse(B,A,32))to view and compare the adaptive FIR impulse response and the IIR impulse reponse.
- The filter coefficients should be initialized to zero at the start of program execution.
- The left input channel is the input x[n] to the adaptive filter.
- The right input channel is the reference input signal d[n].
- The left channel output is the adaptive filter output y[n].
- The right channel output is the error signal e[n].
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Carlo L. Golino
Carlo and his wife
Born (1913-06-06)June 6, 1913
Pescara, Italy
Died February 14, 1991(1991-02-14) (aged 77)
La Selva Beach, California
Nationality Italian
Spouse(s) Anna Martin
Golino, Carlo Luigi was an Italian American who taught Italian literature at many colleges in the United States
Dr. Golino received his B.A. from City College of New York (1936); an M.A. (Italian literature) from Columbia University (1937); an M.A. (oriental languages) from the University of Colorado (1944); and his Ph.D. in romance languages and literature from the University of California, Berkeley (1948). From 1942 to 1946, he served in the United States Navy where he acted as a Japanese interpreter. He was appointed to the faculty at UCLA in 1947. In 1965, he was appointed Professor of Italian and Dean of College of Letters and Sciences on the Riverside campus. Subsequently he became Vice Chancellor on the Riverside Campus. In 1973, he left California to become Chancellor and Commonwealth Professor of Italian at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, where he remained until his retirement in 1978.
Professor Golino contributed considerably to the field of Italian scholarship and particularly to contemporary Italian literature. One of his main goals was to make Italian culture more readily available to college students and the American public. His numerous lectures on and reviews of contemporary works being published in Italy and still unknown in the United States speak clearly to this. As a scholar, he was known among Italianists as an incisive promoter of the concept of the baroque. His visibility was due largely to his critical edition of Carlo de'Dottori's seventeenth century work, La prigione (1962), his Italian grammars with Charles Speroni, his translations and articles on contemporary Italian poetry, and his founding of the Italian Quarterly. In 1958 and again in 1963, Golino received awards from the Italian government for his contributions to Italian culture.


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The first law covering efforts to reduce earthquake damage was enacted on 22 July 1944 under the name of "Law on Measures to be Taken Before and After Earthquakes". In accordance with this law numbered 4623, for the first time in our country, a "Map of Shake Zones" and a parallel "Earthquake Regulation" were prepared by the Ministries of Public Works and National Education. Due to the developments in engineering seismology and the increase in tectonic and seismotectonic findings and earthquake records, Earthquake Zone Maps (1945, 1947, 1963, 1972 and 1996) and Regulations on Structures to be Constructed in Disaster Areas (1940, 1947, 1949, 1953, 1961, 1968, 1975), 1996, 1997, 1998 and 2007) has been amended several times.
The goal of the project; To compile information on Earthquake Zone Maps and Regulations on Structures to be Built in Disaster Zones, which came into force after being approved by the decision of the Council of Ministers on different dates, some of which are almost nonexistent, and to compile information on the basis on which the maps were made, and the Earthquake Zone Maps to be made and Structures to be Constructed in Disaster Zones. It is to prepare a reference source for those who will prepare the Regulations.
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A doctor will review your order and write you a prescription, if appropriate. This prescription is then forwarded to a pharmacy. The pharmacy will have your medicine delivered to you within one to three working days. Read more about this process here.
What is Fultium-D3?
Fultium-D3 is a dietary supplement. The drops and capsules contain vitamin D3 (colecalciferol), which plays an important role in extracting calcium and phosphate from food. You can order Fultium-D3 through Dokteronline.com, from our partner pharmacies.
What is Fultium-D3 used for?
Vitamin D3 is found in certain foods, such as fatty fish and margarine. It is also produced in the skin after exposure to sunlight. However, some people suffer from vitamin D deficiency. This may be because they do not eat enough of the right foods or do not go outside very often. Pregnant women, children aged under four and the elderly are particularly susceptible. Vitamin D deficiency can cause a variety of medical disorders, including muscle cramps and pain, pain in the bones and osteoporosis (weakened bones). Fultium-D3 prevents these complaints by topping up the body's vitamin D levels.
How to use Fultium-D3?
Fultium-D3 is available as capsules and oral drops. Swallow the capsules whole, with a drink of water. Do not chew them! The drops can be mixed into a spoonful of water, yoghurt or another liquid. You can take Fultium-D3 at any time of day.
Our partner pharmacies supply Fultium-D3 in both capsule and drop form. A doctor can advise you what dosage to take, how frequently and for how long. The general dosage guidelines are as follows, but these may vary depending upon your age and the extent of your vitamin deficiency.
- Adults and children aged 12 and above: usually 1-4 capsules OR 6-60 drops per day.
- Children aged 2-11: usually 6-30 drops per day.
- Children aged under two: usually 6-15 drops per day.
After a few weeks, your doctor may decide to reduce your dose. This is because your vitamin D level has risen sufficiently, and now only needs to be maintained. Fultium-D3 capsules are not suitable for children aged under 12. Always read the enclosed patient information leaflet before use.
Most users have no problems taking Fultium-D3, but side effects do occasionally occur. They can include the following:
- Hypercalcaemia (too much calcium in the blood), which can cause loss of appetite, stomach pain, constipation, excessive thirst or muscle weakness;
- Hypercalciuria (too much calcium in the urine);
- Skin rash, caused by an allergic reaction or sensitivity (this is rare).
Consult a doctor if you experience any side effects, including ones not mentioned in the patient information leaflet.
When not to use Fultium-D3
Fultium-D3 is not suitable for everyone. Do not take it if:
- You are allergic (hypersensitive) to vitamin D or any of its other ingredients;
- You have high levels of vitamin D in your blood (hypervitaminosis D);
- You have high levels of calcium in your blood or urine (hypercalcaemia or hypercalciuria);
- You have kidney stones or another serious kidney condition.
If you have other medical problems, consult a doctor to check whether Fultium-D3 is suitable for you. When ordering this product, always state what other medication you are taking – some drugs, such as laxatives and certain heart medicines, can interact with Fultium-D3.
Pregnancy/ driving ability/alcohol
If you are pregnant or breastfeeding, consult a doctor before using Fultium-D3.
Fultium-D3 does not affect your ability to drive and does not interact with alcohol.


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There are several ways to visualize – to aid in understanding – logic gates. These can include truth tables (the OR truth table is shown here), Venn diagrams (see Wikipedia's entry on logic gates), or my favorite the "mechanical comparison" which Platt makes on pages 187-189 of his book, visualizing the notion of logic gates with physical sliding plates on a bubblegum machine. There are also several ways to visualize the pin order of gates. Sometimes these are shown as lines from left to right through the IC, with inputs on the left and outputs on the right. But the most common, and by far the most helpful, is the technique shown above, which imposes the gates on a diagram of the IC, with inputs and outputs shown as line traces, and symbols corresponding to the type of gate.
We'll explore one other type of logic gate in a future installment of Weekend Projects, but be sure to pick up the Make: Electronics books for further reading on logic gates, as well as several breadboard experiments that put these theories to use!
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Preventing foot-and-mouth disease
An outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) in Australia is most likely to be caused by:
- the importation of contaminated food, in particular salted or cured meats
- the feeding of'swill' (food or food waste containing certain animal products) to pigs.
Preventing these illegal activities is the best way to prevent FMD from occurring here.
Keep illegal food products out of Australia
Australia's quarantine laws and border surveillance restrict the importation of FMD-susceptible animals and products, including salted and cured meats.
Travellers entering Australia must declare:
- all food, plant material and animal products to ensure they are free from pests and diseases
- if they have visited a farm while overseas.
FMD virus fragments have been detected in meat confiscated at Australian airports by the Australian Government of Agriculture, Water and the Environment. Some travellers have had their visa cancelled because of these biosecurity breaches.
You can help keep FMD out of Australia by sharing this information with any travellers you know, particularly if they will be visiting or working on farms in Australia.
Prohibited feed for pigs and poultry—swill
Legislation in all Australian states and territories, including Queensland's Biosecurity Act 2014, outlaws feeding prohibited feed for pigs and poultry (swill) to pigs or poultry. In the context of FMD, this applies to all pigs, including pet pigs and pigs owned by hobby farmers. Penalties for swill feeding include fines and imprisonment.
For information on what you can legally feed your pigs, read laws against supplying and feeding swill to pigs.


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Our favorite mare delivered her first foal, and he seems to be happy and growing well. He nurses from the mare, sneaks grain from her feed bin, and picks at the pasture, yet we've never seen him drink from the water trough. Do foals drink water? Should I be worried?
No need to worry! Most foals will start eating solid feed and nibbling pasture in the first few days of life, but few drink water because their water requirements are being met by mare's milk.
A research study of mares and foals on pasture reported that the youngest age a foal was observed to drink water was three weeks old, with some foals never observed to drink water until weaning.
With that said, you should always allow the mare and foal to have free access to fresh water. If a nursing foal drinks a lot of water or visits the water trough frequently (more than twice daily if the environmental temperature is less than 10° C [50° F] or more than every two to four hours if the temperature is 10-35° C [50°-95° F]), the foal probably isn't receiving enough milk. Inadequate milk consumption is also indicated by prolonged or excessive periods of nursing or by below-average weight gain.
During the first month of life, the foal should nurse three to seven times per hour, with each nursing bout lasting one or two minutes. Thoroughbred foals should gain 0.8 to 1.5 kg (2 to 3 lb) per day. We recommend regular weighing of growing horses, which will help you pick up on any issues, such as low milk production in the mare.
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the Caribbean Court of Justice.
Armed forces
Belizean Coast Guard working with the United States Navy. Belize's open water ways and long Barrier Reef make it susceptible to drug traffickers
The Belize Defence Force (BDF) is the military and is responsible for protecting the sovereignty of Belize. The BDF, with the Belize National Coast Guard and the Immigration Department, is a department of the Ministry of Defence and Immigration, which is currently headed by John Saldivar; the BDF itself is commanded by Brigadier General Dario Tapia. In 1997, the regular army numbered over 900, the reserve army 381, the air wing 45 and the maritime wing 36, amounting to an overall strength of approximately 1400.[27] In 2005, the maritime wing became part of the Belizean Coast Guard.[28] In 2012, the Belizean government spent about $17 million on the military, constituting 1.08% of the country's gross domestic product (GDP).[29]
Foreign relations
The majority of violence in Belize stems from gang violence, which includes trafficking of drugs and persons, drug smuggling routes, and sales rights.[31] Even so, violence in Belize is relatively less significant compared to some of the other Central American countries (Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala).[32]
From 2006 to 2007, serious crime reports (defined as murder, rape, theft, burglary, etc.) decreased from 3,853 to 3,172, a decrease of 681 reports.[31] But still, in 2007, 97 murders were reported while in 2006, 92 murders were reported. Belize City is responsible for having a large percentage of the murders: 39 murders in 2007 and 35 in 2006.[31] In 2011, 125 murders were recorded in Belize, giving the country a capital homicide rate of 39 murders per 100,000 inhabitants, the sixth highest in the world.[32] Compared to the other districts in Belize, Belize District (containing Belize City, specifically the southern area of Belize City) had the most murders by far compared to all the other districts. In 2007, 54% of the murders occurred in Belize District.[31] This increase in violence in the south of Belize City is largely due to gang warfare.
The detection rate of murders decreased from 2006 to 2007, with a 64% detection rate in 2006 and a 63% detection rate in 2007. Seventy-six people were arrested and charged with murder in 2006, and 82 people were arrested and charged in 2007.[31] Aside from the high number of murders, there are also rape cases (38 reported in 2007), robberies (507 reported in 2007), and burglaries (1244 cases in 2007).[31] In 2007, the Belize police seized 130 firearms, 507 kilos of cannabis and 32 kilos of cocaine, and disposed off over twenty-three thousand mature marijuana plants.[31] There are many possible explanations for the multitude of murders, including robberies, disputes (drug related and domestic), misunderstandings, and the leading cause: altercations.[31]
The Belize Police Department has implemented many protective measures in hopes of decreasing the high number of crimes. These measures include adding more patrols to "hot spots" in the city, obtaining more resources to deal with the predicament, creating the "Do the Right Thing for Youths at Risk" program, creating the Crime Information Hot line, creating the Yabra Citizen Development Committee, an organization that helps the youth, and many other initiatives. The Belize Police Department began an Anti-Crime Christmas campaign targeting criminals; as a result, the crime rates dropped in that month.[31] In 2011, the government established a truce between many major gangs, lowering the murder rate.[32]
Districts and constituencies
Districts of Belize
District Name Capital City Estimated Population
Belize District Belize City 89,247
Cayo District San Ignacio 73,202
Orange Walk District Orange Walk Town 45,419
Corozal District Corozal Town 40,324
Stann Creek District Dangriga 32,166
Toledo District Punta Gorda 30,538
These districts are further divided into 31 constituencies.
Belize Topography
Belize is on the Caribbean coast of northern Central America. It shares a border on the north with the Mexican state of Quintana Roo, on the west with the Guatemalan department of Petén, and on the south with the Guatemalan department of Izabal. To the east in the Caribbean Sea, the second-longest barrier reef in the world flanks much of the Template:Convert of predominantly marshy coastline.[35] The area of the country totals Template:Convert, an area slightly larger than El Salvador, Israel, Massachusetts or Wales. The abundance of lagoons along the coasts and in the northern interior reduces the actual land area to Template:Convert.
Belize is shaped like a rectangle that extends about Template:Convert north-south and about Template:Convert east-west, with a total land boundary length of Template:Convert. The undulating courses of two rivers, the Hondo and the Sarstoon River, define much of the course of the country's northern and southern boundaries. The western border follows no natural features and runs north-south through lowland forest and highland plateau.
Belize's rugged geography has also made the country's coastline and jungle attractive to drug smugglers, who use the country as a gateway into Mexico.[37] In 2011, the United States added Belize to the list of nations considered major drug producers or transit countries for narcotics.[38]
Environment preservation and biodiversity
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Belize is a country with a rich variety of wildlife, because of its unique position between both North and South America, and a wide range of climates and habitats for plant and animal life.[39] Belize's low human population, and approximately Template:Convert of undistributed land, provides an ideal home for more than 5000 species of plants, and hundreds of species of animals – including armadillos, snakes, and monkeys.[40][41]
The Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary is a nature reserve in south-central Belize established to protect the forests, fauna and watersheds of an approximately 400 square kilometre area of the eastern slopes of the Maya Mountains. The reserve was founded in 1990 as the first wilderness sanctuary for the jaguar and is regarded by one author as the premier site for jaguar preservation in the world.[34]
Vegetation and flora
While over 60% of Belize's land surface is covered by forest,[42] recent studies indicate that some 20% of the country's land is covered by cultivated land (agriculture) and human settlements.[43] Savannah, scrubland and wetland constitute the remainder of Belize's land cover. Important mangrove ecosystems are also represented across Belize's landscape.[44][45] As a part of the globally significant Mesoamerican Biological Corridor that stretches from southern Mexico to Panama, Belize's biodiversity – both marine and terrestrial – is rich, with abundant flora and fauna.
Belize is also a leader in protecting biodiversity and natural resources. Recent (July 2010) information[46] from the Association of Protected Areas Management Organizations of Belize (APAMO) indicates that some 36% of Belize's land territory falls under some form of official protected status, giving Belize one of the most extensive systems of terrestrial protected areas in the Americas.
Nearby Costa Rica, by contrast, only has 25.8% of its land territory protected.[47] Some 13% of Belize's territorial waters – home to the Belize Barrier Reef System – are also protected. The Belize Barrier Reef System both constitutes a UNESCO-recognised World Heritage Site and the second largest barrier reef in the world, second only to Australia's Great Barrier Reef.
A remote sensing study conducted by the Water Center for the Humid Tropics of Latin America and the Caribbean (CATHALAC) and NASA, in collaboration with the Forest Department and the Land Information Centre (LIC) of the Government of Belize's Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment (MNRE), and published in August 2010 revealed that Belize's forest cover in early 2010 was approximately 62.7%, down from 75.9% in late 1980.[42] A similar study[48] by Belize Tropical Forest Studies and Conservation International revealed similar trends in terms of Belize's forest cover. Both studies indicate that each year, 0.6% of Belize's forest cover is lost, translating to the clearing of an average of Template:Convert each year. The USAID-supported ERVIR study by CATHALAC, NASA, and the MNRE also showed that Belize's protected areas have been extremely effective in protecting the country's forests. While only some 6.4% of forests inside of legally declared protected areas were cleared between 1980 and 2010, over a quarter of forests outside of protected areas were lost between 1980 and 2010.
As a country with a relatively high forest cover and a low deforestation rate, Belize has significant potential for participation in initiatives such as REDD. Significantly, the SERVIR study on Belize's deforestation[42] was also recognised by the Group on Earth Observations (GEO), of which Belize is a member nation.[49]
Geology, mineral potential, and energy


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We set out to estimate resistant starch (RS) intakes using the 24-hour food intake data from the 1995 National Nutrition Survey (NNS) database of 13 858 Australians. As there are often significant differences in the RS content of foods reported by various authors. we calculated intakes based on both published maximum and minimum value, for individual food,. RS intakes (mean and SEM) for all persons were in the range 3.4 ± 0.03 g/d (minimum estimate) to 9.4 ± 0.07 g/d (maximum estimate). Adult males (19+ years) consumed more RS (10.7 ± 0.11 g/day maximum estimale) than adult females (19+ years) (8.2 g ± 0.08 g/day maximum estimate). RS comprised a greater proportion of the total starch intake in the very young and in the older age groups. Across the population. foods contributing most to RS intake were potatoes, bananas and white bread.
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Decision : 30 COM 8B.32
Nominations of Cultural Properties to the World Heritage List (Stone Circles of Senegambia)
The World Heritage Committee,
1. Having examined Documents WHC-06/30.COM/8B and WHC-06/30.COM/INF.8B.1,
2. Inscribes the Stone Circles of Senegambia, Gambia and Senegal, on the World Heritage List on the basis of criteria (i) and (iii):
Criterion (i): The finely worked individual stones display precise and skilful stone working practices and contribute to the imposing order and grandeur of the overall stone circle complexes.
Criterion (iii): The nominated stone circles, represent the wider megalithic zone, in which the survival of so many circles is a unique manifestation of construction and funerary practices which persisted for over a millennia and a half across a large sweep of landscape, and reflects a sophisticated and productive society.
3. Recommends that the States Parties give consideration to extending the nominated sites to include quarry sites;
4. Also recommends that the States Parties consider nominating further sites as part of a wider cultural landscape serial nomination in order to sustain more of the megalithic landscape of Senegambia;
5. Further recommends that a research strategy be put in place to address the wider associations of the stone circles and to record in more detail the megalithic zone.
Themes: Inscriptions on the World Heritage List
States Parties: Gambia Senegal
Year: 2006
Decision Code: 30 COM 8B.32


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Looking for the most efficient way to reverse engineer and/or design? The REVscan will prove to be a reliable tool that will help you get there.
The MAXscan is the obvious choice for 3D scanning of larger parts. It features the Handyscan 3D high-accuracy, enhanced with photogrammetry capabilities.
Need high-resolution 3D colour data and shape? The VIUscan will capture every detail and deliver hyperrealistic results.
Portable: fits into a case the size of a carry-on.
Handheld and lightweight: the scanner weights about 1 kg.
On-the-go scanning: take it from plant to plant and use it in-house or on site.
Small size: easy access to confined areas.
Freedom of movement: there are no mechanical constraints. Flexible stand-off distance, which makes it possible to reach confined areas.
High accuracy: generates accurate, repeatable, high resolution 3D data (0.040-0.050 mm).
Dynamic referencing: optical reflectors are used to create a reference system that's "locked" to the part itself. User can move the object any way he wants during scanning session. Changes in surrounding environment have no impact on data acquisition quality or accuracy.
Reliable: consistent results across all work conditions or environments.
Self-positioning: the Handyscan 3D scanner is a data acquisition system and its own positioning system. This means that no external tracking or positioning devices is required. It uses triangulation to determine its relative position to the part in real time.
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The Handyscan 3D scanners come with VXelements, a fully-integrated 3D data acquisition software that powers its entire fleet of 3D scanning and measurement technologies. It gathers all the essential elements and tools into a uniform, user-friendly and intuitive working environment.
VXscan is entirely dedicated to the acquisition and optimization of 3D scanning data. It delivers high performance for that specific task, yet it is simple and user-friendly enough to suit any user's experience level.
- Surface optimization algorithm that avoids the creation of multiple scan layers and ensures a more accurate meshing without any post-treatment;
- The output is an optimized meshing that can be exported in all standard formats;
- No limitation to the scan resolution: just input a resolution value, independent from the size of the scanned object. Resolution can be changed at any time before/after the scan. The software can recreate a meshing from the raw data previously acquired;
- Surface is rendered in real time (the user can view the 3D surface as the object is being scanned);
- The creation, from the meshing, of geometrical entities;
- Other functionalities such as optimization of the meshing such as hole filling, smart decimation (without definition loss on the meshing), or boundary filters.
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Publication Date: November 25, 2011
Source: Ivey Publishing
The marketing manager for Canadian Blood Services (CBS) is concerned about a growing demand for blood - 2 per cent per year - driven by a number of factors, including the decrease of wait times in local hospitals, new operating procedures and increased use or requirements of an aging population. Peak demand seasons coincide with low supply seasons, such as summer and winter holidays. Two issues require attention: the first involves increasing the absolute number of donors, currently in the 400,000 range. Indications are that the percentage of Canadians (four per cent) who donate blood is lower than other countries such as Sweden (five per cent). The second need is to retain more donors and increase the number of donations per donor, per year. The CBS still faces issues stemming from the tainted blood scandal of the 1980s and the subsequent Krever inquiry. They are working to rebuild the trust of the public. The crux of the issue is understanding consumer behaviour toward blood donation. The manager needs to understand the consumer decision process, examine segments, determine a target segment and develop communications to increase both the absolute number of donors and the repeat donations of identified donors.


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WrapperTypes are usually trivial wrappers (i.e. newtypes) that are designed to convey some information to the type system. Non-trivial type synonyms and Type class wrapper are both instances of this. This idiom is also in a synergistic relation to Phantom types, Traits type class, and Simulating dependent types.
1 Usages and examples
One use of Wrapper types is to add Phantom types to a pre-existing (e.g. 3rd party) type.Another example occurs in WxHaskell to handle interfacing to an OO library. The Sub-typing relationship is represented as nested wrapper types, so that
Traits type class and wrapper types often give two different approaches to solving the same problem. For example, if you want to compare two Strings for equality in different ways (mainly case-sensitive and case-insensitive) you can either use a wrapper to adapt String to the Eq class,
newtype CIString = CIString String instance Eq CIString where CIString a == CIString b = map toUpper a == map toUpper b
or you can make a TraitsTypeclass
class MyEq traits a where cmp :: traits -> a -> a -> Bool data CaseSensitive data CaseInsensitive instance MyEq CaseSensitive String where cmp _ = (==) instance MyEq CaseInsensitive String where cmp _ a b = map toUpper a == map toUpper b
As the example illustrates, the two approaches have different trade-offs, but we can also get some of the benefits of both with the following synergy between Phantom types and Traits type class (and perhaps also wrapper types). What we do is store the traits type variable in a phantom type variable (added in this case via a wrapper type) which avoids the need for a Reified type parameter or the construction of a custom class (when the class already exists).
newtype PString a = PString String data CaseSensitive data CaseInsensitive instance Eq (PString CaseSensitive) where PString a = PString b = a == b instance Eq (PString CaseInsensitive) where PString a == PString b = map toUpper a == map toUpper b
This gives us the benefit of only having one type that we can parameterize to different implementations and the benefit of working with pre-existing type classes, it does however require us to provide a phantom type argument.
2 See also
- _URL_ gives a rather involved example that uses this idiom.


Showing posts with label Cloister. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cloister. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Trappist Nuns In Syria Do Not Fear Fate of Trappists in Algeria
(Damascus) They came to the near East in 2005 with the intention to live out the Christianization of the first centuries after Christ. Their history is comparable to the Trappist monks of Tibhirine in Algeria, who in 1996 were murdered by a moderate Islamic group. Xavier Beauvaus created a memorial for them and their martyrdom by the film "Of Men and Gods".
The comparison is more pressing when one things of the five Trappists, who left their peaceful and isolated Cloister in Valserena in Tuscany, Italy, in order to go to Syria. A land whose internal situation had been already tense and in the midst of a civil war with thousands of deaths and flooded with hundreds of thousands of refugees.
Why have they decided to found a new Cloister in an unstable country like Syria? "Because Christianity had developed here and spread from here to Asia Minor, Greece, Rome, Armenia, India and China", say the sisters. "in the first centuries the mission was led by a living Monastic movement, which existed alone and independently of one another here and in Egypt." The sisters recall St. Ephraem the Syrian, Saint Simeon the Stylite, St. John Chrysostom or St. John of Damascus, whose traces they follow. "Going out from our Latin and Benedictine Tradition we want to follow the stream, because we are convinced of the rich fruits, which will come about in an exchange between the West and Eastern heritage of Christendom."
So the Cloister of Azeir exists amidst the civil war afflicted cities of Homs and Tartous in Central Asia. The sisters feel a mission in that, which resembles that of the monks of Tibhirine: to help Christians and Muslims without respect to religion, to be a lighthouse of peace and harmony in the civil war, which they did not foresee when the five Trappists set foot for the first time on Syrian soil. "Now we belong to these people. The fate of the Syrians is our fate," says Abbess Monica to AsiaNews.
The nuns reported on their internet site established and independent of all propaganda of one of the other sides of the civil war and the fate of Syria's Christians. Some of the letters of the last months could have been called out. They described for everyone the suffering of the civilian population. For them the Cloister is clearly a sign of hope, because it is "a place, where God is really present through the Eucharist and through the Church, through the prayer and the brotherly community. It is a blessing for all."
"Why should we go away?" was the astonished response of the sisters. "The people here ring our door. They seek help, diverse help. They ask for food, they seek consolation, young men have started to come to us, because they are seeking someone to help them to understand things, to reflect, to grow innerly." The Cloister offers already numerous people sanctuary and accommodation, people, who are have been made refugees by government troops or the rebels, people who are pursued by one side or the other. Even as a place for secret business, the Cloister is on hand.
"We are called to give a witness of our Christian hohpe, which is stronger than all worry. Why should we go away from a place, where the people so desperately need this hope", said the Abbess to Asia News.
Text: Religion en libertad/Giuseppe Nardi
Bild: Valserena


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Binghamton University researchers awarded grant to cool microchips
Three Binghamton University faculty will work with researchers from GE Research and a New Mexico firm on a $7.2 million, three-year project to solve a problem that has dogged computer chip makers for decades — heat.
For the electronics industry, the University's work may lead to great improvements in how heat generated by microelectronic circuitry is conducted by finding defects in current materials and creating new materials that work better.
Mechanical engineers Bahgat Sammakia and Gary Lehmann, and chemist Wayne Jones and the other partners will share in a $3.5 million grant from the Advanced Technology Program of the National Institute of Standards and Technology. GE will contribute $3.7 million to the project.
The group's task is to develop and test new nanoengineered materials that will yield a 10-fold improvement in the thermal conductivity of materials that play a critical role in the cooling of computer chips. Binghamton University's share of the award will amount to $850,000.
The grant is another step in putting the University in the thick of a race to develop new materials and new technology that will not only make computer chips smaller, faster and more efficient. The new GE project will further Jones' and Sammakia's work on the synthesis and study of the fundamental properties of conductivity in nanomaterials.
Jones will provide the atomic level chemical analysis and manipulation of materials developed in collaboration with GE and prepared by Superior MicroPowders of Albuquerque, N.M. Sammakia and Lehmann will concentrate on developing and testing mathematical models that support the theory.
Sandeep Tonapi, who earned his master's and doctoral degrees from Binghamton University where he worked with Sammakia, is a member of the GE research team.
The challenge for the three comes from working with materials defined at the atomic level and measured in nanometers — best described as 1/50,000th of the size of a human hair. The real challenge is in performing accurate measurements on a micro or bulk scale and on the nano scale.
To test the commercial applications, Lehman will develop an apparatus to conduct measurements of heat flow through a 10-100 micron-thick material layer. Math models, based on the nano-scale heat transport, will be used to correlate the measured response with the materials structure.
The work will benefit from the recent acquisition of an atomic force and scanning tunneling microscope as the result of a National Science Foundation grant to Jones and C.J. Zong in the chemistry department. The devices allow imaging of individual molecules on surfaces such as circuit boards.
The problem to be solved by this project might be illustrated best by comparing the surface of a circuit board to a plaster wall. Even where a wall may appear smooth to the human eye there are ripples and gaps in the surface. On the circuit board these sub-microscopic gaps trap heat generated by layers of diodes and transistors, limiting their effectiveness. Developing a more efficient material to fill in the gaps represents a high-stakes market, estimated at $205 million worldwide in 2000.
Sammakia said creating the ideal material might involve manipulating the shape of the individual atoms to improve their ability to fill the smallest gaps and to improve conductivity. The two possibilities the research team will study are spherical shapes and cylindrical shapes. The modeling will help determine which shape is more efficient and model structures synthesized in the lab will help verify these observations.


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mhGAP Intervention Guide for mental, neurological and substance use disorders in non-specialized health settings
The mhGAP Intervention Guide (mhGAP-IG) for mental, neurological and substance use disorders for non-specialist health settings, is a technical tool developed by WHO to assist in implementation of mhGAP. The Intervention Guide has been developed through a systematic review of evidence followed by an international consultative and participatory process.
The mhGAP-IG presents integrated management of priority conditions using protocols for clinical decision-making. The priority conditions included are: depression, psychosis, bipolar disorders, epilepsy, developmental and behavioural disorders in children and adolescents, dementia, alcohol use disorders, drug use disorders, self-harm/suicide and other significant emotional or medically unexplained complaints.
The mhGAP-IG is a model guide and has been developed for use by health-care providers working in non-specialized health-care settings after adaptation for national and local needs.


The Correct spelling is: tight
Common misspellings of the word tight are:
How do you spell tight?. It is not
 - adj., tightÂ·er, tightÂ·est.
 1. Fixed or fastened firmly in place: a tight lid; tight screws; a tight knot.
 2. Stretched or drawn out fully: a tight wire; a tight drumhead.
 1. Leaving little empty space through compression; compact: a tight suitcase; a tight weave.
 2. Affording little spare time; full: a tight schedule.
 4. Closely reasoned or concise: a tight argument; a tight style of writing.
 6. Slang. Personally close; intimate: â€œme and the D.A., who happen to be very tight with one anotherâ€ (Tom Wolfe).
 7. Experiencing a feeling of constriction: a tight feeling in the chest.
 8. Reluctant to spend or give; stingy.
 1. Obtainable with difficulty or only at a high price: tight money.
 2. Affected by scarcity: a tight market.
 9. Difficult to deal with or get out of: a tight spot.
 10. Barely profitable: a tight bargain.
 11. Closely contested; close: a tight match.
 12. Chiefly British. Neat and trim in appearance or arrangement.
 13. Marked by full control over elements or subordinates; firm: tight management; a tight orchestral performance.
 14. Slang. Intoxicated; drunk.
 15. Baseball. Inside.
 adv., tightÂ·er, tightÂ·est.
 1. Firmly; securely.
 2. Soundly: sleep tight.
 3. Snugly or with constriction: My shoes are laced too tight.
 [Middle English, dense, of Scandinavian origin.]
 tightly tight'ly adv.
 tightness tight'ness n.
 SYNONYMS tight, taut, tense. These adjectives mean not slack or loose on account of being pulled or drawn out fully: a tight skirt; taut sails; tense piano strings.
 USAGE NOTE Tight is used as an adverb following verbs that denote a process of closure or constriction, as squeeze, shut, close, tie, and hold. In this use it is subtly distinct from the adverb tightly. Tight denotes the state resulting from the process, whereas tightly denotes the manner of its application. As such, tight is more appropriate when the focus is on a state that endures for some time after the activity has ended. The sentence She closed up the house tight suggests preparation for an impending blizzard. By the same token, it is more natural to say The windows were frozen tight than The windows were frozen tightly, since in this case the tightness of the seal is not likely to be the result of the manner in which the windows were frozen. With a few verbs tight is used idiomatically as an intensive and is the only possible form: sleep tight; sit tight. Tight can be used only following the verb: The house was shut tight (not tight shut).
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How to Bond With Your Baby
How to Bond With Your Baby (New Parents Guide)
Bonding with your baby
Are you a first-time mom or dad? Wondering how to bond with your baby? Then stick around till the end of this article because I will be sharing essential and helpful tips on how to bond with your baby.
In this article. You will learn:
 - The importance of baby bonding
 - What can you do to build trust
 - How does the baby develop a bond with the parents
 - Ways for a new dad to bond with baby
What is bonding?
what is bonding
According to, bonding is:
"A relationship that usually begins at the time of birth between a parent and offspring and that establishes the basis for an ongoing mutual attachment.
This invisible bond is the most intense connection a person makes in his/her life.
The bond has different functions: it secures the life of your newborn and the possibility to build basic trust.
Why is it important to bond with your baby?
Why is it important to bond with your baby?
The bonding phase shapes how the child will experience relationships with others in the future and react to new, unknown situations.
It will help build firm confidence that there is little to fear in life if you can rely on each other.
The baby develops this feeling of security from how his caregivers, i.e. the parents, react to his needs.
An infant can only express himself through body language and emotions; he can cry or scream, grumble in annoyance, look attentively and babble happily later.
In the best case, the parents react very sensitively to their baby and quickly understand what is needed.
For example, safely bound babies later show greater interest in the environment, a balanced nature, self-confidence, and less fear of anything new.
What can you do to build trust?
What can you do to build trust?
Bonding begins at birth. Parents are happy if they can spend a lot of time with the newborn immediately afterward.
If possible, they should stay with their child throughout the hospital stay and go home with the family as soon as possible.
The best way for parents and newborns to relax and get closer is in the familiar, quiet environment of the home.
These are ideal conditions to build trust from the start, which should be strengthened in the coming weeks and months.
How does the baby develop a bond with the parents?
how to bond with your baby
Bonding is not limited to birth because it is not a one-time event. Rather, it can be described as a process in which the baby develops a bond with the parents and vice versa.
Bonding takes time.
Parents should, therefore, pay a lot of attention to the child. For example, midwives advise that you often cuddle with the newborn.
For example, a baby can be placed on the chest so that the child can absorb the scent of your skin and feel your warmth (The kangaroo care or skin to skin contact with your newborn).
Friendly eye contact also ensures that the child can develop a bond with the parents.
How can the bond between baby and parents be strengthened?
The connection between baby and parents can be strengthened with love and warmth.
Parents should be fully responsive to their child's needs, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't take care of themselves.
In the first eight months of the child, they should respond to crying. This way the child learns that the parents are there when they need them.
Since the baby is not yet able to verbalize itself properly, mom and dad should watch his body signals closely and determine their actions from them.
The relationship can also be intensified by swinging gently on the arm since the baby gets to know the parents better through physical contact.
Baby language: Learn to understand the baby
Baby language: Learn to understand the baby
The bonding phase is also important for parents. It helps to take on the (new) role of parent and gives confidence in one's own abilities as a mother or father.
Successful bonding can also help in upbringing because with a good bond with the child they understand it better and can put themselves in it better.
Bonding can be rescheduled
Bonding can be rescheduled
The first minutes and hours after the birth are important for the bonding, but not decisive for everything.
If the first time with the baby cannot be enjoyed completely undisturbed due to premature birth and/or medically necessary follow-up treatments, then bonding can also be made up for.
The cuddling hours together should then be all the more intense, even extended to whole bonding days, in which nothing else matters than that you and your baby can get to know each other after the efforts.
Ways for a new dad to bond with baby
ways for a new dad to bond with baby
Tips for connecting the inner bond between father and baby.
Being a new father for the first time could be something fun and surprising for men.
People will likely focus more on the relationship between mother and newborn. However, the relationship between father and baby is no less important.
The relationship between father and baby can be encouraged before the baby is born.
Before the baby is born, the father-to-be can begin to bond by singing songs or reading books while the baby is still in the womb.
This helps the baby learn the father's voice.
Accompanying the mother to the doctor can also help build relationships with the fetus.
Pregnant women must also feel supported by their husbands, which has a positive effect on the development of maternal health.
Track any maternal pregnancy development. After the baby is born, it is not too difficult to connect the father to the baby.
5 simple ways for dad to bond with baby
5 simple ways for dad to bond with baby
1- Accompanying the mother during birth is a good start to create a bond between father and baby.
Fathers who spend a lot of time with babies in the first few months after birth can build a good father-baby relationship until the baby grows up.
It goes without saying that you make mistakes. If you try several times, you will surely be able to do it well over time.
2- Accompany him/her to sleep
Putting the baby to sleep and accompanying him to sleep is also a way to connect with the baby.
Dad can let the baby fall asleep while singing a song or reading a story to the baby.
It also helps to familiarize the baby with his father's voice so that each time the baby hears the father's voice and the baby understands that he is with his father and feels comfortable.
3- By touch
Touch the baby whenever you can in the first few weeks after birth and look him in the eye. The power of touch can create the closeness between father and baby.
Touch between the father's and baby's skin is also required, not just touch between the mother's and baby's skin.
You can hold the baby and put him on your chest so that it feels comfortable for the baby.
Babies can hear their father's heartbeat and it helps the baby maintain his or her body temperature.
Spending a lot of time with a baby is the best way to create a bond between father and baby.
4- Bathing, putting on and changing diapers
Fathers can also help mothers bathe, put on, and replace baby diapers. It also helps create a bond between father and baby.
The more often a father takes care of the baby, the easier it is for the father to connect with the baby.
5- Playing together
Playing with babies is fun. Fathers can make funny faces, show funny behaviors, play airplanes, play peekaboo, etc. that make babies smile and laugh.
Dad could be the first person to make a baby smile. Seeing a baby smile is a joy for dad. Fathers can delight the baby's eyes.
And this is very helpful in establishing the relationship between father and baby.
When the baby returns home, the father may be back in the daily routine.
Dad will work and go home at night. Don't worry, dad will still be able to connect to the baby. Father can play with the baby after work.
The father can accompany the baby to sleep all night and take care of him/her. Being near and touching the baby makes the baby sleep comfortably.
Spending time between father and baby can be an emotional investment for the future to build a relationship between father and baby.
Final Thoughts on How to Bond With Baby
How to Bond With Baby
Bonding is the beginning of the parent-child relationship.
Ideally, bonding works like an "emotional super glue" that unites parents and children together for life.
This inner bond between parent and child is the most important and strongest that a person enters into in the course of his life.
It secures his life for the newborn and ensures that it builds basic trust.
This bond gives the parents so much strength that they are able to sacrifice everything for their baby – from sleep to their own physical integrity in emergency situations.
The closeness, mom or dad's heartbeat, and the smell of baby skin can trigger something that stays.
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Snake Trap is a hunter trap ability learned at level 66. Like other hunter traps, this can be launched with.
- Glyph of Snake Trap
- Item Level
- Major Glyph
- Classes: Hunter
- Requires Level 25
- Use: Permanently teaches you this glyph.
Your Ice Trap is replaced with Snake Trap.
Venomous snakes released by the trap will poison nearby enemies with a Crippling Poison that reduces movement speed by 50% for 12 sec.
- Sell Price: 1
The snakes apply 3 rogue-style poisons to enemies:
- Crippling Poison: Movement slowed by 50%.
- Mind-Numbing Poison: Casting speed slowed by 30%.
- Deadly Poison: Nature damage inflicted every 2 sec.
Snakes apply poisons with spit, not a melee attack (about 2.6 yard range). Also, if there are unpoisoned targets nearby, snakes will not melee, but will instead spit more poisons on that target, making snakes an excellent AoE boost. For example, if the hunter knows where a mage's AoE will be, they can place a snake trap there and most mobs at this location will get poisoned.
When the trap is activated, snakes start to attack the nearest targets. It is possible that some snakes will attack one target and some will attack another. After the target is dead, snakes attack the next target in range.
Out of the snakes, four vipers appear, hitting for approximately twice as much as the venomous snakes. The melee damage of the snakes being very low, the poisons are the main intent of the ability.
Tips and tactics
- It is possible to use the Snake Trap to gain distance while kiting. Place the trap as you are kiting a mob, then as the snakes release and begin to hit the mob, you can. This allows you to gain distance from the mob as it kills your snakes. Be aware of the speed that the mob kills your snakes, since if you haven't landed a dot or damaging ability on the mob before the snakes all die, you will lose aggro on the mob.
- Place the trap where a Mage or Warlock will do their AoE to add some damage and to slow targets (thanks to Crippling Poison).
- If two or more targets are tanked at the same time, place a trap under the tank.
- For Survival hunters, Snake Trap triggers.
- Snakes have their own aggro, therefore this trap has no effect on the hunter's aggro rating.
- The snakes are very easy to kill with a normal AoE (frost nova for example). Moreover, they can be feared.
- Snakes have a surprisingly large aggro radius and should generally only be used when you know that either their 15 second effect will not outlast the target mob(s) or when you have a lot of room to work. If there are any snakes left after you kill your primary target, and there is another valid target within ~23 feet, they will run off and attack them for you.
- If the hunter is killed while the snakes are active the snakes will also die.
- It appears that if the snake trap is triggered by a mob, the snakes will attack members of the opposite faction if they are within the snakes' attack range, whether or not either character is marked for PvP. Furthermore, the snakes will force that player's PvP flags up if they fight back regardless of what their flags are set to, allowing other players to force PvP on unwilling members of the opposite faction, in essence, a loophole. This is supposedly fixed in patch 2.4.0
- Can be useful in situations in PvP against people who target using the Tab key instead of clicking.
- Patch 3.2.0 (04-Aug-2009): The Mind-numbing Poison effect has been reduced to a 30% increase in casting time, down from 50% to match similar effects.


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An experiment in pneumatics and bionics
In this projectile, bionic refinement meets unusual drive forms that were originally conceived for outer space. The flow-optimised pneumatic structure is derived from the penguin.
The new bionic plasma drive in the stubby wings is a simplified copy of the mechanical wing propulsion of birds, without applying any moving parts. The tail is moved using the classic principle of the ion beam drive, which functions using air-ionising high DC voltage fields. The accelerated air ions produce an ion wind with a speed of up to 10 m/s.
However, future application ranges for atmospheric ion drives are not focused on obtaining propelling force, but rather on the areas of resistance reduction and resistance elimination.


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In Louhi the program development environment is managed using the modules package. For example, user's shell environment variables for different compiler suites, software packages and libraries are set up using the module tool.
Currently loaded modules are listed with command
The environment changes induced by a particular module are shown with command
module show PrgEnv-pgi
The example above shows the effects of the default version of PGI programming environment. All available modules are listed with command
Loading and unloading modules files is done with module commands load and unload. Changing from the PGI programming environment to GNU programming environment, for example, is accomplished with the command
module swap PrgEnv-pgi PrgEnv-gnu
This, among other things, sets the Cray wrapper scripts to launch GNU compilers and link appropriate libraries for them. More examples of using the modules are provided in the chapter Program development of this User's Guide.


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Time Management Factors for Success in Higher Education
CitationBisbee, Dorothy. 2019. Time Management Factors for Success in Higher Education. Master's thesis, Harvard Extension School.
AbstractFor this exploratory study, 109 adult students (73.4% female) completed an online survey with measures of time management behavior and college wellbeing during the fall semester. Students were in 10 courses at a continuing education school within a large northeastern U.S. university. On a follow-up survey, 87 reported their grades and answered additional questions about time use and management. Factor analysis of old and new self-report measures identified a three-factor structure for time management: Satisfaction with Time Use, Monitoring and Evaluating, and Planning and Prioritizing. Satisfaction with Time Use best predicted college wellbeing on the College Student Subjective Wellbeing Scale (CSSWQ, Renshaw & Boligno, 2016). Number of time management tools used negatively predicted grades and course completion, and the Mechanics dimension of the Time Management Behavior Scale (Macan, Shahani, Dipboye & Phillips, 1990) positively predicted grades and course completion. Each student's activity on the course learning management system (LMS) was collected, de-identified, and used to show study times of day. Study times of day did not emerge as significant predictors. Some differences between first-and second-generation college students were seen: first-gen students worked more hours per week, on average, than their peers, and fewer of them got at least seven hours of sleep per night. Still, their grades and course completion rates were similar to their peers'. Satisfaction with Time Use was a better predictor of grades and course completion than Mechanics for first-generation students. Directions for future research are identified.
Citable link to this pagehttps://nrs.harvard.edu/URN-3:HUL.INSTREPOS:37365102
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Pronunciation: kil-têr • Hear it!
Part of Speech: Noun, mass
Meaning: Good condition, health, tune, or spirits.
Notes: Kilter is another word on its last leg that we would like to rescue from the lexical boneyard. We hear it today almost exclusively in the expression "out of kilter". However, the use of this Good Word is by no means limited to a single negative phrase.
In Play: Dr. Goodword is frequently asked, "If something is not out of kilter, is it 'in kilter'?" "Yes," is always the good doctor's answer: "Everyone at the party was in good kilter so the party was a great success." Anything that can be out of kilter can as well be in good kilter: "The choir is sounding better, but their music still isn't in perfect kilter."
Word History: Today's Good Word is a corruption of kelter, but a corruption that began in the middle of the 17th century, so there is little chance of going back now. Kelter is still preserved in some British dialects, but kilterclearly is favored today. The question is, then, where does kelter come from and the straightforward answer is that no one has the foggiest notion. No semantically related words resembling kelter can be found in English or any other language in its family. That leaves us with little more to say about this word except to thank Perry Dror for his contribution to keeping our Good Word series in high kilter by suggesting fascinating words like today's.


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David has misread the example in the FAQ. He says that it uses
MS(E) for the test of P and I (his letters, or period and dial
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Look carefully at the -anovacommand and at the output shown in
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If I am following the mapping from his names to the FAQ example
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By the way, what I present in the FAQ as Stata output of -anovaagrees with what Winer, Brown, & Michels show in Table 7.16 where
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Eating Your Way To A Healthy Heart (If You're A Python)
It's a huckster's dream: "Try the new Burmese Python Diet. No calorie counting or special foods. Eat whatever comes along, up to a quarter of your body weight. Not only is it good for your waistline; it's good for your heart."
Trouble is, what works in pythons probably won't work for humans.
Pythons employ what scientists call a "sit and wait foraging tactic." In other words, they lie around in a Burmese jungle and wait for the food to come to them. And of course, this can mean months between meals.
Still, these infrequent but humongous meals are actually normal for the python. A python's heart gets far larger and stronger after it gorges, and scientists are trying to understand how that happens, and whether it can help humans with heart diseases.
Heart growth isn't always a healthy thing. A diseased heart can get larger as well. But like any other muscle, the heart will grow larger and stronger after it gets a prolonged workout.
"Lance Armstrong and Michael Phelps undoubtedly have huge hearts," says University of Colorado biologist Leslie Leinwand. But the growth a human heart is capable of is nothing compared with what a Burmese python can do after it eats a big meal.
"Within two to three days [the snake] can get anywhere between a 30 and 40 percent increase in the mass of the heart," says University of Alabama snake expert Stephen Secor. The growth comes following a meal, because the large meals pythons infrequently eat send their metabolism through the roof and put huge demands on their hearts.
Secor and Leinwand have a paper out in Science Saturday in which they show that it is the ratio of three fatty acids in the blood that prompts the heart growth in snakes. They found that the same ratio of fatty acids injected into a mouse will cause its heart to grow as well.
So why won't eating a large meal cause a human's heart to grow? Part of the answer is the scale of our meals relative to our size.
"Could you swallow a totally intact meal that weighs a quarter of your body mass?" asks Secor. In other words, could you eat a 30- or 40-pound pig in a single sitting? "If you could, I guarantee you your metabolic rate would go through the roof," says Secor.
Of course we're not designed for such meals. But even if we could consume a whole pig we'd have to digest bones, hair and all. And that could cause some major problems — most food we do eat undergoes some amount of processing that makes it possible to eat.
So even though we're all keen on stronger hearts, we'll probably have to leave the Burmese Python Diet to the Burmese python.


text: One of the things that needs to be done to solve the problem with the air leakage through the building envelope is to be able to identify where they are located. This is why my partner, Brenda Smith, and I developed an air leak detector that uses a vitamin B supplement. So the way the system works is that we make a solution with the vitamin B2, with water, and then we use an off-the-shelf humidifier to disperse it in the air. Then an energy rater can use one of their fans to pressurize the building. And this then will direct the vitamins to the leaks, where they will then accumulate. And then you just shine the interior surfaces with a specific light. And then, when the vitamin shines, it will locate the air leaks, so that then you can go after them and seal them. By sealing this leak, you will save energy, and you would also make your space more comfortable. We selected vitamin B2 for this detection system because, first of all, it fluoresces, and it is non-toxic. Consequently we can use it in occupied buildings. Without being worried that it will damage surfaces, such as furniture and interior walls. Because even if it accumulates on surfaces, it will not affect human health. And also you can easily clean it.


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Background: The analysis of large-scale data sets via clustering techniques is utilized in a number of applications. Biclustering in particular has emerged as an important problem in the analysis of gene expression data since genes may only jointly respond over a subset of conditions. Biclustering algorithms also have important applications in sample classification where, for instance, tissue samples can be classified as cancerous or normal. Many of the methods for biclustering, and clustering algorithms in general, utilize simplified models or heuristic strategies for identifying the "best" grouping of elements according to some metric and cluster definition and thus result in suboptimal clusters. Results: In this article, we present a rigorous approach to biclustering, OREO, which is based on the Optimal RE-Ordering of the rows and columns of a data matrix so as to globally minimize the dissimilarity metric. The physical permutations of the rows and columns of the data matrix can be modeled as either a network flow problem or a traveling salesman problem. Cluster boundaries in one dimension are used to partition and re-order the other dimensions of the corresponding submatrices to generate biclusters. The performance of OREO is tested on (a) metabolite concentration data, (b) an image reconstruction matrix, (c) synthetic data with implanted biclusters, and gene expression data for (d) colon cancer data, (e) breast cancer data, as well as (f) yeast segregant data to validate the ability of the proposed method and compare it to existing biclustering and clustering methods. Conclusion: We demonstrate that this rigorous global optimization method for biclustering produces clusters with more insightful groupings of similar entities, such as genes or metabolites sharing common functions, than other clustering and biclustering algorithms and can reconstruct underlying fundamental patterns in the data for several distinct sets of data matrices arising in important biological applications.
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Structural Biology
- Molecular Biology
- Computer Science Applications
- Applied Mathematics


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Are we what we eat? What does food reveal about how we live and how we think of ourselves in relation to others? Why do people have a strong attachment to their own cuisine and an aversion to the foodways of others? In this engaging account of the crucial significance rice has for the Japanese, Rice as Self examines how people use the metaphor of a principal food in conceptualizing themselves in relation to other peoples. Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney traces the changing contours that the Japanese notion of the self has taken as different historical Others--whether Chinese or Westerner--have emerged, and shows how rice and rice paddies have served as the vehicle for this deliberation. Using Japan as an example, she proposes a new cross-cultural model for the interpretation of the self and other.
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