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Jarquin Family History
Jarquin Surname History
This page is dedicated to the complete history of the Jarquin last name, Jarquin etymology, and stories of Jarquin family members. The Jarquin family name is an old heredity that has migrated all across the world for many generations, and as the Jarquin family has spread, it has evolved making its origin challenging to piece together. Jarquin family history has rich origins whose details have been accumulated over the years by Jarquin family researchers.
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The evolution of Jarquin starts at it's earliest origins. Even in the early generations of a name there are variations in that single name simply because last names were infrequently written down back when few people could write.
It was common for a last name to change as it enters a new country or language. Jarquin family members have travelled across various regions all throughout history. As these families emigrated between countries, the Jarquin name may have changed with them.
Jarquin country of origin
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The nationality of Jarquin is often complicated to determine in cases which regional boundaries change over time, leaving the original nationality indeterminate. The original ethnicity of Jarquin may be difficult to determine depending on whether the surname came about organically and independently in various locales; e.g. in the case of names that come from a profession, which can crop up in multiple regions independently (such as the last name "Archer" which was given to people who were bowmen).
Meaning of the last name Jarquin
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The meaning of Jarquin come may come from a craft, such as the name "Bishop" which may have been taken by church officials. A lot of these craft-based surnames might be a profession in some other language. This is why it is useful to research the ethnicity of a name, and the languages spoken by its ancestors. Many western names like Jarquin originate from religious texts like the Bhagavadgītā, the Bible, the Quran, and so forth. Often these family names are shortened versions of a religious phrase such as "Grace of God".
- L M Jarquin 1942 - 1996
- Fernando Jarquin 1940 - 2003
- Maria J Jarquin Vazq 1964 - 2011
- Marcos A Jarquin 1954 - 2006
- Gloria Jarquin 1917 - 1990
- Jean B Jarquin 1944 - 2004
- Angela Jarquin 1922 - 1995
- Edith Socorro Jarquin 1951 - 2009
- Teodoro Jarquin 1902 - 1993
- R Jarquin? - 1968
- Maria Jarquin 1907 - 1986
- David H Jarquin 1951 - 2011
- Gloria Anne Jarquin 1949 - 2010
- Ileana Del Carmen Jarquin 1956 - 2010
- Consuelo Jarquin 1918 - 2009
- Pedro Jarquin 1918 - 1980
- Miguel H Jarquin 1929 - 2001
- Elba Jarquin 1932 - 2009
- Jeannette Jarquin 1960 - 2005
- Ofelia Jarquin 1900 - 1968
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In the past, when few people knew how to write, names such as Jarquin were transcribed based on their pronunciation when people's names were recorded in official records. This could have resulted in misspellings of Jarquin. Family names like Jarquin change in their spelling as they travel across tribes, family unions, and languages across time. Researching misspellings and alternate spellings of the Jarquin family name are important to understanding the history of the name.


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We Meet a Naples Woman Who Has Spent Decades Raising Awareness About the Holocaust
It's been 76 years since the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland by Soviet soldiers. It's estimated that between 1.1 and 1.5 million people, the vast majority of them Jews, died in the camp. In the decades since there have been ongoing efforts to raise awareness about the atrocities committed by Germany during the war, including the creation of memorials and museums around the United States.
On today's show we're marking Holocaust Awareness Week by meeting a Naples woman who has spent more than four decades as an advocate for awareness and education. Both of Felicia Anchor's parents were holocaust survivors, and she was born shortly after the war, one of 2,000 babies born from the end of the war until the displaced persons camp her parents were living in closed.
She and her husband Kenneth are chairing the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's 2021 'What You Do Matters' Southeast Virtual Event on February 11, which seeks to inspire people to remember the lessons of the Holocaust and to help combat modern-day antisemitism and hatred. Mrs. Anchor played a key role in financially supporting the Naples Holocaust Museum, working with a community of survivors and docents to expand the initial exhibit into a museum that now serves six counties.

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As an undergraduate Chemistry teacher, you can use this set of computer-based tools to teach the Beer-Lambert Law and its application in atmospheric radiation absorption studies.
This lesson plan will enable students to learn about the Beer-Lambert Law and understand its application for studying the molar absorptivity of greenhouse gases.
Thus, the use of this lesson plan allows you to integrate the teaching of a climate science topic with a core topic in Chemistry.
Use this lesson plan to help your students find answers to:
- What is the Beer-Lambert Law? How is it expressed in an equation?
- Define the molar absorptivity of a chemical medium.
- How is the intensity of transmitted light affected by the molar absorptivity of the medium?
- How does the path length affect the absorbance of transmitted light?
- How would increasing concentrations of atmospheric greenhouse gases affect the absorbance of sunlight?
A teacher-contributed lesson plan by Dr. Pragya Gahlot and Dr. Rekha Yadav, Sri Venkateswara College (University of Delhi), India.
Want to know more about how to contribute? Contact us.
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|Topic(s) in Discipline||Beer-Lambert Law, Molar Absorptivity
Absorbance of Incident Light
Transmittance of Incident Light
Intensity of Transmitted Light
Greenhouse Gases, Molar Absorption Coefficient
Molar Extinction Coefficient
|Climate Topic||Climate and the Atmosphere
The Greenhouse Gas Effect
|A reading that introduces the Beer-Lambert Law and derives the expression for the law. It also includes several examples to show the application of the Beer-Lambert Law for absorbance of transmitted light in medium, under different conditions.|
|A reading that uses the Beer-Lambert Law to explain the increasing global warming potential of Earth's atmosphere due to the higher concentrations of greenhouse gases, in recent times.|
|A simulation to explore the effects of the change in concentration of medium and path length on the absorbance of transmitted light.|
Here is a step-by-step guide to using this lesson plan in the classroom/laboratory. We have suggested these steps as a possible plan of action. You may customize the lesson plan according to your preferences and requirements.
Step 1: Topic introduction and discussion (Go to the Reading)
- Use chapter reading, 'The Beer-Lambert Law' by LibreTextsTM, to introduce the topic of light transmittance through a medium and Beer-Lambert's Law.
- Explain how light transmitted through a medium is affected by its concentration.
- Also, discuss the importance of the path length for light transmittance through a medium.
- Use the reading to derive an expression for the Beer-Lambert's Law.
- Emphasize on the non-linear (exponential) relation between transmittance and concentration of medium.
- Thus, define its molar absorptivity or molar absorption coefficient or molar extinction coefficient (ε).
- Use the examples given in the text, to teach students to use the Beer-Lambert's Law to calculate values for the concentration, pathlength, and molar absorptivity of a given medium.
Step 2: Extend the understanding (Go to the Reading)
- Use the reading, 'Chemical Connections to Climate Change' by Tom Kuntzleman, Chemical Education Xchange (ChemEd X), to teach students how the Beer-Lambert Law can be used to study the transmittance of sunlight through the atmosphere.
- Discuss the composition of the atmosphere and list out the gases that make up the atmosphere.
- Extend the understanding of the Beer-Lambert Law to evaluate the absorbance values of individual gases in the atmosphere.
- Use the text to initiate a discussion about the absorption potential of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane.
- Discuss how this results in warming on Earth due to the greenhouse effect.
- Finally, use the reading to explain how this greenhouse gas effect is exacerbated by increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
Step 3: Explore the topic further (Go to the Visualization)
- Use the simulation, 'Beer's Law Lab' by PhET Interactive Simulations, University of Colorado, to allow students to explore the Beer-Lambert's Law for absorbance/transmittance of incident light through a solution.
- Encourage the students to note the absorbance/transmittance values of incident light when the simulation is run.
- Direct the students to run the simulation for different solution concentrations, pathlengths and wavelengths of incident light.
- Use the data generated to observe the correlations between these varying parameters (concentration of solution, pathlength and wavelength of incident light) and absorbance/transmittance values.
- Initiate an enquiry-based discussion for further understanding of these correlations eg how much does the absorbance value change when the concentration of a solution is doubled.


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Using a False Official Instrument to Pervert the Course of Justice
Using a false official instrument to pervert the course of justice is an offence under section 318(3) of the Crimes Act 1900, which carries a maximum penalty of 14 years in prison.
 1. You used an instrument
 2. You knew it was a false official instrument, or you knew it was a copy of a false official instrument
 3. You intended by doing so to induce another to accept the instrument as genuine, or to accept the copy as that of a genuine official instrument, and
 4. You intended by that acceptance to pervert the course of justice.
An 'official instrument' is one that is made or issued by a person in his or her capacity as a public officer or by a judicial tribunal.
A 'public officer' is one that has any power, authority, duty or function conferred by any level of Australian government, or under delegation by any level of Australian government.
A 'judicial tribunal' is any person, including a coroner or arbitrator, or any court or other body authorised by law or by the consent of parties that may conduct a hearing to determine any matter or thing.
A 'false document' is one that purports to have been:
 1. Made in a form or in terms by a person who did not make it in that form or in those terms
 2. Made in a form or in terms, or altered in any way on authority, by a person who did not authorise it or did not exist, or
 3. Made or altered on an incorrect date or at an incorrect place
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Simmondsiaceae (Jojoba Family)
The Simmondsiaceae are represented by a single genus and species, Simmondsia chinensis, commonly known as Jojoba. Simmondsia chinensis is usually thought of as a Sonoran Desert species, and is at its most extreme eastern distribution in southwest New Mexico. It does not reach into the Gila National Forest, being found about 50 miles southwest of its border.

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AN INTRODUCTION TO MEZCAL
Mezcal can be made from dozens of varieties of agaves,
the hearts of which are roasted in underground pits,
imparting a signature smoky flavor.
WE RAISE OUR MACHETE
Once the agave reaches maturity a quiote (flowering stalk) rises from the heart of the plant, indicating that it is ready to be harvested. The leaves are shaved off and the hearts of the agave (piñas) are taken to the palenque (distillery) to be roasted.
WE LIGHT THEIR HEARTS ON FIRE
Once the piñas arrive at the palenque, a large fire is built in an underground pit using Mesquite and Encino woods native to the area. This fire heats large volcanic rocks that line the pit and act as an oven, roasting the piñas for four to six days.
WE CRUSH THEIR SPIRIT
The newly baked agaves are then put into a circular stone pit and crushed using a heavy stone wheel (tahona) drawn by a horse.
WE WATCH THEM SIMMER
The crushed agaves are then placed in large open fermentation vats. Wild yeast in the air kick starts the fermentation process, converting the sugars into alcohol. The fibers and liquid are then double distilled using small copper pot stills.
WE PERFECT THE ESSENCE
In the case of Silencio's Joven expression, the Tobasiche and Mexicano agaves are produced separately and then blended by the mezcalero.
WE DRINK THEIR BLOOD
El Silencio is bottled at the palenque, using materials sourced from Mexico. The entire process from harvest to bottle takes roughly three to four weeks.


Using Earth Files
An Earth File is an XML description of a map. Creating an earth file is the easiest way to configure a map and get up and running quickly. In the osgEarth repository you will find dozens of sample earth files in the tests folder, covering various topics and demonstrating various features. We encourage you to explore and try them out!
Contents of an Earth File
osgEarth uses an XML based file format called an Earth File to specify exactly how source data turns into an OSG scene graph. An Earth File has a.earth extension, but it is XML.
Fundamentally the Earth File allows you to specify:
 - The type of map to create (geocentric or projected)
 - The image, elevation, vector and model sources to use
 - Where the data will be cached
A Simple Earth File
Here is a very simple example that reads data from a GeoTIFF file on the local file system and renders it as a geocentric round Earth scene:

This Earth File creates a geocentric Map named MyMap with a single GeoTIFF image source called bluemarble. The driver attribute tells osgEarth which of its plugins to use to use to load the image. (osgEarth uses a plug-in framework to load different types of data from different sources.)
Some of the sub-elements (under image) are particular to the selected driver. To learn more about drivers and how to configure each one, please refer to the Driver Reference Guide.
Note: the ''version'' number is required!
Multiple Image Layers
osgEarth supports maps with multiple image sources. This allows you to create maps such as base layer with a transportation overlay or provide high resolution insets for specific areas that sit atop a lower resolution base map.
To add multiple images to a Earth File, simply add multiple "image" blocks to your Earth File:

The above map provides two images from local data sources using the GDAL driver. Order is important when defining multiple image sources: osgEarth renders them in the order in which they appear in the Earth File.
Tip: relative paths within an Earth File are interpreted as being relative to the Earth File itself.
Adding Elevation Data
Adding elevation data (sometimes called "terrain data") to an Earth File is very similar to adding images. Use an elevation block like so:

This Earth File has a base bluemarble image as well as a elevation grid that is loaded from a local GeoTIFF file. You can add as many elevation layers as you like; osgEarth will combine them into a single mesh.
As with images, order is important - For example, if you have a base elevation data source with low-resolution coverage of the entire world and a high-resolution inset of a city, you need specify the base data FIRST, followed by the high-resolution inset.
Some osgEarth drivers can generate elevation grids as well as imagery.
Note: osgEarth only supports single-channel 16-bit integer or 32-bit floating point data for use in elevation layers.
Since osgEarth renders data on demand, it sometimes needs to do some work in order to prepare a tile for display. The cache exists so that osgEarth can save the results of this work for next time, instead of processing the tile anew each time. This increases performance and avoids multiple downloads of the same data.
Here's an example cache setup:

This Earth File shows the most basic way to specify a cache for osgEarth. This tells osgEarth to enable caching and to cache to the folder c:/osgearth_cache. The cache path can be relative or absolute; relative paths are relative to the Earth File itself.
There are many ways to configure caching; please refer to the section on Caching for more details.


Eastern Sub-Continental Divide Mural – Atlanta, Georgia - Atlas Obscura
Eastern Sub-Continental Divide Mural
Unlike most major cities, Atlanta is not built around a waterway, like a bay or river. Atlanta was founded around railways. And railways are best designed where there is minimal elevation change, such as along a hydrological feature known as a continental divide.
A continental divide is a ridge line dividing major watersheds in an area, and the Eastern Sub-Continental Divide runs right through Atlanta, by design. Although the well-known Chattahoochee is Atlanta's largest river, it was not central to Atlanta's founding. What was actually central to its founding was the terminus station of the Western and Atlantic railroad line. This was eventually shortened to Atlanta, the feminine of Atlantic, as the official name of the city in 1845, with many still using the nickname "Terminus."
With the Eastern Sub-Continental Divide running east to west through the city, any water that falls north of the divide will eventually make its way to the Gulf of Mexico; meanwhile, any water that falls south of the line will head to the Atlantic Ocean. Along Dekalb Avenue, which follows the ridge line east to west, is a little-known mural marking this unique hydrological feature.
Known as "Native Waters," this 350-foot mural depicts many of the largest rivers in Georgia as well as the native flora and fauna found along these waterways. The mural was a community project, led by muralist David Fichter, created in part to remind us of our vital connection to the natural world. Among the many features in the mural is a portrait of Horace King, a successful bridge builder who overcame slavery to build the first covered bridge over the Chattahoochee River, connecting Georgia and Alabama.
Know Before You Go
The mural is located at the intersection of Connecticut Avenue NE and Dekalb Avenue NE. For best views of the expansive mural cross Dekalb Avenue to view it from the railway line. You can also see it while headed east to west on MARTA between Edgewood-Candler Park and East Lake stations.


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DHHS (NIOSH) Publication Number 2011-134
Safety and Health in Law Enforcement
The National Occupational Research Agenda (NORA) is a partnership program to stimulate innovative research and improve workplace practices. Unveiled in 1996, NORA has become a framework for guiding occupational safety and health research in the nation. Diverse stakeholders collaborate to identify the most critical issues in the workplace, and work together to develop goals, objectives, and an implementation plan for addressing these issues. Law enforcement agencies, professional associations, labor unions, research organizations, and government agencies are encouraged to build partnerships to help reduce the risk of occupational injury and illness among law enforcement personnel.
- National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
TTY: _PHONE_
- New Hours of Operation
- Contact CDC-INFO


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This part of IEC 60068 is intended for general application for testing specimens when simulation is required of vibration excitation of a complex and mixed nature. The purpose of the test is to demonstrate the adequacy of the specimen to resist the specified mixed mode excitation without unacceptable degradation of its functional and/or structural performance. It is particularly useful for tailoring mixed mode environments where measured data are available for the real life environment. The test also helps reveal the accumulated effects of stress induced by random vibration, mixed with sine and/or random, and the resulting mechanical weakness and degradation in specified performances, and to use this information, in conjunction with the relevant specification, to assess the acceptability of specimens. In some cases, this standard may also be used to demonstrate the mechanical robustness of specimens. This standard is applicable to specimens which may be subjected to vibration of a random and/or a combination of random and deterministic nature resulting from transportation or real life environments, for example in aircraft, space vehicles and for items in their transportation container when the latter may be considered as part of the specimen itself. Although primarily intended for electrotechnical specimens, this standard is not restricted to such specimens and may be used in other fields where desired.
|Nederlandse titel||Klimatologische en mechanische beproevingsmethoden voor elektrotechnische producten - Deel 2-80: Beproevingen - Proef Fi: Trilling - Gemengde stand|
|Engelse titel||Environmental testing - Part 2-80: Tests - Test Fi:Vibration - Mixed mode|


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This high resolution image of the icy plains on Europa shows multiple sets of cross-cutting ridges. Many of these ridges are cut by younger fractures. Fractures that display relative motion are known as faults; several faults showing horizontal motion, like the San Andreas Fault in California, are seen here.
Faults and ridges give planetary geologists clues to the stresses within the crust at the time of formation. Ridges typically form as a result of compression. The orientation of the compressive stress is perpendicular to the strike (long axis) of the ridge. In contrast, fractures form as a result of tensional stresses that crack the brittle crust. These features indicate that the surface of Europa has experienced repeated episodes of tension and compression throughout its history.
This image is approximately 12 kilometers (7 miles) by 15 kilometers (9 miles) across, centered near 15N, 273W. The Galileo spacecraft obtained this image on February 20, 1997 during its sixth orbit of Jupiter from a distance of 2000 kilometers (1240 miles). North is toward the top of the image, with the sun illuminating the surface from the right.
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA manages the mission for NASA's Office of Space Science, Washington, DC.
This image and other images and data received from Galileo are posted on the World Wide Web, on the Galileo mission home page at URL _URL_. Background information and educational context for the images can be found at _URL_


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Tilapia is a large genus in the family Cichlidae (cichlids). It belongs to the tribe Tilapiini in the subfamily Pseudocrenilabrinae. Many species in this tribe is commonly referred to as tilapia in every day speech even though they belong to other genera than Tilapia.
The name tilapia is a latinization of thiape, the Tswana word for fish. Tswana is an African language belonging to the Bantu language group. The genus name Tilapia was introduced in 1840 by Andrew Smith, a Scottish zoologist and explorer.
The genus Tilapia is home to a lot of popular food fishes that are grown in aquacultures world wide. All Tilapia species are native to Africa, but they have now been introduced to many other parts of the world. When released into the wild, they can cause problems for the local ecosystem.
The genus Tilapia currently contains 40 described species. The genus used to be even larger, but many species have been moved to the genera Oreochromis and Sarotherodon. Recent studies indicate that even more species might be moved to other genera in future. Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) sequence analysis have been used to shed light on the situation, but interpreting the results is complicated since many Tilapiini cichlids readily mates with each other which results in hybridization. The fast pace of evolution observed in Tilapiini cichlids is another factor that complicates the use of mtDNA sequence analysis.
A few examples of well known cichlid species belonging to the genus Tilapia are Spotted tilapia (Tilapia mariae), Okavango tilapia (Tilapia ruweti), Otjikoto tilapia (Tilapia guinasana) and Guinean tilapia (Tilapia guineensis).
1. O. niloticus
2. O. aurea
3. O. mossambicus
4. O. urolepis hornorum
- Pond Culture of Tilapia
- Tank Culture Of Tilapia
- Cage Culture Of Tilapia
- Tilapia & prawn farming
- Before setting up a farm
- Growth rate


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OOOOOOOOOOH!!!! A ghost!
Ghost Shrimps live in deep parts and crevices of caves. They are not common but very striking when they are found. The Ghost Shrimp are burrower's in kind of muddy or sandy sediments. They can also live in crevices underneath rocks and corals. Since these animals burrow, they are important to the ocean enviornment. Ghost Shrimps are sometimes used as bait by fishermen. The fishermen call the Ghost Shrimp Bass Yabbies and/or one armed bandits. They are especially common in the tropics. The female Ghost Shrimps carry developing eggs attached to some hairs on their pleopods or stomach.
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This study examined the correlation between information (content, accuracy, format, and timeliness), system (ease of use) and two additional factors i.e pricing and environment toward user satisfaction in Indonesia's online newspaper based on Doll and Torkzadeh framework. The benefit of this research is to facilitate current online newspaper providers to be more focus on factors that contribute to user satisfaction thus can increase its quality and user satisfaction as well. Furthermore, it is also purposed to endorse newspaper to have online version and facilitate them on what factors contribute to user satisfaction so they can go online with competitive advantage along with the existence online newspaper providers. The study identified three factors that influence Indonesia's online newspaper user satisfaction such as content, ease of use, and pricing.


On 31 May 2019, the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) published a circular in relation to third-party deposits and payments of licensed corporations (LCs) (Circular) together with an appendix on key control measures and examples of effective practices (Appendix).
The SFC has become increasingly concerned about the risks associated with third-party deposits and payments to or from accounts maintained by clients with LCs. When a client uses a third-party to pay for or receive proceeds of investment transactions, there are risks that the arrangement might have been used to disguise the true beneficial owner or the source of funds for evading regulatory requirements and/or conducting unlawful activities such as misappropriation of client assets, money laundering and terrorist financing (ML/TF) and other misconduct or crime. These may undermine market integrity and prejudice the interest of investors.
In a number of recent enforcement cases, the SFC found that the internal systems and controls put in place by LCs for handling or scrutinising third-party deposits and payments did not meet the expected standards or were not properly enforced by the responsible officers.
In this article, we summarise the Circular by setting out the key standard of conduct expected from LCs in implementing policies, procedures and controls to mitigate the risk involved in third-party deposits or payments and reminding LCs of their existing obligations under the AML Guideline[1], AMLO[2] and Code of Conduct[3].
Expected standards and control measures
In view of the risks associated with these arrangements, the SFC has made it very clear that firms should discourage these arrangements and should only accept them under exceptional and legitimate circumstances having regard to the client's profile and normal commercial practices.
LCs are highly encouraged to implement robust systems and procedures that can be reasonably expected to protect client assets as well as to detect and prevent risks associated with third-part payment arrangements. Here are a few suggestions by the SFC.
 1. LCs must clearly define in their policies and procedures the exceptional and legitimate circumstances under which third-party deposits and payments may be permitted and provide examples of acceptable third-party payors and payees. These policies and procedures should be approved by senior management and effectively communicated to all relevant staff members.
 1. LCs must only accept any third-party payment arrangements when effective monitoring systems and control measures are implemented to mitigate the associated risks and the applicable legal and regulatory requirements are adhered to.
 1. LCs must designate the Manager-In-Charge (MIC) of Anti-money Laundering and Counter-Terrorist Financing (AML/CFT) to oversee the design, implementation and ongoing monitoring of the policies and procedures for handling third-party deposits and payments. All these transactions should be subject to approval by the MIC of AML/CFT or Money Laundering Reporting Officer (MLRO). LCs should also appoint staff members responsible for carrying out the control measures and clearly delineate their duties.
 1. In 2017, an LC was reprimanded and fined HK$2.6 million for its senior management and Compliance Department's failure to implement appropriate internal procedures and controls to detect, assess, enquire and monitor red flag third-party deposits. The SFC also found evidence showing a lack of mutual understanding of respective roles and responsibilities in the handling of third party deposits among the senior management and staff.
 1. LCs must conduct due diligence on ANY third-party deposit or payment requests to determine:
 1. the identity of the third-party payor or payee. LCs should adopt a risk-sensitive approach. Relatively low-risk third-party payors or payees include immediate family members, beneficial owners and affiliated companies of corporate clients and regulated custodians and lending institutions. Others posing higher risks should be subject to a dual approval process by the MIC of AML/CFT or MLRO and a member of senior management.
 2. the relationship between the client and the third-party payor or payee. LCs should exercise increased caution when the relationship is difficult to verify, insufficient details of the identity of the third-party is provided for verification or the third-party payor or payee makes or receives payments for several seemingly unrelated clients, which may suggest nominees or warehousing arrangements to facilitate market and corporate misconduct.
 3. the reason and the need for receiving the deposit from or making the payment to the third-party. LCs should take all appropriate measures (e.g. making prompt follow-up inquiries and obtaining evidence) to ensure that a third-party deposit or payment will only be accepted when it is reasonably in line with the client's profile and normal commercial practices, including the frequency and pattern of previous transactions.
 1. In 2017, the SFC reprimanded and fined an LC HK$3 million over multiple AML/CFT internal controls failures, including, amongst other things, failure to enquire third-party deposits and to ensure effective approval process of third-party deposits. The RO (also being the former managing director) was also suspended for 6 months as a result.
 1. LCs must vigilantly monitor client accounts involving third-party deposits and payments, and stay alert to red flags, especially potentially suspicious transactions where the true beneficial ownership is concealed. A suspicious transaction report should be made to the Joint Financial Intelligence Unit (JFIU) and other authorities (such as the SFC and the Police) when there may be a suspicion of ML or TF.
 1. In 2017, an LC was found to have breached the AML Guidance, AMLO and Code of Conduct for failing to conduct ongoing due diligence and scrutiny on clients' transactions and to identify a large number of frequent and complex, unusual large transactions and unusual patterns of transactions which have no apparent economic or lawful purpose. The LC was reprimanded and fined HK$4.5 million. Similarly, another LC was reprimanded and fined HK$3 million for failing to identify suspicious third-party transactions and perform appropriate customer due diligence. The RO (also being the former managing director) was prohibited from re-entering the industry for 9 months.
 1. In late 2018, an authorised institution (AI) was found to have contravened the AMLO by failing to identify and handle non-compliant wire transfers and implement effective customer due diligence procedures in identifying and verifying the beneficial owners of certain customers before entering into any business relationship with them. The AI was reprimanded and fined HK$12.5 million by the Hong Kong Monetary Authority.
 1. In early 2019, the SFC reprimanded and fined another LC HK$15.2 million, which is by far the highest fine imposed for similar failure, for turning a blind eye to more than 2,200 suspicious third-party deposits totalling over HK$2.3 billion in 14 months. The LC was criticised for not making a timely report to the JFIU despite the suspicious circumstances and failing to put in place any systems or controls regarding customer due diligence of third-party depositors. The RO (also being the former head of retail brokerage) was banned from re-entering the industry for 10 months as a result.
 1. LCs must require clients to designate bank accounts held in their own names or the names of acceptable third parties for the making of all deposits and withdrawals. This facilitates LCs in performing due diligence on the third-party payor or payee and ascertain sources and destinations of the transaction proceeds.
 1. LCs must inform clients in writing of their policies for handling third-party payment arrangements, including policies for rejecting or accepting them under exceptional and legitimate circumstances, requirements to provide supporting documents to ascertain sources of deposits, verification procedures for third-party payor or payee, and the return policy on rejected third-party deposits.
Our observations
The SFC's discouragement on third-party deposits and payments is in no ambiguous terms. LCs are reminded to assess compliance risks with much caution when formulating its policy on third-party deposits and payments. It is clear that the SFC and other regulators are actively investigating into control failures regarding third-party deposit and payment arrangements and will continue to monitor compliance following the Circular.
It should also be noted that the Appendix is not an exhaustive list of the control measures and practices which the SFC expects of LCs. LCs should review their business models and client profiles in order to come up with the most suitable policy.
Individual accountability has been the SFC's focus in recent years. The approach of the SFC in pursuing follow-up actions against the ROs sends a clear message to the market that senior management is to bear responsibility for the firm's compliance with applicable standards and requirements. Whilst recent enforcement decisions against management were all targeted at the relevant ROs, all LCs should have already appointed a MIC for their AML/CTF function since late 2017 and thus the relevant MICs are also reminded of their obligations and the regulator's expectation of them.


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Human carbonyl reductase (HCBR) is known to catalyze the NADPH-dependent reduction of a wide variety of carbonyl compounds. Anthracyclines, used to treat cancer, are reduced by HCBR and the resulting metabolites are implicated in the cardiotoxicity associated with anthracycline therapy. Many compounds have been discovered to bind and thus inhibit HCBR. These compounds have similar structures to the nitriles: 3-Phenoxyphalonitrile, 4-Phenoxyphalonitrile, and 4-Phenoxybenzonitrile. The nitriles are different to recently discovered inhibitors of HCBR because they have cyano groups bonded to different locations on the benzene rings. Kenetic studies were used to determine whether the nitriles were effective as inhibitors. The nearly identical kcat values show that the studied nitriles that we tested are ineffective at inhibiting HCBR.
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Two incredibly fast-orbiting stars seem to be the wrong temperature
Space 24 July 2019
Two stars orbiting each other
Will they collide or shoot apart?
Round and round the two stars go. Whether they'll stop, nobody knows. Two white dwarf stars are twirling around one another at an extraordinarily fast rate, and we don't know whether they will eventually smash together or just keep orbiting.
Kevin Burdge at the California Institute of Technology and his colleagues sifted through about 20 million data sets from the Zwicky Transient Facility, a sky survey that watches for objects with rapid changes in their brightness, to look for signals from pairs of white dwarf stars. They found one binary, called ZTF J153932.16 + 502738.8, that was particularly interesting.
Further observations revealed that there was a deep dip in the light from the system every 6.91 minutes. In a binary star system, this type of dip is caused when the cooler star passes between the hotter one and our telescopes, blocking out its light in an eclipse. This means that the two stars take less than 7 minutes to circle around one another.
"There have been other ultra-short orbital period binaries found before, but the signal was so low that we were never really sure that they were what we thought," says Burdge. "This one is eclipsing, so it's the first unambiguous detection of a system under 10-minute period."
The two-star system could fit within the diameter of Saturn. The two stars are strange: the less massive one is colder than we'd expect, and the more massive one is far too hot at more than 48,000°C. Burdge and his colleagues plan to use the Hubble Space Telescope to investigate why.
It isn't clear what the future holds for these two objects: they might smash together and merge in about 130,000 years, or one might start stealing matter from the other, slowing down their orbit and pushing them farther apart.
But we may not have to wait that long to get a hint of what will happen. "I think the game is, instead of waiting on this one for 130,000 years, you find a lot of them and chances are you'll eventually find one that's right on the edge of merging," says Burge. "If you don't find one, maybe that's how you find out that pairs like this don't actually merge." This sort of binary should be easy to spot with the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), a space-based gravitational wave detector expected to launch in 2034, he says.
Journal reference: Nature, DOI: 10.1038/s41586-_PHONE_-0
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I realize that this has been discussed elsewhere on the site, but I was interested in the use of the preposition "among" in a sentence from a story in yesterday's New York Times:
My first impression was that the sentence was incorrect, and that "between" should have been used instead. After thinking about it for a minute, however, it seems like the use of either preposition may be valid, but that the sentence would mean different things depending on the choice. With "between", the sentence is referring to inter-group differences between the incomes of the rich and the middle class. With "among", the sentence is referring to intra-group differences in income among the individual members of each particular group.
Honestly I have no idea if this interpretation is correct. Can someone please clarify this for me?
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I share your first impression, your subsequent analysis, and your wish for clarification. – zpletan Apr 17 '12 at 19:56
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It strictly is neither intranor inter-group, as the context shows.
As you seem to know already, it is between two objects, and among more than two.
The differences referred to are between (each individual member of one group) and (each member of the other) -- a many-to-many relation, so we need among here.
intra: The juniors are quiet, but the seniors fight among themselves.
inter: There will be a friendly match between the seniors and the juniors.
Our case: There are friends among the juniors and the seniors.
inter, 1-to-1: There will be boxing contests between the juniors and the seniors.
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-1 The context deals with two groups, each of which is singular. Additionally, it has to mean either interor intra-group relations; it can't carry both meanings at the same time unless it were zeugma/syllepsis. – zpletan Apr 17 '12 at 20:37
Read the other answer for an enlightenment. Do NOT down vote just because you don't agree. Down vote when you have as much supporting references as you'd expect. – Kris Apr 17 '12 at 20:45
I reread description of downvoting privilege; you're right about when to downvote. I apologize. If you edit, I will retract the downvote (the system's locked it in). However, I would also appreciate it if you would answer my initial objections, as I still think them valid. Thanks! – zpletan Apr 17 '12 at 21:03
_USER_ This is part of what I was confused about. Does the meaning of the prepositional object "the middle class and the rich" change along with the choice of preposition? Taken outside of the context of the story, are both preposition choices, and thus both meanings, valid? – tel Apr 17 '12 at 21:23
I will edit to add some clarity. However, I am grappling with bad connectivity at this end, so not sure when my edit will actually get posted. – Kris Apr 17 '12 at 21:33
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In the context of the article, the inequality is between the rich group and the middle-class group. I would have expressed it with between rather than among, but I acknowledge _USER_'s sagacity: "Rule of thumb: If you see it in The New York Times and it's not an obviouss typo, you should probably assume it's been copy-edited by people who are a lot fussier than you are."
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+1 for your obvious typo :) – cornbread ninja 麵包忍者 Apr 17 '12 at 20:58
_USER_ that is indeed what I assumed, but I try to take such rules of thumb with a grain of salt – tel Apr 17 '12 at 21:23
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Many writers insist that "between" should be used only when you're talking about two things or two people, etc. and that we use "among" when we're talking about more than two. However, "between" is actually quite useful and acceptable when describing specific differences that exist both individually and severally between one thing and several others. "Among," according to the OED, expresses differences that exist in a vague and collective way. So a lot depends on what you mean to say, but "between" might be acceptable in the sentence above if it was referring to specific differences.
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Do I read you correctly that it is impossible to tell intervs intrafrom the sentence alone? – zpletan Apr 17 '12 at 20:40
Nope. In the sentence above "among" is correct, but, generally speaking, "betwen" could be correct in other cases. – Elberich Schneider Apr 17 '12 at 20:50
I'm still confused—Does the sentence on its own speak of interor intra-class inequalities? – zpletan Apr 17 '12 at 20:52
I think the sentence was referring to 'inter' and was expressing differences that exisist in collective way. So 'among' is correct. – Elberich Schneider Apr 17 '12 at 20:58
If that is the sense of the sentence, what sentence would have indicated intra-group relations? (I'm just trying to figure out the difference, as I still don't understand how one could tell interfrom intrafrom the sentence alone.) – zpletan Apr 17 '12 at 21:05
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I think I have to go out on a limb here and say this is poor phrasing by NYT. Having read the article, it seems clear to me that the two inequalities being referred to are between the middle class and the bulk of the populace, and between the rich and the bulk of the populace.
Using among suggests that inequality has increased within each of those two groups, considered in isolation, which is not consistent with anything else in the article (or indeed common sense).
If it had been between, that would mean the difference between the wealth of the middle classes relative to the rich has increased. That's at least a plausible observation to make, but again, it's not consistent with anything else in the article.
I don't actually think there is a truly correct short form of words to convey the intended meaning, but personally I would go for...
inequality by the middle class and the rich.
(i.e. - caused by the middle class and the rich taking a disproportionate share of the wealth)
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Can you explain your opening paragraph? I thought the article's premise was that the inequality is that the rich earn far more than the middle class. – zpletan Apr 17 '12 at 22:29
_USER_: I see nothing in the article to suggest that interpretation. Although Saez and Piketty's graph shows that the top 1% have more of the total wealth than they did, say, 50 years ago, it also clearly shows that the next 4%, and the next 5% after that, also have greater shares of total wealth than before. It seems to me it would be crass in the extreme for NYT to use rising inequality to mean the middle classes have taken more than ever from the remaining 90%, but not as much as the really rich 1% have. – FumbleFingers Apr 17 '12 at 22:42
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This is a mathematical/statistics question.
Put the samples of all men and women together and compare their height differences:
Compare the disparity of heights among men and women.
Separate the samples of men from women and then make the comparison between distinctly male and female statistical cumulative functions of height.
Compare the disparity of heights between men and women.
A closer allegory:
Compare the disparity of childishness among children and adults
Compare the disparity of childishness between children and adults
Obviously both effectively compares children and adult behaviour, but they differ in the process-flow of comparison. One requires that children and adults be lumped together before comparing, where the age differences of the lumped samples spontaneously/naturally create an adult-child segregation.
Whereas, the second mode would separate children and adults to perform the comparison between the two groups.
It is also an SQL question:
select gender, average(height)
from AmongSamples
group by gender
select difference(m.height, w.height)
from Men m, Women w
where m.comparisonKey = w.comparisonKey
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Simplified model for timetabling problems consisting of a set of
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activities. Time is divided into time slots with the same duration.
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constraint indicates that the slot is forbidden for any activity, a
soft constraint indicates that the slot is not preferred. We call
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resource may have assigned a set of time preferences, which indicate
forbidden and not preferred time slots.
Activity (which can be, for instance, directly mapped to a lecture) is
identified by its name. Every activity is described by its duration
(expressed as a number of time slots), by time preferences, and by a
set of resources. This set of resources determines which resources are
required by the activity. To model alternative as well as required
resources, we divide the set of resources into several subsets �
resource groups. Each group is either conjunctive or disjunctive: the
conjunctive group of resources means that the activity needs all the
resources from the group, the disjunctive group means that the
activity needs exactly one of the resources (we can choose from
several alternatives). An example can be a lecture, which will take
place in one of the possible classrooms and it will be taught for all
of the selected classes. Note that we do not need to model conjunctive
groups explicitly because we can use a set of disjunctive groups
containing exactly one resource instead (the set of required resources
can be described in a conjunctive normal form). However, usage of both
conjunctive and disjunctive groups simplifies modelling for the users.
Resource is also identified by its name and it is fully described by
time preferences. There is a hard condition that only one activity can
use the resource at the same time. For instance, such resource can
represent a teacher, a class, a classroom, or another special resource
at the lecture timetabling problem.
Finally, we need a mechanism for defining and handling direct
dependencies between the activities. It seems sufficient to use binary
dependencies only that define relationship between two activities. We
defined three temporal constraints: the activity finishes before
another activity, the activity finishes exactly at the time when the
second activity starts, and two activities run concurrently (they have
the same start time).
The solution of the problem defined by the above model is a timetable
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is allocated to respective slots of the reserved resources). This
timetable must satisfy all the hard constraints, namely:
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constraints in the time preferences of resources and activities. We do
not formally express this objective function; these preferences will
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The Pencil Pusher is an innovative yet unappreciated invention. It is a gadget which makes pencils with waste papers.
According to the study, the United States alone uses 21 Million Tons of paper for business use. It causes a huge amount of loss of paper. If the United States approximate use of paper is so much, then all over the world the usage of paper would be at a level of the un-imaginary point. In the last 40 years, paper consumption has increased by 400%, which leads to an increase in the rate of deforestation and Green House Gases. This has led to office recycling programs. Now, even the printers come with a slogan of 'Think before you Print'. Unnecessary wastage of paper is a huge matter of concern for the environment. Companies also try to use both sides of paper printing to minimize wastage of paper, but this step is not only enough.
So, a trio of Chinese inventors (Chengzhu Ruan, Yuanyuan Liu, Xinwei Yuan, and Chao Chen) hopes to add a device to save papers in the office cubicle environment. The wastage of paper can be minimized through this innovative inventions. "The P&P Office Waste Paper Processor" come up with the solution of recycling or reusing the waste paper. It turns waste paper into the form of a pencil.
The machine looks like a three-hole punch crossed with an electric pencil sharpener, was the finalist in the 2010 "Lite-On Awards", an International competition which completely focuses on to simulate and nurture innovation.
How does a "Pencil Pusher" works?
A Pencil Pusher works like, first inserting a waste paper into a feed slot. Then, the machine automatically draws the paper in, rolls in the form of a pencil (cylinder shape) and compresses it. After that, it inserts a piece of lead from the storage chamber which is located at the top of the device. Then, it adds a small amount of glue, before the pencil slides out from a hole on the side.
A lead stick is then inserted into the center and it makes a pencil which can be efficiently used by two people. An electric sharpener which is placed at the side is then used to sharpen the end of the pencil made with paper, and after that, it is ready to use.
The procedure of making a pencil with waste paper sounds like a revolutionary and ingenious way to not only reduce the amount of paper waste but also a great initiative to reduce the number of trees needed to make pencils.
Drawbacks of "Pencil Pusher"
- It is not clear that how many pieces of papers are required to form a single pencil.
- The companies are busy in updating their technological requirement of laptops, phones, tablet, etc. then the company won't go for the option of purchasing the machine that makes the pencil when a large number of workforce is not using a pencil anymore.
- In the case of Schools, it is completely a no-no. The school which survives on charity can't afford a normal pencil then, it won't be possible for them to afford a machine to make the pencil.
- To fulfill the need for glue and pencil lead would be quite difficult to manage how much these things would be required to make use of waste papers.
Benefits of "Pencil Pusher"
- Minimizes the wastage of paper, as well as no need to purchase pencils.
- Great initiative to save the environment, minimize cutting of trees and deforestation.
- Personal Stationery will never get deprived of pencils.


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Eccentric American gymnast and acrobat who invented the trampoline
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George Nissen
George Nissen, who has died aged 96, was an inveterate and sometimes eccentric inventor. He registered more than 40 patents, but his name is synonymous with his first invention, the trampoline. His life-changing idea was formulated when, as a child, he visited touring circuses. Watching the trapeze artists drop into the safety nets and bounce up and flip, he imagined how exciting it would be if they could keep bouncing and flipping.
Nissen called the concept "rebound tumbling" and built his first bouncing rig while he was a student. He registered the trademark "trampoline" – naming it after el trampolín, the Spanish for diving board – and in his first year of production, in the late 1930s, he sold about 10 to YMCAs and schools. That did not impress his father, who suggested that he had already satisfied demand. But Nissen was not so easily deterred, and by the mid-60s the trampoline had become so popular that he no longer tried to enforce the patent.
Nissen was born in Blairstown, Iowa, one of four children of Franklin and Catherine Nissen, Danish immigrants. The family moved to Cedar Rapids when he was young, and he took up gymnastics and diving at the local YMCA. In 1933, he started at the University of Iowa and during his time there, with the gymnastics coach Larry Griswold, set about building the first trampoline. Griswold would later partner Nissen in the Griswold-Nissen Trampoline and Tumbling Company, set up in 1941, and write the first instruction manual the following year.
Nissen had experimented in the family garage, using angle irons from the local junkyard for the frame and canvas from a tentmaker, with strips of inner-tubes from old car tyres to attach the canvas to the frame. With Griswold, he worked on a more sophisticated model with coiled springs, which had its first public appearance at the local YMCA camp. The bouncing rig proved hugely successful and Nissen began to believe that it could have a commercial future.
After graduating in 1937 with a business degree, he toured with his friends Jack Brown and Xavier Leonard as The Three Leonardos. They performed their acrobatic act at fairs in the US and in Mexico, where Nissen discovered the future name for his bouncing rig. When they returned to the US, they incorporated the trampoline into their act and toured schools. As intended, it generated commercial interest, but the second world war intervened. Nissen, ever adaptable, persuaded the US forces that the trampoline had training applications and sold them about 100.
The postwar development of the trampoline was marked out by a publicity stunt with a kangaroo, which Nissen hired for a photoshoot in Central Park, New York. He knew that by bouncing at one end of the trampoline, he could start the kangaroo bouncing at the other. The trick was for Nissen to time his jumps so that a picture could be taken of both himself and the kangaroo in mid-air.
The shoot was a huge success and the picture went round the world. Nissen did too, selling his product in Europe (the trampoline was particularly popular in eastern-bloc countries), Japan, South Africa and South America. However, there was chequered progress for trampolines in the US. They were hugely popular, but the "jump centres" that sprang up were unregulated, and injuries – and legal action – ensued.
Nissen tried to develop his invention by creating bouncing games, but the trampoline was developing organically. As well as being an invaluable training aid for many sports – it was de rigueur for divers – it was taking off as a sport in its own right.
The first world championships took place at the Royal Albert Hall, London, in 1964. A year later, the International Trampoline Federation was formed. Griswold and Nissen formed the US Tumbling and Trampoline Association in 1971. But Nissen had to wait until 2000 for his lifetime goal to be achieved. That year, the sport was accorded ultimate respectability when it was included in the Sydney Olympic Games.
Nissen himself was the best advertisement for the health benefits of his product. A brilliant gymnast and tumbler in his youth, he could still do handstands into his 80s and yoga headstands in his 90s.
He is survived by his wife, Annie, a Dutch acrobat whom he met in 1950 while she was performing for the Cole Brothers Circus in the US, and two daughters, Dagmar and Dian.
- George Peter Nissen, inventor and gymnast, born 3 February 1914; died 7 April 2010
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How else can it be called?
Squamous epithelial cells
Transitional epithelial cells
Renal tubular epithelial cells
Why epithelial cells can be present in urine?
The presence of epithelial cells in the urine is common in the urinary sediment analysis.
Epithelial cells are constantly added to the urine as they are shed from the lining of the urinary tract.
It is usually due to the shedding of old cells and consequently a small amount of these cells appears in the urine sample.
Which are the main types of epithelial cells?
There are three different types of epithelial cells, named according to the area where they come from:
- Squamous epithelial cells: Usually come from the urethra in both males and females or the vagina in females. They are the most common epithelial cells present in the urine and they do not have much clinical significance. They are large, flat and with irregular shape. They have a large nucleus and abundant cytoplasm. A large number in the urine may signify contamination by vaginal discharge. Sometimes, the squamous epithelial cells are infected by the bacteria Gardnerella Vaginalis. Under the microscope, the bacteria covers most of the cell and it is usually due to a vaginal infection.
- Transitional epithelial cells: They usually come from the kidneys, the ureters, bladder and upper urethra in males. They are smaller than squamous cells and have spherical or polyhedral. Their presence in small numbers in the urine is not considered abnormal. If they are present in large amount could signify a possible neoplasm. They also appear to increase after urinary catheterization or other invasive urological procedures.
- Renal tubular epithelial cells: They come from the renal tubules in the kidneys. The size and shape of these cells are different depending on the area from which they originate. They are smaller than the other epithelial cells, and may have a shape from round to columnar. Their present in the urine is clinically significant because they are associated with renal disease (glomerulonephritis, viral infections, etc.). Their presence in the urine is always considered an abnormal result.
Why is this test performed?
The test is performed when there is a positive result in urine for proteins, blood, nitrites or leukocyte esterase. It is also performed in a routine urinary sediment analysis.
The presence of small amounts of epithelial cells in the urine is frequent. It only has a clinical meaning if they appear in large number or they are renal tubular epithelial cells.
How is the test performed?
To perform this test is necessary to collect a urine sample in a in a specific container using a special kit. The sample must be collected using the clean catch midstream urine procedure. First, you should urinate a small amount into the toilet bowl. Then, urinate a few inches of urine into the container and finally finish urinating into the toilet bowl.
If this procedure is not done correctly and the first part of the urination is collected, it is possible to find many epithelial cells in the sample from the urethra or the urinary meatus.
To study the epithelial cells under the microscope, it is necessary to obtain the urinary sediment. For this matter, the urine sample should be placed at rest for some hours waiting for the different elements of the urine (white and red blood cells, epithelial cells, crystals, etc.) precipitate to the bottom. As this process is very slow, the urine is centrifuged for about 5 minutes at 1500 or 2000 revolutions per second to obtain a sample of the sediment in less time.
Which does an abnormal result mean?
The test result depends on the type of epithelial cells found in the urine sample:
- Squamous epithelial cells: It is considered abnormal when the number of cells significantly high. In that case it that may be due to:
- Vaginal contamination
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- Viral infection (Hepatitis B)
- Salicylate poisoning
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- Cytomegalovirus Induced Interstitial Nephritis
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"We wanted to be able to measure lung function on any type of phone you might encounter around the world—smartphones, dumb phones, landlines, pay phones," says Shwetak Patel. "With SpiroCall, you can call a 1-800 number, blow into the phone, and use the telephone network to test your lung function." (Credit: iStockphoto)
Most people in the developing world who have asthma, cystic fibrosis, or other chronic lung diseases have no way to measure how well their lungs are functioning outside of a clinic or doctor visit.
With that in mind, researchers have developed SpiroCall, a new health-sensing tool that can accurately measure lung function over a simple phone call.
Testing shows that that SpiroCall's results are within 6.2 percent of results from clinical spirometers used in hospitals and doctor's offices, meaning it meets the medical community's standards for accuracy.
"We wanted to be able to measure lung function on any type of phone you might encounter around the world—smartphones, dumb phones, landlines, pay phones," says Shwetak Patel, professor of computer science & engineering and electrical engineering at the University of Washington. "With SpiroCall, you can call a 1-800 number, blow into the phone, and use the telephone network to test your lung function."
The researchers will present a paper on the device at the Association for Computing Machinery's CHI 2016 conference.
In 2012, researchers from the UbiComp Lab introduced SpiroSmart—which lets people monitor their lung function by blowing into their smartphones.
"People have to manage chronic lung diseases for their entire lives," says lead author Mayank Goel, a computer science and engineering doctoral student. "So there's a real need to have a device that allows patients to accurately monitor their condition at home without having to constantly visit a medical clinic, which in some places requires hours or days of travel."
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In testing SpiroSmart in clinics in India and Bangladesh, Mayank Goel (front row, center) and collaborators learned that many patients did not have access to a smartphone. (Credit: U. Washington)
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SpiroCall transmits the collected audio using a standard phone channel—as opposed to a sound file that is transferred by a smartphone app over the internet. The team combined multiple regression algorithms to provide reliable lung function estimates despite the degraded audio quality.
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"We had to account for the fact that the sound quality you get over a phone line is worse," says co-author Elliot Saba, an electrical engineering doctoral student. "You can imagine how listening to someone play a song over a phone line would sound compared to listening to it on your music app—there's a similar difference with a spirometry test."
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SpiroCall lets patients measure lung function over a phone call. It doesn't require a smartphone. (Credit: U. Washington)
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The researchers also developed a 3D printed whistle that can be used in conjunction with SpiroCall that changes pitch when the patient exhales. The whistle is designed to address training challenges by enabling patients to hear what a "good" test sounds like. It also improved test performance for patients who are very ill and whose vocal cords are not able produce enough sound for the phone's microphone to pick up.
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"Our research area is not just about sensing, but human-centered sensing," Goel says. "Because this project has been around for four years, we've been able to talk to a lot of patients about how they're able to use the technology, and that feedback has really helped us make smart improvements."
The Life Sciences Discovery Fund, the Wallace H. Coulter Foundation, and the University of Washington funded the work.
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One can't ever put a pagefile on a flash drive! (What an idea.)
A pagefile can only exist on the system drive and is used for application code "overflow" when memory is full, as well as for the memory dump for a BSOD.
Readyboost is an old technology from the days when memory was costly, small and slow, intended to augment RAM memory with disk space. Do not use.
Superfetch is a technology to preload often-used applications into memory in order to speed their startup times, mostly for slow laptops.
Conclusion: They are not wrappers, but technologies meant to improve the performance of hardware-challenged computers.
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A pagefile can be stored on another drive than the system drive (although it complains about memory dumps if you have no pagefile at all on the system drive). But it's right it should not be stored on a flash drive (if it even can), a flash drive is way too slow. – Snark Jan 11 '10 at 12:23
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I just found the solution to a question that I posed in 2011: Is there a web app that provides a terminal emulator / secure interface to the bash shell? in a Chrome web store app called "secure shell". It says that it uses
hterm, which is defined in the FAQ as:
It is intended to be fast enough and correct enough to compete with native terminals such as xterm, gnome-terminal, konsole and Terminal.app.
hterm is only a terminal emulator. It does not provide SSH access (or any other text-based command) on its own.
Then is the web app just a way to access a terminal emulator through my web browser? Does it provide a secure link between my browser and my server? I gather that the answer is yes, because the FAQ says:
Secure Shell can make a direct connection to a standard sshd server on any port of the destination machine.
but the language is both sufficiently 'technical' and sufficiently vague that confirmation or explanation would be appreciated.


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Can we use a variable without initializing?
He says that it's also possible to declare a variable without giving it an initial value and also that we must be careful not to use a variable which has been declared without an initial value and that has not been assigned a value. This produces an error.
What happens if you don't initialize a variable Java?
While an object is not initialized (e.g. Employee emp = null ), there is no need to allocate any memory. Primitive types (in the global scope), however, are initialized with a default value, even if you do not set it explicitly (e.g. int x is in fact int x = 0 ). So in this case, memory will be allocated, too.
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An uninitialized variable is a variable that has not been given a value by the program (generally through initialization or assignment). Using the value stored in an uninitialized variable will result in undefined behavior.
Should you always initialize variables?
Initializing variables (implicitly or explicitly) is crucial. Not initializing a variable is always an error (they might be initialized implicitly, however.
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Numeric types are automatically initialized to zero, and String variables are initialized to empty strings. … As a result, you don't have to initialize a class variable or an instance variable, although you can if you want them to have an initial value other than the default.
Can we declare a final variable without initialization?
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++BEST EDUCATIONAL APP WINNER++ at 2014 Bett Awards: world's largest education tech event. This fun interactive app is packed full of engaging educational content and stimulating assessment activities! The Multiplication app allows users to learn and practice a wide range of multiplication skills, including times tables to 12, long multiplication and multiplying by powers of ten. KEY FEATURES: - Interactive multiplication chart - Step-by-step video presentations - 3 randomly-generated levelled quizzes - Times tables tests - Long multiplication tests and covers box and traditional methods - Missing number activity - Achievement and progress reporting - Integrated notepad - Developed in-line with the new national curriculum The Multiplication app combines a colourful and visual approach to learning with simple but informative content to deliver a highly effective learning experience. HOW IT WORKS: When users first enter the app they are presented with a colourful interactive menu that enables quick navigation to any of the topics or features (fun features). To navigate through the app, users can either pan right or left through the main screens or return to the main menu and select their desired location. The majority of screens contain multiple pages that can be accessed by scrolling down. Every screen in the app contains clear and concise information and caters for audible, visual and kinaesthetic learners. FUN FEATURES: The Multiplication app contains three fun interactive games and three assessment quizzes. These features reinforce the key information presented throughout the app and enable users to test themselves on the information covered. In each game and quiz the questions are randomly generated, providing a varied and new learning task every time. All fun features results are recorded in a simple yet effective progress report, which helps users identify their level of attainment and keep track of progress.
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Mathematical Paintings of Crockett Johnson
Inspired by the allure of the space age, many Americans of the 1960s took great interest in mathematics and science. One of them was the cartoonist, book illustrator, and children's author David Crockett Johnson. From 1965 until his death in 1975 Crockett Johnson painted over 100 works relating to mathematics and mathematical physics. Of these paintings, eighty are found in the collections of the National Museum of American History. We present them her, with related diagrams from the artist's library and papers.


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Does anybody know if there exists a mathematical explanation of Mendeleev table in quantum mechanics? In some textbooks (for example in "F.A.Berezin, M.A.Shubin. The Schrödinger Equation") the authors present quantum mechanics as an axiomatic system, so one could expect that there is a deduction from the axioms to the main results of the discipline. I wonder if there is a mathematical proof of the Mendeleev table?
P.S. I hope the following will not be offensive for physicists: by a mathematical proof I mean a chain of logical implications from axioms of the theory to its theorem. :) This is the standard approach everywhere in mathematics. For instance, in Griffiths' book I do not see axioms at all, therefore I can't treat the reasonings at pages 186-193 as a proof of Mendeleev table. By the way, that is why I did not want to ask this question at a physical forum: I do not think that people there will even understand my question. However, after Bill Cook's suggestion I made an experiment - and you can look at the results here: _URL_
So I ask my colleagues-mathematicians to be tolerant.
P.P.S. After closing this topic and reopening it again I received a lot of suggestions to reformulate my question, since in its original form it might seem too vague for mathematicians. So I suppose it will be useful to add here, that by the Mendeleev table I mean (not just a picture, as one can think, but) a system of propositions about the structure of atoms. For example, as I wrote here in comments, the Mendeleev table claims that the first electronic orbit (shell) can have only 2 electrons, the second - 8, the third - again 8, the fourth - 18, and so on. Another regularity is the structure of subshells, etc. So my question is whether it is proved by now that these regularities (perhaps not all but some of them) are corollaries of the system of axioms like those from Berezin-Shubin book. Of course, this assumes that the notions like atoms, shells, etc. must be properly defined, otherwise the corresponding statements could not be formulated. I consider this as a part of my question -- if experts will explain that the reasonable definitions are not found by now, this automatically will mean that the answer is 'no'.
The following reformulation of my question was suggested by Scott Carnahan at _URL_ : "Do we have the mathematical means to give a sufficiently precise description of the chemical properties of elements from quantum-mechanical first principles, such that the Mendeleev table becomes a natural organizational scheme?"
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Light, Memory and Colour
Medieval Europe witnessed the beginnings of a scientific outlook that saw light as a phenomenon requiring rational explanation. This new outlook, however, was informed by a prevailing onto-theological world-view that assumed all knowledge as revealed truth.
Coinciding with this nascent scientific view were important changes in the understanding and perception of space. Whilst the "perspectivisation" of space was not in full swing until the early Renaissance, the cultural conditions necessary for such a transformation were already in place by the end of the thirteenth century.1 Indeed, a number of key developments occurred during this period that lay the foundations for a new perspective...


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- 1. reverse, contrary, opposite, opposition, oppositeness
- usage: a relation of direct opposition; "we thought Sue was older than Bill but just the reverse was true"
- 2. contrary, opposition, oppositeness
- usage: exact opposition; "public opinion to the contrary he is not guilty"
- 3. contrary, logical relation
- usage: a logical relation such that two propositions are contraries if both cannot be true but both can be false
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- 1. contrary, different (vs. same)
- usage: very opposed in nature or character or purpose; "acts contrary to our code of ethics"; "the facts point to a contrary conclusion"
- 2. contrary, antonymous (vs. synonymous)
- usage: of words or propositions so related that both cannot be true but both may be false; "'hot' and 'cold' are contrary terms"
- 3. contrary, obstinate, perverse, wayward, disobedient (vs. obedient)
- usage: resistant to guidance or discipline; "Mary Mary quite contrary"; "an obstinate child with a violent temper"; "a perverse mood"; "wayward behavior"
- 4. adverse, contrary, unfavorable (vs. favorable), unfavourable
- usage: in an opposing direction; "adverse currents"; "a contrary wind"
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