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Basic things about men's wardrobe
To look dignified, the man should choose the following basic elements of the wardrobe correctly:
And if the choice of trousers with shoes is always individual. Then for the rest, you can formulate general rules.
How to choose a shirt
- The shape of the collar should be chosen based on the characteristics of the face. If it is narrow, it is better than the collar should be sharpened. And if wide – prefer the blunt angles.
- Choose the color of the shirt for the color of your skin. If the shirt is brighter than you, then it will emphasize all the defects. For example, make visually more visible bags under the eyes.
- Check the size of the shirt correctly. First, look at the place of the shoulder seams. Secondly, pay attention to the length of the sleeve. When the arm is lowered, the sleeve should be slightly below the wrist.
How to choose a jacket
- It is important to choose the right jacket for the size. Notice how the shoulder seam lay. Be sure to check the length of the sleeve – it should be such that the cuffs of the shirt look out.
- Choose the color of the jacket depending on where you intend to put it on. For example, for work – gray, in the club – blue, in the yacht club – white, etc.
- Pay attention to the texture and drawing of the fabric. They need to be selected for the season and the situation.
- Lapels should be in harmony with facial features. If the face is narrow, pick up the pointed lapels. If wide – then lapels, respectively, should be wider than usual.
- Look at the number of buttons. If you have low growth, then let them be 1-2, not more. And, if the buttons are more than two, the lower one should always be bent. This is a rule of etiquette!
- The number of slots (cuts) and their position should also be selected for their type of figure.
- Pay attention to the shape of the pockets. They can attach the unnecessary volume to the abdomen.
- If there are elbow pins on the jacket, they set the tone for all other elements of the image. For example, if the armrests are brown, then shoes, and accessories, too, should be in brown color.
- The width of the necktie must be chosen from the width of the face. The wider the face, the wider the tie. And vice versa. In addition, the width of the tie should match the sphere of work of the man. Officials and businessmen are more suitable for wide ties, representatives of creative specialties – more narrow.
- The color of the tie should be chosen for your color. If your hair is dark, and the skin is light, then it's better to buy a contrast tie, for example, dark blue, burgundy, and emerald. If your hair is light, then you should prefer gray, beige and other muted colors.
- It's important to match the tie to the suit. First of all, with a shirt. They must be in harmony with each other. For example, if the shirt is white and the jacket is dark blue, then the tie must be saturated color. And if the rest of the outfit is light shades, then it's worth choosing a pastel tie, a muted color.
How to choose a belt
- It is necessary to know exactly what you are wearing a belt for trousers or jeans. On this depends its width: for trousers – 2-3 cm, for jeans – 4-5 (+ more massive buckle).
- The color of the belt should be in harmony with the color of the other accessories. For example, if the belt is brown, then it is desirable that in the same range there are socks and shoes.
- The length of the belt is determined by the number of holes in it. Usually, there are 5. It is important that you can fasten the belt to the third, maximum, fourth hole.
- The buckle must not be fanciful. The bad taste is the brand logo on a fist-sized buckle. The buckle is also worth choosing under the shape of the face. If the face has more smooth lines – choose a buckle in the shape of an oval or a circle. If more sharp, graphic lines – it is better to give preference to rectangular or triangular buckles.


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The Episcopal Health Foundation embraces an emerging thread of philanthropy that utilizes strategic planning, evaluation, and learning systems. We want to be accountable for the resources we steward, and we believe communities deserve that kind of accountability. But how does strategic philanthropy differ from non-strategic philanthropy? What is the role of collaboration? There are a number of possible responses, but let me illustrate with one example.
Some communities despair at the level of social and health problems they face, despite myriad social services agencies serving the local community. What is often not recognized, though, is that it is as critical to know how agencies work together as a system as it is to know who exists and what they do, if we are interested in impact. The system dynamics map below illustrates the role of strategic philanthropy in converting a particular (but common) vicious cycle into a virtuous cycle for advancing community health.
Box 1 is our starting point: a community with multiple social service providers. Upon receiving general requests for funding, responsive (non-strategic) philanthropies might provide short-term grants to a number of local agencies working on similar issues. Such grant-making can dissipate investments and create territorialism among agencies, leading to lack of cooperation, low capacity, and duplicative investments. The result is failure to meet goals, often with little incentive for improvement. New social services providers emerge to address the local problems that have not been solved. But do we question why the challenges are not being met, and what the implications are for how we do things differently, or do we just chalk it up to "need"? Are the right partners addressing the right issues in the right ways? And do they have the capacity to achieve the goal? Or have we, as funders, actually undermined that potential through our own approaches?
A collaborative model of strategic philanthropy explicitly asks these questions, and recognizes the importance of local knowledge and collaboration in solving complex problems.
Let's take the same starting point below—Box 1's multiple social service providers—and consider how a strategic philanthropy approach might transform a vicious cycle into a virtuous cycle for community health. Instead of the purely responsive grant-making described above, let's say the philanthropy discovers that there are many local social service agencies with a similar focus, being funded by multiple donors, creating little incentive to work together.
The philanthropy approaches other local donors to open a conversation with the community about key challenges, alignment of goals among agencies, strengths and assets of agencies, and refinement of their roles and leveraging opportunities in implementation. This leads to a set of grant applications (ideally reviewed jointly by funders) that take a holistic look at the problem, and advances interdependent relationships, accountability for success, and an explicit learning process for improvement. The result is increased cooperation among local agencies and the community, increased accountability and incentive for focusing on multi-sector solutions to complex problems, and increased capacity and integration among the local players.
Goals are better achieved (or if not, lessons learned for improvement), new structures and relationships might be developed, and agencies may be consolidated with an eye toward increased capacity and integration — now we are on to something. In this scenario, we, as a community, fundamentally changed the dynamic and the systems structure to better respond to local problems because we took an approach that was both strategic and community informed. Of course, some social service providers have been trying to create such virtuous cycles for quite some time, but have not had the resources, leverage, or partners to effectively do so.
Philanthropy can be one of those partners for transforming a vicious into a virtuous cycle, and for strengthening systems, effectiveness, and sustainability for community development.
What do you think of strategic philanthropy approaches? Does this level of philanthropic engagement with communities make sense to you? Do you think that systems approaches can help us make a difference together in advancing community health transformation?
The Episcopal Health Foundation was established in 2013 and works to improve the health and well-being of the 10 million people in the 57 counties of the Episcopal Diocese of Texas. EHF has developed a transformative approach to philanthropy that supports the Foundation's role to be a catalyst to change. Specifically, EHF aims to invest in organizations and communities that can help strengthen the health system and transform community health for everyone. The Foundation is committed to being an informed, accountable, collaborative, health-focused philanthropy. Follow EHF on Twitter _USER_

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The following documentation was downloaded from the above site on 2015/05/11:
Also see: _URL_
It is used by library top management to assess the quality of the repository and whether the repository is meeting the institution's business or academic objectives.
An audit tries to answer several of the following questions from a users perspective.
- How can I trust that the information in this repository is accurate and authoritative?
- How can I trust that the embargoes I request, will be properly enforced?
- How can I trust that the information I digitally store, will be available openly now and in the future, on the internet?
- How can I trust that my bibliography of electronic citations using the repository, will work today and in the future, on the internet?
We are very aware of the accounting audit function. In the course of an enterprise conducting business, records of account are kept by clerics and bookkeepers which are then managed by accountants. Auditors inspect the work of the accountants to determine if the accounts satisfy generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP). If they do, then they sign the financial statements.
A similar process could be involved in the audit of open access publishing systems. A possible definition of the process could be as follows:
"In the course of a University conducting research, publications are produced by researchers which are then deposited into a research repository by research librarians. The research collections in the repository are managed by research repository managers. Auditors inspect the work of the research repository managers to determine if the repository satisfies generally accepted repository practice (GARP). If it does, then they certify the repository for an agreed period of time."
GARP or Generally Accepted Repository Practice
Below are listed some sections that could form part of the audit and a draft GARP document, that would allow the audit to proceed in a generally accepted manner,
- Section 1: Policy
- Section 2: Preservation
- Section 3: Sustainability
- Section 4: Visibility
- Section 5: Security
- Section 6: Submissions
- Section 7: Customisation
- Section 8: Digitisation
- Section 9: Promotion
- Section 10: Legal
- Section 11: Community
- Section 12: Governance
Below are links to what an audit report may look like. These are very brief and are NOT authoritative at ALL.
If audits are conducted, using GARP as described above, as the accepted benchmark amongst library professionals, then the report would be a valuable tool for library top management, to assess the quality of the repository and to suggest where corrective strategic and tactical measures should be taken, to meet the academic or business objectives of the institution.


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Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Announces
Teaching Workshops to Help Educators Bring History to Life
Complimentary Workshops to Focus on Using Digitized Information
and Teaching Historical Fiction Across the Curriculum
SPRINGFIELD, IL., - The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum
announced today that is offering four complimentary one day workshops
in June and August focused on incorporating digital resources into
the classroom and using history to teach across the curriculum.
Each workshop will include two sessions, the first is the Library
of Congress "An Adventure of the American Mind" project to instruct
teachers how to incorporate digitized information into their curriculum
and the second will be led by Peoria's renowned storyteller Brian
"Fox" Ellis, who will demonstrate how to teach historical fiction
and relate it to state standards in English, history, science, geography
and even math skills.
"Opening the doors for teachers to learn creative ways to teach history
will help to combat historical illiteracy among American schoolchildren,"
said ALPLM Executive Director Richard Norton Smith. "As educators
come together in the workshops they can create and generate more ideas
on how to make history come alive in their own classroom."
The first session of the workshop is provided by An Adventure of the
American Mind through Eastern Illinois University. An Adventure of
the American Mind is a national project designed to assist classroom
teachers in accessing, using and producing curriculum incorporating
the Internet and the digitized primary source materials from the collections
of the Library of Congress. Workshop attendees will be introduced
to the components of the Library of Congress website with a focus
on resources that pertain to Abraham Lincoln.
The second session, led by Peoria's renowned storyteller Brian "Fox"
Ellis, is an interdisciplinary workshop where educators will learn
the nuts and bolts of effective historical research with an emphasis
on the life of Lincoln. Participants will learn to conduct oral history
interviews and how to turn rough notes into tell-able stories. They
will also have the opportunity to learn how to turn internet research,
library research, old newspaper articles, obituaries and diaries into
dynamic performance material with creative writing concepts to link
Lincoln with English, history, science, geography and math skills.
Educators will also learn the storytelling skills needed to be a bridge,
to help students connect with history in a more meaningful way.
The workshops will run on June 28th or 29th or August 9th or 10th
from 9:00 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. and will be open to 50 teachers a day.
Teachers who complete the workshop are eligible for six continuing
professional development units (CPDUs). Teachers interested in attending
the workshop should contact Dee Dee Hall at _EMAIL_
or Carol Manning at _EMAIL_
The registration deadline is June 10th.

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What Drafters Do
Drafters prepare technical drawings and plans.
Drafters use software to convert the designs of engineers and architects into technical drawings and plans. Workers in production and construction use these plans to build everything from microchips to skyscrapers.
Drafters typically do the following:
- Design and prepare plans for using computer-aided design and drafting (CADD) software
- Produce effective product designs by using their understanding of engineering and manufacturing techniques
- Add structural details to architectural plans from their knowledge of building techniques
- Prepare multiple versions of designs for review by engineers and architects
- Specify dimensions, materials, and procedures for new building projects or products
- Work under the supervision of engineers or architects
Many drafters are referred to as CADD operators. With CADD systems, drafters create and store drawings electronically so that they can be viewed, printed, or programmed directly into automated manufacturing systems. New software systems, such as building information modeling (BIM) and product data management (PDM), are coming into use. Through three-dimensional rendering, BIM software allows designers and engineers to see how elements in their projects work together. PDM software helps users track and control data, such as technical specifications, related to projects. Just as BIM is changing the work of architectural drafters as well as engineers and designers, PDM is changing the work of mechanical drafters. These software systems allow drafting and design work to be done at the same time as the work done by other professionals involved in the project.
There are several kinds of drafters, and the most common types of drafters are the following:
Aeronautical drafters prepare engineering drawings that show detailed plans and specifications used in manufacturing aircraft, missiles, and related parts.
Architectural drafters draw architectural and structural features of buildings for new construction projects. These workers may specialize in a type of building, such as residential or commercial. They may also specialize in materials, such as steel, wood, and reinforced concrete.
Civil drafters prepare topographical maps used in major construction or civil engineering projects, such as highways, bridges, and flood-control projects.
Electrical drafters prepare wiring diagrams that other workers use to install and repair electrical equipment and wiring in powerplants, electrical distribution systems, and buildings.
Electronics drafters produce wiring diagrams, assembly diagrams for circuit boards, and layout drawings used in manufacturing, installing, and repairing electronic devices and components.
Mechanical drafters prepare layouts that show details for a wide variety of machinery and mechanical devices. These layouts indicate dimensions, fastening methods, and other requirements needed for assembly.
Process piping or pipeline drafters prepare plans used in the layout, construction, and operation of oil and gas fields, refineries, chemical plants, and process piping systems.


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2. Tenants maintain the premises in good, clean and rental condition and use the premises only in a thorough and legitimate manner. Tenants leave the premises at the end of the tenancy agreement, the landlord being defined as immediately habitable by the nearest tenants. Tenants must pay for maintenance and repairs if the premises are left in a lesser condition. Tenants agree that the landlord deducts the cost of these benefits from the deposit before repayment if the tenants cause damage to the premises or their installation. With this form, you can also save payments directly via Flutterwave, Stripe or Payal gateways and also collect digital signatures in your sublease form. The sublease form also contains information about the description of the property and the duration of the sublease. A rental agreement is a contract between the owner of a property and a tenant. It lists all the details of the lease agreement between the two parties, including the terms of the lease and the rights and obligations of the parties involved. This type of lease ends at the end of the prescribed period and cannot be used as a trial period.
In addition, the length of a year tenancy agreement does not allow the tenant to leave the property before the tenancy period expires. Even if it is written in the rental agreement that the tenant cannot sublet the property, then it is illegal to do so. The tenancy agreement is used to create an agreement that would be legally binding between the landlord and the tenant. This is done to prevent unwanted problems that may occur in the process. It is used to record the type of lease, the time that the rent should be paid, which has an obligation to repair and decorate the property, the terms of termination of the lease and many other important factors. In some cases, the lease could also cover the issue of subletting parts of the building and other things such as pet farming and gardening. The lease model is comprehensive enough to allow landlords and tenants to take advantage of their transaction A long temporary rent allows tenants and landlords to adjust the terms of a tenancy agreement longer than five years and agree in advance on things like rent increases and minor property changes.
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FAIRVIEW, TX (HOWARD COUNTY)
FAIRVIEW, TEXAS (Howard County). Fairview, on U.S. Highway 87 five miles northwest of Big Spring in central Howard County, was named for the view afforded by the flat land around it. In 1930 it had a population of fifteen and two commercially rated businesses. By 1940 its population had grown to fifty, and a school was located there. Between 1950 and 1960 the population was 100, but the last business had closed. In 1980, 1990, and 2000 the population was eighty-five.
The following, adapted from the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition, is the preferred citation for this article.Noel Wiggins, "FAIRVIEW, TX (HOWARD COUNTY)," Handbook of Texas Online (_URL_ accessed June 19, 2013. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.


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Below is a Selection of Newspaper stories that might have influenced DOOMWATCH stories...
200,000 TONS OF GAS DUMPED IN SEA BY BRITAIN
At the end of the Second World War, up to 200,000 tonnes of chemical weapons were dumped in the seas around the world. Britain dumped in the Baltic, the North Sea, Irish sea, and around the Channel Isles.
Chemical involved were Organophosphorus nerve agents, mustard gas, and blistering agents. Some were tossed overboard, others packed into ships which were then scuttled or blown up. These are now beginning to breach their containment. One Russian scientist believes that the containers are all at a critical stage of thinning and that rather than expecting a gradual release, there may be a catastrophic surge in release. Containers are occasionally dredged up by fishing nets, endangering the health of fishers. At lease 7 fishers have had to be hospitalised after their nets brought up mustard gas residues.
The chemicals will adversely affect the health of the marine ecosystem, concentrating as they pass up the food web.
The response of Governments and official "scientists" is - predictably - problem denial.
"There is no immediate danger" was the response of one "respected" group - which begs the question of what happens in the future if all the canisters corrode in a relatively short space of time.
They claim that the seawater will neutralise the chemicals. This is true in the case of Sarin, which breaks down in humid conditions, but is patently not the case for mustard gas. In the case of agents which contain Arsenic, even if they break down, an environmental problem persists. The Russian Academy of Science in St Petersburg found levels of arsenic up to 200 parts per million around one of the dump sites.
They also run the standard circular argument - no contamination is expected, therefore there is no need to monitor the problem.
It is clear that the rational response to this problem involves
1. A definitive chart of areas where dumping took place - so far as is possible, given that the UK Government, true to form, destroyed their records as they were not deemed to be of further administrative use.
2. A continuing programme of monitoring of seabed sediments and fish, sampling their liver for possible toxic content.
3. Research and development of a range of retrieval and neutralisation methods.
CASD favours the option of a robot which can "sniff out" specific chemicals and travel up the concentration gradient to the point of origin.
The robot could envelop the shell in an impermeable container, or attach a radio transmitter and flotation bag to enable retrieval by support ship at the surface, or take other action.
Contaminated sediment could be chemically neutralised robotically on the seabed.
These solutions are technically feasible, but would be enormously expensive. However the alternative, letting the ecosystem deteriorate, would be more costly still in the long run. The Polluter Pays principle dictates that those responsible should pay, so a fund should be set up by the UK Ministry of Defence, with a contribution from the German chemical firms that produced the toxins in the first place.
It should be noted that political resistance to these rational measures will come not just from the Government but also from the fishing industries who would fear a collapse of public confidence in their product - the "Jaws Syndrome".
TABUN NERVE GAS
What could have been...
All of us know that poison gas was not used in the Second World War. However, evidence shows that the Germans were considering it's use in the desperate years of 1944-45. There were in fact 3 different gases, of which Tabun was the most readily available when the war ended. If one stops to think about it, these gases could have had an even worse effect than those first used in 1915, on the fields of Ypres.
The proper name for Tabun was Ethyl-dimethyl-amido-phosphoro-cyanidate. It was discovered by the German scientist Dr Gebhardt Schraeder in 1936, during his search for weed killers. What he discovered was in fact a gas ten times more lethal than Phosgene, previously thought to be the most deadly of war gases.
Instead of attacking the respitory system, as most gases of the First World War did, Tabun attacked the central nervous system, creating a situation where the victims bodily functions were no longer under the brain's control. Exposure to Tabun meant sure death in a matter of minutes.
After much difficulty, manufacture of Tabun started at a special factory in the town of Dyhernfurth, near the Oder river. Planned production was 1000 tonnes per month after mid 1942, but more difficulties arose and only 15,000 tonnes were produced before the Soviet forces captured the factory. After that, nothing was ever heard of the factory, and it was believed to have been dismantled and taken back to the Soviet Union.
All the gas in the plant was put into various munitions and shipped out before the Soviets captured the factory. After the war had ended, upwards of half a million artillery shells and over 100,000 aircraft bombs had been filled with the deadly gas. Fortunately, all these were found and destroyed by the Allies after the war.
The other gases were Sarin and Soman. Sarin was discovered in 1938 and is properly known as isopropyl methyl phosphoro-flouridate. One of the original nerve gases, it was found to be exceptionaly hard to manufacture and was thus never mass produced. Only a pilot plant existed when the war came to an end.
Soman was discovered in 1944 and was the third and last of the German nerve gases. Known to science as pinacolyl methyl phosphoro-flouridate, this gas was never taken beyond the laboratory.


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Aloysia citrodora is a species of flowering plant in the verbena family Verbenaceae, native to western south america. Common names include lemon verbena and lemon beebrush. It was brought to Europe by the Spanish in the 17th century and cultivated for its oil.
Lemon verbena is a perennial shrub or subshrub growing to 2–3 m high. The 8 cm long glossy, pointed leaves are slightly rough to the touch and emit a powerful scent reminiscent of lemon when bruised (hence the Latin specific epithet citrodora - lemon-scented).
Sprays of tiny lilac or white flowers appear in late Spring or early Summer. It is sensitive to cold, losing leaves at temperatures below 0°C (32°F) although the wood is hardy to -10°C (14°F). Due to its many culinary uses, it is widely listed and marketed as a plant for the herb garden.
Lemon verbena leaves are used to add a lemon flavor to fish and poultry dishes, vegetable marinades, salad dressings, jams, puddings, Greek yogurt and beverages. It also is used to make herbal teas, or added to standard tea in place of actual lemon (as is common with Moroccan tea). It can also be used to make a sorbet. In addition, it has anti-Candida albicans activity. In the European Union, Verbena essential oils (Lippia citriodora Kunth.) and derivatives other than absolute are prohibited when used as a fragrance ingredient (Commission Directive 2009/164/EU of 22 December 2009).
Moderate antioxidant supplementation with lemon verbena extract protects neutrophils against oxidative damage, decreasing the signs of muscular damage in chronic running exercise without blocking the cellular adaptation to exercise.
Lippia citriodora extract shows antioxidant properties that could play an important role in modulating GSH-reductase activity in lymphocytes and erythrocytes and protecting plasma from exercise oxidative damage.
Lemon verbena extract containing 25% verbascoside showed strong antioxidant capacity, especially in a lipophilic environment, which was higher than expected as concluded from the antioxidant capacity of pure verbascoside, probably due to synergistic effects. The capacity of verbascoside to act as an effective radical scavenger in lipophilic environments was also shown. Verbascoside-enriched extracts might have interesting applications in cosmetic, nutraceuticals or functional food. Although some "in vitro" genotoxicity of verbascoside has been reported on human lymphocytes with an involvement of PARP-1 and p53 proteins, subsequent "in vivo" tests reported no genotoxicity for high dosage oral administration.
Garden history
The first European botanist who publicly noticed this plant was the French Philibert Commerson, who collected in Buenos Aires on his botanical circumnavigation with Bougainville, about 1767. The plant had already been quietly imported directly into the Real Jardín Botánico de Madrid, where in 1797 professors Casimiro Gómez Ortega and Antonio Palau y Verdera named it, though they did not yet effectively publish it, Aloysia citrodora in Latin and "Hierba de la Princesa" in Spanish, to compliment Maria Louisa of Parma, Princess of Asturias the wife of the Garden's patron Infante Carlos de Borbon, Prince of Asturias and son of king Carlos III. The name was later effectively published in the first volume of Palau's Parte Práctica de Botánica in 1784.
Unofficial importations from Spanish America seldom fared well: when another French botanist Joseph Dombey landed his collections at Cadiz in 1785 they were impounded and left to rot in warehouses, while he was refused permission even to have seeds planted. Among the bare handful of plants Dombey had assembled during eight years at Lima, lemon verbena survived.
Meanwhile Gómez Ortega sent seeds and specimens of the plant to Charles Louis L'Héritier de Brutelle in Paris; L'Héritier published it as Verbena triphylla in the second fascicle his Stirpes Novae. published in December 1785 or January 1886. From Paris John Sibthorpe, professor of Botany at Oxford, obtained the specimen that he introduced to British horticulture: by 1797 lemon verbena was common in greenhouses around London, and its popularity as essential in a fragrant bouquet increased through the following century.
See also
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|Wikispecies has information related to: Aloysia citrodora|
- "Aloysia citrodora Palau", Germplasm Resources Information Network (United States Department of Agriculture), 2010-02-04, retrieved 2010-04-12
- Armada, J. & A. Barra (1992). "On Aloysia Palau (Verbenaceae)". Taxon 41 (1): 88–90. JSTOR _PHONE_.
- Margaret Joan Roberts (2000). Margaret Roberts' A-Z Herbs: Identifying Herbs, How to Grow Herbs, the Uses of Herbs. Struik. p. 51. ISBN 978-1-86872-499-4.
- Harrison, Lorraine (2012). RHS Latin for gardeners. United Kingdom: Mitchell Beazley. p. 224. ISBN 9781845337315.
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- Lemon verbena, Superbherbs.net, retrieved 2012-10-25
- Teixeira D., Marta C., et al. (2005). "Anti-Candida activity of Brazilian medicinal plants". Journal of Ethnopharmacology 97 (2): 305–11.
- Funes, L; Carrera-Quintanar L, Cerdán-Calero M, Ferrer MD, Drobnic F, Pons A, Roche E, Micol V (Apr 2011). "Effect of lemon verbena supplementation on muscular damage markers, proinflammatory cytokines release and neutrophils' oxidative stress in chronic exercise". Eur J Appl Physiol. 111 (4): 695–705. doi:10.1007/s00421-_PHONE_-3. PMID 20967458.
- Carrera-Quintanar, L.; Funes L, Viudes E, Tur J, Micol V, Roche E, Pons A. (18). "Antioxidant effect of lemon verbena extracts in lymphocytes of university students performing aerobic training program". Scand J Med Sci Sports. doi:10.1111/j._PHONE_.2010.01244.x.
- Funes L; S. Fernández-Arroyo, O. Laporta, A. Pons, E. Roche, A. Segura-Carretero (2009). "Correlation between plasma antioxidant capacity and verbascoside levels". Food Chemistry 117: 589–598.
- Antonietta Santoro, et al. (2008-05-05). "Verminosideand verbascoside-induced genotoxicity on human lymphocytes: Involvement of PARP-1 and p53 proteins". Toxicology Letters 178 (2): 71–76. doi:10.1016/j.toxlet.2008.02.006. PMID _PHONE_.
- Santos-Cruz LF, et al. (Mar 2012). "Verbascoside is not genotoxic in the ST and HB crosses of the Drosophila wing spot test, and its constituent, caffeic acid, decreases the spontaneous mutation rate in the ST cross". Food Chem Toxicol. 50 (3-4): 1082–90. doi:10.1016/j.fct.2011.12.006. PMID 22197714.
- Lawless, J., The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Essential Oils, ISBN 1-85230-661-0
- Juan Armada and Alfredo Barra, "On Aloysia Palau (Verbenaceae)", Taxon 41 (1992:88f), note a recently-discovered anonymous six-page printed booklet, dated Madrid 1779, reporting the new species, which they assert is correctly Aloysia citrodora (Palau).
- "un nuevo génera de planta consagrado a la Princesa de Asturias nuestra señora" in the title of the anonymous booklet.
- Sir James Edward Smith's furious account of the affair in Rees' Cyclopedia, is noted by Coats (1964) 1992.
- "RHS Plant Selector - Aloysia citrodora". Royal Horticultural Society. Retrieved 20 May 2013.


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Optimal Amounts of Residual Forage (oven-dry weight)
Desert - 250 lbs/acre
Shortgrass1 - 300-500 lbs/acre
Midgrass1,2 - 750-1,000 lbs/acre
Tallgrass1 - 1,200-1,500 lbs/acre
1To improve rangeland, leave the higher amounts of residue for each category.
2To promote midgrass over shortgrass, leave the higher amount of midgrass residue.
Hanselka, et al. (2001)
Remaining herbage provides an indication of rangeland health. Evaporation rates are high particularly in the Southern Great Plains. Leaving non-grazed herbage will slow evaporation and keep precipitation in the soil. Leaving more herbage also reduces the likelihood of overgrazing preferred plant species.
Plant litter and standing herbage should be uniformly distributed to reduce surface flow of precipitation and to moderate soil temperatures. Protection against wind erosion also requires an adequate combination of plant height and cover to reduce wind speed at the soil surface. Height of remaining herbage at the end of the growing season becomes increasingly important as the area of bare soil between plants increases.
The table (right) recommends optimal levels of nongrazed herbage. A grazing stick can be used to measure forage height and density. Photographic records of clipped plots will greatly enhance decisions on when to end grazing or when not to graze at all.
Use moderate stocking rates and seek the sage advice of "old timers" to minimize the risk of overgrazing find a Grazing Lands Group to mentor you in your state. Traveling through all your pastures with a mentor at the end of the growing season is an excellent way to learn more about what they "should look like".


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Lumbar Decompression & Pedicle Screw Instrumented Fusion for Spondylolisthesis
What is a lumbar decompression & pedicle screw instrumented fusion for spondylolisthesis?
This procedure is performed to relieve pressure on the fibrous sheath which contains the spinal nerves and stabilise the spine from slipping forward.
X-rays will be taken during surgery to determine the correct levels of surgery.
A cut is made down the middle of the back, over the decompression site. To decompress the spine, the muscles are stripped from the bones at the back of the spine. The bones on the back of the spine (spinous process and laminae) maybe removed from the spine to relieve pressure.
Following the decompression, supporting screws are inserted into the pedicles of the vertebrae which require support. Sometimes, a computer navigation system is used for screw placement.
X-rays are taken to ensure the screws are in the correct place. The screws are then joined together with a number of rods and nuts.
A separate cut may be made over the hip to harvest some hip bone. Harvested bone is sometimes mixed with a bone substitute. It is then packed along the sides of the rods to fuse the spine.
A small plastic tube (drain) may be inserted to allow any residual fluid to be drained away. This will be removed within 24 – 48 hours.
The cut is closed with stitches or staples.
This procedure will require a General Anaesthetic.
See About your Anaesthetic information sheet for information about the anaesthetic and the risks involved. If you have any concerns, talk these over with your doctor.
If you have not been given an information sheet, please ask for one.
What are the risks of this specific procedure?
There are some risks/complications with this procedure.
Common risks include:
- Infection. This may need antibiotics and further treatment.
- Minor pain, bruising and/or infection from IV cannula site. This may require treatment with antibiotics.
- Bleeding. If bleeding occurs further surgery may be required. Bleeding is more common if you have been taking blood thinning drugs such as Warfarin, Asprin, Clopidogrel (Plavix or Iscover) or Dipyridamole (Persantin or Asasantin).
- Small areas of the lung may collapse, increasing the risk of chest infection. This may need antibiotics and physiotherapy.
- Clots in the leg (deep vein thrombosis or DVT) with pain and swelling. Rarely part of this clot may break off and go into the lungs.
- Increase risk in obese people of wound infection, chest infection, heart and lung complications, and thrombosis.
- Pain from the bone graft site of the hip. This usually settles in time.
Uncommon risks include:
- A heart attack because of the strain on the heart.
- Stroke or stroke like complications can occur which can cause weakness in the face, arms and legs. This could be temporary or permanent.
- Nerve root injury. This may be temporary or permanent.
- Injury to the covering of the spinal cord. This may require further surgery.
- Deterioration of other discs. This may require further surgery.
- Ongoing persistent back and leg pain, with possible leg numbness due to nerve damage from compressed nerve roots. This may require further surgery.
- Leakage of cerebrospinal fluid. This may need further surgery.
- The pedicle screw may injure the nerve root. This may cause pain and/or weakness. This may be permanent.
- The metal rods or screws may break whilst the bone is healing or fusing. This may require further surgery.
- The bone may not heal or fuse. This may cause pain and require further surgery.
- Visual disturbance. This may be temporary or permanent.
Rare risks include:
- Injury to major blood vessels. This will require further urgent surgery.
- Paraplegia. This may require further surgery. This may be temporary or permanent.
- Death is very rare due to this procedure.


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Animal Species:Cunningham's Skink
The Cunningham's Skink (Egernia cunninghami) is a sun-loving variety of spiny-tailed skink. The species is named in honor of Alan Cunningham; explorer and botanist, who collected the first specimen in the Blue Mountains.
This large skink has a long tail with keeled scales along its dorsal surface from the back of the neck down to the tip of the pointed tail. The legs are quite short, requiring the lizard to slide on its belly when it moves around. Its colour can vary from dark brown and reddish to a jet black with distinctive with scattered patches of paler scales.
Snout to vent length is 250mm
The species occurs within temperate climatic zone along both western and eastern sides of the Great Dividing Range from south-east Queensland down through New South Wales the Australian and into central Victoria. The species is also found in South Australia where it is restricted to the cool climate of the Mount Lofty Ranges and Fleurieu Peninsula. Individuals in the north of the range tend to be slightly smaller and are brown or reddish, while southern populations are darker and strongly patterned.
Forests and woodlands with rock outcrops. The species occurs within forests and open woodland which feature rock outcrops. Groups of Cunningham's Skinks bask on top of rocks and will scurry in between rock ledges to shelter.
Feeding and Diet
These omnivorous lizards feed on a variety of invertebrates such as insects, snails and slugs as well as vegetation such as fruit and leaves.
The captive diet for this species at the Australian Museum is provided in three feeds within a period of a week. These consist of a small feed of chopped vegetables on one day, a small serving of kangaroo mince on another day as well five crickets or a snail for the third feeding. The timing and order of the diet is changed around to simulate natural conditions and prevent stereotypical behaviour (where an animal will have predicable activity patterns and essentially be waiting to be fed). This food is supplemented with calcium and vitamin powder to ensure that a nutritionally balanced diet is provided.
Other behaviours and adaptations
Like other spiny species of the Egernia genus, Cunningham's Skinks live in large social groups makes it easier to spot danger. When threatened this lizard will take cover in a hollow log, under bark or between rocks. If harassed further it will inhale air, making its body swell up - this increased size, combined with the spiky keeled scales, makes it difficult for a predator to dislodge the lizard from its hiding place.
Life history mode
This species is viviparous with females producing litters of live young.
Mating and reproduction
This species is highly monogamous with most males fathering only one litter. Dispite remaining within the same range and not often dispersing, genetic studies have shown that Cunningham Skinks can identify close relatives and always choose unrelated partners. Litter size ranges from 1-11 young.
Protected in all states. Listed as endangered in South Australia
This species is protected in Australia and cannot be collected from the wild and a permit is required in most states and territories to keep this species in captivity. Please see the Resources for keeping live animals page and check with your local wildlife licensing agency.
- Cogger, H. G. 2000. Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia. Reed New Holland, Sydney.
- Ehmann, H. 1992. Encyclopaedia of Australian Animals: Reptiles. Angus & Robertson. Pymble.
- Fyfe, G. 2008. Skinks, Family Scincidae. From Swan, M. (ed.) 2008. Keeping and Breeding Australian Lizards. Mike Swan Herp Books. Lilydale.
- Griffiths, K 2006. Frogs and Reptiles of the Sydney Region. Reed New Holland. Sydney.
- Jenkins, R. and Bartell, R. 1980. A Field Guide to Reptiles of the Australian High Country. Inkata Press. Melbourne.
Stow, A. J. 2004. Cunningham's skink. Nature Australia. Australian Museum
- Swan, M. 2008. Keeping and Breeding Australian Lizards. Mike Swan Herp. Books. Lilydale.
- Wilson, S. K. and Knowles, D.G. 1992. Australia's Reptiles, A Photographic reference to the Terrestrial Reptiles of Australia. Angus & Robertson. Pymble.
Chris Hosking, Interpretive Officer
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text: Seating at the Academy of Music is located on four levels, with each level further divided into separate designations or sections. The Parquet is the ground floor level of the building, and is divided into four designations: Orchestra Pit, Parquet, Parquet Boxes, and Parquet Circle. The Orchestra Pit is located immediately in front of the stage, and can have up to four rows of seating (AAA-DDD). Behind this is the Parquet section, with four rows of double letters (AA-EE) and eighteen rows of single letters (A-S, excluding I). Each row is divided into three sections. The left section is numbered using odd numbers staring with 1 on the center-left aisle, and ascending. The right section is numbered using even numbers starting with 2 on the center-right aisle, and ascending. The center section is numbered beginning with 101 on the center-right aisle and ascending consecutively to the center-left aisle. Parquet Boxes surround the Parquet section in a horseshoe shape, and are numbered clockwise from 5-30. Some boxes have four seats, some six, with each seat numbered individually within the box. Immediately behind the Parquet Boxes, and also in a horseshoe shape, is the Parquet Circle. This is divided by entry ways into nine sections, labeled clockwise from A-I. Seating in the center section, E, is numbed beginning with 101 on its right aisle and ascending consecutively to 114 on its left aisle. Sections A-D are numbered using even numbers starting with 2 on the left aisle of D, and ascending as they approach the stage. Sections F-I are numbered using odd numbers starting with 1 on the right aisle of F, and ascending as they approach the stage. The Balcony, located on the second level of the house and above the Parquet Circle, is divided into three sections. The front of the balcony in sections C-G consists of box seats, numbered clockwise from 31-42. Some boxes have four seats, some six, with each seat numbered individually within the box. The front in sections A-B, H-I is called the balcony loge, and is labeled with two rows of double letters (AA-BB). Immediately behind these is the regular balcony section, labeled in the same fashion as the Parquet Circle. The second and third balconies are known as the Family Circle and Amphitheater respectively. They both follow the same numbering scheme as the Parquet Circle.


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Four years later, Ben discovered he had an amazing gift. He can see the world through the click of his tongue. "By clicking my tongue on the top of my mouth... it makes a sound and I hear things around me," Ben says.
The technical term for Ben's ability is called echolocation. Dolphins make a similar sound in the water to help them navigate, but experts say it's rare for a human to be able to do. Ben can tell what material is around him because each substance has its own sound.
At 14 years old, Ben is like any other teenager. He plays video games, hangs out with his friends, and takes regular classes at school. He even has a yellow belt in Karate and rollerblades.
Ben says his blindness won't ever hold him back. "I will never use a cane. A cane is for other people who cannot walk," Ben says. "I'm not falling over."
Ben even hopes to drive someday! He says he can do it with the help of radar and GPS. "Watch," Ben says. "I'm gonna do it, too."


text: The ESA GLOBCARBON project aims to generate fully calibrated estimates of at-land products quasi-independent of the original Earth Observation source for use in Dynamic Global Vegetation Models, a central component of the IGBP-IHDP-WCRP Global Carbon Cycle Joint Project. The service features global estimates of: burned area, fAPAR, LAI and vegetation growth cycle. The demonstrator focused on six complete years, from 1998 to 2003 when overlap exists between ESA Earth Observation sensors (ATSR-2, AATSR and MERIS) and the French SPOT VEGETATION sensor and was extended to process 10 years up to 2007. After analysis, by the beta user community, of the first products the implementation of the algorithms was revisited and a reprocessing initiated. This paper provides details of the GLOBCARBON project and its revised algorithms, describes the re-processed products and gives initial results of their validation.


Spending review - Resilience rankings explained
The research based on data collated by Experian, a global information services company, shows the "resilience rankings" of English local authority areas - essentially how vulnerable places are to cuts in public spending.
The ranking is influenced by a number of factors - from the number of business professionals to the percentage of greenspace an area has.
Local authority areas are given an overall ranking - from most resilient to least resilient or most vulnerable. They are also given rankings according to Business, Community, People and Place.
A further insight is possible, with rankings for the factors that influence each of these sectors.
It is important to note that this research does not show the local areas which will suffer the greatest amounts of public sector cuts.
Here we explain the sector rankings and categories.
How strong is the local business base? Is it dependent on sectors that have been hit by recession? Does it have a high number of firms proven to adapt to difficult economic conditions? Have many firms gone out of business?
Vulnerable Sectors - sectors particularly vulnerable given the economic climate. These are: engineering and vehicles, construction, metals, minerals and chemicals and other, mainly public, services.
Resilient Sectors - sectors that are faring well despite tough economic times - such as agriculture, forestry and fishing, banking and insurance.
Business start-up - the number of businesses that have started up since 2008.
Insolvency rate - the number of businesses that have gone out of business in the last nine months
Self employed - the % of the working-age population that is self employed.
% vulnerable to declines in disposable income - the proportion of households that are vulnerable to declines in disposable income. This is distinct from a measure of wealth as often households in poorer areas have little disposable income to begin with.
% vulnerable to long term unemployment - the proportion of houses that are vulnerable to long term unemployment
Claimant count - the rate of people claiming benefits, based on May 2010 figures
Social cohesion - this is based on survey information where respondents were asked "Do neighbours look out for each other?"
Is there a large working age population that can contribute to the economy? How many people have high skills levels? How many people work as managers and how many people work in elementary roles such as cleaners and refuse workers? How much do locals earn on average?
Working age population - the percentage of the local population that is of working age and therefore able to contribute to the local economy.
Professionalsthose working in the following roles or similar - corporate manages, senior officials, production managers, functional managers, office managers, financial managers, managers in agricultural services.
Low-skilled workers - those working in the following roles (or similar - cleaners and helpers, agricultural labourers, other labourers, food preparation assistants, street and related sales and services workers, refuse workers)
Earnings - annual Gross Pay (mean) per annum
Are house prices high? How high is the local crime rate? Is there a lot of green space for people to enjoy?
Crime rates - total number of incidents recorded by police per 10,000 population
House prices - median house price based on land registry data (2010 Q1)
Green space - the proportion of land classified as green space by the department for communities and local government
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Can we use % operator on floating point numbers?
Predict the output of following program:
Can % be used with floating point numbers in C++?
The above program fails in compilation and compiler report the following error in line 5:
invalid operands of types 'float' and 'float' to binary 'operator%'
% operator cannot be used with floating point numbers in C & C++.
What about Java and C#?
This behavior is different in Java & C#. % operator can be used on floating point numbers in these languages.
Consider following example of Java program:
Same way try this C# program. It works fine:
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A Provincial Artist's Education
I grew up in Lynchburg, Virginia, a mid-size industrial town in the Piedmont region of the state. Great art was hard to come by. The closest museum, or so I thought, was the Virginia Museum of Fine Art in Richmond, almost 3 hours away. I wasn't aware until much later that less than a half-mile from my house was the Maier Museum, a small gem of a collection representing virtually every major American painter from the 18th to the 20th century. Like most kids growing up in small town America, art was pictures of old barns painted from photographs (Mabry's Mill on the Blue Ridge Parkway), illustration, or commercial art. On television in the 60s we had our forerunner of "Happy Trees" Bob Ross, a beatnik artist by the name of Jon Gnagy, who sported a goatee, a black beret, and a plaid flannel shirt. In a half hour program, Gnagy would whip out realistic landscapes with roads and buildings in perspective. Gnagy's show was a hook for a complete line of art materi
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Reset Function
Executes contents on a model reset event
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The Reset Function block is a pre-configured subsystem block that executes on a model reset event. By default, the Reset Function block includes an Event Listener block with Event set to Reset, a Constant block with Constant value set to 0, and a State Writer block.
Replace the Constant block with source blocks that generate the state value for the State Writer block.
Conditionally executed subsystem blocks with output ports are fully supported within Reset Function blocks.
For a list of unsupported blocks and features, see Initialize, Reset, and Terminate Function Limitations.
A model can potentially have multiple Reset Function blocks with each block having a different Event name. Each of these reset events appear in the generated code as a different function.
You can select an Initialize Function, Reset Function, or Terminate Function block or a corresponding state owner block to highlight blocks related to it.
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Piotroski Score
DEFINITION of 'Piotroski Score'
A discrete score between 0-9 which reflects nine criteria used to determine the strength of a firm's financial position. The Piotroski score is used to determine the best value stocks, nine being the best. The score was named after Chicago Accounting Professor, Joseph Piotroski who devised the scale according to specific criteria found in the financial statements. For every criteria (below) that is met the company is given one point, if it is not met, then no points are awarded. The points are then added up to determine the best value stocks.
 - Positive return on assets in the current year (1 point).
 - Positive operating cash flow in the current year (1 point).
 - Higher return on assets (ROA) in the current period compared to the ROA in the previous year (1 point).
 - Cash flow from operations are greater than ROA (1 point)
Leverage, Liquidity and Source of Funds
 - Lower ratio of long term debt to in the current period compared value in the previous year (1 point).
 - Higher current ratio this year compared to the previous year (1 point).
 - No new shares were issued in the last year (1 point).
Operating Efficiency
 - A higher gross margin compared to the previous year (1 point).
 - A higher asset turnover ratio compared to the previous year (1 point).
BREAKING DOWN 'Piotroski Score'
If a company has a score of 8 or 9 it is considered strong. If the score adds up to between 0-2 points, the stock is considered weak. Piotroski's April 2000 paper Value Investing: The Use of Historical Financial Statement Information to Separate Winners from Losers, demonstrated that the Piotroski score method would have seen a 23% annual return between 1976 and 1996 if the expected winners were bought and expected losers shorted. With any investment system, looking at past results doesn't always means it will work in the future, but having an investment plan and rules is never a bad idea.
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SMART Document Camera
Turn real objects into digital content with the SMART Document Camera. It's a great way to demonstrate, explore and understand– even when concepts are abstract or complex.
- Sharp, detailed imagesNow you can view images and videos in greater detail, thanks to the 5 megapixel (MP) camera, 80x zoom and 1080 video resolution.
- Record Audio & VideoThe built in microphone enables easy video and audio recording to create multimedia content for lessons and student presentations.
- Share images across distanceUse the document camera with video conferencing software like Bridgit conferencing software to share images with students outside your classroom.
- Explore in 3DUse the document camera's Mixed Reality Tools and a digital marker to view objects in 3D. It's a hands-on experience that offers new perspectives.
- Take learning anywhere The new SMART Document Camera is ready when you are. Just fold up the flexible arm and go.
Capture images and create multimedia lessons
Create more engaging lesson content by easily capturing images, video and audio with the SMART Document Camera. It's all easy – access the document camera from your SMART Notebook lesson with just one touch. You can even take a video of a science experiment with the document camera, save it on USB and use it in your next class and students can record their demonstrations during presentations for later review.
The SMART Document Camera is a perfect fit with other SMART products because you can control it right from your SMART Notebook lesson – with just one touch. It's easy to show images on your SMART interactive display, LightRaise interactive projector or SMART Table interactive learning center.
Inspire students as they learn
When you can take an object – a leaf, for example – and display it for all to see, it's easier for students to understand higher-level concepts like photosynthesis. You have a visual, kinesthetic way to teach and learn.
Mixed Reality Tools included
The SMART Document Camera allows objects to be viewed in 3D through Mixed Reality Tools. This provides students with a hands-on experience that engages students of all learning styles and helps them understand complex, abstract and conceptual content.


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For all subjects it is 2 hours per session, once a week.
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Focus is on students' performance in the higher education, revision for exams and guidance through assignments.
Teaching and coaching students so that they understand the concepts and have a good understanding of the relevant subjects. Through focus and usage of study materials, the aim is to help students achieve good knowledge and produce excellent results in their assignments and examinations.
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- Tutor/ lecturer with more than 20 years' experience in the higher education sector.
- Lecturer in Universities and Colleges, teaching local and foreign degree programs.
- Assurance for good results.
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Speed Up Statistical Computations
Statistics and Machine Learning Toolbox™ allows you to use parallel computing to speed up certain statistical computations. In parallel computing, a single MATLAB® client session distributes code segments to multiple workers for independent processing, and then combines these individual results to complete the computation. Use parallel computing to speed up resampling techniques such as bootstrap and jackknife, boosting and bagging of decision trees, cross-validation, clustering algorithms, and more. For a complete list of Statistics and Machine Learning Toolbox functions that support parallel computing, see Function List (Automatic Parallel Support).
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gpuArray (Parallel Computing Toolbox) input arguments so that
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list of Statistics and Machine Learning Toolbox functions that accept GPU arrays, see Function List (GPU Arrays).
You must have a Parallel Computing Toolbox™ license to use the parallel computing functionality and GPU arrays.
- Quick Start Parallel Computing for Statistics and Machine Learning Toolbox
Get started with parallel statistical computing.
- Concepts of Parallel Computing in Statistics and Machine Learning Toolbox
Overview of the ideas in parallel statistical computations.
- When to Run Statistical Functions in Parallel
Deciding when to call functions in parallel.
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Parallel computing using
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- Implement Jackknife Using Parallel Computing
Speed up the jackknife using parallel computing.
- Implement Cross-Validation Using Parallel Computing
Speed up cross-validation using parallel computing.
- Implement Bootstrap Using Parallel Computing
Speed up the bootstrap using parallel computing.
- Reproducibility in Parallel Statistical Computations
How to obtain identical results from repeated parallel computations.
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Hydraulic modelling and research
Since more than 30 years Svašek Hydraulics works on the development of hydrodynamic models. The main set of in-house developed hydrodynamic models is based on the Finite Element Method.
The main items of the total package are the hydrodynamic flow models FINEL2D, FINEL3D (resp. 2- and 3-dimensional) and the harbour resonance model HARES. Within FINEL2D, the MORFIN morphological modules are available to compute sediment transport and seabed development, both for sand and silt. MORFIN is also dynamically linked to the wave model SWAN.
Typical for the finite element method is that the model area is divided into a number of triangles, the so-called elements. The size and shape of these elements may vary within the model area, allowing flexible schematisations.
Characteristic features of a specific region, like tidal channels and flats, the geometry of harbour moles and basins and the configuration of the shore line can easily be incorporated in the model. In the area of interest smaller element sizes can be applied. Hence, complicated nesting techniques are not required in this approach.
Being part of the same package the results of the various modules can easily be exchanged, e.g. changes in seabed level computed with MORFIN are directly linked to the hydrodynamic model.
Our models are continuously subject to research and development. If required, we will adjust the model to suit specific questions, instead of having to simplify the problem to fit it to an existing model.
Besides the in-house developed software, Svašek Hydraulics applies software packages developed by other parties. For a detailed model descrition and some applications of the software packages, select a model from the list.


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Are you ready to take your GED exam in Klingerstown PA? The General Education Development (GED) test is only given in person and not online. Typically to be able to take the General Education Development (GED) exam the test taker must be older than 17 years old. The General Education Development (GED) testing fee in the state of Pennsylvania typically ranges from $40-$90.
The GED examination covers five topics: language arts (reading), language arts (writing), mathematics, science and social studies. Each section of the test awards a score between 200 and 800. Most states require test takers to receive a score of 410 on each of the five tests and an average of 450 for the General Education Development exam to pass.
Typically GED testing sites in Klingerstown PA are offered at:
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- Klingerstown ISD
- Klingerstown Literacy Centers
- Klingerstown High Schools


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"Free database queries can actually breach the encapsulation of domain objects and AGGREGATES." _TAG_
A subset of persistent objects must be globally accessible through a search based on object attributes. Such access is needed for the roots of AGGREGATES that are not convenient to reach by traversal. They are usually ENTITIES, sometimes VALUE OBJECTS with complex internal structure, and sometimes enumerated VALUES. Providing access to other objects muddies important distinctions. Free database queries can actually breach the encapsulation of domain objects and AGGREGATES. Exposure of technical infrastructure and database access mechanisms complicates the client and obscures the MODEL-DRIVEN DESIGN.
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Creating a world where compassion and kindness are the basis of our thoughts and practice
Compassion Matters, a project from The Dalai Lama Centre for Compassion, aims to create a kinder and happier society by showing our children what compassion is and by inspiring them to lead compassionate lives.
We achieve this by sharing our compassion and ethics curriculum with schools and education charities. Our learning resources equip children to gain a foundational understanding and to think critically about ethical issues. Through deepening their knowledge of what it means to be human, the experiences and challenges of life, children can build skills to support their resilience and long term wellbeing.
We are focused on supporting children to understand that compassion and related concepts, such as courage, justice and happiness, are the key not only to a happier, more harmonious society but also to individual well-being.
Sample our first module
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Compassion in Education
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- Tailored to suit volumetric flowmeters
- Programmable for either frequency or analogue flow input
- Uses a live or fixed density value for volume to mass calculations
- Versatile "user value" available on the main menu
- Selection of Detail or Basic main menu to suit operator and application
- Selection of second language and user tags
- RTC logging with over 1000 entries.
- Programmable pulse width and scaling of pulse output
- 4-20mA retransmission
- RS232 and RS485 (optional) serial ports
- Modbus RTU, Printer and other serial port protocols
- Front panel adjustment of 8-24V DC output voltage
- Backlit display
The 515 FC01 application pack is rate totaliser for the measurement of a fluid using the frequency or analogue volumetric flow signal output from a wide range of flowmeters. The flow computer can calculate and display the flow rate, resettable total and the accumulated total for volume and mass, using a live or fixed density for the conversion. The frequency input is compatible with a wide range of frequency
signals, including millivolt signals, reed switches, Namur proximity switches and pulse trains via its smart front-panel program selection.
The analogue input can be scaled and have filtering, square law, non-linear correction and cutoff points applied to the signal. A freely programmable "user value" on the main menu can serve as a setpoint for the 4-20mA output or as an operator identifier to be logged.
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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A pad of paper used for sketching. Also called sketchpad.
- n. A book of literary sketches.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A book made with blank leaves of drawing-paper, adapted for use in sketching; hence, a printed book composed of literary sketches or outlines.
- n. A book in which a musical composer jots down his ideas, and works out his preliminary studies.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A book of sketches or for sketches.
- n. a book containing sheets of paper on which sketches can be drawn
"When you think about it, a sketchbook is often the only place an artist can truly be him - or herself, with nothing to prove to anyone else."
"The issue includes a sketchbook from the upcoming First Wave series, and while I like Phil Noto's work, I really want to see more of Brian Azzarello's take on the characters."
"For artist Iris HÃ¤ussler, keeping a sketchbook is a primary means of experiencing the expedition as a sculptor, as an observer, and as a traveler."
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Complications at birth can interrupt blood supply to the baby, leading to hypoxia in the neonatal cortex. Once oxygen supply resumes, cortical activity follows a stereotypical recovery sequence that includes a period termed burst suppression, during which the EEG exhibits sudden, irregular fluctuations of highly variable size and shape. Clinical outcome depends critically on this phase, ranging from complete recovery to permanent cognitive or motor disability and even death. Despite its importance in the recovery process, burst suppression's mechanisms remain poorly understood, and objective diagnostics are needed to guide treatment.
Here, we analyze the statistical properties of burst suppression in neonatal EEG recordings and show that simple dynamical models capture key features of the data. We find that fluctuations in burst size exhibit long-tailed power law distributions spanning up to five orders of magnitude. Despite this immense variability, their average shape at all temporal scales can be rescaled to a near universal template (Figure 1). Deviations from universality include a flattening of fluctuation shapes at long time scales and the expression of leftward or rightward asymmetry. These features are consistent with the phenomenon of crackling noise that arises in disparate physical systems such as crumpling paper, magnetizing a ferromagnet, and earthquakes, all of which exhibit scale-free bursty events. Similar behavior has recently been observed in neuronal avalanches recorded in cortical slices. In our data, as in studies of crackling noise, the average shapes shed light on the underlying mechanisms. Using simple phenomenological models, we show how changes to the average shapes can arise from different forms of state-dependent damping, representing resource depletion in cortical neurons. Statistical analysis of the variability and average shapes of bursts holds promise for new diagnostic opportunities in this critical clinical window and will inform future biologically-detailed models.
Figure 1. Example of single-subject average burst shapes collapsing to a simple symmetric functional form over temporal scales of T = 40 ms - 4 s.
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The skills required in craft practice involve a high degree of tacit knowledge which is frequently difficult for the craft expert to articulate. Nicola Wood, a multimedia designer, has undertaken extensive research over the last ten years seeking to understand the knowledge of skilled
craftsmen and find methods of capturing and passing it on. She has developed an elicitation strategy that employs an expert learner to uncover the skilled knowledge of master craftsmen, and a transmission strategy based on the concept of bridges to assist the design of learning resources for
novices. Ulrik H. Lassen has used the techniques developed by Wood to record and transmit the skilled knowledge needed to make timber-framed buildings, knowledge that today is in danger of being lost. The focus of the study has been the procedure for scribing timbers, which is a central part
of the building process. The aim of the research was to investigate the possibility of combining the two roles defined in Wood's research as an expert learner and designer. Being a skilled carpenter, Lassen has acted as an expert learner, learning the skills of scribing through a combination
of researching existing documentation, working with master craftsmen and his own experimentation. At the same time, he developed and tested a multimedia learning resource to provide 'bridges' for new learners to this knowledge. The outcome of the application of Wood's elicitation
and transmission strategy to plumb line scribing is a demonstration of the transferability of Wood's methods within this new context. This is important because it reveals the potential for other craft practitioners to apply Wood's methods to their own learning and teaching, and
produce learning resources to provide bridges to their craft knowledge and preserve their unique skills.
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Benefits of Depositing Data
One of the major goals of NACJD and its sponsors is
to support the analysis of existing data. The criminal justice field as
a whole benefits when professional researchers test each other's conclusions - verifying, refining or
refuting original findings. This is one reason why the
National Institute of Justice (NIJ) and the Office
of Juvenile Justice and
Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) require that their grantees deposit data sponsored by these agencies
Sharing of data also fosters the development and testing of new conclusions, as data collected for one
purpose can be used to pursue inquiries not addressed by the original investigators. Indeed,
depositing files produced from the analysis of
existing data is also encouraged.
Archiving data affords multiple benefits to the investigator:
- The investigator's study is described on the NACJD website.
- NACJD distributes the data and supporting documentation to interested users, freeing investigators
from using their own time and resources to do so and permitting other researchers to reanalyze the data.
- Once the data are archived and available, the investigator is no longer responsible for maintaining
permanent backups of the data he or she collected.
- The investigator and his or her colleagues can assist each other in future research projects by
sharing the archived data and documentation over a wide variety of computer platforms.
Preparing Research Files for Deposit
NACJD urges researchers to begin their archiving strategy as they begin their research. The National Institute of Justice's
Program provides much useful information about things to consider. ICPSR, NACJD's parent organization, has also prepared valuable
guidelines for data management.
NACJD encourages researchers to deposit computer-readable data with NACJD for long-term preservation
and for use in analysis by other social science researchers. The following information will assist in the
preparation of data for deposit.


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EUROTAST Fellow Ryan Espersen is presenting a paper at the upcoming EAA-SAA Joint Meeting Archaeological Perspectives on Slavery, Trade, and Colonialism in Curaçao, 5-7 November, 2015.
Title: Manifestations of Race, Class, and Gender in Pre-Emancipation Colonial
Saba, Dutch Caribbean
Abstract: Saba is a small and steep island in the Dutch Caribbean, just 13 square kilometers in area and 890 meters in elevation, with very little immigration among a population that never exceeded 1,900 prior to emancipation in 1863. The island never developed into a full-fledged plantation economy, which resulted in a population somewhat evenly split between wholly European descent residents and those of African descent, whether enslaved or free. These demographic conditions are conducive towards a feasible diachronic, dialectical study concerning how ideologies of race, class, and gender manifested in the material and social environment of preemancipation colonial Saba. This research combines extensive archival research together with archaeological excavations of key social contexts relative to the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries.
While this study identified particular material and social characteristics
that are representative of the enslaved, free Sabans of African descent, "poor white" Sabans and those among the upper class, it also highlights the dangers inherent in interpreting archaeological assemblages in isolation from those representative of other relevant, contemporaneous groups within the spectrum of a given region or culture's social organization.


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SATURNIA FROM MYTH TO HISTORY
Saturnia's origins have been lost in time, so much so that it's considered one of the oldest cities of the "Italica Villanoviana" period.
Archaeological finds, dating back to the Neolithic and Bronze Age periods, reveal the presence of activity even before the Etruscans. An example of this is the Bagno Santo (Sacred Bath), a holy place where ancient civilisations carried out religious rituals.
What is certain is that Saturnia already existed in the 7th century B.C., when the Etruscans controlled central Italy, but known as Aurinia. It fell in the hands of the Romans when, thanks to its strategic location near Pian di Palma necropolis, the river Albegna, and the thermal waters, they seized it and renamed it Saturnia.
The Roman Empire then build the Via Clodia, an important trade route connecting Via Cassia and Via Aurelia, to facilitate trade with the Etruscan colonies. Via Clodia passed through Saturnia, thereby enabling the town to develop and prosper until the arrival of the Goti and the Longobardi.
Throughout the Medieval era, Saturnia suffered atrocities at the hands of the Saraceni and the Senesi. Finally, in 1500, peace was restored when the Granducato di Toscana, of the Medici family, became governor until the town was annexed by Kingdom of Italy.
ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL REMAINS
Much evidence of Saturnia's history can be found amongst the various visible remains, namely: the Area Archeologica Urbana, the walls, the four wall entrances including the well-preserved Porta Romana, the Acquarum castle, and the Bagno Secco.
Saturnia's Roman walls have been restored and rebuilt by the Senesi population in the 16th century. The archaeological museumis home to a number of items dating back to Etruscan times, as well as from the Neolithic and Bronze ages.


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23 Jun Conducting Clinical Studies in Romania and Bulgaria
Conducting clinical Studies in Romania and Bulgaria
Why Romania and Bulgaria?
Population (potential patient pool)
According to Eurostat there are 20,1 million inhabitants in Romania and 7.28 million inhabitants in Bulgaria, Taken together, 5.3% of total EU population, Romania being ranked the 7th largest country within the EU in terms of number of inhabitants
Both Romania and Bulgaria have adopted and fully implemented the EU Clinical Trials Directives. It takes 2 months to obtain regulatory and EC approval in these two countries, the regulatory environment being one of the principal reasons behind the important figures of completed and active studies in both countries in 2015 (figure1).
There is an abundance of high quality investigational sites in Romania and Bulgaria because of the high number of teaching hospitals, university clinics and postgraduate medical schools. There are 17 medical university schools in Romania and 5 medical schools in Bulgaria, while the number of university clinics stands at 39 units in Romania and 15 in Bulgaria, with similar infrastructure and diagnostic capabilities compared to western standards. More practitioners are employed by teaching hospitals and university clinics compared to Western Europe. GCP guidelines are fully implemented, and GCP training of the investigators is compulsorily required by the regulatory authorities. The overall quality of work delivered by investigational sites is very high and comparable to Western Europe and the US.
High recruitment rate:
Recruitment performance is consistently high throughout the region and this is maintained by many factors:
- A large heterogeneous patient population
- A wide availability of naive patients
- Shortage of available therapy
- The insufficient availability of preventive medicine
- Patient willingness to participate in clinical trials sponsored by Western companies
- Availability of multi-specialty medical institutions with highly educated medical personnel. Investigators are motivated to take part in clinical trials and perform well, as they largely acknowledge that co-operating with Western companies in scientific research is a sign of academic distinction, merit, and prestige,
Logistics and communication:
Our synergic operations covering Romania and Bulgaria facilitates your access to highly specialised & fully trained ICH-GCP investigators that have a vast experience in running clinical trials.The site staff (English-speaking investigators in a dense network of healthcare facilities) makes a great deal of efforts to ensure the studies are run according to the protocol and in line with local and international regulations. The guidance provided by CRO's and sponsors is largely accepted and there is a refreshing willingness to learn and improve practice.
Both the monitoring and investigator fees of a clinical trial in Romania and Bulgaria are significantly lower than those in Western Europe (Figure 2).
The monitoring costs are probably 50 – 70 % higher in Western Europe, while the investigator & hospital fees levels have remained relatively lower compared to Western demands. Moreover, additional accountable costs, such as travel, accommodation and postage are also considerably lower.


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Zend Framework 101: Zend_Log
Creating Your First Logger
To begin, I'll show you how to create a basic file-system logger. To achieve this we must instantiate the
Zend_Log class, then add a writer to this object. We will use a writer that writes log messages to the file system.
The class we use to write log messages to the file system is
Zend_Log_Writer_Stream. This class accepts the path where the log messages should be written to as the first argument to the constructor.
Listing 1 shows an example of creating the logger and adding the writer to it. You can either add the writer when instantiating
Zend_Log (such as
new Zend_Log(new Zend_Log_Writer_Stream(...))), or as shown in the following listing.
require_once('Zend/Log.php'); require_once('Zend/Log/Writer/Stream.php'); $logger = new Zend_Log(); $writer = new Zend_Log_Writer_Stream('sample.log'); $logger->addWriter($writer); $logger->log('sample message!', Zend_Log::INFO);
The above listing concludes by calling the log() method on the
Zend_Log object. This records a message to the log. Listing 2 shows an example of how the log file appears after this code is run.
$ cat sample.log 2009-04-11T14:47:20+09:00 INFO (6): sample message!
In the next section I'll cover the recording of events in greater detail.


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The 52 noisemakers in the exhibition, were collected by Colleen and Richard Fain over 20 years from around the world and were shown publicly for the very first time. The diverse styles of the noisemakers reflect different regions and cultures and are as varied as the materials they are made from. Grogger, the Yiddish word for rattle, is associated most often in popular culture as the noisemaker used in the Jewish Holiday Purim.
In addition, groggers, rashanim in Hebrew, have a long history spanning different communities, and were used for different purposes. Medieval Christians used a noisemaker in place of bells during what was known as the "silent days," the three days before Easter. These noisemakers are known today as the crotalus, which means rattle in Greek.
Whatever the purpose, groggers were used for throughout history. The idea was to make noise. They were used by the patrol men in the mid-17th century in what was then New Amsterdam (today New York) as an alarm and the patrol men became known as the Rattle Watch. Boston was using the rattle for the same purpose and for the next two centuries, rattles were supplied to the police force. Portable, inexpensive, loud and easy to use, the rattles were used in both the Americas and Britain.


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Some of us just had our coldest August night on record. Temperatures fell into single figures for most of the UK – low enough for a touch of ground frost in rural spots this morning.
March 14, 2012
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February 15, 2012
WESTERN Sydney is experiencing its coldest summer on record thanks to cloud and rain associated with the La Nina weather cycle.
Tom Saunders, senior meteorologist at The Weather Channel, said Penrith had experienced average maximum temperatures of 26.2C, while Parramatta recorded an average of 24.6C.
Blacktown hit an average 25C.
Meanwhile, Sydney was only able to record an average 24.6C, putting it on track for the coldest summer since 1953.
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January 30, 2012
Sydney has just ended its longest summer spell below 30 degrees in 15 years, weatherzone.com.au reports.
After a 60-day break, Sydney has finally reached 30 degrees, ending the longest summer run below 30 since 1996/97. In that summer there were 61 consecutive days below 30 degrees.
The record number of consecutive summer days below 30 degrees is 90, set in 1952/53. During that summer, not one day reached 30 degrees.
December 18, 2011
RETAILERS preparing for the last-minute Christmas rush are expecting stronger sales than last year but recent chilly weather could see clothing stores miss out on the spree.
The unusually cold start to summer across the country, including Sydney's coldest start to the season in half a century, is hurting clothing and shoe sales, the Australian Retailers Association (ARA) said.
December 4, 2011
Thunderstorms are helping Sydney achieve its coolest start to summer in 51 years, according to weatherzone.com.au.
December 02, 2011
MOTHER Nature missed her cue as Melbourne yesterday shivered through its coldest start to summer in 15 years.
01 September 2011
Much of Britain suffered the coldest summer for almost two decades, Met Office statistics show.
As Britons return to work today after a soggy Bank Holiday weekend, official weather data reveals that average temperatures were significantly down on recent years.
The UK's average temperature from June 1 to August 15 was only 57F (13.9C) – the lowest for 13 years.


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When using arrays I generally use only a one or two dimensional array -- very rarely three or more. I'm just kind of curious, what are some interesting/practical uses for arrays with three or more dimensions? Have you ever used an array with four or more dimensions? I had a professor in college use a six dimensional array in a program he demonstrated in class...ever had more than this?
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In practice it's usually better to only use multi-dimensional arrays as an abstraction and actually store everything in a single 1-d array. This gives safety and performance improvements in most languages (especially those with pointers). – OrangeDog Feb 9 '11 at 17:39
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In scientific programming it can be quite common. We just start calling these higher dimensional arrays tensors. Scalars are 0-dimensional tensors, vectors are 1-dimensional tensors, matrices are 2-dimensional tensors, and after that we just call them d-dimensional tensors (d=3,4,5,6). Dot products are then called contractions over indices.
Where are they used? I use them in some of my physics simulations. For instance, one method for simulating electrons on a lattice (regular array of sites) uses a tensor with a different set of indices for each connection to a neighboring site. In a 2D square lattice (think sites in the center of each space on a chess board), that means that each tensor has four indices, one for each neighboring site, so it is a 4-dimensional tensor.
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3 dimentions in your array is not that uncommon when dealing with 3D problems, like 3D tetris or such games.
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Does height make any difference???
JeannieY posted:
Hi Rich,
I've always wondered how a person's height may or may not figure into the calories burned/exertion required? For example, I'm only 5'-1" and I normally run at 6.5 to 7mph for 45 minutes to an hour. Would a person who's 5'-6" for example, weighing the same and running at the same speed really burn the same number of calories? It seems over-simplified to calculate calories burned solely based on weight alone. Since my legs are shorter, I would have to work harder (taking more steps) than a taller person, doesn't that make any difference?
Maybe what I'm asking is a stupid question, but I've always wondered.
Rich Weil, MEd, CDE responded:
Hi Jeannie,
It's a good question. Theoretically, if you weigh the same, then the calories burned will be very similar. The basic physics of it is: work equals force x distance. That is, work equals the number of calories burned, force is body weight, and distance is miles (or however you measure your distance). You can see that body weight is the variable that has the effect on calories burned. With that said, there is biomechanical efficiency to consider. The person who is more efficient will burn fewer calories. That is, if your gait is different, which it could be with height differences (or no height difference), then there will be some effect. For instance, running when you are taller might involve more up and down motion of the hips which would be less efficient. More side-to-side motion would cause energy expenditure to be different. Foot strike can have an effect, and so can lateral distance between the feet during the landing (when feet land right in front of each other it's less efficient than wider because balance is easier when the base is wider. There's also the propulsive forces of pushing off to consider, which are affected by what are called the 'lever arms' (long or short levers), which are determined by the length of bones and the attachments of the tendons into the bones (less efficient lever arms, where greater force is necessary to propel the limb, will be a factor). Of course, attachments of the tendons could make up for bone length, and efficiency of the gait could make up for some of this too - the most efficient gait is one where the timing is such that the leg and arm swing are as smooth as a pendulum (a short leg could still be much less efficient than a long one). Stability and posture all have an effect as well. Less stability in the gait, or poorer posture, will cause more calories to be burned. And of course, the more fit you are the less likely you are to fatigue, and fatigue will have a detrimental effect on efficiency. There are even more factors to consider, but you get the idea.
So the answer isn't simple, and unless you could enter all of these factors into the equation, then the only real way to know for sure is to compare the two individuals in a lab where you can measure energy expenditure with the proper equipment and under controlled conditions.
I hope that helps!
JeannieY responded:
Thanks Rich. It's a lot more complicated than I thought.
Rich Weil, MEd, CDE replied to JeannieY's response:
You're welcome. It is complicated, but one simple thing you could do is compare heart rates. The correlation between heart rates and calories burned is fairly good and so you could get at least a ballpark estimate of who is burning more.
Take care,
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