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Can rabbits eat meat? It is the question most pet parents ask who are worried about the nutrition and health of their rabbits. According to vets and experts, the answer is clear: rabbits cannot eat meat. Rabbits need fiber and protein; for fiber, plants and fruits are adequate, and the protein shouldn't come from the meat.
Read along, and you will know the answer to the questions circling can rabbits eat meat? We will bust all the myths and mysteries through scientific discoveries to let you know the truth behind meat-eating behavior.
Scenarios That Make The Rabbit Eat Their Babies
Rabbits are not cannibals, and they do not hunt their species to eat and survive. There are some situations where you might see the mother rabbit eat her young ones.
You can avoid these scenarios and change the outcomes if you have prior information about this behavior.
1. Eating The First Litter Because Of Lack Of Knowledge
It might be astonishing to you, but many times a new mother will eat her newborn babies while thinking of them as the part of afterbirth.
In the wild, rabbits eat the part of afterbirth to remove the signs of the birth of babies for their protection. A new mother will do it for the first time, but it is highly unlikely for her to repeat this behavior the second time.
2. Eating Stillborn Babies To Rectify The Mistake
Mother rabbit will eat her dead offspring to correct her mistake. Most of the time, when there is a stillborn baby, the mother will think her responsible for this dead baby.
She will eat the baby and remove the evidence of this mistake. It is common in the wild, and if your female rabbit doesn't eat the dead baby, this is not an issue either.
3. Eating Babies To Correct Nutrition Deficiencies
Sometimes if the female rabbit is not given nutritious food and a healthy diet, she will get weak in the gestation period.
When babies are born, and the mother doesn't have any other source to get the nutrition, she will eat her babies. This behavior is common in rabbits treated well and offered a healthy and nutritious diet.
4. Frightened Mother Also Eats Her Babies
Another time when a rabbit eats her babies is when she is terrified because of some stimulus or factor in the environment. When she is certain that she cannot protect her young ones, she will eat them independently.
When your rabbit has given birth to new babies, try to avoid making loud noises and significant environmental changes.
Did You Know?
We have written many articles about what rabbits can eat. But did you know about this one? Can Rabbits Eat Guinea Pig Food?
Do Rabbits Eat Meat?
Rabbits and hares are two different species, and both show different behavior in the wild and captivity. Snowshoe rabbits are herbivores just like rabbits, but when grass and plants are covered in thick snow, they go wild. In extreme winter, these creatures eat meat to survive the extreme temperature.
According to Northwestern Naturalist hares can resort to cannibalism as well, along with eating meat for other animals. On the other hand, Rabbits avoid such climates and do not resort to such extreme measures no matter the consequences.
What Happens When Rabbits Eat Meat?
If your rabbit has eaten meat, there could be the following outcomes of this event:
- Withdrawl from food
Is Meat Safe For Rabbits?
Rabbits cannot eat meat, and you should avoid giving them raw or cooked meat. Their digestive system is not meant to eat and digest meat. When you offer meat to your beloved bunnies, they will get sick and could lose their life in case of prolonged digestive issues.
Raw meat has germs and bacteria that will infest their GI tract, and by the time you know about these foreign invaders, things could get out of hand.
Cooked meat is not safe from hazards at all for your bunnies. Next time your bunny begs for meat from your plate, don't register those big innocent eyes, or you will fall for the trap.
Can Rabbits Eat Meat?
No, rabbits cannot eat meat in any other form, and you shouldn't give them meat either. They will suffer from chronic digestive issues and other health problems if you keep feeding them meat. If a female rabbit has eaten her babies once, next time, be careful and forbid her from doing so.
Do not offer meat to your rabbit from your dinner plate, no matter how much they beg you to do so. If your rabbit has developed a liking for meat, offer them different vegetables and fruits to change their liking and make them enjoy their fruits and greens.


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Graphing higher degree polynomial functions can be more complicated than graphing linear and a href="_URL_ functions. Polynomial graphs can be graphs of functions where the degree of the highest term is greater than one. When we graph polynomials with varying degrees it is easier to identify the end behavior, shape and turning points.
The graphs of some basic polynomials, so for this part we're going to look at the graph of some polynomials and some of these are going to be familiar to you some of them not but we're going to go through the same process just to make sure we understand how we got the basic graphs for all these okay. So right here I have f of x is equal to x okay so you should hopefully recognize this outline but we're going to go through the process just so you see exactly how we get these points. So over here I have a table I have certain values of x and certain values for f of x divide that comes out of it. So if x is negative 2, the same value comes out because f of x is just equal to x so that ends up being negative 2 as well.
All of these values are just going to go in and come out exactly the same. So we end up with negative 1, 0, 1 and 2 okay. These then kind of coordinate correspond to points on the graph okay. So we have negative 2, negative 2 and I'm not going to make my graph exact but just enough so it could give us idea of what exactly is happening. Point a of 2 negative 2, negative 1, negative 1, 0 0, 1 1, 2 2. So we end up with a line slope one passing through the origin. We already knew that from just what we know about lines but going through a process we're able to figure out what this polynomial function looks like.

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The minimum detectable count rate for the WFC depends mainly on the background count rate, and the effective size of an unresolved source. The minimum detectable count rate,, can be estimated from the following formula (e.g., de Korte et al., 1981, Space Science Reviews, 30, p. 495-511):
where is the required significance threshold (i.e., signal-to-noise), is the background count rate in the ''detection cell'', f is the fraction of the total source count included in the ''detection cell'', is the minimum number of photons required to constitute a detection and t is the integration time.
The ''detection cell'' is the region of the image used to detect the source. For the WFC, assuming an on-axis source, an appropriate cell area depends on the filter used, since the point response function is energy-dependent. For the S1, S2 and P1 filters the appropriate radius enclosing 70% of the total count (i.e., ) is, whilst for P2,. The corresponding cell areas,, are thus arcmin and arcmin respectively. The count rates in the background cell are then calculated as, where arcmin is the area of the whole field of view and it the total background count rate of the whole field.
The minimum detectable count rate as a function of t is shown graphically in Figure 12.1 for, f=0.7,. Three curves are shown, the two labelled 'LOW' and 'HIGH' are to be used for the S1,S2, P1 filters and are plotted for and counts s, i.e. for the typical range of background rates expected. The low background rates are only achieved for restricted time intervals, guest investigators should therefore assume the 'HIGH' curve when proposing. The curve labelled P2 is to be used for observations with the P2 filter and assumes counts s, i.e. the night-time background rate expected in this filter (see § 7.8.4 ).


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December 04, 2008
If your idea of comic books is capes and tights and nefarious villains, then it's time to look again. As comic books and graphic novels have become an increasingly respected literary format in the past few decades, there's been a complementary trend in examining the Jewish connection to comics — a medium that, like the film industry, began with no small amount of help from the Jews.
In fact, the connection between Jews and comic books has spawned something of a cottage industry over the past few years, including panel discussions, blogs and several books published on the topic — the most recent of which, Arie Kaplan's From Krakow to Krypton: Jews and Comic Books, was released by Philadelphia's own Jewish Publication Society.
|Superman was not Jewish, per se, although Jewish themes abound.|
According to Paul Buhle, senior lecturer in the history and American civilization departments at Brown University, the past decade or so has seen "a broad legitimization within Jewish studies of looking at popular culture, and thinking about popular culture and Jewish roles [in it]."
"Eighty years ago, to talk about the Jewish role in popular culture was considered to be slightly dangerous, because it raised Hollywood-like hackles of Jews controlling young minds in America," continued Buhle, who edited the collection Jews and American Comics. Now, however, "these subjects are an object of examination, both entirely positive — Jewish contributions to basketball — and not so positive — the Jewish role in organized crime.
"The field is open," added Buhle, to almost any area where Jews have made an impact, so it's only natural that comic books would be examined as well.
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More Filial Support Cases Ending Up in Court
Some 30 states have "filial support" or "filial responsibility" laws, which create a statutory duty for adult children to provide financially for their parents if the parents cannot otherwise pay. They're based on the centuries-old moral principle of filial piety, which holds that adult children have a duty to respect, obey and personally care for elderly parents and relatives.
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The_Classic_of_Filial_Piety_(4)Typically, these laws obligate adult children to pay for their indigent parents' food, clothing, shelter and medical needs. When the children fall down on the job (or the payments), they allow nursing homes and government agencies to bring legal action to recover the cost of caring for the parents. And, even if it seems logical to you that they can sue for money, believe it or not – this shocks some people – you can go to jail in some states if you fail to provide filial support.
It used to be that many states rarely enforced their filial support laws, except in the most gruesome cases of neglect. The advent of Social Security and Medicare meant that many older Americans had the financial resources to pay for their own needs. But recently, perhaps reflecting the rising percentage of older Americans, more and more cases are hitting the courts.
Take, for example, a case decided last month in North Dakota. The state supreme court invoked a state statute in saying that, where elder care was necessary for his parents, an adult son (possibly together with his siblings) had to pay for "necessaries" like shelter, food, and the like.
It's not just North Dakota that's likely to enforce these laws. Some elder law attorneys have noted that, in Pennsylvania and South Dakota, third-party creditors have become more and more likely to sue under filial support laws to collect unpaid nursing home bills and other debts.
What does that mean for you? Well, if you're an adult child, you should find out what the law is in the state where you live. If you live in a state with a filial support law, you should be prepared for the eventwhether likely or unlikely – that you could be required to pay for or contribute to your parents' living expenses.
Does that strike you unfair? Well, at least you don't live in China, where filial support laws not only require that adult children support their parents but also that they visit them at least a few times a month.
Illustration: Detail from Illustrations of the Classic of Filial Piety, courtesy of National Palace Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
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Children with autism often struggle with "wh" questions like Who, What, Where, and Why. My son struggles with all of these, but I think his not being able to understand "why" is the most frustrating for both of us. There are books out there designed to teach children with autism to answer "wh" questions. My son's speech therapist uses the Buddy Bear books from Lingui Systems. They are kind of expensive so I decided to make my own versions of them.
My son's nick name is Monkey so the main character is a monkey and since it was written for him it addresses come common occurrences in our house, but it should still be of some use for others. The book addresses three "why" scenarios: "Why" Monkey wants an object, "Why" Monkey is wearing an item, and "Why" Monkey has a particular thing.
This is an interactive book. On the last two pages are images for you to cut out. You are to have the child apply the appropriate image to the story as you read it. I recommend laminating the story pages and cut outs and using velcro dots to attach the pieces to the story.
Printable Why Question Book for Children with Autism PDF
If you need this in another format let me know and I'll see what I can do.
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Cast Resin transformers are known for the excellent and advantageous fire behavior. In no way can a dry-type cast resin transformer be considered as suitable or acceptable if it hasn't been F1 certified.
SETF went the extra mile to attain this certification and make sure that every Copper-Cast transformer supplied is F1 classified according to the HD 464 S1 standard.
One Copper-Cast coil was placed in a test chamber. The combined effect of burning and flammable material and 24 resistors radiant panels resulted in a flux of about 3 W/ towards the tested object. The heat transfer and the burning was sustained for 40 and 70 minutes respectively.
The smoke outlet maximum recorded temperature rise was 283 degrees Kelvin (way beyond the 420 K accepted by the standard)
The smoke outlet temperature rise measured after 45 minutes was 71 degrees Kelvin (which is almost half the 140 K stipulated by the standard)
The smoke outlet temperature rise measured after 60 minutes was 46 degrees Kelvin (again an outstanding 50% of the 80 K allowed by the standard)
The minimum visible light transmittance in the air outlet chimney was 40% after 21 minutes of sustained burning, and the averaged transmittance was 80%. Two figures that are way above the minimum 20% required by the standard
With those results at hand you are now sure that every Copper-Cast ordered and delivered is going to have a superior behavior even in the unfortunate event of a fire.
With the above shown results, Copper-Cast stresses the advantage of cast resin transformers in general and itself in particular, leaving you with a peace of mind and security wherever those transformers might be installed


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I have some problems with the equivalence of definitions of orientation. I know two definitions of orientation, namely:
 - A surface is orientable if it contains no 1-sided curves (a 1-sided curve in a combinatorical surface $F$ is a curve such if $p^{-1}(C)$ has just one component with $p:F'\rightarrow F$ and $F'$ the surface we obtain by cutting $F$ along $C$)
Also there exists the following lemma: A one-sided curve is always non-seperating (non-seperating means that the number of components of $F'$ has the same as $F$). Can we use this fact? And why is that true? From my point of view one can prove this easy with contradiction,true?!
Now the second definition:
 - An orientation of a closed combinatorial surface F is an assignment of a clockwise or anticlockwise \circulation" to each face (really an ordering of its vertices, considered up to cyclic permutation), such that at any edge, the circulations coming from the two incident faces are in opposition.
Now i want to show directly that a surface has an orientation if and only if it is orientable in the sense that it contains no 1-sided curves.
Can someone help me with this question? Thank you!
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Assume $F$ is oriented in the sense of the second definition. Let $C$ be a curve. Wlog.(!) the curve runs along edges. The map $p^{-1}(C)\to\{-1,+1\}$ that maps a point to $+1$ if the "current" edge at that point is in forward direction of $C$ and to $-1$ if it is in reverse, is well defined (must be checked at vertices) and continuous. As each edge belongs to two faces and is differently oriented for these, ther exist both edges yielding $+1$ and edges yielding $-1$, hence $p^{-1}(C)$ has (at least) two connected components. Hence no one-sided curve exists.
The other direction is a bit more complicated if one wants to be formally exact, so the following is rather a sketch of an idea: Assume $F$ is oriented in the sense of the first definition. Select an arbitrary face and orient its edges. Extend this face by face to the whole surface by checking faces having at least one edge already oriented. If ever a conflict arises (i.e. the next step would orient an edge differently from an already given orientation by its other face), we find a onesided curve as follows: There is a sequence of faces between the conflicting faces that runs within alrady oriented faces. This also determines a sequence of edges (those that are shared by subsequent faces in this sequence). Join the midpoints of these edges to obtain a closed curve (i.e. starting and ending at the conflicting edge). Using the orientation given to the edges crossed along its way, we get a notion of "left" and "right" of the curve, which gets "flipped" by completely traversing the curve, thus showing that $p^{-1}(C)$ is connected.
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Management & Operations:
Operating Cost Eligibility Under the Federal-Aid Highway Program
ContentsFederal-aid Eligibility Policy Guide
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The operating costs for traffic monitoring, management, and control systems, such as integrated traffic control systems, incident management programs, and traffic control centers, are eligible for Federal reimbursement from National Highway System and Surface Transportation Program funding. For projects located in air quality non-attainment and maintenance areas, and in accordance with the eligibility requirements of 23 USC 149(b), Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Improvement Program funds may be used for operating costs for a 3-year period, so long as those systems measurably demonstrate reductions in traffic delays. Operating costs include labor costs, administrative costs, costs of utilities and rent, and other costs, including system maintenance costs, associated with the continuous operation of the system.
The movement of people, goods, and vehicles on the nation's surface transportation system is now critically dependent on how effectively that system is managed and operated. Adding to the roadway system is necessary in some key locations and corridors to serve the demands for this movement, and in some cases, provide for economic development in the area. However, the construction of new lanes will never alleviate the need for effective management and operations of the system - on existing as well as new segments. Well planned, cost-effective transportation operations and management actions can improve mobility, safety, and productivity of the system for transportation users in urban and rural areas.
The Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (TEA-21), signed into law on June 9, 1998, reinforces the Federal commitment to manage and operate the nation's transportation system. Under TEA-21, the Federal-aid Highway Program continues eligibility of operating costs for traffic monitoring, management, and control. The legislation defines operating costs as including labor costs, administrative costs, costs of utilities and rent, and other costs associated with the continuous management and operation of traffic systems, such as integrated traffic control systems, incident management programs, and traffic control centers.(1) An "operational improvement" continues to mean a capital improvement for installation of traffic surveillance and control equipment; computerized signal systems; motorist information systems; integrated traffic control systems; incident management programs; transportation demand management facilities; strategies, and programs; and such other capital improvements to public roads as the Secretary may designate, by regulation.(2) By definition, an operational improvement still does not include restoration or rehabilitating improvements; construction of additional lanes, interchanges, and grade separations; and construction of a new facility on a new location.
For both National Highway System (NHS) and Surface Transportation Program (STP), TEA-21 continues the eligibility of capital and operating costs for traffic monitoring, management, and control facilities and programs.(3) Also, TEA-21 clarifies the eligibility of NHS and STP funds for Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) capital improvements to specifically allow funds to be spent for infrastructure-based ITS capital improvements.(4)
For the Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Improvement Program, TEA-21 continues to include the establishment or operation of a traffic monitoring, management, and control facility or program as potentially eligible projects.(5) TEA-21 also explicitly adds, as an eligible condition for funding, programs or projects that improve traffic flow, including projects to improve signalization, construct high occupancy vehicle lanes, improve intersections, and implement ITS strategies.(6)
Examples of typical eligible operating cost and expenses for traffic monitoring, management, and control include those costs mentioned in the legislative definition for operating costs.(1) In order to assure continuous operation, costs associated with maintaining these systems are necessary operating expenses so that traffic monitoring, management, and control facilities or programs provide their intended functions. Examples of these maintenance costs include system maintenance activities to assure peak performance (preventive computer maintenance) and replacement of defective or damaged computer components and other traffic management system hardware (including street-side hardware). Specific eligibility determinations related to traffic control operational costs and maintenance expenses are the discretion of the FHWA Division Office in a particular state.
This interpretation is consistent with the FHWA Strategic Plan, specifically related to the Mobility Goal and the Strategic Objective to "Improve the operation of the highway systems and intermodal linkages to increase transportation access for all people and commodities." In light of TEA-21, which reaffirms and increases the Federal commitment to manage and operate the nation's surface transportation system, this interpretation is also consistent with the intent of Congress.
It is appropriate for FHWA to adopt policies that encourage efficient management and operation of surface transportation. With a greater shift toward applying technology to addressing transportation needs, a broader life-cycle view of transportation operations is warranted that includes all activities related to sustaining system performance.
Some of the types of Federal-aid projects that may be funded include the installation and integration of the Intelligent Transportation Systems Infrastructure such as:
- Planning for regional Management and Operations programs
- Traffic Signal Control Systems
- Freeway Management Systems
- Incident Management Systems
- Multimodal Traveler Information Systems
- Transit Management Systems
- Electronic Toll Collection Systems
- Electronic Fare Payment Systems
- Railroad Grade Crossing Systems
- Emergency Services
- Implementation of the National ITS Architecture for metropolitan and rural areas
- Development of regional ITS Architecture
Some examples of typical Federal-aid capital improvement projects that may include eligible operating costs include:
- System Integration
- Reconstruction of Buildings or Structures that house system components
- Control / Management Center (Construction) and System Hardware and Software for the projects
- Infrastructure-based Intelligent Transportation System capital improvements to link systems to improve transportation and public safety services
- Dynamic / Variable message signs
- Traffic Signals
Some examples of typical eligible operating cost and expenses for traffic monitoring, management, and control include:
- Labor Costs
- Administrative costs
- Costs of Utilities and Rent
- Other costs associated with the continuous operation of the above-mentioned facilities and systems
- System Maintenance (activities to assure peak performance)
- Replacement of defective or damaged computer components and other traffic management system hardware (including street-side hardware).
- Computer hardware and software upgrades to remedy Year 2000 (Y2K) problems.
Q: What would not be considered eligible as an operating cost?
A: The discretion and flexibility afforded FHWA Division Offices in determining the eligibility of specific activities under this guidance, the allowances for preventive maintenance in Title 23(7), and other Federal-aid policies can allow for virtually any activity to be eligible. However, routine maintenance items that are not critical to the successful operation of the system, such as the painting of traffic signal controller cabinets or the maintenance of the exterior of transportation management center buildings, would normally fall outside of eligible operating costs.
Q: What are some typical activities associated with transportation
management center computers whose costs could be eligible under Federal-aid?
A: Besides the costs associated with designing and procuring the computer system, other eligible activities could include regular checking of the computer components to make sure they are fully functional. Any corrective measures or upgrades (software or hardware) that are necessary would be eligible activities.
Q: Can "spare parts" be eligible for federal-aid?
A: System-critical parts (i.e., ones that are essential for the successful operation of the system) that are susceptible to failure, regardless of reason - acts of God, crashes, electronic "infant mortality" - have been determined by some FHWA Division Offices as eligible for federal-aid reimbursement.
Q: What documentation do states or local governments need to submit
(or present upon request) for approval or authorization of operating
A: The amount and specific nature of documentation are left to the judgement of the FHWA Division Office, but the documentation should be sufficient to determine that the proposed expenditures would be eligible for Federal-aid reimbursement.
Q: Besides TEA-21 and Title 23, what overall rules govern the eligible
operating costs and procurement method?
A: The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Circular A-87, Cost Principles for State and Local Governments (available at _URL_ establishes principles for determining the allowable costs incurred by State, local, and federally-recognized Indian tribal governments under grants, cost reimbursement contracts, and other agreements with the Federal Government. Part 18 of Title 49 of the Code of Federal Regulations (49 CFR Part 18, available at _URL_ also includes information related to the administration of grants and cooperative agreements with State and local governments.
Q: Where can I find out more about the Congestion Mitigation and Air
Quality Improvement (CMAQ) Program?
A: The latest guidance on the CMAQ Program was issued April 28, 1999, and is available from FHWA Division and FTA Regional offices. The guidance, along with other CMAQ Program information, is available on the internet at _URL_
1. 23 USC 101(a)(17)
2. 23 USC 101(a)(18)
3. 23 USC 103(b)(6)(H) and 23 USC 133(b)(6)
4. 23 USC 103(b)(6)(O) and 23 USC 133(b)(13)
5. 23 USC 149(b)(4)
6. 23 USC 149(b)(5)
7. 23 USC 116(d)


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In this chapter we will work on a real Recipe, from definition to extraction.
Our goal will be to extract the table on this page:
Here are the steps to follow:
1. Open the website to be analyzed in a Chrome tab.
2. Click the Free / Batch Data Collector icon to launch the program on top of this Chrome tab, pointing the program to the source code you'd like to analyze.
3. In Free / Batch Data Collector – Advanced Interface – choose a name for your Recipe:
4. Back on the original webpage, look for the parent element of the table. We recommend you use Chrome's Inspect feature, which can be accessed by right-clicking on the first cell of the table and choosing Inspect from the menu.
5. From Inspect we can clearly recognize that the repetitive element is table#customers tr
6. The child columns of the repetitive element will be td with Instance n. progressing from 0 to 2 (since we're hoping to extract a three-column table).
7. For each column set the Type drop-down to text.
Here's our completed Recipe:
8. When you're ready to proceed, click Empty Results and Extract.
At the bottom of the page you'll see the generated JSON code and 3 options to extract them. The first allows you to export the data collected in Excel format.
The others allow you to visualize the extracted data without passing them to a spreadsheet.
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Watch the Best Documentaries about Cities, Urban Design, and how Rethinking Cities is key to Imagining a Sustainable Future
Cities consume 75% of the world's energy and produce 75% of the world's waste. The design and consumer-industrial flows of cities are no doubt the most fundamental source of our culture's unsustainability. But once we see this, it also becomes clear that a creative re-design of cities offers the greatest potential for solving a diverse number of challenges at their source.
Cities also offer opportunities for truly local, democratic decision making, in a way that state and national government bodies cannot easily provide. This makes the city one of the best "units of scale" of focus our solutions thinking.
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No need to worry if the load was too heavy, or unbalanced.
And that may be reason to worry: totalitarian regimes close to demise are apt to get panicky and do rash things.
If you don't understand what the risks are, then you don't worry about them.
Others worry giant companies are taking over the world and making it impossible for small businesses and entrepreneurs to succeed.
Whether you acknowledge it or not, there's good reason to worry.
Both their willingness and ability to do so should worry us, however.
The deflationary worry is that consumers, expecting prices to fall, will cut back on purchases.
There are no shoulder straps to worry about and it's a convenient size-but sometimes fashion must take precedent over function.
But many people worry that transgenic organisms might prove more unpredictable.
When you book your hotel, don't worry about selecting a central location or staying near the airport.
The younger generation can't even comprehend why their elders worry about privacy.
But don't worry about the planet disappearing entirely any time soon.
But scientists have recently focused on a specific type of worry that is significantly linked to depression.
If you're a senior citizen and you worry about falling, maybe you should go light on the drinks.
In years gone by, if colon cancer ran in your family all you could do was wait and worry about whether you might get it, too.
So science-savvy moms: don't worry about washing behind the ears.
Some worry about the potential strain on the environment.
It is a headline to continue to get people to be unnecessarily worry about climate change.
Some scientists worry that this grim future is fast approaching.
Don't worry, as food production stagnates and populations grow the cost of excess eating will counter act this trend.
Biologists worry about the hunting pressure the squid will put on other species.
It's everyone else who has to worry about a check-engine light, and everyone else who is so often held hostage to it.
Far from declaring war on bees, people now worry that these invading aliens might vanish.
Don't worry, though-one of my friends brought over his father for you to play with.
She began to worry that something would happen to it.
The people have so much worry and fear, and sometimes they are afraid to make any decision.
As if in response to this worry, the movie then parts company with itself.
This, of course, has been a worry for file-sharers long before it was formalized as a religion.
One common worry was that all this kosher labelling was going on without a rabbi in sight.
If you work in admissions and/or worry about kids these days, this article's worth reading.
While this laudatory initiative has great potential, some might worry about its conspicuous absences.
Despite the good news, there are reasons to worry that endowments may not do as well in the current fiscal year.
With such a bounty on scarab heads, some conservationists worry that populations could be depleted.
We can worry about such things more in a month or so.
With the automatic transmission a driver can stop at the steepest incline on the hill without worry of rolling back.
But several factors worry those who rely on the sea for food and money.
The light was failing, and he needed to return to camp before his colleagues started to worry.
Don't have to worry about parking or traffic and a consistent travel time to budget for.
Thus, small firms have much more to worry about than large firms when it credit dries up.
There is good reason to worry that position limits will harm markets more than help them.
But investors increasingly worry that such places cannot, in fact, afford to service their debts-each in a slightly different way.
Businesses worry that such a big rise will deter investment.
People do not worry too much about footballers' high pay.
It ought also to worry those millions who, as savers and borrowers, are consumers of the industry's products.
Every year the authorities worry that the disaffected will use the session as a pretext to air grievances.
Others, however, will worry about this kind of talk.
All worry that the eventual sale of these securities could wreak havoc.
The second worry has to do with dysfunctional government.
The worry is that the global economic crisis has dented confidence in the future and intensified gloom about the present.
The worry is that rampant commodity prices may cause another wobble in the world economy.
As a result, electric cars no longer require drivers to buy expensive batteries or to worry about limited driving distance.
Even without the strike, investors have plenty of reasons to worry.
But experts worry the trend might now go into reverse.
If the fishing selectively picks large males, then you have to worry.
Although, we'd still have to worry about things from space.
You're going to worry about what your eyebrow is doing.
Anyway, now is not the time to worry about the unknown.
She was never one to worry about herself as much as she worried about others.
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XML-Funneling pattern as answer for dealing with complex SAP data structures
In the blogpost 'Architecture Pattern XML-Funneling of complex SAP structures for Duet Enterprise interoperability', I introduced the XML-Funneling pattern as pragmatic approach to handle the Duet Enterprise limitation regarding complex SAP data structures. This Duet Enterprise limitation has 2 origins:
- The SAP NetWeaver Gateway generator tools are not capable of preservering hierarchical structure; their simple execution model is to flatten the SAP structure in the Gateway DataModel.
- The SharePoint BCS UI-controls are not capable of rendering hierarchical structure; their default rendering model is list/row based.
An often-heard misunderstanding is that Duet Enterprise itself, via the foundational layers SAP NetWeaver Gateway and SharePoint BCS, cannot be used to exchange complex data structures between SAP and SharePoint. This is not true. Gateway can expose complex data structures, but currently then requires you to model the interface and data signatures in ESR Builder, and next manually develop the Gateway Mappers. Although in FP1 less cumbersone as in Duet Enterprise 1.0, it is by far not the preferred approach to expose SAP building blocks as Gateway services. SharePoint BCS as integration layer can consume complex external data structures, but the rendering via standard controls is limited to the root level. In case the child levels also must be visualized, you need to develop a custom view that interoperates with the BCS API. This is doable, although a painpoint is that the SharePoint BCS API is weakly typed, and therefore programming against the API is laborsome and error prone.
I invented the XML-Funneling approach to simplify the development process at the SAP side. By mapping the SAP hierarchical structure to an XML string, the Gateway generator tools can be applied: a string is namely a 'simple' type.
On the SharePoint side the XML-Funneling approach does not really make developer life easier. A marked disadvantage is that it requires custom development to deserialize the received XML-structure into a strongtyped data object, before you can next use and visualize the received complex SAP data structure in a SharePoint view.
Trade-off decision whether or not to apply XML-Funneling
A trade-off decision is then whether in the total SAP + SharePoint system architecture and development effort, this front-end side /.NET disadvantage outweights the advantage on SAP side? Is it sensible to abandon the XML-Funneling approach in case of complex SAP data structure? My advice is to still apply the XML-Funneling pattern. Justification herefore are the following considerations.
- SharePoint is the target front-end platform
- Favour out-of-the-box SharePoint above custom development.
- Application of SharePoint BCS; i) for the connectivity handling to external data administrations, ii) for the out-of-the-box UI controls to render external data, iii) and for integration within SharePoint Enterprise Search and FAST.
- Complex data structure is common within SAP data entities
Consequences for dealing with complex external data on SharePoint side
- SharePoint BCS can import complex external data structure
- The out-of-the-box UI controls (ExternalList, BusinessData webparts) do not support visualization of complex data structure
- A dedicated custom webpart can visualize the via BCS consumed complex data structure; by programming against the weakly typed BCS API.
Are there sensible alternatives for XML-Funneling approach?
WCF + DataContracts as alternative for Duet Enterprise to consume SAP data
First, Duet Enterprise is itself a WCF variant: the SAP data is consumed in SharePoint BCS as WCF service endpoint.
Second, on SharePoint side BCS is the limitating factor wrt complex structures, not Duet Enterprise. What if you bypass BCS and directly consume the Gateway Services as WCF endpoints? The result is that you not only loose the added interoperability value of Duet Enterprise: Single Sign-On, Authorization, Logging and Monitoring. But in addition also all of the native values of SharePoint BCS: standard UI-controls to visualize data (not all exposed SAP data is of hierarchical / complex structure), exposal to offline usage, use in SharePoint Search or FAST context.
Conclusion: this alternative is not sensible; it does not comply with the starting-points.
Expose complex SAP data structures via Duet Enterprise into SharePoint BCS
SharePoint BCS is a generic integration layer, usable for arbitrary external administrations: SAP, Siebel, Oracle, SQL-databases, … This transparant interoperability capability is supported through a script-like, weakly typed BCS programming model. Whenever you can operate with BCS imported external data through any of the available standard UI controls, this doesn't impose a problem. The controls abstract the weakly typed BCS programming model. But the standard controls are not able to visualize complex external data structures. For them also in this alternative you are required to custom build a view. Due the weakly typed programming model of the BCS API this is laborsome and error-prone.
Conclusion: this alternative is on SharePoint side an hardly better, programmer-friendly approach for consuming complex BCS consumed data; merely different. At SAP side, the consequence is that you cannot use the Gateway Generator tools/pipeline.
Expose complex SAP data structures as multiple associated simple structures
SharePoint BCS supports the concept of associations between two external content types. As parent-child is a relation, you can use this concept to expose complex SAP data structures through Duet Enterprise into SharePoint BCS.
BCS associations certainly has value, e.g. for master-child data model and UI-formats. But it also suffers from limitations that make it less applicable in other scenarios. For one: the net effect is that to retrieve a single complex SAP structure, multiple invocations from SharePoint to SAP must be done to retrieve the entire structure. And the responsibility for retrieving the entire structure is placed on the front-end side; instead of the data provider side. Another, the standard SharePoint UI controls all operate on a single BCS entity. If in the User Interface Design the 'child' data is directly mingled with(in) the 'parent' data, the standard controls cannot be used.
A Duet Enterprise design time issue is that the SAP Duet Enterprise generators are focussed on a single Gateway datamodel, and have no support for defining associations between 2 datamodels. Usage of BCS associations requires you to afterwards modify the BDC Model that is generated by BDC Publisher to add the associations. Either via SharePoint Designer, but in my experience you will more often than not need to resort to manual modification of the BDC Model. Which is time consuming, and error prone.
Conclusion: associations suffers from limitations and software architecture + performance drawbacks.
Given that you want to benefit from the interoperability values of Duet Enterprise, and that within the exposed SAP business package there are entities with complex structure; XML-Funneling is a feasible approach. Consistent application of the pattern results in recognizable code setups for multiple Duet Enterprise scenarios, on SAP and SharePoint side. And in our experience, it is also possible to develop reusable building blocks for SAP and SharePoint to ease in the application of the pattern.


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let rec compareVs v1 v2 =
 if List.length v1 == 0 then
 ((match v1 with [] -> 0. | h::l -> h) == (match v2 with [] -> 0. | h::l -> h)) &&
 (compareVs(match v1 with [] -> [] | h::l -> l) (match v2 with [] -> [] | h::l -> l))
And ran it:
# compareVs [0.1;0.1] [0.1;0.1];;
- : bool = false
Can't seem to find the problem. Please help.
The problem seams to be with float comparisons:
# 0.1 == 0.1;;
- : bool = false
# 1.0 == 1.0;;
- : bool = false
How else can we compare floats in ocaml?
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Use =, not ==.
Floats are reference types in ocaml and == checks reference equality. So 0.1 == 0.1 is false.
Generally, you almost always want to use =, not == to compare two values.
Note that aside from that, your function will return true for two lists of different size. Assuming that's not intended you should only return true when both lists are empty and false when one of them is empty and the other is not.
As a style note, using List.length to check whether a list is empty is usually a bad idea (for one thing it's O(n) even though it can be done in O(1) with pattern matching). Using pattern matching right at the beginning will also clean your code up a bit.
Like this:
let rec compareVs v1 v2 = match v1, v2 with
| [], [] -> true
| [], _
| _, [] -> false
| x::xs, y::ys -> x = y && compareVs xs ys
Oh and if this isn't just an exercise, note that you can just do v1 = v2 and don't actually need to write a function for this.
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I didn't know we could use, with match. Could you suggest any site where I can find all kinds of usages or examples of match or pattern-matching in general with OCAML? – lalli Oct 22 '10 at 15:32
_USER_: v1, v2 is a tuple and you can pattern match on tuples like on any other object. Also see this page for information about pattern matching. – sepp2k Oct 22 '10 at 15:36
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Sepp2k is correct, but as an additional discussion about comparing floats (which is often dangerous), the following functions have helped me:
This compares two floats with tolerance of epsilon and the syntax would be similar to other float functions. clearly extending >. and others is obvious.
let epsilon = 1.0e-10
let (=.) a b = (abs_float (a-.b)) < epsilon
If you are dealing with many extreme values of floats, you should look at the classify_float function in the pervasives module. I don't recall off the top of my head how NAN values are compared in the = function. You can independently experiment with this if you need to.
I had used this for awhile, but its tolerance was actually way to low for my usage (as in, a very small value for epsilon as above). This does not take into account what, NAN - NAN does. So, this might not be useful.
 let (=.) a b = match classify_float ( a -. b ) with
 | FP_infinite | FP_nan | FP_normal -> false
 | FP_subnormal | FP_zero -> true
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good point, I forgot how I ran into trouble in c++ and java when comparing floats. – lalli Oct 22 '10 at 15:34
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Take a look at the below list of Top 10 Transparent Animals in The World 2017. Some animals are unique and some are just disgusting but these ten transparent animals will make you wonder if your eyes are playing tricks on you. The fact that they are transparent amazes some people. With them being transparent you sometimes don't even realize you are near one. If you look closely at one of these animals you can see there insides because they only have transparent skin. Some live in the water and some live in the forest but either way they look pretty amazing to some people and some may say its gross.These transparent animals range from jellyfish to frogs to butterflies.
List of Top 10 Transparent Animals in The World 2017
This amazing frog has a semi-transparent skin, allowing you to see inside its tiny body. Glass frogs live in and among the trees and plants in the mountain forests in Central and South America. The Glass Frog is active at night so that they can hide easier from there predators. When it comes to breeding season they live along rivers and streams where they can lay there eggs on leaves that hang over the water. The weather where they live is becoming more dry so it is making it harder for them to survive.
9.)Transparent Barreleye FishThe Barrel eye fish lives in the North Pacific and lives at least 600 to 800 meters under water. This fish has large flat fins which allow them to remain motionless in the water. The pigments in the eyes help block out the sunlight from the sea surface in order for them to see other fish and there prey. The Barrel Eyed fish was known since 1939 but was not found alive till 2004.
8.)Glass winged ButterflyThese beautiful glass winged butterflies are found in Central America. The name glass winged came from the fact that there wings are almost completely transparent. Unlike other butterflies these glass winged butterflies use there wings to hide from there predators rather than use colors from there wings. Even though the wings are transparent and look very thin don't let that fool you, they can travel up to 12 miles in a day and are very strong. The males put out pheromones during mating season so that predators will stay away.
There are over 60 different glass squid and all have a unique different look. They are found in the depths of the ocean where the sun light helps them become camouflage. Some have a bio-luminescent light organ on the underside of their eyes. Most squids have a swollen body and short arms.
6.)Transparent Zebra FishThe female zebra fish will swim in swarms to the bottom of the ocean floor and lay clutches of hundreds of eggs that are then fertilized by there partners. Within days of the female laying these eggs the fish will be ready to hunt and find their own prey. Scientist have been known to be using these zebra fish for research because of their transparent bodies. The fact that they can be viewed on the inside helps scientist see how certain diseases move through the body and may help with finding cures for certain things.
5.)Transparent Ice fishThe ice fish also known as the "white crocodile fish" has large eyes, a long toothed snout, and diaphanous fins. It is scaleless and pale, when cut open the blood is transparent as well. The gills of this fish are soft and white, almost like vanilla yogurt. They are known to be the only vertebrates that lack red blood cells or hemoglobin. Having no red blood cells they had to adapt to there surroundings but they have more energy than most fish.
This tiny and transparent amphipod has two large eyes that looks like a space helmet on their heads. It has 32 retinas, 16 on each helping them see a lot better than other fish in the ocean. They live off the cost of California at the depths of 150 to 500 meters. While it swims its eyes are pointed upward to search for prey.
3.)Transparent Larval ShrimpLarval Shrimp go through lots of stages before they become full grown. First the female will lay the eggs, once she releases the eggs the sperm that is attached to her will fertilize them. It only takes 14 to 18 hours for an egg to hatch. Then they go through a stage called nauplii which only takes about 1 to 1 and 1/2 days. They then go through other stages before they are full grown which include, Zoea, Mysis, Post-Larvae. After these stages and about 9 to 14 months later they are fully grown and ready to breed again.
Salp go through waters pumping the water through their bodies.They are more related to humans than jellyfish because of the backbones they have. Some people think because they look like jellyfish that they are related but they are not. There are over 70 species of different salp and they range from 1 to 20 centimeters in length. This is the one of the world's most amazing Transparent Animals 2017.
1.) Transparent JellyfishJellyfish can be as big as a human and as small as a pinhead. You can eat some types of jellyfish. Jellyfish have been on this earth way before the dinosaurs so that makes them older than anything that lives. They have no brains but some have eyes. Jellyfish are only made up of water and protein and a group of them together are called a smack.
So, these are the world's most amazing Top 10 Transparent Animals 2017. All of these animals are very cool. Some seem dangerous and others you just want to pick up and hold because of how cute they are. If you really think about it most of these animals are transparent because it helps them hide from other animals that could harm them or even kill them. Some seem to be helpful to us humans and some just want to be left alone. If you ever see an animal like this do not touch it without doing your research because you could get hurt or you could hurt them.


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This paper deals with the issue of how a language family's range (how geographically dispersed it is) provides information about its age (how old it is).
I believe that a similar methodology should be applied to the spread of gene variants as well (e.g., Y-chromosome haplogroups). At present, haplogroup ages are estimated only by internal (genetic) information, e.g., the diversity of linked STR loci. However, as I have argued before, there are additional pieces of information: (i) how big the haplogroup is, and (ii) how geographically dispersed it is. Both (i) and (ii) depend on a haplogroup's age.
CURRENT ANTHROPOLOGY Volume 49, Number 6, December 2008 DOI: 10.1086/592436
Language Spread Rates and Prehistoric American Migration Rates
Spread rates for language families can be calculated from the family's range (which is generally known rather precisely) and age (which is only rarely known precisely but can often be estimated with useful accuracy). Spread rates are calculated here for a number of different language families and subfamilies in different cultural and economic contexts. Deliberate long-distance migrations, imperial conquest, and transport using wheels or sails make for very rapid spread rates. The rate of prestate, pretransport spreads depends primarily on ecology (latitude, coast vs. interior, mountains, vegetation, climate); presence versus absence of food production and movement into inhabited versus abandoned land have little impact on spread rates. This fact makes rates of recent language spreads applicable to early prehistory, where they can be used to model prehistoric colonization rates. Average rates for various ecologies are calculated for a spread from a North American entry point to the archaeological site at Monte Verde, Chile (14,500 calendar years ago). The time required gives a latest possible date for the first settlement of the Americas. Entry dates postdating the end of glaciation all require implausibly fast rates of spread.


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How to Generate Synthetic Data with a Knowledge Graph
May 4, 2020
Companies must be extremely careful about how they deal with customer data due to current international data protection regulation. When creating marketing resources, presenting to stakeholders or demonstrating to prospective clients, they must have data that looks realistic but respects data privacy. However, using data that clearly does not conform with the expected format can mislead audiences and result in unfavourable decisions.
One way to tackle this problem is to anonymize the data samples used. However, implementing a good anonymization algorithm that makes it impossible to trace the data back to its source is not always straightforward. This article presents an alternative approach: instead of going through the tedious process of anonymizing data, we solve this problem by using the PoolParty Semantic Suite to generate synthetic data.
Five Steps to Create Synthetic Data With A Knowledge Graph
Our goal is to create synthetic data that conforms with the expected structure and that has realistic content, such as properly formed sentences with domain content, instead of the lorem ipsum type of sentences. As the data generated is completely synthetic, the risk of it being traceable to source materials is greatly mitigated.
We have applied this principle to create synthetic curricula vitae (CV) by following these steps:
1. Decide on the Structure
Define the structure of the CV by describing what data fields are needed, the expected content and other formatting aspects of the resulting document. This acts as a template to be automatically filled in using domain knowledge. For illustrative purposes we have defined a simplified CV template. In our case, relevant fields are the personal details of the person, their current position and education as well as the hard and soft skills they possess.
2. Analyze and Extract
Use PoolParty to analyze sample documents to extract instances of key elements and frequencies. The PoolParty Extractor was run using the ESCO taxonomy to identify relevant skills in the different source CVs and build a model of the frequency of different types of CVs (e.g. developer, HR, manager,...) contained in the data set. This gives us a good idea of how the target documents should look like with regards to content.
3. Build Your Knowledge Graph
Build a knowledge graph that has concept schemes that contain the domain-specific knowledge matching the template fields that need to be filled in. Knowledge can be reused from existing taxonomies or other sources (for instance, online image databases or random name generators). For our CV generator, we created concept schemes for companies, universities, degrees, hard skills (based on the output of the PoolParty Extractor) and soft skills, among others.
4. Build an Algorithm
Build a generation algorithm that looks at each field in the template and instantiates it with values from the corresponding concept scheme in the knowledge graph. In its simplest version, the instantiation can be done randomly, in more sophisticated versions we can look at relations across concept schemes. For instance, if the person holds a position in software development, then their hard skills should be related to that professional area.
5. Generate the synthetic data
Use the defined structure and the selected values to generate a meaningful CV from the template.
Having a rich knowledge graph is key to be able to generate documents that feel realistic and varied. A good agile approach to the development of such a knowledge graph is to tackle one category at a time and enrich the taxonomy step by step. For instance, building the taxonomy across all concept schemes with knowledge only about the software development discipline.
So far, we have discussed the idea of filling in fields in a template. However, we have not elaborated on what would be the nature of those fields. Often these fields are blocks of coherent text, for instance a summary of the biography of a person. Given that the use cases we have tackled delimit the structure and content of such blocks of text, so far we have opted for a simplified approach based on the knowledge graph instead of using natural language processing (NLP) to generate sentences. We have defined the type of sentences that appear in each relevant section of a CV. We also established how to choose those sentences (e.g. introducing variations in the combination).
Each of those sentences have parameters that can be instantiated using concepts from the knowledge graph. When we combine the different types of sentences, and different values within each of them, we end up with a varied range of outputs. The sheer number of possible outputs obscures the fact that the generation follows a certain generation pattern.
The Benefits Of This Approach
This approach is sufficiently generic that it can be applied to any use case where a relatively standard template for documents can be defined (contracts, for example). It also accommodates variations of such a template. It scales well as we can start with a subset of the knowledge in the taxonomy. In addition, the knowledge graph can be reused for other purposes. Once this infrastructure has been set up the generation of documents is instantaneous.
Feel free to check out our HR Recommender demo, where we used synthetic data generated using this approach.
The Road Ahead
There are complex approaches to generate text using NLP techniques. While we chose to only work with a knowledge graph in the first version of the CV Generator, any number of these NLP techniques could be used to improve the results with regards to the generation of realistic natural language sentences. Our generator was built to easily incorporate such techniques and advanced statistical models into the basic algorithm.
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Expect the Unexpected
Benchmarking Course Costs and Margins:
Gray Associates has begun developing benchmarks on revenue, direct instructional cost, and gross margin by academic program, course, and section. Our first cut at the data, for 100 to 400-level courses in small colleges had some surprising results. A word of caution, these are early results on a sample of schools. As the sample grows, the results may change.
One might expect that teaching English would be relatively low-cost. English professors are often paid less than other professors (e.g., in computer science) and their classes, which are often mandatory general education courses, should be full. As a result, the classes should theoretically have below-average costs per student credit hour (i.e., modest wages divided by lots of credit hours).
The reality is a little different. Theater, Music, English, and French have the highest cost per SCH in our dataset. Programs that are often perceived to be expensive, such as Engineering, have a below-average cost per SCH. Philosophy, a much-maligned discipline, has one of the lowest costs per SCH.
Even if the cost for English is higher, it might still have above-average margins, if revenue per student credit hour were higher. For example, students in English classes might receive less scholarship money than students in STEM programs.
However, Theater, French, Music, and English also have the lowest margins in our dataset. Nursing, often perceived to be an "expensive" discipline, actually has the highest margins, with Finance running a close second.
Overall, cost, margins, and size of discipline are not closely correlated, as illustrated below. To understand which programs are generating subsidies and which may be spending them, you need to pull faculty compensation data from payroll; tuition and discounts (scholarships) from the SIS; and faculty and student data on classes taught and or attended. With this data in hand, you can calculate the real revenue, cost, and margin by section, course, and discipline. Once you know the economics of your academic offerings, you will be in a much better position to invest in growth or address budget cuts–and avoid cuts that may end up costing more than they are worth.
Note: Circle size is proportional to the number of student credit hours.
Published at Mon, 26 Oct 2020 18:41:45 +0000


So This Is What Kindle Games Look Like
You could already use Instapaper on your Kindle, but now Amazon's released two games. Games! A Kindle app store's been inevitable ever since Amazon opened the device to developers in January, but now we know what'll be on the shelves.
The two games, Every Word and Shuffled Row, are both text-based, which makes sense given that they're on a black and white device QWERTY device geared at bookworms.
In Every Word, you're shown six or seven letters and tasked with finding how many words they contain:
Your score is comprised of two components: first make a lot of words, second try to make the longest word possible in each scramble. The best way to increase your score is to do both, but it's a huge bonus to find the longest word possible. Why? Because when you do, you earn the right to play a completely new level with a brand new set of letters. As long as you keep finding the longest word, you can move on to a new level with a new jumble of letters and push your score higher and higher.
While Shuffled Row also asks you to find words, this time in 60 lettered tiles:
The tiles are added to your row one at a time so you'll constantly be working with a new set of letters. After you submit a word, the letters you used will be removed and new ones will be added. Increase your score by using less common letters. Create longer words and increase your score even more. If you don't use the letters fast enough, they'll disappear and new ones will take their place, so you'll have to decide if you want to play it safe and use short words or try to wait for more letters to form longer words.
[gallery _PHONE_]Both games are free to download at Amazon right now. They look fun if you're a word dork like I am, but rudimentary. So now that we know Kindle games are here, the question is how far will they go? [Amazon via TechFlash]


text: The U.K. has put it's entire collection of World War 1 diaries, letters, maps, and photographs online for free. This extensive collection is an amazing resource for teachers in high school or middle school teaching about WWI. The diaries hold information about the daily lives of the soldiers in different units and divisions, and at different times during the war. They are not personal diaries although they do contain some personal information. Rather, these diaries contain information about decisions made in the unit and the activities that resulted from them. Students could use these diaries as a resource for a research paper and/or the teacher could even just use these as a way to learn more about what he/she will be teaching. This is an excellent primary source that students and teachers could utilize.


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d. Obtain basic information about the object:
nlgr =
 FileName: 'dcmotor_m'
 Order: [1x1 struct]
 Parameters: [2x1 struct]
 InitialStates: [2x1 struct]
 FileArgument: {}
 CovarianceMatrix: 'estimate'
 EstimationInfo: [1x1 struct]
 TimeVariable: 't'
 NoiseVariance: [2x2 double]
 Algorithm: [1x1 struct]
 Ts: 0
 TimeUnit:'seconds'
 InputName: {'Voltage'}
 InputUnit: {'V'}
 InputGroup: [1x1 struct]
 OutputName: {2x1 cell}
 OutputUnit: {2x1 cell}
 OutputGroup: [1x1 struct]
 Name: 'DC-motor'
 Notes: {}
 UserData: []
Performance Evaluation of the Initial DC-Motor Model
nlgr.Algorithm.SimulationOptions.AbsTol = 1e-6;
nlgr.Algorithm.SimulationOptions.RelTol = 1e-5;
2. Compare the simulated output with the measured data.
The simulated and measured outputs are shown in a plot window.
compare(z, nlgr);
Parameter Estimation
Estimate the parameters and initial states using pem (Prediction-Error identification Method).
nlgr = setinit(nlgr, 'Fixed', {false false}); % Estimate the initial state.
nlgr = pem(z, nlgr, 'Display', 'Full');
Performance Evaluation of the Estimated DC-Motor Model
1. Review the information about the estimation process.
This information is stored in the EstimationInfo property of the idnlgrey object. The property also contains information about how the model was estimated, such as solver and search method, data set, and why the estimation was terminated.
ans =
 Status: 'Estimated model (PEM)'
 Method: 'Solver: ode45; Search: lsqnonlin'
 LossFcn: 0.0011
 FPE: 0.0011
 DataName: 'DC-motor'
 DataLength: 400
 DataTs: {[0.1000]}
 DataDomain: 'Time'
 DataInterSample: {'zoh'}
 UpdateNorm: []
 LastImprovement: []
 Iterations: 4
 InitialGuess: [1x1 struct]
 Warning: ''
 EstimationTime: 5.6600
compare(z, nlgr);
na = [2 2; 2 2];
nb = [2; 2];
nk = [1; 1];
compare(z, nlgr, dcarx);
4. Check the prediction errors.
pe(z, nlgr);
5. Check the residuals ("leftovers").
Residuals indicate what is left unexplained by the model and are small for good model quality. Execute the following two lines of code to generate the residual plot. Press any key to advance from one plot to another.
 resid(z, nlgr);
6. Plot the step response.
7. Examine the model covariance.
ans =
 1.0e-04 *
 0.1521 0.0015
 0.0015 0.0007
ans =
 0.0099 -0.0004
 -0.0004 0.1094
nlgr =
 u(1) Voltage(t) [V]
 States: initial value
 x(1) Angular position(t) [rad] xinit@exp1 0._PHONE_ (est) in [-Inf, Inf]
 x(2) Angular velocity(t) [rad/s] xinit@exp1 -0.133728 (est) in [-Inf, Inf]
 y(1) Angular position(t) [rad]
 Parameters: value standard dev
 p1 Time-constant [s] 0.243646 0.00390033 (est) in [-Inf, Inf]
 p2 Static gain [rad/(V*s)] 0.249645 0.00027217 (est) in [-Inf, Inf]
The model was estimated from the data set 'DC-motor', which
contains 400 data samples.
Loss function 0.00107462 and Akaike's FPE 0.00108536
Created: 14-Jan-2014 00:59:46
Last modified: 14-Jan-2014 01:00:04
 - Writing and using C MEX model-files.
 - Handling nonscalar parameters.
 - Impact of certain algorithm choices.
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Criteria for Evaluating Prototyping Tools
The criteria that I've defined for evaluating prototyping tools comprise three subsets:
- disposability criteria—This first set of criteria concerns the disposability of the prototypes that the tools produce. In other words, how much of a prototype can you use in the actual software implementation.
- management, usability testing, design, and specification criteria—This second set of criteria, which I call MUDS criteria, concerns the degree to which the tools support the key elements of the prototyping activity.
- benefits, limitations, and usages criteria—This third and final set of criteria, which I call BLU criteria, summarizes the key benefits and limitations of the prototyping tools, along with their most appropriate usages.
The MUDS Criteria: Evaluating Tools' Support for Specific Prototyping Activities
Let's look at the individual MUDS criteria in more detail. You should assess these criteria as follows:
- management criteria—How well does a tool support collaborative work on prototypes and revision control? Does it provide facilities for distributing prototypes and gaining feedback from stakeholders?
- usability testing criteria—How easy is it to conduct usability tests on prototypes? Does a tool offer any features whose specific purpose is to aid usability testing?
- design criteria—How complex and sophisticated can a prototype be—that is, to what degree can it be interactive and how rich can its functionality be? Can a tool produce high-fidelity—even pixel perfect—designs of screens?
- specification criteria—How well does a tool support the documentation of a prototype's functionality for development purposes—that is, the software product's architecture and coding and the functional testing of the final implementation?
Note—Although it may be tempting to think that, as the software development industry generally moves away from waterfall development methods and toward agile methods, specifications are becoming redundant, this is not the case! Agile methods seek to reduce the amount of documentation, not to eliminate it altogether. Developers still need a lot of information—in addition to prototypes that show what screens look like—to define the goals for an agile sprint. For example, they might need the hex values for colors and the contents of drop-down lists.
However, agile methods do qualitatively change the nature of design documentation for software development projects. Rather than thick, beautifully presented requirements and specifications documents, which can be very time-consuming to create and update, development teams need just enough information to get their job done. A UX designer needs to be able to quickly and easily create and iterate a design and update its documentation.
In evaluating prototyping tools against the MUDS criteria, it is useful to think in terms of a simple four-way radar diagram like that in Figure 1, which shows this set of criteria in balance in a perfect prototyping tool.
Four Generations of Prototyping Tools
Now, let's use these criteria to better understand the four generations of prototyping tools and their associated prototyping methods.
The First Generation
Contrary to what some may believe, prototyping software is not a particularly new idea. Almost from the beginning, software product teams wanted to know what the screens of the applications they wanted to develop would look like. They soon learned that if they passed a load of diagrams and text to computer programmers in a requirements document and just let them get on with it, the screens that got developed were often very different from what the stakeholders had envisioned!
As a consequence, some enlightened teams concluded that it would be a good idea to plan what screens would look like before actually building the working software, so they looked for some suitable tools with which to do this. Fortunately, there was a pretty good one that was literally available off the shelf and at a low cost: pen and paper.
Not long after, software designers came up with some formal methods of paper prototyping. In particular, Belcore gave us the Plastic Interface for Collaborative Technology Initiative Through Video Exploration, or PICTIVE for short. We also got a C.A.R.D. game for participatory task analysis and redesign to go with PICTIVE.
So how does paper prototyping stack up against our evaluation criteria?
This is easy. Paper prototypes are 100% disposable! Ultimately, you have to communicate everything in the system design documentation in some way.
Let's evaluate paper prototyping using the MUDS criteria. As Figure 2 and the following show, paper prototyping is very weak in this regard:
- management—Paper prototyping is difficult to manage. For example, if using PICTIVE, facilitating sessions is challenging because it's all about managing people—who are far more complex than any computer! Likewise, documenting the process and organizing its output is not easy, because you are dealing with lots of quite unstructured paper documents.
- usability testing—An experienced usability test facilitator can get some very useful findings when testing with paper prototypes. However, there is, of course, no interactivity, which presents some significant limitations.
- design—You are basically restricted to conceptual design work.
- specification—The best you can realistically do is to scan your paper prototypes, then copy them into an application for annotation.
Now, let's look at the benefits, limitations, and usages of paper prototypes.
The following benefits of paper prototyping are easy to understand:
- Creating paper prototypes is cheap and fast.
- The process of creating them is highly interactive and collaborative—as long as everyone is in the same room, of course.
- Iterating design concepts is quick and easy.
- Making group decisions can happen very quickly.
A fundamental feature of real user-centered design—which, in my experience, is not commonly realized—is that it is multidisciplinary. Indeed, UCD seeks to engage all project stakeholders at an early stage, including users, customers, domain experts, and project owners or sponsors. Within the context of UCD, paper prototyping has the important benefit that it reduces the dominance of software development professionals—including UX designers—over other stakeholders who are involved during the early parts of a design process when key decisions get made.
The MUDS criteria tell us that paper prototyping has the following serious limitations:
- It's difficult to prototype large or complex systems.
- Specifying designs—even capturing basic designs and the design process that led to them—can be challenging.
- The prototypes have no interactivity.
Paper prototyping has served us well and continues to do so. I always kick off my ideation and conceptual design work with a PICTIVE session, and I encourage everyone to participate. Indeed, I see it as an integral and necessary activity of real user-centered design.
The Second Generation
The serious limitations of paper prototyping soon became a barrier to progress, and it wasn't long before product teams wanted prototypes that looked more realistic and had greater interactivity. Again, software designers looked for some tools with which to create them, and they were again easy to find. Visual designers—and also some UX designers—used graphic design packages like Photoshop to design screen images. Then, they sliced and diced up the images and added them to HTML pages, using an HTML editor such as Dreamweaver, which provided some interactivity. That's why I call this the slice-and-dice generation of prototyping tools.
Are slice-and-dice prototypes disposable? This is a complex question. In theory, it is possible to iterate both the screen images and the associated HTML, so the prototype eventually evolves into working front-end code. This is non-disposable prototyping, and examples of this are not uncommon. (I've done this several times myself.) However, in reality, many slice-and-dice prototypes get completely junked. The following are reasons for this:
- The target development environment might not be HTML—for example, the system a team is developing may be a desktop or mobile application rather than a Web site or application.
- The UX team that produces the prototype might not write the code in a way that the development team considers correct or even requires. Sadly, I've often seen technically competent UX designers spend weeks coding their prototypes to a commercial standard and proudly present them as final front-end code, only to have the development manager immediately ask developers to rewrite all of the code—because it wasn't compliant with the chosen standards or wouldn't have worked well with the middleware or back-end code libraries they were using in the final implementation.
- Developers generally see front-end coding as their turf and often rewrite a UX designer's code just on that principle. This is an organizational reality!
In summary, although the slice-and-dice approach has potential for the creation of non-disposable prototypes, in my experience, the reality is that this rarely happens. Such prototypes—and a lot of the images they contain—often get junked at some point in the software development life cycle.
Now, let's evaluate slice-and-dice prototyping using the following MUDS criteria:
- management—Generally, a problem with slice-and-dice prototyping is that it relies on synchronizing the output from two different types of software: a graphic design application and an HTML editor. What's more, there are often different people using these applications—possibly even people in different groups within an organization.
- usability testing—Slicing and dicing can produce very functional prototypes. It can also produce very realistic looking high-fidelity or even pixel-perfect prototypes. While this is sometimes very useful, it can also be a double-edged sword! Doing usability testing with screen designs that look like a finished product can unconsciously lead test participants to perceive a prototype as the actual application. In turn, this can make them less forgiving of any problems and limitations of the prototype during testing, distorting the test findings—particularly for satisfaction metrics.
- design—The situation here is similar to that for the usability testing criteria. The high-fidelity prototypes that designers typically produce when using this approach are sometimes very useful. But when senior stakeholders review such prototypes


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