Smartphone App Snaps Stealthy Photos to Spy On Your Life in 3D
The research paper published by the scientists behind the app states,
Through completely opportunistic use of the phone's camera and other sensors, PlaceRaider constructs rich, three dimensional models of indoor environments. Remote burglars can thus 'download' the physical space, study the environment carefully, and steal virtual objects from the environment (such as financial documents, information on computer monitors, and personally identifiable information).
What this means is that hackers would be able to look into places you've been — standing at your bedroom desk, for example — and steal information as if they were actually there. An example given in the paper is the theft of your bank account information by looking at a check left on a desk:
The app, designed by Robert Templeman of the US Naval Surface Warfare Center and scientists at Indiana University, can run secretly in the background of any smartphone running Android 2.3 (after an unsuspecting "victim" launches the app, of course). It makes decisions on when to surreptitiously snap photos based on things like time, location, and orientation.
Useless images (ones that are too blurry or dark) are filtered out, while the rest are beamed to a central server, which creates virtual 3D spaces based on the content of the images. These 3D spaces can then be browsed by the person behind the malicious "hack".
The whole thing isn't just conceptual: the scientists actually gave infected phones to 20 oblivious test subjects, who were asked to use the devices like they normally would in office environments. The results were pretty crazy: 3D models were successfully obtained from every one of the 20 subjects, and it was easier to glean sensitive information from the 3D models than from the original photos.
It's exciting that all kinds of cameras are getting "smarter" and becoming more Internet-capable, but at the same time it's scary to think that hacks like this will become easier and easier as the industry continues in that direction.
(via Technology Review)
 - Andross77
 So it means Lucius Fox didn't deleted the system after all…
 - smartypants
 You might want to correct some typos in your article. There are at least two, but I'm not saying where they are!
 - Michael Zhang
 I THINK I found them. Thanks :D
 - 9inchnail
 What are people doing with their phones all the time? If someone installed that app on my phone, he'd get a 3D model of the inside of my pants' pocket. Have fun with that.
 - The_photographer_Tom
 Take alook at the highlighted text where you mention "nancial documents"
 - Michael Zhang
 Weird… Not sure how that happened, since it was a direct copy-paste from the paper originally. Thanks tom! :)


text: A numerical simulation code was developed for estimating the surface temperature of POM wear test with different shapes. By using the developed code, the effect of sliding geometry with various contact areas on the surface temperature was numerically investigated. The simulation results show that the limiting sliding velocity depends on contact area and reaches a peak value at a certain geometry. It was also found that the simulation code leads an exact prediction of limiting velocity in the range of small contact area. This is important since the exact temperature measurement is very difficult in this range.

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Question: Is A Correlation Of.5 Strong?
Is.6 a strong correlation?
Correlation Coefficient = 0.8: A fairly strong positive relationship.
Correlation Coefficient = 0.6: A moderate positive relationship.
Correlation Coefficient = -0.8: A fairly strong negative relationship.
Correlation Coefficient = -0.6: A moderate negative relationship..
Is 0.3 A strong correlation?
Correlation coefficient values below 0.3 are considered to be weak; 0.3-0.7 are moderate; >0.7 are strong. You also have to compute the statistical significance of the correlation.
How do you interpret a weak negative correlation?
Negative correlation or inverse correlation is a relationship between two variables whereby they move in opposite directions. If variables X and Y have a negative correlation (or are negatively correlated), as X increases in value, Y will decrease; similarly, if X decreases in value, Y will increase.
How do you know if a correlation is strong or weak?
What does a correlation of 0.1 mean?
If the correlation coefficient of two variables is zero, it signifies that there is no linear relationship between the variables. … When the value of ρ is close to zero, generally between -0.1 and +0.1, the variables are said to have no linear relationship (or a very weak linear relationship).
Is 0.2 A weak correlation?
The correlation coefficient of 0.2 before excluding outliers is considered as negligible correlation while 0.3 after excluding outliers may be interpreted as weak positive correlation (Table 1).
What does a correlation of 0.5 mean?
The strength of the relationship between X and Y is sometimes expressed by squaring the correlation coefficient and multiplying by 100. The resulting statistic is known as variance explained (or R2). Example: a correlation of 0.5 means 0.52×100 = 25% of the variance in Y is "explained" or predicted by the X variable.
Is 0.5 A weak correlation?
Correlation coefficients whose magnitude are between 0.5 and 0.7 indicate variables which can be considered moderately correlated. Correlation coefficients whose magnitude are between 0.3 and 0.5 indicate variables which have a low correlation.
Is 0.4 A strong correlation?
Generally, a value of r greater than 0.7 is considered a strong correlation. Anything between 0.5 and 0.7 is a moderate correlation, and anything less than 0.4 is considered a weak or no correlation.
Is 0.25 A strong correlation?
The correlation between two variables is considered to be strong if the absolute value of r is greater than 0.75….What is Considered to Be a "Strong" Correlation?Absolute value of rStrength of relationship0.25 < r < 0.5Weak relationship0.5 < r < 0.75Moderate relationshipr > 0.75Strong relationship1 more row•Jan 22, 2020
Is 0.2 A strong correlation?
The magnitude of the correlation coefficient indicates the strength of the association. For example, a correlation of r = 0.9 suggests a strong, positive association between two variables, whereas a correlation of r = -0.2 suggest a weak, negative association.
What R value is a weak correlation?
r > 0 indicates a positive association. r < 0 indicates a negative association. Values of r near 0 indicate a very weak linear relationship. The strength of the linear relationship increases as r moves away from 0 toward -1 or 1.


Subject: Re: New i2c framework
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Date: 02/19/2002 18:13:25
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| > | On 18 Feb 2002 wrote:
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| > | > if (id!= AT76C651_CHIPID) {
| > | ^^^
| > | What is the defined byte ordering for i2c? Is there one? Since id is a
| > | int16_t, BE and LE machines will handle this bit differently...
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| > There is no defined byte ordering for i2c. That is defined separately
| > by each device manufacturer.
| So then how do you know if you got the right id? What if another chip has
| the byte-swapped ID, and its manufacturer chose to use the other byte
| ordering, so that they both end up being the same byte sequence?
You lose.
The way things are *supposed* to work is that each manufacturer requests
a specific bus address for a specific device. Then you can identify the
device by the address at which it probes.
Some manufacturers do not allocate an address for the device, rather they
allow the address to be programmable. In that case you need some other
method of determining what sort of device is attached at a particular bus
In this case, this device has a register with a chip ID accessible with
a specific bus access sequece. Considering the many different possible
addresses and access sequences, the likelyhood that two completely
different devices will probe the same way is almost zero.


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Excel LARGE Function (Example + Video)
When to use Excel LARGE Function
Excel LARGE function can be used to get the Kth largest value from a range of cells or array. For example, you can get the 3rd largest value from a range of cells.
What it Returns
It returns the value which is the Kth largest value from a range of cells.
- array – the array or range of cells from which you want to fetch the kth largest value.
- k – the rank or position (from the top) of number that you want to fetch.
- If array is empty, LARGE returns the _TAG_! error value.
- If k ≤ 0 or if k is greater than the number of data points, LARGE returns the _TAG_! error value.
- If n is the number of data points in a range, then LARGE(array,1) returns the largest value, and LARGE(array,n) returns the smallest value.
Examples – Excel LARGE Function
Here are six example of using Excel LARGE Function:
#1 Getting the largest value from a list
If you have a list of numbers (A2:A4) and you want to get the largest number from the list, you can use the following LARGE function: =LARGE(A2:A4,1)
Here the Kth value is 1, which would return the largest number from the range of numbers.
#2 Getting the second largest value from a list
To get the second largest value from the list (A2:A4), use the following formula: =LARGE(A2:A4,2)
Since the Kth value in the formula is 2, it returns the second largest values from the range of numbers.
#3 Using LARGE function when there are blank cells in the range
If there are any blank cells in the range, it is ignored by the LARGE function.
For example, in the above example, while we take the range of cells as A2:A5, the blank cell is ignored by the LARGE function while returning the largest value from this list.
#4 Using LARGE function when there are cells with text
Similar to blank cells, Excel LARGE function also ignores cells with text, alphanumeric characters, special characters, and logical values.
#5 Using LARGE function when there are cells with duplicates
If there are duplicates in the range used in the LARGE function, it will treat those duplicates as consecutive values. In the above example, two cells have the value 7. Now when you use LARGE function to return the largest and second largest value, it returns 7 in both the cases.
#6 Using LARGE function when there is Error in the cells
If there is an error in any of the cells used in the LARGE function, it will return an error.
Excel LARGE Function – Video Tutorial
Related Excel Functions:


I modifying a gcode file with custom toolswap codee, and I need to replace every instance of "T0" (^T0$) with a large amount of text (19 lines), which is stored in a separate file. How can I do so quickly?
There are about 100 instances that need replacement, and I can see the need to do more in the future, so I need something that does it all at once.
I tried defining a macro with q to replace one instance, hoping to run it a certain number of times, but I could only run the macro once. The macro deleted the line, and then read (:r) from the other file.
Does that work for you?
It will replace every occurence of T0 with the content of filename.
 - Thanks! That did exactly what I needed. I wasn't familiar with this type of syntax. Would you know where it is documented? – BillThePlatypus Mar 8 '19 at 1:51
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 = is a register (a special one called the "expression register"). To look up help for registers you precede them with @. So :h @=. For the specific context of expression register use in the substitution command there's :h sub-replace-expression aka :h s:\=. – B Layer Mar 8 '19 at 2:42
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If you look at a modem, with it's small central processing unit and special-purpose digital signal processor, and then look at a modern PC, with it's large CPU and general-purpose DSP on the sound card, you may wonder if the hardware duplication of an external modem is necessary.
A "WinModem" incorporates the CPU and DSP of the modem into the slightly-enhanced fabric of a PC. They are called "WinModems" because they originally only shipped with Microsoft Windows device drivers. These device drivers presented the illusion of a serial port attached to a Hayes AT-style modem. For a long time only Windows versions of these drivers where available. Some manufacturers now provide Linux versions of their device drivers as well, these modems are jokingly called "LinModems".
It is probably possible to use a LinModem as a Linux console. At the most this would require altering the source code to dumb-down the AT command emulation of the modem and recompiling the kernel.
Boot loaders, however, work in a very confined software environment and struggle to support a simple serial chip. Considering that some boot loaders do not even handle interrupts, handling the complex DSP of a LinModem is well beyond what is practical.

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Validasi Nilai Erosivitas Hujan Dari Data Penginderaan Jauh TRMM 3B42 Di Bali Selatan
AbstractRainfall erosivity is a measure for the erosive force of rainfall. Rainfall kinetic energydetermines the erosivity and is in turn greatly dependent on rainfall intensity. Research hasbeen conducted to validate monthly rainfall erosivity derived from the Tropical Rainfall MeasuringMission (TRMM) Multisatellite Precipitation Analysis(TMPA)3B43 version 7 usingraingauge data analysis from 2003 to 2012. Rain gauge located in the south Bali regions wereemployedto monitor erosivity value from two different methods that are base on Bols (1978)andAbdurachman(1989). Therelationship of erosivity and their other factor from TRMM3B43andrain gauge data statistical analysis measures consisted of the linear correlation coefficient,themean bias error (MBE), and the root mean square error (RMSE). Data validation wasconductedwith point-by-point analysis. The results of these analyses indicate that satellitedatahave lower values than the gauge estimation values. The point-by-point analysis indicatedsatellite data values of high to very high correlation, while values of MBE and RMSEtendedto indicate underestimations with high square errors. Moreover,monthly rainfall erosivityderived from TRMM give high correlation from both methods, with has high bias androot-mean-squareerror. In general, the data from TRMM3B43 version 7 are potentially usabletoreplace rain gauge data based on erosivity estimation, but after inconsistencies and errorsaretaken into account.
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SSE/EFI Working Paper Series in Economics and Finance 728
This paper studies the evolution of peoples' models of how other people think - their theories of mind. First, this is formalized within the level-k model, which postulates a hierarchy of types, such that type k plays a k times iterated best response to the uniform distribution. It is found that, under plausible conditions, lower types co-exist with higher types. The results are extended to a model of learning, in which type k plays a k times iterated best response the average of past play. The model is also extended to allow for partial observability of the opponent's type.
Theory of Mind Depth of Reasoning Evolution Learning Level-k Fictitious Play Cognitive Hierarchy


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What do "parergonal" and "parergon" mean in the following sentence? Can anybody suggest some synonym?
Thus, the figurative signification of structure does not escape but instead confirms the parergonal and supplemental status of ornament. If structure in its metaphorical sense is the fully conceived structured idea of the building, then ornament becomes the parergon that reifies the underlying essential idea, the recessive unseen structure. (Source: "Structure/ornament and the Modern Figuration of Architecture" by Anne-Marie Sankovitch)
I checked them out in American Heritage Online English dictionary and Wikipedia, but I wasn't able to figure it out, and I'm struggling because I'm actually not able to understand what Anne-Marie Sankovitch said.
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closed as general reference by Marthaª, MετάEd, TimLymington, tchrist, Mahnax Aug 27 '12 at 17:18
Did you try "define: parergon" using Google, a method that was suggested to you in the answer to a different question of yours? Also, Wikipedia is not a dictionary, so if you are looking for definitions, it is not a good source. You might try Wiktionary instead. Also, since you are reading academic articles, you should probably consult a more sophisticated dictionary. – KitFox Aug 27 '12 at 17:02
Also, "parergon" is defined earlier in that very article. – KitFox Aug 27 '12 at 17:06
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From the OED's entry for parergon:
parergon /pəˈrɝːgɒn/.
Pl. parerga (in 7 erron. parergas).
Etymology: L. parergon an extra ornament in art, a. Gr. πάρεργον by-work, subordinate or secondary business, etc., sb. use of neuter of πάρεργος beside or in addition to the main work, f. παρά beside + ἕργον work.
 1. In Painting: Something subordinate or accessory to the main subject; hence, generally and fig., ornamental accessory or addition, grace, embellishment.? Obs.
 2. By-work, subordinate or secondary work or business; work apart from one's main business or ordinary employment. Also a work, composition, etc., that is secondary to or a derivative of a larger or greater work; an opusculum.
 3. † A supplemental work. (As title of a book.)
Note that senses 1 and 3 are both considered obsolete.
I suggest you gain access to an unabridged dictionary. You aren't going to be happy with all the words that these so-called "learners" dictionaries leave out, like oh maybe... opusculum.
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PHILADELPHIA – Google might help internal medicine residents identify rare kidney problems but offered no help in the diagnosis of common renal conditions, investigators reported here.
A study showed that internal medicine residents aided by Google achieved equal status with nephrology fellows for diagnosis of kidney disorders but were significantly less accurate than attending nephrologists (P<0.001).
Subgroup analyses showed that "Googlers" were no match for attending nephrologists for common or uncommon kidney disorders (P<0.001, P=0.014), Peter Schrier, MD, of Hofstra North Shore-Long Island Jewish School of Medicine in New York, and colleagues concluded in a poster presentation at the American Society of Nephrology meeting.
Nephrology fellows also outperformed residents using the Internet search engine for diagnosis of common renal problems (P=0.031), but the Google-aided residents did better with rare kidney disorders (P=0.029), the researchers reported.
"Google is a good tool to help medical residents diagnose renal diseases, but it does not take the place of an experienced and trained physician," they wrote. "Googling may be especially useful in the case of rare or syndromic diseases, but is less likely to be useful in diagnosing more common renal diseases."
The study grew out of recognition that patients often cite information obtained from the Internet in their discussions with physicians. Moreover, studies have suggested that medical students, residents, and attending physicians have increasingly turned to the Internet for information on diagnosis and treatment of medical conditions, Schrier and colleagues noted in the study introduction.
The observations led investigators to ask whether physician residents could improve their clinical skills with the aid of the Internet, as compared with more experienced physicians. To get the answer, they recruited five attending nephrologists, five nephrology fellows, and six firstand second-year internal medicine residents.
Using a standard textbook of renal medicine, investigators compiled 100 pairs of common and uncommon renal conditions and key words associated with the diseases' characteristics. Attendings, fellows, and residents were randomly assigned the matched pairs of key words and asked to identify the renal conditions.
Examples of common conditions included hepatorenal syndrome, acute interstitial cystitis, and rhabdomyolysis. Rare conditions included tuberous sclerosis, pheochromocytoma, and ethylene glycol poisoning.
Residents were given the top 10 results from a Google search for the assigned conditions as an aid to their decision-making. Attending nephrologists and fellows made decisions without the information from the search.
Overall, the medical residents correctly assessed their assigned renal conditions significantly less often compared with the attending physicians (72.2% versus 84.7%) but were correct as often as the nephrology residents (72.2% versus 71.5%).
Separate analyses of the results by common and uncommon renal conditions showed that the Google-aided residents were less accurate than were the attending nephrologists for common conditions (76.6% versus 90.5%) and for rare conditions (65.2% versus 76.1%).
The residents also answered correctly less often than did nephrology fellows for common kidney disorders (76.6% versus 82.3%) but were significantly more accurate in recognizing the rare conditions (65.2% versus 56.2%).
"This study is unique in that it compares heuristic and algorithmic problem solving, using the dominant technology of our time: the Internet via Google," said Schrier. "It also addresses which types of problems are best solved using the heuristics of an experienced clinician and which conditions benefit the most from algorithmic problem solving with the aid of a search engine.
"Finally, this study provides a comprehensive analysis of the utility of Internet searching as a diagnostic tool."
Primary source: American Society of Nephrology
Schrier PB, et al "Paging Doctor Google! Google searching as a tool for diagnosing renal disease" ASN 2011; Abstract TH-PO855.


US and China ratify Paris climate deal
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China and US, together responsible for 40 percent of the world's CO2 emissions, urge other nations to also ratify deal.
The two largest contributors to global carbon emissions, China and the United States, have ratified the hallmark Paris agreement to battle climate change.
The countries' ratification could help put the pact into force before the end of the year.
President Xi Jinping of China and president US President Barack Obama called Saturday's announcement a milestone. Obama said the climate deal is "the moment we finally decided to save our planet".
China and the US are responsible for about 40 percent of total global carbon emissions. Other countries are expected to follow China and the US and ratify the deal later this month during the UN Climate Change week.
The climate accord was signed last year in Paris. Its main goal is to slash greenhouse gas emissions and keep global temperature increases to "well below" two degrees Celsius.
"The timing of this announcement is important because it comes a few hours before the start of the G20 Summit," Al Jazeera's Adrian Brown, reporting from Hangzhou, said.
"For the accord to go into legal effect, however, at least 55 countries need to ratify the agreement. What China and presumably the US will do is set an example for other countries to follow."
Before today's announcement only 23 countries, responsible for about one percent of global emissions, had ratified the treaty.
To cross this legal threshold UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on he will hold a high-level event in New York to which he will invite country leaders to formally ratify the Paris climate change agreement.
Experts have said that target is already in danger of being breached, with the UN weather agency saying that 2016 is on course to be the warmest since records began.


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A vast increase in animal protection laws during the past decade has changed the legal landscape of animal law. The current generation of such laws includes more inventive and effective provisions, but more could be done. This article reviews the current laws of states across the country and proposes a number of specific provisions that would improve the force and effect of animal protection legislation. The Author's goal is to identify pragmatic ways in which to make animals the most statutorily protected type of property in our country.
Full Title Name: State Animal Protection Laws - The Next Generation


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Cilantro has been grown in our gardens for quite a long time, and some greenery lovers also grow it in city apartments. Its lower parts have petioles, while the upper ones sit directly on the stems and are distinguished by a more elongated shape.
The stem of the cilantro is straight, which can reach a height of 40 to 70 cm. When the flowering time comes, an umbrella appears at the top, and then small white-pink flowers. Seeds are pretty large, from 2 to 8 mm.
Cilantro is not only tasty but also a very healthy herb. It is used as a spice for various dishes: meat, vegetables, sauces, raw, and salads. The plant has a pronounced pleasant aroma that cannot be confused with anything.
The plant contains a large amount of vitamins and ascorbic acid. The beneficial properties are widely used in folk medicine, perfumery, and cosmetology. Essentially, cilantro can be grown beautifully on a windowsill or a balcony. The important thing is to know how long it takes to grow.
How Long Does Cilantro Take to Grow?
From the time cilantro seeds are sown, the leaves can be harvested within 3 to 4 weeks. The harvesting of seeds can be done about 45 days from the time of planting. If cilantro seeds fall to the ground, small plants can appear throughout the period and the subsequent spring. And if you begin with a mature, fully rooted plant, you can start harvesting it for ten days. After two weeks, cilantro will have enough time to get used to the new garden.
- Seed preparation
Well-ripened large cilantro grains are selected for sowing. For the cultivation of seeds to be carried out efficiently, the seed material should be dark brown and easily removed. Unripe material has an unpleasant odor, sometimes associated with bed bug secretions. For the seeds to germinate faster after planting, they must be no older than two years of age.
- Garden bed preparation
The garden bed is prepared in the fall. It is formed on a high and bright place in the suburban area. In dark and damp areas, cilantro may get wet before ripening. During digging, the soil is loosened well, flavored with organic fertilizers and ash. For splendor, a certain amount of sand is introduced into the ground. In the spring, the ridge is only dug up.
Before sowing, disinfect the soil with a weak solution of potassium permanganate, and a small amount of urea is added. Sow cilantro seeds by spacing them to ensure quality growth. On one site during the warm period, you can collect several crops of greenery. With each sowing, superphosphate is added to the soil.
Cilantro is a cold-resistant plant but has a negative attitude to heat. Therefore, the optimal temperature for growing in room conditions will be +14 to +20 ⁰С. In this case, it is necessary to moisten the cilantro by spraying the bush once a week.
Cilantro requires moist soil to grow and develop properly. The first 1 to 1.5 months need to be moistened with a spray bottle. This is to avoid blurring the cilantro roots. In the future, gently water the soil near the coriander roots. Water should not come into contact with the leaves. Carefully monitor that the plant does not dry out because it is hard to tolerate such stresses.
Light is necessary for proper development because cilantro does not stretch but only gives lush greenery if it has enough light. It needs light for between 6 and 10 hours a day. If there is a lack of it, window sills are equipped with unique lamps.
Insufficiently fertile soil for cilantro is fertilized in the fall. Regardless of the cultivation method before winter, potash and phosphorus fertilizers are applied to one square meter before processing. According to the instructions for use, you can use complex fertilizers that include nitroammophos, diammophos, superphosphate, potassium chloride, and others. These instructions are indicated on each package.
It is recommended to remove excess cilantro plants. This is necessary so that the remaining sprouts feel free and form more green mass instead of thin leaves. When removing extra cilantro plants, you should be careful. You do not need to pull out unnecessary sprouts with the roots. They are carefully cut with a knife or scissors.
Damage to the root system of the remaining plants will slow down the growth and development of the bush. Typically, thinning the cilantro in time will allow the remaining seedlings to develop more green mass.
Harvesting and Storage
It is not enough to grow cilantro, but you still need to collect and prepare it properly. How is the crop harvested and stored?
Cut the greens with a sharp knife as soon as they reach a height of 15 to 20 cm. There are two methods of cutting: 1 cm below ground level and incomplete cutting of a third of the greenery leaving shoots of 3 to 5 cm. In the first case, cilantro does not grow anymore, and the garden bed sown again. In the second, the plant will give greens 2 to 3 more times. For long-term storage, cilantro leaves are dried or frozen.
Harvesting of seeds is carried out when the fruits start ripe a little more than half. When 60% of the umbrellas turn brown, the plants are cut and hung to dry. A newspaper is laid under them to collect seeds.
After two weeks, the inflorescences are rubbed with their hands, and the materials collected in the newspaper are sorted out, eliminating the litter. They are stored in a dry glass container with a lid. Self-collected cilantro seeds remain viable for 3-4 years.
Cilantro is a helpful plant that can++not only be eaten but also cures many diseases. And so that it is always at hand, you can plant it every year in your garden. The plant is unpretentious but loves fertile and light soil, as well as sun and regular watering. To do this, you need to know how long it takes to grow. Essentially, cilantro seeds takes about 45 days from when it was planted to when it is harvested.


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Entropy of Ultrasound-Contrast-Agent Velocity Fields for Angiogenesis Imaging in Prostate Cancer
R. van Sloun, L. Demi, A. Postema, J. de la Rosette, H. Wijkstra, M. Mischi
IEEE Trans Med Imaging, vol. 36, issue 3, March 2017
Prostate cancer care can benefit from accurate and cost-efficient imaging modalities that are able to reveal prognostic indicators for cancer. Angiogenesis is known to play a central role in the growth of tumors towards a metastatic or a lethal phenotype. With the aim of localizing angiogenic activity in a non-invasive manner, Dynamic Contrast Enhanced Ultrasound (DCE-US) has been widely used. Usually, the passage of ultrasound contrast agents thought the organ of interest is analyzed for the assessment of tissue perfusion. However, the heterogeneous nature of blood flow in angiogenic vasculature hampers the diagnostic effectiveness of perfusion parameters. In this regard, quantification of the heterogeneity of flow may provide a relevant additional feature for localizing angiogenesis. Statistics based on flow magnitude as well as its orientation can be exploited for this purpose. In this paper, we estimate the microbubble velocity vector fields from a standard bolus injection and provide a first statistical characterization by performing a spatial entropy analysis. By testing the method on 24 patients with biopsy-proven prostate cancer, we show that the proposed method can be applied effectively to clinically acquired DCE-US data. The method permits estimation of the in-plane flow vector fields and their local intricacy, and yields promising results (receiver-operating-characteristic curve area of 0.85) for the detection of prostate cancer.


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Hydraulic Snubbers Pipe Support
Hydraulic Snubbers Pipe Supports normal operating conditions, hydraulic snubber allows a piping system which experiences displacement to maintain its required flexibility. Often a vibrasnub get confused with a hydraulic snubber.
Hydraulic snubber incorporates a 'through rod' design. This provides the following benefits over competitor products:
 1. No need for an external reservoir – the piston rod on either side of the piston means the hydraulic fluid volume does not change.
 2. Strong design – the piston rod is supported at both ends to avoid 'knuckling' and subsequent wear on the bearings.
 3. Small diameter – efficient design and no external reservoir results in a compact product.
 4. Enables the snubber to be installed in any orientation.
 5. Results in robust product with strong and reliable performance.
 1. Piston rod and main components of snubber are suitably treated to provide a high level of corrosion resistance. This avoids corrosion issues and wear of bearings which would occur if piston rod corroded.
 2. Sealing systems have been specially designed to ensure long working life without leakage.
 3. Hydraulic fluid specially selected for snubber operation.
 4. Compact design with pressurized built in hydraulic system. No external piping or reservoir. Requires minimal space envelope for installation.
 5. Rings of body of snubber, spaced at 10mm, provide an axial travel scale.
 6. Finish of non stainless steel parts is by hot zinc spray. This provides a better protection than galvanizing or epoxy paint systems.
 7. Minimal lost motion in snubber performance achieved by design of seal system.
 8. Rod end connections on snubbers allow + – 5-degree angulation.
 9. Extension pieces on snubbers provide precise installed lengths required.
 10. Valves are critical to the performance of a snubber.
 1. Standard lock up rate 3 to 5 mm/sec.
 2. Bleed rate 0.2 to 2mm/sec.
 3. Drag force less than 2% of rated load.
 4. All snubbers tested on our purpose built test rig and results tabulated as below.
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The range of hydraulic shock arrestor has been developed to protect pipelines and related plant equipment from the effect of shock loads caused by circumstances such as seismic activity, water hammer, etc. When subjected to sudden movements which exceed specific velocity levels, the shock arrestor 'locks' momentarily and forms a rigid connection.
Hydraulic shock arrestors are available in loads up to 750,000 N (75,000 kg) and travels up to 450 mm.


2aUW3. Modeling the near-bottom seafloor.
Robert D. Stoll
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia Univ., Palisades, NY 10964
In mine counter measures work and other seafloor engineering applications, there are two distinctly different classes of sediment properties that play important roles in object detection and sonar performance---those that determine if an object will sink into the bottom or stay fully or partially exposed and those that control the penetration of high-frequency sonar signals into the bottom. The ability of the seafloor to support an object depends largely on shearing strength which is a nonlinear, large-strain property associated with plastic deformation and complete disruption of the in-situ structure. In contrast, the complex velocity (speed and attenuation) of low-amplitude geoacoustic signals is a small-strain property that can be treated to a good approximation using linear theories. Both classes of response and their interaction are discussed using insights gained from the Biot--Gassmann theory. This theory allows extrapolation from lowto high-frequency response and examination of the effects of various parameters such as gas content and low overburden pressure. In particular the effect of recently measured high attenuation and velocity gradients is discussed and a correlation between shear strength and shear-wave velocity is shown. [Work supported by NRL, CBBLSRP.]


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The Splendid Magic
of Penny Arcade:
11 1/2 Anniversary Edition
This book details the history of a comic strip called Penny Arcade. The comic appears to catalog the lives of two young men who are utterly steeped in popular culture.
Each chapter gathers into a coherent beam of savory trivia, strange facts, formerly mysterious origins, biographical information, interviews, inaugural conventions, an unlikely charity, and comic strips.
You get the sense that some of the content may be apocryphalfor example, the part where they eat a whole wolf basically comes out of nowhere.
Also, if one of them really did become King of the Britons, you're sure you would have heard about it somewhere else.


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Hadley Crater Perspective View
About this Image
This computer-generated perspective view of Hadley Crater was created using data obtained from the High-Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on ESA's Mars Express. Centred at around 19°S and 157°E, this image has a ground resolution of about 19 m per pixel. The ejecta blanket emanating from the deep crater in the middle of the image shows evidence for volatiles, possibly water ice, while the main crater rim to the top (south) of the image shows evidence for so-called "mass wasting". This is a geomorphic process by which surface materials can move down a slope under the force of gravity. In this case, this process made the southern side of the crater shallower than its northern counterpart. This photo was taken on September 5, 2012.
Credit: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin (G. Neukum)


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U.S. Highway 67
As of 2004, the highway's northern terminus is in Sabula, Iowa at an intersection with U.S. Highway 52. Its southern terminus is in Presidio, Texas at the Rio Grande, where it continues in Mexico as Highway 16.
- When US 67 was commissioned in the original 1926 numbering plan, it extended from Fredericktown, Missouri to Dallas, Texas.
- The route was extended across West Texas to its present-day southern terminus in 1930.
- In 1934, US 67 was extended northward to Dubuque, Iowa. Between Davenport, Iowa and Dubuque, it incorporated the route of U.S. Highway 55. The remainder of US 55 (to Minneapolis, Minnesota) was absorbed by U.S. Highway 52.
- The 1934 extension left the last 35 miles (56 km) of US 67, south of Dubuque, co-signed with the extended US 52. In 1967, the US 67 designation was removed from this section, ending US 67 at Sabula, Iowa.
The highway passes through the following states:
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Case 1: Workers has different rates
Work rate × Time to finish the job = 1 job done
Work rate = (1 job done) / (Time to finish the job)
Time of doing the job = (1 job done) / (Work rate)
Albert can finish a job in A days
Bryan can finish the same job in B days
Carlo can undo the job in C days
1/A = rate of Albert
1/B = rate of Bryan
1/C = rate of Carlo
Albert and Bryan work together until the job is done: (1/A + 1/B)t = 1
Albert is doing the job while Carlo is undoing it until the job is done: (1/A - 1/C)t = 1
Lejon can finish a job in 6 hours while Romel can do the same job in 3 hours. Working together, how many hours can they finish the job?
Case 2: Workers has equal rates
Work load = no. of workers × time to finish the job
Work done = no. of workers × time of doing the job
To finish the job
Work done = Work load
If a job can be done by 10 workers in 5 hours, the work load is 10(5) = 50 man-hours. If 4 workers is doing the job for 6 hours, the work done is 4(6) = 24 man-hours. A remaining of 50 - 24 = 26 man-hours of work still needs to be done.
Eleven men could finish the job in 15 days. Five men started the job and four men were added at the beginning of the sixth day. How many days will it take them to finish the job?


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On the missed opportunity cost, GUD, and estimating environmental quality
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie: Israel Journal of Ecology & Evolution
Förlag: Science from Israel - LPPLtd. PO BOX 34299, Jerusalem 91341, Israel
The missed opportunity cost (MOC), i.e., all foregone alternatives while foraging in a patch, is an important aspect of the cost-benefit analysis of foraging patch use. When making between-environment comparisons it will often be the most important factor influencing behavior, but it has received less interest than other foraging costs. In this paper, we focus on differences between individuals living in different territories or home ranges and how giving-up densities of food (GUD) should reflect between-environment differences in habitat suitability. We then investigate the extent to which such differences depend on effects mediated through the cost of predation or MOC. We model different scenarios for individuals in different environments and review literature on empirical Studies that investigate such scenarios. The modeling results show that all three components of the MOC (survival rate, marginal value of energy, and marginal value of time) depend on average resource availability in the environment. This makes MOC, and thereby GUD, increase strongly with food availability. MOC increases only weakly with safety from predation, and moderately as travel distance between food patches declines. Also the cost of predation increases with richness of the environment, and notably it differs more between safe and risky patches in rich environments. These results are reflected in the GUDs, which are higher in environments with high food availability and short travel distances. In contrast, GUDs vary only marginally between safe and risky environments.
- Biology and Life Sciences
- ISSN: 0021-2210


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Dr John Brandenburg claims hostile aliens wiped out life on Mars with nuclear bombs.
US-based Dr John Brandenburg gives lectures across the globe offering a theory that there is evidence of two major nuclear blasts on the Red Planet, and the archaeological relics left behind by the ancient Martians.
Mr Brandenburg believes the nuclear war took place about half a billion years ago and the traces of the blast have been left in two key locations.
The plasma physicist claims "anyone who can read a map" can see the the nuclear explosion sites.
He claims the strongest shock-waves and fallout were dumped downwind of Cydonia mesa and Galaxias Chaos, two sites on Mars that other conspiracy theorists have claimed are sites of ancient archeology on Mars.
His theory is that a civilisation, like the people of the Bronze Age on Earth, developed on Mars, but were wiped out by a more advanced alien aggressor from another planet.
He bases his theory on data collected by NASA from Mars he says shows "weapon-signature" isotopes showing the two massive nuclear "airbursts" in the Northern regions of the planet.
He says what he identified was a thin layer of radioactive substances including uranium, thorium and radioactive potassium on Mars.
A slide from a Dr John Brandenburg conference showing his nuclear war theory.
He says nuclear isotopes in the Martian atmosphere are like those left by hydrogen bomb tests on Earth.
He said: "Given the large amount of nuclear isotopes in Mars atmosphere resembling those from hydrogen bomb tests on Earth, Mars may present an example of civilisation wiped out by a nuclear attack from space."
And he claims Earth could be at risk from the same hostile forces.
He added: "It is possible the Fermi Paradox means that our interstellar neighbourhood contains forces hostile to young, noisy, civilisations such as ourselves.
"Mars presents the human race with a Darwinian intelligence test, and so-far, we are failing it.
Theory: The book by Dr John Brandenburg with the nuclear war on Mars theory.
Given the large amount of nuclear isotopes in Mars atmosphere resembling those from hydrogen bomb tests on Earth, Mars may present an example of civilisation wiped out by a nuclear attack from space.
"Scientists cannot connect the dots at Mars because the resulting picture is too terrifying to accept."
Mr Brandenburg also agrees with other alien conspiracy theorists that there are signs of ancient structures like the Egyptian pyramids and other monuments left on Mars.
He claims images from probes shows a huge carved face and a pyramid at Cydonia Mensa and another carved face and ruins at Galaxias Chaos.
The far-out theory goes on to suggest the US Government has been aware of what happened since NASA first sent probes to the Red Planet in 1976, but the truth has been withheld amid fears over how the public would react.
He told a Secret Space Program conference in the US last year: "Secrecy within government is an evil that's sometimes necessary, but I think it's a good thing that this cover-up on Mars is ending, and, hopefully at some point we can sit down and have a frank conversation not about what happened on Mars 250 million years ago but what is happening right now."
But, Dr Brandenburg, who turned his theory into the book Death on Mars, has been ridiculed on sceptical websites for being an accomplished scientist who has fallen into the realms of pseudoscience.
So what does NASA say happened to the Red Planet.
Last year, it announced Mars once was like Earth and likely to have large ocean cover with seas of up to a mile deep.
It also found evidence that the interior remains quite moist, and some water even still reaches the surface, so it could theoretically house or have housed the most basic forms of life at some stage.
However, its rovers exploring the surface have found no evidence of any structures built on the surface.
It also revealed last November that the atmosphere of Mars was gradually stripped away over billions of years by solar winds from our Sun - not as the result of a nuclear explosion.


ASL Linguistics: Noun / Verb Pairs
Noun/Verb pairs are signs that use the same handshape, location, and orientation, but have a different movement. The verb of a noun verb pair generally has a single, continuous movement that is larger than the movement of the noun. The motion of a noun of a noun verb pair is generally a double movement that is smaller than that of a verb.
Got that?
Verbs (of noun/verb pairs) use a single movement.
Nouns (of noun/verb pairs) use a double movement.
A good example of a noun verb pair is the "CHAIR/SIT."
If I do this motion once, it means sit.
If I do the movement twice, it means CHAIR.
But sometimes if I'm in a hurry I'll only do the movement once and my friends still understand me. Why? Because of context. The rest of the sentence makes the meaning clear for me.
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A new study out of Brigham Young University has found that despite popular belief, electric bicycle riders get nearly as much exercise as pedal bike riders.
The study was conducted by the Department of Public Health at BYU.
It focused on comparing electric mountain bikes to standard mountain bikes to determine the difference in exercise between the two forms of bicycles.
To measure physical exertion, the study affixed heart rate monitors to riders while they traversed the same trail on both types of mountain bikes.
Questionnaires were also used before and after the rides to determine the subjects' views towards electric bicycles and their perceptions of the difference between riding each type of bike. When researchers compared the riders' perceptions of the amount of exercise they received to the actual data, things got interesting.
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A beautiful (and expensive) Greyp G6 electric mountain bike
Ultimately, the study determined that electric mountain bike riders achieved heart rates that were 94% as high as pedal mountain bikers, on average. Thus, the study determined that the electric mountain bike riders received almost as much exercise as the non-electric mountain bike riders.
Interestingly though, the study's questionnaires found that the riders perceived that the difference in exertion was actually much larger than in reality. Essentially, e-bike riders felt like they weren't working nearly as hard as they were. That finding suggests that the e-bike might have been providing some sort of placebo effect or increased confidence that helped offset the physical exertion in the riders' minds.
The study comes at a time when electric mountain bikes, and electric bikes in general, are becoming increasingly popular. The federal government just issued a ruling that opens all national parks to electric bikes, which could further boost the rapid adoption of electric bikes in the US.
Electrek's Take
I always knew that electric bicycles still provided a good workout (unless you're going throttle-only, of course), but I never knew it was this close.
I enjoy riding the trails as much as the next guy and now I can enjoy it even more knowing how much of a workout I'm actually getting.
That being said, there are some caveats here before we apply this to e-bikes across the board. For example, mountain biking is one of the more strenuous forms of cycling and it would make sense that electric and pedal bikes would see the smallest gap in exercise here since both require fairly high levels of exertion. If the test were repeated in a city setting, my guess is that the gap would be a bit larger than 6%.
But hopefully, this will be enough to shut up some of the haters who still look down on e-bikes as if they are some sort of abomination.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Despite past clinical trials demonstrating that exposure to pure oxygen can help stubborn wounds heal, a large new study of diabetes patients with severe foot ulcers finds no benefit from oxygen treatments and possibly some harm.
Researchers following more than 6,000 diabetes patients receiving treatment for deep foot wounds found that patients who got oxygen-chamber treatments along with standard wound care were no more likely to heal and more than twice as likely to undergo amputations as those getting standard care alone.
The results, published in the journal Diabetes Care, surprised the study team from the University of Pennsylvania, not least because they defy so much previous research.
"We really thought we would see a replication of what occurred in the randomized trials. The data demonstrates that didn't come to pass," said Dr. Stephen Thom, a professor at the Perelman School of Medicine in Philadelphia who worked on the study.
For more than 20 years, people with serious open wounds or burns have been put into pressurized chambers or rooms that expose them to pure oxygen, in the belief that it helps to promote tissue growth and speed healing.
Because of nerve and blood vessel damage, people with diabetes are at risk of persistent ulcers forming on their toes and heels - wounds that can become infected and even lead to gangrene and amputation. Oxygen treatments are sometimes added to standard care of diabetic foot wounds to enhance healing.
For the new study, researchers wanted to see whether the oxygen therapy was making a difference in real-world settings.
They analyzed data on 6,259 diabetes patients treated for foot ulcers at wound care centers around the U.S. between November 2005 and May 2011.
Of those patients, only 793 ended up having the oxygen therapy on top of standard care. Their sessions lasted from 45 minutes to two hours in the pressurized chambers, and were done once or twice per day over four to five times per week.
Thom told Reuters Health that such treatments typically cost between $300 and $600 per session.
After 16 weeks, about 43 percent of oxygen therapy patients had fully healed wounds, compared to about 50 percent of patients who did not use oxygen therapy. And about 7 percent of oxygen therapy patients had an amputation, compared to just 2 percent of those who did not get oxygen treatments.
"It does not only say it's not equal, it says it may be worse. You're seeing a higher amputation rate and a longer healing of a foot wound," said Dr. Nicholas Morrissey, a vascular surgeon at New York-Presbyterian Hospital.
But Morrissey, who was not involved in the new research, also noted that all the previous studies and trials to have looked at oxygen therapy have had limitations, as did this one.
The authors point out in their report as well that further study is needed to better understand the current results and the effects of oxygen treatments.
For example, the team attempted to adjust for issues that might have influenced the outcomes, such as whether patients with worse wounds or additional illnesses might have been more likely to get oxygen treatments. But the nature of the study makes it impossible to know for sure, they write.
"It certainly could be that they're picking people who are more severe (for oxygen treatment), but we tried to compensate for that," the study's lead author Dr. David Margolis, also from the Perelman School of Medicine, told Reuters Health.
"It's like many things in medicine, it's just one other study and you have to look at the totality of the information available," Margolis cautioned.
Morrissey said that until a definitive study is done, patients shouldn't be afraid or concerned that they're going to have an amputation after oxygen therapy.
"As a physician who takes care of these wounds all the time, I wouldn't tell patients to be concerned… I would not take that home from this paper," he said.
SOURCE: _URL_ Diabetes Care, online February 19, 2013.


Is soy sauce vegan? There's been a lot of debate about this salty condiment of late, so I thought it was about time I put fingers to keyboard and gave you a definitive answer to this commonly asked plant-based query.
What is soy sauce?
Okay, so before we dig into the whole is it or isn't it vegan debate, let's take a quick look at what this mysterious brown liquid actually is.
Soy sauce is an ancient Chinese condiment thought to have first come into existence during the Western Han dynasty some 2,200 years ago. Made from fermented soybeans, this salty seasoning quickly became a popular kitchen staple throughout East and Southeast Asia before finally going global in the late '50s, thanks largely to Yuzaburo Mugi of Japanese soy sauce giant, Kikkoman.
Unlike today, salt was once an expensive commodity, so soy sauce – along with other condiments of its kind – was originally created in order to make the costly mineral go further. Its deep umami flavor lends itself so well to a wide variety of dishes, soy sauce's popularity continues to grow despite salt prices plummeting and health concerns surrounding excess sodium in our diet.
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Types of soy sauce
As one would expect, there are a multitude of different types of soy sauce available on the market today. Until relatively recently, in the West we only had three choices: regular, light, and dark. Now, however, other types of soy sauce are available, such as Japanese variations like tamari, koikuchi, and usukuchi.
Chinese: Dark, light, and regular
Chinese light soy sauce is taken from the early stages of the production process and, as its name suggests, is light in color and has a subtle, mellow flavor. Dark soy sauce, on the other hand, is more mature and has been left to develop more depth, both in taste and smell.
The dark variety also gives sweetness to dishes thanks to the addition of caramel. Regular soy sauce is simply a mixture of both dark and light varieties, making it the perfect all-rounder for general kitchen use.
Japanese shoyu: Tamari, usukuchi, and koikuchi
The Japanese varieties of soy sauce (shoyu) offer something different entirely. Tamari is probably closest to traditional Chinese soy sauce, but has one key difference that has boosted its popularity over the last few years: it's made with either zero wheat or very little of the much-maligned grain. While the jury is still out on whether wheat really is as terrible as it has been made out to be, those looking to lower their gluten intake have opted for tamari and sent its popularity soaring.
Usukuchi is the Japanese light soy sauce, and it packs a pretty powerful punch in terms of taste. Salty, but sweet, the intensity of flavor is quite astonishing, so its best to use this condiment sparingly. This makes it perfect for seasoning vegetables without losing any vibrancy in color. The sweetness in usukuchi comes from the Japanese sweet rice wine, mirin, another common ingredient, especially in dishes such as stir-fries and teriyaki.
Koikuchi is probably the most widely used soy sauce in Japan, taking around 80% of the market share in the country. Westerners, too, are likely to be most familiar with koikuchi, as it is the type most commonly stocked by supermarkets in the US and UK. This condiment is used in a range of dishes and is ideal for marinades, stir-fries, and even as a dipping sauce.
How is soy sauce made?
Unsurprisingly, the production process of soy sauce has changed somewhat over the last 2,200 years. Traditionally, soy sauce was brewed up entirely by hand over months, undergoing multiple steps to achieve the depth of flavor required. Nowadays, technology has stepped in, and vast processing plants do the work.
Key ingredients
There are five key ingredients to soy sauce. These are:
No prizes for guessing this one! Yep, soy sauce is made from soybeans. The proteins within the soybeans, once fermented, are what give the sauce its flavor.
While tamari may not contain wheat, most other soy sauces do. The carbs found within the grain add to the condiments distinctive smell and wheat also brings a sweetness to the end product too.
Salt and water
The next two ingredients – salt and water – are combined to create a brine in which the fermentation process takes place. The preservative values of salt help keep the bacteria in check as the soybeans ferment.
Fungal and bacterial cultures
While these may not necessarily be considered as 'ingredients', fungal and bacterial cultures are an important part of the soy sauce making process. A common filamentous fungus spore used is that of Aspergillus oryzae, commonly referred to as koji.
The process
The soy sauce making process consists of six main stages:
The soybeans are first soaked and then cooked in boiling water, while the wheat is roasted and then crushed ready for stage two.
Cooked soybeans and wheat are mixed together in equal quantities to create a grain mix, to which the koji is added.
The grain mix, along with its propagated koji mold, is now mixed with the brine so that a wet fermentation process can take place. It is during this stage that the grain's proteins get broken down and the sauce begins to take on its key characteristics, namely aroma, taste, and color.
Much of the commercially brewed soy sauce is pushed through this part of the process as quickly as possible in order to keep up with demand, but some artisanal producers will leave the mash (called moromi) to ferment for up to three years.
Although the grain mix is largely broken down by the active cultures, solids still remain. The pressing process separates these particles from the liquid that is to become the end product.
This stage is essential in order to remove any active molds or yeast from the sauce. To achieve this, the liquid is usually heated before being filtered for the final time.
The final stage in the process is packaging. For most soy sauces this means being bottled and shipped to supermarkets across the world, but others may be aged before being placed on the market.
Check out the excellent video below from National Geographic for a full documentation of the traditional soy sauce making process.
Okay, so is soy sauce vegan?
With all of the above information to hand, there seems to be very little to say that soy sauce isn't vegan, but there's more to it than you may think.
Firstly, there's a misconception to get over. Many people mistakenly believe that soy sauce contains fish, but this is simply incorrect, as fish sauce is now a standalone product in its own right. Yes, it's true that during the Zhou dynasty fermented fish was used along with soybeans to create a condiment, but that is no longer the case for mainstream soy sauce products.
So, if soy sauce contains no animal products, why wouldn't it be vegan? Well, the problem stems largely from the exposure of Kikkoman by PETA a few years back when it was revealed that the food company carried out routine animal testing in order to substantiate health claims related to its products.
The news of the barbaric practices spread like wildfire throughout the vegan and animal rights world, which has lead many to come to the conclusion that all soy sauce is in question, which simply isn't the case.
Soy sauce in itself is plant-based, but the companies behind its production may have some shady practices you'd like to avoid if you are following a vegan lifestyle. That being said, Kikkoman have done the right thing and listened to the 100,000 consumers who emailed them in protest and have now ended all experiments involving animals when testing their products.
So, the bottom line is yes, soy sauce is vegan, but you should you really be eating it?
Is soy sauce bad for your health?
The question of whether soy sauce is bad for your health is something that many clean eaters struggle with. On the one hand, it's tasty and convenient. On the other, it's extremely high in salt and soy is being hammered left, right, and center at present.
Soy is one of those foods that seems to be a saviour one day and a killer the next. Most of the health concerns surrounding soy products are, unsurprisingly, associated with processed products, so these should be avoided.
Soy is a good source of nutrients, and fermented soy is the pick of the bunch (think tempeh, miso, natto, and, yes, soy sauce). There has been research conducted which shows that fermented soy products reduce the impact of anti-nutrients found within the legume, which makes it more viable for those looking to eat healthily. The reduction in these anti-nutrients allow soy's naturally healthy properties to be more available to the body and also improves their digestion too.
However, as with most things, moderation and balance is key. Consuming soy products occasionally is absolutely fine, but eating soy every day is probably not the best thing you could do for your health.
Choosing the right vegan soy sauce
Finally, it's important to bear in mind not all soy sauces are the same. Mass manufactured soy sauce is basically little more than liquid chemicals, as the commercial market demands the product be churned out so quickly that little nutritional value remains. The modern day soy processing is far removed from the traditional method mentioned above, and a bottle of soy sauce can be turned around in as little as two days.
This is made possible by a process called rapid hydrolysis, which involves hydrolysed soy protein, which contains around 18% hydro


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The Central Indian Tectonic Zone (CITZ) was formed due to the Proterozoic collision process between the southern and northern blocks of the present Indian peninsular shield. Several studies were carried out over this tectonic feature to understand its formation, controversy remains on the subduction polarity and location of the suture line between the southern and northern blocks.Some studies proposed the Central Indian Shear (CIS), which marks the southern margin of the CITZ, as the suture line between the two blocks while others hinted at the possibility of locating the suture mark further north of the CIS. The present magnetotelluric (MT) study carried out across the eastern segment of the CITZ did not show any deep crustal resistivity anomaly, which are commonly observed below suture zones, associated to the CIS. Instead, the resistivity model showed an interesting north dipping conductive horizon in the crust, which further extends into the upper mantle as a subvertical moderately conductive feature and can be traced onto the surface mark of the Tan Shear (TS). This is interpreted as generated due to subduction-collision process and suggests a suture status to the Tan Shear. Additionally, the present study imaged conductive to moderately conductive features connected to the BhandraBalaghat Granulite(BBG) and Ramakona-Katangi Granulite (RKG) belts, and the Narmada Son Lineament (NSL) within the CITZ.
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Abdul Azeez, K. K., Prasanta K. Patro, T. Harinarayana, S. V. S., Sarma, 2017. Magnetotelluric imaging across the Tectonic structures in the eastern segment of the Central Indian Tectonic Zone: Preserved imprints of polyphase tectonics and evidence for suture status of the Tan Shear. Precambrian Research, 298, 325-340, _URL_
Figure: Location of the MT profile (above) and 2D resistivity model (below) retrieved from the data at 27 MT sites (black diamond symbols) along the profile.


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Shakey, the world's first mobile, intelligent robot, was developed at Stanford Research Institute (now SRI International) between 1966 and 1972. Peter Hart, SRI, retired worked on this project from the day it started until the day it ended (By which time he was the project leader). Peter Hart described "how the project got launched, how they approached this new world of robotics, what they actually did, and what the consequences have been for current technology and for modern life." at ICRA-2015.
About Shakey Project
Shakey was one of the first Robotics System that bought together Artificial intelligence, Perception, planning and reasoning in action. Peter Heart, the Founder and Chairman Emeritus (Ricoh Innovation Corp), was one of the initial researchers in the project. It was proposed to DARPA on 8th January 1965 by Artificial Intelligence Center of Stanford University. The title of the project was named "Automata to Reconnaissance". The goal of the project was to bring all areas of Artificial Intelligence like knowledge, reasoning, Planning, Machine Learning, Computer Vision and Natural Language processing under one roof. (Image-1 SRI)
About The Shakey Robot:
Shakey was a mobile robot with cameras and touch sensors, controlled by a large remote computer. It capitalized on progress in computer vision, language processing and planning to understand instructions ("push the block off the platform") and direct its own actions.
Components of Shakey Robot:
- Robot Motion: The robot has stepper motor for moving and dead reckoning for position estimation.
- Sensors: It has two sensors. First a video camera, during the time of project there were no frame grabbers was available for the video camera, Researcher have to design an integrated frame grabber for this robot. Second one was Homemade Laser range finder for obstacle detection and avoidance and Touch sensors.
- Communication: Radio link for communication.
- Power supply: The robot was powered by Truck battery.
- Controller: SDS 940 with 192 kB of RAM was used, later upgraded to DECPDF10 with 672 kB of RAM.
- Experimental Setup for Testing: The Robot has to navigate in six numbers of rooms and has to identify large geometric object of Specific Color present in the room.
SHAKEY: Experimentation in Robot Learning and Planning (1969)
What impact did shakey Project had on the world of robotics and planning? In the word of James Kuffner, Director (Google Robotics), "It is truly amazing how both in terms of architecture and algorithm the Shakey project was ahead of its time and became a model for future robots system for half a century".
Learnings from shakey Project nowadays have been implemented in various robots."We invest in basic research in same reason as we plant trees to benefit future Generation" Peter Hart said at ICRA -2015.
Here is a list of few such project :-
- Architecture derived from Shakey's Layered Control Architecture has been used in modern Robots such as Stanley in DARPA grand challenge2005.
- Many Modern Robots use Robust Action Execution Method which was an integral part of shakey project namely Willow Garage's PR2.
- Adaptive Cell Decomposition currently standard robot Path Planning also used in CAD, CAM software.
- STRIPS Planning Systems Decedents have been used to plan non playing characters in video games.
- Heuristic search A*: a variant of it called Field D* have been used in navigation of Curiosity in Mars.
Shakey today have been kept in Computer History Museum Mountain view, CA.
About the Peter Hart:-
Peter Hart has founded or led half a dozen companies and international research centers, and has invented or developed the theory of some of the most widely used procedures in modern computing. His technical writings have been cited over 74,000 times, which according to Google Scholar makes him the mostcited author in Robotics and the sixth most-cited author in Computer Science. He holds over 125 patents, and is a Fellow of the IEEE, the ACM, the AAAI, and the Rensselaer Alumni Association, and is a Member of the SRI Hall of Fame.
Few Words From peter Hart:-
"We invest in basic research in same reason as we plant trees to benefit future Generation". ICRA -2015
"Behind the people that get the recognition there is team of unsung Heroes they made it possible".ICRA 2015
Reference: Peter Hart talk at ICRA-2015


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Slow Money Principles
In order to enhance food security, food safety and food access; improve nutrition and health; promote cultural, ecological and economic diversity; and accelerate the transition from an economy based on extraction and consumption to an economy based on preservation and restoration, we do hereby affirm the following Principles:
- We must bring money back down to earth.
- There is such a thing as money that is too fast, companies that are too big, finance that is too complex. Therefore, we must slow our money down -- not all of it, of course, but enough to matter.
- The 20th Century was the era of Buy Low/Sell High and Wealth Now/Philanthropy Later—what one venture capitalist called "the largest legal accumulation of wealth in history." The 21st Century will be the era of nurture capital, built around principles of carrying capacity, care of the commons, sense of place and non-violence.
- We must learn to invest as if food, farms and fertility mattered. We must connect investors to the places where they live, creating vital relationships and new sources of capital for small food enterprises.
- Let us celebrate the new generation of entrepreneurs, consumers and investors who are showing the way from Making A Killing to Making a Living.
- Paul Newman said, "I just happen to think that in life we need to be a little like the farmer who puts back into the soil what he takes out."
- we invested 50% of our assets within 50 miles of where we live?
- there were a new generation of companies that gave away 50% of their profits?
- there were 50% more organic matter in our soil 50 years from now?
Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money, written by Woody Tasch, presents the philosophy, strategy and mechanics for bringing money back down to earth... Step toward a financial system that serves people and place as much at it serves industry sectors and markets.
I believe that Slow Money may save us all. What do you think?


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I am trying to create a programming editor using a rich text box in vb.net. It should change the color of text according to that text. For example, the keywords should be displayed in red, and numbers in blue. I can't find how to retrieve word by word from a rich text box.
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what have you tried? – codingbiz Oct 3 '12 at 10:53
Show attempted solutions, and why they didn't work. – cpp_prog Feb 19 at 17:44
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I would do the following:
Dim txt as String = RichTextBox1.Text
Dim arr as String() = txt.Split(" "c) REM split along the whitespace character
For Each i In arr
 If IsNumeric(i) Then
 REM change the color of the number to blue
Next i
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You can use regular expressions to find the words, and another one for numbers. Try this website that well help you create your desired regular expressions _URL_
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I would just take the rich textbox text field and do a string split by space.
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If you don't have to roll-your-own, the editors from SharpDevelop are easily extendable.
SharpDevelop3 uses SharpTextEditor(WinForms). SharpDevelop4 uses AvalonEdit (WPF)
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Get Thee to a Nunnery (or Left Bank Books): Sarah Dunant Talks About Sacred Hearts
Categories: Books, History
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Sarah Dunant will be discussing her latest book, Sacred Hearts, tonight at 7 p.m. at Left Bank Books in the Central West End. Sacred Hearts is about the upheavals in a convent in Ferrara, Italy, in 1580 after the arrival of an unwilling young novice. Yes, the nuns sing. (Really well, actually.) But the most fascinating aspect of the book is Dunant's descriptions of convent life and the complex political balance of power among the nuns. (It turns out The Sound of Music is not the most accurate depiction of the lives of nuns. Who would've thought?)
Dunant usually lives in London and spends a lot of time in Florence, but she's been in St. Louis for the past three months helping to teach an interdisciplinary comparative literature course at Washington University. Daily RFT sat down with Dunant Friday afternoon to discuss history and nuns and the lives of women during the Italian Renaissance.
Daily RFT: Tell us a little bit about your course at Wash. U.
Dunant: I've been team-teaching a course on Renaissance Studies. Harriet Stone, the director of comparitive lit, put it together. We talk about the place of music during the Renaissance and the art. I talk about the source material. They've been reading two of my novels, The Birth of Venus and In the Company of the Courtesan. We discuss where politics begin and family ends and whether love and desire were the same five centuries ago and how to ask questions about the past. It's a new way to teach history.
What drew you to the Renaissance?
Nine years ago, I spent a summer in Florence. You can't go to Florence without having your mind blown. What on earth happened there 500 years ago? I wanted to write a novel to convey "the shock of th enew", as if it were happening now. If I could somehow bring it to life... And the more and more history I read, the less and less I saw of women. I asked myself the simple question, did women have a Renaissance?
Where do you find source material?
The past two generations of scholars have been in archives, looking at church and parish records and the police who walked the streets at night, the stories of ordinary people. It's very rich. You see the names in court records, like fish, jumping in and out. My characters are made up, but they have echoes in the past.
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I understand you spent time in a convent yourself doing research.
I stayed in a Benedictine convent [like the one in Sacred Hearts] south of Milan for a week. They still have eight services a day. The two a.m. is the killer. It explained quite a lot. It has a semi-hallucinatory quality.
Does that explain some of the possible miracles in the book?
It's not my job to walk in as a 21st century woman and say they didn't see God. I, as a writer, must believe in God and that they are seeing something real -- something that they think is real. I'm not here to bring atheism back into the past.
Was it difficult to imagine the lives of these nuns? A lot of them seem to have been stuck there by their families.
It took a lot of time to give up my 21st-century anger on their behalf. I stopped writing after the first two chapters. But then I thought, I'm doing them such a disservice. The future doesn't exist yet. These women didn't start a revolution. They have to live with what they've got. And compared to what went on outside, they had a lot. How many women back then died in childbirth? The nuns had their creativity. They sang and wrote and performed plays. Back then, it was shocking to have a woman perform in public. Zuana [one of the main characters] was a doctor. What looks like prison was a source of creativity. It's arrogant for us to think, "poor them." For me, it's more interesting to see the way history was lived in the cracks.
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The HTML element is a specific type of input elements used to create input fields that deal with passwords. It is designed to deal with passwords so it's more secure than the normal we see in every form on the internet.
First: It makes the password not visible to anybody sitting around you by showing "." or "*" instead of the characters you type.
Second: Browsers treat inputs with text type and password types differently, browsers may try to automatically refill the text input types if they have been previously entered which is something you may not always want.
HTML element is where you should make the user type their password in, and in this article we will know how we can customize the password input fields to accommodate our needs.
By the end of this tutorial you will know how to
- create a password input field and style it
- add a button that can enable the user to view his password in plain text
- add validation to your password input field
- create a numbers only password field
Creating a password input field is as simple as typing and it will come packed with every thing we need as hiding the password and replacing it with dots.
Now it's time to add some logic to our example here, we will create an eye icon that you can click to show
the password and click again to hide it.
Show/Hide Password Mask
Note: if you are not familiar with font awesome do not worry it's a simple font that contain many icons that are used allover the web as they are very easy to style.
We also added an onClick event to our icon that calls a function called viewPassword each time it is clicked. Here is the final result so far do not worry if yours looked different you can copy all the css from our codepen
var passwordInput = document.getElementById('password-field');
var passStatus = document.getElementById('pass-status');
To make this example work we need to check first to see if the password is hidden and view it also change the icon to match the view state. To do all this we will use a small trick, we know that what makes our password hidden is the use of "password" as a type for our input so all what we will have to do is when the icon is clicked we will check if our input had a type of "password" we will change it to type "text" which will lead to showing the password till the user click again on the icon.
if (passwordInput.type == 'password')
Remember all this code is written inside the viewPassword() function. All what we are doing here is using an if statement to check if our password input's type is "password" then change it to text and change the class of the icon's class to
"fa fa-eye" which is the class for a slashed eye in font awesome. If the input had already a text type which means the icon has already been clicked we will reverse everything we have done by changing the input type back to password and the icon class name to "fa fa-eye" which will make the password hidden again and will make.
Checking for Password Strength
Enabling the user to show and hide his password is not all that we can do, a study has show that one each fiver users use 123456 as their password which is very unsafe and all the fancy stuff website developers do nowadays from hashing to salting all of this will not make any difference if the hacker can simply guess your password and if you use any in the list of top famous 25 password, there is a pretty good chance the hacker may be able to guess it right. One way we can solve this issue is to add validation to your password input for example force your user to create a password that contain at least one letter, one digit and 8 characters. And this is exactly what we will do now.
Here we did the same as the first example we created a div with a class of "second-example" and added in it a password input with an id of "password-2" and I added an onkeyup event and made it's value equal to a validate() function.
Note : we used here onkeyup event because onkeydown will fire the event once the key is pressed before even the character is typed on the screen which will lead to a problem causing the password to not be written.
We also added a div with an id of "validation-txt" that will contain all the warning that we will display to the user.
var validationField = document.getElementById('validation-txt');
var password= document.getElementById('password-2');
var content = password.value;
var errors = ;
In the code above we used document.getElementById to grab the password input and the validation div that will contain all our warnings. We also created a variable called content and we assigned it to password.value which is the value of out password input field, we also created an empty array that will contain all our validation errors to be able to view them to the user.
Next we need to start validating the password each time a character is typed and check if it satisfies our validation conditions or not.
As I mentioned before we will check if the password's length is greater than 8 characters and if it contains at least one litter and one digit.
We will start by the easiest one which is checking that the password is longer than 8 characters
if (content.length < 8)
errors.push("Your password must be at least 8 characters");
Here, we are using the length property to check if our password has less than 8 characters and if it does we are using the push function to push the string "Your password must be at least 8 characters" to the errors array we created before.
if (content.search(/[a-z]/i) < 0)
errors.push("Your password must contain at least one letter.");
if (content.search(/[0-9]/i) < 0)
errors.push("Your password must contain at least one digit.");
The last thing we need to do is to add the errors we collected in our errors array to out html.
if (errors.length > 0)
validationField.innerHTML = errors.join(',');
validationField.innerHTML = errors.join(',');
Here we are using an if statement to check if the number of elements in the array are greater than zero which means there has been validation errors then we use the join function to attach all the elements of the array together in one string separated by the "," comma sign then adding our results to the html in the validation div we have created.
"Digits only" Password field using CSS
The last thing we are going to learn about in this tutorial is how to make a password input field that accepts numbers only. This is very useful for example if you are trying to create an input field for a pass code that needs to be only in numbers and want the mobile users to automatically see the number pad once the click on the input field.
This time we will not be creating a password input field, we are going to be creating a numeric input field instead
Here we created an input element with a type of number and added pattern="[0-9]*" this is supported in safari and most browsers and will make the number pad in the mobile phone pop up automatically once the input field is in focus.
What is remaining now is to hide the password to make it look like other password inputs that we have made and remove the number spinner that appears by default in a lot of browser. Fortunately this is very easy using CSS 3.
In the first part, we are using the id of the input element to hide the password and replace it with the dots like other input field with type of password and the second part we are changing the style of every input element with type number to change the outer and inner spinners that sometimes appear natively in some browsers to enable users to increase and decrease numbers.


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An automatic accompaniment generator for infinite melodies, applied to a simple mapping of the decimal digits of π to an A–harmonic-minor scale.
module PiMelody where
import Data.List
data MelodyNote = Gs | A | B | C' | D' | E' | F' | Gs' | A' | B'
deriving (Eq, Show, Enum)
type Melody = [MelodyNote] -- Assume simple all-quavers rythm.
piMelody :: Melody
piMelody = map toEnum piDigits
data Chord = Am | Dm | C | G7 | E
deriving (Eq, Show, Enum)
type Composition = [(Melody, Chord)]
-- (Infinite) list of pairs: a melody chunk, and what chord to go with it.
chordMNotes :: Chord -> [MelodyNote] -- Without suspensions.
chordMNotes Am = [A, C', E', A']
chordMNotes Dm = [A, D', F', A']
chordMNotes E = [Gs, B, D', E', Gs', B', F'] -- Minor dominant may also be diminished-7th.
chordMNotes C = [C', E']
chordMNotes G7 = [B, D', F', B']
resolves :: Chord -> [Chord]
resolves E = [Am, E] -- Dominants should resolve to their tonic, if at all.
resolves G7 = [C, G7, Am, E] -- For major dominant, allow also resolving to minor parallels.
resolves _ = [Am.. E] -- Non-dominant chord can resolve to anything.
accompany :: Melody -> Composition -- Choose suitable chords for a melody.
accompany melody = acc Am melody
where acc :: Chord -> Melody -> Composition
acc lastChord (n1:n2:ml) -- Try to find a chord that fits over two melody notes
| (Just nextChord) -- and works with the previous (possibly dominant) chord.
<- find (\ch -> all('elem' chordMNotes ch) [n1,n2]) $ resolves lastChord
= ([n1,n2], nextChord) : acc nextChord ml
-- If two melody notes don't fit in one chord, use two.
| (Just c1) <- find ((n1'elem'). chordMNotes) $ resolves lastChord
, (Just c2) <- find ((n2'elem'). chordMNotes) $ resolves c1
= ([n1], c1) : ([n2], c2) : acc c2 ml
piDigits :: [Int] -- Infinite list of decimal digits of π. Algorithm taken from:
-- Jeremy Gibbons, "Unbounded Spigot Algorithms for the Digits of Pi";
-- The Mathematical Association of America 2005.
piDigits = map fromInteger $ g(1,0,1,1,3,3)
where g(q,r,t,k,n,l) = if 4*q+r-t


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A publication of the Archaeological Institute of America
Top 10 Discoveries of 2009
Volume 63 Number 1, January/February 2010
ARCHAEOLOGY's annual list of the year's most exciting discoveries--from North America's earliest canals to evidence for chemical warfare at a Roman outpost in Syria--highlights sites, artifacts, and scientific studies we feel most enrich our knowledge of the past.
Archaeology is an incremental science, and "eureka" moments are rare. Often the most significant advances result from many years of research. For instance, we feature the work of archaeologists who have dug for four decades at a second-century B.C. Greek city in southern Russia. They were only recently able to identify a large structure at the site as the palace of King Mithradates VI, a legendary foe of Rome.
Two elite tombs excavated this year are on the list, one belonging to a Moche lord in Peru and the other to a family of Iron Age priestesses on Crete. Meanwhile, graves of exotic animals now emerging at the Predynastic Egyptian capital of Hierakonpolis show that the city's rulers kept extensive menageries--the world's first zoos.
We hope 2009's remarkable finds inspire you to make your own connections with the past, and whet your appetite for the discoveries to come.
As always, there were many more significant discoveries than our "Top 10" list allowed for. Here are five more of the year's most important finds. Maybe we should just call it the "Top 15 Discoveries of 2009."


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Using the bucket object
The bucket object implements a bucket brigade device (in the electronics world, this is sometimes referred to as a discrete time-analogue delay line). As the examples below suggest, it's useful for single-sample delay lines, calculating averages, computing velocity and acceleration, and permutating lists by rotating them.
bucket Tutorials
In the Max tutorial on abstractions, you can find a classic example of why the bucket object is so useful - this Max tutorial demonstrates its use as a single sample delay for number values useful for constructing drawing commands.
bucket Tips and Workarounds
Velocity and Acceleration
Lots of people use the bucket object for shifting data in series, it's computationally useful for calculating first and second derivatives for streams of data. The terms "first and second derivative" are math-speak for keeping track of:
 - the rate that things are changing (that's what velocity (the first derivative) is - the rate of change in a value over time.
 - the rate of the rate that things are changing - that's what acceleration (the second derivative) is.
Here's a patch that does that:
-- Pasted Max Patch, click to expand. --
Running Averages
I also tend to use the object quite a bit in situations where I desire a running average over some finite set of events (if you want a running average for an stream or unspecified set of values, you'd use the mean object). Here's an example that calculates the average of the last 8 floating point input values:
-- Pasted Max Patch, click to expand. --
A Bucket for Symbols
The bucket object is a little unusual in that you don't need to worry about using arguments to the object in order to have it work with floating point values. In fact, bucket is so useful that people often ask whether or not there's a Max object that is similar but will work with symbols or lists. While there isn't a specific object, here's a Max patch that does exactly that (and it also helpfully outputs stuff in standard right-to-left order, too):
-- Pasted Max Patch, click to expand. --
Arbitrary List Rotation
One way to think of the bucket object is a as an object that adds new input values and rotates the list by one position. While you can rotate a list forward or backward using the r2l and l2r messages to the bucket object, performing arbitrary list rotations can be done using the zl object and specifying the rot option:
-- Pasted Max Patch, click to expand. --
Third-Party Max externals similar to the bucket object
Maxobjects.com listing for the bucket object
The zl object (in its zl rot form). Useful for performing rotations of lists where the list offset is an odd number greater than 1.
The cycle object
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A sample of a literature paper: Persepolis by MarjaneSatrapi
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One of the common activities that literature students are expected to execute is analyzing literary works. As a student, you might be asked to analyze the various literary devices used in a given novel. Presented below is a sample of a literature paper that tries to analyze some literary devices in a novel entitled Persepolis by MarjaneSatrapi
 Literature paper: Persepolis by MarjaneSatrapi
Persepolis is a novel in which the writer illustrates her life during childhood and up to marriage. Uniquely, the book uses graphics with text explanations of the situations in the pictures. The setting is in Iran during the struggle for the Islamic revolution. The drawings are chronological to the events that occurred in the life of Marjane who is the writer of the novel. The texts and graphics in the book are clearly related. Certainly, each of the texts is a caption of the events or speeches in a particular graphic. In other words, the captions complement the pictures to convey the same meaning. For example, the drawing of the students before revolution portrays a mixed class of boys and girls. After that, another image shows the veiled girls separated from the boys (Satrapi, 2007). As much as the texts explain the events as they unfold, the graphics help the reader to picture the scenarios in their minds.
The writer uses the style of humor is many instances to lighten the mood in the novel. Notably, this literature element appears after events that are shocking, or that evoke the sympathy of the reader. A good example is where the writer draws pictures of children using the veils as skipping ropes. Others cover their faces with the religious clothes and declare themselves as 'monster of darkness' (Satrapi, 2007). The graphics help the reader to get through the sad fact that the children were subjected to wearing veils without an understanding of its meaning.
The novel illustrates traumatic effects of the war in several instances. Both revolutionists and those against it suffered in diverse ways. For example, the writer's grandfather who was against the revolution was made to sit in a wet cell for a long time. On the other hand, Marjane recalls a mass shooting of the revolutionists in what she calls 'Black Friday demonstrations' (Satrapi, 2007). In another example, the writer's uncle narrates to the writer how her uncle was arrested and executed for supporting democracy and justice (Satrapi, 2007).
Satrapi, M. (2007).The Complete Persepolis.Pantheon Books.
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