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Residents Should Take Precautions Against Other Respiratory Viruses
TRENTON – With holiday gatherings kicking off this week with Thanksgiving, the New Jersey Department of Health (NJDOH) is encouraging everyone 6 months of age and older to get their annual flu shot and COVID-19 booster when eligible, and is urging residents to take precautions as other respiratory illnesses, including Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infection (RSV), continue to circulate.
New Jersey, as well as much of the rest of the country, has seen an earlier start to the flu season this year. Respiratory Syncytial Virus as well as rhinovirus and enterovirus and COVID-19 are also circulating in the state. NJDOH is monitoring and watching hospitalizations and pediatric intensive care units daily throughout the state.
"As New Jerseyans begin to gather with friends and family for the upcoming holidays, it's important for everyone to continue taking the necessary precautions to keep themselves and their loved ones safe," said Governor Phil Murphy. "Getting vaccinated when recommended, practicing good hand and respiratory hygiene, and staying home when sick are ways residents can work together to have a happier and healthier holiday season."
"Getting an annual flu shot will help protect everyone, particularly vulnerable residents such as younger children and older adults, from influenza," said Commissioner Judith Persichilli. "The Department is monitoring these respiratory illnesses closely, and their impact on hospitals and Emergency Departments."
The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) also recommends that everyone stay up to date with COVID-19 vaccines for their age group. Everyone 6 months of age and older is eligible to receive a COVID-19 primary series and people 5 years of age and older are recommended to receive the updated booster at least 2 months after their primary series or last monovalent booster.
RSV, which usually circulates in the state from late fall to early spring, causes common cold symptoms in adults and older children, while in younger children and infants, it can cause wheezing and pneumonia. However, it can also cause more severe infection. Most people recover in a week or two, but RSV can be serious, especially for infants and older adults.
At the same time, the state is seeing many children with infections in the upper airways and lungs due to rhinovirus and enterovirus, which can result in wheezing and breathing difficulties.
Parents should call their pediatrician or a healthcare provider if their child has any of the following symptoms: rapid breathing, wheezing or shortness of breath; ribs pulling in with each breath; is very ill or drowsy; poor eating; dehydration; vomiting for more than 24 hours; fever in a child younger than 12 weeks. While these are warning signs, please consult your healthcare provider for any other symptom that is severe or concerning.
Individuals can take precautions by continuing to wash their hands or use alcohol-based hand sanitizers, cough into their elbows or sleeves, and get immunized for influenza and COVID-19. Individuals at high risk for severe illness and their visitors should consider wearing a high-quality, well-fitting mask which may help reduce the spread of respiratory viruses. Individuals who are sick should remain at home.
Flu vaccination prevents millions of illnesses and flu-related doctor's visits each year. Despite these benefits, during the 2021-2022 flu seasons, only 57% of adults (18 and older) and 67.7% of children (6 months –17 years old) in New Jersey received a flu vaccine.
Flu vaccination is available at healthcare provider offices, pharmacies, federally qualified health centers and local health departments. Many vaccines are covered by insurers at little to no cost to individuals. In addition, NJDOH's Vaccine Preventable Disease Program (VPDP) helps to reduce economic barriers to childhood vaccines through the Vaccines for Children program which offers vaccines at no cost to eligible children through healthcare providers enrolled in the program. The VPDP also participates in the 317-funded adult program which provides vaccines to uninsured and underinsured adults.
COVID-19 vaccination locations can be found using the NJ Vaccine Appointment Finder or by calling the statewide COVID-19 Vaccine Call Center _PHONE_). The COVID-19 vaccine is available for free, regardless of insurance status.
"Vaccines have proven to be safe and effective," said Commissioner Persichilli. "We urge all New Jerseyans to get up to date on all recommended vaccinations to ensure a safe and healthy holiday season. We especially encourage all New Jerseyans, ages 5 and older, to get the new updated booster to ensure the strongest protection against COVID-19 variants."


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The Swinomish Channel in La Conner, Washington. Inset shows U.S. Geological Survey instrument tripod used to measure circulation and water-column properties. (Photographs by E. Grossman and A. Stevens, U.S. Geological Survey.)
Time-series and spatial measurements of nearshore hydrodynamic processes and water properties were made in the Swinomish Channel to quantify the net direction and rates of surface water transport that influence habitat for juvenile Chinook salmon along their primary migratory corridor between the Skagit River and Padilla Bay in northern Puget Sound, Washington. During the spring outmigration of Skagit River Chinook between March and June 2007, currents measured with fixed acoustic doppler current profilers (ADCP) at the south and north end of the Swinomish Channel and with roving ADCP revealed that the currents are highly asymmetric with a dominant flow to the north (toward Padilla Bay). Maximum surface current velocities reached 1.5 m/s and were generally uniform across the channel near McGlinn Island Causeway. Transport times for surface water to travel the 11 km from the southern end of Swinomish Channel at McGlinn Island to Padilla Bay ranged from 2.1 hours to 5.5 days. The mean travel time was ~1 day, while 17 percent of the time, transport of water and passive particles occurred within 3.75 hours. Surface water in the Swinomish Channel during this time was generally very saline 20-27 psu, except south of the Rainbow Bridge in the town of La Conner where it ranged 0-15 psu depending on tide and Skagit River discharge. This salinity regime restricts suitable low salinity (<15-20 psu) surface waters for fry Chinook salmon to the southernmost 2 km of the channel. The mean change in salinity along the channel was 10-13 psu. The high northward current velocities have the capacity to transport Chinook fry into less suitable, high-salinity waters toward Padilla Bay within hours. The rapid transport times of 2.1 to 3.75 hours between McGlinn Island and Padilla Bay that occur 17 percent of the time, are considerably less than the time considered adequate for juvenile Chinook to acclimate and produce a temporal salinity gradient for pre-smolt salmon that can exceed 4 psu/hour during high northward current flow.
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Concerns About Mental Health Screening Legislation
Recent reports and rumors that Congress is passing mandatory mental health screening legislation have been circulating the airwaves and media outlets. HSLDA has been watching and working behind the scenes on this issue for some time. Our concern stems from any attempt by the government to usurp the right of parents to direct the medical decisions of their children, including what medical tests their children receive and who tests them.
Unfortunately, the media reports have often been inaccurate. There is NO mandatory mental health testing requirement being imposed upon states or local schools. However, there is still a cause for concern and a need for continued vigilance.
The Labor HHS appropriations bill contains block grant money that may be used by the States for a number of different programs at their discretion. Some critics are concerned that states will use this money to implement some form of mandatory mental testing program for all students throughout the school system. This concern stems largely from recommendations of New Freedom Commission on Mental Health, a non-policy making body created by President Bush in 2002 to propose ways of eliminating waste and improve efficiency and effectiveness of the mental health care delivery system. The Commission went far beyond their mission and recommended that schools be used as the means for discovering mental health problems.
The Commission's report does not specifically recommend screening ALL students. However, one could foresee how the recommendations in the report might lead to the mandatory screening of every child. For example, the report stresses that a major problem comes from undiagnosed children. They also suggest that "schools are in a key position to identify the mental health problems early and to provide a link to appropriate services." Any proposal that would lead to mandatory testing is dangerous and clashes with the principles which govern a free society.
Keep in mind, this commission has no legislative or executive power. Congress legislates and the Department of Health and Human Services implements policy.
The House and Senate HHS appropriations committees have appropriated $20 and $40 million respectively which could technically be used by each state to implement some form of mental health testing. This wouldn't be much more than $600,000 per state which is far short of the money needed to implement a mandatory system.
Congressman Ron Paul (TX-14) and others are currently working on committee report language that would require parental consent before any mental testing could occur.
HSLDA will continue to oppose attempts by the federal government or states to implement a mandatory testing system. It strikes at the heart of parental rights. This issue is not likely to impact homeschoolers directly at this time. If any mental health testing program is implemented by a State, it would probably begin with the public schools. Nonetheless, HSLDA continues to follow and oppose any attempt to usurp a parent's right to direct the medical decisions of their children.


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Gar, Giant
Huge beast, unaligned
Armor Class 14 (natural armor)
Hit Points 112 (9d12 + 54)
Speed swim 60 ft.
29 (+9) 10 (+0) 22 (+6) 2 (-4) 13 (+1) 2 (-4)
Skills Athletics +12, Perception +7
Senses passive Perception 17
Challenge 6 (2,300 XP)
Special Traits
 - Water Breathing. The giant gar can only breathe underwater.
 - Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +12 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 30 (6d6 + 9) piercing damage, and the target is grappled (escape DC 20). Until this grapple ends, the target is restrained, and the gar can't bite another target.
 - Swallow. The gar makes one bite attack against a Large or smaller target it is grappling. If the attack hits, the target is swallowed, and the grapple ends. The swallowed target is blinded and restrained, it has total cover against attacks and other effects outside the gar, and it takes 21 (6d6) acid damage at the start of each of the gar's turns. The gar can have only one target swallowed at a time. If the gar dies, a swallowed creature is no longer restrained by it and can escape from the corpse using 5 feet of movement, exiting prone.
Although typical gars are frightening enough, tales of enormous giant gars that lurk in the deepest rivers and lakes persist in many regions. These creatures are true monsters, often growing to lengths of 30 feet or more and capable of swallowing a horse and rider in a single gulp. Fortunately, giant gars are much rarer than their smaller kin.
Giant gars are often kept as pets and guard animals by aquatic creatures such as merrows, scrags (aquatic trolls), and the rare sea hags who dwell in freshwater dens.
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The Trend Toward Requiring Plaintiffs to Identify Trade Secrets Early in Litigation
A good article in BNA by Eric W. Schweibenz and Lisa M. Mandrusiak argues that the recent trend in trade secret litigation has been to require plaintiffs to state with specificity early in litigation what trade secrets they claim the defendants stole. This prevents "fishing expeditions," where plaintiffs bring vague claims for misappropriation of trade secrets in the hope that they'll find something solid when they obtain documents and other information from defendants in discovery. It also helps defendants decide what is relevant when responding to discovery requests from plaintiffs and helps defendants prepare a defense. Ultimately, the requirement can help resolve cases faster because the defendants know earlier what the case is about and the strength of their defense.
This requirement should make employers that are considering suing former employees for misappropriation of trade secrets think before they file. I've written about this before, but it bears repeating: if an employer is going to accuse an employee of stealing trade secrets, it better have a good idea of what those trade secrets are. If the employer doesn't, that fact can really slow down, and even stop, a case before it really gets started, and the employer will lose a good deal of credibility in the judge's eyes.
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'Marjorie Prime' Explores Artificial Intelligence Created in Our Own Image
Jon Hamm and Lois Smith in Marjorie Prime | © FilmRise
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Tech Editor16 August 2017
Marjorie Prime is a thoughtful, emotional film that examines humanity's complex relationship with technology without the need for flashy effects, doom-mongering plot lines, and unwarranted twists. The movie also explores how humanity imprints itself on the technology it builds—an idea that provokes much debate, discussion, and concern.
Lois Smith's character Marjorie is kept company by an AI construct of her dead husband Walter, played by Jon Hamm. Walter relies on Marjorie's dementia-ridden memory for anecdotes and information to properly impersonate the deceased. It's a topic that plays on our fears of artificial intelligence and technology in general, but goes beyond the obvious, and instead touches on humanity's interaction with machine, and the unintended consequences.
Marjorie's re-imagining of her husband becomes an idealized version of the departed, something she needs at that point in her life rather than an actual reflection of her spouse. And the pattern continues as other characters in the film get their own "Prime": an AI hologram of a dead loved one.
The film is really an exploration into the memories we keep, the stories we tell, and the lasting impression people leave on us after their deaths. But there is also a cautionary tale of the perils of future technology.
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As artificial intelligence and algorithms play an increasingly important role in our lives, ethical and moral questions continue to be raised. As long as AI is created by humans rather than other computers, the technology will always be created in our own image, and thus run the danger of having our flaws and prejudices built in.
One recent example was brought to light by the brilliant reporting of ProPublica last year, which showed how software used to predict who would become criminals had absorbed and adopted the bias against black people of the American judicial system. Algorithms mean no bias—they don't "intend" anything at all—but if they're based on data that's the result of decades of prejudice, then they'll only ever reflect that data.
This year, a study revealed that an AI program to interpret human language had exhibited gender and racial biases. "A lot of people are saying this is showing that AI is prejudiced. No. This is showing we're prejudiced and that AI is learning it," Joanna Bryson, a computer scientist at the University of Bath and a co-author of the report, told The Guardian.
In Marjorie Prime, the AI is given bad data by unreliable human memory (and not just that of Marjorie, who appears to be suffering from Alzheimer's), and this causes ripples across the movie. It's a subtle problem many may have missed among the doomsday scenarios Hollywood, and others, usually present. The results of the miscommunication in the movie are less severe, and by the end the holographic version of the humans in the film appear a lot more content than their fleshy counterparts.
One of the major themes of Marjorie Prime is how we come to accept different memories and versions of our lives, even if they are slightly skewed from reality. At one point, Walter Prime tells the story of the dog he and Marjorie adopted to replace their previous pet Toni, which had died.
"[She was called] Toni II, but that was soon shortened to just Toni," Walter Prime explains. "And of course it wasn't exactly Toni, but the longer they had her the less it mattered which Toni it was that ran along the beach and which Toni it was that dug up all the bulbs in the garden. The more time that passed, the more she became the same dog in their memories."
This tale speaks of the comfort humans can gain when accepting a slanted version of the truth, but when put in the context of AI as a whole, this ability to accept something not quite human will define how AI is used in our lives forever.
The idea of artificial intelligence provokes many fears, but perhaps our greatest concern should be seeing a spark of life in a machine, and realizing it's a reflection of humanity looking back at us.
Marjorie Prime opens on August 18 in New York City.
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At this moment I'm using a simple checksum scheme, that just adds the words in a buffer. Firstly, my question is what is the probability of a false negative, that is, the receiving system calculating the same checksum as the sending system even when the data is different (corrupted).
Secondly, how can I reduce the probability of false negatives? What is the best checksuming scheme for that. Note that each word in the buffer is of size 64 bits or 8 bytes, that is a long variable in a 64 bit system.
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Is there a reason you are not using an industry-standard checksum like CRC, MD5 or SHA? – Jon Mar 1 '12 at 10:44
do I understand correctly that the order of words doesn't matter? note: if you assign a unique id for each input (store it in a database) then you can reduce the probability to zero.. question is do you need that? – Karoly Horvath Mar 1 '12 at 10:45
Assigning a probability of non detection of changes is possible only if you give the probability of the various changes. Different checksum will behave differently for different change patterns. – AProgrammer Mar 1 '12 at 12:41
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Assuming a sane checksum implementation, then the probability of a randomly-chosen input string colliding with a reference input string is 1 in 2n, where n is the checksum length in bits.
However, if you're talking about input that differs from the original by a low number of bits, then the probability of collision is generally much, much lower.
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this is only true for two entries. the probability of collision depends on the number of entries.. also, see birthday paradox – Karoly Horvath Mar 1 '12 at 10:49
_USER_: I'm talking about the probability of a single input string causing a collision with a reference input. Let me clarify my answer. – Oli Charlesworth Mar 1 '12 at 10:49
yepp I also updated my comment just about the same time ;) – Karoly Horvath Mar 1 '12 at 10:50
_USER_: By "sane", I mean "written by someone competent"! I'm really implying that it would be possible to create a checksum algorithm that doesn't exhibit these properties. – Oli Charlesworth Mar 1 '12 at 10:56
_USER_: for the sake of argument, use SHA-256 until you come up with a reason not to. Other sane checksums / message digests exist. – Steve Jessop Mar 1 '12 at 10:58
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One possibility is to have a look at T. Maxino's thesis titled "The Effectiveness of Checksums for Embedded Networks" (PDF), which contains an analysis for some well-known checksums.
However, usually it is better to go with CRCs, which have additional benefits, such as detection of burst errors.
For these, P. Koopman's paper "Cyclic Redundancy Code (CRC) Selection for Embedded Networks" (PDF) is a valuable resource.
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I have created an Java web application and deployed it on AWS Elastic Beanstalk. It;s working fine with its database.
Now, in my project users have the option to upload documents, pdfs and images. This is creating problems. In the local system I am using./ as the path for saving uploaded documents but on Amazon I don't know where to store these uploaded documents and how to assign a path.
So far I've done the following, which is all working okay.
 1. Uploaded a project on AWS Elastic Beanstalk.
 2. Created a database using AWS RDS.
 3. Both application and database are communicating with each other.
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Is there a special reason for storing files in RDS?
for storing files I suggest you use S3 instead of RDS. Use the amazon SDK to do it, see,%20java.lang.String,,
Of course, your file-saving code should be pluggable, with at least two implementations. One implementation saving the file to the local disk and another for storing it in S3. your startup code should wire the correct implementation.
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yes once you store it in (AWS) S3 bucket, get the credential details of it and create a credentials file
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[J03] H. J. Yang, J. Chun, and A. Paulraj, "Asymptotic capacity of the separated MIMO two-way relay channel," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 57, no. 11, pp. 7542-7554, Nov. 2011.
A multiple-input multiple-output two-way relay channel consisting of two communication nodes and a full-duplex relay node in which no direct link exists between the two communication nodes is considered. We propose an achievable scheme that employs horizontally encoded lattice codes combined with generalized singular value decomposition-based precoding for the first phase. The second phase of the proposed scheme follows the fundamentals of the previous scheme, which uses vertically encoded structural bining, with the only difference that the added codeword of the two codewords from the communication nodes, instead of those two individual codewords, is decoded and retransmitted in the proposed scheme. We show that the proposed scheme achieves the cut-set bound asymptotically as the signal-to-noise ratios of the channels tend to infinity.


Let It Flow: AI Researchers Create Looping Videos From Still Images
Researchers from University of Washington and Facebook used deep learning to convert still images into realistic animated looping videos. Their approach, which will be presented at the upcoming Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), imitates continuous fluid motion — such as flowing water, smoke and clouds — to turn still images into short … Continued
"What's special about our method is that it doesn't require any user input or extra information," said Aleksander Hołyński, University of Washington doctoral student in computer science and engineering and lead author on the project. "All you need is a picture. And it produces as output a high-resolution, seamlessly looping video that quite often looks like a real video."
The team created a method known as "symmetric splatting" to predict the past and future motion from a still image, combining that data to create a seamless animation.
"When we see a waterfall, we know how the water should behave. The same is true for fire or smoke. These types of motions obey the same set of physical laws, and there are usually cues in the image that tell us how things should be moving," Hołyński said. "We'd love to extend our work to operate on a wider range of objects, like animating a person's hair blowing in the wind. I'm hoping that eventually the pictures that we share with our friends and family won't be static images. Instead, they'll all be dynamic animations like the ones our method produces."
To teach their neural network to estimate motion, the team trained the model on more than 1,000 videos of fluid motion such as waterfalls, rivers and oceans. Given only the first frame of the video, the system would predict what should happen in future frames, and compare its prediction with the original video. This comparison helped the model improve its predictions of whether and how each pixel in an image should move.
The researchers used the NVIDIA Pix2PixHD GAN model for motion estimation network training, as well as FlowNet2 and PWC-Net. NVIDIA GPUs were used for both training and inference of the model. The training data included 1196 unique videos, 1096 for training, 50 for validation and 50 for testing.
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Incorrect dimensions for output of speech extraction model
Hello everyone, below I have linked a recent SO post of mine going more in depth to my problem
But an overview is that I am unable to get proper output from my model because of what I believe to be issues with my input and my lack of understanding regarding shape of input vs. shape of a tensor. If there is anything I can provide to give a better idea of my problem let me know. Appreciate any help I could get
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Learning an Accurate Physics Simulator via Adversarial Reinforcement Learning
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Comparison between a conventional simulator and our hybrid simulator.
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How to attach normalization layer after training?
So I apply preprocessing on my dataset because I can generate new data/do normalization.
Now its time to save model, so someone else can use it. Now I need normalization.
model = Sequential()
//model.add(Lambda(lambda x: (x / 255.0) ))
I want to attach this commented Layer before saving model. I didn't need it for training but now
once model is trained I want to have normalization in network.
From this tutorial it is mention it is possible but I don't see how to do this.
 - In this case the prepreprocessing layers will not be exported with the model when you call
 . You will need to attach them to your model before saving it or reimplement them server-side. After training, you can attach the preprocessing layers before export.
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Waste Not, Want Not: AI Startup Opseyes Revolutionizes Wastewater Analysis
What do radiology and wastewater have in common? Hopefully, not much. But at startup Opseyes, founder Bryan Arndt and data scientist Robin Schlenga are putting the AI that's revolutionizing medical imaging to work on analyzing wastewater samples. Arndt and Schlenga spoke with NVIDIA AI Podcast host Noah Kravitz about the inspiration for Opseyes, which began Read article >
The post Waste Not, Want Not: AI Startup Opseyes Revolutionizes Wastewater Analysis appeared first on The Official NVIDIA Blog.
How do you put multiple filters in one convolution?
How do you put multiple filters in one convolution?
I just started learning Tensorflow/Keras and would like to know in conv6 and conv7, how do you put 3 filters in one convolution?
I have this code for both of them, but my code creates 3 separate convolutions and based on my understand that's only one convolution right? Also, I'm not too sure if those filters are executed in parallel or sequential from left to right (wouldn't that be the same as having 3 separate convolutions?)
keras.layers.Conv2D(filters=1024, kernel_size=(1,1), strides=(1,1), activation='relu', padding="same"),
keras.layers.Conv2D(filters=512, kernel_size=(3,3), strides=(1,1), activation='relu', padding="same"),
Thanks for the help!
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How to load image data for facial keypoints detection in tensorflow?
Hello everyone
I have a dataset that contain images of random people's faces and a csv file that has the image files names and the corresponding 68 facial keypoints, similar to this:
Image 0 1 2 3 136
/file.jpg 54 11 23 43.. 12
How do I load dataset in tensorflow?
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Training Custom Object Detector and converting to TFLite leads to wrong predicted bounding boxes and weird output shape
I have used this official tutorial to train my custom traffic sign detector with the dataset from German Traffic Sign Detection Benchmark site.
I have created my PASCAL VOC format.xml files using pascal-voc-writer python lib and converted them to tf records with the resized images to 320×320. I have also scaled the bounding box coordinates as they were for the 1360×800 images. I have used the formula Rx = NEW_WIDTH/WIDTH Ry = NEW_HEIGHT/HEIGHT where NEW_WIDTH = NEW_HEIGHT = 320 and rescaled coords like so xMin = round(Rx * int(xMin)).
The pre-trained model I have used is ssd_mobilenet_v2_fpnlite_320x320_coco17_tpu-8. You can also see the images used for training here and their corresponding.xml files here.
The problem is that after training and converting from saved_model to.tflite using this script, it does not recognize traffic signs and the outputs are a bit different of what I expect as instead of a list of list of normalized coordinates I get a list of a list of list of normalized coordinates. The last steps in the training process look like this. After using this script, the output image with predicted bounding boxes looks like this and the printed output is this.
What could be the problem? Thank you!
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A Step Toward More Inclusive People Annotations in the Open Images Extended Dataset
In 2016, we introduced Open Images, a collaborative release of ~9 million images annotated with image labels spanning thousands of object categories and bounding box annotations for 600 classes. Since then, we have made several updates, including the release of crowdsourced data to the Open Images Extended collection to improve diversity of object annotations. While the labels provided with these datasets were expansive, they did not focus on sensitive attributes for people, which are critically important for many machine learning (ML) fairness tasks, such as fairness evaluations and bias mitigation. In fact, finding datasets that include thorough labeling of such sensitive attributes is difficult, particularly in the domain of computer vision.
Today, we introduce the More Inclusive Annotations for People (MIAP) dataset in the Open Images Extended collection. The collection contains more complete bounding box annotations for the person class hierarchy in 100k images containing people. Each annotation is also labeled with fairness-related attributes, including perceived gender presentation and perceived age range. With the increasing focus on reducing unfair bias as part of responsible AI research, we hope these annotations will encourage researchers already leveraging Open Images to incorporate fairness analysis in their research.
Examples of new boxes in MIAP. In each subfigure the magenta boxes are from the original Open Images dataset, while the yellow boxes are additional boxes added by the MIAP Dataset. Original photo credits — left: Boston Public Library; middle: jen robinson; right: Garin Fons; all used with permission under the CCBY 2.0 license.
Annotations in Open Images
Each image in the original Open Images dataset contains image-level annotations that broadly describe the image and bounding boxes drawn around specific objects. To avoid drawing multiple boxes around the same object, less specific classes were temporarily pruned from the label candidate set, a process that we refer to as hierarchical de-duplication. For example, an image with labels animal, cat, and washing machine has bounding boxes annotated for cat and washing machine, but not for the redundant class animal.
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Different Possibilities of Process Analysis in Cold Extrusion
Cold extrusion is a technology which offers a number of advantages when compared to other manufacturing technologies. High mechanical properties of extruded component, short production time as well as significant cost effectiveness which can be achieved by implementation of this technology are the main characteristics of cold extrusion process. In order to design the complete extrusion process in optimal way it is crucial to know the main process parameters such as load, die pressure, stress and strain distribution within deformation zone etc. There is a number of methods for the analysis of cold extrusion processes. Current paper gives the insight into the possibilities of process analysis in three different cases of cold extrusion. Radial extrusion of gear like elements has been analyzed theoretically (Upper Bound method), numerically by FE simulation and experimentally. Die stressing has been measured by special device (pin load cell) in the process of forward extrusion. Third analyzed process was backward extrusion with profiled punch. In this process loading characteristics as well as some of the mechanical properties of extruded component were obtained experimentally.
Luca Tomesani and Lorenzo Donati
M. Plancak et al., "Different Possibilities of Process Analysis in Cold Extrusion", Key Engineering Materials, Vol. 367, pp. 209-214, 2008


Sunday, November 28, 2010
What Does "Creation" Mean?
Recently I've been writing about the Christian doctrine of "creation." What does "creation" mean? It's a word that has acquired a lot of baggage in recent decades; here I try to explain the original idea. And what does it imply about God as Creator, and about the nature of reality as creation? Some thoughts:
 1. is evolution an creation the same thing
 2. I would say that evolution is something that happens within creation; it is the process of creation growing. Creation means that the world comes from God and depends on God, and evolution describes what happens in creation. Evolution and creation are both true, and there is no conflict between them.


Laser Drilling FAQs
Laser drilling is the process whereby thru-holes are created in a material by pulsing a focused laser repeatedly to break it down layer by layer. Each of the laser processes, whether it is laser marking (FAQs), engraving (FAQs), cutting (FAQs), drilling (FAQs), additive manufacturing (FAQs), welding (FAQs), cleaning (FAQs), ablation (FAQs) or another one entirely, has its own unique qualities and functions. Below we have explored in greater detail some of the most frequently explored laser drilling FAQs.
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How does laser drilling work?
Laser drilling, as explained briefly above, is the process of using a precision laser to create "popped holes" in a material. The beam intensity, length, and heat output can be precisely and accurately controlled throughout the process, allowing laser drilling to work with a number of different materials and create holes of several diameters and sizes.
This level of control makes it a great alternative to other drilling processes such as mechanical drilling, wire EDM, or punching. Laser drilling is an extremely quick and efficient process, and can be automated to produce the required results, resulting in minimal input needed from employees. Laser drilling is sometimes also referred to as 'ablation', as it involves the melting or vaporisation of the material that it is working with. This, in turn, then increases the material volume within the hole that is being laser drilled, resulting in high vapour pressure. This pressure then drives the excess melt out of the hole.
What materials can laser drilling work with?
Due to the high level of adaptability that laser drilling offers with beam intensity, duration, and heat output, it is able to work with a wide range of materials. The materials that laser drilling can work with are various metals such as stainless steel, nickel alloys, copper alloys, titanium alloys, aluminium alloys, and brass. Alongside metal, laser drilling is also extremely effective in working with semi-conductors, plastics, quartz substances, ceramics, rubber, and even diamonds.
Laser drilling for diamonds
Laser drilling can be used on many materials, including diamonds
What industries is laser drilling used in?
As with the above point, laser drilling's adaptability means that it is useful in many different industries and sectors. These sectors include; the automotive industry, the aerospace industry, the semi-conductor industry, the electronics industry and the medical sector. Laser drilling is becoming an increasingly vital element of manufacturing processes, and will most likely have been used in many of the everyday products that we use.
What are the benefits of laser drilling?
Laser drilling offers a number of benefits to its users over other more conventional forms of laser processes. The benefits that laser drilling offers are:
 - Laser drilling is a non-contact process, meaning that it causes little change to the materials it is working with (except to drill holes of course!)
 - Laser drilling offers precise control of beam intensity, heat output, and duration, meaning it consistently produces accurate results
 - This level of control means that laser drilling can drill shallow angles and different shaped holes
 - Laser drilling can produce holes with small diameters but high aspect ratio (this is where the depth-to-diameter is greater than 10:1)
 - Laser drilling is an automated process, and can easily be programmed for different uses. It allows for fast setup times and quick production rates
 - The same tool that is used for laser drilling can also be used for laser welding and laser cutting, making it an extremely versatile process
 - Laser drilling can work with a number of different materials
 - Some laser drilling processes can drill multiple features at the same time
 - Laser drilling also offers flexibility when it comes to changeovers for prototypes or small-batch manufacturing
Above lists the wide range of benefits that laser drilling offers, and so it is easy to see why it is quickly becoming a vital part of the manufacturing process. It results in more productive processes, and higher quality end-products.
How accurate is laser drilling?
Laser drilling offers a process that uses a very focused, narrow laser beam that gives precise and accurate results. Thanks to this precise nature, laser drilling is able to result in holes being drilled at incredibly small yet perfect sizes. Before laser drilling, a conventional drill could only create a hole around 0.003" in diameter, which is around the size of a human hair. Now, thanks to the accurate nature of laser drilling, holes with a diameter as small as 0.0004" can be drilled.
Laser drilling in the automotive industry
Laser drilling finds uses in many industries, including in the automotive industry
What are the capabilities of laser drilling?
As listed above, laser drilling is able to drill holes as small as 0.0004" at incredible speeds. For example, laser drilling is used within the medical sector to drill roughly 140,000 tablets every hour in some instances! Laser drilling can typically produce between 0.3 and 3 holes per second. Laser drilling is capable of incredible accuracy, high speeds, good efficiency, and is very adaptable, allowing it to be worked with a range of materials from metals to rubber to diamonds. A single laser drilling machine is capable of producing hundreds of differently sized and shaped holes over 3D surfaces.
Will laser drilling damage my material?
No, this is one of the biggest benefits of laser drilling. It is a non-contact process, and with a precision beam it is only focused on the specific area being worked with. It won't damage or alter the rest of the material, maintaining the high level of quality that you have started with.
What is single-pulse laser drilling?
There are several types of laser drilling processes, listed here and below.
Single-pulse laser drilling is when holes are laser drilled through a material with a thin thickness, or just for creating small holes, i.e. when roughing up a surface for coating and gluing purposes.
What is percussion laser drilling?
Percussion laser drilling is similar to single-pulse laser drilling, but is when the size of the laser's focus spot is changed in order to change the size of the finished hole. Our Fiber Laser range has a laser drilling peak power of up to 20kW, and can drill holes as small as 25µm in diameter and up to a size of 1000µm, although the majority of holes laser drilled using this method are in the 300µm to 600µm range. Percussion drilling involves a series of laser pulses of small energy and duration.
What is trepan laser drilling?
Trepan laser drilling is where a laser pierces a material and then, using a motion system, the laser is used to cut out a hole. This unique method allows for the creation of shaped holes, for a changing cross section, and for the trimming of complex 3D parts and objects.
What is helical laser drilling?
Helical laser drilling is the process that is used to create large, deep drill holes. The hole isn't created straight away, and instead several pulses of laser drilling are required to create a circular track in the material being worked with.
What else is laser drilling used for?
Other types of laser drilling include the roughening of surfaces rather than creating thru-holes, and this is typically used for coating and gluing purposes.
What lasers are capable of laser drilling?
Our range of Pulsed Fiber Lasers and Continuous Wave Fiber Lasers are some of the most modern and innovative pieces of laser equipment on the market, and are capable of performing laser drilling to an extremely high and efficient level.
What other processes are SPI Lasers Fiber Lasers capable of?
As well as laser drilling, our range of Fiber Lasers also have uses for laser marking, cutting, welding, engraving, ablation, cleaning, and additive manufacturing. If you're interested in hearing more on our range of Fiber Lasers may be able to benefit you, then please don't hesitate to get in contact with us.
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TY - JOUR T1 - BARcode DEmixing through Non-negative Spatial Regression (BarDensr) JF - bioRxiv DO - 10.1101/2020.08.17.253666 SP - 2020.08.17.253666 AU - Chen, Shuonan AU - Loper, Jackson AU - Chen, Xiaoyin AU - Zador, Tony AU - Paninski, Liam Y1 - 2020/01/01 UR - _URL_ N2 - Modern spatial transcriptomics methods can target thousands of different types of RNA transcripts in a single slice of tissue. Many biological applications demand a high spatial density of transcripts relative to the imaging resolution, leading to partial mixing of transcript rolonies in many pixels; unfortunately, current analysis methods do not perform robustly in this highly-mixed setting. Here we develop a new analysis approach, BARcode DEmixing through Non-negative Spatial Regression (BarDensr): we start with a generative model of the physical process that leads to the observed image data and then apply sparse convex optimization methods to estimate the underlying (demixed) rolony densities. We apply Bar-Densr to simulated and real data and find that it achieves state of the art signal recovery, particularly in densely-labeled regions or data with low spatial resolution. Finally, BarDensr is fast and parallelizable. We provide open-source code as well as an implementation for the 'NeuroCAAS' cloud platform.Author Summary Spatial transcriptomics technologies allow us to simultaneously detect multiple molecular targets in the context of intact tissues. These experiments yield images that answer two questions: which kinds of molecules are present, and where are they located in the tissue? In many experiments (e.g., mapping RNA expression in fine neuronal processes), it is desirable to increase the signal density relative to the imaging resolution. This may lead to mixing of signals from multiple RNA molecules into single imaging pixels; thus we need to demix the signals from these images. Here we introduce BarDensr, a new computational method to perform this demixing. The method is based on a forward model of the imaging process, followed by a convex optimization approach to approximately 'invert' mixing induced during imaging. This new approach leads to significantly improved performance in demixing imaging data with dense expression and/or low spatial resolution. ER -


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Russia marks Stalingrad 70 years on
- From: AAP
- February 03, 2013
THE city of Volgograd has been renamed Stalingrad for a day as Russia marks the 70th anniversary of a brutal battle in which the Red Army defeated Nazi forces and changed the course of World War II.
President Vladimir Putin called the battle "one of the greatest examples of world heroism" during a stirring address to Volgograd veterans that played up the nationalist themes of his third Kremlin term.
"Stalingrad will forever remain the symbol of the unity and invincibility of our people," said Mr Putin.
"It is a symbol of true patriotism - a symbol of the great victory of the Soviet soldier-liberator."
Commuter buses emblazoned with pictures of the feared Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin ran across the southern city as patriotic Russians honoured what many view as the Soviet people's greatest achievement.
"I remember the sadness of the war and the victory of the Soviet soldiers," said World War II veteran Alexander Kudlyayev as he joined 10,000 others at a wreath-laying ceremony at Volgograd's Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
"I came to honour my friends who died here," added 89-year-old Stalingrad survivor Pyotr Chabarov.
The half-year battle in 1943 in the city on the Volga River - much of it fought in hand-to-hand combat across the ruined streets - claimed the lives of two million people on both sides and eventually led to the surrender of the German troops.
The battle marked Hitler's first big defeat and led to a Nazi retreat from Soviet territory after a lightning June 1941 invasion that had caught Stalin completely unaware.
The pulverised city was renamed Volgograd in 1961 after Soviet leaders admitted the extent of Stalin's tyranny during his decades in power.
But the old name has remained synonymous with the battle and Volgograd politicians have decided to revive it for the anniversary and five other days of the year.
Mr Putin has never denied Stalin's murderous purges of innocent citizens and deadly forced collectivisation.
But he and other modern leaders have preferred to overlook the disastrous errors in military strategy Stalin made during the war.
And Mr Putin in particular has preached a patriotic message since returning to the presidency in May after serving four years as premier.
Mr Putin told the veterans that "no country can live without (patriotism) because otherwise it will simply dissolve like a lump of sugar in a cup of tea".
State media had focused their attention on Volgograd throughout the week as they detailed the lavish preparations and Kremlin's attention to veterans.
The commemorations were broadcast live on the national news channels while state television broadcast a new dramatised documentary about the "battle that changed world history".
Afternoon broadcasts also relayed a special message from the Russian crew members of the International Space Station - a tradition usually reserved only for the highest national holidays.
But not everyone was pleased that this memory now appeared to be once again firmly associated with Stalin's name.
"This was a mistake," said a woman who agreed to only give her first name Larisa.
"We are overestimating Stalin's role in the war," she said. "He was bloodthirsty."


History of the Wurlitzer Building
History of the North Tonawanda, NY Wurlitzer BuildingThe Wurlitzer building is an example of the early modernism style of architecture, with construction beginning in 1892 and continuing until 1950. The building's proximity to the Erie Canal may have been part of the draw for Rudolph Wurlitzer; however, the structure itself was likely an attraction as well. It was large enough to accommodate everything he needed: "showrooms, customer and product training areas, public relations reception rooms, employee recreation areas, locker rooms, showers, and cafeterias."
[1] The Wurlitzer family began cultivating its reputation for making and selling fine musical instruments during the 17th century. The father of the original Wurlitzer company, Rudolph Wurlitzer, was born in Schilbach, Saxony in 1829. At age 24 he immigrated to America, and three years later, in 1856, he founded The Rudolph Wurlitzer Company in Cincinnati, Ohio. Initially he imported musical instruments from his family in Germany to sell them on the American market, but soon made his way into manufacturing. In 1880, the first Wurlitzer piano was built in the U.S., followed by the first coin-operated electric piano in 1896. This was just the beginning of what would prove to be a continuing success story as the first Wurlitzer jukebox was just a step away.
The next major musical venture for Wurlitzer came with the introduction of cinema and theatre organs. These instruments, dubbed the "Mighty Wurlitzer", created an instant sensation when they appeared on the market during the silent movie era. The introduction of Wurlitzer-driven musical soundtracks to movies fostered dramatic changes within the motion picture and entertainment industries.
Wurlitzer has historically implemented a philosophy still valid today of channeling flexibility and advanced technology into the development of innovative products. Consequently, Farny Wurlitzer, successor of the founding father, bought a patented jukebox mechanism in 1933 and hired highly skilled professionals for the design and marketing. From their new location in North Tonawanda, New York, these imaginative inventors developed the first Wurlitzer jukebox. Over the next few years Wurlitzer jukeboxes became widely embraced by operators, and by the late 1930's Wurlitzer was producing over 45,000 jukeboxes a year. The jukebox became known as the "small man's concert hall."
The Wurlitzer Building in North Tonawanda, New York wasn't alone in producing world-class musical instruments under the Wurlitzer name. With executive offices in Chicago, the company also had production facilities in Mississippi and Illinois. However, the North Tonawanda facility had the distinction of being the largest musical instrument plant in the world at the time.
Although many products were created in the Wurlitzer Building, the "Mighty Wurlitzer" may be Rudolph Wurlitzer's greatest legacy. They were a magnificent line of organs that could be found all over the world. Places like Rockefeller Center, Lincoln Center, the Hollywood Bowl, St. Patrick's Cathedral, Metropolitan Opera Music Hall, and Kleinhans Music Hall were some of the better known venues to have embraced the concert grade organ.
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had been in a common-law marriage with Mattie Blaylock since 1873. Allie Earp, Virgil's wife, wrote that the two women had at least two verbal altercations over the affair between Josie and Wyatt Earp, but her story of the relationship is not believed by some historians.
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The embarrassment suffered by Behan was one of many factors that may have contributed animosity between Behan and Wyatt Earp and to the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral. Numerous other events between Wyatt Earp and Ike Clanton, and others of the Clanton gang, actually sparked the gunfight; the feud between Behan and Earp was little more than a side show. On October 26, 1881, Josephine Marcus was at her home when she heard the sound of gunfire. Taking a wagon in the direction of the shots, Marcus was relieved to see that Earp was uninjured.
By 1882 Josephine had adopted the name of Josephine Earp, although no official record of their marriage exists. In I Married Wyatt Earp: The Recollections of Josephine Sarah Marcus, Josephine wrote that she and Wyatt were married in 1892 aboard millionaire Lucky Baldwin's yacht. [Raymond Nez wrote that his grandparents witnessed their marriage aboard a yacht off the California coast.] Josephine was friends with Lucky Baldwin and wrote that she received money from him in exchange for her jewelry, eventually selling all of her jewelry to him.
Following what has been dubbed the "Earp Vendetta Ride", she and Earp traveled through various western states hunting for gold and silver. It is also said that they ran horse races in San Diego as well as operating saloons in Idaho and Alaska. During this period, they became a gambling team.
Josephine said of the time from between 1901~1929, "We would wander over the deserts of Nevada, Arizone and California with a camping outfit during the pleasant fall, winter and spring months. The hot summer months would be spent in Los Angeles." In the course of writing the Earp biography Lake learned some other aspects of her life. Wyatt became critically ill in late 1928 and died on January 13, 1929. Before Wyatt's biography was released soon after his death, Josephine traveled to Boston, MA, in an attempt to convince the publisher to stop the release of the book.
Much later in 1939 Josephine tried to stop 20th Century Fox from making a film based on the book, Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal. Under the condition that Wyatt's name be removed from the title, the movie was later released as Frontier Marshal from which she received royalties. In Los Angeles she became friends with many celebrities, including Cecil B. DeMille and Gary Cooper.
After Wyatt Earp's death, Josephine sought to get her own life story published and collaborated with Wyatt's cousins Mabel Earp Cason and Cason's sister Vinola Earp Ackerman. The cousins recorded events in her life but found Josephine was evasive about her early life in Tombstone. Mabel Cason and her sister "finally abandoned work on the manuscript because she (Josie) would not clear up the Tombstone sequence where it pertained to her and Wyatt."
The University of Arizone Press published the book in 1967 under the title I Married Wyatt Earp: The Recollections of Josephine Sarah Marcus. It was immensely popular for many years, becoming the university's fourth all-time best selling book with over 35,000 sold. It was cited by scholars and relied upon as factual by filmmakers. Beginning in about 1994, critics began to challenge the accuracy of the book, and eventually many parts of the book were refuted as fictional and inaccurate. Ownership of the book, following Josephine's death, eventually fell to Glenn Boyer, following his obtaining rights from the relatives of Josephine Earp. In 1998, a series of articles in the Phonenix New Times, including interviews with amateur historian Glen Boyer, proved that Boyer invented large portions of the book. In 2000, the University responded to criticism of the university and the book and removed it from their catalog. The book has become an example of how supposedly factual works can trip up researchers, historians and librarians. It was described by the Annual Review of Information Science and Technology in 2006 as a creative exercise that cannot be substantiated or relied on.
Josephine Earp spent her last years in Los Angeles, where she suffered from depression and other illnesses. She died on December 20, 1944, at 4004 W. 17th Street in the West Adams district of Los Angeles, CA. She was believed to be in her early 80s, perhaps as old as 83. Her body was cremated and buried next to Wyatt's remains in Colma, CA in the Marcus family plot at the Hills of Eternity Memorial Park. Her parents and brother are buried nearby.
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and Moussa [8].
These authors discuss both the fabrication of a macroscopic set-up and the analysis of a simulation, but do the calculations in terms of measurements of the detected signal intensity in units of volts. Thus, their discussion deviates from the experiments done an the microscopic level at which the data is strictly detection counts, or the detection of a signal: "yes" or "no" per the number of trials. Thus, their presentation appears to have been found to be unconvincing and is largely ignored. We aim here to remedy the situation by extending the simulation to an event-by-event simulation in which the intensity of a detection is revealed by the ratio of detections per trials as determined by Malus' Law. See Figure 1.
Our simulation of this experiment at an event-by-event level is accomplished in four blocks [9]. The first block randomly, but evenly, selects the pair of orientations for the analytical polarisers. For the calculation of a Bell Inequality (of the CSHS version), a set of four terms, each representing the average detected rate for a particular selection of angles, is needed.
Because it has been suggested that there could exist some kind of interaction between the measuring stations, the experiments have been constructed to randomly select the two angles from the set of four possible combinations between the time the signals have been generated and their arrival at measuring stations. If this selection occurs at a time less than the time taken by light to travel between the stations, then it can be considered confidently that the state of either measuring station has not been altered as a result of the outcome at the other station, i.e., conspiratorial collaboration has been precluded. Simulations have traditionally modelled this feature although it is strictly superfluous when the conspiratorial collaboration itself has not been built into the simulation code beforehand. The first block of code in our simulation respects this tradition, albeit pointlessly.
The second block of code simulates the generation of the correlated pulses. The fact that the polarisers mounted on the ends of the rotating cylinder depicted in Figure 1 have polarization axes fixed with respect to each other satisfies this stipulation. In addition, the pairs of signals are given by means of randomly timed flashes within the rotating cylinder, thereby simulating the random orientation of the pairs singly as naturally generated in experiments. This random bias angle makes the individual detection probabilities fully random at each station when taken individually.
In the third block detections are simulated by comparing the square of the cosine of the difference in the measuring orientation angles generated in the first and the polarization orientations of the simulated pulses generated in the second block with a random number. This comparison is made on the basis of Malus' Law. Finally the quantity of positive coincidences, which are the only manifestation of real experimental pulses available for laboratory experimentation, are counted.
Figure 1. Schematic of a macroscopic EPR-B experiment as proposed by Misrahi and Moussa.
Block Four comprises 1) data normalization, 2) a shift to zero-mean (as required for use in the definition of a correlation coefficient
and 3) computation of the Bell Inequality
The angular choices in Equation (5) give a maximum violation of in principle. The simulation gives values scattered about this maximum. From the construction of the simulation it is obvious that the number of detections at each station is determined only by the local polariser setting and the local polarization of the signal impulse. Of course, the pulses are correlated as generated at their source and that "hereditary" correlation is carried to the measurement stations. No preternatural interaction between stations is involved, thereby demonstrating by counter example that Bell's claim is incorrect: proof of nonlocality in Nature by means of entanglement has not been found.
Many, perhaps all, previous simulations have encountered a difficulty that the requirement for zero-mean data was overlooked. In order to obtain the expected results, it appears that for the analysis of the data for those simulations (as well as for various experiments) one of the channels was labelled "" and the calculations were done with the labels. This would be an artificial tactic. In the quantum calculation this aspect is covered by the normalization and minus sign found in the definition of the singlet state.
7. Conclusions
Herein arguments have been presented to the effect that the preternatural character ascribed nowadays to electromagnetic interaction (as mediated ostensibly by photons), especially entanglement, results from the application of principles that can be challenged. It seems that the ultimate cost of abandoning the inclusion of the concept of entanglement would be to focus instead on the well founded notion of hereditary statistical correlation. The resulting benefits include a clear and intuitive explanation of the relevant physical effects, a circumstance which would have, at a minimum, great pedagogical advantage.
It is interesting to speculate on the historical and psychological factors that led in the first instance to the tolerance of more or less blatantly counter-intuitive, if not even illogical, thought complexes. Certainly one factor that was the development of Quantum Theory was undertaken as, and thought of as, a refinement of Mechanics and not of Statistical Mechanics or Thermodynamics. The founding fathers, as it were, apparently considered themselves involved in the development of a deeper form of mechanics pertaining to individual systems rather than to ensembles of systems. This conviction, evidently led them to reduce their threshold for far fetched explications, without doubt including the obviously unscientific "Projection Hypothesis", which offered a way to consider a probability density as the ontological expression of an individual physical, concrete entity. From this one step follow most of the artificial contrivances involved in interpreting quantum effects.
Likewise the inadmissible identification of Q-bit space (or any mathematical space for which the group SU(2) specifies structure) as functionally equivalent to phase space seems to be a consequence of the fact that in certain applications, in particular to spin, the vectors spanning the space have an amplitude proportional to Planck's reduced constant,. This circumstance is irrelevant, however, to the structure pertaining to the interrelationship of the two independent vectors spanning the space. Q-bit, or polarization space is simply not spanned by Hamiltonian conjugates no matter how its basis vectors are scaled in the spins case by some multiple of, but not in the case of polarization of electromagnetic signals.
Difficulties of finding an event-by-event simulation of an experiment testing a Bell Inequality can be attributed, perhaps to the fact that the definition of a correlation coefficient requires the data to be in a zeromean form. This requirement is not discussed explicitly in the literature describing EPR experiments. When, nevertheless, this requirement has been satisfied, it appears that this is the inadvertent consequence of labelling one of the measurement stations with "" and then calculating with these labels. This makes little sense mathematically. The quantum formalism evades this issue with the definition of the singlet state―a logical abomination as it is the sum of mutually exclusive alternatives, but has some statical characteristics of the ensemble of which it is representative but is not a member.
Finally, the general understanding of the implicit strategy of Bell's investigations has been overlooked by Bell himself even. The fundamental purpose of his researches into Quantum Theory was to answer the question: does there exist a covering or meta theory free of the troublesome, often weird, features? Such a meta theory would of necessity involve additional variables, which are absent (hidden) at the current level. To formally examine this question, Bell implicitly hypothesizes that such a meta level exists, and then he asks what reflection its existence might have on the lower, current level of Quantum Theory. Given that by assumping the meta level is to be free of all non standard structure, all calculations done and definitions used at that level must conform with pre-quantum science and mathematics, a proscription often honoured in the breach.
In summary, the evidence for entanglement being something other than ordinary hereditary correlation is profoundly questionable. For certain, evidence for non-locality is totally dependant on unorthodox mathematical argumentation, not direct observation―nothing going faster than light has been observed, just the violation of an informally formulated inequality for which the rectitude of its interpretation is not beyond challenge.
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Medical Tourism in India
medical tourism in india
India is thriving as a new medical tourism destination across the globe. Medical tourists from international cross borders in search of advance and cost-effective medical treatment prefer India. It is the fact that many developed countries have a higher cost of treatment. Here, they get the latest medical technologies, high quality of healthcare service, with better recovery rates at nominal charges. Globalization, international trade, and medical advancement enhance healthcare tourism in the country. Let's take a look at the reasons why India has become a popular medical tourism destination:
Why do Patients Choose to Come to India for Their Treatment?
When a treatment goes along with the vacation, it is known as medical tourism. In collaboration with the tourism industry, the healthcare sector in India is working together to provide advanced treatment to people worldwide and give them a better environment for a speedy recovery.
Advantages of Healthcare Tourism in India
 - Affordable medical treatment for the life-threatening disease like cancer, tumor, organ transplant, and more
 - Skilled, experienced, and highly qualified doctors and medical staff
 - Advance healthcare facilities
 - No language obstacle
 - Affordable accommodation
The leading factor encouraging tourists seeking medical help from different countries to visit India is the low cost of treatment. Developed countries have lengthy and cumbersome vias and immigrant formalities. Moreover, hospitalization, treatment, medication, etc. cost much higher. Whereas, here it is comparatively easier to obtain a medical tourist visa and all sorts of advanced medical treatments are available in the leading hospitals. Healthcare providers are continually working towards making the treatment process more streamlined and efficient for foreign medical tourists.
What Role does Ayurveda play in Boosting Healthcare Tourism in India?
Ayurveda treatment is deeply rooted in Indian culture. The country has originated as one of the most important medical tourism hubs, and Ayurveda plays an important role. Medical tourism packages combined with several fun and fitness activities, tours, etc. to make it complete tourism material. Foreigners believe in Ayurveda, and they find India as the best place for ayurvedic or alternative treatments like AYUSH( Ayurveda, Unani, Sidha, and Homeopathy). They undergo several healing treatments as a combination of Ayurveda, yoga, acupuncture, herbal oil massage, and natural therapies. Often people prefer such therapies and treatments post-surgery. It helps in fast recovery and revival.
Kerela and other states have emerged as the Ayurveda and Yoga hubs in India. Foreign tourists from different countries come for rejuvenation. Benefits of alternate treatments:
 - Natural ways for the cure
 - No side effects
 - Treatment for stress and anxiety via natural means
 - Ayurveda helps cure Insomnia, improves metabolism
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_USER_ { author = {Khodami, Eissa and Ramezanzadeh, Ahmad and Noroozi, Mehdi and Mehrad, Mohammad}, title = {Numerical Investigation of the Impact of Geomechanical Parameters of Formations on Well Integrity of One of the Iranian Oil Fields}, journal = {International Journal of Mining and Geo-Engineering}, volume = {54}, number = {2}, pages = {179-183}, year = {2020}, publisher = {University of Tehran}, issn = {2345-6930}, eissn = {2345-6949}, doi = {10.22059/ijmge.2019.278501.594793}, abstract = {Well integrity is defined as the application of technical and operational solutions to reduce the uncontrollable risk of fluids leakage in the well lifetime. In any drilling and production operation, lack of knowledge about geomechanical behavior of the surrounding formations is considered as a major risk. Therefore, in-situ stress conditions and mechanical properties of formations are important factors in well integrity studies. In this paper, a 3D finite element model was built to simulate the integrity of wells. An FEM analysis was used to investigate the plastic deformation in cement and theVon Mises failure criterion inside the casings under different stress conditions, and to study the mechanical properties of the formation. A clear increase in plastic strain in the cement and Von Mises stress inside the casings was observed with increasing the ratio of horizontal to vertical stress in orthotropic and isotropic conditions as well as with increasing the difference between horizontal stresses in anisotropic conditions. When conducting the translation error sensitivity analysis, the impact of major mechanical parameters of the formation was evaluated as well. The results showed thatby increasing Young's modulus, cement became hard and brittle. Meanwhile, an increase in the Poisson ratio led to plastic behavior.The maximum plastic strain was found at the cement-casing boundary due to the presence of a lower cement-formation friction value. The highest Von Mises stress value in the casings was also produced parallel toward the minimum horizontal stress.Additionally, with an increase in the cohesion and friction angleof formation, the cement became harder, and consequently, the safety factor for the casings increased.}, keywords = {Well integrity,Geomechanical Parameters,Numerical Method,plastic strain}, url = {_URL_ eprint = {_URL_ }


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A close series of consecutive exposures are combined in this intriguing
composite of the Full Moon slowly crawling,
across the sky.
Beginning on the upper right at 19:42 UT and ending at 22:14 UT on
the sequence follows the Moon from Germany as it passes
through Earth's shadow in a partial lunar eclipse.
Near the top, the Moon just grazes the southern edge of
Earth's dark central shadow, or umbra.
in the darker part of the outer shadow region, the penumbra,
is also apparent on the lunar disk.
the relative size and shape of the Earth's
and the Moon are easier to see along the segments of
this lunar caterpillar.
Nearly impossible to follow with the eye though, a penumbral lunar eclipse,
the Full Moon passing only through the pale outer penumbral shadow,
begin on May 25.


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In this, the sixth instalment of the "Let's Talk PVT Monitoring" series I chat with Oliver King about monitoring in-chip conditions in modern SoCs. This time we discuss the significance of Adaptive Voltage Scaling (AVS) and Dynamic Voltage Frequency Scaling (DVFS) in optimising in-chip conditions. As Moortec's CTO, Oliver has been leading the development of compelling in-chip monitoring solutions to address problems associated with ever-shrinking System-on-Chip (SoC) process geometries. An analogue and mixed signal design engineer with over a decade of experience in low power design, Oliver is now heading up the expansion of Moortec's IP portfolio into new products on advanced nodes.
1. What exactly do we mean by Adaptive Voltage Scaling versus Dynamic Voltage Frequency Scaling?
Adaptive Voltage Scaling (AVS) involves the reduction of power by changing the operating conditions within an ASIC in a closed loop. Dynamic Voltage Frequency Scaling (DVFS) on the other hand is a power management technique where the voltage is increased or decreased depending upon dynamic (voltage, temperature) and static (process) in-chip conditions. Both are instrumental in optimising in-chip conditions in different ways.
You can use a DVFS scheme once to take process into account, or you can use it over time to account for temperature and even ageing. It is possible, for example, to reduce power consumption to achieve a desired speed of operation. It is also possible to take process variation across a die into account, which is being done in large SoCs today.
2. How can AVS & DVFS be used to optimise in-chip conditions?
A closed loop AVS system uses certain structures within the chip to provide the data required to adaptively track the behaviour of the silicon. By using a delay chain that has the same operating voltage as the surrounding chip, the voltage frequency relationship for the chip for that frequency is calculated by measuring the frequency of the delay chain.
Using these schemes in-chip means variations in response to process can be compared and fluctuations in temperature can be monitored while the chip is operating. A relationship can then be observed between voltage-frequency and the reduction in power dissipation for the circuit under that specific condition which enables designers to push the levels of optimisation and reliability, allowing them to get as much performance out of the chip as possible.
3. What are the specific applications of AVS & DVFS?
AVS has applications associated with in-chip variability compensation by optimizing the voltage on the go to take in chip conditions into account for operation. It can also be used to set thermal alarms and initiate fan operation. Operating at higher speed (performance) will obviously lead to a shorter life time whereas operating at optimum speed will improve the device life time and therefore increase its reliability.
DVFS on the other hand can be used in a number of in-chip applications including wafer sorting based on Look Up Tables (LUT). It can also be used to check functionality by decrementing the supply in regular steps as well as finding the lowest centre functional voltage. The voltage can then be set to just the right level for utilising optimum power and reliability of the devices.
4. What is the significance of AVS & DVFS in embedded PVT Monitoring?
Increased process variability of advanced node CMOS technologies has become a significant factor to the development of SoC devices when designing for speed and power performance. Self-determination of device temperature, supply voltage levels and its own manufactured process characteristics, primarily for performance optimisation schemes (Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling, DVFS) on a PER DIE basis, is becoming a compelling notion to the development community. To also measure aging effects of the silicon, analyse critical timing and supply conditions on advanced node devices, especially FinFET, from embedded sensors now makes sense.
The Voltage Monitor provides the means for advanced node Integrated Circuit (IC) developers to accurately measure core supply domain voltages on advanced node digital MOS devices. Voltage Monitors are specifically targeted to enable high performance Adaptive Voltage Scaling (AVS) schemes as well as providing a means for accurate IR drop analysis. The monitor is capable of monitoring multiple supply domains and can also be used to generate low voltage alarms as well as providing real-time supply data.
In-chip temperature sensors are used for performance optimisation, an example being DVFS where, depending on the thermal conditions, system clocks and voltage supplies can be varied to optimise either the speed of logical operations or power consumed by the device.
Monitors are now a critical component to advanced node chip design. Similar to other design arenas such as automotive, telecommunications, aerospace, industrial and technologies within the home, the inevitable direction of progress is to satisfy the designers appetite for higher sensor placement densities, higher accuracy, higher resolution and easy-to-integrate solutions. Why? Well, that's an easy one to answer – consumers simply want higher performance and better reliability within their chosen technology products.
About the interviewee
Oliver King is the Chief Technology Officer of Moortec Semiconductor. Before joining Moortec in 2012, Oliver was part of the analogue design methodology team at Dialog Semiconductor and prior to that was a senior design engineer at Toumaz Technology. Oliver graduated from The University of Surrey in 2003 with a degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering.
About Moortec Semiconductor
Moortec Semiconductor, established in 2005, provide high quality analog and mixed-signal Intellectual Property (IP) solutions world-wide specialising in die monitoring. Having a track record of delivery to tier-1 semiconductor and product companies, Moortec provide a quick and efficient path to market for customer products and innovations. For more information, please visit _URL_.


Can anyone tell me why the control system designers do not prefer pure derivative controller? Instead they use something called a Pseudo derivative controller. What is this Pseudo derivative controller and how does it has an edge over the pure derivative controller?
 - \$\begingroup\$ By the way, I'm not sure how common the desire or need to avoid a directly expressed derivative term actually is (other than the roll-off pole to cut noise, as noted in the other answer). It is a nice trick to have at your disposal just the same. \$\endgroup\$ – Pete W May 21 at 3:11
Because ideal derivative operation is not causal. For example if you want to calculate the derivative of a function at point a, you actually need to use the value of that function at a very small time after a. Depicted here (taken from _URL_
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For example, this is the s-domain representation of a sample PD Controller:
G(s) = K * (s + 3)
One of the first things we learn while stuyding s domain representations is, the fact that in order for a system to be causal; the degree of the numerator must not be greater than the denominator's degree. As you can see, the system above is non-causal; since the numerator degree is 1, whereas the denominator 0.
What you can do in that kind of situation is to, add a low-pass filter by simply adding a pole which is located at the far left-side plane. Such as:
G(s) = (K * (s + 3)) / (s + 40)
If you try to implement a derivative operation in a controller, you are probably going to experience some oscillations which are caused by the derivative action. When designing real-control systems I use, Backward Difference to make sure to be causal.
In the context of a controller, pseudo-derivative was a term coined by Phelan in the 1970s, e.g. Phelan 1971. He made some perhaps excessive claims about it and it was not well received.
In its simplest version, it is an alternative to PI. Two changes are made: First the zero is moved into the feedback path, which I won't discuss to keep this answer short.
Second is a loop rearrangement, which I sketched below, with P being the plant. pdf-loop
The loop on top is the final form giving the pseudo-derivative its name. Note there is no actual derivative. The loop on the bottom is the small-signal equivalent, with the derivative appearing explicitly.
The similarity to a PI controller \$\frac{K}{s}(1+{T_0}s)\$, should be visible. The loop gain, stability, and disturbance rejection are the same as the corresponding PI, but the PI has a closed-loop zero that does not appear in the corresponding PDF.
The closed-loop response of the PDF is also small-signal-equivalent to the corresponding PI, with an additional LPF \$1/(1+{T_0}s)\$ on the input.
If you look, you can also recognize this in a modern incarnation, in controllers like Messner's CPIL (Complex PI-Lead) or CPISL (Complex PI-Super-Lead), where the author refers to the same loop-rearrangement as the "parallel inner loop form".
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To help ensure the winners of games on BitDraw are chosen randomly, BitDraw uses transparent rules combined with external random data to chose winners. The method is as follows:
- Hashing function
- Whenever a hashing function is mentioned below SHA-512 is used.
For each game, 2 sources of 512 bits of data are collected/generated: Once at the start of the game, and once at the end.
At the start of a game, the 1st lot of 512 bits of data are pulled from random.org.
- This 512 bits of data is included in a game signature, a hash of which is displayed to the player. This game signature hash allows users to confirm that BitDraw does not change this pre-selected random data.
- Note: If random.org happens to be unavailable, Ruby's
Random.rand function is used, and the result hashed to generate 512 bits.
At the end of a game, the 2nd lot 512 bits of random data are generated by grabbing the
id of a tweet on Twitter. The tweet used is the one announcing the finishing of the game in question by _USER_.
Note: If Twitter happens to be unavailable or returns an error, Ruby's
Random.rand function is used.
id value or Ruby's
Random.rand value are converted to 512 bits by hashing that value.
Once the game has finished and the 2 lots of 512 bits of data have been collected these are XOR'ed to generate a new 512 bits of data derived from the two 512 bit sources.
This resulting 512 bits is used to determine the winner(s) of the game.
For raffles and lotteries, the mechanics are largely the same. For both types, the 512 bits are used to pick items randomly from the possible choices.
The 512 bits are used as an endless bitstream as follows:
Copy the original 512 bits into a bit array.
If X bits are needed,
and there are X+ bits in the current bit array,
then X bits are removed and used from the front of the current bit array.
If X bits are needed, but there are not enough bits, a new 512 bit array is created by hashing the entire current 512 bit array.
- Go back to b.
- Pick X bits from the endless bitstream, where X is the number of bits needed to pick an item from the possible tickets for a raffle. For example, if there are 2 tickets, 1 bit, if there are 3 or 4 tickets we need 2 bits, etc.
Check if the X bits converted to a decimal value map to a valid raffle ticket number.
- If yes, that is the winning ticket.
- If not, got back to a.
- Pick X bits from the endless bitstream, where X is the number of bits needed to pick an item from the pool of lottery items. For example, if there are 8 items in the pool 3 bits are needed, if there are 9-16 items 4 bits are needed, etc.
Check if the X bits map to a valid item in the lottery pool and check that item has not already been chosen.
- If yes, add that item to the accumulate list of winning lottery items.
- If no, go back to a.
If need pick more items, go back to a.
Once all the winning items for the lottery are chosen:
- The winning tickets are all tickets for that game matching the winning lottery items.
- Split the jackpot evenly between winning tickets.


At Xylotek, we are always excited by the potential of lamella structures and the magic of reciprocal systems where long spans can be achieved using small elements. We've worked on many lamella structures, both freeform and geometrically more restrained, including pioneering digitally-fabricated projects.
Lamella Structures
Lamella structures are formed of discrete structural elements that combine in two-way spanning grid systems. By arranging members in a grid pattern, long freeform spans can be achieved from relatively short members, and complex forms from geometrically simple components.
Reciprocal grids
Reciprocal systems enable structural continuity within lamella structures through patterns in which beams mutually support each other. This is achieved by having elements typically twice the length of grid cell dimension and alternating the elements so that each one is mutually supported by its neighbours – so that the elements ends are carried at the mid-points of its neighbours. Reciprocal frames can similarly be created with a circular loop of mutual support, such as used on the Lake Bunyonyi theatre project.
Nexorade structures
A more complex variant of the reciprocal structure is the 'nexorade' in which elements meet eccentrically at connection points, forming pinwheel-like arrangements within the overall structure. Varying offsets of each connection can introduce curvatures into the grid, allowing freeform shapes to be created from relatively simple elements.
Zollinger roof system
The reciprocal logic has historic precedent – as sketched by da Vinci and developed by Friedrich Zollinger in the 1920s into a roof construction system in which short elements are arranged in a diamond pattern as a regular reciprocal grid. Typically, the Zollinger system uses standardised lamellas that are arrayed to form singly-curved surfaces in barrel-like roof configurations. The system is very strong for its weight and can be assembled with minimal lifting equipment.
Multi-axis machining
Contemporary CNC and robotic machining technologies allow the creation of different unique geometries for each element, enabling variation in element lengths and connection angles according to each member's position within the system. A particular benefit of the reciprocal pattern is that end connections do not need to transmit bending moments.


How does my computer know that it is connected to the internet ?
The answer is surprisingly simple for Windows computers. It attempts to connect to
NOTE: This address has been updated to starting with Windows 10, version 1607
If it receives a HTTP 200 (if it receives the text "Microsoft NCSI" in the file) then you are on the internet – if it does not receive this text then you receive the warning symbol on the network item in the system notification area.
So, if you don't have internet connectivity but need your computer to think you have for some reason (because a piece of sofwtare requires it for a lab or some toher reason) then yuo can simply create your own version of the abve site and file using your internal servers and DNS and fool your computers into thinking that they are indeed internet connected.
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