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How to Humanize PPC Ads
How to Humanize PPC Ads
As marketers and brands, many of you use PPC ads to drive traffic to your brand or a client's website.
There's nothing wrong with that approach.
After all, PPC ads have obvious advantages. You can reach new customers, track your results, and manage your budget. However, for all their benefits, these ads can sometimes lack something.
Has anyone guessed what I'm talking about? It's the human touch.
By humanizing your PPC ads, you can stand apart from your competitors.
Before I go on, what do I mean by humanizing your PPC ads? It means creating ads that provoke a response or an emotion. It can help your ads build connections and trust with your market and ultimately increase your business.
It also takes you away from the nameless, faceless, robotic approach that can be digital marketing at its worst.
Aside from those I've already listed, there are a few other essential reasons to humanize your PPC ads and your brand in general. Let's dive in, and then we'll discuss different ways you can humanize your PPC ads.
Why Should You Humanize Your PPC Ads?
Humanizing your brand can give you a competitive edge and improve customer retention. It shows you're taking a customer-centric approach, and you understand your buyers.
However, humanizing your brand also builds customer trust, which is vital these days. Communications company Edelman says, "Trust has never been more important for companies to develop and maintain."
Further, they found that 75 percent of people actively recommend businesses they trust.
That's not the only benefit, though; according to Edelman: "Customers who trust you are more likely to engage with, buy from, advocate for, and defend you."
Now, let's go into detail about some positives you could gain from humanizing your brand.
Humanizing Your Brand Gives You a Competitive Edge
You might already know one of the advantages of humanizing your digital marketing: the competitive edge.
Why? It's simple.
In an ever-increasing digital world, consumers are interested in forming connections and engaging with brands.
Creating connections is essential to building long-term relationships, and then it becomes possible to establish customer loyalty.
Humanizing Your Brand Gives a Customer-Centric Approach
When you humanize your brand, you're providing a personalized touch at every customer journey stage.
This humanized approach takes the focus away from you as a marketer or business owner. Instead, it concentrates on your customer's wants and considers your prospects:
 - individual needs
 - goals and ambitions
 - challenges and pain points
Further, the customer-centric approach shows you understand your customers' unique problems and can offer them solutions.
You Benefit From Customer Advocacy and Retainment
Once you've sold successfully to a consumer, there are two things you want to do: retain them and turn them into advocates.
By humanizing your marketing, your customers may be more likely to become those advocates and recommend your brand to others.
Then there's customer retention. You're more likely to retain your customer by:
10 Ways to Humanize Your PPC Ads
Now you understand the benefits, how do you humanize your PPC ads? Outlined below are 10 easy-to-implement measures you can start using today.
1. Understand Your Audience by Creating Personas
You've got a product or service to promote, but who's your target market, and how do you humanize your PPC ads to suit them?
With buyer personas. Buyer personas are a valuable asset because not every would-be customer responds to your PPC ad in the same way.
To attract your ideal customer, you'll want to appeal to them by speaking their language, understanding their pain points, and offering them a solution.
That's where buyer personas come in.
Why are personas so effective? Because they allow the personalized approach. Get this part right, and you can humanize your PPC ads and reach your target market.
2. Create Relevant Ads
Yes, we're back to personas again. Your buyer personas let you create relevant ads by giving you a clearer idea of your potential customers' search terms.
You could humanize your PPC ads by better understanding buyer intent and using:
 - Google's "related searches" feature
 - a keyword tool
 - including specific, relevant keywords and long-tail keywords
Alternatively, work with an agency that can complete the task for you.
3. Use Images
Humanize your PPC ads with images. They don't need to be staff images. Just include something that represents your business, what it offers, and what it stands for.
Google offers different ways of adding images to PPC ads through Discovery ads or its image extensions option, or you could use Facebook's carousel ads.
Humanize PPC Ads - Facebook ad
However, plenty of other platforms allow image-rich advertising and storytelling, like Instagram, Pinterest, or YouTube.
4. Use Social Media
Your buyer personas are also good for shaping your social media strategy.
Use your personas to humanize your PPC ads by understanding where your ideal buyers hang out. Then you can target them on their platform of choice.
Sites like TikTok, Facebook, and Instagram allow you to personalize your PPC ads for better results.
5. Keep Testing
Constant testing may mean avoiding getting stuck in your usual advertising patterns. How do you put this into practice?
By varying your PPC campaigns. You can do this through regular A/B testing to see which elements work best for your audience.
For instance, you could test:
 - long-form keywords
 - colors
 - calls to action (CTAs)
Keep testing and optimizing the results as you go until you know you're getting the right balance.
6. Go Beyond Keywords
Keywords can only do so much. Yes, they can help get your ads in front of the right people, but they lack personalization.
To further humanize your PPC ads, consider four other critical areas of your marketing:
 - demographics
 - motivation
 - challenges
 - goals
Simpleview recommends applying these qualities to travel persons to optimize your PPC results. However, these attributes work just as well for just about any other niche.
Take demographics, for instance.
Depending on the age group of the audience you're targeting, you're going to want to change your advertisements so they "speak" to that particular group.
Likewise, the motivations, challenges, and goals are likely to be different for each group.
7. Use Storytelling
I've already mentioned the value of consumer trust, and there's an easy way to build on it: with storytelling.
Successful ads often use storytelling at the heart of their ads, and the likes of Instagram Stories have made it accessible.
However, Instagram isn't the only way. For a similar approach, you could test out Facebook's carousel ads or maybe a Twitter followers' campaign.
Here are some ideas if you're new to storytelling:
 - staff profiles or a day-in-the-life article so your audience can get to know you better
 - customer success stories
 - highlights of a product or service
 - reviews or explainer videos
8. Inject Some Personality
Think about it: Are your potential customers more likely to click on an ad that sounds like everyone else's?
Or will they choose a PPC ad that stands out and speaks for itself?
The first impression many customers get of your business is through online ads, so they must reflect your brand.
Use the same tone for your ads as you would for the rest of your marketing to give your customers greater consistency and familiarity.
9. Don't Use the Direct Sales Approach
The direct sales approach can be a turn-off for consumers. Instead, you could concentrate on getting the prospect to click through to your website, give you their details, and then gently steer them towards the sale.
You may find that customer mapping is helpful with this approach. When you use customer journey mapping, you can:
 - understand the customer's key touchpoints
 - identify your customer's goals
 - nurture your leads by tailoring ads to encourage them to make a purchase
10. Keep It Simple Stupid (KISS)
Finally, keep it simple, stupid (no offense). It's believed Kelly Johnson first used the phrase in the 1960s when it was originally applied to design concepts. However, it applies just as much to content creation.
There's a reason why the term is still used today: Sometimes marketers like to complicate things, but there's no need to.
If you want to humanize your PPC ads more, remember you've got a limited amount of time and characters. Make every word count by:
 - keeping your language plain and uncomplicated
 - spelling out the benefits
 - writing with your ideal buyer in mind and using keywords
 - finishing with a CTA
Examples of Great Humanized PPC Ads
There's plenty the big brands can teach us about making greater connections with our perfect consumers. Here are three of the best.
Remember the Snickers "You're not you when you're hungry" PPC campaign?
The Snickers advert used a series of deliberate spelling mistakes in its online advertising. More than ten years later, the advert is still delivering results.
Examples of Great Humanized PPC Ads - Snickers
Why did it work so well? Because consumers can relate to it. Everyone recognizes that "hangry" feeling.
The Snickers advert is also novel, shareable, and memorable—all things every advertiser can apply to their marketing.
Rather than going for the full sale straight off, Converse used "Converse-ations" to reach its younger audience.
Working with the ad agency, Anomoly, Converse included keywords teenagers might use when searching online, like "spelling bee" or "how to talk to girls."
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Vietnam ecological tourism development to protect forest biodiversity
The development of ecological tourism is considered a helpful way to protect natural resources in national parks and reserves in Vietnam, according to a seminar held in Da Lat, central highlands Lam Dong province, on April 9.
According to the participants, Vietnam has a great potential to develop eco-tourism in combination with natural resource preservation. The country possesses 30 national parks and 56 natural reserves, home to over 13,760 species of plants and 7,730 species of animals.
However, they said, the precious system of natural reserves has constantly been hurt by inhabitants living around. Nearly 80 percent of the population living close to the natural reserves in Vietnam are living in poverty and their lives are depending on unplanned forest exploitation, thus damaging the forest biodiversity.
Some delegates stressed the need to improve the living conditions for people living on edges of forests in order to ensure the success for the plan to develop eco-tourism and protect natural reserves.
The seminar was initiated by the Worldwide Fund for Nature Vietnam Programme, and the Bidoup-Nui Ba National Park of Lam Dong province.

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Making Missouri Green
The people who plant the seeds and package the bundles have changed. Buildings have expanded and changed colors. Yet through its existence, the role of the George O. White State Forest Nursery has remained the same. Since 1935, the nursery, located in Texas County, approximately three miles northwest of Licking, has provided millions of trees to Missouri landowners and forest industries for conservation planting.
This year, the nursery is celebrating 50 years of tree production under the Missouri Department of Conservation. The Conservation Department took over the nursery from the United States Forest Service in 1947 and distributed its first crop of seedlings in 1948.
In 1934, the Forest Service designated national forests in Missouri. Thousands of acres were in need of reforestation after indiscriminate logging and wildfires wiped out much of Missouri's forests. George O. White, a Forest Service forester, selected the original 40-acre site for the nursery in 1934. He chose the site because it was centrally located within the national forests and the soil looked good for growing shortleaf pine trees. The Forest Service purchased the acreage in 1935 for $1,430. White later became Missouri's first state forester in 1936.
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) and Work Projects Administration workers, employed by the Forest Service, constructed a home for the head nurseryman, a shop and warehouse, a deep well and a cold storage building. Workers also built two barracks, where they slept, plus a kitchen and mess hall.
Robert Miller, a native of Warsaw, went to work in 1935 at the CCC Camp, earning $1 a day. After a 1934 drought, Miller helped install the first overhead water lines on 27 acres of the nursery. "In those days, you lived in barracks with 200 men and sowed the seeds with a spade," Miller says.
The nursery continued operation until 1942, when World War II disrupted funds for reforestation. The irrigation system was dismantled and shipped to California as a part of the war effort to establish rubber plantations. The Forest Service leased the nursery grounds to a Licking farmer for crop production and shipped many nursery workers, including Miller, to Sullivan, to work at the Meramec State Nursery.
The Forest Service reopened the nursery in 1947, growing primarily shortleaf pine trees on a small portion of the 15 acres of seedbed space. In August of that same year, the Conservation Department signed a 25-year permit with the Forest Service


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The CINTIL-LogicalFormBank (Branco, 2009, and Branco et al., 2011) is a corpus of semantic dependencies of sentences from Portuguese texts composed of 10,039 sentences and 110,166 tokens taken from different sources and domains: news (8,861 sentences; 101,430 tokens), novels (399 sentences; 3,082 tokens) (see 3.2.). In addition, there are 779 sentences (5,654 tokens) that are used for regression testing of the computational grammar that supported the annotation of the corpus (cf. section 4.6.).
The CINTIL-LogicalFormBank is composed of MRS representations of each sentence's semantic relations resulting from a previous semi-automatic analysis with a double-blind annotation followed by adjudication (see Branco and Costa, 2008, with a full description of the process). The resulting dataset contains one information level: semantic relations.
The main motivation behind the creation of this resource was to build a high quality data set with syntactic information that could support the development of a large set of automatic resources and tools for Portuguese for NLP studies.
The development of this resource started under the project SemanticShare – Resources and Tools for Semantic Processing (at: _URL_ whose main goal was to generate a deep linguistic annotated corpus of Portuguese, with manually verified grammatical representations.

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Can I Get Social Security Disability Benefits for Diabetes?
How Does the Social Security Administration Decide if I Qualify for Disability Benefits for Diabetes?
If you have diabetes, Social Security disability benefits may be available. To determine whether you are disabled by diabetes, the Social Security Administration first considers whether your diabetes is severe enough to meet or equal a listing at Step 3 of the Sequential Evaluation Process. See Winning Social Security Disability Benefits for Diabetes by Meeting a Listing.
If your diabetes is not severe enough to equal or meet a listing, the Social Security Administration must assess your residual functional capacity (RFC) (the work you can still do, despite your diabetes), to determine whether you qualify for benefits at Step 4 and Step 5 of the Sequential Evaluation Process. See Residual Functional Capacity Assessment for Diabetes.
The complete name for diabetes is diabetes mellitus. Also known as "sugar" diabetes, diabetes mellitus is a hormonal disorder. The cells of the body need a form of sugar called glucose for energy. The body breaks down various carbohydrates in the diet to glucose. Glucose then circulates to the body's tissues through the blood. But glucose cannot get from the blood to the inside of the cells where the cells can use it, unless the hormone insulin is also present. Insulin permits passage of glucose through the cell membrane.
Insulin is secreted by the pancreas. The pancreas is an elongated organ located behind the stomach. Special cells, known as the Islets of Langerhans, are spread throughout it. These cells produce insulin that is released into the blood. Diabetes occurs when the pancreas does not produce any or enough insulin or when the body is unable to use effectively the insulin that is produced. High blood sugar results as glucose accumulates in the blood because it cannot get into the cells of the body.
The Social Security Administration sees many claimants who are afflicted with diabetes. Diabetes mellitus affects the entire body, and may be mild, moderate, or severe. Diabetes is a major cause of illness, disability, and death. The number of cases of diabetes is increasing markedly in the U.S. as a result of obesity, inadequate exercise, and junk food. More and more children are becoming diabetic at younger ages, as are adults.
There are two main types of diabetes mellitus, Type 1 diabetes and Type 2 diabetes.
Type 1 Diabetes
Type 1 diabetes is the most severe form of diabetes. Older names for Type 1 include juvenile diabetes, juvenile onset diabetes, and insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM). IDDM is misleading because other types of diabetes besides Type 1 may require insulin. Type 1 appears during childhood or early adulthood. It is an autoimmune disorder in which cells in the immune system called T lymphocytes damage the insulin-producing cells in the pancreas. Then the level of glucose in the blood becomes abnormally high, since glucose cannot get into the cells without enough insulin. Persons with Type 1 diabetes must take injections of insulin to correct the problem.Type 1 diabetes accounts for 5% to 10% of total cases of diabetes.
Medical research continues in an effort to prevent Type 1 diabetes mellitus, but so far it has not been successful. Unfortunately, there is no single "diabetic gene" that could be replaced with gene therapy to cure this disease; the immune system abnormalities are numerous and complex. Type 1 diabetes can result in complete destruction of the pancreatic islet cells over a period as short as 3 years. This means that Type 1 diabetes develops quickly, and a person with Type 1 diabetes needs to inject insulin early in the course of the disease.
Because of the marked fall in insulin, the symptoms and complications of Type 1 diabetes can be severe. Uncontrolled severe Type 1 diabetics typically have excessive urination, thirst, and appetite with weight loss. But they may have no appetite. And they may experience weakness, abdominal pain, nausea, and vomiting, along with sleepiness, lethargy, or even coma. A person may have these symptoms when first diagnosed. And a person with Type 1 diabetes may have these symptoms anytime he or she stops taking insulin.
Type 2 Diabetes
The most common form (90%) of diabetes mellitus is Type 2. Those with Type 2 diabetes may or may not need to take insulin injections. Often Type 2 diabetes can be controlled with diet, weight loss, exercise, and oral medications. Type 2 diabetes is also known as non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM) in those who do not require insulin. Unlike Type 1 diabetes, Type 2 is not an autoimmune disorder, though the immune system and genetics may play a role in its development and progression.
The major problem with Type 2 diabetes is not lack of insulin, but rather insulin resistance. Insulin resistance means the cells of the body are not able to use insulin effectively. The insulin levels in Type 2 diabetics may be decreased, normal, or increased, but they are usually increased. Insulin resistance, and the severity of the diabetes, is markedly increased by obesity and lack of exercise.
The oral medications that many Type 2 diabetics take to control blood glucose work in one of two ways. Either they increase the amount of insulin that the pancreas is able to secrete. Or they improve the ability of the cells to use insulin thereby reducing insulin resistance. Studies have shown that exercise can decrease insulin resistance as much as oral medication.
Historically, Type 2 diabetes developed slowly over a period of years, and a person did not need to take insulin until he or she had the disease for a while. Type 2 diabetes has been known as "adult-onset diabetes mellitus" or "maturity-onset diabetes mellitus," because it usually developed after age 40. Now in the U.S. even children are developing Type 2 diabetes. Onset at earlier ages is occurring because of increasing childhood obesity, lack of exercise, and access to high-fat junk food. The wave of Type 2 diabetes has not yet reached a peak, as the effects of the child obesity epidemic have not had time to fully develop, and the adult population continues to become increasingly obese. Increasing numbers of claims for Social Security disability benefits based on diabetes can be expected.
Other Types of Diabetes
A few cases of diabetes mellitus are not Type 1 or 2. Gestational diabetes appears during pregnancy. The problem arises from a combination of insufficient insulin and the effects of hormonal changes associated with pregnancy. After pregnancy, the diabetes will usually abate, but 5% to 10% of gestational diabetes cases are actually Type 2 diabetics. A person with gestational diabetes has an increased risk for eventual development of diabetes, even if the gestational diabetes resolves. Various medical problems like surgery, malnutrition, infection, pancreatic trauma, and drugs can be enough to push a person over into diabetes and account for about 1% to 5% of all diabetics.
Diabetes is diagnosed when blood sugar (glucose) levels are high. Medical authorities disagree about how high glucose levels must be for the diagnosis. Normal fasting blood glucose (FBG) levels are no higher than 110 mg% (110 mg/dL); some authorities put the upper limit of normal at 115 mg%. It is generally agreed that a FBG of 140 mg/dL or greater on at least two separate days should be considered diagnostic of diabetes mellitus in anyone. This threshold is the "gold standard" for diagnosing diabetes.
The American Diabetes Association (ADA) has lower plasma glucose thresholds for diagnosing diabetes. The criteria for the diagnosis of diabetes mellitus according to the recommendations of the American Diabetes Association are:
- Random (casual) plasma glucose level over 200 mg/dL in the presence of symptoms of diabetes (the classic symptoms including excessive urination, excessive thirst, and unexplained weight loss);
- A fasting plasma glucose level over 126 mg/dL;
- An oral glucose tolerance test with a two hour post-load plasma glucose level over 200 mg/dL.
To establish the diagnosis of diabetes mellitus, according to the ADA, any of the above three tests must be done at least twice and on different days. However, not all endocrinologists subscribe to the ADA diagnostic criteria.
Some individuals are diagnosed as having "pre-diabetes." The diagnosis is based on glucose levels that are higher than normal, but below the thresholds for diagnosing diabetes. Millions of Americans are pre-diabetic and have increased risk of strokes, peripheral vascular disease, heart attacks, and diabetes.
Ketoacidosis is a serious condition that can occur in people with Type 1 diabetes. You may meet the diabetes listing and be eligible for social security disability benefits if you have episodes of ketoacidosis one every two months on average. See Meeting Listing 9.08B for Diabetes.
It results when insulin levels approach zero. It is called ketoacidosis because compounds called ketones are released into the blood and secreted in the urine and breath and the ph of the blood becomes lower than normal making it acidic. Symptoms of ketoacidosis include dehydration, weight loss, mental confusion, nausea and vomiting, rapid and deep breathing, and, if untreated, unconsciousness, coma, and death.
Ketoacidosis develops in the following way. When insulin levels are very low, the cells are starved for glucose, even though glucose is in the blood stream. In an attempt to compensate for the apparent lack of glucose, the pancreas releases the hormone glucagon. Glucagon causes the liver to convert sugar it has stored as glycogen to glucose. This additional glucose increases blood sugar levels even more, leading to a condition known as hyperglycemia. Hyperglycemia results because only the brain can use the


text: BARN OWL PELLET LAB WHAT DOES A BARN OWL LOOK LIKE? White heart shaped face Whitish belly with dark spots Upper body golden with dark flecks Dark brown eyes Body Length: 15 to 21 inches; long legs Wing span: 43 to 47 inches HABITAT and SENSES OF THE BARN OWL The Barn Owl is found on every continent except Antarctica. They are found in farm lands, grass lands marshes, deserts and suburbs. Owls are nocturnal and have many adaptations that enable them to hunt at night. A two pound owl has eyes the same size as the human eye. Both the eyes and the ears are located at the front of the head which enables excellent depth perception. The feathers around their eyes and ears are shaped to funnel light and sound to their eyes and ears more precisely. Their ears are at different heights which enable them to locate their prey with extreme accuracy. Their sense of hearing is so acute they can hear a mouse's footsteps 30 yards away flying 10 feet over the field in total darkness. ear opening Owls along with hawks, eagles, osprey and other birds of prey are known as Raptors. RAPTORS Hawks, eagles, osprey and owls are types of raptors. Raptors have hooked beaks and talons (sharp claws) adapted for seizing prey. NOTE! PELLETS ARE NOT OWL POOP! Golden Eagle Red Tail Hawk Red Tail Hawk Barred Owl Osprey Hawks, eagles and osprey tear and swallow small pieces of flesh and avoid swallowing most fur and bones. However, owls swallow prey whole or in large pieces and have a specialized digestive system in which pellets are formed and regurgitated to dispose of the indigestible parts of their prey. DIGESTION: OWL PELLETS A crop is a loose pouch inside the throat of most birds that stores food and allows birds to pulverize hair, bones and teeth so that they can be eliminated from the body. Owls have no crop. The owl's stomach has two parts. The anterior part is called the proventriculus which produces enzymes, acids and mucus. The second part is called the ventriculus or gizzard which compresses the indigestible part of prey (hair, bones, teeth, feathers, etc.) The stomach muscles form the undigested parts into a wet, slimy pellet. The pellet passes into the proventriculus and remains there for up to ten hours before being regurgitated. When an owl eats more than one prey within several hours, the remains are consolidated into one pellet. New prey cannot be swallowed until the pellet is ejected. Barn owls produce one to two pellets per 24 hours. Much can be learned about an owl's diet and environment by examining its pellets. Studies of dissected owl pellets provide information about changes in feeding habits that occur from season to season as well as the different species of animals and/or plants that are found in the owl's habitat. This information allows us to see what role an owl plays in the ecosystem and how they are adapted to their niche. HOW THE ENVIRONMENT IMPACTS WHAT AN OWL EATS A food chain shows the relationship between producers (plants) and consumers (animals that eat the plants or that eat other animals). Food chains only go in one direction. A food chain starts with what gets eaten and has arrows pointing towards what does the eating. Food Webs show how plants and animals are interconnected by different paths. In the wild, animals eat more than one thing and can belong to several food chains. A food web is an elaborate version of a food chain. EFFECTS of ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION on pH Pollution can change a water's pH, which in turn can harm animals and plants living in the water. Not only does the pH of a stream affect organisms living in the water, a changing pH in a stream can be an indicator of increasing pollution or some other environmental factor. Excessively high and low pHs can be detrimental for the use of water and can alter the food sources available. One quick way of determining the changing pH of water is to use pH indicator paper as seen in the picture to the right. POWER of the FREE HYDROGEN and HYDROXIDE IONS pH is a measure of how acidic/basic water is. The range goes from 0 - 14, with 7 being neutral. pHs of less than 7 indicate acidity, whereas a pH of greater than 7 indicates a base. pH is really a measure of the relative amount of free hydrogen and hydroxide ions in the water. Water that has more free hydrogen ions is acidic, whereas water that has more free hydroxide ions is basic. Since pH can be affected by chemicals in the water, pH is an important indicator of water that is changing chemically. In ecosystems, plants and animals are all connected. If any one part is removed, it can affect the whole ecosystem.


text: The aim of this paper was to review in vitro and in situ studies that directly compared the use of bovine teeth as a substitute for human teeth in dental experiments. A PubMed search was conducted for papers published from 1953 to December 30, 2010 using the following keywords: "human bovine enamel" or "human bovine dentin" or "human bovine teeth". The abstracts of the studies resulting from the keyword search were read, and all papers that compared human and bovine teeth were fully read. Only original articles written in English and directly comparing human and bovine substrates were included in the review. The search was supplemented by manual searches of the reference lists from each identified paper. Out of 76 studies initially selected, 68 fulfilled the selection criteria for inclusion. The studies covered seven categories: dental morphology, chemical composition, physical properties, dental caries, dental erosion/abrasion, bonding/adhesive strength, and marginal microleakage. Inconsistent data exist regarding whether bovine teeth can be considered an appropriate substitute for human teeth in dental research. Morphological, chemical compostion and physical property differences between the two substrates must be considered when interpreting results obtained from any experiment using bovine tooth substrate.


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Information about software packages installed on the ICHEC systems.
NCO: Network Climate Operators
The netCDF Operators (NCO) are a suite of standalone, command-line programs like, e.g., ls or mkdir. Each operator takes netCDF files as input, then operates (e.g., derives new data, averages, hyperslabs, manipulates metadata) and produces a netCDF output file. NCO primarily aids manipulation and analysis of gridded scientific data. The single-command style of NCO allows users to manipulate and analyze files interactively, or with simple scripts that avoid some overhead (and power) of higher level programming environments. The NCO User's Guide illustrates their use with examples from the field of climate modeling and analysis. Note that the "averagers" are misnamed because they perform many non-linear operations as well, e.g., total, minimum, maximum, RMS.
NCO is available under the GNU General Public License, v3.
To use NCO on Fionn, load the relevant environment module:
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create gmail filter.
If you need to send weekly report to someone - then again create a script which can generate automatical report for you. The web is full with example scripts. For example for python you can use something like:
send_an_email.py or others like:
Bonus: 8. How to enable the preview pane
Working with Gmail preview pane will save you hundreds of clicks and will help you very quickly to manage new messages. In order to enable Gmail preview pane you can do:
- Open Gmail
- Click the gear wheel button on the top right
- Select Settings
- Go to section Advanced
- Scroll to Preview Pane section
- Select Enable
- Save the changes
Two more things about Gmail preview pane:
It can be toggled by:
- top right corner
- press toggle button (next to the gear wheel)
- now you can choose:
- Vertical Split: Positions the preview pane to the right of the email.
- Horizontal Split: Positions the preview pane below the email, on the bottom half of the screen.
Personally I prefer the vertical split.
The second thing is that if you want to make an email read - then you need to double click it.
Every journey starts with a single step. You can try several from the tips above and check if they are working for you. Best will be to give time for the changes.
Let say that you want to test practice number 2. Then prepare for the change ( small analysis of your mail might help in order to find optimal labels for you), apply the changes and verify the results in 1 month.
It's important at the beginning and the end to measure the time spent in Gmail (reading, writing, editing and searching mails) - the final goal is to reduce time spent by 50% and more.


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These NGSS lesson plans will help students learn about the human population and the impact it has on the consumption of natural resources. This resource has six lessons. Included are a standards poster, photos and data charts/graphs for stimulating discussion, task cards to aid in student research, links to data, an informational article about deforestation, and a rubric for grading the student's claim. There are also short readings about solar, wind, geothermal, hydroelectric energy sources, as well as one about biofuels. There are also 4 essential vocabulary cards, and more!
Lesson 1: Phenomenon – Easter Island
Lesson 2: A Growing Population
Lesson 3: Deforestation
Lesson 4: Impacts of Increased Human Population and Per Capita Consumption of
Natural Resources is Having on Earth's Systems
Lesson 5: Renewable Energy (optional)
Lesson 6: Writing a Claim About How Increases in Human Population and Per Capita
Consumption of Natural Resources Impact Earth's Systems
✅Please make sure you have access to YouTube before you purchase this Unit.


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Wireless Communications Design for FPGAs and ASICs
Deploying algorithmic models to FPGA hardware makes it possible to do over-the-air testing and verification. However, designing wireless communications systems for hardware requires design tradeoffs between hardware resources and throughput. You can speed up hardware design and deployment by using HDL-optimized blocks that have hardware-suitable interfaces and architectures, reference applications that implement portions of the LTE and 5G NR physical layer, and automatic HDL code generation. You can also use hardware support packages to assist with deploying and verifying your design on real hardware.
MathWorks® HDL products, such as Wireless HDL Toolbox™, allow you to start with a mathematical model, such as MATLAB® code from LTE Toolbox™ or 5G Toolbox™, and design a hardware implementation of that algorithm that is suitable for FPGAs and ASICs.
From Mathematical Algorithm to Hardware Implementation
For instance, when designing for LTE or 5G wireless standards, you can use LTE Toolbox and 5G Toolbox functions to create a golden reference in MATLAB. Then transition to Simulink and create a hardware-compatible implementation by using library blocks from Wireless HDL Toolbox and blocks from Communications Toolbox™ and DSP System Toolbox™ that support HDL code generation. You can reuse test and data generation infrastructure from MATLAB by importing data from MATLAB to your Simulink model and returning the output of the model to MATLAB to verify it against the "golden reference".
HDL-Optimized Blocks
Library blocks from Wireless HDL Toolbox implement encoders, decoders, modulators, demodulators, and sequence generators for use in an LTE, 5G, or general wireless communications system. These blocks use a standard streaming data interface for hardware. This interface makes it easy to connect parts of the algorithm together, and includes control signals that manage the flow of data and mark frame boundaries. These blocks support automatic HDL code generation with HDL Coder. You can also use blocks from Communications Toolbox and DSP System Toolbox that support HDL code generation.
For lists of blocks that support HDL code generation, see Wireless HDL Toolbox Block List (HDL Code Generation) (Wireless HDL Toolbox), Communications Toolbox Block List (HDL Code Generation), and DSP System Toolbox Block List (HDL Code Generation).
Reference Applications
Wireless HDL Toolbox provides reference applications that contain hardware-ready implementations of large parts of the LTE and 5G NR physical layer. These designs are verified against the "golden reference" functions provided by LTE Toolbox and 5G Toolbox. They have also been tested on FPGA boards to confirm that they encode and decode over-the-air waveforms and use a reasonable amount of hardware resources. They are designed to be modular, scalable, and extensible so you can insert additional physical channels. The receiver design was tested using waveforms captured off-the-air.
The suite of reference applications includes:
 - LTE and 5G NR primary and secondary synchronization signal (PSS/SSS) generation and detection
 - LTE downlink shared control channel detector and master information block (MIB) generation and recovery
 - LTE first system information block (SIB1) decoder
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Gas taps are the backbone of most laboratories and play a central role in daily operations. But even though they are so common in these environments, it is not common knowledge how they work, what they are specifically used for, and what gases they are suitable for.
Therefore, the laboratory valve supplier will answer all your gas tap questions in one helpful post.
What is a gas tap?
A laboratory gas tap or laboratory gas valve is a device that controls the flow of gas from its source of supply through a pipe.
They are essential devices in a range of chemical and physical exercises, from the basic level all the way up to commercial, industrial or research laboratories. They are usually located on a laboratory bench where they can be easily accessed by students, scientists or laboratory technicians.
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How do gas taps work?
Gas faucets work very similar to faucets in that the valve blocks the free flow of gas until the faucet is turned and the valve is opened. Different faucets have different types of valves. An example of this is the push-turn valve or needle valve used in a drop lever faucet.
Gas Faucet Applications
Gas valves are used to control the flow of various gases in laboratory applications. The most common are natural gas and liquefied petroleum gas. Gas taps suitable for most pressurized gases in this environment are available.
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Why are gas faucets yellow?
Gas tap controls are often bright yellow in school laboratory environments where they need to be easily visible and error free for safety reasons. The yellow pull-down lever, used for a series of gas faucets, allows teachers to quickly scan the room and determine if the faucet is turned on.
However, in commercial and scientific laboratories, the handwheels on laboratory gas taps can be color coded according to the standards set out in DIN EN 13792 for easy reference
What are gas taps used for?
Gas taps are used in a variety of laboratory environments, including school laboratories, scientific research laboratories, and commercial and industrial laboratories.
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Wageningen Bioveterinary Research provides diagnostic services, scientific research and policy advice to public and private sector organisations for the prevention and control of many infectious animal diseases, including prion diseases.
What are prion diseases?
Prion diseases are Transmissable Spongiform Encephalopathies (TSEs). These are fatal neurodegenerative diseases. They are caused by the misfolding of a naturally occurring protein known as the prion protein, or PrP. This leads to the protein accumulating, particularly in neural tissue, and becoming infectious. These misfolded infectious particles are known as prions.
What are the symptoms?
Prion diseases generally have a long incubation period. Symptoms are mainly neurological as damage is caused to the nervous system. The absence of effective treatments means that the disease is always fatal in both humans and animals.
Transmission occurs most easily between individuals within the same species. However, the ease of transmission can vary, even between individuals of the same species, as a result of hereditary differences in the prion protein and/or the prion strain being circulated.
At the present, diagnosis in living animals is generally not available and takes place post-mortem.
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Forensic mental health assessment (FMHA) has grown into a specialization informed by research and professional guidelines. This series presents up-to-date information on the most important and frequently conducted forms of FMHA. The 19 topical volumes address best approaches to practice for particular types of evaluation in the criminal, civil, and juvenile/family areas. Each volume contains a thorough discussion of the relevant legal and psychological concepts, followed by a step-by-step description of the assessment process from preparing for the evaluation to writing the report and testifying in court. Volumes include the following helpful features: - Boxes that zero in on important information for use in evaluations - Tips for best practice and cautions against common pitfalls - Highlighting of relevant case law and statutes - Separate list of assessment tools for easy reference - Helpful glossary of key terms for the particular topic In making recommendations for best practice, authors consider empirical support, legal relevance, and consistency with ethical and professional standards. These volumes offer invaluable guidance for anyone involved in conducting or using forensic evaluations. This volume focuses on evaluating the determination of disability status in the workplace. The reader is walked through every aspect of the evaluation, beginning with an introduction to the nature and legal meaning of disability. The authors offer evidence-based practice recommendations and a helpful overview of issues specific to evaluations for social security, worker's compensation, and other disability benefit programs.
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The pursuit of hypersonic flight has been ongoing for decades, yet understanding the complex flow physics that occur at such high speeds continues to be a challenge.
Stuart Laurence, an assistant professor of Aerospace Engineering, is currently conducting an experimental investigation of fluid-structure interaction problems that occur at hypersonic speeds. When a vehicle travels that fast, it generates a shock wave that causes air pressure, temperature, and density to rise quickly.
"The magnitudes of the changes in flow properties caused by shock waves can be tremendous," says Laurence, who recently won a Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP) Award to pursue work in this area. "At high enough hypersonic speeds, the energy in the flow behind the shock can even break apart the air molecules."
The increase is often so great that it produces extreme thermodynamic effects. A thin region near the surface of the vehicle known as the boundary layer, which may be only a few millimeters across, experiences very high temperatures, and the flow in this area can quickly change from a streamlined current along the front of the vehicle into a turbulent and chaotic state towards the back of it. This can lead to extreme mechanical and heating loads on the vehicle surfaces.
"My work involves examining the coupling between a flexible panel and the flowfield produced in a hypersonic shock-wave/boundary-layer interaction," Laurence says. The DURIP Award will fund completion of a high-temperature Ludwieg tube for the simulation of such hypersonic flows, as well as a schlieren flow visualization system.
The Ludwieg tube, a type of high-speed wind tunnel, uses electrical heating to produce hypersonic flow for short periods of time. The completed tunnel will include a dump tank, a nozzle and test section, and a 22-m long charge tube. The schlieren system will enable the visualization of important hypersonic flow features, including shock waves and boundary layers.
"A lot of our work focuses on using schlieren visualizations at very high frame rates—100,000 frames a second or faster—to obtain quantitative information about the unsteady flowfield," explains Laurence, who also won a Faculty Early Career Development Award this year from the National Science Foundation. The award will support research focused on the effects of thermal nonequilibrium on the acoustic noise radiated by a compressible turbulent boundary layer.
In high-speed flows, not only does turbulence within the boundary layer lead to extreme surface conditions, the turbulent motions can also cause the generation of intense, outward propagating sound waves. The NSF-funded project aims to understand such noise generation when the gas in question (e.g., carbon dioxide, or high-temperature air) absorbs sound waves at certain frequencies because of the excitation of internal energy modes within the molecules.
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Like Corvettes, the sloop was a slow escort (16 knots) vessel, small and somewhat lightly armed. The main design element of this type of ship was long voyages so they could outperform the corvette in this regard.
They were intended for the Mediterranean and South Pacific service which made them cold and miserable ships in the more hostile North Atlantic. One class, Black Swan, that was designed just before the war, was faster (19 knots) and carried more anti-aircraft armament. Sloops generally carried a large number of depth charges and were very well equipped with sensors making then effective U-boat hunters.
The Royal Navy's escort sloop emphasized range and antiaircraft protection on a destroyer size hull. Destroyers, by contrast, emphasized high speed, low angle guns, and torpedoes for their fleet screen duties. A sloop achieved half a destroyer's speed on 1/10 the horsepower; but ASDIC was useless at higher speeds, and more economical engines offered greater endurance. Destroyer construction took precedence between the wars because destroyers could undertake convoy escort, but sloops could never effectively screen the battle fleet.
The sloop was favored by perhaps the most famous of all Allied ASW commander was Captain Johnnie Walker, RN. Under his command the sloop HMS Starling became the most successful U-boat killer of all.
All Sloop classes
The list is divided by navy, then ordered by commissioned date of each class (oldest first).
Royal Indian Navy
|Cornwallis (1)||1921 - 1921|
|24 (3)||1919 - 1925|
|Bridgewater (2)||1929 - 1929|
|Folkestone (5)||1930 - 1931|
|Shoreham (4)||1931 - 1932|
|Falmouth (4)||1932 - 1933|
|Grimsby (13)||1934 - 1940|
|Bittern (3)||1935 - 1938|
|Egret (3)||1938 - 1939|
|Black Swan (8)||1939 - 1943|
|Banff (4)||1941 - 1941|
|Modified Black Swan (29)||1942 - 1946|
Royal Dutch Navy
|Flores (2)||1926 - 1926|
|Johan Maurits van Nassau (1)||1933 - 1933|
|Van Kinsbergen (1)||1939 - 1939|
|Eritrea (1)||1937 - 1937|
Please note that we list the classes by navies that initiated/owned the class. Often vessels of certain classes were then built for other nations (or lent), those ships are not visible here but only through the navies pages or by looking into each class.
War losses: Sloops
|30 Apr 1940||HMS Bittern (L 07)||Bittern|
|14 May 1940||HNMS Johan Maurits van Nassau (i)||Johan Maurits van Nassau|
|24 Aug 1940||HMS Penzance (L 28)||Folkestone|
|15 Sep 1940||HMS Dundee (L 84)||Falmouth|
|25 May 1941||HMS Grimsby (L 16 / U 16)||Grimsby|
|24 Jun 1941||HMS Auckland (L 61 / U 61)||Egret|
|27 Nov 1941||HMAS Parramatta (L 44 / U 44)||Grimsby|
|31 Jan 1942||HMS Culver (Y 87)||Banff|
|4 Mar 1942||HMAS Yarra (L 77 / U 77)||Grimsby|
|6 Apr 1942||HMIS Indus (L 67 / U 67)||Grimsby|
|8 Nov 1942||HMS Hartland (Y 00)||Banff|
|8 Nov 1942||HMS Walney (Y 04)||Banff|
|10 Nov 1942||HMS Ibis (U 99)||Black Swan|
|27 Aug 1943||HMS Egret (L 75 / U 75)||Egret|
|27 Feb 1944||HMS Woodpecker (U 08)||Modified Black Swan|
|21 Aug 1944||HMS Kite (U 87)||Modified Black Swan|
|17 Feb 1945||HMS Lark (U 11)||Modified Black Swan|
|20 Mar 1945||HMS Lapwing (U 62)||Modified Black Swan|
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Estonian Aviation Museum (EAM) was founded by a private initiative for public use and it has to meet the founder-assigned tasks and objectives, it has to fulfil a special mission:
- Estonian Aviation Museum must become an innovative technical centre of interest to balance the prevailing tendency in our society toward humanitarian education. It must encourage young people to acquire an engineering education.
- Estonian Aviation Museum must provide technical support for the students of the Estonian Aviation Academy for the training of aviation specialists
- Estonian Aviation Museum must become an attractive free-time centre of interest for young people and an internationallyknown knowledge-based tourist attraction. It must advocate aviation and flying.
- Estonian Aviation Museum must perpetuate the history of Estonian aviation and identify Tartu as the birthplace of flying in Estonia. (the 1st demo flight in Estonia took place in 1912 in Tartu). Estonian Aviation Museum fills the vacuum beside the Estonian Maritime Museum and the Estonian Road Museum.
See the 1st page of TLM website: Vision, Development Programme of Aviation Museum, and a development project "3rd Stage of Development of Aviation Museum"


text: Movements such as the Arab Spring (as described by popular media) and recent regional conflicts have forced people to leave their homes and flee to other countries or regions. Syrian refugees are currently the second largest refugee group worldwide, with half of them resettled in Turkey. Turkish government and non-governmental civil organizations have mobilized efforts to address the immediate survival needs of these refugees such as food, shelter and other provisions. Despite efforts to manage the complexity of mental health and social service needs of forcibly displaced people, counseling services are still lacking. This expository article addresses the mental health needs of Syrian refugees and provides implications for counseling professionals working with displaced people from a crisis intervention approach built on principles and perspectives of humanistic mental health. In addition, programs of support, such as the Mental Health Facilitator program, are discussed.


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KU program puts technology, expert training, new teaching in classrooms
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It's becoming more common with every semester for a school to hand out new electronics such as iPads or laptop computers to give students a new tool in their educational kit. For years now, a University of Kansas program has been going several steps beyond, knowing it's not enough to just give a classroom new gadgets, it's vital to provide teachers with the training on how to use the technology to enhance curriculum and help change how students learn. Since 2003, Technology Rich Classrooms, a project of Advance Learning Technologies in Education in KU's Center for Research on Learning, has been managing a Kansas State Department of Education program that provides funding to school districts across the state to purchase new technology and fund a facilitator in the school who coaches teachers how to make the new devices part of higher order curriculum. Nearly 90 Kansas schools have received the two-year, Title IID grants, and the program is spreading beyond Kansas' borders. "When it comes down to it, we don't talk about iPads or Macbooks, we talk about using any technology the school has that engages students and empowers critical thinking," said Amber Rowland, project leader.
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Stephen Hawking writes about the beginning of time, but few other people do. People who write "from the beginning of time" or "since time began" are usually being lazy. Their grasp of history is vague, so they resort to these broad, sweeping phrases. Almost never is this usage literally accurate: people have not fallen in love since time began, for instance, because people arrived relatively late on the scene in the cosmic scheme of things. When I visited Ferrara several years ago I was interested to see that the whole population of the old city seemed to use bicycles for transportation, cars being banned from the central area. I asked how long this had been the custom and was told "We've ridden bicycles for centuries." Since the bicycle was invented only in the 1890s, I strongly doubted this (no, Leonardo da Vinci did not invent the bicycle—he just drew a picture of what one might look like—and some people think that picture is a modern forgery). If you really don't know the appropriate period from which your subject dates, you could substitute a less silly but still vague phrase such as "for many years," or "for centuries"; but it's better simply to avoid historical statements if you don't know your history.


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CLEAN AIR RESOLUTION
Resolution Regarding Air Quality in Cumberland County
Authored by the Clean Air Board of Central Pennsylvania
pollution from diesel engine emissions has been proven to be harmful to our health. Diesel exhaust can contain 40 hazardous air pollutants, 15 of which are known human carcinogens. Fine particles from diesel emissions have been linked to heart attacks, asthma, stroke, stunted lung growth and premature death. Children and seniors are at the greatest risk from these emissions1; and
air quality has been shown to be especially degraded in Cumberland County and EPA has designated the County as being in non-attainment of fine particle (PM 2.5) and ozone standards. The average lifetime diesel soot cancer risk here is 393 times greater than the accepted EPA cancer level of one in one million2. Cumberland County is among the 2% most polluted counties in the nation for fine particle pollution3; and
in August 2005 more than 100 doctors in the region submitted a paid advertisement to local media citing statistics about air pollution and attributing the problem primarily to fine particle pollution from diesel exhaust and the heavy concentration of trucks in the area; and
"the earth is the Lord's, and all that is in it," as the Psalmist says, and human beings are called to be responsible stewards of God's creation;
Therefore, the undersigned members of the Cumberland County faith community hereby ask that:
1. Planning and municipal authorities in Cumberland County take air quality factors into account in land use planning decisions, particularly with regard to diesel trucks and buses that contribute to air quality degradation.
2. Cumberland County enact ordinances to limit air pollution from the idling of diesel-powered vehicles.
3. Truck facilities in Cumberland County implement programs to reduce diesel emissions, including installation of electrification units to eliminate the need for extensive diesel-powered truck idling.
4. School districts in Cumberland County enact policies limiting school bus idling and aggressively pursue grant funding and programs to retrofit and upgrade school bus diesel engines with devices to help control harmful emissions.
1. Clean Air Task Force, "Diesel and Health in America," February 2005. Available online at _URL_
2. Clean Air Task Force, Diesel Project. Available at _URL_
3. American Lung Association, "State of the Air 2005." Available online at _URL_
4. The Sentinel: Carlisle, PA. August 23, 2005


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The Gospel of Wealth was a philosophy that argued that people who had huge amounts of money should spend the money in ways that would help their society as a whole. This idea was put forth by Andrew Carnegie as a way (in part) to defend the rich and justify their wealth.
We can see examples of this sort of attitude among the rich today. There are many rich people who have set up foundations or other organizations to give money to certain worthy causes or to help people in ways that the philanthropists think important. Perhaps the most famous example of this is the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The Gates Foundation is well known for giving money to improve education in the US and around the world and also for spending money to try to improve the health of people in poorer countries. The Gates's actions would be an example of the Gospel of Wealth.


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Jerry Stevens heads up an excavation crew for the municipal utility district in a city in Nebraska. A sewer line needs to be replaced and it has been excavated with a back-hoe. The trench is 7 feet deep. The municipality's safety rules indicate that employees should not go into the trench without a trench box. This rule is to prevent employees from being buried if the trench walls collapse. People die every year from trench cave-ins.
The trench box won't arrive on-site for another 6 hours and the city promised residents that the sewer would be fixed by the end of the day, which now seems impossible. The City Administrator called Jerry on his cell phone and indicated that it was imperative that the sewer is fixed as soon as conceivably possible because a City Council member is served by that sewer line and will raise a fuss if it's not fixed by the promised time.
One of the more experienced workers states, "It's only going to take 30 minutes to dig under the pipe and loosen the fittings. We don't need the trench box. We used to do this all the time before we were required to use one of those darn things."
Jerry knows he's right. He used to do it himself before the rule was put in place. Also, the soil is clearly a cohesive soil and it's highly unlikely that it will collapse. And although there is an organizational policy to use a trench box for trenches deeper than 5 feet, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) does not have jurisdiction over municipalities in Nebraska because municipalities are political subdivisions of the State. The only entity regulating safety policies is the City's Safety Director and he took the day off. College Homework Help
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I have had this, played it for 30+ hours, but still cannot use the bot coding system! Anyone know the symbol meanings?
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The top row of symbols are operations, in order from left to right: move, dig, place, turn left, and turn right. The middle row of symbols are directions, in order from left to right: forward, up, down, and back. The bottom row of symbols are material macros, you must specify a material to go with the macro. The symbols in the box to the right are macros, you must specify the macro for each program (I think). The programming syntax is: operation-direction, operation-direction-material macro, or just turn left, or turn right, or macro(I think).
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Cereal alkylresorcinols (AR), a group of phenolic lipids mainly found in the outer parts of wheat and rye kernels, are currently being studied for the possibility to use them as biomarkers for the intake of whole grain wheat and rye foods. In this work, AR were localised in grains by using light microscopy and gas chromatographic analysis of hand-dissected botanical and pearling fractions. GC-analysis of hand-dissected fractions showed that more than 99% of the total AR content was located in an intermediate layer of the caryopsis, including the hyaline layer, testa and inner pericarp. Microscopic examination showed that the outer cuticle of testa/inner cuticle of pericarp was the exact location, and that no AR were found in the endosperm or in the germ, suggesting that AR could be used as a selective marker of testa.
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Marche is one of the twenty regions of Italy. The name of the region derives from the plural name of marca, originally referring to the medieval March of Ancona and nearby marches of Camerino and Fermo. The region is located in the Central area of the country, bordered by Emilia-Romagna and the republic of San Marino to the north, Tuscany to the west, Umbria to the southwest, Abruzzo and Lazio to the south and the Adriatic Sea to the east. Except for river valleys and the often very narrow coastal strip, the land is hilly. A railway from Bologna to Brindisi, built in the 19th century, runs along the coast of the entire territory. Inland, the mountainous nature of the region, even today, allows relatively little travel north and south, except by twisting roads over the passes.... From a Wikipedia-page on Marche.
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Karnataka Revised Pay Fixation Methodology as per GO No.FD 6 SRP 2018
FIXATION OF PAY IN THE REVISED SCALES OF PAY: The initial pay of a Government servant shall be fixed in the corresponding revised scale of pay in the following manner:-
(i) An amount representing 30 percent of the basic pay shall be added to the 'existing emoluments' ;
(ii) After the 'existing emoluments' have been so added and increased, the pay shall be fixed in the corresponding revised scale as hereunder:-
(a) Where the amount computed as above is less than the minimum of the revised scale, it shall be fixed at the minimum;
(b) Where the amount computed as above is not less than the minimum but less than the maximum of the revised scale, the pay shall be fixed in the revised scale at the stage next above that amount; and
(c) Where the amount computed as above is equal to or more than the maximum of the revised scale, the pay shall be fixed at the maximum and the amount equal to the difference between the maximum and the stage of pay in the master scale (mentioned in paragraph 2.3) next above the amount shall be allowed as 'personal pay'.
Note: For this purpose, 'existing emoluments' shall include-
(a) the basic pay as defined in clause (c) of rule 3 of the Karnataka Civil Services (Revised Pay) Rules, 2018;
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At its heart this collection of essays concerns the current state of Indonesian environmental law, departing from the question of whether there is now a coherent and accessible framework for environmental management. The authors provide the reader with an overview of Indonesian environmental policymaking and the political context in which it has emerged. The essays analyse the general features and principles of the Environmental Management Act of 1997, the frameworks for enforcement and dispute resolution, and the relation with the vital areas of forestry law and spatial planning. Two more theoretical discussions that are highly topical in the Indonesian legal environmental discourse contextualise the subject: first, the use and role of the vital concepts of integration, harmonisation and co-ordination of environmental law and policy; and second, the relation between enforcement and voluntary compliance mechanisms. The authors also explore potential paths towards better environmental law in Indonesia.


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Sacs are uniformly round and up to 0.35 mm in diameter.
This species is commonly found in the bryozoan Fredericella sultana although DNA sequence data indicate that other bryozoans can also act as hosts (Anderson et al. 1999). Since these parasites are highly reduced and lack many distinguishing features, DNA sequence analysis is primarily used for species confirmation.
Other myxozoan parasites that produce sac-like stages in freshwater bryozoans may be confused with Tetracapsuloides bryosalmonae. However, Buddenbrockia allmani has only been recorded from the bryozoan Lophopus crystallinus while B. plumatellae is found in the bryozoan Cristatella mucedo.
Furthermore, the sac-like stages in these two species are generally irregular or oval in shape. Those produced by T. bryosalmonae are uniformly round. DNA sequences can also distinguish species (Tops et al. 2005).


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Using tshark I tried to generate a dat file. The following is the command that I used to generate the fields using tshark:
$ C:\Program Files (x86)\Wireshark>tshark.exe -r "C:\swp-final-" -T
 fields -e frame.number -e frame.time -e eth.src -e eth.dst -e ip.src -e ip.ds
t -e ip.proto -E header=y -E separator=, -E quote=d -E occurrence=f > C:\thirty.
Tshark generates the output file in this format.
409 Jul 14, 2012 17:50:19.435836000 00:04:23:b7:3e:a3 00:04:23:b7:1a:0b 6
410 Jul 14, 2012 17:50:19.436084000 00:04:23:b7:3e:a3 00:04:23:b7:1a:0b 6
411 Jul 14, 2012 17:50:19.436110000 00:04:23:b7:1a:0b 00:04:23:b7:3e:a3 6
 1. I want to plot a graph for the numbers packets per second. How do I calculate the number of packets using the above mentioned data for specific flow?
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you can start with time 0(time of first packet)
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on Use of CCA-Treated Timber
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2004, the use of CCA-treated timber has been severely curtailed
with an amendment of the European Union Commission Directive 76/769/EEC.
This amendment now states that arsenic compounds may not be used
'in the preservation of wood. Furthermore, wood so treated
may not be placed on the market'. The only exceptions are
wood to be used in industrial installation that 'the structural
integrity of the wood is required for human or livestock safety
and skin contact by the general public during is service life is
unlikely'. The following uses are specifically not allowed
(Commission Directive 2003/2/EC, 6 January 2003):
- in residential
or domestic constructions, whatever the purpose,
- in any
application where there is a risk of repeated skin contact
agricultural purposes other than for livestock fence posts and
any application where treated wood may come into contact with
intermediate or finished products intended for human and/or animal
amendment therefore restricts the marketing and use of both the
CCA chemical as well as timber treated with CCA, and will also apply
to imported treated wood and waste wood in re-use. In addition,
it is anticipated that from 2007, CCA preservatives will require
authorisation according to The Biocidal Products Directive (BPD)19
(Enviros Consulting et al, 2004). The EU regulations, however, do
not apply to CCA-treated wood already in service. CCA-treated timber
has not been as extensively used in Europe as it has in Australia
amendment is the consequence of a risk assessment by the European
Commission Enterprise Directorate General that identified a number
of unacceptable risks, including risks to children from CCA-treated
timber play equipment, environmental risks from combustion and disposal
(including leaching in landfill) and to aquatic organisms, and health
risks from use of CCA-treated timber (cited in DEFRA, 2003).
Communities' Scientific Committee for Toxicity, Ecotoxicity
and the Environment (CSTEE) evaluated this risk assessment, and
determined that no threshold exists for the carcinogenic effects
of arsenic (which is also known to be genotoxic). The CSTEE could
not establish the arsenic-related risks of landfill disposal of
CCA-treated timber, which is classified as a hazardous waste by
the Commission in 2000, and thus concluded that it was appropriate
to apply the precautionary principle and, in the absence of proof
of harm, reduce the production of CCA-treated timber as much as
possible because it is likely to cause serious harm (CSTEE, 2003).
timber industry has responded to these Directives by considering
alternative treatments in order to maintain their market share over
other materials. A representative from Arch Timber Protection UK,
has boasted that since moving away from arsenicand chromium-based
timber preservatives in the mid-1990s, 'companies embraced
the challenge and through the change to copper based preservatives,
aggressively marketed own brands and unique features of their products.
Contrary to many forecasts, the industry has flourished and benefited
from the changes as treated wood continues to be the material of
choice' (Connell, 2004).
after a consultation process by the Department of Environment, Food
and Rural Affairs, Great Britain adapted the above EC regulations
(DEFRA, 2003). This resulted in closer attention being put on the
timber treatment industry, with legal action being taken against
a CCA timber treatment company for improper and unsafe use of pesticides
and a fine of £30,000. Anglian Timber was found guilty of
machining timber within 48 hours of treatment, transporting wet
(unfixed) timber, and not providing personal protective equipment
for employees (EHN Online, 2004).
in Northern Europe the use of chromium-based preservatives is also
being restricted and they are banned in Denmark (Connell, 2004).
M. (2004), 'Issues Facing Preservative Suppliers in a Changing
Market For Treated Wood', Paper presented to COST Action
E22: Environmental Optimisation of Wood Protection, Lisboa œ
Portugal, 22- 23 March.
(Scientific Committee on Toxicity, Ecotoxicity and the Environment)
(2003), 'Commission Directive 2003/2/EC of 6 January 2003
relating to restrictions on the marketing and use of arsenic (tenth
adaptation to technical progress to Council Directive 76/769/EEC)',
Official Journal of the European Communities, January 9, L 4/9.
(2003), Consultation on the transposition of the 10th adaptation
to technical progress of Annex I to Council Directive 76/769/EEC
relating to restrictions on the marketing and use of arsenic in
England, Scotland and Wales (Great Britain), August, Department
for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Great Britain.
Online (2004), 'Timber firm exposed employees to pesticides',
Environmental Health News Online, _URL_
Consulting and The BioComposites Centre, University of Wales (2004),
Treated Wood Waste: Assessment of the Waste Management Challenge,
The Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP), UK.


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|Breast Cancer Screening for First Nations in Manitoba (Canada)|
Improving equitable access to Breast Cancer Screening for First Nations in Manitoba (Canada)
Imagine you are a woman living in the Canadian province of Manitoba as part of the First Nations indigenous population. Living in the rural North you have to travel long distances to access medical services. The costs for traveling in the North are very high. There are known benefits to screening for breast cancer. However, given your socio-economic barriers, how and when could you find the time to get screened for breast cancer?
What's the issue? Breast cancer in a Canadian First Nations Population
Within Manitoba there is a significant population of indigenous people in the northern part of the province. In 1996, 128,910 Aboriginal people lived in Manitoba, accounting for 11.7% of Manitoba's total population. The Aboriginal proportion of the population has been increasing rapidly over the past 20 years.1 Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer among Manitoba women and the second most common cause of cancer-related deaths among women. From 1995 to 2004, the incidence of cancer among First Nations women doubled, from 178/100,000 to 391/100,000. During the same time, the incidence of cancer among non-First Nations women increased by just 1.5%.2
Research to Practice: Making Breast Cancer Screening Mobile
Manitoba has a publicly funded Breast Screening program which operates in four cities and towns. Breast cancer screening with a mammogram, a specialized x-ray of the breasts, is a way of detecting cancer. Access to breast cancer screening plays a major role in the timely detection and treatment of cancers in women. Monitoring breast screening participation rates showed the inequities for northern and rural women and the mobile program was introduced to address the disparities.
Ensuring Canada's First Nations have access to breast cancer screening, specifically the "geographically isolated" Manitoban Aboriginal women, and adapting it to cultural context is an example of how investment in research for health can be beneficial in promoting health equity with regards to gender, ethnicity, and socio-economic status. Mobile screening units have been created to reach women who live outside of the four cities and towns housing the screening program. To date, mobile screening programs operate in over 80 rural and northern communities every year and in 10 Winnipeg city locations.
The breast screening program works with First Nation communities to address cultural issues. The program developed posters that include aboriginal women and invitation letters are translated when needed. The local health workers arrange the appointments as some women don't have phones. The clinics are advertised over the local community radio station and the local health workers often visit women to explain the program.
This example makes clear that to achieve health equity, access to the products of research, such as cancer screening technologies, need to consider the social determinants of health. Outreach initiatives should be culturally appropriate, as shown in the example of the Aboriginal Cancer Strategy.3 The guiding principles include a physical, mental, emotional and spiritual approach to health in conjunction with a grass-roots approach that gives voice to the community.
What next: Improving Access to Breast Cancer Screening by Promoting Innovation
Despite the universal screening program, access remains a challenge. For example, mobile units have rigid schedules making it difficult to switch dates when bad winter weather or equipment failure interrupt schedules and it is not always possible to accommodate changes. The mobile unit may not return for another year or two, leading to wide variability in the use of mammograms among eligible Manitoba women. In the two year period from April 1, 2003 to March 31, 2004, just 60% of women aged 50 to 69 years had a mammogram. Women in the rural south were most likely (63%), and women in the north were least likely (53%), to have had a mammogram. In fact, all Regional Health Authorities in the rural south had higher participation rates in mammography than did Winnipeg (59%).4
These differences in breast screening participation can be related to income, jobs, children, high travel expenses and long travel times due to an inadequate infrastructure that make it difficult for northern women to travel, especially from isolated communities in the North. Thus, even reaching a mobile screening unit is perceived as an obstacle for some women. Also, competing socio-economic health issues and immediate needs such as daily bread and shelter are often considered more important. In addition, some women have family members affected by breast cancer. Such bias sometimes results in increased likelihood towards cancer screening, but sometimes also in aversion due to fear.
It is in the hands of the community health workers to raise awareness. The challenge for research is to find ways to expand equitable access to breast cancer screening for all under-screened indigenous women. This can be achieved by enhancing the favorable balance between the benefits and risks of screening and by finding ways to make the units more mobile and flexible. Looking into the future, new technologies such as more compact digitalized mammography or blood testing for cancerous cells should be at the forefront.
For further information:
Regional Office for the Americas of the World Health Organization


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given object. This is the most standard way to call a member function.
(->> object member): This construct can be used to get the procedure associated with the given member.
(procedure? (->> object member))will be true.
(member object arg1...): This construct can be used to call a member function of a given object, after the member function has been made 'generic', using
def-generic member); it transforms into
(-> object member arg1...).
(-> this member arg1...): This construct can be used to call a member function from within an object. Use it to call a member as if it was called from outside of the object.
(-> supers member arg1...): This construct can be used to call a member of the object its'super' objects.
(member arg1...): Use this construct to call a member function in the current object ('class closure'), e.g.:
(def-class (this (operation2 _a _b)) (supers) (private (define a _a) (define b _b)) (public (define (operation2 a b) 'nil) (define (calculate) (-> this operation2 a b)) (define (calcthis) (operation2 a b))) (constructor)) (def-class (this (add a b)) (supers (operation2 a b)) (private) (public (define (operation2 a b) (+ a b))) (constructor)) > (define a (add 3 4)) > (-> a calculate) 7 > (-> a calcthis) nil >
operation2in the current closure context.
Accessing member variables
Public member variables can only be accessed from the outside as if they were member functions. E.g.:
(def-class (this (sample _a)) (supers) (private) (public (define a _a) (define (x2) (set! a (* a a)) (- a 1))) (constructor)) >(define obj (sample 4)) >(-> obj a) 4 >(-> obj a 20) 20 >(-> obj a) 20 >(-> obj x2) 399 >(-> obj a) 400
From within the current closure, a member function can use the member variable
as if it were a standard variable. This is illustrated in the previous
sample, using the
x2 member function.
def-generic, a macro can be defined, that wraps
-> macro. For example:
(def-generic x2) (def-generic a mem-a) >(mem-a obj 3) 3 >(x2 obj) 8 >(mem-a obj) 9
def-generic with one argument
arg1, a macro is defined,
that calls a member function that is named after
def-generic with two arguments
macro is defined with name
arg2, that calls member function
The ROOS API
obj is an instantiated Roos object;
var is a Roos class definition;
(class=? obj class)
Given an object
obj and a class-name
class, which must be a symbol or
the defined function for the class, determines if
obj is of type
If any super of
obj is of type
obj is of type
this function returns
(object? obj) and
(or (symbol? class) (procedure? class)).
_TAG_, if the given object
obj has been explicitly cleaned up.
Returns the tree of classes of which a object is made of. E.g., for
> (class a) (add (operation2))
(->> obj function)
This construct is used to retreive a specific member function from an object. Using this construct can speed up things considerably (about a factor 2 for calling overhead).
(roos-id obj) : number
Returns the id of the given object.
cleanup member of
obj (without arguments), if it exists,
obj has been invalidated, it cannot
be used anymore. Example:
(def-class (this (class-a a)) (supers) (private (define counter a)) (public (define (cl) this) (define var (* a a)) (define (inc b) (set! counter (+ counter b))) (define (get) counter) (define (count) (begin (-> this inc 1) (inc 2)))) (constructor (set! counter (* counter counter))) (explicit-cleanup (display "class-a says HI! - ")(display counter)(newline))) >(define a (class-a 32)) >a _TAG_ >(-< a) class-a says HI! - 1024 >a _TAG_ >(-> a get) ROOS:c-roos-call-member object has been invalidated (argument 0) >(roos-invalid? a) _TAG_
Is equivalent to
(-> obj function...)
Is used to call member functions.
(roos-dispatch obj symbol-for-member. args)
This function is used to dynamic dispatching of members. The member is provided as a symbol.
(roos-add-proxy obj obj-to-proxy-for) : obj
This will add all public members of
obj-to-proxy-for to the proxy
obj. If a given member cannot be found in the object
itself, it will be searched in the proxy classes.
(named-argument name:symbol arguments:list [default-value])
Can be used to get a named value from an argument list. Example:
>(named-argument 'text (list 'text "3" 'number 42) "no") "3" >(named-argument 'test (list 'text "3" 'number 42) "no") "no" >(named-argument 'test (list 'text "3" 'number 42)) _TAG_ >(named-argument 'yes (list 'text "3" 'number 42 'yes) '%noyes) '%roos-exists >(named-argument 'yes (list 'text "3" 'number 42 'yes 'nopo 665) '%noyes) 'nopo (define (f. args) (if (eq? (named-argument'mandatory-argument args 'undef) 'undef) (error "He, you're missing a mandatory argument!") _TAG_))
Note: If you are only interested if a certain named argument is there, i.e., you're using it as a kind of flag, you best test for a value as follows:
>(named-argument 'text (list 'text "3" 'number 42) "no") "3" >(named-argument 'test (list 'text "3" 'number 42) "no") "no" >(let* ((args (list 'a (list 2 43 1) 'flag 'flag1 'flag3)) (flag1 (named-argument 'flag1 args '%flag-not-there)) (flag2 (named-argument 'flag2 args '%flag-not-there))) (set! flag1 (not (eq? flag1 '%flag-not-there))) (set! flag2 (not (eq? flag2 '%flag-not-there))) (display (format "flag1=~a ~%" flag1)) (display (format "flag2=~a ~%" flag2)) (list flag1 flag2)) flag1=_TAG_ flag2=_TAG_ (_TAG_ _TAG_) >
(=> name:symbol arguments:list [default-value])
named-argument. This alias to
is in a remote way analogue to the perl way to do named arguments.
(c) 2005 Hans Oesterholt-Dijkema. Distributed undef LGPL. Contact: send email to hans in domain elemental-programming.org. Homepage: _URL_.
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Improved API
We just released a major update to our API and command-line client, making it much easier to integrate video builds into your own software or delivery pipeline.
For example, you can set up a CI step to deploy your application and take screen-shots of key pages, then use Narakeet to include the latest look and feel of your application into explainer videos automatically. Another common use-case for Narakeet video automation is to create several versions of a single video, for example in different languages.
Until today, integrating with our API required hosting assets yourself, which was a big barrier for many people. Our new API supports uploading files directly to Narakeet, and building directly from files on your local disk. Here is a quick example: the following command will create a video from the local directory called my-video-project, with the main video script in video.txt inside that directory.
narakeet-api-client \
 --repository-type local-dir \
 --repository my-video-project \
 --source video.txt \
 --api-key $API_KEY
For more information on how to use the Narakeet API, check out Automating video production.
For information on the command-line client tool, check out Using the Narakeet Command-line Tool.


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Preston was one of our most celebrated modern artists and an outspoken public voice on Australian culture. Renowned as a printmaker as well as a painter, she championed a distinctly Australian style, based on the principles and motifs of modernist, Aboriginal and Asian art. Born Margaret Rose Macpherson, she studied in Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide as well as Europe. Returning to Australia, she challenged the dominant academism with paintings and woodcuts of domestic appliances and native flora and fauna.
Implement blue 1927
Embodying the values of modern living, Implement blue is one of the finest images of early Australian modernism and one of Preston's most innovative works. The painting is a bridge between naturalistic representation and abstraction. Its strong composition echoes visual elements of commercial photography and graphic design. Artificial lighting emphasises the clean lines and reflective surfaces of the machine-made objects.
Preston herself commented at this time that the reason there are 'so many tables of still life in modern painting is because they are really laboratory tables on which aesthetic problems are isolated'.
- View Implement blue in the collection
People and places
In the 20th century, daily life was transformed at every level by mechanisation. Writing about herself in 1927, Preston said: 'She feels that this is a mechanical age – a scientific one – highly civilised and unaesthetic. She knows that the time has come to express her surroundings in her work. All around her in the simple domestic life is machinery – patent ice-chests that need no ice, machinery does it; irons heated by invisible heat; washing up machines; electric sweepers, and so on. They all surround her and influence her mind…'


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The First Case of a Small Supernumerary Marker Chromosome 18 in a Klinefelter Fetus: A Case Report
Small supernumerary marker chromosomes (sSMCs), or markers, are abnormal chromosomal fragments that can be hereditary or de novo. Despite the importance of sSMCs diagnosis, de novo sSMCs are rarely detected during the prenatal diagnosis process. Usually, prenatally diagnosed de novo sSMCs cannot be correlated with a particular phenotype without knowing their chromosomal origin and content; therefore, molecular cytogenetic techniques are applied to achieve this goal. The present study aimed to characterize an sSMC in a case of Klinefelter syndrome using an in-house microsatellite analysis method and fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH) technique. Amniotic fluid was collected from a pregnant woman who was considered to have risk factors for trisomy higher than the screening cut-off. Karyotype analysis was followed by the amplification of different microsatellite loci and FISH technique. Karyotype analysis identified a fetus with an extra X chromosome and also an sSMC with unknown identity. Further investigation of the parents showed that the sSMC is de novo. Microsatellite amplification by quantitative fluorescent PCR (QF-PCR) and FISH analysis showed that the sSMC is a derivative of chromosome 18. Eventually, the patient decided to terminate the pregnancy. Here, the first case of the coincidence of sSMC 18 in a Klinefelter fetus is reported.
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-glcurve-: a program for generalised Lorenz
curves and related structures
Stephen Jenkins, University of Essex and
Philippe Van Kerm, FUNDP, Namur
The well-known Lorenz curve for a variable y plots L(p(y)) against p(y)
where p(y) is the cumulative distribution function of y and L(p(y)) is the
cumulative share of y up to p(y) (i.e. it is a plot of cumulative income
shares against cumulative population share). The generalised Lorenz curve,
is the Lorenz curve with y-ordinates multiplied by the mean of y. This tool
is frequently used by economists to present and compare income distributions
because of the relation existing between GL dominance and traditional
second-order stochastic dominance and the close link between these concepts
and social welfare comparisons.
This talk introduces glcurve, a program basically designed
to draw generalised Lorenz curves for a given continuous variable.
glcurve has two attractive features: on the one hand it is
flexible in the sense that it can be used to draw related graphs such as
Lorenz curves, concentration curves or "TIP" curves and, on the
other hand, permits easy visual dominance checks by population subgroups.
The interest of generalised Lorenz curves comparisons will be emphasised and
the simple data transformations needed to obtain related structures will
also be illustrated.
Jenkins S.P. and P. Van Kerm. 1999.
sg107: Generalized Lorenz Curves and
Related Graphs. Stata Technical Bulletin 48: 25—29.
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