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Many chemical processes require removal of fine solid contaminants smaller than 5 µm from liquids. When the suspended solids content is dilute, typically less than 1% by weight, the operation to produce a clean liquid product is called clarification or polishing filtration. Typical applications include catalyst recovery, polymer and resins, active pharmaceutical ingredients, removal of unreacted chemicals and byproducts, and polishing of gray water.
Often in polishing applications, the solids are very fine or amorphous, making them difficult to filter. When filtered, the solids will create a thin impermeable coating over the filter medium and immediately reduce the filtration rate to an unacceptable level.
In these difficult cases, filter aid pretreatment may improve filtration properties and efficiently remove the fine solids.
Filter aids can serve in the filtration cycles of various types of filters:
- Plate-and-frame filter presses;
- Horizontal and vertical pressure leaf filters;
- Candle or tubular filters;
- Nutsche filters; and
- Rotary vacuum drum filters.
Types Of Filter Aids
Diatomite, perlite and cellulose are the filter aids most frequently used in industry. Other organic materials such as potato starch particles and rice hull ash find some use but are less common. A filter aid requires certain key properties; it must:
- Consist of rigid, complex shaped, discrete particles;
- Form a permeable, stable, incompressible filter cake;
- Remove fine solids at high flow rates; and
- Remain chemically inert and insoluble in the process liquid.
Diatomite. Also known as diatomaceous earth (DE), diatomite (Figure 1) consists of the microscopic silica skeletons of prehistoric plants. These skeletons are called diatoms. This material is mined and calcined to destroy any organic matter. The DE then is milled and separated into various filter aid grades via air flotation. The final product is a soft, powdery material resembling chalk.
Diatomite filter aids boast the advantage of a rigid and highly porous structure. When deposited on a filter medium, the DE forms a non-compressible cake and acts as a sieve to remove fine solids. The micropores in the diatoms allow flow through the particle while the fine solids are captured between the diatom granules. Being comprised mostly of silica, DE is inert in a wide range of applications.
Perlite. This material (Figure 2) is formed from glass-like volcanic rock that consists of small particles with cracks that retain water and gas. The perlite is mined and then the ore is heated to its melting temperature. At that point, the molten volcanic glass expands and fractures due to the emission of the steam and gas. This expanded material then is crushed and classified to provide different filter aid grades.
Perlite has a lower specific weight than DE, which allows less filter aid to be used. The primary advantage of perlite compared to DE is its relative purity. Diatomite may contaminate process liquids with dissolved salts and colloidal clays that are inherent to it; perlite doesn't share this risk.
Cellulose. This material (Figure 3) is used to a lesser degree than DE and perlite because of its higher cost and lower filtration efficiency. However, it does offer some advantages versus diatomite or perlite. Cellulose is combustible, which is useful in the recovery of valuble metals. Cellulose also is compatible with hot caustic solutions unlike DE and perlite.
Each type of filter aid comes in different grades that vary in particle size, which typically ranges from 5µm to 100µm. As particle size decreases, the ability to capture fine solids increases, thus the filtrate clarity improves. However, smaller size raises cake resistance. Therefore, the finer the filter aid is, the lower the throughput per unit area. These relationships mandate finding an appropriate balance between filtrate clarity and filtration rate. It's important to use the largest possible filter aid grade that achieves the filtrate clarity target.
Because the solids differ in every application, there's no rule for matching filter aid grade to suspended particle size. Instead, you should run benchtop-scale filtration tests with various filter aid grades. Measuring the rate of filtration and observing filtrate clarity will help you select the optimal product.
A filter aid requires a filter medium; this is the septum on which the filter aid solids are retained while the clear liquid passes through. Most often this medium is constructed of a woven synthetic polymer or alloys. It is supported by a rigid structure that also is porous to allow liquid to travel through.
The filter medium's pore size should approximately equal the median particle size of the filter aid. The exact pore size isn't critical so long as some filter aid is retained. Once the filter aid begins to build on the woven filter medium, the cake becomes the new primary surface for particle capture. Selecting a filter medium with too large a pore size will result in a long turbid cycle because the bridging of the filter aid will take a long time and may be unstable. Selecting a medium with too small a pore size will result in a reduced filtration flux rate due to the added resistance.
You can use different types of lab equipment for selecting filter aid type, process and filter medium. One option is the BHS Pocket Leaf Filter (PLF). This apparatus can perform benchtop-scale pressure and vacuum filtration tests, to determine flux rates, filtrate clarity, filter medium, cake thickness, washing and drying efficiencies, cycle times, performance versus quality parameters and qualitative cake discharge. The PLF is jacketed for heating or cooling and is rated 90 psig to full vacuum. It has a 20 cm2 of active filter area and a filling capacity of 400 mL. Figure 4 illustrates the set-up.
Filter aids are used via two methods: precoat or body feed. You can employ the two individually or combined (as shown in Figure 5) to gain the benefits of both.
Precoat. Here, the filter aid generates a thin layer of solids on top of the filter medium. Once formed, this cake functions as the primary means of filtration. Therefore, the filter cloth no longer serves as the real filter when using precoat. For that reason, you should select a filter cloth that's as open as possible while still retaining the filter aid material.
The precoat process involves mixing the filter aid into clear liquid or mother filtrate in a tank. Diatomite filter aids usually work best with a precoat slurry concentration in the 0.3–0.6 wt.% range. This slurry then goes to the filter where the filter medium captures the solids. The clean filtrate returns to the precoat tank. The precoat should be thick enough to ensure the medium's entire surface is coated but thin enough to avoid significant resistance to filtration. To prevent the precoat from settling in the pressure vessel and creating an uneven precoat, a feed flow rate of 1 gal/min/ft2 is ideal. Typical precoat thicknesses are in the 1–3-mm range.
Using precoat in a clarification process offers several advantages. It helps prevent the filter medium from becoming clogged by the slurry fines, thus extending filter medium life. This is especially critical when filtering amorphous or slimy solids. Precoating also helps provide immediate filtrate clarity. The precoat layer acts as a depth filtration bed for trapping fine particles that typically would pass through the filter medium. In addition, precoat helps filter cake solids discharge at the end of a filtration cycle by providing a cleavage plane from the filter medium.
Body feed. This technique involves blending the filter aid with the slurry feed either by dosing concentrated filter aid suspension into the slurry feed and in-line mixing or by mixing the filter aid into the entire slurry batch and maintaining agitation.
The filter aid solids and the native solids continuously build a filter cake until either the maximum cake height or maximum operating pressure is reached. By adding filter aid into the slurry feed, the resulting filter cake is more porous, allowing higher and longer sustained flow rates. Body feed also helps restrict solids movement, which improves filtrate clarity.
The goal of the optimal body feed concentration is to maximize the flow rate of a filtration cycle while avoiding feeding too much filter aid solids. Using too much body feed will cause the filter to reach the maximum filter cake height faster than necessary. Employing a body feed without precoat can lead to an initial turbid filtrate while the cake begins to build on the filter medium. This initial turbid bypass generally will be much shorter than that observed filtering the raw slurry. You can recycle this turbid filtrate back to the slurry feed tank to ensure no solids bypass occurs.
Whether the process is precoating or body feeding, the filter aid slurry tank and pump are critical to the operation. The precoat mix tank should be a round vertical tank whose height is twice its diameter. Avoid rectangular or horizontal tanks. Set the usable volume of the precoat tank at ≈1.25–1.5 times the volume of the filter plus the connecting lines. Use a mixer or agitator with large slow-speed impellers to avoid filter aid degradation and the creation of fines — otherwise you'll dramatically change the filter aid process filtration.
The precoating pumps almost always are centrifugal pumps because they produce no pulsations to disturb precoat formation. Such pumps typically are low speed (1,800 rpm) and low pressure as the precoating rate is much faster than the filtration rate with low pressure drop. Also, because the precoat pump is exposed to filter aid particles, its internal parts usually have hardened surfaces and open impellers to reduce wear.
For body feeding, use positive displacement pumps.
Even when the feed tank and pump are correct, operators can face several typical issues with filtration/filter-aid


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A spatial population dynamics simulation model of tropical tunas using a habitat index based on environmental parameters
We are developing a spatial, multigear, multispecies population dynamics simulation model for tropical tunas in the Pacific Ocean. The model is age-structured to account for growth and gear selectivity. It includes a tuna movement model based on a diffusion–advection equation in which the advective term is proportional to the gradient of a habitat index. The monthly geographical distribution of recruitment is defined by assuming that spawning occurs in areas where sea surface temperature is above 25°C. During the first 3 months of their life, simulated tunas are transported by oceanic currents, after which movement is conditioned by gradients in the habitat index. Independent estimates of natural mortality rates and population size from large-scale tagging experiments carried out by the Secretariat of the Pacific Community are used in the simulations. The habitat index consists of components due to forage density and sea surface temperature, both of which are suspected to play major roles in determining tuna distribution. Because direct observations of forage are not available on a basin scale, we developed a submodel to simulate the surface tuna forage production (Lehodey et al., 1998). At present, only skipjack (Katsuwonus pelamis; a surface tuna species caught by purse seine and by pole-and-line) is considered, at a 1°-square resolution and on a monthly climatological time series. Despite the simplicity of the model and the limitations of the data used, the simulation model is able to predict a distribution of skipjack catch rates, of the different fleets involved in the fishery, that is fairly consistent with observations.
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Crime risk data with 10 meter resolution.
Risk assessment will never be the same.
Your Business needs accurate crime risk data for any address.
For site selection. Security staffing. Underwriting risk. Investing in buildings. Negotiating leases. Targeting markets. These are all high cost, high risk decisions that you have to make.
Using the right tools means superior results with less work. The right tool is accurate crime risk information for specific addresses. Since crime risk often varies more from address to address within cities than it does between most cities, you can't afford to risk your budget and company by using inaccurate and broad-brush city-wide, Zip Code, or census tract numbers. You need to know the risks for the address where your facility, customer, or insured is located. And you need the information to be instant, objective, and accurate.
You've come to the right place.
Until now, accurately quantifying crime risk for an address has been hindered by two prevailing impediments:
 - Incomplete & inaccurate crime counts at the city level due to an agency-centric rather than geographic-centric method of reporting to the Federal Government.
 - The lack of reported crime locations by most law enforcement agencies, making it difficult to determine the actual neighborhoods where most crimes in America occur, and hence, where crime risk is greatest.
 - As a result, crime risk information that businesses currently rely on is incomplete because it is often built only from a single local law enforcement agency's data in any location, often uses a 'one model fits all' approach nationwide that diminishes accuracy, and frequently has limited validation in the real world.
We address these issues in the pioneering approach SecurityGauge®uses to build its proprietary crime risk analytics. See how below.
Most city and town crime data are incomplete and inaccurate because crimes are reported by individual law enforcement agencies, rather than by city or town, and many cities – even small ones - have more than one agency responsible for law enforcement (municipal, university, county, transit, etc.). Even FBI data are reported by agency not by city or town, providing an incomplete assessment of city-wide crime counts. It is an agency-centric rather than locality-centric reporting method. If you use FBI data, you only get city-wide general counts, and only from one agency in the city, so it is generally incomplete for the city overall, as well as not specific to your site or address.
In addition, crime risk assessment across the nation is hindered further because the majority of law enforcement agencies in the United States do not geocode the specific locations of reported crimes, making it difficult to ascertain the locations and neighborhoods where most crimes occur in America today. Even when we know locations for crimes, the incidents have not been normalized based on resident and visitor population in the vicinity of an address, so risks simply cannot be accurately quantified.
SecurityGauge®solves these deficiencies with a new approach that delivers precision crime risk by address.
Our Methodology
Start with Complete and Accurate Crime Counts
To address these issues, SecurityGauge®begins by collecting raw crime data from all 18,000 law enforcement agencies in America. Then we use a relational database built from the ground up to assign reported crimes from each agency to the city where it has law enforcement responsibility. This method provides an accurate representation of the complete number and types of crimes that are truly known to occur within any city or town.
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One model does not fit all.
With this exclusive and comprehensive foundation of crime counts, SecurityGauge then uses more than 80 proprietary computer models developed by its Ph.D. experts over nearly a decade of research to statistically predict the number and rates for every major type of crime for every community in America.
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Traditional approach is to build one model and apply it everywhere.
We tested that. It doesn't work. Places are different. Dynamics that create crime risk differ.
Just like one size fits all shoes aren't great fits, so it is true of predictive models.
SecurityGauge®built more than 80 models to apply to clusters of locations.
National Validation = Precision.
Since we know the numbers of reported crimes that actually occur in each community because of our exclusive approach, we are uniquely able to validate our models against the only comprehensive location-centric crime database in the U.S. with complete national coverage.
 - SecurityGauge®Crime Data is validated on more than 8,000 cities nationwide.
 - SecurityGauge® has proven predictive accuracy that consistently exceeds 90%.
 - Delivering accurate and validated crime risk analytics
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With validated precision models for every major crime type, SecurityGauge®then builds crime risk data for nearly a quarter of a million neighborhoods all across the U.S. This forms a dense net of crime data that is input to our spatial risk models resulting in a national data base of 10 meter resolution crime risk data for the entire U.S.
Your custom crime risk calculation is generated on demand from these data and is based upon a distance weighted cone of influence around any specified address. The crime risk calculation is weighted most heavily nearest the address and lessens as it progresses outward, depending on distance and population.
This is because crime risk can be visited on your site not only from the risk at your door, but by risks in your vicinity where threats may emerge. So in dense cities, the cone of crime risk influence on your address is closer to your site, as it should be. In suburban or rural areas, the cone of influence is allowed to extend further outward.
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SecurityGauge®provides the same level of precision and accuracy for every address in America. All 50 states and DC, Puerto Rico, and US Virgin Islands.
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Three-toed horses once roamed TIbetan plateaus, skeleton reveals
A newly discovered skeleton from an ancient three-toed horse not only provides information about ancient Tibetan wildlife, but it also sheds light on the habitat and elevation of Tibet nearly 5 million years ago.
This area of the world, called the Tibetan plateau, is the youngest and highest plateau on Earth, its average elevation exceeding 14,800 feet (4,500 meters), but researchers don't know exactly when this happened. Some researchers think that 5 million years ago, the plateau was once much higher than it is today, but others think it was much lower.
More data is needed to get a good grip on when the plateau rose up, and these researchers used the fossilized horse to shed some light on the debate.
"We have an extinct horse that apparently is adapted to grasslands, these open nonwooded areas," study researcher Xiaoming Wang, of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, told LiveScience. "Therefore, in turn, it might have some implications about the environment that it came from." [High & Dry: Images of the Tibetan Plateau]
Details about the horse suggested that at the time it died, the Zanda Basin would have been about 13,000 feet (4,000 meters) above sea level, on par with the current elevation of that region of Tibet.
The fossilized horse bones were found in the Zanda Basin, in southwestern Tibet, near the Himalayas. The horse is about 4.6 million years old and seems to be from the three-toed horse genus Hipparion. The species was identified as Hipparion zanda, which was originally named based on a single skull found in the late 1980s.
The new find included a majority of the horses' bones, including its legs. By analyzing the legs, they were able to get a better grip on the environment it lived in, shedding light on the state of the plateau at that time.
"These guys have pretty long legs, well-adapted to open terrain [and] running fast; it means that these guys are probably not in the wooded areas," Wang said. "By being not in the wooded areas, basically the paper concludes that the areas where the horse originally lived was above the tree lines in those days."
In this way, the Zanda horse would have been quite similar to the Tibetan wild ass, except the Zanda horse had three toes instead of the wild ass's one.
The horse also had teeth characteristics of a grazer, the researchers said, further supporting the idea that the area was open grassland when the horse lived.
One of the researchers, Yang Wang of Florida State University, analyzed the chemicals contained within the fossils to get an idea of what kinds of grasses the horses ate. She was able to tell that these horses ate plants that were characteristic of a cold, open land similar to that seen in the Zanda Basin today.
"Those earlier horses have similar diet to the wild asses [currently] living in the area. They are grazing on grasses that are adapted to the cold," Wang said. "It's a high elevation environment, but exactly how high we don't know."
The researchers estimate that 4.6 million years ago, when these horses roamed the area, it was about 1,300 feet (400 m) higher than the modern tree line, and probably about the same elevation as it is today.
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Describing variants simply, quickly and efficiently
Often electronic data exchange structures of a business process vary only slightly. For example, if a company sends an invoice to customers, the type of information is often basically the same (invoice date, invoice number, etc.). Nevertheless, all individual characteristics of a customer must be taken into account and the EDI infrastructure must be connected precisely and correctly. With hundreds or even thousands of customers, this quickly means considerable additional work in the development, maintenance and implementation of each customer.
For non-XML based structures, such as EDIFACT and other EDI standards, flat files, IDOCs, etc., GEFEG.FX already offered the possibility to describe variants of business processes and structures. Now this is also possible for XML schema guides and, due to the syntax, even easier.
Technical Support for Schema Guides in GEFEG.FX
Usually, GEFEG.FX users have already used XML guides to describe and specify their XML structures. This was easy because the same basic XML structure could be reused in different XML guides and further specified there. However, concrete versions of variants could only be described verbally.
If you want to describe explicit relationships and use cases, variants can be created within the schema guide that describe, for example, the special features of different invoice cases (discounts, means of payment, private customers).
Facilitation for business and technology
In order to present the specified variants in a readable way for every professional user, they can be easily published as HTML and PDF descriptions. This now also applies to the mapping between two formats. The use of variants allows for the greatest possible precision and concrete use cases can be specified in detail by the business user in order to pass them on to the development department as quickly and easily as possible, which then implements them technically.
Massive savings through use in test environments with variants
Wherever later hundreds of implementers have to meet the same specifications, automated processes play a special role even before the established EDI connection is established. For example, when many suppliers are to send uniform invoices to a corporate group. The rules and special features of each process can be translated into ISO Schematron rules, for example. Using the GEFEG portal solution, these rules can be stored online centrally for all suppliers. These suppliers can then independently test for conformity 24/7 according to the agreed application scenarios. This results in considerable time and cost savings on all sides.


Quick Answer: Are Snakes Legal In Japan?
You can bring animals like snakes, parrots, and parakeets and keep them as pets.
However, some species are targeted, so be careful.
Can you have a pet monkey in Japan?
Animals and pets. Every pet has its own life. Animals that could attack people such as medium-size monkeys, raptorial birds (eagles and hawks), crocodiles and snakes are categorized as specified animals. If you wish to keep one as a pet, you are required to obtain permission from the Governor of Tokyo.
What kind of pets can you have in Japan?
5 Animals That are Popular Pets in Japan
 - Dogs. Dogs are very popular in Japan, and you are able to get them from almost any pet shops.
 - Cats. Cats are also very popular in Japan because the owner does not need to take a time to take care of them so much compared to dogs.
 - Fish. Fish are also very popular as pet in Japan.
 - Birds.
 - Rabbits.
What snakes are in Japan?
There are three species of poisonous snake in Japan: the Japanese keelpack, the habu and mamushi. The Japanese keelpack(yamakagashi) has distinctive yellow, red and black markings and can be as thick as a man's arm.
Why do so many Japanese people have pets?
Because of the declining birthrate and aging population in Japan, there are an increasing number of households in Japan with pets and no children. Since some families have no children, they instead pamper and lavish their pets like they would do their own children. Pets in Japan are not only for companionship.
Can you have a pet fox in Japan?
Bringing a dog/cat/fox/raccoon/skunk
Dogs and cats brought from outside Japan are quarantined and kept in quarantine facilities. The period of quarantine can vary from 12 hours to 180 days. For more information about importing the domestic animals, check our article about moving with pets to Japan.
Can you own a raccoon in Japan?
Not surprisingly, it is now illegal to import raccoons to Japan. It's also important to look at the cause of Japan's raccoon importation specifically: a pet craze.
Do Japanese like dogs?
Although Japan's crowded environment makes for a not so pet-friendly country, Japanese have found ways to incorporate their pets into their everyday lives. Although small dogs are preferred, one of the most popular dog breeds in Japan is the Shiba Inu, which can grow to be two feet tall and weigh up to 25 pounds.
Can I buy a dog in Japan?
If you are living in Japan temporarily, animal rights advocates advise you not to buy or even adopt a pet while here. Instead, volunteer at adoption fairs, play with dogs and cats at shelters on weekends, and donate to an animal charity.
How do you say dog in Japanese?
Japanese word for dog is inu – YouTube.


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Wild blonde capuchin [monkeys] have invented a new and tool-conserving method to fish for termites, researchers have just discovered.
The technique, reported in the latest Royal Society Biology Letters, has never been documented before for primates, including humans. In fact, people who recently tried out the new five-step termite fishing method found that it worked better than anything else at retrieving the nutritious, yet pesky, insects, which some human cultures eat too.
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Fire plays a natural role in determining how the various habitats exist. They may change through time in response to changing conditions of temperature and moisture and other factors. The habitats can be described within a range of natural variation and these parameters are partly defined by the role that natural fire takes.
Looking at the landscape in the absence of modern human mechanical intervention, but including the possible influence of aboriginal fire use, a classification of natural fire regimes is produced.
The severity of the fires will also influence the resulting habitat. One way to measure the severity is the percentage of replacement. A totally even age stand would indicate that the previous fire was severe enough to eliminate the previous stand regardless of however mixed the ages were.
Effects Of Fire Suppression
But once the base level of fire conditions under natural conditions is determined, scientists can start determining how far from those levels a particular forest is today. This difference from normal fire regime to present day conditions is the key.
Prescribed Fire - Getting Back To Normal
It was not until fire was thought of as destructive for a period of time and was thus suppressed that there were the deviations from normal. Now we realize that we must live with nature instead of trying to control nature.
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While the height of the rim of Bighorn Canyon varies dramatically, the entire length of the rim is the same rock layer – the Madison Limestone. More...


text: A sacroiliac injection is an injection of a steroid or other medication into a sacroiliac joint. The sacroiliac joints are located on either side of the sacrum or tailbone. These joints connect the tailbone to the pelvis. The steroid injected reduces the inflammation and swelling of tissue in and around the joint space. This may in turn reduce pain, and other symptoms caused by inflammation or irritation of the joint and surrounding structures.


How Does IBD Affect Your Sex Life?
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How Does IBD Affect Your Sex Life?
How Does IBD Affect Your Sex Life?
Painful sex is a common IBD associated complication. Consulting a doctor is necessary. People suffering from inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) are always concerned about their intimacy. They tend to hide their emotions and feel embarrassed to converse about their problems to a doctor or nurse. In majority of the IBD cases, the sexual life of people remains unaffected. But during a flare-up, people may exhibit a lack of interest in sexual activities. Fortunately, along with IBD, the psychological issues associated with it can also be medically addressed.
If other treatment options become invalid for treating a certain IBD case then the doctors recommend surgery. It is important that the patient discusses everything with the partner and clearly thinks through before signing up for this option. Surgery is usually the last option and is only done for the betterment of patient's health.
Surgery As A Treatment Option For IBD
Fish Oil Benefits For Male Sexual Health ImageAs stated above, the doctor only recommends surgery when it is the only treatment option left. Surgery can provide a cure for patients with ulcerative colitis. However, for patients with Crohn's disease, surgery may offer relief for a certain episode. It may also help the patients who have multiple parts of their intestine affected badly.
Majority of the patient who undergo surgical procedures for the treatment of IBD recover completely and successfully with only some minor complications. However, the patient must be educated thoroughly about the few changes that may occur after the completion of the surgery.
Post-Surgery Changes In Women
 - Reduced sex drive or in other word diminished or low libido. This change may occur due to patient's own perception about her looks and body and the patient may think that she is less attractive after the surgery.
 - Reduction of sexual feelings and poor sex drive can lead to vaginal dryness. Even if the intercourse is done, it is uncomfortable, painful and short-lasting. This can be handled with switching to a different sex position which may embark excitement and may help in arousal.
 - Using a lubricant gel may also help in alleviating the pain associated with sex. Talking to the partner and discussing new exciting horizons to the relationship can have a positive impact. In order to feel better the patient must first find herself attractive.
Post-Surgery Changes In Men
Surgery, at times, may damage or cut the nerves present around the genital organs located near the bowel area. As a result, the patient may find difficulty in obtaining a strong erection or even ejaculating. Most of times the nerves recover back to the normal state but it may take a couple or more years to happen. Seeking the partner's patience will help in exploring other methods for gaining sexual pleasure.
 - Jedel, S., Hood, M. M., & Keshavarzian, A. (2015). Getting personal: a review of sexual functioning, body image, and their impact on quality of life in IBD patients. Inflammatory bowel diseases, 21(4), 923.


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All the marketers around the globe know that text message marketing can be the best approach to reach a larger segment of consumers. To execute things they definitely need numbers like phone, mobile and even fax. This difficulty has been by introduction of a series of phone number extractor tools that have the facility to extract numbers from different sources.
But how can we judge that which is the best number extractor tool in the market. To solve we need to see the features that a mobile number extractor or phone numberextractor must have.
- Extraction via Different SourcesIn this section the first thing user needs is the talent to harvest numbers from internet. Internet is the biggest source of getting numbers for this purpose. But for it you definitely require URLs so that you can go and take out numbers directly from the website or Keywords related to your search. Thus the number grabber you would be employing should have the choices to harvest numbers from URLs & Keywords. Availability of these options can give users and upper hand in this process.
- More Options RequiredIf you want to extract numbers from Outlook or Gmail or other sources then you require more choices. The tool should have option to extract number from different folders these sources have such as inbox, outbox, etc. So if you are choosing this source for numbers you have to make clear that the tool has these options.
- Clone AddressesDon't get confused we are talking about the duplicate numbers. The demerit of having them is that if they are used in sending messages it may happen that the same message will land up twice on the same number. So always install software that has talent to remove the duplicate ones either manually or automatically.
- Keep it SafeOne of the important options that has importance after the numbers have been downloaded but are not to be used instantly. For this take software that also provides choice to keep these numbers in a suitable file format.
Tool having all these features can be of a huge advantage for the organizations that do e-marketing. Thus it is more important to utilize the best tool to accomplish the target in the shortest span of time. If you choose the right tool you can easily acquire the large segment of market.


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Continuous automatic firing electrode, referred to as self firing electrode, is composed of electrode paste and iron shell. The electrode is constantly consumed when working in the calcium carbide furnace, so it is necessary to continue to discharge the electrode to supplement it. When the electrode is placed under the conductive jaw, the electrode paste is carbonized to form an electrode through high-temperature baking at about 1000°C. Because the electrode iron shell can continue to be welded without power failure in the electric furnace, the electrode paste is continuously added to the iron shell, and it is sintered in the calcium carbide furnace, so it is called continuous automatic baking electrode.
Self-fired electrodes are widely used in calcium carbide furnaces and ferroalloy furnaces. The characteristic of this kind of electrode is that the diameter can be expanded to 2 meters, it is very convenient to connect on the calcium carbide furnace without screw joint, and the price is low. This creates favorable conditions for the development of calcium carbide furnace to large capacity. In the entire equipment of the calcium carbide furnace, the electrode is the heart. In the production of calcium carbide, the electric current is inputted into the furnace through the electrodes to generate an electric arc to smelt calcium carbide. The electrode occupies an extremely important position in the entire electric furnace. There are many parameters in the design of calcium carbide furnace with reference to the diameter of the electrode.
The size of the electrode diameter is determined by the current density allowed by the current passing through the electrode cross-sectional area. If the diameter is small, the allowable current density is large; if the diameter is large, the allowable current density is small. The selection of current density and electrode diameter is very important for the entire electric furnace.
The determination of the electrode diameter has great guiding significance for the design of considering the electrode concentric circle diameter, electrode spacing, furnace inner diameter, furnace depth, even the outer diameter of the furnace, and the thickness of the bottom of the furnace. Because the data of these dimensions refer to the empirical data of multiple relationship with the electrode. Three-phase electric furnace electrodes generally adopt a triangular arrangement. When designing, it is necessary to consider the distance between the electrodes, so that it has sufficient and uniform temperature distribution, and can form a larger high-temperature area that can collude with each other, and also consider that there is enough distance between the electrode and the furnace wall to make it be against the furnace.
The wall radiation is uniform to avoid the furnace wall from burning out too quickly. The ratio of the diameter of the electrode concentric circle to the inner diameter of the furnace wall is generally 0.44. The inner diameter of the furnace is 2.25 times the diameter of the electrode concentric circle. Regarding the ratio of the electrode concentric circle diameter to the electrode diameter, most of the empirical data used are currently 2.7 times better. The depth of the furnace is 2.3 times the diameter of the electrode.
In addition, the diameter of the electric furnace, the depth of the electrode inserted into the charge, the thickness of the bottom of the furnace, the area of the bottom of the furnace, and the furnace capacity are all related to the electrode. It can be seen that the electrode occupies an extremely important position in the design of the entire electric furnace equipment. At present, most of the electrodes in domestic electric furnaces use self-burning electrodes, and the accidents we often encounter in the entire electric furnace equipment are electrode accidents. These accidents are soft broken electrodes, hard broken electrode shell ruptures, electrode leakage, electrode "stabbing fire", electrodes cannot be put down and so on.
Where an accident occurs in the electrode, it affects the normal production of the electric furnace, and sometimes causes the production to stop for dozens of hours or days, a lot of manpower and material resources are wasted, and even serious personal injuries occur. In short, the electrode occupies an important position in the calcium carbide furnace. Without it, the electric furnace cannot function. If it has a problem, the entire furnace production will not be able to proceed normally, or even paralyzed. Therefore, as a calcium carbide production worker, it is necessary to understand the composition, performance, production method, function and influence of the electrode paste on the electric furnace.


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The British Science Festival is committed to reducing the effect that it has on the local and global environment. We have drawn up a list of ways we will endeavour to achieve this.
1. Registration and accreditation
- Electronic event registration
- Lanyards made from recycled materials. Asking participants to return them after the event
- Use recycled paper and vegetable-based inks for badges.
2. Venue selection & service provision
- Where possible, choose venues that employ energyand water-efficient equipment and practices, and schedule heating, ventilating and air conditioning resources around event requirements
- Eliminate disposable containers, plates, bowls, cups and cutlery.
3. Food and beverages
- Request organic, locally produced food and beverages to cut transportation emissions.
- Donate leftover food to local charities
- Ensure that any seafood served is harvested responsibly
- Insist on biodegradable food packaging from caterers.
- Provide guests with information about accommodation with environmental certification or with environmental policies and practices
- Negotiate room blocks with hotels that are within walking distance of the event venue and/or have green policies
- Ask guests to participate in linen reuse programmes at their hotels. Ask them to switch off lights, televisions and air conditioners or heaters when they leave their rooms
- Use local accommodation.
- Encourage people to come to the Festival by public transport, on foot or by bicycle
- Provide plenty of secure bicycle parking and minimal parking for cars (ensuring there is adequate provision for people with accessibility needs)
- Use local contractors for equipment for e.g. exhibitions to minimise transportation
- Explore free/reduced rate passes for public transport.
6. Waste and litter
- Reduce, reuse and recycle as much as possible
- Recruit a team of green volunteers who will help manage the recycling during and after the events
- Ensure there are adequate and clearly labelled recycling bins which are regularly emptied
- Ensure Festival stewards check venues have been left clean and tidy after events
- Minimise harmful emissions at venues from vehicles, generators, cooling units etc.
- Ensure events do not leave a trace or cause distress to neighbours
- Get neighbours on-board by consulting with them in advance, inviting them or giving them reduced price tickets
- Consider all of our target audiences and make sure communications appeal to all members of the community by using culturally sensitive language and photos
- Create programmes which celebrate diversity, culture and heritage.
8. Use the power of others
- Invite local or national green organisations to take part in the Festival
- Use and promote the local authority guidelines on recycling or sustainable homes, and provide free materials raising awareness of green initiatives in the locality
- Encourage organisers/partners to give away freebies such as low-energy light bulbs.
9. Marketing and communications
- Use Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certified paper, processed chlorine free and made from 100% post-consumer recycled content
- Make good use of electronic or paperless communications
- Include our eco-credentials in all our communications
- Communicate that the programme and leaflets are printed on 100% recycled paper
- Give Festival attendees directions to Festival events by public transport, bicycle and foot.


One single fungus can produce different mycotoxins which can lead to several cases of co-contaminations. Various mycotoxins produced by different fungus can be present at the same time in raw materials and feeds. Multi-mycotoxin contamination can induce additive, synergistic and antagonistic effects.
Mycotoxins are natural contaminants of animal feeds and feed ingredients. They are present in cereal grains as well as forages and produced by fungi under certain conditions of moisture and temperature. The five most known groups of mycotoxins (aflatoxins, fumonisins, trichothecenes, ochratoxins and zearalenones) are produced by the three principal genera of Fusarium, Aspergillus and Penicillium. Feeds are frequently contaminated simultaneously by several moulds which are able to produce several mycotoxins. Up to 70% of the samples analyzed for mycotoxins contain more than one mycotoxins. Few studies demonstrate that multi-mycotoxin contamination can induce additive, synergistic but also antagonistic effects. Those combined effects remain little understood and the negative impacts in animals remain poorly taken into account today.
The meta-analysis of Grenier et al. (2011) define the different interactions existing between mycotoxins. The synergistic effects can be divided into three sub-categories :
 - The first one corresponds to experiments where the effect of the mycotoxins' combination was greater than expected from the sum of the individual effects of the two toxins.
 - The second type defines the experiments where two mycotoxins induce opposite effects, and the combined treatment induces an effect greater than the individual ones.
 - Finally the third type, when two mycotoxins induce similar effects and the combination induces opposite effects than the individual ones.
Antagonistic effects can be split into two sub-categories :
 - Type 1 corresponds to the situation where two mycotoxins induce similar effects and the combination induces a lower effect.
 - Type 2 reflects the state where two mycotoxins which do not induce the same effects and with a combination inducing an intermediate effect between the two individual ones.
Additive effects include experiments where the impacts could be calculated as the sum of the individual effects of the two toxins. The combination of mycotoxins are multiple and the type of impacts on the animals even more, and not always easily predictable.
Examples of combined effects
Toxic synergism of aflatoxin and ochratoxin in comparison to the effects of individual toxins in poultry was studied by Ramo R. (2007). It was observed a significant (p-value 0.05) decrease in body weight of birds receiving aflatoxins and ochratoxins simultaneously. The individual mycotoxin supplementation decreased body weight by 12% each at 3 weeks of age, while the combination decreased body weight by 40%. Aflatoxin is well known as hepatotoxin and ochratoxin as nephrotoxin, which is a useful distinction for field contamination diagnosis. But in this study the most sensitive organ of the synergistic effect of these two mycotoxins was kidney. Pathological changes were more pronounced in this organ demonstrating higher toxicity.
Furthermore, interactions between two nephrotoxic mycotoxins (ochratoxin and citrinin) was studied by Speijers et al. (2004). Depending on the studies, a synergistic, and/or additive or antagonistic effects have been highlighted. However, many studies have shown synergistic effects related to nephrotoxicity. Molinié A. (2004) explains that the citrinin was able to modify the distribution and elimination of the ochratoxin, leading to a more toxic impact of ochratoxin for kidney.
Moreover, some studies consolidated by Grenier et al., 2011, have investigated the combined effect of aflatoxin and T2-toxin on body weight gain. All of them demonstrate at least an additive, or synergistic interaction between both toxins. Similar interaction was also observed on the relative weight of some organs (liver, kidney). Wisium's research and development team, therefore, developed and tested T5X product to address this issue. The zootechnical performances of broilers facing contamination of aflatoxins, ochratoxins, T2 toxin and citrinin at the same time, was studied with and without T5X included in the feed.
Material & methods
The research was conducted on a total of 78 broilers Cobb genetic in R&D condition in Mexico. A full HPLC analysis was done in order to evaluate the contamination of sorghum contained in the feed of the contaminated and T5X groups. The contamination levels are detailed in Table 1.
Table-1 Trial-contamination-levels.
Table-1 Trial-contamination-levels.
The experimental design was defined as follow. The 78 broilers were divided into three groups (26 broilers per group); (A) Non-contaminated group, (B) Contaminated group, (C) B plus T5X supplemented at 1kg/T. The experimental period started from day 1 to 42 days of age. All the animals received a diet based on sorghum (contaminated or not) and soya ad libitum. A starter feed was distributed from 1 to 21 days and a grower feed from 22 to 42 days. The zootechnical performances (feed intake, weight gain, Feed Conversion Ration) and mortality rate were measured.
Negative impacts of multi-mycotoxin contamination
The results demonstrate the significant negative impact of multi-mycotoxin contamination on the animals. The results of the performances indicators are illustrated in Figure 1.
 - Performances indicators
A significant decreased in weight gain of 7.2% for the contaminated group (B) in comparison to the non-contaminated group (A) was observed. The FCR was also affected, 1.66 for the contaminated group (B) versus 1.56 for the non-contaminated one (A). The T5X group showed a significant higher weight gain + 9.7% in comparison to the contaminated group (B), and an increase of 0.9% of feed intake. Those results lead to a better FCR (-7.8%) for the T5X group in comparison with group B.
 - Mortality rate
The mortality rate increased for the contaminated group (B) in comparison to the non-contaminated group, 15.4% versus 0%. T5X group has a lower mortality rate than the contaminated group (B), 7.7%.
Acting in synergy with animals
The multi-mycotoxin contamination administrated to broilers affects their zootechnical performances (weight gain: -7.8%; feed intake: -1.2%; FCR: +6.0%), validating the mycotoxins challenge in this trial. The addition of T5X into the feed allows counteracting harmful effects of a multi-contamination in broiler feed (Aflatoxins B1, Ochratoxin, T2 toxin and Citrinin). Furthermore in weight gain and FCR animals achieved better results than the non-contaminated control. Not only T5X, but also the mycotoxin's global approach of Wisium, including quality control plan, analysis, and several years of R&D allowed to precisely measure the mycotoxins risk and to implement the right strategy.
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IEP Goals and Measuring Progress
Review the Present Level of Academic Achievement and Functional Performance (PLAAFP) example.
Based on the provided PLAAFP, write a narrative in 750-1,000-words that includes the following for Dan, the case study student:
1.Three annual, measureable goals/objectives.
2.Three to four action steps for achieving the goals.
3.An explanation of how Dan and his family will be involved in setting the goals and monitoring his progress.
Rationalize your choices.
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Biketastic: Sensing and Mapping for Better Biking [Conference Paper]
NESL Technical Report #: 2010-1-1
Abstract: Bicycling is an affordable, environmentally friendly alternative transportation mode to motorized travel. A common task performed by bikers is to find good routes in an area, where the quality of a route is based on safety, efficiency, and enjoyment. Finding routes involves trial and error as well as exchanging information between members of a bike community. Biketastic is a platform that enriches this experimentation and route sharing process making it both easier and more effective. Using a mobile phone application and online map visualization, bikers are able to document and share routes, ride statistics, sensed information to infer route roughness and noisiness, and media that documents ride experience. Biketastic was designed to ensure the link between information gathering, visualization, and bicycling practices. In this paper, we present architecture and algorithms for route data inferences and visualization. We evaluate the system based on feedback from bicyclists provided during a two-week pilot.
Publication Forum: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI)
Page (Count): 4
Date: 2010-04-01
Public Document?: Yes
NESL Document?: Yes
Document category: Conference Paper


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Labyrinths have been around and created for the past four thousand years. They are ceremonial pathways. Symbolic of one's life journey, this sacred symbol combines the spiral and the circle. The labyrinth is a powerful prayer and meditation tool. They have been found in churches, gardens, sculpted and hand held, etched into stones and coins. They are often confused with mazes. Mazes were made for fun and entertainment. They have dead ends and crazy twists and turns. They are more of a puzzle to be solved.
The Labyrinth takes you deeper into yourself where you connect with Divine energy, then emerge into the world with a clarity and peace that was not present before walking the circle.
There are two basic types of Labyrinths (some sources state three and name a twelve circuit). For this activation, Chartres and the Classical or Cretan are used.The Chartres has the strongest history with Christian faith. They are 11 circuited with four quadrants. The quadrants represent emotional, physical, mental and spiritual. You achieve balance in your inner work here.
The Cretan is a seven circuit or Classic Seven aka Classical design.In building this type of labyrinth you begin with a cross in the middle and work outward. It is traveled like all other, you enter from the outside. The seven circuits can also be used with chakra work. Each circuit represents one of the chakras and as you walk knowing the corresponding "color" and musical notes can give a new perspective to your journey.
WHAT YOU WILL RECEIVE:
-Activation of the Labyrinth distance attunement via chi ball
-Activation of the Labyrinth original manual
-bonus manuals including information about chakras, self development, etc
-certificate and lineage if requested
-ongoing email support and advice
All of the information for the course and bonus manuals will be sent to you by email.
Activation of the Labyrinth – £8


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The Scherzo und Marsch
is a work apart from the others: one of Liszt's larger structures, it exploits the combination of two movements into one which is familiar from the and which reached its apogee with the Sonata. But the musical language of the Scherzo—in a very brisk 38, with its many barbed appoggiaturas—is a direct precursor of the Mephisto music: the Mephistopheles movement of the Faust Symphony (right down to the uncompromising fugal development) and the Mephisto Waltzes and Polka. The March, which is at once a new movement and a kind of trio section to the Scherzo, begins as a ghostly affair which presages the young Mahler and is denied its triumph by the shortened return of the Scherzo, only to reappear in diabolical glory at the furious coda. The neglect of this minor masterpiece is due to its severe technical demands; Liszt himself lamented that neither Kullak nor Tausig could bring the piece off in performance, and that only Blow had mastered it. (Typically, he never played it himself.) According to the Neue Liszt-Ausgabe the original incomplete draft of the work dates from 1851 and is subtitled Wilde Jagd ('Wild Hunt'). The hunting title is not really appropriate to the character of the work, however, and Liszt put it to much better use in the eighth of the Transcendental Études. The work was finally published in the present form in 1854.
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We present an optical method for nondirectional edge extraction/enhancement in color images. The method is based on the capability of twisted-nematic LCDs to traduce the image information in changes of the state of polarization of light, which allows us to generate simultaneously two replicas of the digital image displayed on the LCD: a true-color ("positive") image and a complementary-color ("negative") one. In our setup the imaging system consists of a lens plus a pupil mask formed with concentric apertures and orthogonal polarizers. This layout allows us to simultaneously image a well-focused positive replica (due to the circular aperture) superimposed to a slightly defocused negative one (due to the annular aperture). It is not difficult to demonstrate that this generates a nondirectional (Laplacian) edge enhancement. Unlike Fourier, our proposal works with incoherent illumination and does not require precise alignment, and thus, it could be a useful tool for edge extraction/enhancement in large images in real-time applications. Validation experiments are presented.
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Black Male Educators Alliance
How many Black male teachers did you have over the course of your educational career? Chances are, not many, as Black men make up only 2% of the nation's teaching corps. This is a challenge that Morehouse alum, Michael Payne Jr., is working to address.
Mr. Payne is the President of Black Male Educators Alliance of Michigan (BMEA), a collective of educators, mentors, community leaders, and other professionals who partner to increase the number of effective Black male educators to improve the educational experiences for urban children. Founded in 2015 by Dr. Curtis L. Lewis, BMEA collaborates with local and national educational organizations and school systems to recruit, train, and retain Black male educators, in hopes of influencing positive educational outcomes for all students.
In this interview with Tara Hardy, Manager of Education Initiatives at Detroit Public Television, Mr. Payne lays out the challenges Black men face in pursuing careers in education, the importance of culturally-responsive teaching, and the efforts of BMEA to attract and retain Black male teachers in Michigan.
For more information about Black Male Educators Alliance of Michigan, visit _URL_


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Effects of biliteracies on bilingual cognitive functions
Al Rassi, Reham Abdulrahman Ibrahim
Although previous research has examined the effects of bilingualism on cognitive functions, specific biliteracy effects have not been investigated. This thesis looks at the effects of script on three major components of cognitive functions: executive control, mental rotation and hemispheric variance in distinguishing morphological markers. The research is composed of three studies, each focusing on a different aspect of cognitive functions. Study I compare's English monolinguals, Arabic monolinguals, English/Maltese bilinguals and English/Arabic bilinguals. The groups are tested using several executive control tasks (TEA and AX-CPT), concentrating on the fact that, like English, Maltese uses the Latin script, while Arabic uses its own. Maltese has the advantage of sharing a wide range of linguistic characteristics with Arabic, however is the only Semitic language to be written in the Latin script. Results revealed no significant effects of biliteracy on the executive control tasks related to inhibition and switching. In Study II, mental rotation is examined using three Corsi Block Tapping task; Forwards, Backwards and Rotated. The tasks were utilised in order to compare the English, Arabic, and Maltese groups on mental rotation. The results found that both Arabic speaking groups outperformed on the Rotated Corsi, while the English monolinguals and English/ Maltese bilinguals did not. This showed that while script does make a difference for mental rotation, it is an aspect of linguistic diversity, specifically the Arabic script, and not biliteracy. Further comparisons were done on Chinese monolinguals and bilinguals and led to the same conclusion, that the effects found on the mental rotation task are specific to the Arabic script. Further research on late Arabic learners revealed that the mental rotation effect is found after only one year of Arabic study. Study III utilised a visual and an auditory lexical decision task in order to investigate whether there are differences in hemispheric usage between the groups when making linguistic judgments. Previous research had suggested that Semitic languages, employ the use of both hemispheres of the brain in distinguishing morphological markers, whereas English readers rely on the left hemisphere (Ibrahim, Israeli, & Eviatar, 2007). The script differences between Maltese and Arabic helped determine whether the previous results were linked to the directionality of the script or the morphemes themselves. Results reiterated that both Semitic languages, Maltese and Arabic, showed no hemispheric preference in Maltese and Arabic respectively, however both groups and the English monolinguals showed a left hemispheric preference in English. The three studies report unique finding on an aspect of bilingualism that has not been examined, biliteracy. While the results did not show biliteracy effects on cognitive functions, linguistic diversity was shown to have an effect on both mental rotation and hemispheric variance in distinguishing morphological markers.


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A colleague recently asked a very important question:
How often should instruments be calibrated?
Many sites have requirements for calibration on certain instruments – such as fuel flow meters used for emissions reporting. But what about the rest?
Any sensor – temperature, pressure, flow, etc. – which provides input into your control system should be monitored regularly for accuracy. Things such as compressor inlet temperature, compressor discharge pressure and exhaust temperature – to begin with – all play a part in the load control of every type of gas turbine.
Annual calibrations are normally a good starting point – they provide you with a baseline for how each instrument changes over time. Reviewing these calibrations will give you a better understanding of how the working environment is impacting each sensor. In certain high stress applications – such as compressor discharge pressures on peaking units – calibrations and instrument adjustments may be needed more frequently than once a year. In low stress environments – such as cooling water temperatures – annual may be more than needed. But, if you lower the frequency of calibrations to less than annually, you may need to adjust your low-level alarm points to more readily catch instrument drift failures.
Please share how often you calibrate your site instrumentation here – I'd love to hear what your policies are. Do you calibrate all sensors or just a select few? Annually? Semi-annually (i.e. during each spring and fall outage)? Or "as needed"?
Do you utilize software tools, such as pattern recognition, to adjust your instrument calibration schedules?
I look forward to reading your replies.


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|Cemetery notes and/or description:|
The cemetery was first used during the battle of Bunker Hill on June 17, 1775. This cemetery was part of the Freedom Trail. British soldiers placed cannon here to bombard Breed's HIll on June 17, 1775. Robert Newman, black educator Prince Hall, and blacks and mulattos who worked in the shipyards of the North End are interred within these ancient grounds dating to 1660.
This cemetery is referred to as BOS.808 Copp's Hill Burying Ground in the "MACRIS Survey of Massachusetts Cemeteries". It was established in 1660.


Facts about Portland's Historic Mausoleum
Nine Interesting Facts about Portland's Historic Mausoleum
In Architecture, History, Portland, Stained Glass
There are many surprising and interesting things to learn about The Portland Mausoleum and its rich history. and carefully preserved architecture and elegance. Here are ten we think you should know:
Facts about Portland's Historic Mausoleum
 1. This historic building is the oldest crematory west of the Mississippi, having been established in 1901.
 2. The building consists of 8 floors, 3 elevators, and over 7 miles of indoor corridors.
 3. Most of the stained glass art in the many skylights and windows were designed, constructed and installed by the Povey brothers, A. A. Gerlich, and Louis C. Tiffany.
 4. The Povey brothers are entombed at the Mausoleum.
 5. Most of the marble statuary in the mausoleum was hand-carved from Carrara marble at the Taverlli Studios in Italy, then shipped to Oregon.
 6. The Mausoleum houses one of three exact re-creations of Michelangelo's famous Pietà. Weighing close to 7,000 lbs, the replica was carved by Taverelli Studios in 1969 using marble from the same Italian quarry where Michelangelo carved the original Pietà in 1499.
 7. Because of its unique construction of steel, granite, and concrete, the Portland Memorial Mausoleum was designated as a bomb shelter during WWII.
 8. Today, there are approximately 95,000 memorials incorporated within the building spread out over 4 acres. It would require approximately 75 acres to accomplish this in a traditional cemetery.
Wilhelm's Portland Memorial Funeral Home, Mausoleum, and Crematory is located at 6705 SE 14th Avenue in Portland, Oregon.


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Trees should loom large in the world of a child, as peaceful havens, backdrops for childhood memories, and inviting friends in nature. While trees in children's books are often depicted as leafy, green and fruitful, this artistic interpretation highlights the tree rings in the trunk. A closer look reveals that the rings are comprised of drawings of animals — the creatures who rely on the gentle giants to thrive. A subtle, yet mandatory reminder, the Tree of Life poster is thought-provoking art that doubles as education.
Designed on recycled paper with offset lithographic printing, we like that it translates from the nursery to the living room, and helps "form the basis of social attitudes towards Mother Nature for the many people out there who want to make a difference in our world." Learning about deforestation and animal preservation in one glance, if this poster were a Rorschach ink blot test, we hope the next generation's immediate answer upon viewing it would be: save our rainforests.


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Simply Inspired Sunflowers
Sometimes we really want something simple, easy and visually inspired to support our merchandising stories but find ourselves out of cost-effective ideas. We think this sunflower is fresh-looking – and it's super easy to make from recycled paper or old posters.
- Cut your old paper/posters into A3 size.
- Roll each piece to make a lot of cones (think ice cream cone shape).
- For a big flower make about 50 of these cones.
- After you have created about 50 cones, arrange them on any flat surface. The opening should be facing upward just like the image below. Fasten the cones with hot glue or tape. Repeat the process for the second, third, fourth and fifth by reducing the number of cones for each layer. Don't forget to stick each layer and each cone.
- If you have a color theme you can always spray paint the flower.
To Make Big Flowers:
Create round balls out of chicken wire, then roll paper into cones and stick the cones into the chicken wire holes (instead of gluing the paper cones together). You can attach metal poles or stakes as stems.
What simple, cost-effective visual merchandising ideas can you share?


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Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
This paper presents a flexible irregular model for heterogeneous cloud storage systems and investigates how the cost of repairing failed nodes can be minimized. The fractional repetition code, originally designed for minimizing repair bandwidth for homogeneous storage systems, is generalized to the irregular fractional repetition code, which is adaptable to heterogeneous environments. The code structure and the associated storage allocation can be obtained by solving an integer linear programming problem. For moderate sized networks, a heuristic algorithm is proposed and shown to be near-optimal by computer simulations.


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2018 POLICY & ADVOCACY PRIORITIES
The Illinois State Alliance of YMCAs brings together more than 800 YMCA program locations working in 120 communities and engaging almost 1 million Illinoisans to strengthen the foundations of community through youth development, healthy living and social responsibility.
Our 2018 policy priorities support legislation, policy and systems changes for:
Nurture the potential of every child and teen
- Improving access to and quality of child care and enrichment programming, especially through funding of the Child Care Assistance Program, Teen REACH, 21st Century Community Learning Centers and the Early Childhood Block Grant.
- Increasing funding and policy changes that address the student achievement gap, summer learning loss and education quality.
- Changing policy and expanding funding that promotes community violence prevention and safe environments for children and youth.
- Increasing access to water safety instruction to provide the life skill of swimming and prevent
Improve communities' well-being
- Encouraging programs that expand healthy living and address the well-being of individuals and communities.
- Increasing physical activity before, during and after school through investments in community infrastructure that promotes physical activity and funding for evidenced-based programs.
- Expanding access to healthy foods especially in food insecure communities.
- Transforming regulation and legislation that expands access to community-based chronic disease prevention programs through the Illinois health care system.
Giving back and providing support to our neighbors
- Improving state policies and funding to address childhood hunger during out of school time.
- Expanding legislation that encourages volunteerism and civic engagement.
- Preserving nonprofit tax exempt status in Illinois. To stay strong, effective and responsive to the needs of the local community, Illinois nonprofit organizations must be able to keep their nonprofit tax exemption and avoid additional fees on services.


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The Performance of Performance Standards
This paper examines the performance of the JTPA performance system, a widely emulated model for inducing efficiency in government organizations. We present a model of how performance incentives may distort bureaucratic decisions. We define cream skimming within the model. Two major empirical findings are (a) that the short run measures used to monitor performance are weakly, and sometimes perversely, related to long run impacts and (b) that the efficiency gains or losses from cream skimming are small. We find evidence that centers respond to performance standards.
Document Object Identifier (DOI): 10.3386/w9002
Published: Heckman, James J., Carolyn Heinrich and Jeffrey Smith. "The Performance Of Performance Standards," Journal of Human Resources, 2002, v37(4,Fall), 778-811. citation courtesy of
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- Use the cleaning rod and a cloth to clean the inside tubing directly when you are finished playing.
- Wipe the outside of the flute to remove fingerprints, being careful to avoid touching the edges of the pads.
- Cigarette papers can be used to eliminate sticky pads. Slip a sheet (not the sticky part) under the open pad, depress the key, and pull the paper away. If this doesn't work after two or three tries, bring the problem to a repair shop. Too many tries can tear the pads. We also sell "powder paper" that works even better than cigarette paper.
- A soft brush (a clean paint brush) is good for removing dust and other debris that accumulates under the keys. Do this gently so you don't knock any springs.
- Never use any type of silver polish as it will ruin the pads.
- Don't attempt any screw adjustments. This is a delicate job needing experience.
- It is important to keep all of the accessories properly stored in your case. Loose accessories can damage the instrument. It is also important not to put music in your case as forcing it inside can damage the instrument.
- Once a year, your instrument should be checked by a repair technician to ensure that there are no leaks and that the corks are in good condition.
Suggested Maintenance Supplies: Polishing Cloth, Cleaning Rod, Powder paper.


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Dans le dernier numéro du Journal of the History of the Behavioural Sciences, Annette Mülberger publie un article sur le testing des différences individuelles avant le test Binet-Simon. Elle remet ainsi en question la rupture historiographie qui a été instaurée entre Binet et son test psychologique et ses prédécesseurs et leur tests anthropologiques. L'article est entièrement accessible en ligne : _URL_
MENTAL ASSOCIATION: TESTING INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES BEFORE BINET
. This paper challenges the historiographical discontinuity established between earlier "anthropometric testing" and the arrival of "psychological testing" with Binet and Simon's intelligence test in 1905. After some conceptual clarifications, it deals with "word association": a kind of psychological experimentation and testing which became popular over the last two decades of the 19th century. First Galton's exploration are presented, followed by experiments performed at the Leipzig laboratory by Trautscholdt, and then Cattell and Bryant's collective testing. Additionally, I document the use of this method for the study of mental difference through the works of Münsterberg, Bourdon, Jastrow, Nevers and Calkins. The cases I present show how the method gave rise to various measurements and classifications. I conclude that the word association technique triggered reflection on mental "uniqueness", gender traits and the influence of education, among other topics. Moreover, it prepared the terrain and anticipated some basic attractions and problems intelligence testing would later encounter.


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FRESHMAN: Due by the Completion of the Current COLLEGE 101 Course
Turn in completed Reflection Essay to College Orientation Instructor
- In the instance that the Service Seed requirement is not completed within the given time frame an Incomplete (I) grade will be issued. The Incomplete will be changed to the appropriate grade when this form and proof of service is turned in to Dr. Sherry Wilson; Division Chair (N333) or Katie Strohl; Learning Opportunities Coordinator (N332)
Reflection is a method of exploring and interpreting an experience in order to gain new understanding. A thorough reflection essay will present a compelling, personal, in depth view of you and your experience. This reflection can be a resource for creating scholarship and college admission essays that show how you stand out.
Your paper should include the following:
- Your name
- The name of the agency, group or organization where you volunteered
- List all if you have volunteered in more than one location
- The site coordinator's or project sponsor's name
- An essay containing a minimum of 500 words in length, typed
Answer both questions:
- Describe the influence community service has had on you. Be sure to give examples. How were you affected (positively or negatively) by the people and/or the places where you completed your community service?
- Describe and give examples of the influence you made on the agency and the people with whom you worked. What have they learned from you?
Choose at least two additional questions from the following:
- How did the importance of this service contribute to your growth as an individual in our society?
- If you think service to others is important, will you volunteer your time again at some point in your life? Why or why not?
- Describe your commitment to community service before you started. Did this commitment or attitude change? If it did, how?
- How does the work you have done relate to the job or career that you plan to pursue after graduation?
- What did you like about the community service work that you completed?
Service Seed requirement for graduation:
- Reflection essay
- A minimum of 4 verified service hours
- Extra Recognition BONUS: 2 points possible for each extra hour of service (up to 10 pts. maximum)
Graded based on required length as well as content and relative level of reflection and thoughtfulness.


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Three Methods:Tuning With a TunerTuning Without a TunerExploring Drop D
Drop D is an easy-to-master alternative tuning for guitar in which only one string is changed from standard EADGBE tuning. In Drop D, the sixth string (normally tuned to low E) is instead tuned a whole step down to D. In recent decades, Drop D has become popular in modern rock and metal for its deeper, darker sound and because it makes power chords easier to play (though the tuning has always had a place in blues, country, and traditional folk music).
Method 1 of 3: Tuning With a Tuner
 1. 1
 Start in standard EADGBE tuning. Regardless of whether or not you get your guitar into Drop D with a tuner, it's usually easiest to start from ordinary EADGBE tuning. This is because only one note is different between the tunings — change this note, and you're ready to play. This guide assumes that you're familiar with the notes in standard tuning; as a reminder, here are the notes you'll want each string tuned to (reference tones for these notes are readily available from tuner programs online):[1]
 2. 2
 Tune the sixth string to a D reference tone. Next, use your tuner to play a D. In a pinch, you can use the D note that's normally used for the fourth string — if you do this, don't forget that your sixth string will be exactly one octave below this tone. Some tuners, however, can be adjusted to give you the proper drop D tone (this tone is technically called "D3").
 - If your tuner can't be adjusted to play D3, note that this reference tone can easily be accessed with any number of adjustable online tuner programs.[2]
 3. 3
 Tune the rest of your strings as normal. Since the only note that is different between standard tuning and Drop D tuning is the sixth string, your guitar should now technically be in tune. However, it's a very good habit to give the rest of your strings a quick tuning anyway just to ensure that they're perfectly in tune with your new bass note — even a minor inconsistency can produce ugly-sounding chords.
 - Keep in mind that, since your sixth string is now tuned to D, you'll use its seventh fret (not its fifth) to tune the fifth string. The rest of the strings can be tuned as normal for standard tuning.
 4. 4
 Play! Congratulations! Your guitar is now tuned to Drop D and is ready to play. As a reminder, its strings should now be tuned to the following tones:
 - Sixth (thickest) string: D
 - Fifth string: A
 - Fourth string: D
 - Third string: G
 - Second string: B
 - First (thinnest) string: E
Method 2 of 3: Tuning Without a Tuner
 1. 1
 Start in standard EADGBE tuning. If you don't have a tuner or any reference tones handy, it's still possible to get your guitar into Drop D tuning, provided that it's already well-tuned to standard tuning. For this reason, you'll once again want to begin with your guitar in standard tuning.
 2. 2
 Tune the seventh fret of the sixth string to the open fifth string. Next, begin to lower the pitch of your sixth string (currently tuned to low E). As you do this, play its seventh fret with along with the fifth string (open). If your guitar was already well-tuned, your sixth string should be tuned to D as soon as the tone of its seventh fret perfectly matches the tone of the open fifth string (which is A).
 3. 3
 Alternatively, tune to the open fourth string. You can also tune your sixth string so that it matches the tone of the fourth string (currently tuned to D). However, if you do this, you'll need to keep in mind that your sixth string's tone will be exactly one octave beneath your fourth string's. Some guitarists find it a little more difficult to judge the difference between these two tones than it is to use the fifth string (A) to tune the sixth string.
 - Note that you don't have to commit to this method or the one above — it's perfectly acceptable to use both the fourth and fifth string to get the sixth tuned to D.
Method 3 of 3: Exploring Drop D
 1. 1
 Add the low D note to your playing. Now that your sixth string is tuned to low D, the range of your guitar is slightly greater. You have two new notes at your disposal: low D, played by strumming the sixth string in the open position, and Eb, played at the first fret of the sixth string. Being able to play these new low notes opens up several exciting possibilities for your playing.
 - The most obvious of these is perhaps the fact that you can now play chords and scales with a root note of low D or Eb. This is especially useful for songs that rely heavily on these chords.
 - Another less obvious benefit is that you now have new bass notes for finger-picking playing styles (which are commonly used in folk music). This gives you the opportunity to use these low notes as bass tones, pedal tones, and so on. It's even possible to use the low D note as a drone note.[3]
 2. 2
 Familiarize yourself with Drop D power chords. One of the biggest advantages of Drop D tuning is that it can make power chords on the thickest strings very easy to play. Specifically, because the sixth string is a whole step lower than in standard tuning, a power chord is played in the same fret for all three lower-pitched strings. This means that, rather than requiring three fingers to play, power chords can be played with just a single finger. Simply lay your finger across the D, A, and D strings similar to how you would barre a chord to fret a power chord in Drop D.
 - It's worth noting that Drop D also makes it easier to switch between power chords quickly. This is used to great effect in hard rock and metal music — some songs would be very difficult or impossible to play in anything but Drop D.
 3. 3
 Learn Songs that use Drop D. The best way to start getting the hang of Drop D is to start using it in songs! Below is a short selection of songs that use Drop D tuning — some are easy, some are hard, but all of them should have tabs readily available online to help you learn them:[4][5]
 - "Dear Prudence" by The Beatles
 - "Everlong" by The Foo Fighters
 - "Moby Dick" by Led Zeppelin
 - "Never Going Back Again" by Fleetwood Mac
 - "Blackhole Sun" by Soundgarden
 - Your 4th and 6th strings should now be the same pitch, one octave apart.
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How Partnering Can Get Kids Back in School
A partnership between the government education department and a non-government organization in the Philippines gives a blueprint for improving access to basic education.
With low academic attainment, stubbornly high dropout rates and increasingly higher levels of joblessness and poverty to account for, the Philippine government was unable to meet its Millennium Development Goal target of universal access to basic education by 2015. In order to finance and improve the quality and delivery of education, many countries have responded to similar educational roadblocks by making greater use of public-private partnerships.
In 2015, ADB embarked on a technical assistance project funded by the Republic of Korea e-Asia and Knowledge Partnership Fund. Implemented by the non-government organization Teach for the Philippines, in coordination with the Department of Education, the objective of the project is to help improve the challenges of basic education by developing an innovative strategy for improving education quality.
Teach for the Philippines identifies, selects, and trains promising recent graduates and young professionals and commits them to teach for two years in high-need and under-resourced public school classrooms. The program exposes these carefully selected, highly skilled teacher candidates to the latest developments in educational pedagogy and practice, and includes maximizing technology and the use of internet as a resource in the classroom.
- 1 August 2014: Project start
- 1 December 2016: Project end
- US$ 500,000:Total cost of technical assistance
- Republic of Korea e-Asia and Knowledge Partnership Fund
- Teach for the Philippines
Shortest education cycle
Up until 2015, the Philippines had the shortest education cycle in the world, with only 10 years of public basic education and only four years of undergraduate education. All other countries in the world have had 15 or 16 years. Under the Enhanced Basic Education Act of 2012, a student became required to take a full 12-year Basic Education Curriculum. The act was rolled out in four years, which limited institution's time to fully prepare. This created issues such as classroom shortages, errors in textbooks and late deliveries of books and educational material to students who had already started the school year.
Current teacher shortage
The Department of Education of the Philippines calculates that it will need at least 150,000 additional teachers over the next five years to meet the demands of the current teacher shortages - especially under the Enhanced Basic Education Act of 2012. This would require an increase from the current standard hiring rate of 10,000 teachers to over 30,000 teachers annually.
Inadequate Teacher Education Institutes
Better teacher quality is a key to improving student learning outcomes. Unfortunately, most public school teachers are ill-equipped to overcome the challenges presented to them. To begin with, the training and professional development opportunities available to most public school teachers both during their formal education years and while on the job are largely lacking. Too many of the Teacher Education Institutes that train teachers are inadequate, with very few of their graduates actually passing the professional Licensure Examination for Teachers.
It is not surprising therefore, that Philippine public and non-elite private school students' low achievement scores reveal that the quality of instruction does not adequately develop the analytical and critical thinking skills needed for comprehension. National Achievement Test results of high school students from 2007 to 2010 show that the mean percentage score dropped from 49.3% to 45.6%. Negligible gains were made in elementary school scores. The statistics on educational outcomes are sobering:
- most Filipino children enter school at grade 1. In 2011, out of 100 children who started Grade 1, only 54 had completed high school;
- the Philippines scored third from the bottom in both science and mathematics in the 2003 Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study; and
- fewer than 1% of the 1.4 million grade 6 elementary students who took the High School Readiness Test in 2004 managed a passing score in Mathematics, English and Science subjects, while only 2% of high school students achieved a passing score.
Under the technical assistance, the project delivered three outputs to improve the quality of education in the Philippines:
TFP Summer Institute
The project supports the establishment of the nine-week Teach for the Philippines Summer Institute, an intensive nine-week training program that includes instruction on progressive pedagogy, Philippines curriculum requirements and ways to maximize use of information technology and internet in the classroom. The project finances the research, development and implementation of the Teach For the Philippines Summer Institute, including setup costs, the training of trainers, the purchase of IT equipment, and the development of IT software for training. It also finances the development and implementation of program and curriculum, including development of pre-service training modules in areas such as teaching as leadership, literacy and reading strategies, pedagogy, and subject specific curriculum content, as well as support the sourcing of expert resource consultants to train selected teachers.
Online intranet to support Teaching Fellows
As part of its support framework, the project develops an interactive, online intranet and communications system to provide ongoing professional development and pedagogical support for teachers, also known as Teaching Fellows, while undertaking their two-year engagement in public high schools. It supports the development of a Teach for the Philippines alumni network, including an online database, social media channels and interactive communications tools.
Comprehensive monitoring and evaluation system
Under the technical assistance, a comprehensive monitoring and evaluation system to track the progress of the Teaching Fellows and school students, in order to identify areas for improvement was developed. Systematic monitoring and evaluation is carried out to identify key lessons learned from the design and implementation of the Teach for the Philippines.
The development and implementation of an online monitoring system to track student performance and monitor indicators such as Teaching Fellow and student satisfaction, net enrollment rates, dropout rates, completion rates and levels of functional literacy was developed. School visits and interviews are used to evaluate the implementation progress of Teach for the Philippines and to identify areas needing improvement.
Numbers and facts
|200 young Filipino leaders within 5 Philippine regions, 9 local government units, 26 partner schools|
|89 fellows have completed program - 71% of which remain engaged in education and policy|
|1,565 applicants since 2012|
|15,000 public school students reached from Grads 1 to 10 each year|
The project complements the Department of Education's Gearing Up Internet Literacy and Access for Students project, which aims to bring Internet connectivity to the country's 6,400 public high schools. This project includes some public elementary schools in the National Capital Region. Because Teach For Philippines teachers benefit from training on how to maximize the Internet as a resource for students, the project complements this initiative. Beyond the Philippines, the organization commits to sharing its knowledge and lessons learned with the 28 partners of the Teach for All network.
Many teachers have gone on to work in government or the Department of Education, with their experience, having given them the foundation to create policies about education that are informed by the realities in the public schools, vital in influencing systemic change. Alumni continue to contribute through Teach for the Philippines work through the Summer Institute and information sessions and speaking engagements thereby increasing Teach for the Philippines brand awareness. Often using the online database and newsletter as a platform, the network continues to formally interact with each other and organically amongst themselves to support their day to day work.
Strengthened monitoring and evaluation framework
In this framework, the organization, through a comprehensive system of data-gathering, tracks inputs which include the organizational and training resources dedicated to the recruitment, selection and development of Teacher Fellow who are placed in public schools.
Specific to the program side, Teach for the Philippines has developed a Transformational Leadership Continuum, and tracks and identifies indicators for quality of academic instruction and the character and life skills development of students as well as community engagement of and by the Teacher Fellows. Beyond the fellowship, Teach for the Philippines tracks alumni engagement and professional career trajectory to evaluate their longer-term contribution towards education reform.
- Increase ratio of tablets to Classroom, instead of tablets to Fellow taking into account challenges in reliable electricity and the lack of internet access.
- Capacitating Public School teachers with information and communications technology requires a back to basics approach at incorporating simple yet effective software and tools in the schools.
- Continued development and training for Alumni so they can grow into key leadership positions to influence systemic change.
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Biometri Organ Reproduksi Bagian Luar dan Karakteristik Ejakulat Anoa (Bubalus sp.) yang Dikoleksi Menggunakan Elektroejakulator Setelah Diinjeksi hCG
AbstractThis experiment aimed to investigate characteristics of reproductive organ (external parts) of the anoa (Bubalus sp.) and semen characteristics that collected by using electroejaculator after hCG injection, as an initial step on implementation of assisted reproductive techniques. Anoa is Indonesian endemic fauna that included into Appendix I by CITES. Anoa breeding efforts have not succeeded, due to their agressivity, soliter, wildness and monogamous. This experiment was carried out in Ragunan Zoo (Jakarta), Taman Safari Indonesia (Bogor), and Divison of Reproduction, Obstetrics and Gynaecology Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Bogor Agricultural University (IPB). Biometry of reproductive organ were measured by microcaliper and nylon tape. Semen was collected by electroejaculator, under anesthetized condition. Ejaculate was evaluated macroand microscopically. The results showed that the reproductive organ was larger as it is getting older. But, it was generally smaller compared to the buffalo's. The characteristics of fresh semen were: volume 1.02±0.28 ml, pH 6.93±0.19, mass movement 0, progressive motility 52.50±18.91%, live-death ratio 67.48±8.24%, concentration 263.33±105.06 billion/mL and total abnormality 31.86±3.72% (primary abnormality 9.52±3.85%, secondary abnormality 22.33±1.46%). The semen qualities were fairly good, even though some parameters showed lower number compared to buffalo's. It is important to improve the collection technique, animal handling and appropriate extender development for semen cryopreservation.
Key words: anoa, biometry of external reproductive organ, semen characteristics, electroejaculator
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Dealloying is a corrosion process in which one or more elements are selectively dissolved, leaving behind a porous residue of the remaining elements. This article describes the dealloying in various systems, namely, dezincification, graphitic corrosion, dealuminification, and noble metal alloys dealloying. The current-potential behavior of a binary alloy undergoing selective dissolution is reviewed. The article highlights the four mechanisms required for the formation of porous metals: ionization-redeposition, surface diffusion, volume diffusion, and percolation model of selective dissolution.
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The Radiology Secretary:
- Receives and/or schedules patients for Radiology, MRI, Ultrasound, CT Scanning, Echocardiography, Mammography, Dexascan and Nuclear Medicine.
- May be called upon to answer phones, perform order entry, exam scheduling, receive patients, contact physician's offices and assume the technical assistant role.
- Completion of basicmedical terminology program preferred and willingness to expand vocabulary becoming familiar with radiology terminology.
- One year experience in a healthcare organization demonstrating business office functions preferred.
- Demonstrate basic computer and keyboard knowledge and skills; proficiency with word processing;typing proficiency minimum is 45 wpm.
- Demonstrated customer service skills – professional telephone and email skills, ability to interview patients with tact, patience and efficiency.
- Ability to prioritize duties and work as part of a team, work independently with minimal supervision and perform duties in a busy environment, working under pressure with time constraints using tact and diplomacy.
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