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Field Biology Laboratory
The field biology laboratory is not only a space for the continuing study of the flora and fauna of North Carolina, but is also a rich source of archival materials collected over many decades. The lab contains a collection of study skins and mounts of birds native to North Carolina, and a collection of bird nests from the Piedmont region. This laboratory houses two historical collections of bird eggs gathered in the 1800s, including the T. Gilbert Pearson egg collection. In addition, students have access to a herbarium of North Carolina plants, and reference collections of preserved reptiles, amphibians, and mammal skulls of species native to North Carolina and beyond.
Anatomy and Physiology Laboratory
Students investigate various aspects of human physiology using computer-based software for recording electrocardiograms, electromyograms, and electroencephalograms. Advanced studies in neuroscience include the recording of individual neuronal action potentials. An associated laboratory for field studies in fisheries biology houses a complete array of equipment for the investigation of aquatic ecology, limnology, and ichthyology.
Microbial Genetics and Molecular Biology Facility
Standard and advanced equipment in the molecular biology and microbial genetics lab provide students with the tools for the study of the phylogenetic relationship between microbial organisms and the molecular analysis of signaling processes in nematodes. In their independent research projects, students utilize instrumentation for the growth of organisms under a variety of conditions, and the isolation, purification and quantification of genomic DNA. Students routinely utilize the techniques of PCR, Pulsed-field Gel electrophoresis, fluorescent microscopy, recombinant DNA technologies and RNAi. The department has two fully-equipped laboratories dedicated to independent, student research projects.
Forensic Biology Laboratory
The forensic biology laboratory supports advanced forensics students in Molecular Cell Biology and Forensic Anthropology. Students pursue the identification of drugs and toxins utilizing the gas chromatograph-mass spectrograph, which provides definitive identification of these substances. The laboratory is also where students investigate a variety of topics related to cause of death, e.g., identification of diatoms related to deaths by drowning, and skeletal damage due to ballistics, cutting and blunt force trauma. The highlight of the Forensic Anthropology course, the investigation of clandestine graves, utilizes the equipment and archival materials of the forensic biology lab for this capstone experience in forensics.
Forensic Chemistry Laboratory
Students utilize research-grade microscopes for the analysis of trace forensic evidence, and explore a variety of chemical methods for developing latent fingerprints. Forensic chemistry students employ the fully automated Shimadzu QP 2010 gas chromatography-mass spectrograph for the definitive identification of illegal drugs. Another major focus of the laboratory experience is the preparation of forensic DNA Profiles. After DNA extraction, forensic STR loci (including the CODIS loci) are amplified with the 9700 Thermocycler. Fluorescence detection of STR alleles is accomplished with one of the ABI 310 Genetic Analyzers. The ABI 7500 Real-Time PCR system is used to monitor DNA extraction from unusual forensic samples such as dentition. Computer-based GeneMapper software allows students to complete the construction of human DNA Profiles encompassing fifteen STR forensic markers.


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The phrase "Cats in the Cradle" is a familiar one to most everyone, but it is a phrase that brings about mixed emotions. Is the cat being in the cradle a good thing or a bad thing? Does the image bring about feelings of family and childhood or danger and death? Let's investigate some of the myths and truths surrounding cats living with babies and you can decide for yourself what this means to you.
Harry Chapin's Song
American singer/songwriter Harry Chapin's famous song has made the phrase famous. "Cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon, little boy blue and the man on the moon..." The song was actually written by Chapin's wife Sandy, a poet and a writer. She wrote the words for the song for their son Joshua before he was born. She showed them to her husband but Chapin wasn't too interested in it at the time. However, once his son was born, Chapin realized the power of the words and what they meant to him personally. He recorded the song and it became the best known of all of his work.
"Cat's in the Cradle" tells the story of a father who is too busy to spend time with his growing son. Despite the fact that the father is constantly putting off quality time with his son, the son sees his father as a role model and a fine example of who he wants to grow up to be. In the end the son does grow up to be just like the father and as the aging patriarch reaches out to his son for quality time, his boy is simply to busy with his family. The refrain uses the phrase "cat's in the cradle" and these words bring up images of a young family and the short and sweet the time of infancy. However, a cat in the cradle wasn't always a warm and fuzzy image.
Take my Breath Away
Have you heard the old wives' tale of how cats can steal a baby's breath? Chances are it's a familiar story to you if you have had children. It is a story that even today crops up in forums and from well-meaning, but uneducated advice givers. Expectant mothers are often told that they need to get rid of their cats before the baby comes. But are cats really dangerous to babies?
According to the strength of this story may be traced to a 1791 jury that rendered a verdict in England that a Plymouth child had been killed from a cat sucking away its breath. In actuality there was likely no obvious cause for the infant's death and so the jury passed the blame onto the cat, because of course back then, everyone knew that cats might suck a child's breath away.
A 1929 article in the Nebraska State Journal also quoted a doctor who supposedly witnessed a cat actually sucking an infant's breath. He describes "the family pet in the very act of sucking a child's breath, lying on the baby's breast a paw on either side of the babe's mouth, the cat's lips pressing those of the child and the infant's face pale as that of a corpse, its lips with the blueness of death."
Today we are familiar, although still mystified, by Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). It leaves you to wonder if these children didn't die of SIDS and the nearby cat was the best explanation for the death. Cats are curious creatures and the crib is a warm cozy place. It would be easy for them to be implicated in the murder.
However, all of these evil or jealous cat stories are a lot of hooey. It is unlikely that a cat would even suffocate a child accidentally. In fact, I myself grew up sleeping with the cat in my crib. Accidental scratching is a more likely concern and mothers should always keep an eye on their young children when they interact with the cat, whether it's in the cradle or elsewhere. Of course, it's easy enough to keep the cat out of the nursery if there are any concerns. For me, "cats in the cradle" makes me fondly remember a childhood surrounded by animals. How about you?
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On the acoustic response of a generic gas turbine fuel injector passage
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A current trend in the design of modern aero engines is the transition towards leaner combustion as a solution to satisfy increasingly stringent emission regulations. Lean combustion systems are often more susceptible to thermoacoustic instability and the fuel injector can play a critical role. This paper presents an analytical study on the unsteady air flow through a generic injector passage in response to incident acoustic waves. The injector passage is represented by a simplified geometry which comprises the main geometrical passage features. The unsteady flow through the passage is obtained by combining the elemental solutions for different parts of the passage. This enables the transfer impedance of the injector passage to be determined and the effects of different design parameters on the sensitivity of the air flow to acoustic perturbations to be examined. The convective wave associated with the unsteady swirl vane wakes is also visited and compared with the results from the numerical simulations obtained in previous works. In addition to helping derive design practices for injector passages from the perspective of thermoacoustic instability, the current analysis can also be applied as a preliminary design tool to assess the acoustic characteristics for an injector passage of the axial swirler type.

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text: Background Approximately 50% of older individuals perceive themselves as being forgetful. Objective The objective of this review is to get an overview of previous research on the relation between perceived forgetfulness (in the absence of objective memory deficit) and quality of life in older individuals. Findings in previous research might be a starting point for further research and possible future interventions. Methods Scientific papers that investigated the relation between subjective memory complaints and quality of life were searched. Two independent raters scored the articles on their methodology. The methodological quality was taken into account when conclusions were drawn. Results The literature search resulted in 682 articles, of which five studies met the inclusion criteria. Although the five studies differed in their methodology, the findings of the methodologically adequate studies show a relation between memory complaints and a diminished quality of life in the elderly. Conclusions The negative impact that subjective memory complaints can have on quality of life makes it important to acknowledge forgetfulness as a serious issue in the life of older individuals. However, more research is needed to explore the relationship between subjective memory complaints and quality of life, also with regard to the influence of depression and objective memory performance.


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Adenosine monophosphate-activated protein kinase (AMPK) is a prevalent mammalian energy metabolism sensor, but little is known about its role as an energy sensor in fish experiencing stress. We aimed to study AMPK in Oreochromis niloticus on both the molecular and the physical level. We found that the cDNAs encoding the AMPKα1 and AMPKα2 variants of the O. niloticus catalytic α subunit were 1753 bp and 2563 bp long and encoded 571 and 557 amino acids, respectively. Both the AMPKα1 and the AMPKα2 isoform possess structural features similar to mammalian AMPKα, including a phosphorylation site at Thr172 in the N-terminus, and exhibit high homology with other fish and vertebrate AMPKα sequences (81.3%–98.1%). mRNA encoding the AMPKα isoforms was widely expressed in various tissues with distinctive patterns. AMPKα1 and AMPKα2 were primarily expressed in the intestines and brain, respectively. Under acute nitrite challenge, the mRNA encoding the AMPKα isoforms, as well as AMPK activity, changed over time. Its recovery period in freshwater, combined with the fact that it is highly conserved, suggests that fish AMPK, like its mammalian orthologues, acts as an energy metabolism sensor. Furthermore, subsequent decreases in AMPK mRNA levels and activity suggested that its action was transient but efficient. Physically, glucose, lactic acid and TGs in plasma, as well as energy materials in the hepatopancreas and muscle, were significantly altered over time, indicating changes in energy metabolism during the experimental period. These data have enabled us to characterize energy utilization in O. niloticus and further illustrate the role of fish AMPK as an energy sensor. This study provides new insight into energy metabolism and sensing by AMPK in teleost and necessitates further study of the multiple physiologic roles of AMPK in fish.
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TreeQinetic - Elastometer Measure Strain
The Elastometer measure strain (compression and tension) of the marginal fibers of the tree trunk. The latest version "Elastometer 3i" is capable to measure both strain and inclination at the point of its installation along the trunk. Having both information the bending line and curvature of the trunk can be calculated. This supports the analysis of defects in the trunk that may occur at old grafted trees and at old pruning wounds.
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Background: Grooving evidence suggests that patients could have Direct Access (DA) to physiotherapy. It represents a new model of care, which might lead to improve patients' health status and decrease cost services for healthcare compared with a secondary care referral pathway. The aim of this study is to explore the evidence regarding feasibility, effectiveness, costs, safety and patient satisfaction through DA compared to other organizational models.
Methods: A systematic review was carried out through MEDLINE, CINAHL, and EMBASE databases from their inceptions until March 2018 using keywords related with DA. All articles in English, Italian or Polish comparing the modality of DA with any other organizational modality were included. Two reviewers independently selected eligible studies, extracted the data, and assessed methodological quality using the Newcastle-Ottawa Scale for cohort studies.
Results: 1593 articles were initially identified, and thirteen studies met the inclusion criteria. The mean NOS score for study quality was 6.4 ± 1.4 out of a possible total score of nine points. Patients impairments and health care status, were similar through all studies. DA showed less number of physiotherapy treatments, visits to physician, imaging performed and required fewer non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and secondary care. Patients were more satisfied with the service in comparison to the group referred by the physician. and costs per subject were lower. DA patients were younger, with a higher level of education; mostly, they presented a less severe clinical condition and a more acute pathologies related to the spine. No harms were reported. Only one study assessed the clinical safety of the DA.
Conclusion: The findings suggest that DA to physiotherapy is feasible considering the clinical and economic point of view. However, more research is still needed due to the low evidence of the reviewed studies and to explore the clinical safety of DA.
Keywords: Physical Therapy Modalities; Primary Health Care; Referral and Consultation.


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Koala teeth provide insights into dietby Heidi Hall Aug. 22, 2018, 1:00 PM
Paleontologist Larisa DeSantis studies the teeth of ancient and modern mammals to determine how their diets changed across the millennia and, by extension, their responses to climate change.
But the question lingered: Is wear on teeth an indicator of what kangaroos and koalas ate or just how much gritty dust and dirt they consumed?
The Vanderbilt University professor's latest research, published today in the peer-reviewed journal PLOS ONE, confirms the shape of tooth wear best indicates what they were eating, not what was on it.
"We can investigate the teeth in modern animals, begin to understand exactly what they're recording and then take that information – a kind of Rosetta Stone – back into the fossil records and interpret the behavior of fossil animals," said DeSantis, assistant professor of earth and environmental science. "While we eventually aim to look at how diets have changed over long periods of climate change, this study focused on whether these teeth were recording diet or aridity."
DeSantis targeted Australian marsupials for her dental mesowear work because that continent has been drying out over millions of years, making it a rich environment to study how changing climate prompts animal evolution.
For this particular study, she and a team of Vanderbilt graduate and undergraduate students analyzed casts and photographs of teeth from koalas and kangaroos that died over the past few decades to compare with modern climate and dietary data.
The journal article is titled Effects of climate on dental mesowear of koalas and two broadly distributed kangaroos throughout their geographic range, and the research was funded by an NSF CAREER grant.


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By Kevin Perdeaux, CPE
The 'ergonomic' bent-handle shovel is not new to the market, and is a far more popular choice than the traditional straight-handle shovel. However, despite its popularity, why doesn't the ergonomic shovel render the traditional straight-handle shovel obsolete?
The two shovels are designed to provide mechanical advantages in different situations. The bent-handle shovel is designed using the principles of biomechanical stress to the low back for pushing tasks. When push force is applied as the hands move vertically from the hips, either above or below hip level, the off-axis forces create increased strain to the low back. The user applies push forces through the midsection of the trunk to avoid unnecessary low back strain. However, this mechanical advantage is optimal only for pushing the snow, not lifting.
If you have ever used the bent-handle shovel, you may have noticed that the angle of the shaft positions the load such that it is difficult to raise the shovel blade end. When you attempt to lift the shovel, to clear the top of a snow bank for example, the front hand often must lift higher than is required with a traditional handle because of the angle of the shovel shaft. The front hand also bears more of the overall weight due to an inefficient lever created by the handle design. The traditional shovel handle is straight and allows for more optimal hand positioning for easier lifting.
So the next time you are out for a marathon of shoveling, go easy on your back and use the straight-handle shovel for lifting and the bent-handle shovel for pushing. Selecting the right tool for the task is important…even for snow shoveling.
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Does personality moderate reaction and adaptation to major life events? Evidence from the British Household Panel Survey
A nationally representative panel study of British households was used to examine the extent to which Big Five personality traits interact with the experience of major life events (marriage, childbirth, unemployment, and widowhood) to predict increases and decreases in life satisfaction following the event. Results show that major life events are associated with changes in life satisfaction, and some of these changes are very long lasting. Personality traits did not have consistent moderating effects on the association between stressful life events and life satisfaction over time.
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In assessing reduction of concrete strength under irradiated conditions, reference levels are introduced: 1×1020 n/cm2 for fast neutrons and 2×1010 rad (2×105 kGy) for gamma-rays. Concrete structures are regarded as sound as long as irradiance levels accumulated during long-term operation are less than the reference levels.
Most experimental investigations of irradiation effects on concrete were performed in the 1960's and 1970's. However, there is no good explanation of how concrete deteriorates under neutron and gamma-ray irradiation.
Hilsdorf put the primal irradiation test data together to investigate effects of irradiance levels on residual strength ratio of concrete. The reference levels were obtained from his paper. However, the test conditions in which the data quoted by Hilsdorf were obtained are very different from the irradiation and heat conditions usually found in a Light Water Reactor (LWR).
This paper summarizes the interactions between radiation and concrete components and presents the results of gamma-ray irradiation tests on cement paste in order to provide a better understanding of the deterioration mechanisms of concrete under irradiation and heat conditions in LWRs.


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Rare Maud Island Frogs Hatched In New Zealand [ScienceDaily 2008-03-05]
[Photo] Adult Maud Island frog. The thimble-sized frogs are nationally threatened in New Zealand. (Credit: Copyright Karori Sanctuary)
ScienceDaily (Mar. 5, 2008) — What looks at first to be a slimy mess in a Petri dish represents a highly-significant advance in conservation and restoration ecology.
Ecologists from both the Sanctuary and Victoria are celebrating the arrival of the first Maud Island frogs (Leiopelma pakeka) to hatch on mainland New Zealand for many years.
Clustered together to conserve moisture, the 13 fingernail-sized baby froglets were recently transferred from the Karori Sanctuary to Victoria University where they will be incubated and later released as young frogs.
No larger than a human adult's little fingernail, the Maud Island froglets differ from most frog species in that they hatch from the egg as fully-formed froglets without going through the usual tadpole stage.
13 froglets in total were found during a recent audit of a specially-constructed frog research enclosure at Karori Sanctuary.
"Sixty frogs were released into the special mouse-proof enclosure in 2006 in an effort to re-establish this highly-endangered species on the mainland," Victoria Master's student Kerri Lukis says. Ms Lukis is studying the Sanctuary population for her Master's thesis under the supervision of Associate Professor Ben Bell, Director of the University's Centre for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration.
She says that thirty of frogs released in 2006 were later released outside of the enclosure so that the captive and wild populations could be compared. When it came time to find the frogs again to see how many frogs had survived and whether they had bred she was delighted to find the 13 froglets attached to adult males.
"This is extra special because Maud Island frogs have never been found breeding in their natural habitat before, and certainly not on the mainland.
"It's wonderful timing for 2008 - international Year of the Frog – and a Leap Year. It's rare to get a 'good news' story about frogs – every year around 35 species of frog become extinct and two of New Zealand's remaining native frog species are on the critical list."
While not the rarest species, the thimble-sized Maud Island frogs are nationally threatened. Like all of New Zealand's native frog species, they are endemic (found only here) and belong to the endemic genus Leiopelma.
They have evolved very little over the last 70 million years, resulting in some very distinctive features and behaviours. For example, they don't croak, live in water, have webbed feet, or go through a tadpole stage.
Associate Professor Ben Bell says the University and the Sanctuary have worked closely together on this project.
"It is good to know that the Karori Sanctuary frogs are able to breed in an enclosure there. Whether those frogs released into the wild in Karori survived and bred is less certain at present."
Adapted from materials provided by Victoria University Of Wellington.


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Following the line of the article posted by A.Riazi, Solving engineering problem using MATLAB C API, I will show in this small example how to use M Functions inside our VC++ 6 project.
The project calculates the convolution of two vectors, and shows the resulting vector in the MsChart control. The function that performs the convolution is written in MatLab and then through the MatLab Add-in converted to C code ready to be used inside our app.
You need Visual Studio 6 and MatLab Release 12 installed with the MatLab C Library and Matlab Compiler.
Installing the MatLab Add-in
The add-in automates the integration of M-files into Visual C++ projects. The add-in for Visual Studio is automatically installed on your system when you run either mbuild -setup or mex -setup and select Microsoft Visual C/C++ version 6. In order to use the add-in you must follow these steps:
- Start MatLab, in the prompt type mbuild -setup
- Follow the menus and choose MS Visual C++6.0.
- Type the following commands in the matlab prompt :
These commands save the MatLab path to a file called mccpath in your user preferences directory (prefdir), ussually inside your documents and settings file. The path is used by the add-in because it runs outside Matlab and there is no other way for it to determine your Matlab path. If you add new directories to your Matlab path you will have to rerun this command if you want the add-in to see them.
- Configure the Matlab Add-in for Visual Studio 6 to work within MSVisual C++.
- Open MSVisualC++.
- Select Tools -> Customize from the MSVC menu.
- Click on the Add-ins and Macro Files tab.
- Check MATLAB for Visual Studio on the Add-ins and Macro Files list and click Close.
The floating MATLAB add-in for Visual Studio toolbar appears. The checkmark directs MSVC to automatically load the add-in when you start MSVC again.
Calculating the convolution in Matlab
We will write a simple function in MatLab that will perform the convolution of two vectors:
In2 and store the result in
We actually can use any matlab built-in function or toolbox function inside our function here we use only the function conv for simplicity.
%Returns the convolution of vector IN1 and IN2
Save the function with the name MyFunc.m
Writing the Application
Use the MFC AppWizard (exe) option to generate a Dialog Based Application and call it conv. Create a Button which will calculate the convolution of two given vectors.
Add the code below to the button's Message Handler.
Copy MyFunc.m into your VC++ project directory. Now go to the MatLab Add-in and click the.m++ (Add m-files to current project) button:
Select Windows Console Exe from the Combo Box and check Generate main file and debug mode. Press OK.
Then select the MyFunc.m file and click Open. After a while you will see new files added to your project.
Under MATLAB M-files you will see our MyFunc.m, you can even edit it from inside Visual C++. Under MATLAB C/C++ are MyFunc.c and MyFunc_main.c, generated by the MatLab Compiler. And all the headers needed by the compiler.
We can't build the app yet, we must add the following lines to convDlg.cpp:
Now the project should be built without any problem.
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The steps described here don't include the MSChart part, you can see it from the source code, but you can see that the calculation is done by placing a breakpoint inside the button message handler and checking the value of the
res vector after the line:
Well I hope this simple article be interesting for MatLab lovers, this is the first article I wrote, so I apologize if it is not clear enough. I will be glad to explain anything if you ask me. Greetings.
Daniel Cespedes is now working on his final project to get the Electrical Engineering degree at the National University of Technology in Cordoba Argentina. He is developing a Computerized system for the study of Human Echolocation, the ability to detect obstacles with the echoes of self generated sounds.(yes like bats!!) at the CINTRA (Centro de Investigación y Transferencia Acústica).He uses MsVisual C++ 6 as a developing tool. He also work at the Software Research Lab at the University.
He comes from Sta.Cruz de la Sierra-Bolivia a paradise in SouthAmerica's heart, where you can find pure air, nature contact, happy people, beautiful women etc.


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Smog is a kind of air pollution. It is the blend of smoke and fog. There are two kinds of smog:
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The two smogs can be differentiated as follows:
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OccurrenceIt occurs in a cool, humid climate.It occurs in a dry, sunny climate.
ComponentsSmoke, fog and ulphurdioxide.PAN, acrolein, ozone, formaldehyde, nitric oxide.
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What does MHC mean in Physiology?
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- Major histocompatibility complex
- The major histocompatibility complex is a cell surface molecule encoded by a large gene family in all vertebrates. MHC molecules mediate interactions of leukocytes, also called white blood cells, which are immune cells, with other leukocytes or body cells. MHC determines compatibility of donors for organ transplant as well as one's susceptibility to an autoimmune disease via crossreacting immunization. In humans, MHC is also called human leukocyte antigen. Protein molecules—either of the host's own phenotype or of other biologic entities—are continually synthesized and degraded in a cell. Occurring on the cell surface, each MHC molecule displays a molecular fraction, called epitope, of a protein. The presented antigen can be either self or nonself. On the cell membrane, the MHC population in its entirety is like a meter indicating the balance of proteins within the cell. The MHC gene family is divided into three subgroups: class I, class II and class III. Diversity of antigen presentation, mediated by MHC classes I and II, is attained in multiple ways: the MHC's genetic encoding is polygenic, MHC genes are highly polymorphic and have many variants, several MHC genes are expressed from both inherited alleles.


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As part of ECC's Count Me In! Campaign, faculty are challenged to tie one of their lessons during the Spring 2020 semester to the 2020 Census. Faculty are encouraged to find a way to tie the skills/content/knowledge of one of their lessons to some facet or element of the United States Census and to mention the Count Me In! Campaign to their students.
This does not mean that you have to be an expert on the census or American governmental policies. Possible entry points are topics like surveys, government funding, the connection between local communities and federal government, what defines a region, misinformation, civic duties, and more. Be as creative as you like in trying to somehow connect one class to data, discussion, questions, practices, or something tied to the census.
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A step-by-step guide to Sweet Cherry audiobooks
1. Download a free QR code reader to your smart phone or tablet by searching on your device's app store.
2. Scan the code on your book with your smart phone or tablet.
3. Listen! Once the webpage has loaded, press play to hear the story. You can listen to it whenever you are connected to the internet.
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Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) aim to detect the actions that attempt to compromise the confidentiality, availability, and integrity of a resource by monitoring the events occurring in computer systems and/or networks. Stream data processing is a database technology applied to flows of data. Temporal Logic is a formalism for representing change over time. This paper proposes the development of a network intrusion detection system by combining temporal formalisms for representing attack patterns with stream processing for intruder detection. The experimental results show that this combination successfully was able to detect all the attacks of that type in the test data. Additionally, the solution provides a concise and unambiguous way to formally represent attack signatures and it is extensible and scalable.


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Talk2tom; provides digital media marketing support services, publishes, and sells literature,both fiction and non fiction, mainly raising awareness of Mental Health Globally. Talk2Tom is a socially focussed enteprise.
According to the charity Mind, 1 in 4 people will experience a mental health related issue in a year.
In fact the below list (fig 1.1), most importantly gives us an idea of the types of issues that our employees, colleagues, customers, shareholders, children or other family members could be facing and perhaps you would never know.
Many people go to work, school, university everyday with a mental health issue, some of them not knowing that they have a mental health issue.
Our goal is to support, advocate and raise awareness around mental health in organisations, schools, universities, public services etc.
Primarily, we do this by our written works, both fiction and non fiction available from all major bookstores, Amazon, Itunes and Google Play.
Number of Mental Health issues per 100 people 2018 (Fig1.1)
Generalised Anxiety Disorder 5.9 in 100 people
Depression 3.3 in 100 people
Phobias 2.4 in 100 people
OCD 1.3 in 100 people
Panic Disorder 0.6 in 100 people
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder 4.4 in 100 people
Mixed anxiety and depression 7.8 in 100 people
Psychotic Disorder 0.7 in 100 people
Bipolar Disorder 2 in 100 people
Antisocial personality disorder 3.3 in 100 people
Borderline personality disorder 2.4 in 100 people
Suicidal thoughts 20.6 in 100 people
Self harm 7.3 in 100 people
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- Teen Way Off Broadway
- Timeless Way of Building (book by Christopher Alexander)
- Total Waste of Bandwidth
- Taken Without Owner's Consent (UK theft)
- Termination without Cause (employment)
- Textile Workers Organizing Committee (Congress of Industrial Organizations)
- The Western Orthodox Church
- The Woodlands Operating Company (Texas)
- Training Wing Operations Center
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Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA)
Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA), one of APAL's International Partners, is the sole synthetic research organisation related to nuclear energy. It is JAEA's mission to contribute to the welfare and prosperity of society through nuclear science and technology. The main research topic of the research group involved in APAL is about structural integrity assessment on reactor pressure vessel, piping lines and important components. They have been engaged in research and development of the probabilistic fracture mechanics methodology and codes since 1990's and have developed a probabilistic fracture mechanics code for reactor pressure vessel called PASCAL4.


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The Bay Area Ant Survey is a citizen science program that gives the public a chance to participate in research by obtaining baseline data for ants living in local counties. The major goals of this scientific survey are to identify local species, chart native ant distributions, and provide baseline data to monitor the distribution of the invasive Argentine ant.
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Care Certificate Standard 4 (Equality and Diversity) – Online Course – CPDUK Accredited – UK Core Skills Training Framework (CSTF) Aligned.
Welcome to our Care Certificate Standard 4 (Equality and Diversity) online training course for front-line healthcare and social care support workers. All our online training courses, programmes and qualifications are accredited by the CPD Certification Service (CPDUK).
The Care Certificate Standard 4 focuses on the concepts of equality, diversity, inclusion and discrimination. Promoting equality and respecting diversity are central to life today, particularly in the provision of health and social care services.
To provide care and support that meets the needs of everyone, you have to understand what these terms mean and take account of them in your work.
Care Certificate Standard 4 Training Course – CPDUK Accredited E-Learning Course
Study method – Online, self-paced
Estimated duration (Indicative CPD hours) – 2 hours
Course format – Online (24/7 access)
Entry requirements – no prerequisites required
Assessment type – Complete end of course assessment (80% needed to pass and gain CPD certificate)
Certification/Qualification – Downloadable CPD certificate
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Course accreditation – CPD Certification Service (CPDUK)
Course access – Part-time (1-year access)
Course delivery – via desktop PC/MAC, laptops, tablets or smartphones.
Who is the online Care Certificate Standard 4 training course for?
This Care Certificate Standard 4 (Equality and Diversity) e-learning course should be completed by those who work in health and social care services, including:
- New members of staff in Healthcare Support Worker roles,
- New members of staff in Adult Social Care Worker roles, and
- Any staff members who provide direct care to patients or individuals needing support.
This Care Certificate Standard 4 (Equality and Diversity) e-learning course will also be useful for:
- Staff moving into new roles within their organisation,
- Refreshing the knowledge of any member of staff,
- NHS nursing, AHP and care staff,
- Agency care workers,
- Healthcare assistants (HCAs),
- Support workers,
- Care assistants, and
- Community services.
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This Care Certificate Standard 4 (Equality and Diversity) training course helps health and social care workers to understand their legal and professional responsibilities to those they provide care.
The Care Certificate Standard 4 focuses on the concepts of equality, diversity, inclusion and discrimination. Promoting equality and respecting diversity are central to life today, particularly in the provision of health and social care services. To provide care and support that meets the needs of everyone, you have to understand what these terms mean and take account of them in your work.
On completion of this Care Certificate Standard 4 (Equality and Diversity) training course, you will have a better understanding of:
- The importance of equality, diversity, inclusion, discrimination human rights,
- The meaning of key terms such as equality, diversity and inclusion,
- How can health and social care organisations promote an inclusive approach?
- The Human Rights Act (1998),
- Human Rights-Based Approach (F.R.E.D.A),
- Discrimination and the law,
- Main forms of discrimination?
- Bullying and harassment,
- Challenging discrimination and prejudice, and
- Individual and organisational responsibilities.
What is covered in this online care certificate standard 4 training course?
This online Care Certificate Standard 4 (Equality and Diversity) training course covers the following:
- Understand the importance of equality and inclusion
- Explain what is meant by:
- Human Rights,
- Inclusion, and
- Describe ways in which discrimination may deliberately or inadvertently occur in the work setting,
- Explain how practices that support equality and inclusion reduce the likelihood of discrimination,
- Explain what is meant by:
- Work in an inclusive way:
- Identify which legislation and codes of practice relating to equality, diversity and discrimination apply to their role,
- Demonstrate interaction with individuals that respects their beliefs, culture, values and preferences, and
- Describe how to challenge discrimination in a way that encourages positive change.
- Access information, advice and support about diversity, equality and inclusion:
- Identify a range of sources of information, advice and support about diversity, equality and inclusion,
- Describe how and when to access information, advice and support about diversity, equality and inclusion, and
- Explain who to ask for help and support about equality and inclusion.
What is covered the care certificate standard 4?
The care certificate standard 4 covers the concepts of equality, diversity, inclusion and discrimination in the provision of health and social care services.
What is equality?
Equality is about treating people alike according to their needs. You should make sure that everyone is given equality of opportunity. For example, you may need to provide information in different formats (for example, Braille) or make sure there is access to a building for an individual in a wheelchair.
What is diversity?
Diversity can be described as 'difference'. All individuals are different, and the many different parts of a person's character and identity make them unique.
What is inclusion?
Inclusion is 'being included within either a group or society as a whole'. Inclusion links with diversity and equality. It is important to understand someone's differences so that you can include them and treat them equally and fairly. People can feel excluded if they are not able to join in with activities.
Excluding people because of their differences is known as 'discrimination'. All workers in health and social care must make sure that they work inclusively to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to take part when they want to. This is especially true about people taking part in their care and support so that it is truly centred on them as a person.
What is discrimination?
Discrimination broadly refers to actions that are often based on a person's negative attitude towards others. In human social affairs, discrimination is treatment or consideration of or making a distinction in favour of or against, a person based on the group, class, or category to which the person is perceived to belong rather than on individual attributes.
This includes treatment of an individual or group, based on their actual or perceived membership in a certain group or social category, "in a way that is worse than the way people are usually treated". It involves the group's initial reaction or interaction going on to influence the individual's actual behaviour towards the group leader or the group, restricting members of one group from opportunities or privileges that are available to another group, leading to the exclusion of the individual or entities based on logical or irrational decision making.
Why is this care certificate standard 4 training course important?
Equality and diversity are essential components of health and social care. Good equality and diversity practices make sure that the services provided to people are fair and accessible to everyone. They ensure that people are treated as equals, that people get the dignity and respect they deserve and that their differences are celebrated. Equality and diversity shouldn't be seen as bonus benefits to your health or social care setting but more as integral constituents.
In a health and social care environment, equality and diversity must be at the heart of what we do. Our patients and service users are individual people, and we should always strive to ensure that their diverse needs are met and ensure that they have equal access to the services we provide. This is particularly important for adults in need who, because of a disability, illness or their age, are unable to take adequate care of themselves and keep themselves from harm.
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Scrabble word: GRIP
In which Scrabble dictionary does GRIP exist?
Definitions of GRIP in dictionaries:
- noun - the act of grasping
- noun - the appendage to an object that is designed to be held in order to use or move it
- noun - a portable rectangular container for carrying clothes
- noun - the friction between a body and the surface on which it moves (as between an automobile tire and the road)
- noun - worker who moves the camera around while a film or television show is being made
- noun - an intellectual hold or understanding
- noun - a flat wire hairpin whose prongs press tightly together
- verb - hold fast or firmly
- verb - to grip or seize, as in a wrestling match
- verb - to render motionless, as with a fixed stare or by arousing terror or awe
- A tight hold; a firm grasp: a drowning swimmer now safely in the grip of a lifeguard.
- The pressure or strength of such a grasp: a wrestler with an unmatched grip.
- A manner of grasping and holding: The crate afforded no comfortable grip.
- Intellectual hold; understanding: a good grip on French history.
- Ability to function properly or well; competence: getting a grip on the new technique.
- A mechanical device that grasps and holds.
- A part, such as a handle, that is designed to be grasped and held.
- A suitcase or valise.
- A stagehand who helps in shifting scenery.
- A member of a film production crew who adjusts sets and props and sometimes assists the camera operator.
- To secure and maintain a tight hold on; seize firmly.
- To maintain a secure grasp.
- v - to seize firmly with the hand
There are 4 letters in GRIP: G I P R
Scrabble words that can be created with an extra letter added to GRIP
All anagrams that could be made from letters of word GRIP plus a wildcard: GRIP?
Scrabble words that can be created with letters from word GRIP
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-... grip..... Wrist-wrap grip
-... demonstrating how the grip should be positioned in the left hand
- Team grip Alienation BMX
- grip Nedir Belirtisi ve Tedavisi Nasldr
-... finger (others use V between index finger and thumb) to decide grip
- Golf grip Strong Neutral or Weak Andrew Rice Golf
- Crusher Flex grip - Strength
- Konu grip influenza gripal Enfeksiyona grip saln ku gribi...
- griple ayn ekilde yayld dnlmektedir. grip...
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The Errigal Road by John Montague
Within 'The Errigal Road' Montague delves into themes of Irish myth/legend, community, and heritage. The poem takes the reader through an engaging landscape that represents the similarities and deeper connections between all Irish people, Protestant or Catholic.
The Errigal Road John Montague
In 'The Errigal Road,' John Montague explores Irish mythological history while advocating for relationships that go beyond contemporary violence.
The poem takes the reader through a series of landmarks around Hill Head Road in Northern Ireland. The speaker and his neighbour are exploring the landscape. Montague's speaker depicts the land's history, and the neighbour explains stories and legends that they both can relate to and appreciate. As the walk comes to an end the neighbour asks that the speaker remember the clear-headed conversation they had and tell others that it's possible.
You can read the full poem here.
Structure and Poetic Techniques
The Errigal Road' by John Montague is a thirteen stanza poem that is separated into sets of three lines, known as tercets. These terces do not follow a specific rhyme scheme, nor do they conform to one metrical pattern.
Montague makes use of several poetic techniques in 'The Errigal Road' these include alliteration, enjambment, and similes. The latter, similes, are a comparison between two unlike things that uses the words "like" or "as". A poet uses this kind of figurative language to say that one thing is similar to another, not like metaphor, that it "is" another. For example, in the second line of the fifth stanza in which the speaker describes the movement of a red quarry as "a movement swift as a bird's".
Another important technique commonly used in poetry is enjambment. It occurs when a line is cut off before its natural stopping point. Enjambment forces a reader down to the next line, and the next, quickly. One has to move forward in order to comfortably resolve a phrase or sentence. For instance, the transition between lines one and two of the second stanza or the transition between lines two and three of stanza six.
A simile is a comparison between two unlike things that uses the words "like" or "as". A poet uses this kind of figurative language to say that one thing is similar to another, not like metaphor, that it "is" another. For example, these lines in stanza ten "Heavily booted soldiers probing vehicles, streets, / their strange antennae bristling, like insects."
Detailed Analysis
Stanzas One and Two
In the first stanzas of 'The Errigal Road,' the speaker begins by describing a walk he took with his "old Protestant neighbour" up along the "Hill Head Road" in Ulster, Northern Ireland. While walking, they passed a number of sights that his companion helped point out. There was the churchyard of Errigal Keerogue and various hills and valleys "celebrated in local myth". The neighbour knew these paths well. In fact, the speaker refers to them as belonging to the neighbour.
Stanzas Three and Four
Next, the neighbour points out "Whiskey Hollow" which is a line of white "lunar birches". While walking, the two take their time imagining the plotting of men hiding out in amongst the hills and feeding fires to keep warm.
Stanza Five and Six
The neighbour also mentions "Foxhole Brae" that can be found in the "torn face of a quarry". The "them" the neighbour refers to in the third line of the fifth stanza is foxes. They used to live everywhere, but now there are barely any. One appears in the sixth stanza. The red fox is generally regarded as a symbol of the Irish peasant, or as Potts states in Contemporary Irish Poetry and the Pastoral Tradition, for general Irish resourcefulness under colonization. It is quick on its feet and able to disappear and melt like rain.
Stanza Seven and Eight
The next stanzas of 'The Errigal Road' depict "Fairy Thorn Height". From there they can see more of the countryside. This place is a mythological landmark that helps the two see beyond their current differences. Catholics and Protestants can together understand the world through their common Irish Heritage.
Stanza Nine and Ten
The two expand their conversation into the wider violence that's going on around them. They think about a "gun battle outside Aughnacloy" and the machine-gun fire that rang out. There is also the story of "two men beaten up near dark Altamuskin". The last event they talk about is "an attempt to blow up Omagh Courthouse". This is a reference to a ca bombing in August of 1998 at the courthouse. It was prefaced by a telephone call warning: "There's a bomb, courthouse, Omagh, main street, 500lb, explosion 30 minutes".
Stanza Eleven and Twelve
The next lines address the chaos after the call came in. The military response is compared to insect swarms. The helicopters were like "hovering locusts" and the soldiers on the street "like insects". These are compelling similes and paint an easy to understand image of the scene.
The twelfth stanza of 'The Errigal Road' is back to describing the neighbour again. Here, he turns to address the speaker. He makes a broad statement that is simple, yet very meaningful. He asks that the speaker pass on the fact that "old neighbours" no matter their differences can "still speak to each other around here". This persevering sense of community in amongst violence and hate is the main theme of this work. The two are connected by something deeper than religious affiliation.
Stanzas Thirteen and Fourteen
In the last two stanzas of 'The Errigal Road,' the speaker describes how the neighbour said goodbye and then the speaker went on his way. He trailed back down the "main road" where he is back in the real, contemporary world. His adventures into the past are over and all of a sudden there are "cars" whipping "smartly past" him.
The last lines express his concern for the future and allude to his desire for a continuation of the neighbourly talk/walk he just went on. If only this kind of calm and clear-headed communication could occur between all those who fight around him.
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 - I understand John was at school with my Father.
 The Hill Head Road took them as travellers from the main Omagh Road (John actually went to school at Glencull or Glen Chuil, at that end of the Hillhead Road) to a T junction. We lived for a time at that exact T junction.
 To their left as they arrived, down a quite steep hill, is the ancient Errigal Keerogue graveyard with its listed Celtic cross and old church (my grandparents are buried there, as is my Father).
 They could not have passed it, but instead they then turned right, heading up the Gort Road, to where the Eagleson Family lived (and who we also occasionally visited). We moved away, but I met the Eaglesons again when i saw them after my Father's funeral in the 90's. There, I believe i met the person referenced in this poem.
 Both travellers would have known each other and the area very well.
 John would have lived even further on up that road when he was a child (having returned from New York, then being forced to live with a relative, plus suffering as a stranger with – his US accent – at the first school he was sent to… He left that place to go to Glencull)
 This whole area is steeped in folklore, mysticism, deep history, and reminders of past peoples (with dolmens, neolithic tombs, stone inscriptions, ancient place names often roughly or badly translated into English from the 1600's onwards). John had a very intimate deep interest in, and sensitivity to, the place, its history, and its unseen echoes of yesteryear.
 The poem itself was written in 1975 (published in 95) so it would be impossible that John was referring to a bomb in 1998. More likely this is a reference to a completely different and earlier incident given that the Troubles kicked off way back in 1969.
 The 1970's were an extremely difficult time for those in the border communities, with the military presence etc. No doubt even close friendships and relationships were strained at a time when so many were being killed in this particular area. This would have been very hard in a community where (quite literally) 'everybody knew everybody' and all could probably have told you every member of everyones family going back generations.
 The Whisky Hollow section is a reference to a place where Irish Moonshine (poitin) was made by use of illicit stills.
 Hope some of that gives further context.
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The challenge: Emergency wards are overcrowded
Emergency departments are increasingly overcrowded and can struggle to respond to day-to-day arrivals in a timely manner.
Most hospitals would currently have difficulty meeting the four-hour National Emergency Access Target set by the Australian Government in its 2012 MyHospitals report.
Contrary to conventional wisdom that emergency patient volumes are unpredictable, we have found that the number of admissions per day can be predicted with remarkable accuracy.
Our response: Developing tools to predict hospital demands
Hospital patient admission prediction tool: Dr James Lind describes how this tool helps hospitals manage patient load.
We have developed new software tools to accurately forecast demand and help ensure access to emergency care and a hospital bed.
These tools use a hospital's historical data to provide an accurate prediction of the expected patient load, their medical urgency and specialty, and how many will be admitted and discharged.
We are investigating how they can be used to help an entire hospital run more smoothly and efficiently, from reducing 'bed block' in emergency departments to minimising waiting time for elective surgery.
The first technology is called the Patient Admission and Prediction Tool (PAPT) and was developed at our Australian eHealth Research Centre in partnership with Queensland Health, Griffith University and Queensland University of Technology.
We are extending PAPT to predict diseases such as influenza and the hospital admissions of patients with chronic diseases.
Demand Prediction Analysis Tool is our second prediction technology and an adaptation of PAPT. It is being trialled in Victoria for the first time through the Victorian Government Technology Innovation Fund.
The results: Improving health outcomes
The tools have been shown to have a 90 per cent accuracy rate in forecasting bed demand. If the entire country was to adopt prediction tools like this, a huge $23 million in annual savings could be made across Australia.
PAPT is being used by more than 30 Queensland hospitals to assist with:
- bed management
- staff resourcing
- scheduling of elective surgery.
For patients the system has delivered improved health outcomes such as:
- timely delivery of emergency care
- improved quality of care
- less time spent in hospital.
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The value of future opportunities: comparison of information technology firms and forest companies
Kärri, Timo (1998)
Aineistoon ei liity tiedostoja.
There are several alternatives for valuing the future opportunities of firms. The traditional appraisal methods for single projects such as net present value, internalrate of return and payback rules have been criticized in recent years. It has been said that they do not take into account all growth opportunities of firms. At the company level, business valuation is traditionally based on financial and market information. Yield estimates, net worth values and market values of shares are commonly used. Naturally, all valuation methods have their own strengths and shortcomings. In the background of most estimation rules there is the idea that the future of the firms is quite clear and predictable. However, in recent times the business environment of most companies has changed to a more unpredictable direction and the effects of uncertainty have increased. There has been a growing interest in estimating the risks and values of future possibilities. The aim of the current paper is to describe the difference between the value of futureopportunities in information technology firms and forest companies, and also toanalyse the backgrounds for the observed gap.


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This small courtyard pavilion located in the center of a classroom building activates the space by functioning like a machine of learning. Benches on the second floor catalyze informal conversations and outdoor presentations can occur in the sunken lecture hall. The pavilion also complements the geometry of the surrounding courtyard building. It is located on the center axis of the courtyard and it makes use of the existing staircase to create a dramatic entrance into the lecture hall. A reflecting pool in the center of the pavilion captures the sky and pulls it down into the core of the space and radiating "arms" line up with the existing trees and incorporate them into the design logic.
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Views of stakeholders on career guidance services provided to pupils with hearing impairment at Nsonta secondary school in Kasama district of Zambia
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The study investigated the views of stakeholders on career guidance services provided to pupils with hearing impairment at Nsonta Secondary school in Kasama district of Zambia. The study was guided by the following study objectives: to establish views of stakeholders on how career guidance was being provided to pupils with hearing impairment at Nsonta secondary school, to assess teachers' ability to communicate in sign language during career guidance activities at Nsonta secondary school; to explore views of stakeholders on content of career guidance provided to pupils with hearing impairment at the study school, and to document views of stakeholders on the relevance of career guidance services provided to pupils with hearing impairment at Nsonta Secondary School. The study was qualitative in nature and used a case study design. Interview guides were used on a sample of 25 pupils with hearing impairment two career guidance teachers and six subject teachers. The sample was selected using purposive sampling techniques while analysis of data was done thematically. The study revealed that: career guidance services were mostly provided through one to one approach, in groups and industrial education visits. It was also confident that career guidance teachers dealing with pupils, were knowledgeable of sign language. Hence, communicated effectively with pupils with hearing impairment regarding information on career guidance. Among the content of the information shared were: comprehensive sexuality, time management, choosing a career, knowing one's ability, studying techniques and choosing right friends. In terms of relevance, learners with hearing impairment had conflicting views. While the majority of the pupils considered the guidance service they received from the guidance teacher as relevant, however, the study expressed concerns such as failure among other pupils to comprehend some of the topics and limitations in use of sign language by some teachers. The study recommended that, teachers have adequate knowledge and skills in sign language through Continuing Professional Development (CPDs) programs to communicate well with pupils with hearing impairment and for them to benefit from the career guidance services being currently provided in the study school.
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GREEN BAY, Wis. (WTAQ) - Students at Webster Elementary School are celebrating Arbor Day by learning how to properly and safely plant a tree. They got the lesson from Asplundh Tree Expert Company and Wisconsin Public Service.
Greg Kirchmayer with WPS says the 3 donated crab-apple trees were the right size to go under power lines. Kirchmayer says the lessons are to find the right tree, put it in the right spot and do it safely by staying away from concrete, below power lines and calling Diggers Hotline before putting the shovel in the ground.
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I want to do some math like plus, minus etc. with decimal values.
So i wrote two functions;
function to_decimal(i){
 var $dec = parseFloat(i);
 return $dec.toFixed(2);
function calc_price(){
 var $t = $('_TAG_.total').text();
 var $total = to_decimal($t);
 $('_TAG_ ul li').each(function(){
 var $p = to_decimal($(this).find('.item_price').text());
 $total = $total + $p;
 $t = $('_TAG_.total').text($total);
But these functions not working correctly i think because the result is returning string like 0.0010.30
Where is the problem?
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toFixed returns a string. – Felix Kling Jul 27 '11 at 13:43
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You need to add a + infront of that statement and you're fine:
return +$dec.toFixed(2);
That will convert the string into a number. If the string cannot get converted, it'll return the NaN value.
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As an equivalent alternative, I often use $dec.toFixed(2) * 1 instead (multiplication by one). I feel like I'm more likely to notice my intent later; the + can be hard to miss. – lwburk Jul 27 '11 at 13:50
Instead of:
return $dec.toFixed(2);
return Math.round($dec*100)/100;
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The toFixed method returns a string. Any mathematical operation that doesn't affect the output can be used to convert the string to a number (except addition, whose operator unfortunately doubles as the string concatenation operator):
$dec.toFixed(2) - 0
$dec.toFixed(2) / 1
$dec.toFixed(2) * 1
These are the fastest methods. However, if speed is not a concern (and it probably isn't when performing a small number of operations) then the clearest, most-readable method to convert a string to a number is the Number constructor:
Edit: The performance information above may no longer be universally true. The Number constructor is indeed considerably slower than each of the alternatives in IE 7.0 and Firefox 5, but actually performs the best in Chrome 12.0.742.
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Thank you. I learned something from your post. But jAndy's response is worked fine. – R. Canser Yanbakan Jul 27 '11 at 14:11
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Bronze bell from a Buddhist temple
Edo period, 17th-18th century AD
Temple bells were used to announce the time of events during the course of the day. They were hung suspended within covered towers, and rung by striking them on the outside on a raised boss using a wooden ram suspended horizontally by ropes. The bell is hung by an integral loop at the top, usually in the form of opposed dragons with the hōjū, or wishing jewel between them.
The matrices of raised nipples around the upper part of the bell derive originally from Chinese bells of the Shang dynasty (about 12th-11th century BC).


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I am trying to drill deeper into Flash player IOError handling in AS3, in
order to distinguish different types of load failures when loading child
swfs and data into a parent swf. For instance, I need to know, and react
differently to, loads errors where the file is missing altogether vs. loads
where severe network congestion mid-load interrupts a load after a part of
the file has been received.
Can anyone offer some deeper information on exactly what initial
condition(s) triggers an IOError event? Is it time-based (no bytes loaded in
N ms), a reaction to a server response, something else? I've been googling
and reading through Adobe docs all morning and haven't seen anything deeper
than the often repeated, but largely unhelpful Adobe line: "FlashR Player
dispatches an IOErrorEvent object when an error causes a send or load
operation to fail." I'm looking for more depth than that. A definition of
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2021 SFA Adaptive Surf Camp – Inclusion with Skudin Surf
The program is designed to provide individuals with disabilities the opportunity to experience the healing power of the ocean. Surfing provides a sense of freedom that fosters independence and self-esteem. We have seen surfing enhance overall balance, coordination, and sensory functioning.
Daily Schedule 9 AM to 1 PM:
Land Instruction: Safety – Hands-on instruction will be taught first addressing issues such as: "falling off the board," "surfacing," the "leash" that attaches surfers to their boards. We will stress the importance of following instructions. Students will learn the "pop up," how to jump correctly from a prone position. Finally,we will teach riding techniques that coincide to ability levels.
OCEAN SURF INSTRUCTION:
Related activities: A variety of "beach-side" recreational activities will be provided to allow campers to take breaks and physically recharge from surfing lessons. Each camp day is split between in-ocean and beach-side programs. Specific activities will include art lessons, beach games, social skills and light exercise. Our camp is a community and we want to ensure that each camper interacts with staff members and fellow campers to build a sense of belonging and camaraderie.
IMPORTANT: All participants must fill out and submit a waiver prior to participating. Waivers can be completed and submitted by participants, parents and/or guardians. Campers will not be allowed to participate unless without a waiver to Surf For All.


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In PyQt5, when we create more than one label at same position they overlap each other such that the label which was made at last should be shown at top. Although, we can set the opaque level but sometimes some label have lower priority and that's why they should be at below level therefore,
lower() method is used.
Syntax : label.lower()
Argument : It takes no argument.
Action performed : It sets lower priority to the label.
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text: This study identifies the factors which influence user participation in community-based rural water supply schemes in north Kerala, using primary data. To capture the rate of participation, two forms of indices were constructed: one to measure attendance in group meetings, and the other to measure their influence on decisions. The relative importance of factors such as locality, group and household characteristics that affect participation were analysed using linear regression models. Of the three sets of factors, it was found that household characteristics were the most influential. The analysis shows that males actively participated in group meetings. Level of education and involvement of households in other local organizations were the other major factors affecting participation.


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Let $(X,\mathcal D)$ be a Hausdorff uniform space and for each Hausdorff uniformity $\mathcal U$ on $X$, $$\mathcal U \subseteq\mathcal D\to \mathcal U =\mathcal D$$
Is $(X,\mathcal D)$ compact?
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The following are equivalent for a Tychonov space $X$:
 1. $X$ is locally compact.
 2. There is a minimal uniformity on $X$.
 3. There is a minimal totally bounded uniformity.
 4. The uniformities form a complete lattice.
 5. The totally bounded uniformities form a complete lattice.
See Shirota On systems of structures of a completely regular space Osaka Math. J. Volume 2, Number 2 (1950), 131-143.
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FIGURE S2. Southern Hemisphere
height-longitude sections at 60°S for height anomalies (contour) and
temperature anomalies (shaded). Positive values are indicated by solid
contours and dark shading, while negative anomalies are indicated by
dashed contours and light shading. Contour interval for height
anomalies is 60 m and for temperature anomalies is 2°C. Anomalies are
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In the grip of a climate crisis, demand for video calls is soaring
Video conferencing at work are often cringeworthy recipe for disaster – but their popularity is soaring. What gives?
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Have video calls suddenly become cool? Walking around the average office used to reveal people tapping on keyboards and speaking into phones. Today, you're more likely to see colleagues talking to screens filled with smiling faces in rooms booked out specifically for a video call.
Even meeting invites have changed. Where there was once a list of telephone numbers for every imaginable country with a passcode to get in, there is now just a single button to press to join a video call.
For years, video conference systems have lurked in the background, largely ignored as a worse version of a conference call. But after years of being the target of frustration and Cisco has predicted that video traffic, fuelled by conferencing and streaming services, will grow ninefold between 2017 to 2022 to a point where it will account for four fifths of all internet traffic.
The demand for video calls is so high that one in every two companies are making around 2,000 video calls per month, according to data from Forrester.
So what is driving this massive increase in video calls? Perhaps it's because all human beings prefer to see people's faces when they conduct business with them if they can. But ask those observing the rise of faces on screens and it seems three major influencers are at play: people have become comfortable with using video calls socially, they want to show off to everyone that they're working hard, and perhaps most importantly, people want to cut down on their carbon footprint.
Fred Mazzella, founder of car-pooling service BlaBlaCar, is using video conferences to reduce his personal carbon footprint from something approaching 100 flights per year to up to five. Even any speaking engagements are now fulfilled through live streaming rather than flying to the destination.
He believes more company bosses want to take action on the environment, but also that nobody gets much out of flying around the world to see the inside of another office if they don't have to.
Younger workers who have grown up making video calls via social apps on their smartphones are the ones driving the change, Mazzella says.
"Nobody likes getting up at 4am to get to an airport to spend a couple of days in meetings without ever seeing a place. It's not travelling, it's just moving where you work," he explains. "It's good for the environment and everyone's work-life balance."
Not everyone has bought into the hype that the resurgence of video calls has created. Rob Campbell, strategy director at advertising agency R/GA, believes the environmentally friendly argument tells only half the story.
It hides what he calls a "dirty little secret". Executives seeing one another on the computer screen is an opportunity to show each other they care about the environment – even if they don't – and demonstrate how busy they really are.
"I think a lot of people will say they're cutting down on carbon footprint – and they probably are – but it's also down to people wanting to show people that they're in the office. They want to be seen to be busy," he says.
Whatever the reason, the rise of video calls is probably going to make our working lives easier – and more accountable. Unlike an informal face-to-face meeting, a video call can easily be recorded and used to mine minutes and meeting notes.
Chintan Patel, chief technologist at Cisco, claims this additional recording function will make video calls far more useful than a normal phone conversation or a traditional meeting.
"Videos are a record of what was agreed and can be shared with colleagues. But because they've been recorded, that means they can be transcribed and even translated," he says.
As companies obsess over productivity, video communication is only going to gain more traction. Expect to see more links to 'join' and far fewer safe-cracking pass codes and instructions on how to dial in from Uzbekistan.
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Working paper // IFAU - Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation 2010:9
We examine the influence that co-workers' have on each other's fertility decisions. Using linked employer employee panel data for Sweden we show that female individual fertility increases if a co-worker recently had a child. The timing of births among co-workers of the same sex, educational level and co workers who are close in age is even more influential. Consistent with models of social learning we find that the peer effect for first time mothers is similar irrespective of the birth order of the co-worker's child, while for higher order births within-parity peer effects are strong but cross-parity peer effects are entirely absent. A causal interpretation of our estimates is strengthened by several falsification tests showing that neither unobserved common shocks at the workplace level, nor sorting of workers between workplaces are likely to explain the observed peer effect. We also provide evidence suggesting that peers not only affect timing of births but potentially also completed fertility, and that fertility peer influences spills over across multiple networks. Our results forward the understandings of how individual fertility timing decisions are made and suggest that social interactions could be an important factor behind the strong inter-temporal fluctuations in total fertility rates observed in many countries.


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Seven Ages Of Britain - Age Of Revolution
Seven Ages Of Britain, Episode 04 - Age Of Revolution
In this seven-part series British commentator and presenter David Dimbleby tells the story of Britain through its art and treasure.
Episode 04 - Age Of Revolution
In the 17th century the British people learnt to question everything. The result was the Civil War which spawned a re-invented monarchy, a scientific revolution and the great Cathedral of St Paul's.


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The clock Command
The clock command has facilities for getting the current time, formatting time values, and scanning printed time strings to get an integer time value. The clock command was added in Tcl 7.5. Table 13-1 summarizes the clock command:
Table 13-1. The clock command.
|clock clicks||A system-dependent high resolution counter.|
|clock format value?-format str?||Formats a clock value according to str.|
|clock scan string?-base clock??-gmt boolean?||Parses date string and return seconds value. The clock value determines the date.|
|clock seconds||Returns the current time in seconds.|
The following command prints the current time:
clock format [clock seconds]
=> Sun Nov 24 14:57:04 1996
The clock seconds command returns the current time, in seconds since a starting epoch. The clock format command formats an integer value into a date string. It takes an optional argument that controls the format. The format strings contains % keywords that are replaced with the year, month, day, date, hours, minutes, and seconds, in various formats. The default string is:
%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Z %Y
Tables 13-2 and 13-3 summarize the clock formatting strings:
Table 13-2. Clock formatting keywords.
|%%||Inserts a %. |
|%a||Abbreviated weekday name (Mon, Tue, etc.). |
|%A||Full weekday name (Monday, Tuesday, etc.). |
|%b||Abbreviated month name (Jan, Feb, etc.). |
|%B||Full month name. |
|%c||Locale specific date and time (e.g., Nov 24 16:00:59 1996).|
|%d||Day of month (01?31). |
|%H||Hour in 24-hour format (00?23). |
|%I||Hour in 12-hour format (01?12). |
|%j||Day of year (001?366). |
|%m||Month number (01?12). |
|%M||Minute (00?59). |
|%p||AM/PM indicator. |
|%S||Seconds (00?59). |
|%U||Week of year (00?52) when Sunday starts the week.|
|%w||Weekday number (Sunday = 0). |
|%W||Week of year (01?52) when Monday starts the week. |
|%x||Locale specific date format (e.g., Feb 19 1997).|
|%X||Locale specific time format (e.g., 20:10:13).|
|%y||Year without century (00?99).|
|%Y||Year with century (e.g. 1997).|
|%Z||Time zone name.|
Table 13-3. UNIX-specific clock formatting keywords.
|%D||Date as %m/%d/%y (e.g., 02/19/97).|
|%e||Day of month (1?31), no leading zeros. |
|%h||Abbreviated month name. |
|%n||Inserts a newline. |
|%r||Time as %I:%M:%S %p (e.g., 02:39:29 PM).|
|%R||Time as %H:%M (e.g., 14:39).|
|%t||Inserts a tab. |
|%T||Time as %H:%M:%S (e.g., 14:34:29).|
The clock clicks command returns the value of the system's highest resolution clock. The units of the clicks are not defined. The main use of this command is to measure the relative time of different performance tuning trials. The following command counts the clicks per second over 10 seconds, which will vary from system to system:
Example 13-1 Calculating clicks per second.
set t1 [clock clicks]
after 10000 ;# See page 218
set t2 [clock clicks]
puts "[expr ($t2 - $t1)/10] Clicks/second"
=> _PHONE_ Clicks/second
The clock scan command parses a date string and returns a seconds value. The command handles a variety of date formats. If you leave off the year, the current year is assumed.
Year 2000 Compliance
Tcl implements the standard interpretation of two-digit year values, which is that 70?9 are 1970?999, 00?9 are 2000?069. Versions of Tcl before 8.0 did not properly deal with two-digit years in all cases. Note, however, that Tcl is limited by your system's time epoch and the number of bits in an integer. On Windows, Macintosh, and most UNIX systems, the clock epoch is January 1, 1970. A 32-bit integer can count enough seconds to reach forward into the year 2037, and backward to the year 1903. If you try to clock scan a date outside that range, Tcl will raise an error because the seconds counter will overflow or underflow. In this case, Tcl is just reflecting limitations of the underlying system.
If you leave out a date, clock scan assumes the current date. You can also use the -base option to specify a date. The following example uses the current time as the base, which is redundant:
clock scan "10:30:44 PM" -base [clock seconds]
The date parser allows these modifiers: year, month, fortnight (two weeks), week, day, hour, minute, second. You can put a positive or negative number in front of a modifier as a multiplier. For example:
clock format [clock scan "10:30:44 PM 1 week"]
=> Sun Dec 01 22:30:44 1996
clock format [clock scan "10:30:44 PM -1 week"]
Sun Nov 17 22:30:44 1996
You can also use tomorrow, yesterday, today, now, last, this, next, and ago, as modifiers.
clock format [clock scan "3 years ago"]
=> Wed Nov 24 17:06:46 1993
Both clock format and clock scan take a -gmt option that uses Greenwich Mean Time. Otherwise, the local time zone is used.
clock format [clock seconds] -gmt true
=> Sun Nov 24 09:25:29 1996
clock format [clock seconds] -gmt false
=> Sun Nov 24 17:25:34 1996


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Social Dialog with Embodied Conversational Agents
Abstract Social dialogue can be used by an embodied interface agent both to satisfy "interpersonal" goals, such as building rapport with the user and demonstrating the expertise of the agent, and to directly or indirectly satisfy task goals, such as acquiring background information about the user. We describe the ongoing development of an embodied conversational agent that is capable of multimodal input understanding and output generation and operates in a limited application domain in which both social and task-oriented dialogue are used. An approach to discourse planning for social dialogue is described, along with an implementation and preliminary evaluation.


Definitions for "Jib"
A triangular sail set upon a stay or halyard extending from the foremast or fore-topmast to the bowsprit or the jib boom. Large vessels often carry several jibs; as, inner jib; outer jib; flying jib; etc.
One that jibs, or balks; a jibber.
To move restively backward or sidewise, -- said of a horse; to balk.
Keywords: bonk, snowboard, rail, slide, tricks
Riding which closely resembles street skating. "Jibbers" commonly slide rails, bonk trees and perform flatland tricks.
The act of riding on something other than snow, i.e. rails, trees, garbage cans, logs.
Describes a type of riding that most closely resembles street skateboarding. "Jibbers" commonly slide rails, bonk trees, and perform flatground tricks.
The projecting arm of a crane, from which the load is suspended.
An extension section attached to the end of a crane boom.
Projecting from the main body of a crane, this arm can be swiveled around to reach and move loads.
Keywords: dude, tease, dialect, peculiar, english
Multi functional word (see DUDE); typically used to indicate a piece of or the use of terrain park equipment but may also be used as a replacement for the English words give, pass and tease.
A dialect of the English language peculiar to certain peoples of African heritage.
Keywords: jejunoileal, bypass
Jejunoileal Bypass
A stationary condition; a standstill.
Keywords: gib, version, smaller
apparently a smaller version of gib
Keywords: dolly, camera, backwards, arm, dynamic
a camera arm used to achieve dynamic camera motion.
The arm on the dolly that allows the camera to move out to the side, as well as forwards and backwards.
Keywords: dod, personnel, joint, affairs, bureau
JOINT INFORMATION BUREAU. A news media center set up and operated by public affairs personnel of more than one DOD component. JIB personnel may include personnel from other federal agencies.
Joint Interest Billing
Keywords: refuse, comply
refuse to comply