Anime addicts' guide - What does Otaku mean?
Have you heard of the expression otaku? Do you know its true meaning? How did this term come about? In this article we will do a deep analysis on the word otaku and the people who earned this nickname both in the West and in Japan. We will also see the influence of the community otaku in Japan and the West.
The word otaku [オタク] is a Japanese term used to refer to people who are addicted to something. Over time this word began to be used frequently to refer to fans of anime, manga, novels and games. Prepare to immerse yourself in the true meaning of otaku, to help we leave a summary below:
The meaning of the word Otaku
Originally the word otaku (お宅) was a respectful treatment (sonkeigo) used in the second person, to refer to your home, house, person or family. This word has also been used to refer to husband and organizations.
 - Example: I'll call you at home tomorrow (Ashita otaku ni ukagaimasu [明日お宅に伺います]);
The ideogram of the original word is taku [宅] which literally means home. Over time this word began to be used in a negative way to refer to people who live at home watching anime, playing games, surfing the internet, etc.
otaku One of the main Japanese alternatives is the words Geek and Nerd, but more derogatory. In the dictionary, he is described as a person who has a deep interest in certain hobbies, but lacks knowledge and sociability in other fields.
Otaku can also be used as a suffix for people who like a particular hobby for example tetsudou-otaku [鉄道オタク] which means something like a train addict or mekaotaku [メカオタク] which means addicted to Meka.
Otaku - what is it? What true meaning?
The Origin of the Word Otaku
In the 1980s Akio Nakamori and other prominent authors started using the honorific otaku to refer to criminals and serial killers, anime addicts, hentais and things like that. And since the Japanese are superstitious, they stopped using that word on a daily basis, thus becoming a bad word.
Over time this word started to be used to refer to people with obsessions for something. Not only anime and manga, but anything, cars, football, games, computers, etc.
Suppose someone likes football, they have team t-shirts, they idolize the team, they are present in every game, they put football as the first place in life. It can be called otaku.
In Japan it is possible to find thousands of people addicted to anime and games, which are considered otaku, and they take this lifestyle seriously, making cosplays, spending money on products, living a normal and fun life, doing what they like.
Otaku - what is it? What true meaning?
Why are Otakus excluded from society?
In 1989, the murder of a young woman in the Saitama region was sensationalized, as the criminal was a video collector, every case was enlarged, distorted and publicized in the media, putting the name otaku as a dangerous person who commits crimes.
The negative campaign was done in style. Even today, people play otaku because of the media's influence in that incident. Of course, this is not the only reason that otaku are despised in both Japan and the West.
The media blames the otaku for the fall of Japan birth. Japanese TV often claims that otaku do not want real relationships, and are quite antisocial and hikikomori.
Another criticism against otakus is the huge consumption of erotic content in comics, games and animations, where you can find tentacles, lolis, etc. Yes, I have found several articles on Brazilian websites that talk about this subject. Japan is one of the countries that most consumes material of this type, and more than half are animations.
Westerners also often blame anime and games for a variety of problems in Japan and the western Otaku community. Few realize that the problem is not in animations and games but in addiction.
A person can be addicted to anything like movies, series and books. Otaku itself is used to refer to any type of person addicted to something like cars, toys, trains, computers, etc.
Otaku - what is it? What true meaning?
Why is this thought wrong?
The problem is that not all Otaku are antisocial, they tend to be related, live a normal life, work and have other dreams. The fact that a person is addicted to something was not necessarily to be bad.
In Brazil many are addicted to something, some live in the gym, others live drinking, many choose different priorities in their life and have fun with what they like. The fact that a person likes something does not determine his behavior.
Japanese are shy and antisocial by nature, the country's culture puts a lot of pressure on society to follow strict rules. Many end up becoming not just otakus but hikikomori NEETs who are isolated young people who live trapped indoors.
Otaku - what is it? What true meaning?
Otaku in the West
In the West, the word does not have the same connotation as Japan. Here it is usually used only to identify people who like anime. Otaku in Brazil also use the expression otome to refer to women who are anime fans, but it is worth remembering that otaku is not a masculine word, but unisex.
The amount of otakus outside of Japan is increasing a lot. The western population is neither prepared nor used to these types of people who call themselves otaku, they do not understand why they dress up and like this type of animation. Something understandable, since even today comic fans are branded as nerds, and criticized for dressing up.
Otaku - what is it? What true meaning?
The otaku are criticized in the West for the prejudice of thinking that animations are children's or children's. They do not know the depth of a story written by Japanese and do not realize that animation is just an art style like manga.
Others think that anime are crazy, full of powers, macumba, bitching, clichés, etc. They forget that there are genres and that anime are created on top of Japanese culture, made for Japanese people who think and lead a different lifestyle from Westerners. Western Otaku also admire and enjoy Japanese culture.
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What does being an Otaku involve?
For a person to become an Otaku, just addict something and put it as a priority in your life. It is clear that in both the West and Japan the term Otaku started to be used for people who have similar tastes. Otaku 99% will probably like at least 5 things from the list below:
 - Anime - Japanese animations;
 - Sleeves - Japanese Comics;
 - Light Novels - Romance books;
 - Visual Novels - Relationship games, romance and conversations;
 - RPGs - Role-playing games;
 - Cosplay - Character fantasy;
 - Japanese music - Mainly from animes;
 - OST - anime background music;
 - Action Figures - Action figures of the characters;
 - Games - All types of games in general;
 - Japan - Otaku foreigners appreciate Japanese culture;
 - Series - Otaku also watches series;
 - Computers - Most live on computers;
 - Maid Café - Maids coffee;
 - Cosplay Coffee - Themed cafes;
 - Cats - It is rare that someone does not like cats, some even dress up;
 - Moe - Cute stuff, cute anime and characters;
 - Cute things - Cuddly toys, caps, character toys;
 - Weapons and accessories - shuriken, Katana and etc;
 - Eroge - erotic games and visual novels;
 - Hentai / Yaoi / Yuri (erotic animations);
 - Doramas - Japanese dramas / series / novels;
 - Dakimakura - Printed body pillows;
 - Itasha - Cars with prints;
 - Cards - Collect anime cards;
 - Nico Nico - YouTube of otaku;
 - Akihabara - The otaku center in Japan;
 - Waifu - Most Otakus have a waifu;
This list even shows some things that are considered questionable. The point we want to make is that, watching anime doesn't make you an otaku. There are crazy otakus, and they have problems, but it is a subject that must be understood and respected.
Otaku - what is it? What true meaning?
Knowing the otaku life
I recommend some animations and sleeves, which depict the life of a otaku or something related, I'll leave a list here:
 - Pray no Imōto ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai
 - Shirobako
 - Renai Shimasen ka? (Mango)
 - Genshiken
 - Seitokai no Ichizon
 - Steins; Gate
 - Danna ga Nani wo Itteiru ka Wakaranai Ken
 - Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuutsu
Watching the anime or manga mentioned above, you can understand a little more about the life of an otaku, and how it can be interesting. Of course there are crazy and hobby-obsessed people like in the video below. Be careful not to become one of those.
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 - Incident reports: Incidents range from jams on highways to planned construction works. These reports come often from local authorities such as the police or a local traffic management central. In many areas we have partnerships with the local authorities who will send the information to us.
 - Highway sensors: Many metropolitan areas have statically installed traffic flow sensors that measure the current average speeds on highways and major roads.
 - Crowd-sourcing: While the incident reports are very punctual and the installed sensors usually focused on major highways, we are also using the wisdom of the crowd to understand the traffic situation over the whole city. These are for example Nokia smartphones running Nokia Drive. People who are consuming traffic information can also improve the service by providing anonymous information about their current travel speed.
 - Historic information: The above information is archived and assumptions are made about the current speed on a street based on the historic information if there's not enough information from sensors or probes. Many streets in a city have a very regular pattern, e.g. the same traffic jam every morning but fast during night times.
 - Modelling: In many cases the traffic situation on the whole street network can be deducted from partial information. E.g. from a heavy jam on a highway one can often deduct the situation on the slip road entering the highway as well as the streets just before that.


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K-9 Division
The Chisago County Sheriff's Office K-9 Division supports and provides an additional specialized resource for patrol officers and investigators in increasing the effectiveness in the detection and prevention of crime, as well as the apprehension of criminals, and provides protection and enhanced safety for officers and citizens.
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The K-9 Division employs 2 patrol officers with specialized skills and highly trained K-9's to support the sheriff's office in meeting its law enforcement mission. The K-9 teams provide all the duties of patrol officers with the additional capabilities of the trained K-9's.
The greatest value of the K-9 teams lies in the ability of each dog's keen sense of sight, smell and hearing, which aid and enable the teams to track and locate missing or wanted person, locate evidence or lost property, apprehend fleeing or combative fugitives, and pinpoint hidden contraband.
The K-9 teams provide a positive public image of the sheriff's office expertise and efficiency. Regularly, the K-9 teams must train to maintain their proficiency to remain deployed as an operational asset. This constant training of the teams maintains a high level of readiness, ensuring the Chisago County community that each K-9 team is prepared for any eventuality.
In addition to the law enforcement mission, the K-9 Division performs public demonstrations and visits to local schools and civic organizations.
The Chisago County Sheriff's Office K-9's have many skills that make them a valuable tool for law enforcement.
Area Search
The K-9's can search large areas for contraband and illegal drug interdiction, as well as for suspects, and locates them using their heightened sense of smell.
Building Searches
The K-9's can enter a building and search it for an intruder in a fraction of the time it would take officers.
Criminal Apprehension
In the circumstance of a fleeing felon or violent individual refusing to surrender to law enforcement, the K-9's are trained to physically apprehend suspects and render them into submission for law enforcement to take them into custody.
Drug Search
The K-9's are trained to detect the odor of illegal narcotics. They are an extremely important tool in the fight against drugs in our community. When the K-9's indicate the odor of narcotics, it gives law enforcement probable cause to search.
The K-9's use their heightened sense of smell to detect the path of fleeing criminals or missing children / adults. K-9's use a combination of the scent of the individual and also the disturbed ground scent a person makes when they step. They can track across many surfaces that include concrete, grass, sand, and gravel.
The K-9's are considered Deputy Sheriffs and have their own equipment issued by the sheriff's office. They ride in special patrol cars that are set up to ensure K-9 safety and comfort. The patrol cars have their windows tinted to help minimize the heat. They also have temperature alarms that lower the windows and sound the horn if the interior temperature gets too high. The patrol cars have special cages built into them for K-9's. They have rubber mats and are ergonomically designed for comfort and safety. The cages have a water dish that allows the K-9's to stay hydrated throughout their shifts. The patrol cars also have additional lighting on them to maximize their visibility.
The K-9 Division is committed to serving its community and providing the highest quality of service to its citizens. If you wish to request a demonstration, you may contact:
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2 Different Date Data Sets
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I have a problem where I need to match up 2 different data sets to show funnel. Create Date & Demo Date. I need to show this data by week number. A demo date can be weeks after the create date. Here is my example:
Data set 1
Week Create Count
1 10
2 20
Data Set 2
Week Demo Count
1 3
2 8
How can I merge these data sets do I can get matching numbers as shown below:
Week Create Demo
1 10 3
2 20 8
 - MarkSnodgrass
 MarkSnodgrass Portland, Oregon 🟤
 You need to join these two datasets together to make one dataset. The easiest way to do this is with Magic ETL. The below example shows you more than just joining, but the idea is that you can use the join tile to join your two datasets together. You would join on week. You might want to review this KB article to better understand the different types of joins if you are unfamiliar with the concept.
 - GrantSmith
 GrantSmith Indiana 🟤
 Hi _USER_
 alternatively you can use a data set view to join your two datasets together.
 another option to think about might be instead of joining your data together you UNION / stack your data together such that you have
 Demo | 1 | 3
 Create | 1 | 10
 - jaeW_at_Onyx
 jaeW_at_Onyx Budapest / Portland, OR 🟤
 Sorry _USER_ and _USER_ hard disagree.
 Don't JOIN the data. APPEND them.
 If you get to the point where you have multiple rows per week OR if dataset 1 is at a different granularity than dataset2 then you end up with row growth (because you're JOINING) and you have to crazy math to 'SUM DISTINCT).
 1) add a constant "Activity Type" to each dataset so you know what type of metric you're dealing with
 2) duplicate the date column and call it "Activity Date" for both datasets. (then use Activity Date in Analyzer).
 3) UNION the data
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By Sola Ogundipe
A MENTAL health expert and representative of LifeLine International Continental, Prof Taiwo Lateef Sheikh, has called for renewed approach towards tackling the challenge of suicide in Nigeria and africa as a whole.
Sheikh, who spoke as Nigeria joined the rest of the world to mark the 2023 World Suicide Prevention Day, said,"There is no one-size-fits-all solution to this challenge. In Africa, attitudes towards suicide are deeply intertwined with cultural, traditional, and religious beliefs. We need to change these perceptions, address myths, and provide support to those in need. Our approach must align with our cultural values to create lasting impact.
"We support the establishment of frameworks for suicide prevention and evidence-based suicide prevention interventions within communities in partnership with local players, and campaign to change the law in countries where suicide remains a crime, and wherever other laws restrict access to life-saving help."
He observed that suicide remains a significant issue across the African continent, which is home to six of the 10 countries with the highest suicide rates in the world, but said with access to timely and available crisis support services,lives can be saved.
"As we mark World Suicide Prevention Day in 2023, under the theme "Creating hope through action", we believe that by talking about suicide, and by providing better access to evidence-based interventions, we have the power to change the misconceptions and beliefs about suicide, and prevent this tragic loss of life across Africa."
Sheikh said across Africa, insufficient public spending on mental health and suicide prevention is a major barrier for providing assistance, noting that the role of frontline organisations such as LifeLine International's Members is doubly important.
He regretted that mental health, including the risk of suicide, affects millions of people across Africa even as stigma and cultural misconceptions often compound these issues.
"Effective suicide prevention can only take place through a whole-of-society approach that involves the government, CSOs, and community leaders. Tackling suicide and creating environments where individuals feel supported – and comfortable enough to seek help – requires reshaping attitudes.
He called for commitment d to advocating for and supporting policy change, including in the most challenging environments where suicide remains a crime. Criminalisation is counterproductive, reinforcing stigma and creating barriers for individuals seeking help. It is an unnecessary measure that does not deter suicide.
According to the World Health Organisation, WHO, suicide is a major public health problem with far-reaching social, emotional and economic consequences.
"Creating Hope Through Action" is the triennial theme for the World Suicide Prevention Day from 2021-2023. The theme serves as a powerful call to action and reminder that there is an alternative to suicide and that through our actions we can encourage hope and strengthen prevention.
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electrical (part of speech: adjective)
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- Campfellowship inspired all the great captains and established the magnetic current between the leader and the soldier. - "Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862", Adam Gurowski.
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Siu Nim Tao
is the first open-hand form, or taolu
, of Wing Chun kung fu
. The form may also be called Sil Lim Tao or Sil Lum Tao.
Siu Nim Tao is a traditional form from Wing Chun Kung Fu and its history is similar to that of Wing Chun. The form originated in the Shaolin temple approximately 250 years ago. Little is known prior to this, however, many martial arts employ a neutral position when first teaching students the basic elements of a particular style.
All the basic hand movements used in Wing Chun are contained in Siu Nim Tao. There is minimal leg movement in the form; the feet only move to set up the stance in the initial movements.
Siu Nim Tao practice:
- defines the centreline and teaches students where their hands should be relative to it
- teaches students how to execute Wing Chun strikes correctly
- reinforces the correct elbow position
- instills correct breathing patterns
- facilitates force generation in short range Wing Chun strikes
Great emphasis is put on relaxation while performing Siu Nim Tao. This facilitates efficiency of movement and hand speed. Some teachers, notably Chu Shong Tin, place enormous emphasis on relaxation during Siu Nim Tao practice.
Siu Nim Tao can be used as a form of moving and breathing meditation
. In addition, it increases student concentration and focus. The form is also used extensively to develop forward energy in Wing Chun practitioners.
Demonstrations of the form
Although many of the movements are similar, Siu Nim Tao varies significantly between schools and branches
Tsui Sheung Tin
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Walk pastures to identify hazards
Walking pastures periodically to identify hazards will reduce risk of injury to your horse.
Summertime is upon us and horses have been turned out to pasture now for a few months. Many horse owners may have experienced a time when a horse comes in from the pasture and you observe some sort of injury (scratch, cut, swollen leg, etc.) to the horse and you are perplexed as to how the horse may have injured itself. It is important to recognize that pastures will change throughout the season and hazards that were not present in the spring may now be present. So, this raises the question, have you walked your pasture lately to identify potential hazards?
Hazards can range from toxic weeds to tree limbs with wilted leaves that have fallen on the fence, to a leaning fence post to even ground hog holes. The following photos illustrate ground hog holes recently discovered in two different horse pastures. If a horse accidentally stepped into a hole such as this, injury could be very serious and possibly fatal.
Michigan State University Extension recommends walking your horse pastures periodically to identify hazards that could injure your horse. As illustrated in the pictures above, some hazards may not be easily seen from a distance. Therefore, it is imperative to be thorough and walk the whole pasture in a zigzag pattern. When making a walkthrough of the pasture, it is a good idea to document where the hazard is located in the pasture if you have to return to remove it. This could be done a variety of different ways but most notably by taking notes or marking it with colored tape or flags.
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About the Expedition
Satellite Antarctica Expedition 2005-2006 - 'SAE 05-06' took place
at the end of 2005 - the beginning of 2006 within the framework of the
'Image of the
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The purpose of the expedition was:
To make the presented data uniform the Lambert Conformal Conic Projection was used having the following parameters:
The scale is: one pixel - 1000 m
along the Latitude of Intersection (75°S) for the year 2006, and 1000
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The source of the toponymic data and Antarctica maps: USGS.
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NASA has announced that Johnson Space Center and Texas A&M University will sign an agreement on Monday to begin the move of the primary space shuttle launch and landing trainer, the Shuttle Motion Simulator, to College Station:
The NASA-Texas A&M partnership will allow the university to house and showcase unique space shuttle training artifacts. The Shuttle Motion Simulator provided a full-motion simulation of shuttle launches and landings for every crew that flew on the shuttle. It began operations at JSC in 1977 and was used in training for all 135 space shuttle missions.
The facility that housed the shuttle simulators at JSC continues to be used for International Space Station training. This partnership will help ensure that this unique historical artifact and the space shuttle training technology it represents is preserved and used to inspire future engineers. JSC welcomes opportunities for such partnerships that find areas of common interest of benefit to both parties.


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A food taster is a person tasked with ingesting food or drinks that have been prepared for someone else, to confirm they are safe to eat or drink and devoid of poisons.
Known food tasters
- Ummet, for King Aegon II Targaryen
- Gaemon Palehair, for King Aegon III Targaryen
- King Aerys II Targaryen's food taster, who was forced to suckle at the teats of Prince Viserys's wet nurse before he could be fed.
- Ser Boros Blount, for King Tommen I Baratheon
I begged Lord Arryn to use a taster, in this very room I begged him, but he would not hear of it. Only one who was less than a man would even think of such a thing, he told me.—Varys, to Eddard Stark
- ↑ Fire & Blood, The Dying of the Dragons—The Short, Sad Reign of Aegon II.
- ↑ The World of Ice & Fire, The Targaryen Kings: Aegon II.
- ↑ The World of Ice & Fire, The Targaryen Kings: Aerys II.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 67, Jaime VIII.
- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 30, Eddard VII.


text: This study examines the chronemics of response latencies in asynchronous computer-mediated communication (CMC) by analyzing three datasets comprising a total of more than 150,000 responses: email responses created by corporate employees, responses created by university students in course discussion groups, and responses to questions posted in a public, commercial online information market. Mathematical analysis of response latencies reveals a normative pattern common to all three datasets: The response latencies yielded a power-law distribution, such that most of the responses (at least 70%) were created within the average response latency of the responders, while very few (at most 4%) of the responses were created after a period longer than 10 times the average response latency. These patterns persist across diverse user populations, contexts, technologies, and average response latencies. Moreover, it is shown that the same pattern appears in traditional, spoken communication and in other forms of online media such as online surveys. The implications of this uniformity are discussed, and three normative chronemic zones are identified.


Ice Melting Kit
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A striking demonstration. Place an ice cube on each of these two identical looking black blocks at room temperature. One ice cube instantly begins to melt and is totally gone in about 90 seconds. The other ice cube shows no evidence of melting whatsoever. Great for showing the difference in heat conductivity in different materials. This demo is simple enough for elementary students, yet of just as much interest to high school students and educators. Set of two blocks.


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The Amazon milk frog is found in tropical rain forests in northern South America. It lives its entire life in the forest canopy and rarely, if ever, descends to the ground. This species is considered large for a tree frog and adults usually range in size from 2.5 to 4 inches. Males are smaller than females.
The coloration of an adult Amazon milk frog can range from dark brown with light grey or white banding, to light grey with dark brown banding. Juveniles are banded black and white. The eyes are golden in color with a black Maltese cross centered on the pupil. There is a vocal sac on each side of the head.
Look for the Amazon milk frog in green tree boa exhibit in the River Scout gallery.


The Environmental Benefits of Meal Kits
environmental benefits of meal kits
Have you considered using home delivery meal kits but thought that, due to the individually wrapping ingredients, it's worse for the environment?
According to research meal kits may actually be better for the environment than your average supermarket shop.
The food system is estimated to comprise 19–29% of global man-made greenhouse gas emissions. Over the recent years we have seen the emergence of home delivery meal kits such as Riverford and Gousto, who have tapped into a rising trend. As a society our lives are getting busier, these services offer to save consumers time by delivering the needed ingredients for home cooked meals. This eliminates time spent on planning meals and purchasing ingredients.
Despite their ease, how environmentally friendly are these helpful kits?
Comparing Emissions From Meal Kits Vs. a Supermarket Shop
A study in the Resources, Conservation and Recycling journal delved into this topic when they compared the greenhouse gas emissions of supplying a meal as a meal kit (from Blue Apron), to supplying the same meal through a traditional supermarket shop.
How a Traditional Supermarket Shop Produces More Emissions
emissions associated with a supermarket shop
Many people perceive meal kits as worse due to the packaging of pre-portioned ingredients. However, the study found that, when considering the full life cycle, supermarket meals exceeded meal kits' emissions by 33% (6.1 kg CO2e/meal vs 8.1 kg CO2e/meal).
There were a few reasons for this:
 1. The meal kits' direct-to-consumer model presents large emissions savings (1.35 kg CO2e/meal) as supermarkets' brick-and-mortar model results in food waste from non-purchased products.
 2. A supermarket's food waste has higher emissions than meal kit's processing waste, as it is further down the supply chain. Meaning whilst food from meal kits may be wasted when packaging the food in the factories, the food thrown away by supermarkets includes transportation and refrigeration emissions.
 3. Traditional supermarket shopping produces a greater amount of emissions through consumer food waste, exceeding meal kits by an average of 0.86 kg CO2e/meal. The difference can be attributed to the pre-portioned ingredients meaning less is thrown away.
 4. Meal kits use refrigeration packs to store the food, which produce less greenhouse gas emissions than retail refrigeration. However, the emissions produced by refrigeration packs is dependent on the type used, as water-based refrigerant packs produce much less than chemical-based refrigerants. Moreover, supermarket refrigeration has the potential to improve in the future and reduce emissions.
 5. Last-mile emissions (the transport to the consumer's home) are 0.45 kg CO2e/meal greater for supermarket meals than for meal kits. This is due to it being a round trip made by an individual consumer with variance in vehicle type, distance, and number of meals transported per trip. On the other hand, meal kits are delivered by a package or mail service via a truck on an optimised route. This finding supports previous findings that food delivery services produce less greenhouse gas emissions than consumers' individual trips to the supermarket.
Instances Where Meal Kits Produce Higher Emissions
packaging associated with meal kits
Aside from this, meal kits had higher emissions than supermarket meals in two instances:
 1. Meal kits had higher end-of-life emissions associated with the packaging that ended up in landfill. As a result, recycling packaging resulted in a 14% decrease in emissions for meal kits and 4% for supermarket meals.
 2. Packaging emissions for meal kits exceed supermarkets by an average increase of 0.17 kg CO2e/meal.
Total food waste comprises an estimated 2% of the U.S.' national greenhouse gas emissions (Venkat, 2011). Thus, even if meal kits do increase the ratio of packaging-to-product they reduce food waste, which can result in a net environmental benefit. The study's results supported a 2017 study which also found that meal kits yield lower food waste, higher packaging, and lower last-mile transportation emissions, with an average overall reduction in greenhouse gas emissions of 4% (Fenton, 2017).
How Supermarkets Can Decrease Emissions
It is still important to note that there are ways to decrease supermarkets' emissions without the increase in packaging that comes with meal kits. This includes:
 - Retailers recovering supermarkets' food waste to provide socioeconomically disadvantaged groups with food.
 - Improving the use of analytics to predict customer shopping behaviour to avoid overstocking.
 - Engaging with customers to implement regimes such as meal planning to reduce consumer food waste.
Overall, it seems that meal kits can not only benefit your lifestyle but also the environment. Especially for busier people who struggle to put time aside for meal planning, opting into these home delivery services could seriously help you reduce your carbon footprint by reducing your food waste. However, there is still a lot of packaging waste associated with these meal kits so we recommend opting for ones who are more environmentally conscious.
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In daily life, people who often cook often know that they must change patterns and tastes frequently, so that even if the family eats nutrition, it can also increase the family's appetite. Everyone knows that they want to eat meat fillings and mix them by themselves.It can also add a little fun to life and make life more diversified, but how to make meat dumplings delicious?
In fact, the meat dumplings are delicious when there is a trick.
How to make meat dumplings delicious?
1. First, choose the meat (pork, lamb, beef, etc.). According to personal preference, it is not good to choose lean meat. The dumpling stuffed out will be slightly dry and affect the taste.
So choose fat and thin, fat and lean meat is best.
2. You can use a meat grinder to grind the filling, eliminating the need for a chop.
If you like to eat better dumplings and overcome the force of dumplings, you can chop it by yourself. First cut the meat into thin slices, then cut it into shreds, and finally cut it into small dices. Cut before chopping.Try to cut it a bit.
3. The meat filling is adjusted well. The step of adding water is very important. Add the chopped meat filling to the water three times. After each addition, it will be even for a while, then place it for a while and add it again.
When stirring, pay attention to turning in a clockwise direction, add the minced ginger to the meat, and then add cooking wine, salt, chicken essence, and pepper powder in order.
4. In order to color the meat, it seems to overcome the appetite, then add soy sauce and continue to stir, then add the sesame oil on top until it is stirred vigorously.
5, chopped scallions and garlic for later use, it is best to enlarge the scallions, the scallions can not adjust the taste of scallions.
Chopped green onion and ginger should be placed when you eat it. If you leave it for too long, it will affect the taste. If you do n't add other vegetables, just eat meat and green onion stuffing.
6. After the onion is enlarged and mixed evenly, put a spoonful of oil on it, so that the meat filling looks more smooth and smooth, tastes more fragrant and tastes better.
The prepared mincemeat can be baked patties, and dumplings and buns can be made.
How to make delicious dumpling stuffing?
First of all, the ratio of meat and vegetables should be appropriate.
First, the meat-to-dish ratio of dumplings is 1: 1 or 1: 0.
5 is appropriate.
First, don't dump the juice.
It is determined that more than 60% of the vitamins will be lost after the Chinese cabbage is dehydrated.
In order to avoid nutrition loss and waste, the scientific method is: after chopping the vegetable stuffing, first squeeze the vegetable juice out into the pot, add the meat and soy sauce one after the other, and stir thoroughly to make the vegetable juice penetrate into the meat, thenAdd the dishes and stir well.
For vegetarian dumplings, you can also chop the vegetable stuffing first, pour it into the pan (pot), add cooking oil (vegetable oil) and stir gently, let the oil wrap the vegetables, and then add salt and seasoning.
In this way, not only the nutrition is preserved, the dumpling fillings are also tender and delicious. If it is leek meat fillings, the vegetable fillings are mixed with oil, and then the mixed meat fillings (with enough salt) are poured and mixed well.
The vegetable stuffing is mixed with oil first, and is covered with a layer of oil film. It is not easy to dehydrate when it encounters salt.
The dumplings wrapped with this stuffing taste very fresh and have a clear fragrance of vegetable juice.
Finally, the meat is chopped.
Make the stuffed meat and chop it with a knife to become velvety.
When there is a lot of lean meat, you can add the appropriate amount of vegetable juice or water; when there is a lot of fat, add less vegetable juice or water, and stir vigorously in one direction.
After the meat is sticky, add appropriate amount of pepper powder, spiced oil, salt, fresh ginger, MSG, sesame oil, and continue to stir.
At the same time, soy sauce should be added slowly little by little.
If there is broth, it is best to add broth, add the drops and stir until it becomes a paste, and then pour the vegetable stuffing and stir well.
Dumplings made with this kind of dumpling stuffing have rich soup and tender meat.
When adding dumplings with a little sugar, the dumplings will have a delicious seafood flavor.


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NumberFormat is an option for NumberForm and related functions which specifies how the mantissa, base and exponent should be assembled into a final print form.
With the setting NumberFormat
f, the function f is supplied with three arguments: the mantissa, base and exponent of each number to be printed.
The arguments are all given as strings.
When no exponent is to be printed, the third argument is given as "".
The function f must return the final format for the number.
See the Mathematica book: Section 2.8.7.
See also: ExponentFunction.
The default is to use scientific notation for all numbers with exponents outside the range -5 to 5.
This gives the exponents in Fortran-like e-format.
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IMBISA Bishops call on Leaders of the Member States of the Southern African Development Community, SADC, to respond to the Challenge of Migration caused by Economic Hardships and Conflicts in the Region
The Bishops of the Interregional Meeting of Bishops in Southern Africa, IMBISA, have written a letter to the leaders of the countries that make up the Southern African Development Community, SADC, to give more attention to the economic challenges and conflicts in the region. They note that many people in the region are migrating for economic reasons and going to neighbouring countries in search of survival while others are forced to leave their homes and countries by conflicts. Mention is given of the economic situation in Zimbabwe which has forced thousands of Zimbabweans to migrate to other countries as economic refugees. Another example is Mozambique where the conflict between the government and RENAMO forces has forced hundreds to flee their homes. The Bishops encourage the home countries of the refugees and the host nations to work together to find solutions. They point out that the protection of the lives of the refugees and their families is of paramount importance to the church. They appeal to the SADC leaders not to wait until the situation is out of hand, when foreign powers will come and act as policemen, which is so humiliating for Africa. IMBISA is an association of Catholic Bishops Conferences comprising Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, Sao Tome e Principe, South Africa, Swaziland, Zimbabwe. Most of the economic refugees in these countries are attracted to go to Botswana and South Africa which are the regional big economies.


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Many industrial fires are caused by oil spray from a high pressure hydraulic fluid leak. The leak can create an atomized spray that may project up to 40 ft (12 m) from the release point. Pressurized sprays produce small droplets that are ignited at temperatures below the normal flash point.
Typical features for hydraulics are:
- A variety of false alarm sources may occur.
- High ventilation rates may be present.
- Be sure to monitor the drainage areas.
- Sprinklers will have little effect on an oil spray fire but will at least cool the adjacent materials.
- Use the alarm signal of the flame detector for a shut-down of the high pressure pump.
Detector choice: recommended IR3 Flame Detectors.


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Fun : Stitching video frames
Traditionally, using Autopano to create panoramas involves two major steps: the photo shoot and the stitching.
The first step seems to be absolutely necessary; without it, how do we get images we can match up and make into panoramas? There is an alternative, however... Video!
Why not give Autopano video images to stitch? When a camera moves, a scene dissolves into a series of images than can be matched up. The resulting panorama can be quite interesting.
Here's an example of some (sadly) famous footage that could be used for this type of project:
This opens up a new world: no longer do we CREATE panoramas from nothing; we can FIND panoramas hidden in videos!
Using videos in Autopano sounds like a fun idea, but, you'll say, there's a problem. Autopano can only handle images, not video.
Of course, so let's give it images, and I'll show you how to extract frames from a video using a free, high-powered tool called FFmpeg.
How to extract images
FFmpeg is a command line tool available for all platforms whose main purpose is to encode and decode video flows and convert them.
However, it is also capable of performing more exotic operations like extracting frames from a video.
The official FFmpeg project site has very thorough documentation for Windows and MacOSX users. The commands discussed in this tutorial are functional on Linux.
We have a video entitled jfk.mp4 which runs at 25 frames per second. Autopano doesn't need all the frames; one per second of film will be quite enough. Here is the command line, explained:
ffmpeg -i jfk.mp4 -r 1 frames/jfk-frame-%03d.jpg
 - -i jfk.mp4: input file
 - -r 1: option specifying the number of frames per second (one in this example)
 - frames/jfk-frame-%03d.jpg: template for filenames to be generated
Image output files are placed in the previously-created directory frames/.
jfk-frame-%03d.jpg is a name template which tells ffmpeg how to name the images that are generated and which format to encode them in.
Here the images will be in jpeg format and will be assigned 3-digit numbers including 0 (which is useful for sequencing them). Here are the contents of the directory once the operation is finished:
Tutorial5 framesDir.png
And there you go! Note that each jpeg file includes the image's position in the video in seconds, which can be useful later on. (This is of course linked to the value assigned to the -r option in ffmpeg.)
Icon attention.png For long videos, the name template will need to be changed, replacing %03d (up to 999 images) with %04d (up to 9999 images, or 2h46m39s at one image per second), or with greater values if necessary.
Finding Panoramas
Now that we know how to extract frames from a video, we still have to find panoramas. There are two possibilities: either you've located a sequence in a video that would make a nice panorama, or or you would rather let Autopano find one for you, something it does very well, as we shall see:
 - In the first example, I've located a section in the video jfk.mp4 between 19s and 34s that seems suitable for a panorama. I drag all the files from jfk-frame-19.jpg through jkf-frame.jpg to Autopano and stitch a panorama.
 - In the second example, all the frames are extracted from a video and placed in a file, and the file is dragged to Autopano. Detection finds various panoramas and classifies them by the number of images they contain.
 With this method, most interesting panoramas generally end up at the top of the list. The screenshot below shows the product of 419 frames taken from an archival film of the Second World War and input in Autopano for detection.
 Note : Some panoramas are the result of a slight camera movement and are not at all interesting. On the other hand, some reveal particularly intriguing scenes.
Autopano finding panormas in the video's frames
Panoramas from before we knew how to make them
The example in the preceding paragraphs illustrates an idea: Extracting panoramas from videos made in an era when panoramas did not yet exist.
Here are some interesting panoramas where historic events can be seen as never before!
Assassination of President John F. Kennedy
Obviously, the quality of the rendering is not at all comparable to panoramas created from photos taken with modern equipment. But it should be understood that the interest of historical panoramas does not lie in the quality of picture, but in rather in the visual content that has never been published before.
Here are some panoramas created from a documentary film integrating footage from the Second World War (source: _URL_
Normandy Landing - 1944
Bombing of a French City - 1944
Bombing of a French City - 1944
Panoramas of places where no man has gone before
No one has gone to Mars yet to take panoramas. However, with Autopano, we can make good use of photos and films taken by the Mars Rover. The following film is especially interesting for our purposes:
The Surface of Mars (source: _URL_
Using the principal explained above, here is the panorama created from the video:
Panorama of the Surface of Mars
Closing film credits
The movie ends, the credits roll, and you can't quite read it all. Don't worry, you're normal! If you've recorded the movie, you keep hitting pause/play, rewind...and getting frustrated. Those days are over!
Here is an excerpt from the first "Pirates of the Caribbean" film. The frames were extracted and Autopano was used to assemble them.
All you have to do now is print it out on a parchment scroll and unroll it at your leisure.
Example of Closing Film Credits (source: "Pirates of the Caribbean")
Sports: A play unfolds
A panorama taken during a sporting event will always be a picture of a given moment. It would be very difficult to take a picture of an entire play. That's exactly what video is for. What happens if we apply the above method of photo stitching to a sports video?
Let's take one of Zinedine Zidane's best-executed goals. Here's the recap:
1. The goalie clears the ball, which is then deflected off a player's head
2. Zidane kicks the ball on the fly at 35 meters from the goal
3. The opposing goalie is tricked
Video of a goal by Zinedine Zidane (source: _URL_
The panorama created from the video merges 3 phases of the play:
Zinedine Zidane's Goal
This tutorial presents a new use of Autopano: extracting images from a video. These images are usually of much lower quality than photographs, and often prove to be blurred.
It is never possible to make them into panoramas rendered perfectly down to the last pixel, even with HD quality film. Their primary interest lies mostly in the content that can be discovered, as we have seen.
You've just learned how a new world is opening up, limited only by your imagination. It's time to dust off those old movies from your vacation and begin your quest for hidden panoramas...Have fun!
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This category recognises creativity and innovation in fully integrated destination marketing activities. This category is open to Regional Tourism Organisations, Local Tourist Associations, Visitor Information Centres, local government and organisations that are marketing on behalf of a destination.
1. BACKGROUND (20 points)
Outline the rationale and objectives behind your marketing activity.
Tips: What were you trying to accomplish? You are encouraged to include measurable targets such as number of campaign partners, number of visitors, length of stay, regional dispersal, expenditure etc.
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Describe the marketing strategies used and detail the success and outcomes.
Tips: Include all forms of marketing – print, digital, broadcast, PR etc. Include how your activity has positively impacted on the destination and/or stakeholders within your region as well as the individual outcomes of each strategy. This should be linked to the objectives identified in Question 1.
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Explain how you evaluated the success of your activities.
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You would have to think about how to do the lookup, since there are two methods that the set needs,
The hash is a "loose part" that you can take away, but the
__eq__ is not a loose part that you can save; you have to have two strings for the comparison.
If you only need negative confirmation (this item is not part of the set), you could fill a Set collection you implemented yourself with your strings, then you "finalize" the set by removing all strings, except those with collisions (those are kept around for eq tests), and you promise not to add more objects to your Set. Now you have an exclusive test available.. you can tell if an object is not in your Set. You can't be certain if "obj in Set == True" is a false positive or not.
Edit: This is basically a bloom filter that was cleverly linked, but a bloom filter might use more than one hash per element which is really clever.
Edit2: This is my 3-minute bloom filter:
class BloomFilter (object):
Let's make a bloom filter
__contains__ has false positives, but never false negatives
def __init__(self, hashes=(hash, )):
self.hashes = hashes
self.data = set()
def __contains__(self, obj):
return all((h(obj) in self.data) for h in self.hashes)
def add(self, obj):
self.data.update(h(obj) for h in self.hashes)


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Foundation for Developmental Disabilities
Individuals living with a developmental disability like cerebral palsy, epilepsy, autism or intellectual disabilities, face many challenges in the course of learning, working, and living in the community. The Foundation for Developmental Disabilities, serving the San Diego and Imperial counties, is a resource for those individuals and their families.
"Explore the ability in disability! access/ABILITY" - is an award-winning exhibit created by Boston Children's Museum features hands-on activities and personal stories that inspire visitors of all ages. The exhibit allows visiters to learn phrases in American Sign Language, type their name in Braille, try a hand-pedaled bike and take part in a multi-sensory City Walk!
This powerful and highly-interactive exhibit not only teaches respect and understanding, but demonstrates how people living with disabilities can lead active, fulfilling, and meaningful lives.
The exhibit is currently scheduled to run from October 13, 2012 through June 30, 2013. Go to the Museum of Man website for more information.


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Abstract Routing Models and Abstractions in the Context of Vehicle Routing / 2639
René Schönfelder, Martin Leucker
The functional and the algebraic routing problem are generalizations of the shortest path problem. This paper shows that both problems are equivalent with respect to the concept of profile searches known from time-dependent routing. Because of this, it is possible to apply various shortest path algorithms to these routing problems. This is demonstrated using contraction hierarchies as an example. Furthermore, we show how to use Cousots' concept of abstract interpretation on these routing problems generalizing the idea of routing approximations, which can be used to find approximative solutions and even to improve the performance of exact queries. The focus of this paper lies on vehicle routing while both the functional and algebraic routing models were introduced in the context of internet routing. Due to our formal combination of both fields, new algorithms abound for various specialized vehicle routing problems. We consider two major examples, namely the time-dependent routing problem for public transportation and the energy-efficient routing problem for electric vehicles.


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Studies show that children who are cruel to animals very often grow up to be violent adults. Teaching children to be kind to animals and to respect them as Gods special creation is an important element in preventing violent behavior in their adult lives.
The links and resources below provide fun, imaginative, educational ways for kids to learn about the majesty of Gods creation.
Links to some of the best pages for kids to learn about animals.
BOOKS FOR CHILDREN
The following books illustrate the mercy and compassion for all beings that is at the heart of Islam. Adults will also find these books enlightening and entertaining.
An exciting and colorful introduction to the world of animals, which is a hymn in itself, bringing out in full glory the wonders of Allahs creation. From the back cover. For younger children.
Animals in Islam (B. Aisha Lemu)
Aimed at children ages 8-10, this illustrated book teaches kindness for animals and talks about their special lives, as well as our duties to animals. Includes an activity section to get kids thinking about animals though plays, imaginative games, poetry, and so on.
Crocodiles Pray (Amana Publications)
Jamaals school goes on a trip to learn that all animals worship Allah in their own special way. But only Jamaal can figure out how the crocodiles glorify God. For ages 6 and up.
Love All Creatures (The Islamic Foundation)
a collection of five stories from the life and teachings of the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him), showing what he taught and practiced about mercy, compassion, and kindness to all creatures of the Merciful and Mercy-Giving God. He himself has been described by the Qur'an as the Mercy for all the Worlds and Beings; his mercy extends to all creatures for all times to come, even to animals. Primarily intended for 8- to 11-year-old-children. From the back cover


The Department of Housing and Urban Development's Office of Policy Development and Research (PD&R) has the authority to accept unsolicited research proposals that address current research priorities and allow PD&R to participate in innovative research projects that inform HUD's policies and programs. In accordance with statutory requirements, the research proposals must be submitted by eligible applicants, (eligible applicants are: academic institutions, philanthropic entities, States, federally recognized tribes, and units of local government, and not-for-profit and for-profit institutions located in the United States) and provide cost sharing for at least 50 percent of total project cost from philanthropic entities or Federal, state or local government agencies.
The Department is interested in increasing participation of Minority Serving Institutions of higher education and Historically Black Colleges and Universities in all program areas. Therefore, HUD encourages eligible entities that are not themselves MSIs or HBCUs to develop partnerships with MSIs and HBCUs.
PD&R is focusing its cooperative agreement efforts on research partnerships that will advance one of the following key areas:
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Sound travels at 344 metres per second in air at 20 °C. This is slow enough for noises to be noticeably delayed when heard from even quite a short distance. You can use this effect to measure the speed of sound.
Ask your helper to a hit a wall or a piece of metal repeatedly with the hammer, about twice every second. The exact frequency of the beat doesn't matter; it can be measured later. But the beat should be regular.
Now start walking away, looking back from time to time to watch your helper pounding away as you listen to the sound of their hammering. As the distance increases, the delay after each beat before the sound arrives will become longer and longer.
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We study the effects of structural inhomogeneity on the quasi-static growth of strike-slip faults. A layered medium is considered, made up of an upper layer bounded by a free surface and welded to a lower half-space with different elastic property. Mode III crack is employed as a mathematical model of strike-slip fault, which is nucleated in the lower half-space and then propagates towards the interface. We adopt FEM-β, newly proposed analysis method for failure, to simulate the quasi-statistic crack growth governed by the stress distribution in layered media. Our results show that along planar traces across interfaces a compliant upper layer has significant effects on promoting/ suppressing crack growth before/after its extension into the layer and vice versa for a rigid one. This proposes a possibility that surface breaks due to strike-slip faulting could be arrested by deposit layers at the topmost part of the Earth's crust.
- Dynamics and mechanics of faulting
- Earthquake dynamics
- Fracture and faults
- Mechanics, theory and modelling
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This paper suggests a symbolic and contextual symbol of grain, present in the works of Viacheslav Ivanov. The subject of the authoress analysis and its starting point is constituted by his three poems:- the first one stating with the words 'Yazykov pravdu, khristtiane, / My chtim (...)', from the poetic cycle entitled 'Rimskii dnevnik 1944 goda', the two remaining ones are: 'Sozrel na nive kolos (...)' and 'Tikhaya zhatva' (4th volume of 'Sobranie sochinenii'). On the basis of these works she traced the functioning of this symbol in Ivanov's poetic output, as well as in his theoretical and philosophical reflections. She also revealed the most important aspects of the motif of grain, namely: grain as a symbol of resurrection and life after death (connection with the ancient mystery cults) and grain in the eschatological meaning, understood as toll - the fruit of sowing.
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To improve the load-carrying capacity of steel structures there are mainly two methods of using cover-plate which are the preflex method and multi-stepwise thermal prestressing method. However a prestress applied to the top flange of H beam is less than the bottom flange because these two methods have small eccentricity. It is necessary to develop an advanced feature of prestressing method which efficiently increases load-carrying capacity and prestressing efficiency. Therefore this study proposes a cover-plate prestressing method with increased sectional stiffness and prestressing efficiency, called multi-stepwise thermal prestressing with steel brackets. To evaluate the prestressing efficiency and load-carrying capacity of the proposed method, prestressing application tests and static loading tests were conducted on three H beams. The multi-stepwise thermal prestressing method with the steel brackets had higher displacement induced to the H beam and higher tensile stress in the top flange than in a case without the steel brackets. Also, when prestress is applied, the tensile stress in the cover-plate significantly decreased with the installation of the steel brackets. The static loading tests showed that the installation of the brackets increased the stiffness, the yield load, and ultimate load of the structure, compared with an unreinforced girder, which meant higher load-carrying capacity than a conventional thermal prestressed structure without brackets.
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- Civil and Structural Engineering
- Building and Construction
- Mechanics of Materials
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Why not add this page to your internet bookmarks so you can find it easily next time you need to convert your ingredients from grams to cups. I treated a cup of flour as 124 grams for one loaf and 144 grams for the other. how many cups is 250 grams of white spelt flour, 250 g (gram) of white spelt flour Equals = 2.5 cups of white spelt flour. ›› Quick conversion chart of cup to grams. I kept everything else exactly the same. Please note that I do not pack my brown sugar into the cup measurer. From my research, I have found that the United States is one of three nations (Liberia and Burma being the others) that have not adopted the metric system as their official weights and measures system. 1/8 cup=30 grams 1/4 cup=55 grams … All-purpose Flour and Confectioners' Sugar (Icing or powdered Sugar) Cups to Grams. Making a conversion of rice flour from ounce and pound to cups amounts. Wenn euch die grobe Umrechnung von Cups zu Gramm nicht reicht: Auf dieser Seite findet ihr eine genaue Auflistung, wieviel so-und-soviel cups einer Zutat in Gramm ergeben (Buchstaben A bis J, K bis P, Q bis Z).Das ist hilfreich, wenn ihr öfter amerikanische Backund Kochrezepte übersetzen wollt oder müsst! Die Amerikaner (und auch die Engländer) backen nicht wie wir mit Waage und Grammangaben. How Many Cups is 125 Grams? Convert oven temperatures. Volume ⇀ Weight Weight ⇀ Volume. Note that rounding errors may occur, so always check the results. from grams measure > to cups butter volume to read your results. Das große Problem hier: die Mengenangaben. 1 cup to grams = 236.58824 grams ⭐ US Cups abmessen.. Fraction : 2 3/4 rice flour – in US cup size measure. The flour in cups is equal to the grams divided by 125. Rice flour amount from 15.5 ounces ( oz ), Equals: 2.75 cups of rice flour. A half a cup of butter is equal to 113.5 grams. Type in your own numbers in the form to convert the units! For example, the weight of 1 cup of all-purpose flour varies from about 100 grams if sifted to 150 grams if scooped. Volume methods for measuring amount of flour produce various results. A block of butter of dimensions Width 75mm x Depth 50mm x Height 35mm weighs exactly 125 grams. 1/2 cup cake flour weighs 58 grams; 1/3 cup cake flour weighs 38 grams; 1/4 cup cake flour weighs 29 grams; NOTE: The above conversions also apply to chestnut flour and chopped nuts; Sugars Baking conversions for granulated sugar & brown sugar (not packed) from cups to grams. Use our calculator to find the equivalent in grams of 1 US cup of white whole wheat flour or any of many other ingredients. So einfach geht's. Use this page to learn how to convert between cups and grams. 125 grams equals 0.53 cups of water or there are 0.53 cups in 125 grams. 1/2 cup of butter = 113 g. Dry Goods. For sugar, 1 cup is equal to around 200g. Breadcrumbs 115 grams. Ingredient:? → pint; fl. Jetzt nicht mehr! or T. → tablespoon ; tsp. Use this page to learn how to convert between cups and grams. Use our calculator to find the equivalent in grams of 1 US cup of almond flour or any of many other ingredients. Note To Measuring 1 2/3 cups flour in grams. Inputs? Other cooking materials have different gram measurements when they are measured into one cup. The conversion factors are approximate once it is intended for recipes measurements. In many cases you can substitute almond flour/almond meal interchangeably but because of their slight differences in weight the recipe may be affected. 1/2 US cup of coconut flour equals 61.5 grams (*) Volume to 'Weight' Converter. For example, here's how to convert 500 grams to cups using the formula above. If you push it harder into the cup for instance, consequently the weight gets much higher, easy as that. This weight to volume converter for recipes will show you the quantity of grams contained in 1/2 US cup of cake flour, as well as, in many other cooking ingredients and other weight units. And that's 5.66 or 5 2/3 cups per 1.5 pound or 680 grams of flour, 2.2 pounds into 1 kilogram (1000 grams) or 22pounds to 10Kg for larger batch of dough. You can view more details on each measurement unit: cups or grams The SI derived unit for volume is the cubic meter. Everything else was the same. → fluid ounce; tbsp. So the number of grams in a cup varies based upon the ingredient. Our cups to grams converter lets you easily convert American recipes into UK recipes to make at home. 1 us cup of buckwheat flour in ounces equals to = 4.23 oz of buckwheat flour or in fraction 4 23/100 oz or ~4 1/5 oz, 4 47/100. For example, for flour, 1 cup is equal to around 125g. The loaf on the left used the higher measurement and the loaf on the right used the lower measurement. Hier findet ihr eine Übersicht aller wichtigen Lebensmittel mit Cup und Gramm Angaben. We assume you are converting between cup [US] and gram [water]. calories in 1/2 cup white spelt flour = 181.62 Cal ( 182 calories ). 1 1 / 2 US cups = 240 grams: 1 2 / 3 US cups = 267 grams: 1 3 / 4 US cups = 280 grams: 2 1 / 16 US cups = 330 grams: 2 1 / 8 US cups = 340 grams: 2 1 / 4 US cups = 360 grams: 2 1 / 3 US cups = 373 grams : References: Baking Conversion Table; Density Database Version 2.0 - FAO; Sample Recipes Volume to Weight Conversions. Block of butter with sizes of 75mm x 50mm x 35mm. As the loaves were going through their second rise, I already had my answer. Umrechnungstabelle von Cup in Milliliter und Gramm  So viel Flüssigkeit sind 3, 2 Cups sowie 1, 3/4, 1/2 oder 1/4 Cup in ml. 1/8 cup=15 grams 1/4 cup=30 grams 1/3 cup=40 grams 3/8 cup=45 grams 1/2 cup=60 grams 5/8 cup=70 grams 2/3 cup=75 grams 3/4 cup=85 grams 7/8 cup=100 grams 1 cup=110 grams. Cassava is often called also tapioca (unground organic product is called tapioca pearl), aipim, boba, macaxeira, mandioca, manioc, … 500 g = (500 ÷ 125) = 4 c or t. → teaspoon; Capacity Metric Unit Conversion. 1 2/3 cups flour in grams is exactly 208 grams. Granulierter, Superfeine oder Feinster Zucker) Granulated, Superfine or Caster Sugar Cups to Grams. 1 us cup of buckwheat flour in grams equals to = 120g of buckwheat flour. Cups to grams. 4.) Wow! Please note that measuring 1 2/3 cups flour in grams can vary slightly by room temperature, quality of flour etc. A cup of all-purpose flour weighs 4 1/4 ounces or 120 grams. oz. This is well known in culinary arts practice. 115 grams. 1 cubic meter is equal to 4226._PHONE_ cup, or _PHONE_ grams. Cassava flour grams in a measuring cup amount (US measuring cup and Metric si cup) US cup = 122 grams = 4.3 ounces net weight Metric cup = 129 grams = 4.6 oz net wt. Raisins 115 grams Sultanas 115 grams. Notes: the results in this calculator are rounded (by default) to 3 significant figures. This chart is a quick reference for volume, ounces, and grams equivalencies for common ingredients. We assume you are converting between cup [US] and gram [water]. How many grams in a cup of my product? Note that rounding errors may occur, so always check the results. Convert all purpose flour (apf) measuring units from US cups ( us cup ) into grams ( g ), volume vs weights measures, including dietary information and nutritional values instantly. Sondern mit Cups - kleinen Messbechern, die sie quasi für alles benutzen. Granulated sugar: 1 cup = 200 grams Brown sugar: 1 cup, packed = 220 grams Sifted white flour: 1 cup = 125 grams White rice, uncooked: 1 cup = 185 grams White rice, cooked:


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the bird, the pink feathers and the claws
Here are the explanations necessary to embroider the pink feathers and the legs of the bird.
The colors used are
DMC 931, 932, 3031, 3371, écru, 3716, 3832, 3830 and 355.
After turning the work by 180 °, embroider the ecru borders as usual with 2 rows of stem stitch and 1 thread. Wait to embroider the contours in brown.
Then fill the "eye" of the feathers with satin stitch and 1 thread.
Here is the direction of the straight stitches used to achieve the pink part of the feathers. Do not embroider split backstitches around the pattern because to give the feathers their full effect, it is necessary that the straight stitches are slightly irregular.
Embroider in satin stitch with 1 thread.
Continue with the dark pink part.
Then embroider the brown border with split backstitch 1 thread around the ecru stem stitches. To finish, add a few very tiny brown and ecru straight stitches 1 thread in the "blue eye" of each feather.
The middle part between the blue feathers and the pink feathers is made with a dark blue satin stitch 1 thread slantwise and decorated with brown spaced straight stitches 1 thread.
The blue feathers at the bottom of the pattern are simply embroidered with long and short stitch 1 thread and underlined with large irregular straight stitches on the edges.
Here is a picture of all the finished feathers. I varied the placement of the colors based on the picture of the printed fabric and I used the colors 3830 and 355 to darken the base of the feathers around the center.
Add little brown stitches 1 thread to give depth to the edge of the feathers.
To embroider the legs, start by placing transverse straight stitches 1 thread along the entire length of the legs. Then embroider the contours with 1 or 2 rows of split backstitches also with 1 thread.


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The Trick to Writing a Great Caption
Writing captions is more a science than an art. You might be bad at it right now but it's nothing you can't learn. To use an overused cliché, it's like learning to ride a bike.
Usman Khalil
October 1, 2020
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Writing captions is more a science than an art. You might be bad at it right now but it's nothing you can't learn. To use a cliché, it's like learning to ride a bike.
Because of the hierarchy of a post, people usually see the caption after they see the image or thumbnail of the link you attached in the post. So it plays a supporting role to the main content that you've posted.
But often you might just upload a text-only post, much like a tweet. The rules stay pretty much the same there.
The basics
In a social media post caption, you should take care of some basic rules which might differ from platform to platform. Here are a few that hold true for all of them.
Hashtag placement
You don't want to _TAG_ your _TAG_ in the middle of the _TAG_ like this. It will definitely irritate your audience. Put your hashtags at the end of your caption where they're not visible and they still fulfil their function. More on how to use hashtags here.
Link placement
Similarly, place your link at the end of your caption after the hashtags. This will cause the ugly url to disappear, leaving only a clean preview image and your caption in the post like this:
linkedin-link placement
The other way to insert a link is to add it in the comments of the post instead of the caption. Experts say that this can increase the reach of your post.
Of course, none of this applies to Instagram. Don't place a link in the caption at all on that platform. If you have to anyway, direct people to your profile with something like "see link in bio" in your post or caption and place the link in your Insta bio.
Alright, let's get to the meaty part; the actual text of the caption.
Note: I know how it feels to get writer's block every time you try to write a good caption. The Willow platform fortunately has a button you can press to generate a caption automatically based on the article that you're sharing. If you need to learn more, you can request a demo.
Now where were we.
Use the first line as a hook
If you've ever listened to marketing giant Seth Godin's podcasts, you'll realize that he hooks you in with the very first sentence. How does he do it every time? From what I've noticed, it's always a peculiar sentence that makes you think. At times it is a very specific example from history. Very rarely does it come across as clickbaity. Here's an example:
Twenty years ago, I was invited to the Big Meeting. Every week on Mondays, at JPMorgan Chase, there was a meeting of the team that was responsible for one-third of the bank's profits. This meeting consisted of 42 people sitting around a long table, 20 on the side – one at the head and one of the foot – surrounded by 30 other people sitting in the second row. That meeting cost the bank more than fifty thousand dollars an hour. And as far as I know, they're still having it.
Right away you feel like you're halfway through a story, you feel involved, and you know right away that this is a high stakes situation. That's what your captions should try to do. Stop with the pleasantries. Dive into the story.
Though this is nothing new, it isn't something people always get right. Common mistakes include overhyping the content or making it too obviously clickbaity.
Don't talk at people
"Here are our achievements as a brand. We have done this for decades. You should choose us." Don't you agree that that sounds a bit obnoxious. Like whoever wrote it is too full of themselves and is talking at you from their high horse. That's exactly what not to do.
Instead, approach them from the same level. Involve them in your narrative and already try to make them answer a question about themselves, even if it is just inside their heads. Like this brilliant example from Harry Dry:
talk to rather than at
Harry Dry's example how to involve the reader with your caption.
Use words that people actually say
Nobody uses words like rambunctious, perfunctory, or obfuscated when they're talking. Complicated language like this can cause you to lose your audience instantly.
Here's a better idea. Try saying your caption out loud to yourself. Better yet, say it to someone else. Does it seem like something someone would actually say? If it doesn't, ditch it. You can do better.
I'll now shamelessly use our own post as an example. Keeping the caption conversational in this post helped us get a 9% engagement rate on this post. (On Linkedin, you want to keep your engagement rates above 2%)
contento caption
Here's a quick recap
 1. Use hashtags after the text, not in it.
 2. Put the link at the end of the caption or in the comments.
 3. Hook your audience with the first sentence. Start with the middle of the story.
 4. Talk to people rather than at them.
 5. Use conversational language
Hope that's a good start. Start nailing these tips every time, and you'll have an audience that engages with you on a more regular basis. I'll leave you with this; never underestimate the power of a good caption. And nobody hammers this point home like the New Yorker cartoons, so here you go.
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Low Cost Card Deck of Safe Coping Skills (English) - 112 cards; can play as game
The Seeking Safety card deck can be used as a game or to help remember the skills. It has 112 cards: 84 safe coping skills, 24 quotations, and 3 exercises. An ideas card offers various ways to play the game for groups and/or individuals. You can also make up your own games. The cards are professionally designed, with each type of card color coded (peach = relationship skills, blue = action skills, purple = quotations, etc.). The cards offer a fun way to learn and practice the ideas from Seeking Safety, and can be used with both adults and adolescents. This card deck is lower cost because it is missing the instruction card, but you can download that here. Also the colors are very slightly off, but the card deck is still totally fine! The low-cost card deck is available in English only but if you would like the Spanish deck or the regular English deck you can get those.


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Let $f, \hat{f}, g,$ and $\hat{g}$ be continuous probability densities. Define probability densities $p \propto fg$ and $\hat{p} \propto \hat{f}\hat{g}$. Is it true that \begin{align*} ||p - \hat{p}||_{1} \le || f - \hat{f}|| _{1} + ||g - \hat{g}||_1 \end{align*}
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Why would this inequality imply something of interest, if true? In short, what are your motivations for asking this? – Did Oct 29 '11 at 7:13
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Here is a real counterexample, as verified by mathematica: so we take the same discrete two point space as below, and let $f=(u_1,u_2), \hat{f} = (v_1,v_2), g = (a_1,a_2), \hat{g}=(b_1,b_2)$, with the relation that $x_1 + x_2 = 1$ where $x \in \{u,v,a,b\}$. So your claim becomes in this special case
$$ |\frac{u_1 a_1}{u_1 p_1 + u_2 a_2} - \frac{v_1 b_1}{v_1 b_1 + v_2 b_2}| + | \frac{u_2 a_2}{u_1 a_1 + u_2 a_2} - \frac{v_2 b_2}{v_1 b_1 + v_2 b_2}|$$ $$\le |u_1 - v_1| + |u_2 - v_2| + |a_1 - b_1| + |a_2 - b_2|$$
Now using the relation that if $x + y = 1$ and $w + z = 1$, then $|x - w| + |y - z| = 2 |x -w|$, we can simplify the above inequality to
$$ |\frac{u_1 a_1}{u_1 a_1 + u_2 a_2} - \frac{v_1 b_1}{v_1 b_1 + v_2 b_2}| \le |u_1 - v_1| + |a_1 - b_1| $$.
What I then did is to subtract the square of the right hand side from the square of the left hand side, and call the resulting function $h(u,v,a,b)$, where $x := x_1$ for $x \in \{u,v,a,b\}$. Then I did some brute force search of maximum and found the following point:
$$u=v =0.456239, a = 1/5, b = 1/2$$ If you plug it in to $h$ you should get $0.000652285 > 0$. So that means the left hand side is not always $\le$ the right hand side. Here are the mathematica code so that you can help me verify:
q[u1_, u2_, a1_, a2_, v1_, v2_, b1_, b2_] := (u1 a1/(u1 a1 + u2 a2) - v1 b1/(v1 b1 + v2 b2))^2 - ( (u1 - v1)^2 + (a1 - b1)^2 + 2 Abs[(u1 - v1) (a1 - b1)]);
h[u_, v_, a_, b_] := q[u, 1 - u, a, 1 - a, v, 1 - v, b, 1 - b];
h[0.456239, 0.456239, 2/3, 2/5]
= 0.000652285
Edit: below was my earlier false counterexample.
I believe it's false. Here is an argument. It suffices to consider discrete probability space, say the two point space $\Omega = \{ 0,1 \} $. Now let $f =(u_1,1-u_1)$ be the probability mass function, so that means $f(0) = u_1$ and $f(1) = 1-u_1$. and similarly $\hat{f} = (u_2,1-u_2)$. Also I will let $g = \hat{g} = (p, 1-p)$. Then $\|g - \hat{g}\|_1 = 0$, so your inequality amounts to
$ |\frac{p u_1}{p u_1 + (1-p)(1-u_1)} - \frac{p u_2}{pu_2 + (1-p)(1-u_2)}| \le |u_1 - u_2|$.
Now take $u_1 = 2/3$ and $u_2 = 1/3$, and let $ 1-p >> p$. Then you get a contradiction.
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I don't think this counter example is true. The left hand side should be |P_1 - \hat{P}_1| + |P_2 - \hat{P}_2|, (P \propto fg not to confuse with your p) currently you are only considering the term |P_1 - \hat{P}_1|. Also the left hand side is 2|u_1 - u_2|. Moreover, when g is highly biased (p \to 0 in your example) then the right hand side of my inequality (||P - \hat{P}||_1) goes to zero so it's true. – Nima Oct 29 '11 at 3:42
Thanks for the counter example. I appreciate it. Do you think some inequality like that might be true perhaps with some prefactor? I want to somehow bound the tv distance of the product of some probability densities in terms of the individual tv distances – Nima Oct 29 '11 at 5:57
That's a good question. I have no intuitions whatsoever, just pure luck. Can you state the original problem you are trying to solve? My first impression was that the inequality does not scale appropriately on the two sides, which led to my disbelief. – John Jiang Oct 29 '11 at 6:01
I was trying to prove convergence of a low-complexity variant of belief propagation algorithm which we call it stochastic belief propagation. Belief propagation has various applications in signal and image processing, computer vision, etc. This statement or something like that would be helpful. Thanks anyway – Nima Oct 29 '11 at 21:14
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You have a crjewelryeautiful piece of jewellery with transparent resin, but you're worried that it might turn yellow over time.
How can you prevent that? This is a question I'm asked a lot by people who are starting out in resin jewelry making, so I'll answer it here in detail.
Here's everything you need to know about keeping your clear epoxy from turning yellow and looking like old cheese:
How do you keep transparent resin from turning yellow?
- Wash your hands, the resin container, and all tools with soap and warm water before you begin. A clean workspace is a great way to start.
- Cure the resin under UV light to clear it as soon as possible after pouring.
Does transparent resin yellow?
The answer is yes and no. It depends on what type of resin you're using and whether or not you use a UV light when curing it.
- If the clear resin you're using has a blue colorant in it, then no matter what, it'll turn yellow over time. This is because the yellowing occurs as a result of exposure to sunlight (both natural sunlight and artificial UV lights).
How do you clean transparent resin?
- Use a toothbrush and soap.
- Use a toothbrush and baking soda.
- Use a toothbrush and vinegar.
- Use a toothbrush and lemon juice.
- Use a toothbrush and hydrogen peroxide (3% solution).
- Use a toothbrush and rubbing alcohol (isopropyl or 70% solution).
- You can also use: water, salt, baking powder or baking soda, and dishwashing liquid with bleach added (1 part bleach to 4 parts dishwashing liquid)
Can you print clear resin?
Yes, you can print with clear resin.
There are three main types of 3D printers that can be used to print in clear resin: SLA printers, DLP printers, and resin printers. Each type has its own pros and cons but they all work similarly enough to be explained in one article!
What resin does not turn yellow?
You can prevent yellowing in resins that have a low viscosity and are exposed to UV light. This includes polyester, epoxy, and polyurethane resins.
Polyester resin is a common clear resin with good clarity and impact strength that doesn't yellow when exposed to direct sunlight; however, it will yellow over time in indirect sunlight (think of the sun through clouds).
Epoxy resin is another common clear resin with good clarity, but it's more expensive than polyester resins and also yellowed when exposed to direct sunlight (and indirect).
Polyurethane is another type of clear resin that doesn't turn yellow when exposed directly or indirectly
Why is my epoxy turning yellow?
If your epoxy is turning yellow, it's not because of the resin. If it were, the whole batch would be affected, and that's not usually the case. Here are some of the most common reasons why epoxies turn yellow:
- Your vinyl has a UV inhibitor in it, so when exposed to sunlight or even fluorescent bulbs (which emit UV radiation), your resin will turn yellow over time as a result of this pigment. If you see this happening in just one area of your project, then it may be that only that particular piece was laminated with a vinyl-containing inhibitor. In most cases though, if there's anything at all on hand that can prevent this from happening then use it!
- You used a base coat for your project rather than just dipping into a clear coat or brushing on clear paint alone because… well… why would you do that? Anyway – back up! You've got yourself an entire "tinting" issue going here which can easily be solved by switching out colors again to something more appropriate like black instead of blue or red instead of orange etcetera…
How long before resin turns yellow?
It depends on a few things:
- The resin itself. Some resins are more yellowing than others. If you're using a particularly yellowing resin, it will probably turn a more golden color faster than other types of resin would.
- The cure time and temperature of your curing process. If you're using an oven or heat gun to cure your resin, the higher the temperature and longer the exposure time (i.e., how long it takes to get from room temperature to full cure), the greater chance that any impurities in your clear resin will start reacting with one another as they come together during the thermal bonding process, which can result in discoloration over time (this also applies when drying out too slowly). This is why it's so important to use quality materials when making jewelry pieces!
- Whether or not there are any impurities present inside your mix before its cured state comes about; if so then this would mean that these particles will actually cause direct damage to them once they reach their hardened state through thermal bonding processes during curing times for example when using an oven or heat gun technique methodologies like those listed above."
How do you polish resin by hand?
- Use microfiber cloths. Microfiber cloths are very effective at removing fingerprints and dust from resin, particularly if they're dampened with water first.
- Use polishing compounds. Compounds are used to help remove stubborn dirt or stains from resin items that have been stained by food or drink spills in the past, as well as other substances such as ink and grease. They can be applied using a buffing wheel on your electric drill if you want to go all out; otherwise, it can also work well with a soft rag or cloth by hand (but make sure not to get any residue on any part of your body).
- Use buffing pads when needed for hard-to-remove stains like lipstick marks or grease stains from cooking utensils like spatulas (they won't work for everything). These can be found at most hardware stores such as Home Depot—they look like dish scrubbers with loops of metal wire sticking out between each loop instead of foam padding—and sometimes come included with kits sold specifically targeted toward cleaning up after working with acrylic paints so keep an eye out!
In conclusion, keeping transparent resin from yellowing is a bit of a balancing act. If you want to maintain the integrity of your work and prevent it from becoming discolored over time, then follow these simple tips: don't let your resin sit for too long in direct sunlight or leave it out in extreme temperatures (like heat/cold).


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Definition of metaphysically
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CBRNE is an acronym which includes beside CBRN, explosive substances or events. [1]
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Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear and Explosives (CBRNE): The expansion of the term CBRN to incorporate certain high-yield explosives (E) into the broader term CBRNE signifies the new reality of this threat due to the weaponization of hazardous and dangerous goods. [2]
Lyhenteet CBRNE ja CBRN tulevat englanninkielisistä sanoista chemical (kemiallinen), biological (biologinen), radiological (säteily), nuclear (ydin-) ja explosive (räjähtävä, räjähde). [3]
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This study utilized a unique neural network model for texture image analysis to differentiate the crystallograms from pairs of fresh red pepper fruits from conventional and organic farms. The differences in visually analyzed samples are defined as the distribution of crystals on the circular glass underlay, the thin or thick structure of crystal needles, the angles between branches and side needles, etc. However, the visual description and definition of bio-crystallogram images has major disadvantages. A novel methodology called an image neural network (INN) has been developed to overcome these shortcomings. The 1,488 × 2,240 pixel bio-crystallogram images were acquired in a lab and cropped to 425 × 1,025 pixel images. These depicted either a conventional sweet red pepper or an organic sweet red pepper. A set of 19 images was utilized to train the image neural network. A new set of 4 images was then prepared to test the INN performance. Overall, the INN achieved an average recognition performance of 100 %. This high level of recognition suggests that the INN is a promising method for the discrimination of bio-crystallogram images. In addition, Hinton diagrams were utilized to display the optimality of the INN weights.