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Before sending parts back to LMR, we recommend following the steps below to ensure the return process is followed correctly! This will help speed up the return and get your money back as soon as possible!
RMA RETURN PROCESS STEPS
- Review the Return Policy
- Next, after reading the policy, click the "I agree with these terms" box to start your return.
- Then, select your Reason for Return.
- Select the condition of the part or parts.
- Fill out the Customer Information (first and last name, address, etc.)
- Enter Order Number(s) – you can list more than one order number if sending parts back from multiple orders.
- List item number(s) and quantity - please provide the order number for each part if returning more than one order. Example: type the item number then put the order number next to the corresponding part. (WYxxxx : SVE-8005 x1)
- Click the checkbox to agree to terms and check the Captcha.
- Next, click on the Submit Return box.
- Once completed, the next page will show your new RMA# that was created and you will have an option to process a UPS. Click the box that says "Create Return Shipping Label" if you choose to do so.
- Then, please check your email and find the RMA email and there you can also generate a UPS label by clicking the box named "Create Return Shipping Label" if you have not already done so.
- If you choose to generate a UPS Label, please enter the parts description. This can be as simple as "Mustang Parts".
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Expectations, Learning and Business Cycle Fluctuations
This paper develops a theory of expectations-driven business cycles based on learning. Agents have incomplete knowledge about how market prices are determined and shifts in expectations of future prices affect dynamics. In a real business cycle model, the theoretical framework amplifies and propagates technology shocks. Improved correspondence with data arises from dynamics in beliefs being themselves persistent and because they generate strong intertemporal substitution effects in consumption and leisure. Output volatility is comparable with a rational expectations analysis with a standard deviation of technology shock that is 20 percent smaller, and has substantially more volatility in investment and hours. Persistence in these series is captured, unlike in standard models. Inherited from real business cycle theory, the benchmark model suffers a comovement problem between consumption, hours, output and investment. An augmented model that is consistent with expectations-driven business cycles, in the sense of Beaudry and Portier (2006), resolves these counterfactual predictions.
Document Object Identifier (DOI): 10.3386/w14181
Published: Stefano Eusepi & Bruce Preston, 2011. "Expectations, Learning, and Business Cycle Fluctuations," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 101(6), pages 2844-72, October. citation courtesy of
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Velocity Training Minimizing Risk Of Injury
There are many pitching coaches that offer velocity training, claiming they can increase velocity by 4-5 MPH…
Can their velocity training minimize the risk of injury?
We teach scientifically documented ways of increasing velocity while also decreasing the risk of injury.
- Fastball velocity training and functional fitness. This involves
(stability, mobility, durability, and flexibility). These factors have to
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- What is velocity? And Understanding it?
- What is real velocity? (Kevin will explain)
- Perceived velocity? (Kevin will explain)
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- Pitching Inside and Why?
- The softer the thrower, the more he has to pitch inside. Understand why?
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Drivers are responsible for pickup and delivery of products and equipment to customers in a safe and time efficient manner.
1. Assist dispatcher with planning route to insure most economical use of time and equipment.
2. Deliver and pickup products to customers and get receiving tickets signed.
3. Maintain contact with dispatcher via radio and telephone on a continuous basis and report any delays or problems.
4. Maintain truck mileage log as required by DOT regulations.
5. Perform routine inspection on assigned equipment and refer defects or repairs to supervisor; clean equipment. Document pre-trip and/or post trip inspections when applicable.
6. Perform all duties in conformance to appropriate safety and security standards.
7. Unload products, via donkey if required, at customers' sites.
8. Provide customer service any time it is necessary.
9. Complete paperwork required by customer or Harrell's.
10. Secure load prior to each run.
11. Must represent Harrell's in a positive manner at all times.
12. Ensure compliance with all Federal, State and Local ordinances affecting this position.
13. Ensure compliance with all Company policies and programs.
14. Maintain valid licenses, certifications and/or permits required to perform responsibilities.
15. Ensure timely processing of system information and proper documentation concerning inventory transactions (shipments, transfers, receipts, changes in cost/price, etc.).
1. Minimum High School Diploma or GED equivalent preferred.
2. Two years' experience as a driver preferred.
3. Thorough knowledge of traffic laws and defensive driving.
4. Must show good knowledge of geographical area to facilitate efficient routing.
5. Ability to drive a donkey to unload materials.
6. Must maintain a current and valid CDL license and physical certification. (Class A License)
7. Must have a clean driving record.
8. Ability to read directions and a street map to plot delivery if necessary.
9. Ability to maintain driving hours log.
10. Able to carry out a series of work instructions without constant supervision.
11. Must be able to lift up to sixty pounds regularly in order to load and deliver products.
12. Ability to tip and roll a three hundred pound drum of chemicals.
13. Ability to communicate effectively.
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Loading DLLs Explicitly in Delphi 6
Although loading DLLs implicitly is convenient, it isn't always the most desired method. Suppose you have a DLL that contains many routines. If it's likely that your application will never call any of the DLL's routines, it would be a waste of memory to load the DLL every time your application runs. This is especially true when using multiple DLLs with one application. Another example is when using DLLs as large objects: a standard list of functions that are implemented by multiple DLLs but do slightly different things, such as printer drivers and file format readers. In this situation, it would be beneficial to load the DLL when specifically requested to do so by the application. This is referred to as explicitly loading a DLL.


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How can the mid-point of a polyline be calculated using the geoprocessing framework, eg in a Python script?
The polyline.centroid property returns The true centroid if it is within or on the feature; otherwise, the label point is returned. The centroid is rarely located on non-straight lines, which is useless for my purposes.
The Feature Vertices to Points tool has a midpoint option but this requires ArcInfo, which I don't currently have.
An option could be to add measures to the polylines and create a route event 50% along the line.
Another workaround is to use the Calculate Geometry option in ArcMap, but ideally I need to automate this process in a script.
Any better/faster suggestions? Thanks
[EDIT] I'm limited to ArcGIS 10.0 for the moment.

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FWC: Florida family finds rare, two-headed snake at their residence
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Florida — As if 2020 couldn't get any weirder.
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission says they are now caring for a two-headed snake found in Palm Bay, Florida.
The Kay Rodgers family said they found the snake at their residence and notified FWC.
The snake has been identified as a rare two-headed juvenile black racer.
FWC said the birth defect is known as bicephaly. It is uncommon but happens during embryo development when two monozygotic twins failed to separate. When that happens, the two heads remain conjoined on a single body.
According to FWC, the snake head's tongue flick and the heads react movement. However, sometimes the heads react differently.
FWC said they took the snake in because two-headed snakes rarely survive in the wild is due to the fact that the two brains make opposite decisions that inhibit the ability to feed or escape from its predators. Additionally, the snake could be killed by humans who are uneducated about the snake species.
Some believe that two-headed snakes represent evil.
Black racers are completely harmless and beneficial to the environment, especially around the home.


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Designing a metering system
From Electrical Installation Guide
This article intends to describe a method to design the energy measurement system of a commercial building.
The scope of this article covers all WAGES consumptions in "non critical" buildings. Critical buildings such as hospitals, data centers have specific requirements regarding power quality that are not covered here.
The method involves 2 steps :
The step Project Definition shall be realized with the future users of the system and lead to define what are the performance metrics that will be part of the users dashboards.
Step 2 : Design of the different components of the measurement system
The purpose of the measurement system design is to ensure that the data collected will correspond to the desired analysis and results. This will allow the operation managers to monitor & control the building according to their objectives.
This will help to avoid :
- insufficient data to enable building consumptions analysis
- Too much measured and collected data that are never used. However the investment cost to collect these data and the data storage cost is not negligible and could have been used for other energy efficiency actions.
This step is split in 2 parts :
- Define the points of measurement
Some examples of usual point of measurements for:
- Select the meters
- Select the electrical meters
- Select the gas meters
- Select the water meters
- Select the heat and cold meters
- Select the temperature sensors


Stanley Chalk Line Reel
Ever since I was a kid watching my dad use a chalk line, I was curious about the simplicity of its design. A chalk line can be used to mark a long straight line on a wall or as a plumb bob. Inside the polypropylene casing is 100 feet of string which sits in a purple chalk. Extend the line from one point to another and then "ping it" and a purple-coloured line appears. The external crank handle is used to rewind the line. Turn it perpendicular and you have a plumb bob. So simple, so effective, and what's not to love about chalk lines!
Here's a video showing you how to use a chalk line.
-- Doug Watson
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Why the name: Dar es Salaam?
Dar es Salaam
Dar es Salaam
I always thought that the name of the Tanzanian city Dar es Salaam had something to do with peace, since it made me think of the Arabic greeting As-salamu alaykum which means peace be upon you. Great was my joy when I found out that it was indeed true. Dar es Salaam means 'the abode of peace' or 'the house of peace.'
Flag of Tanzania
Flag of Tanzania
Formerly Mzizima or 'the healthy town' in Kiswahili, Dar es Salaam is Tanzania's largest and richest city today. It is a regional important economic center. In the 19th century, it was a coastal fishing village on the periphery of the Indian ocean trade routes. In 1865, Sultan Majid bin Said of Zanzibar began building a city near Mzizima, and named it Dar es Salaam or harbor/haven of peace with Dar in Arabic meaning house, and es salaam meaning peace. Dar es Salaam fell into decline after Sultan Majid's death in 1870, but was revived in 1887 when the German East Africa Company established a station there. The town's growth was facilitated by its role as the administrative and commercial centre of German East Africa and industrial expansion resulting from the construction of the Central Railway Line in the early 1900s.
Map of Tanzania
Map of Tanzania
As Germany lost World War I, German East Africa was captured by the British and from then on was referred to as Tanganyika. Dar es Salaam was retained as the territory's administrative and commercial centre. Under British indirect rule, separate European (e.g., Oyster Bay) and African (e.g., Kariakoo and Ilala) areas developed at a distance from the city center. The town's population also included a large number of south Asians. After World War II, Dar es Salaam experienced a period of rapid growth including political development with the formation of the Tanganyika African National Union or TANU which will lead Tanganyika to independence from British rule in 1961.
Dar es Salaam, once the capital of Tanzania, lost its status of capital city to Dodoma in 1974. Please enjoy the singer Momba who sings Dar es Salaam, and feel at peace in this haven.
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Coefficient of Friction
The coefficient of friction of a composite material is not a constant. It is dictated by the materials of the mating contact surfaces and by the roughness of the harder one. With combinations that have very different strength values (such as polymer with steel), the coefficient of friction also depends on the load. In addition, due to the polymer's strong tendency to change all mechanical properties under temperature, the coefficient of friction is also affected by speed and ambient temperature. The coefficient of friction drops as load increases and as speed decreases. It also changes as the bearings wear.
During the wear-in period, NORGLIDE® bearings are shortly exposed to higher wear. A polymer transfer layer forms on the metal contact surface. After wear-in, a relatively constant performance range is found, which is controlled by the pure PTFE compound layer.
With bronze reinforced NORGLIDE® bearing types, the coefficient of friction increases slightly after prolonged service due to the exposure of bronze to the mating surface. The bronze may then have contact with the shaft. This factor should be taken into account when selecting materials for applications with higher admissible wear or high pressure.
The coefficient of friction of NORGLIDE® T bearings stays constant over the whole service life. With NORGLIDE® PRO XL bearings, the bronze layer can be reached after a short period, and the coefficient of friction grows gradually.
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Frequently Asked Questions
How did the museum get started?
Raymond Buckland started The Buckland Museum of Witchcraft and Magick in 1966. This was the first museum of its kind in the United States with an anthropological approach to the world of folklore and the supernatural.
Are witches real?
Witches as depicted in cartoons and movies or the "Halloween" witches are mostly pretend. Witches however are real, and Wiccan Witchcraft is a recognized religious affiliation.
Does the museum have a cat?
The museum does have an official cat name Robat. Robat is a black cat that we adopted from our friends at A Christmas Story House in 2019. Robat often helps with tours.
What books do you recommend I read?
There are many books on many different aspects of Witchcraft and Magic. Stop in to our gift shop and look through our extensive collection to see what catches your eye and to talk with our staff. We would be happy to give you recommendations based on your personal interests!


How Many Beers Are In a Keg
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How Many Beers Are In a Keg
The cost of beer in kegs1 is much lower than in cans or bottles. This is why you can save a lot of money if you buy a keg of beer for your party or picnic. Everybody can guess that it contains a great deal of beer, but do you know how much exactly? The answer to this question can vary, depending of the place you live in. First, let's talk about kegs a bit in order to be sure that everyone has the idea how they look like.
As a rule, kegs are made of aluminum, stainless steel or wood. They are commonly used to store, transport and even serve different types of beverages and alcoholic drinks, carbonated or non-carbonated, like beer. Kegs are usually pressurized in order to preserve the taste and quality of the products.
Kegs may come in various sizes, and there are no any standards. The table below will help you to find out how many beers can be in different types of kegs.
Volume, US gallons
Volume, liters
Half Barrel (Full Keg)
Half Barrel (European)
Mini Keg (Bubba)
Corny Keg (Soda syrup)
Sixth Barrel (Torpedo)
Quarter Barrel (Pony Keg)
Wall (99 Beer Bottles)
Import Keg (European Barrel)
The US beer barrel is officially defined as a volume unit which is equal to 31 gallons. This is why a full keg is named a half barrel, though it has 15.5 gallons. Most brewers use this kind of kegs, so we can make some calculations and answer how many beers are in a keg.
One full keg contains:
But do not forget that we are talking about the American half barrel keg. Standard European kegs are somewhat smaller. For instance, an import keg contains fifty liters, which equals to 13.2 US gallons. The tiniest keg is called "Bubba", or mini keg. It is manufactured for retail sales and contains only 5 liters. Some kegs are recyclable.
A full half barrel keg weighs almost 73 kilograms (more than 160 pounds); though an empty one has only 13.5 kilograms (less than 30 pounds). The keg's typical height is 23.3 inches.
How Many Beers Are In a Keg
 1. A keg is a barrel of a small size, used to store liquids, like beer or some other drinks. They are made of aluminum or stainless steel. Wooden kegs are used to keep gunpowder, nails and other stuff. A typical American half barrel keg contains 15.5 US gallons.
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Traveling Luck for Katibaru Mountain, Potaro-Siparuni, Guyana
Where is Katibaru Mountain?What's around Katibaru Mountain?
Wikipedia near Katibaru Mountain
Where to stay near Katibaru Mountain
The timezone in Katibaru Mountain is America/Guyana
Sunrise at 05:54 and Sunset at 18:14. It's Dark
Latitude. 4.8500°, Longitude. -59.5167°
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Loading map of Katibaru Mountain and it's surroudings
Geographic features & Photographs around Katibaru Mountain, in Potaro-Siparuni, Guyana
- a body of running water moving to a lower level in a channel on land.
- an elevation standing high above the surrounding area with small summit area, steep slopes and local relief of 300m or more.
- first-order administrative division;
- a primary administrative division of a country, such as a state in the United States.
- Potaro-Siparuni Region (30.5km)
- an area dominated by grass vegetation.
- Karisparu Savannah (20.6km)


How are students engaging with their careers services?
Friday, March 29, 2019
Are your students engaging with your careers service? We've used responses from the 2019 Trendence UK Graduate Survey to show what students really think of their careers services and how they are engaging with the resources provided to them.
Here are some of our key findings:
Careers services' websites ARE a useful tool
The students who had engaged with their careers services' website found it to be a useful tool, with 69% stating that they had used the website to research and find information on their future career. This emphasises the importance of having a website that is functional, informative and easy to use. However, don't neglect the marketing of the resources available on your website – 11% of the students we surveyed didn't even know that there was a website for them to use!
University careers fairs lead to powerful engagement
In a previous article published on our insights blog, we stated the importance of engaging first-year students at freshers' fairs. The fairs are popular with first-years, with 63% of students reporting that they attended their freshers' fair. Nearly three-quarters (74%) of students also attended their university's careers fairs, with 62% stating that engaging with an employer at a careers fair would make it more likely they would apply for a role. This shows the importance of fairs as a promotional tool for employers as they seek students for placements and graduate roles. For careers services, fairs provide a platform to encourage students to engage with potential employers.
Digital channels are still important tools to engage students
Despite careers fairs being the preferred method of engagement for students with employers, digital platforms still play an important role. Half (50%) of the students surveyed said that receiving an email from their career services promoting roles would also make them apply to an employer, while 31% said that getting a personal message or seeing a post on social media (28%) would encourage them to apply. To emphasise the importance of a multi-channel approach to engagement, 20% of students said that seeing a video about a company on YouTube would increase the likelihood they would engage with an employer.
Most importantly, students are largely satisfied with their careers services
A clear majority of students surveyed were satisfied with their careers services – 65% of students were satisfied or very satisfied with careers fairs, 56% of students were satisfied or very satisfied with the employer fairs and 64% were satisfied or very satisfied with the availability of appointments. However, students were less satisfied with the scope of opportunities offered by their careers services in terms of part-time work and opportunities specific to their field of interest.
To conclude, students are engaging with the resources provided to them by their careers services. The combined approach of fairs and digital communications is successfully encouraging students to reach out and engage with employers. However, there is room for improvement, particularly in the scope of opportunities offered to students in terms of part-time work and for specific fields of interest.
Read the full survey here.
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The Trendence UK Graduate Survey is now its 12th year. In early 2019, 74,748 students took part, making this the most comprehensive assessment of how satisfied students are with the support provided by careers services. To find out in even more detail what your students think of your careers service offer, what uniquely motivates your student population when it comes to careers (and how this differs from other UK undergraduates) and how you can increase the level of participation and engagement amongst your users. For a demo of this type of in-depth analysis and an opportunity to use our data to help improve the outcomes of your graduates please contact or call _PHONE_ 7220.


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Is Tesla Innovative?
Posted in botch, business, technologies by commorancy on July 16, 2021
I've been confronted with this very question many times on Social Media, specifically Twitter. Many people who own Tesla vehicles vehemently insistent that Elon Musk and Tesla's products are innovative. But, is Tesla really innovative? In short, no. Let's explore why.
via Oxford Dictionary
As a first step, we need to define the word, innovation. As you can see from its definition from Oxford Dictionary, it is defined as 'a new method, idea, product, etc'.
The difficulty with this definition is that it doesn't go deep enough to explain what the word new actually means in this definition's context. This definition assumes the reader will understand the subtle, but important distinction of using the word 'new' in this definition.
Many people will, unfortunately, conclude that 'new' means 'brand new' as in a 'just manufactured' new model car. Simply because something is brand spankin' new doesn't make it innovative. However, a 'brand new' car model might contain some innovative elements, but the technology behind a car's functional design may not be innovative or new at all… contrary to Oxford's complicated use of the word 'new'. As an example, both random cars in general and specifically electric vehicles are not new. In fact, mass produced cars have been the norm since 1901 and electric cars have been prototyped since the 1830s. While those electric prototypes weren't truly cars in the mass produced sense, they were functional prototypes which showed that the electric vehicle technology is possible, functional and, most importantly, feasible.
You might then be thinking that Tesla was the first to create mass produced electric cars. Again, you'd be wrong. In fact, the first mass produced electric car was General Motor's EV1, produced in 1996. The EV1 appeared 12 years before the first electric vehicle rolled off the assembly line at Tesla… and Tesla's cars appeared 178 years after the first electric car prototype appeared. That's a long time… definitely not 'new'.
Electric vehicle technology was not at all new when Tesla decided to roll out its all electric vehicles. The only claim to fame that Tesla can profess is that they were able to sort-of Apple-ize their car in such a way that it warps the minds of buyers into believing it is 'the best thing since sliced bread'. Ultimately, that defines an excellent sales strategy… what Elon Musk is actually known for.
To Tesla's credit, they were the first viable luxury class vehicle to also claim the electric vehicle moniker. That claim doesn't necessarily make the vehicle innovative. It makes Tesla's sales and marketing team innovative in that they can make electric vehicle technology 'sexy' for the well-to-do crowd. Before Tesla, luxury car brands mostly avoided making electric vehicles. Even then, being able to successfully market and sell a product doesn't make that product innovative. It simply means you're good at selling things.
For example, Steve Jobs was the master at selling Apple products. To be fair, Steve Jobs didn't really have to do much in the way of hard sells. When Jobs was at the helm, many of Apple's early products were indeed innovative. If you need an example of innovation, Steve Jobs's products mostly epitomize it.
Tesla, on the other hand, absconded with several key things to produce its Tesla electric vehicles: 1) Luxury car designs (which already existed), 2) electric vehicles (which already existed) and 3) standard off-the-shelf battery technology (which already existed). None of these three ideas were new in 2008. That Tesla successfully married these things together isn't considered true innovation. It's considered incremental innovation. Taking already existing pieces and putting them together to make a successful 'new' product is common in many industries. This is incremental in that these things already existed and it was only a matter of time before someone put them together in a cohesive way. Is that innovation? No. Why? If Tesla hadn't done it, Mercedes-Benz, Cadillac, Bentley or another luxury brand would have at some point. Though, Tesla's early claim to fame wasn't even luxury, it was sports cars. However, Tesla has dropped the sports car idea in lieu of being a luxury brand.
Product Innovation Types
I'll circle back around to the above, but let's take a break here to understand the two primary types of innovation.
The first type of innovation is breakthrough innovation. This rare type of innovation offers a concept the world has never seen and usually results in a paradigm shift. Example: The Wright Brother's first flight which brought about the paradigm shift into commercial aviation… a whole new industry emerged as a result.
The second type of innovation is incremental innovation. This much more common type of innovation takes existing ideas and marries them into a single new product. Example: The iPhone.
Some might consider both the iPad and the iPhone as breakthrough innovation. Instead, the first Apple computer would be considered breakthrough innovation and ultimately what, in part, lead to the iPhone and iPad. However and to be fair, both the iPad and iPhone products are technically incremental innovation. Prior to the iPad, there had been several tablet style computers (e.g., GRiD and even the Apple Newton) that, for whatever reason, never really took off. Handheld PDAs were actually a form of tablet. Cell phones were very popular long before the iPhone arrived. The iPhone, like the Tesla, successfully married three concepts: a computer, the cell phone and PDA into what became the smartphone.
However, even though incremental, both the iPhone and the iPad were responsible for a technological computing paradigm shift. The primary innovation seen in these devices was not from the marriage of existing technology, but from the speed, size, weight, high res screen and functionality that the devices offered… particularly when combined with the app store and a reasonable price tag. It's much more convenient and fast to grab a tablet to quickly search the web than sitting down at a desk and powering up a desktop computer. It is the internal functions and features and flexibility that set these devices well apart from their earlier computer brethren which offered slower computing experiences at higher prices.
Steve Jobs was a master at miniaturizing computers into much smaller versions with reasonable price tags and which included high end features. This strategy is what set Apple, then NeXT, then Apple again… apart from the rest of their competitors. That was with Steve Jobs at the helm. Since Job's passing, Apple is still attempting to ride Steve Jobs's coattails, but those coattails are getting raggedy at this point. If Apple doesn't come up with something truly breakthrough innovative in the next few years, they're likely to begin losing sales in larger and larger quantities. Even more than this, another upstart company in similar Tesla form will step in front of Apple and usurp the industry. A business cannot keep selling the same devices over and over and expect success to continue. Apple needs another paradigm shift device to keep its success streak going. I digress.
Tesla's Innovation
Circling back around to Tesla, we should now be able to better understand why what Tesla includes in its vehicles, while luxurious and technologically interesting, is nothing actually very new. It's new in the sense of being recently manufactured, yes, but the technology itself is old from an innovation sense. In other words, Tesla had no hand in that technology's development. An example, Tesla's choice to place a large touch screen panel in the middle of the dashboard, while interesting, is simply considered luxury as touch screen flat panels are not technologically new. What about the all electric car itself? It's not new either. Remember the 1830s? Remember the EV1? Not new.
What about the battery that powers the car? That battery technology is not new either. Technologically, it's simply a standard lithium-ion battery built large enough to support operating a motor vehicle. Tesla didn't design that technology either. Tesla might have had a hand in requesting the battery's size, weight and power requirements, but that's not innovation… that's manufacturing requirements. The lithium-ion battery technology was created and produced much, much earlier in the 1980s. In fact, Akira Yoshino holds the 1983 patent for what is effectively the lithium-ion battery technology still being produced today… yes, even what's being used in the Tesla.
You may be asking, "So what is innovative about the Tesla?" That's a good question. Not very much to be honest. The car body's design is at least proprietary, but functionally utilitarian just as most car bodies produced today are. The pop out door handles might be considered somewhat innovative, but these are born out of luxury, not out of necessity. They look cool, but don't really serve a truly functional purpose. In this sense, while the handles might be considered innovative, they're incremental and don't serve a true purpose other than for aesthetics. The same statement of aesthetics can be said of a lot of both the interior and exterior of the Tesla. Functionally, the Tesla vehicles are cars.
The Tesla cars are designed to give the owner a luxury driving experience both inside and out. The all electric drive train helps reinforce that luxury function due to its torque, performance and acceleration power. Even the charging stations were built out of sales necessity, not out of innovation. You can't exactly sell many electric vehicles if you can't charge them easily. The proliferation of the recharge stations was, as I just said, born of necessity. Yes, this infrastructure is important to all future electric vehicles. However, Tesla built them coast to coast to ensure that Tesla owners could at


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Effective management of the wheel/rail contact is an important aspect of rail infrastructure operations. All the influencing factors have to be taken into account as they interact closely. For example, measures used to reduce wear, such as lubrication, can influence fatigue and adhesion, and the measures used to increase adhesion, such as sanding, can have a detrimental effect on wear. A fine balance has to be found in determining maintenance schedules and lubrication regimes to keep railway networks running smoothly. Another important aspect is maintenance of the optimum wheel and rail profiles (through grinding) that can help avoid the onset of damage mechanisms.
This session aims at bringing together researchers and experts from various fields reporting on the current state of wheel/rail contact research. The discussion will promote interaction and collaboration among universities, research centres, railway operators and industry in order to propose solutions and indicate directions of future research.
The session will cover, but not is limited to, the following topics:
- Wheel/rail contact mechanics
- Wheel and rail material wear, rolling contact fatigue and other damage mechanisms (corrugations, squats, etc.)
- Management of wheel/rail friction (use of friction modifiers, lubricants etc.), including effective measurement of friction
- Causes of and overcoming low adhesion problems (traction gels etc.)
- Third-body layer analysis and the role of oxides in friction levels
- Noise and vibration generated by the wheel/rail contact and their mitigation
- Rail grinding: techniques, strategies, effects on noise, and rail failure mechanisms


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Stop Surviving and Start Living
You were born to thrive!
You can do more than just survive. Because of the price Jesus paid, each believer has been given access to a world of abundance: Heaven itself. For too long, society and even some of the church have believed we are defined by our surroundings-we are what happens to us. This belief has produced a rampant identity crisis. However, once we understand who we truly are and who God truly is, we open the door for limitless living.
In Thrive: Stop Surviving and Start Living, you will learn:
- How to thrive in every circumstance
- How to access Heaven's abundant resources
- The beauty of your new identity
- How to walk as a citizen of Heaven in this life
- How to connect with God and hear His voice
- How beliefs shape the way you live
- How a lifestyle of worship changes everything
According to Jeremiah 17, when we trust the Lord, we become a mighty tree rooted in the rivers of heaven that can withstand even the harshest conditions. We no longer have to rely on the world around us to provide us nourishment-we have been filled with Living Water, the very presence of God, enabling us to stay well-watered in every moment. Stop living a withered life. Tap into the streams of Heaven and start thriving!


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Definition of Dendrite
Dendrite: A short arm-like protuberance from a nerve cell (a neuron). Dendrites from neurons next to one another are tipped by synapses (tiny transmitters and receivers for chemical messages between the cells).
The word "dendrite" means "branched like a tree." It comes from the Greek "dendron" (tree).
See also neuron and axon.Source: MedTerms™ Medical Dictionary
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As a child, Chang Meemann was curious about animals and plants in nature. She decided to become a paleontologist— someone who learns about dinosaurs and ancient fish by studying their remains, known as fossils. With her keen research skills, she became the first woman director of an important research center in China studying fossils. Meemann's story demonstrates how passion, nurtured from a young age, can drive scientific excellence.
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This book series dives into the lives of extraordinary scientists who have made significant contributions to the science and technology space—from a pioneer of India's satellite program to the scientist who discovered a cure for malaria. Through these stories of courage and conviction, Asian Scientist Junior hopes to inspire all children, wherever they grow up, to dream of a better tomorrow.
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Home > Closing Gender Gaps
The Women and Public Policy Program of Harvard Kennedy School closes gender gaps in economic opportunity, political participation, health and education by creating knowledge, training leaders and informing public policy and organizational practices.
We look at what policies, organizational structures and leadership techniques help close involuntary gender gaps, those that occur due to constraints rather than choice, either due to explicit barriers (laws or the absence thereof) and/or implicit barriers (stereotypes, biased judgements and discrimination).
Conducting research to provide evidence-based insights and recommendations, we identify small to large scale successful interventions, while examining the impact of closing gender gaps.
Business Case Conference
What is the economic value of gender diversity in organizations, politics and society? To explore this question, WAPPP hosted a two-day conference in October 2010 to explore the economic value of gender diversity in organizations, politics and society.
Oval Office student training
From Harvard Square to the Oval Office is a non-partisan initiative that trains Harvard graduate students to run for all levels of political office.
Closing the Global Gender Gap
Closing the Global Gender Gap Initiative (CGGGI) aims to conduct, foster and support research on closing gender gaps in economic opportunity, political participation, health and education, to identifying ground-breaking, replicable interventions.


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Tolerance Analysis Extension [TAE] for PTC® Creo® Training
Fundamentals of Tolerance Analysis Using Tolerance Analysis Extension for PTC® Creo®
This combined instructor-led and laboratory course provides students using the PTC Creo Tolerance Analysis Extension with hands-on training on the Fundamentals of Tolerance Analysis within the Tolerance Analysis Extension environment.
When designing a product in a CAD system, it is important to remember that the CAD model is a perfect, theoretical representation of that product. However, when the product is manufactured, there will always be some variation in the dimensions of individual parts over an entire product run.
Using Tolerance Analysis Extension for PTC Creo, the objective of this course is to provide students with the fundamentals of how to achieve the delicate balance between tight tolerances desired by engineering to achieve the best product performance and loose tolerances desired by manufacturing to reduce costs and maximize process capability.
Throughout the course, students will have the opportunity to apply the fundamental tolerance stack knowledge that they have gained through the exercises using Tolerance Analysis Extension. Students will learn how to create a model, analyze the variation on the product and interpret the results — all in one, easy-to-use environment.
- Access to PTC Creo and TAE software extension
- Basic CAD modeling skills
- Basic knowledge of GD&T Terminology
- Tolerance Analysis Fundamentals
- Tolerance Analysis Extension Modeling Overview
- Analysis and Results
- TAE Modeling Considerations
- Chapter 5: Integrated Workflow Tools
- Application to Student Models
TAE training is also available on an individual basis using web-conferencing. Review the syllabus for additional details.


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It is natural for all computers, desktop, laptop and even hybrid devices to generate heat when they are used. The Apple Mac is no exception. Whether you use the new MacBook, Mac Pro or an iMac, the device will generate heat. When the heat stays within acceptable limits, you need not be worried. However, you may find your Mac is heating up uncomfortably and hear the fan inside is whirring like a monster sometimes. When it does happen, it is time to take steps to resolve the overheating issue!
Why Your Mac is Getting Overtly Hot
Before you get into action for cooling down your Macbook Pro or iMac, it is essential to know the reasons behind overheating.
There can be several reasons. However, Apple is essentially making all of its Mac desktops and laptops more compact and svelte with time. When so many components are placed inside a small chassis and body, the heat generation can go up. When you overlook commonplace Mac heating issues, the result can be detrimental. Apart from performance hiccups, the battery life can get adversely affected. In the long run, hardware components can get damaged too.
Ways To Tackle Mac Overheating Issues
Below listed are the top ways to tackle a Mac that is heating up excessively.
- Monitoring The Temperature – It is important that you keep an eye over the Mac you use for detecting heating issues. While MacBook users can feel underside of the laptop getting really hot and iMac users can hear the fans whirring rapidly, these are not enough. You should ideally install MAC specific temperature monitoring software. These apps help you obtain information on various aspects related to the computer's inside temperature. Examples are TG Pro and iStat Pro. You can pick from free and paid apps in this regard. As it is, such apps alert you when the inside temperature exceeds safe limit or the fan RPM drops.
- Using the Mac on Right Surface – This is a basic but vital measure to keep the Macbook's temperature within safe limits. A lot of users find their MacBook Pro heating up simply because they keep it on surfaces like bed, couch. When you do so, the heat vents get blocked and the device becomes overtly hot. So, it makes sense to place the MacBook on a level surface, such as table or floor. When that is not possible or you are using it in flight or car, use a cooling pad to avoid overheating.
- Avoiding Heat Sources and Ensuring Proper Ventilation – Some users, especially those who use iMacs or Mac Pros are oblivious to the heating sources at times. If you keep the iMac in such a way that heat vents are placed too close to the wall, it may get hot. Keep any Mac away from all sources of heat. Avoid using the Mac in a place where room temperature is above 35 degrees Celsius.
- Eradicating Dust and Dirt – MacBook and Mac Pro users, especially those who are heavy users, often fail to notice dust and dirt has accumulated on heat vents of their computers. Dust is a big enemy of any computer. When the heat vents of your MacBook Pro get blocked by accumulating dust, it will turn hotter than usual. Make it a habit to clean the keyboard, heat vents and ports on your Mac with a fine brush. You may also use small vacuum cleaners and low speed setting.
- Getting Rid of Runaway Apps – If there is any runaway app on your Mac, this can lead to heating. This basically denotes an app caught in a loop. Such an app depletes battery faster and puts strain on the CPU, resulting in overheating. You can find such apps by opening the Activity Monitor and choosing All Processes> CPU. Any app that consumes over 70% of the CPU resources can be called a runaway app. Quit the app to bring down system temperature.
Summing it Up
Performing the aforementioned steps is likely to resolve your MacBook or iMac overheating issues. Apart from bringing down system temperature, these steps serve the purpose of preventive maintenance! However, a Mac that continues to get overheated after trying all the steps requires intervention of Apple support.


How To Find Bees In Minecraft?
Where do you find bees in Minecraft?
Why can't I find bees in Minecraft?
You can find bees in Minecraft in flower forests, plains and sunflower plain biomes following update 1.15. Any tree in the above biomes can harvest a bee nest, but the flower forest is your greatest bet for finding them quickly.
How rare is it to find a beehive in Minecraft?
Bee nests now have a 0.2% chance to spawn in forest, wooded hills, birch forest, tall birch forest, birch forest hills, and tall birch hills biomes. Bee nests now appear yellow on maps.
How do I get bees in my beehive Minecraft?
Can u tame bees in Minecraft?
In order to tame minecraft bees you need flowers, it is really easy. Minecraft 1.15, the first release of Buzzy Bees, is a major update to Java Edition released on December 10, 2019.It added bees and bee-related items, such as beehives, honey bottles and honeycombs.
How do you farm bees in Minecraft?
Bees can be lured using any type of flower (including 2-block flowers and wither roses), and can also be moved using leads. (The bees follow the flowers because they want to eat them. If you feed the bees the flowers, they will enter love mode and breed, producing a baby bee.)
See also: Often asked: Best Minecraft 1.12.2 Mods?
Do bees spawn in beehives Minecraft?
Bees are a neutral mob — they'll only attack when they've been attacked — that spawn naturally in bee nests attached to oak or birch trees. They're a fan of flowers so they have a higher chance of spawning in places that have a lot of flowers and the specific trees that they enjoy.
How do you summon bees in Minecraft?
You can summon a bee whenever you want using a cheat (game command) in Minecraft. This is done using the /summon command.
How long do bees stay mad Minecraft?
In Peaceful mode there will be no effect. Once successful, they will lose their stinger and will become passive, but will instantly die after 20 seconds. Placing a campfire or having a fire under a hive will stop hostility. They will go into bee nests and hives.
How do you get Honeycomb?
Honeycomb can be harvested from bee nests and hives (artificial versions of nests you can craft) with shears; you'll get between one and three bits of honeycomb that way. However, harvesting from bee nests will make its buzzy inhabitants hostile.
Why is my beehive empty Minecraft?
The bees could be getting polin. Leave it until night, if bees are still alive or around they'll come back.
How do you get honey from a beehive in Minecraft without getting stung?
To collect honey without getting stung by bees is easy. You'll need to place a campfire right under the bee's nest. Place it right under it and you'll never see their red creepy eyes again.
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The International Network of PsySR (INPsySR) is a newly formed international network of organizations that use psychology to understand and address pressing social issues. Our purpose in linking such groups is:
- To unite the efforts of psychological organizations around the world in which psychologists are currently involved in peace, conflict resolution and social justice activities.
- To promote communication and cooperation between psychologists and their organizations in the area of social responsibility.
- To support member organizations in developing their work in their own countries.
- To facilitate contacts with international bodies of psychology and related disciplines and to be an important source of advice to institutions, government departments and to political and social organizations.
- To promote social responsibility in the practice of psychology.
PsySR and similar groups in Finland and Germany are founding members of the network, but we hope that during 2018 it will grow to include large and small organizations from every continent. To apply for membership, please complete and submit our Membership Form.


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Use a prop to help you deliver your message
How do you make an abstract concept real and meaningful to your audience? It helps to first relate the concept to something specific and familiar that your audience understands. Here's how one presenter used a prop to do just that.
This presenter is an agronomist who often does presentations on soil and sustainability. When explaining wind erosion, he passes out dimes to everyone in the audience. A dime is 1/36th of an inch thick. He explains that if an acre of land loses soil equivalent to the height of a dime it would be losing 5 tons of soil per acre.
After the audience has had a moment to digest what this means, he tells them that if we lose soil beyond the thickness of that dime, it will take us over 400 years to regenerate. He then points out the obvious: we cannot afford to lose that much soil - and that is what we call sustainability.


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Four Department of Education Teams received the prestigious Hammer Award in fiscal year 1996 for their work in helping to reinvent the Department and increase the efficiency of government. The Hammer Award is Vice President Gore's recognition to teams throughout the federal government who have supported the President's National Performance Review (NPR) principles---putting customers first, cutting red tape, empowering employees and getting back to basics. The following four teams received a framed hammer and a note from the Vice President: the Cooperative Audit Resolution and Oversight Initiative Team, the Performance Appraisal System Implementation Team, the Rehabilitation Services Administration Service Delivery Reform Team and the Reinvention Coordinating Council. The Department has received a total of ten Hammer Awards since the President's NPR initiative began in 1993.
In September 1996, the Department received the Eagle Award from the National Partnership Council for its success in transforming labor-management relations and for helping to build a government that "works better and costs less." The National Partnership Council recognizes achievements of labor-management partnerships working together to create better government. The Department was one of 93 federal agencies/installations nationwide nominated, and one of only five to receive the award.
Reengineered Management Processes
Fiscal year 1996 was also a year of significant redesign of management processes to better serve the Department's internal customers. In addition to the family-friendly program described above, several key management processes have been overhauled to improve the timeliness and quality of services. For example:


text: [en] T2 control charts are used to monitor a process when more than one quality variable associated with the process is being observed. Recent studies have shown that using variable sampling size (VSS) schemes results in charts with more statistical power for detecting small to moderate shifts in the process mean vector. This paper presents an economic-statistical design of T2 control charts with variable sample size and control limits (VSSC). We build a cost model of a VSSC T2 control chart for the purpose of economic-statistical design using the model of Costa and Rahim (J. Appl. Stat. 28:875–885, 2001). This cost model constructed involves the cost of false alarms, the cost of finding and eliminating an assignable cause, the cost associated with production in an out-of-control state, and the cost of sampling and testing. We optimize this model using a genetic algorithm approach. Furthermore, VSSC and VSS T2 charts are compared with respect to the expected cost per unit time.


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Agriculture Production Profile
Why is agriculture important anyway?
Aside from the nutritional value of food, agriculture is important to people, the economy, and our heritage.
The City of Kawartha Lakes is home to approximately 1,500 farms. Assuming an average of 4 people per farm, that means approximately 6,000 people live on farms in the municipality. The 2006 Census estimated 8,387 people in the area are employed year round and 4,013 seasonal in the agri-food and related industries.
Agriculture and agri-food sector is a mainstay of the economy. Kawartha Lakes has the largest number of beef cows in Central Ontario and the 4th largest number of beef cows in Ontario. Farm cash receipts for main commodities totaled $87.5 million in 2006.
(Source: OMAFRA, Census 2006)
Kawartha Lakes at a Glance (PDF)
Farm Cash Receipts - Main Commodities: 2002 - 2006
Major Farm Types
Kawartha Lakes is the fourth largest municipality/county in Ontario with respect to beef cow numbers. The fourth in ewe numbers and second largest in goats. With respect to total animal numbers, Kawartha Lakes has the third largest community pasture in Ontario. The largest field crop in acres is hay with 95,825 acres grown, representing 3.74% of the provinces crop.
(Source: OMAFRA 2006)
What else is growing in Kawartha Lakes?
Over $8 million in Floriculture, Nursery & sod sales, covering 306,117 square feet of total greenhouse area.
(Source: Census 2006)
This area was originally surveyed and cleared for agriculture in the early 1,800's. The European settlers established mixed farms on these lands. Many of today's farmers are descendants of the original settlers to this area. The area has grown to include a world class seed production facility and a large independent family owned dairy processing business.
Kawartha Lakes is a regional center for farm marketing and farm supply with a livestock sale barn, large commercial grain elevators and continues to pursue diverse and value added agricultural opportunities.
Production Profile Field crops
The largest acreage field crop grown is hay with 95,824 acres grown, representing 3.74% of the provinces crop.
Fruit & Vegetable Production Comparative Acres 2006
Beef farming remains the largest type of farming with over 1900 Beef cattle in Kawartha Lakes.
Farms By Industry 2006
Livestock Types 2006
- 271,460 hens and chickens (all types)
- 792 turkeys
(Source: 2006 Census)


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How to show image linked to the list element
For example, if you want to show the linked image and text for the selected item:
To create a drop-down list with linked images, do the following:
I. Create a drop-down list from your data (see Creating a drop-down list in a cell for more details):
In this example the drop-down list was created in the List sheet:
II. To show the linked picture of the selected item, do the following:
1. Create the name range of pictures:
1.1. On the Formulas tab, in the Defined Names group, click Define Name (see Creating and using named ranges for more details):
1.2. In the New Name dialog box:
- In the Name field, enter the name of this new range, for example, Pictures,
- In the Refers to field, enter the formula:
= INDEX (, MATCH (, , 0))
In this example:
= INDEX (Data!$C$3:$C$7, MATCH (List!$B$3, Data!$B$3:$B$7, 0))
2. Select any picture and copy it by doing one of the following:
- On the Home tab, in the Clipboard group, click the Copy button:
- Right-click in the selection and choose Copy in the popup menu,
- Click Ctrl+C.
3. Select the cell where you want to show the linked picture.
4. On the Home tab, in the Clipboard group, click on the Paste list and then choose one of the options:
- Keep Source Formatting:
5. Select the pasted picture and in the Formula Bar type the name of your range (in this example, Pictures):
III. To show the linked text of the selected item, do the following:
On the appropriate cell, where you want to see the linked text, enter the following formula:
= VLOOKUP (, , , )
Where should be:
- TRUE, if items in your table are sorted,
- FALSE, if items should find an exact match.
In this example:
= VLOOKUP (B3, Data!$B$3:$D$7, 3, FALSE)
See also this tip in French: Comment afficher l'image liée à l'élément de liste.


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In distributed systems, such as a network of Google Compute Engine instances, it is challenging to reliably schedule tasks because any individual instance may become unavailable due to autoscaling or network partitioning.
Google App Engine provides a Cron service. Using this service for scheduling and Google Cloud Pub/Sub for distributed messaging, you can build an application to reliably schedule tasks across a fleet of Compute Engine instances.
This three-part article includes the following:
- A design pattern for the solution.
- A sample implementation of the design pattern
- Ideas for building a production-ready version of the solution.
How to reliably schedule tasks on Google Compute Engine
Cron is the standard tool for scheduling recurring tasks on Unix systems. As the systems you build increase in complexity and become distributed, a single computer running cron can become a critical point of failure. The instance may stop due to autoscaling, or its network segment could be partitioned from systems it needs to communicate with.
Other approaches to increasing availability, such as scaled-out groups of instances behind a load balancer, don't work when you need to schedule an event that only needs to be run once by the whole system. For example, if four servers run the same singleton cron job every hour, it could create contention for resources and potential duplication of results.
Solving the problem of how to schedule tasks in a distributed system is not trivial. One solution to this problem is the Chronos framework for Apache Mesos, but this involves a significant amount of setup and management.
App Engine provides a Cron Service. If your application runs on App Engine, you can simply write App Engine handlers, schedule events, and the Cron Service will fire events and call the corresponding event handlers for your application. To run tasks on your Compute Engine instance in response to Cron Service events, you need to relay the Cron Service events to those instances.
There are several ways to do this, such as:
- Call an HTTP endpoint running on your Compute Engine instances using the App Engine URL Fetch service.
- Orchestrate tasks and locks using Google Cloud Datastore transactions.
- Pass messages from event handlers running on App Engine to your Compute Engine instances using a messaging service.
This sample illustrates the third design pattern. It is simpler to implement than managing locks and task state in Cloud Datastore. It is also more reliable than sending HTTP requests to Compute Engine instances, which may stop or lose network connectivity before a task completes.
The following diagram provides an architectural overview of this design pattern.
In this implementation, an App Engine application schedules events in the Cron Service, then transmits those events to Compute Engine instances using Google Cloud Pub/Sub. Cloud Pub/Sub is a fully-managed cloud service that provides robust, many-to-many, asynchronous messaging between applications.
A utility service on your Compute Engine instances subscribes to Cloud Pub/Sub topics and runs cron jobs in response to the events it pulls down from those topics. The utility runs standard scripts; you do not need to modify your current cron scripts to use them in this sample.
By using Cloud Pub/Sub to decouple the task-scheduling logic from the logic running the commands on Compute Engine, you can update your cron scripts as needed, without updating or re-deploying the App Engine application. You can also change your task schedule without updating the utility on your Compute Engine instances.
Because cron jobs are typically few in number and run on an hourly, weekly, or daily schedule, this design pattern should not exceed the service quotas, which are designed for high-volume operations. If it does, consider other application patterns, such as managing the timing of tasks directly in application code.
The cost of running this design pattern is less than $1 a month. This cost analysis assumes a cron job that runs every twelve hours, for an hour each time, on a f1-micro instance. For a breakdown of the costs in this estimate, and to calculate costs for your own use case, see the Google Cloud Platform Pricing Calculator.
App Engine provides a free backend quota of 8 instance-hours per day. If you are not using that quota in other applications, the App Engine cost for running this design pattern is $0, reducing the cost further.
For example, if you run the sample implementation in the following section for an hour and then delete the Google Cloud resources, the cost will be approximately 1 cent.
Sample implementation of the design pattern
A sample implementation of this design pattern, Sample: Reliable Task Scheduling on Google Compute Engine, is available on GitHub.
The sample contains two components:
An App Engine application that uses App Engine Cron Service to relay cron messages to Cloud Pub/Sub topics.
A utility that runs on Compute Engine. This utility monitors a Cloud Pub/Sub topic. When it detects a new message, it runs the corresponding command locally on the server.
The readme file included with the sample describes the sample in further detail, as well as how to run the sample code on Google Cloud Platform.
Building on the design pattern and sample
The App Engine Cron service makes it simple to set up distributed cron on your Compute Engine instances with minimal setup and cost.
The previous sample illustrated one way to implement a reliable scheduling solution for Compute Engine using the App Engine Cron Service. It's a useful design pattern because it separates the scheduling logic from the logic that runs commands on the Compute Engine instance, making it possible to change the location and execution of your tasks without having to update the scheduling logic.
The following diagram shows the flow of cron messages in this sample. By specifying which instances subscribe to a given topic, you can control whether a cron job runs on a single instance or several instances.
Another advantage of this architecture is the control it gives you over how cron jobs are routed to your instances.
You can send different cron messages to different sets of servers, as illustrated by Cloud Pub/Sub topics A and C. The tasks in Topic A are sent to a single subscriber, whereas several servers subscribe to Topic C. You might use this strategy to run one set of commands on your web server and another set on your other servers.
Another option is to run a command on one of several servers. This is illustrated by topic B. In this case, multiple servers share a single subscription and messages published to topic B are handled by the first server to claim that message and the corresponding command runs only on that server. You might use this to perform nightly data analysis that only needs to run on a single server.
You can modify the sample and use it as a model for your own application. Below are some ideas to get you started.
cron.yamlto specify your own cron messages. You can update the cron job directly, as described in Uploading Cron Jobs or re-deploy the App Engine application to update the App Engine Cron Service.
test_executor.pyto run a real script instead of
logger_sample_task.py, or write your own
Instead of manually launching the utility on Compute Engine and running it as a foreground process you can launch it automatically as a daemon by a system or third party tool like
Neither the App Engine Cron service nor Cloud Pub/Sub make strict "exactly once" delivery guarantees. While unlikely, duplicate message delivery can occur. If running a specific task more than once creates an undesirable outcome, use a distributed consistent locking tool like Zookeeper to ensure the task is run only once and by only a single instance.
When scheduling tasks, follow cron best practices and ensure that tasks are scheduled far enough apart they can complete processing before the next time they run.
Create a cost-efficient cron solution by running the utility on a micro instance. When it receives a task, it launches more powerful instances to process the cron tasks quickly. When the tasks complete, the larger instances can simply shut themselves down. This gives you flexibility to complete tasks soon after the event time, at minimal cost.
In this implementation,
cron.yamlis deployed to App Engine along with the App Engine application. This means that any change to the cron messages requires that you re-deploy the App Engine application. To avoid this, you could extend this sample implementation by rewriting the App Engine application to pull the YAML file from a Cloud Storage bucket, have it monitor the file for changes, and update App Engine Cron Service when it detects modifications to the YAML file.
Try out other Google Cloud Platform features for yourself. Have a look at our tutorials.


Build a real-time chat app with Node-RED in 5 minutes
08 August 2014
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Sign up for IBM Bluemix
This cloud platform is stocked with free services, runtimes, and infrastructure to help you quickly build and deploy your next mobile or web application.
Node-RED is a new open-source tool created by the IBM Emerging Technology team that lets you build applications by simply wiring pieces together. These pieces can be hardware devices, web APIs, or online services.
We'll show you how to build a real-time chat application on Node-RED using Bluemix in just a few minutes.
On IBM Bluemix it's easy to create a new Node-RED runtime. With just a few clicks you have a working environment, ready for you to create your new application. In this article, we'll show you how to build—in just a few minutes—a real-time chat application on Node-RED using Bluemix.
What you'll need
 - A Bluemix account
 - Basic knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. We provide all the necessary code, but a basic understanding of these technologies will help you understand the details.
Step 1. Create your Node-RED application
 1. Log in to your Bluemix account and create a new Node-RED boilerplate.
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 2. Give your application a name and click CREATE.Give your Node-RED app a name
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 3. On the Bluemix dashboard, navigate to the URL provided for your newly created application to launch Node-RED's main page.Node-RED URL on Bluemix
 4. Now click Go to your Node-RED flow editor to open the flow editor.Node-RED's main page
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 5. You should see a blank sheet where you can start building your app. When using Node-RED we build our apps using this graphical editor interface to wire together the blocks we need. We can simply drag and drop the blocks from the left menu into the workspace in the centre of the screen and connect them to create a new flow.New empty sheet on Node-RED
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Step 2. Import the code
Every Node-RED application can be imported and exported using the JSON format. So let's import our chat app into the new sheet.
 1. Access the project repository on IBM DevOps Services and open the nodechat.json file.
 2. Copy the entire file's content, then go back to Node-RED in your browser.
 3. Click on the menu button in the top right corner and select Import from… > Clipboard…
 Import menu on Node-RED
 4. Paste the file's content that you copied from the repository and click Ok.Area to paste code to be imported
 5. Click somewhere on the blank sheet to add the nodes that were imported.
 Importing an app in Node-RED
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We will explain what each piece does later on this article, but now it's time to deploy and run your application.
Step 3. Deploy and run application
 1. Click the red Deploy button next to the menu button to make your application live.
 Deploy button on Node-RED
 2. You should see a success message appear on the top, and the blue dots on the nodes will disappear. These dots indicate when a node has been changed but not yet deployed.
 Success message
 3. Now open a new tab on your browser and go to http://[app name], changing [app name] to the name you gave your application.
 Running our chat app
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 4. You now have your chat application running. Enter a username in the field on the left, write a message on the box on the right, and press Send.
 Sending a message using our chat
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 5. Open the chat in a second window or send the link to some friends and have fun. You should receive the messages instantaneously.
 Real-time conversation with multiple users
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Step 4. Explaining the code (optional)
In this section, we explain the code behind our application in more detail. You can skip this section, but we recommend you read through it to better understand how the app is built and to learn more about how Node-RED works.
 1. In the first section, we have three nodes:
 - WebSocket in
 - Function
 - WebSocket out
 First flow of the application
 These are the blocks responsible for creating the communication channel and processing the messages in real-time using the WebSocket protocol. The Function block is very simple. It only removes the value for _session from the msg object so that the message is broadcast to all clients connected to the WebSocket.
 Code to broadcast message
 2. The second flow is responsible for the client-side code. It has an HTTP in node, a Template to render an HTML page, and an HTTP out node for response. Second flow in thr application
 The HTTP in node ([get] /chat) creates an endpoint to receive GET requests and forwards those requests to the Template. The HTTP out node creates the proper response to be sent back to the user after the template has been rendered.
 3. The template can be broken into three parts: page structure, message handling, and visual.
 4. The page structure is a simple HTML page that contains a div that will receive all the chat messages, and a footer that holds the fields for sending messages. HTML structure of the app
 5. Message handling is done using JavaScript. First, we open a connection to the WebSocket endpoint we created using Node-RED.
 Openning a WebSocket connection
 Next, we register event handlers for the ws object to handle events such as opening and closing connections with the server and receiving new messages.
 Registering event handlers
 6. When the user sends a message we create an object with the username and the message, which is sent to the server using the send method in our ws object. Code to send a new message
 7. The visual part is done with some simple CSS rules that are not covered in this article.
Node-RED simplifies code development by providing us with a set of nodes ready to be wired together and used. As shown in this article, it takes very little work to have a server set up on Bluemix to use in your projects. You can enhance this simple chat application even more by adding new nodes and creating new flows to connect to the existing ones.
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Animal & Veterinary
FARAD – Resource for Residue Problem Avoidance
FDA Veterinarian Newsletter July/August 2003 Volume XVIII, No 4
The Food Animal Residue Avoidance Databank (FARAD) is a computer-based decision support system originally designed to provide livestock producers, extension specialists, and veterinarians with practical information on how to avoid drug, pesticide and environmental contaminant residue problems. However, FARAD also offers emergency response assistance for accidental or deliberate chemical exposures to food animals. Since 1982 the FARAD has provided emergency hotline assistance to State and Federal agencies dealing with chemical contamination in food animals.
FARAD is a collaboration between USDA, FDA, and three Universities (North Carolina State University, University of Florida, and University of California, Davis). FARAD was authorized by Congress in 1998 (Public Law 105-185). Dr. Jim Riviere, Professor, North Carolina State University, College of Veterinary Medicine says one of FARAD's functions is "to provide withdrawal time guidance in support of extra-label drug use under AMDUCA." Dr. Riviere adds, "They also provide such information to the FDA-supported Veterinary Antimicrobial Decision Support System (VADSS) program on Prudent Antimicrobial Use and internationally to the Commonwealth Agricultural Bureau, International (CABI), which is a global storehouse and disseminator of agricultural databases."
FARAD personnel at the University of California, Davis and the University of Florida comb through numerous sources of residue avoidance information and extract information that will be of greatest use. These data are reviewed by residue experts to ensure accuracy and consistency, and further analysis is done by FARAD personnel at North Carolina State University to explore novel ways in which the data may be used to prevent residue problems. FARAD maintains an up-to-date computerized compilation of:
- Current label information including withdrawal times on all drugs approved for use in food animals in the United States and on hundreds of products used in Canada, Europe and Australia.
- Official tolerances for drugs and pesticides in tissues, eggs and milk.
- Descriptions and sensitivities of rapid screening tests for detecting residues in tissues, eggs and milk.
- Data on the fate of chemicals in food animals.
FARAD maintains the largest database of animal pharmacokinetic data in the world. These data describe the time-course of chemical (drugs, pesticides, environmental contaminants and toxins) depletion in the tissues and products of animals. FARAD is also sanctioned to provide these estimates to the United States Pharmacopeia-Drug Information (USP-DI) Veterinary Medicine Advisory Committee. As a cooperative multi-state program, FARAD is available nationwide to offer advice about residue avoidance.
Where to Call FARAD
FARAD expert-mediated assistance is available from two Regional Access Centers that can be accessed by this single toll-free telephone number:
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When to Call FARAD
Anyone who has a question about how to prevent residues in animal-derived foods is encouraged to call FARAD for assistance. Food animal veterinarians and Extension specialists are currently the major users of FARAD information. The FARAD Regional Access Centers operate during normal business hours. Most questions can be answered immediately; however, complex response may require a couple of days.
For more information, please visit FARAD's web site at _URL_.


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|AHELP for CIAO 4.9 Sherpa v1||
Parses the goodness-of-fit statistic information returned by calc_stat_info()
The get_stat_info() function is available for parsing the output of the calc_stat_info() function, which returns the goodness-of-fit statistics associated with a data set and its assigned model. The advantage it offers over the get_fit_results() function is that it returns statistics on individual data sets included in a simultaneous fit, plus the statistics of the simultaneous fit, whereas get_fit_results() would only return the statistics of the simultaneous fit. The get_stat_info() function is useful for accessing and manipulating individual components of the calc_stat_info() structure, e.g. within a script, whereas calc_stat_info() is recommended for printing fit statistic information to the screen, at the Sherpa command line.
The get_stat_info() function returns the following information about how well the specified models fit the data:
- name - name of data set
- ids - data set ID number
- bkg_ids - associated background data set ID number
- statname - the chosen fit statistic
- statval - fit statistic value
- numpoints - number of bins in the fit
- dof - the number of degrees of freedom in the fit, i.e. the number of bins minus the number of free parameters
- qval - [only reported with chi-square, 'cstat', and 'wstat' statistics] a measure of the (Q-value) probability that one would observe the reduced statistic value, or a larger value, if the assumed model is true and the best-fit model parameters are the true parameter values
- rstat - [only reported with chi-square, 'cstat', and 'wstat' statistics] fit statistic value divided by the number of degrees of freedom
This function accepts no arguments; it returns the fit statistics for all data sets which have been assigned models, including background data sets associated with source data sets. This means that if a fit has not yet been performed in the Sherpa session, calc_stat_info() will return not-very-meaningful statistics for data sets which have been assigned models but which have not yet been fit. Also, if a fit has been performed for only some of the data sets with assigned models, those data sets which were not explicitly fit will be included in the simultaneous fit results returned by calc_stat_info() (see an example of this behavior below in the examples section).
sherpa> set_source(xsphabs.abs1 * powlaw1d.p1) sherpa> set_bkg_model("p1") sherpa> fit() sherpa> statinfo = get_stat_info() sherpa> print(statinfo) sherpa> print(statinfo) sherpa> print(statinfo)
Return the statistics resulting from a simultaneous fit of the source and background spectra assigned to default data set 1. Print the goodness-of-fit statistics for each individual data set included in the fit, plus the simultaneous fit.
sherpa> print(get_stat_info()) name = Dataset 1 ids = (1,) bkg_ids = None statname = chi2gehrels statval = 5506._PHONE_ numpoints = 1024 dof = 1021 qval = 0.0 rstat = 5.39293827041 sherpa> print(get_stat_info()) name = Background 1 for Dataset 1 ids = (1,) bkg_ids = (1,) statname = chi2gehrels statval = 15975._PHONE_ numpoints = 1024 dof = 1022 qval = 0.0 rstat = 15._PHONE_ sherpa-23> print(get_stat_info()) name = Dataset ids = bkg_ids = None statname = chi2gehrels statval = 21481.776586 numpoints = 2048 dof = 2045 qval = 0.0 rstat = 10._PHONE_
sherpa> load_pha("source.pi") sherpa> load_arf("arf1.fits") sherpa> load_rmf("rmf1.fits") sherpa> set_source(xsphabs.abs1 * xspowerlaw.p1) sherpa> subtract() sherpa> fit() sherpa> calc_stat_info() sherpa> f = get_stat_info() sherpa> print(f.rstat)
The calc_stat_info() function is used to return the goodness-of-fit statistics resulting from the fit of an absorbed power law model to background-subtracted data set 1. The get_stat_info() function is used to parse this information and store the fit statistic information to variable "f"; "f" is then used in turn to access the reduced statistic value.
sherpa> calc_stat_info() Dataset = 1 Statistic = chi2gehrels Fit statistic value = 703.792 Data points = 1024 Degrees of freedom = 1021 Probability [Q-value] = 1 Reduced statistic = 0.689316 sherpa> f = get_stat_info() sherpa> print(f) name = Dataset ids = bkg_ids = None statname = chi2gehrels statval = 703.791857589 numpoints = 1024 dof = 1021 qval = 1.0 rstat = 0.689316217031 sherpa> print(f.rstat) 0.689316217031
The get_stat_info() routine fails with the message "StatErr: No background data has been supplied. Use cstat" when used with the wstat statistic.
See the bugs pages on the Sherpa website for an up-to-date listing of known bugs.
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- This article concentrates on the history and development of punts and punting in England, for other usages see Norfolk punt and the general disambiguation pages at punt (disambiguation) and punter (disambiguation).
A punt is a flat-bottomed boat with a square-cut bow, designed for use in small rivers or other shallow water. Punting refers to boating in a punt. The punter generally propels the punt by pushing against the river bed with a pole. A punt should not be confused with a gondola, which is propelled by an oar rather than a pole.
The term "punt" has also been used to indicate a smaller version of a regional type of long shore working boat, for example the Deal Galley Punt. This derives from the wide usage in coastal communities of the name "punt" for any small clinker-built open-stem general purpose boat.
In Canada, the term punt can also refer to any small flat-bottomed boat with a square-cut bow, regardless of purpose, building material, or propulsion source.
In Australia, cable ferries are commonly referred to as punts.
Punt construction
A traditional river punt differs from many other types of wooden boat in that it has no keel, stem, or sternpost. Instead, it is built rather like a ladder with the main structure being two side panels connected by a series of 4 in (10 cm) cross planks, known as "treads", spaced about 1 foot (30 cm) apart.
The first punts are traditionally associated with the River Thames in England and were built as small cargo boats or platforms for fishermen. Pleasure punts – specifically built for recreation – became popular on the Thames between 1860 and 1880. Some other boats have a similar shape to a traditional punt – for example the Optimist training dinghy or the air boats used in the Everglades – but the most similar boat is the European Weidling a type that can be tracked back to Celtic boats built more than 2,000 years ago.
Since a punt has no keel, it draws only a few inches even when fully laden; this makes it very manoeuvrable and suitable for shallow water. A punt can be punted with equal facility in either direction; this is handy in narrow streams where turning round may be difficult. The square-cut bow gives greater carrying capacity for a given length than a boat of the same beam with a narrow or pointed bow; it also makes the boat very stable, and suitable for passengers.
Punts are still made in England to supply the tourist trade in Oxford and Cambridge or for racing purposes. The construction material of choice for most punts is wood. Fibreglass is used for some very light and narrow racing punts. The sides, the ends (known as "huffs"), and the "till" are normally made of hardwood such as mahogany. The treads are often made from teak. The bottom is made of softwood and may be replaced several times during the life of a particular boat.
A traditional punt is about 24 feet (7.3 m) long and 3 feet (0.91 m) wide. The sides are about 18 inches (0.5 m) deep. Both the bow and the stern are cut square, with a long shallow "swim"; this is to say, the underside of the boat slopes very gently at the front and the back.
Both smaller and wider punts are made. Extra large and wide punts known as ferry punts may be seen in Cambridge, where many are used as water-borne tourist vehicles. Single seater Thames punts were normally made only 2 feet (60 cm) wide, and somewhat shorter than a standard punt; very few of these are still afloat. Racing punts, which are still used by a few specialist clubs on the lower Thames, may be built even narrower. Thames punts have occasionally been adapted for other means of propulsion: including sails, tow-ropes, and paddle wheels. With the addition of iron hoops and canvas awnings, punts have also been used for camping.
The bottom of the punt is made with long, narrow planks stretching fore and aft, attached to the flat sides and the treads. In order to allow the wood to swell when it gets wet, the planks are set a small distance apart (traditionally the width of an old penny, about 1–2 mm). The gaps are caulked; this caulking normally needs to be renewed annually. The treads are attached to the sides with small wooden "knees", which may be vertical or set at an angle. The diagram above shows a punt without seats. The seats are usually just a simple board fitting against blocks on the sides, with cushions. The gaps between the treads are normally fitted with gratings to allow the passengers to keep their feet dry.
A punt can be punted with equal facility in either direction, so it is not obvious to the novice which end is the bow and which the stern; however, one end of the boat is strengthened with a short deck, usually called a "counter" or a "till" (terms from cabinet making), that extends some six feet (2 m) from that end.
The Thames punt-building tradition was that the end with the till was the stern, as shown in the diagram. The till provides some extra torsional rigidity, and is normally closed in; occasionally a locker may be built into it. A small minority of punts, such as those made from fibreglass at Magdalen College, Oxford have no single till in the usual sense, instead having very small tills at either end.
The forerunners of pleasure punts, fishing punts, usually had an additional compartment, called a "well," which extended across the width of the punt a little way in front of the till. This compartment was made water-tight, and had holes in the bottom or sides so that it could be flooded with water. It was used for keeping any caught fish.
Punt poles
A traditional punt has no tiller nor any provision for oars, sails, or motor; instead it is propelled and directed with a pole. Poles for pleasure punts are normally made of spruce, or aluminium. A normal pole is about 12–16 feet (4–5 m) long and weighs about 10 lb (5 kg). In both Oxford and Cambridge, long 16 ft (4.9 m) poles tend to be used exclusively. The bottom of the pole is fitted with a metal "shoe", a rounded lump of metal to protect the end – the shoe is sometimes made in the shape of a swallow tail.
Traditional wooden poles are preferred by many experienced punters; they are more sympathetic on the hands and make less noise on contact with the river bottom or the punt compared with an aluminium pole. Aluminium poles are considerably cheaper and stronger, so may be preferred by punt stations offering punts for hire to inexperienced punters; however, it is normally possible to choose either type.
Racing poles are generally a great deal lighter than pleasure punt poles, and aluminium is the preferred material. It is usual to carry one or two spare poles in a race, so that one can keep punting if a pole gets stuck or is dropped.
Punting technique
Punting is not as easy as it looks. As in rowing, you soon learn how to get along and handle the craft, but it takes long practice before you can do this with dignity and without getting the water all up your sleeve.
— Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat (1889)
The basic technique of punting is to shove the boat along with a pole by pushing directly on the bed of the river or lake. In the 1870s, when punting for pleasure first became popular, the normal approach was for the passengers to sit at the stern on cushions placed against the till, and for the punter to have the run of the rest of the boat. The punter started at the bow, planted the pole, and then walked towards the stern, shoving the punt forwards. This is known as "running" the punt. It was the normal technique used to move heavy fishing punts. As pleasure punts became lighter, it became more usual for the punter to stand still – normally towards the stern – while shoving. This is called "pricking" the punt. Pricking has the advantages that the punter is less likely to walk off the end of the punt inadvertently, and that more of the punt can be used to carry passengers.
For pleasure punting, the best way to learn is to start out in a boat with a competent punter in order to watch him or her at work. After this there is no substitute for extensive hands-on practice on different stretches of river. For racing punting it is best to join a club, and to work on one's balance. Some punt racers practise by punting in canoes.
The orthodox punting position is to stand in front of the till, towards the back of the boat, and to punt from the side. Left-handers stand on the starboard side with the left leg forward; right-handers stand on the port side with the right leg forward. The leading foot is placed against one of the knees, and should not move as you punt. The back foot moves backwards and forwards as the punter makes each stroke.
Rather different traditions have grown up in Oxford and Cambridge: in Cambridge they stand on the till and punt with the open end forward, while in Oxford they stand inside the boat and punt with the till forward. The Oxford position is closer to the


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Spatial chaos of an extensible conducting rod in a uniform magnetic field
D. Sinden & G.H.M. van der Heijden
The equilibrium equations for the isotropic Kirchhoff rod are known to form an integrable system. It is also known that the effects of extensibility and shearability of the rod do not break the integrable structure. Nor, as we have shown in a previous paper does the effect of a magnetic field on a conducting rod. Here we show, by means of Mel'nikov analysis, that, remarkably, the combined effects do destroy integrability; that is, the governing equations for an extensible current-carrying rod in a uniform magnetic field are nonintegrable. This result has implications for possible configurations of electrodynamic space tethers and may be relevant for electromechanical devices.
keywords: elastic rod, magnetostatics, Hamiltonian mechanics, integrability, Melnikov analysis, chaotic behaviour, multipulse homoclinic orbits
Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical 42, 375207 (2009)


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A Bayesian approach to portfolios selection in multicriteria group decision making
In the a-posteriori approach to multicriteria decision making the idea is to first find a set of interesting (usually non-dominated) decision alternatives and then let the decision maker select among these. Often an additional demand is to limit the size of alternatives to a small number of solutions. In this case, it is important to state preferences on sets. In previous work it has been shown that independent normalization of objective functions (using for instance desirability functions) combined with the hypervolume indicator can be used to formulate such set-preferences. A procedure to compute and to maximize the probability that a set of solutions contains at least one satisfactory solution is established. Moreover, we extend the model to the scenario of multiple decision makers. For this we compute the probability that at least one solution in a given set satisfies all decision makers. First, the information required a-priori from the decision makers is considered. Then, a computational procedure to compute the probability for a single set to contain a solution, which is acceptable to all decision makers, is introduced. Thereafter, we discuss how the computational effort can be reduced and how the measure can be maximized. Practical examples for using this in database queries will be discussed, in order to show how this approach relates to applications.
Citation : Emmerich, M.T.M., Deutz, A. and Yevseyeva, I. (2015) A Bayesian approach to portfolios selection in multicriteria group decision making. CENTERIS'15, 7th Conference of ENTERprise Information Systems. Procedia Computer Science, 64, pp. _PHONE_
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