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A leading MNC bank in UAE had established its Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) division about a year and a half prior to this project. Sensing the huge opportunity in the SME space, the bank wanted to increase its focus on this segment. However, the UAE market was characterised by a dearth of publicly available information due to the "Tax-Free" nature of the economy which did not mandate the filing of annual books of accounts. The bank hence requested UC Strategy extensive research of the UAE market to identify focus sectors, growth potential and strategies to be adopted by the bank to target these segments. Such research would also give a first mover advantage to the bank as no other bank had access to such data.
To develop the SME strategy, UC Strategy adopted the following approach:
- Conducted primary research amongst 100 SMEs to identify industry trends, banking needs etc.
- Calculated the banking wallet size for leading SME segments
- Prioritised focus segments
- Conducted competitor research to understand key focus segments of the competition, their perspective of the market, future strategy etc.
- Analysed the impact of the real estate boom and Islamic banking on the SME segments
- Defined an agenda for action for the bank based on:
- Product Focus
- Geography Focus (relative importance of Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Sharjah)
- Community Focus
- Value Proposition
- Points of Parity and Points of Differentiation
UC Strategy delivered its market research on the SME sector in the UAE, along with recommendations of areas to focus on, growth potential and strategies to be adopted.


British Government Condemns Ex-Gay Therapy As Harmful
British Health Minister Norman Lamb
British Health Minister Norman Lamb has issued the following condemnation of ex-gay therapy on behalf of the government's health programs:
The Department of Health does not condone the concept of therapists offering 'cures' for homosexuality. There is no evidence that this sort of treatment is beneficial and indeed it may well cause significant harm, to some patients.
It is incumbent on professionals working in the National Health Service to ensure that treatment and care, including therapy, is provided to every patient without any form of discrimination.
If someone is suffering a mental health problem, clinicians will try to help patients with whatever is causing them distress. This could involve helping someone come to terms with their sexuality, family arguments over their sexuality, or hostility from other people.
We know from research that the incidence of depression, anxiety and suicide within the gay community is significantly higher than within the heterosexual community and this is why 'No health without mental health' identifies lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people as a specific group for whom a tailored approach to their mental health is necessary.
Just last month, the British Association of Counselling & Psychotherapy came out against ex-gay therapy, pointing out that it had "no basis in science or medicine" and advising members not to offer it to clients.


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Audio Description Performance
What is audio description?
Audio description is a verbal commentary that tells visually impaired theatre-goers what is happening on the stage during the parts of the performance where there is no dialogue (i.e. during fight scenes). The description does not interfere with the performance but fills in the gaps, describing facial expressions, costume, scenery and action sequences so that anyone with a sight problem can follow the plot fully and independently. Many visually impaired theatre-goers are enthusiastic about audio description.
How does audio description work?
The trained describer sits in a soundproof booth or box in the theatre and explains what is happening on the stage. Usually, the describer has seen the performance three or four times before and is well prepared to describe the performance. Visually impaired theatre-goers are equipped with a headset or earpiece before the performance and the description is relayed from the booth to the headset/ear-piece via an infrared or radio sound system.
Can theatre-goers sit in any seat in the theatre?
No, specific seats are allocated in the theatre, mostly in the Stalls or Dress Circle, so there is clear transmission between the describer and the headsets.

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The Medieval Art of IlluminationGRADES: 4-8
DURATION: Total - 120 minutes. 60 minute assembly, 45 minute hands-on experience and 15 minute children's presentation.
AVAILABILITY: Year Round
COST: $350 per program
CONTACT: Zoe Alowan, TAP Tour Coordinator _PHONE_
GROUP SIZE: up to 120 sutdents
|Take a journey to medieval times in Europe when one of
the great arts was the making of illuminated manuscripts. Travel to secret monastery
libraries and scriptoria where books were created and hidden away. Learn about the history
about the centers of illumination work, Romanesque art and architecture, the Bayeaux
tapestry, how monks made vellum, ink and paints, and view first hand selected pages from
the Beatus of Liebana, one of the most copied books of its time. the building of the
cathedrals, amazing gargoyles, and the impact of the Crusades will all be discussed.
Beautiful murals and stained glass windows transport students back in time while a storyteller recounts an early recorded tale.
Hands-on learning experiences for students include:
Creating illuminated bookmarks
Writing with quill pens
Acting in a medieval play (in costume)
Sketching their classmates
Creating medieval amulets out of Sculpey


A subspace of $\mathbb R^n$ is compact if and only if it is closed and bounded in the Eulidean Metric or Square Metric or $l_1$ metric.
Is my statement correct?
Actually the statement - "A subspace of $\mathbb R^n$ is compact iff it is closed and bounded in the Euclidean Metric or Square Metric" was given in Mukresh. I think closed and bounded set in the $l_1$ metric would also be compact. As the topologies of three are same.
Am I correct? Please correct me if I am wrong.
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 $\begingroup$ Yes, the $\ell_1$ metric is equivalent to the euclidean metric. This follows from simple arithmetic inequalities. Moreover, there is only one norm-induced topology on R^n. $\endgroup$ – Lorenzo Quarisa Apr 8 '18 at 12:45
 - $\begingroup$ I did not get you _USER_...All I want to know is whether my statement is correct or not. $\endgroup$ – cmi Apr 8 '18 at 12:50
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 $\begingroup$ The only compact subspace of $\mathbb R^n$ is the trivial subspace (consisting solely of the zero vector, one point). I'm concerned that you meant to ask about characterizing which subsets of $\mathbb R^n$ are compact rather than which subspaces are compact. But the statement is true (what applies to all subsets certainly applies to subspaces). $\endgroup$ – hardmath Apr 8 '18 at 12:56
 - $\begingroup$ yes..You are correct..But why Mukresh used Subspace?_USER_ $\endgroup$ – cmi Apr 8 '18 at 12:59
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 $\begingroup$ Context matters. If one speaks of Euclidean space $\mathbb R^n$, most often one is thinking about it as a vector space that has a topology. In a general topology text one may instead think of the subsets of a topological spaces as inheriting a subspace topology, so I'm open to the author using "subspace" to mean topological subspace rather than vector subspace. $\endgroup$ – hardmath Apr 8 '18 at 13:04
As the topologies induced by the $\ell_1, \ell_2$ and $\ell_\infty$ metric are the same on $\mathbb{R}^n$, closedness under one of them is equivalent to closedness under any other of them.
Also, all these metrics are related by inequalities:
$d_1(x,y) \le d_2(x,y) \le \sqrt{n} d_\infty(x,y); d_\infty(x,y) \le d_1(x,y)$ etc. so that boundedness in one of them also implies boundedness in all others.
So the compactness characterisation holds in all 3 of the metrics, in fact in any metric derived from a norm. The topology being the same is not enough, as the truncated metric $d_{t}(x,y) = \min(d(x,y), 1)$ induces the same topology as $d$ does, but in $d_t$ all sets are bounded, while this need not hold for $d$. So one does require an argument to see that the combination of closedness and boundedness for a specific metric is preserved.
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Anatomy Term: extracellular matrix
XAO ID: _PHONE_
Synonyms: ECM
Definition: "Anatomical structure composed of a combination of protein fibers, ground substance and tissue fluid; typically has embedded cells."
Stage Range: NF stage 10 to death
Marker Genes:
Antibody: Col2a1 Ab1 Col2a1 Ab2 Fbn2 Ab1 Tecta.2 Ab1 Tnc Ab2 Trpm8 Ab1
Develops From:
Develops Into:
Parent(s): acellular anatomical structure (is_a)
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Engaging Absent Fathers: Lessons from Paternity Establishment Programs
Maya Rossin, Columbia University
I provide the first comprehensive analysis of the causal effects of in-hospital voluntary paternity establishment (IHVPE) programs on paternity establishment and consequent family structure and well-being. Using variation in the timing of IHVPE initiation, I show that IHVPE programs increase paternity establishment rates by 38 percent, and reduce the likelihood of parental marriage post-childbirth. The decrease in marriage leads to positive selection into samples of both married and unmarried fathers, providing evidence for an increase in the marriage threshold in father quality. Accounting for selection out of marriage, there is some indication of a net reduction in father transfers: private health insurance provision for children declines, while maternal labor supply increases. On the whole, measures of child welfare such as total family income and child mental and physical health are unaffected, although children's access to preventative care declines. I perform numerous robustness checks to support the validity of my findings.
Presented in Session 2: Men's Roles in Families and Relationships

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Your Android phone might be broadcasting your Wi-Fi history
Is your phone's Wi-Fi always on? If you're on Android that might be a very bad idea
Your Android phone might be broadcasting your Wi-Fi history
Coming hot on the heels of Heartbleed there's another potential security problem, this time for Android users. The Electronic Frontier Foundation says that your Android phone could be broadcasting your Wi-Fi location history to anyone who knows how to find it.
No you can't see where I Wi-Fi
Your Android phone might be broadcasting your Wi-Fi history
But why does this broadcasting of past networks happen anyway? Well, it's a method phones that aren't connected to Wi-Fi use to try and speed up connections, and it's also a necessity to connect to hidden networks that don't broadcast themselves the way normal Wi-Fi networks do. It's the equivalent of a phone going, "Psst, are you there?" and waiting for a response.
READ MORE: 8 things you need to know about Android L
EFF made this discovery after doing tests that found many Android phones leaked the names of saved networks, up to a limit of 15. Though other platforms may also exhibit this weakness, at the present time EFF says Android is the most susceptible.
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pps-gpio-poll is a Linux kernel module which provides a /dev/pps* device using a GPIO pin as the PPS source. With an NTP daemon like chrony or ntpd it can be used to accurately synchronize the system clock with a reference time source.
Unlike the pps-gpio module (which is included in the Linux tree) it doesn't use interrupts. It uses a high-resolution timer and waits for the GPIO value to change in a busy loop instead. This means the PPS samples are more accurate and have less jitter, but more CPU time is consumed. Another difference is that the number of the GPIO pin is a parameter of the kernel module instead of relying on Device Tree.
This is a continuation of the openwrt-stratum1 project by Gabs Ricalde.


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 1. What is a Formula?
 2. What is a Function?
 3. Formula vs Function in Excel
Formula vs Function: What is a Formula?
A formula is a mathematical sentence with at least one variable. For example 2 + 4 isn't a formula (there's no variable), but 2x + 4 is a formula, because there's a variable. Formulas are used in math to describe relationships. Variables can be any letter from a to z, but you'll want to follow some general rules for writing formulae:
 - Abbreviate variables to one letter. For example, if you have a variable for weight, shorten that to w, not we or wt. This is because when you have two variables in a formula it means to multiply them, so "wt" means "w * t".
 - Use small letters a, b, c, … z.
 - Omit the multiplication sign (unless you're multiplying two numbers like 2*4). Write 2x, not 2 * x.
 - Put the number first if you're multiplying a variable by a number. Write 2x, not x2.
Formula vs Function: Functions
In general math and beginning algebra, you work with formulas. But in calculus, you work with functions. The difference between formulas and functions is in how they are constructed: functions are a specific type of formula with exactly one output (y) for every input (x).
 - For example, if you put a "2" into the formula y = x2, there's only one output: 4. That's a function.
 - If you put a 2 into the formula x = y2, there are two possibilities for each input (x-value): 8 and -8.
Let's take a look at these graphically:
formula vs function
At x = 2, the blue function y = x2 has one output (blue star), but the formula y = x2 has two outputs (orange stars).
All functions are formulas, but not all formulas are functions.
Formula vs Function in Excel
A "function" in Excel is a predefined formula. All Excel built-in functions are also functions in the traditional sense (i.e. you'll get one output for every input).
As an example, let's say you wanted to add a string of numbers from 1 to 4. All formulas in Excel start with an equals sign "=". So you might type the formula "=1+2+3+4". You could also invoke the built in function SUM to do the same thing: =SUM(1,2,3,4).
When making small calculations like this, there isn't much of a difference between a formula and a function in Excel. Where the big difference comes in is when you're dealing with large amounts of data in cells (something which Excel was designed for). If you had 1,000 numbers in column A, it might take some time to write the formula with all the numbers from 1 to 1,000:
But you can type in a function that will add up all of the numbers between cells A1 and cells A2 in seconds:
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Stephanie Glen. "Formula vs Function" From Calculus for the rest of us!
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 1. Michael
 Hi Stephanie, thanks for putting together a great resource here, I may even pick up your book 😉
 I'm just writing to you here as I think I have spotted a typo on your types of functions page:
 I couldn't leave a reply on that particular page so I'm writing it to you here. Anyway at the top of that page it has: "1. What is a Function?
 A function is a type of equation or formula that has exactly one output (y) for every input (x). If you put a "2" into the equation x2, there's only one output: 4. Some formulas, like x = y2, are not types of functions, because there are two possibilities for each x-value (one positive and one negative)."
 I think you meant to put there are two possibilities for each y value (2 and -2), instead of each x-value.
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Rain can be a relaxing event that can make you peaceful as you hear the calming raindrops on your window sill. For many people, the rain can make them cozy and create inner peace in them. For others, the rain symbolism is far different – it can be a symbol of cleansing and clarity.
But there are also some other meanings of rain. It can be used as a symbol of sadness and melancholy, which is especially typical in literature and works of art, as well as movies. It's also a common symbol of romance, as it's used in many romantic movies and romantic literature, especially in those famous scenes where protagonists make love in the rain.
Rain symbolism has many different meanings. It's a very wide-ranging symbolism that can have different implications when used in different settings. Let's take a look at some of the main meanings of rain and how it's used in literature and movies.
Rain Symbolism: 7 Meanings
What are some of the main meanings we connect to rain?
Rain cleanses the dirtiness and pollution physically, but also mentally. This rain symbolism is commonly seen in movies where it's used as a sort of cathartic quality that cleanses one's soul. It acts as this redeeming event that can free one's soul and remove all the bad thoughts and negativity out of one's mind.
But rain is also good for cleansing the air and removing pollution. Have you ever seen how clean the air is after a rainfall? You'll probably be able to see for miles and miles, which was previously not possible.
2. Sadness and Depression
Rain can also undertake a fairly negative role, in that it might inspire feelings of sadness and depression. When it rains, it's dark, which might bring out negativity and empower the negative feelings and thoughts within us.
That's why you might feel the blues when it rains. It's scientifically correct that rain might cause feelings of sadness, and that's why many people don't like rain. This negative meaning of rain is commonly depicted in movies to inspire melancholy and feelings of sadness and depression (more on that later).
Perhaps surprisingly, there's a calming quality of rain, too. When it rains calmly and when there is no wind, it might even be a symbol of calmness. But that's different when a storm comes by and sweeps up everything in front of it.
It forces us to retreat indoors and take a moment to think about ourselves and our surroundings. While some people might not like this, it's a good opportunity for many to take a closer look at their feelings.
Also, rain is often welcome for many trying to fall asleep. It can be calming listening to raindrops fall on the window sill as you're trying to fall asleep or calm down from a stressful day.
Rain is also often an obstacle that prevents someone from achieving a greater goal. It can be quite unpleasant to be outside when it rains, so it prevents us from going outside in the first place.
That's why it's earned its reputation for being a symbol of negativity and as an obstacle. But in movies, for instance, it's used as a symbol to portray a character's mental strength and determination in order to overcome this problem.
5. Rebirth and Growth
Without rain and water, life on earth would be impossible. It's responsible for keeping the life cycle alive, as it helps flowers and species on Earth grow. It provides them with fluids in order to keep alive and keep growing and keep the life cycle going.
Lakes would empty and seas would drain without adequate portions of rain. And when there would be no water on earth, life would be practically impossible. Even though it might be unpleasant when it rains, it's necessary for keeping us alive and for keeping other species alive, too.
Rain creates fertile ground. Back when people had no irrigation systems, they relied heavily on rain to help them grow their crops. But when there was no rain, their crops wouldn't grow, which would result in poverty and famine.
Today, we've developed different systems for growing plants, but rain is still essential for growth and fertility. Some Indian peoples and Egyptians used the rain symbol to portray fertility, and it was often seen as a symbol of good luck which would help them grow more crops and survive more comfortably.
When it rains, the weather changes. There's a well-known saying that says "the sun always shines after the rain", which means that rain is necessary in order for positive change to happen.
We can connect that with almost all our difficulties in life. It might be difficult at the start, but it's absolutely necessary to allow us to change and grow. Without rain, there would be no change.
Rain Symbolism in Literature and Film
Because of its highly symbolic nature, rain is commonly used in literature and films. It can have several different meanings, so let's take a look at some of them.
Rain is often used as a predicting symbol in movies. It can symbolize that the story is about to take a negative turn, or that negative events are about to happen. In movies, rain might start to fall right before a big event, or it might coincide with the event.
It might happen before a traumatic scene in the movie, for instance. Dark clouds are present, and there might be heavy rainfall to inspire feelings of anticipation in viewers.
Rain is commonly present in romance movies, especially where it's used as a symbol of love. This leads to many scenes of "kissing in the rain" and other romance scenes where rain is used as a background event to encourage the feeling of romance.
The list of movies where rain is falling during a romantic scene is wide. Some of the most well-known ones include Spiderman, Breakfast at Tiffany's, The Notebook, Singin' in the Rain, A Cinderella Story, Australia, and several others.
When a character goes through a tough period during a movie, there might be a scene where the character is seen walking through the rain. This rain might symbolize a traumatic event that might have happened to the character, and it's almost an effect that's used to inspire some sympathy for the character.
However, it normally happens that the character is able to withstand the storm and move through the rain. This is used to portray the determined character of the protagonist where the protagonist overcomes the rain.
Have you ever wondered what rain can symbolize? You might have associated with negative feelings only, but rain can have several other meanings. Rain symbolism represents cleansing, calmness, growth and fertility, and even rebirth.
It's also a favorite symbol for moviemakers and literature writers who use rain as a symbol of foreshadowing. It's also commonly present in romantic scenes but also to portray a protagonist's high level of mental strength.
I'm Chris and I run this website – a resource about symbolism, metaphors, idioms, and a whole lot more! Thanks for dropping by.


Question: How Do You Remove Pencil Marks Without Eraser?
Why is my eraser hard?
Why do pencil erasers get hard.
Because it works by "absorbing" the pencil lead and over time that makes it brittle or harden.
Dirt and lead and all kinds of stuff it comes into contact with just hardens over it..
What should I do if my kneaded eraser is hard?
If it is too stiff, break it into pieces and knead each piece until it is no longer stiff. If that doesn't work, rinse it under warm water, then knead it. What happens if you stretch a kneaded eraser farther than you should? If you stretch it too much, it will break apart easily.
Why can't you erase colored pencil?
Colored pencils are mostly wax/oil that holds the pigment, so rubber won't pick up their marks easily like graphite–you'll probably find that an eraser just smudges colored pencil.
What is the best pencil eraser?
How do you make a homemade kneaded eraser?
You can make a kneaded eraser out of pretty much any solid eraser that you have, even the one on the end of a pencil, just by rubbing it on a piece of paper to create crumbs and then kneading the crumbs together into a putty.
How do you completely remove pencil marks?
How to Clean StainsErase it! That's right, try the eraser. … Liquid Detergent. If a soft eraser failed to remove the stain, apply a few drops of liquid detergent to the affected area and rub gently with a soft, damp cloth. … All Purpose Cleaner. … Vegetable Oil. … Baby Wipes. … Toothpaste.
Can you erase colored pencil marks?
One technique is to apply a small amount of solvent to the area you want to fix, which will loosen the colored pencil marks, and then use the electric eraser over the area. … It's also a good idea to observe how the paper reacts to the eraser, because some papers can handle erasing better than others.
What is the easiest pencil to erase?
The more easily a graphite mark will smudge – the more easily it will erase. So no matter how lightly you draw with a hard pencil (6H) it will be harder to erase than a soft pencil (HB or 2B).
What can be used instead of eraser?
Eraser Alternatives for Pencil Marksrubber bands (Depending on the type, they're as effective as standard erasers.)the edge of a sneaker.white flexible earphone cords.the sole of a Chukka Boot or a Bass Weejuns boat shoe.a scrap of art paper folded four times—good for lifting lead.
How do you revive a pencil eraser?
Dip the eraser into the water. Gently knead it and squeeze it with your fingers until you can feel it begin to soften. Find a paper towel and dry the eraser. Place it in a cool dry place to completely dry to normalcy.
Can you erase pencil marks on a canvas?
John, if you have it on a stretched canvas, put a block of some kind back behind the pencil so you can use more force with the eraser. It should be a hard eraser like the Staedtler white eraser. If it's mounted on a board, do the same but without the block.
What happens if you put an eraser in the microwave?
Microwaving these "rubbers" will melt them, leaving a mess inside your oven. You also shouldn't microwave these. … People also ask, can an eraser melt plastic? Eraser Melts Plastic.
Does pencil wash out of clothes?
Have you ever noticed pencil marks and stains on your clothes? … Removing them from washable fabrics such as cotton, linen, or polyester can be as simple as using a soft eraser to get rid of the stain (just as long as you are being cautious as not to ruin the fabric you're working with).
What can you do with old erasers?
9 Extremely Useful Things You Can Do With Pencil ErasersStabilize A Frame. Tired of picture frames that are always tilting to one side and scuffing up your walls? … Remove Adhesive Residue. … Erase Scuff Marks. … Save An Earring. … Keep Track Of Pins. … Keep Shoes Shiny. … Plant Seeds Perfectly. … Revive Rechargeable Batteries.More items…•
How can I decorate my eraser?
Decorate Your ErasersChoose the scrapbook paper you want to use. … Glue one end (I used mod podge and it worked very well) to the edge of the existing eraser cover. … Brush on a light layer of mod podge around the entire eraser cover. … Let the covers dry and put them back on the erasers.


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When you create the deeplink any name can be used.
The deeplink will be triggered when the url is provided, as you are invoking the requesthandler via the url. With a deeplink the requesthandler is /link everything behind the link part are parameters (name of the deeplink config and input parameters). The handler is created in the after startup microflow, so make sure that the after startup microflow runs the deeplink register handler microflow.
Then in a deeplink you provide a microflow that needs to be executed when accessing your specific deeplink. The microflow allows for using the parameters after the name of the configuration in the url. So in a url /link//


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For those who want to save on transportation costs of various NON-HAZARDOUS liquids (water, wine, oil, non-hazardous chemicals, and so on) we offer an alternative type of tare – Flexitank.
Flexitank basic specification
- Flexitank is a lightweight disposable plastic packaging, used for storage and transportation of liquid foods and chemical products, considered non-hazardous according to the IMO (International Maritime Organization) requirements of the capacity from 14,000 to 24,000 liters.
- Sandwich Flexitank structure of for bulk liquid cargo transportation in containers consists of inner "light" layer of edible polyethylene, which serves as liquid reservoir and maintain hermiticity, and outer "solid" layer, which consists of polypropylene, providing load impact absorption that occurs during cargo transportation.
- It is designed and suitable for transportation by road, railway and marine transport in a standard 20-feet ISO (International Standards Organization) container, which significantly reduces packaging costs (barrels, bottles) and improves performance of handling process.
- Since it is disposable tare, it does not require the cost on its cleaning and return. Simply remove it from the container and dispose of.


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A family of new element models in discrete structural analysis is proposed in this paper. These models consist of finite number of small rigid bodies connected with springs distributed over the contact area of two neighbouring bodies. In general size of stiffness matrices of these element are at most (6×6) which are equal to or even smaller than 1/2 of those of conventional finite elements so that considerable reduction of computing time can be expected. Effectiveness of these elemets in nonlinear structural analysis will be demonstrated by several numerical examples.


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What is a gateway? Definition and meaning
The term gateway has many different meanings, depending on whether you are talking in a business, IT, or other context. 'IT' stands for Information Technology. Gateways, in information technology, are hardware devices or software that connect to different computer networks. Also in IT, gateways could be computers systems on Earth that switch voice and data signals between terrestrial networks and satellites.
The term may refer to any point or passage through which people may enter a region. For example, "New York is the gateway to America." In architecture, gateways are passages or entrances that people enter by opening a gate.
Doorways surround doors. Likewise, gateways surround gates.
Gateways are also mechanisms or agencies that provide access to information, systems, or other agencies.
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$$p(x,y) = x^N + a_{N-1}(y)x^{N-1} + \ldots + a_0(y), \quad x,y \in \mathbf{C}$$
is a monic polynomial in $x$, and the coefficients $a_j$ are analytic functions of $y$, then the roots of $p$ have expansions in Puiseux series (in powers of $y^{1/m}$ for some $m$) which are convergent for $y$ sufficiently close to 0.
Is this true in an asymptotic sense when the $a_j$ are only assumed to be smooth? i.e. Do the roots have asymptotic expansions which are formal Puiseux series (not necessarily convergent)?
For $A$ to have an asymptotic expansion $A \sim B_1 + B_2 + \ldots$ with respect to some grading $\mathcal{O}(n)$ means that $B_n \in \mathcal{O}(n)$, and for each $N$, $A - \sum_{n=1}^N B_n \in O(N+1)$. Here $\mathcal{O}(n)$ means $\mathcal{O}(|y|^{n/m})$ in the usual big-O notation, as $y\to 0$.
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How would you expand the two roots of $x^2=exp(-1/y^2)$? – Piero D'Ancona Aug 13 '10 at 7:10
I would have thought that you get an asymptotic expansion by replacing the $a_i$ by their asymptotic expansions, i.e., their Taylor series (which are formal power series), and then do the usual formal Puiseux series expansion of $x$. – Torsten Ekedahl Aug 13 '10 at 8:29
_USER_ I believe the expansions would simply be 0 for both roots. _USER_ Ah, I guess I've never actually computed a Puiseux series, but I suppose the basic algorithm is just to backsolve for the coefficients. If the algorithm works, I guess it has to work asymptotically. I'm a little surprised at this outcome as, combined with the Malgrange preparation theorem, this should imply that the germ of zeros of any smooth function has such an expansion. – Mike Hall Aug 13 '10 at 16:36
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The constructive proof of the Newton-Puiseux theorem works formally, and a posteriori one can show that if the original coefficients are convergent, then the Puiseux series are convergent (see the details in Casas-Alvero's book, "Singularities of Plane Curves"). So Torsten Ekedahl's comment is right, of course. However, I wonder how useful this would be when the power series don't converge to the original smooth functions.
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That was exactly my point. You can not hope to represent the solutions by a Puiseux series, even in the simplest examples. And you can use $C^\infty$ functions to produce much weirder examples (e.g., infinite number of oscillations near many points) – Piero D'Ancona Aug 14 '10 at 17:10
The Taylor series gives the asymptotic expansion of a smooth function in terms of powers of $y$ and as such is uniquely determined and does give a lot of information about the behaviour of the function around the point. Of course the flat functions (those which are $O(y^n)$ for all $n$) get ignored so that $\exp(-1/y^2) \sim 0$ and then also so is any solution of $x^2=\exp(-1/y^2)$. Whether or not an asymptotic expansion of this type is useful or not will of course depend on your needs but the OP seems to have found it so as the question is about asymptotic expansions. – Torsten Ekedahl Aug 14 '10 at 17:44
_USER_: sure. I am questioning that the Puiseux expansion may be given any reasonable meaning. I'm thinking of examples like Glaeser's non negative, smooth function, flat at 0, whose square root fails to be $C^2$. In that case what is the meaning of the expansion? which would be a 'Taylor' expansion of any order of a non smooth function? I'm just perplexed and slightly curious about the usefulness of Mike's efforts. – Piero D'Ancona Aug 14 '10 at 19:18
_USER_: Interesting, I didn't know that you had that kind of complications. I agree that Puiseux expansions as asymptic expansions for functions on the real line look a little fishy. For one thing it seems safer to have them defined only for positive reals as otherwise $y^{m/n}$ may not even be well defined. – Torsten Ekedahl Aug 15 '10 at 22:12
I think the expansions certainly tell you something meaningful about where the zeros are, namely that they are within $\mathcal{O}(y^\infty)$ of several curves with the given Puiseux expansions. It's true that the $\mathcal{O}(y^\infty)$ error means you have essentially no control over derivatives. Still, I think this gives a nice picture of what the zero set looks like near a point. – Mike Hall Aug 16 '10 at 17:51
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With the emergence of the Web and its pervasive intrusion on individuals, organizations, businesses etc., people now realize that they are living in a digital environment analogous to the ecological ecosystem. Consequently, no individual or organization can ignore the huge impact of the Web on social well-being, growth and prosperity, or the changes that it has brought about to the world economy, transforming it from a self-contained, isolated, and static environment to an open, connected, dynamic environment. Recently, the European Union initiated a research vision in relation to this ubiquitous digital environment, known as Digital (Business) Ecosystems. In the Digital Ecosystems environment, there exist ubiquitous and heterogeneous species, and ubiquitous, heterogeneous, context-dependent and dynamic services provided or requested by species. Nevertheless, existing commercial search engines lack sufficient semantic supports, which cannot be employed to disambiguate user queries and cannot provide trustworthy and reliable service retrieval. Furthermore, current semantic service retrieval research focuses on service retrieval in the Web service field, which cannot provide requested service retrieval functions that take into account the features of Digital Ecosystem services. Hence, in this thesis, we propose a customized semantic service retrieval methodology, enabling trustworthy and reliable service retrieval in the Digital Ecosystems environment, by considering the heterogeneous, context-dependent and dynamic nature of services and the heterogeneous and dynamic nature of service providers and service requesters in Digital Ecosystems.The customized semantic service retrieval methodology comprises: 1) a service information discovery, annotation and classification methodology; 2) a service retrieval methodology; 3) a service concept recommendation methodology; 4) a quality of service (QoS) evaluation and service ranking methodology; and 5) a service domain knowledge updating, and service-provider-based Service Description Entity (SDE) metadata publishing, maintenance and classification methodology.The service information discovery, annotation and classification methodology is designed for discovering ubiquitous service information from the Web, annotating the discovered service information with ontology mark-up languages, and classifying the annotated service information by means of specific service domain knowledge, taking into account the heterogeneous and context-dependent nature of Digital Ecosystem services and the heterogeneous nature of service providers. The methodology is realized by the prototype of a Semantic Crawler, the aim of which is to discover service advertisements and service provider profiles from webpages, and annotating the information with service domain ontologies.The service retrieval methodology enables service requesters to precisely retrieve the annotated service information, taking into account the heterogeneous nature of Digital Ecosystem service requesters. The methodology is presented by the prototype of a Service Search Engine. Since service requesters can be divided according to the group which has relevant knowledge with regard to their service requests, and the group which does not have relevant knowledge with regard to their service requests, we respectively provide two different service retrieval modules. The module for the first group enables service requesters to directly retrieve service information by querying its attributes. The module for the second group enables service requesters to interact with the search engine to denote their queries by means of service domain knowledge, and then retrieve service information based on the denoted queries.The service concept recommendation methodology concerns the issue of incomplete or incorrect queries. The methodology enables the search engine to recommend relevant concepts to service requesters, once they find that the service concepts eventually selected cannot be used to denote their service requests. We premise that there is some extent of overlap between the selected concepts and the concepts denoting service requests, as a result of the impact of service requesters' understandings of service requests on the selected concepts by a series of human-computer interactions. Therefore, a semantic similarity model is designed that seeks semantically similar concepts based on selected concepts.The QoS evaluation and service ranking methodology is proposed to allow service requesters to evaluate the trustworthiness of a service advertisement and rank retrieved service advertisements based on their QoS values, taking into account the contextdependent nature of services in Digital Ecosystems. The core of this methodology is an extended CCCI (Correlation of Interaction, Correlation of Criterion, Clarity of Criterion, and Importance of Criterion) metrics, which allows a service requester to evaluate the performance of a service provider in a service transaction based on QoS evaluation criteria in a specific service domain. The evaluation result is then incorporated with the previous results to produce the eventual QoS value of the service advertisement in a service domain. Service requesters can rank service advertisements by considering their QoS values under each criterion in a service domain.The methodology for service domain knowledge updating, service-provider-based SDE metadata publishing, maintenance, and classification is initiated to allow: 1) knowledge users to update service domain ontologies employed in the service retrieval methodology, taking into account the dynamic nature of services in Digital Ecosystems; and 2) service providers to update their service profiles and manually annotate their published service advertisements by means of service domain knowledge, taking into account the dynamic nature of service providers in Digital Ecosystems. The methodology for service domain knowledge updating is realized by a voting system for any proposals for changes in service domain knowledge, and by assigning different weights to the votes of domain experts and normal users.In order to validate the customized semantic service retrieval methodology, we build a prototype – a Customized Semantic Service Search Engine. Based on the prototype, we test the mathematical algorithms involved in the methodology by a simulation approach and validate the proposed functions of the methodology by a functional testing approach.
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We are using Selenium webservices for our automated functional testing.
I have a test which tests creation of some objects. If I run the same test again, I need to make sure that each test has a different business key - else it will run into unique-constraint violation.
One way, I can fix this is to reset the database before\after every run of test suite so that each test suite doesn't conflict with another. However my individual tests within the same run are not isolated from each other.
How do I get to the point, where all my tests are isolated and do not conflict with each other?
Right now we query the databse to generate random IDs which do not exist in the database. But I am sure there must be a more elegant way of solving this.
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You've got several options here. One is, as you mentioned, to reset the database before each run. That's probably a good idea anyway to ensure that you've got the same starting condition and the beginning of the run.
For the individual tests within the run, you can operate a simple counter through the run and use that to generate your business key - that is, your list of objects includes an object number in its data, and your key is generated using that object number.
Some possible options are a timestamp to milliseconds (e.g. 201112081110526) which you save for the test to allow you to check the saved object against your input. An iterator of 1, 2, 3... etc will also give you the same result.
Using something like this will give you a set of tests that aren't going to conflict with each other. Unless you have tests that depend on another object having been created in an earlier test, they should also be independent of each other. Whether your end-of-run database will match your baselines if one test fails will depend on how intelligent your baseline checking is - if you check each object individually after creation, one failed test won't impact baselines, where if all the object checks occur at the end of all creation tests, one failed test could have a major impact. Either way, you'll still have a cleaner test set with known unique IDs that you don't have to run a SQL query to generate.
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Kate's answer was very good. Instead of a simple counter, you could generate a GUID to ensure uniqueness if needed. – Joe Strazzere Dec 8 '11 at 20:24
I like the GUID idea! – RN. Dec 9 '11 at 1:36
One possibility is to reset the database before every test, not only before every run of the suite.
This will likely make each run take longer. If you can tolerate the increased duration, that's they way I'd go.
And it may require adding setup to tests that now depend on earlier tests to establish their initial conditions. But that's another way of saying that it makes the tests independent, which is your stated goal.
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A part of me thinksthis would be too extreme, but then it would get me the isolation that I am trying to achieve. But honestly, not sure if that level of isolation is necessary or even a good idea. – RN. Dec 9 '11 at 1:40
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in particular "solid agglomerates" of squares, and not e.g. two squares only joined by a vertex.
A simply connected polyomino in the rectangle $[0,n]\times[0,m],$ with vertices of integer coordinates, is precisely determined by its boundary, which may be seen as a closed simple loop in your $n$-by-$m$ square grid graph $\Gamma_{n,m}=(V,E).$ So what you want is precisely the number $N$ of closed simple loops in the graph $\Gamma$. Here by loop I mean, a closed path in $\Gamma$ up to the initial point and up to orientation (that is, a loop is the image of a closed path).
Thus we may write $N=\sum_{k\ge 1} \frac{C(k)}{2k},$ denoting by $C(k)$ the number of simple closed loops of length $k$ (so a simple closed loop of length $k$ is precisely a $k$ ple of distinct vertices $v_1,\dots,v_{k-1}, v_k=v_0$ such that $v_i$ and $v_{i+1}$ are adjacent for $i=1\dots k$). If we denote $c=\sum_k C(k) t ^k $ the GF of the sequence $C(k)$ (a polynomial indeed), we can write $$N:=\int_0^1\frac{c(t)}{2t}dt. $$
Let's then denote $P(u,v,k)$ the number of oriented paths of length $k$ starting at the vertex $v$ and ending at the vertex $u.$ This should be the simplest quantity to compute, for no injectivity is assumed on the paths (it's the $(u,v)$ coefficient in the $k$-power of the adjacency matrix of $\Gamma$ also). Then, I think that one could write $C(k)$ in terms of the $P(u,v,k)$ (via the GF or using the inclusion-exclusion formula. I tried before, with a wrong computation).
So, I'm not sure if this leads somewhere. I'd be glad if somebody could show how to go on along this path.
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Likelihood ratios are increasingly being adopted to convey expert evaluative opinions to courts. In the absence of appropriate databases, many of these likelihood ratios will include verbal rather than numerical estimates of the support offered by the analysis. However evidence suggests that verbal formulations of uncertainty are a less effective form of communication than equivalent numerical formulations. Moreover, when evidence strength is low a misinterpretation of the valence of the evidence - a "weak evidence effect" - has been found. We report the results of an experiment involving N=404 (student and online) participants who read a brief summary of a burglary trial containing expert testimony. The expert evidence was varied across conditions in terms of evidence strength (low or high) and presentation method (numerical, verbal, table or visual scale). Results suggest that of these presentation methods, numerical expressions produce belief-change and implicit likelihood ratios which were most commensurate with those intended by the expert and most resistant to the weak evidence effect. These findings raise questions about the extent to which low strength verbal evaluative opinions can be effectively communicated to decision makers at trial.
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A property of the static charge. When a Leyden jar is being charged it dilates a little and the capacity increases, so that it can take a little more charge for a given potential difference existing between its two coatings. This phenomenon occurs with other static condensers, varying in degree with the dielectric. With shellac, paraffin, sulphur and resin, for instance, the absorption is very slight; with gutta-percha, stearine, and glass, the absorption is relatively great. The term is due to Faraday. Iceland spar seems almost or quite destitute of electric absorption.
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In the poultry industry, light source selection plays a critical role for poultry growers. The light we percieve affects our mind and a wide array of metabolic processes within our body. The same holds true in animals, including poultry, though with one significant difference. The spectral sensitivity and visible spectrum of poultry, or whatever they literally see, is not the comparable to humans. Aside from retinal light perception, poultry can sense light via the pineal gland commonly known as the "third eye" found on the dorsal surface of the brain. The avian pineal gland is particularly active in the control of circadian rhythms and sexual activity. Poultry houses may be built for manipulating the light that enters into the poultry house to supplement the natural light entering the poultry house with artificial light. Light entering a poultry house may affect a chicken in two ways. In the beginning, the time frame where a chicken becomes sexually mature can be affected by the seasonal cycles the chicken experiences. Furthermore, the psychological wellbeing, and consequently the physical development, of the chicken can be influenced by the quantity and concentration of light it is exposed to. Turkeys or other animals are also frequently kept in such houses, and may be in the same way sensitive to light variation. A poultry lighting system generally has three characteristics: color of the light (wavelength), intensity of the light, and the amount of time the lights are on each day (daily photoperiod). Advantages of light-emitting diode (LED) lighting equipment makes it possible for solving vitally important problems in poultry farming because illumination has an effect on directly poultry growth, amount of feed being consumed, maturation, reproduction, sexual activity, behavior, egg production, aggression, feather picking, etc. Traditionally, poultry lighting has been limited to incandescent, fluorescent or high pressure sodium lamps. These lamps have fixed intensity and fixed color. Application of LEDs with appropriate spectral and power characteristics enables the development of light sources with characteristics in close proximity to optimum. LED lights are extraordinarily long-lasting and now are available in a number of colors and options.


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Art in Embassies (AIE) oversees all aspects of each project from negotiations and acquisitions through installation. AIE registrars are experts in the safe handling, packing, and shipment of fine art. They manage all exhibition logistics. Liaising worldwide with artists, collectors, museums, foundations, dealers, and professional fine art service companies, the registrars ensure that each work of art is safeguarded and insured from door to door.
AIE hires specialized fine art handlers to assemble, pack, crate, and safely ship works of art to and from our diplomatic facilities. Art in Embassies fully insures each shipment of art (door-to-door) and on location.
AIE complies with all shipping requirements from our lending partners. The terms of many loans, particularly those from museums, often include strict requirements pertaining to packing and crating, shipping, courier accompaniment, handling, placement, and light and humidity levels. Art in Embassies registrars ensure that lender requirements are upheld.
Registrars also make certain each work of art is fully documented and ready for shipment overseas. A typical exhibition requires a minimum of one month for consolidation, sometimes more if works are being collected from multiple locations throughout the United States.


marked" this clip as being "good."
P – This means this particular clip has a proxy file attached to it. Proxies can be generated by some of the P2 cameras if the optional AJ-YAX800G Proxy Card is installed. The HPX500 and HVX200 cannot generate proxy files.
T – This means this particular clip has at least one Text Memo marker attached to it. You can view the contents of the Text Memos in P2 Viewer, P2CMS or in a P2HD camcorder by selecting CLIP PROPERTIES for this clip.
E – This means that this particular clip is not camera-original footage, but was either edited on a computer or was created by copying a previous clip. A clip that was created by exporting a portion of a clip between two Text Memo markers (known as Text Memo Subclipping) would also bear this "E" mark.
W – This shows up for standard-definition clips that were recorded in the 16:9 aspect ratio. The "W" stands for Widescreen. This "W" mark doesn't show up on high-definition clips because all high-definition clips are always 16:9.
! – This indicates that the clip you're viewing is part of a multiple-clip "spanned clip," and that the remaining portions aren't currently present. For example, if you recorded one big long clip that spanned across two P2 cards, yet you only loaded one P2 card into your computer, this! indication would be displayed to let you know that the system only has access to part of the full footage. If you loaded the P2 card that contains the rest of this clip, the! indicator would disappear.
X – This indicator means that there's something wrong with your clip. If the "X" appears with a yellow background, you can usually repair the clip (using the "Repair Clip" function in the P2 Thumbnail menu). Usually this X will show up if you eject a P2 card while that card is being recorded to or if the power goes off (battery dies or AC power goes out) while recording. The P2 system is prepared for such issues and automatically saves the recorded files every two seconds, so if an interruption does occur you will usually only lose a few frames (up to the last two seconds). However, if you see a red X, that clip is damaged beyond repair and should be deleted.
? – This indicator means that the system cannot recognize your clip. This might happen if Panasonic introduces a new format, and your existing camera was made before that format was created (for example, if you put a P2 card with an AVC-Intra clip into a AJ-SPX800 camcorder, the SPX800 wouldn't understand what the AVC-Intra clip was and would, therefore, display the? indicator). This doesn't necessarily mean there's anything wrong with your clip, just that your camcorder doesn't understand that clip (a more up-to-date camcorder probably would).
Can I use IEEE 1394 (Firewire) mode with AVC-Intra?
Not for live footage streaming; AVC-Intra is not supported over IEEE 1394 (Firewire) as a live data stream.
I heard that some P2 HD Camcorders have USB or 1394 host mode. What is it and how does it work? What's the difference between these two modes?
The Host Mode allows the P2HD camcorder (or P2HD field recorder such as the P2 Gear or P2 Mobile) to take direct control of an external hard disk. Using Host Mode, you can plug a hard disk directly into your camcorder (or field recorder) and format the hard disk and copy the contents of your P2 cards directly onto the hard disk, all without using a computer.
The AG-HVX200 and AG-HPX500 P2HD camcorder support 1394 Host Mode, and the AJ-HPX3000, AJ-HPX2000, AH-HPG10 P2 Gear and AJ-HPM100 P2 Mobile support USB Host Mode. In 1394 Host Mode, you need to connect to a 1394 ("firewire") hard disk, and you can then copy up to 15 cards onto the hard disk. 1394 Host Mode does not supply bus power, so you'll need a self-powered hard disk.
USB Host Mode provides even more capability. With USB Host Mode, the P2 HD camcorders (HPX2000 or HPX3000) or field recorder can supply bus power to power the hard disk. You can copy up to 23 cards onto the hard drive, assign individual names, partition the drive and review thumbnails.
Does P2 HD support proxies?
Yes, the P2 HD system supports the creation and management of proxy files in three bit rates -- 192Kbps, 768Kbps or 1.5Mbps. Proxy information is low-resolution A/V and time code that is recorded via the optional AJ-YAX800 MPEG4 encoder simultaneously with the high-resolution (DVCPROHD /50/25) that is being recorded to the same P2 card. Proxy video can be recorded to both the P2 card, as well as a separate SD memory card, which allows for quick movement of low-resolution files through internal and web-based networks for quick logging and viewing of dailies or footage before it arrives at the local station. Not all P2 HD camcorders can create or play proxy files; only cameras that can accept the optional AJ-YAX800G proxy card can create or play back proxy files. This includes all AJ-series P2HD camcorders, but doesn't include the AG-HVX200 or AG-HPX500.
What type of metadata files does P2 HD support? Can I customize this metadata for my application?
All P2 camcorders record video with some standard metadata fields, including individual camera type, camera serial number and unique user clip ID. In addition, P2 supports 30 user-definable metadata files, including shooter, reporter, location, scene, text memo and GPS coordinates.
The metadata can be uploaded to the camera after first being composed on the computer. This is done using the free P2 Viewer and P2CMS applications, as well as by the TEP-HD and P2 Log family of products from Imagine Software. The metadata is then saved onto an SD card and inserted into the camera where it can be uploaded into the camera using the metadata upload function under the Thumbnail menu. All P2 cameras allow for incrementing the User Clip Name if you have the camera under the Metadata Type 2 operation. This is also in the Metadata menu in the Thumbnail mode.
What is chromatic aberration compensation (CAC) and what does it do?
Chromatic aberration correction (CAC) can correct chromatic aberrations (color fringing) introduced by the lens optics. Chromatic aberrations are caused when the red, green and blue images do not match up exactly at all points in the image. A camera/lens pair, capable of CAC operation can introduce appropriate offsets to better match red, green and blue images, thus reducing or eliminating any color fringing. Chromatic aberrations are normally only observed at the extreme positions of focus and zoom, with the iris wide open.
CAC will only work when both the camera and lens support the feature. The camera needs to have an offset look-up table stored in memory, and the lens and camera must be able to communicate for CAC to operate properly. Select P2 HD camcorder, including the AG-HPX300, AG-HPX370, AG-HPX500, AJ-HPX3000, VariCam 2700 and VariCam 3700 support CAC, using compatible Canon and Fujinon EFP-style zoom lenses.
As more affordable HD lenses have been designed, CAC has been helpful in reducing chromatic aberrations, which tends to be the most objectionable potential flaw in more affordable lens designs. With CAC, the performance of lower cost lenses approaches that of the top-of-the-line models in terms of color fringing. With the unprecedented resolution of the AJ-HPX3000 and the VariCam 3700, chromatic aberrations can be observed that would not have been visible in earlier cameras (particularly after recording). CAC has shown an effective improvement to the performance of some of the best quality HD zoom lenses on the market. A full list of available CAC lenses can be viewed here.
Do all lenses support CAC?
No, CAC has to be specifically added to each particular lens. Canon and Fujinon each provide a family of CAC lenses, and you can expect that the number of lenses offered in CAC versions will grow.
A list of available CAC lenses can be viewed here.
Where do I go to get the update firmware or software drivers for my P2/P2 HD product?
Panasonic USA has a user-friendly "front end" website for finding the newest and most up-to-date driver software at _URL_
Working in Native Mode
What is 24pn mode?
24PN mode is a special space-saving recording mode designed specifically for use with P2 cards. There is absolutely no loss in quality when using 24PN mode; it's the exact same information, just stored in a more space-efficient way.
Normally, DVCPRO HD 720P is stored at 60 frames per second, and 24P footage is "embedded" in a 60P data stream using 2:3 pull-down. This is a time-tested technique for enabling a "film look" within a normal broadcast


Why do I see a form submit with no associated site visit on a timeline?
1) Cookie shared by two users
ActiveDEMAND tracks prospects in many ways. One way is using cookies. If someone loads a page, the tracking script stores a cookie on the visitor's computer via the browser. The base case today is that people do not share computers without logging out of the browser. More people are concerned about someone accessing their personal device than they are about having a cookie stored in their browser. Thus the tracking is quite good. Where it falls down is if someone shares their computer with someone else. Or if one person is filling out forms for multiple people. ActiveDEMAND will only allow one contact to own the session (sessions are not shared). Thus if someone fills out the same form for two different contacts, only one of the two contacts will 'own the session', the other will show a form submit with no web session.
2) Employee Suppression via 'owned IP addresses'
As more ActiveDEMAND users are marketers, clearly the marketer will do a lot of testing on assets. As ActiveDEMAND is very good at tracking, this poses a problem. Marketers testing will impact the marketing stats. Thus a user of ActiveDEMAND can choose to associate their IP address with the work they are doing. If a marketer clicks BLOCK MY IP on their user profile, ActiveDEMAND will assume all visits from that IP are the employee, thus it will suppress visit data etc from that employee to keep the ActiveDEMAND stats clean
How do I find the 'lost visit'?
Often the form submit will have an IP address on the timeline. You can search the drill down reports for this IP address. Another place to look is the employer of the contact that filled out the form. Are there other form submits by that company from that IP? Another trick is to look at the contact's Map. The form submit will show up on the map. Use the dashboard map, isolate the time range, search for other website visits or form submits on the map. Chances are high that one of those owns the session.
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A team of US archaeologists has discovered the ruins of a city dating back to the period of the first farmers 7,000 years ago in
's Fayyum oasis, the supreme council of antiquities said on Tuesday. Egypt
"An electromagnetic survey revealed the existence in the Karanis region of a network of walls and roads similar to those constructed during the Greco-Roman period," the council's chief Zahi Hawwas said.
The remnants of the city are "still buried beneath the sand and the details of this discovery will be revealed in due course," Hawwas said.
"The artefacts consist of the remains of walls and houses in terracotta or dressed limestone as well as a large quantity of pottery and the foundations of ovens and grain stores," he added.
The remains date back to the Neolithic period between 5,200 and 4,500 BC.
The local director of antiquities, Ahmed Abdel Alim, said the site was just seven kilometres (four miles) from Fayyum lake and would probably have lain at the water's edge at the time it was inhabited.


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Henry Fairfield Osborn was an American naturalist, notable for his involvement in and contribution to many environmental organizations.
Osborn was born in Princeton, New Jersey, in 1887. He attended both Princeton and Cambridge Universities, after which he worked in a variety of jobs, including as a soldier in World War I.
Having followed his paleontologist father on archeological digs, however, Osborn became interested in science as a career. He soon became secretary of the New York Zoological Society and went on to serve for many years as its president. He also worked
to support the creation of the Marine Aquarium at Coney Island, New Jersey, and the upkeep of the Bronx Zoological Park. Concerned for endangered species, in 1947 Osborn also founded the Conservation Foundation, an adjunct to the New York Zoological Society and later part of the World Wildlife Fund.
Osborn took his environmentalism to Washington, D.C. He served on the
Conservation Advisory Committee of the U.S. Department of the Interior and on the Planning Committee of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations.
Osborn was also concerned about the effect of population growth on the supply of natural resources, and he worked for solutions to this problem. He wrote two books, Our Plundered Planet (1948), and The Limits of the Earth (1953). He was a member of many other environmental organizations
including the Save-the-Redwoods League and the International Council for Bird Preservation. Henry Osborn died in 1968.


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Terms or Representations
the courts have developed tests to help them distinguish between terms and representations
does the representor (statement maker) have special knowledge?
If yes, it is more likely to be a term
**** Bently Production v Harold Smith Motors
the court held the statement about the car was a term as the defendant was a car dealer who had greater expertise that the claimant relied on
Oscar Chess v Williams
held: the statement relating to the age of the car was not a term but a representation. The representee (statement receiver) Oscar Chess LTD as a car dealer had the greater knowledge and would have been able to check out the statements validity easily
does the representee place special importance on the issue?
Bannerman v White
held: the statement that the hops has not been treated with sulphur was a term of the contract rather than a representation as…


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The terminology used by Sage within the 2010 Stock System is not always clear. Here is a brief attempt to document the various types of Balance.
Qty Allocated = Qty Allocated Stock + Qty Allocated BOM + Qty Allocated SOP. These are the three mechanisms by which Stock levels can be depleted.
Unconfirmed Quantity in Stock
Essentially, this is POP Stock Received but not Invoiced. Therefore, the Stock Value cannot yet be "Confirmed".
Confirmed Quantity in Stock
POP Stock Received and Invoiced. Therefore, the Stock Value is "Confirmed".
Actual Qty (Physical Stock) = Confirmed Qty + Unconfirmed Qty. Within Sage, the terms "Physical" and "Actual" stock are used interchangeably.
Free Stock = Actual (Physical) Qty – Qty Allocated.


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SettingsSavedEventArgs Class
Provides data for the ClientSettingsProvider.SettingsSaved event.
Namespace: System.Web.ClientServices.Providers
Assembly: System.Web.Extensions (in System.Web.Extensions.dll)
Public Class SettingsSavedEventArgs _
 Inherits EventArgs
The SettingsSavedEventArgs type exposes the following members.
Public methodSettingsSavedEventArgsInitializes a new instance of the SettingsSavedEventArgs class.
Public propertyFailedSettingsListGets the settings that the ClientSettingsProvider was unable to save to the server.
The ClientSettingsProvider.SettingsSaved event occurs after the settings provider accesses the settings service, even if the settings were not successfully saved. One reason that the provider might fail to save the settings is if the current user has been logged out. You can use the FailedSettingsList property to determine whether any settings were not successfully saved.
This event does not occur if the settings provider cannot access the settings service, which instead causes the provider to throw a WebException.
For more information about handling events, see Consuming Events.
The following example code demonstrates how to use this class to display a list of settings that were not successfully saved.
Private WithEvents settingsProvider As ClientSettingsProvider = My.Settings _
Private Sub Form1_SettingsSaved(ByVal sender As Object, _
 ByVal e As SettingsSavedEventArgs) _
 Handles settingsProvider.SettingsSaved
 'If any settings were not saved, display a list of them.
 If e.FailedSettingsList.Count > 0 Then
 Dim failedSettings As String = String.Join( _
 Environment.NewLine, e.FailedSettingsList.ToArray())
 Dim message As String = String.Format("{0}{1}{1}{2}", _
 "The following setting(s) were not saved:", _
 Environment.NewLine, failedSettings)
 MessageBox.Show(message, "Unable to save settings", _
 MessageBoxButtons.OK, MessageBoxIcon.Warning)
 End If
End Sub
.NET Framework
Supported in: 4, 3.5
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Compliance of stress-induced therapy, controlled by actimeters
- Published on 2013
Introduction: In hemiplegia, constraint-induced movement therapy of the upper extremity has become a classic. The main difficulty of the method lies in its observance.
Objectives: Using actimeters to objectify membership protocol is proposed.
Methods: Two patients with stable paresis after stroke have received constraint-induced therapy for four weeks. Two actimeters (Actisleep ®) were placed one healthy side, the other side injured for 6 weeks, one before and one after restraint stress. A discussion with the patient is given after 3 weeks of recording. The clinical efficacy of treatment was assessed by dynamometry (Pablo ®) MESUPES and Jebsen test.
Results: For the first time, we were able to objectify the observance of the strain (80% observed for the first patient and 40% for the second patient). Quantification of movements by actimeter healthy side versus affected side was correlated with the results of motor and functional changes. Treatment despite very different adhesions was effective for both patients.
Discussion: The continuation of this study should determine the minimum level of compliance of the stress required to maintain the effectiveness of the method, while making it more tolerable as possible. It also opens a real chrono-biological perspective of movement and bi-handedness. Finally, the patient adheres more to the protocol because it knows observed and faces the quantification of stress at mid-test.
Conclusion: This new preliminary approach used here in the constraint-induced therapy of upper limb, presents actimeters as a new simple tool in the management of hemiplegia.


RACI Matrix
Business Analyst / Project Manager in Orange County, California
RACI matrix roles and responsibilities
The RACI matrix clarifies responsibilities and ensures that all project tasks have someone assigned to do them. It is created before commencement of any project, and updated as needed throughout a project. The matrix helps identify where a project will fall short on resources before work begins and highlights key decision points along the way.
 - Consulted: People or stakeholders who need to give input before the work can be done and signed-off on. These people are "in the loop" and are active participants throughout the project.
 - Informed: People or stakeholders who need to be kept "in the picture." They need updates on progress or decisions, but they do not need to be formally consulted, nor do they contribute directly to the task or decision.
Below is a RACI matrix I created for a fictional eCommerce website for a Pet Store.
RACI Matrix


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C# Directory Class
The System.IO.Directory class in the.NET Framework class library provides static methods for creating, copying, moving, and deleting directories and subdirectories. Before you can use the Directory class, you must import the System.IO namespace.
Create a Directory
The Directory.CreateDirectory method creates a directory in the specified path with the specified Windows security. You can also create a directory on a remote compute.
The following code snippet creates a Temp folder in C:\ drive if the directory does not exists already.
string root = @"C:\Temp";
string subdir = @"C:\Temp\Mahesh";
// If directory does not exist, create it.
The CreateDirectory is also used to create a sub directory. All you have to do is to specify the path of the directory in which this subdirectory will be created in. The following code snippet creates a Mahesh subdirectory in C:\Temp directory.
// Create sub directory


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Model by IP UNKNOWN FAILURE Error
When you model a device by IP, the following error pops up:
Error creating the model in landscape <>:
Often the cause of this error is because the IP address being used is in the AutoDiscovery IP Exclusion List.
Check for the ip address in the IP Exclusion List:
1. Log into OneClick as an ADMIN user
2. Find and select the VNM model
3. Click on the Information tab
4. Find and expand the AutoDiscovery Control -> Modeling and Protocol Options subview
5. Check for the ip address in the IP Exclusion List
Please reference the "AutoDiscovery Control Subview" section of the documentation for more information.


Discover the Lost
There are 5.8 million lost people in North Carolina.
We've identified the top 100 areas of lostness in North Carolina. Of these 100, 97 are located within the top eight population centers of the state. Population centers include the cities and surrounding areas of Charlotte, the Research Triangle (Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill), the Triad (Greensboro, Winston-Salem, High Point), Fayetteville, Wilmington, Hickory, Asheville and Greenville.
Moreover, the unreached peoples of the world have come to our own communities. In reaching these people, contextual strategies based on ethnic and/or cultural contexts have proven to be the most effective approaches to impacting lostness.
How can I discover the lost?
 1. Local
 Start by prayerwalking or prayerdriving your community or neighborhood and observe the needs that exist.
 2. State
 Use the pockets of lostness map to identify how close your church is to a pocket. Contact a coordinator in your region to begin the process of discovery.
 3. World
 Discover how the world has begun to be displayed in your town. Then, find a people group on this map to learn more about them.
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text: An economic indicator that measures the output per hour of work for non-farm business production. Can be used in conjunction with the rate of change in GAP to determine whether economic growth is likely to be inflationary. A separate component measures unit labor costs, an important indicator of future inflation. Frequency: quarterly. Source: Labor Department.