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Origin and Taxonomy of Einkorn Wheat
Derived from the German term "einkorn", meaning "single grain", einkorn wheat is either Triticum boeoticum (wild wheat), or Triticum monococcum (domesticated species). Domesticated and wild forms of wheat may be considered either as separate species, or as Triticum monococcum's subspecies.
Einkorn is among hulled wheat's diploid species, with its grains being tightly enclosed with tough husks, also called the hull. Apart from the larger seeds and the intact nature of the ear when ripe, cultivated forms of einkorn wheat are similar to its wild counterparts. Although einkorn wheat was found in abundance millennia ago, it is limited to only a few regions today. The crop is not often planted, and has become popular as a super food in recent times.
Origins of Einkorn Wheat
Along with Triticum dicoccum (emmer wheat), einkorn wheat is recognised among the forms of wheat that were first cultivated by humans. Grains of the wild form were traced back to tens of thousands of years ago, and the first domestication of wild einkorn was recorded approximately around 7500 BC. It is believed to originate from the fertile areas of the Tigris-Euphrates regions. The origination of the wheat is believed to be a result of crossing the Triticum speltoides (wheat grass) and Triticum monococcum (domesticated wheat) naturally.
DNA finger-printing has shown evidence to suggest the domestication of einkorn wheat was carried out close to the mountains of Kacara Dag, located in the south-eastern parts of Turkey. However, the Bronze Age saw a decrease in the cultivation of the grain.
The crop can be found in mountainous regions of Morocco, France, Turkey, and parts of the former Soviet Union. It survives and thrives on soils where most other forms of wheat do not flourish. Einkorn was among the first cereals that were cultivated, following its wide distribution around Transcaucasia, the Middle East, south-western Europe, the Balkans and the Mediterranean areas.
Taxonomy of Einkorn Wheat
Einkorn wheat differs from varieties of modern wheat. Similar to other ancient forms of the crop (spelt and emmer), einkorn is classified as "covered wheat". If un-branched, the inflorescence or head of cereal crops such as einkorn wheat is referred to as a spike. Spikelets or flowers make up these spikes and they are arranged on the stem's extension also known as rachis. The flowers arise from rachilla – the nodes found on the rachis. The flowers are enclosed by the glumes, bracts, or chaff.
The cultivated and wild forms of einkorn wheat can be differentiated by the rachis' brittleness. While wild einkorn has brittle rachis and is known for quick disarticulation of the flowers when mature, cultivated einkorn wheat has rachis, which is not as fragile, and is known to remain intact until it is thrashed.


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Introduction: Egg Drop Design
The main goal of an egg drop competition is to make a structure or something simple that could protect an egg from breaking when dropped. In an egg drop competition there are always rules on what design types you can use and what you aren't allowed to use. Some of these rules can include no parachutes and some rules say that your contraption has to weigh a certain mass. Every competition is different though so make sure you go over your rules before making something. The competition I'm participating in doesn't allow parachutes and some other rules. This is a design I came up with that follows my rules and is usually allowed in most competitions.
-A hot glue gun and glue sticks
-A large and small pair of scissors
-A sharpie or a marker
-Lots of straws
You may want to start heating up your glue gun now as you will need it soon in a few steps.
Step 1: Part 1: the Egg Housing Pyramid
Take one of your straws and your ruler and carefully measure 6 centimeters starting from the end of the straw with a marker. It should look like figure 3 and 4 when you're done.
Step 2: Cut
Cut the straw on the line you've marked with a pair of scissors. Repeat step 1 and 2 until you have a total of 6 straws that are each 6 centimeters in length.
Step 3: Making the Center Pyramid
Now that you have cut 6 straws, take 3 of them and make a closed triangle like the one in the pictures above. Once you have done so, take your glue gun that you've previously heat up and glue the triangle together one corner at a time. While gluing your triangle be careful not to move the shape to much. If you do move the triangle move it back while the glue is still soft.
Step 4: Completing the Pyramid
After you've finished gluing the base you should have something that looks like this. To start the top of the pyramid, take the rest of your straws from before and glue them one at a time to each corner like the one I did in figure 2. Look down from the top of the pyramid to see if the straw meets in the middle (Figure 3). The red dot marks the center. Repeat this for the rest of the corners.
Step 5: The Finished Pyramid
Once you completed your housing and it looks like the one above, your halfway from completing your contraption. Try test fitting an egg in it to make sure it fits. Go back and make any changes if necessary.
Step 6: Part 2: Outer Housing
Take a straw and cut the bendy ends off of them with a pair of scissors. Repeat this until you have 4 straws without the ends.
Step 7: Housing Beams
Next, glue the straws that have been trimmed in the last step vertically to the tips of the pyramid. Repeat this step for all sides until it looks like the one in figure 2.
Glue a straw to the end of beam like in image 1. Then join it with another straw and repeat it for the top half until you end up with something like this.
Make a tripod with 6 cm straws like in image 1. Glue it on the bottom of the housing pyramid and you should have something like in the last image.
Step 10: Finished!
Then repeat the pattern you did in step 8 and your contraption is ready to be dropped! If you have any, please leave any questions or comments down below about this instructable.
Step 11: An Update
it's occurred to me and other people that this design may have some flaws such as very little protection on the sides that are flatter. One way you can fix this issue is by following the pattern above in image 2 and 3. Basically, it's just 2 straws joined together then glued onto the flatter side to give it protection. Then you want to add a supporting beam and glue it like the one in image 4. Then you should be all done. If you want, you can make it more rigid then add some more outer supports. Watch out for a version 2 egg drop design coming in late June!

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Deanery Finance Committee
What does our Deanery Finance Committee do?
The Committee, being responsible to the Synod, shall advise it on budgetary, financial and relevant administrative matters at all levels in the Diocese.
In particular, it shall:
1. Diocesan affairs: a. monitor parish and deanery interests in diocesan financial affairs and make such contributions as it deems necessary; b. assist the DFC in its implementation of Diocesan policy;
2. Deanery finances: a. advise on the level of parishes' contributions to the Deanery; b. prepare and administer the Deanery budget;
3. Parish finances: a. with the Diocesan Parish Finance Adviser, support the activities of the PCC Treasurers; b. receive from the parishes in a timely manner: i. the Annual Report and Accounts; ii. the Archbishop's Council Annual Finance Return; iii. an annual budget and a forecast for the following year; c. identify any parish operating a deficit in its Unrestricted Fund and make recommendations;
4. Parish Share: a. examine the allocation of Parish Share and, if and when appropriate in the light of local knowledge, recommend adjustments; b. hear representation from any parish that believes it may have been treated unfairly and make representations at Diocesan level if necessary; c. notify each parish of its share once the above figures have been approved by the Synod; d. using information provided by the DFC, monitor Parish Share payments throughout the year; e. following receipt of information from the DFC, provide the Synod and its Standing Committee with reports of Parish Share payments; f. recommend a strategy to assist any parish experiencing payment difficulties;
5. Carry out other relevant tasks the Committee, the Synod or its Standing Committee may reasonably request.


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Definition of the noun algerian capital
What does algerian capital mean as a name of something?
- an ancient port on the Mediterranean; the capital and largest city of Algeria
- lexical domain: Locations - nouns denoting spatial position
- synonym of Algerian capital: Algiers
- instance of: port = a place (seaport or airport) where people and merchandise can enter or leave a country; national capital = the capital city of a nation
- part of: Algeria / Algerie / Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria = a republic in northwestern Africa on the Mediterranean Sea with a population that is predominantly Sunni Muslim
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Algerian capital, Algiers. During.
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From the Earliest Times to the Present Day by Adrian Gilbert
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A new study published in PlosOne provides evidence of a relationship between dietary patterns, fish intake or n-3 PUFA intake from seafood and symptoms of anxiety in pregnancy, and suggests that dietary interventions could be used to reduce high anxiety symptoms during pregnancy.
According to researchers who questioned 9,500 women about their diet, women who eat fish regularly are 50% less likely to have high anxiety levels at 32 weeks' gestation (than women who never eat fish).
Little is known about relationships between dietary patterns, n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) intake and excessive anxiety during pregnancy.
To examine whether dietary patterns and n-3 PUFA intake from seafood are associated with high levels of anxiety during pregnancy.
Pregnant women enrolled from 1991–1992 in ALSPAC (n 9,530). Dietary patterns were established from a food frequency questionnaire using principal component analysis. Total intake of n-3 PUFA (grams/week) from seafood was also examined. Symptoms of anxiety were measured at 32 weeks of gestation with the Crown-Crisp Experiential Index; scores ≥9 corresponding to the 85th percentile was defined as high anxiety symptoms. Multivariate logistic regression models were used to estimate the OR and 95% CI, adjusted by socioeconomic and lifestyle variables.
Multivariate results showed that women in the highest tertile of the health-conscious (OR 0.77; 0.65–0.93) and the traditional (OR 0.84; 0.73–0.97) pattern scores were less likely to report high levels of anxiety symptoms. Women in the highest tertile of the vegetarian pattern score (OR 1.25; 1.08–1.44) were more likely to have high levels of anxiety, as well as those with no n-3 PUFA intake from seafood (OR 1.53; 1.25–1.87) when compared with those with intake of >1.5 grams/week.
The present study provides evidence of a relationship between dietary patterns, fish intake or n-3 PUFA intake from seafood and symptoms of anxiety in pregnancy, and suggests that dietary interventions could be used to reduce high anxiety symptoms during pregnancy.
- Read Eating fish 'could lower anxiety during pregnancy'
by Nick Collins, Science Correspondent, The Telegraph, 13 Jul 2013.
- Sources: Dietary Patterns, n-3 Fatty Acids Intake from Seafood and High Levels of Anxiety Symptoms during Pregnancy: Findings from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children, PlosOne, 12 Jul 2013.
- Find out more about DES pregnancy risks.
- DES studies on fertility and pregnancy.


April 26, 2006
Police break up anti-nuclear Red Square protest
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian police on Wednesday dragged away
activists protesting on Red Square against atomic power on the
20th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster.
Thirteen young protesters from Greenpeace chained
themselves to railings around St Basil's Cathedral, a central
Moscow landmark famous for its multicoloured onion domes,
before plain clothes agents told them to move on.
Unsanctioned protests are forbidden on Red Square, which
was a favorite gathering place for Soviet dissidents. The
leather-jacketed agents and uniformed Kremlin guards used bolt
cutters to unchain the activists, whom they dragged away.
The 13 activists were wearing yellow t-shirts with
individual letters that, when taken together, spelled out "No
to Chernobyls" in a reflection of green groups' opposition to
world plans to build a new generation of nuclear reactors.
Russia is planning 40 more reactors, and is still using 11
reactors of the type used at Chernobyl, which was the world's
worst civilian nuclear disaster, spewing radiation across
The agents also led away photographers and cameramen
filming the protest. "They said they were not detaining us,
just taking us away for a conversation," one photographer said.
The main events marking the anniversary of the disaster are
taking place in Ukraine -- home to the remains of the power
station's fourth reactor which contaminated swathes of
territory in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus.
Concerns over soaring global energy needs and security of
fossil fuel supply have put nuclear power back at the heart of
the global energy debate despite the risk of Chernobyl-like
disasters and the nuclear waste that humanity will bequeath to
future generations.
Both Russia and the United States have called on fellow
industrialized powers to embrace nuclear energy to guarantee
stable supplies and cut greenhouse gas emissions.


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Mechanical Pencil
A mechanical pencil is a pencil containing solve pencil leads fed up with either a push mechanism or swivel mechanism. The pins typically have a thickness of 0.5 to 0.9 mm and are made of graphite powder mixed with a clay. The more graphite that is in the diocese, the softer it becomes, and vice versa. The first mechanical pencil was invented in 1914 and is usually attributed to American Charles R. Keeran, but the fact is that Japan named Tokuji Hayakawa developed the same technology basically simultaneously.


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Historically, purple has conveyed royalty, nobility, and bravery. In the military, we learn that purple means jointness. It is a color that symbolizes unity, peace, and cooperation. These are qualities we need to recapture in our district—blue and red working together again.
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Volume 20, Issue 1 (January 1992)
Comparison of Fine Particle Colemanite and Boron Frit in Concrete for Time-Strength Relationship
The element boron, when added to concrete, has proved effective in shielding neutron particles by absorbing the neutron and emitting a low-energy gamma ray. The various boron additives used with concrete can severely retard the set time and strength gain. An advantage to using small particle size boron is that the smaller grain size provides better boron disbursement within the concrete matrix to absorb neutrons. However, boron additives of powder consistency are usually not used due to the greater potential of forming chemical solutions that act as a retarder in the concrete.
Research has shown that the amount of boron additives in concrete can be reduced significantly if fine grain particles can be successfully incorporated into the concrete matrix. The purpose of this study is to compare strength gain characteristics of concrete mixes containing various quantities of fine grain boron additive. The boron additive colemanite, a natural mineral, is compared with two brands of manufactured aggregate, boron frit. Concrete test cylinders are molded for testing the compressive strength of the mix after 4, 7, 28, and 56 days. Tested are five different quantities of colemanite as well as five comparable amounts of boron frit for each brand of the material. The test values are compared with a control concrete specimen containing no boron additive. Results of this study can be used to optimize the cost and effectiveness of boron additives in radiation shielding concrete.

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Age 16 to 18
Challenge Level
When you apply a steadily increasing axial load to an initially-straight strut after a while it will start to bend, and then, when a critical load $P$ is reached, it will buckle. You could try it with a matchstick.
Euler showed that at the point of buckling the strut is in a static equilibrium state: like a ball balanced at the top of a slope where the slightest push will cause it to roll down. At each point along the beam the moment due to the bending stiffness and the moment due to the axial force being applied are perfectly in balance, and if you increase the load by just a tiny bit it will break.
Axially-loaded strut
By considering a general position $x$ on the deformed strut, you can derive Euler's basic formula for $P$ by constructing and solving a second order differential equation.
You need to know two new engineering formulae: The moment due to stiffness is $M = B \kappa$, where $B$ is bending stiffness (a property of the beam) and $\kappa$ is curvature. You also need to know that we can approximate $\kappa$ as $-\frac{d^2v}{dx^2}$, where $v$ is displacement in the direction perpendicular to the initial direction of the beam (see Beam Me Up for a derivation of this).


whaleWow, it turns out that the SeaWorld whale which just killed a trainer has killed before.
Here's the WIkipedia entry for Tilikum:
Tillikum was first sent to live at Sealand of the Pacific near Victoria, British Columbia. There, he lived with two older females named Haida II and Nootka IV. While living in British Columbia, Tilikum sired his first calf when he was about eight or nine years old. His first son, Kyuquot, was born to Haida II on December 24, 1991. Just a few months prior to the birth of Kyuquot, Tilikum was involved in an incident which resulted in the death of a trainer. Twenty-year-old Keltie Byrne, who worked at the park, slipped and fell into the tank with the whales. Tillikum, a pregnant Haida II, and Nootka IV grabbed her in their mouths and tossed her to each other, presumably playing. Keltie drowned. The orcas had never had humans in the water with them before. Haida II and Nootka IV were overprotective of the newborn calf and aggressive towards Tillikum, who was forced into the small medical pool. Because of his huge size, Seaworld requested an emergency transfer to their facility. Tilikum was moved to SeaWorld Orlando, Florida in January 9, 1992; he has been there ever since. Sealand of the Pacific closed soon thereafter.
Since his arrival at SeaWorld, Tilikum has sired many calves with many different females. His first calf, born in Orlando, was to Katina. Katina gave birth to Taku on September 9, 1993. Tillikum's other calves are: Nyar (born 1993, died 1996), Unna (1996), Sumar (1998), Tuar (1999), Tekoa (2000), Nakai (2001), Kohana (2002), Ikaika (2002), Skyla (2004), and Malia (2007). In 1999, Tillikum began training for artificial insemination (AI). In early 2000, Kasatka who resides at SeaWorld San Diego was artificially inseminated using his sperm. She gave birth to Tillikum's son, Nakai, on September 1, 2001. On May 3, 2002, another female in San Diego, named Takara, bore Tilikum's calf through AI.
Tilikum was at the scene of another death on July 6, 1999, though evidence suggests the Orca was not at fault. A park guest, 27-year-old Daniel Dukes, was found floating naked in Tilikum's pool, apparently killed by a combination of hypothermia and drowning. Dukes had visited SeaWorld the previous day, stayed after the park closed, and evaded security to enter the Orca tank.
Tilikum never takes part in water work with trainers, not necessarily due to aggression (he is in fact very docile), but because he doesn't necessarily realize his own strength. Tilikum is the feature of the show "Believe" where the audience and trainers chant "Shamu" as Tillikum soaks the audience.[34] On February 24th, 2010 Tilikum was involved in a fatal accident with a female trainer. Witnesses report that during a show the whale grabbed a trainer by the waist and started thrashing her around. The attack was so violent the trainer's shoes were thrown off. The incident is currently under investigation. [35]


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Best Practices for Three-Node Hybrid Deployment
For a TiDB cluster, if you have no requirements on high performance but need to control the cost, you can deploy the TiDB, TiKV, and PD components on three machines in a hybrid way.
This document offers an example of three-node hybrid deployment and a TPC-C test against the deployed cluster. Based on this example, this document offers best practices for the deployment scenario and its parameter adjustment.
Prerequisites for deployment and the test method
In this example, three physical machines are used for deployment, each with 16 CPU cores and 32 GB of memory. On each machine (node), one TiDB instance, one TiKV instance, and one PD instance are deployed in a hybrid way.
Because PD and TiKV both store information on the disk, the read and write latency of disk directly affects the latency of the PD and TiKV services. To avoid the situation that PD and TiKV compete for disk resources and affect each other, it is recommended to use different disks for PD and TiKV.
In this example, the TPC-C 5000 Warehouse data is used in TiUP bench and the test lasts 12 hours with the terminals parameter set to 128 (concurrency). Close attention is paid to metrics related to performance stability of the cluster.
The image below shows the QPS monitor of the cluster within 12 hours with the default parameter configuration. From the image, you can see an obvious performance jitter.
QPS with default config
After the parameter adjustment, the performance is improved.
QPS with modified config
Parameter adjustment
Performance jitter occurs in the image above, because the default thread pool configuration and the resource allocation to background tasks are for machines with sufficient resources. In the hybrid deployment scenario, the resources are shared among multiple components, so you need to limit the resource consumption via configuration parameters.
The final cluster configuration for this test is as follows:
 readpool.unified.max-thread-count: 6
 server.grpc-concurrency: 2
 storage.scheduler-worker-pool-size: 2
 gc.max-write-bytes-per-sec: 300K
 rocksdb.max-background-jobs: 3
 rocksdb.max-sub-compactions: 1
 rocksdb.rate-bytes-per-sec: "200M"
 performance.committer-concurrency: 4
 performance.max-procs: 8
The following sections introduce the meanings and the adjustment methods of these parameters.
Configuration of TiKV thread pool size
This section offers best practices for adjusting parameters that relate to the resource allocation of thread pools for foreground applications. Reducing these thread pool sizes will compromise performance, but in the hybrid deployment scenario with limited resources, the cluster itself is hard to achieve high performance. In this scenario, the overall stability of the cluster is preferred over performance.
If you conduct an actual load test, you can first use the default configuration and observe the actual resource usage of each thread pool. Then you can adjust the corresponding configuration items and reduce the sizes of the thread pools that have lower usage.
The default value of this parameter is 80% of the number of machine threads. In a hybrid deployment scenario, you need to manually calculate and specify this value. You can first set it to 80% of the expected number of CPU threads used by TiKV.
This parameter defaults to 4. Because in the existing deployment plan, the CPU resources are limited and the actual requests are few. You can observe the monitoring panel, lower the value of this parameter, and keep the usage rate below 80%.
In this test, the value of this parameter is set to 2. Observe the gRPC poll CPU panel and you can see that the usage rate is just around 80%.
When TiKV detects that the CPU core number of the machine is greater than or equal to 16, this parameter value defaults to 8. When the CPU core number is smaller than 16, the parameter value defaults to 4. This parameter is used when TiKV converts complex transaction requests to simple key-value reads or writes, but the scheduler thread pool does not performs any writes.
Ideally, the usage rate of the scheduler thread pool is kept between 50% and 75%. Similar to the gRPC thread pool, the storage.scheduler-worker-pool-size parameter defaults to a larger value during the hybrid deployment, which makes resource usage insufficient. In this test, the value of this parameter is set to 2, which is in line with the best practices, a conclusion drawn by observing the corresponding metrics in the Scheduler worker CPU panel.
Scheduler Worker CPU
Resource configuration for TiKV background tasks
In addition to foreground tasks, TiKV regularly sorts data and cleans outdated data in background tasks. The default configuration allocates sufficient resources to these tasks for the scenario of high-traffic writes.
However, in the hybrid deployment scenario, this default configuration is not in line with the best practices. You need to limit the resource usage of background tasks by adjusting the following parameters.
rocksdb.max-background-jobs and rocksdb.max-sub-compactions
The RocksDB thread pool is used to perform compaction and flush jobs. The default value of rocksdb.max-background-jobs is 8, which obviously exceeds the resource that is in need. Therefore, the value should be adjusted to limit the resource usage.
rocksdb.max-sub-compactions indicates the number of concurrent sub-tasks allowed for a single compaction job, which defaults to 3. You can lower this value when the write traffic is not high.
In the test, the rocksdb.max-background-jobs value is set to 3 and the rocksdb.max-sub-compactions value is set to 1. No write stall occurs during the 12-hour test with the TPC-C load. When optimizing the two parameter values according to the actual load, you can lower the values gradually based on monitoring metrics:
 - If write stall occurs, increase the value of rocksdb.max-background-jobs.
 - If the write stall persists, set the value of rocksdb.max-sub-compactions to 2 or 3.
This parameter is used to limit the disk traffic for the background compaction jobs. The default configuration has no limit for this parameter. To avoid the situation that compaction jobs occupy the resources of foreground services, you can adjust this parameter value according to the sequential read and write speed of the disk, which reserves enough disk bandwidth for foreground services.
The method of optimizing the RocksDB thread pool is similar to that of optimizing the compaction thread pool. You can determine whether the value you have adjusted is suitable according to whether write stall occurs.
Because TiDB uses the multi-version concurrency control (MVCC) model, TiKV periodically cleans old version data in the background. When the available resources are limited, this operation causes periodical performance jitter. You can use the gc.max_write_bytes_per_sec parameter to limit the resource usage of such an operation.
GC Impact
In addition to setting this parameter value in the configuration file, you can also dynamically adjust this value in tikv-ctl.
tiup ctl tikv --host=${ip:port} modify-tikv-config -n gc.max_write_bytes_per_sec -v ${limit}
In application scenarios with frequent updates, limiting GC traffic might cause the MVCC versions to pile up and affect read performance. Currently, to achieve a balance between performance jitter and performance decrease, you might need to try multiple times to adjust the value of this parameter.
TiDB parameter adjustment
Generally, you can adjust the TiDB parameters of execution operators using system variables such as tidb_hash_join_concurrency and tidb_index_lookup_join_concurrency.
In this test, these parameters are not adjusted. In the load test of your actual application, if the execution operators consume an excessive amount of CPU resources, you can limit the resource usage of specific operators according to your application scenario. For more details, see TiDB system variables.
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Given the preceding declarations, the reference
would be processed as follows:
Reference Expression Type
people[i] aref(people, (i-1)*32) person
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= aref(people, -16 + i*32)
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(ARRAY (.. 1 100)
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 (BIRTH (RECORD
 (MO (.. 1 12))
 (DAY (.. 1 31))
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Is it possible to find the distance of a pixel to a rendered sphere, in screen space? All my naive solutions for just using the 2D screen distances are failing because of the warping that occurs during projection.
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See maybe Closest point on an ellipsoid. But I'm not sure that's really what you are looking for. Could you maybe explain what is the purpose of knowing that distance? – Sam Hocevar May 26 '12 at 14:24
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It's definitely possible, though it doesn't have a clean explicit formula. The projection of a sphere is an ellipse, and given the projection matrix you should be able to find an explicit formula for the ellipse, something of the form ax^2+bxy+cy^2+dx+ey+f=0 (the canonical formula for a conic section); from this you can find a rational parametrization of the ellipse (of the form x=f(t), y=g(t) with f and g rational functions). The problem then comes down to minimizing (f(t)-x_0)^2+(g(t)-y_0)^2 as a function of t, and it turns out that rootfinding methods work pretty well for this - there are exact solutions but they require solving a degree-4 equation, which can involve hairy complex arithmetic and tends to be less numerically stable (and thus less accurate) than the approximate methods anyway.
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Your screen is a plan. Your sphere is an elipse. When the user clicks somewhere on the screen it's easy to find the coordinates on the screen plan. Then you just have to apply basic elipsis equation in order to know if the selected point is inside or outside the elipsis and how far it is.
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This works if the question is 'is my click point inside the ellipse or not?' but not if the question is 'how far is my click point from the ellipse?' - there the calculation of, say, (x/2)^2+(y/3)^2 doesn't result in a distance value. – Steven Stadnicki May 26 '12 at 16:32
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gcov-tool overlap [overlap-options] directory1 directory2
Current gcov-tool supports the following functionalities:
merge two sets of profiles with weights.
read one set of profile and rewrite profile contents. One can scale or normalize the count values.
Examples of the use cases for this tool are:
Collect the profiles for different set of inputs, and use this tool to merge them. One can specify the weight to factor in the relative importance of each input.
Rewrite the profile after removing a subset of the gcda files, while maintaining the consistency of the summary and the histogram.
It can also be used to debug or libgcov code as the tools shares the majority code as the runtime library.
Note that for the merging operation, this profile generated offline may contain slight different values from the online merged profile. Here are a list of typical differences:
histogram difference: This offline tool recomputes the histogram after merging the counters. The resulting histogram, therefore, is precise. The online merging does not have this capability --- the histogram is merged from two histograms and the result is an approximation.
summary checksum difference: Summary checksum uses a CRC32 operation. The value depends on the link list order of gcov-info objects. This order is different in gcov-tool from that in the online merge. It's expected to have different summary checksums. It does not really matter as the compiler does not use this checksum anywhere.
value profile counter values difference: Some counter values for value profile are runtime dependent, like heap addresses. It's normal to see some difference in these kind of counters.
Merge two profile directories.
-o directory
--output directory
Set the verbose mode.
-w w1,w2
--weight w1,w2
Set the merge weights of the directory1 and directory2, respectively. The default weights are 1 for both.
Read the specified profile directory and rewrite to a new directory.
-n long_long_value
--normalize
Normalize the profile. The specified value is the max counter value in the new profile.
-o directory
--output directory
Set the output profile directory. Default output name is rewrite_profile.
-s float_or_simple-frac_value
--scale float_or_simple-frac_value
Scale the profile counters. The specified value can be in floating point value, or simple fraction value form, such 1, 2, 2/3, and 5/3.
Set the verbose mode.
Compute the overlap score between the two specified profile directories. The overlap score is computed based on the arc profiles. It is defined as the sum of min (p1_counter[i] / p1_sum_all, p2_counter[i] / p2_sum_all), for all arc counter i, where p1_counter[i] and p2_counter[i] are two matched counters and p1_sum_all and p2_sum_all are the sum of counter values in profile 1 and profile 2, respectively.
Print function level overlap score.
Print full gcda filename.
Only print info for hot objects/functions.
Print object level overlap score.
-t float
--hot_threshold
Set the threshold for hot counter value.
Set the verbose mode.
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Objective: Players attempt to do a water limbo under a stream of water
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Materials: garden hose attached to a water faucet, spray nozzle, broom handle, masking tape, towels
Rules: Hook up the garden hose to the spray nozzle and set it either to full or jet. Turn water tap on and adjust water pressure so that a comfortable stream forms that goes about 6 feet in distance. Take the broom handle and mark with tape every 6 inches or 1 foot. This will be your limbo marker. When all is set, hold the broom handle up vertically and hold the nozzle at the highest mark on your broom and start spraying the water. Use the locking lever on the nozzle to make it easier on your hand. Players then one at a time will attempt to go under to water stream walking forward but bending backwards if necesary in order not to hit the water. If every player made it through the first height successfully lower the stream to the next mark. If a player gets hit by the water, they will be given one more chance. If they get hit by the water again, they are out. Continue playing and lowering the stream each time until only one player remains. That player is the winner. Have that player attempt to go as low as they can. This ways everyone gets wet!


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CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials Property
Gets the system credentials of the application.
Namespace: System.Net
Assemblies: System (in System.dll)
 System.Net.Primitives (in System.Net.Primitives.dll)
Public Shared ReadOnly Property DefaultCredentials As ICredentials
Property Value
Type: System.Net.ICredentials
An ICredentials that represents the system credentials of the application.
The DefaultCredentials property applies only to NTLM, negotiate, and Kerberos-based authentication.
DefaultCredentials represents the system credentials for the current security context in which the application is running. For a client-side application, these are usually the Windows credentials (user name, password, and domain) of the user running the application. For ASP.NET applications, the default credentials are the user credentials of the logged-in user, or the user being impersonated.
To get the credentials as a NetworkCredential instance, use the DefaultNetworkCredentials property.
The supported values for authType are "NTLM", "Digest", "Kerberos", and "Negotiate". This method does not work for HTTP or FTP protocols.
The ICredentials instance returned by DefaultCredentials cannot be used to view the user name, password, or domain of the current security context.
The following code example uses the DefaultCredentials property to get the system credentials of the application.
' Assuming "Windows Authentication" has been set as;
' Directory Security settings for default web site in IIS.
Dim url As String = "http://localhost"
' Create a 'HttpWebRequest' object with the specified url.
Dim myHttpWebRequest As HttpWebRequest = CType(WebRequest.Create(url), HttpWebRequest)
' Assign the credentials of the logged in user or the user being impersonated.
myHttpWebRequest.Credentials = CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials
' Send the 'HttpWebRequest' and wait for response.
Dim myHttpWebResponse As HttpWebResponse = CType(myHttpWebRequest.GetResponse(), HttpWebResponse)
Console.WriteLine("Authentication successful")
Console.WriteLine("Response received successfully")
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In my app I have the following structure:
Activity A calls activity B, and finishes, removing itself from the stack; Activity B receives an intent from activity A that specifies some action to perform, when these actions are performed, the user will see a message indicating it (still in activity B).If the user presses the home button the app will go to background, calling "onPause" and then "onStop". All works as expected.
The problem is that if the user leaves the app in background for a few hours, and tries to open the app again (after a few hours) the onCreate method in activity B will be called with the exact same intent as it received some hours ago from activity A.
(if the user goes back to the app a few minutes after, he will see activity B just like when he left)
What I wanted was that in this case my app would open activity A and not activity B or, activity B but with the message that was on screen when user left.
Looking at the activity life cycle it seems that the app is killing by the OS, all of this makes sense, what I really don't understand is why activity B opens with onCreate method and the same intent as before.
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Use onSaveInstanceState() to record the state of ActivityB. Android will call this before it kills the process. When the user returns to the application, it will recreate the process and then recreate whatever activity was on the top of the activity stack (in your case, ActivityB). When it does that, it will pass the saved instance state to the activity as a parameter in the onCreate() call. You should be able to put something in there so that your ActivityB can tell that it is being recreated after a process kill/restart. In that case, ActivityB could just show the user the message again (which it would have to save in the onSaveInstanceState() method) or it could just redirect the user back to ActivityA so that he can start all over again.
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thanks this was the solution i implemented and it worked just fine. – paulo Nov 26 '12 at 20:05
This is the expected behaviour described in the Activity lifecycle.
When an activity is started it always receives an Intent object. The intent that was used to start your activity B was preserved by the OS when your ativity was killed, and resend when the activity was returned to "live".
It's up tu your activity preserve the status and restore it as needed. Based on your problem description I would suggest to use onStop() so save to SharedPreferences the activity status and message, and onResume() to read it back. In onDestroy() you should clear the preferences to ensure a new clean cycle start.
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I ran into same problem, I DO NOT know if its the way or its right to do so, but i just changed the Intent Extra when needed.
intent.putExtra(SEARCH_EXTRA, false);
So your activity does not perform the operation, since it didn't receive what it wants.
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This is off topic and not understandable. – Ixx Nov 23 '12 at 22:06
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I am trying to color some alphabets in a string based on input alphabet given. Can anyone suggest me how to achieve it? As I am new to this.
Suppose that I have the following string: "AUSTRALIA"
OUTPUT: (A in red)'A'USTR(A in red)'A'LI(A in red)'A'
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Where do you want to output? MATLAB command line? GUI? Web page? – yuk Jan 10 '12 at 21:43
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If you want to show it as text on axes (GUI), use the text command and Latex formatted strings
text('string','{\color{red} A}ustralia')
You can read about Latex commands here.
Alternatively, there is an undocumented functionality for some UI controls, mentioned in Yair Altmans great website.
That is the way to do it (Taken directly from his site)
In order to actually find the letters instances, use the strrep command.
There is a flaw here, related to capital letter, I am sure that you can work it out!
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In December, the Guardian UK website posted the questions for the notoriously difficult King William's College quiz or General Knowledge Paper (GKP) given to students (and parents) at King William's College on the Isle of Man. In another article on, "The Story of the King Wiliams's College Quiz" quizmaster Dr Pat Cullen discusses the impact of the Internet on the 106 year old quiz and attempts to Google and social media proof the quiz to keep it intellectually challenging. MacLean's Canada article on the history of the quiz is simply titled, "The World's Most Difficult Quiz. Really."
While only section 2 relates specifically to geography and cartography, I estimated that about 70 of the 180 questions could be considered geo-spatial. These range from questions such as, "4 Who first used continuous and broken lines to indicate fenced and unfenced roads?" to 5 Where did close neighbours claim the invention of a device for observing at a distance? The answers to last year's questions were posted in February, so you will have to wait a while if you get stumped.
The quizmaster Dr. Pat Cullen doesn't live in a dusty library tower, he is also a birder and citizen scientist for the Isle of Man which is home to several rare species of birds.


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This chapter provides general information about writing trigger functions. Trigger functions can be written in most of the available procedural languages, including PL/pgSQL (Chapter 36), PL/Tcl (Chapter 37), PL/Perl (Chapter 38), and PL/Python (Chapter 39). After reading this chapter, you should consult the chapter for your favorite procedural language to find out the language-specific details of writing a trigger in it.
It is also possible to write a trigger function in C, although most people find it easier to use one of the procedural languages. It is not currently possible to write a trigger function in the plain SQL function language.
A trigger is a specification that the database should automatically execute a particular function whenever a certain type of operation is performed. Triggers can be defined to execute either before or after any INSERT, UPDATE, or DELETE operation, either once per modified row, or once per SQL statement. If a trigger event occurs, the trigger's function is called at the appropriate time to handle the event.
The trigger function must be defined before the trigger itself can be created. The trigger function must be declared as a function taking no arguments and returning type trigger. (The trigger function receives its input through a specially-passed TriggerData structure, not in the form of ordinary function arguments.)
Once a suitable trigger function has been created, the trigger is established with CREATE TRIGGER. The same trigger function can be used for multiple triggers.
PostgreSQL offers both per-row triggers and per-statement triggers. With a per-row trigger, the trigger function is invoked once for each row that is affected by the statement that fired the trigger. In contrast, a per-statement trigger is invoked only once when an appropriate statement is executed, regardless of the number of rows affected by that statement. In particular, a statement that affects zero rows will still result in the execution of any applicable per-statement triggers. These two types of triggers are sometimes called row-level triggers and statement-level triggers, respectively.
Triggers are also classified as before triggers and after triggers. Statement-level before triggers naturally fire before the statement starts to do anything, while statement-level after triggers fire at the very end of the statement. Row-level before triggers fire immediately before a particular row is operated on, while row-level after triggers fire at the end of the statement (but before any statement-level after triggers).
Trigger functions invoked by per-statement triggers should always return NULL. Trigger functions invoked by per-row triggers can return a table row (a value of type HeapTuple) to the calling executor, if they choose. A row-level trigger fired before an operation has the following choices:
It can return NULL to skip the operation for the current row. This instructs the executor to not perform the row-level operation that invoked the trigger (the insertion or modification of a particular table row).
For row-level INSERT and UPDATE triggers only, the returned row becomes the row that will be inserted or will replace the row being updated. This allows the trigger function to modify the row being inserted or updated.
A row-level before trigger that does not intend to cause either of these behaviors must be careful to return as its result the same row that was passed in (that is, the NEW row for INSERT and UPDATE triggers, the OLD row for DELETE triggers).
The return value is ignored for row-level triggers fired after an operation, and so they may as well return NULL.
If more than one trigger is defined for the same event on the same relation, the triggers will be fired in alphabetical order by trigger name. In the case of before triggers, the possibly-modified row returned by each trigger becomes the input to the next trigger. If any before trigger returns NULL, the operation is abandoned for that row and subsequent triggers are not fired.
Typically, row before triggers are used for checking or modifying the data that will be inserted or updated. For example, a before trigger might be used to insert the current time into a timestamp column, or to check that two elements of the row are consistent. Row after triggers are most sensibly used to propagate the updates to other tables, or make consistency checks against other tables. The reason for this division of labor is that an after trigger can be certain it is seeing the final value of the row, while a before trigger cannot; there might be other before triggers firing after it. If you have no specific reason to make a trigger before or after, the before case is more efficient, since the information about the operation doesn't have to be saved until end of statement.
If a trigger function executes SQL commands then these commands may fire triggers again. This is known as cascading triggers. There is no direct limitation on the number of cascade levels. It is possible for cascades to cause a recursive invocation of the same trigger; for example, an INSERT trigger might execute a command that inserts an additional row into the same table, causing the INSERT trigger to be fired again. It is the trigger programmer's responsibility to avoid infinite recursion in such scenarios.
When a trigger is being defined, arguments can be specified for it. The purpose of including arguments in the trigger definition is to allow different triggers with similar requirements to call the same function. As an example, there could be a generalized trigger function that takes as its arguments two column names and puts the current user in one and the current time stamp in the other. Properly written, this trigger function would be independent of the specific table it is triggering on. So the same function could be used for INSERT events on any table with suitable columns, to automatically track creation of records in a transaction table for example. It could also be used to track last-update events if defined as an UPDATE trigger.
Each programming language that supports triggers has its own method for making the trigger input data available to the trigger function. This input data includes the type of trigger event (e.g., INSERT or UPDATE) as well as any arguments that were listed in CREATE TRIGGER. For a row-level trigger, the input data also includes the NEW row for INSERT and UPDATE triggers, and/or the OLD row for UPDATE and DELETE triggers. Statement-level triggers do not currently have any way to examine the individual row(s) modified by the statement.
We have table child inherited from table parent.
One could think when inserting|updating into child.col1 that the trigger on parent insert|update will trigger.
That is not the case.
if you want such a behaviour you have to have the trigger on both tables.
"It is also possible to write a trigger function in C, although most people find it easier to use one of the procedural languages."
However, the only immediate example is a trigger based on a C function. Suggest that we add a simple example OR move the example under 36.10 to this chapter. Alternatively, adding a page that links to various examples would be pretty effective.
Consider this example, using PG/psql: You want to monitor price changes, so you create a table to record the barcode, the new price and when it changed:
CREATE TABLE price_change (
apn CHARACTER(15) NOT NULL,
effective TIMESTAMP NOT NULL DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP,
UNIQUE (apn, effective)
Next you write a trigger function to insert records as required:
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION insert_price_change() RETURNS trigger AS '
IF tg_op = ''DELETE'' THEN
INSERT INTO price_change(apn, effective, price)
VALUES (old.barcode, CURRENT_TIMESTAMP, NULL);
IF tg_op = ''INSERT'' THEN
changed := TRUE;
changed := new.price IS NULL!= old.price IS NULL OR new.price!= old.price;
IF changed THEN
INSERT INTO price_change(apn, effective, price)
VALUES (new.barcode, CURRENT_TIMESTAMP, new.price);
' LANGUAGE plpgsql;
Finally you create a trigger on the table or tables you wish to monitor:
CREATE TRIGGER insert_price_change AFTER INSERT OR DELETE OR UPDATE ON stock
FOR EACH ROW EXECUTE PROCEDURE insert_price_change();
Row-level before triggers fire immediately before a particular row is operated on, while row-level after triggers fire at the end of the statement (after all rows have been operated on but before any statement-level after triggers).


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I want to access a resource like a String or a Drawable by its name and not its int id.
Which method would I use for this?
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possible duplicate of How can i get the resource id of an image if I know its name? – ghoti Dec 7 '12 at 18:55
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It will be something like:
Make sure you don't have the Android.R namespace imported as it can confuse Eclipse (if thats what you're using).
If that doesn't work, you can always use a context's getResources method...
Drawable resImg = this.context.getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.resource);
Where this.context is intialised as an Activity, Service or any other Context subclass.
If it's the name you want, the Resources class (returned by getResources()) has a getResourceName(int) method, and a getResourceTypeName(int)?
Update 2:
The Resources class has this method:
public int getIdentifier (String name, String defType, String defPackage)
Which returns the integer of the specified resource name, type & package.
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Thankq for your reply.R.drawable.resourcename i am using now i need to get its integer value by passing resourcename – Aswan Aug 13 '10 at 11:45
R.drawable.resourcename is the integer. – Rabid Aug 13 '10 at 11:46
Hi Rabid.what you said that's is there any way by accessing R.drawable.resource value by passing resouce – Aswan Aug 13 '10 at 11:47
i need that integer value by passing resourcename dynamically – Aswan Aug 13 '10 at 11:48
Thankq like this i want and i want to get drawable resource i wil to it – Aswan Aug 13 '10 at 11:57
If I understood right, this is what you want
int drawableResourceId = this.getResources().getIdentifier("nameOfDrawable", "drawable", this.getPackageName());
Where "this" is an Activity, written just to clarify.
In case you want a String in strings.xml or an identifier of a UI element, substitute "drawable"
int resourceId = this.getResources().getIdentifier("nameOfResource", "id", this.getPackageName());
I warn you, this way of obtaining identifiers is really slow, use only where needed.
Link to official documentation: Resources.getIdentifier(String name, String defType, String defPackage)
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this is the solution I wanted :D – Kreshnik Apr 19 '14 at 19:39
This is pretty useful in the context of writing tests to make sure certain strings exist or etc. – Ehtesh Choudhury May 1 at 22:14
int resourceID =
 this.getResources().getIdentifier("resource name", "resource type as mentioned in",this.getPackageName());
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It'd be even better if you explained the code you posted. – user1114055 Oct 21 '12 at 1:11
I would suggest you using my method to get a resource ID. It's Much more efficient, than using getIdentidier() method, which is slow.
Here's the code:
 * _USER_ Lonkly
 * _USER_ variableName - name of drawable, e.g R.drawable.image
 * _USER_ с - class of resource, e.g R.drawable.class or R.raw.class
 * _USER_ integer id of resource
 public static int getResId(String variableName, Class с) {
 Field field = null;
 int resId = 0;
 try {
 field = с.getField(variableName);
 try {
 resId = field.getInt(null);
 } catch (Exception e) {
 } catch (Exception e) {
 return resId;
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It will not work for all cases. For example if you have content than the R.string class will have a string_name field. And your method will not work in this point. – ddmytrenko Oct 22 '13 at 14:32
Also your method is not fast actually. Because Java class serialization is never working quick. – ddmytrenko Oct 23 '13 at 10:39
A simple way to getting resource ID from string. Here resourceName is the name of resource ImageView in drawable folder which is included in XML file as well.
int resID = getResources().getIdentifier(resourceName, "id", getPackageName());
 ImageView im = (ImageView) findViewById(resID);
 Context context = im.getContext();
 int id = context.getResources().getIdentifier(resourceName, "drawable",
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National Stormwater Calculator
EPA's National Stormwater Calculator (SWC) is a desktop application that estimates the annual amount of rainwater and frequency of runoff from a specific site anywhere in the United States (including Puerto Rico). Estimates are based on local soil conditions, land cover, and historic rainfall records.
It is designed to be used by anyone interested in reducing runoff from a property, including
- site developers,
- landscape architects,
- urban planners, and
The Calculator accesses several national databases that provide soil, topography, rainfall, and evaporation information for the chosen site.


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The Melanchthonhaus is a townhouse in the German town of Lutherstadt Wittenberg. It is a Renaissance building with late Gothic arched windows and the broad-tiered gables. It includes the study of the Protestant Reformer Philipp Melanchthon, who lived there with his family. In 1954 the house became a museum on Melanchthon's life and work displaying paintings, prints and manuscripts by him and his contemporaries. It became a World Heritage Site in 1996.


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This tutorial will present how to use DB Store and DB Filter components in Wires using the OPC-UA simulated server already used in OPC-UA Application.
The DB Store component allows the wire graphs to interact with the database provided by ESF. It stores in a user-defined table all the envelopes received by the component. The component can be configured as follows:
- table.name: the name of the table to be created.
- maximum.table.size: the size of the table.
- cleanup.records.keep: the number of records in the table to keep while performing a cleanup operation.
The DB Filter component, instead, can run a custom SQL query on the ESF database. It can be configured as follows:
- sql.view: SQL to be executed to build a view.
- cache.expiration.interval: cache validity in seconds. When the cache expires, a new read in the database will be performed.
The following procedure will create a wire graph that collects data from a simulated OPC-UA Server, stores it in a table in the database, using the DB Store component, and publishes it in the cloud platform. Moreover, the DB Filter is used to read from the database and write data to the OPC-UA Server based on the values read.
- Download the OPC-UA server simulator bundle and install it on your ESF instance. It will create a simulated OPC-UA server that exposes some sensors (light, temperature and water sensor) and some actuators (buzzer, led and fan).
- In the ESF Administrative Web Interface, select "OPCUA Server demo" in "Services" and set server.port to 1234. Click the Apply button. This will start an OPC-UA server on port 1234.
- Install the OPC-UA Driver from Eclipse Kura Marketplace
- Use the local ESF Administrative Web Interface to create a new OPC-UA driver instance:
- Select Drivers and Assets, click the New Driver button
- Select org.eclipse.kura.driver.opcua, type in a name, and click Apply: a new service will show up under Services.
- Configure the new service as follows:
- endpoint.ip: localhost
- endpoint.port: 1234
- server.name: leave blank
- Click on Wires under System
- Add a new Timer component and configure the interval at which the OPC-UA server will be sampled
- Add a new Asset with the previously added OPC-UA Driver
- Configure the new OPC-UA asset, adding new Channels as shown in the following image. Make sure that all the channels are set to READ.
- Add a new DBStore component and configure it as follows:
- table.name: WR_data
- maximum.table.size: 10000
- cleanup.records.keep: 0
- Add a new Publisher component and configure the chosen cloud platform stack in cloud.service.pid option
- Add Logger component
- Add another instance of Timer
- Add a new DBFilter component and configure it as follows. The query will get the values from the light sensor and if they are less than 200, the fan is activated.
- sql.view: SELECT (CASE WHEN "light" < 200 THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS "led" FROM "WR_data" ORDER BY TIMESTAMP DESC LIMIT 1;
- cache.expiration.interval: 0
- Add another Asset with the OPC-UA Driver, configured as shown in the following image. Be sure that all the channels are set to WRITE.
- Connect the components as shown in the following image, then click on "Apply" and check the logs and the cloud platform that the data is correctly published.
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Adverb(1) in distinction from others
(1) more specifically :: আরো নির্দিষ্টভাবে
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The PDSA Cycle (Plan-Do-Study-Act) is a systematic process for gaining valuable learning and knowledge for the continual improvement of a product, process, or service. Also known as the Deming Wheel, or Deming Cycle, this integrated learning - improvement model was first introduced to Dr. Deming by his mentor, Walter Shewhart of the famous Bell Laboratories in New York.
The cycle begins with the Plan step. This involves identifying a goal or purpose, formulating a theory, defining success metrics and putting a plan into action. These activities are followed by the Do step, in which the components of the plan are implemented, such as making a product. Next comes the Study step, where outcomes are monitored to test the validity of the plan for signs of progress and success, or problems and areas for improvement. The Act step closes the cycle, integrating the learning generated by the entire process, which can be used to adjust the goal, change methods, reformulate a theory altogether, or broaden the learning – improvement cycle from a small-scale experiment to a larger implementation Plan. These four steps can be repeated over and over as part of a never-ending cycle of continual learning and improvement.
PDSA and PDCA
Dr. Deming emphasized the PDSA Cycle, not the PDCA Cycle, with a third step emphasis on Study (S), not Check (C). Dr. Deming found that the focus on Check is more about the implementation of a change, with success or failure. His focus was on predicting the results of an improvement effort, studying the actual results, and comparing them to possibly revise the theory. He stressed that the need to develop new knowledge, from learning, is always guided by a theory. By comparison, the Check phase of the PDCA cycle focuses on the success or failure of a Plan, followed by needed corrections to the Plan in the event of failure. Click here to find an excellent article by Ron Moen and Cliff Norman, who offer a deeper explanation of the difference between the PDSA and PDCA Cycles.


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Cut a 1 yard (1 meter) length of B. Knot one end of B length to one end of A. Thread the unknotted end of B into blunt needle.
As you coil A to make the Cap, you will sew over the strand to secure it as follows:
1. Bring blunt needle to the right side between the A strand you are working with and the already coiled A strand.
2. Draw B strand over the A strand, then back out between the A strands a short distance away.
3. Repeat Step 2 as you work, always securing the strand of A that you are working on to the previously coiled A strand.
On a flat surface, coil knotted end of A into a small circle. Secure the spiral shape by sewing over the strands with B. Continue to coil A into a spiral and to secure the spiral by sewing over the strands with B. When circle measures about 6 1/2 in. (cm) across, pull A a bit tighter so that the circle doesn't get wider but begins to take on a Cap shape. Continue coiling A, sewing it in place with B and checking the fit as you work, until Cap is the desired size.
Knot end of B to secure.
Use your fingers to weave in the A yarn ends, and blunt needle to weave in the B yarn ends.


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Before the Fall : German and Austrian Art in the 1930s
A fascinating book all about the modern art movement in Germany in the 1930s
The 1930s in Germany and Austria were marked by economic crisis, political disintegration, and social chaos. This beautifully illustrated catalogue accompanying an exhibition at the Neue Galerie surveys the development of the arts in these two countries between the two world wars. Presenting nearly 150 paintings and works on paper, this book reveals artistic developments that foreshadowed, reflected, and accompanied the beginning of World War II.
Works by Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, Max Ernst, Oskar Kokoschka, and Alfred Kubin are presented alongside pieces by lesser-known artists such as Friedl DickerBrandeis, Albert Paris Gutersloh, Karl Hubbuch, Richard Oelze, Josef Scharl, Franz Sedlacek, and Rudolf Wacker. This book features essays about the appropriation of artistic idioms, the reactions of artists toward their historical circumstances, and major political events that shaped the era.
- Author: Olaf Peters
- Hardcover: 288 pages | 200 illustrations
- Date published: March 2018
- Language: English
- ISBN: 978-_PHONE_
- Product Dimensions: 29.6 x 24.7 cm


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Service cloud console by Salesforce provides a customer service solution that is designed to offer very effective customer service activities from anywhere.
Service cloud console is a Salesforce application for users who wants to work on multiple records at once or need to find, update and create records quickly. Service cloud provides a tabbed environment for the users to look at different grouping of records in one screen via Primary and Secondary tab.
The tab-based interface makes it easy for the customer service agents to see records and their related items together on one screen, as well as work on multiple items simultaneously.
Service cloud console optimize the agent experience by helping him to manage cases faster.
Service cloud console has a footer which gives access to Live Agent as well as CTI softphone (if licensed).
Features offered by Service cloud console
- It offers keyboard shortcuts which enables users to save time switching between tabs and saving information.
- It can include the Live Agent (Chat), Softphone (call) and several tabs including the Visualforce pages.
- It also provides an interaction log which allows agents to quickly create tasks whilst on the phone with customers.
- It is very easy to plug in custom Visualforce pages within the console and the ability to build custom integrations directly into the console making it very extensible.
- The refresh of one tab will not impact other open tabs.
Why to use Service Cloud Console
- It reduces the agent's response time by displaying customer information with a pop up window that provides all of their relevant information needed to address the Case.
- It eliminates switching between pages, to access data from different objects.
- It improves agent productivity by providing more context for the problem at hand.
- User will see records and their related items as tabs on one screen so that user never loses context or navigate too far from a record.
- We can easily integrate Live Agent and Soft Phone to Service cloud console.
Service Cloud Console also streamlines the process of customer interaction process by offering the following powerful tools:
Live Agent is a native Salesforce tool that provides the ability to interactively communicate with your web site users. Salesforce Live Agent was introduced into Salesforce platform in the Spring 12 release.
Live Agent enables real-time, online chat between an organization and its customers, prospects etc.
The chat sessions can be initiated via clicking a button or link on a web page, or via automated invitation based on page access metrics.
The information collected during the chat can then be saved into your Salesforce instance and reported on.
- User can save the transcript.
- User can manage multiple concurrent chats within the console.
- User can find and open existing records related to chats.
- Create new records based on incoming chats.
- Choose records or pages to open as sub tabs of each chat session.
- Attach a file to the chat session.
- Supervisor tab for monitoring one or more Agent chats.
- It is very convenient for a customer to resolve a query through chat, avoiding the usual frustrations of calling a support line and waiting for the turn.
- An expert team can efficiently manage multiple concurrent chats (routed by skill) which can hugely impact on the incoming call volume.
- The handling cost of a chat session is generally one third of the cost of a phone call resulting in huge cost benefits for the business.
CTI (Computer Telephony Integration)
CTI enables computers and telephone system to work together for enhanced communications between the two technologies and enables you to leverage computer-processing functions while making, receiving, and managing telephone calls.
CTI applications allow you to perform such tasks as retrieving customer information from a database on the basis of information that caller ID provides. CTI applications can also enable you to use information that an interactive voice response (IVR) system captures, so the call can be routed to the appropriate customer service representative and also the right information can be provided to the individual who is receiving the call.
- Make calls by dialing a number in the Softphone, choosing a number in an online directory, or clicking a phone number in any contact, lead, activity, or account.
- Receive calls.
- Quickly view all Salesforce records that are related to the call, such as contacts, cases, or accounts.
- Transfer calls.
- Attach records to calls.
- Generate automatic call logs.
- Add phone numbers to call center directories for future use.
- The Salesforce user interface is able to perform all the interaction management and the customer service.
- The system computer integration blends intelligently and routes the interaction of the customer service based on skills and availability.
- It can also allow agents to place, get and transfer the interactions directly in the Salesforce user interface.


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What is 3G spectrum? How does it help you?
rediff Business Desk | September 29, 2006
It's boom time for mobile phones in India. And people are looking forward to more information, faster data access and multimedia services through their mobile phones. 3G technology is here to turn this dream into reality. It's a technology anxiously awaited by telecom operations and subscribers in India.
How long do you have to wait?
Not very long! India is all set to launch 3G mobile telephone services by June 2007.
According to Telecom Regulatory Authority of India chairman Nripendra Misra, a total of 32.5 MHz is available for allocation within the next 6-9 months.
Trai has also recommended auctioning 200 MHz for broadband wireless access services like Wimax (worldwide interoperability for microwave access) and has proposed a national frequency management board to oversee spectrum availability and its efficient use.
He hopes that the allocated spectrum would be enough for the next two years and said Trai would recommend freeing up more spectrum for those who lose out in this auction.
So what is 3G spectrum all about? Read on.
What is spectrum?
Radio spectrum refers to a range of radio frequencies. The bandwidth of a radio signal is the difference between the upper and lower frequencies of the signal.
For example, in the case of a voice signal having a minimum frequency of 200 hertz (Hz) and a maximum frequency of 3,000 Hz, the bandwidth is 2,800 Hz (3 KHz). The amount of bandwidth needed for 3G services could be as much as 15-20 Mhz, whereas for 2G services a bandwidth of 30-200 KHz is used. Hence, for 3G huge bandwidth is required.
How is 3G different from 2G and 4G?
While 2G stands for second-generation wireless telephone technology, 1G networks used are analog, 2G networks are digital and 3G (third-generation) technology is used to enhance mobile phone standards.
3G helps to simultaneously transfer both voice data (a telephone call) and non-voice data (such as downloading information, exchanging e-mail, and instant messaging. The highlight of 3G is video telephony. 4G technology stands to be the future standard of wireless devices.
Currently, Japanese company NTT DoCoMo and Samsung are testing 4G communication.
How will 3G services help you?
3G services will enable video broadcast and data-intensive services such as stock transactions, e-learning and telemedicine through wireless communications
All telecom operators are waiting to launch 3G in India to cash in on revenues by providing high-end services to customers, which are voice data and video enabled. India lags behind many Asian countries in introducing 3G services.
What is Trai's recommendation on 3G pricing?
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has recommended auctioning radio frequencies for 3G telecom services at a reserve price of Rs 1,050 crore (Rs 10.50 billion) to companies seeking to offer nationwide high-speed Internet and streaming video.
The base price for spectrum in cities like Mumbai and Delhi and Category A telecom circles is Rs 80 crore (Rs 800 million); in cities like Chennai and Kolkata and Category B circles Rs 40 crore (Rs 400 million); and in all other cities Rs 15 crore (Rs 150 million).
What are the frequency bands and quota for CDMA?
Trai has recommended three sets of frequency bands - 450 mhz, 800 mhz and 2.1 ghz. For CDMA players like Reliance and Tata Teleservices 1.25 MHz each is offered. CDMA operators are free to bid both in the 2.1 GHz and the 450 MHz bands, but they will be allocated spectrum only in one. The pricing of these two bands is linked to the auction in the 2.1 GHz band.
CDMA operators will pay the same as the second-highest GSM bidder. And if there is more than one claimant in the 450 MHz band, the reserve price will be half of that arrived at in the 2.1 GHz band. Another rider is that if the highest bid is a quarter more than the lowest, the lowest bidder has to raise its bid to 75 per cent of the winning bid.
But CDMA operators are likely to face problems. Operating 3G services on 450 MHz is a problem because we they do not have dual-band phones that work both in 450 MHz and in 800 MHz (the band in which CDMA operates in India).
What are the issues regarding 3G for providers and users?
3G has successfully been introduced in Europe. But several issues continue to hamper its growth.
High spectrum licensing fees for the 3G services
Huge capital required to build infrastructure for 3G services.
Health impact of electromagnetic waves.
Prices are very high for 3G mobile services.
Will 2G users switch to 3G services.
Takes time to catch up as the service is new.
What are the issues regarding 3G pricing?
Pricing has been a cause of concern. Spectrum auctions ran into billions of euros in Europe. In Europe, spectrum licensing fees were collected years before the 3G service was developed and it required huge investments to build 3G networks, hitting mobile operators' margins.
However, in Japan and South Korea, spectrum licensing fees were not applicable as the focus of these countries were national IT infrastructure development.
Which companies have applied for 3G license?
3G spectrum has been provided to GSM players like BSNL, MTNL, Bharti, and Hutch to carry out an interface check on a non-commercial basis ahead of the start of 3G mobile services.
Trial spectrum has been given for a period of one month. This will be only 1/1000th of the actual 3G spectrum capability. Apart frm PSU majors, spectrum for carrying out 3G trials has been given to all those who have applied under the National Frequency Allocation Plan on the 2.1 GHz band. GSM players operate on 900 MHz and 1,800 MHz, while CDMA players operate on 800 MHz.
What is the pricing issue in India?
While Tatas have welcomed Trai's Rs 1,400-crore (Rs 14 billion) base price for a nationwide rollout of 3G services, the rest of the players find the price too exorbitant.
Bharti-Airtel is disappointed with the pricing as they were expecting it to be Rs 300-400 crore (Rs 3-4 billion). The reserve price is a disincentive for telecom companies in India. Bharti has appealed to lower the prices specially for rural penetration.
The Cellular Operators Association of India and the Association of Unified Service Providers of India are studying TRAI's recommendations and have not given their comments.
However, Trai chairman Nripendra Misra has said that there is no reason to worry as players will not bid exorbitantly and derail the auction. Misra said telecom operators had matured from their experiences and global developments, and would bid sincerely.
Where was 3G spectrum first introduced?
Japan was the first country to introduce 3G on a large commercial scale. In 2005, about 40 per cent of subscribers used only 3G networks. It is expected that during 2006 the subscribers would move from 2G to 3G and upgrade to the next 3.5 G level.
The success of 3G in Japan also shows that video telephony was the killer application for 3G networks. Downloading music was the biggest draw in 3G services.
In how many countries does 3G exist?
There are about 60 3G networks across 25 countries. In Asia, Europe and the USA, telecom firms use WCDMA technology. The WCDMA standard provides seamless global evolution from today's GSM with support of the worlds' largest mobile operators.
WCDMA technology is built on open standards, wide ranging mobile multimedia possibility, and vast potential economies of scale with the support of around 100 terminal designs to operate 3G mobile networks.
3G services were introduced in Europe in 2003.


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Watch a HUJI Talk with lawyer and researcher Dr. Renana Keydar of the Hebrew University's Faculties of Humanities and Law. Today, as atrocities are committed across the globe, from widescale slavery in Africa to the decimation of the Syrian people to the persecution of the Uighers in Asia, the desire and need for justice is greater than ever. In this talk, Dr. Keydar explains her vision for how digital humanities can help us bring justice for the victims of mass atrocities.
Dr. Renana Keydar was driven to explore new paradigms of justice in our digital world after serving as the legal advisor in the High Court of Justice Department of the State Attorney's Office and seeing the limits of the law, and also partly from having three grandparents who were Holocaust survivors.
She takes us on a journey through several cases where atrocities were prosecuted, and how using digital tools can empower a new understanding of the victims' experiences and the outcomes of trials.


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The Cone of Montmorency, as It Appeared in 1829, 1833 Cockburn, James Pattison etching and aquatint hand-coloured with watercolour and gum arabic on ivory wove paper 55.4 x 73.4 cm; plate: 51.8 x 70.7 cm
This picturesque winter view of the Montmorency Falls depicts a gathering of early Quebecers at the base of the sugar mountain. The snow-draped cone, which was formed by the Falls, attracted many visitors from Quebec and neighbouring areas. Both military personnel and the civilian population made it their goal to visit the site during their winter outings. Many used the occasion to slide down the slopes. Peter Patterson owned the buildings at the top of the hill and the two sawmills to the left.


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College of Communication > Academics > Graduate Programs > Independent Study & Experiential Learning
Graduate students in the College of Communication are permitted to take a maximum of 8 credits worth of independent study/experiential learning courses. These courses include:
Independent study is an opportunity for high-achieving students with substantial training in a communication subspecialty to individually shape a course of study with a faculty expert. An independent study is not a substitute for regular curricular offerings, a way around requirements or a schedule alternative for students unwilling to accommodate the timetable of a needed course. Independent study is an avenue for continued learning if a student possesses the initiative and discipline to structure and pursue a course of study on fairly independent terms.
If you are interested in conducting an independent study, please consult with your program director before proceeding.
STEP 1: Student must submit an independent study request form and an independent study proposal. The independent study proposal will contain as a minimum the following provisions:
This proposal will serve as the course syllabus and it can be referred to in cases of grade challenges. Only changes mutually agreeable to student and instructor are permissible and then such arrangements must be in place in writing and signed by both parties.
STEP 2: The independent study request form must be signed and approved by your faculty advisor and graduate program director before being submitted. If approved, you will be registered for the appropriate independent study course (CMNS 592, HTHC 592, JOUR 592, MCS 592, PRAD 592).
STEP 3: Please submit your signed, completed independent study form and proposal to:
College of CommunicationGraduate Independent Studies14 E. Jackson Blvd., Suite 1814
Please submit your independent study form and proposal by the following dates:
The research practicum is an opportunity for high-achieving students with substantial training in a communication subspecialty to connect with a faculty expert. Students will train in a specialized communication research method and/or achieve hands-on practice in conducting scholarly research.
The research practicum may take various forms. For example, the student may become part of an ongoing research project led by the faculty member, and the research practicum would provide an opportunity for the student to apply previously studied research methods to the research project. Typical activities include data gathering, data analysis, interpretation of results, and writing research reports.
If the student wants to learn about a particular research method practiced by the faculty expert but not available in a regular graduate course offering, then the research practicum could be a course of study focusing on specialized research method(s) with agreed upon readings and assignments.
STEP 1: Student must submit a research practicum request form and a research practicum proposal. The research practicum proposal will contain the following provisions:
STEP 2: The form must be signed and approved by your faculty advisor and graduate program director before being submitted. If approved by the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, you will then be registered for the graduate research practicum course.
STEP 3: Please submit your signed, completed research practicum form and proposal by email to the Assistant Director for Graduate Student Services or in hard copy to:
College of CommunicationGraduate Research Practicum14 E. Jackson Blvd., Suite 1814
Please submit your research practicum form and proposal by the following dates:


text: Finite-difference time-domain method has gained increasing interest for room acoustic prediction use. A well-known limitation of the method is a frequencyand direction-dependent dispersion error. In this study, the audibility of dispersion error in the presence of a single surface reflection is measured. The threshold is measured for three different distance conditions with a fixed reflection arrival azimuth angle of 54.7 °. The error is placed either in the direct path, or in the reflection path. Additionally a qualitative follow-up experiment to evaluate how the measured thresholds reflect the audibility of error in short room responses is carried out. The results indicate that the threshold varies depending whether the error is in the direct path or in the reflection path. For transient signals the threshold is higher when the error is located in the direct path, whereas for speech signal, the threshold is higher when it is located in the reflection path. Evidence is found that the error is detectable in rendered room responses at the measured threshold levels.


Useful Fruit Software releases Pear Note 1.1 - Make sharing notes easier
December 19, 2008 in Utility (E)
[] Columbia, MD - Useful Fruit Software is proud to announce Pear Note 1.1, the latest version of their note-taking utility for Mac OS X. At its core, Pear Note integrates audio, video, and slides with traditional text notes and stores all of this on a timeline for easy navigation. Pear Note 1.1 adds the ability to share notes with others by exporting text, audio, or video. Also new, users can import externally recorded audio or video.
Pear Note records audio or video while the user takes notes, allowing the user to later find what was being said when they typed something. They can then play back the entire recording, or jump to the point they need to hear.
Pear Note 1.1 builds on Pear Note's recording capabilities by allowing users to share notes with coworkers and classmates that are not Pear Note users. Notes can be exported as plain text or rich text documents to share thoughts. Also, users can export recorded audio or video as AAC files or QuickTime movies so others can hear or see what they missed.
Pear Note 1.1 allows users to import externally recorded audio or video into a note. Users can import audio into a new note and take notes while playing back the recording. This is useful in situations where it is not feasible to take notes live. Alternatively, users can record audio on an external device instead of their Mac and later import that audio to sync with the notes they typed.
Additional new features in 1.1 include enhanced text editing capabilities such as lists, links, and tables as well as numerous user interface and stability enhancements.
Feature highlights include:
* Records audio, video, every keystroke, and slide changes
* Playback navigation utilizing text notes or slides
* Search to find notes quickly
* Rich Text Notes
* Spotlight support for pear note documents
* QuickLook support for pear note documents
* Spell Checking
* Export text, audio, and video
* Import audio and video
Minimum Requirements:
* Mac OS X Version 10.5 Leopard or later
* Universal Binary for PowerPC and Intel
* 6 MB Hard Drive space
* Spotlight must be enabled
* A microphone (if recording audio)
* iSight (if recording video)
Pricing and Availability:
Pear Note 1.1 can be purchased for $39.99 (USD). A free fully functional 14 day demo is available for download.
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Mobile Budget Settings: Name, Currency, Date Format
Did you know there are more ways to customize your budget? Tap the More Menu (three dots icon) in your budget to access Settings:
Then, choose Budget Settings from the list. This is where you can edit the basics, including:
- Budget Name: tap on the current name of your budget and enter a new name.
- Currency: tap on the Currency option and choose your currency from the list that pops up.
- Number Format: tap on the current format and choose your preferred number format.
- Currency Placement: select the appropriate placement of the currency marker or choose "Don't Display".
- Date Format: tap on the current date format and choose your preferred format.
You can also delete your budget from this page—but be extra careful to ensure you're deleting the correct budget!