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Risk Terminator provides a framework where Risk analysis can be triggered during User and Role maintenance activities using SU01, SU10 and PFCG directly in the plug-in system.
The Risk Terminator is a service that runs in the SAP ABAP back-end system and triggers automated risk analysis check when defined segregation of duties (SoD) access risks are violated during User or Role maintenance directly in the plug-in system..
Below are the configuration details to configure Risk Terminator.
In GRC system maintain the below configuration settings in the path: SPRO -> IMG -> GRC -> Access Control -> Maintain Configuration Settings
Plug-In System Config
Make sure that below mentioned User Exits exist in the plug-in system in the path: SPRO -> IMG -> GRC (Plug-in) -> Maintain User Exits for Plug-in systems. If they don't exist, create the entries and save them.
In Plug-In system maintain the below configuration settings in the path: SPRO -> IMG -> GRC (Plug-in) -> Maintain Plug-In Configuration Settings.
- Connector Name maintained in Configuration Parameter 1000 in Plug-In system must be same as the connector name maintained in Configuration Parameter 1080 in GRC system.
- GRC Connector name must be maintained in Configuration Parameter 1001 in Plug-In system as shown below.
The Risk Terminator functionality can be applied to different business cases around user maintenance (creation and modification) and role maintenance (creation and modification). To simulate how risk analysis works for role maintenance and user role provisioning, I used below business scenarios. They are based on the configuration settings defined in the GRC system and the Plug-in system.
Risk Terminator Scenarios
Scenario 1: Testing role creation with conflicting Tcodes using PFCG.
Role Name: RT_TEST_ROLE
Tcodes: Conflicting Tcodes have been added as defined in our Rule set
Since the user exit before profile generation is also maintained, you can see from the below screenshot that "Risk Terminator" is triggered as the message shows "Checking for Access Risk Violations".
Risk Violations will be shown as below
Risk Terminator Triggers during role assignment using PFCG as well
Scenario 2: Testing SU01 conflicting role assignment to users.
Before you test scenario 2 make sure to implement the below SAP note in your Plug-In system if your Basis Release is 701 as Risk Terminator is not working for SU01 and SU10.
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Reasons to Dump a Mutual Fund
Many financial advisors and academics do not advise selling stocks and mutual funds when prices are dropping during bear markets. If you can just hold on from side to side thick and thin, they argue, you are likely to enjoy returns better than any other asset class over the long run.
Though, there are occasions when selling a mutual fund might be acceptable. Buy and hold is not everlastingly. Here we glance at the top eight reasons for selling a mutual fund.
1. Portfolio Rebalancing
Over time, trends in financial markets may cause asset allocations to diverge from desired settings. In other words, some mutual funds can nurture to a large proportion of the portfolio while others shrink to a smaller proportion, exposing you to a different level of risk.
To avoid these possibilities, the portfolio can be rebalanced periodically by selling units in funds that have relatively large weights and transferring the proceeds to funds that have relatively small weights. Under this rule, the time to sell equity mutual funds is when they have enjoyed high-quality gains over an extended bull market and the percentage allocated to them has drifted up too high.
2. Mutual Fund Changes or Mismanagement
Mutual funds might change in a many number of ways that can be at odds with your original reasons for buying. For an instance, a star portfolio manager could jump ship and be replaced by someone missing the same capabilities. Or there may be approach drift, which arises when a manager gradually alters his or her investing approach over time. (For more insight, check out Focus Pocus May Not Lead to Magical Returns and Must You Follow Your Fund Manager?)
Other signals to move on include an increasing trend in annual management expense ratios (MERs) or a fund that has developed large relative to the market. If the fund has developed large compared to the market, managers could have difficulty differentiating their portfolios from the market in order to earn above-market returns.
3. Investor Growth
As you gain more and more experience and you can acquire more and more wealth and hence you may outgrow mutual funds. With larger wealth comes the ability to buy enough individual stocks to achieve adequate diversification and avoid MERs. And with superior knowledge comes the confidence to do it yourself, whether it is actively picking stocks or buying and holding market indexes through exchange-traded funds (ETFs).
4. Life Cycle Changes
Although stocks historically have been the best investments to own over the long run, their instability makes them untrustworthy vehicles in the short term. While retirement, children's post-secondary educations, or some other funding requirements approach, a good idea is to shift out of stock-market funds into assets that have more certain returns, such as bonds or term deposits, whose maturities coincide with the time that the funds will be needed.
5. Mistakes
Every now and then, investors' due diligence is incomplete and they end up owning funds they otherwise would have not purchased. For an instance, the investor might discover that the fund is too impulsive for their tastes, a closet-index fund with a high MER, or invested in undesirable securities.
Portfolio errors might also have been dedicated by the investor. A frequent mistake is over-diversifying with too many funds, which can be difficult to keep tabs on and can tend to average out to market performance (less fund fees).
Another common misstep is to puzzle owning a large number of funds with diversification. A large number of funds will not smooth out fluctuations if they tend to move in the same direction. What's desirable is a collection of funds, of which some can be expected to be up when others are down.
6. Valuation
Shift out of mutual funds to rebalance your fixed portfolio allocations by using a stretchy or opportunistic approach. A common valuation benchmark is the price-earnings ratio (P/E ratio); for U.S. stocks, it has averaged 14 to 15 over time, so if it rises to 24 to 26, valuations are overextended and the risk of a downturn is prominent.
7. Something Better Comes Along
Selling on every occasion something better came along. In the mutual fund territory, some funds can come onto the market with innovations that are better at doing what your fund is doing. Or, over time, it may become obvious other portfolio managers are performing better against the same benchmarks.
8. Tax Reduction
Mutual funds held in taxable accounts might be down significantly from their purchase price. They can be sold to understand capital losses that are used to offset taxable capital gains and thus lower taxes.
If the sale was exclusively to realize a capital loss for taxation purposes, the investor will want to re-establish the position after the 30-day period necessary to avoid the superficial-loss rule. The investor might take a possibility that the price will be the same, lower or might choose to hold a proxy for the fund's price movement.
Tax-loss selling tends to take place during August to late December. That's also the era when many funds have anticipated the capital gains and income they will be distributing to investors at year end. These amounts are taxable in the hands of the investor, so a supplementary reason to sell a losing fund from the tax point of view may be to avoid a large year-end distribution that would entail paying additional taxes.
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Spec'ing hospital electrical distribution systems
When specifying electrical distribution systems in hospitals, the engineer must account for the facility's size, flexibility needs, emergency power needs, and safety requirements.
By Neal Boothe, exp US Services Inc., Maitland, Fla.
For updated details about the project, visit the official UC San Diego project website.
Image courtesy: UC San Diego Health System, Paul Turang, Photographer. Renderings courtesy: exp US Services Inc.
1. Understand which codes govern the design of hospital electrical systems
2. Learn the differences between emergency and essential power
3. Learn and understand the unique electrical system requirements of hospitals.
On the surface, the electrical distribution system of a hospital may look the same as that for other types of buildings—offices, hotels, etc.—but there are several important distinctions. These distinctions are not so much in the equipment used. Panelboards, switchboards, transformers, circuit breakers, and other products are all common to other types of projects. The differences lie primarily in the size and complexity of the electrical systems: the overall size of the electrical system, its need for a higher level of flexibility, enhanced needs for more emergency power that can remain operational for longer durations, and the need for enhanced safety in the hospital environment.
Size does matter
First, the electrical demands of a hospital far outweigh those for most other building types. One reason is that hospitals have unique equipment with very large power requirements, such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRIs), computer tomography (CT) scanners, and other imaging equipment. Second, even some equipment common to all buildings is larger for hospitals due to their complexities. A good example of this lies in air conditioning and ventilation systems, which can be two or three times larger in hospitals than in other buildings of a similar size due to the heightened air change rate, more stringent temperature requirements, and higher equipment loads. Also, many specialized areas in a hospital have a large number of receptacles to allow for a multitude of equipment to be used. For example, a hospital operating room may be 500 to 600 sq ft and include 30 or more receptacles due to the amount of equipment required in this space. An office building may have 10 receptacles or less in a comparably sized area. Hospital lighting also follows the same thinking and typically has a higher lumen and Watts/sq ft requirement based upon the complex procedures (surgeries, examinations, and other medical procedures) that are performed.
Similarly, the hospital's emergency system will be significantly larger than that of other building types. Where all buildings require emergency power to help occupants safely exit in the event of normal power failure, hospitals also require emergency power to sustain the life of patients (who often are not capable of self-preservation due to illness or injury), and this emergency power is needed indefinitely (not just long enough to allow the public to safely exit the building). This requires a more robust and larger emergency power system. For example, a 200,000-sq-ft office building might require 50 to 100 kW of generator capacity to provide the emergency power it needs, whereas a 200,000-sq-ft hospital may need 2,500 kW or more of generator capacity.
Another consideration becomes the need for sufficient fuel storage to sustain the emergency generators. For most buildings, fuel storage (usually diesel for generators) requirements are quite small. For a hospital, however, the dual considerations of much larger generators that need to run for longer time periods lead to very large on-site fuel storage needs. It's not unusual to see a hospital with 30,000 gal or more of diesel fuel storage for its emergency generators.
Emergency versus essential power
Often the term "emergency" power is used to refer to all power needed on a generator in a hospital. A better term for this would be "essential" power. True, emergency power comprises only those loads required to be restored within 10 seconds as required by NFPA 70: National Electrical Code (NEC) Article 700 for all buildings, and as defined as life safety branch and critical branch by NEC Article 517 for hospitals. For a hospital, you have the essential power supply, which would include the generator(s), and this power is divided into emergency system power and equipment system power. Then the emergency system is divided into the life safety branch and critical branch (of the emergency power system, as shown in Figure 2).
The size, complexity, and needs for emergency power in a hospital are only a few of the ways in which its power distribution system differs from that of other building types. Following are other ways hospitals differ from other types of buildings.
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High Pressure Processing or HPP technology is an all-natural process that protects and defends foods while preserving them through the use of high-pressure water rather than with heat, chemicals and other processes that can ultimately damage natural flavors. HPP is what makes our guacamole taste so yummy without any preservatives or additives having to be added. We want it to be just like homemade (without the fuss). Would you add chemical preservatives to your homemade guacamole? HPP is all about using cold-water pressure instead of heat to preserve our product. Food safety is our number one priority. HPP process kills naturally occurring bacteria that can cause food deterioration and affects food safety, including salmonella, while at the same time preserving taste, texture and natural vitamins. 2 + 2 = 4 RIGHT? This same cold water is low-energy and is recyclable so its more efficient than thermal preservation.
When Don helped HPP evolve into what it is today, the process became known as the Fresherized®process. Today Fresherized Foods, home of Wholly Guacamole brand, is the worlds largest user of HPP.
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Response of buried pipes taking into account seismic and soil spatial variabilities Elachachi, Sidi Mohammed; Yanez-Godoy, Humberto
Heavy damage to pipelines has occurred in many strong earthquakes. Because pipes extend over long distances parallel to the ground, their supports undergo differential motions during an earthquake. Furthermore the soil spatial variability and the soil-pipe interaction contribute to the appearance of additional stresses and deformations. Herein, a frequency domain spectral analysis for obtaining the response of pipes to correlated or partially correlated non stationary random ground motion and spatially random soil is presented. The space-time variability of the ground motions and of the soil spatial variability are modeled following a stochastic description through random process (fields) and spectral analysis. The key results are that soil heterogeneity induces significant effects (differential settlements, bending moments, counter-slopes) that cannot be predicted if soil homogeneity is assumed. The spatial variation of the ground motion could increase locally the structural response depending on the soil-structure interaction and the pipe-joint stiffness ratio in segmented pipes.
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The Man Behind the Graham Cracker
Did you know? The graham cracker is named after an American Presbyterian minister. Today we remember Reverend Sylvester Graham, who was born on July 5, 1794.
Graham was a social reformer who recommended a strict diet for people to stay pure and healthy. He advocated drinking only pure water and eating only a high-fiber vegetarian diet. This included bread made at home from unsifted wheat flour (as opposed to refined white flour).
Graham's followers began marketing graham flour, graham bread and graham crackers. (Graham was not involved in any of these products and never earned any royalties from their sales.) reports that "although Graham had his adherents during his lifetime, he was mostly regarded as a bit of a nut." For instance, Graham believed that mustard and ketchup cause insanity. (Come to think of it, that could explain a lot of things.)
(The reason why Graham advocated his stringent diet is best left to a separate discussion. But you can read more about that here.)
Whole wheat contains an array of phytochemicals. These naturally occurring plant chemicals contain antioxidants that can stimulate the immune system, repair damaged DNA and help your body fight cancer. Compounds include phytosterols (which can lower cholesterol) and tocols (which can prevent certain diseases).
American researchers studied six whole wheat products to characterize their antioxidant capacity. Products included biscuits, graham crackers, pasta, toasted chips, wheat crackers and woven wheat crackers. Analytical equipment included an Agilent gas chromatograph coupled to an Agilent mass spectrometer.
Interestingly, the researchers found that whole wheat content does not correlate with phytochemical content.
"Ingredients other than whole wheat in the products appear to contribute substantially to the phytosterol and tocol content," the researchers write, "as their composition were dissimilar to those reported for plain whole wheat." These "other" ingredients, the researchers theorize, may include soybean oil.
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Direct Link to Physical Injury Not Needed to Prove Emotional Distress
Description Iowa high court held that in a case in which a driver suffered physical injury and later emotional trauma from a traffic accident, expert testimony was needed to show emotional distress, but for there to be recovery there does not need to be a direct link between the physical injury suffered and the emotional distress.
Topic Torts
Key Words Emotional Distress; Physical Injury
C A S E S U M M A R Y
Facts Roling, the driver of a semi-truck, suffered broken ribs and other injuries when a car crossed the center line and ran into his truck. The two occupants of the car were both killed. Roling was depressed by the accident and kept having flashbacks to seeing the mangled bodies. He saw a psychologist for two years. He sued the estates of the deceased for causing the accident for his physical injury and emotional distress. The jury awarded him $151,186, but the judge overturned the verdict, holding that he did not show there was a relationship between his physical injuries and the emotional distress, nor did he have expert testimony to prove his physical injuries. Roling appealed.
Decision Reversed. In such a case, the plaintiff does not have to have an expert witness testify as to the fact of his physical injuries; the record on that was clear. In cases claiming emotional distress, expert testimony at trial is required. Damages for negligent infliction of emotional distress are usually denied unless accompanied by some physical injury. Testimony of the psychologist that the accident caused depression and other mental problems was sufficient to establish a causal connection between the negligence of the other party and Roling's emotional injuries. The emotional distress recovery is not for observing the horrifying aftermath of the accident, but for the later emotional condition caused by the accident.
Citation Roling v. Daily, 596 N.W.2d 72 (Sup. Ct., Iowa, 1999)
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Historical Museum of the Palatinate in Speyer
The medieval synagogue in Speyer, which exists only as a ruin, was reconstructed on the computer for the exhibition "Europe's Jews in the Middle Ages" in the Historical Museum of the Palatinate. A simulation film illustrates the history of the building with its various Romanesque and Gothic construction phases. Fadings between the computer model and archaeological findings make it clear to the observer what remains from the Middle Ages and what is derived from the reconstruction. The exhibition was shown in Speyer from November 19, 2004 to March 20, 2005. Thereafter, it could be seen in the Pei building of the German Historical Museum in Berlin.


How do you separate long video into parts?
How do I split a video into two parts online?
Split Video Online
 1. 01. Upload Video. To split your video online, just drag and drop to upload your video.
 2. 02. Split Video Online. Click the «Select Parts» button to set the start and end point of the parts that you want to split.
 3. 03. Save Video. Click the «Download» button and the selected clips of your video will be preparing for download.
How do you break MP4 into parts?
To Split an MP4 file, please follow the steps below:
 1. Download the free version of Bandicut, start Bandicut, click the 'Split' button and then open an MP4 file.
 2. Choose the split method, and click the 'Apply' button.
 3. Click the 'Start' button to initiate the video splitting.
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Here is how to use Instant Cutter Tool to Split large videos into parts. Run Filmora, under the «Import» menu, choose Import with Instant Cutter Tool, import video file by clicking «Open File» button. You are allows you import one large file each time. Then you can split the video by clicking «Add Segment» button.
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Split a clip into two separate clips
 2. If necessary, pinch open in the center of the timeline to zoom in on the clip.
 3. Tap the clip, tap the actions button, then tap Split.
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How do I split a video from my camera roll?
Cut Videos on iPhone
 1. Open Photos app on iPhone or switch to Camera Roll form the default Camera app.
 2. Find the video you need to cut. Tap on it to select it. …
 3. Press on the left or right of the video play slider above the video. …
 4. You should see a Trim button from the top right corner.
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How do I mirror a video on my iPhone?
How to flip or mirror a video on iPhone
 1. Open the Photos app and choose a video that you want to flip.
 2. Select Edit.
 3. Press the crop icon at the bottom right of the screen.
 4. Tap the flip icon (which looks like a triangle with an arrow on top of it).
 5. Tap Done.
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Can you change a video from portrait to landscape in iMovie?
Step 1: Open iMovie. Step 2: Tap the Videos tab and select the clip that you wish to fix. … Step 4: Perform a rotate gesture on the viewer to rotate the video to the correct orientation. Step 5: Tap Done in the upper left-hand corner.


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PostgreSQL DISTINCT Keyword
The Distinct statement is used to select or fetch only the (different) Distinct data from a database table. There are many duplicate values present in the database table, so Distinct is used to list different values.
DISTINCT Syntax :
The syntax of the DISTINCT statement is −
SELECT DISTINCT column1, column2,.....columnN FROM table_name WHERE [condition]
DISTINCT Example :
Consider the STUDENT table is having the following records
The following is an example, which would fetch DISTINCT NAME record for a STUDENT.
lfcdb=# SELECT DISTINCT name FROM STUDENT;
All the above statements would create the following records in STUDENT table


audio to another user. This indicates that the snap has been successfully sent. The red square appears when you receive a snap (picture/video) that does not contain audio. This helps the user know if they need to mute their speakers or not.
The red empty arrow indicates that the snap has been viewed by the person.
Purple square / full arrow / empty arrow
Similarly, when you send a video with audio you receive a purple arrow when it goes through. The purple square appears when you receive a snap that contains audio. This helps the user know if they need to mute their speakers or not.
The empty purple arrow indicates that the snap has been viewed by the person.
Blue square / full arrow / empty arrow
Blue indicates text (not video or picture). A blue arrow appears when you send a text message to a user. The blue square appears when you receive a text message from a person.
When the user opens the message to read it, the arrow will turn empty.
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The Ottomans' popular drink, sherbet, known for its healing effects, has been increasingly forgotten over time and is now largely consumed ceremonially in Ramadan
The restaurant prepares some 100 types
of traditional Ottoman sherbet and offers 15-20 types a day to its customers. AA photos
Sherbet, once the most popular Ottoman drink, has been essentially relegated to symbolic consumption during the holy month of Ramadan even though it is a healthier alternative to today's soft drinks, according to one restaurant proprietor.
"People of all ages are drinking soft drinks which are very harmful. We are trying to keep the sherbet tradition alive in our restaurant," Abdullah Korun, general director of Istanbul's 123-year-old restaurant Hacı Abdullah Lokantası, recently old Anatolia news agency. "We prepare nearly 100 types of sherbet but we serve 15 to 20 types a day to our customers. Restaurants should keep such natural drinks rather than soda drinks."
During the time of the Ottomans, there were roughly 300 types of sherbets made from various fresh flowers and fruits such as rose, lily, jasmine, silverberry, lotus, violet and others. Today, this traditional drink is still kept alive in modern life but with fewer types. Korun said sherbet was one of the most important products both in the kitchen of the palace and the public in the past.
The director of the restaurant, which was opened during the era of Abdülhamit II, said sherbet, made from dried and cold stewed fruits, was a favorite and irreplaceable drink, particularly during the holy month of Ramadan. "In the past, there were no refrigeration systems like fridges and sherbet was prepared and consumed daily," he added. Forgotten through time
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Cranberry, quince, black mulberry and wild strawberry sherbets are particularly good for tonsil problems and cold, he said.


Periodic investment
Investing automatically at regular intervals
Periodic investment
Investing automatically at regular intervals
What is periodic investment?
Investing automatically at regular intervals
Periodic investment means automatically investing an amount of money at regular intervals. It is the ideal way for (beginner) investors to gradually accumulate a tidy amount of capital, as everything takes place automatically and without any emotional influence. This significantly reduces the risk of poor timing.
All the benefits in brief
1. Reduced risk of poor timing
It's difficult to recognise the perfect time to invest, and even professional investors are seldom successful in this. Systematic investment significantly reduces the risk of poor timing.
2. Take advantage of price fluctuations
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Periodic investment
3. The power of capitalisation
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5. Put your emotions to one side
Our emotions make it even more difficult to invest at exactly the right moment. Greed prompts people to buy shares when the stock markets are high, while fear keeps them away when prices are low. By investing periodically, you can prevent your emotions from influencing you over the stock market price.
How does periodic investment work?
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Beinecke Library Construction Photographs, _PHONE_
Documenting the construction of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, this collection of photographs captures the transient stages of a massive, three year project.
One of the largest buildings in the world devoted entirely to rare books and manuscripts, the library was designed to have room in the central tower for 180,000 volumes and in the underground book stacks for over 600,000 volumes; it now contains well over 500,000 volumes and several million manuscripts.
The building, of Vermont marble and granite, bronze and glass, was designed by Gordon Bunshaft, of the firm of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill; the George A. Fuller Construction Company of Hamden, Connecticut was the general contractor. Work began on the building in 1960 and was completed in 1963. The white, gray-veined marble panes of the exterior are one and one-quarter inches thick and are framed by light gray Vermont granite. These marble panels filter light so that rare materials can be displayed without damage from harmful ultraviolet light. From the exterior, however, the building's powerful stone geometry serves to dominate the space it occupies in Hewitt University Quadrangle, amidst neo-Classical and neo-Gothic neighbors.
The building and its endowment are the gift of Edwin J. Beinecke, Yale 1907; Frederick W. Beinecke, Yale 1909; Walter Beinecke, Yale 1910; and their families.
Over 500 photographs by C.T. Alburtus and unknown photographers, varying in size, 20.7 x 25.5 cm. and smaller, in color and black and white


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Zamboanga City
Pursuant to Section 6, Rule IV of the National Wages and Productivity Commission (NWPC) Amended Rules of Procedure on Minimum Wage Fixing and Section 24 of Wage Order No. RIX-14, the following implementing rules and regulations are hereby issued for guidance and compliance by all concerned:
Section 1. TITLE. This Rules shall be known as the "Implementing Rules of Wage Order No. RIX-14."
Sec. 2. DEFINITION OF TERMS. As used in this Rules:
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AGRICULTURE refers to farming in all its branches and among others, includes the cultivation and tillage of the soil, production, cultivation, growing and harvesting of agricultural and horticultural commodities, dairying, raising of livestock or poultry, the culture of fish and other aquatic products in farms or ponds, any other activities performed by a farmer or on a farm as an incident to or in conjunction with such farming operations, but does not include the manufacturing and/or processing of sugar, coconut, abaca, tobacco, pineapple, aquatic and other farm products
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"PLANTATION AGRICULTURAL ENTERPRISE" refers to one engaged in agriculture with an area of more than twenty four (24) hectares in a locality or which employs at least twenty (20) workers. Any other agricultural enterprises shall be considered as "Non-Plantation Enterprise";
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"RA 8188" an act increasing the penalty and imposing the double indemnity for violation of the prescribed wage increases in the wage rates amending for the purpose Sec. 12 of RA 6727 otherwise known as the "Wage Rationalization Act" of 1989 ' ;
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"RETAIL ESTABLISHMENT" is one principally engages in the sale of goods to the end users for personal or household use. A retail establishment that regularly engages in wholesale activities loses its retail character;
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r. "REGIONAL DAILY MINIMUM WAGE RATE" refers to the lowest wage rates that an employer can pay the workers, as fixed by the Regional Board;
s. "REGION-IX" is the geographical area covering the Zamboanga Peninsula Region comprising the Provinces of Zamboanga del Sur, Zamboanga del Norte, Zamboanga Sibugay and the Cities of Zamboanga, Pagadian, Dipolog, Dapitan and Isabela
"SERVICE ESTABLISHMENT" is one principally engaged in the sale of services to individuals for their own or household use and is generally recognized as such;
u. "ORDER" refers to Wage Order No. RIX-14;
"WAGE DISTORTION" refers to a situation where an increase in prescribed wage rates results in the elimination or severe contraction of intentional quantitative differences in wage or salary rates between and among employee groups in an establishment as to effectively obliterate the distinction embodied in such wage structure based on skills, length of service or other logical basis of differentiation.
Section 1. AMOUNT OF THE COST OF LIVING ALLOWANCE. Upon the effectivity of this Wage Order:
 1. All minimum wage workers and employees in the private sector in the region shall receive an additional cost-of-living allowance in the amount of Php 10.00 (Ten Pesos) per day.
 2. he daily regional minimum wage rates shall be as follows:
Basic Wage under Wage Order No. RIX -13
under W. O. No. R1X-14
New Daily Minimum Wage Rate
Includes private hospital, educational institutions, security agencies, janitorial, retail/service establishments employing more than 30 workers
 Includes rubber-based enterprises
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-Non - Plantation Agricultural Enterprise
Employing not more than 30 workers
c) After one (1) year from the effectivity of this Wage Order, the Regional Board shall assess/review the effects of the TEN PESOS COLA for a possible integration into the basic minimum wage.
Sec. 2. COVERAGE. The wage increase prescribed herein shall apply to all private sector workers and employees receiving the minimum wage in Region IX, regardless of their position, designation or status and irrespective of the method by which their wages are paid.
Not covered are household or domestic helpers; persons employed in the personal service of another including family drivers; and employees and workers of registered Barangay Micro Business Enterprises (BMBEs) pursuant to RA 9178 otherwise known as the Barangay Micro Business Enterprises Act.
Sec. 3. BASIS OF MINIMUM WAGE. The minimum wage rates prescribed in this Wage Order shall be for the normal working hours, which shall not exceed eight (8) hours work a day.
Sec. 4. WAGES OF SPECIAL GROUP OF WORKERS. Wages of apprentices and learners shall in no case be less than seventy five percent (75%) of the applicable minimum wage rates prescribed in the Wage Order.All recognized learnerhip and apprenticeship agreements entered into before the effectivity of the Wage Order shall be considered automatically modified insofar as their wage provisions are concerned to reflect the increase prescribed under this Wage Order.All qualified handicapped workers shall receive the prescribed minimum wage rate pursuant to R. A. 7277.
Sec. 5. APPLICATION TO CONTRACTORS. In case of contracts for construction projects, security, janitorial and other similar services, the increase in the minimum wage prescribed herein shall be borne by the principal or client of the contractor and the contract shall be deemed amended accordingly as mandated by the Labor Code.
In the event, however, that the principal or client fails to pay the prescribed wage rates, the construction/service contractor shall be jointly and severally liable with his principal or client.
Sec. 6. APPLICATION TO WORKERS PAID BY RESULTS. All workers paid by results, including those who are paid on piece work, "takay", "pakyaw" or task basis, shall receive not less than the applicable minimum wage rates prescribed under this Wage Order for the normal working hours which shall not exceed eight hours work a day or a proportion thereof for work of less than normal working hours.
The wage rates of workers who are paid by results shall continue to be established in accordance with Article 101 of the Labor Code, as amended and its implementing rules and regulations
Sec. 7. APPLICATION TO PRIVATE EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS. In the case of private educational institutions, the share of workers and employees covered in the increase in tuition fees for School Year 2007-2008 shall be considered as compliance with the Wage Order. Payment of any shortfall in the wage increase set forth herein shall be covered starting school year 2008-2009.
Private educational institutions which have not increased their tuition fees for the School Year 2007-2008, may defer compliance with the provisions of this Wage Order until the School Year 2008-


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To share your Collection with other Teachers:
- Select the Lesson Plans tab and open a lesson plan.
- Open your Collection by clicking on the folder icon in the top left corner.
- Open the "Share" menu.
- Check the box labeled "Share my Collection".
In addition to sharing your Collection, you can also control which Collections from other Teachers you're viewing by checking the boxes next to their names. Only Teachers who have shared their collection will appear.


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History of the swan
The 'Swan Inn' was opened in 1861 by Mr George John Swann. Mr Swann had previously been manager at the Queen's Hotel during the period when the German Legion were camped on the Queen's Parade opposite the Hotel in 1857 on the Legion's return from the Crimea War.
Mr Swann did all the catering for this legion and with the profits made decided to start on his own account and became the first Landlord of the Inn and it became known as the 'Swan Inn".
An anecdotal story from the local newspaper tells us that on every Easter Monday there were sports held in the gardens, including cock fighting in pits.
The following is an extract from a letter from Mr Swann's grandson to the proprietor in 1949.
A Mr Cocks followed as Landlord until about 1880 when the Inn was taken over by Mr Reeves the father of Mr George Pryor Reeves who died at the Inn several years ago (1938).
The following items may be of interest to you:
The Architect who designed all the roads in this new part of Farnborough had his office and lodging at the Inn. In 1869 the Rateable Value of the Inn was 13.10.0 and the total ANNUAL Rates amounted to 27/- (Good old times).
There were two Parish Constables in 1869 each being paid the sum of 1.0.0 per year. Their names were J White and A Young.
In 1861 on the site which is now the R.A.E. there were usually a Brigade of Cavalry camped every Spring time and during the month of August the whole of the land now used for Flying was covered with tents accommodating about thirty thousand Volunteers and Militia.
The Inn was enlarged by adding the two bay window portions to give more room to the workers of the newly built Army Balloon Factory.
Until the 1890's it was all open ground opposite the Inn and the only exciting item was the running of the Trams from Farnborough Station to North Camp Station via "Queen's Hotel". The Trams always stopped at the "Swan" to refresh both horses and driver.
Thanks to Jo Gosney for providing the above information.


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How to Make an Ansoff Matrix in PowerPoint 2010
Ansoff Product-Market Matrix is a matrix widely used as a business tool that helps businesses decide their product and market growth strategy. Ansoff's product/market growth matrix suggests that a business' attempts to grow depend on whether it markets new or existing products in new or existing markets.
In PowerPoint we can design an Ansoff Matrix using shapes. We will see below how to make a simple Ansoff Matrix in PowerPoint 2010, and later you will be able to download a free Ansoff PowerPoint template.
First, we start inserting a new rectangular shape. We can duplicate this shape three more times to design the matrix. Also, you can add textbox labels for Existing Products, New Products, Existing Market and New Markets.
Now, we will add the labels inside each matrix quadrant in PowerPoint. As you can see below, we have used an oval shape for this purpose, but you can do it with other shape. Duplicate the oval shape several times and then edit the text inside the shape (right click over the oval shape to edit text) to add the four matrix outputs.
Finally we get an Ansoff Matrix like in the slide below. We can then group this matrix to make a grouped shape or just change the style and colors.
Looking at the matrix we can see series of suggested growth strategies that set the direction for the business strategy or corporate maps. The matrix outputs are:
- Market penetration. Market penetration is the name given to a growth strategy where the business focuses on selling existing products into existing markets. Market penetration seeks to achieve four main objectives:
- Market development. Market development is the name given to a growth strategy where the business seeks to sell its existing products into new markets.
- Product development. Product development is the name given to a growth strategy where a business aims to introduce new products into existing markets. This strategy may require the development of new competencies and requires the business to develop modified products which can appeal to existing markets.
- Diversification. Diversification is the name given to the growth strategy where a business markets new products in new markets. This is an inherently more risk strategy because the business is moving into markets in which it has little or no experience.
If you need to download business matrix for PowerPoint presentations like Ansoff Matrix or other Product or Market matrix, you can download free PowerPoint templates for business presentations.


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Every now and then people will contact me with a question about how I did this requirement or that. One question I have received a few times is "What are the rules for Tell It Like It Isn't for Tiger Achievement 4?"
The instructions can be found in the Tiger handbook, but I think sometimes as den leaders we look at something and think it must be more complicated. Tell It Like It Isn't is the game most of us know as Telephone. Yes, it really is that simple.
Tell It Like It Isn't
- Have the Cub Scouts sit in a circle.
- The first Cub Scout whispers something in the next Cub Scout's ear.
- He whispers what he thinks he heard in the next Cub Scout's ear.
- This continues around the circle until it is whispered to the last Cub Scout. He says what he heard.
- The first person says what the phrase really was.
- Continue with a few additional phrases, letting somebody different go first each time.
- Take the suggestion in the Tiger handbook that you use this to start a discussion about how things we hear might not always be accurate and especially how this applies to gossip. This is definitely a teachable moment.
- Rather than just letting the first Cub Scout make up something to say to the second, I always provided some index cards with some phrases. This served two purposes. First, when the whispering stops, the first Cub Scout can look at the card to remember what he said. Yes they sometimes forget that quickly! Second, it ensures that they will be passing a phrase which is appropriate instead of something inappropriate.


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The festive season is here and many South Africans are immersed in debt and their financial prospects look bleak. Life does not always turn out the way we plan, and things can change within the blink of an eye.
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How can you enter the festive season without the stress and guilt brought about by debt? If you are having trouble paying your bills and settling outstanding debt at the end of the month, debt counselling may be the answer for you.
Debt counselling is the best way to ensure your financial wellbeing if you struggle to repay your monthly debt. Take care of your financial wellbeing this festive season.
What is financial wellness?
Financial wellbeing is the overall health of your finances. This is the interaction between your finances and your physical, spiritual, and social wellbeing. Research shows that when you are concerned about your finances, it affects your productivity, adds strain on your relationships and can lead to depression. It is your relationship with money and your finances and the influence it has on your everyday life.
When is one financially healthy?
 - When you can cover your monthly and day-to-day expenses without worrying about it.
 - When you can make additional purchases without struggling financially afterwards.
 - When you can settle emergency bills or accounts without worrying about it.
 - When you can choose where you want to live, whether you want children and whether you can buy what you want within limits.
 - When you can set future financial goals and follow a plan to achieve those goals. It may be to buy a house, to save for university fees or to save for your retirement.
Five tips to improve your financial health
 1. Spend less than you earn. It is going to be difficult to pursue future financial stability when you spend more money than you earn.
 2. Stick to a budget.
 3. Pay off your credit card, loans, and accounts.
 4. Set up a savings plan.
 5. Invest your money – do sufficient research and be 100% sure before investing any money.
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Debt counselling ONLY deals with debt!! What you need to do is review all those inflationary increases on your "policies!" Many people have policies that go up by 10% (15% older policies.) They get a 2 % raise if any at all.So if you die, get a dreaded disease. or become disabled you are covered. If you don't get this stuff (death inevitable) YOU ARE BROKE! Now we have hospital cover, animal insurance etc… How about divorce insurance?????????? No one has thought of that yet????? Why does your life cover payment go up every year and the cover DOES NOT??????? Why does your car insurance go up every year and your car gets older? Why does your house contents insurance go up and your "stuff" gets older?????????????? Educate yourself!! Dr. Debt
Basically, no one will write off your debt.
Taking on debt to finance consumer goods takes the borrower down the following path.
One man's debt is another man's asset. If you haven't got your own plan, you are part of someone else's plan. This financial mechanism called debt is a conduit that syphons off the value of your labour, into the pocket of someone with a plan. Debt is a mechanism that takes the future value of your labour to build another person's assets now.
Debt is the modern form of feudalism. The debtor is a wiling serf to the lender Barron. This financial mechanism allows people who do not understand compound growth to enslave themselves to people who do.
Compound interest. "Those who understand them earn them, and those who do not understand, pay them." — Albert Einstein.
Then, on the flip side, we find productive debt, also known as financial gearing or leverage. Borrowing to fund education, a house, or a cheap secondhand car to take you to work, can be seen as good debt. If the value of the debt rises faster than the value of the assets, the equity goes down to the point of bankruptcy.
The South African government borrows to finance consumption, not productive assets. The ANC forces the entire nation to work for European and American pension funds. The average citizen voted himself into serfdom. A government bond is a new form of colonialism.
No army or oppressor forces it upon them. They use the financial system to invite the new colonialist to exploit the assets of the nation. The average voter pawns the future of his children to support the pension of a European retiree. The entire South African GDP has already been transferred to local and foreign pension funds. Our economy belongs to the new colonialists – the lender Barrons, and the average voter fights in the streets to support this process.
It is clear which group has a plan, and which group is clueless.
Very well articulated. Your ability to stretch one's perspective is something i do not take for granted. Thank you for your comment. Keep well!
Much appreciated King Khan. Best wishes for the Festive Season.
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SPLITTING TERRACED HOUSES INTO SINGLE UNITS USING OBLIQUE AERIAL IMAGERY
- Institute of Optical Sensor Systems, DLR Berlin, Germany
Keywords: Façade Splitting, Oblique True Ortho, Building Segmentation
Abstract. This paper introduces a method to subdivide complex building structures like terraced houses into single house units comparable to units available in a cadastral map. 3D line segments are detected with sub-pixel accuracy in traditional vertical true orthomosaics as well as in innovative oblique true orthomosaics and their respective surface models. Hereby high gradient strengths on roofs as well as fac¸ades are taken into account. By investigating the coplanarity and frequencies within a set of 3D line segments, individual cut lines for a building complex are found. The resulting regions ideally describe single houses and thus the object complexity is reduced for subsequent topological, semantical or geometrical considerations. For the chosen study area with 70 buidling outlines a hit rate of 80% for cut lines is achieved.


text: According to music pedagogue Randall Allsup (2003: 157), praxis is "not simply the capacity to imagine alternative scenarios, but is instead the slow burning fuse of possibility and action." This paper will examine the role of uncertainty and praxis in the creative writing classroom, paying particular attention to the role of prose workshopping. First, it will offer an overview of praxis and then it will argue that, when successful, creative writing pedagogy offers praxis: that is, students learn to imagine their writing in different ways through workshopping (possibility) and to enact those changes through the rewriting process (action). Then, it will explore practical ways of addressing authority in the workshop arena as well as the importance of supplementary readings. (Allsup, Randall Everett. 2003. 'Praxis and the Possible: Thoughts on the Writings of Maxine Greene and Paulo Freire' Philosophy of Music Education Review 11.2: 157-169).


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This Humanoid Robot Sweats To Keep Cool While Doing Push-Ups
Now if only we could outsource our gym workouts.
Humans get hot when they work out, and so do robots. Just as our muscles generate heat when they work, a robot's motors get hot enough that heat concerns can limit their performance. To cool down, humans sweat. Now, a robot can do the same.
The conventional way to cool a robot is to either just let the heat dissipate into the air, which doesn't work well because air is a poor conductor of heat. The other solution is to add water cooling, which requires pumps, tubes, and heat-sinks to radiate away the excess heat. Now researchers at the University of Tokyo's JSK Lab have built a humanoid robot that sweats. Its name is Kengoro.
Kengoro uses his metal skeleton to sweat, and the key is, as ever these days, 3D printing. The Tokyo team 3D printed the metal bones using a process called sintering, in which powder is deposited a layer at a time and cured with a laser. The process allows the designer to vary the porosity of the metal. In the case of Kengoro's bones, they were made to allow water to permeate the metal, seeping out at a rate slow enough not to start dripping, but fast enough to evaporate and carry away excess heat along with it, just like an animal sweating.
"Usually the frame of a robot is only used to support forces," project leader Toyotaka Kozuki told IEEE Spectrum. "Our concept was adding more functions to the frame, using it to transfer water, release heat, and at the same time support forces."
The sintering process is so precise that the porosity can be varied to make permeable channels to guide the water through the skeleton. In tests, Kengoro's cooling system performed three times better than air cooling, as well as beating plain-old water circulation. It doesn't do as well as a dedicated pumped-water-with-radiators setup, but it is also a lot less bulky, and simpler.
One curious side effect of Kengoro's perspiration-based cooling is that it needs to stay hydrated. It doesn't take much, though. Just a cup of water is enough to keep Kengoro and its 108 motors cool all day long.
"In practice," writes Spectrum IEEE's Evan Ackerman, "this means that Kengoro can run at full power longer, letting it do push-ups for 11 minutes straight without burning out its motors."
I can't even imagine 11 straight minutes of pushups, but one thing's for sure. If you managed it, you'd end up smelling a lot worse than Kengoro.
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There are versions of the Drancel accelerometer-driven real-time synthesis system for:
- Synthesis of light from body motion (with no digital imaging except non-corruptive photography and video) using mobile micro-controller systems.
- Synthesis of sound from body motion (using both computer-based and mobile micro-controller based systems).
- Synthesis of computer-generated visuals from body motion (using PureData/GEM and Java™ control software called DranceWare).
While past R&D involved sound and visuals synthesis, the current R&D focus is on: The Drancel light synthesis system
Nearly all development of the Drancel systems leverages model-based systems engineering with Systems Modeling Language (SysML®) and model-driven software engineering with Unified Modeling Language (UML®), and the Drancel systems are used as a source of educational examples for the Webel IT Australia IT Training seminars and workshops.


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 1. (sport) three consecutive scores by one player or three scores in one game (as in cricket or ice hockey etc.)
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Form of dance music from southwestern Louisiana, U.S., with roots in French, African American, and Afro-Caribbean styles. Similar to the music of the Cajuns (displaced French Canadians who settled in Louisiana), zydeco was created by the Creoles (those of African heritage in Louisianan French culture). Its name is thought to come from a modified pronunciation of the French phrase les haricots (the beans) heard in a popular song. The music usually features guitar, accordion, fiddle (violin), and washboard played to a driving beat, but it may also include electric guitar, electric bass, saxophone, and keyboards. It became widely popular in the 1980s through the performances of Clifton Chenier, Queen Ida, Buckwheat Zydeco, Boozoo Chavis, and others.
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WPF Support
ReoGrid can work with both Windows Form and WPF. The core of ReoGrid works for both platform, there are independent view modules for rendering and handling user interface on each platform. The APIs of control that faced to user code are almost the same. User code that uses ReoGrid graphics interface for rendering custom cell or handling user event in cell can work on different platform.
Same one template file such as Excel or RGF that can display on Windows Form platform as well as WPF platform. Below are the results from different platforms that uses same template (order_sample.rgf).
As the result ReoGrid tries to keep almost the same appearance for different platforms.
Add spreadsheet control in XAML
Add ReoGrid DLL reference for target project, edit the XAML file of main window as below:
File MainWindow.xaml:
 x:Class="WPFDemo.MainWindow" Title="MainWindow" Height="640" Width="800">

Make sure the namespace is declared in the attribute list, then define a ReoGridControl tag inside Grid tag, run the application, an empty spreadsheet will be displayed in window like below:
In code behind, write code to call APIs of worksheet in order to set same example data and styles:
// get current worksheet instance
var worksheet = grid.CurrentWorksheet;
// get a range reference
var range = worksheet.Ranges["B2:C3"];
// merge the range
// set range styles
range.Style.BackColor = Graphics.SolidColor.LightYellow;
range.BorderOutside = RangeBorderStyle.BlackSolid;
// set range inner data
range.Data = "Hello World!";
The APIs of WPF edition is totally same as the Windows Form edition, see documentation for more details.
Load a template spreadsheet file
Set attribute LoadFromFile to load a template spreadsheet from file:
By run this sample the template spreadsheet will be displayed. It is possible to fill the data in a specified range by code after loading:
public MainWindow()
 grid.CurrentWorksheet.FileLoaded += CurrentWorksheet_FileLoaded;
void CurrentWorksheet_FileLoaded(object sender, unvell.ReoGrid.Events.FileLoadedEventArgs e)
 var worksheet = grid.CurrentWorksheet;
 var dataRange = worksheet.Ranges["A21:G35"];
 dataRange.Data = new object[,]
 {"[23423423]", "Product ABC", 15, 150, 2250},
 {"[45645645]", "Product DEF", 1, 75, 75},
 {"[78978978]", "Product GHI", 2, 30, 60},
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 Can you please provide the example of data binding to ObservableCollection if possible. Thanks.


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Pronunciation: (spOOn), Strict Standards: Non-static method FenSites::linkTo() should not be called statically in /site/html/dictionary/spoon.html on line 79 [key]
1. a utensil for use in eating, stirring, measuring, ladling, etc., consisting of a small, shallow bowl with a handle.
2. any of various implements, objects, or parts resembling or suggesting this.
3. a spoonful.
4. Also called spoon' bait". Angling.a lure used in casting or trolling for fish, consisting of a bright spoon-shaped piece of metal or the like, swiveled above one or more fishhooks, and revolving as it is drawn through the water.
5. Also called number three wood. Golf.a club with a wooden head whose face has a greater slope than the brassie or driver, for hitting long, high drives from the fairway.
6. a curved piece projecting from the top of a torpedo tube to guide the torpedo horizontally and prevent it from striking the side of the ship from which it was fired.
7. born with a silver spoon in one's mouth, born into a wealthy family; having an inherited fortune: She was born with a silver spoon in her mouth and never worked a day in her life.
1. to eat with, take up, or transfer in or as in a spoon.
2. to hollow out or shape like a spoon.
a. to push or shove (a ball) with a lifting motion instead of striking it soundly, as in croquet or golf.
b. to hit (a ball) up in the air, as in cricket.
4. Informal.to show affection or love toward by kissing and caressing, esp. in an openly sentimental manner.
1. Informal.to show affection or love by kissing and caressing, esp. in an openly sentimental manner.
2. Games.to spoon a ball.
3. Angling.to fish with a spoon.
Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.


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Introduction and Acknowledgements
This work is partially supported by NIH P41EB015898 "Image Guided Therapy Center" (PI: Clare Tempany), 1R01CA111288-01A1 "Enabling Technologies for MRI-Guided Prostate Interventions" (PI: Clare Tempany), and AIST Intelligent Surgical Instrument Project (PI: Makoto Hashizume, Site-PI: Nobuhiko Hata).
Author: Babak Matinfar, Junichi Tokuda
Contact: Junichi Tokuda
Module Description
3D Slicer CLI to calculate signal-to-nose ratio of MR images using "difference image" method.
Introduction to SNR Measurement
There are several methods to determine the SNR of MR images suggested in the NEMA standard and the literature. The most commonly used method among the studies on MRI-compatible robotics is a single image method, where SNR is measured based on two regions of interest (ROIs) on a single image assuming the statistically and spatially uniform distribution of noise [1][2][3]. Usually, one ROI is defined in the tissue of interest, and the other is in the image background i.e. air. Although the method takes a practical approach requiring only a single image, it is known that the method does not yield accurate SNR measurement in a phased-array surface coil system and/or sum-of-square reconstruction due to the spatial and statistical variation of noise. Alternatively, one can measure SNR without assuming the statistically and spatially uniform distribution of noise with the following methods. The first method is to measure pixel-by-pixel SNR through the repeated acquisition [4][5][6][7]. Because the method relies less on the assumption of statistical and spatial noise distribution than any other methods, it is often used as the gold standard SNR measurement. A drawback of this method, however, is that it requires a large number of image acquisitions, typically a few hundred, making it difficult to be used with a slow imaging sequence. The second method is the "noise only image" method [3][6][5]. The method calculates SNR based on a single or multiple "noise only images", which are acquired without radiofrequency (RF) excitation. The "noise only image" method was further generalized by Kellman and McVeigh, where images are reconstructed in "SNR units" based on noise only images allowing direct pixel-by-pixel SNR measurement [5]. A disadvantage of the "noise only image" method is that most of clinical MRI system does not allow acquiring noise only images with standard pulse sequence. The third method is the "difference image" method, where noise is estimated by calculating a pixel-by-pixel difference between two images acquired under exactly the same conditions [3][8][9]. Despite several drawbacks e.g. requirement for stationary tissue and limited precision due to small sample size, the method allows measuring local SNR with a standard clinical sequence. The SNRMeasurement module calculates the SNR of MR images using the "difference image" method.
The SNR module is created to compute the SNR for MR sequences based on the difference image method. In this method, two MR images are acquired under identical conditions. These images are then added and subtracted from each other pixel by pixel. In the resulting images, a region of interest is defined and the mean and standard deviation of the ROI is computed. SNR is computed as:[math]Insert formula here[/math]
 - Procedure:
 - Using Slicer, load the two MR images which SNR is measured for.
 - Define an ROI using the Editor tool. The ROI should have two labels, for example two circles with the radius of 40 mm, on two axial slices. They should be separated properly from each other. It does not matter which of the two MR images is used to define the ROI.
 - Open the SNRMeasurement module.:
 - Select the Input Volume 1 as one of the MR image, and Input Volume 2 as the other MR image
 - Select the Label Map as the ROI which was defined above. Usually it is named "MR image Name"-label.
 - Click Apply
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 2. Henkelman RM. Measurement of signal intensities in the presence of noise in MR images. Med Phys 1985;12:232-233.
 3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA). Determination of signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) in diagnostic magnetic resonance imaging. NEMA Standards Publication MS 1-2008. National Electrical Manufacturers Association; 2008.
 4. Reeder SB, Wintersperger BJ, Dietrich O, et al. Practical approaches to the evaluation of signal-to-noise ratio performance with parallel imaging: application with cardiac imaging and a 32- channel cardiac coil. Magn Reson Med 2005;54:748-754.
 5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 Kellman P, McVeigh ER. Image reconstruction in SNR units: a general method for SNR measurement. Magn Reson Med 2005;54: _PHONE_.
 6. 6.0 6.1 Constantinides CD, Atalar E, McVeigh ER. Signal-to-noise measurements in magnitude images from NMR phased arrays. Magn Reson Med 1997;38:852-857.
 7. Dietrich O, Raya JG, Reeder SB, Reiser MF, Schoenberg SO. Measurement of signal-to-noise ratios in MR images: influence of multichannel coils, parallel imaging, and reconstruction filters. J Magn Reson Imaging. 2007 Aug;26(2):375-85.
 8. Murphy BW, Carson PL, Ellis JH, Zhang YT, Hyde RJ, Chenevert TL. Signal-to-noise measures for magnetic resonance imagers. Magn Reson Imaging 1993;11:425-428.
 9. Firbank MJ, Coulthard A, Harrison RM, Williams ED. A comparison of two methods for measuring the signal to noise ratio on MR images. Phys Med Biol 1999;44:N261-N264.
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The following minimal example illustrates the technique used to answer your question in the form of a macro \placetextbox{}{}{}:
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Thanks _USER_. I get the following error with eso_pic: "Option clash for package eso-pic". Before that, I get a warning that says "You have requested the package ;eso-pic', but the package provides 'everyshi'" Any thoughts why I get this? – user815423426 Aug 2 '11 at 19:42
Are you compiling the minimal example provided above? – Werner Aug 2 '11 at 19:51
I just made it compile with the minimal example above. Thanks! Any clues why I may be getting the error "Option clash for the package eso-pic" with a more complex document? – user815423426 Aug 2 '11 at 20:03
Nevermind. I just made it work. All I had to do is to include it in the document before other packages. Thanks a lot. It's a useful command to add copyright notices in papers, etc. – user815423426 Aug 2 '11 at 20:12
It doesn't work for me. It moves everything on the next page... – Karel Bílek Jun 5 '12 at 23:31
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