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The theoretical maximum speed that a displacement hull can move efficiently through the water is determined by it's waterline length and displacement. It may be unable to reach this speed if the boat is underpowered or heavily loaded, though it may exceed this speed given enough power. Read more.
Classic hull speed formula:
Hull Speed = 1.34 x √LWLA more accurate formula devised by Dave Gerr in The Propeller Handbook replaces the Speed/Length ratio constant of 1.34 with a calculation based on the Displacement/Length ratio.
Max Speed/Length ratio = 8.26 ÷ Displacement/Length ratio.311
Hull Speed = Max Speed/Length ratio x √LWL
A measure of the power of the sails relative to the weight of the boat. The higher the number, the higher the performance, but the harder the boat will be to handle. This ratio is a "non-dimensional" value that facilitates comparisons between boats of different types and sizes. Read more.
SA/D = SA ÷ (D ÷ 64)2/3
A measure of the stability of a boat's hull that suggests how well a monohull will stand up to its sails. The ballast displacement ratio indicates how much of the weight of a boat is placed for maximum stability against capsizing and is an indicator of stiffness and resistance to capsize.
Ballast / Displacement * 100
A measure of the weight of the boat relative to it's length at the waterline. The higher a boat's D/L ratio, the more easily it will carry a load and the more comfortable its motion will be. The lower a boat's ratio is, the less power it takes to drive the boat to its nominal hull speed or beyond. Read more.
D/L = (D ÷ 2240) ÷ (0.01 x LWL)³
This ratio assess how quickly and abruptly a boat's hull reacts to waves in a significant seaway, these being the elements of a boat's motion most likely to cause seasickness. Read more.
Comfort ratio = D ÷ (.65 x (.7 LWL +.3 LOA) x Beam1.33)
This formula attempts to indicate whether a given boat might be too wide and light to readily right itself after being overturned in extreme conditions. Read more.
CSV = Beam ÷ ³√(D / 64)
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The test plan for the national council licensure examination for practical nurses nclex pn r was developed by the national council of state boards of nursing inc ncsbnr the purpose of this document is to provide detailed information about the content areas tested on the nclex pn this booklet contains the 2020 nclex pn r test plan. The national council licensure examination for practical nurses nclex pn exam is administered by individual state boards of nursing the nclex pn is often referred to as the boards or state boards the nclex pn has only one purpose to determine if it is safe for you to begin practice as an entry level practical vocational nurse. The national council licensure examination is a nationwide examination for the licensing of nurses in the united states canada and australia since _PHONE_ and 2020 respectively there are two types the nclex rn and the nclex pn after graduation from a school of nursing one takes the nclex exam to receive a nursing license a nursing license gives an individual the permission to practice nursing granted by the state where they met the requirements nclex examinations are developed and own. The national council licensure examination for practical nurses nclex pn is an exam designed for entry level practical nurses and vocational nurses lpn or vn the nclex pn is used by state and territorial members of the national council of state boards of nursing ncsbn as a means of ensuring entry level practical nurses meet set
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The binational migrant initiative was developed to enable those migrant students from Mexico that arrive in the United States, to have access to the same free, appropriate public school education that is provided to other children.
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- Ensure that all binational migrant students have continued access to Education in the U.S. and in Mexico.
- Advocate for and ensure that all binational migrant students have equitable opportunities to learn and meet the high educational standards expected of all students.
- Provide Educators with training, which will allow them to better serve the educational needs of binational migrant students.
- Provide support to parents and families of binational migrant students.
Components of the Binational Migrant Initiative
- Information and Dissemination
The goal of this component is design, develop, and disseminate information to enable educators to meet the educational needs of the binational migrant child, to help them Identify a pedagogical model that specifically addresses the instructional needs of the binational migrant child.
- Transfer Document: Elementary (1-6) Secondary (7-9)
The major focus of the Binational Initiative is to develop, revise and promote the use of the Transfer Document. The Document provides the student his/her grades so that he/she may enroll in school when he/she returns to Mexico. The students credits are accepted, thus, the student is placed appropriately. Parents need to notify the schools when they are going to leave to Mexico so that the school has ample time to complete the document. The student needs to provide a transfer document when he/she returns to the U.S. The Binational Program can retrieve student's grades through a request for transcripts form that has been developed by the Binational Program and has been accepted by the U.S. and Mexico's Binational Initiative.
This document is to be utilized for those students who are departing the United States and are returning to Mexico to enroll in an elementary school.
Transfer document: Elementary School (Primaria), Middle School, (Secundaria)
- Teacher Exchange:
The goal of the teacher exchange is to learn about both educational systems so that we can implement educational programs to better meet the needs of the migrant binational child. The Binational Teacher Exchange is designed to provide a cultural and educational exchange to benefit binational migrant students in the U.S. as well as expertise to educators serving binational students.
These direct experiences among exchange teachers result in a better understanding of the cultural, educational, and linguistic diversity of Mexico and the U.S.
- Culture and Education Resources
Mexico's Secretary of Public Education and the Secretary of Foreign Relations through the Mexican Cultural Center have provided us with 39 sets of content area texts (1-6 grades) that they use in their national curriculum. These books have been distributed to all the local Migrant Ed. programs in Colorado so that they may be used with migratory students or during summer school. Colorado schools have also received information on how to solicit these free instructional content area textbooks.
As part of the Free Textbook Distribution Program, Mexico's Secretary of Public Education and the Secretary of Foreign Relations (through the Mexican Cultural Center) have provided Colorado with resource books for 1-6 grades, that are used for Mexico's national curriculum, to be a resource for binational students.
Tools for Administrators
- Goals for U.S. BMEI
- Binational Migrant Brochure English, Spanish
- Elementary Level Binational Transfer Document
- Middle (Secundaria) Level Binational Transfer Document
- Form to Request for Binational Transcripts
- Signed Annex IX
- Binational Teacher Exchange Guide
- Toll Free Hotlines for the Enrollment of Migrant Students
- Directory of Mexican State Coordinators
- Binational Teacher Exchange Application
- Request for SEP Books/Resource
Tools for Parents
- Parents Declaration of Rights (English, Spanish)
- Questions Parents Ask About Schools
- A Guide to the Tool Kit for Hispanic Parents (English, Spanish)
- Documents for School Enrollment
- Binational Transfer Documents
- Ensuring the Academic Success of our Children (English, Spanish)
- Si Piensas Regresar a Mexico...Inscribe a tu Hijo en la Escuela
Tools for Educators
- Suggested Guidelines for Grade-Level Placement of Migrant Students
- Grade Levels and Structure of the Mexican Educational System
- Official and Religious Mexican Holidays
- Map of Mexican States
- Educational Strategies for Working with Binational Students
- Parent Involvement (Spanish version)
- SIOP Short Form
- SIOP Lesson Plan
- Free Language Resources
- Engaging Mexican Parents in their Childrens Education
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Ana G. Mendez University System (AGMUS) chose L2L as Agency of Record to transform with a completely new and creative approach its lead generation, marketing, public relations outreach. AGMUS which is the largest non-profit private university system in Puerto Rico has a history of almost 70 years in the island. Since 2003, AGMUS expanded into the United States with a unique dual language model of education for higher ed, opening campuses in Orlando, Tampa Bay, South Florida, Capital Area, and Dallas.
- Revolutionized media buying by integrating AdWords, digital ads, with traditional media
- Created an award-winning campaign – VALOR (COURAGE/VALUE) – geared towards the Hispanic population seeking bilingual education
- Created a wide range of digital assets to be used for online lead generation
- Re-activated Social Media for all five US campuses to engage leads / students / alumni
- Positioned campuses as civic centers for the local community where "meeting of the minds" and press conferences of key stakeholders could happen. Transformed campuses into donation, displacement, and job centers post-Hurricane Maria
- Engaged local, national, and Puerto Rican media with AGMUS brand in the US
- The Year 1 plan has transformed the AGMUS outreach to effectively engage today's student population through a multi-media platform strategy, reducing cost per enrollment by 60 percent and generating cost savings of $1M by eliminating an outsourced call center.
- In the first three months of the campaign, 3x more leads were generated versus total year prior.
- Transformed lead generation processes by implementing CRM / landing pages
- Positioning of AGMUS as national brand of higher education with a unique offering of a dual-language model of education
- The Conference Board New Communications Award – Academic Division


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This article shows how to get detailed logs of the True Image Monitor's activity in Acronis True Image 2018.
True Image Monitor starts automatically with Windows and is responsible for showing icons and notifications in the system tray.
True Image Monitor's executable file, TrueImageMonitor.exe, is located in the following folder:
- Windows 64-bit: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Acronis\TrueImageHome"
- Windows 32-bit: "C:\Program Files\Acronis\TrueImageHome"
The level of logging is defined in the configuration file TrueImageMonitor.config, lying next to TrueImageMonitor.exe:
- Disable the self-defence feature of Active Protection as explained here. Otherwise, Active Protection will not allow modifying Acronis True Image configuration files.
- Locate the file TrueImageMonitor.config and copy it to the Desktop folder. That is needed because files in the folders Program Files and Program Files (x86) are protected by the operating system and cannot be edited directly there.
- Right-click the copied file in the Desktop folder and select Open with:
- Click More apps:
- Click Notepad and click OK to confirm the selection:
- Configuration file will open in Notepad text editor:
- Replace all the occurrences of level="info" with level="debug":
- Click File -> Save to save the changes and close Notepad window:
Drag and drop the file TrueImageMonitor.config from the Desktop to its original location:
Choose the Replace option when asked:
Click Continue to confirm the operation:
- Reboot the computer for changes to take effect.
In certain cases you could just restart the process TrueImageMonitor.exe instead of doing a full system reboot, but that would exclude the boot chain events logs which may be important in troubleshooting. If you are unsure, do a complete system reboot.
- Reproduce the problem.
- Detailed logs of the True Image Monitor could be found in the folder C:\ProgramData\Acronis\TrueImageHome\Logs\ti_monitor:
- Turn on Active Protection and the self-defence feature.
- If you are working with Acronis directly, generate a system report and send it to Acronis. The folder with Tray Monitor logs will be included in the report automatically.
- When the detailed logs of True Image Monitor are no longer needed, repeat the steps from this article, replacing level="debug" with level="info" at step 7.


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Goodnestone Serpentine Walk and Avenue, Kent
Goodnestone is a grade II* park and garden near Canterbury, famous for its association with Jane Austen. It also has a celebrated walled garden and an equally good woodland garden. As part of the restoration of the historic landscape and the development of the site as a visitor attraction, acta restored a walk leading from the garden, around the park boundary, past the façade of the restored ice house and back to the mansion. This required detailed tree and shrub specification, preparation of contract documents and site supervision. The walk is now a popular feature of visits to the park. In a later piece of work we established a new 500m-long plane tree avenue, leading from the mansion to the village.
Client - Lord Julian Fitzwalter
 1. Substantial sections of the walk have abundant daffodils, probably planted between the wars in a previous version of the walk
 2. The walk takes its name from a formal section laid out in the eighteenth century as a sequence of regular curves. This could not be traced on the ground and our alignment followed a straightened-out later version
 3. Ice house
 4. Later section
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text: Implantation of Ta into single crystal Ni3Al was conducted to determine the degree of surface hardening in monolithic alloys in relation to its lattice location. Ta was implanted at 400 keV to doses of 0.07, 0.36, and 2.52 × 1016 cm−2 along the axis of a crystal of Ni3Al at room temperature. Composition versus depth profiles were determined by RBS, and lattice location of Ta was determined by channeling angular yield scans about the axis. The hardness of the surface was measured by ultra-low load indentation. Results show that implantation softens the surface and that the Ta is randomly distributed between Ni and Al sites. Annealing at 1000 °C/1 h significantly reduces the damage and causes preferential occupation of Al sites by Ta, resulting in a slight increase in surface hardness. Further annealing at 1200 °C/0.25 h increases the surface hardness substantially and increases occupation of Al lattice sites to roughly 84%. Results are consistent with a model in which the as-implanted surface is softened by disordering, and subsequent diffusion of Ta to Al sites during thermal treatment causes hardening of the surface.


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1. Demonstrate in detail the key systemic clinical examination procedures.
2. Assess your own competence at performing the paediatric clinical examination.
Examination of the Cardiovascular System
|Published: May 3, 2011|
|Revised: January 25, 2012|
This multimedia-based module is part of a series designed for medical students to assist in preparation for clinical examinations in paediatrics. This module explores the examination of the cardiovascular system for children.
This module has been internally reviewed by a cross-disciplinary committee within University of Ghana prior to releasing as an Open Educational Resource.
Authors: Prof J. Welbeck, Prof. J. O. Oliver-Comey, Prof. B. Goka, Prof. O. Rodrigues, Dr. E. Badoe, Dr. C. Enweronu-Laryea, Dr. C. Oduro-Boatey, Dr. L. Renner, Prof. Richard M. K. Adanu, Chris Andrew Yebuah
Institution: University of Ghana

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Troubleshooting Hive replication using REPL
You need to know how to recover from the FAILED_ADMIN state that stops the replication process.
Problem: A non-recoverable error appears for a replication job and the status says FAILED_ADMIN. How do you recover a schedule from the FAILED_ADMIN state?
Solution: Perform the following steps to recover a replication schedule from this state:
- Navigate to the error log path.
- Search for the file _non_recoverable.
- Open the file, and look for information about an error that caused the replication failed.
- Fix the error.
- Delete the _non_recoverable file.
The_non_recoverable file from the last replication command execution must be deleted; otherwise your replication attempt will malfunction.
Problem: Notification events are missing in the metastore.
Solution: If notification events are not present in the metastore during replication, the replication might be in a FAILED_ADMIN status. When this occurs, notifications are deleted in the metastore. In this case, the workaround is to start a fresh bootstrap phase of replication, as follows:
- Drop the target database using beeline.
- Remove the dump directory on HDFS for the required policy. The path of _non_recoverable
error file path has the dump directory path.
The replication continues where it stopped.


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The dot product can be distributed over addition: $\mathbf n\cdot(p\mathbf a+q\mathbf b)=p(\mathbf n\cdot\mathbf a)+q(\mathbf n\cdot\mathbf b)$... – Guess who it is. Oct 18 '11 at 1:12
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Yes! One way to check that two vectors are orthogonal is that their dot product is zero. So now you just need to algebraically check that if $\vec{v}\cdot\vec{a}=0$ and $\vec{v}\cdot\vec{b}=0$ then for any scalars $r,s$ we have $$\vec{v}\cdot(r\vec{a}+s\vec{b})=0.$$
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To prepare public health professionals for their functional roles in disaster response by offering culturally competent disaster interventions to survivors, witnesses, and responders of bioterrorism and other major public health threats and community disasters.
1. To provide a brief overview of cultural competency.
2. To create an awareness of the importance of cultural competence in delivering an effective public health disaster response.
3. To offer culturally competent strategies and interventions for disaster response.
1. Define cultural competence.
2. Describe the role of cultural competence in public health workforce readiness and disaster response and recovery.
3. Identify the rationale and role of cultural competence (including cultural, social, and behavioral factors) in delivering effective disaster interventions.
4. Describe approaches, principles and strategies for developing cultural competency in assisting disaster survivors from cultural and diverse groups.
5. Identify cultural barriers to offering disaster intervention services. And,
6. Understand and appreciate the dynamic forces contributing to cultural diversity and their importance in delivering culturally competent disaster intervention services.
This course has been designed for public health, health care, mental health, and emergency response professionals, to include public health professionals, physicians, nurses, allied health professionals, mental health professionals, health care administrators and mangers, emergency managers in local, state, and federal roles, and first responders.


USS Fitzgerald
"Protect Your People"
USS Fitzgerald (ddg62)
Fitzgerald Sailors Share Lessons with Guam Youth
By Shaina Marie Santos, Joint Region Edge Staff
DEDEDO, Guam - Sailors from USS Fitzgerald (DDG 62) discussed the importance of school, careers and a drug-free attitude to students at Okkodo High School in Dededo Sept. 26.
The outreach to the school was one of two community service projects Fitzgerald Sailors supported during a port call on Guam.
"I think it's a great contact for [students] and to give them more information one-to-one and face-to-face, so they have more comfort level with approaching people in the military and getting to understand what the military is about, especially here on Guam," said Okkodo High School business education teacher Sharon Baxter.
During their visit, Sailors answered questions about life-enrichment, education and life as a Navy Sailor.
"It's always important to come out and talk to kids," said Operations Specialist 1st Class (SW) Justen Abernethy. "Especially because it's the time of period when they're starting to take everything in and they're learning and they're adapting to that adult life. So it'll help them along their path if they can hear it from the people who are out there, doing the job itself."
Abernethy added that discussing leadership and opportunities with students could make differences in their futures.
"The benefits for them is just that much more knowledge, that much more understanding and being able to say, 'Hey, this is why they do this and I can do this and I can be that much better in my life.'"
Seaman Recruit Mark Christian agreed with Abernethy and said that the Navy is a great career for students to look to help better themselves.
"I wish somebody did it to me, to be honest with you," he said. "I wish I had somebody to come there and answer questions. There's a lot of good things the Navy can offer."
Sailors also supported Special Olympics of Guam, coaching bowling athletes Sept. 29 at Century Lanes in Tamuning in preparation for an upcoming tournament


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May 2, 2011 / ENERGY GLOBE Award
Project presentation - "Autonomous McDonald's Franchise"
The energy efficiency McDonald's restaurant – unique worldwide – was opened in April 2009. The background for this project was the goal of testing new technologies and alternative, environmentally friendly energy forms under full restaurant operating conditions for their suitability in practice and thereby to use energy efficiently in the future.
Those technologies that are proven will be transferred to other franchises. In addition to solar energy, alternative forms such as heat pumps and wind energy will be used.
The goal of the project is to reduce CO2 emissions and energy consumption. The project will be accompanied by the Eco-Institute Freiburg e.V., which will compile an energy and climate balance after one year of measurements.
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Apply gradient fill to editable text in Illustrator
For a long time I used Type>Create Outlines to turn my text into objects, then applied a gradient fill. This is fine, but means that your text is no longer editable. I usually created a copy of the editable text before creating outlines and hid it in the layers panel, just in case I needed to edit it later down the line.
But there is a way to keep your text editable AND apply a gradient fill.
 1. Select your text box.
 2. Go to the Appearance palette (make the palette visible by selecting Window>Appearance or shift+F6).
 3. Go to the drop down menu for more optionsat the top right of the Appearance palette.
 Select the drop-down menu in the Appearance palette
 4. Select "Add new Fill".
 5. Now you can select a gradient from the Fill palette.
But wait a minute. That means that there are two fills, one on top of the other. If you look closely you may be able to see the original fill colour behind the new gradient fill. To remove the original solid fill:
 1. Go back to the Appearance palette.
 2. Double-click on Characters, to show the original stroke and fill colours of the text.
 3. Select the Fill colour, and drag it into the trash can in the Appearance palette.
Your text now only has a gradient fill, and is still fully editable.
Found this tutorial helpful? Find out how to apply a gradient across multiple objects.
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WHAT IS NUNU?
Nunu is an indigenous sacred medicine made from medicinal trees, barks, and leaves from the Amazon Forest. Nunu is also referred to as rape, which is pronounced, "ha-peh" in English. Nunu is primarily made from tobacco but also includes cacao and macambo nut, all of which are ground down into a fine powder. Rape is consumed through bamboo or bone pipes, either from a shaman, or self-administered. The powder is blown into each nostril in a quick motion. This initial intake of the medicine creates a break in thoughts, and feels quite intense, and not very pleasant. After the medicine has been shot into the nostrils it will clear the emotional, mental, physical, and spiritual bodies. The powder will move through the body by expelling mucus back out through the nose, or down the back of the throat.
Some people experience nausea or purging with nunu, but this is not always the case. The medicine releases acetylcholine, dopamine, and epinephrine in the brain. It clears bacteria, viruses, and illnesses from the body. It is also said to heal the pituitary gland, and decalcify the pineal gland (although there is no scientific backing for this yet). The pineal gland is responsible for regulating circadian rhythms, the immune system, and melatonin, and is also responsible for neurodegenerative diseases, if it is not cleared of fluoride or toxic buildup.


How Guinness is made
Stephen Kilcullen
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Lesson Details
Can you identify the key ingredients involved in brewing Guinness? Although Guinness has been around for over 250 years, the company still uses the same ingredients and the same traditional brewing steps to brew the perfect pint.
In this lesson for bartenders and servers, Stephen Kilcullen dives deep into the four main ingredients used to create the beer, and the six classic steps that are undertaken to brew every batch of Guinness. You will find out more about:
 1. Milling and mashing
 2. Wort separation
 3. Boiling
 4. Fermentation
 5. Maturation and storage
 6. Packaging
Learn how different the yeast used to create Guinness is to other brewing yeasts, and how specific ingredients are delicately balanced throughout the process. Stephen explains that at Guinness breweries, there are brewers on site who have been with the company for over 40 years. This lesson will give bartenders and servers insight into the unique beer and brand.
Learn hospitality skills for today's world, including:
The four key ingredients to brew Guinness
The six steps to brewing
The story behind the ingredients
Stephen Kilcullen
Master Brewer & Global Head of Quality at Guinness
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Determine whether widget value was changed by user or by software?
 - Control widgets like QSpinBox, QCheckBox etc emit signals like valueChanged, stateChanged etc. These signals are caused either by direct user action upon the widget, or by external calls of setValue, setChecked etc.
 I'd like to treat these two cases differently. Is there a straightforward way to find out where the signal comes from?
 Or is there a way to implement alternative forms of setValue, setChecked etc that do not emit valueChanged, stateChanged etc?
 - That's interesting,
 The first approach that comes to my mind is to determine if the mouse is in the widget you're using:
 I'm neither sure if QTest functions such as QTest::mouseClick move the mouse to the widget nor your specific implementation.
 - _USER_-W
 I assume the answer is that you cannot do these things.
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 Can I ask why you need this?
 We sometimes block signals to avoid GUI triggering user function during
 loading data etc.
 Is that what you need it fo r?
 - why I need this? - for logging user actions, and not the system's response to them.
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 IIRC all such Widgets have a valueChanged signal that is emited when ever the value changed(either software or user) and an editingFinished() that only emits when an user interacted with the classpressing enter or switching focus.
 Besides that the other option is subclassing for example QSpinBox,
 add 2 new signals e.g valueChangeSystem and valueChangedUser
 a function that is connected to the valueChanged signal
 MySpinbox::customChanged(int value){
 emit valueChangedUser(value);
 emit valueChangeSystem(value);
 - Lifetime Qt Champion
 Hi _USER_-W,
 there are indeed some widgets that handle both cases differently - for example QLineEdit which has textEdited() and textChanged().
 Unfortunately QSpinBox only has valueChanged() so you can't distinguish it here.
 I think you could subclass QSpinBox and change it so setValue() returns another signal to distinguish between user and program changes.
 You would have to do this for all your widgets, however.
 - Thank you for your excellent suggestions. For the time being, 'hasFocus' solves my problem.
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Diagonalization matrix and its application in distribution theory
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Some matrix representations of diverse diagonal arrays are studied in this work; the results allow new definitions of classes of elliptical distributions indexed by kernels mixing Hadamard and usual products. A number of applications are derived in the setting of prior densities from the Bayesian multivariate regression model and families of non-elliptical distributions, such as the matrix multivariate generalized Birnbaum–Saunders density. The philosophy of the research about matrix representations of quadratic and inverse quadratic forms can be extended as a methodology for exploring possible new applications in non-standard distributions, matrix transformations and inference.
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To apply automotive clear coat, apply the coat to the car, and overlap each stroke by 50 percent to prevent tiger striping. Continue until the whole car is covered. Do not rush; adhere to the paint manufacturer's guidelines for time restrictions after application. Ensure that paint application occurs in an atmosphere between 55 and 75 degrees Fahrenheit. Keep the leftover paint for any future touch ups.Continue Reading
To get a feel for the motion needed for proper application, practice applying the clear coat on a smooth piece of metal before clear coating the vehicle.
Optimal weather for applying an automotive clear coat is a temperature of 75 degrees Fahrenheit with no humidity. If clear coat is applied when the temperature is below 55 degrees Fahrenheit or above 90 degrees Fahrenheit, or when the car is located in direct sunlight, the paint appears foggy when dry. Painting should be done in a shady area, and if it absolutely must be done during cold weather, it should be done in a heated garage.
While time guidelines and restrictions differ by manufacturer, a safe waiting period between coat applications is at least 10 minutes. The car cannot be touched until at least an hour after the last coat is applied. The car should not be taken through a car wash, waxed or buffed until 30 to 45 days after the clear coat is applied. If an immediate shine is desired, wait a day after applying the clear coat, and place a hand glaze on the vehicle.
When storing leftover paint, first clear the nozzle by turning the can upside down and spraying until it emits clear gas. Store cans in a warm enough spot where they cannot freeze, and make sure the temperature where it is stored does not exceed 120 degrees Fahrenheit.Learn more about Car Parts & Maintenance


Wood Flooring Grades
Grading is determined by the appearance of the wood and is an indication of aesthetics rather than quality or durability.
Wood that exhibits similar attributes such as character, length and milling tolerances are grouped together in a grade. The grades were established by the National Wood Flooring Association (NWFA) in conjunction with manufacturer associations to create consistency among different mills and provide the consumers and distributors with more defined expectations for their purchases. This instills confidence in all parties and helps to maintain fair pricing.
Keep in mind that sometimes grades are combined (Select & Better, Second and Better, etc.) or are a mix of two standard grades (No. 1 Common, No. 2 Common, etc.).
Mill Run (also known as Run of the Mill) is typically a mix of grades and has longer pieces. True to its name, this type of hardwood flooring is unique to the mill. This is an economical option for consumers and manufacturers alike.
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Nautical Archaeologists have recently discovered a Roman era shipwreck off of the coast of Albania. The wreck, which dates to the 1st century BCE was filled with amphorae used to store wine. Archaeologists believe that merchants were transporting the wine from Albania's vineyards to be sold throughout the Mediterranean.
In spite of its age and relatively shallow depth (50 m below sea level), the wreck is remarkably well preserved and nearly all of the vessel seem to be in tact. Both American and Albanian archaeologists will work together to excavate the findings and are excited about the potential for insight it provides about this period in Roman history.
To read more about the wreck and its findings, see this article on MSNBC.


Pigs in blankets
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This article is about sausage-based food. For cabbage-based food, see Pigs in a blanket (cabbage).
Pigs in a blanket
American-style pigs in a blanket
Type Hot dog
Cookbook:Pigs in a blanket Pigs in a blanket
Pigs in blankets (also known kilted sausages in Scotland) refers to a variety of different sausage-based foods in the United States, United Kingdom, Denmark, Australia, Ireland, Germany, Belgium, Russia, Canada, and Japan. They are typically small in size and can be eaten in one or two bites. For this reason, they are usually served as an appetizer or hors d'oeuvre or are accompanied by other dishes in the'main course' section of a meal. In the West, especially in the United States and Canada, the bite-sized variety of pigs in a blanket is a common hors d'oeuvre served at cocktail parties and is often accompanied by a mustard or aioli dipping sauce.
Pigs in a blanket are usually different from sausage rolls, which are a larger, more filling item served for breakfast and lunch in parts of Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and, more rarely, the United States and Canada.
United Kingdom[edit]
Christmas Dinner in the UK - pigs in blankets at top right of plate
In the United Kingdom, "pigs in blankets" refers to small sausages (usually chipolatas) wrapped in bacon. They are a traditional accompaniment to roast turkey for Christmas dinner. Pigs in blankets can be accompanied with devils on horseback, an appetizer of prunes wrapped in bacon.
United States[edit]
Sausage wrapped in pancakes
In the United States, the term "pigs in a blanket" is used to refer to Vienna sausages, hot dogs, cocktail or breakfast/link sausages wrapped in biscuit dough, pancake, or croissant dough, and baked. The dough is sometimes homemade, but canned dough is most common. They are somewhat similar to a sausage roll or (by extension) a baked corn dog. They are served as an appetizer, a children's dish, or as a breakfast entree. A common variation is to stuff the hot dog or sausage with cheese before wrapping it in dough.
At breakfast or brunch, the term "pigs in a blanket" refers to sausage links with pancake wrapped around it.
The name can also refer to klobasnek (a kind of kolache filled with sausage or ham slices). The German Würstchen im Schlafrock ("sausage in a dressing gown") uses sausages wrapped in puff pastry[1] or, more rarely, pancakes. Cheese and bacon are sometimes present.
In Israel, Moshe Ba'Teiva (Moses in the ark) is a children's dish consisting of a hot dog rolled in a ketchup-covered sheet of puff pastry or phyllo dough and baked.
In Denmark, they have a dish similar to the British-style dish known as the "Pølse i svøb" which means "Sausage in blanket". The American-style Pigs in a blanket are known as "Pølsehorn", meaning "Sausage horns".
In The Netherlands, its called a "saucijzenbroodje", but the "sausage" used is skinless, and the pastry fully encloses the meat within.
In Finland, pigs in blanket is known as "nakkipiilo", which means "hidden sausage" if it is translated freely.
In Mexico, the sausage is wrapped in tortilla and deep fried in vegetable oil. The name "salchitaco" comes from the fusion of the words "salchicha" (sausage) and taco (sausage taco).
See also[edit]
 1. ^ Würstchen im Schlafrock. Retrieved 9 September 2008
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Minitrucks are sold as off-road vehicles for farms and construction sites and are far smaller than conventional small trucks sold for on-the-road use. These vehicles go by many names, including Japanese minitruck, Kei truck, microtruck, and utility transportation vehicle. Minitrucks have the capacity to reach top speeds of 55 mph or more, but many are sold with devices that limit their speed to 25 mph.
Federal safety standards don't apply to minitrucks because they are sold as off-road vehicles, even though they are permitted on public roads in some states. Twenty-one states now allow minitrucks on specific portions of public roads. In Illinois and Missouri, minitrucks are allowed only by local ordinance. Minitrucks must comply with federal safety standards for low-speed vehicles in five states (Illinois, Kansas, Maine, New Hampshire and Tennessee).
The table and map below describe state laws that specifically address the use of minitrucks on public roads. In states without those laws, there may be provisions in other state laws, such as those permitting incidental use of off-road vehicles on public roads, that allow the limited use of minitrucks on public roads.
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Glossary beginning with G
Religious figures such as Saints and Bishops that may appear in stained glass, sculpture, and etc. Also terms with an Ecclesiastical meaning.
- Gelasius IIsearch for term
Pope Gelasius II (_PHONE_) was pope from 1118 until his death in 1119.Synonyms: Pope Gelasius II
- Gérard de Conchysearch for term
- Synonyms: Bishop Conchy, Gérard de Conchy
- Gregory the Greatsearch for term
Gregory I (540-604), was pope from 590 until his death. He is known for his prolific writings and for revising the worship of the western Christian church. He was canonized immediately after his death and he is the patron saint of musicians, singers, students, and teachers.
He argued against the opinion of the Patriarch Eutychius of Constantinople, who had said that one would not have been able to touch or feel the resurrected body of Christ. He also associated Mary of Magdalene with the woman that Luke had described as a sinner, and that John called Mary and the sister of Lazarus and Martha, with the Mary from out of whom Mark said seven demons had been cast out.Synonyms: Pope Gregory I


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Part of Lesson Plan: Financial Planning NEFE Lesson 4 - Roadblocks and Your Financial Plan
Activity Overview / Details
Time: 1 and 1/2 class periods
Have students pair up to create a skit on handling roadblocks that might come up. Each student is to tell their partner a possible roadblock that they have thought of. Their partner is to come up with solutions or changes that the other could/should make and together create a skit (not less than 1 minute or more than 2 minutes each) on how they would explain their ideas and/or solution to their partner.
Teachers can put roadblocks on pieces of paper and put them in a container for those students that have a hard time thinking of one. Give student teams 5 to 8 minutes minutes to discuss the situation and then begin.


Best Types of Beefs That You Can Put Your Hands On
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Not many people are aware of the fact that beef are of many kinds and even if they are, most of them do not know what makes some types better than the others. So, whichever of the two categories you come under, this is just the right guide for you. It will take you through the two different kinds of beef that you must try. However, before we take you through the variety, we'd like to let you know a little about the different features that make some sellers better than some others. Have a look!
 1. Feeding Practice
Farm fed animals that are sustained on vegetarian diet make the best livestock for the meat industry. Only a few sellers like Papa Earth follow this practice of letting animals feed and live in their natural habitat so that they are healthy.
 1. Growth Factor
Products that come from animals that are given hormones and antibiotics for growth are the ones that you should strictly avoid. Instead, the products that come from animals that are allowed to breed and live naturally and sustained on grass (pesticide free soil) are the ones that you should buy.
 1. Quality Control
Now, did you know that all meats in the market do not come from brands that are quality monitored by the Canadian food authority? Which is why you should buy products from sellers like Papa Earth since each and every product they supply is checked by the food authority of Canada.
That said, now let's take you through the 2 types of beef that you must try.
 1. AAA Beef – This beef comes from Black Angus and is one of the most flavoursome meats you will ever taste. One of the things about AAA beef from Papa Earth is that it is Certified Angus Beef ®. The difference between Angus beef and certified Angus beef is that the latter goes through 10 quality tests. Only when it passes all tests that it becomes certified.
 2. Grass Fed and Grass Finished Beef – This one comes from pigs, cattle, and sheep. The animals are fed on crops like sorghum, oats and peas, hay, and so on. Special precautions are taken so that the animals are neither overfed nor underfed.
You must also have a look at the Paper Earth website to explore more details. Another factor that makes these online sellers better than others is that they offer Papa Earth butcherbox of different sizes so that everybody can afford their products. The three different sizes they offer include:
 - Small box worth 125 dollars.
 - Medium box worth 249 dollars.
 - Large box worth 498 dollars.
So, if it's high-quality beef that you're looking for, Papa Earth is the one seller that you can trust blindly.


English to Spanish: more detail...
 1. inquire:
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Detailed Translations for inquire from English to Spanish
to inquire verb (inquires, inquired, inquiring)
 1. to inquire
 2. to inquire (ask)
Conjugations for inquire:
 1. inquire
 2. inquire
 3. inquires
 4. inquire
 5. inquire
 6. inquire
simple past
 1. inquired
 2. inquired
 3. inquired
 4. inquired
 5. inquired
 6. inquired
present perfect
 1. have inquired
 2. have inquired
 3. has inquired
 4. have inquired
 5. have inquired
 6. have inquired
past continuous
 1. was inquiring
 2. were inquiring
 3. was inquiring
 4. were inquiring
 5. were inquiring
 6. were inquiring
 1. shall inquire
 2. will inquire
 3. will inquire
 4. shall inquire
 5. will inquire
 6. will inquire
continuous present
 1. am inquiring
 2. are inquiring
 3. is inquiring
 4. are inquiring
 5. are inquiring
 6. are inquiring
 1. be inquired
 2. be inquired
 3. be inquired
 4. be inquired
 5. be inquired
 6. be inquired
 1. inquire!
 2. let's inquire!
 3. inquired
 4. inquiring
Translation Matrix for inquire:
VerbRelated TranslationsOther Translations
averiguar ask; inquire affirm; audit; check; check out; collect; disentangle; disentwine; examine; gather; go through again; inquire about; inspect; invent; investigate; make inquiries about; obtain; research; study; trace; unravel; verify
examinar inquire attempt; cast an eye on; check; consider; control; endeavor; endeavour; examine; explore; glance; grant; hear; inspect; interpellate; interrogate; investigate; look; look at; look on; observe; pretest; prospect; question; regard; sample; scan; scrutinise; scrutinize; strive; study; subsidise; subsidize; survey; take samples; test; think it over; think out; try; try out; verify; view; watch
explorar inquire explore; frisk; investigate; prospect; scan
explorar a fondo inquire investigate
investigar inquire check; control; disentangle; disentwine; examine; explore; hear; investigate; prospect; research; scan; study; test; unravel
- ask; enquire; investigate; wonder
Not SpecifiedRelated TranslationsOther Translations
examinar browse; browse for
OtherRelated TranslationsOther Translations
- ask
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Synonyms for "inquire":
Related Definitions for "inquire":
 1. have a wish or desire to know something1
 2. inquire about1
 3. conduct an inquiry or investigation of1
 - inquire into the disappearance of the rich old lady1
Wiktionary Translations for inquire:
 1. to inquire
Cross Translation:
inquire informarse erkundigenAuskunft einholen, Informationen beschaffen
inquire inquirir inquirierenveraltend: untersuchen, vernehmen, verhören
inquire preguntar; pedir demander — Indiquer à quelqu'un par des paroles, par un écrit ou tout autre moyen ce qu'on désire obtenir de lui.
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Definition of Cutaneous allodynia
Cutaneous allodynia: Pain resulting from an innocuous stimulus to normal skin or scalp. The stimulus that triggers allodynia is not normally painful. The pain can be provoked by combing or brushing the hair, shaving, showering, wearing glasses or earrings. The pressure of a single strand of hair reportedly can feel like a jab with a white-hot knife. Cutaneous allodynia is believed due to a transient increase in the responsiveness of central pain neurons that process information arising from the skin. It is commonly associated with migraine. From allomeaning other + -dynia meaning pain.
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What-does.net is your comprehensive online definition dictionary. If you are not sure how to define a certain word (Hoofed, for example), our website can provide you with the appropriate definition. On this page, you can find what is the definition for Hoofed.
hoofed - 1 dictionary results
hoofed - examples of usage
- He took a flashlight and found a small hoofed animal, hardly bigger than old Tom, rearing and bucking with a broken leg in the trap. - "Cat and Mouse", Ralph Williams.
- It was devilish hard lines to be hoofed away from the regiment practically just after he had got his command. - "The Red Planet", William J. Locke.
- These animals, although hoofed as sheep are, can scale a cliff like cats, or spring down one like squirrels. - "The Boy Hunters", Captain Mayne Reid.


The Radio PSA: 4 Things You Need to Know to Use the Medium
While most communicators are familiar with broadcast and print public service announcements, radio is a different animal, says Bill Goodwill, CEO of Goodwill Communications. Here are four tips on how to leverage the airwaves for the most effective PSAs:
 1. Ensure Good Production Values: Since radio is not a visual medium, your radio production must create a "theater of the mind" via words and sound effects.
 2. Offer a Variety of Formats and Lengths: Produce PSAs in several different formats, including one for middle-of-the-road (MOR), which can be used by any station. Also, offer various spot lengths—30 and 60 seconds—and send them in MP3 format on a CD.
 3. Seek Endorsements: Get endorsements from organizations such as the National Association of Broadcasters and get your PSAs posted on their Spot Center.
 4. Involve State Broadcast Associations: Every state has a state broadcast association and you should send them your PSAs so they will forward them to their member stations. Click here for a list.
PR News subscribers can read about how Wreaths Across America incorporated radio PSAs into their PR efforts in the case study: "Extensive Media Relations Effort Makes Wreath Campaign at Arlington National Cemetery a Success."


The Flour Mill
The Flour Mill of La Hiruela is located on the banks of the Jarama River, surrounded by Cherry and Elder trees in a wonderful recreational area.
The first historical references of the flour mill date back to the second half of the eighteenth century. Up to 1888 it was communal property, but in that year it was sold to a neighbor of Torrelaguna.
However, in a few years it changed ownership several times until it was finally acquired by 65 Natural partners of La Hiruela representing practically all the families of the municipality. This participation of the neighbors as shareholders of the flour mill restored it's communal identity which it maintained until the end of it's days in active. Throughout the twentieth century the mills of Rodezno fell into disuse and were abandoned but this one remained because of its geographical isolation. During the postwar period most of the mills were sealed as a measure of rationing. However, many continued to grind in the underground, as was the case of the La Hiruela mill.
The end of the activity, in 1975, coincided with the opening of a bakery in the village. In 2001 the La Hiruela Mill was restored with funds from the Madrid and and European Community.
This restoration made it possible to recover the molars and the structure of the building that had collapsed with the passage of time on the vault leaving the original building sunk.


What is the meaning of the phrase throw him under the bus?
When someone "throws another person under the bus" it means to sacrifice a person by allowing that person to get into some form of trouble or bad situation so that another person can gain personally or because they just want that other person to suffer.
Example of "throw him under the bus" in a sentence
An example of how the expression is used will help you understand it's usage.
"Joe and Nate were caught by the police doing drugs.
Joe decided to throw Nate under the bus by telling the
police that Nate is also a drug dealer."
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Ms. Mango and Quark both see a bird and start to meow. Ms.Mango is 3m from the bird, while Quark is 5m from the brid. A.) If each cat individually has a power output of 0.02 W., whatsound level does the bird hear? B.) If the bird then flies 20mfurther away from t he cats, what sound level would the hear at itnew location? (assume beirds hear the same as humans)
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Comparing motor-vehicle crash risk of EU and US vehicles
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2018
Objective: This study examined the hypotheses that passenger vehicles meeting European Union (EU) safety standards have similar crashworthiness to United States (US) -regulated vehicles in the US driving environment, and vice versa. Methods: The first step involved identifying appropriate databases of US and EU crashes that include in-depth crash information, such as estimation of crash severity using Delta-V and injury outcome based on medical records. The next step was to harmonize variable definitions and sampling criteria so that the EU data could be combined and compared to the US data using the same or equivalent parameters. Logistic regression models of the risk of a Maximum injury according to the Abbreviated Injury Scale of 3 or greater, or fatality (MAIS3+F) in EU-regulated and US-regulated vehicles were constructed. The injury risk predictions of the EU model and the US model were each applied to both the US and EU standard crash populations. Frontal, near-side, and far-side crashes were analyzed together (termed "front/side crashes") and a separate model was developed for rollover crashes. Results: For the front/side model applied to the US standard population, the mean estimated risk for the US-vehicle model is 0.035 (sd = 0.012), and the mean estimated risk for the EU-vehicle model is 0.023 (sd = 0.016). When applied to the EU front/side population, the US model predicted a 0.065 risk (sd = 0.027), and the EU model predicted a 0.052 risk (sd = 0.025). For the rollover model applied to the US standard population, the US model predicted a risk of 0.071 (sd = 0.024), and the EU model predicted 0.128 risk (sd = 0.057). When applied to the EU rollover standard population, the US model predicted a 0.067 risk (sd = 0.024), and the EU model predicted 0.103 risk (sd = 0.040). Conclusions: The results based on these methods indicate that EU vehicles most likely have a lower risk of MAIS3+F injury in front/side impacts, while US vehicles most likely have a lower risk of MAIS3+F injury in llroovers. These results should be interpreted with an understanding of the uncertainty of the estimates, the study limitations, and our recommendations for further study detailed in the report.


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In high dimensional databases, traditional full space clustering methods are known to fail due to the curse of dimensionality. Thus, in recent years, subspace clustering and projected clustering approaches were proposed for clustering in high dimensional spaces. As the area is rather young, few comparative studies on the advantages and disadvantages of the different algorithms exist. Part of the underlying problem is the lack of available open source implementations that could be used by researchers to understand, compare, and extend subspace and projected clustering algorithms. In this work, we discuss the requirements for open source evaluation software and propose OpenSubspace that meets these requirements. OpenSubspace integrates state-of-the-art performance measures and visualization techniques to foster research in clustering in high dimensional databases.
Proceedings of the 14th Gi Conference on Database Systems for Business, Technology, and the Web (btw 2011), 2011, p. 347-366
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Welcome to the Seekonk Animal Control Page
The Animal Control Officer is the local animal care and control professional. This person helps the public deal with problems caused by animals.This person also works with other local agencies, such as social services and law enforcement, to protect all members of families, both two-legged and four-legged. Long gone are the term "dogcatcher" and the image of a man with a butterfly net.
Animal care and control professionals now perform a variety of services that help animals as well as people:
- Rescuing injured animals
- Controlling stray and potentially dangerous animals roaming at large
- Bringing lost pets to an animal shelter where their owners can reclaim them
The Animal Control Officer works to protect stray, injured, abused, and unwanted animals. This person has different job titles in different communities - animal control officer, animal services officer, humane officer, humane investigator, animal warden - but is the one who responds to calls about neglected or lost animals, and often the first person to provide comfort and compassion to animals in need.
Grant is funded through the sale of "I'm Animal Friendly" license plates.


job name template
In CloudBees CD, a template used to determine the default name for jobs launched from the procedure. You can create a job name template when you create a procedure. For example: In the Job Name Template field, you might enter: 93436[/increment /myproject/jobCounter]0, which produces a name like: projectFoo_1234_20140102130321. You can enter any combination of elements to create procedure names more meaningful to you. For example, you could choose to include the build number and procedure name.


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Ya'akov Gal, Avi Pfeffer
Reciprocity is a key determinant of human behavior and has been well documented in the psychological and behavioral economics literature. This paper shows that reciprocity has significant implications for computer agents that interact with people over time. It proposes a model for predicting people's actions in multiple bilateral rounds of interactions. The model represents reciprocity as a tradeoff between two social factors: the extent to which players reward and retaliate others' past actions (retrospective reasoning), and their estimate about the future ramifications of their actions (prospective reasoning). The model is trained and evaluated over a series of negotiation rounds that vary players' possible strategies as well as their benefit from potential strategies at each round. Results show that reasoning about reciprocal behavior significantly improves the predictive power of the model, enabling it to outperform alternative models that do not reason about reciprocity, or that play various game theoretic equilibria. These results indicate that computers that interact with people need to represent and to learn the social factors that affect people's play when they interact over time.
Subjects: 4. Cognitive Modeling; 7.1 Multi-Agent Systems
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Stranded Polar Bear Floats Down London's Thames
A very large polar bear was spotted traveling down the River Thames, under the Tower Bridge and past Parliament in London today.
Lifelike as it seemed, the 1.5-ton structure -- built by 15 artists in 18 days -- floated down the river to raise awareness of the melting ice caps and the larger picture… climate change (see video below).
The melting of the ice caps threatens polar bear's lives because their habitat is literally disappearing. The 2 billion people depending on glacial meltwater for irrigation and drinking are also faced with serious consequences.
This 16-foot-high sculpture of a mother and cub holding on to life was commissioned by Eden, a new digital television channel featuring natural history programs. Wildlife broadcaster Sir David Attenborough, narrator of series including Life on Earth and Fragile Earth, said the display spreads the message that our environment is currently unbalanced and events like the polar bears extinction will have extreme repercussions.
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text: Changes of thermal diffusivity inside femtosecond laser-structured volumes as small as few percent were reliably determined (with standard deviation less than 1%) with miniaturized sensors. An increase of thermal diffusivity of a crystalline high-density polyethylene (HDPE) inflation films by 10–20% from the measured (1.16 ± 0.01) × 10−7 m2 s−1 value in regions not structured by femtosecond laser pulses is considerably larger than that of non-crystalline polymers, 0–3%. The origin of the change of thermal diffusivity are interplay between the laser induced disordering, voids' formation, compaction, and changes in molecular orientation. It is shown that laser structuring can be used to modify thermal and optical properties. The birefringence and infrared spectroscopy with thermal imaging of CH2 vibrations are confirming inter-relation between structural, optical, and thermal properties of the laser-structured crystalline HDPE inflation films. Birefringence modulation as high as Δn ± 1 × 10−3 is achieved with grating structures.


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As you know, prone can take either an infinitive or a gerund as its object:
Originally Posted by micaelo
infinitive: prone to get headaches
verb + verb's object
meaning, hasn't had headaches before
gerund: prone to getting headaches
noun + noun's object
meaning, might have had headaches before
gerund's object: prone to headaches With that said, your example sentence, This plant is prone to be attacked by insects, has an infinitive verb, so it should work, but its verb is BE + a past participle, which makes it look like a passive verb, and which is why it reads awkward--or rather, it doesn't seem to fit the pattern prone to + infinitive + noun.
noun's object / ellipsis
default meaning, has had headaches before
=> Is it ungrammatical? No.
infinitive: This plant is prone to attack by insects.
meaning, insects might attack the plant.
gerund: This plant is prone to being attacked by insects.
meaning: insects have attacked the plant or like plants before.
BE + past participle: This plant is prone to be attacked by insects.
meaning, the plant will definitely be attacked by insects.


What Does Bridge the Gap Mean?
Bridge the Gap Meaning
Definition: To connect things in a logical way; to have qualities of two different things; to fill in a space between two things.
Essentially, at its minimal meaning, bridge the gap means to diminish the differences between two things. This can be by adding something intermediary, as in, "Scholarships were provided to bridge the gap between students with money and students without money." or it can mean to find an existing similarity between the two, as in, "Their love of brownies bridged the gap between the two people who otherwise hated each other."
Origin of Bridge the Gap
meaning of bridge the gapBridge comes from the Old English brycgian, which means to make a causeway. Gap is an early 14th-century word meaning an opening in a wall, a break, a breach.
The broader meaning of unfilled space or interval, any hiatus or interruption didn't come about until around 1600, and it is likely that the metaphorical meaning of bridge the gap did not come about until after this—not until after the version to stop a gap was popular. Stop a gap, later stopgap, was something contrived to meet an urgent need or emergency.
The earliest newspaper examples of the idiom as seen today were not until the late-1800s, with a May 1888 issue of The Pacific commercial advertiser reading,
 - Two hundred and seven circulating planetary bodies bridge the gap between Jupiter and Mars, the complete investigation of the movements of any of which would overtask the energies of a life-time.
Examples of Bridge the Gap
bridge the gap meaningIn the modern day, this idiom is used in casual conversations as well as in business conversations.
In its most literal meaning, people may say,
 - They are planning to bridge the gap with a 40 foot-long structure this spring.
If there is a noticeable and problematic difference between two things, one could say,
 - They will bridge the gap between German speakers and non-German speakers by providing a translator.
 - The knowledge gap between those at the top and those at the bottom can only be solved through a change in education.
More Examples
 - Bridging the gap between old and young will not be easy, and is clearly not something the Government can do: no one wants the state telling families how they should live. –The Telegraph
 - We wanted to bridge the gap [between healthy and filling food] and create a palate-satisfying hearty meal that wasn't heavy. The result? An 85% plant-based menu sprinkled with enough animal protein to feed the soul. –Ocean Drive
To bridge the gap is to connect two otherwise unrelated things by adding something or by finding common ground.


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Example for creating a Device Cloud Task - Upload Python File
The following example shows how to create a task on Digi's Device Cloud to upload a Python file to a device connected to the Device Cloud.
Login to your Device Cloud account and select Device Manager > Schedules > New Schedule.
Close the pop-up.
Type in a description at the top of the screen for the task.
On the left menu select Upload Python files.
Browse to the file you wish to upload.
Uncheck the "Allow Offline" field.
Select "Save as" at the bottom and assign a name for the task.
Click Schedule.
You can now set the task to run immediately, schedule it to run at a different time or a re-occurring schedule. You can also search for and select the devices or groups to run the task against.
Once configured, click Run Now or click Cancel if you do not wish to run the task.
Note: By using the Control-key and clicking the desired gateway in the list, you can select multiple devices.
Additionally, tasks can be run against devices in the Device Management > Devices screen by highlighting the desired device(s) and right-clicking. Select More > Tasks > select desired task.
Task status can be monitored under the Device Management > Operations screen.
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compute $\phi(24)$ for each element Z/24 decide whether the element is a unit or a zero divisor, if the element is a unit divisor give its order and find its inverse.
Ive worked out $\phi(24)=8$
and the unit divisors to be ${1,5,7,11,13,17,19,23}$
however when I came to working out the order I got them all to be 2?
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Presumably, you mean all but one of them has order 2. – Gerry Myerson Nov 28 '12 at 12:16
yupp bar the number 1, could you confirm ive answered it correctly or have i gone terribly wrong? – jill Nov 28 '12 at 12:18
_USER_ You can write $(\mathbb{Z}/24)^{\times} \cong (\mathbb{Z}/8)^{\times} \times (\mathbb{Z}/3)^{\times} \cong \mathbb{Z}/2 \times \mathbb{Z}/2 \times \mathbb{Z}/2$ in which it's easy to see that all elements have order at most $2$ – Cocopuffs Nov 28 '12 at 12:27
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$(2a+1)^2=4a^2+4a+1=8\frac{a(a+1)}2+1\equiv \pmod 8\implies c^2\equiv1\pmod 8$ if $(c,8)=1$
Now, $(3b\pm1)^2\equiv 1\pmod 3\implies c^2\equiv1\pmod 3$ if $(c,3)=1$
If $(c,8)=1$ and $(c,3)=1$ i.e., if $(c,24)=1, lcm(3,8)\mid (c^2-1)\implies c^2\equiv1\pmod{24}$
So, $ord_{24}c\mid 2$
But clearly, $ord_{24}c\ne1$ for $c>1\implies ord_{24}c=2$ for $c>1$ and $(c,24)=1$
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If you look at the numbers mod 6 (the prime divisors of 24 being 2 and 3) you eliminate those equivalent to 0,2,3,4 - so you have left those equivalent to 1 and 5 (i.e. $6n \pm 1$). You could confirm your answer by looking at what happens to the numbers $(6n \pm 1)^2$ when they are taken mod 24.
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rOpenSci | How much work is onboarding?
How much work is onboarding?
Our onboarding process, that ensures that packages contributed by the community undergo a transparent, constructive, non adversarial and open review process, involves a lot of work from many actors: authors, reviewers and editors; but how much work? Managing the effort involved in the peer-review process is a major part of ensuring its sustainability and quality. In this post, we'll take a look at the effort put in by participants in the review process, and also learn something about exploring GitHub data along the way.
🔗 Work done by authors
We can try to quantify the development work of authors by looking at the number of lines deleted and added in the git repo of the package before, during, and after review. By number of lines we mean number of lines in any file in the repo so it can be lines of actual code and lines of docs (in the README for instance). To do so, we link information from the package git repos (information about sizes and dates of commits) and information from the onboarding issue threads (start and end dates of the review process, as measured by open/close dates).
commits <- readr::read_csv("output/gitsum_reports.csv")
issues <- readr::read_csv("data/clean_data.csv")
issues <- dplyr::group_by(issues, package) %>%
 dplyr::summarise(opened = min(created_at),
 closed = max(closed_at))
commits <- dplyr::left_join(commits, issues, by = "package")
custom_transf <- function(x){
 pof <- log(x)
 pof[x == 0] <- 0
custom_exp <- function(x){
 pof <- exp(x)
 pof[x < 0] <- - exp(-x)
plot_commits <- function(package_name, commits){
 example <- dplyr::filter(commits, package == package_name,!is_merge)
 p <- ggplot(example) +
 geom_segment(aes(x = datetime, xend = datetime,
 y = 0, yend = custom_transf(total_insertions)),
 col = "salmon", size = 1) +
 geom_segment(aes(x = datetime, xend = datetime,
 y = 0, yend = - custom_transf(total_deletions)),
 col = "blue", size = 1) +
 ylab("lines") +
 x = min(example$datetime),
 xend = max(example$datetime),
 y = 0, yend = 0,
 col = "grey50",
 size = 0.2) +
 scale_y_continuous(breaks= seq(min(-custom_transf(example$total_deletions)),
 to = max(custom_transf(example$total_insertions)),
 by = 5),
 labels= round(custom_exp(seq(min(-custom_transf(example$total_deletions)),
 to = max(custom_transf(example$total_insertions)),
 by = 5))))+
 xmin = example$opened[1], xmax = example$closed[1],
 ymin = - custom_transf(max(example$total_deletions)),
 ymax = custom_transf(max(example$total_insertions)),
 fill = "grey80", alpha = 0.6,
 col = "grey10",
 size = 0.2) +
 ggtitle(package_name) +
Let's have a look at a few packages. The x-axis represents time, and the grey box the onboarding period (from issue opening i.e. submission to issue closing i.e. approval). The salmon lines above the y-axis are the number of lines added in one commit while the blue lines below the y-axis are the number of lines deleted in one commit.
plot_commits("opencage", commits = commits)
commits plot of the opencagepackage
plot_commits("charlatan", commits = commits)
commits plot of the charlatanpackage
When looking at all onboarded repos, we don't see a general pattern to commit histories. Commits have diffent sizes, and the activity frequency is highly variable. While we see the updates to packages that occur during review, there is just as often change again after onboarding, as packages continue to improve and be maintained. This highlights an important aspect of our peer review, which is that acceptance is not the end of the process. While we aim for the process to ensure high quality at acceptance, packages are not static moving forward. Not all deficiencies are detected by peer reviewers, and further improvements and maintenance will continue. This is why many of our standards are about maintainability, and our process is in part an approach to onboard authors into a community of dedicated and supportive package maintainers.
We do try to onboard mature packages, i.e. that are not drafts. Furthermore, the absence of general patterns in the previous figures could be due to different age at submission. How old are packages at submission?
age <- commits %>%
 dplyr::group_by(package) %>%
 dplyr::summarise(age = difftime(min(opened), min(datetime), units = "weeks")) %>%
 dplyr::filter(age > 0)
ggplot(age) +
 geom_dotplot(aes(age), binwidth = 5) +
 xlab("Age (weeks)") +
 scale_y_continuous(NULL, breaks = NULL) +
 hrbrthemes::theme_ipsum(base_size = 16,
 axis_title_size = 16)
age of packages atsubmission
On this dotplot, the x-axis represents age at submission and each dot is a package falling in that age bin. We say apparent age because the first commit might happen a long time after the package was created, although often one makes an initial commit not long after having started to work. We needed to filter positive age because in one case the GitHub repo of the onboarded package was apparently deleted and re-created without history after approval. Such things happen, thankfully the package wasn't lost, just its history!
Many packages are submitted while still very young which might indicate rapid development. It might also mean some authors viewed onboarding as a part of development, i.e. authors knew they intended to submit quite rapidly. For instance, Maëlle developed opencage in just a few days, then submitted it to get it ready for wider use by the community.
🔗 Work done by reviewers
How much effort is put in by reviewers in this process? Reviewer time and effort is one of our most precious resources (you can read more about reviewer motivations and perspectives in other blog posts by Mara Averick, Verena Haunschmid, Charles T. Gray and Miles McBain). We measure this effort by asking reviewers to self-report the hours spent reviewing. We do so to understand the amount of effort we are asking reviewers for, so we can let new reviewers know what to expect, and so hopefully in the future we can measure the success of efforts to automate some reviewer tasks.
# airtable data
# this is our private database of who's reviewed what
# and of reviewers' areas of expertise
airtable <- airtabler::airtable("appZIB8hgtvjoV99D", "Reviews")
airtable <- airtable$Reviews$select_all()
We have self-reported reviewing times for 136 of 184 reviews.
ggplot(airtable) +
 geom_boxplot(aes(y = review_hours, x = "")) +
 hrbrthemes::theme_ipsum(base_size = 16,
 axis_title_size = 16) +
 theme(axis.title.x=element_blank()) +
 ylab("Reviewing time (hours)")
hours spentreviewing
It appears to take our reviewers a similar amount of time to review R packages as scientists take to review a manuscript (5 hour median and 9 hour mean).
One potential question is whether reviewer time is affected by the size of the package reviewed as measured by for instance number of exports (classes and functions).
get_namespace <- function(package_name){
 local_path_archive <- paste0(getwd(), "/repos_at_submission/", package_name)
 if(length(fs::dir_ls(local_path_archive))!= 0){
 ns <- devtools::parse_ns_file(local_path_archive)
 tibble::tibble(package = package_name,
 exports = length(ns$exports) +
packages <- fs::dir_ls("repos_at_submission")
packages <- stringr::str_replace_all(packages, "repos_at_submission\\/", "")
purrr::map_df(packages, get_namespace) %>%
Interestingly, we find no relationship between the reviewing time and number of exports:
namespace_ro <- readr::read_csv("output/namespace.csv")
namespace_ro <- dplyr::left_join(namespace_ro, airtable, by = "package")
ggplot(namespace_ro) +
 geom_point(aes(exports, review_hours)) +
 hrbrthemes::theme_ipsum(base_size = 16,
 axis_title_size = 16) +
 ylab("Reviewing time (hours)") +
 xlab("No. of exports")
There are a few potential explanations to this that might be fruitful to explore. For instance, does this mean that there's only so much time, and so larger packages get less scrutiny per line of code or per export? Or does review time just depend more on the reviewer than the package?
🔗 Work done by editors
Editors manage the review process, performing initial package checks, identifying and contacting reviewers, and then moderating and cajoling the process forward. Our best measure for editor effort is the number of packages


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A division of the Articulata, having the body formed of numerous rings or annular segments, and without jointed legs. The principal subdivisions are the Chaetopoda, including the Oligochaeta or earthworms and Polychaeta or marine worms; and the Hirudinea or leeches. See Chaetopoda.
- But A soon broke up into two principal stirpes, of which one, a, became the root of the Annelida, Echinodermata, and Arthropoda, while the other, b, gave rise to the Polyzoa and Ascidioida, and produced the two remaining stirpes of the Vertebrata and the Mollusca. - "Critiques and Addresses", Thomas Henry Huxley.


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I have a figure in my paper (I am using IEEEtran package). After this figure there exists a space between the figure and the text. How can I reduce the size of this white space. To be specific the space is between the caption of the figure and the text of my paper. Any suggestions?
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This depends on the location of the float - if the float is at the top of the page, the gap between the caption and the text is \textfloatsep, while the gap for a float in the middle of the page is given by \intextsep.
From the layouts package documentation it is possible to see the lengths in terms of page/document float elements (p 21 onward):
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Default for ieeetran are
 - \textfloatsep: 1.7\baselineskip plus 0.2\baselineskip minus 0.5\baselineskip
 - \intextsep: \baselineskip plus 0.2\baselineskip minus 0.2\baselineskip
and therefore depends on the choice of the default font (since that sets \baselineskip). The default pt-form is therefore
 - \textfloatsep: 20.4pt plus 2.4pt minus 4.8pt
 - \intextsep: 12.0pt plus 2.4pt minus 2.4pt
in the 10pt font size. The above includes some stretch/shrink. You can modify them using \setlength. For example,
\setlength{\textfloatsep}{\baselineskip plus 0.2\baselineskip minus 0.2\baselineskip}
would allow for between (roughly) 10pt and 15pt gap between the float and the text. Something like
would fix the distance to 5pt (without stretch/shrink).
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I'm having a huge space between the end of a paragraph and the beginning of the next one, I don't know the reason, I'm using IEEE trans template – Tak Jul 30 '13 at 3:42
_USER_: What do you have around these paragraphs? What float specifiers do you use for any floats around it? – Werner Jul 30 '13 at 3:52
I have a float after the end of the paragraph \begin{figure}[t] \begin{figure}[t] \centering { \begin{tikzpicture}[remember picture] \node[mynode] (image2) {\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{avghist}}; \end{tikzpicture}} \begin{tikzpicture}[remember picture,overlay] \end{tikzpicture} \caption{} \label{} \end{figure} \begin{figure*}[pht] {\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{squash3}}\caption{AA} \label{} \end{figure*} \begin{table*}[pht] \begin{tabularx}{\linewidth}{@{}>{\hsize=0.8\hsize}X 2{>{\hsize=1.1\hsize}X}@{}} \toprule \bottomrule \end{tabularx} \caption{AAA} \label{} \end{table} – Tak Jul 30 '13 at 3:58
_USER_: Do you really have 2 figures (nested)? It's difficult to gauge what else might be the problem. – Werner Jul 30 '13 at 4:16
I have two figures then a table – Tak Jul 30 '13 at 4:20
If you do not want to modify the standard template and just want a quick fix for this, you may add the following command to your document preamble:
Then, you can use the command \squeezeup throughout your document for reducing the free space after/before figures, formulas, etc., as needed.
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You can use etoolbox package. Just set a \vskip with a negative value at the start (\BeforeBeginEnvironment or \AtBeginEnvironment) and at the end (\AfterEndEnvironment) of the environment figure.
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WHO IS JONES? Why was this oldest bridge in the Philippines named Jones Bridge?
Puente de Espana, then Jones Bridge, to honor the man behind the Jones Act granting independence to the Philippine Islands.
WILLIAM ATKINSON JONES. Member of US House of Representatives from 1891 to 1918. Right about the same period when the US bought the Philippines from Spain for $20 million. Imagine that. US$20Million for 7,107 islands.
The Post Office Building and the Jones Bridge. Two landmarks rich in history.
Back to the question — why was the bridge named after Rep. William Atkinson Jones? Used to be called Puente de España since it was built in 1701 spanning over Pasig River and connecting Binondo to the core of the capital city of Manila. Originally done by Juan Arellano in the Neo-Classical design but destroyed and renamed Jones Bridge by the US Colonial Government in 1916 to honor the man who sponsored the bill, later enacted into law, granting independence to the Philippines. Bombed out in World War II, this formerly ornate arch bridge was yet again rebuilt but in simpler design after 1945. The oldest bridge in the country.
Not my copy. Credits to Old Manila Nostalgia.
When Jones died in 1918, the Philippines paid for the marker on his grave in gratitude for the Jones Act which granted Philippine Independence. So much history behind this bridge across Pasig River with a bonus grand view of yet another landmark, the Postal Office of Manila. Next time you head for Binondo or Chinatown and cross this bridge from Plaza Lawton, think Philippine Independence. 😉


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Students took part in workshops and activities, offered by educators of the Programa Arvorar Jovem, to reflect on their emotions and the challenges of being a teenager
From October 17 to 25, Middle and High School students participated in the Adolescer Project offered by educators of the Programa Arvorar Jovem. Students took part in workshops and activities to reflect on their emotions and the challenges of being a teenager, especially in these post-pandemic times.
Expanding young people's awareness of their role as protagonists of their own lives in a world that is in transformation is one of the primary purposes of the Arvorar Jovem Program. Inspired by the principles of the Bahá'í Faith, the Program seeks to align its educational work with the principles and values of the Faith. According to Faezeh Shaikhzadeh, educational psychologist and co-leader of the project, the main themes students learn include viewing adolescence as a time of transformation and understanding the importance of identifying and expressing one's emotions.
"As we work with different segments, we use specific tools adapted for each age group. However, even with these differences, many things in common permeate the entire periods of pre-adolescence and adolescence," comments Faezeh.
For João Antônio Gomes, in Grade 8, the workshops will help him in his daily life as a student and teenager. "My experience was positive! The workshop will help because we need to focus on our studies and look at the positive side, such as understanding that our effort will bring us a better life."
The lecture, "Adolescer: Developing Skills for Life," allowed parents to share their concerns with educators and receive guidance on how best to support their children during this challenging phase.


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After you have created a knowledge base article, it is saved as a draft. When you submit the article, it is moved to the Unapproved article view so it can be reviewed by a customer service manager and either rejected or approved into the searchable knowledge base. A knowledge base article cannot be searched by other users until it is published.
1. In CRM, in the Service area, click Articles.
2. Select the Unapproved Articles view from the view selector, and select the knowledge base article without opening it.
3. On the Articles tab of the ribbon, in the Actions group, click the Approve button.
4. In the dialog box, click OK.
5. Change the view back to the Published Articles view and verify the article is displayed there.


For example, I control a Pathraizer of Ulamog. One of my opponents cast Control Magic on it to take control of it. Then my other opponent casts the same spell. How can they both control it?
The last effect created takes precedence.
Section 613 resolves interaction of Continuous Effects. The rules relevant to this specific question are the following:
613.6. Within a layer or sublayer, determining which order effects are applied in is usually done using a timestamp system. An effect with an earlier timestamp is applied before an effect with a later timestamp.
613.6a A continuous effect generated by a static ability has the same timestamp as the object the static ability is on, or the timestamp of the effect that created the ability, whichever is later.
Continuous effects are continually reevaluated. This means that destroying the second Control Magic gives control of Pathraizer to the controller of the first Control Magic.
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The Wanted singer Tom Parker has been diagnosed with terminal cancer at 32
Monday, 12th October 2020, 9:40 am
Updated Monday, 12th October 2020, 11:41 am
The 32 year old singer from Bolton shared the sad news on Instagram (Photo: Ben Gabbe/Getty Images)
Tom Parker of boyband The Wanted has revealed that he has been diagnosed with a terminal brain tumour.
The 32 year old singer from Bolton shared the sad news on Instagram, where he and his wife Kelsey explained that the tumour is inoperable, but that he is currently undergoing treatment.
What did Tom Parker say in his Instagram post?
Parker shared a photo of himself with his wife and 16 month old daughter, Aurelia Rose, alongside a caption explaining his diagnosis.
The singer wrote, "Hey guys, you know that we've both been quiet on social media for a few weeks and it's time to tell you why.
The couple announced in May that they were expecting their second baby together.
Tom told OK! Magazine that he's "still in complete shock, it's so much to take in."
Tom told the magazine that he underwent tests after he began suffering from unexplained seizures, with doctors revealing six weeks ago that he had a grade four glioblastoma.
The singer is now undergoing radiotherapy and chemotherapy treatment.
What is a glioblastoma?
The Mayo Clinic explains that "glioblastoma is an aggressive type of cancer that can occur in the brain or spinal cord. Glioblastoma forms from cells called astrocytes that support nerve cells."
Also known as glioblastoma multiforme, the cancer can be very difficult to treat and a cure is often not possible, but treatments may slow progression of the cancer and reduce signs and symptoms. It can cause worsening headaches, nausea, vomiting and seizures.
"For people who can't undergo surgery, radiation therapy and chemotherapy may be used as a primary treatment," adds the Mayo Clinic.
Radiation therapy uses high-energy beams (such as X-rays or protons) to kill cancer cells. In contrast to this, chemotherapy uses medicine to kill cancer cells.
The NHS explains, "There are many different types of chemotherapy medicine, but they all work in a similar way.
"They stop cancer cells reproducing, which prevents them from growing and spreading in the body."


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Viper uses G-Force.
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Viper charges at the target and slices them with his weapon. He then hops into the air, swings his sword, and crashes down on the target's head. The resulting blow cascades in a fountain of yellow and white sparks.
G Force is a scientific term used to describe the rate at which an object accelerates as it falls. In this tech, Viper exploits this gravitational momentum to unleash more powerful blows.


Primary-level intervention to check exploitation of resources
The government has empowered panchayat-level Biodiversity Management Committees (BMCs) to keep tabs on the state of the environment at the local level and report violations of environmental laws and regulations.
A Government Order issued by the Principal Secretary, Environment, has handed down a fresh mandate to the BMCs to alert officials in the department to environmentally disruptive activities. The order translates into a grassroots-level intervention to ensure speedy action against unregulated exploitation of natural resources and arrest the depletion of biodiversity.
Citing the recommendations of the Assembly committee on environment, the order proposes that the BMCs be given the responsibility to act as 'Environment Protection Groups.' The committees have been directed to inform the authorities about violations of environmental laws and any activity that could result in ecological degradation, create a public health hazard, or pose a threat to human life. These include unauthorised sand-mining and illegal operation of quarries and development projects. The BMCs will also have to take the leadership to organise health and sanitation programmes. The order instructs the BMCs to restore, protect, and ensure the sustainable utilisation of water resources at the panchayat level. BMCs have been tasked with organising awareness programmes.
They have also been given the mandate to constantly monitor the state of the environment and alert the authorities and recommend conservation activities for inclusion in the panchayats' annual Plan. The district-level Technical Support Group constituted by the Kerala State Biodiversity Board will extend support to the BMCs to keep tabs on the environment. The order directs the government officials concerned at the local level to initiate timely action on the recommendations of BMCs.


text: The Laboratory of Electrical Machines of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Lausanne) has developed a software (TLSim) for the simulation of electrical urban transportation systems. This program can simulate the behaviour of the power supply network (current and voltage level at any point of the topology) comprising uniand bidirectionnal sub-stations. In the network the vehicules (trolleybus) may run along any defined path through different electrical supply sectors. Several models of trolleybus are available, one of these allowing for the injection of current back in the supply network. The operating schedule of the buses as well as the geographical data of the network are provided by the user. This program is a perfect tool for system planning as ascertained by its use by a Swiss transportation operator. A comparison of simulation and measurements on a real network has been performed with satisfactory results. This software evolved from a specific study to a flexible program still being extended with new developments. The latest of such developments being the study of the influence of capacitors in helping the system to keep voltages over a specified level mainly by supplying the surge current during the acceleration of the trolleybuses.


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The exchange rate between Brazilian Real (BRL) and United States Dollar (USD) is among the popular foreign exchange pairs traded globally. In 2023, the exchange rate remains a crucial indicator for traders, investors, and individuals seeking to transfer money between Brazil and the United States.
What is the Current Exchange Rate between BRL and USD?
As of January 2023, the exchange rate between BRL and USD is 31 BRL to 5.68 USD. The exchange rate may fluctuate depending on various factors, including inflation rates, political stability, and market demand.
Factors Affecting the BRL to USD Exchange Rate
The BRL to USD exchange rate is influenced by various factors, including:
1. Economic Stability
The economic stability of Brazil and the United States affects the exchange rate. A stable economy attracts foreign investments, which leads to a higher demand for the local currency, increasing its value.
2. Inflation Rates
Inflation rates affect the purchasing power of a currency, which affects the exchange rate. High inflation rates lead to a depreciation of the local currency, leading to a lower exchange rate.
3. Political Stability
Political stability plays a crucial role in the exchange rate. A country with a stable political environment attracts foreign investments, leading to a higher demand for the local currency.
How to Convert 31 BRL to USD
To convert 31 BRL to USD, you need to multiply the amount of BRL by the current exchange rate. For instance, if the exchange rate is 31 BRL to 5.68 USD, you will multiply 31 by 5.68, which gives you 176.08 USD.
Tips for Transferring Money Between Brazil and the United States
When transferring money between Brazil and the United States, consider the following tips:
1. Compare Exchange Rates
Different financial institutions offer different exchange rates. It is essential to compare the rates to get the best deal.
2. Consider Transfer Fees
Some financial institutions charge transfer fees, which may affect the amount you receive. Consider the fees before making a transfer.
The timing of the transfer can affect the exchange rate. Monitor the exchange rate and make a transfer when the rate is favorable.
The BRL to USD exchange rate remains a crucial indicator for individuals and businesses seeking to transfer money between Brazil and the United States. Factors such as economic stability, inflation rates, and political stability affect the exchange rate. To convert 31 BRL to USD, multiply the amount of BRL by the current exchange rate. Consider the tips when transferring money between Brazil and the United States to get the best deal.


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French women will now need to be 18 years or older to consent to marry, three years older than previously required by law. The French parliament passed the law as a method of preventing forced marriages, reports Ireland Online, and the French standard is now aligned with other states that belong to the European Union.
Ireland Online also reports that the new law marks the first change to the legal age for marriage age since 1804, when Napoleon enacted his Napoleonic Code. For 200 years, women's age of consent has been 15, while men's has been 18. In addition to the marriage age, the law addresses marital rape and abuse. According to BBC, the French parliament is also passing laws to combat child pornography, female genital mutilation, and sex tourism.
Media Resources: Assemblée Nationale Texte Adopté n. 558; BBC 3/23/06; Ireland Online 3/23/06


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The following describes who does what to initially set up meeting exclusion rules:
 - Owner - Workplace Analytics administrator, data analysts with full access
 - Task - Set meeting exclusion rules to reflect your company's meeting norms and exclude meetings that are not relevant for analysis.
 - Outcome - Workplace Analytics administrators and analysts are satisfied that meeting query results are focused on the data relevant for analysis.
Workplace Analytics uses activities stored in a person's Microsoft 365 email and calendar to reveal internal and external collaboration trends. However, a person's calendar and email can contain a diverse set of activities (such as personal meetings, work-related social activities, all-day training meetings, and so forth) that are not relevant to work-related collaboration, and if included in the metrics, can skew query results.
Analysts can use the Meeting exclusions feature to create custom meeting exclusions that help ensure query results accurately represent relevant meeting norms within their company. Or, analysts may choose to use the default meeting exclusions that exclude a set of meetings that would commonly fall outside relevant collaboration for analysis.
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General Survivorship January 5, 2017
Whether you're a sister survivor, a caregiver, the loved one of a survivor, an advocate, or just in search of some truly inspirational reading, welcome!
As with everything else A2ndAct.org does, our blog's purpose is to support and celebrate women survivors as they give back to the greater good in their 2nd Acts. The voices here come from all over the world. Their stories will amaze you, and, we hope, inspire you to begin your own 2nd Act.
We've asked each writer the same six questions (listed below) and given them the option of sending it back as the spirit moves them: Q and A style, or narrative format.
1. What was the darkest moment in your cancer journey?
2. If you could go back and talk to your pre-cancer self, what would you say?
3. How has cancer changed you?
4. What motivated you to pursue your 2nd Act; how did you find the inspiration to do your 2nd Act?
5. What has been your brightest moment in your 2nd Act?
6. Where do you see yourself going from here?
7.What's your favorite quote and how does it fit into your 2nd Act?
Happy INSPIRED reading!


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 /Range & Endurance
Power Required and Drag vs AirspeedPower Required and Drag vs Airspeed
Range & Endurance Flying, I
Maximum range flying is done so we can fly the maximum distance for the amount of fuel onboard. This can be set against distance covered through air or over ground. It is of interest to a pilot when he wants to fly with the least amount of fuel flow for a distance traveled to save fuel.
Maximum endurance flying is done when the pilot wants to remain airborne for the maximum time possible given an amount of fuel. Waiting for the weather to clear to be able to land is an example of this practice.
Flying for maximum range or endurance can take the aircraft and maybe the pilot to their limits, do this safely and wisely.
Range performance
For maximum range flying you must operate the aircraft and engine in such a way that maximum efficiency is obtained over the distance to be flown. Do that by keeping the following factors in mind:
 - Actual takeoff weight, lesser weight means less power required
 - Wind direction and speed (velocity), a tailwind favors range
 - Air temperature, the warmer the air (lower density) the more power required
 - Altitude, higher is better for range it increases TAS, but not for endurance
 - Aircraft configuration, keeping drag as low as possible
Specific Range
We have two ways of expressing specific range: as Specific Air Range, which is air nautical miles per fuel unit (SAR) or as Specific Ground Range, which is ground nautical miles per fuel unit (SGR). These two are interconnected because SGR is SAR influenced by wind velocity.
If we would include time (hour) in these definitions then we get the following: Nautical Miles / Time = TAS (kts) and Fuel / Time = Fuel Flow (USG).
Fuel Flow
Specific Air Range (TAS / fuel flow)
To achieve the best possible SAR we need to get the best TAS / Fuel Flow ratio and as fuel flow relates to power we can also say TAS / Power ratio.
Engine gross fuel consumption or fuel flow (GFC) depends on how much power is requested related to its specific fuel consumption (SFC), thus GFC = SFC × Power. Combining these formula's results in: SAR = TAS / Power × 1 / SFC.
Thus, we need to fly the aircraft to its maximum airframe efficiency TAS / Power and engine efficiency 1 / SFC. Maximum airframe efficiency is at the speed for minimum drag or maximum L/D ratio. This is usually equal to the well known VY.
For piston aircraft the best range speed is about 10% higher, sometimes known as the 'long range cruise speed'.
As the minimum drag or maximum L/D ratio does not change with altitude (TAS and power required increase by the same amount) so therefore there is no effect on SAR. Even the IAS remains the same. Only tailwinds at altitude could mean a real advantage.
Weight does have its toll on SAR. As weight increases, the angle of attack for the best L/D ratio is at a higher IAS (thus TAS is higher), more speed means more drag and more power is required and it is out of proportion too because Power = Drag × TAS. Thus specific air range is lower with an increase of aircraft weight.
Specific Ground Range (GS / fuel flow)
To take into account the distance covered over ground we need to apply the headwind component to the true airspeed (TAS) to arrive at groundspeed (GS). It is easy to see that a tailwind favors specific range resulting in a higher SGR. GS is used to find the best SGR, thus GS / Fuel Flow or GS / Power.
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