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Belonging to the Lychnis genus, Jerusalem cross has a botanical name of Lychnis chalcedonica.
Lychnis chalcedonica is a popular ornamental plant.It is a flower that typically grows as a perennial, which is defined as a plant that matures and completes its lifecycle over the course of three years or more. Jerusalem cross is known for growing to a height of approximately 1.00 metres (3.25 feet).
Due to how easy it is to grow in a variety of conditions, Jerusalem cross is great for beginner gardeners and those that like low maintainance gardens.
This plant info is provided by the myfolia gardener's wiki. All details about Jerusalem cross have been kindly provided by our members.
These plants have been known to grow well alongside Jerusalem cross so consider planting:
These plants will not grow well with Jerusalem cross so avoid planting these within close proximity:
These problems, diseases and pests are known to affect Jerusalem cross plants:


by Rachel Oakley in New Illustration on Tuesday 17 December 2013
This neat optical illusion will have you doubting your eyes for real. These two vertical shapes are actually the same shade. No, really. Place your finger in the middle of the two and you'll see the different colors. Woah. This is what's called the Cornsweet Illusion, after 'experimental psychologist Tom Cornsweet.' And here's how it works.
When we look at something, 'we perceive its color and shading relative to other things in the area and how we perceive it's lit. In the picture here, we perceive the scene as three-dimensional, with the light source to the upper left.' Our good 'ol trusty brain then sees the upper part as lit, while the bottom shape is shadowed. Add the contrast shading between them and our brains interpret the image as two completely different colors.
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SNPs are inherited in a Mendelian fashion and are often polygenic in nature. We can think of SNPs in terms of either contributing or non-contributing alleles. A study of SNPs correlated with heart disease has shown that heart problems are severe if 8 or more of the alleles at 5 loci are of the contributing variety. What is the probability the following parents will have a child that is susceptible heart disease?
a. AaBbccDDEE x AaBbCCDdEe
b. AaBbCcDdEe x AABbCCDdEE

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The Mewlips by Richard Svensson.
The Mewlips is a nonsensical but eerie hobbit poem, appearing in the work The Adventures of Tom Bombadil by J.R.R. Tolkien. It concerns the Mewlips, an imaginary race of evil creatures that feed on passers by, collecting their bones in a sack. The poem describes the long and lonely road needed to reach the Mewlips, travelling beyond the Merlock Mountains, and through the marsh of Tode and the wood of "hanging trees and Gallows-Weed". None of these places appear on any of the maps.
The Poem
The Shadows where the Mewlips dwell
Are dark and wet as ink,
And slow and softly rings their bell,
As in the slime you sink.
You sink into the slime, who dare
To knock upon their door,
While down the grinning gargoyles stare
And noisome waters pour.
Beside the rotting river-strand
The drooping willows weep,
And gloomily the gorcrows stand
Croaking in their sleep.
Over the Merlock Mountains a long and weary way,
In a mouldy valley where the trees are grey,
By a dark pool's borders without wind or tide,
Moonless and sunless, the Mewlips hide.
The cellars where the Mewlips sit
Are deep and dank and cold
With single sickly candle lit;
And there they count their gold.
Their walls are wet, their ceilings drip;
Their feet upon the floor
Go softly with a squish-flap-flip,
As they sidle to the door.
They peep out slyly; through a crack
Their feeling fingers creep,
And when they've finished, in a sack
Your bones they take to keep.
Beyond the Merlock Mountains, a long and lonely road,
Through the spider-shadows and the marsh of Tode,
And through the wood of hanging trees and gallows-weed,
You go to find the Mewlips - and the Mewlips feed.
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In prefix notation the operator is written before its operands. Therefore, in order to print the prefix expression from an expression tree, preorder traversal is done. I.e., at every non-terminal node we do the following:
While this notation may appear unfamiliar at first, consider the result obtained when we spell out the names of the operators:
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In the summer of 1892, Porter Nye and his family set up a homestead on the south shore of Lake Bemidji.
The area was the last territory in Minnesota to be opened for settlement, and the logging boom was just beginning.
According to local lore, Nye used some of the first boards produced by a mill on the Mississippi River between Lake Bemidji and Lake Irving to build a small schoolhouse on his homestead. Nye also was the first teacher at the school.
In 1902, J. Custer Moore teamed up with Nye to plat the 16-block town site of Nye-Moore, which evolved to Nyemore and, now, Nymore. The next year, residents of the village of Nymore passed a bond issue to build a wood frame school at the corner of Fifth Street and Lincoln Avenue Southeast. The community named the school after President Abraham Lincoln.
Also operating in Nymore was the four-grade East School on the current site of Lincoln Elementary School at 1617 Fifth St. N.E.
Land speculation took off after 1910 and the original Lincoln School became overcrowded. School taxes also were inadequate to maintain the building. Lincoln School was condemned by the State Department of Education, and on March 5, 1916, the Nymore Village Council petitioned the Bemidji City Council for annexation and school consolidation.
It was noted in the Bemidji Daily Pioneer that women voted in the Nymore annexation and school consolidation referendum held later that month. An April 19, 1916, article in the Pioneer stated: "With the annexation of Nymore, a new school will be necessary. A new building will cost about $50,000."
Students started the fall 1917 semester in the new brick school at Fifth Street and Lincoln Avenue. The building is now home to Mount Zion Church.
With the consolidation of the school districts, Bemidji also supplied Nymore with a 14-passenger bus to transport students.
In 1995, Bemidji School District voters approved construction of the new Lincoln Elementary School. Site work began in 1997, and students moved in in October 1999.
On July 3, 1999, the school district held a farewell open house at the 1917 building. About 1,000 current and former students, faculty and staff participated. They toured classrooms and viewed artifacts from the school's collection.
A special artifact, the portrait of President Lincoln originally hung in 1924 in the hallway at the 414 Lincoln Ave. S.E. school, moved with the students into the current Lincoln Elementary School. He now looks down on continuing generations of Lincoln Lakers in the school lobby.
Looking to the future, Lincoln Principal Tom Kusler said he expects the school population of about 500 students to remain steady, or even modestly increase.
"We're still able to maintain the same number of sections," he said.
There are 37 teachers and 21 classrooms at Lincoln.
The big changes will be in technology, he said. This year, three fifth-grade teachers began using electronic SMART Boards in a pilot project.
"We have 19 teachers that are getting SMART Boards now," he said.
Kusler said the purchases will come from the federal Title I funds, not the Bemidji School District budget.
"I think technologies are what we're going to be getting into more and more down the road," he said.
Information for this article came from "Celebrating Lincoln School," a Lincoln School History Project, and the Beltrami County Historical Society archives.

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Minimum Sheet Metal Bending Radius: Minimum sheet metal bend radius depends on the selection of tool and the process. The more ductile the sheet metal, the smaller the inner bend radius is possible. The sheet metal design rule of thumb in this case is: The minimum bend radius for mild steel sheet metal should be equal to the thickness.
sheet metal forming processes. Bending, stretching and drawing of simple shapes are analysed, as are certain processes for forming thin-walled tubing. Where possible, the limits governing each process are identiﬁed and this entails a detailed study of tensile instability in thin sheet. When sheet metal is inserted between two such rolls, the urethane wraps the sheet metal tightly against the steel roll (similar to a radius forming urethane press brake die), and since the urethane roller is driven, the sheet metal is roll formed into a precise radius.
Sheet Metal Bending. Sheet metal bending is a forming operation. Where sheets are deformed plastically to change its shape. During bending, material is stressed beyond its yield strength but below the ultimate tensile strength. After bending total length of sheet metal is more than flat length. : Sheet Metal Forming Processes KSU -College of Engineering -IE Department 6 Unlike in deep drawing, in stretch forming the sheet metal cannot flow because it is gripped by clamps or held in a blank holder. The forming process takes place with a reduction in the thickness of the sheet metal. Pure stretch drawing is a forming process cessing. Metal forming is the main method of making metal products and semi-finished products. More than 90% of smelt-ed metal is processed by different methods of metal forming. Plastic properties of metals are used during the process of metal forming. That is the ability to change without damage the
cessing. Metal forming is the main method of making metal products and semi-finished products. More than 90% of smelt-ed metal is processed by different methods of metal forming. Plastic properties of metals are used during the process of metal forming. That is the ability to change without damage the • Stretch forming • Automotive stamping processes • Stretch forming vs. stamping • Spinning •HERF • Superplasticity • Superplastic forming • Superplastic forming with diffusion bonding Dr. M. Medraj Mech 421/6511 lecture 10/2 Stretch Forming Sheet metal is stretched and simultaneously bent to achieve shape change (1) start of... Box Bending – The process of bending a 4 sided sheet metal box. Coining – One of the three types of bending for sheet metal where the punch penetrates into the sheet metal under high tonnage forming a consistent bend. Cross Break – Light bends added to sheet metal in order to stiffen its surface. Press capacity calculation tool. Sheet metal bending is one of the most used sheet metalworking services. A lot of press capacity is needed to bend a metal sheet by a bench press. It is necessary to calculate the needed press capacity to avoid damages to the machinery. Calculation tool for air bending How to use the tool. Choose the desired... Because this book is limited to bend forming, which is the simplest of sheet metal forming operations, the basic discussion is limited to bending. It is easy to visualize the extension of friction stir processing for enhanced formability to three-dimensional forming involving various stress states.


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The temperature IoT sensor will report the measured temperature at different points in the area, which will provide better accuracy for the HVAC system to achieve the desired temperature without losing much power. Also, an unusual measured temperature will indicate the miss-use of the HVAC system, which will be automatically optimized and adapted by MindoLife building power management system.
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Le Superstizioni Italiane
(buona fortuna = good luck sfortuna = bad luck)
Italians are superstitious and they share some of the well-known beliefs such as:
a. Do not open an umbrella indoors.
b. To break a mirror will bring seven years of bad luck.
c. Do not walk under a ladder.
But there are some Italian superstitions........
1. In addition to the number 13, in Italy the number 17 is considered unlucky. If given the choice, Italians will avoid having a room number, ticket, etc. with the number 17 on it. This belief originates from Ancient Rome and the Latin word VIXI, meaning 'I lived'. In modern Italian - vissi.
In Roman numerals the number 17 is XVII and they are contained in the word VIXI. That is to say, these numerals are associated with the meaning'I have already lived' and 'I am no longer living'.
In Italy, Friday 17th. (il venerdì 17) is the most feared date.


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ISA Device Auto Configuration
A key advantage of Berkeley UNIX is its ability to configure at boot time devices present on the system. This feature, while difficult to implement on the ISA given numerous conflicts, was considered valuable and was implemented.
In Figure 10(a), we have data structures that encode all the appropriate information to configure a device in 386BSD. Each driver, which may have many devices, is able to locate and configure a device if present. The isa_device structure also contains the characteristics of each device to be recognized. If found, hardware resources can then be assigned to each device as configured. A sample table of possible devices to search for within the kernel appears in Figure 10(b).
Copyrightę1994 Willaim & Lynne Jolitz


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Chronicles of Narnia/Introduction/Beginner
Included Content
The Beginner reader is not expected to have fully explored the Chronicles of Narnia storyline. A Beginner reader is assumed to have read perhaps one or two of the books (maybe even none at all). Pages marked for Beginners include some short synopses of the book plots, brief introductions to some of the key characters in the series, and overviews of several important locations where many important events happen in the series.
Excluded Content
Much of the Chronicles of Narnia series has yet to be explored. A great majority of the character list as well as all of the chapter summaries are beyond the Beginner level.
What's Next
Once the reader has completed more of the Narnia series, the next step is the Intermediate level. The Intermediate level details much more of the storyline and is suited for a reader who has nearly completed reading the series.


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Article: A lysorophid amphibian from the Coal Measures of northern England
A description is given of the presacral vertebrae and ribs of a lysorophid amphibian from the Middle Coal Measures (Westphalian B) of Northumberland. The specimen is the earliest lysorophid yet described and is the first certainly identifiable member of the group to be recorded from any horizon outside North America. An isolated presacral vertebra from an unknown Coal Measures horizon at Low Moor, West Yorkshire, may represent additional evidence of lysorophids in the British Carboniferous. Lysorophids appear to have been present in both lacustrine and coal swamp pool environments in the Upper Carboniferous as well as surviving in'red bed' environments in the Lower Permian in North America.


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More Spurious Words
107. Interview -- as a verb is spurious. "Our reporter interviewed President Grant yesterday." "A correspondent of the Herald has interviewed Count Bismark." Instead of interview say converse with, "have an interview with," or employ some of the many other expressions which are at command.This second set of words is more familiar to us as poor word usage.
110. Lengthy -- is a barbarous combination of letters for which there is very little use. Webster suggests that its application be limited to writings, discourse, etc. There is certainly no need of it anywhere else. Say long.
115. Reliable -- is much condemned by critics. Trustworthy is its proper substitute, and is undubtedly a better word. Authentic also may often take its place....Many writers pronounce emphatically and very dogmatically against reliable. It has, however, obtained general currency with writers and speakers as well instructed in language as they, and will probably carry the day against them.
105. Experimentalize -- is improper and unnecessary. Say, "experiment, or make an experiment.To this list I would like to add pressurize when used to mean to pressure someone into doing something they would rather not do. I have heard and seen this a little too often for comfort. Wood and air are pressurized. People are pressured.
113. Preventative. -- Say preventive.
117. Rotatory. -- Say rotary.
NOTE: I just looked up both words in the dictionary (The Random House Dictionary of the English Language. New York: Random House, 1966.) While my explanation is correct, the word pressurize appears under pressure as a synonym with no explanation as to its usage. Look up pressurize and it's there.


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The following three items are common concerns registered with the township office:
- Property Maintenance: high grass, weeds, rubbish, etc.
- Zoning: vehicles without a current state inspection, registration, or license plate on private property.
- Ordinance: animal concerns (such as dogs), noise, etc.
The process for filing a concern is:
- Submit a Resident Concern Form. Click here for the form, or pick one up at the township office.
- Mail or drop off the form, or a written letter, to the attention of Tom Daniels, Zoning Officer, 1240 Maple Avenue, Lancaster, PA 17603, or
- Send your concern by email to Gretchen Smith _EMAIL_ or Tom Daniels _EMAIL_
The concern should include the name, address, and telephone number of the person registering it. The township is not obligated to process anonymous concerns, but will consider them on a case by case basis. Public health and safety issues should be reported under any circumstances.
When a concern is founded, the township office will follow procedure in order to resolve the matter. At times, these procedures can be lengthy. The township will do its best to keep the lines of communication open and resolve the matter as soon as possible.
It's always a good policy to talk with your neighbor first when there is a problem. Most residents prefer to have a neighbor approach them personally instead of receiving an official violation notice from the township.


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Ways curator Anne R. Pasternak, the exhibit is an installation commemorating the 20th anniversary of the "Manifeste de 343," a French public declaration in 1971 stating all the signatories had had abortions, the most celebrated of whom included Simone de Beauvoir, Catherine Deneuve, Marguerite Duras, Gisèle Halimi, Bernadette Lafont, Françoise Sagan, Agnès Varda, Jeanne Moreau, Brigitte Bardot, and scores of other prominent women in the arts. That manifesto opens with the lines, "One million women in France have an abortion every year. Condemned to secrecy, they have them in dangerous conditions when this procedure, performed under medical supervision, is one of the simplest. These women are veiled in silence. I declare that I am one of them. I have had an abortion. Just as we demand free access to birth control, we demand the freedom to have an abortion.
"The Abortion Project doubled the Manifeste's number, collecting 686 signatures of women in the arts, which was enlarged and painted in red directly on the gallery walls. The second part of the exhibit consists of artworks by 40 women artists who have long been involved with issues of gender and women's rights that had been shown at Simon Watson Gallery, in New York. They included Barbara Kruger, Adrian Piper, Lorna Simpson, Kiki Smith and Nancy Spero. The third part of the show featured "The Abortion Project Anthology," a publication featuring the work of women poets, artists and writers, including Laura Cottingham, Eileen Miles, Jill Rappaport, Kaye Rosen, Christine Sanders and Lynne Tillman. Besides Artists Space and Real Artways, the Abortion Project was also installed at New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA, and at Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY, where it stirred considerable controversy with the city's conservative press and the religious right.
1991: The collective of queer women artists known as Fierce Pussy is formed to bring lesbian identity and visibility into AIDS activism and street demonstrations throughout the 1990s. Although composed of successive waves of lesbian activists, Nancy Brooks Brody, Joy Episalla, Zoe Leonard, and Carrie Yamaoka have made up the core membership.
_PHONE_: Felix Gonzalez-Torres, the conceptual sculptor who in January 1996 died of AIDS at age 38, combined his personal experiences with public conceptual art installations. In one exhibit, he piled wrapped candy in a corner and invited viewers to take one, replenished from an "endless supply," an idyllic sentiment exemplary of a desire for heaven on earth. Yet his art is anything but sentimental. His billboard installations of the early 1990s displaying the photographic images of his empty bed are simple facts of loss as much as they are tributes to his lover lost to AIDS in a public gesture that directs his grief into the collective that receives all private life events as political motivations and ends. In some of Gonzalez-Torres' minimalist candy installations the weight of the candy is to equal his lover's weight, other's his own weight, and still others the weight of both men combined. In the above installation, the candy is to be maintained at 1200 pounds.
_PHONE_: General Idea, the trio of artists whose queer art has been internationally exhibited since the early 1970s, would become decimated by the HIV virus, with two of its members, Jorge Zontel and Felix Partz, dying only months apart from each other in 1995. Surviving member, AA Bronson, has since gone on to make an art of post-science shamanism geared for a generation seeking a healing that science has so far shown itself incapable of supplying. (See more about General Idea and their iconic AIDS art in Part 4, When the Personal Is Made Political: Left Political Art Timeline, _PHONE_.)
1992: Artist and writer David Wojnarowicz died of AIDS-related causes. Although feminists in the 1970s had widely disseminated the notion of the person being political, as late as the mid 1980s, few male artists, gay or straight, made his personal life the center of his work as acutely and ultimately as tragically as had David Wojnarowicz. Then, too, it appears that Wojnarowicz's work from the very beginning emerged directly from his personal experience. He claimed that he didn't study art history, didn't go to college, and he was begrudged for not being an art world networker. And so he made his art about the things he knew: his boyhood; his sexuality; life on the street; and witnessing his body as it progressively fell victim to the HIV virus. A prolific and impassioned writer, the text of his art work, When I Put My Hands On Your Body, overlain the image of excavated graves, speaks as freshly these years after his death as when he wrote them.
"When I put my hands on your body on your flesh I feel the history of that body. Not just the beginning of its forming in that distant lake but all the way beyond its ending. I feel the warmth and texture and simultaneously I see the flesh unwrap from the layers of fat and disappear. I see the fat disappear from the muscle. I see the muscle disappearing from around the organs and detaching itself from the bones. I see the organs gradually fade into transparency leaving a gloaming skeleton gleaming like ivory that slowly revolves until it becomes dust. I am consumed in the sense of your weight the way your flesh occupies momentary space the fullness of it beneath my palms. I am amazed at how perfectly your body fits to the curves of my hands. If I could attach our blood vessels so we could become each other I would. If I could attach our blood vessels in order to anchor you to the earth to this present time to me I would. If I could open up your body and slip inside your skin and look out your eyes and forever have my lips fused with yours I would. It makes me weep to feel the history of your flesh beneath my hands in a time of so much loss. It makes me weep to feel the movement of your flesh beneath my palms as you twist and turn over to one side to create a series of gestures to reach up around my neck to draw me nearer. All these memories will be lost in time like tears in the rain."
_PHONE_: After being diagnosed with lymphoma, Hanah Wilke took to documenting her treatment of the disease and ultimately her death. Called the INTRA-VENUS series, Wilke created a monument that speaks for more than the feminism she for twenty years had represented with her art. Each successive photo and video makes it increasingly obvious that Wilke defied the societal convention of dying silently and away from view. She ignored the pity, disgust, and sentimentalism that so many people attach to death and dying, just as she refused misery and bitterness to overwhelm her life's work's. All this is the Personal is Political taken to its culmination. As did Camus in his writing, Wilke took a stand on death by imposing on it her choice of making death part of her art. This is a political act as much as it is for many a spiritual act, or just a living act. Wilke died on January 28, 1993. During the later stages of her illness, she collaborated with her husband, Donald Goddard, on a series of photographs documenting the realities of her physical and mental transformation.
Consensus has it that the artist Wolfgang Staehle was the first net host to sponsor an artsite online when he founded The Thing in 1991 in New York. Although it's capacity was limited to that of a bulletin board system (BBS), Staehle had a vision that the net would become something of a production, conferencing, and distribution platform for artists and art cognoscenti--in essence a net art world for the conceptual artist. He went on to establish The Thing Cologne in 1992, and The Thing Vienna in 1993. From there, other artists and curators entered the art net frey as the net became increasingly capacious. äda'web, curated by Benjamin Weil, went online in 1994, as did Plexus under Stephen Pusey's administration, Antonio Muntadas' comprehensive online archive of censorship cases known as The File Room and net.art, which under Vuk Ćosić became a hub for European artists, also appeared in 1994.
New technologies invariably renew utopian yearnings. Politically, the artist versed in institutional critique saw in the net the capacity to outmaneuver the gallery system, to eliminate the middle man---the curator and gallery dealer. Access was the dream that suddenly seemed attainable. As with any new technology, expectations ran high. With artists' entry to the internet and later the world wide web, art wouldn't only reach its democratic apogee in terms of production and distribution. Art would become nomadically composed and predisposed with the aid of a technology of unlimited data retrieval and sharing that reflects the human neurological system and its cognitive functions. Allowing us to randomly roam from conceptual model to conceptual model--say between the visual and the textual, the personal and the public, the rational and the poetic. As a result we adapt more quickly to diversity and change, become expert at identifying, even understanding interpretations not initially our own, and look forward to their surprises rather than react defensively to differences. All of which is to say that artists saw the net as affording a world of models--concepts and imagery--


text: The present paper assesses the impacts of renewable energy generation and globalization on income inequality in Argentina. We make use of vector autoregression models. We find that globalization and hydroelectric power increase inequality, while the opposite holds true for other renewable energy sources. Several robustness checks are considered. Policy implications are discussed keeping into account the specific Argentinean context.


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Production volumes have been steep due to low interest rates. Lenders across the industry are overwhelmed by the surge in demand and have no choice but to find ways to scale up to handle the influx of applications. Servicers are also looking for ways to scale on their end, as borrowers continue to reach out with questions about forbearance, loss mitigation and next steps.
However, the low-rate environment won't last forever, and both lenders and servicers need to be able to keep their costs down while managing volume fluctuations once things start to normalize. This white paper will explore how lenders can increase capacity, and why they should now.


Guide to Banking in France
Welcome to our comprehensive guide using a French bank.
A bank account in France is indispensable for any owner of French property.
Most banks in France have English speaking staff available, so the formalities can generally be accomplished with relative ease, although you will be required to produce a large amount of documentation.
Neither is a basic bank account in France expensive to run, provided you do it the right way.
In this guide we consider the important preliminary steps - which bank to use, including internet banks, the procedure for opening a bank account - as well as a consideration of how to manage your account, including an outline of the procedures for direct debits and international bank transfers
We also examine the range of bank savings accounts in France, together.
 1. Introduction
 2. Which Bank?
 3. Opening a Bank Account
 4. Managing Your Account
 5. French Bank Cards
 6. French Cheques
 7. Transfer money to France
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 9. Savings Accounts
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A team of volunteers from WRc participated in the Earth Summit on 28th-31st May 2012.
The Earth Summit is an annual event organised by the National Trust. Its aim is for year 5 pupils across Swindon to learn about sustainable living. Approximately 500 children from 11 schools attend workshops on a variety of issues, from renewable energy to recycling, and from transport to fair trade.
WRc presented the workshop called Water Matters in conjunction with Thames Water. It included activities to encourage the pupils to think about where water comes from and the processes that are required to treat water. These discussions prompted ideas about what actions the children and their families could take to reduce their water consumption. They were also given the opportunity to make water filters to test different filtration materials and observe which ones were most effective.
The event took place at the National Trust Estate in Coleshill, which has acres of land in which the children could learn as well as enjoy the great outdoors and the event was a resounding success!
For further information contact Jayne Matwiejczyk at _EMAIL_ or 01793 865075.


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We integrate the flow of knowledge and resources across multiple political jurisdictions, policy spheres, sectors and bioregions.
We use integration to help draw attention to fair and green dimensions of sustainable food systems. Consideration is given to marginalized populations and regions, particularly remote Aboriginal communities, urban youth, and new immigrant populations in Canada, the US, and the EU. Food system explorations that can contribute to community resilience include traditional knowledge-based intiatives, urban agriculture, social enterprise and metraila dn knowledge flows in bioregions.
Existing work suggests a regional perspective helps to better understand how food systems function and can help dismantle barriers across jurisdictions, policies and sectors. FLEdGE is focused on maximizing community/regional capacity in economic, social and environmental terms.
As well, we facilitate robust knowledge building and dissemination to enhance collaboration and the co-creation of knowledge for practitioners, policy-makers and academics dealing with sustainable food system complexities.


Creating cross-item reports
You can generate reports across items in the same container (such as workspaces). Only the containers for which you are authorized can be selected. For Shared reports, users' access to the report data will be limited in the same way, based on their assigned permissions. If you edit a cross-item report to remove any column, the existing filters will be reset, so instead, hide the columns and the filters will remain unchanged.
To create a cross-item report
 1. Click Service Analytics.
 The Service Analytics utility opens in a new window.
 2. Select New > Cross Item.
 3. In the Report Setup section:
 1. In the Record Type field, select an item.
 2. In the Title field, type a descriptive name for this report.
 3. (Optional) In the Description field, add any notes to explain the purpose of this report.
 4. (Optional) To allow other users to access this report, in the Report Visibility Is field, select Shared.
 If you accept the default of Private, no other users can access this report. If you select Shared, only users authorized with at least read-only rights to the selected workspace can view this report.
 5. (Optional) If you want this report to be available as a console widget, in the Make Available In field, select Consoles.
 The options in the Configurations and Filters sections vary based on your selections in the Report Setup section.
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 When the search is saved, click the Refresh icon next to this field to update the list.
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 2. (Optional) In the Descriptions to include field, select whether to include All Descriptions, First Description, Last Description, or First and Last Description
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How Can a Champaign/Urbana Office Remove Fire Odors Before Reopening?
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The odors left behind after fire damage in a Champaign/Urbana business can be significant; because soot can be caustic to surfaces and airborne particles can cause issues, it is crucial to get them removed before reopening. SERVPRO technicians have a multi-layered approach to fire clean-up, which includes:
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SERVPRO techs have different types of fire odor removal processes depending on the part of the business getting treated. Hydroxyl generators are beneficial for eradicating airborne particulates that cause pungent odors. This method of odor control is safe for use around people and plants. When the technicians use thermal fogging to neutralize odors, the building needs to be cleared of people, and the technician wears protective clothing. The heated solutions permeate porous items such as reception area furnishings and carpet, where it latches onto smoke molecules and eradicates them.
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Text::Tabs performs the same job that the unix expand(1) and unexpand(1) commands do: adding or removing tabs from a document. Text::Wrap::wrap() will reformat lines into paragraphs. All it does is break up long lines, it will not join short lines together. Text::Fill::fill() will reformat blocks of text into paragraphs. It uses Text::Wrap::wrap() to do the work Install them with: perl Makefile.PL make make test make install


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Emotional memory in bipolar disorder: Impact of multiple episodes and childhood trauma
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BACKGROUND: Emotional memory is a critical amygdala-dependent cognitive function characterized by enhanced memory for emotional events coupled with retrograde amnesia. Our study aims to assess the influence of bipolar disorder (BD), trauma, and the number of mood episodes on emotional memory. METHODS: 53 subjects (33 euthymic patients with BD and 20 healthy controls) answered a clinical assessment, childhood trauma questionnaire (CTQ), and an emotional memory test composed of lists of nouns, including neutral words, one emotional (E), one preceding (E-1) and one following word (E + 1). We assessed for the influence of type, position, diagnosis, trauma, and number of mood episodes in word recall using generalized estimating equations. RESULTS: Controlling for neutral words, BD had a higher recall for E-1 (p = 0.038) and a trend for a higher recall of E (p = 0.055). There was no difference between patients with and without trauma. Patients with BD who suffered multiple mood episodes had a higher recall of E compared to patients with fewer episodes (p = 0.016). LIMITATIONS: Cross-sectional design and small sample size. CONCLUSION: Our results indicate dysfunction in emotional memory in patients with BD, particularly after multiple mood episodes. While we expected an impaired emotional memory, patients with BD showed an increased recall for emotional stimuli and events preceding them. Childhood trauma does not seem to interfere with emotional memory changes in patients with BD. Emotional memory enhancement seems to be a promising marker of progression in BD.
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Used to send a bulk email campaign. It supports scheduling of the campaign (if a schedule is not specified, the message is queued up immediately).
- string SendNewsletter(string accessKey, int listID, int newsletterID, Option options)
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- newsletterID: Id of the message returned by the WS_MailUpSend.CreateNewsletter
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- from_email: a string containing the sender email address. If not specified, the default value for the list will be used
- from_name: a string containing the sender name. If not specified, the default value for the list will be used
- clear_stats: a boolean value to enable/disable the deletion of statistics referred to previous mailings of the same message
- send_to: a mandatory string indicating to whom the message will be sent. If send_to=ALL the message is sent to all subscribers, if send_to=RECIPIENTS the message is sent to specific email addresses, if send_to=GROUPS the message is sent to subscribers to specific groups
- recipients: a string indicating the recipients of the message. Its content depends on the value assumed by "send_to". If send_to = ALL, "recipients" parameter is ignored and the message is sent to all the recipients in the list; if send_to=RECIPIENTS, "recipients" parameter contains a list of email addresses separated by the ";" character; if send_to=GROUPS, the "recipients" parameter contains the IDs of the recipient groups, separated by the ";" character
- exclude: a string containing the IDs of the groups to be excluded from the sending, separated by the ";" character
- filters: a string containing the IDs of the filters separated by the ";" character, to be used to retrieve the recipients of the message
- filters_as: a string indicating how to apply the filters: if filters_as=AND, all the conditions in the filters have to be met; if filters_as=OR, at least one of them
- deliverydt: a string containing date and time of scheduled delivery, in the format yyyyMMddHHmmss. If not specified, the sending starts immediately, and in case another sending is in progress the message is queued
- timezone: an integer indicating the time zone
- campo1… campo = in case the "recipients" parameter contains a list of email addresses, you can indicate one or more personal data fields to be updated. Each option "campo" is a string containing the values for the personal data field referred to the email addresses indicated in the "recipients" parameter. Values must be separated by the ";" character
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Now let's assume that you want to pass to the system the recipients' first and last name as part of the API call. Let's also assume that those fields are saved in the first two Recipient fields (campo1 and campo2). The API call will have to include 3 items for each semi-colon separated array of values:
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The Art of Lèse Majesté
Monarchs claim to be surrounded by an aura of majesty. Cartoon historian Mark Bryant examines some famous incidents when a caricaturist's pen punctured this aura and revealed the lack of a sense of humour in high places.
From the beginning of Victoria's reign until the 1960s, political cartoonists and caricaturists in Britain were remarkably respectful towards the royal family. Indeed Punch (founded in 1841) rarely even published cartoons featuring the monarch. Gone were the days of Rowlandson, Cruikshank and others who had mercilessly lampooned Victoria's uncle, George IV, and were fined and even imprisoned for such acts. Victoria had said 'We are not amused' and that seemed to be an end of it until Private Eye and Spitting Image came on the scene more than a century later.
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Collecting pop tabs helps Ronald McDonald House Charities (RMHC) pay the bills so moms and dads need not worry about where to stay while their children are in the hospital. The program is an easy way for people of all ages to support RMHC and make a difference for families and children.
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Pop tabs are small, making them easy to collect and store. It's amazing how something so small can make a difference. Last year, friends of RMHC pulled pop tabs and raised thousands of dollars to help children and their families.
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Ronald McDonald Houses collect pop tabs instead of entire aluminum cans because it's more hygenic to store tabs than cans, and collection and storage is easier. The pop tab is pure aluminum, but the can contains paint and other residue.
Pop tabs remind us of an important lesson: even little things make a big difference.
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Natural selection in populations subject to a migration load
Migration tends to oppose the effects of divergent natural selection among populations. Numerous theoretical and empirical studies have demonstrated that this migrationselection balance constrains genetic divergence among populations. In contrast, relatively few studies have examined immigration's effects on fitness and natural selection within recipient populations. By constraining local adaptation, migration can lead to reduced fitness, known as a migration load, which in turn causes persistent natural selection. We develop a simple two‐island model of migrationselection balance that, although very general, also reflects the natural history of Timema cristinae walking‐stick insects that inhabit two host plant species that favor different cryptic color patterns. We derive theoretical predictions about how migration rates affect the level of maladaptation within populations (measured as the frequency of less‐cryptic color‐pattern morphs), which in turn determines the selection differential (the within‐generation morph frequency change). Using data on color morph frequencies from 25 natural populations, we confirm previous results showing that maladaptation is higher in populations receiving more immigrants. We then present novel evidence that this increased maladaptation leads to larger selection differentials, consistent with our model. Our results provide comparative evidence that immigration elevates the variance in fitness, which in turn leads to larger selection differentials, consistent with Fisher's Theorem of Natural Selection. However, we also find evidence that recurrent adult migration between parapatric populations may tend to obscure the effects of selection.
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I'm running an application that can't be resized by any means. The text drawn on the application is too small so I tried to use the magnifier to make my screen bigger but I've noticed that 200% zoom level gives you a substantially clearer picture than 150%.
What is the reason for this? Is there any way I can make my 150% zoom level more clear (as 200% is an overkill)? If not, are there any other alternatives I can freely zoom inside the screen without losing too much clarity?
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You mean by interpolation? – DragonLord Oct 2 '12 at 0:02
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200% (2x) zoom allows for simple pixel doubling, while 150% (1.5x) requires a more complex rescale algorithm; there's really no way to change this. Another application might do the resize to 150% in a different way that produces a clearer result than what you're using now, but you're always going to see a clearer result with an integral zoom factor (2x or 3x vs. 1.5x or 2.5x).
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As Aaron explained, it is a simple matter of math. That is, while doubling, tripling, etc. results in each pixel simply being enlarged (each pixel becomes a block of four, nine, etc. pixels), scaling by 1.25x, etc. gives fractional results.
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For example, if you want to magnify an area of the screen that is 10 pixels wide, doubling it is simply a matter of making a 20-pixel—wide area and copying each source pixel twice. But what happens if you want to make it 1.5x? You have to make an image that is 15 pixels wide, but since there are no half-pixels (sub-pixel rendering notwithstanding), you have to double every other pixel.
Now imagine trying to zoom to 175%. You would have to make an image that is 17.5 pixels wide. Wait, what‽ How do you make a 17.5-pixel—wide image? You can't! You have to round it to either 17 or 18 pixels wide, then double only some of the pixels using some even more messy formula. This makes the result even more unpleasant to look at and difficult to read.
Your best bet is to use a different program which uses advanced math to scale it nicely, similar to how emulators often employ different filters to scale low-resolution video-game consoles to high-resolution monitors.
Sadly, there don't currently seem to be any Windows zoom/magnification tools that support both fractional zooming and advanced filtering (my go-to tool, Xoomer turns out to not support either). I do know of a couple of a few programs that have potential:
 - Mooz has a nice, minimal interface with good results, but zooming doesn't seem to work, so I cannot tell if it can do fractional zooming.
 - On Screen Magnifier has lots of fancy features including numerous filters that can make the results look smooth and great, and it does have fractional zooming, but only for down-scaling! That is, shrinking to less than 1x (which no other magnification tool I can find does).
 - Virtual Magnifying Glass has a lot of features as well. The only fractional zoom level it supports is 1.5x (which is still more than other tools), and while it looks much better than the Windows Magnifier at 1.5x, it could be better with some filtering).
While none of these quite fit the bill, the bright side is that the above tools are all open-source and available on SourceForge, so you can easily put in a feature request to have them add the necessary features.
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Sometimes seeing a shadow can be as good or better than seeing the real thing. A new measurement method* developed by researchers working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is a case in point. The method uses the shadow cast by a small glass probe to infer the dimensions of tiny, microscale holes or other micrometer-sized components. The technique may provide an improved quality control method for measuring the interior dimensions of fuel nozzles, fiber optic connectors, biomedical stents, ink jet cartridges and other precision-engineered products.
Designed to be implemented with the type of coordinate measuring machine (CMM) routinely used in precision manufacturing settings, the method uses a flexible glass fiber with a microsphere attached on one end. The glass probe is attached to the CMM's positioning system, inserted into the part to be measured, and systematically touched to the part's interior walls in multiple locations. A light-emitting diode is used to illuminate the glass fiber. While the microsphere inside the part is not visible, the shadow of the attached fiber—with a bright band of light at its center—shows the amount of deflection in the probe each time the part's interior is touched. A camera records the shadow positions. Based on prior calibration of the force required to bend the probe a specific distance, the part's dimensions can be determined with an uncertainty of about 35 nanometers (nm). The method can be used for holes as small as 100 micrometers in diameter.
"Our probe has a much smaller measurement uncertainty than other available methods and it is very cost effective to make," says Bala Muralikrishnan, a NIST guest researcher from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
The thin, glass fiber is about 20 millimeters long and 50 micrometers in diameter, making it especially useful for measuring relatively deep holes not easily measured with other methods. Replacement probes cost about $100 compared to about $1,000 for those manufactured using silicon micromachining techniques.
*B. Muralikrishnan, J.A. Stone and J. R. Stoup. Measuring internal geometry of fiber ferrules. Presented at the SME MicroManufacturing Conference, Minneapolis, Minn., May 4-5, 2005.


text: The'management' of midlife women's bodies is becoming an increasingly important focus for both themselves and medical 'experts'. Health technologies play a major part in this process, given health promotion messages about their usefulness for maintaining and enhancing the quality of life. But how do individual women interpret such messages? This paper explores the factors that impact upon health decision making in relation to a group of these technologies. In particular, we examine how related risks are assessed by women themselves and jointly with health professionals, in the clinical context. Drawing upon literature from the sociology of the body and embodiment, debates about risk and feminist research on the menopause, we argue that midlife needs to be understood as an embodied experience and that women's decisions about technology-based health interventions need to be contextualised. The paper draws upon research data from interviews with individual women and health professionals, and recordings of clinical consultations which relate to the specific technologies of HRT, bone densitometry and breast screening. The data reveal the emergence of two major risk narratives within consultations and interviews, health risks and social risks. We conclude that the health decisions and practices of both lay women and health professionals reflect a complex mixture of expert knowledge and advice, and embodied cultural experience.


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Akshaya Tritiya, or Akha Teej, is a highly auspicious day which falls on the third day after Amavasi (no moon) in the Hindu month of Vaishakha. Akshaya Tritiya 2014 date is May 2. As per Hindu astrology and almanac, each second on the Akshaya Trithiya day is auspicious. It is said that there is no need to look for a 'muhurat' on the day. The word Akshaya means 'that which never diminishes' and the day is ideal for beginning new ventures as it is believed that all investments on this day appreciates.
In a traditional Hindu lunar calendar, Akshay Tritiya is observed on the third day of Shukla Paksha (waxing phase of moon) in Vaishakh Month.
It is believed that the sun and the moon are most radiant and best placed on the day. Therefore it is one of the most popular dates in Hindu calendar for marriages, for beginning new ventures, for investing and for purchasing valuables like gold and diamond.
Parashuram Jayanti is also observed on Akshaya Tritiya day. There are numerous legends associated with Akshaya Tritiya; most popular is that of Sudama or Kuchela visiting Lord Krishna in Dwarka with a handful of beaten rice (poha or aval).
Another legend suggests that the Pandavas received the Akshaya Pathram (bowl) from Lord Krishna (in the Mahabharata) on this day.
It is also believed that Sage Vyasa began the composition of Mahabharata on the day.
Lord Vishnu and his incarnations are worshipped on the day. People also conduct Lakshmi puja on Akshaya Tritiya.
But nowadays, Akshaya Trithiya is associated with gold purchase and many people wait for the day to make investments in gold.
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GRASS GSoC 2012 Image Segmentation
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|Mentor Name:||Mentor: Markus Metz (backup mentors: M Lennert, P Roudier)|
GRASS GIS has many imagery related processing capabilities, but the field is rapidly developing and many techniques are not yet implemented. The goal of this GSoC project is to implement the region growing image segmentation algorithm.
Input: Raster map(s) to be segmented (plus optional vector map for a constraint)
Output: To include segmented regions with statistics. This information can be directly used or taken as input to existing image classification modules.
Image classification techniques already implemented in GRASS GIS include supervised and unsupervised classification. Classification of images based on pixels can often be very noisy. By first segmenting the image, later classification of 'objects' can be more effective. Noise is reduced, classification speed is increased, and most importantly the classification is performed on objects instead of pixels. The Image classification. Furthermore, the module in GRASS-addons uses internally the Mumford-Shah variational model for image segmentation.module does include a segmentation step (based on Gaussian mixture distribution), but there does not exist a module intended to segment the image and provide segment data for general use. A summary of the existing methods implemented in GRASS are at
- Boundary Based
- optimal edge detector +
- watershed +
- Region Based
- multilevel thresholding technique +
- region growing +
- Combined boundary/region (is this a correct category for these two?)
Carleer et.al. reviewed 4 methods (marked with + above). Boundary based methods are sensitive to noise and texture, and usually depend on good pre-processing. (Does GRASS already have this pre-processing/filtering?) Good results with urban zones, high contrast. Both region based methods had difficulty with transition zones. Region growing was less sensitive to texture (good for high resolution (1m) images). Multi-level techniques are the only way to get all objects without over-segmentation.
I don't recall the source, but I read in one place that mean-shift could be difficult to apply to very large images, and elsewhere it was mentioned watershed sees more use in greyscale images.
As additional algorithm's are added to the module, attention should be given to diversify so algorithms with different strengths are implemented first.
All(?) methods have some input parameter(s) that can be set. These parameters influence if the algorithm will over-segment (one expected region is divided into 2 or more segments) or under-segment (putting two expected regions into one segment). If the segments are used for later classification, over-segmentation should usually get preference to under-segmentation. With extensive over-segmentation, some of the advantages provided by segmentation can be lost, but at least the classification can combine the segments into the expected region. Under-segmentation is more critical, as the classification step will not divide the segment to recover the different regions. (Based on a summary of a number of papers from )
In order to respond to the issue of over/under-segmentation, a multiscalar approach would be interesting. This would mean either a top-down approach with a first coarse segmentation (under-segmentation) and the finer segmentation in selected segments, or a bottom-up approach with first a very fine-grained segmentation (over-segmentation) and the regrouping of segments to form higher levels. The first approach can be solved by doing a first segmentation, using certain segments as masks and then relaunching a second segmentation. The second approach requires an algorithm to decide which segments should be combined in a larger higher-level segments. A simple nearest neighbor or kmeans approach based on spectral mean can be used here. In terms of implementation in GRASS, this would probably call for several modules, one for the segmentation, and another for grouping of segments. The latter could be an all-purpose clustering module (and can also be emulated by simple data analysis in the attribute table +).
It can sometimes be interesting to do a first segmentation on one band (e.g. panchromatic with higher resolution) and then regroup segments based on multispectral data (possibly weighting bands).
Implement an image segmentation method to extend the available options for image processing in GRASS. The region growing method has been selected as a robust general purpose method. An important contribution of the new method will be to include vector maps (for example road networks) as a constraint in growing the segments. Output from the module will include Spectral (mean/variance/range/ect) and Spatial (area/shape/location/etc) data for each region.
- General considerations
- The general principle in GRASS is KISS, with each module doing one thing. It is to be seen if the result of this project is one single module or rather more than one module each specialised in one task in a segmentation workflow.
- As soon as code is to be (potentially) used in several modules, the use of a library should be envisaged.
- Be able to process large images while being considerate of system memory
- in the GRASS logic, input should be an image group, or even image subgroup, which can contain any number of raster maps, but generally satellite or areal images that are pre-processed and ready for analysis (i.e. no pre-processing in the module)
- optionally vector maps of existing features
- lines (be it linear features or boundary lines of polygons) should be used as constraints meaning that no segment boundary should cross such a line
- centroids/points to be used as initial seeds
- What segmentation algorithm to use
- Parameters for that algorithm
- Distance function to use. (RGB, HSI, L*u*v*, L*a*b*) Should this be input??
- Algorithm of segmentation
- in GSoC implementation of only one algorithm
- code should be structured to allow easy implementation of additional algorithms
- multi-scalar segmentation can significantly improve results and should thus be implemented if possible (see i.smap code for example)
- raster map of segments (i.e. each pixel value represents id of segment the pixel belongs to)
- one vector map of segments per hierarchy level with a series of attributes (not all of these attributes should probably be calculated directly be the segmentation module)
- spectral attributes:
- per spectral band: mean, min, max, skewness
- combination of bands: brightness, indices (i.e. results of multi-band calculations)
- textural attributes: stdev (per-band and/or multi-band), mean difference to neighbor, Haralick texture features cf
- geometric/morphological attributes: area, perimeter, length/width measures, see also
- context attributes: mean difference to all other regions in the same upper hierarchical level, relative localisation within upper hierarchical level, absolute localisation, number of objects in lower level
- spectral attributes:
- depending on segmentation algorithm: raster map indicating for each pixel the probability of belonging to the segment it was put into, i.e. some measure of reliability of results
Will the user want input for the color space (RGB, HSI, L*u*v*, L*a*b*)? (I saw one paper discussing pro/con of different systems, "best" answer is application dependent.)
The results of the implemented algorithm should be compared against the results of a similar algorithm implement in other software. The North Carolina GRASS sample location will be used for documentation and manuals.
Carleer used images with 1m resolution from Ikonos, panchromatic band from 08 June 2000, Brussels area.
Should check segmentation results on images from a few different resolutions and different numbers of bands against what is obtained in other software.
Is there a benchmark for processing speed that should be considered?
Preparation: Gather ideas from the community! Feature requests, image segmentation literature, and any other ideas and suggestions.
- May 21: Start coding, 8 weeks until Midterm Evaluation
- Week 1: Develop pseudocode to outline the work
- Week 2-4: Implement the main algorithm
- Week 5: Add vector maps as a constraint to the segmentation
- Week 6: Validation
- Week 7: Debugging
- Week 8: Contingency time for finishing the above, ensure a solid main program.
- July 9: Midterm Evaluation: Evaluate the existing program, determine the plan for the remaining 3-4 weeks. Options include:
- Improving the main algorithm
- Adding control for what scale the segmentation is performed at
- Providing updates to to ensure the segmentation output can be used as input for the existing classification functionality
- Adding a second image segmentation algorithm
Region Growing Algorithm
Here is (a start!) for the processing steps, based on SPRING
Region Growing, bottom up processing. Main improvement compared to simple algorithm is to slowly lower the similarity function, so only best matches are made first. This prevents the "first" segment from taking over any unclear areas between it and the next clear segment.
- Seeds: all pixels (Later addition can be alternate seeding methods)
- Comparison function T(t)... as t increases, threshold for similarity is lower. SPRING used:, where T(0) > ), t =0,1,2... and alpha <1
- Size of smallest allowed area
2. Loop for t
- initialize candidate regions, save mean value vector and neighboring regions (Not sure why this needs to be calculated/saved ahead of time??)
3. For each region i in candidate region set (first pass this equals


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Many commutative algebra textbooks establish that every ideal of a ring is contained in a maximal ideal by appealing to Zorn's lemma, which I dislike on grounds of non-constructivity. For Noetherian rings I'm told one can replace Zorn's lemma with countable choice, which is nice, but still not nice enough - I'd like to do without choice entirely.
So under what additional hypotheses on a ring $R$ can we exhibit one of its maximal ideals while staying in ZF? (I'd appreciate both hypotheses on the structure of $R$ and hypotheses on what we're given in addition to $R$ itself, e.g. if $R$ is a finitely generated algebra over a field, an explicit choice of generators.)
Edit: I guess it's also relevant to ask whether there are decidability issues here.
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My memory is that "every ring has a maximal ideal" is equivalent to AC so there are hence decidability issues. – Kevin Buzzard Nov 28 '09 at 8:00
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I suspect that the most general reasonable answer is a ring endowed with a constructive replacement for what the axiom of choice would have given you.
How do you show in practice that a ring is Noetherian? Either explicitly or implicitly, you find an ordinal height for its ideals. Once you do that, an ideal of least height is a maximal ideal. This suffices to show fairly directly that any number field ring has a maximal ideal: The norms of elements serve as a Noetherian height.
The Nullstellensatz implies that any finitely generated ring over a field is constructively Noetherian in this sense.
Any Euclidean domain is also constructively Noetherian, I think. A Euclidean norm is an ordinal height, but not at first glance one with the property that $a|b$ implies that $h(a) \le h(b)$ (with equality only when $a$ and $b$ are associates). However, you can make a new Euclidean height $h'(a)$ of $a$, defined as the minimum of $h(b)$ for all non-zero multiples $b$ of $a$. I think that this gives you a Noetherian height.
I'm not sure that a principal ideal domain is by itself a constructive structure, but again, usually there is an argument based on ordinals that it is a PID.
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I'm not sure I understand what "constructively Noetherian" means. It seems like it should mean: given a recursive set S of elements of R, give an algorithm to find a finite subset T of R such that = . But I worry that even Z is not constructively Noetherian in this sense. Take for instance the ideal generated by the set x_n = 2^n + e_n, where e_n = 0 if the nth Fourier coefficient of \Delta is nonzero and e_n = 1 otherwise. Then finding a finite generating set for <{x_n}> is equivalent to resolving Lehmer's Conjecture. – Pete L. Clark Nov 29 '09 at 7:45
Of course it can mean more than one thing. What I mean by it is an order-preserving map from ideals (under reverse inclusion) to ordinals. So that the inductive structure of set of the ideals is constructive. As you argue, it does not really mean that their entire structure is constructive. – Greg Kuperberg Nov 29 '09 at 16:09
OK, let's look at the condition on a commutative ring R that there exist an ordinal number (or equivalently, a well-ordered set) O and a map f from the set of nonzero ideals R to O with the property that I strictly contains J implies f(I) < f(J). Such rings are definitely Noetherian. Examples include Euclidean domains and also Samuel's generalization to "ordinally-normed" Euclidean domains. Does the coordinate ring of an affine variety over a field necessarily satisfy this property? – Pete L. Clark Nov 29 '09 at 22:45
I'm a fake expert at best with the algebraic geometry and even worse with the logic. But my impression is that you can make an ordinal height from the Hilbert series of a graded algebra over a field. I referred to the Nullstellensatz above, but the Hilbert series is more directly to the point. – Greg Kuperberg Nov 29 '09 at 22:57
Unlike full choice, you probably use countable choice all over the place without even recognizing it. Every time you do something iteratively and then take some sort of limit to your construction, you're using countable choice. In many cases, if you do very careful bookkeeping, you can eliminate it on a case by case basis. But you have to be very careful. Without countable choice, the countable union of countable sets isn't necessarily countable.
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It seems to me like there are two points here.
(1) A ring is called noetherian if any ascending chain of ideals terminates. I think all the standard facts about noetherian rings can be proved without choice: $\mathbb{Z}$ is noetherian; fields are noetherian; $A$ noetherian implies $A[x]$ noetherian; that quotients of noetherian rings are noetherian; localizations of noetherian rings are noetherian; completions of noetherian rings are noetherian.
That should take care of most the rings we need in algebraic geometry.
However, I am worried about another issue:
(2) The usual proof that noetherian rings have maximal ideal goes as follows. Let $A$ be a ring without maximal ideals. Take the ideal $I_0 = \{ 0 \}$. Since it is not maximal, choose an ideal $I_1$ which contains it. Choose an ideal $I_2$ which contains $I_1$. Continue in this manner to produce a chain $I_0 \subsetneq I_1 \subsetneq I_2 \subsetneq \cdots$. This doesn't terminate, so $A$ is not noetherian.
This proof, of course, uses countable choice. My gut feeling is that this can be eliminated for the same sort of rings I address in (1). But does anyone know a reference for this?
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This argument uses the principal of Dependent Choice, rather than merely countable choice, since the choices are made in succession. DC is known to be strictly stronger than countable choice, but strictly weaker than AC. – Joel David Hamkins Jan 27 '11 at 20:58
There are certain kinds of rings that came to my mind when I saw this question. $K[v]:=$ Coordinate ring of an affine variety $V$ over a field $K$, and $C(X, F)$:= the ring of continuous $F$-valued ($F$ a topological field) functions on a compact space $X$. In both examples one can construct maximal ideals as zero sets of minimal closed subsets of certain topological space (In one case $V$ and in other case $X$). So for $C(X, F)$ some max ideals correspond to points of $X$, and for $K[V]$ some max ideals correspond to points in $V$.
Another way to think about the question is the following analogy to it. Under what hypothesis can we exhibit a basis of a vector space without using any form of choice? here the clear answer should be finite dimensional spaces! This gives a clear picture about what rings $R$ we should consider, they are $R$'s that are Artinian rings.
About decidability I'd say think about boolean rings. The category of Boolean rings is equivalent to the category of Boolean algebras. Under that equivalence one have a correspondence between ideals and filters that takes maximal ideals to ultrafilters. If I'm not mistaken the existence of ultrafilters is equivalent to some form of choice (see _URL_ ) so the same form of choice should be equivalent to the existence of maximal ideals.
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The existence of ultrafilters is easy: take a principal one. It's the non-principal ones that need AC. So one can find maximal ideals of Boolean algebras constructively, just not interesting ones ;-) – Kevin Buzzard Nov 28 '09 at 14:30
Of these Boolean algebras. Consider instead the quotient of $\Omega(\mathbb{N})$ by the ideal of finitely supported Boolean functions. Any maximal ideal of that is a non-principal ultrafilter. – Greg Kuperberg Nov 28 '09 at 17:11
Yes good point Greg. So there's a very natural candidate for a ring that might well have no maximal ideals if AC fails sufficiently badly. My memory is that it's standard that there are models of ZF where the only ultrafilters on Z are the principal ones. – Kevin Buzzard Nov 28 '09 at 17:26
According to this authority, that's correct. _URL_ The existence of ultrafilters is also supposedly weaker than the axiom of choice. – Greg Kuperberg Nov 28 '09 at


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The different columns in Activity Monitor are a little confusing
Taken from my answer at Server Fault:
Mac OS X Memory Jargon:
Wired : This refers to kernel code and such. Memory that should not ever be moved out of the RAM. Also know as resident memory.
Shared : Memory that is shared between two or more processes. Both processes would show this amount of memory so it can be a bit misleading as to how much memory is actually in use.
Real : This is the "real" memory usage for an application as reported by task_info() - a rough count of the number of physical pages that the current process has. (RSIZE)
Private : This is memory that a process is using solely on it's own that is used in Resident memory. (RPRVT)
Virtual : The total amount of address space in the process that's mapped to anything - whether that's an arbitrarily large space for variables or anything - it does not equate to actual VM use. (VSIZE)
Active : Memory currently labelled as active and is used RAM.
Inactive : "Inactive memory is no longer being used and has been cached to disk. It will remain in RAM until another application needs the space. Leaving this information in RAM is to your advantage if you (or a client of your computer) come back to it later." - Mac OS X Help
Free : The amount of RAM actually available without any data.
The best documentation I know of (and have been able to find in followup research) is Apple's own Managing Memory article on their developer website.
Real mem relates to physical memory (actual RAM modules in your computer). Virtual Mem is how much "fake" memory is allocated to the process, meaning memory that is allocated on the permanent storage medium (hard drive, solid state drive, etc) for that process. Shared memory is physical (Real) memory that can be shared with other processes. Private memory is "real" memory that can only be used by the process it is allocated to.
These explanations may help as well... directly from activity monitor --> help --> viewing system memory usage:
Here is an explanation of some of the information displayed at the bottom of the memory pane:
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Fung, Loretta Po-yin (2003) The use and teaching of discourse markers in Hong Kong: students' production and teachers' perspectives. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.
The present study attempts to investigate discourse markers from a functional and attitudinal perspective. Based on the pedagogical sub-corpus from CANCODE and the audio-recordings of class discussion of 49 secondary pupils in Hong Kong, Part I explores the roles discourse markers play in spoken discourse on a contextual basis and compares the different use of discourse markers by British and Hong Kong speakers of English using quantitative and qualitative methods. Discourse markers are found to serve as useful contextual coordinates to structure and organise speech on interpersonal (marking shared knowledge, attitudes and responses), referential (indicating textual relationships such as cause, contrast, coordination, digression, consequence, etc. ), structural (summarising opinions, marking sequence, opening and closing of topics, transition and continuation of topics) and cognitive (denoting hesitation and thinking process, marking reformulation, selfcorrection or elaboration, and assessing the listener's knowledge about the utterances) realms, bearing a probabilistic relationship with the various role(s) on a multifunctional dimension in pedagogic discourse. Functionally, non-native speakers are found to display a highly restricted use of discourse markers, especially those interactive ones (e.g. initial and, yeah, you know, ), whereas native speakers tend to use discourse markers more for a variety of pragmatic functions.
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