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|Deformation of Cell Passing through Micro Slit between Micro Ridges Fabricated by Photolithography Technique|
Yusuke Takahashi, Shigehiro Hashimoto, Atsushi Mizoi, Haruka Hino
A micro slit has been designed between micro ridges, and deformation of a biological cell passing through the micro slit has been observed in vitro. The slit, of which the width is 0.87 mm and the height is 0.010 mm, has been made between the micro ridges on the transparent polydimethylsiloxane disk and on the glass disk by the photolithography technique. The slit is placed at the middle part of a flow channel. Four kinds of cells were used in the experiment: C2C12 (mouse myoblast cells), HUVEC (human umbilical vein endothelial cells), Hepa1-6 (mouse hepatoma cells), and Neuro-2a (mouse neural crest-derived cells). The suspension of each kind of cells was introduced to the slits. The deformation of cells passing through the micro slit was observed with an inverted phase-contrast microscope. The experimental results show that cells deform to the flat circular disk and pass through the micro slit of 0.010 mm height. The deformation ratio, the passing velocity, and the shape index of cells through the slit were evaluated: Hepa1-6 is deformed with the increase of the passing velocity, and HUVEC elongates along the flow. The designed slit between micro ridges has capability to evaluate the deformability of cells.
Empowering Teachers to Raise Career Awareness in Computing: Lessons Learned
Giti Javidi, Ehsan Sheybani
Students' attitudes towards Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) has been a topic of enduring interest in the field of STEM education over the past decade – but why? After all, there is no sense in which people are concerned about students' attitudes towards the learning of English or history. So what drives the interest in these topics? Previous research has suggested a relationship between teachers' and students' attitudes towards a subject area. In order to increase student representation in STEM, we need teachers who have positive attitudes and can serve as role models to encourage their students to pursue STEM careers. In this paper we argue that in order to engage students' interest in the technical career paths, we must start with inspiring and training teachers to instill such interest in their students at early age. We present our experiences and outcomes from a teacher training program. Through the training, we were able to help teachers explore ways to incorporate programming into their curriculum, gain STEM career awareness and develop an understanding of importance of soft skills in STEM. The results show that teachers were able to gain confidence in incorporating their subject matter into Scratch-based classroom activities and teaching this material in a classroom setting and gain a better understanding of careers in STEM.
Tutorial Continuing Education: Innovative Strategy in a Tertiary Specialized Health Unit
Flaviana Maciel, Mariana Acioly, Viviane Fragoso, Thalita Santos, Carolina Martins
Hospital Pelopidas Silveira-IMIP/SES/SUS is a tertiary-unit, specialized in cardiology, neurology, neurosurgery and interventional radiology. It is the only hospital of Brazilian Public-Health-System (SUS) with this profile and a 24h-acute-cardio/neurovascular facility. Challenges of Continuing-Education include a) guaranteeing appropriate level of basic knowledge, b) empowering clinical staff to remain up to date in current knowledge. HPS Continuing-Education Program is based on three branches: a) Classroom-Tutorials (CT), b) Online-Tutorials at "Pelopidas Digital" Virtual-Teaching-Platform (PD-VTP) and c) Daily-Practice Evaluation (DPE). This paper presents logistic details of HPS Continuing-Education Program. Training team coordinates tutorial meetings and performs continuous statistical analysis. Evaluation team visit hospital departments daily, observing in practice the incorporation of information provided, and retraining individuals in their work scenarios. Both teams perform curriculum development, meeting planning and creation of digital-training-modules. Tutorial meetings have pre/post-tests, allowing monitoring of attendance, topic significance and short-term retention. Tutorial groups are formed by 6-12 employees sharing similarities in training needs. CT is offered to 4 groups-of-interest: a) nurses, b) nursing assistants, c) administrative staff, porters, drivers, d) cleaning, laundry and security staff. Problematization and active strategies have resulted into an attractive, structured educational program customized to produce short-term results. The strategy is of interest to institutions sharing similar challenges.
Flipped Science Inquiry@Crescent Girls' School
Peishi Goh, Azrina Wan, Deepa Patel, Linda Shear
This study shares the findings of a school-based Action
Research project to explore how inquiry-based science practical
lessons designed using the Flipped Science Inquiry@CGS
classroom pedagogical model influence the way students learn
scientific knowledge and also students' development of 21st
century competencies, in particular, in the area of Knowledge
Taking on a broader definition of the flipped classroom
pedagogical model, the Flipped Science Inquiry@CGS
framework adopts a structure that inverted the traditional
science learning experience. Scientific knowledge is constructed
through discussions with their peers, making use of their prior
knowledge and their experiences while engaging in hands-on
Through the study, it is found that with the use of the Flipped
Science Inquiry@CGS framework, learning experiences that are
better aligned to the epistemology of science while developing
21st century competencies in students are created.
"Real Language": Combining Intermediate Spanish Language Learners and ESOL/Native Speakers for Vernacular Language Acquisition
This paper addresses the possibilities of combining Spanish language learners and English language learners in high school and post-secondary institutions for mutual benefit to learn authentic language. Academic or "classroom" Spanish is insufficient to empower students for today's workplace. The concept behind "Real Language" is illustrated by an example of an interdisciplinary activity to facilitate communicative interaction in genuine language and promote cultural understanding between intermediate Spanish students and ESOL/native speakers at the high school and post-secondary level. Students are asked to utilize their life skills in interactive, freestyle conversation without the intervention of an instructor. The learning space for language exchange is an out-of-class venue for a non-intimidating, more authentic setting. This simple qualitative study investigates the potential value of this sort of interdisciplinary activity. The intent is to evaluate attitudes of the participants in relation to confidence in their ability to use the target language, and their willingness to use it in social and professional environments and, in addition, to facilitate cultural understanding. The positive result of the project is validated by the voice of the student participants as they reflect on their experience in "Real Language". Could this concept facilitate evolving strategies for interdisciplinary contemporary foreign language learning?
Automatic Tagging as a Support Strategy for Creating Knowledge Maps
Leonardo Moura De Araújo, Doris Cáliz Ramos
Graph organizers are powerful tools for both structuring and
transmitting knowledge. Because of their unique characteristics,
these organizers are valuable for cultural institutions, which
own large amounts of information assets and need to constantly
make sense of them. On one hand, graph organizers are tools
for connecting numerous chunks of data. On the other hand,
because they are visual media, they offer a bird's-eye view
perspective on complexity, which is digestible to the human
eye. They are effective tools for information synthesis, and are
capable of providing valuable insights on data. Information
synthesis is essential for Heritage Interpretation, since
institutions depend on constant generation of new content to
preserve relevance among their audiences. While Mind Maps
are simpler to be structured and comprehended, Knowledge
Maps offer challenges that require new methods to minimize
the difficulties encountered during their assembly. This paper
presents strategies based on manual and automatic tagging as an
answer to this problem. In addition, we describe the results of a
usability test and qualitative analysis performed to compare the
workflows employed to construct both Mind Maps and
Knowledge Maps. Furthermore, we also talk about how well
concepts can be communicated through the visual
representation of trees and networks. Depending on the
employed method, different results can be achieved, because of
their unique topological characteristics. Our findings suggest
that automatic tagging supports and accelerates the construction
The Pariah in Contemporary Society: A Black Sheep or a Prodigal Child? (Invited Paper)
About the book written by Marcienne Martin, The Pariah in Contemporary Society: A Black Sheep or a Prodigal Child?, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017, 145 p.
Be the ugly duckling in a family, the head of a Turk in a group, or the pariah in a society, amounts to living in marked and implicit difference, in indifference, even in cruelty.
The research which this book is dedicated to articulates the concept of the "pariah," and it is through the various filters presented above that we will proceed to its analysis. Besides these, we will try to study the notion of the "pariah" using the different strata that make up human society, such as wonderful tales and literature. We will also present the perception of lexicologists and psychologists, because behind the word there is the object, which is apprehended differently by the human psyche because it is included in value systems varying from one sociocultural group to another. Even though the project is ambitious, it cannot cover this notion entirely because a large number of questions emerge from it. This amounts to opening a Pandora's Box dedicated to this status constructed by human beings


Tax Deductible Travel Expenses for Continuing Education
If it's work-related education, you may be able to write it off.
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Learning is a lifelong process -- and in many professional fields, lifelong learning is mandatory. Architects, real-estate agents, nurses and accountants typically have continuing education requirements, for instance. You can take the cost of continuing education classes as a tax write-off. That includes the cost of traveling to attend classes and seminars.
Tax Forms
If you're self-employed, you write off continuing education expenses on Schedule C, like your other business expenses. If you're an employee, you write the expenses off by itemizing on Schedule A. Work expenses are a 2 percent deduction on Schedule A, along with tax-preparation costs and investment fees. You add all such deductions together, subtract 2 percent of your adjusted gross income and write off the rest. If your total is less than 2 percent of your AGI, there's no write-off this year.
Local Transportation
If your continuing ed is a local class, you deduct local travel costs. That includes buses, taxis, subway rides, and the cost of driving your car to school. You can take either a 56.5 cents a mile write-off, or claim the actual costs of driving to class. If your classes will wrap up in less than a year, you can take the round-trip costs of going from home to class, or home to work to class to home. With classes that last longer, you can only write off the journey from work to school, and only one way.
Long Distance
If you have to travel out of town overnight for your seminar, the costs of travel are still deductible. You can also write off lodging and up to half the cost of your meals. This only works if you spend most of your trip on business. If you take a sightseeing trip or dinner with friends during a week-long seminar, you're probably safe. A one-day class followed by five days of partying might raise IRS eyebrows.
Other Limits
If your boss reimburses you for your trip, you can't take the write-off. It's the same rule if a client pays you to take continuing ed. You can bring someone along with you to an out-of-town seminar, but you can't take a write-off for his expenses unless he works for you or has a business purpose on the trip. Bringing a spouse for company is acceptable, but deducting his expenses as a business write-off is not.


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I want to sync items of two tables
faces_encoding and faces_person to a channels clone.
Do you think the following is a good approach?
Example for face encodings:
- Create an item (in table item).
- Use column item.app=faces and item.title=encoding to find (all of them) later on.
- Store a face encoding (content of a row in faces_encoding) in column item.obj
- Store the hash of the item in the encoding (faces_encoding.file_hash)
- Use item.sync_an_item($channel_id,$item_id)
- Before the channels clone starts a face recognition (it is always only triggered manually by the user via browser)
- Select all items using item.app=faces AND item.title=encoding
- Read the encodings from the items and write the encodings if new or changed
Depending on how it goes I would change it, e.g.
- Sync an image with all encodings instead each encoding separately.
- Of course I have store the file (image) hash in each encoding.
Do you can imagine a completely different way of syncing the data?
Is attach more appropriate or iconfig or...?
Once it works for ZAP I would port it to Hubzilla.
Many thanks in advance.

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Definition of jury box in English:
A segregated area in which the jury sits in a court of law.
- Yes, that's correct there, on the judge's right hand and on the judge's left is the jury box, and the witness box.
- Using large video screens placed at either end of the jury box, the prosecutors repeatedly showed an animated simulation of a knife slicing into a human chest.
- Beyond the cold numbers generated by historic fact, McKanna puts people in the jury box, on the witness stand, and on the bench in western courtrooms.
Definition of jury box in:
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Definition from Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Alternative forms
- epidemick (obsolete)
epidemic (plural epidemics)
- A widespread disease that affects many individuals in a population.
- (epidemiology) An occurrence of a disease or disorder in a population at a frequency higher than that expected in a given time period.
occurrence of such disease
- The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Help:How to check translations.
- Like or having to do with an epidemic; widespread
- Epidemic hysteria occurred upon the incumbent's reelection.
like an epidemic

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HeLa cells (a strain of human cells cultured in the laboratory) have a mitotic cycle of about 24 hours, of which about 11 hrs is spent in G1, about 8 hrs in S, about 4 hrs in G2, and about 1 hr in mitosis. If you took a sample of HeLa cells from a culture, and looked at it through the microscope, in about what % of cells would you expect the chromosomes to be visible?
The answer is about 1 cell in 24, or 4.2%, would be expected to have visible chromosomes.
I have been doing this prolem several times now and I can't figure out how to do it. I am so confused. Can you also explained the number of chromosomes you get from mitosis?
The first part of your question is one sometimes examined in cell biology labs where mitosis (cell division) is being observed ( for an example and some explanations of key concepts see _URL_ An assumption made during these exercises is that, given a statistically sufficient sample of the total cell population, the number of cells you see in a given phase is equal to the time they spend in that phase. Since the total time required for cell division to take place in the HeLa cells is 24 hrs, and the length of time cells spend in mitosis is one...


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Sep. 18, 2006 Trees that live in an odd desert forest in Oman have found an unusual way to water themselves by extracting moisture from low-lying clouds, MIT scientists report.
In an area that is characterized mostly by desert, the trees have preserved an ecological niche because they exploit a wispy-thin source of water that only occurs seasonally, said Elfatih A.B. Eltahir, professor of civil and environmental engineering, and former MIT graduate student Anke Hildebrandt.
After studying the Oman site, they also expressed concern that the unusual forest could be driven into extinction if hungry camels continue eating too much of the foliage. As the greenery disappears it's possible the trees will lose the ability to pull water from the mist and recharge underground reservoirs.
A report on their research was published in a recent issue of Geophysical Research Letters. They are also advising the Omani government on handling the problem.
The forest is especially unique, said Eltahir and Hildebrandt, because it "is a water-limited seasonal cloud forest" that is kept alive by water droplets gathered from passing clouds -- ground fog. The water dribbles into the ground and sustains the trees later when the weather is dry. The MIT work suggests the trees actually get more of their water through contact with clouds than via rainfall.
In general, cloud forests are not really rare. But they occur most frequently in moist tropical regions where there is ample rainfall. So it is unusual, the researchers said, to find a cloud forest in a region known for chronic dryness.
The researchers studied the area in Oman to learn how the Dhofar Mountain ecosystem "functions naturally, and how it may respond to human activity" that could lead to desertification and the need for reforestation.
Eltahir and Hildebrandt, who is now at the UFZ Center for Environmental Research, in Leipzig, Germany, said the unusual forest is an interesting remnant "of a moist vegetation belt that once spread across the Arabian Peninsula" in the distant past. At that time the regional climate was generally wetter.
The forested area in the Sultanate of Oman is now semi-arid, and most of the ancient tree vegetation is gone. This small remnant has managed to survive in the Dhofar Mountains.
But it is under threat.
Although many Omanis have moved into cities and towns as the country has grown rich on oil, Eltahir explained, a family's prestige still comes from owning many camels, and people now tend to keep more camels than they need, which is part of the problem facing the forest.
"It is an unusual place," Eltahir said. "It's a very good example of a unique and fragile ecosystem" where constant pressure from over-grazing can have consequences beyond defoliation. In fact, the forest illustrates how small changes can lead to major impact on far bigger systems, Eltahir said.
The trees in wetter ecosystems would likely recover from small amounts of over-grazing, Eltahir said, but "in this location, due to the nature of the interaction of the canopy structure with the clouds, the trees may not recover."
The two said the forest probably would not regenerate naturally once it is gone. Without the trees that sweep the extra water from clouds, the forest cannot regrow. Grass, even if abundant, cannot collect enough moisture from fog to let a forest regrow.
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THE PROACTIVE WAY TO TRAK SERVICE™
IFC's ProTrak™ electronic reporting system offers unparalleled service information, trending and tracking capabilities for rodent control, insect light trap (ILT) monitoring, pheromone monitoring and many other IPM functions. Historical IPM data can be used to help design the most effective pest management solutions, analyze current pest activity and assist in resolving potential pest management issues in the future. This comprehensive information, stored in a digital format and accessible 24 hours a day, is a powerful tool in helping to understand pest activity from a broad perspective and for maintaining audit requirements.
KEY SYSTEM FEATURES INCLUDE:
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- Monitor pest activity in all type of devices and identify locations not serviced.
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Together we give social service to the society.
Christianity, Hinduism, Islam
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Bangalore, Karnataka, India
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Adriel, Anekal is a new group organizing and involving youth from the area to address religiously and socially motivated unrest. Adriel members belong to different religious and cultural groups. The area had a few incidents of community conflicts among Hindus and Muslims. Interfaith bridge-building is very essential to mitigate the impact of such conflicts. Members of a youth club engaged in solving the problem, and they were able to bring under control the impact of the violent situation, establishing peace. With this background, they decided to join URI and be a permanent peacebuilding resource. The group meets monthly and members share social action. They have organized health camps and blood donation campaigns. They also support youth and rural development, and involve themselves in women's empowerment. Their activities have received a good response from all people without the boundaries of religions.
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Blockchain could help colleges like ASU provide better, more secure online education
Online education was gaining significant momentum with colleges and universities, even before the coronavirus pandemic. But as dozens and dozens of schools, like USC, Harvard, Rutgers, George Washington University, and UNC at Chapel Hill, take all or some of their Fall 2020 semester online in response to COVID-19, technology is playing an increasingly important role in higher education, both in term of the classroom and student administration. Tasks that were once conducted face-to-face, now have to be accomplished remotely. Blockchain could help schools perform some of these administrative tasks with more security and transparency.
At Salesforce's Dreamforce 2019 conference, I had a chance to speak with Donna Kidwell, CTO at EdPlus at Arizona State University, about the institution's plans for blockchain. Kidwell explained that ASU has a goal of supporting 100,000 online learners by 2025. They are already have 55,000 students. Blockchain will play a key role in helping them meet that goal by allowing ASU to better track and certify each student's "learning accomplishments," Kidewell said.
Having a trusted, portable record of someone's educational achievements is particularly important today, as most students don't follow a traditional four-year college degree path, Kidwell said. Instead, they are "life-long learners" who will earn skills and knowledge at many institutions over the course of their educational and professional careers. Blockchain and a general public ledger when combined with identity management technology can help institutions like ASU build "transparent trust" into each student's transcript.
The following in a transcript of our interview, edited for readability.
Bill Detwiler: So how is ASU using blockchain?
Donna Kidwell: This is one of my favorite questions, so thank you for asking. We have been working on this for about 18 months, give or take. It took maybe six months to figure out should we actually be using blockchain, because that's a whole thing. Is it the right technology to use? We looked at about a dozen different things that we thought, well, maybe blockchain would be good for this. Maybe blockchain would look good for that, until we really honed in on something that really where the technology of blockchain, the way blockchain allows us to think about things really matters, because otherwise, you don't want to do it just because it's blockchain. You want to have a valid reason for it underneath it. That's how we came up to where we're at now. We've got a roadmap that gets us towards using blockchain for reverse transfer, if you're familiar with that concept. If not, I can explain it a little.
Bill Detwiler: Sure, why don't you explain it, so everybody knows?
Donna Kidwell: So a pretty simple story. Let's say somebody goes to high school, then they decide, I'm going to go to a community college for a little while. They go to the community college. They're thinking, I really dig this. I'm going to go ahead and do a four year degree. So they transfer in. They could do that and not have their associates. In fact, a large percentage of ASU online students don't have their associates. End up getting their four year degree, but along that way, they probably get that one English class that they were missing or whatever, how many ever hours they were missing. If we can actually get them to the point where they can get that associates while they're on the bachelors, then one, they get to actually use that out in the marketplace for themselves, tell their employer, "Hey, I got this," see if that gets them a raise.
That's all great. Let's get them that credential because they've earned it by this point, right? They've done the work. Let's give them the actual accomplishment. The other thing it allows us to do is between institutions, we can see what really pathways are happening there? Right now, when you stop going to the community college, basically you go dark. So community college doesn't know about your journey beyond that. Well, it would be really interesting across these public institutions, across higher ed generally, if we could actually see what was happening to our learners. Now, along that whole way, a big piece of this is privacy and trust, another reason we're using trust technologies like blockchain. To do that, we need the learner themselves to consent and say, "Yeah, I totally get it, and I would love to have that."
So we are enabling this very different way of working between institutions. Previously, like Jose in the keynote that I had this morning, a guy like Jose has got to get permission. He's got to call up his advisor, get his transcripts. Maybe he's got transcripts from two or three different places, a high school and two community colleges. It's pretty typical. He compiles all of that and makes it happen. This would allow us to take the friction out of all of that. All he has to do is say, "I consent." These partners, and we've worked with almost every community college already. ASU has been around. We've been doing this. We're not actually transforming anything that's not a business process that already exists, but now we're putting that learner right in the heart of it and giving them a lot more agency to be able to actually make all the things happen.
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Bill Detwiler: So it allows you to gather that data and create a recordDonna Kidwell: Right.
Bill Detwiler: … that is portable with the student that they can source.
Donna Kidwell: That's right.
Bill Detwiler: Blockchain allows you to verify the authenticity of that recordDonna Kidwell: Absolutely.
Bill Detwiler: … as they move through from organization to organization, institution to institution.
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Donna Kidwell: What's really beautiful about it is the nature of that distributed ledger means I'm not the only one with a copy, which is how it is today. We've each got our own little fiefdoms, right, our own little domains. So now we've got a general public ledger where all of those learning accomplishments are being recorded across the ledger. I, ASU, issue that credential. Yep, that happened. I verify that it happened. So I'm still issuing the credential. I still, for all practical purposes, I'm doing the kinds of things that universities have always done in terms of owning that data. But now I've got it in a place where the learner can say, okay, we're going to allow others to actually see it, can allow some other transactions to happen a little bit easier. That's really why the general public ledger ended up making sense.
Bill Detwiler: Right, and so what role does Salesforce play in that process for ASU?
Donna Kidwell: Yeah, so that's a great question. A couple of different things. One, they've been a great technology partner for us all along. So if we're thinking scale, which we are, we want to get to 100,000 learners in the online space by 2025. We're at 55,000 now. I expect we're going to hit that 100,000 well before our 2025 year mark. So if you're thinking about that many learners, we already need a really strong, what in my world would be a learner relationship management platform. How am I relating to that learner as they're going through their different journeys? Salesforce was already doing a lot of stuff with us. So Salesforce was trying to figure out what's going to be their blockchain strategy? We're trying to figure out, does blockchain even make sense? A design partnership there really, really works.
Frankly, if you're on a campus, you've got student information systems, we've got learning management systems, we've got CRM systems, a little triumvirate of all this tech. Each of those have their own different jobs, and somewhere in the middle of that is a different job. It's accomplishment. Like how are we actually recording this accomplishment? Could we give that to a learner across their life now, not just for the four years because we know that's actually not the path most people are taking. Could we give it to them for the whole duration of their career? That makes you think about the technology differently. Salesforce is thinking about their version of a lifelong learner. All of this was happening around the same time that they're really creating Trailhead. So here we are, mission aligned towards different types of learning, but at the end, trying to really empower people to, in the nomenclature here, to blaze their own trails. I totally get it. That's what we want to. So in as much as we can work with them to design what that future looks like, it's a good thing.
Bill Detwiler: What were some of the challenges that you faced either from the institution, administration side of things at ASU, or just technical challenges with moving to blockchain? Because everybody thinks this is cryptocurrency, right?
Donna Kidwell: Right.
Bill Detwiler: But blockchain is more than that. So as a CTO, did you have to convince the administration at ASU? Did you have


- PROGRAM: Research Laboratories, Park, Hiking path
 - CLIENT: Regione Calabria
 - PARTNER IN CHARGE: Alessandro Orsini
 - PROJECT ARCHITECT: Anna Perelman
 - TEAM: Ronald Dapsis
The proposal for the solar park takes on a mixture of environmental responsibilities and experiments in the form of pursuing new solutions to our persistent energy problems. In the process of finding further efficient ways to travel, the older roads are left behind unused. To invigorate the older route and give it purpose, we propose to combine the hard science of solar energy experiments and the soft ideals and principles of interacting with nature through parks while researching environmental and sustainable energy studies. The solar park emerges through phasing, which initiates between the furthest point away from the faster new route and the slower old route. The pressure from incoming and outgoing traffic engages the parts that are existing agriculture, indicated in yellow, and introduces the areas that can be allocated for solar energy collection and sustainable energy experiments, indicated in blue. We propose to convert the slower route as a bike route and along which both the agriculture and solar park begin mixing. The final phase would introduce a terracing technique along the side of the mountain when the solar park begins expanding past the plateau of the mountain and wind power collection coming of the sea along the viaducts. The introduction of the solar park can appear anywhere along the highway and can spread the entire stretch of Calabria from Bagnara Calabra to Scilla. The provisional cost for the first and second phases would be estimated lower than the cost of the destruction of the older route. Depending on how successful the solar proposals are in the first two phases, ideally the first two phases would self generate the costs of the third phase.


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Is there a function like ST_Length() but in meters?.
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St_Length() returns the length in the units of its Spatial Reference System. If you want to get meters, you will need to transform your feature to a different SRS that uses meters as units. This can be done on-the-fly, so don't worry about writing out another data set.
SELECT ST_AsText(ST_Transform(the_geom,26915)) from my_table;
In this example, SRID 26915 is UTM Zone 15 N, NAD83.
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Or simply add your own field and manage the calculation yourself. NOTE you have to write your own trigger or recalculate it on changes in your lengths. – Brad Nesom Oct 11 '12 at 4:12
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SQL request (length in km (/1000 -delete for meters)):
sum(ST_Length_Spheroid(the_geom,'SPHEROID["WGS 84",_PHONE_,298.257223563]'))/1000 AS km_roads
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Since my last entry about Asian skin being less prone to getting sunburn, I've found more information about Asian skin type that might interest some of you. Keen to find out? Here goes:
1. Asian skin is more prone to sensitivity
Our skin is said to be prone to irritation as we have a thinner stratum corneum or the outermost layer of skin, compared to other ethnic groups. As a result, our skin becomes extremely sensitive to environmental factors and chemicals, which can disrupt the skin's pH balance (source: Dr Anthony Rawlings).
This means: we need to be careful with what products and treatments we use on our skin as most of us may not react well to harsh treatments such as peelings or acidic chemical solutions.
2. Asian skin scars more easily
Because of our thinner stratum corneum, it is also said that Asian skin are genetically predisposed to scar more easily than others. Hence, greater care must be given when one has acne breakout and when one is trying to heal from some skin scarring.
This means: do not go squeezing that pimple and poking at that acne. Use gentle products like emu oil or vitamin E to heal the scars.
3. Asian skin has more issues with hyperpigmentation
I read that all skin contains about the same number of melanocytes but the amount of melanin they produce varies. Melanin is a natural skin pigment that protects the skin from UV damage. Obviously, dark skinned people produce more melanin and light skin people produce less. While research have indicated that Asians have more photo-protective pigment melanin – Dr. Kwame Osei, who has studied genetics, indicated that we have three layers of melanin – we actually have more issues with pigmentary disorders such as hyperpigmentation, melasma, freckles and lentigines, compared to other ethnic groups. This is why you see lots of Asian cosmetics including skin lightening and brightening ingredients. The problem I see with this is, because our skin is also sensitive, it means we have to be careful with what we use to correct some of these pigmentary disorders as well.
This means: use sunscreen religiously and use a product containing gentle skin brightening properties from your early twenties. Avoid hydroquinone!
4. Asian skin loses moisture more easily
Some studies have suggested that the Transepidermal Water Loss (TEWL) values were highest in Asians – Berardesca and Maibach (2002) found that Asian skin showed the highest levels of TEWL, as well as increased levels of permeability (source). TEWL is the amount of water vapor lost through the skin under non-sweating conditions.
This means: we need more skin hydration and it'll be good to choose a moisturizer high in water-binding ingredients such as hyaluronic acid.
5. Asian skin gets oily more easily
It is often said that Asian skin has more sebaceous glands and is oilier than Caucasian skin type. I guess this might have to do with the weather as well but it is generally true that most of us are constantly fighting to keep shine away from our skin. As a matter of fact, I have a greasy scalp because of very active sebaceous glands.
This means: our skin may get clogged easily and it'll be good to exfoliate once or twice a week. In addition, do not use harsh products that will strip away our natural skin lipids and make the skin oilier.
6. Asian skin is more resistant to aging
While we have a thinner stratum corneum, we also have a thicker dermis that contains greater collagen (source).
This means: our skin show fewer signs of pre-mature aging. YAY!
These information, while mostly based on research data, may not apply across the board to all Asians as it also depends on where we live. However, generally speaking, I think they make a lot of sense. What do you think?


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In December, the Guardian UK website posted the questions for the notoriously difficult King William's College quiz or General Knowledge Paper (GKP) given to students (and parents) at King William's College on the Isle of Man. In another article on, "The Story of the King Wiliams's College Quiz" quizmaster Dr Pat Cullen discusses the impact of the Internet on the 106 year old quiz and attempts to Google and social media proof the quiz to keep it intellectually challenging. MacLean's Canada article on the history of the quiz is simply titled, "The World's Most Difficult Quiz. Really."
While only section 2 relates specifically to geography and cartography, I estimated that about 70 of the 180 questions could be considered geo-spatial. These range from questions such as, "4 Who first used continuous and broken lines to indicate fenced and unfenced roads?" to 5 Where did close neighbours claim the invention of a device for observing at a distance? The answers to last year's questions were posted in February, so you will have to wait a while if you get stumped.
The quizmaster Dr. Pat Cullen doesn't live in a dusty library tower, he is also a birder and citizen scientist for the Isle of Man which is home to several rare species of birds.


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4. What effect does Svidrigaylov death have on Raskolnikov?
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6. How does Dostoevsky still create suspense even as he winds down his story?
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Jupyter kernels manipulation and in other environments (docker, Lmod, etc.)
Project description
Switch environments before running Jupyter kernels
Sometimes, one needs to execute Jupyter kernels in a different environment. Say you want to execute the kernel in a conda environment (that's easy, but actually misses setting certain environment variables). Or run it inside a Docker container. One could manually adjust the kernelspec files to set environment variables or run commands before starting the kernel, but envkernel automates this process.
envkernel is equally usable for end users (on their own systems or clusters) to easily access environments in Jupyter, or sysadmins deploying this access on systems they administer.
In general, there are two passes: First, install the kernel, e.g.: envkernel virtualenv --name=my-venv /path/to/venv. This parses some options and writes a kernelspec file with the the --name you specify. When Jupyter tries to start this kernel, it will execute the next phase. When Jupyter tries to run the kernel, the kernelspec file will re-execute envkernel in the run mode, which does whatever is needed to set up the environment (in this case, sets PATH to the /path/to/venv/bin/ that is needed). Then it starts the normal IPython kernel.
Available modes:
 - conda: Activate a conda environment first.
 - virtualenv: Activate a virtualenv first.
 - docker: Run the kernel in a Docker container.
 - singularity: Run the kernel in a singularity container.
 - Lmod: Activate Lmod modules first.
pip install
Not currently distributed through other channels, but hopefully this will change. This is a single-file script and can be copied just like this. The script must be available both when a kernel is set up, and each time the kernel is started (and currently assumes they are in the same location).
General usage and common arguments
General invocation:
envkernel [mode] [envkernel options] [mode-specific-options]
General arguments usable by all classes during the setup phase:
These options directly map to normal Jupyter kernel install options:
 - mode: singularity, docker, lmod, or whatever mode is desired.
 - --name $name: Name of kernel to install (required).
 - --user: Install kernel into user directory.
 - --sys-prefix: Install to the current Python's sys.prefix (the Python which is running envkernel).
 - --prefix: same as normal kernel install option.
 - --display-name NAME: Human-readable name.
 - --replace: Replace existing kernel (Jupyter option, unsure what this means).
 - --language: What language to tag this kernel (default python).
These are envkernel-specific options:
 - --python: Python interpreter to use when invoking inside the environment. (Default python. Unlike other kernels, this defaults to a relative path because the point of envkernel is to set up PATH properly.) If this is the special value SELF, this will be replaced with the value of sys.executable of the Python running envkernel.
 - --kernel=NAME: Auto-set --language and --kernel-cmd to that needed for these well-known kernels. Options include ipykernel (the default) or ir.
 - --kernel-cmd: a string which is the kernel to start - space separated, no shell quoting, it will be split when saving. The default is python -m ipykernel_launcher -f {connection_file}, which is suitable for IPython. For example, to start an R kernel in the environment use R --slave -e IRkernel::main() --args {connection_file} as the value to this, being careful with quoting the spaces only once. To find what the strings should be, copy form some existing kernels. --kernel=NAME includes shortcut for some popular kernels.
 - --kernel-template: An already-installed kernel name which is used as a template for the new envkernel. This is searched using the normal Jupyter search paths. This kernel json file is loaded and used as a template for all kernel options (--language, --kernel-cmd, etc). Also, any other file in this directory (such as logos) are copied to the new kernel (like kernel.js in irkernel).
 - --env=NAME=VALUE. Set these environment variables when running the kernel. These are actually just saved in the kernel.json file under the env key, which is used by Jupyter itself. So, this is just a shorthand for adding variables there, it is not used at the envkernel stage at all.
Order of precedence of options (later in the list overrides earlier): --kernel-template, --kernel, --kernel-cmd, --language, --python, --display-name.
The Conda envkernel will activate Conda environments (set the PATH, CPATH, LD_LIBRARY_PATH, and LIBRARY_PATH environment variables). This is done manually, if anyone knows a better way to do this, please inform us.
Conda example
This will load the anaconda environment before invoking an IPython kernel using the name python, which will presumably be the one inside the anaconda3 environment.
envkernel conda --name=conda-anaconda3 /path/to/anaconda3
Conda mode arguments
General invocation:
envkernel conda --name=NAME [envkernel options] conda-env-full-path
 - conda-env-full-path: Full path to the conda environment to load.
This operates identically to conda mode, but with name virtualenv on virtualenvs.
Virtualenv example
envkernel virtualenv --name=conda-anaconda3 /path/to/anaconda3
Docker is a containerization system that runs as a system service.
Note: docker has not been fully tested, but has been reported to work.
Docker example
envkernel singularity --name=NAME --pwd --bind /m/jh/coursedata/:/coursedata /path/to/image.simg
Docker mode arguments
General invocation:
envkernel singularity --name=NAME [envkernel options] [singularity options] [image]
 - image: Required positional argument: name of docker image to run.
 - --pwd: Bind-mount the current working directory and use it as the current working directory inside the notebook. This is usually useful.
 - A few more yet-undocumented and untested arguments...
Any unknown argument is passed directly to the docker run call, and thus can be any normal Docker argument. If,copy is included in the --mount command options, the directory will be copied before mounting. This may be useful if the directory is on a network mount which the root docker can't access.
Singularity is a containerization system somewhat similar to Docker, but designed for user-mode usage without root, and with a mindset of using user software instead of system services.
Singularity example
envkernel singularity --name=NAME --contain --bind /m/jh/coursedata/:/coursedata /path/to/image.simg
Singularity mode arguments
General invocation:
 - image: Required positional argument: name of singularity image to run.
 - --pwd: Bind-mount the current working directory and use it as the current working directory inside the notebook. This may happen by default if you don't --contain.
Any unknown argument is passed directly to the singularity exec call, and thus can be any normal Singularity arguments. The most useful Singularity options are (nothing envkernel specific here):
 - --contain or -c: Don't share any filesystems by default.
 - --bind src:dest[:ro]: Bind mount src from the host to dest in the container. :ro is optional, and defaults to rw.
 - --cleanenv: Clean all environment before executing.
 - --net or -n: Run in new network namespace. This does NOT work with Jupyter kernels, because localhost must currently be shared. So don't use this unless we create proper net gateway.
The Lmod envkernel will load/unload Lmod modules before running a normal IPython kernel.
Using envkernel is better than the naive (but functional) method of modifying a kernel to invoke a particular Python binary, because that will invoke the right Python interpreter but not set relevant other environment variables (so, for example, subprocesses won't be in the right environment).
Lmod example
This will run module purge and then module load anaconda3 before invoking an IPython kernel using the name python, which will presumably be the one inside the anaconda3 environment.
envkernel lmod --name=anaconda3 --purge anaconda3
Lmod mode arguments
General invocation:
envkernel lmod --name=NAME [envkernel options] [module...]
 - module...: Modules to load (positional argument). Note that if the module is prefixed with -, it is actually unloaded (this is a Lmod feature).
 - --purge: Purge all modules before loading the new modules. This can be safer, because sometimes users may automatically load modules from their.bashrc which will cause failures if you try to load conflicting ones.
How it works
When envkernel first runs, it sets up a kernelspec that will re-invoke envkernel when it runs. Some options are when firs run (kernelspec name and options), while usually most are passed through straight to the kernelspec. When the kernel is started, envkernel is re-invoked
Example envkernel setup command. This makes a new Jupyter kernel (envkernel singularity means singularity create mode) named testcourse-0.5.9 out of the image


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These boots are made for walking...
Among the items held at the Memorial that were issued to air crew serving in Europe, are two pairs of very interesting 1943 Pattern escape boots. The boots were designed so that an airman downed in Europe could remove a small concealed knife and cut off the top section of the boot to reveal a civilian looking shoe.
The 1943 Pattern escape boot was designed in response to reports received from returned airmen who had baled out over occupied Europe and managed to make their way back to England. The men reported that when on the run from the Germans, their flying boots had a number of problems. The most significant were that they were highly conspicuous when trying to blend in with the local population and that they became heavy and waterlogged if the boots got wet. A prototype escape boot was designed by Clayton Hutton in around 1941 (The boots were one of the pieces of escape and evasion equipment designed by Hutton featured in a February 1942 publication 'Per Ardua Libertas', published for the benefit of visiting American intelligence officers). Hutton worked at MI9 designing escape aids for issue to service personnel, or to be smuggled into prisoner of war camps. Some airmen undertaking missions over Europe in 1942 were issued the prototype boots. The boots were successful and went into production.
Some versions of the 1943 Pattern boot contained gigli saws hidden in the shoe laces. Gigli saws are used by surgeons to cut through bone. They are made from special steel wire, are very pliable and could be hidden inside the laces. Once removed from the lace and held at the right tension, the gigli saw could cut through very hard substances. The boots also had magnetised metal shoe lace ends that could be used as bar compasses. The 1943 Pattern escape boots held by the Memorial have the metal lace ends that were magnetised (they have since lost their magnetic qualities), but I wanted to know if the boots had gigli saws in the laces, as not all the boots issued did. I did not want to damage the laces, so used a voltage/metal stud detector to test if there was steel wire hidden in the laces. The stud detector responded to the metal lace ends, however there was no response in the rest of the laces, indicating there were no steel saws hidden inside. I have to admit it was a little disappointing not to discover a saw! Below is a photograph of the inside of the right boot, showing the wool lining used to help keep airmen warm at high altitudes. The rectangular patch is a small pocket where the knife was hidden. Unfortunately the boots did not come to the Memorial with their knives. In other versions of this boot, the knives were held in the heel. In some boots even more items, such as maps or money, could be hidden in a secret compartment in the heel. A basic inspection of the heels in the Memorial's boots indicated they do not have secret compartments.
One of the original concepts for the boot was that the detachable wool lined sued section of each boot could be joined together to create a 'warm winter waistcoat'. One Australian airman who evaded capture and made it back to England in 1944 who used these pieces under his hip and shoulder when sleeping rough, to help keep his body raised off the ground to help keep him warm. During the day he wrapped them around his chest under his jumper, using the zippers and straps to hold them in place.
Before the introduction of the 1943 Pattern boot, airmen wore a variety of boot designs. The 1936 Pattern boot is shown below. It was replaced by the 1939 Pattern (not pictured), which was similar in style, but had a vulcanised fabric leg. Many airmen must have found the 1936 Pattern boot relatively comfortable as the boots continued to be worn, long after other pattern boots had been issued. However, neither pattern had enough room to eaisly allow the legs of the flying suit to be tucked into the boots. In addition, the vulcanised rubber of the 1939 Pattern boot did not repel dew from grass along runways. This water could then freeze while flying at high altitudes, so a new pattern was designed.
The new design was the 1940 Pattern boot (below) issued in 1941. These boots were looser and allowed for the flying suit legs to be tucked in, however this led to another problem - they often came off when baling out of planes
To alleviate this problem the 1941 Pattern boot was then issued - essentially the 1940 Pattern boot with the addition of a leather strap that could be tightened around the ankle
(below) to help keep the boots on when baling out.
The 1943 Pattern escape boot was the last boot designed and issued during the war. Despite the advantages of this boot when evading capture in occupied Europe, some airmen found them to be uncomfortable when flying and preferred to wear their older issue boots.
In the 1942 photograph above, the airmen are wearing a variety of boots, (from left to right) 1939 Pattern boots, 1940 Pattern boots, 1936 Pattern boots, and the man on the on the far right appears to be wearing the 1943 Pattern escape boots, you can just make out the strap at the top, the zipper down the inner front and the shoe laces on the civilian style shoe section.
Some relevant publications containing information about flying boots / escape and evasion equipment includes: Official Secret: The remarkable story of escape aids - their invention, production - and the sequel by Clayton Hutton Flying Clothing: The story of its development by Louise Greer and Anthony Harold Per Ardua Libertas by MI9 (1942) MI9: The British secret service that fostered escape and evasion _PHONE_ and its American counterpart by MRD Foot and JM Langley The Royal Air Force 1939-45 by Andrew Cormack, illustrations by Ron Volstad (Osprey Men at Arms series) French Leave by Anthony Matthews (Memoirs of an Australian who evade capture in Europe)


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so what I'm trying to do is to write a Bash script that will ssh into a server and generate new user credentials. However, it won't create the new user keys, but it can tell you if a user already exists.
echo "You entered $NAME. Is this correct?(y/n) " read AN while [ "$AN"!= "y" ] do echo "Enter the correct user name: " read NAME echo "You entered $NAME. Is this correct(y/n)? " read AN done ssh -t _EMAIL_ <


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Match long text
Excel formula: Match long text
Generic formula
To match text longer than 255 characters with the MATCH function, you can use the LEFT, MID, and EXACT functions to parse and compare text, as explained below. In the example shown, the formula in G5 is:
where data is the named range B5:B15.
Note: this formula performs a case-sensitive comparison. See notes below for other options.
The MATCH function has a limit of 255 characters for the lookup value. If you try to use longer text, MATCH will return a _TAG_ error. To workaround this limit you can use boolean logic and the LEFT, MID, and EXACT functions to parse and compare text.
Note: this formula performs an exact match when both the lookup value and array values are greater than 255 characters. See below for other options.
The string we are testing with in cell E5 is 373 characters as follows:
Lorem ipsum dolor amet put a bird on it listicle trust fund, unicorn vaporware bicycle rights you probably haven't heard of them mustache. Forage helvetica crusty semiotics actually heirloom. Tumblr poutine unicorn godard try-hard before they sold out narwhal meditation kitsch waistcoat fixie twee literally hoodie retro. Messenger bag hell of crusty green juice artisan.
At the core, this is just a MATCH formula, set up to look for 1 in exact match mode:
The array in the formula above contains only 1s and 0s, and 1s represent matching text. This array is constructed by the following expression:
This expression itself has two parts. On the left we have:
EXACT(LEFT(E5,255),LEFT(data,255)) // compare first 255 chars
Here, the LEFT function extracts the first 255 characters from E5, and from all cells in the named range data (B5:B15). Because data contains 11 text strings, LEFT will generate 11 results.
The EXACT function then compares the single string from E5 against all the 11 strings returned by LEFT. EXACT returns 11 results in an array like this:
On the right, we have another expression:
EXACT(MID(E5,256,255),MID(data,256,255) // compare next 255 chars
This is exact the same approach as used with LEFT, but here we use the MID function to extract the next 255 characters of text. The EXACT function again returns 11 results:
When the two arrays above are multiplied by one another, the math operation coerces the TRUE FALSE values into 1s and 0s. Following the rules of boolean arithmetic, the result is an array like this:
which is returned directly to MATCH as the lookup array. The formula can now be resolved to:
The MATCH function performs an exact match, and returns a final result of 10, which represents the tenth text string in B5:B15.
Note: the text length shown in the example is calculated with the LEN function. It appears for reference only.
Case-insensitive option
The EXACT function is case-sensitive, so the formula above will respect case.
To perform a case-insensitive match with long text, you use the ISNUMBER and SEARCH functions as follows:
The overall structure of this formula is identical to the example above, but the SEARCH function is used instead of EXACT to compare text (explained in detail here).
Unlike EXACT, the SEARCH function also supports wildcards.
The XMATCH function does not have the same 255 character limit as MATCH. To perform an similar match on long text with XMATCH, you can use the much simpler formula below:
Note: XMATCH supports wildcards, but is not case-sensitive.
The example above shows a worksheet where the lookup value and some of the entries in the lookup array are longer than 255 characters, and the match type is exact. If the lookup value is less than 255 characters, but some values in the lookup array are greater than 255 characters, you can use MATCH function with the SEARCH function like this:
This formula works when text in E5 is less than 255 characters, but values in column B are greater than 255 characters. The behavior however is different. Instead of finding an exact match (as in the example above) this formula performs a contains match. SEARCH will return a number if the text in E5 appears anywhere in a cell that is part of the named range data. Detailed explanation here. The equivalent formula using XMATCH with wildcards is:
A similar wildcard search with the MATCH function won't work because of the 255 character limitation.
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Instagram For Health Care Professionals
Figure 1 is a complex version of Instagram for health care professionals. It's a place for medical students and professionals to both upload and access a growing database of images related to medical conditions. It contains patient photos, brain scans, X-Rays and even cellular images, with text to accompany each image.
Figure 1: Photo sharing for health careFigure 1: Photo sharing for health care
Open the app and you are presented with a feed of images, just like Instagram, so it's a better experience when your colleagues are posting photos. I signed up as a journalist and was presented with a recommended feed of photos with descriptions, some that included requests for second opinions.
The result was a fascinating feed of medical pornography: broken bones, explanted tumors, alzheimers brain scans, and even images of dental destruction from methamphetamine drug use.
Each photo is tagged, e.g Vascular Surgery, making it easier to browse by topic, and I was pleasantly surprised by how accessible and easy it was to use.
The app includes a patient consent to comply with federal privacy laws, just like those faced by GoDerma, another photo based app but for patients to diagnose their skin disorders.
It also includes instructions and tools to black out faces, text (e.g names on X-Rays), or identifiable marks (e.g tattoos) to maintain patient confidentiality.
Photos and files can be shared amongst specific groups of people, or more broadly amongst the medical community.
It seems like an incredibly useful app, that gives doctors and students access to a much larger database of images and case studies that would otherwise be available to them, as well as making the process of helping each other much easier.
What surprised me was that Figure 1 is also interesting to those of us just fascinated by the human body and it's disorders. And it's free!
Download Figure 1 now but beware! Some images are frightening!


Once the emperor of Japan changes, so does the name of the imperial era, such is the tradition of Japan. We have recently transitioned from Heisei to Reiwa. One of these era's names has been used for a public holiday, "Shōwa". This day takes place on the 29th of April, but what kind of public holiday is it? We're going to delve into the reasoning and history behind this day in this article!
About Shōwa Day
"Shōwa Day" was established for the reason of "Looking back on the hard times that we've overcome, reflecting on the Shōwa era, and thinking about the country's future". During the Shōwa Era (_PHONE_) the second world war happened, the atomic bomb was dropped on both Hiroshima and Nagasaki among many more tragic events, it was certainly a hard time for all Japanese people. After the second world war, the country slowly began rebuilding and entered a rapid post-war economic growth.
Shōwa Day was the Emporor's Birthday
In truth, the 29th of April actually had 3 different names up until now before finally settling on Shōwa Day. It was actually the emperor at the time's birthday, during July of 1948, new laws regarding public holidays were made public and put into effect until 1988, until which the day was officially celebrated as the emperor's birthday and that alone. The day itself was actually called "Tenchosetsu" which directly translates to "Emperor's Birthday". After the death of Emperor Shōwa, the Emperor's birthday of course changed, meaning that the day could no longer be celebrated as such, and was changed to "Green Day" which felt fitting due to the emperor being a lover of nature. However, after 18 years of this name, in 2007, the day's name was changed to "Shōwa Day". It had the meaning of celebrating the recovery of Japan after the second world war thanks to their post-war economic boom.
Shōwa Day Signifies the Start of a Long Holiday Period
In Japan, from the end of April towards the start of May, there is something known as "Golden Week" which is a long period of holidays starting with the 29th of April's "Shōwa Day". Other than this, there is May the 3rd's "Constitution Memorial Day", the 4th's "Green Day", and the 5th's "Children's Day".
We're sure there are a few people who read that last sentence and had a reaction like "Huh? I thought Green Day was changed?", well actually, it was moved to the 4th of May, this is because originally the Emperor's birthday which took place on the 29th of April should've become an ordinary day. This would mean that Golden Week would've been shortened, which would, in turn, create a huge ripple effect in the lives of many Japanese people, this is why instead of making it a normal weekday, they decided to move Green Day to this date instead. This meant that it was surrounded by the 2 other public holidays stated above and allowed for a long period of holidays to once again complete golden week.
Enter Showa Kinen Park for FREE!
This is a spot that's famous for its cherry blossoms in spring, and beautiful orange colors during autumn. This park was established to celebrate the emperor's 50th year in 1983. It has over 180ha of space, and there are many different institutions you can find within the park. There are both free and paid areas of the park, however, during Shōwa Day the entire park becomes free to enter!
※Showa Kinen Park cannot be entered during 2021.


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The Manager, Global Publications Oncology is responsible for managing the development and execution of publications strategies for programs that are in phase 1 or higher. This position requires a strong scientific and analytical background, preferably in life sciences and strong project management skills. The person in this job is expected to perform well in a matrix environment. The Manager, Global Publications Oncology will participate in the development of strategic publication plans; lead the publications planning team; manage the development of publications activities for external audiences, including, but not limited to, manuscripts, abstracts, posters, and oral presentations; manage vendors, freelancers, and available contractors, writers, and editors; and manage annual budget planning for each assigned compound. The individual in this role will be responsible for driving the publications process and ensuring compliance with global standards, and for ensuring accuracy and scientific rigor of publications. The Manager, Global Publications Oncology will participate in the development and review of publications SOPs and Work Practices, where appropriate.
The individual in this role will interact with cross-functional internal stakeholders, including members of R&D, Translational Medicine, and Outcomes Research, as well as other departments within Global Medical Affairs, Compliance, Legal, Marketing, and other Takeda business units (eg, Vaccines). The Manager, Global Publications Oncology will serve as primary liaison with internal and external opinion leaders, investigators, authors, partners, and affiliates on publication activities related to the compounds/programs.
The Manager, Global Publications Oncology is also responsible for understanding the disease landscape and competition for the compounds they work with. They will work with the Competitive Intelligence group and Global Medical Affairs Medical Communications colleagues to analyze congress abstracts and presentations a role that will require the Manager, Global Publications Oncology to be a subject matter expert.
- Publication management early and late phase projects
- Work with cross-functional, multidisciplinary teams to support the development, management, and execution of global or regionally integrated strategic publication plans that align with product medical strategies and medical communication plans
- Have a strong understanding of agent disease state, including landscape and competition
- Lead cross-functional publication planning team meetings
- Initiate communication with authors; identify all necessary data required for content development; participate in author meetings to facilitate content discussion and ensure appropriate content development process is followed
- Critically review publications including, but not limited to, manuscripts, abstracts, posters, and oral presentations, for accuracy and scientific rigor; manage and facilitate the content review process, including collating reviewer comments and having discussions with authors and reviewers
- Commitment to ethical practices in the preparation and dissemination of publications
- Ensure compliance with all applicable laws, regulations, and policies
- Interact directly with Clinical, Statistics, Regulatory Affairs, and Medical Affairs to fully understand development programs, regulatory and medical strategies, and key scientific and communication objectives for the therapeutic area and develop appropriate scientific publications.
- Effectively and consistently communicate the publication strategy, tactical plan, and plan progress to internal business partners
- Manage medical writing agency, including oversight on execution of publications plans and budget, and maintenance of publications management databases such as Datavision
- Manage alliance partnerships
- Input into the process development and refinement, as/if needed
- Coordinate, plan, and manage publications budget for assigned program(s) in close collaboration with GMAO Operations team
- Provide medical and scientific review of Global Medical Affairs Oncology materials (and, if required, promotional materials) to support the medical (and promotional) review process
- Contribute to the development of content for Global Medical Affairs projects, including but not limited to, NCCN compendia, training materials, global congress plan, and medical resource tools, as needed
- Serve as the Global Publications representative on relevant Global Medical Strategy Team
- Attend conferences, symposia, or other meetings, as necessary or as assigned, and act as liaison between Global Publications Oncology and external content contributors
- Presentation and Writing Proficiency
- Excellent ability to interpret and present scientific and clinical trial data to a variety of audiences, along with a strong understanding of statistics
- Excellent writing skills coupled with a comprehensive knowledge of the publication process and publication guidelines, along with careful attention to detail
EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE, KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS:
Education and Experience:
Advanced degree (PhD, PharmD) in a scientific discipline 2+ years of healthcare or related experience (medical communications agency, pharmaceutical industry, research or academic), including medical writing experience Medical Affairs and Oncology experience strongly preferred. Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Experience in medical communications functions, which may include publications, medical information, and/or training.
- Understanding of pharmaceutical clinical development and product life-cycle management
Working experience in cross-functional team within the pharmaceutical or related industry
- Strategic Approach: Ability to identify opportunities and anticipate changes in the business landscape through an understanding and ongoing assessment of the environment
- Collaboration: Ability to cultivate a broad network of relationships throughout the organization, connecting global, regional and local organizations. Requires experience and success in working in a matrix, cross-functional environment; excellent collaboration skills; experience working across functions to achieve results
- Engage Others: Ability to create a clear and unifying vision inspiring teams to excel
- Drive for Results: Creates functional strategies and goals that are closely aligned with company objectives and develops metrics to track and assess performance
- Creativity and innovation: Ability to contribute to data analytics and publications planning, including ideas for sub-analyses
- Compliance and regulatory: Excellent understanding of regulatory, compliance and legal requirements
- Technical skills: Advanced PC skills, including Datavision, MS Project, Word, Excel, Power Point, Visio and SharePoint
Up to 10% domestic and international travel required
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What Do Criminal Records Consist of in Arizona?
There is plenty of information in Arizona criminal records. This includes details about a person's convictions, dispositions, indictments, and arrests. More specifically, criminal records in Arizona contain information like the person's name and known aliases, past and outstanding arrest warrants, and past and current criminal offenses and indictments. Other info in these criminal records includes:
- Mugshot and fingerprints
- Conviction and inmate records
- Age/Birth Date
- Other identifying personal information
Arrest records are similar to this. Arrest records are official law enforcement documents describing the apprehensions and detentions of people who allegedly committed crimes. However, arrest records do not mean that the person arrested is actually guilty of or pleaded guilty to their alleged crimes.
How Can Someone Use Criminal Records?
One of the primary uses of criminal records is employers accessing said records as part of a pre-employment background check. However, only non-profit organizations can get Arizona state criminal history information for employment purposes. No other private companies can access this information for those purposes. It is important to note that in the state of Arizona, if a potential employer asks to hear about any prior convictions you may have, they must include a statement that a prior conviction will not completely bar you from employment. Additionally, courts may use criminal records to determine sentences for crimes that the same person commits at a later time.
Can Someone Else Access Your Criminal Records?
In the state of Arizona, you are the only person that can request your criminal records aside from law enforcement agencies. The Criminal History Records Section is the central repository for all criminal records in the state of Arizona. In many states, other people can request copies of your criminal records if they have acceptable reasons for doing so. However, in Arizona, only authorized individuals or agencies can request copies of your criminal records.
How Can You Request A Criminal Record?
If you want to request a criminal record, you start off by requesting a Record Review Packet from the Criminal History Records Section. You can call them at _PHONE_ to do so. In the Record Review Packet, you get the following:
- Blank applicant fingerprint card
- Contact information sheet
- Pre-addressed return envelope
You will get a mailed response to your request within 15 days of the receipt of the completed Record Review Packet. This response will not include any personal information about you. You can find the Record Review Packet Instructions here.
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We present a theoretical study focusing on exploring the possibility of controlling anthropogenic and natural seismicity. More specifically, we address the general question of earthquake control: Is it possible to control and avoid anthropogenic and natural earthquakes and how?
We address this question using the spring-slider model in a mathematically rigorous framework and we investigate the conditions under which a seismogenic fault system can be stabilized by fluid injection (Stefanou, 2019). The concept that pore pressure increase due to fluid injection can stimulate fault slip is well established nowadays. Recent works also show the potential of generating aseismic slip in some cases (Cornet, 2016). However, the question of earthquake control is still open and challenging.
We use a general Coulomb-type rheology that depends both on slip and slip-rate for describing the frictional behavior of a fault system. Our analysis leads to a non-autonomous system, whose steady-state and stability are retrieved using a double-scale asymptotic analysis in time. Additionally to rock elasticity, which is responsible for the progressive elastic energy build-up that is released abruptly during earthquake events, we consider also radiational damping. This is performed by accounting for the rock viscosity through a damper in Kelvin-Voigt configuration.
We show mathematically that the system is stabilizable by controlling fluid pressure and we present scenarios of earthquake control.
Stefanou, I. (2019). Controlling Anthropogenic and Natural Seismicity: Insights From Active Stabilization of the Spring‐Slider Model. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 2019JB017847. _URL_
Cornet, F. H. (2016). Seismic and aseismic motions generated by fluid injections. Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment, 5, 42–54. _URL_


A sweet and silly game is being played around the world and in all 50 states to comfort and entertain children during the current pandemic. You can participate too. All you have to do is put a teddy bear or other stuffed animal, or a drawing of a rainbow, in a window.
Kids are home from school these days. It's a scary time for them, even more than for us adults. But tens of thousands, or maybe hundreds of thousands of individuals and small business owners in all 50 states and at least 12 other countries are doing one small thing to help: They're putting a teddy bear or stuffed animal in their windows.
This may not sound like much, but it will make a bigger difference to the children in your community than you might think. Not only are schools closed because of the coronavirus, so are playgrounds, malls, skating rinks, movies theaters, toy stores, and pretty much anyplace else where children go to have fun. Even McDonald's play areas, an option some parents depended on in bad weather, are closed.
So what can kids do for fun, other than watch TV or play video games? They can go for a walk or a drive with their parents. Those are fundamentally boring activities that suddenly become a lot less tedious when you turn them into a teddy bear hunt. That's what children are doing all over the world. They compete with each other to see how many teddy bears or other stuffed animals they can spot, and they keep count of their finds. They take pictures of the most unusual and the ones they like best.
A 10,000-member Facebook group.
Many of these pictures get posted to the Teddy Bear Hunt Facebook group which seems to have been started by a 12-year-old Iowan named Tammy Buman along with her 8-year-old sister and parents. It has more than 10,000 members so far. "I think that it helps people get their mind off of what's happening right now," she told the New York Times. The game seems to be inspired in part by the book We're Going on a Bear Hunt by British author Michael Rosen, who himself is in the hospital with severe flu-like symptoms.
Children as old as 13 and as far away as New Zealand say they are excited to go walking each day to see how many stuffed animals they can find. There are no reports so far of people using Google Street View to look for bears in faraway places, but it's only a matter of time. (That way, of course, you lose the benefit of going outside for fresh air and exercise.)
It's easy to participate. If you have a window or doorway facing a street or road, or if you have a storefront or office, even if it's closed these days, just put a teddy bear where people walking by can see it. If you have kids, getting them to help make a teddy bear display is a great way to distract them both from the coronavirus and the latest video game. If you don't have a teddy bear, other kinds of stuffed animals are welcome too. And if you have no stuffed animals at all, don't fret. Some people are taping a drawing of a rainbow to their windows or doors instead.
All these things send the same message to the children -- and adults -- in their neighborhoods. "We're here. We're all connected. We're all going to get through this together. Even if, for the moment, we have to stay far apart."


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Here are the key exhibitor trends we are seeing:
- Tradeshows, events, and conferences retain a prominent place in marketing budgets. Average company allocates 40.3% of annual marketing budget.
- Senior marketing managers are demanding more accountability for tradeshow spending.
- Identifying tradeshow performance and financial metrics to show how the exhibit program supports core business objectives and delivers financial value is on the rise.
- Companies are moving from and event perspective (3 days at a show) to an "end to end" campaign perspective.
- Companies are doing a better job of targeting their ideal visitors and using selective attraction strategies to engage them.
- Because of the clutter in the email inbox, many companies are bring back direct mail as a key part of their pre-show marketing campaign.
- Companies are thinking beyond the booth by bringing in experts to speak, hosting private educational sessions, inviting customers to focus groups.
- Use of interactive technologies like tables and touch screens are providing more personalized in-booth experiences.
- Digital signage is replacing static signage.
- RFC and NFC technologies are being used for tracking attendee behaviors.
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Next cut out the inside of the arch. Roll the curved section over a round object to match the curvature of the arch. Before gluing it in place, test to make sure it fits correctly inside the walls of the main section. When you are ready to glue it in place, you can use a tweezers to push the inside piece perfectly into place before the glue sets.


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Oscar Winberg is a PhD Candidate at the History Department of Åbo Akademi University, working on modern American political history. Winberg's research focuses on the intersection of entertainment and politics. His dissertation is a political history of the television sitcom All in the Family, the first comprehensive study of how the most popular show on television in the 1970s became a part of the political battles of the decade. Winberg is a part of a research project, organized by the John Morton Center for North American Studies at the University of Turku, on the 2016 United States presidential election. His research interests include American political history, especially the history of conservatism, corporate political activism, the politics of television, and conservatism in post-war swedish-speaking Finland.


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pretag syntax-highlighted with a light theme, in order to differentiate between the two in a clear manner.
Screenshots can work well when done right, even when displaying text; like code-snippets. Adept them, have arrows with additional explaining text next to it. Craft them well and you can get something like this which gets it's point across in an hands-on manner: considering this complicated matter.
Combining a colorscheme's dark– and light version
But even when working with screenshots of code-snippets, one can mix it up with plain text in
This line tells [npm](_URL_) to install both 'gulp' and 'gulp-sass' packages as development dependencies. You can now find them in the 'devDependencies' object of your 'package.json'. And the 'Gulpfile.js':
$ npm install gulp gulp-sass --save-dev
var gulp = require('gulp'); var sass = require('gulp-sass');
This is not difficult to achieve with Prism syntax-hightlighter combined with Sass-variables for colors.
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Words that describe, words that evaluate
Are your words objective and unbiased, or do they judge?
The beauty of well-chosen words is that they convey rich information. We use oral or written language to tell stories, to paint pictures, to help others know, see, hear, taste, smell, and feel the things that we have known, seen, heard, tasted, smelled, and felt.
We do all this through the power of descriptive words. Through description, we can tell readers or listeners about a massive, moss-covered oak stump, on which sat a tiny Yorkshire terrier puppy staring up at us with its head cocked to one side.
But some words go beyond description; they don't just tell objectively about how things are. Some words are evaluative, and they include judgments about the goodness or badness of something. Through evaluative words, the the puppy becomes adorable.
In this case, the attribute of being adorable is subjective. A different person might say that the puppy looks like something from a mawkish greeting card.
With descriptive words, a car can be expensive. Through evaluative words, it becomes over-priced.
A manager can be energetic, or overbearing.
Writers use both descriptive and evaluative words. Good writers understand the difference, and weigh their words based on this: "Do I want to describe, or evaluate?"
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 1. Lars Walker says:
 There's a classic game of triads (I don't know what it's actually called):
 I am principled. You are narrowminded. He is a bigot.
 I am a bon vivant. You overdo it sometimes. He is a drunk.
 I am easygoing. You cut some corners. He is lazy.
 I am spontaneous. You're unreliable. He is nuts.
 For a woman: I am friendly. You are easy. She's a slut.
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The effect of calcium injection on the intracellular sodium and pH of snail neurones
R W Meech, R C Thomas
104 Citations (Scopus)
1. Ion-sensitive glass micro-electrodes were used to measure the intracellular pH (pHi) and the intracellular sodium ion concentration, [Na+]i, in identified Helix aspersa neurones. 2. The injection of small volumes of 0-1 McaCl2, which increased the membrane potential by 10-15 mV for 1-2 min, had little or no effect on [Na+]i. Increases of up to 1 mM in [Na+]i could be reversibly induced by larger injections. 3. Calcium injection caused an immediate decrease in pHi, which appeared to be directly proportional to the amount of calcium injected. Injections causing hyperpolarizations of 10-20 mV which recovered in 2-5 min caused pHi decreases of 0-04-0-15 units. After each of these injections both pHi and the membrane potential recovered exponentially but with different time constants. 4. The injection of calcium at a low rate could decrease pHi without affecting the membrane potential. 5. Neither membrane potential nor pHi were affected by the injection of small volumes of 0-1 M-MgCl2, Injection of CoCl2 produced a large transient decrease in pHi but no significant change in membrane potential. 6. Exposure of the cell to saline equilibrated with 2-5% CO2 greatly reduced the pHi decrease caused by calcium injection but had only small effects on the membrane potential response. 7. It is concluded that most of the injected calcium is exchanged for protons inside the cell.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)867-79
Number of pages13
JournalJournal of Physiology
Issue number3
Publication statusPublished - Mar 1977
 - Animals
 - Calcium
 - Carbon Dioxide
 - Helix (Snails)
 - Hydrogen-Ion Concentration
 - In Vitro Techniques
 - Membrane Potentials
 - Neurons
 - Sodium
 - Time Factors
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A Low Power CMOS CORDIC Processor Design for Wireless Telecommunication
Source: Northeastern University
A CORDIC processor for wire telecommunication is integrated in a 0.5ìm CMOS technology. The CORDIC (Coordinate Rotation DIgital Computer) processor reduces the circuit complexity by performing a sequence of elementary rotations using shift and add operations without multiplications. Hard wired-logic eliminates the shifter and includes pre-calculated arctan angle values. The average power consumption is 76mW with 50MHz clock and 5V power supply. The fabricated modulator consumes 24mW at 61.44MHz sampling rate and 5V power supply.


text: Students in High Road at Denton Elementary School practiced using coping skills by creating "Calming Critters" when participating in a group counseling session with High Road Social Worker, Ileana Hoffman, LGSW. Group session focused on identifying feelings and exploring new coping tools. Ms. Ileana and students engaged in discussion about different feelings and knowing the signs your body gives you about what you're feeling. For example, when a student feels worried, his stomach may feel upset or when he is angry he may feel like his face is red. Students identified coping tools that help them manage their feelings at school such as asking for a self time-out or communicating with staff. Ms. Ileana introduced "Calming Critter" while emphasizing the goal for students to have a variety of skills they can use to manage their feelings. Students created their own "Calming Critter" by utilizing a variety of yarn colors and other craft supplies. Students displayed creativity by giving their critters unique hair cuts, creating eyes, feet, antennae, mouths, etc. When Calming Critters were finished, students learned how they can use their Calming Critters as a coping tool. Students practiced using their Calming Critters in a variety of ways such as whispering worries to the critter, holding it when angry or upset, and using it as a fidget tool when overexcited or when listening to their teacher read. Students were excited to have a Calming Critter to add to their coping skills tool box!


DIY mosquito repellant
Found a handy cheap mosquito trap online.
 - Yeast packet
 - 2L soda bottle
 - Black paper (or duct tape in my case)
 - Water
 - Sugar
 1. Dissolve sugar in water on stove
 2. Once water is cool enough that you can bear to hold your finger I, add yeast and stir ( yeast can withstand temperatures about like we can).
 3. Cut the top of he bottle off, where it becomes the same diameter as the main body of the bottle.
 4. Invert the top onto the bottle and tape the seam shut.
 5. Apply tape or black paper to he bottle to make it dark inside.
 6. Pour yeasty sugar water in and place in a dry cool area near where one doesn't want Mosquitos.
Theory: Yeast eats sugar and poops alcohol and carbon dioxide. This is how beer gets alcohol and CARBONation. In wine, the carbonation (carbon dioxide) is allowed to escape. In making bread, the alcohol evaporates and he carbon dioxide is what makes air pockets in the bread, making it rise. Mosquitos find mammals by their carbon dioxide at up to 100 ft, then by heat and movement. So mosquitoes will fly into the trap looking for a mammal. I would suggest having the trap near but not too close to the area of concern, for I'm pretty sure a human will still be more enticing than the trap, as we give off heat and other chemical signatures they might pick up on.
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01 Nov Possible horizontal Ecodesign measure for internal combustion engines
EGMF Position paper on possible horizontal Ecodesign measure for internal combustion engines
EGMF together with the engine manufacturers industry (Euromot), the construction machinery industry (CECE), the agricultural machinery industry (CEMA) and the material handling industry (FEM) opposed a potential future horizontal energy efficiency requirement on internal combustion engines. Indeed, such a measure is unfeasible considering the variety of types and power ranges of combustion engines installed in non-road mobile machinery. In addition, the pressure imposed by other upcoming regulatory requirements on engines renders such a measure inappropriate. Finally, the importance of energy efficiency in manufacturers' R&D makes such a measure unnecessary.
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Definitions for water mill
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
a mill with machinery driven by water.
Origin of water mill:
a mill powered by a water wheel
a mill whose machinery is moved by water; -- distinguished from a windmill, and a steam mill