It doesn't say there is an accident at Zoom! So what to do?
Zoom, which has become a part of the new normal, is now an integral part of both business and education life. As such, some problems and accidents are inevitable in Zoom searches that we use almost every day.
Especially the biggest accidents are usually caused by the microphone or camera being left on. In order to prevent these accidents, we have explained for you how to set up a meeting that is always muted.
You can avoid zoom accidents in two steps
To join the Zoom call, always with your microphone turned off, open the app on your desktop. Go to Preferences> Sound. Check the box "Mute microphone while attending a meeting".
Now, when you join a meeting, you will be automatically muted until you manually unmute. In this way, you will be able to prevent possible unwanted accidents.
Likewise, to turn off your camera by default, go to Preferences> Video. Check the "Turn off camera when joining a meeting" box. In this way, while participating in a conversation, you can make a conversation without fear of being caught unwanted.
Please enter your comment!
Please enter your name here


Best Practices for Effective Universal App Campaigns (UAC)
As a mobile app marketing agency, one of our favorite tools for promoting our in-house and clients' mobile apps is Universal App Campaigns (UAC).
In 2015, Google introduced UAC as its primary advertising solution for mobile applications. Instead of having to manually set bids and targeting certain keywords like in other Google Ads campaigns, UAC uses machine learning to automate the targeting, bidding, and use of creative assets for campaigns.
In this post, we'll outline 3 best practices for optimal UAC results.
 1. Set the Right Campaign Objective
It is crucial to decide the right objective for your campaign.
UAC lets users select between "Install Volume" and "In-App Actions" as potential campaign goals.
At this juncture, it is important to understand WHO your target audience is and WHAT value-added activity you would like them to do. Once you figure this out, you can decide which goal best fits your app's needs.
If your app has multiple goals and target audiences, you can set up different UACs for each. This segmentation will provide you with greater control over your UACs by allowing you to set the creative assets specifically for each target audience and objective.
 1. Sufficiently Fund Your Campaign
Because Google's algorithm needs sufficient time and budget to effectively collect data and learn from your creative assets, Google Adwords recommends certain budgets for each UAC campaign type.
For "Install Volume" campaigns, Google suggests a budget at least 50 times greater than your target CPI.
As for "In-App Actions" campaigns, they suggest a budget at least 10 times greater than your target CPI.
Furthermore, it is imperative you ensure your app's campaign has sufficient budget to be able to reap the full benefits of UAC's machine learning.
Otherwise, your campaign's success can be stunted, simply due to a lack of funding.
 1. Find the Best Performing Creative Asset Mix
As in other areas of advertising, finding the correct mix of creative assets is essential.
UAC streamlines the A/B testing process by automatically testing the effectiveness of different creative asset combinations in its "learning period."
First, users provide Google with 4 text ideas for the algorithm to mix and match together. It's important that these text combinations are distinct and unique from one each other so that the system can truly test different ad groupings and versions.
Next, you have the option of adding up to 20 images or HTML5 assets. The more dimensions and orientations you provided, the more mediums and platforms your ad can be placed. As a result, Google's algorithm can help you discover the best devices and channels for your app's campaign to reside.
Finally, using the Creative Asset Report, you can evaluate the performance of all of your campaign's creative assets. From this, you can see which text ideas and creative assets you should keep, modify, and scrap.
Furthermore, UAC's machine learning capabilities provide a powerful tool for testing and modifying advertising efforts, if used correctly.
To learn more about mobile application development and technology, make sure to contact our New York City Appetizer Mobile team today!


text:
January 19th, 2013
Where do mushrooms come from and what are they doing in the garden? Ashley McKenzie from the Texas Wild Mushrooming Group notes their beneficial relationship with plants and how to keep it going. On tour, even winter is bountiful in Lynne and Jim Weber's native habitat garden. Daphne Richards explains why to prune trees in winter. Her pick of the week is evergreen mountain pea, a lush groundcover for shade and sun. Trisha Shirey shows how to cage tomatoes and build trellises for vining vegetables and fruits.
Tips of the Week
Drink coffee? Check out the Ground to Ground initiative that connects area coffee shops with gardeners who want coffee grounds and food waste and are willing to make a commitment to regular pick-ups. For more info on this great partnership, visit the Compost Coalition.
Start a compost pile!
Prune woody shrubs that are dormant. Avoid pruning evergreen shrubs like cenizo for a few more weeks.
Plant trees, shrubs, and roses.
Clean up old leaves around fruit trees and vegetable gardens.
Plant bare root fruit trees, berries, grapes and roses.
Plant asparagus crowns. Prune back growth if it hasn't frozen back.
Get seedling potatoes
- More Tips
Question of the Week
Why do we prune trees in Winter?
The Weber Native Habitat Garden

source: HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu


text:
Final Report: Climate Economic Analysis for Development, Investment, and Resilience (CEADIR) Activity
To address these challenges, USAID partnered with the Sustainable Ocean Fund (SOF), to make pioneering impact investments into marine and coastal projects and enterprises. The $132 million Fund invests in projects across Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa, and Asia and the Pacific that aim to build resilience in coastal ecosystems and create sustainable economic growth and livelihoods in the blue economy.
The agriculture sector across the globe not only feeds the world's population but it also provides nearly 27 percent of worldwide employment. Yet the sector faces significant sustainability challenges: it is estimated to contribute more than one-fifth of global greenhouse gas emissions through a combination of agricultural activities and land use changes, and it consumes, on average, 70 percent of the world's freshwater resources.
At first glance, USAID and NASA seem like an unlikely pair. NASA's satellites watch the world from above; USAID helps farmers around the world grow crops from the ground up. But through a 15-year partnership, we're helping solve one of the greatest threats to Earth — the climate crisis — and simultaneously strengthening resilience against poverty, hunger, malnutrition, and lack of access to safe water and sanitation.

source: openbmb/Ultra-FineWeb


text:
A male Western Lowland Gorilla born at the Oklahoma City Zoo on Valentine's Day was given a name on his one-month birthday: the baby will be called Leom, which combines the last two letters of his mother's name, Kelele, and his father's name, Bom Bom.
Leom is the first birth for 19-year-old Kelele, who has ben providing excellent care to her newborn. Female Gorillas carry their infants 24 hours a day, never putting them down. Leom's father, Bom Bom, was a beloved 36-year-old silverback who died in July 2012 of cardiac arrest.
Photo Credits: Andrea Wright (1,3,4,5); Gillian Lang (2)
The zoo's three young male Gorillas, who have never seen a baby Gorilla before, are very curious about Leom. Kelele, always protective of her baby, keeps her distance from them for now.
With Leom's birth, the Oklahoma City Zoo continues its involvement in the
Gorilla Species Survival Plan (SSP) through the Association of Zoos and
Aquariums (AZA). One of the SSP's most important roles is to ensure that the Gorilla
population remains healthy, genetically-diverse, and self-sustaining.


text:
Power of Microsoft Lync
Microsoft Lync Server is unified communications (UC) platform which provides an infrastructure to integrate communication modalities like instant messaging (IM), Presence, VoIP (voice over IP), file transfer, Web conferencing, voice mail and email etc. Microsoft Lync enables seamless communication within a single organization, between multiple organizations, and with external individuals.
Why Information Barrier?
While seamless communication helps companies to increase their ability to reach internal/external workforces brilliantly, it throws compliance challenges to some of the industries. With so much information created, saved and accessible via collaboration tools, it becomes equally important to ensure internal and government compliance are met during this seamless form of communication between the agents.
For example, there could be an investment banking firm with requirement to isolate persons who make investment decisions from persons who are privy to undisclosed material information which may influence those decisions. These firms are generally required by law to safeguard insider information and to ensure that no improper trading occurs.
Journalism industry also needs ethical wall to meet internal compliance/regulatory. Ethical wall is used in journalism to create separation between the editorial and advertising arms of a media firm.
Similarly there are various industries like pharma, law etc. where ethical wall is required to create information barrier between two set of workforce.
Solution for Microsoft Lync
Recognizing the importance of compliance & regulatory laws, DevCentrics has released a product DC Stockade for Lync customers. DC Stockade is an information barrier or ethical wall or Chinese wall, which takes strong measures to protect information flow using Lync modality between two set of users or networks.
Noticeable Features of DC Stockade
- Information barrier: Lync customers can chose to control access per modality (IM, presence, voice, video, etc).
- Target Definition: You can implement china wall based on users group or VLAN.
- Federated Domain: You can either block or allow communication with federated partners.
- Content Filter: It enables content filter in the Lync environment. You can create different levels of profanity words to apply policies and alerts accordingly. DC Stockade allows you to configure alerts based on violations.
- IM Bot: To pop the regulatory statement to users when violation occurs.
- Archival of violations: DC Stockade records the archival of violations for future references.
- Hardware requirement: No additional hardware requirement as it runs on the front end server.
- Environment support: DC Stockade supports multiple active directory domain and Lync pools. It supports standard and enterprise edition both type of deployments.
- Advanced reporting: DC Stockade has rich reporting options on violations.
- RBAC: Access of UI based on Role Based Access Control (RBAC).
Adoption of Lync
Adherence of compliance and regulatory takes precedence over implementation & adoption of seamless communication for most of the organizations. Hence, many organizations end up not enabling Microsoft Lync for various users to maintain information barrier compliance requirement. This practice leads to less adoption of Microsoft Lync, which in turn decreases ROI. DC Stockade helps such organizations to implement Microsoft Lync for all, yet follow the compliance and regulatory requirements. This helps those organizations immensely in order to increase adoption of MS Lync and increased ROI.
You can contact Devcentrics (_EMAIL_) to know more benefits and how it could help your organization.
To request a demo: _URL_
Microsoft PinPoint: _URL_


NSS Annapolis
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to: navigation, search
The 3 remaining towers of the NSS Annapolis.
NSS Annapolis, officially known as Naval Communications Station Washington, D.C. Transmitter or NavCommStaWashingtonDC(T), was a Very Low Frequency (VLF) and High Frequency (HF) transmitter station operated by the United States Navy.
It was located at Greenbury Point, in Anne Arundel County, across the Severn River from Annapolis, Maryland at coordinates 38°58′40″N 76°27′12″W / 38.97778°N 76.45333°W / 38.97778; -76.45333. NSS Annapolis was used by the USN for submarine communication. The station consisted of an umbrella antenna supported by a 1,200-foot (365.76 m) high central mast, which was insulated against ground, 6 guyed masts of 800-foot (243.84 m) and 3 freestanding towers of the same height.
The huge towers were a local landmark, and served as a visual reporting point for aircraft landing at the nearby Baltimore-Washington International (BWI) airport. A golf course ran through the VLF antenna farm; special rules addressed hitting a tower with a ball (usually stroke and distance). The NSS HF receiver station, and the headquarters for NavCommStaWashingtonDC(T), was located at the Naval Communications Station in Cheltenham, Maryland until 1969. In late 1969, the receiver station at Cheltenham closed and a new receiver station was activated at Sugar Grove, West Virginia.
NSS began transmitting in September, 1918 using 500 kilowatt Poulson Arc transmitters. However, arc transmitters were significantly inferior to the then state-of-the-art Alexanderson alternator and the arc transmitters were replaced by more modern vacuum tube transmitters in 1931. VLF, or "longwave" radio was the standard at the time for long range radio transmission, later to be generally replaced by shortwave.
VLF later became essential for communicating with submerged submarines, a critically important capability as submarines became strategic missile platforms. The NSS transmitter fed one million watts of radio energy to its antenna, and during idle times, transmitted the string "W W W VVV VVV VVV DE NSS NSS NSS" in Morse code. The power was so high and the frequency so low, one could hear the signal on practically any kind of receiver anywhere in the Annapolis area (not to mention within some people's dental work). Actual messages were also sent in Morse code, but were either prearranged code signals or were encrypted.
Rendered obsolete by satellite technology and the end of the cold war, NSS ceased operation and most of all of the antennas and most of the towers were demolished in 1999. Only three of the smaller towers were preserved for historic reasons.
External links[edit]


3 Reasons Your AC System Is Humming
Posted on: 8 August 2019
Your air conditioning system makes a lot of different noises. You need to pay attention to the different sounds that your system makes. If you notice that the system is making a large humming sound, there is something wrong with your system.
Reason #1: Condenser Fan Motor
One of the major reasons that your air conditioning unit may be humming is because there is something wrong with the condenser fan within the motor. The condenser fan helps keep your air conditioning system cool. The fan is located within the motor and helps keep your motor cool.
When the fan starts to go out the consequence is usually that the fan stops spinning or doesn't spin at the right rate. However, power is still being pumped to the fan, it is just not working.
The humming sound is created by the fan not moving, but still getting a source of power. This can be fixed by replacing the condenser fan. If you wait too long to replace the condenser fan, you could also encounter more serious issues as well.
Reason #2: Mechanical Breakdown
Next, the humming sound could be caused by a mechanical or an electrical breakdown. Generally, this happens when the contactor relay switch doesn't work as it should. This type of failure happens more commonly when the outside temperatures get warm. Contractor relay switch breakdowns usually don't happen when the weather outside is mild or cold.
When the contactor relay switch fails this can cause your machine to emit a humming sound.
Once again, this issue can be fixed by switching out and replacing the faulty equipment.
Reason #3: Something Is Off
Sometimes, the reason for the humming is not that obvious. There may just be something inside of your unit that is not installed correctly. There could be a part that is worn out or loose which is causing the humming. In those types of situations, a contractor would need to take apart your unit until they figure out what is causing the humming and can fix or tighten up that part.
When it comes to a humming sound, you need to be careful. A humming sound coming from your air condition system generally means that something is wrong with either the condenser fan or with the mechanical make-up of the system. If you hear a sound you can't explain, call an air conditioning mechanic to come fix the issue for you.


text:
4 Causes Program Overview
The San Ramon Valley Education Foundation has identified four major causes to rally around. They are STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics), Literacy, Classrooms of the Future and Professional Development.
Our Major Gifts and Endowment Fund raises money to support Science and Professional Development. Read with SRVEF raises money to support Literacy and our Friends of the Foundation Annual Campaign raises money to support technology to help complete more Classrooms of the Future at every school in the district. Revenue from our remaining fundraisers support STEM and our educator grant program, which is has been at the core of our fundraising for the past 30 years.
All of the Education Fund's programming is geared toward a common goal: improving student success in San Ramon Valley public schools. Because no single effort can yield the results we seek, the Education Fund utilizes a multi-faceted approach. Our range of programs focuses on:
- Educators. Our programs for educators promote leadership, professional development and collaboration among teachers and help to enhance and enrich their teaching experience.
- Volunteers. Our volunteer program places and supports volunteers directly in schools, drawing on the skills, talents and dedication of community members, local organizations and businesses to meet student and teacher needs.
- Students. Our programs explore problems facing youth today and believe youth are capable leaders who can be effective allies for their peers.
- Partners. Our strategic partnerships leverage the collective resources of the San Ramon Valley community to provide the greatest opportunities for all students to succeed.


text:
Vanuatu joins the Union
24 August 2012 | News story
The Government of the Republic of Vanuatu has officially announced its decision to join IUCN by endorsing the IUCN Statutes. The Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources has been designated by the Government of the Republic of Vanuatu as its liaison with the IUCN Secretariat.
IUCN extends its warmest welcome to Vanuatu, an archipelago of over 80 islands in the South Pacific Ocean located east of Australia and west of Fiji. Vanuatu is mountainous with a few active volcanoes on some islands. It is part of the biodiversity hotspot of east Melanesia, harboring notable endemic species and diverse marine and coastal life. Many communities rely heavily on native species for their livelihoods, and as such, the economic, social and cultural value of species is very high.
Natural resources are invaluable to the people of Vanuatu; agriculture and eco-tourism are the main sources of revenue. A country rich in culture; Vanuatu is considered one of the most culturally diverse countries in the world, with more than 100 distinct languages and dialects.
The Government of Vanuatu is party to key environmental conventions, such as the Convention on Biological Diversity, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, and others.
"Vanuatu is a critical link in ensuring the Melanesian countries are on board – especially with their unique biodiversity and cultural contribution to the global community," says Taholo Kami, Regional Director, IUCN Oceania.
IUCN Oceania has been working with the Vanuatu government under its Energy programme, looking at alternative renewable energy resources, and through the Water and Wetlands programme, whereby Vanuatu is a receiving country under the Mangrove Ecosystems for Climate Change Adaptation and Livelihoods project, which aims to safeguard and manage mangrove ecosystems in five Pacific countries. IUCN Oceania looks forward to continued collaboration in these and other programme areas.
For more information on IUCN Membership in Oceania please contact Helen Pippard, Membership Focal Point at _EMAIL_


Immunity from arrest means legislatures are privileged from arrest while Congress is "in session" with respect to offenses punishable...
Immunity from arrest means legislatures are privileged from arrest while Congress is "in session" with respect to offenses punishable by up to 6 years of imprisonment.
The purpose of parliamentary immunities is not for the benefit of the officials; rather, it is to protect and support the rights of the people by ensuring that their representatives are doing their jobs according to the dictates of their conscience. It is indispensable no matter how powerful the offended party is.
Thus, congressman who committed an offense punishable for not more than 6 years, but is not attending session, cannot be arrested so long as he is an incumbent congressman, and so long as Congress is in session, whether or not he is attending it, he shall be immune from arrest. (People of the Philippines v. Jalosjos, G.R. Nos. 132875‐76, February 3, 2000).
Moreover, a senator‐lawyer cannot be disbarred or disciplined by the Supreme Court for statements made during a privilege speech. The senator‐lawyer's privilege speech is not actionable criminally or in a disciplinary proceeding under the Rules of Court. The Court, however, would be remiss in its duty if it let the Senator's offensive and disrespectful language that definitely tended to denigrate the institution pass by. It is imperative on the Court's part to re‐instill in Senator/Atty. Santiago her duty to respect courts of justice, especially this Tribunal, and remind her anew that parliamentary non‐accountability thus granted to members of Congress is not to protect them against prosecutions for their own benefit, but to enable them, as the people's representatives, to perform the functions of their office without fear of being made responsible before the courts or other forums outside the congressional hall. It is intended to protect members of congress against government pressure and intimidation aimed at influencing the decision‐making prerogatives of Congress and its members. (Pobre v. Sen. Defensor‐Santiago, A.C. No. 7399, Aug. 25, 2009)
Congress is not considered in session during a recess. During a recess, a congressman who has committed an offense punishable by not more than 6 years imprisonment may be arrested.
The Constitution provides only a privilege from arrest in order to ensure the attendance of Congressmen. It does not provide immunity from searches
Legislative privilege provides that no member shall be questioned or held liable in any forum other than his/her respective Congressional body for any debate or speech in Congress or in any committee thereof. (Sec. 11, Article VI; Pobre v. Sen. Santiago, A.C. No, 7399, August 25, 2009
 However, legislative privilege is subject to the following limitations
1. Protection is only against forum other than Congress itself. Thus, for defamatory remarks, which are otherwise privileged, a member may be sanctioned by either the Senate or the House as the case may be.
2. The "speech or debate" must be made in performance of their duties as members of Congress.
In Paredes, Jr. v. Sandiganbayan, where Sandiganbayan order the preventive suspension of a Member of the HoR being prosecuted criminally for the violation of the Anti‐Graft and Corrupt Practices Act, the Court held that the accused cannot validly argue that only his peers in the House of Representatives can suspend him because the court‐ordered suspension is a preventive measure that is different and distinct from the suspension ordered by his peers for disorderly behavior which is a penalty. (Paredes, Jr. v. Sandiganbayan, GR 118354, August 8, 1995)
To avail the Privilege of Speech and Debate, the following requirements must be observed:
1. That the remarks must be made while the legislature or the legislative committee is functioning, that is in session
2. That they must be made in connection with the discharge of official duties.
To invoke the privilege of speech, the matter must be oral and must be proven to be indeed privileged.
Speech or debate includes a vote or passage of a resolution, all the utterances made by Congressmen in the performance of their functions such as speeches delivered, statements made, or votes casts in the halls of Congress. It also includes bills introduced in Congress (whether or not it is in session) and all the other utterances (made outside or inside the premises of Congress) provided they are made in accordance with a legislative function. (Jimenez, v. Cabangbang, G.R. No. L‐15905, August 3, 1966)
Publication does not at all times fall under the scope of speech. The same shall be made while Congress is in session and not during its recess. However, if publication is made when Congress is not in session, it is not privileged because Congressman is said to be not acting as congressman. (Jimenez, v. Cabangbang, G.R. No. L‐15905, August 3, 1966)
It must be noted that the purpose of the privilege is to insure the effective discharge of functions of Congress. The privilege may be abused but it is said that such is not so damaging or detrimental as compared to the denial or withdrawal of such privilege. photo source:
DISCLAIMER: The author is not lawyer nor an authority on this topic. It is a product of humble research and study of law. The information provided is not a legal advice and it should not be used as a substitute for a competent legal advice from a licensed lawyer.
You Might Also Like


text:
Advanced Fishing Techniques
- 6:30 - 8:30 p.m.
- Ages 8+
This course will cover species specific fishing instruction for Bass and Northern Pike through a discussion of seasonal movements and activities of the fish. Advanced techniques covered include: map reading, boat position, and lure angles. Class will include a discussion of different fishing tournaments and tournament situations. This class is designed for both the hobbyist fisher and the advanced level tournament angler.
- Registration is required prior to the class start date. If you have questions or would like to register, please visit _URL_ or contact _PHONE_.


text: Millipedes are a diverse and ancient group of poorly known terrestrial organisms. While recent advances in their taxonomy and distribution have occurred in some areas of the world, our knowledge about the distribution and ecology of many taxa in the Pacific Northwest is limited. We review the ecology of taxa we observed and present results from a field study relating millipede abundance and community composition to environmental conditions of geology, vegetation, and climate. Millipedes of southwest Washington State were surveyed in the spring and fall of 2005 and 2006 along twelve headwater streams in forested landscapes. Overall, we observed 10 families of millipedes, with confirmed identification of 15 species. Millipede community composition differed strongly between seasons and across sites. For each season, we report family-specific multiple regressions relating millipede abundance/presence to environmental conditions. Given the ecological importance of millipedes as detritivores, more information on taxonomy and environmental relationships is needed. This research provides insight into the patterns and distribution of riparian-associated millipedes in the Pacific Northwest.


text:
General John A. Dix
At the outbreak of the Civil War, he sent a telegram to the Treasury agents in New Orleans ordering that: "If any one attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the spot." Although the telegram was intercepted by Confederates, and was never delivered to the Treasury agents, the text found its way to the press, and Dix became one of the first heroes of the North during the Civil War.
More Spotlights by Robert_Gray (See all)
Civil War "Widows' Pensions" Updated
War of 1812 Pension Files Free Updated


text:
Any old polystyrene?
Soft polystyrene food trays are useful for weaving with young children, because the thread cuts into the polystyrene just enough to be held firm, and the shape of the tray makes it easy to pass other threads behind.
Small blocks of polystyrene packing are good for making minibeasts. Care is needed with very small bits that go up little noses.
A multitude of uses, especially stuffed with cotton wool. Michaela's room has slightly eerie ghostly faces made of cotton wool stuffed into tights. The features are simply pinched into shape and stitched. The large intestine on the digestive system display is made of stuffed tights. With appropriate twists and kinks it looks alarmingly realistic.
Thread and yarn offcuts
Spread short bits of wool and other yarn evenly and generously over a sheet of polythene. Cover with a layer of adhesive, such as Berol's "Marvin Medium" or PVA. When this is dry you can lift the whole thing off and you have, in effect, a spectacular sheet of multi-coloured material, because the bits of yarn are held together by the adhesive. A good demonstration of how one kind of material can change into another, and excellent for display.
Offcuts of material
Lots of uses, but one is making "soft" food. Resourceful children can make lovely hamburgers and pizzas and sausages from bits of material and wadding for stuffing. Then they can bring in real Pizza Express and McDonald's boxes to put them in for display.
When the pupils in Michaela's class did the standard primary project on recycling, instead of using new books or paper they made their own books from newspaper, with cereal box covers.
Newspaper can, of course, be used to make papier mache, much loved by the Victorians (who made furniture from it) as one of the first really "plastic" materials. Make it in layers over a mould, each layer a different colour so the pupils (and the teacher) can see the layers building up. If you use a hard mould, such as a bottle, it will stick. Avoid this by greasing the mould with cooking oil or petroleum jelly.
Make a collection and keep them for cutting, shaping and imprinting patterns into clay. Anything will do - whisks, spoons, forks, fish slices, pastry cutters, garlic crushers. Perforated tools are good for pushing clay through. Michaela has a perforated vegetable steamer. "The children push clay through the holes to make lovely hair for model heads". Kitchen and dining forks of various sizes can be used for pressing down weaving on a frame.
Plastic milk cartons
The kind that is shaped like a jerrican, with a recessed handle, can be cut with a curve to make a scoop for powder paint or sand, or a container for wax crayons on children's desks.
Robotic limbs, logs, telescopes, tunnels. Kitchen roll and cooking foil centres make an adequate substitute for toilet roll centres. Michaela's children make "function machines" for maths from card tubes and cereal boxes.
A useful tip is to store cardboard boxes and packets flattened down, and then when you need them, reassemble them inside out, so that you can paint a plain surface rather than a coloured one.
Thin wooden slatted vegetable boxes can be stapled through the slats to wall displays, to create shelves for objects.
Plastic pop bottles
Take the base off and throw it away. Squash the bottom part of the bottle flat and glue together. Cut this flattened part into a fish tail shape. Cover with paper and paint and add fins to make a fish. The bottle top projects as a nose.
Excellent black background for a Space display on the wall.
Schools often have parental gifts of unwanted emulsion paint. Michaela uses a lot of this, and encourages children to experiment with colour mixing. "Just keep trying till you get what you want." The mural which covers a wall of the school hall was made in this way.
Non-aerosol spray containers Thoroughly washed can be used for spraying paint. Experiment with different kinds of sprayer and various types of paint in different dilutions.
Those tiny black cans that 35mm film comes in are useful for holding small quantities of paint and glue on children's desks.
Old window frames and picture frames Make frames for weaving.
Old and valueless pictures
Can be painted over, giving children the experience of painting on canvas.
Old postcards and greetings cards Sort out the ones that have interesting pictures, such as reproductions of old master paintings. The others provide a source of thin card for models.
Make frames for kites. Cover with plastic bags or bin liners.
Large tubes from the centre of carpet rolls Use to make trees for a rainforest project.
Use for Rangoli patterns on the doorstep at Diwali. Many schools make these with powder paint and glue, but sawdust with powder paint added for colour is an economical alternative and can be much more liberally used.
If you have any further tips for recycled resources, send them to the Resources Editor, TES, Admiral House, 66-68 East Smithfield, London E1 9XY.


by Almira Udjan
Time runs really fast.
Youth Exchange and Study students from Batch 2017-2018 came home after a life-changing experience in the United States. They all gathered in their Re-entry Orientation after 10 months. Everybody was very eager to see their friends and family. Most of them were sad from leaving the people that became close to their hearts.
That is why AFS really made sure that during our Re-entry Orientation, volunteers and alumni would enjoy all the activities and sessions.
They oriented the students about the scenarios that are often encountered by previous students – reverse homesickness was one of them. They also shared alumni opportunities for the students which is a big help for the students for future projects in their home community. In fact, the facilitators of the orientation made it more fun by doing games with the students. Everybody had a smile on their faces and enjoyed the rest of the day. Meanwhile, students gave messages to the people that has been part of their exchange year.
The re-entry ended by saying heartfelt goodbyes. The student bid farewells to everybody specially their fellow exchanges students as they separate ways.
This is definitely a new chapter of their life and the re-entry orientation made the students cope up with challenges that they will face in the near future.


text:
"A very special use of Japanese irises in Japan is the ritual of enjoying what is known as 'the Act'.
"Hirao explains that this dates back to the mid-nineteenth century when, in selecting their seedlings, growers became fascinated by the mystery of the movement or act of the flower in opening. During its three-day life the petals enlarge ceaselessly until the afternoon of the third day, with the appearance of the flower changing hour after hour. A true Japanese lover of this ritual will meditate and watch the Act as the beautiful flower slowly opens. Watching a flower in this way leaves an impression that lasts a lifetime."
– The Japanese Iris, Currier McEwen, 1990
In what was still the village of Horikiri, located a few miles outside the old city limits of Tokyo but still within easy jinrikisha distance, was to be found what is perhaps the oldest and most famous Iris garden in the world. One hundred and twenty-some years ago a certain well-to-do Japanese farmer, Kodaka Izayemon, in making a journey to the foot of Mount Fuji, brought back with him a specimen of the Iris growing there. With this and two other specimens procured from different places he formed the nucleus of the garden which was to grow into what is now Horikiri Shobu-en [sweet flag iris garden]. Two samurai chanced to visit his garden, and their reports attracted others, until finally the fame of the garden reached the ear of the reigning shogun himself who came in person to see it.
The long, long journey have I traveled across the countries,
Far away from my old home in the capital of flowers,
Where my sweetheart must be longing for my return,
Wrapped in the bed clothe embroidered with irises.
– from Ise Monogatari


text:
Yes. One apparently is being used incorrectly because it should never be used in ordinary conversation. "Reverend" is an adjective that is used when writing out a clergyman's name (e.g., "The Reverend John Peterson"). It is analogous to using the title "Honorable" for certain dignitaries
(e.g., "The Honorable John Peterson"): Just as someone entitled by courtesy to the title "The Honorable" on his envelopes is called (for example) "Senator John Peterson" when speaking face to face, so a priest might be addressed "The Reverend John Peterson" on his envelopes but called "Father Peterson" face to face. And, just as the word "Honorable" must have the word the
preceding it, so must the word "Reverend." Calling anyone or addressing envelopes to anyone as "Reverend John Peterson" is incorrect.


[OnyxCeph³™ Wiki]
DokuWiki - World Wide Web
User Tools
Site Tools
Module Bracket Erase
Module BracketErase
Program version BASIC 2D PRO 3D PRO LAB OMS
Availablility n/a n/a optional optional optional
The module Bracket Erase can be used to remove brackets and bands in a model scan. By removing these parts from the scan, you can create finishing aligners, splints or retainers, before the brackets are actually removed from the patient.
Ideally, a segmented scan of the patient from before the bracket treatment is used to replace the removed bracket geometry with the exact surface of the actual teeth of the patient.
First Steps
 1. Segment both the current scan with brackets as well as the initial malocclusion scan
 2. Open Bracket Erase module with the current scan
 3. Load the malocclusion scan as a reference scan
 4. Use automatic or manual bracket selection to define the geometry that should be replaced
 5. Select the option "Replace whole tooth" to remove bands
 6. Select the option "Show Refence" to see the fitting of the reference surface
Module user interface
en/bracketerase.txt · Last modified: 2021/04/29 10:42 by onyxadmin


text:
What does ISOC mean in Community?
This page is about the meanings of the acronym/abbreviation/shorthand ISOC in the field in general and in the Community terminology in particular.
Find a translation for ISOC in other languages:
Select another language:
Discuss this ISOC abbreviation with the community:
Use the citation below to add this abbreviation to your bibliography:
ISOC also stands for:
- Institutional Safety Office Contact
- Integral Science Operations Centre
- Internation Society Of Cultures
- Introduction to Special Operations Course
... see them all »


Precalculus (6th Edition) Blitzer
Published by Pearson
ISBN 10: 0-13446-914-3
ISBN 13: 978-0-13446-914-0
Chapter 4 - Section 4.1 - Angles and Radian Measure - Exercise Set - Page 532: 9
$\frac{4}{3}$ radians
Work Step by Step
The measure of the central angle θ = $\frac{length of the intercepted arc}{radius}.$ s = 8 yards, r = 6 yards. θ = $\frac{s}{r}$ = $\frac{8}{6}$ = $\frac{4}{3}$ radians.
Update this answer!
Update this answer


text:
CARA : a web-based environment for child protection workers
CARA (Child Abuse Risk Assessment) is a web-based learning environment which may be used by child protection investigators as well as caseworkers and followup workers, to think about the complexity of the factors related to the immediate safety and future risk of children. This is an American collaborative project between the Children & Family Research Center, the School of Social Work at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services.
CARA is built around cases, scenes, factors and commentaries. Each of the cases has the name of the child who was the focus of that particular case investigation. Each case is divided into a number of scenes (written in narrative form), usually on the basis of the chronological development of the case during investigation. All of the scenes in each case have been examined in light of a set of global assessment factors. Each factor has a commentary drawn from the research literature that discusses the relevance of the factor to assessment in general.
CARA may be used by visitors, who are free to read the materials, or registered users, who may contribute comments to the learning environment. Registration is free. The materials may be worked through in a sequential or a non-sequential mode.


text:
In light of the recent intensification of statements in the media on the alleged danger now threatening the conservation of the Šnipiškės Jewish graveyard in Vilnius (hereinafter Cemetery), the Lithuanian Jewish (Litvak) Community (hereinafter LJC) feel it our duty yet again to present the main facts in the case and the LJC's well-founded position based on those facts regarding the issue of the reconstruction of the Vilnius Palace of Concerts and Sports (hereinafter Sports Palace) and its adaptation as a conference center.
1. To date no work for the reconstruction of the Sports Palace has been carried out, and therefore no possibly negative impact on the graveyard which was destroyed in the 1950s is being effected at the current time. The remains of the Vilna Gaon were removed to the Vilnius Jewish cemetery located on Sudervės street long ago and his headstone is located there.
False statements and rumors have been circulating for some time, so again it is necessary to explain the headstones in the Cemetery were destroyed long ago and the Sports Palace was constructed there back in the Soviet era. At the current time only pre-planning proposals have been drawn up, which could serve later as the basis for a detailed technical project for the renovation and adaptation of the Sports Palace which will be carefully examined and assessed by competent institutions.
2. The Cemetery is entered on the Registry of Cultural Treasures and has been declared a state-protected site, meaning any construction or reconstruction work in the area of the graves or in the buffer zone around it, and any plans for this sort of work, are carefully assessed and strictly controlled under the provisions of the law of the Republic of Lithuania on protection of real estate heritage and the specific requirements of a special protection plan for this Cemetery.
3. This special protection plan for the Cemetery was prepared under the requirements and principles contained in a protocol agreement signed on August 26, 2009, by the leaders of the LJC, the Committee for the Preservation of Jewish Cemeteries in Europe and the Cultural Heritage Department under the Lithuanian Ministry of Culture. All these institutions share responsibility for keeping the agreement and ensuring sufficient authority for doing so.
4. The protocol agreement of August 26, 2009, resolves that:
4.1. Earth-moving work is forbidden in the Cemetery;
4.2. Three additional possible buffer-function zones are defined; the Sports Palace falls into zone A where earth-moving work is proscribed except in cases involving engineering construction (utility pipeline, transportation and communication infrastructure) and/or work to maintain the Vilnius Sports Palace. Jobs involving the movement of earth require consent by the LJC and must be accomplished in the smallest scope possible. All work involving the movement of ground must be done under the supervision of an archaeologist and an authorized LJC delegate. To insure adherence to this requirement, the LJC makes all decisions regarding the conservation of the Cemetery and plans for the reconstruction of Sports Palace only with the knowledge and consent of the Committee for the Preservation of Jewish Cemeteries in Europe.
5. The Vilnius Sports Palace was constructed in 1973. The building and the Cemetery upon which it was built have been listed on the Registry and are protected as a cultural treasure since 2006.
6. According to the original construction documents presented to the LJC, the foundation of the Sports Palace extends 7.37 meters underground, so most likely all burials there were destroyed during building construction. Therefore pre-planning proposals for reconstruction of the Sports Palace are based on the assumption burials do not remain under the building. Despite the low likelihood there are still graves under the building, in the event of actual reconstruction of the Sports Palace the LJC will demand earth-moving work be of minimal scope and conducted under the supervision of representatives of the Committee for the Preservation of Jewish Cemeteries in Europe.
Therefore, bearing in mind that:
1) existing burials were destroyed during construction of the Vilnius Sports Palace;
2) currently not a single headstone remains at the Cemetery (the last monuments were torn down back in 1955), the Cemetery territory is in disrepair, and there are no signs in the huge territory of the Cemetery testifying to its history except for a symbolic statue and an information plaque set up a few years ago;
3) the Sports Palace building along with the Cemetery surrounding it are listed on the Registry of Cultural Treasures and it cannot be torn down, but in its current state cannot either be used and requires renovation;
4) the abandoned Vilnius Sports Palace is in a state of ruin and is unbefitting the city center and the Cemetery, and stands as a horrid symbol recalling the Soviet era when the headstones of the Cemetery were destroyed and the human remains there disturbed;
The Government of the Republic of Lithuania have the right to do as they please with the property in their possession, and certainly the right to merely consider the reconstruction of the Vilnius Sports Palace, adapting it for one or another use, and the LJC has no legal foundation or rational arguments for quelling these activities. Instead of engaging in unconstructive criticism, the LJC is undertaking all measures to insure these plans and their possible realization do not violate Jewish law and tradition, and believes the Government of Lithuania, as a responsible institution with a vested interest in maintaining its reputation, will also exhaust all efforts so that the project is carried out to the highest standards of transparency, quality and respect for heritage. If the project is carried out appropriately, the LJC would achieve our goal of preserving the Cemetery:
1) establishing in city planning and physically demarcating the limits of the Cemetery;
2) renovating the territory of the Cemetery and setting up walking paths there in line with Jewish law and tradition;
3) erecting a commemorative composition including the names of the people buried in the Cemetery;
4) installing necessary educational and information material on site.


text:
You know the saying about looking a gift horse in the mouth. Just be careful you don't end up looking like the other end of the horse.
This comes from the folks at the Emily Post Institute. As you might imagine, they specialize in, among other things, the etiquette of gift-giving at work — what's appropriate, inappropriate and disastrous. So, here's a test to see if you're up on the latest from the Institute (answers at the bottom):
1. Which of the following is considered an inappropriate gift to someone at work?
e. All of the above
2. You're invited to an after-work holiday party at your boss' home. An inappropriate gift to bring would be –
c. A poinsettia plant
d. All of the above are appropriate.
3. True or false: Giving your boss a gift in the workplace is appropriate.
4. You're a man in a workplace in which everyone exchanges gifts. It's OK to give a woman a gift certificate to Victoria's Secret. True or false.
5. In a workplace in which everyone exchanges gifts, it's inappropriate to give a dictionary to a new employee whose first language is not English. True or false.
1. e. Just about any gift of that type is considered too personal for someone who's a work colleague.
2. b. Generally, alcohol is considered an inappropriate gift, especially for the boss.
3. False. Workplace gifts for the boss, given individually, are considered inappropriate, since such gift-giving can appear to be an attempt to curry favoritism. However, it's OK for a group to chip in for a gift for the boss.
4. False. Again, gifts that are of a personal nature generally are out of bounds. Plus, they might send the wrong message.
5. True. Any gift that potentially serves to underscore a worker's fault or shortcoming is inappropriate — even if given in the spirit of trying to help.


Human Dorsal Root Ganglion PolyA RNA Seq Dataset
Study ID Alternative Stable ID Type
phs001158 Case-Control
Study Description
PolyA+ RNA sequencing was performed on human DRGs and were contrasted to a panel of relevant human and mouse RNA-seq studies (integrating, among other sources, datasets from ENCODE and GTex) in order to identify tissue-specific gene expression and alternative splicing in DRG, and contrasting the human and mouse DRG transcriptomes. Relevant sets of DRG-specific genes and splice variants were identified in human and mouse in a high-throughput way, creating a roadmap for future studies for deeper analysis of these transcripts from a molecular biological and pharmacological (in the context of chronic pain) perspective. Additionally, human DRG transcriptomes from donors suffering from chronic pain were contrasted with donors with no history of chronic pain.
Archive Link Archive Accession
dbGaP phs001158
Who archives the data?
There are no publications available


Site Feedback
Resolved questions
How to say appraiser and appraisal in Spanish?
I work as an appraiser in areas with a lot of Spanish speakers. I have looked up appraiser in a dictionary and it shows "el tasador". Is this commonly understood? I have never heard it in the field. For appraisal I usually use "valuación". Thanks for your help.
For learning: Spanish
Base language: English
Category: Other
 Please enter between 2 and 2000 characters.
 Sort by:
 Best Answer - Chosen by the Asker
 Appraiser = is the person who calculated a value the price or the rate, to a house or something.
 Appraiser = evaluador, valuador o tasador
 Appraisal = valorización, estimación, apreciación, tasación, evaluación
 In Spain I would say "tasador" and "tasación".
 We had a so big housing bubble, that everyone can understand these two words.
 Submit your answer
 Please enter between 2 and 2000 characters.


text:
ArianeGroup has signed a contract with ESA for the future Prometheus engine, a European demonstrator for a very low cost engine running on liquid oxygen and methane, versions of which could be powering European launchers as of 2030.
The aim is to be able to build future liquid propellant engines with a unit cost of about 1 million euros, or 10 times less than the cost of producing existing engines such as the Vulcain®2. The success of this type of technological challenge demands an entirely new approach and the use of innovative design and production methods and tools. Apart from switching from the traditional Ariane propellant (transition from the liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen combination to a combination of liquid oxygen and methane), the demonstrator will entail major developments, including digitilization of engine control and diagnostics, and manufacturing using 3D printing in a connected factory environment.
The 75 million euro contract signed by Daniel Neuenschwander, Director of Space Transportation at the European Space Agency (ESA), and Alain Charmeau, CEO of ArianeGroup, the 50/50 joint-venture set up by the Airbus and Safran groups, covers the design, manufacturing and testing of the first two examples of the Prometheus demonstrator. The French space agency (CNES) is leading in the early design process, and testing is scheduled on the P5 test bed of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Lampoldshausen, Germany, as of 2020.
Following the initial phase, which was completed in early December, the first Program Review confirmed the consistency of the design choices with engine specifications and in particular with the recurring cost targets. At the same time, subsystems testing has started with the gas generator campaign (one of the parts built using 3D printing) on the DLR's P8 test bed in Lampoldshausen.


text:
Equivalent Annual Cost
What it is:
How it works/Example:
EAC is often used as a tool in capital budget decision making for evaluating investments of unequal lifespans. The usage of EAC implies the continuation of the investments or project beyond its initial lifetime. If the project or projects are not to be repeated, then the NPV (net present value) method might be more appropriate for capital budgeting decisions.
In other words, EAC is calculated by dividing the NPV of a project by the present value of an annuity factor.
Why it Matters:
Capital budgeting decisions require distinct methods for determining the costs and potential profitability of new projects. EAC is a method which is most useful for evaluating projects which are assumed to have unequal but repeating life spans. By contrast, when comparing two projects that have equal life spans, or that have unequal life spans but are assumed not to repeat, the best method may be to simply compare the NPVs.
Due to its applicability for projects with life spans that repeat indefinitely, the EAC method is often seen as an indication that the firm itself has a long operating horizon as a going concern, and therefore, is a financially healthy company.


text: The main scientific goal of this work is the presentation of the role of selected geophysical methods (Ground-Penetrating Radar GPR and Electrical Resistivity Tomography ERT) to identify water escape zones from retention reservoirs. The paper proposes a methodology of geophysical investigations for the identification of water escape zones from a retention fresh water lake (low mineralised water). The study was performed in a lake reservoir in Upper Silesia. Since a number of years the administrators of the lake have observed a decreasing water level, a phenomenon that is not related to the exploitation of the object. The analysed retention lake has a maximal depth between 6 and 10 m, depending on the season. It is located on Triassic carbonate rocks of the Muschelkalk facies. Geophysical surveys included measurements on the water surface using ground penetration radar (GPR) and electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) methods. The measurements were performed from watercrafts made of non-metal materials. The prospection reached a depth of about 1 to 5 m below the reservoir bottom. Due to large difficulties of conducting investigations in the lake, a fragment with an area of about 5,300 m 2, where service activities and sealing works were already commenced, was selected for the geophysical survey. The scope of this work was: (1) field geophysical research (Ground-Penetrating Radar GPR and Electrical Resistivity Tomography ERT with geodesic service), (2) processing of the obtained geophysical research results, (3) modelling of GPR and ERT anomalies on a fractured water reservoir bottom, and (4) interpretation of the obtained results based on the modelled geophysical anomalies. The geophysical surveys allowed for distinguishing a zone with anomalous physical parameters in the area of the analysed part of the retention lake. ERT surveys have shown that the water escape zone from the reservoir was characterised by significantly decreased electrical resistivities. Diffraction hyperboles and a zone of wave attenuation were observed on the GPR images in the lake bottom within the water escape zone indicating cracks in the bottom of the water reservoir. The proposed methodology of geophysical surveys seems effective in solving untypical issues such as measurements on the water surface.


text:
This is part two of my five-part tutorial about implementing a web-based database application with the OlivaNova Modeler (check out the running application: _URL_ In this part, we are going to discuss a rather simple task, the creation of classes, attributes, associations and inheritance. If you are interested, you might want to check out Part one: introduction and specification.
First of all, let's start with the "static" model. Here, we are going to define classes and their relationships to each other quite similar to the way you are used to doing in UML.
We are going to define the following classes: Administrator, Employee, Manager, Car, Receipt, TravelApplication (=trip request), Department, TravelCostGroup, ReceiptType, CostCenter, CostUnit.
In the next step, we are going to specify the classes' attributes. For simplicity sake, let's start with Employee.
Defining class attributes
We double-click on the class Employee and the following dialog pops up:
I already entered the attributes according to the current specification (the final model contains some more calculated attributes for statistical purposes according to the specification). I highlighted the attribute EmployeeID for demonstration purposes.
- The name must not start with a number and must not contain white spaces or special characters.
- Attribute type can be Constant, Variable or Derived. "Constant" means, that the value cannot be changed after the object has been created. Variable means the opposite. "Derived" means that the attribute value is calculated through a formula. In this case, the EmployeeID won't change (its supposed to be the AD login domain\username).
- As the EmployeeID is in domain\username format, its datatype has to be String.
- Id:0 means that the attribute is part of the objects primary key. I really don't know why the guys who implemented the modeller made such a crappy feature, nevertheless it works just fine.
- Size means (as you might already have guessed) the maximum length of the string attribute value that can be entered, processed and stored.
- Optionally you can define a default value that is used if the user doesn't change it.
- Null allowed is self-explanatory.
- Request upon creation means, that the method that is used for object creation contains this attribute as an argument.
- The alias is a string that represents a more end-user friendly name for the attribute and can also contain white spaces and special characters etc.
Finally, you can enter a help message for the attribute and a comment for the analyst who is going to maintain the model. If you add help messages, the text will be displayed as a tooltip text in the generated user interface in service forms.
In this same way, all other classes get their attributes, but again because I don't want to bore you, I skip this section and we go straight to doing something more interesting.
Establishing relationships and inheritance
Now that we have defined our classes, we need to define relationships between those classes. Remember, we didn't define the car license number as a primitive datatype (although we could) because we know the cars in our car pool and want to be able to manage them and want to eliminate typos when entering the same car license number over and over again. That is why we have created a class Car which we can use as a dropdown data source.
Relationships work almost in the same way as in UML. However, there is one annotation you probably don't already know: each relationship is labeled with it's cardinality and the letter "D" or "S". "D" means, that you can change the number of associated objects after an object creation while "S" means just the opposite.
So, if you read the association between Receipt and ReceiptType, it means that a Receipt needs to have exactly one ReceiptType and the ReceiptType cannot be changed after the creation of an object of type Receipt. A ReceiptType object may have zero or more Receipts associated and those associations can change at any time during the lifetime of the object.
So, this was rather easy, wasn't it? And you might ask yourself where and how the functionality is modeled or if I programmed those requirements secretly by hand.
In part three of my tutorial you'll find out how the business logic is being implemented in the modeler.
Stay tuned :-)


text:
The Last Days
According to myth, Siberys is the name of one of the three first dragons, along with Eberron and Khyber, who ruled all. They discovered, or created, the Draconic Prophecy, and its words brought reality into being.
The remnants of the dragon Siberys can be seen above the world of Eberron, glowing in the night as a ring of golden Dragonshards stretching from horizon to horizon. These dragonshards occasionally plummet to Eberron and, like the Eberron and Khyber shards, are sought after for their various powers and uses.
Stretching above the Ring of Syberis and Eberron's twelve moons lies the Sea of Syberis, also commonly known as the Astral Sea. Along this sea lie angelic astral cities, scattered among various planes of reality. Like the planes of Eberron and Khyber, the planes of Syberis will occasionally create manifest zones within our world, but constantly ebb and flow along our world's borders, influencing our reality in numerous ways.


text:
- Computational Social Science
- Critical Data Studies
- Data Science
- Economics and Information
- Education Technology
- Ethics, Law and Policy
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Human-Robot Interaction
- Incentives and Computation
- Infrastructure Studies
- Interface Design and Ubiquitous Computing
- Natural Language Processing
- Network Science
- Social Computing and Computer-supported Cooperative Work
- Technology and Equity
NEW CURRICULUM EFFECTIVE FALL 2022
Please click on the links below for details on the core and concentrations requirements for the required courses to complete the major in Information Science, Systems, and Technology (ISST) within the College of Engineering. Please see the Cornell Class Roster for more information.
Note: All courses used toward the ISST major must be taken for a letter grade. No grades below a C- may be counted toward the major.
Overview of Major Requirements
- Students are required to complete seven core courses. As majors in ISST, students will have to satisfy a sequence of required mathematics courses.
- Once core course requirements have been met, students are required to complete one primary concentration, a secondary concentration, and two major approved electives. Detailed information can be found on the Concentrations page.
- All classes toward the completion of major requirements must be taken for a letter grade.
- ISST Checklist
If you need further information about the major, please feel free to contact us at _EMAIL_.


text:
DiffPDF is used to compare two PDF files—textually or visually, is developed by Mark Summerfield, he said "In theory DiffPDF could be built on Windows, but I haven't managed to do it, so no Windows executable is available. The problem is that I don't know how to build the Poppler library on Windows (apparently it isn't easy!)." and I did some effort to compile to on windows. As I know it works on Windows XP and Windows 7 (both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows).
DiffPDF can compare two PDF files. It offers two comparison modes: Text and Appearance.
By default the comparison is of the text on each pair of pages, but comparing the appearance of pages is also supported (for example, if a diagram is changed or if a paragraph is reformatted). It is also possible to compare particular pages or page ranges. For example, if there are two versions of a PDF file, one with pages 1-12 and the other with pages 1-13 because of an extra page having been added as page 4, they can be compared by specifying two page ranges, 1-12 for the first and 1-3, 5-13 for the second. This will make DiffPDF compare pages in the pairs (1, 1), (2, 2), (3, 3), (4, 5), (5, 6), and so on, to (12, 13).
A couple of example PDF files are provided (boson1.pdf and boson2.pdf) so that you can try it out. PDF files can be loaded from the GUI (by pressing the File #1 and File #2 buttons), or by specifying them on the command line. I use the tool regularly to compare different versions of my books (which are typically 500 or more pages), e.g., comparing a first printing with a second printing, to make sure that only the pages I intended to change have actually been changed.
DiffPDF is licensed under the GNU General Public License v 2 open source license. To build it you will need a modern C++ compiler, the Qt 4 libraries (at least Qt 4.4; 4.6 or later recommended), and the Poppler library—all these should be available as standard packages on most Linux and BSD systems.
The source is diffpdf-1.8.0.tar.gz(40K). Building follows the standard pattern for Qt 4 applications and is explained in the README. Fedora, Debian, and Ubuntu users don't have to build it manually, they can simply install the binary
diffpdfpackage using their prefered package management tool—but make sure you get at least version 1.8.0!
- Source Code: diffpdf-2.1.2.tar.gz( 85K; SHA1: b01a2bfecf8dd2f04d0a799483e9b6e99adba317)
Source Code: diffpdf-2.1.1.tar.gz( 85K; SHA1: 70cb8746f777eebb7982313b6fdd6c9965a10638 ) Source Code: diffpdf-2.0.0.tar.gz(50K) Source Code: diffpdf-1.9.2.tar.gz(50K) Source Code: diffpdf-1.8.0.tar.gz(40K) Source Code:diffpdf-1.7.0.tar.gz (36K) Source Code:diffpdf-1.6.1.tar.gz (33K) Source Code:diffpdf-1.6.0.tar.gz (31K) Source Code:diffpdf-1.5.1.tar.gz (31K) Source Code:diffpdf-1.5.0.tar.gz (31K) Source Code:diffpdf-1.1.4.tar.gz (26K). Source Code:diffpdf-1.1.5.tar.gz (26K) Source Code:diffpdf-1.2.0.tar.gz (26K) Source Code:diffpdf-1.2.2.tar.gz (26K)
- Win32 static version, DiffPDF-2.1.2-win32-static.zip(4.9M).
Win32 static version, DiffPDF-2.1.1-win32-static.zip(5.9M). Win32 static version, DiffPDF-2.0.0-win32-static.zip(5.8M). Win32 static version, DiffPDF-1.9.2-win32-static.zip(5.8M). Win32 static version, DiffPDF-1.8.0-win32-static.zip(4.7M). Win32 static version, DiffPDF-1.7.0-win32-static.zip(4.7M). Win32 static version, DiffPDF-1.6.1-win32-static.zip(4.7M). Win32 static version, DiffPDF-1.6.0-win32-static.zip(4.7M). Win32 static version, DiffPDF-1.5.1-win32-static.zip(4.7M). Win32 static version, DiffPDF-1.5.0-win32-static.zip(4.7M). Win32 static version, DiffPDF-1.2.2-win32-static.zip(4.7M). Win32 static version, DiffPDF-1.2.0-win32-static.zip(4.7M),only one file diffpdf.exe, no more library, much smaller. Win32 static version, DiffPDF-1.1.5-win32-static.zip(4.7M),only one file diffpdf.exe, no more library, much smaller.
- If you like Portab Apps, you can download from Diffpdf Portable.
Windows binary, diffpdf-1.1.4-win32.zip(8.26M), it is a portable app.
It is open source software, but any donation is welcome.
- Minor GUI bug fixes.
- Minor translation fixes.
- Updated copyright year.
- Tiny bug fix to make sure that the help file is in the right language.
- Dragging and and dropping files from Windows Explorer, Thunar, etc., now works (at least for me, on Windows 7 and Xubuntu).
- Updated Czech translation from Pavel Fric.
- French translation from Pierre-Alain Bandinelli.
- German translation (and many suggestions) from Rainer Krachten.
- Translations should "just work"; i.e., if you use a French locale then the user interface and help text should appear in French. However, you can force DiffPDF to use any language it supports by using the –language command line option (e.g., –language=fr). If an unsupported locale or –language option is used, DiffPDF will fall back to English.
- Now support -h as a synonym for –help.
- Initial path defaults to home directory instead of DiffPDF's installation directory.
- Improved the Options dialog's layout.
- A subtle bugfix to the –words command line option.
- Fixed a crash: clicking to set a margin when there're no PDFs loaded now safely does nothing.
- Can now have comparisons exclude text that's outside user-specified margins. This feature was sponsored by a company that prefers to remain anonymous.
- Save As can now save images as well as PDFs.
- Minor bug fixes and improvements.
- Command line help (–help) will no longer work on Windows. This is to avoid a spurious console window appearing. I've put the output in the online help though.
- Improved dock window handling so that docks can now be stacked on top of each other (useful for small screens).
- Added missing step to the README.
- Save As now preserves the aspect ratio. Bug reported by Rainer Krachten.
- Added Czech translation provided by Pavel Fric.
- Will now use the default locale's language for standard dialogs (e.g., for the file dialog).
- Dragging & dropping one or two files onto the filename line edits or onto the file viewer panels is now supported. Independently suggested by Liviu Andronic and Rory Gordon.
- Show Zones checkbox is always visible (it was only visible with –debug in earlier versions).
- DiffPDF now starts up with its initial comparison mode being whatever comparison mode was in force when it was shut down (or Words mode the first time it is run).
- Improved About box with more version info + contributors.
- Added –help command line option.
- Introduced zoning: this can be slow in Characters mode but can provide better accuracy in text modes.
- Improved Character mode to be as liberal about hyphens as Words mode.
- Minor doc changes that I forgot for 1.7.0.
- Minor GUI bug fixes and changes.
- Minor under the hood efficiency improvements.
- Renamed Text mode to Words mode. This mode is best for alphabetic text (e.g., English).
- Added Characters mode. This mode is best for logographic text (e.g., Chinese and Japanese). This was suggested by Paul Howarth.
- Very minor cosmetic changes.
- Save button is now only enabled if there are changes.
- An improved help window with slightly more information.
- Subtle bugfix that caused inaccurate highlight positioning in rare cases.
- In addition to Appearance comparisons using highlighting, they can now
also some composition modes to help make subtle differences more
visible. (This was inspired by feedback by Florian Heiderich.)
- Can now control the square size for appearance comparisons. Using very
small squares can help reveal tiny Appearance differences.
-


Let's Read Math -- "A Quarter From The Tooth Fairy"
Saturday, January 26 | 10 - 11:30 am | 1 - 2:30 pm | Malletts Creek | Grades 1 - 3
The American Association of University Women (AAUW) presents a classic story followed by a related math session with hands-on activities and a variety of materials. This event is for Grades 1 - 3 accompanied by an adult. You're welcome to come to either the morning session from 10 - 11:30 am or the afternoon session from 1:00 - 2:30 pm. There is no registration for this event.
"A Quarter From The Tooth Fairy," by Caren Holtzman, is a story about a boy who buys things and then returns them. Each time he gets money back, he gets a different combination of coins totaling 25 cents. Learn about the value of different coins and adding money.
Also, check out these books on money and counting.
sounds great for the kids


text:
Tracy Coenen, CPA, CFF
One of the most important tools a family lawyer can use in a divorce case is a lifestyle analysis: the process of tabulating and analyzing the income and expenses of the parties in order to confirm or refute a spouse's income claims, among other uses. This updated edition of Lifestyle Analysis in Divorce Cases: Investigating Spending and Finding Hidden Income and Assets discusses these subjects in logical, easy-to-understand manner, bringing clarity to a topic that could be confusing for attorneys and judges who often lack an accounting or finance background.
A financial expert or forensic accountant can play an integral part in a divorce case involving complex financial matters. One of the most important tools they can use is a lifestyle analysis, a component being employed in an increasing number of divorces.
Lifestyle Analysis in Divorce Cases walks through the critical documents used in the lifestyle analysis, as well as the process used to complete a thorough and accurate analysis. The book discusses in detail the information that can be gleaned from tax returns, financial statements, bank statements, and other financial documents. The lifestyle analysis is then used to determine the standard of living for all parties, which will influence important support calculations and may affect property division. Additionally, a lifestyle analysis can uncover hidden sources of income and be used to evaluate the finances of each party in a prenuptial agreement.
Author Tracy Coenen, CPA, CFF, discusses these subjects in a manner that is logical and easy to understand, bringing clarity to a topic that could be confusing for attorneys, judges, and juries who often lack an accounting or finance background. The book begins with the critical factors to use in analyzing a couple's standard of living, followed by a discussion of the various types of income and why they should be either included or excluded from calculations in a family law case.
To help an attorney determine whether a lifestyle analysis is necessary for a particular case, the author discusses the numerous red flags that may indicate hidden income or assets or other financial irregularities, including sources for obtaining information, the documents needed for a lifestyle analysis and a strategy for gathering and managing these documents, and discovery from the perspective of the financial expert. Additional chapters focus on key elements included in a lifestyle analysis, including:
- Analyzing historical spending
- Locating hidden assets
- Business lifestyle analysis
- Reporting and testifying
Appendices include a financial discovery checklist, sample Form 1040 and related schedules, and a direct examination checklist.


text:
Change detection, in the Remote Sensing discipline, is the analytical process that aims to detect changes -- over time and space -- of the land cover or/and land use.
PCA as a change detection technique
Among the most common and successful change detection practices, is the application of Principal Components Analysis (PCA) on bior multi-temporal multi-dimensional data (Lu et al., 2003).
What is PCA?
Principal Components Analysis (PCA) is a multi-dimensional linear transformation algorithm. It reconstructs a multivariate data set in a way that the first variables, called principal components (PCs), contain most of the original data variance. Thus, PCA provides the potential to describe or represent reliably a multi-dimensional data set by using fewer dimensions than the ones that compose the initial data set (Jolliffe, 2002).
How does it work?
PCA redirects the highest variances of the original data set, which mainly resemble unchanged landscape characteristics, in the first components. It is the user's responsibility to then extract changes by means of advanced digital image processing operations, i.e. image (segmentation and) classification.
PCA-based change detection using (G)FOSS
PCA is implemented in GRASS-GIS (i.pca module), R (princomp() and prcomp() functions), OrfeoToolbox, SAGA-GIS and probably more (Free &) Open Source Applications.
An example in-depth work, from which most of the above text has been extracted, demonstrates how to map burned areas -- which is essentially a change detection analysis -- based on PCA and GFOSS. Please, refer to this work for an extensive list of references upon the subject.
On the use of GRASS-GIS and R to perform PCA, there is a dedicated GRASS-wiki page titled Principal Components Analysis.
Jolliffe, I. T. (2002). Principal Component Analysis. Springer, 2nd edition. 28 illustrations.
Lu, D., Mausel, P., Brondizio, E., and Moran, E. (2003). Change detection techniques. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 25(12):2365.


Two different naphthene.
 1. In this table there are two different naphthene so this confuses me.
 Attached Files:
 2. jcsd
 3. adjacent
 adjacent 1,536
 Gold Member
 They are saturated and non saturated Naphthene.
 4. Why arent there any explanation for aromatic in the table and benzene and unsaturated naphthene are written under aromotic so are benzene and unsaturated naphthene are aromatic but saturated naphthene not?
 5. Borek
 Staff: Mentor
 What does it mean "aromatic"?
 Do you understand the difference between benzene and cyclohexane?
 6. Look at the table in the pic, there is no info for aromatic and there are benzene and the other
 7. Borek
 Staff: Mentor
 I agree table is not especially good, but formulas given explain rather well what is what. Especially when you know the answers to the question I posted earlier.
Have something to add?
Draft saved Draft deleted


text:
In Reflex, a student's fluency percentage is a measure of how well they know their math facts in their current assignment. When a teacher changes a student's assignment, it will effect that student's fluency percentage.
When a student's assignment is changed across assignment groups (Addition and Subtraction to Multiplication and Division or vice versa) the student's beginning fluency is set to 0%. Reflex must then reassess the student in order to determine which facts the student knows fluently in the new assignment.
If a student's assignment is changed within an assignment group (from Multiplication and Division 0-10 to Multiplication and Division 0-12, for example) a student's fluency will appear to drop. Although a student will retain all the facts they mastered in Multiplication and Division 0-10, their fluency percentage goes down because the Multiplication and Division 0-12 assignment contains more facts than the original assignment.


I have a dataset with the following structure:
full_name,nickname,match Christian Douglas,Chris,1, Jhon Stevens,Charlie,0, David Jr Simpson,Junior,1 Anastasia Williams,Stacie,1 Lara Williams,Ana,0 John Williams,Willy,1
where each predictor row is a pair full name, nickname, and the target variable, match, which is 1 when the nickname corresponds to the person with that name and 0 otherwise. As you can see, the way the nickname is obtained from the full name doesn't follow a particular pattern.
I want to train an ML algorithm that, given the pair full name, nickname, predict the probability of match.
My baseline is just trying to see the number of carachters that match, and features like that. However, I am thinking about an NLP approach using deep learning. My question is wether there are neural network architectures that are specific of this problem.
 - 1
 $\begingroup$ How man samples are there for training? $\endgroup$ – Shamit Verma Mar 19 '19 at 13:38
 - $\begingroup$ Around 100k, but only the 17% have match = 0 $\endgroup$ – David Masip Mar 19 '19 at 13:46
 - $\begingroup$ Is this an open dataset that you can share a link to? $\endgroup$ – Adarsh Chavakula Mar 22 '19 at 18:35
 - $\begingroup$ how to find relationship between a name and a nickname when there is none for instance "Anastasia Williams|Stacie".. you need more features to make this work i think. $\endgroup$ – iamklaus Mar 24 '19 at 6:27
I had a similar problem in my last job. My solution was to build features via (transformation(s) + comparison) * many combos and feed to models, then aggregate and model, i.e. 2 layer model. The key is encoding and similarity scores as features.
Transforms: remove vowels (great for certain roots), remove end vowels, remove double characters, convert to phonetic string (IPA, soundex, _URL_ replace characters that either sound similar or have different sounds in other languages ($J$ in East Europe sounds like $Y$ in US, $C$ can sound like $K, D~T, T\sim TH$, etc),... The strategy is to handle lots of weirdness/irregularity in people's names.
Comparisons (similarity and difference): try [character level, block/root/[pre/suf]fix level, word level (may not apply to you)] similarity and difference scores. Try Dice's coefficient, Levenshtein, Needleman–Wunsch, Longest common (non)contiguous substring, character histogram similarity, # characters matching, not matching (each left and right), etc. You could try using an RNN/LSTM and have it learn similarity for each transform. Use the output of the trained model(s) as another feature.
Experiment with different combos of the above and select a few that seem to have value. You could simply take all the scores and fit with Logistic Regression (or Neural Net) or you could build statistical models and output percent rank based on a small training set to normalize it. Another way to preprocess the raw scores is to use calibration encoding via logistic function. Then add summary stats from the normalized scores as additional features. Push all this into the final model.
Will you handle names that are derived from Arabic, Spanish, French, etc names? This is just extra, but consider downloading the Social Security and US Census name stats data to enhance your project with more name variations. I'll leave the how to you, but it helps knowing about the likely possibilities. Be aware that simply using Levenshtein doesn't work so well with William->Bill, Dianne->Di, Larry->Lawrence, Mohammed->Muhamed and Hamed, Danielle->Daniela, Thomas->Tom, and Jimmy->James. The strategy I mentioned should help you with all the variation.
Additional resources to explore: _URL_ _URL_ _URL_
I couldn't find any useful literature out there for using deep learning for this specific problem. Most methods seem to rely on non-machine learning methods like string similarities and Levenstein distances. A reasonable deep learning based approach to this problem would be a Recurrent Neural Network. An LSTM (Long short term memory) or GRU (Gated Recurrent Unit) would be ideal. The idea is to have an RNN which has an internal state and respects the order in which the inputs are fed.
Unlike text classification, sentiment analysis or sequence generation, the preferred encoding for the text here would be at a character level instead of word level.
For example
Christian Douglas,Chris,1
Jhon Stevens,Charlie,0
would become
[C,h,r,i,s,t,i,a,n,,D,o,u,g,l,a,s,,C,h,r,i,s] --> [1]
[J,h,o,n,,S,t,e,v,e,n,s,,C,h,a,r,l,i,e] --> [0]
The two strings to be matched are concatenated into a single sequence. The intuition here is that the RNN would process the sequence character by character and learn (read update weights) that the characters at the end have a similar pattern to what it saw earlier in the same sequence to deduce that it should be a 1 instead of 0.
The vector of [1/0] is the target variable.
The standard RNN pre-processing steps apply as usual - we'll pad the sequences in the beginning so that they're all the same length (say 50), the characters would be encoded as numeric instead of string etc.
Since the dictionary here is pretty small (26 alphabets + space + pad), the network architecture can be a fairly simple one. A single embedding layer + recurrent layer should suffice.
Framing the problem in this manner allows us to use a vanilla RNN or an out-of-the-box LSTM/GRU instead of creating a custom architecture that takes two separate strings as input for each data point and throws out a number.
You could give this approach a shot and see if is able to satisfactorily beats baseline models.
A good reading for character level RNNs is Andrej Karpathy's blog and code. The problem he's trying to solve is different and the code is in pure numpy but it still captures the idea pretty well.
I would use some normalization as preprocessing, such as:
 - Jr converted into Junior.
 - Convert the name into Soundex as ldmtwo said
And then use string algorithms instead of ML for this, such as Z algorithm, KMP algorithm, or Levenshtein distance, and then use threshold on the score.
Your Answer


text:
On_Culture: The Open Journal for the Study of Culture
Year of publication
This essay reflects on queer environmental ethics by delving into the artistic practice of the photographer David Benjamin Sherry (born 1974). In his series "Climate Vortex Sutra" (2014), consisting of 31 photographs, geological phenomena such as rock formations and panoramic landscape photography of national parks of the American West are presented next to photographs of animals and human beings. The combination of different subjects together with the hyperreal color and saturation act as a performative strategy in the process of reception that entails anticipatory and transformative potentialities, thus empowering my ecologically queer reading. With this oppositional reading strategy, I want to put queer studies and art history into dialogue with environmental studies to address the following question: To what extent does Climate Vortex Sutra deal not only with questions of climate change and environmental destruction but also with the heteronormative history of American landscape photography? I argue it is through the strategic act of resignification that Sherry's photographs intervene in the Western American landscape tradition along with its androand heterocentric power relations between gender, sexuality, desire, and nature. In addition, "Climate Vortex Sutra" can be read a 'silent protest' against climate change in and environmental destruction of America's Western national parks. Equipped with an 'eco-queer sensibility,' Sherry's photographs ask for environmental ethics in which agency is understood as a product of (inter-)connectivity between humans, animals, and other (non-human and non-animal) materiality.
Files in this item


text:
Lookup NU author(s): Professor Mark Whittingham
Full text for this publication is not currently held within this repository. Alternative links are provided below where available.
Animals should adapt their escape behaviour to both physical and social surroundings in order to maximize their probability of survival. Cover can be both obstructive, reducing the visibility of the surroundings and hindering escape, and protective, providing refuge. We investigated how the provision of cover (long grass) affected (1) the escape behaviour and (2) the alarm call behaviour of Common Starlings Sturnus vulgaris responding to a model hawk during a simulated attack. Starlings always retreated away from the predator and sometimes alarm-called. Their escape trajectory was close to the ground when escaping in long grass, which could be explained by either tall swards hindering take-off or such swards being used as protective cover. On short grass their escape trajectory was much steeper (> 45°). We also investigated the use of alarm calls in Starlings according to predictions arising from the costs and benefits to callers and receivers. Callers could benefit from using alarm calls through dilution or confusion if their use initiates flock departures, thus reducing their probability of being targeted. If there is no cost to the producer of alarm calls we predicted that detectors should call at all times to gain these benefits (i.e. irrespective of grass length), but if their use is costly we predicted that they would be used only when the benefits outstrip the costs. In this case we would predict that alarm calls would be given when other (visual) signals were impaired on long grass but not when they were effective on short grass. Starlings used alarm calls on long grass when visibility was reduced more frequently than on short grass, suggesting that calling has a cost to the producer. The contrasting escape strategies of Starlings in relation to a relatively small (10 cm) change in grass height demonstrates the potential importance of habitat structure in determining predation risk. © 2008 The Authors.
Author(s): Devereux CL, Fernandez-Juricic E, Krebs JR, Whittingham MJ
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Print publication date: 01/08/2008
ISSN (print): 0019-1019
ISSN (electronic): 1474-919X
Publisher: British Ornithologists' Union
Altmetrics provided by Altmetric


Broken Link Checker Check a webpage for broken and redirected links
Support Development
PayPal ●
Bitcoin Address: 1sM2BrTH8BRgt3quiASK8TmYSafutNvDo
Dogecoin Address: DFdSGpGMZ2EZVkjyqNrYCEysK92DFPonx4
The "Broken Link Checker" extension checks a currently active webpage for broken and redirected links. You can open the extension in a popup window or as an embedded frame inside page. When the UI loads, the extension grabs all link elements in the top frame and all sub-frames (if its option is enabled) and evaluates each link. To increase the speed of evaluation, the extension checks every 5 links simultaneously and when this check is over, the next batch will be checked. For each link, there is a 10-second timeout to prevent a single check from blocking the UI. You can optionally ask the extension to check links inside frame elements without origin (about:blank frames). After evaluation, based on the returned code, the extension list the links in either valid or broken sections. You can use the "Inspect" button to scroll to each evaluated link.
 1. What is the "Broken Link Checker" extension and how does it work?
 This extension is a SEO tool to help web developers find all broken links in their web pages. Having a broken link in a webpage has several drawbacks and may affect your page search ranking. This tool can simply be called from the toolbar button and when initiated, will detect all link elements inside a web page. All links are queued in a list and the extension validates every 5 links at a time. To prevent a link from blocking the validation process, there is a 10-second timeout for each link to be resolved. If a link timeouts, you will get 504 error code in the UI and the link will be placed in the broken links section. To easily switch to a link use the "Inspect" button next to each link. This tool forces the link to be placed in the viewport and it will be highlighted in green or red color background color depending on the list it came from.
 3. Can I ask the extension to simultaneously validate more links than the current 5 links?
 There is no setting for this option at the moment. Note that all browsers limit the total number of simultaneous network jobs at a time to prevent network overflow.
 4. What's new in this version?
 Please check the Logs section.
 5. What is the meaning of "All Frames" option in the window?
 Modern websites might have several frame elements in a single window to prevent styling of each section from conflicting with others. By enabling this option, the extension grabs links from all available frames inside the current window and evaluates all these links one by one. For faster evaluation, you can turn this option off. To find which link is from what frame element the extension appends the document's hostname in a single column. Also, you can use the "Inspect" button to move the link into the viewport.
 6. What is the meaning of the "Blank Frames" option?
 Some webpages dynamically create frame elements and then load content in these frames. To consider link elements in these type of frame elements make sure this option is checked.
 7. How can I open the extension UI inside the webpage instead of a separated window?
 Right-click on the toolbar button and change the opening mode from "window" to "frame" mode.
 8. Is it a good idea to run this tool on multiple windows at once?
 Not really, as stated earlier, browsers do have limitations on the simultaneous network jobs they perform. When multiple instances of this tool are running, each instance adds 5 new jobs to the stack and this might cause some jobs to timeout.
 9. I am trying to find broken links on a website with text links (no "a" element for links). Is this possible to use this extension to extract text-links?
 Yes, there are two options on the settings section "Extract Top Links" and "Extract Sub Links". Use the former one to only extract text links from the root document, and the latter can be used to extract links from all subrequests. Note that since the extension needs to fetch the page content for each link, this process slows down broken link detection.
 10. I am trying to use this extension on a website with a huge number of links. It is pretty hard to find the links with the 5XX status code. Is it possible to only display the links with this code?
 As of version 0.1.7, there is a new filtering section to hide or show links with different status codes. To keep a link in the list, the status code belongs to the link must be checked in this section. Note that if you uncheck all the boxes, the extension hides all the links whether they are resolved or broken.
Matched Content
 - Defines an anchor.
 - Defines bold text
 - Defines a long quotation
 - Defines a table caption
 - Defines a citation
 - Defines italic text
 - Defines a paragraph
 - Defines a section in a document
 - Defines strikethrough text
 - Defines strikethrough text
 - Defines underlined text
What's new in this version
Change Logs:
 Last 10 commits on GitHub
 Hover over a node to see more details
 Need help?
 Open IssuesIssuesForks
 Permissions are explained
 storageto keep local preferences such as window opening mode
 to be able to validate links from all hostnames (file://, http:// and https:// are supported)
 notificationsto display desktop notifications when a page is not suitlable for link valiadtion (e.g. internal pages)
 contextMenusto add items to the right-click context menu over browser action button
 Recent Blog Posts on


text:
Molecules on the Edge
This project involves the determination of blood residues on excavated stone tools from the archaic period and assesses the impact of storage, handling, and washing on molecular preservation. The materials that are the subject of the research are from the Tuban Cave, Israel. The cave contains evidence of more than 80,000 years of human occupation. Determining if the adhering material on the tools contain protein of lipids and if it is of human origin, this project will result in the formulation of guidelines for archaeologists and collection managers that optimize the preservation of such information on excavated objects.
In 1995, with funding from the National Center for Preservation Technology and Training of the National Park Service, examination was carried out of a assemblage of stone tools excavated from several sites, collectively called Barney Circle, along the Anacostia River in Washington, D.C. Parallel experimentation was performed on a set of experimental tools in order to examine the impacts that excavation, conservation and storage may have on stone tool and pottery artifacts as these materials make their journey from the archaeological site to the museum drawer. Two of the most common interventions, human handling and washing, severely and disadvantageously impacted both protein identification by immunological techniques and DNA amplification using the polymerase chain reaction.
For residue analysis to provide maximal information to archaeologists, alterations in excavation techniques, post-excavation processing and storage, and long term curation will have to dramatically change. While it is unrealistic to propose the all excavations and museum collections accommodate the special needs of molecular level research, select sites and collections will benefit from the consideration given to the friable nature of ancient biomolecules. A shift in perception that considers the inorganic remnants of past life as divorced from the ancient biosphere, and unaffected by present biota to a more inclusive and organic view will add to the interpretation of the archaeological record. At the Barney Circle site, multiple tools were identified with macroscopic residues adhering to the surface, and several different proteins were identified on the basis of molecular weight and immunological reactivity. In cases where protein was preserved on stone tool edges, the use of the tool on animal products can be assigned though the identification of the albumin molecule from blood. The amount of protein remaining after some 1500 years, is vanishingly small. Further surveys of tool assemblages from excavations where human handling was not permitted will form the basis of comparative work ongoing in the laboratory.