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Diocese of Chipata - Location: Chipata, Eastern Province, Zambia, Eastern
Caritas Chipata is a faith based organization, established by the Catholic Diocese of Chipata to promote integral human development, economic justice, human dignity and empowerment of the less privileged in the society. Caritas Chipata envisions an Eastern province where people are able to move out of poverty and create sustainable livelihoods for themselves as a result of improved policies, structures and services, increased participation by local people and accountable leaders who work for the common good. To obtain this Caritas Chipata has two strategic programs:
1. Governance program
2. Human Development program
The organization operates throughout the 26 parishes of the Diocese of Chipata which follows closely the boundaries of the Eastern Province of Zambia. Caritas Chipata is part of the Caritas network in Zambia with sister organisations in every Diocese and a Caritas national secretariat in Lusaka.
The Finance Department is responsible for Caritas financial management systems, operational and administrative procedures to ensure the adequate management of funds and other resources entrusted to Caritas from funding agencies.
GOAL OF THE POSITION
To ensure financial stability of the organization and compliance with accounting and bookkeeping principles.
- Assisting in the Capturing of Payments and Receipts into the Cash Books and ensuring that entries are coded correctly.
- Receiving of Purchase Requisitions/Cash Advance Form and having them signed by the Authorised Officials.
- Checking of Vehicle Logbooks/Fuel Requisitions and ensure that fuels requested is within the acceptable consumption rate.
- Raising of Fuel Coupons and having them signed by the Authorised Officials
- Following up Statments for fuels drawn, Summarising fuels drawn and having them checked and approved for reimbursement to various Filling Stations.
- Maintainance of Debtors and Creditors Ledger
- Maintenance of the Weekly Cash-flows and advising the Accountant and the Director on the Liquidity position of the Organization.
- Liaison with the Banks and Other Service Providers to ensure that Statements are collected timely for quick settlement of accounts.
- Assisting the Accountant, Assistant Accountant and Project Managers in the preparation of Annual Budgets and monthly Cash-flow Estimates.
- Ensuring that Paid Cheque Vouchers have all the attachments necessary and are properly filed in accordance with the Diocesan Record Policy.
- Attending to Auditors' queries on issues pertaining to Payments and providing necessary documents and information when requested upon.
- Advice and Guide Admin and Program staff on the acceptable accounting procedures to follow when requesting for funds or liquidating advances taken.
- Contribute to the growth of the organization's by participating in developmental programs.
- Keep up to date with the developments in the field and own area of expertise
- Attend management meeting when requested upon.
- Any other duties assigned by the supervisor
- Preparing Payment Vouchers and ensuring that transactions are coded properly and have all the necessary Support Documents
- Taking Payment Vouchers for Checking and Approval by the mandated Officials
- Raising Cheques and having them signed by the Authorised Officials
- Entering the Signed Cheques into the Cheque Register and Handing them over to the Administrative Officer for Cashing/Distribution to the Payees
Internal: Accountant, director, department heads, administrative officer, office assistant
External: banks, auditors, insurance company, national government (statutory obligations)
- Minimum of Intermediary Professional Accounting qualification or comparable National qualification
- Member of National Accounting body
- Knowledge & experience in Accountaing packages like Pastel Accounting is an added advantage.
- Minimum of 3 years of working experience in a similar role
- Experience within a NGO is preferable
- Experience with budgeting, costing and general accounting
- Analytical skills
- Organizational sensitivity
- Teamwork and cooperation
- Promoting core values of Caritas Chipata


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Impact of neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio on effects of targeted therapy for metastatic renal cell carcinoma patients with extrapulmonary metastasis
Introduction: The aim of our present study was to investigate the impact of the pretreatment neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) on the antitumour effects of targeted agents in patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC).
Methods: The NLRs in 283 cases of molecular targeted therapy for mRCC were measured before starting the prescription of the molecular targeted agent. The significance of pretreatment NLR on the site of metastatic organs and on progression-free survival (PFS)
in each case was analyzed.
Results: Metastases other than lung, which is defined as "extrapulmonary metastasis," were observed in 190 cases (67.1%). The median of pretreated NLR was 2.39 (0.49‒68.7). In 97 of the 283 cases, pretreated NLR was 3.0 or higher. These cases were categorized as the high NLR group and the rest as the low NLR group. When the cases with extrapulmonary metastasis were investigated and classified based on their pretreated NLR, 50% PFS in the high NLR and low NLR groups was 6.7 months and 12 months (p=0.0001), respectively. Multivariate analysis revealed that high NLR (>3.0) was an independent predictive factor for PFS in the cases with extrapulmonary metastasis (hazard ratio 2.762; p<0.0001), while there was no significant difference between PFS in the high and low NLR groups in cases with no extrapulmonary metastasis (p=0.3457).
Conclusions: Our data indicate that the predictive significance of the NLR in mRCC cases involving targeted therapy depends on the metastatic organs. NLR is an independent predictive factor of PFS in cases of mRCC with extrapulmonary metastasis treated with targeted therapy.
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His father's forty-five year Naval career reached its pinnacle in 1912 when he was appointed as First Sea Lord in the Admiralty. However, two years later in 1914, due to the growing anti-German sentiments that swept across Europe during the first few months of World War I, Prince Louis was removed from his position and publicly humiliated by King George V, and Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill. Though both men professed'sadness' at having to do this, private conversations and letters show them both to perfectly happy to sacrifice their "blue-eyed German". This forced retirement of his father was devastating to Louis. In 1917, when the Royal Family stopped using their German names and titles and adopted the more British-sounding "Windsor", Prince Louis of Battenberg became Louis Mountbatten, and was created Marquess of Milford Haven. His second son acquired the courtesy title Lord Louis Mountbatten and was known as Lord Louis informally until his death notwithstanding his being granted a viscountcy in recognition of his wartime service in the Far East and an earldom for his role in the transition of India from British dependency to sovereign state.
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to zero, then the torsion is
roughly 1/H while the curvature is close to 0. A fly which does a barrel-roll while moving
through a nearly straight distance of H has a torsion of 1/H. The faster it can roll, the
greater is its torsion.
A less obvious fact is that if we look down on a plane
showing all possible positive combinations R and H, the lines of constant curvature lie on
horizontal semi-circles; while the points representing constant torsion lie on vertical
semi-circles. The curvature and torsion combinations gotten by stretching a given Slinky
lie along a quarter circle centered on the origin. Apparently the two families of
semi-circles are perpendicular to each other.
Figure 6: Lines of constant curvature and torsion for
combinations of R and H.
Suppose I have a helix like a steel Slinky spring. What
happens to the curvature and the torsion as I stretch a single turn of it without
untwisting? Suppose that the initial radius of the helix is A. Given the physical fact
that the length of one twist of the Slinky keeps the same length, you can show that as you
stretch it, R^2 + H^2 will stay constant at a value of A^2, which corresponds to a circle
of radius A around the origin of the R-H plane. As you stretch a Slinky loop with the
particular starting radius of 2, its R and H values will move along the dotted blue line
shown in Figure 6. Figure 7 shows what a few of the intermediate positions will look like.
Curvature is being traded off for torsion.
Figure 7: Stretching a Slinky turns curvature into
Here's another algebra problem: If you know that R^2 + H^2
= A^2, what can you say about the sum kappa^2 + tau^2?
One fact that seems odd at first is that the curvature and
torsion of a helix are dependent on the size of the helix. If you make both R and H five
times as big, you make the torsion and curvature 1/10 as big. If you make R and H N times
as big, you make the curvature and torsion 1/(2*N) as big.
But this makes sense if you think of a fly that switches
from a small helix to a big helix; it is indeed changing the way that its flying, so it
makes sense that the kappa and the tau should change.
Figure 8: Changing Curvature and Torsion.
This observation suggests a simple way to express the
difference between flies and birds --- flies fly with much higher curvature and torsion
than do the birds. Gnats, for that matter, fly even more tightly knotted paths, and have
very large values of curvature and torsion.
Just as in the plane, a space curve can be specified in
terms of natural equations that give the curvature and torsion as functions of the
arclength. These equations have the form kappa = f(s) and tau = g(s). The shape and size
of the space curve is uniquely determined by the curvature and the torsion functions.
Figures 9 and 10 shows two intriguing space curves given by simple curvature and torsion
Figure 9: The rocker, with natural equations kappa = 1
and tau = sine(arclength)
Figure 10: The phone-cord, with natural equations kappa =
sine(arclength) and tau = 1.
Well, actually I used kappa = 10*sine(arclength) and tau =
3 to make the picture look better. Note that this is a space curve where we do allow
ourselves to put in negative values for the curvature.
There is not a large literature on these
"kappatau" curves, so I've given my own names to these two: the rocker, and the
At one time I thought that the rocker was a correct way to
represent the seam on a tennis-ball or the stitching on a baseball, but helpful email from
the great mathematician John Horton Conway convinced me I was wrong. Conway makes the
anthropological conjecture that every time a mathematician discovers a curve that he or
she thinks might be the true baseball curve, the curve is a different one.
An analysis of the real-world baseball stitch curve can be
found in the web-published paper "Designing A Baseball Cover by Richard Thompson of
the Department of Mathematics, University of Arizona. It turns out the baseball stitch
curve is based on something so prosaic as a patented 1860s pen and ink drawing of a plane
shape used to cut out the leather for a half of a baseball, a shape arrived at by trial
and error. Thompson finds a fairly gnarly closed-form approximation of this shape.
Not only does my rocker fail to match the baseball stitch
curve, it can be proved that the rocker curve does not in fact lie on the surface of a
sphere (even though it kind of looks like it does). It fails to satisfy the following
necessary condition for lying on the surface of the sphere, where s stands for arclength
d/ds[(1/tau)*d/ds(1/kappa)] + tau*(1/kappa) = 0
(For kappa = 1 and tau = sin(s), the left-hand side of
this is sin(s), which isnt 0.)
Numerical estimates indicate that the arclength of the
rocker has exactly twice the length of a circle of the same radius. This suggests an easy
way to make a rocker. Cut out two identical annuli (thick circles) from some fairly stiff
paper (manila file folders are good), cut radial slits in the annuli, tape two of the
slit-edges together, bend the annuli in two different ways (one like a clockwise helix and
one like a counterclockwise helix) and tape the other two slit-edges together, forming a
continuous band of double length. Because an annulus cannot bend along its osculating
plane, the curvature of the shape is fixed along the arclength. Because half the band is
like a clockwise helix and half is like a counterclockwise helix, when the shape relaxes,
the torsion presumably varies with the arclength like a sine wave function that goes
between plus one and minus one. The torsion seems to be zero at the two places where the
slits are taped together. Note that I have not proved that my empirical paper rocker is
the same as my mathematical rocker, this is simply my conjecture.
Figure 11: Make your own rocker.
- To make the rocker, make a (larger) copy of Figure 11 on
- Cut along all solid lines.
- Tape edge A to edge B* with the letters on the same side.
- Bend the two rings in the opposite sense.
- Tape edge A* to edge B with the letters on the same side.
How were the images in Figures 9 and 10 generated? They
use an algorithm based on the 1851 formulae of Serret and Frenet. (See, for instance,
Struik's classic work for details; note that this book is now available as an
inexpensive Dover paperback reprint.) Let's state the formulae in "differential"
form. The question the formulae address is this: when we do a small displacement ds along
a space curve, what is the displacement dT, dN, and dB of the vectors in the moving
dT =( kappa*N )*ds
dN =( - kappa*T + tau*B )*ds
dB =( - tau*N )*ds
The first and third equations correspond, respectively, to
the definitions of curvature and torsion. The second equation describes the
"back-reaction" of the T and B motions on N.
Since we are lucky enough to live in three-dimensional
space, it is possible for us to experiment with our bodies and to perceive directly why
the Serret-Frenet formulae are true. To experience the equations, you should, if possible,
stick out your right hand's thumb, index finger, and middle finger as shown in Figure 4.
Now start trying to "fly" your trihedron around according to these rules: (1)
The index finger always points in the direction your hand is moving. (2) You are allowed
to turn the index finger towards or away from direction of the middle finger by a motion
corresponding to rotating around the axis of your thumb. (3) You are allowed to turn the
thumb towards or away from the middle finger by a motion corresponding to rotating around
the axis of your forefinger.
To get clear on what's meant by motion (2), grab your
thumb with you left hand and make as if you were trying to unscrew it from your hand. This
is a kind of "yawing" motion, and it corresponds to the first of the three
Serret-Frenet formulae: the change in the tangent is equal to the curvature times normal.
Motion (3) corresponds to grabbing your index finger with your left hand and trying to
unscrew that finger. This is a kind of "rolling" motion, and it corresponds to
the third of the Serret-Frenet formulae: the change in the binormal is the negative of the
torsion times the normal.
In thinking of flying along a space curve you should
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It's lazy and not as useful to later users to just punt to chat, and it tends to go down the path of "localized answers to localized questions" instead of "general answers to general questions".
Forcing it to remain in the context of the question/answer paradigm of Stack Overflow means that the information is retained and semantically indexed for folks who may have the same problem in the future. Taking things to chat, while quite possibly being a more efficacious way of addressing the specific problem does a disservice to future folks who may have a very similar problem that could be answered with a good generalized question.
Punting to chat also has the downside of not rewarding the answerer or asker with reputation, which is how our community determines privileges. It's important to realize that it's not just the answerer that loses here because if you give them the answer in chat, they cannot accept it (+2) and it may mean the quality of their question suffers whereas the give/take by answering/commenting/editing could result in a good question that will reward the asker with reputation and badges, thus encouraging their continued participation and contribution.
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We hear a lot about the coming of the cashless society, with wave and pay stickers, apps that let you ping money to each other and more innovations trumpeting that if cash is king, then the king is dead.
But while children are growing up in this brave new world, they are denied access to it. Unless you have a credit or debit card, you can't pay for a single MP3.
So what's the solution? Well one company thinks it's giving children as young as eight their own debit cards.
Pktmny – which launched this week – offers children between the ages of eight and 16 a contactless prepaid Visa debit card. Parents can personalise the card for their children and set controls on where and how much they can spend on it. You can read more of the details on the "how it works" section of pktmny site.
You can set up a standing order to add money to the card on a weekly or monthly basis, while friends and relatives can also add money to the account. The people behind it also have smartphone apps planned that allow children to see the balance on their cards and parents top this up if needed. It costs £5 to open an account and there's a £1 monthly charge (that comes from the parent's account, not the child's).
The hope is that this will allow children to learn about spending, saving and budgeting – as well as offering them some independence – in the same way traditional pocket money has.
"Children will live in a completely cashless world. Yet they are forced to interact with money in a way even adults have moved on from. It's time for a dramatic change," said clinical child psychologist Dr Elizabeth Kilbey.
"By allowing children to start taking control of their money in a safe and secure environment they will be able to grow with money, learn from their mistakes and ultimately understand the value of money."
But would you trust a child with a card? Let us know below.


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A view can become a page or a block. There is no difference in work between a page and a block. A page needs a path to display the page. A block is assigned to a region to display the page. There might be a few seconds different to set them up. After that, you can blocks in far more ways than usually shown in tutorials.
Blocks have their uses including constructing complex pages. The content of a page is usually the content of a node in the content region. A view replaces the node to display a list or some other small variation of content.
Next you are asked to make the view more complicated. You scratch your head. What you really need is a collection of views displaying different content. You could use panels and a bunch of other complex approaches. Think about the format again.
If you want a list of different views. You can make each one a block then place them one after the other down the page. Consider a shop.
A shop might list the top selling product in each category with a view sorted by category. The marketing manager then asks for the categories in a different order. The CEO wants some categories to list the top three. The product manager wants one category to list only one product but all the colours for the product.
You could make each category a separate view with each view in a block. Each view can have different criteria. You can give your CEO, sales manager, and marketing manager access to the block admin page and let them fight over the sequence of the blocks.
What method do you use to determine when to use multiple views?
Use the one view when you list data one set of data. Use multiple views when people want different data selection. For example, some product categories have colours but not all product categories. Some product categories have multiple packs but not all product categories.
If the one list has to be by category then colour or pack size and all the products use the same content type, you could use one view to sort by category then colour then pack size. There will be no overlap or conflict or missing data.
The same list becomes more complicated when each product category has a different content type and each content type has a different set of attributes. You might be able to product one list in one view but it will be sensitive to change and management will want change. Start with two views or more views stacked as blocks to form one list.
Another example is a book shop where novels have different descriptions and content types compared to other books. Cook books may have a special content type to allow listing by food type, country, major ingredients, and the reality television show paying for the cook book.
If the data is exactly the same for each view but the display is different, consider multiple displays on one view. The technique is described in another page. you make the first view a page to list the data and validate your data selection. You then add some displays to create the blocks. Each display might vary by as little as selecting a different content type.
Top ten lists are popular and soon take up too much space. People start talking about variations. Perhaps the top three items, including teasers, followed by the next seven without teasers.


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acoustic passive localization的用法和样例：
- Aiming at improving the precision of acoustic passive localization by small size array, we first derived eqs. 1 through 3 to describe the relation between time delay and target location.
- Underwater acoustic passive localization
- Real-time Passive Localization by a Distributed Acoustic Array System
- The computer simulation results obtained and real data analysis indicate that a GCC TDE method can ensure high estimation precision when it is used in passive localization systems.
- A new passive localization estimate algorithm of Time Difference of Arrival (TDOA) to improve the accuracy of target localization was proposed, and the ambiguity and unsolvable problem were solved.


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Group Making a Lasting and Positive Impact on Community
Students from Fort Hill High School's Ecology Club and environmental science classes, in cooperation with students from Washington Middle School, recently participated in native tree plantings as part of Cumberland's Urban Tree Canopy Initiative. These plantings were part of an on-going partnership between the Cumberland Shade Tree Commission and Fort Hill High School.
On Wednesday, October 14, 2009, members of Fort Hill's Ecology Club partnered with students from Washington Middle School to plant 60 trees on the Washington Middle School campus. The following week on October 21, 2009, students from Mac Sloan's environmental science classes planted ten trees on the Fort Hill campus. The final tree planting was held on Tuesday, November 10, 2009, at Constitution Park, where members of the Ecology Club once again helped to plant fifteen trees.
All of these plantings were part of the Cumberland Shade Tree Commission's goal to plant city properties and cooperating landowners with native trees. The environmental benefits of planting native trees are numerous. These trees can increase the habitat for local wildlife, reduce storm water runoff, and reduce the "heat island" experienced by urban areas during the summer.
This project involved collaboration between the Allegany County Board of Education, Maryland Department of Natural Resources, Rocky Gap State Park, Chesapeake Bay Trust, George's Creek Watershed Association, and the City of Cumberland, and illustrated how a small group of environmentally conscious citizens can help make a lasting and positive impact on the community in which they reside.
The tree plantings would not have been possible without the tireless dedication of City of Cumberland employee, Paul Eriksson; Becky Wilson, Department of Natural Resources; Sarah Milbourne, Rocky Gap State Park; and Fort Hill Ecology Club members Ryan Warnick, Michael Crabtree, Crystal Phillips, Danny Beard, Tyler Cage, Jacob Davis, Breanna Creamer, Brady Barnhardt, and Corey Thomas.


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A quantitative form of the twin prime conjecture asserts that the the number of twin primes less than $n$ is asymptotically equal to $2\, C\, n/ \ln^2(n)$ where $C$ is the so-called twin prime constant. A variety of sieve methods (originating with Brun) can be used show that the number of twin primes less than $n$ is at most $A\, n/ \ln^2 (n) $ for some constant $A>2C$. My question is: What is the smallest known value of $A$? I'd also be interested in learning what the best known constants are for the prime k-tuple conjecture?
J Wu, Chen's double sieve, Goldbach's conjecture, and the twin prime problem, Acta Arith 114 (2004) 215-273, MR 2005e:11128, bounds the number of twin primes above by $2aCx/\log^2x$, with $C=\prod p(p-2)/(p-1)^2$, and $a=3.3996$; I don't know whether there have been any improvements.
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FORD AIMS TO HELP REDUCE THE CARBON FOOTPRINT
- Ford is surveying 35 top global suppliers to gain a better understanding of their greenhouse gas emissions footprint as part of a broader effort to reduce carbon emissions within the auto industry
- Ford's supply chain approach builds on its success in measuring and reducing its greenhouse gases
- Ford is working with World Resources Institute, World Business Council for Sustainable Development and the Carbon Disclosure Project in an effort to identify appropriate data from suppliers
- Ford intends to share lessons learned and lead collaboration with other automotive companies through the Automotive Industry Action Group
DEARBORN, Mich., May 20, 2010 – Ford Motor Company, building on its success in measuring and reducing its own carbon footprint, today announced plans to survey 35 top global suppliers on their energy use and estimated greenhouse gas emissions.
Ford's goal is to better understand the carbon footprint of its supply chain and use the data to eventually create a broad-based carbon management approach for its supply chain. The 35 suppliers represent close to 30 percent of Ford's $65 billion in annual procurement spending.
"Suppliers play an important role as we look to reduce our overall carbon footprint and drive more efficiency in an energy constrained world," said Tony Brown, Ford group vice president, Global Purchasing. "This initiative builds on our leadership in collaborating with suppliers and gives them a way to participate in solving an issue that faces our entire industry."
The suppliers in the initial request include companies that make commodities such as seats, steering systems, tires and metal components, which require more energy to produce and thus have a larger carbon footprint. While many of these suppliers already measure their greenhouse gas emissions, the project would facilitate collaboration and sharing of processes and practices that can drive significant emissions reductions and help meet future regulatory requirements.
"Climate change has the potential to affect all parts of our business, and is connected to other important issues – from water availability and energy security to human rights," said Susan Cischke, group vice president, Sustainability, Environment and Safety Engineering. "Understanding the carbon footprint of our supply chain is a crucial part of our comprehensive global strategy to reduce greenhouse gases."
The data gathered from suppliers will be evaluated using modeling software from PTC InSight. Preliminary work Ford has done with PTC has indicated there are opportunities for both Ford and suppliers to reduce carbon emissions. Any reductions by suppliers would be in addition to Ford's own goal of reducing greenhouse gases 30 percent by 2020 from the company's 2006 model year baseline.
Several of Ford's top suppliers are already working to better understand their carbon emissions, including DuPont, TRW Automotive Holdings Corp., Bosch and Johnson Controls.
Johnson Controls, which supplies seats, interiors, electronics and batteries to Ford, is also working with the Carbon Disclosure Project and has goals in place to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
"As a company, we are committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 30 percent by 2018, and are doing so through efficient manufacturing processes and the development of eco-friendly products," said Randy Leslie, vice president and general manager of the Ford Business Unit for Johnson Controls.
Johnson Controls also has a rating system that enables it to measure the sustainability activity of its own supply base.
As part of Ford's efforts to create a broad-based carbon management approach for its supply chain, they will share feedback from their data collection process with World Resources Institute (WRI) and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD).
The two organizations are leading a global collaboration of businesses, governments and non-governmental organizations to develop credible methods for measuring and reporting corporate greenhouse gas emissions. They are currently drafting a new standard to be used to measure indirect or Scope 3 emissions. In tandem, Ford is participating in the Carbon Disclosure Project Supply Chain Program. Ford is the only automaker participating in both initiatives.
Ford is also working with the Automotive Industry Action Group in developing guidelines for measuring supplier emissions. It is the intent of Ford to share their experience in measurement and reporting of corporate and supply chain emissions with the industry group in order to lead the industry to consistent and comparable emissions estimation methods.
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Hi all, here is the wine bottle that I share with you previously. Wish to know how to create a ring surrounding the bottle? Actually is very simple, you just need to do the follwoing steps:
1. Create an angle plane that intersect with the bottle body. Here, I will refer the angle plane to the current TOP Plane. Open a sketch on the TOP plane and draw a construction line as shown in the picture.
2. Then, when using the Reference geometry > Plane funtion, select the construction line to define the plane position and also the TOP plane as the reference to measure the angle.
3. With the angle plane, now we can create the path of the ring by using the "Intersection Curve" function. Basically, intersection is a function under "Tools> Sketch Tools> Intersection Curve which enable the user to define 3D curve to represent the intersection between 2 surfaces/solidbodies/planes.
4. Now, we can prepare the plane for the sweep profile. You just need to select the 3D curve and pick a point in order to create a plane normal to the curve. Then just draw a circle on the plane as the sweep profile.


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Ask Marilyn: When You're Twice As Old As Your Child
Kelly Buch of Darien, Connecticut, writes:
Marilyn: I read the question regarding being twice as old as your child. (November 4, 2012) The question was, "There is only one time in your life when you're twice as old as your child. When is that?" Your response was, "When the child reaches the age you were when he or she was born." Actually, there are two different times in your life when you're are twice as old as your child, if you round to the year.
Here's an illustration: I was born the day before my mother's birthday. She was 28 then and turned 29 the next day. In four years, I will turn 28. On my birthday, my mom will be 56—twice as old as me. The next day, she will turn 57. When I turn 29 the following year, she will still be 57, turning 58 the next day—again twice my age. This will stay true until my next birthday. So there are two time periods during which my mom will be twice as old as I am.
Thank you, Kelly. Readers, it's correct that there's only one time when you're actually twice as old as your child—when the child reaches the exact age you were when he or she was born. But when you round to the year, it happens twice, as Kelly demonstrates. The two periods will always add up to about one year. (I say "about" to forestall getting letters about leap years!)


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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. A building material made by grinding calcined limestone and clay to a fine powder, which can be mixed with water and poured to set as a solid mass or used as an ingredient in making mortar or concrete.
- n. Portland cement.
- n. Concrete.
- n. A substance that hardens to act as an adhesive; glue.
- n. Something that serves to bind or unite: "Custom was in early days the cement of society" ( Walter Bagehot).
- n. Geology A chemically precipitated substance that binds particles of clastic rocks.
- n. Dentistry A substance used for filling cavities or anchoring crowns, inlays, or other restorations.
- n. Variant of cementum.
- transitive v. To bind with or as if with cement.
- transitive v. To cover or coat with cement.
- intransitive v. To become cemented.
- idiom in cement Firmly settled or determined; unalterable: The administration's position on taxes was set in cement despite the unfavorable public response.
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- n. A powdered substance that develops strong adhesive properties when mixed with water.
- n. The paste-like substance resulting from mixing such a powder with water.
- n. Any material with strong adhesive properties.
- n. A particular type or brand of cement.
- v. To affix with cement.
- v. To ensure an outcome.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. Any substance used for making bodies adhere to each other, as mortar, glue, etc.
- n. A kind of calcined limestone, or a calcined mixture of clay and lime, for making mortar which will harden under water.
- n. The powder used in cementation. See Cementation, n., 2.
- n. Bond of union; that which unites firmly, as persons in friendship, or men in society.
- n. The layer of bone investing the root and neck of a tooth; -- called also cementum.
- intransitive v. To become cemented or firmly united; to cohere.
- transitive v. To unite or cause to adhere by means of a cement.
- transitive v. To unite firmly or closely.
- transitive v. To overlay or coat with cement.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To unite by cement, as by mortar which hardens, or by other matter that produces cohesion of bodies.
- Figuratively, to unite morally or socially in close or firm union.
- To unite or become solid; unite and cohere.
- n. Any composition which at one temperature or one degree of moisture is plastic and at another is tenacious.
- n. Specifically A kind of mortar which sets or hardens under water: hence often called hydraulic cement.
- n. A name sometimes given by placer and hydraulic miners to any rather firmly compacted mass of detrital auriferous material.
- n. In anatomy, the cortical substance which forms the outer crust of a tooth from the point where the enamel terminates to the apex of the root, resembling bone in anatomical structure and chemical composition. Also called cementum. See cut under tooth.
- n. In zoology, a substance which cements or glues, as the secretion by which a barnacle adheres.
- n. Figuratively, bond of union; that which firmly unites persons or interests.
- n. A compound made of pitch, brick-dust, plaster of Paris, etc., used by chasers and other artificers to put under their work that it may lie solid and firm, for the better receiving of the impression made by the punches and other tools.
- n. A cement for securing rubber rings or plates to metal or wood. It consists of a solution of shellac in ten times its own weight of strong ammonia, left for a considerable time to soften without heat. Also called caoutchouc cement.
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- n. a building material that is a powder made of a mixture of calcined limestone and clay; used with water and sand or gravel to make concrete and mortar
- n. a specialized bony substance covering the root of a tooth
- v. make fast as if with cement
- n. concrete pavement is sometimes referred to as cement
- v. cover or coat with cement
- n. any of various materials used by dentists to fill cavities in teeth
- n. something that hardens to act as adhesive material
- v. bind or join with or as if with cement
Kevin McHale was close -- the Boston Celtics forward once told me how complete his life would've been had he invented the phrase "cement pond" from "The Beverly Hillbillies" -- but McHale was a supporting player on teams led by Larry Bird, and, with Bird around, you couldn't get too antic.
In addition, he also helped build thousands of mini check dams through what he called a cement scheme.
Everywhere certainty is set in cement and tolerance is banished from the mind.
The well was finally plugged, by drilling a relief well and pumping in cement, on 19th September.
And, we had Ruby Ridge, Wacko, Oklahoma City, and now Austin, the anger is growing, the Left seems to believe that all things are set in cement, and we have reached a point were there can be no discussion.
But we should build on Ecohuman's quotation above from St Cesar - Save 39th ave as it is, name the new soccer-only joint "Chavez Stadium" & cast the Chavez quote about risk/benefit allocation in cement above each portal into the place.
Dancing on cement is never pleasant, turns are an absolute killer and if you are bare foot as some tried, you can shred the skin very easily.
Sen. Judd Gregg (R-NH) has been an outspoken critic of reconciliation, saying that it would "create real consternation, be regarded as an act of violence" against Republicans, and likening it to "running over the minority, putting them in cement and throwing them in the Chicago River."
Then a crash in cement prices in the mid-1990s put his cement unit in jeopardy and the group in a terrible cash bind.
In vertebroplasty, a type of cement is injected into the vertebrae of the spine.


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There are many proverbs and sayings in English that involve money. Here are some of the most popular.
1. A fool and his money are soon parted
Means that people who spend their money on foolish things will lose their money and become poor. This is something that often happens to people who suddenly get a lot of money, especially if that money comes in one lump sum or over the period of a few years.
This happens a lot with lottery winners and athletes. They get a lot of money at one time, spend it on silly, useless things and before they know it, the money is gone.
- He won $50 million dollars and somehow lost it all in just a few short years. He spent it on silly things and loaned money to friends and family. A fool and his money are soon parted.
2. A good name is better than riches
Means that a good reputation is worth more than any amount of money.
- Always do what you say you are going to do. A good name is better than riches.
3. A good payer is a master of another's purse
Means that someone who pays their bills on time can always borrow money. In other words if you have good credit, people will lend you money.
- My parents taught me that it's always important to pay your bills in full and on time. A good name is better than riches.
4. A good paymaster never wants workmen
Means that if an employer pays on time and pays fairly, they will always have people to work for them. In other words, pay well, pay on time, and you'll have good workers.
- People really enjoy working for this company because they pay fairly and on time. A good paymaster never wants workmen.
5. If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys
Is the opposite of the proverb above. It means that if you don't pay well, you won't get good workers. If you do happen to get a good worker, they'll probably leave quickly.
- The company started paying later and later, and making it more difficult for their employees to get their money. Soon all the good employees left. If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.
6. Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise
Refers to waking up early in the morning and going to bed early allows for people to have a productive day. Going to bed early will assure that one has a good night's sleep, and waking up early allows for one to have an entire day to get things accomplished.
- Steve says that going to bed early and getting a good night's sleep is part of his success for being super productive during the day. Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
7. Money doesn't grow on trees
Is one of the most common sayings involving money that is said in America. It reminds people to remember the value of money. It takes hard work to get money, it doesn't come easily. Therefore, you should keep that in mind when you spend it.
- Stop asking for things you don't need and don't really want. Money doesn't grow on trees.
- Unfortunately the car costs too much, money doesn't grow on trees you know.
8. Money is the root of all evil
Refers to money being the cause or motivation for everything bad. It simply means that all wickedness and evil comes from money.
The original quote is the love of money is the root of all evil. It has been shortened. Money isn't the problem, it's how much people love it, and what they will do to get it, that is the problem.
- He betrayed his friends in their time of need, just so he could make a few dollars.
9. Money isn't everything
Means that money is not the only thing of value, and it's not the only thing that should be focused on.There are far more important things in the world, such as love and family.
This is usually said to encourage someone to either not be disappointed because they feel they are lacking money. Or it may be said to someone who is focusing too much on money, and they need to be reminded that there are more important things.
- I know you're very focused on your career, but don't work so hard that you lose sight of what's really important. Remember, money isn't everything.
- The millionaire John Smith died yesterday from a severe sickness that has no cure, going to show that money isn't everything.
10. Money Talks!
This proverb means that money can be of great power and influence compared to promises or words alone.
- If you want them to let you into the club, give them some money, money talks.
11. Money can't buy happiness
While money can buy most things, it cannot purchase the constant feeling of joy.
- I heard that millionaire lost everything in his divorce; it's proof that money can't buy happiness.
12. Cash is king
In many places around the world, credit cards and other kinds of payments and investments are not believed to be as reliable as cash, the proverb, 'Cash is King' tells us that most people like cash.
- I'm sorry we don't accept credit cards, cash is king here.
13. Time is money
It takes time working to make money.
- I'm sorry, but I have got to go now, I am late for a job and time is money!
14. Money makes the world go round
Money is an important part of everyone's daily life around the world. Without money, many things we do or need would not be available to us.
The proverb, 'money makes the world go round' is used as a statement by itself mostly to show how important money is.
15. It takes money to make money
This proverb is used when speaking about investments and ways to make more money. Usually, to make money, you have to have some already.
- You will need to invest one million dollars into the project before you see any profit. Why so much? Because it takes money to make money.
16. You can't take it with you.
This proverb is talking about death and the fact that we can't bring our money with us when we die.
- Why do you want to make more money? You have made plenty of money during your life, and besides, you can't take it with you.
17. Money is a good servant/slave, but a bad master.
Money is beneficial to buy what we need and pay for things. But, using all of our time trying to earn more money and missing out on things that are more important, such as family, means that money is controlling us like a master controls his servant or slave.
- Poor Jenny, her husband is never home, he is always working. They have a nice house and car, but he is never around to enjoy them. It's true; money is a good servant but a bad master.
We hope these proverbs help you the next time you are speaking about money.
Do you know of any other proverbs about money? Let us know in the comments below. Why not check out some other great proverbs and idioms on our website too!


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Abstract Research into the paraoxonase (PON) gene family has flourished over the past few years. In the 1970s and 1980s, only PON1 was known, and the investigations were conducted, essentially, by toxicologists focusing on protection against organophosphate poisoning. Since then, two new members of the family, PON2 and PON3, have been identified, both being shown to play antioxidant and anti-inflammatory roles. Evidence exists indicating that the PON family is central to a wide variety of human illnesses such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes mellitus, metabolic syndrome, obesity, non-alcoholic steatohepatitis, and several mental disorders. However, research is hampered considerably by the methods currently available to measure the activity of these enzymes. In this review, we summarize the state of knowledge on PON biochemistry and function, the influence of genetic variations, and the involvement of PON in several diseases. The problems associated with PON measurement, such as sample acquisition, lack of reference methods, and variety of substrates, will be presented. Also, we cover some of the present lines of research and propose some others for future progress in this field.
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Japan's once-a-decade millipede train mystery cracked by researchers
A species of poisonous millipedes so numerous they stop the trains from running in Japan have been discovered to be living an unusually long life cycle.
Researchers from Shizuoka University in Japan were working to discover what led to entire train tracks being swamped by millipedes only once a decade.
Since 1920 it has been observed by Japanese train drivers that the invertebrates would form a "dense blanket" over the tracks, forcing them to wait until the millipedes cleared the tracks.
Millipedes flood train tracks in Japan. (Supplied)
New research published today theorises that the millipedes are living in an approximate eight-year cycle whereby a new brood will trek to a new habitat to eat food, lay eggs and die.
Eight years later, the new brood will travel again looking for food – and it just so happens they pass over train tracks.
If threatened or killed, the millipedes are known to emit the chemical cyanide, famously fatal to humans in concentrated amounts.
Samples of the millipedes. (Supplied)
"In Japan, however, eight-year periodicity had been suggested in a species of train millipedes that had frequently obstructed trains in the central mountainous region of Honshu, Japan," the researchers wrote in a paper published in the Royal Society of Open Science.
"We finally confirmed the eight-year periodicity of this millipede using detailed surveys of life histories over eight years.
"Seven broods were recognised, with almost no overlaps in their distributions."
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In the chapter titled An Engaging Monarchy, John Hooper, author of The New Spaniards, provides some insight into why the Bourbon royals are different or seen as different compared to other ruling monarchies. Hooper described a memorial service after the 2004 Madrid terrorist attacks:
When the service ended, the dignitaries prepared to file out, led by the Spanish royal family. But instead of leaving the relatives alone with their grief and incomprehension, King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia, accompanied by their children and their children's partners, moved from pew to pew consoling the bereaved.
They clasped the hands of the bereaved, hugged their shoulders and kissed their cheeks. The King embraced a stooped old lady, and bent down to listen to her story. The Queen wept openly. Princess Cristina too sobbed as she hugged mourners.
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Framework, each state will determine the stakeholder processes that best meet its requirements.
The scope of the NTA Framework is limited to the planning process, as described in the objectives above. Accordingly, many issues associated with NTA analysis are not discussed here or otherwise provided for in the NTA Framework. Specifically, the purpose of the NTA Framework is:
- Not to disrupt the region's general reliance on markets to select and fund resources to meet resource adequacy needs. The NTA Framework's planning analysis does not propose alternative means to fund solutions.
- Not to elongate the transmission planning and siting process. To the contrary, more information earlier in the process will make the siting processes more efficient (e.g., reduce likelihood for requests for further analysis at that late stage and provide timely information to stakeholders). As TOs noted, NTA studies are currently conducted in most situations today. The NTA Framework standardizes the expectations for such studies across the region.
- Not to create new cost allocation mechanisms. The NTA Framework focuses on planning information regarding alternatives to meet the identified need and is not about changes to cost allocation associated with any particular solution.
- Not to duplicate ISO New England MRA analysis. NESCOE will revisit the need for, and the scope of, NTA analysis as ISO New England MRA analysis moves along.
Some of the issues above may be appropriately addressed in upcoming stakeholder discussions in connection with ISO New England's Aligning Planning and Markets Whitepaper.
The NTA Framework has been developed to work in tandem with ISO New England's current transmission planning processes, focusing on the distinct but related responsibility the TOs have to provide NTA planning analyses to siting authorities in transmission siting applications. Figure 1 depicts a high-level diagram of the NTA Framework planning process and shows the TOs' responsibility for the NTA analysis process (these functions are enclosed in a box labeled "TO Responsibility") and shows the parallel ISO New England transmission planning process depicted on the top portion of the diagram ("ISO-NE Lead Responsibility").
This section includes a description of the elements and an explanation and context for this process.
Figure 1: Planning Process Overview
The TO seeking siting authority will conduct the NTA planning analysis and lead the planning process. This role is consistent with current practice in each state. The TO is also an active participant, or in some cases the lead, on the Needs Assessments and Solutions Studies conducted within the ISO New England planning process.
The NTA Framework also calls for the TOs to make the NTA planning process open and transparent. In the NTA Framework, pursuant to individual state direction on process, the TOs will establish a stakeholder process. The NTA stakeholder process is analogous to the stakeholder processes used by ISO New England for its transmission planning studies. A stakeholder process is essential to mitigate any bias or perceived bias that may derive from the financial interest that the TO has in the transmission solution. The TO is ultimately responsible for presenting an NTA assessment, in its siting application, that fairly considers all reasonable alternative solutions to the identified need. Further, in the event that NTA solutions offer advantages over the transmission solution, market participants must have timely access to this planning assessment.
Over time, the TOs' planning responsibilities may change. Changes to ISO New England's planning processes are currently under discussion and state-specific requirements may evolve over time. When such changes occur, the NTA Framework will be reviewed and modified, as needed, including any changes in responsibilities for planning studies.
B. The Role of ISO New England and Coordination of NTA Analyses with ISO New England Transmission Planning.
The process assumes a parallel study path, with ISO New England and the TO each performing the analysis and stakeholder activities necessary to their respective roles in the transmission and NTA study processes. Consistent with current practice, ISO New England does not have responsibility for the NTA analysis in the NTA Framework. However, the NTA Framework anticipates close coordination between the ISO New England planning studies and the NTA analysis.
In addition to aligning the timing of these planning efforts, the NTA Framework allows for information exchange throughout the transmission planning and NTA analysis processes. In particular, it is important for information to be shared early in the process so that the potential for alternatives to meet reliability needs is known broadly as soon as is practical.
The TO-led stakeholder process for the NTA analysis, while separate and distinct from the ISO New England stakeholder process for the transmission solution, will run concurrently and in parallel with that ISO New England process. In Figure 1, the stakeholder processes for the ISO New England transmission planning and the TOs' NTA planning processes are depicted at the top and bottom of the graphic respectively, indicating the expectation of regular communications with stakeholders throughout the process of conducting the planning studies. Maintaining a clear flow of information between those two processes will be critical to the timely completion of the NTA analysis and to the integration of the transmission and NTA assessments into the siting process. It is important for stakeholders with a particular interest in an identified need or solution to have a means to provide input to the NTA analysis.
The ISO New England stakeholder process for transmission planning includes periodic presentations to the Planning Advisory Committee (PAC) as the Needs Assessments and Solutions Studies progress. Once a project is determined to be the preferred solution, it is further engineered, studied, and reviewed by the NEPOOL Reliability and the technical task forces. This process assures that the work conducted by the study team that ISO New England establishes for these studies is available to market participants, with opportunity for input from the scoping phase through study completion.
The NTA Framework contemplates comparable provision of information to and feedback from stakeholders of the NTA analysis. Examples of the stakeholders with specific interest in the NTA process might include energy efficiency program administrators in states where needs are identified and other resource project developers. Each state will determine the details of such process, which will provide the transparency important to satisfying the objectives identified above.
The NTA Framework addresses the common, regional expectations for planning studies to be prepared for the siting application. However, it does not address each state's specific siting approval processes. Each state will implement the NTA Framework in a manner consistent with its practices and policy preferences.
The MRA process, proposed by ISO New England in the context of Strategic Planning, includes a proposal for an expanded needs assessment process to provide better information on the potential to meet the identified need with resources other than transmission. This analysis, if and when fully developed and implemented, could provide better information for the NTA analysis contemplated in the NTA Framework.
ISO New England has indicated that, irrespective of changes to planning analysis, it will not conduct economic analysis of transmission and NTA options. Even in the event the NTA Framework is scaled back due to ISO New England advancing MRA analysis and associated market rules, the TOs will continue to conduct related economic analysis.
As noted above, NESCOE is particularly interested in not duplicating analysis. If and when ISO New England's MRA planning and markets initiative develops, the NTA process should evolve to take advantage of the work that ISO New England will be conducting. NESCOE will therefore closely monitor how ISO New England's approach to MRA analysis develops over time, along with associated market rules, and modify the NTA Framework as appropriate.
The NTA analysis contemplated in the NTA Framework is a planning study of conceptual solutions to the identified needs. The planning study will rely on reasonable estimates of costs, performance, and feasibility of the alternatives. The treatment of NTA options is expected to be comparable to the planning estimates used for transmission options in the Solutions Study phase of the ISO New England transmission planning process.
The NTA planning analysis should broadly consider feasible alternative solutions. Solutions should not be limited to only the solutions that the TO could implement or to only those market options that have appeared in the ISO New England forward capacity market or interconnection queue. Rather, all reasonable options that could address the identified needs should be considered in the study.
NESCOE recognizes that there are practical limits to the alternatives that can be studied. The study scope should include a good representation of the range of feasible alternatives. A transparent method should be established to screen alternatives in choosing those to be included in the evaluation. This screening process should make use of inputs from the states or stakeholders. The study should establish a manageable and representative set of alternatives to be evaluated.
This section of the NTA Framework describes the elements of the NTA analysis that can be applied consistently across the region. The TOs have indicated that they each do a form of this analysis in their current practice, though there are variations in the approaches used. The NTA Framework establishes a set of guidelines for this analysis that are clear and that can be applied consistently in each jurisdiction.
The first step in the NTA analysis process is a determination of the need to conduct an NTA assessment and, if needed, the scope of that analysis. This NTA Framework is not intended to call for analyses that do not provide valuable planning information. Rather, the objective is to have planning analysis conducted at a level appropriate to the project. This section provides some guidance on the issue of scope, recognizing that each state may have unique requirements that differ from the general principles described here.
The first determination states need to make is whether an NTA analysis is required. Some transmission facilities that require siting approval will not warrant an NTA analysis. Transmission projects with a very limited scope or projects that address needs that uniquely require transmission solutions are not expected to require NTA assessments. In some states, threshold criteria have been established by statute or by the siting authority. However, the threshold criteria are not established in all cases and are not necessarily uniform across the region.
The TOs expressed interest


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URLs can contain a wide variety of characters; however, there are only certain characters that you can put directly into a URL. For example, you cannot put a space into a URL. If you wanted to pass the value "John Smith" to the variable "name", do not construct a URL such as:
The above URL is invalid because spaces are not allowed in a URL. To put a space into a URL, write the URL as:
The above URL contains the characters "%20" instead of a space. This is because a space is ASCII code 32. The decimal number "32" is "20" in hexadecimal. Any ASCII code, from 0 (hexadecimal 0) to 255 (hexadecimal FF) can be represented this way.
However, the space character is special. There is a second way that it can be represented. Spaces can be represented with the plus (+) character. Therefore, it is valid to represent the above URL as:
This means the only way to represent a "+" symbol in a URL is to use the hexadecimal ASCII code "%2B". Now that you understand how to construct a URL, it is time to see how to use them. This will be covered in the next section.


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Austrocedrus chilensis forests suffer a widespread mortality locally known as «mal del ciprés» (cypress disease) whose cause remains controversial. Previous studies suggested Phytophthora austrocedrae as the biotic cause; however, the origin of the mortality is still being studied since there are affected areas not connected with Phytophthora. The soil was proved to be an important factor affecting the disease. The purpose of this article was to study soil chemical properties related to A. chilensis disease. Four sampling sites with A. chilensis dense forests developed on different types of soils were selected in the 16 de Octubre Valley (Chubut province, Argentine). In each of them, pairs of plots that differed in disease symptoms were established. Each pair included a plot with an advanced degree of disease (diseased plot) and another that did not exhibit symptoms (asymptomatic plot). Eight plots were included in the control forests, where the disease was totally absent. In each plot, a soil sample from the A horizon was collected for chemical analyses. This study showed high soil chemical fertility in all the forest soils, with high contents of organic matter, nitrogen, exchangeable cations and high cation exchange capacity. Differences between diseased forests and control forests were found for the following properties: sum of bases, base saturation, calcium, pH NaF and phosphorus. These differences could be associated with the drainage conditions and may also be associated to the presence of Phytophthora.
Palabras clave : Cypress; Chemical properties; Phytophthora austrocedrae.


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IMAGE cDNA clones
IMAGE cDNA clones are a collection of DNA vectors containing cDNAs from various organisms including human, mouse, rat, non-human primates, zebrafish, pufferfish, Xenopus (frogs), and cow. Together they represent a more or less complete set of expressed genes from these organisms. IMAGE stands for integrated molecular analysis of genomes and their expression.
From 1993 to 2007, the cDNA library was maintained by the IMAGE Consortium, a joint effort of four academic groups. At the end of 2007, the consortium handed over operations and stocks to a company associated with Open Biosystems.
See also
- complementary DNA (cDNA)
- cDNA library
- expressed sequence tags (EST)
- vector (molecular biology)
- cloning vector


Backstreet Boys Quiz: questions and answers
Backstreet Boys Quiz: questions and answers
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Backstreet Boys was one of the most popular boy bands of the last decade of the XX century. Since the beginning of their music career, they were the idols for many girls all over the world.
Backstreet Boys quiz includes some interesting questions and answers about the history of the band.
Test yourself
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1. When was Backstreet Boys formed?
2. Where was the band formed?
3. Who was never a member of the band?
4. What was the band's debut album?
5. When did the boy band received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame?
6. How many Grammy Awards were Backstreet Boys awarded?
7. Who had left the band in 2006 and returned back in 2008?
8. What was the first concert tour of the band?
9. What is the title of the documentary film about Backstreet Boys released in 2015?
10. How many members are there in Backstreet Boys?


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Useful information on how long bleeding will continue after the birth of your baby.
Bleeding after the birth of your baby may continue for between six weeks and three months. Though it is more common for bleeding to stop around six weeks it is still normal to continue bleeding if:
- the uterus has returned to normal size,
- you are not running a temperature,
- you are not passing clots or tissue or feeling exceptionally fatigued,
and there is no foul odour associated with the bleeding, then all is probably fine.
If you had a caesarean birth it will take longer for the uterus to return to normal size and the bleeding will last a bit longer.


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Anterior cervical fixation system This is a plate design to perfectly adapt to the cervical region. Its rounded rims protect against incidental damage caused by the friction with the surrounding noble structures. Screw blocking system in solidarity with the actioning plate in just one step, innovative and safe (PAT: USA, Nº 5,951,558) prevents the anteropulsion of the screws. The mobile and fixed screws, enable fixations to be of rigid, semirigid and flexible construction. There are five different lengths of screws, they are self-tapping and so the operation technique is eased. Over-diametered screws to improve the fixation in osteoporotic bones. Color code to identify more easily the different kinds of screws. Type 2 anodize plate surface, improves the surface and diminishes the negative effect of friction among components.
- Surgical application:cervical
- Number of fused vertebrae:2 levels
- Surgical approach:anterior


Using Code Map to understand C++ Android code
This tutorial shows how to use the CodeMap feature of Visual Studio to understand the structure of complex C++ code. We will show it based on the san-angeles demo built using vs-android, however it will also work for all other VisualGDB project types.
 1. Install VisualGDB 5.0 or later (ensure that "Android Edition" is checked in the installer). This will add support for debugging and Clang-based IntelliSense to vs-android projects.
 2. Ensure you can build and debug the san-angeles project by following this tutorial.
 3. Open the san-angeles project and go to the drawModels function in demo.c:01-drawmodels
 4. The first thing we will investigate using code map is that drawModels() function that appears to be called repeatedly is calling seedRandom() each time with the same value. That supposedly resets the state of the random number generator. Let's use the code map to understand what is affected by this. Right-click on seedRandom() and select "show on code map":02-map
 5. A new Code Map window will appear. Right-click on seedRandom in that window and select "show referenced data":03-data
 6. You will see that seedRandom accesses the sRandomSeed variable. Right-click on it and select "Show functions referencing this":04-randomseed
 7. Now you will see that sRandomSeed is also accessed by randomUInt():05-2calls
 8. Now we need to figure out the context in which both functions are called. Select both of them by holding the ctrl key, right-click and select "Show functions calling this": 06-callers
 9. Now you will see all functions in the project that call the two random number functions we found. However, this is not enough to see the big picture:07-4callers
 10. Repeat the previous step (selecting newly found functions) twice more until you see the functions called by the Java framework (starting with Java_):08-jnifuncsNow the big picture is clear: the random functions are mainly involved during app initialization and the only other place that calls them is the drawModels() function itself. Hence, resetting the random seed inside drawModels() does not affect the behavior of other functions.
 11. Now let's use Code Map to quickly find functions related to the GLObject struct. First of all, select any of the GLObject's fields and select "Show on Code Map":09-globject
 12. Then right-click on it and select "Show containing type":10-showtype
 13. Right-click on the type, select "Show type contents", then select all fields, right-click select "Show functions referencing this":11-showrefs
 14. You will now see all functions that directly reference fields of GLObject:12-objectfuncs
 15. By highlighting all objects and repeatedly selecting "Show functions calling this" you can easily see the big picture:13-objlifetimeThe Code Map now clearly shows how the objects are created during initialization, used during the render calls and destroyed during the de-initialization. You can double-click on any of the functions or fields to quickly jump to the code and examine the function contents.


Channa harcourtbutleri
6. July 2017
We obtained some specimens of this only very rarely offered snakehead from Burma. The species is a very close relative of Channa gachua. In fact, it has been considered to be a mere synonym of C. gachua for a very long time. But Ng, Ng & Britz could show in 1999 that C. harcourtbutleri is a valid species. However, both species look very similar. C. harcourtbutleri has a narrower head and (sadly this is mood-dependend not always visible) a dark marbled throat (uniform in C. gachua). Moreover, in juveniles of C. harcourtbutleri an ocellus in the dorsal fin – typical for juveniles of C. gachua – is missing. There are further minor differences in the pattern, but due to the extreme mood-dependend change of coloration in snakeheads these differences are of no use for identification purposes. One should also keep in mind that it is more than likely that many populations and described species currently places in C. gachua will proove to be species on their own in the future, so it is very difficult to speak of a typical pattern and coloration in C. gachua.
Channa harcourtbutleri occurs in Burma in higher elevations; here it can become pretty cool. So it is better to keep that species not the whole year through at high, tropical temperatures. Regarding the water the fish is very undemanding, but very soft and acidid water should be avoided. The common length of C. harcourtbutleri is between 8 and 15 cm, the largest specimen known so far was 18.5 cm long (all measurements given in standard length, without the caudal fin). The photographed specimens have a standard length of about 11 cm (male) and 9 cm (female) and are obviously sexual ripe.
We have no knowledge of a detailed breeding report, but it is very likely that there are no majaor differences to that of C. gachua, which is a biparental mouthbrooding species.
For our customers: the fish have code 409114 on our stocklist. Please note that we exclusively supply the wholesale trade.
Text & photos: Frank Schäfer


A Comparison of Drivers for Azure Cosmos DB
The metrics in this article are from the most up-to-date drivers available as of July 2019.
In this article, we compare the performance of the CData ODBC Driver for Cosmos DB to the equivalent native driver, looking at two measures.
First, we compare read performance, measuring the amount of time it takes to query an Azure Cosmos DB instance for data and process the result set in some way. We find that the CData Driver is at least three times faster than the native driver.
Next, we compare the resource usage of each driver for read queries, focusing on CPU and network usage. This is used to explain the underlying cause of better performance from the CData Driver. We further extend this test to see how both drivers scale as more server resources are added to CosmosDB (by configuring Read Units (RUs) in Azure Cosmos DB settings).
The Data
In order to provide a reproducible comparison, we copied the sample restaurants dataset made publicly available by MongoDB, Inc, repeating the dataset until we built a database with 10 million records. The relevant details for the table queried are below:
Table Number of Rows
restaurants 10,000,000
ODBC Driver Read Performance
First, we tested the related performance of the drivers by running the same two queries for each driver:
 1. SELECT * FROM restaurants LIMIT 25000
 2. SELECT * FROM restaurants
To simulate actual processing of the data from Cosmos DB, we read the values of every field in each row. The times required for each product to process the results are in the table below.
ODBC Query Times by Company (in milliseconds)
Rows Queried CData Software Native
25,000 1,441 (+382%) 6,945
10,000,000 437,526 (+203%) 1,325,441
As you can see in the results, the CData ODBC Driver handled large result sets significantly faster than the native driver, processing the largest dataset three times faster.
ODBC Driver Resource Usage
After testing the read performance, we decided to run a separate test to measure and compare resource usage, looking specifically at network and CPU usage. The charts below were found by running a sample C program and using Windows Resource Monitor (we ran two instances of Resource Monitor so we could capture the CPU usage and network usage simultaneously). For the resource usage test, we looked at two separate use cases, based on allocated Read Units (RUs) in Azure Cosmos DB. We limited the results to 2.5 million rows.
1. Querying a Large Number of Rows with Minimum RUs
For the initial comparison, we ran a query for a large number of rows, with the minimum number of RUs (400) in Cosmos DB: SELECT * FROM restaurants LIMIT _PHONE_
CData Driver
Native Driver*
* Note the change in scale for the Network graph.
From the graphs above, we can see that when the RUs are set to the minimum, both drivers retrieve data and then pause in the retrieval, due to rate limiting based on the allocated RUs. However, the CData Driver appears to process the data while retrieving it, whereas the native driver appears to retrieve the data and then process it. Additionally, with the minimum RUs set, the CData Driver peaks at pulling data in between 30 and 40 Mbps, where the native driver peaks between six and seven Mbps (note the scale change for the native driver). The higher rate of data retrieval indicates that the CData Driver is making better use of the network bandwidth and results in faster query processing times for the CData Driver.
2. Querying a Large Number of Rows with High RUs
For the second comparison, we ran a query for a large number of rows, with high RUs in Cosmos DB: SELECT * FROM restaurants LIMIT 25000000
CData Driver
Native Driver*
* Note the change in scale for the Network graph.
When we set the RUs to a higher value (3500), the performance of the CData Driver improves dramatically and the differences in how each driver utilizes available resources become more pronounced. Based on the graph, the CData Driver maintains the pattern of retrieving and processing the data simultaneously but is retrieving much more data per second (around 70 Mbps), fully utilizing the allocated RUs. The native driver sees little-to-no improvement in performance with higher RUs, continuing the pattern of first retrieving the data and then processing the data separately. The native driver retrieves the data at the same rate (around 7 Mbps) as when the RUs were set to the minimum value, showing no indication of utilizing the allocated RUs.
The CData Software driver regularly proves to be faster than the native driver, particularly when dealing with large data sets and with a high RU allocation. Our developers have spent countless hours optimizing the performance in requesting data and processing the results returned by the Cosmos DB database, capitalizing on the RUs allocated to a system. This engineering means you get the best performance possible based on your allocated RUs. Download a free, 30-day trial of any of our Cosmos DB drivers and experience the CData difference for yourself.
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Let $\mathbf A$ be an $m \times n$ matrix.
For each $j \in \closedint 1 n$, the columns of $\mathbf A$ are the ordered $m$-tuples:
$c_j = \tuple {a_{1 j}, a_{2 j}, \ldots, a_{m j} }$
where $c_j$ is called the $j$th column of $\mathbf A$.
A column of an $m \times n$ matrix can also be treated as a $m \times 1$ column matrix in its own right:
$c_j = \begin {bmatrix} a_{1 j} \\ a_{2 j} \\ \vdots \\ a_{m j} \end {bmatrix}$
for $j = 1, 2, \ldots, n$.
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Aggregate expenditure or aggregate spending is the sum of expenditure by the households, by business enterprises, the government and the rest of the world on an economy's output of goods and services. Thus, as shown earlier,
AE = C + I + G + (X - M)
where C is the private consumption expenditure, I is the investment expenditure, G is the government expenditure and X – M or net exports (also denoted by NX) is the expenditure by the rest of the world on an economy's aggregate output.
Since, we are discussing here only a two-sector model comprising of the households sector and the business enterprises and assuming that there is no government (hence, no government expenditure G) and no external transactions (closed economy and so on exports and no imports and hence no expenditure by the rest of the world, viz., no NX or (X-M), the aggregate expenditure thus comprises of only private consumption expenditure (C) and investment expenditure (I) so,
AE = C + I


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spoil someone's plans; spoil someone's pleasure or joy.
stop talking; refrain from saying something
be kept waiting
to lose one's temper
very familiar
make a lot of efforts to understand something
have everything together; have all things settled/organized
get rid of a strong feeling towards something or someone
snubbing people by using one's mobile phone
[Neologism] portmanteau word : phone + snubbing
go for something, take one's chances
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more specific: cat shaming or dog shaming
symbolically killing one's internet unique identity.
a poetic or humorous way of expressing one's fervent wish for somehting
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Nature published the Nature Index 2016 Rising Stars – identyfing ascendant performers in the research world. The University of Warsaw was ranked among the world's top 100 institutions.
The Nature Index 2016 Rising Stars uses the power of the Nature Index, which tracks the high-quality research of more than 8 000 global institutions. Applying WFC (weighted fractional count) the Nature summed up scientific achievements of institutions over the last four years (2012-2015). The index metric used to assess a country's contribution to 68 high impact natural science journals. Poland was mentioned as a one of the examples of countries that improved their research performance more than most. In the top 100 institutions the UW was ranked 96th. However, in the 25 institutions of South East Europe the UW was placed 3rd. Read more >>
Our University is present in more than 20 countries in 5 continents through archaeological excavations, ethnography and cultural studies research.
Some sites have been the subject of our research even for several decades. The archaeologists who investigate the ancient Egypt have at their disposal the University's Research Station in Cairo, established in 1959. Polish telescopes operate at the Las Campanas Observatory in the Atacama Desert, Chile, where UW astronomers perform large-scale sky surveys.


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Nguyen-Widrow layer initialization function
net = initnw(net,i)
initnw is a layer initialization function that initializes a layer's
weights and biases according to the Nguyen-Widrow initialization algorithm. This algorithm
chooses values in order to distribute the active region of each neuron in the layer
approximately evenly across the layer's input space. The values contain a degree of randomness,
so they are not the same each time this function is called.
initnw requires that the layer it initializes have a transfer function
with a finite active input range. This includes transfer functions such as
satlin, but not
whose active input range is the infinite interval
[-inf, inf]. Transfer
functions, such as
tansig, will return their active input range as
activeInputRange = tansig('active') activeInputRange = -2 2
net = initnw(net,i) takes two arguments,
Index of a layer
and returns the network with layer
i's weights and biases
There is a random element to Nguyen-Widrow initialization. Unless the default random
generator is set to the same seed before each call to
initnw, it will
generate different weight and bias values each time.
You can create a standard network that uses
initnw by calling
To prepare a custom network to be initialized with
'initlay'. This sets
net.initParamto the empty matrix
initlayhas no initialization parameters.
To initialize the network, call
The Nguyen-Widrow method generates initial weight and bias values for a layer so that the active regions of the layer's neurons are distributed approximately evenly over the input space.
Advantages over purely random weights and biases are
Few neurons are wasted (because all the neurons are in the input space).
Training works faster (because each area of the input space has neurons). The Nguyen-Widrow method can only be applied to layers
With a bias
With weights whose
transferFcnwhose active region is finite
If these conditions are not met, then
rands to initialize the layer's weights and biases.