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Sprite 0 hit is used to split the screen.
There are three main ways that a game loop on the NES can be organized:
Main only
Game logic and output in the main loop, and only incrementing a flag in the NMI handler to let the main loop know that. The drawback is that it's very easy for music to slow down or for raster splits to fail if the game is using too much CPU time.
NMI only
Game logic and output with the NMI handler in an infinite JMP loop. always in this order: PPU, APU, read controls, game logic. For example, Super Mario Bros. uses this.
NMI and main
Game logic in the main loop, PPU and APU output in the NMI handler.
Waiting for vertical blank by waiting for the NMI handler to increment a flag is the simplest thing that could possibly work. And it does work for games without a status bar or for games whose upper limit on CPU use is easy to predict. It may also work for games whose mapper has a scanline counter that triggers an IRQ.
But once your game world becomes more complex, the simple method may cause problems. For example, consider a video game that has a status bar and several critters running around. It may occasionally take longer than one screen to process AI, physics, and display updates once enough critters with complex movement patterns are spawned, such as multiple Hammer Brothers in Super Mario Bros. or all the ducks turtles in the middle of World 3-7 of Super Mario Bros. 3. This will cause your game to slow down when an NMI occurs while your game is doing something else. And if your scanline counter is based on sprite 0 hit and not an IRQ, it will cause visual glitches as the status bar flickers.
So sometimes, it's useful to do more than the bare minimum in your NMI handler. To make a top status bar rock-solid in the face of excessive game logic, you can move VRAM uploads and sprite 0 handling into the NMI handler. The main program prepares VRAM updates in main RAM, and once the VRAM update request is ready, it turns on a flag VRAM_update_ready to let the NMI handler know. This is similar to multithreaded programming, but because the NMI handler itself is never interrupted, the locking can be much simpler than it is in multithreaded programming on a PC.
The NMI thread has these steps:
 1. Let the main program know that NMI has occurred, as in the simple method.
 2. Push all registers.
 3. If VRAM_update_ready is false, go to step 5.
 4. Copy data from the VRAM update request areas in RAM into VRAM and OAM.
 5. Set VRAM_update_ready to false.
 6. Set the scroll position using PPUCTRL and PPUSCROLL.
 7. (Optional) Run the music code.
 8. (Optional) Wait for sprite 0 hit and change the VRAM address.
 9. Pull all registers and return.
Make sure to do anything related to VRAM and OAM before other things like music. Vertical blanking time is valuable, and you should make the most of it.
Even though the NES CPU has only one NMI vector, ordinarily within ROM, it's possible to switch among multiple NMI handlers using a small amount of self-modifying code.
RTI_opcode = $40
JMP_opcode = $4C
.segment "BSS"
nmi_trampoline:.res 3
.segment "CODE"
; other code
 ldx _TAG_
 jsr change_nmi_handler
; other code
; Sets the NMI handler to the ISR whose code begins at YYXX.
; If an NMI occurs during this process, it will be ignored (RTI).
 lda _TAG_
 sta nmi_trampoline
 stx nmi_trampoline+1
 sty nmi_trampoline+2
 lda _TAG_
 sta nmi_trampoline
.segment "VECTORS"
 .addr nmi_trampoline, reset_handler, irq_trampoline
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Who Makes John Deere Branded Engines?
Who Makes John Deere Branded Engines?
Let me begin with a story, it won't be familiar to most of you. In the year 1837, an old blacksmith invented the first steel plow which was designed to cut through sticky prairie soil, which turned out to be a success because before this invention farmers had to clean prairie soil off their cast-iron plows.
This invention and its demand in the market brought up the company John Deere which is an American corporation founded by John Deere. The company manufactures agricultural, construction, forestry machinery, and technology. The company serves in over 104 locations globally. Now regarding the success of the company, who makes John Deere branded engines?
I found it quite interesting sharing facts about John Deere with you all. So I have decided to share furthermore. Without any delay, let's begin.
What brand engine does John Deere use?
Who Makes John Deere Branded Engines?
In the year 1837, there was a 33-year-old American blacksmith named John Deere. He invented the first steel plow which was designed to easily cut through sticky prairie soil. The invention was a success because farmers had to clean the prairie soil off their cast-iron plows before this invention. This resulted in demand for the newly invented steel plow and resulted in the founding of a new company – John Deere.
In the initial years, John Deere sold agricultural equipment and tools. However, in the past century, the company expanded in order to meet the customer needs in multiple industries. They expanded to various fields which include residential mowing, commercial construction, forestry, and golf & turf.
The engines used in their machinery are mainly made by themselves but for certain machinery which requires less horsepower like 100Hp and below, John Deere uses engines from Kawasaki, Yanmar, and Briggs & Stratton.
Who makes John Deere compact tractor engines?
The John Deere Compact tractor comes in 4 series, namely 1-4 Series. The HP of these tractors ranges from 22.4-65.9. The HP of the tractors are as follows; 1 Series is 22.4 to 23.9HP, 2 Series is 24.2 to 36.7HP, 3 Series is 24.7 to 45.3HP and 4 Series is 43.1 to 65.9Hp. You can see that all tractors have HP below 100, which means that the engines are produced by other companies.
Yanmar America Corp., a division of Yanmar Co. Ltd. is a global manufacturer of diesel engines and diesel-powered equipment for industrial, construction, and agricultural sectors. Ranging for almost 30 years, Yanmar manufactured the tractors for John Deere until it moved out of the industry. Currently, Yanmar manufactures diesel engines for John Deere's compact tractors.
Who makes John Deere zero-turn engines?
John Deere provides multiple mower deck options and engine sizes. The John Deere zero-turn mowers come in 3 series, namely the Z300 series, the Z500 series, and the Z700 series. The Z300 series mows up to 7mph with 20-25HP, the Z500 series mows up to 9mph with 24-25HP and the Z700 series mows up to 10mph with 23-25HP.
The zero-turn mower engines were made by MTD and other brands in the past. However, it is claimed that John Deere produces its engine for its lawn mowers now but it hasn't been disclosed yet.
Where are John Deere engines made?
Who Makes John Deere Branded Engines?
The John Deere Company went international in the year 1912 by setting up a manufacturing unit in Canada. In the year 1956, the company decided to build plants in Mexico, Spain, and Germany. Within time, the company expanded to India, France, Argentina, and South Africa.
John Deere has been successful all over the globe and serves in over 104 locations worldwide. John Deere has set up offices, factories, and dealerships in over 30 countries. The John Deere brand engines are made in factories worldwide which include Waterloo (USA), Pune (India), Torreon (Mexico), Saran (France), and Rosario (Argentina).
Who makes John Deere tractors?
Though the company was founded in 1837, John Deere company entered the tractor business in 1918 with two models of tractors – the Waterloo Boy and the John Deere Tractor. In 1935, Deere introduced its first tractor built exclusively for industrial use, the Model 'DI'. The company has changed its tractor models around 700 times.
There have been a lot of variations in the company since its founding. John Deere began as an agricultural equipment supplier and now has worldwide locations supplying machinery required in agriculture and construction. One of the Key Role players of the John Deere company is the current CEO, Mr. John C. May.
The John Deere tractors are made in the USA, Mexico, Russia, India, Germany, China, Brazil, and Argentina. The tractors were made by various companies including MTD and Yanmar in the past but currently, John Deere produces its tractors in its own factories spread worldwide. They provide affordable rates and installments to provide the best services for their customers.


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Background: For most women, participation in decision-making during maternity care has a positive impact on their childbirth experiences. Shared decision-making (SDM) is widely advocated as a way to support people in their healthcare choices. The aim of this study was to identify quality criteria and professional competencies for applying shared decision-making in maternity care. We focused on decision-making in everyday maternity care practice for healthy women.
Methods: An international three-round web-based Delphi study was conducted. The Delphi panel included international experts in SDM and in maternity care: mostly midwives, and additionally obstetricians, educators, researchers, policy makers and representatives of care users. Round 1 contained open-ended questions to explore relevant ingredients for SDM in maternity care and to identify the competencies needed for this. In rounds 2 and 3, experts rated statements on quality criteria and competencies on a 1 to 7 Likert-scale. A priori, positive consensus was defined as 70% or more of the experts scoring ≥6 (70% panel agreement).
Results: Consensus was reached on 45 quality criteria statements and 4 competency statements. SDM in maternity care is a dynamic process that starts in antenatal care and ends after birth. Experts agreed that the regular visits during pregnancy offer opportunities to build a relationship, anticipate situations and revisit complex decisions. Professionals need to prepare women antenatally for unexpected, urgent decisions in birth and revisit these decisions postnatally. Open and respectful communication between women and care professionals is essential; information needs to be accurate, evidence-based and understandable to women. Experts were divided about the contribution of professional advice in shared decision-making and about the partner's role.
Conclusions: SDM in maternity care is a dynamic process that takes into consideration women's individual needs and the context of the pregnancy or birth. The identified ingredients for good quality SDM will help practitioners to apply SDM in practice and educators to prepare (future) professionals for SDM, contributing to women's positive birth experience and satisfaction with care.

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How to Stretch Content Across the Funnel
Everyone has different preferences when it comes to consuming content. The same person's preferences might even change based on what day it is, what time it is, what device they're using, or any number of unpredictable factors.
As a result, B2B marketers are challenged to produce content in a variety of formats in order to appeal to the widest possible range of audiences.
Of course, creating even a single piece of content can be time-consuming. But if you consider each asset you produce as part of a larger package, you can easily stretch that individual piece of content into multiple assets that fit all stages of the funnel.
Here's an example of how one report sparked the creation of many more assets to support prospects all the way through the funnel:
- Highlights video: B2B Content Marketing Spotlight Report
- Blog post: Generate more leads with a variety of content formats
- Webinar roundtable: B2B Content Marketing Trends – Survey Results and Analysis
- Download: B2B Content Marketing Spotlight Report
Other ideas could include infographics, briefs, or video case studies. It's important to produce a mix of static and dynamic content, but rich media assets like webinars and videos play a particularly important role in nurturing prospects down the funnel.
Learn more about this topic in next week's webinar: The Power of Narrative: Separate Your Content from the Pack.


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The Warnabi, Warnavi, Warnahi, Wranovi, Wranefzi, Wrani, Varnes, or Warnower were a West Slavic tribe of the Obotrite confederation in the ninth through eleventh centuries. They were one of the minor tribes of the confederation living in the Billung Mark on the eastern frontier of the Holy Roman Empire. They were first mentioned by Adam of Bremen.
Etymologically their name is related to the river, the Warnow (also Warnof, Wrana, or Wranava), along which they settled in the region of Mecklenburg. It may have meant "crow river" or "black river" in their Slavic language, or been derived from the name of the Warni (from earlier warjan), a Germanic people who had previously lived in the same area. The name Warnabi may be a combination of Warni and Abodriti.
In the second half of the ninth century the chief town of the Warnabi was on an island in Lake Sternberg at the site of the castle of Gross Raden. The centre of their culture was near the present towns Sternberg and Malchow. From 1171, 1185, and 1186 there are references to the land of the Warnabi: the Warnowe. In 1189 it is called the Warnonwe and by 1222 this was called the Wornawe.
- Howorth, H. H. "The Spread of the Slaves. Part III. The Northern Serbs or Sorabians and the Obodriti." The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. 9. (1880), pp 181–232.
- WARNOWER at Lexikon des Mittelaters.


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What Kenyan ghost-writers can teach us about prejudice in the digital gig economy
Written by Susan Njambi-Szlapka
Hero image description: Young men working on laptops. Image credit:Matt Biddulph Image license:CC BY-SA 2.0
Would you trust a Kenyan to write your Bachelor's or Master's thesis? Recent research finds that Kenyan nationals are not trusted by American students to do so, forcing academic ghost-writers to hide their identity to win work.
Besides obvious ethical issues, this raises wider questions about the online gig economy including exploitation, trust and discrimination, including how we talk about equality in digital labour.
Coronavirus has also fuelled a sharp decline in demand for and an increase in supply of online workers. Online "place-based" platforms that require physical on-site delivery such as Deliveroo or GetBoda are seeing an increase in demand. But online gig workers on platforms like UpWork are facing more competition for fewer jobs as clients curb non-essential spending and more people seek digital sources of income. These same platforms are even asking online workers to pay in order to bid for work.
Under these circumstances it is crucial to understand how online gig workers in developing countries, who often have no access to any form of social protection, compete in the online gig economy to earn their livelihoods while identifying ways to combat the discrimination many experience.
One account, many identities: the online gig economy labour market
There are 6 million people in developing countries participating in online labour according to the Online Labour Index, while 60 to 70% of all online gig workers in Kenya are ghost-writers. However, this wrongly assumes accounts on gig economy platforms like UpWork have just one user per account.
Instead, accounts with good reviews are often shared between ghost-writers and traded on the black market, making ghost-writers key contributors to this underreporting. Owners of such accounts employ others to do the actual work, while using VPN's (Virtual Private Networks) to hide user's locations, making many ghost-writers in Kenya and elsewhere invisible.
Therefore, the real number of online workers is estimated to be up to 8 times higher. So why is this behaviour so widespread?
The false promise of digital globalisation
In the flat-world narrative of globalisation, online work is based on merit and value for money, as technology levels the playing field between workers in the Global North and South by removing the impediment of geography. This apparently allows workers in the Global South, as long as they have internet access and possess the right skills, to outcompete their northern counterparts by underbidding for online work generated in a small number of rich countries in the Global North.
However, recent studies find that prejudice around geography and identity are still key drivers in who wins work and under what conditions. Young ghost-writers in Nairobi even report that advertised jobs sometimes go as far as saying that people from certain countries should not even "bother bidding".
Reputation is everything, but it is more costly for Global South workers
Cognitive shortcuts have been well-established in hiring practices on the platform Nubelo. Clients assume workers from lower income countries will provide less valuable work and therefore pay them disproportionately little or don't hire them at all. In the absence of organisational affiliation, workers from developing countries are perceived as representatives of a nationality, rather than individuals with different experiences, credentials and personalities.
The exception is where a worker has a good reputation.
The reputation of an online worker, captured through ratings by previous clients, is key for their competitiveness and is much more costly for those in lower-income countries when it impacts their likelihood of employment.
However, if a client has a good experience with someone from a developing country, they are more likely to hire other workers from that same country. Therefore, while in the short-term hiding identity and location helps, it could inhibit worker's future long-term ability to find work.
Four ways we can mitigate online discrimination
 1. Online platforms can learn from analogue labour market measures to enable merit-based hiring practices (including for instance anonymised CVs).
 2. More rigorous research could help us understand what is exacerbating discriminatory hiring practices including language barriers, sense of shared values and expectations around education systems.
 3. Increasing fairness through algorithms could include prioritising displaying information relevant to a person's qualifications or credentials, rather than their location (this could even go further and place people from certain regions at the top of search results). Nubelo has already used this to help newcomers compete against established online workers.
 4. Finally, increasing awareness among clients hiring online workers could also help address these biases.
How we navigate the world of online work
There is still a global division of labour determining what type of jobs online workers in the Global South are entrusted with and those they are presumed unqualified for. This division, based on prejudice, will likely reinforce old power structures where repetitive or less complex tasks are left to the Global South, while complex and better paying tasks remain in the Global North. However, as the former become automated, this could leave workers in low-income countries vulnerable.
If demand for online workers is diminishing in the wake of Covid-19, the situation in developing countries will only worsen. Governments, donors and online platforms in the north and south will need to devise ways to overcome these issues of discrimination, while also supporting online gig workers both now and post-Covid.


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Exceptionally Dynamic Scheduling Software
A protocol is an abstract automated experiment. Use a protocol to build an order, a single instance of that process with associated labware quantities, types, and storage positions. Cellario's distinction between process (protocol) and day-to-day practice (orders) gives you more freedom to experiment.
Cellario ensures you'll never put plates in the wrong incubator or send two plates to the same storage position. Cellario's Order Designer unambiguously displays all of your storage utilization at the start of each run so you can manage your carousels, incubators, freezers, and stackers visually. You can create an order, start it, and walk away knowing your samples will be stored properly and taken care of.Define labware type, quantity, and storage locations for each run of a protocol
With a few clicks of your mouse, you can tell your system where to find hundreds of plates and tipboxes and where to put them after the experiment is over. Because a protocol doesn't rigidly define labware quantities and locations, you can use different plates and storage resources every time you run it.


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First of all, you must save your PowerPoint Document on a Sharepoint Server. Then:
Co-author a presentation
- In PowerPoint 2010, open the presentation that is stored on the server.
Note When one or more other authors does the same, a notification appears in the status bar at the bottom of PowerPoint, together with the total number of co-authors currently working on the presentation. To see the names of the co-authors, click the number in the status bar.
- On the View tab, in the Presentation Views group, click Normal to view your presentation in Normal view.
- In the left pane that contains the Outline and Slides tabs, on the Slides tab, a small icon appears on the lower-right corner of the slide thumbnail that indicates that a co-author is making changes to that slide. Click the icon to see the name of the co-author.
- Another way to see the names of the co-authors of the presentation is to click the File tab, and then click Info on the left side of the screen. The names of the co-authors appear in the middle pane.
- To send an e-mail message or instant message to your co-authors, click Send a Message, and then click Send an E-mail Message or Send an Instant Message.
- When another author saves their changes, PowerPoint notifies you, the original author of the presentation, that changes have been made. On the pane that contains the Outline and Slides tabs, on the Slides tab, an icon appears in the lower-right corner of the slide thumbnail that was changed.
- To see whether other authors have changed your presentation, click the File tab and then click Info. Then, next to Document Updates Available, click Save, and then click Save and Review.
- Then, to see the changes that other authors made, click Review Changes.
- When you click Review Changes, PowerPoint opens a new tab, which is named the Merge tab, on the ribbon and a Revisions pane on the right side of the PowerPoint window. The Revisions pane contains a Slides tab that lists the slides that other authors changed, and a Details tab that lists the changes to the currently displayed slide.
On the Merge tab, you can use the buttons in the Resolutions group to show next and previous changes made by other authors, and accept or reject those changes. To exit Merge view, click Close Merge View.
Note While in Merge view, you cannot merge in new updates from other authors or upload changes to the server. You must complete your review by clicking Close Merge View, which then automatically uploads your changes to the server.
If you always want to review (and then accept or reject) changes that other authors make to all PowerPoint 2010 presentations that you work on, instead of having changes merged with your presentations without notification, do the following:
- Click Options on the left side of the screen, and then in the PowerPoint Options dialog box, click Save.
- Under File merge options for shared document collaboration server files, select the Show detailed merge changes when a merge occurs check box.


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Sub Statement (Visual Basic)
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 [ Exit Sub ]
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End Sub
Optional. See Attribute List.
Optional. Can be one of the following:
See Access Levels in Visual Basic.
Optional. Can be one of the following:
Optional. See Shared.
Optional. See Shadows.
Optional. See Async.
implementedprocedure [ , implementedprocedure ... ]
Each implementedprocedure has the following syntax and parts:
Required. Name by which the procedure is defined in interface.
eventspecifier [ , eventspecifier ... ]
Each eventspecifier has the following syntax and parts:
Required. Name of the event this procedure handles.
Optional. Block of statements to run within this procedure.
End Sub
Terminates the definition of this procedure.
Defining a Sub Procedure
Returning from a Sub Procedure
The following example shows a return from a Sub procedure.
Sub mySub(ByVal q As String)
End Sub
Calling a Sub Procedure
Async Sub Procedures
By using the Async feature, you can invoke asynchronous functions without using explicit callbacks or manually splitting your code across multiple functions or lambda expressions.
If you mark a procedure with the Async modifier, you can use the Await operator in the procedure. When control reaches an Await expression in the Async procedure, control returns to the caller, and progress in the procedure is suspended until the awaited task completes. When the task is complete, execution can resume in the procedure.
Note Note
An Async procedure returns to the caller when either the first awaited object that's not yet complete is encountered or the end of the Async procedure is reached, whichever occurs first.
You can also mark a Function Statement (Visual Basic) with the Async modifier. An Async function can have a return type of Task or Task. An example later in this topic shows an Async function that has a return type of Task.
Async Sub procedures are primarily used for event handlers, where a value can't be returned. An Async Sub procedure can't be awaited, and the caller of an Async Sub procedure can't catch exceptions that the Sub procedure throws.
An Async procedure can't declare any ByRef parameters.
For more information about Async procedures, see Asynchronous Programming with Async and Await (C# and Visual Basic), Control Flow in Async Programs (C# and Visual Basic), and Async Return Types (C# and Visual Basic).
 'Declare local variable.
 Dim area As Double
 If length = 0 Or width = 0 Then
 'If either argument = 0 then exit Sub immediately.
 Exit Sub
 End If
 'Calculate area of rectangle.
 area = length * width
 'Print area to Immediate window.
End Sub
In the following example, DelayAsync is an an Async Function that has a return type of Task. DelayAsync has a Return statement that returns an integer. Therefore, the function declaration of DelayAsync must have a return type of Task(Of Integer). Because the return type is Task(Of Integer), the evaluation of the Await expression in DoSomethingAsync produces an integer, as the following statement shows: Dim result As Integer = Await delayTask.
The startButton_Click procedure is an example of an Async Sub procedure. Because DoSomethingAsync is an Async function, the task for the call to DoSomethingAsync must be awaited, as the following statement shows: Await DoSomethingAsync(). The startButton_Click Sub procedure must be defined with the Async modifier because it has an Await expression.
' Imports System.Diagnostics
' Imports System.Threading.Tasks
' This Click event is marked with the Async modifier.
 Await DoSomethingAsync()
End Sub
Private Async Function DoSomethingAsync() As Task
 Dim delayTask As Task(Of Integer) = DelayAsync()
 Dim result As Integer = Await delayTask
 'The previous two statements may be combined into
 'the following statement.
 'Dim result As Integer = Await DelayAsync()
 Debug.WriteLine("Result: " & result)
End Function
Private Async Function DelayAsync() As Task(Of Integer)
 Await Task.Delay(100)
 Return 5
End Function
' Output:
' Result: 5
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seL4: Present and future
Gernot Heiser
seL4, a member of the L4 family of microkernels, and the world's highest-assured operating system kernel, has recently joined the FLOSS community. This talk will provide an overview of what seL4 is, what it can and cannot do, and where we see it heading in the future.
I will start of briefly summarising the concept of a microkernel, and the core principles which characterise the L4 microkernel family. I will then introduce the core concepts of seL4, and what distinguishes it functionally from other L4 kernels.
What makes seL4 really special is its formal verification. I will explain what this is, and what exactly we have proved about seL4, and discuss what this means in practice, especially as far as security, safety and reliability are concerned. I will also indicate where we are planning to take seL4, i.e. a high-level summary of our on-going research and development projects.
Having covered the technical aspects, I will discuss the development process of the seL4 ecosystem, both past and present. I will specifically discuss the licensing status of various bits of this ecosystem, and how it is likely to develop. In particular I will indicate suggest the best way for the community to contribute to this ecosystem, and help develop it to the benefit of us all.
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 address = {Brussels, BE},
 month = feb,
 keywords = {sel4 microkernels security verification safety},
 note = {invited talk at FOSDEM'15},
 booktitle = {FOSDEM'15},
 author = {Heiser, Gernot},
 slides = {},
 year = {2015},
 title = {{seL4}: Present and Future}


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Oxygenise meanings in Urdu
Oxygenise meanings in Urdu is آکسیجن Oxygenise in Urdu. More meanings of oxygenise, it's definitions, example sentences, related words, idioms and quotations.
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- (verb) : impregnate, combine, or supply with oxygen
- (verb) : dehydrogenate with oxygen
- (verb) : change (a compound) by increasing the proportion of the electronegative part; or change (an element or ion) from a lower to a higher positive valence: remove one or more electrons from (an atom, ion, or molecule)
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Meaning of oxygenise is آکسیجن - Oxygen
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- impregnate, combine, or supply with oxygen
- dehydrogenate with oxygen
- change (a compound) by increasing the proportion of the electronegative part; or change (an element or ion) from a lower to a higher positive valence: remove one or more electrons from (an atom, ion, or molecule)
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Synonym of word oxygenise are oxygenator, oxygen, oxygenated, oxygenizable, oxygenation, oxygenous, oxygenase, oxygenates, convulsed, oxygenium
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- Customization #1: Change the Desktop Theme
- Customization #2: Create a Desktop Slideshow
- Customization #3: Move the Taskbar
- Customization #4: Add Programs and Documents to the Taskbar
- Customization #5: Personalize the Start Menu
- Customization #6: Change What the Power Button Does
- Customization #7: Add Gadgets to the Desktop
- Customization #8: Change Windows 7's Default Programs
- Customization #9: Remove Auto-Loading Programs
- Customization #10: Remove Unnecessary Windows Components
There are lots of little things you can do to personalize your copy of the Windows 7 operating system. Microsoft lets you configure all sorts of settings, from what appears on the desktop to which programs load automatically when Windows launches. All you need to know is what can be changedand how to change it.
Customization #1: Change the Desktop Theme
Pretty much the first thing most people do when they get a new computer is go to work on the desktop. They like to create a personal desktop, complete with their own background image, window colors, shortcut icons, gadgets, and the like.
This is easier than ever in Windows 7, which organizes the desktop background, windows color, system sounds, and screen saver into what Microsoft calls a theme. Change a theme and all these elements change in tandem.
To apply one of Windows' pre-existing themes, follow these steps:
- Right-click anywhere on the desktop and click Personalize from the pop-up menu.
- When the Personalization window appears, as shown in Figure 1, click the new theme you want to apply.
Figure 1 Use the Personalization window to select a new theme.
The new theme is applied as soon as you click it in the Personalization windowno Save or OK button to click. This means you can see how the theme looks while you're still in the Personalization windowand change to another theme if you don't like the one you first selected.
You can also create your own custom themes. Start by applying the desktop background, colors, sounds, and screen saver you want for the theme; your choices now appear in the Personalization window as an Unsaved Theme.
Right-click this theme in the window and select Save Theme; when prompted, give the theme a name and click the Save button. This new theme now appears in the Personalization window for you to select in the future.


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- like (adj.)
- "having the same characteristics or qualities" (as another), Middle English shortening of Old English gelic "like, similar," from Proto-Germanic *galika- "having the same form," literally "with a corresponding body" (cognates: Old Saxon gilik, Dutch gelijk, German gleich, Gothic galeiks "equally, like"), a compound of *ga- "with, together" + Germanic base *lik- "body, form; like, same" (cognates: Old English lic "body," German Leiche "corpse," Danish lig, Swedish lik, Dutch lijk "body, corpse"). Analogous, etymologically, to Latin conform. The modern form (rather than *lich) may be from a northern descendant of the Old English word's Norse cognate, glikr.
Formerly with comparative liker and superlative likest (still in use 17c.). The preposition (c. 1200) and the adverb (c. 1300) both are from the adjective. As a conjunction, first attested early 16c. The word has been used as a postponed filler ("going really fast, like") from 1778; as a presumed emphatic ("going, like, really fast") from 1950, originally in counterculture slang and bop talk. Phrase more like it "closer to what is desired" is from 1888.
- like (v.)
- Old English lician "to please, be sufficient," from Proto-Germanic *likjan (cognates: Old Norse lika, Old Frisian likia, Old High German lihhen, Gothic leikan "to please"), from *lik- "body, form; like, same."
The basic meaning seems to be "to be like" (see like (adj.)), thus, "to be suitable." Like (and dislike) originally flowed the other way: It likes me, where we would say I like it. The modern flow began to appear late 14c. (compare please).
- like (n.)
- c. 1200, "a similar thing" (to another), from like (adj.).


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This camera view captures live images of the Living Roof of the Ortega Branch Library, the seventh San Francisco Public Library branch built to Silver certification standards under the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) rating system.
This living roof with native species plantings reduces the library's carbon footprint by reducing heat island effects and capturing rain water. With creative roofing like this (and exterior paving materials) we reduce the heat island effect of this building (i.e. thermal gradient differences between developed and natural areas, if you want to get technical). It's important to minimize our impact on the microclimate and on wildlife habitat. We selected native and adapted plants that are well-suited to our climate, and require less water than traditional ground covers such as grass.

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Bumblebees outwit robotic spiders
By Elizabeth Mitchell
Science reporter, BBC News
Bumblebee and robotic crab spider
Bumblebee vs Robotic Crab Spider
Scientists have found that bumblebees learn from their "near-death" encounters with crab spiders and adapt their future foraging strategies.
They watched real bees in an artificial meadow - containing yellow "flowers" and robotic crab spiders.
Bees that had been "captured" spent longer inspecting flowers during subsequent foraging trips.
They may outwit the spiders - but at the expense of valuable foraging time, Current Biology reports.
Crab spiders lie in wait on flowers, ready to ambush their "most prized prey" - the bumblebee.
This cryptic predator has an amazing ability to change its colour to closely match the flower it is lurking on.
Scientists wanted to know if bumblebees adapt their foraging behaviour after encountering a crab spider.
Artificial meadow
This looped video shows how the robotic spiders capture the bees
Dr Thomas Ings and Professor Lars Chittka from the Queen Mary University in London created a "meadow" with artificial yellow flowers.
"The bees behave very much as they do in nature: they go from one flower to the other as they empty it of food," Dr Ings told BBC News.
"Dangerous" flowers harboured life-sized, robotic crab spiders with two remote-controlled, foam pincers.
"We thought it would be more difficult for the bees to learn to avoid camouflaged spiders," explained Dr Ings.
"However, the bees learned to avoid both types of spider equally well - and very quickly," he said.
A 3D video tracking system revealed that although the bees became very accurate at detecting the camouflaged spiders - they also became increasingly wary.
"When they come in to inspect flowers, they spend a little bit longer hovering in front of them when they know a camouflaged spider is present," said Dr Ings.
Bumblebe and crab spider
"Cautious" bumblebees spend longer inspecting flowers
With this "trade-off", the bees may lose valuable foraging time - but they reduce the risk of becoming the crab spider's next meal.
Their memory does not fade: the next day the bees rejected all yellow flowers - even those without spiders.
These "false alarms" may have a knock-on effect on pollination - bees may ignore a whole patch of flowers if they know it contains a high number of camouflaged spiders.
The bees that detected the highly visible (white) spiders did not change their flight behaviour.
It is unclear why the crab spider uses so much energy to change colour - especially when this strategy seems to make their prey more cautious.
"It might be that camouflage reduces the chances of the crab spiders being eaten by their own predators," suggested Dr Ings.
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Radial velocity variations in the young eruptive star EX Lup
EX Lup-type objects (EXors) are low-mass pre-main sequence objects characterized by outbursts attributed to highly enhanced disk accretion. The trigger mechanism of EXor outbursts is still debated. One theory requires a close (sub)stellar companion that perturbs the inner disk and triggers the onset of the outburst. Here, we study the radial velocity (RV) variations of EX Lup, the prototype of EXors. We conducted a 5-year RV survey with HARPS and FEROS.
We discuss two possibilities to explain the RV data: a geometry with two accretion columns rotating with the star, and a single accretion flow synchronized with the orbital motion of the hypothetical companion. In the companion scenario, the companion's mass would fall into the brown dwarf desert, which, together with the unusually small separation would make EX Lup a unique binary system, with interesting implications on the physical mechanisms responsible for triggering the outburst.
Authors: Á. Kóspál, M. Mohler-Fischer, A. Sicilia-Aguilar, P. Ábrahám, M. Curé, Th. Henning, Cs. Kiss, R. Launhardt, A. Moór, A. Müller


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Abstract: Flywheels have been in use for a very long time, however, there is need to continuously improve the existing ones or develop new ones. The design of a functional high performance vehicle composite flywheel is presented. The component materials include aluminium hub, cast iron friction surface and alloy gear rim. Since the stored energy in a flywheel is proportional to the square of its rotational speed, the obvious method for maximizing stored energy is to push the speed of the flywheel. There is a limiting speed, which is set by the stresses developed within the wheel due to inertia loads that are also proportional to the square of rotational speed. A composite wheel of this nature weighs less than the conventional whole cast iron or steel alloy wheel and hence, develops lower inertia loads at a given speed. The combination of high strength and low weight enables extremely high tip speeds related to conventional flywheels. A C++ computer programme was developed for the computation of the major parameters of the composite flywheel. The design drawings for the isotropic discand rim-type flywheel, components of the composite flywheel and the assembly were also presented. The components were assembled using high strength fasteners. The conventional automobile flywheel designed for cast iron material weigh about 9.0 kg and that for steel alloy weigh about 9.4 kg. However, the composite wheel design for components of cast iron, steel alloy and aluminium alloy weigh a total of 4.8 kg and is lighter. This means it can be made lean ad compact. Experimental study of the mechanical properties, heat treatment, vibration analysis and dynamic balancing proved the performance of the composite flywheel as test results conforms to standards. Freeing up so much rotating mass from the engine with a lighter flywheel makes it very responsive. It revs up much more quickly and low speed acceleration is improved.
H.M. Sheidi and C.I. Ajuwa, 2008. Design of High Performance Vehicle Composite Flywheel. Research Journal of Applied Sciences, 3: 44-50.


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600 t/h and more is what our 3 metre wide STEINERT KSS combined optical sorting machine can process. Here, limestone of sizes up to 200 mm are analysed and sorted by white level. Only the purest white material passes the valve strip without being diverted. Pieces with even the slightest deviation from the set values are rejected by precisely actuated compressed-air valves. What remains is a very high quality product with low SiO2 content and perfect white levels that can be sold as a high quality product for filler material.
Where the purity of industrial minerals is at stake, we have the correct solution. Our optical sorters are fitted with colour cameras and lasers or near-infrared (NIR) with hyperspectral imaging (HSI) to identify surfaces exactly. The laser helps to detect the surface structure. Thus it is possible to separate crystalline rock such as quartz or fluorspar efficiently from calcium, talcum or other minerals – even when these are the same colour. The HSI camera system offers higher spectral and positional resolution than previous systems, enabling minerals to be detected more accurately. As a result, products such as fluorspar and feldspar, limestone, phosphate and quartz can be created to high levels of quality.
The same technology can be used when it is necessary to extend the working life of a mine. In a deposit with a high strip ratio, extraction is typically selective. This results in large amounts of valuable mineral being lost in order to prevent waste material becoming mixed with the product. Instead of this, however, sorting technology can be used to process the entire extracted deposit and thereby recover a higher proportion of the valuable mineral, which would otherwise be lost. The working life of a deposit can thus be extended.
To ensure that you obtain even higher levels of purity, we employ our high-gradient STEINERT HGS separator offering a flux density of up to 20,000 gauss. This magnetic separator, with double magnetic pole drum, operates with a very thin belt in order to subject the material to the highest possible magnetic flux density. This extremely strong magnetic field enables industrial minerals such as limestone or kaolin to be upgraded further. For the smaller grain sizes of up to 5 mm, the higher degree of breakdown results in higher qualities. Salts can also be upgraded or cleaned by this method, by the separation of clay-containing contaminants.
- Extremely high throughputs (600 t/h)
- Increased product quality
- Optimised degree of whiteness
- Increased working life of mine
- High-gradient magnets for dry processing
High-quality limestone, used in the ceramics industry or as a filler material, must meet high standards. In such cases the SiO2 content must be kept below 0.5%. In the United Arab Emirates, two STEINERT KSS FL colour sorting units, each with 3 metres working width, are in use for this purpose. Overall the machines process over 500 tonnes of limestone per hour.
In southern Africa, calcium carbonate is obtained from calcite and dolomite. A STEINERT KSS FLNR sorting machine equipped with colour detection and NIR is used here to sort off amphibolite and other waste rock. The machine handles various grain spectra. With the coarsest fraction, 40 to 80 mm, throughput rates can be achieved of up to 100 t/h.
Wollastonite with STEINERT HGS
With its fibrous crystals and high melting point, wollastonite is used in many applications. Because of the high melting point, wollastonite is often a replacement for asbestos fibres. A further area of application is the ceramics industry, in which it is used to improve the mechanical properties of white ceramics goods. For this, the demands on purity are extremely high. In China seven STEINERT HGS high gradient magnetic separators are used to produce high-purity wollastonite.


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Assess Stationarity of a Time Series
This example shows how to check whether a linear time series is a unit root process in several ways. You can assess unit root nonstationarity statistically, visually, and algebraically.
Simulate Data
Suppose that the true model for a linear time series is
$$(1 - 0.2L)(1 - L)y_t = (1 - 0.5L)\varepsilon_t$$
where the innovation series $\varepsilon_t$ is iid with mean 0 and variance 1.5. Simulate data from this model. This model is a unit root process because the lag polynomial of the right side has characteristic root 1.
SimMod = arima('AR',0.2,'MA',-0.5,'D',1,'Constant',0,...
T = 30;
Y = simulate(SimMod,T);
Assess Stationarity Statistically
Econometrics Toolbox™ has four formal tests to choose from to check if a time series is nonstationary: adftest, kpsstest, pptest, and vratiotest. Use adftest to perform the Dickey-Fuller test on the data that you simulated in the previous steps.
ans =
The test result indicates that you should not reject the null hypothesis that the series is a unit root process.
Assess Stationarity Visually
Suppose you don't have the time series model, but you have the data. Inspect a plot of the data. Also, inspect the plots of the sample autocorrelation function (ACF) and sample partial autocorrelation function (PACF).
title('Simulated Time Series')
The downward sloping of the plot indicates a unit root process. The lengths of the line segments on the ACF plot gradually decay, and continue this pattern for increasing lags. This behavior indicates a nonstationary series.
Assess Stationarity Algebraically
Suppose you have the model in standard form:
$$y_t = 1.2y_{t - 1} - 0.2y_{t - 2} + \varepsilon_t - 0.5\varepsilon_{t - 1}.$$
Write the equation in lag operator notation and solve for $y_t$ to get
$$y_t = \frac{1 - 0.5L}{1 - 1.2L + 0.2L^2}\varepsilon_t.$$
Use LagOp to convert the rational polynomial to a polynomial. Also, use isStable to inspect the characteristic roots of the denominator.
num = LagOp([1 -0.5]);
denom = LagOp([1 -1.2 0.2]);
quot = mrdivide(num,denom);
[r1,r2] = isStable(denom)
Warning: Termination window not currently open and coefficients
 are not below tolerance.
r1 =
r2 =
This warning indicates that the resulting quotient has a degree larger than 1001, e.g., there might not be a terminating degree. This indicates instability. r1 = 0 indicates that the denominator is unstable. r2 is a vector of characteristics roots, one of the roots is 1. Therefore, this is a unit root process.
isStable is a numerical routine that calculates the characteristic values of a polynomial. If you use quot as an argument to isStable, then the output might indicate that the polynomial is stable (i.e., all characteristic values are slightly less than 1). You might need to adjust the tolerance options of isStable to get more accurate results.
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Artists tell stories with color and imagery. They'll often create images of what life was like during their lifetime. Collage artist Megan Coyle creates images of scenes that are familiar to her today. Years from now, others will be able to see what life was like during Coyle's lifetime.
Find out more about Megan Coyle and how she became an artist.
Coyle created this collage after one of her trips to New York City. She took a series of photographs while walking around Coney Island. The "Coney Island" collage was inspired by her photographs.
Study the Collage
Try to answer the questions below as you study Coyle's "Coney Island" collage. Click on one of the questions to find the answer. Each answer tells you a little more about collage's story.
- Who do you see?
- How many people are in this scene?
- What do they look like?
- What are they wearing?
- Are they happy or sad?
- Are they hot or cold?
- Are they inside or outside?
- What time of year is it? Is it spring, summer, fall, or winter?
- What are the people doing?
- Where are they? How do you know?
Now think of the places where you have been. What does this collage remind you of? Does it remind you of a specific memory?


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Guarantee agreement. This term means an agreement of guarantee in the form set forth in part B or C of Form 1-FR, executed by a registered futures commission merchant or retail foreign exchange dealer, as appropriate, and by an introducing broker or applicant for registration as an introducing broker on behalf of an introducing broker or applicant for registration as an introducing broker in satisfaction of the alternative adjusted net capital requirement set forth in 1.17(1)(iii).
17 CFR § 1.3
Words used in the singular form in the rules and regulations in this chapter shall be deemed to import the plural and vice versa, as the context may require. The following terms, as used in the Commodity Exchange Act, or in the rules and regulations in this chapter, shall have the meanings hereby assigned to them, unless the context otherwise requires:


property rights strategy [16]. The governance approach solves the open access problem by restricting access to members and regulating each member's use of the shared resource. The property rights approach divides ownership of the resource among the individuals and creates abstract rules that govern the exchange of rights between owners. These approaches have their analogues in computational systems: ocap systems pursue a property rights strategy, while access control lists implement a governance strategy. Access control lists solve the open access problem by denying unauthorized users access, and specifying access rights for authorized users. Great effort is put into perimeter security (firewalls, antivirus, intrusion detection, and the like) to keep unauthorized users out, while detailed access control lists regulate use by authorized users. Governance regimes have proved successful in managing shared resources in many situations [17]. However, they tend to break down under increasing complexity. As the number of users and types of use increases, the ability of governance systems to limit external access and manage internal use breaks down. Perimeter security can no longer cope with the pressure for increased access, and access control lists cannot keep up with dynamic requests for changes in access rights.
Distributed Electronic Rights in JavaScript
The property rights strategy deals with increasing complexity by implementing a decentralized system of individual rights. Rights are used to partition the commons into separate domains under the control of specific agents who can decide its use, as long as the use is consistent with the rights of others. Instead of excluding non-members at the perimeter, the property strategy brings all agents under a common set of abstract rules that determine how rights are initially acquired, transferred, and protected [18]. Individual rights define the boundaries within which agents can act free of interference from others. Contracts enable the exchange of rights across these protected domains. The ocap approach can be seen as analogous to an individual rights approach to coordinating action in society. The local unforgeable object reference and the remote unguessable reference represent one kind of eright—the right to invoke the public interface of the object it designates. In ocap systems, references bundle authority with designation [19]. Like property rights, they are possessory rights: possession of the reference is all that is required for its use, its use is at the discretion of the possessing entity, and the entity holding the reference is free to transfer it to others [20]. The private law system of property, contract, and tort brings resources into a system of rights. Property law determines the initial acquisition of rights; contract law governs the transfer of rights; and tort law protects rights from interference [21]. Ocap systems follow a similar logic: the rules of object creation make it easy to create objects with only the rights they need, the message passing rules govern the transfer of rights, and encapsulation protects rights from interference [7]. While object references represent a kind of eright, they differ in several respects from more familiar rights in society. For example, object references are typically shared. When Alice gives Bob a reference to an object, she is transferring a copy of the reference thereby sharing access to the object. In society, transfers of rights usually take the form of a transfer of exclusive access due to the rivalrous nature of physical objects. I give up my access to my car when I transfer title to you. Exclusive rights is the default in the physical world; complex legal frameworks are needed to enable sharing (partnerships, corporations, easements, and so forth). Computational systems face the opposite tradeoff: sharing is easy, but exclusivity is hard. In the next sections, we will show how, by building on object references as erights, we can create new kinds of erights at a new level of abstraction. We look first at how money can be implemented as a smart contract. Money differs from other forms of property in several ways [22]. Here, we identify four dimensions in which money differs from object references as rights. Object references are shareable, specific, opaque, and exercisable, whereas money is exclusive, fungible, measurable, and symbolic. By contrast with object references that are shareable, money needs to be exclusive to serve as medium of exchange. Bob does not consider himself paid by Alice until he knows that he has exclusive access to the funds. Object references are also specific; they designate a particular object. Money, on the other hand, is fungible. You care about having a certain quantity of a particular currency, not having a specific piece of currency. One dollar is as good as another. Objects are opaque. The clients of an object can invoke it but don't necessarily know how it will react—that information is private to the object. By contrast, money is
measurable. Bob must be able to determine that he really has a certain quantity of a particular currency. Finally, money, unlike object references, is never exercisable. The right you have when you have an object reference is the right to do something: the right to invoke the behavior of the object it designates. Money, however, has no direct use value; its value is symbolic. It has value only in exchange. Contracts manipulate rights. The participants in a contract each bring to it those rights the contract will manipulate [23]. The logic of the contract together with the decisions of the participants determines which derived rights they each walk away with. The simplest example is a direct trade. Since half the rights exchanged in most trades are money, we start with money.
4 Money as an Electronic Right Figure 1 is our implementation of a money-like rights issuer, using only elements of Dr. SES explained above. To explain how it works, it is best to start with how it is used. Say Alice wishes to buy something from Bob for $10. The three parties involved would be Alice, Bob, and a $ issuer, which we will informally call a bank. The starting assumptions are that Alice and Bob do not trust each other, the bank does not trust either Alice or Bob, and Alice and Bob trust the bank with their money but with nothing else. In this scenario, Alice is willing to risk her $10 on the possibility of Bob's non-delivery. But Bob wants to be sure he's been paid before he releases the good in exchange. What do these relationships mean in terms of a configuration of persistent objects? Say Alice owns (or is) a set of objects on machine A, Bob on machine B, and the bank on machine C. In order for Alice to make a buy request of Bob, we assume one of Alice's objects already has a remote reference to one of Bob's objects. Alice's trust of the bank with her money is represented by a remote reference to an object within the bank representing Alice's account at the bank. We refer to such objects as purses. The one for Alice's account is Alice's main purse. And likewise for Bob. Where do these initial account purses come from? For each currency the bank wishes to manage, the bank calls makeMint() once to get a mint function for making purses holding units of that currency. When Alice opens an account with, say $100 in cash, the bank calls mint(100) on its $ mint, to make Alice's main purse. The bank then gives Alice a persistent remote reference to this purse object within the bank. For Alice to pay Bob, she sets up a payment purse, deposits $10 into it from her main purse, and sends it to Bob in a buy request, together with a description of what she wishes to buy. var paymentP = myPurse! makePurse(); var ackP = paymentP! deposit(10, myPurse); var goodP = ackP.then(_ => bobP! buy(desc, paymentP));
On the diagram in Figure 1, each makeMint call creates a layer with its own (mint, m) pair representing a distinct currency. Each mint call creates a nested layer with its
Distributed Electronic Rights in JavaScript
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var makeMint = () => { var m = WeakMap(); var makePurse = () => mint(0);
var mint = balance => { makeMint var purse = def({ getBalance: () => balance, min mint makePurse: makePurse, purse decr purse decr deposit: (amount, srcP) => purse decr m Q(srcP).then(src => { Nat(balance + amount); balance m.get(src)(Nat(amount)); balance += amount; }) }); var decr = amount => { balance = Nat(balance - amount); }; m.set(purse, decr); return purse; }; return mint; }; Fig. 1. The Mint Maker
own (purse, decr, balance) triple. On line 16 of the code, each purse to decr mapping is also entered into the m table shared by all purses of the same currency. Alice's main purse is on the bottom purse layer. Bob's is on the top layer. Alice's payment purse, being sent to Bob in the buy message, is in the middle layer. Bob receives this request at the following buy method: buy: (desc, paymentP) => { // do whatever with desc, look up $10 price return (myPurse! deposit(10, paymentP)).then(_ => good); }
Bob's buy method handles a message from untrusted clients such as Alice, and thus it does not know what object Alice actually provided as the payment argument. At this point, the purse provided by Alice is specific—it is the specific object Alice designated, but to Bob it also is opaque. In particular, Bob has no idea if his paymentP parameter actually designates a purse, whether it is a purse at this bank, of this currency, and with adequate funds. Even if he knew all these conditions were true at the moment, due to the shareable nature of


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An advanced analytics optimization application for reviewing grant applications developed for funding competitions conducted by a leading Health Research institute
Client: The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) is Canada's premier federal agency for health research. CIHR operates with a mission to create scientific awareness, knowledge translation and effective health care products and services for the Canadian healthcare system.
Challenge: CIHR conducts research funding competitions multiple times a year. During the competition, the management of research papers, its assignment to the right reviewers and paper re-assessment was being carried out manually. CIHR needed consultancy services to automate these processes for assistance in getting optimized results with no room for errors. A tool was required to design and build a flexible advanced analytics model for grant application reviewer assignments. SSI performed a detailed analysis of the challenge and proposed a dual-phase mathematical model as a solution for the funding competition delivery process.
Solution: SSI developed an application for the optimization of CIHR's grant application reviewer assignment. The model consisted of two phases:
- The first phase involved the assignment of applications to the right reviewers based on their competency and ability to state conflicts and reviews.
- The second phase involved the re-assignment of these applications to the right individuals for peer-reviews after the reviews (and comments) from the first-phase responses were received.
The following rules were applied to the model to resolve constraints identified before the automation of the whole process.
- English applications have to be reviewed by English reviewers and French applications have to be assigned to reviewers with the ability to review in French.
- Reviewers are excluded based on the defined criteria (for example, reviewers cannot be assigned to their own application)
- Assignments are not granted where the minimum suitability threshold is not met.
- The number of reviewers assigned to each application has to be greater than, equal to, or lesser than the associated minimum or maximum input respectively.
- The number of applications assigned to each reviewer has to be greater than, equal to or lesser than the associated minimum or maximum inputs respectively.
Implementation of these rules did not only resolve the constraints but also helped in managing the whole assignment process more efficiently and effectively.
Result: With the introduction of an application with a scoring model that took into account, multiple limitations and variables allowed CIHR to make its research funding process efficient, accurate and transparent. It allowed the CIHR team to reduce the number of man-hours needed to manage each funding project.


Case-Sensitive Calls to SQL
Published on October 14, 2010 | Filed Under SQL
Storing case-sensitive information in a SQL database can be a bit of a challenge. Traditionally, if you're going to store information that needs to be retrieved based on the case, you need to encrypt it. But what happens when you are brought in on a project and a data set has been given to you, which has been created over a long period of time? Sure, you can create an application that goes through and encrypts the data, then go through thousands of lines of code, to ensure that every reference to that field is changed to use your encryption method. But maybe that's not an option.
Since the string-based SQL objects are not case-sensitive, you won't ever be able to specify that it be called in such a manner. Over the next few weeks, I'm going to explore several options and try to make a series out of this post. I do believe that SQL is a very important language for all programmers to learn, so I highly recommend doing more research than what I may suggest in any articles relating to it.
SQL Strings and Case-Sensitivity
For today's post, I'm going to show you a quick method for converting your strings to Binary. The advantage here is that capital and lower-case characters differ in the world of Binary.
Let's use the following bit of data:
ID SpecialCode
1 DXbvcf?L^D
In this example, I have ID set as an Auto-Incrementing INT and SpecialCode is set as an NCHAR with a length of 10.
If we wanted SpecialCode to only be accessible when someone properly specifies the correct case, we can't just use a basic SELECT statement. We would get results for the following statements:
 --Proper Casing:
 FROM My_Table
 WHERE SpecialCode = 'DXbvcf?L^D'
 --Incorrect Casing:
 FROM My_Table
 WHERE SpecialCode = 'dxBVCF?l^d'
Notice the casing on the string
It's unfortunate, but at the same time, SQL couldn't possibly make it case-sensitive. Would you want to try to create a login control, where 10,000 people would have to remember how they capitalized their username? You'd get requests all day long for people who "can't login".
Casting a SQL String to SQL Binary
This brings in our solution for telling SQL to make your strings case-sensitive: VARBINARY.
The purpose of VARBINARY is to cast a string to a binary value. The VAR should be used, since you aren't going to be 100% sure how long you want this to be. (We'll re-address this in a moment, but for now, we'll pretend like we don't know.) So your SQL statement has to be altered a bit:
 DECLARE _USER_ NCHAR(10)
 SET _USER_ = 'DXbvcf?L^D'
 FROM My_Table
That seems simple enough, but look at the first two lines again.
 DECLARE _USER_ NCHAR(10)
 SET _USER_ = 'DXbvcf?L^D'
SQL objects need to be explicitly declared! Basically, if you put your code to validate inline, the binary value comes out differently. I can't, for the life of me figure out why this is, but all I can tell you is that it does! You will save yourself from a huge headache if you can just remember this. It doesn't even appear to matter what data type you use, either. I've changed NCHAR to NVARCHAR and the results came out alright.
As stated before, I'm going to try to do some more research on ways to help you make your SQL data case-sensitive. If you have any suggestions, please feel free to leave a comment and I'll share them in future posts.
~Derek Torrence
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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of locking together or in combination, as in a railway-switch and signal system. See interlocking system of signals, under interlock, and signaling.
- adj. That interlocks.
- v. present participle of interlock.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Connected together in such a manner that the parts work together as a single unit, or in a coordianted manner.
- n. the act of interlocking or meshing
- n. contact by fitting together
- adj. linked or locked closely together as by dovetailing
"I think that in our society at the moment we still need a robust defence of the non-Fabian, the pluralist, vision of what a just society might be: a society in which what I call the interlocking, intersecting communities would all have a role in shaping the common good: where these communities would all be potential partners with statuary and government agency, with the ultimate goal not simply of solving problems or meeting needs, but equipping citizens."
"His early works were modernist experiments, but since his popular breakthrough with Tugt og utugt i mellemtiden (1976), most of his works have been present-day or near-future scince fiction in interlocking, alternative versions of his native city of Århus."
"The one which was first called interlocking complexity when it was a predicted consequence of evolution, or one of the other versions?"
"There's something called interlocking (ph) that goes on."
"Sandra Lucore, who directed the room excavation, calls the interlocking-tube construction system "interesting and awkward."
"Yes, so the -- the idea of interlocking power, at that point, was perhaps not the s-- the -- the scandalous thing that it is today."
"Well, probably the most significant one is 385 interlocking, which is a construction loan for a property spec developing in Colorado."
"The tools that underlie GIIRS are the same kind of interlocking gear-like mechanisms that enable other markets to function."
"I would call them "interlocking" and aimed at the same unknowns."
"It's all kind of interlocking cogs and springs that work to turn the hands round at exactly the right speed to mark the hours and minutes and days and so on. "
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What happens beneath your feet can have a huge impact on a farm's production.
Waipukurau-based agroecologist Nicole Masters asked farmers at the Beef + Lamb annual seminar, held at Lincoln University, to spare a thought for life below.
"It may come as a surprise, but the largest limiting factor for farm productivity relies on how well we can support the life of our free underground workforce," she said.
"What we do above ground can have a huge effect on what happens below our feet.
"All soil systems contain biology.
"How much and what kind is the key to success.
"Right now under your feet you could be carrying between one Angus steer in weight per hectare to five Angus bulls, depending on your management practices. That's a considerable difference in biomass and it may mean you may have more stock underground than you do above, and the benefits they pass on are massive."
She said healthy soils had networks of fine fungal threads holding soils together to help reduce soil erosion provide phosphorus and nitrogen, and help plants to access water.


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Conference paper Open Access
Surveillance systems currently deploy a variety of devices that can capture visual content (such as CCTV, body-worn cameras, and smartphone cameras), thus rendering the monitoring of the video footage obtained from multiple such devices a complex task. This becomes especially challenging when monitoring social events that involve large crowds, particularly when there is a risk of crowd violence. This paper presents and demonstrates a crowd violence detection system that can process, analyze, and alert the potential stakeholders when violence-related content is identified in crowd-based video footage. Based on deep neural networks, the proposed end-to-end framework utilizes a 3D Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) to deal with the (near) real-time analysis of video streams and video files for crowd violence detection. The framework is trained, evaluated, and demonstrated using the most recent dataset related to crowd-violence, namely the Violent Flows dataset. The presented framework is provided as a standalone application for desktop environments and can analyze video streams and video files.


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PROJECT GENERAL INFORMATION
Name: Mehrshahr Villa
Location: Mehrshahr, Alborz province, Iran
Architect in Charge: Hooman Balazadeh
Land Area: 4000 sqm
Built Area: 330 sqm
Project Manager: Mohsen Kazemian-Fard
Phase II: Dariush Ghorbani
Structural Consultant: Aptus Iran Company
Mechanical & Electrical Consultant: Mr. Etemadi
Supervisor: Aptus Iran Co.
Presentation: Parima Jahangard, Atousa Shiran, Pooyeh Nouryan
The Initial idea of this project was to design a 330 m2 villa in a 3 hectares private yard facing a lake. One of the main criteria was to create spaces that are closely engaged with the surrounding landscape, an uninterrupted connection between the interior and the exterior to form a structure which becomes a part of the site itself:
- A. A systematic organization of open and semi-open spaces was used to enhance the presence of nature in the interior spaces. The main semi-open space is a void on the first floor of the main cubical form. The strategic position of this void provides both physical connection to the private lounge and the master bedroom as well as visual connection to the lake. The semi-open space is also connected to the terrace on the lake side by the means of a bridge. This terrace is a perfect view point of the lake.
- B. The stones used on the façade are in harmony with the existing stones in the garden. These stones are used in their natural form but in a controlled horizontal pattern. The voids in the stone pattern provide a controlled overlook and a limited sunlight penetration to spaces such as washrooms and corridors which require less exterior exposure. Integration of the voids and solids not only creates a consistent exterior façade, but also provides the interior spaces with a view to the greenery. At nights these voids provide a lighter feeling of the solid exterior façade. These voids are also used to naturally ventilate the building as well as to implement the mechanical equipment.
- C. The existing trees between the open and semi open spaces were kept so that both spaces are surrounded by vegetation. The variation of sunlight penetration through the leafs during the day significantly enhances the quality of the atmosphere.
One of the main criteria in the design process was to maximize the amount of sunlight exposure. Two sets of skylights were implemented, one over the main staircase and the other at the vertical gap between the two roofs. Moreover, transparent dividers implemented parallel to the vertical skylight increase sunlight penetration to spaces not directly connected to the skylight. The main function of the horizontal skylight over the main staircase was to provide natural winter heating. This skylight could be shaded in summer to prevent excess sunlight exposure. In section, these systems enable sunlight penetration in three directions: vertical, horizontal, as well as diagonal.


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Alone in a world of circles and squares, Restibo seeks out the seven keys needed to
unlock the dark planet core. Scattered amongst the hanging blocks are Voids, floating
circles that nullify gravity and contain items like feathers, springs, spikes, claws,
and bubbles. These items help Restibo advance through the layers of the atmosphere,
flinging from one block to the next to reach larger and more intricate Voids.
Restibo is a game of exploration and physics puzzles. It takes place on the surface
and seven atmospheric layers of a long-locked planet.


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Nucleosome Model of Chromosome
Does the DNA really need to FOLD inside the nucleus?
A diploid human cell contains approximately 6.4 billion base pairs. These 6.4 billion base pairs are distributed in our 23 pairs (2n = 46) of chromosomes. We know that each chromosome contain a single linear segment of DNA.
According to Watson and Crick model, the distance between each base pair in a DNA double helix is 0.34 nm. Thus, the 6.4 billion base pair will constitute a total length of about 2.2 m DNA strand. The total length of DNA of a single human cell is approximately 2.2 meters long (when all 46 DNA strands are joined end to end).
The size of the nucleus in which the chromatin situated is about 10 µm in diameter. Thus, it is evident that the 2.2 m long DNA should fold several times to fit in the nucleus of 10 µm diameter. The exact nature and pattern of folding of DNA strands in the nucleus disclose the organization of genetic material in the cells.


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8:00 AM – 2:55 PM, Monday – Friday
- Kinder – 1 book in fall, 2 books in spring
- 1st/2nd – 2 books
- 3rd-5th – 3 books
Library Schedule Rotation
- Monday: 2nd Grade & Communications
- Tuesday: 1st Grade
- Wednesday: Kindergarten
- Thursday: 3rd & 5th Grade
- Friday: 3rd & 4th Grade
(Pre-K Scheduled in the Spring)
There are no fines for overdue books; however, students may not check out new books until the old books are returned. Students are responsible for paying for lost or damaged books.
Here are ways you can care for your library books:
- Keep books clean and dry.
- Store books in your backpack when you are not reading them.
- Keep books away from pets and babies.
- Read books with clean hands.
- Keep books away from food and drinks.
- Do not write, color, or draw in books.
- Be careful turning pages.
- Always use a bookmark to save your place.
- Return books on time so others can enjoy them too!


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Matching non-rigid shapes is a challenging research field in content-based 3D object retrieval. In this paper, we present an image-based method to effectively address this problem. Multidimensional Scaling (MDS) and Principal Component Analysis (PCA) are first applied to each object to calculate its canonical form, which is afterward represented by 66 depthbuffer images captured on the vertices of an unit geodesic sphere. Then, each image is described as a word histogram obtained by the vector quantization of the image s salient local features. Finally, a multi-view shape matching scheme is carried out to measure the dissimilarity between two models. Experimental results on the McGill Articulated Shape Benchmark database demonstrate that, our method obtains better retrieval performance compared to the state-of-the-art.
Proceedings Title: The IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2010
Conference Dates: September 26-29, 2010
Conference Location: Hong Kong, -1
Pub Type: Conferences
3D shape retrieval, Non-rigid 3D shape, Multidimensional Scaling (MDS), Bag-of-Features (BOF)


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Changes in motor planning of feedforward postural responses of the trunk muscles in low back pain
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- Hodges, P.W. Exp Brain Res (2001) 141: 261. doi:10.1007/s002210100873
Changes in trunk muscle recruitment have been identified in people with low-back pain (LBP). These differences may be due to changes in the planning of the motor response or due to delayed transmission of the descending motor command in the nervous system. These two possibilities were investigated by comparison of the effect of task complexity on the feedforward postural response of the trunk muscles associated with rapid arm movement in people with and without LBP. Task complexity was increased by variation of the expectation for a command to either abduct or flex the upper limb. The onsets of electromyographic activity (EMG) of the abdominal and deltoid muscles were measured. In control subjects, while the reaction time of deltoid and the superficial abdominal muscles increased with task complexity, the reaction time of transversus abdominis (TrA) was constant. However, in subjects with LBP, the reaction time of TrA increased along with the other muscles as task complexity was increased. While inhibition of the descending motor command cannot be excluded, it is more likely that the change in recruitment of TrA represents a more complex change in organisation of the postural response.


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Tactile sensors and electrotactile stimulators can provide important links between humans and virtual environments, through the sensation of touch. Soft materials, such as low modulus silicones, are attractive as platforms and support matrices for arrays sensors and actuators that laminate directly onto the fingertips. Analytic models for the mechanics of three dimensional, form-fitting finger cuffs based on such designs are presented here, along with quantitative validation using the finite element method. The results indicate that the maximum strains in the silicone and the embedded devices are inversely proportional to the square root of radius of curvature of the cuff. These and other findings can be useful in formulating designs for these and related classes of body-worn, three dimensional devices.
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Physics and Astronomy(all)


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Definitions for pericope
This page provides all possible meanings and translations of the word pericope
A section of text forming a coherent thought, suitable for use in a speech.
A passage of Scripture to be read in public worship or a book containing such passages.
Origin: From late Latin pericope, from Greek περικοπή 'section', from peri- + κοπή 'cutting', from κόπτειν 'to cut'.
a selection or extract from a book; especially (Theol.), a selection from the Bible, appointed to be read in the churches or used as a text for a sermon
Origin: [L., section of a book, Gr. ; peri' around + to cut.]
A pericope in rhetoric is a set of verses that forms one coherent unit or thought, suitable for public reading from a text, now usually of sacred scripture. Manuscripts, often illuminated, called Pericopes, are normally abbreviated Gospel Books only containing the sections of the Gospels required for the Masses of the liturgical year. Notable examples, both Ottonian, are the Pericopes of Henry II and the Salzburg Pericopes. Lectionaries are normally made up of pericopes containing the Epistle and Gospel readings for the liturgical year. A pericope consisting of passages from different parts of a single book, or from different books of the Bible, and linked together into a single reading is called a concatenation or composite reading.
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Sensors flag environmental damage to art at the Met
NEW YORK It will take a good eye to spot them, but dozens of tiny, very modern works of art have been installed near the 15th-century unicorn tapestries and other medieval masterpieces at a New York City museum.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced this week that a network of wireless environmental sensors designed to prevent damage to the collection is being tested at its Cloisters branch.
The IBM sensors — each housed with a radio and a microcontroller in a case about the size of a pack of cigarettes — can measure temperature, humidity, air flow, light levels, contaminants and more. They are inexpensive and run on low power, and several can be positioned in a room, scientists said.
The information collected goes into a three-dimensional "climate map" that can be accessed on a computer, and the data can then be analyzed to adjust the climate, spot trends and even make predictions.
"Nobody in the world at this moment has this kind of information, not at this level of detail," said Paolo Dionosi Vici, associate research scientist at the Metropolitan. "It's the analytics that will keep us one step ahead technologically."
The network now covers about a third of the Cloisters, which houses 3,000 medieval works in several ancient buildings that were disassembled in Europe and rebuilt in northern Manhattan. The Met expects to expand the network throughout the Cloisters and eventually to the main museum on Fifth Avenue.
The climate at museums like the Cloisters is already tightly controlled, with especially fragile items kept in sealed cases. Curators don't have to worry about the ravages that might happen to a fresco in an open Italian church, for example.
But the artwork is sensitive to small climate variations.
"A window in a museum, in summer, that can be a hot spot," Vici said. "And the light from the window on the floor can increase the temperature of the floor. Until now, that is a variation we might not know about because we were not taking so many measurements."
Another factor that can influence the climate in a museum is the number of visitors — and where the visitors have been.
"If it's raining outside the Cloisters and the tourists that come in are wet, that has an effect," Vici said.
The idea is to keep the effects from causing any damage, even slow damage, to the art.
"Whenever we have to act on an object to repair it, it's a loss of memory of what it was in the past," Vici said. "Restoration can be very useful but if we can prevent (deterioration), it's better."
Hendrik Hamann, an IBM research manager working on the project, said the 100-year-old company has had a long relationship with the Met and found the art world a good test for its sensor technology, which can also be used in ordinary buildings to measure energy efficiency and other details.
"The conservation of art and our cultural heritage is obviously one of the grand challenges of our time," Hamann said.
Vici and Hamann both said the sensors — which they called low-power motes — could eventually be adapted to measure how a painting on wood, for example, reacts to minor climate fluctuations.
"We'd like to be able to monitor how much the wood swells, even a tiny amount," said Vici, who said he worked on the preservation of the Mona Lisa.
Hamann said as data pours in, trends will appear, "and we can use those trends to understand what will happen in the future."
"We will know that certain things happen in the museum environment on certain days," he said. Those trends can then be correlated with information about the best way to protect a tapestry or a wooden statue, for example.
Hamann said the Cloisters was chosen for the test because "It is a historic building. It has high ceilings. It has famous glass windows. It has tapestries, wood paintings, stonework, it has indoors and outdoors sections. It's very interesting from a monitoring perspective."
The Cloisters had temperature and humidity monitors but lacked the analytic capabilities of the new program, he said.
About 100 of the new sensors have been spread through seven adjacent rooms, including the one housing the priceless tapestries that portray a unicorn hunt. They are inconspicuous, but not hidden entirely.
"If you know where the motes are you can see them," Hamann said.
But Vici said, "The visual impact of the sensors is so small compared to the quality of the information. … For every object in the room we can know in real time how the climate evolves in that particular point."
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Is there a common pathway into committing cybercrime (such as hacking)? What does a cybercriminal look like? Can a cybercriminal be diverted into doing good things with their computer skills instead?
The average age of arrest for all crime is 35 – for cybercrime it's just 17. Cybercrime prevention is a key part of the UK's National Cyber Security Strategy.
In this session, Detectives Will Farrell and Emyr Jones will explain how police are preventing cybercrime from happening in the first place. Find out how individuals on the cusp of committing cybercrime are identified and how police help them make informed Cyber Choices, diverting individuals away from crime to do positive things with their computer skills instead.
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dnsfilter reads a series of lines from stdin, converts an IP address to a host name at the beginning of each line, and prints the results to stdout.
If a line does not begin with an IP address, dnsfilter leaves the line alone. If an IP address does not have a host name listed in DNS, dnsfilter leaves the line alone. If an IP address has a host name listed in DNS, dnsfilter inserts an equals sign and the host name before the first space or tab in the line. If a DNS lookup fails temporarily, dnsfilter inserts a colon and a dash-separated error message before the first space or tab in the line.
While dnsfilter is looking up an address in DNS, it reads ahead in the input and looks for more addresses to look up in parallel.
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Patrick Nasmyth (_PHONE_)
He was a Scottish landscape painter. He was the eldest son of the famous artist Alexander Nasmyth, whilst his younger brother, James, was a prominent engineer who gained notoriety as the inventor of the steam hammer.
Nasmyth was born in Edinburgh and was named after his father's patron, Patrick Miller. He developed an affinity for art at an early age and, on seeing this, his father took a keen interest in developing his son's talent. As a teenager Nasmyth lost the use of his right hand following an accident, forcing him to learn how to paint with his left. He also lost most of his hearing through illness.
Much of Nasmyth's work, a great deal of which is undated, depicts his native Scotland, which he continued to paint even after moving to London in 1810. Like his father, he was heavily influenced by the Dutch masters of the 17th century, particularly Meindert Hobbema and Jacob van Ruysdael.
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The current guidelines adopted at the general meeting of the MVUB can be summarized as follows:
- The main concern of the MVUB is to support intermediate staff at the University of Bern. The MVUB promotes this concern emphatically at all levels of the university. It develops innovative support tools.
- The MVUB promotes personnel structures that establish optimum framework conditions and specific prospects for intermediate staff.
- The MVUB creates proposals for intermediate staff to support and fund careers within and outside the university.
- The MVUB aims to have a broad membership base to support its activities.
- The MVUB looks after the interests of the intermediate staff of the University of Bern in the national context.


text: When refugees flee war and persecution, protection and assistance are usually provided by United Nations organisations and their NGO implementing partners. In parallel is a largely neglected story: refugees themselves frequently mobilise to provide protection and assistance to other refugees. At a global level, there has been a shift in international policy rhetoric towards 'localisation' and inclusion of refugees, which potentially provides an opportunity to engage with refugee-led community organisations (RLOs). However, RLOs rarely receive access to international recognition or funding despite often being regarded by refugees as an important source of assistance. In this paper we draw upon ethnographic research on the interactions between international institutions and RLOs in Kampala, Uganda, to explore how 'localisation' unfolds in practice within humanitarian governance. In the absence of a clear policy framework for localisation at the global level, national level representatives have considerable discretion in whether and how they partner with RLOs, leading largely to their exclusion – and the development of alternative support strategies by RLOs. We suggest that an effective localisation agenda will require much more attention to the role of power and interests at the local level if RLOs are to be engaged as meaningful actors in humanitarian assistance.


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How to evaluate and install a load cell sensor
When you need to convert force into a measurable electrical output, the load cell or transducer, is the best application.
Various load cell types are preferred, relative to the needs of the laboratory or operational environment. Strain gage load cells are accurate within 0.03 to 0.25%. Used for experimental stress analysis and electrical measurement of resistance to strain, these load cells are used in most industrial applications. When precision mechanical balances are required, and where intrinsic safety and optimal hygiene is essential, pneumatic type load cells are a better fit. In cases where the operation is in a remote location, the most applicable load cell type is still the hydraulic load cell because a power supply is not needed.


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HOW TO CALCULATE POOLS WINNINGS!
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Winnings like 3/3, 4/4,5/5 etc in fixed odds are easiest to calculate when the maximum number of lines obtainable have been secured. Just multiply the amount staked by the odd for the coupon that week.
However, if in a permutation game, you get at least the minimum selection required, to determine your winnings, first you must know the lines of your selection, then your winning lines which is defined by the numbers you get correctly in your selection (check the permutation reckoner below or at back of your special advance fixture). You can then calculate your winning as follows:
1. Multiply your winning lines by the amount staked per line.
2. Multiply what you get in (1) above by the odd for the game that week.
For example: If you make a permutation of 3 from 6, the total number of lines is 20(check the permutation reckoner). If your total investment on the coupon is N500, that means the coupon was staked at N25 per line. If out of the 6 games, 5 are correct, your winning line is 10. If the odd for the game that week is 40, then your winning will be:
10 multiplied by 25 = 250
250 multiplied by 40 =10,000
However, there is a more direct formula for this calculation which is:
Winning = WL x Odd x AS
WL = Winning Lines = 10
Odd = Coupon Odd = 40
AS = Amount staked = 500
TLS = Total Lines staked = 20
Winning = 10 x 40 x 500 = 10000
You staked 10 numbers, expecting a minimum of 3, on coupon with N24,000 in week 41. 8 of your selection were correct and they played total of 9 draws on coupon. How much did you win?
WL = 56
Odd = 100
AS = 24000
TLS = 120
Winning = 56 x 100 x 24,000 = 1,120,00
That same week, you staked 6 numbers expecting a minimum of 3 draws, with N1200. 3 of your selections were correct. How much did you win?
WL = 1
Odd = 100
AS = 1200
TLS = 20
Winning = 1 x 100 x 1200 = 6000
But if 4 of your selection had been correct, your winning would have been:
Winning = 4 x 100 x 1200 = 24,400
If you had gotten the whole 6 selections correct, your winnings would have been directly calculated as:
Winning = Odd x AS
= 100 x 1200 = 120,000
In the calculation of winnings, the ready reckoner comes very handy in determining the total lines staked, how much to stake and the winning lines. Download and study the image below
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