Working with molecules, atoms and bonds
The classes ccdc.molecule.Atom, ccdc.molecule.Bond and ccdc.molecule.Molecule are all stored in the ccdc.molecule module.
However, you are unlikely to use these classes to create objects directly. You are much more likely to come across them after having read in a molecule from a file or after having accessed one from a database. Let us therefore import the module to allow us to get access to some molecules.
>>> from ccdc import io
>>> from ccdc.molecule import Molecule
>>> csd = io.MoleculeReader('CSD')
A ccdc.molecule.Molecule can contain several molecules
What - a molecule can contain several molecules??? Yes, in the CSD Python API we refer to these sub-molecules as components.
The reason why this arises is that most molecular file formats allow the inclusion of molecular species which are not covalently bonded to each other to be included in the same entry. Below for example is a SMILES representation of the CSD structure ABEBUF.
This "molecule" contains two components 5H,11H-Dibenzo(b,f)(1,5)diazocine-6,12-dione and pyridine.
It is similarly possible to represent several molecules within single entries of mol2 and sdf files. In mol2 file format these are referred to as substructures.
Let us illustrate this using the CSD structure ABEBUF.
>>> filepath = 'ABEBUF.mol2'
To get access to the molecule in this file we make use of a
>>> mol_reader = io.MoleculeReader(filepath)
>>> mol = mol_reader[0]
>>> print(mol.identifier)
>>> print(mol.smiles)
>>> len(mol.components)
>>> for component in mol.components:
... print(component.smiles)
This has implications for molecular properties, which are calculated using all the components within a molecule. Let us illustrate this using the molecular weight.
>>> print(round(mol.molecular_weight, 4))
>>> for component in mol.components:
... print(round(component.molecular_weight, 4))
Finally, it is worth noting that in many cases when dealing with molecules containing salts and solvents one is not particularly interested in the salts or solvents per se, but rather the larger organic molecule in the structure. This "heaviest" component can be accessed as illustrated below.
>>> heaviest_component = mol.heaviest_component
>>> print('Identifier: %s, Mol.Wt: %.3f' % (heaviest_component.identifier, heaviest_component.molecular_weight))
Identifier: 01, Mol.Wt: 238.241
Standardising and editing molecules
There are some functions available for standardising and editing molecules. Let us start by illustrating how one can remove and add hydrogen atoms.
>>> print(round(mol.molecular_weight, 4))
>>> mol.remove_hydrogens()
>>> print(round(mol.molecular_weight, 4))
>>> mol.add_hydrogens()
>>> print(round(mol.molecular_weight, 4))
To illustrate some of the more advanced molecule standardisation functions let us read in a PDB ligand (from the structure 1f0r), which has not got any hydrogen atoms added to it, in sdf file format.
>>> filepath = '1f0r-lig.sdf'
>>> mol_reader = io.MoleculeReader(filepath)
>>> mol = mol_reader[0]
>>> print(mol.identifier)
>>> print(round(mol.molecular_weight, 4))
First of all if I am unsure about the bond typing I will need to assign this first. Note that this bond typing is based on the geometry of the molecule.
>>> mol.assign_bond_types()
By default, the ccdc.molecule.Molecule.assign_bond_types() function guesses the bond types of all bonds. However, if you had a molecule that only had the bond types set for some of the bonds and you had confidence in these then you could guess the bond types of only those bonds with "unknown" types by setting the parameter which to unknown.
If you prefer to have alternating single and double bonds rather than aromatic bonds you can call:
>>> mol.kekulize()
After the bond types have been assigned one can add hydrogen atoms to the molecule.
>>> mol.add_hydrogens()
Let us check if the molecule has had its molecular weight increased
>>> print(mol.molecular_weight)
If you had a molecule with bond types that you had confidence in, but you wanted to standardise the aromatic and delocalised bonds to CSD conventions then you could make use of the functions:
Finally, let us come back to the concept of a molecule having multiple components. Suppose that we wanted to add the heaviest component from the ABEBUF molecule to the 1f0r ligand. This could be achieved with the ccdc.molecule.Molecule.add_molecule() function.
>>> mol.add_molecule(heaviest_component)
>>> for component in mol.components:
... print(component.identifier)
Operations which change the underlying molecule of an entry or a crystal, such as adding hydrogens, or assigning bond types will permanently affect the molecule. Any subsequent access of the molecule of an entry or crystal will return the mutated molecule. Reading the entry or crystal afresh from a database will, of course, return the original, unmutated molecule.
Accessing molecular properties
Let us now have a look at the molecular properties available to us using the ABEBUF structure.
>>> filepath = 'ABEBUF.mol2'
>>> mol_reader = io.MoleculeReader(filepath)
>>> mol = mol_reader[0]
Lists of the atoms and bonds in a molecule are accessed using the attributes with these names.
>>> mol.atoms
[Atom(O1), Atom(O2), Atom(N1),... Atom(H13), Atom(H14), Atom(H15)]
>>> len(mol.atoms)
>>> mol.heavy_atoms
[Atom(O1), Atom(O2),... Atom(C17), Atom(C18), Atom(C19)]
>>> mol.bonds
[Bond(Double Atom(O1) Atom(C1)),... Bond(Single Atom(H15) Atom(C19))]
>>> len(mol.bonds)
we can gain access to particular atoms and bonds of the molecule if we know their index in the lists. Alternatively, we can gain access to particular atoms and bonds of the molecule by atom labels, provided the labels used are unique within the molecule:
>>> mol.atom('O2')
>>>'C1', 'O1')
Bond(Double Atom(O1) Atom(C1))
The atoms and bonds have a Sybyl type:
>>> print(mol.atom('N1').sybyl_type)
>>> print('N1', 'C1').sybyl_type)
An atom has a Van der Waals radius:
>>> mol.atom('O1').vdw_radius
>>> mol.atom('C1').vdw_radius
An atom also has an atomic weight:
>>> mol.atom('O1').atomic_weight
>>> mol.atom('C1').atomic_weight
We can also access the formal charge of the molecule as well as the molecular weight, the molecular volume (if all the atoms of the molecule have 3D coordinates) and the molecular formula.
>>> mol.formal_charge
>>> round(mol.molecular_weight, 2)
>>> round(mol.molecular_volume, 2)
>>> mol.formula
'C19 H15 N3 O2'
Note that the molecular formula is the sum of all the components in the molecule. To get a component-wise formula one can for example:
>>> '.'.join(c.formula for c in mol.components)
'C14 H10 N2 O2.C5 H5 N1'
There is also a property which tells you whether or not the molecule is organic (as opposed to metal-organic).
>>> mol.is_organic
It is also worth mentioning that the molecule identifier and SMILES representation can be accessed through the molecule.
>>> print(mol.identifier)
>>> print(mol.smiles)
We can get access to the rings of a molecule. For example, let us read in 'CEMGUY' from the CSD which has an interesting set of rings:
>>> cemguy = csd.molecule('CEMGUY')
CEMGUY 2D diagram.
CEMGUY 2D diagram, to exemplify ring analysis.
We can immediately get access to the size of the largest and smallest ring of this molecule:
>>> print('Largest ring: %d, Smallest ring: %d' % (cemguy.largest_ring_size, cemguy.smallest_ring_size))
Largest ring: 6, Smallest ring: 3
The molecule has a property which will give access to the basic rings of the structure. The set of rings returned will be all simple rings, not an enclosing, larger ring. In this example, there will be a 3-membered ring, a 5-membered ring and two six-membered rings, but not the six-membered ring containing the 3- and 5-membered rings:
>>> rings = cemguy.rings
>>> print(len(rings))
>>> print([len(r) for r in rings])
[3, 5, 6, 6]
We can get the atoms and bonds of each ring:
>>> print(rings[0].atoms)
[Atom(...), Atom(...), Atom(...)]
>>> print(rings[0].bonds)
(Bond(Single Atom(...) Atom(...)), Bond(Single Atom(...) Atom(...)), Bond(Single Atom(...) Atom(...)))
Note that the atoms of the ring are ordered such that there is a bond between consecutive atoms. We can test for containment in a ring:
>>> print(c


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|Note:||Detections require a connection to the cloud-based ExtraHop Machine Learning Service.|
Here are some important considerations about sharing detections:
- You must copy and share the entire URL.
- To view the detection, the ExtraHop user must have access to the Discover or Command appliance where the detection was identified.
The following steps show you how to select and share a detection:
- Log into the Web UI on a Discover or Command appliance, and then click Detections at the top of the page.
- Find the detection that you want to share.
Click the detection title, as shown in the following figure.
- At the top of the browser, copy the entire URL.
- Configure a detection alert to receive email notifications about a detection.

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Laho, Serpent of the Blood Moon
Laho, Serpent of the Blood Moon
Laho, The Other Moon Eating Serpent
'Laho' means eclipse, 'naglaho' means to swallow without a trace. It is the Tagalog name for the serpent that swallows the moon, corresponding to other moon-eater myths such as the Bakunawa, Minokawa, Tambanakaua, Arimoangaand Bawa found throughout the Philippines.
The early Tagalogs believed that a monster called Laho devoured the moon and that it was a dragon. The word laho today means eclipse but also refers to anything that seems to have disappeared or been swallowed up without a trace. ~ The Soul Book
The Blood Moon
A lunar eclipse can only occur at full moon and only if the moon passes through the Earth's shadow.
Of the three kinds of lunar eclipses, a total lunar eclipse is the most striking. Supposedly it is when the whole moon passes through Earth's umbral shadow. Only 35% of eclipses are total lunar eclipses. Lunar eclipses occur a few times per year.
During a total lunar eclipse, indirect sunlight can still reach the moon. That sunlight has to first pass the Earth's atmosphere which filters out most blue colored light leaving a bright red or orange glow. This red light refracts through Earth's atmosphere and illuminates the moon. This is why a total lunar eclipse is sometimes referred to as a 'Blood Moon'
Or so they say.
Take a telescope out during a Blood Moon and see for yourself. See how the stars seem to move out of the way when the eclipse occurs. How the movement of the light seems to flicker and fade almost as if there's something else that the light is reflecting on.
If you're lucky you might see the small bits of orange and yellow light move around in big dots. You'll see them twist in a zig-zag pattern toward the moon. When the eclipse starts you might see the light dots stop and stay stationary for the whole duration of the eclipse. You'll see the red light grow deeper and deeper and you won't be able to look away.
There will be a feeling of déjà vu. Like you've seen this moment happen a hundred times before. You'll feel a deep chill in your spine and for some reason, you'll be scared. You'll think that's ridiculous, it's only an eclipse.
But be careful not to point your telescope directly above the Blood Moon.
You might see something looking back.
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Keadilan Pancasila dalam Persepektif Teori Keadilan Aristoteles
 - Riky Sembiring Kantor Hukum Ricky Sembiring dan Rekam
Keywords: Justice, Pancasila, Aristotle's Theory
The basis of Pancasila justice is found in points 2 and 5, which reads the second principle of just and civilized humanity and the fourth principle of justice for all Indonesian people. Fair and civilized human values, that awareness of attitudes and behaviors that are in accordance with moral values in living together on the basis of the demands of conscience by treating things as they should. Humans need to be treated according to their dignity and dignity, as God's creatures who are equal and have the same rights and human obligations. Based on this value, there is absolutely recognition of human rights. The value of social justice for all Indonesians implies both the basis and the goal, namely the achievement of a just and prosperous Indonesian society both physically and mentally. Based on this value, justice is a very basic value that is expected by all nations. The expected Indonesian state is an Indonesian state that is just. Justice is described fundamentally by Aristotle, namely to know about justice and injustice, three main things must be discussed, namely what actions are associated with the term, what justice means, and between the two extreme points whether justice lies
Amalia, E. (2009). Keadilan Distributif dalam Ekonomi Islam. Jakarta: Raja Grafindo Persada
Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan. (2001). Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia. Jakarta: Balai Pustaka
Friedrich, C.J. (2004). Filsafat Hukum Perspektif Historis. Bandung: Nuansa dan Nusamedia
Aristoteles. Nicomachean Ethics, translated by W.D. Ross, pag/Aristoteles-nicomachaen.html.
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During the 1600′s, European colonies were founded in the New World. Among the earliest families to arrive in New England were the Daniels who settled in Dorchester and Milton, Massachusetts, and the Blisses who settled in Springfield, Massachusetts.
The first Winegar in our records was Ulrich who was born in Switzerland in 1668 and by the end of the century was living in southern Germany under extremely harsh conditions.
Our earliest record of the Stephensons was Henry who was married in 1691. The Stephensons lived in Lincolnshire on the east coast of England.

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If you want to use ActiveDirectoryMembershipProvider on your website to manage users specially the password reset functionality, you will also need to create few attributes in the active directory schema for the "USER" object. You can check this MSDN article to know more about this, but again, it doesn't list how to create the needed attributes, but it tells you what are all the attributes needed if you are considering "Password Reset" functionality.
Firstly, ActiveDirectoryMembershipProvider does not support retrieving the password, but you can reset the password by providing secret-question, and secret-answer. You may also need to create few more attributes in the active directory schema associated with this. Below are those attributes:
- Password Question - Unicode String
- Password Answer - Unicode String
- Failed Answer count - Integer
- Last time at which the user supplied an invalid answer - Large Integer/Interval
- Account locked out time - Large Integer/Interval
These are the 5 new attributes which you need to add in the active directory schema for the "USER" object. I will explain how to add new attributes and associate them to an existing object.
- You need to first install the schema snap-in by registering schmmgmt.dll (regsvr32 schmmgmt.dll)
- Now, open an MMC, and add "Active Directory Schema" snap-in
- Expand the Active Directory Schema, and right click on Attribute, and select "Create Attribute"
- Enter the common name, LDAP name, other fields for the attribute you are creating. For example, "PasswordQuestion" - this would be having its type as Unicode String. See the above list of attributes and its types appropriately. If Integer, enter minimum/maximum values too.
- For the OID, you need to check this MSDN article.
Now follow the above steps to create all the 5 attributes which are needed. After creating these attributes, we need to attach them to the "USER" object.
- In the same MMC, Expand "CLASSES" and select user object.
- Right click on user and select properties
- Go to its attributes tab, and click Add
- Select the attributes that you've created one by one and click on OK
That's it. Now, your user object would have all those attributes, and you can store values using any method you like. If you create an user using CreateUser wizard control, it would populate and store the values of the secret-question, answer automatically. ActiveDirectoryMembershipProvider would take care of storing, retrieving values of these attributes itself, you no need to program anything for them.
But, there would be some situation the users have been already created, but you need to attach these attributes to them. Follow the above methods to add attributes to the user object. And, now open the particular user's properties in ADSIEDIT.msc, and add values to them.
After following all the above steps, follow the other steps mentioned in this article to configure your web.config sections to map the attributes you've created in AD.
NOTE: Password-answer is the only one attribute out of these 5 which would be stored in an encrypted format. section would be used for the encryption of this, if you create an user using the CreateUser wizard. But, if you have already created the user in the AD, and you want to just store the secret-question and password, you may want to check my next blog where I'll explain how to use the same encryption method used by the MembershipProvider to store the secret-password in the active directory for the user.


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Medical Subject Headings
Bibliotherapy; History, 19th Century; Mental Disorders/therapy
Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment | Library and Information Science | Mental and Social Health | Psychiatry and Psychology | Rehabilitation and Therapy
Introduction: Hospital libraries, including ones designed for patient use, share a common history with hospitals in the evolution of health care delivery 1. The library as a component of the early "insane asylum" in the United States is well documented, and many had been established by the mid-nineteenth century. While these libraries certainly existed as a means of recreation for asylum patients, this historical communication will demonstrate they also served as a center for "bibliotherapy," the use of reading as a means of healing.
Levin, Len L. and Gildea, Ruthann, "Bibliotherapy: tracing the roots of a moral therapy movement in the United States from the early nineteenth century to the present" (2013). University of Massachusetts Medical School. Library Publications and Presentations. Paper 143.
Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment Commons, Library and Information Science Commons, Mental and Social Health Commons, Psychiatry and Psychology Commons, Rehabilitation and Therapy Commons


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Common causes for weaning failure include all of the following except:
1. myocardial ischemia
2. critical illness polyneuropathy
3. secondary polycythemia
4. psychological dependence
All of the following are useful strategies in managing the psychological problems encountered in weaning some patients from ventilator support except to:
1. secure a psychiatric consult
2. avoid mental stimulation
3. decrease environmental stress
4. teach relaxation methods
avoid mental stimulation
Who should make the decisions related to terminal weaning?
1. respiratory therapist
4. patient's family and patient's physician
patient's family and patient's physician


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Vulnerable Art: Historic Iron Fences at Mount Auburn Cemetery
In the early years at Mount Auburn Cemetery many proprietors chose to enclose their lots with iron fences. By the 1860's, 1700 iron fences dotted the cemetery. People called the look, "crazy quilt." Iron fence art was short lived. By 1871 a movement to remove them began. Today only a treasured few remain and the Cemetery is committed to preserving them. In this walk with Volunteer Docent Rosemarie Smurzynski you will visit these fences, learn a vocabulary for this art, and discover what makes these remaining fences significant.
Funding for programs has been provided in part by the Massachusetts Cultural Council.
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I am uncomfortable with the use of inputs as the plural noun of the previously non-countable input. Is this a recent computer-related development (as used in many posts on this site) which has spilled into wider use, or is there a subtle demarcation of use happening? I am thinking especially about situations where input equates with a contribution or feedback.
For example, I've seen sentences like: 'The organisation responded to the customers' inputs', and it feels completely wrong. For me this type should always be input whether plural or not.
As an aside I am very comfortable with inputs as the plural of the sockets into which plugs can be put, but again this is a very different meaning.
What is the state of play?
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As you already know, when talking about feedback in general you should use input.
When talking about input pins or connectors, you should use inputs (every one of them is a concrete input).
In my opinion, the use of inputs related to feedback denote dispersion/variety in the responses, as if every input was so singular that they could be told apart from each other, a case similar to the use of peoples, or when you have many fishes on the table, instead of having fish (in general) on the table.
I think in the case of your example, it would mean that the organization took care of every single one of the inputs (or at least that's the idea they are trying to sell), contrary to having taken care of customers' input, where this input would have probably been taken care in a more general fashion.
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Sounds good to me. By the same token, a company could say "We've listened to user opinion[s]". Again, the plural form can suggest those opinions were each considered individually (and by implication, perhaps, more carefully). Doesn't work with feedback though! – FumbleFingers Feb 7 '12 at 4:44
I think that in order to make the same token, the example should be "We've listened to users' opinion[s]". IMO users' makes a much more explicit reference to the fact that there are many individual users, while user is some kind of dull adjective for opinion[s]. In that case, user could even be dropped out and the sentence would still make sense (with almost the same meaning): "We've listened to (user/many/some) opinion[s]". As if they didn't give a damn that they were actually the users' opinions but just some user opinions as in an automated process, with faceless anon users. – Eduardo Feb 7 '12 at 5:36
_USER_ I think the case is also valid in Spanish. There is a huge difference between "Tenemos en cuenta las opiniones de los usuarios" and "Tenemos en cuenta las opiniones de usuario". A much greater importance is given to the users in the first version, compared to the second one where opiniones de usuario sounds like a prefabricated concept, and pretty much detached from the actual opinions of the actual users. – Eduardo Feb 7 '12 at 5:43
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Who is Mummy Bear and where did he come from?
Starting from the left, click each year on the timeline to read about Mummy Bear.
How to understand the Timeline...
Today we are in the year
CE. If we count backwards, we reach the year 0. Between the year 0 and today is a time of history called the Common Era or CE. The year 0 is the start of the Common Era. If we keep going backwards past the year 0, we get into a time of history called Before Common Era or BCE. For example, 2560 BCE means 2,560 years before the beginning of the Common Era. This is a time when ancient Egyptians lived. And long before the ancient Egyptians, there was the fabled continent of Atlantis.


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Random Tower Packing
- Random tower packing simply pours the filtration media into the tower.
- The uneven distribution and orientation of the parts increase the surface area and enhance the transfer of mass between two fluids.
- The benefits of random packing media comes from narrow tower without ready access.
- In some instances, random packing material may augment existing material to increase a tower's capacity.
Plastic Packings are used in corrosive applications with low to moderate operating temperatures and can offer an economic advantage over metal materials. Where temperature permits, plastic tower packings are better than ceramic packings. Plastic Packings are mainly used in the absorption, scrubbing, stripping, and heat transfer services.
- CO2 Absorption
- SO2, HCl & HF Absorption Or Stripping
- Chlorine Absorption In Water Or Caustic
- Chlorine Dioxide Absorption
- Hydrogen Sulphide & Mercaptan Removal
- Air Pollution Control Scrubbers
- VOC Removal
- Wastewater Treatment
- Drinking Water Preparation
- Fish Farming
- Direct contact cooler
- Water Chiller
- Relatively InexpensiveCompared to structured packing, random packings provide a more cost-effective method of filling a tower. The design, material and amount you choose will ultimately determine the final cost.
- High strength-to-weight ratioThe individual pieces, especially those made from more durable materials, have a high ratio of strength-to-weight. Overall, the random packing media can physically endure mechanical stress well, especially in relation to their lightweight construction.
- Ease of use in difficult-to-access sitesRandom packing materials have an easy to install method that does not require frequent servicing as trays do. For narrow towers with hard-to-reach openings, using random packing material will provide a better option.
When choosing random packing materials, several factors will narrow down the options available for your application. Ask yourself the following questions:
- Is the material a direct replacement of the existing packing you use?
- Do you know the type of packing and performance you require?
- Does the media work with your process?
To help you decide if a media works with your process, consider its surface area, wetting area, friction, and other performance factors to find the ideal option to use in your tower.
- Surface Area
Increase efficiency by choosing random packings with a greater surface area. The more surface area per volume of the packing, the higher the vapor-liquid contact. The surface area you get from your media depends on multiple other factors, including the size and shape of the pieces.
- Wetting Rate
Each material has an inherent wetting rate. If the liquid load drops below the wetting rate, the surfaces of the packings will dry out. The effects of liquids dropping below the wetting rate for the given material include decreased efficiency.
- Uniformity of Distribution
The benefit of random packing is the lack of structure the material creates. When pieces interlock, they can create paths for fluid flow. When fluids have the chance to move along channels, the system loses efficiency.
- Uniform Spreading Surface
How the surfaces of the media spread fluids determine their efficiency. While surface area plays an important part in how efficiently the system operates, when pieces have a uniform spreading surface to allow more vapor-liquid contact, the packing works better.
- Package Voidage
Increasing the amount of void space as much as possible reduces the chances the media will slow down the upward movement of vapor through the system. Due to more void space inside the parts, the capacity of a tower will rise when using larger random packing pieces.
Lower friction for packing media opens spaces between the pieces and inside them. With more space, the tower has a greater capacity and operates more efficiently.
- Packing Strength
The mechanical strength of the material should withstand compression and other damage from typical use in a tower. Resisting corrosion and thermal damage also contributes to the overall strength of a packing media.
- Packing Material
The materials available include Plastics, Ceramics, Carbon, Glass & PTFE.


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Policies relevant to NHS funded knowledge and library services
NHS Library and Knowledge Services in England Policy
The NHS Library and Knowledge Services in England Policy was approved by the Health Education England Executive on the 29th November 2016.
The policy sets out our approach to delivering on the key objective of enabling access to knowledge and evidence for healthcare decision makers.
In the policy Health Education England commits to:
- Developing NHS library and knowledge specialists to use their expertise to mobilise evidence obtained from research and organisational knowledge to underpin decision-making in the National Health Service in England
- Enabling all NHS workforce members to freely access library and knowledge services so that they can use the right knowledge and evidence to achieve excellent healthcare and health improvement
- Developing NHS library and knowledge services into a coherent national service that is proactive and focused on the knowledge needs of the NHS and its workforce
Recommendations to improve the staff ratio
The NHS Knowledge and Library Services in England published its'recommendations to improve the staff ratio for the number of qualified library and knowledge specialists per member of NHS workforce policy' in November 2019.
The NHS requires proactive knowledge services as business-critical instruments of informed decision-making.
Currently there is significant variation in the ratio of qualified library and knowledge specialists to healthcare staff.
This leads to inequitable service provision across England and the Service is not uniformly able to draw on evidence for decision-making.
By introducing a recommended staff ratio Health Education England is enabling individual organisations to identify and address that risk.
This policy makes a set of recommendations through which trusts and arm's length bodies may look to ensure, and where necessary continuously build, improved staffing levels.
- To optimise the benefits for the NHS of the emerging new roles for librarians and knowledge specialists, HEE recommends that all NHS organisations:
- review regular reports of the positive impact of the library and knowledge service on outcomes
- work with the local library service manager to prioritise allocation of clinical librarian, knowledge manager and other embedded roles to specialities
- take incremental steps to improve the staff ratio between qualified librarians and knowledge managers per member of the NHS workforce, through role redesign and by expanding this specialist workforce
- HEE recommends that over time, all NHS organisations aspire to achieving a much-improved staffing ratio.
- HEE recommends that those NHS organisations with a staffing ratio in the region of the current average of 1 qualified librarian to 1,730 or more healthcare staff, strive to achieve a ratio of at least 1 qualified librarian or knowledge specialist per 1,250 WTE NHS staff.
- HEE commits to monitoring the staff ratios annually and to reviewing the recommended ratio in three years' time.
Organisations are invited to contact their regional HEE Knowledge and Library Services Lead for support [email protected].
Learning space within NHS Knowledge and Library Services in England
Published on 4th January 2021
There are two key recommendations in the policy:
- The library study and wellbeing space should be available to all staff, educators and learners both during and outside the working hours of the knowledge and library services team.
- The library service space should be developed, managed by the knowledge and library services staff, to ensure value through enabling organisational innovation, and meeting the changing needs of healthcare staff, learners and educators in relation to study and reflection, health and well-being, collaboration, and as a technology hub.
Focus on library space for:
- Self-directed learning: reflection and private study
- The best place to work: health and wellbeing
- Collaborative working and learning
- Digital skills and innovation: technology hub
Psychological support for embedded librarians
Published on 4th January 2021
There are three recommendations:
NHS organisations ensure that the psychological well-being of librarians and knowledge specialists working in clinical environments is considered.
NHS organisations extend existing arrangements for the multi-disciplinary team to include clinical librarians and knowledge specialists.
Access to psychological wellbeing services provided within the organisation is highlighted to embedded librarians and knowledge specialists working in clinical environments.
Page last reviewed: 21 June 2021


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Things that are regarded clean in terms of Religion
* All of the earth (mines, waters, grass, trees, flowers, fruit, etc) the external parts of the bodies of all of the living beings are regarded clean unless something regarded as najasah ghalizah or khafifah smears on them.
Only the pig is an exception. Its flesh, external part of its body, that is, its hair and skin are all dirty. If the clothes or the hand touches it, the part that touches it becomes dirty. It becomes obligatory to wash that part.
Some scholars say it is permissible to use the hair of pig in making paintbrushes and in sewing shoes due to a necessity. That is, the paint applied by a paintbrush made of the hair of pig and the shoes sewn by thread made of the hair of pig are not regarded as dirty.
Shafiis regard the external part of the body of the dog as dirty just like the pig.
* The blood of the flea, lice and bedbug is clean too.
* The fish and other animals that live in water and die in water are clean. Their blood is clean, too. If it smears the clothes, the clothes are regarded clean.
* Small sprinkles of urine as small as a pinpoint or the eye of a needle do not cause najasah on the body or clothes. It is permissible to perform prayers with clothes sprinkled with urine like that.
However, if those sprinkles of urine fall into a small amount of water, that water becomes dirty.
* The smoke from najasah does not make a garment dirty when it touches the garment.
* The mud of the streets is regarded clean whether it is hard or soft whether it contains manure or not. Therefore, the clothes do not become dirty when mud smears on them.
* The water used in wudu or ghusl – they are called ma al-musta'mal (used water) in fiqh – is clean. Dirt can be cleaned with this water. However, wudu or ghusl cannot be made with that used water.
* If someone lies in a dirty bed or on dirty ground, his clothes are not regarded to be dirtied.
* Wet laundry or things laid on a dirty but dry place are not regarded dirty unless traces of dirt are seen on them.


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VISUAL INFLUENCES ON LIMITATIONS OF SPACE: SPATIAL DEPTH PERCEPTION VERSUS SPATIAL DEFINITION
The distinction between the way space is perceived and the way it is defined is a significant determinant of the architectural experience. This thesis analyzes various techniques for the manipulation of spatial depth that have been historically based to create a rich architectural experience. Illustrated through the design of a train station on the Metro North Railroad, the architectural experience of spatial depth can be extended or compressed through the manipulation of three relationships between the viewer and the object of focus: the relationships are a stationary spectator viewing a stationary surface, a stationary spectator viewing a fluctuating surface, and a mobile spectator moving through stationary space. Representation in reflective surfaces, visual fluctuation, and movement through space achieve an ambiguity that alters the experience of spatial depth. In the station, ultimately, space is not limited by how it is perceived or defined, but fluctuates in an ambiguous relationship between them.
School:University of Cincinnati
School Location:USA - Ohio
Source Type:Master's Thesis
Keywords:spatial limitations perception depth definition reflection representation transparency visual fluctuation movement
Date of Publication:01/01/2006


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What is PERA (Performance Evaluation Reform Act)?
Updated March 2013
IASB has prepared a document that explains PERA (Performance Evaluation Review Act) to guide school board members and others in the state's latest education reform law.
Written in a Q&A format, this document addresses the Act's definition and purpose, deadlines and procedures, its effects on tenure, RIFs, and dismissals, and other commonly asked questions regarding education reform measures affecting the terms and conditions of teacher and principal employment.
The PERA document is written for informational purposes only; school boards are advised to contact their school attorney for legal advice and/or opinions.
Return to School Law
Click on Banner for More Information
Although the IASB Web site strives to provide accurate and authoritative information, the Illinois Association of School Boards does not guarantee or warrantee the accuracy or quality of information contained herein.


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Normalization of timed neuropsychological tests with the PATA rate and nine-hole pegboard tests
Despite neurological patients show frequent physical impairment, timed neuropsychological tests do not take this into account during scoring procedures.Objective:
We propose a normalization method based on the PATA Rate Task (PRT) and on the nine-hole pegboard test (9HPT) as a measure of dysarthria and upper limb dysfunction.Methods:
We tested 65 healthy controls on timed neuropsychological tests (Attentional Matrices [AM], Trail Making Test, Symbol Digit Modalities Test, Verbal Fluencies) to determine the time spent on phonation or on hand movement during test execution. We developed correction formulas to normalize test times considering the patient's PRT/9HPT, their normality limits, and the test timing. We tested the method on 24 patients with Friedreich Ataxia (FRDA), as a model of motor and speech impairment.Results:
In healthy controls, phonation or hand movement is 13.5–61.7% of total test time. In FRDA patients, the effect of normalization improved all test results (range: 0.51–48.4%; p <.001). FRDA patients had worst scores in all tests when compared to controls, and the difference remained significant after correction except for the AM. At the individual level, the normalization method improved equivalent scores with fever patients showing impaired scores after correction.Conclusions:
We propose an innovative normalization method to reduce the impact of neurological disability on timed neuropsychological tests. This could be easily integrated in a clinical setting, as it requires a simple preliminary test with the PRT and 9HPT.


NHPRC Talking Points
Why Is the National Historical Publications and Records Commission So Important for Archives—and for America?
As you discuss the importance of NHPRC with your congressional representatives and others, use the following to inform and educate your listener.
Objection: "NHPRC duplicates other programs, such as the National Endowment for the Humanities."
NHPRC is the only federal program that concentrates on records programs and projects. It is the only federal program that links federal archives with those held by states, counties, municipalities, universities, and nongovernmental organizations. It is the only federal program designed specifically with archives in mind.
NHPRC-funded re-grant programs reach small grassroots organizations—all-volunteer local historical societies, churches, local public libraries, ethnic groups and local governments—that no other federal funding program reaches. These organizations are key to preserving the diversity of the record that makes up the American experience. Most of the institutions that receive NHPRC money through state archives re-grants are not eligible for NEH money. Eliminating NHPRC will hurt the small institutions in your congressional district.
The attached chart demonstrates that there are significant archival programs supported by NHPRC alone and very few areas of overlap with other federal programs.
Objection: "Times are tough and we all need to tighten our belts."
The need for NHPRC is growing, not declining. NHPRC emphasizes collaborative projects and state/local matching funds that are extremely cost-effective. Grants made by NHPRC get a very good bang for the buck.
NHPRC puts money back into the local areas where the taxpayers live. Unlike larger programs that may fund one well-known institution for millions of dollars, NHPRC's funds get down to the grassroots level, where even small amounts of money make a big difference.
NHPRC grants address problems—such as electronic records—that affect the nation, every state and territory, and every community. Then they develop scalable solutions that can be applied in towns, counties, and states across the nation. Without NHPRC, every community would be tackling these problems piecemeal.
The federal government spends hundreds of millions of dollars to support history programs in general, but only $3-10 million to support historical records programs. Eliminating NHPRC will eliminate even that small amount.
Objection: "I don't see NHPRC having a big impact in my community."
NHPRC funds many behind-the-scenes management, preservation, and access projects. When Ken Burns produced the Civil War video series, he used photographs and letters preserved with NHPRC money. The popular book by Joseph Ellis, His Excellency: George Washington, could not have been written without the documentary edition of George Washington's papers—funded by NHPRC.
Your local historical society may have received a re-grant of NHPRC funds to care for a photograph collection or a treasured diary. Children in your schools are probably learning history through historical documents, and NHPRC-funded Teachers' Guides help that happen.
If your community is home to a major research institution, you've probably seen the impact of millions of federal dollars, but nearly every community in America has seen the impact of a small grant from NHPRC.
See chart: Comparison of Archival and Records Management Functions Funded by Federal Granting Agencies (PDF)


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An Industrial Engineer's Approach to Managing Oracle Databases - Robyn Sands
11 March 2008
This paper is an introduction to several concepts used in the manufacturing industry to improve efficiency. Some of these concepts will be compared to existing, well known methods in database management to demonstrate commonality between the disciplines. Other concepts will be explored to determine if there is a potential to develop new tools for database management. This paper discusses variation and why variation should be minimized where practical. The potential use of variation as a tool in performance measurement will be explored.


orb into the corresponding weapon allowing for a higher level capacity. Additionaly, certain levels of weapon evolution have other benefits, such as the ability to deal extra damage to a certain class of enemies or inflict certain status effects.
The orbs were usually awarded to the player for completing the game's quests and dungeons, however due to the game being scaled down to fit on the Super Nintendo cartridge, some weapons' orbs were dropped by standard enemies in the final dungeon.
Each different weapon is listed as follows, in the order they are obtained, with the name for each level of upgrade. Many weapons also have other unique gameplay abilities, just as cutting obstacles or pulling characters across gaps.
The sword is the first weapon gained in the game, found near the river in the beginning of the game. It is a close range weapon, which can also be used to cut down certain obstacles in the world like bushes. The sword in it's ninth level, as the Mana Sword, is by far the most powerful weapon in the game. The Mana Sword can only be unlocked properly via the use of "Mana Magic" in the game's final battle. It can be unlocked earlier by using a glitch in the game to get an extra sword orb.
The boy pulling the rusty sword from a tree stump.
1. Rusty Sword
2. Broad Sword
3. Herald Sword
4. Claymore
5. Excalibur
6. Masamune
7. Gigas Sword
8. Dragon Buster
9. Mana Sword
The spear is given to the hero by Sage Luka of the Water Palace. The spear gives you a little bit more range then the sword., but more importantly, a second weapon to fill a similar role to the sword. Not counting the special ninth level of the sword, the Spear is the most powerful weapon in the game.
1. Spear
2. Heavy Spear
3. Sprite's Spear
4. Partisan
5. Halberd
6. Oceanid Spear
7. Gigas Lance
8. Dragoon Lance
9. Daedalus Lance
When the sprite child joins the heroes quest, he is equipped with the boomerang. When used correctly, the boomerang can strike multiple enemies almost anywhere on the screen.
1. Boomerang
2. Chakram
3. Lode Boomerang
4. Rising Sun
5. Red Cleaver
6. Cobra Shuttle
7. Frizbar
8. Shuriken
9. Ninja's Trump
Bow and Arrow
Given to the hero when the sprite child joins the team. A ranged weapon which can be fired across gaps and obstacles to hit switches and enemies.
1. Chobin's Bow
2. Short Bow
3. Long Bow
4. Great Bow
5. Bow of Hope
6. Elfin Bow
7. Wing Bow
8. Doom Bow
9. Garuda Buster
The Axe is bought for 100 gold from Watts the blacksmith. While the sword and spear can cut through bushes and grass, the axe allows you to smash through rocks and stalagmites. A close combat weapon.
1. Watt's Axe
2. Lode Axe
3. Stout Axe
4. Battle Axe
5. Golden Axe
6. Were-Buster
7. Great Axe
8. Gigas Axe
9. Doom Axe
When the girl joins the heroes quest, she is equipped with the gloves. The gloves are the ultimate close combat weapon. They can be used to throw enemies in combat as well.
1. Spike Knuckle
2. Power Glove
3. Moogle Claw
4. Chakra
5. Heavy Glove
6. Hyper-Fist
7. Griffin Claws
8. Dragon Claws
9. Aura Glove
The whip is given to the hero by Elieen (the witch) after the defeat of her pet, Spikey. The whip is long-ranged, and can be used to pull the characters across gorges and ravines by latching onto poles sticking out of the ground.
1. Whip
2. Black Whip
3. Backhand Whip
4. Chain Whip
5. Flail of Hope
6. Morning Star
7. Hammer Flail
8. Nimbus Chain
9. Gigas Flail
The Javelin is received from the water elemental Undine after defeating the biting lizards in her cave. The javelin is a thrown weapon with long range, and fills a similar role to the bow.
1. Pole Dart
2. Javelin
3. Light Trident
4. Lode Javelin
5. Fork of Hope
6. Imps Fork
7. Elf's Harpoon
8. Dragon Dart
9. Valkyrian
Secret of Mana has eleven items that can be used at almost any time. Some are unique items that are found or recieved and have unlimited uses. Others are consumable items that are store bought or found in treasure chests that are lost upon use. Secret of Mana differs from other RPGs in that only 4 of each consumable item can be carried at once, forcing players to be conservative and strategize with their use. Certain more expensive stores charge double for items.
This consumable item can be bought for 10G or found in treasure chests. Upon use, candy restores 100 hit points.
This consumable item can be bought for 30G or found in treasure chests. Upon use, chocolate restores 300 hit points.
Medical Herb
Medical Herb
This consumable item can be bought for 10G or found in treasure chests. Upon use, a medical herb cures any adverse status effects.
Cup of Wishes
Cup of Wishes
This consumable item can be bought for 150G or found in treasure chests. Upon use, a cup of wishes revives a fallen ally and restores some hit points.
Faerie Walnut
Faerie Walnut
This consumable item can be bought for 500G or found in treasure chests. Upon use, a faerie walnut restores 100 magic points.
Royal Jam
Royal Jam
This consumable item can be bought for 100G or found in treasure chests. Upon use, royal jam restores 999 hit points, making it the best healing item in the game.
This consumable item can be bought for 900G or found in treasure chests. Upon use, the player can hide in a barrel to avoid combat.
Flammie Drum
Flammie Drum
The Flammie Drum is given to the hero by King Truffle. The Flammie Drum has unlimited uses, and summons Flammie to pick you up.
Magic Rope
Magic Rope
The Magic Rope is found in a chest in Gaia's Navel. The Magic Rope has unlimted uses, and allows you to "escape" a dungeon, returning to it's first screen.
Midge Mallet
Midge Mallet
The Midge Mallet is given to the hero by the chief of the dwarf village. The Midge Mallet has unlimited uses, and inflicts or cures "shrunk" status on allies.
Moogle Belt
Moogle Belt
The Moogle Belt is received after the optional quest of restoring was to Kakkar village. The Moogle Belt has unlimited uses, and inflicts or cures "moogle" status on allies.
The Ring Menu
By pressing the menu button, the game will pause and a ring of icons will appear around the currently selected character. Pressing left and right on the d-pad will rotate the ring, while pressing up and down will switch between different menu rings, which cover the player's inventory, a character's spells, weapons, and game options. This unique radial menu system allows quick selection of items and a minimal interruption in the real time combat.
SNES Disc Drive
Until the project was canceled, Secret of Mana being developed to come out with the launch of the SNES CD add-on. When the add-on was canceled, the game lost approximately 40% of its original content and the graphics were reduced to accommodate a standard cartridge. Examples of unused game portions include staircases that lead to nowhere and doors that are unreachable. Additionally, some parts of the game can be buggy at times due to the alteration.
Full Channel Music
The SNES audio processor is only capable of producing eight sounds at once. Many songs in Secret of Mana using seven to eight channels. This highly unusual use of all audio channels allows the music to be richer, but requires the game to drop channels of music when producing sound effects. Depending on how the player perceives it, this could range from not noticeable to jarring and annoying.
English localization
The English translation for Secret of Mana was hampered for multiple reasons. First, in an effort not to miss the 1993 holiday season, the English translation was completed in only 30 days. This is compared to the many months usually afforded to English localization efforts.
Secondly, the English release of Secret of Mana uses a fixed-width font to display gameplay text. This choice of font greatly limits the available space to display text. Accoring to the translator of the game, Ted Woolsey, a large portion of the game's script was cut from the English release due to these space limitations and the lack of sequential text. Many conversations are cut down to their bare minimum.
A rom hack, FuSoYa's Niche's Secret of Mana Variable Width Font Edition, was released that brings variable width fonts to the game and uses the extra room to expand the dialogue. This expanded dialogue, however, is fan made, and does not come from the Japanese release, as sometimes is thought.
"Mode 7" graphics show the overworld of Secret of Mana
The graphics


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- For Teachers
Can someone tell me the difference between the verbs to strike and to hit
I have teaching practise in a few days so I will be grateful if you can give me some ideas on this.
And if anyone knows the best way to teach to Strike to students.
Shall I use pictures, which examples etc
The words are basically synonyms. Except in baseball where a strike is the opposite of a hit.
And, of course, "to strike" can mean "to refuse to work" for some reason, usually to get something you want or to show your opposition to something that has happened, is happening or is going to happen.
Remember - correct capitalisation, punctuation and spacing make posts much easier to read.
However, I would still argue that "a strike" is not the opposite of "a hit" if for no other reason than the umpire may call either "a strike" or (in my opinion, the opposite) "a ball" without the batter swinging his/her bat.


-javascript, text/javascript, text/plain, but NOT firing it for application/json nor text/html. As of today, Android <=2.3 is About 50% of the Android market share. – jakub.g Jul 5 '13 at 12:41
If you're in a client-side environment, investigating about the cross-browser support is mandatory for a well supported web application.
The right HTTP Content-Type would be application/json, as others already highlighted too, but some clients do not handle it very well, that's why jQuery recommends the default text/html.
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JSON is a domain-specific language (DSL) and a data format independent of JavaScript, and as such has its own MIME type, application/json. Respect for MIME types is of course client driven, so text/plain may do for transfer of bytes, but then you would be pushing up interpretation to the vendor application domain unnecessarily - application/json. Would you transfer XML via text/plain?
But honestly, your choice of MIME type is advice to the client as to how to interpret the datatext/plain or text/HTML (when it's not HTML) is like type erasureit's as uninformative as making all your objects of type Object in a typed language.
No browser runtime I know of will take a JSON document and automatically make it available to the runtime as a JavaScript accessible object without intervention, but if you are working with a crippled client, that's an entirely different matter. But that's not the whole storyRESTful JSON services often don't have JavaScript runtimes, but it doesn't stop them using JSON as a viable data interchange format. If clients are that crippled... then I would consider perhaps HTML injection via an Ajax templating service instead.
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The correct answer is:
Content-Type: application/json
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In JSP, you can use this in page directive:
<%@ page language="java" contentType="application/json; charset=UTF-8"
The correct MIME media type for JSON is application/json. JSP will use it for sending a response to the client.
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As many others have mentioned, application/json is the correct answer.
But what haven't been explained yet is what the other options you proposed mean.
 - application/x-javascript: Experimental MIME type for JavaScript before application/javascript was made standard.
 - text/javascript: Now obsolete. You should use application/javascript when using javascript.
 - text/x-javascript: Experimental MIME type for the above situation.
 - text/x-json: Experimental MIME type for JSON before application/json got officially registered.
All in all, whenever you have any doubts about content types, you should check this link
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When did text/javascript become obsolete? I'm still filling up HTML documents with ... at least according to HTML5. – TCB13 Jun 27 '13 at 21:41
application/json" is the correct JSON content type.
def ajaxFindSystems = {
 def result = Systems.list()
 render(contentType:'application/json') {
 results {
 system(id:sys.id, name:sys.name)
 resultset (rows:result.size())
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The right MIME type is application/json
I experienced many situations where the browser type or the framework user needed:
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Example of such a situation? – Mark Amery Jun 4 '14 at 19:29
I use the below
contentType: 'application/json',
data: JSON.stringify(SendData),
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In Spring you have a defined type: MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON_VALUE which is equivalent to application/json.
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That's Java EE too :: javax.ws.rs.core.MediaType – Eddie B Feb 28 '14 at 3:01
The IANA registration for application/json says
You'll notice that IANA.org doesn't list any of these other media types, in fact even application/javascript is now obsolete. So application/json is really the only possible correct answer.
Browser support is another thing.
The most widely supported non-standard media types text/json or text/javascript. But some big names even use text/plain. Even more strange is the Content-Type header sent by Flickr, who returns a JSON string with text/xml. Google example included as well, responding with text/html yet a JSON string.
curl -I _URL_ --------> Content-Type: text/html
curl -I _URL_ --------> Content-Type: text/xml
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The Content-Type header should be set to 'application/json' when posting. Server listening for the request should include "Accept=application/json". In Spring MVC you can do it like this:
_USER_(value="location", method = RequestMethod.POST, headers = "Accept=application/json")
Add headers to the response:
HttpHeaders headers = new HttpHeaders();
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If the JSON is with padding then it will be application/jsonp. If the JSON is without padding then it will be application/json.
To deal with both, it is a good practice to use: 'application/javascript' without bothering whether it is with padding or without padding.
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The first part of your answer is wrong. "application/jsonp" is not a valid MIME type. The response body of a JSONP is just JavaScript, so one of the MIME-types for JavaScript has to be used. – Rob W Aug 30 '13 at 16:14
PHP developers use this:
 // Do something here...
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I am using for JSON:
 Content-Type: application/json
as described in _URL_
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The application/json works great in php to store an array or object data.
I use this code to put my public data in json on Google Cloud Storage (GCS):
$context = stream_context_create([
 'gs' => [
 json_encode((object) $array),
To get back the data is straight away:
$data = json_decode(file_get_contents("gs://BUCKETNAME/FILENAME.json"));
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Extending the accepted responses, when you are using JSON in a REST context...
There is a strong argument about using application/x-resource+json and application/x-collection+json when you are representing REST resources and collections.
It is also sugested the strict use of application/vnd.api+json.
Altough there is not an universal standard, it is clear that the added semantic to the resources being transfered justify a more explicit Content-Type than just application/json.
Following this reasoning, other contexts could justify a more specific Content-Type.
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There are more than 6,000 of their kind, species that vary in colour, habitat and behaviour. Yet most know little about the tiny invertebrate scientists call Amphipoda. Since it also looks a lot like a more popular creature, the shrimp, it's often confusing for homeowners when an amphipod infestation occurs. But how can you spot the signs before it's too late? Below are a few things that'll help you be prepared and ready to fight these "lawn shrimp" pests.
What are Amphipods?
Amphipods are a kind crustacean that lives both in water and on land. They are very similar in appearance to shrimp but are much tinier with adults measuring 5 mm – 20 mm on average. Their bodies are elongated in shape, shiny and smooth. These creatures are also known as land hoppers – that's because they jump like fleas — or lawn shrimp.
The adult amphipods can live up to a year and feed on bacteria, plants and animals depending on each species. Though the majority of amphipods live in the oceans, the terrestrial amphipods are the ones which most homeowners have to worry about. The best-known home invader of its kind is the Arcitalitrus Sylvaticus.
These amphipods are most active at night as this is when they feed. They are scavengers by nature and breed several times per year, usually during wet seasons.
Where are Infestations Most Likely to Occur?
Knowing where an infestation is most likely to occur will help you not only spot one, but best of all prevent one from happening in the first place. The key to this is remembering that an amphipod's behaviour is largely affected by the amount of moisture in the environment.
Lawn shrimp pests like moisture so it's no wonder they'd aim for your pool. When an infestation occurs in a home owner's pool it can cause serious problems including clogging of filters. Since infestation is most likely to occur during periods of excessive rain, be sure to clean pool filters often during this period.
Amphipods like moisture but not too much. When rain falls they are likely to enter your home by crawling beneath your doors to avoid excess moisture. Your garage is one spot they'll likely end up in such instances. If the moisture level is optimal – not too much or too little – they will thrive there. To avoid an infestation, keep moisture down. Clean up puddles, use a dehumidifier, de-clutter and so forth.
- Fish Tanks
What's in your fish tank? If you see dozens of shrimpy pests appear out of nowhere, they are likely amphipods. They'll enjoy the controlled settings, especially since it'll be abundant with food sources. Though many species are herbivores, others are scavengers and will eat any form of animal life their little mouths can handle.
Terrestrial amphipods can thrive beneath stones or decaying vegetation. They like soft, moist soil which can be very abundant in gardens. Some species also jump about like fleas, making gardening where an infestation is present very annoying. You'll be able to distinguish between amphipods and fleas as you look closely at the body. An amphipod's body is usually brownish-white and will turn red when it dies. Also, unlike fleas, the amphipod doesn't bite.
Managing Moisture Within and Outside Home
Amphipods are very vulnerable to water loss because unlike insects whose exoskeleton possess a waxy layer, their bodies are not designed to manage water loss on its own. They can die pretty easily in the right environment. To manage an infestation, apply the following procedures:
- Reduce moisture in home, especially after excessive rainfall
- Clean pool filters regularly
- Reduce irrigation, where possible, in gardens and lawns
- Remove excessive rocks which often protect amphipod environs
- Clean up mulch, or debris around property including nearby pavements and drains
- Use non-chemical methods that help to dry out your environment
Remember moisture control is the key! Also, be sure you are certain that it's an amphipod infestation before applying treatment. Since amphipods are some of the least known pests, be careful to avoid drawing hasty conclusions. If you have an infestation and you're not sure if it's due to amphipods, contact us today.


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While some dads were busy tossing the ball around with their kids, these literary fathers instilled a love of literature into their children — a love so deep, in fact, that they followed in their father's footsteps to become writers themselves. For Father's Day, a sampler of literary lineage:
Kingsley Amis (born 1922, died 1995) is well known and highly regarded in the U.K. for his comic novels. His son Martin Amis (born 1949) garnered a reputation that made the leap across the pond.
Writer dad: Kingsley Amis


Swarmmy Chair
The Swarmmy Chair is built up based on
Through the process of attract the swarm.
The swarm will drop the trail.
We use the Path of the swarm particles as the base to
build up the mesh.
The concept is that we build up the powerlines first,
then we set up the starting points for the swarm to them
attract to the powerlines.
The growing effect is like how the nature grows things.
The result could be rough or smooth based on the parameters of the mesh.
For the Line Based
rough mesh:
smooth Mesh:
Base on the Line, it can be some kind of the customize chair,
which designers and user can put their ideas to build up their
one and only


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Patient as Teacher
Patient as Teacher is a new and exciting program that integrates humanistic and patient-centred approaches into undergraduate surgical education. As the program name suggests: patients become the teachers. Previous patients volunteer their time to share their experiences and insights with medical students. In turn, students learn about the surgical journey from the perspectives of patients. Our goal is to contribute to the learning and practice of compassionate and socially responsible care.


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Does second-hand clothing from the West hurt local production in Africa?
There is no doubt that second-hand clothing had an effect on local production in the past. However, researchers have shown that the current impact is far less than would be assumed. The greatest impact on the production of new clothing in Africa has been the rise of low-cost production in Asia. Just like in the West, most of Africa gets most of its new clothing from Asia. Even traditional Mozambican capolanas are no longer produced in Mozambique, but say "Made in India"!
Although we welcome dialogue about the effects of second-hand clothing on local production of new clothing, we believe its effect in the markets we work in is minimal.
There are two great studies worth reading:
The Impact of Second-Hand Clothing Trade on Developing Countries (Sally Baden and Catherine Barber. 2005)


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Influence of silica fume on the microstructure of cement pastes: New insights from H-1 NMR relaxometry
H-1 NMR has been used to characterise white Portland cement paste incorporating 10 wt.% of silica fume. Samples were measured sealed throughout the hydration without sample drying. Paste compositions and C-S-H characteristics are calculated based on H-1 NMR signal intensities and relaxation analysis. The results are compared with a similar study of plain white cement paste. While the presence of silica fume has little influence on C-S-H densities, the chemical composition is impacted. After 28 days of sealed hydration, the Ca/(Si + Al) ratio of the C-S-H is 1.33 and the H2O/(Si + Al) ratio is 1.10 when 10% of silica fume is added to the white cement. A densification of the C-S-H with time is observed. There are no major changes in capillary, C-S-H gel and interlayer pore sizes for the paste containing silica fume compared to the plain white cement paste. However, the gel/interlayer water ratio increases in the silica fume blend. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.


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An interface from a computer system where data is transferred
in or out in parallel, that is, on more than one wire. A parallel port carries
one bit on each wire thus multiplying the transfer rate obtainable over a single
wire. There will usually be some control signals on the port as well to say when
data is ready to be sent or received.
The commonest kind of parallel port is a printer port, e.g. a Centronics port
which transfers eight bits at a time. Disks are also connected via special
parallel ports, e.g. SCSI or IDE.
Parallel Haskell « parallelism « Parallel Pascal «
parallel port » Parallel Presence Detect »
parallel processing » parallel processor


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In order to land a job as train engineer, one must comply with the necessary requirements to be able to practice the profession. Most industries that are in need of train engineers require an educational background and to be licensed.
- Generally, for you to start your career as a train engineer, you must have completed a high school diploma or its equivalent.
- You must be at least 21 years of age in order to qualify for the training program.
- According to federal law, aspiring train engineers must complete a conductor training course as a prerequisite for an engineer's training program. It is best to choose programs that are accredited by the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA).
- After completion of a conductor training course, you will then be granted with the Conductor certificate and must complete the locomotive engineer training program. This includes classroom lessons, practical experience and simulations that will provide you knowledge on how to operate trains may it be a freight or passenger train.
- After successfully completing the locomotive engineer training program, you will then have to pass the locomotive engineer licensure exam. This exam will include a train operation test, performance skills testing, safety conduct background check, visual and hearing acuity test and drug or alcohol test.
- Your certificate and license will last for two years; there would be re-certification or examinations that will be conducted in order to maintain your license to practice.
- Most employers will hire locomotive engineers that have practical railway experience on top of training program completion. Gain as much experience as you can.
- It is difficult to land as a train engineer at first, you will be offered entry-level positions like brakeman, conductor, even yard laborer or crane operator. This is your stepping stone to becoming a train engineer.
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Changing Character Casing in C#
In C# programming,we can change string case in Upper case to lower case and lower case to upper case.
Method that compare string and characters in string are case sensitive,you can need convert casing of string characters that are entered by user before comparing them to constant value. we can change string cases with these two methods:
1.StringToUpper: It convert all character in a string to uppercase.
1.StringToLower: It convert all character in a string to lowercase.
we will use these two methods in our program for show how to change character casing in C#:
static void Main(stringargs)
String Givenstring="This IS STring in upper case";
String Givenstring1='thIS IS strING IN LOWER case";
This program show out put like as Given bellow:
THIS IS STRING IN UPPER CASE
this is string in lower case
Press any key to continue...


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Gödel boasting his record-breaking brain.
Kurt Gödel was a Plutonian logician, mathematician, philosopher of mathematics, mathematician of philosophy, professor of logician, and Olympic middle-distance athlete.
He is noted for his large brain, which was believed to have its own gravitational field, his love of Monkeys and his theories. His most famous theory is the Incompleteness Theorem.
Recent linguistic advances in biographical reviews revealed that the phrase "His Incompleteness Theorem" should have been translated as "His Incontinent Theo Rem", referring to his imaginary gay lover, probably the famed inventor of the Cross-Country Adult Diaper.
He was a close personal friend and occasional bed buddy of fellow boffin Oscar Wilde.
Gödel died in 1937, when fellow-mathemetician and rival Kürt Gödël, with whom he had quarreled over umlauts, entered his body through his small intestine and ate him alive from the inside. It seems, however, that he had trouble completing the process of dying even, so in order to support himself in the after life, he ended up haunting other scientists of the era, like Einstein, who supposedly owed him 10000 Imperial Marks, which was worth about a fart.
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Definitions for angerˈæŋ gər
This page provides all possible meanings and translations of the word anger
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
an•ger*ˈæŋ gər(n.)
 1. a strong feeling of displeasure and belligerence aroused by a real or supposed wrong; wrath.
 2. Obs. grief; trouble.
 3. (v.t.)to arouse anger or wrath in.
 4. (v.i.)to become angry.
* Syn: anger, indignation, rage, fury describe deep and strong feelings aroused by injury, injustice, etc. anger is the general term for sudden violent displeasure accompanied by an impulse to retaliate: insults that provoked a burst of anger.indignation, a more formal word, implies deep and justified anger, often directed at something unworthy: The scandal aroused public indignation.rage is vehement, uncontrolled anger: rage at being fired from a job.fury is rage so great that it resembles insanity: He smashed his fist against the wall in a drunken fury.
Origin of anger:
1150–1200; < ON angra to grieve, der. of angr grief; akin to OHG angust, L angor anguish
Princeton's WordNet
 1. anger, choler, ire(noun)
 2. anger, angriness(noun)
 the state of being angry
 3. wrath, anger, ire, ira(verb)
 4. anger(verb)
 make angry
 "The news angered him"
 5. anger, see red(verb)
 become angry
 "He angers easily"
Kernerman English Learner's Dictionary
 1. anger(noun)ˈæŋ gər
 a strong feeling when you are annoyed
 She screamed in anger.
 1. anger(Noun)
 You need to control your anger.
 2. anger(Noun)
 Pain or stinging.
 3. anger(Verb)
 To cause such a feeling of antagonism.
 Don't anger me.
 4. anger(Verb)
 To become angry.
 You anger too easily.
Webster Dictionary
 1. Anger(noun)
 trouble; vexation; also, physical pain or smart of a sore, etc
 2. Anger(noun)
 3. Anger(verb)
 to make painful; to cause to smart; to inflame
 4. Anger(verb)
 to excite to anger; to enrage; to provoke
 1. Anger
 Anger is an emotion related to one's psychological interpretation of having been offended, wronged, or denied and a tendency to react through retaliation. Sheila Videbeck describes anger as a normal emotion that involves a strong uncomfortable and emotional response to a perceived provocation. Raymond Novaco of UC Irvine, who since 1975 has published a plethora of literature on the subject, stratified anger into three modalities: cognitive, somatic-affective, and behavioral. William DeFoore, an anger-management writer, described anger as a pressure cooker: we can only apply pressure against our anger for a certain amount of time until it explodes. Anger may have physical correlates such as increased heart rate, blood pressure, and levels of adrenaline and noradrenaline. Some view anger as part of the fight or flight brain response to the perceived threat of harm. Anger becomes the predominant feeling behaviorally, cognitively, and physiologically when a person makes the conscious choice to take action to immediately stop the threatening behavior of another outside force. The English term originally comes from the term anger of Old Norse language. Anger can have many physical and mental consequences.
The Roycroft Dictionary
 1. anger
 1. A violent blushing and scampering up and down of the blood upon hearing the truth about ourselves; an epileptic condition produced by the presentation of a bill that is not yet due, just due, or overdue. A sudden tumescence of the ego and a furious exaltation of verbal powers upon losing a collar-button. 2. Before election, the righteous wrath of a candidate in the presence of evils that he has invented; after election-day, his wail in the presence of the grave he did not dig. _E. g._, The devil (taking final leave of the Lord): "I am in anger with thee, Sire." The Lord: "For thee, son, 't will be a long time between heavens. So go to Hell and take thine Anger with thee."
U.S. National Library of Medicine
 1. Anger
 A strong emotional feeling of displeasure aroused by being interfered with, injured or threatened.
British National Corpus
 1. Spoken Corpus Frequency
 Rank popularity for the word 'anger' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2932
 2. Nouns Frequency
 Rank popularity for the word 'anger' in Nouns Frequency: #1283
Translations for anger
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a violent, bitter feeling (against someone or something)
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Language: Old English
Origin: slidan
1 verb
slide1 W3 past tense and past participle slid
1 [intransitive and transitive] to move smoothly over a surface while continuing to touch it, or to make something move in this way
slide along/across/down etc
Francesca slid across the ice.
slide something across/along etc
He opened the oven door and slid the pan of cookies in.
He slid open the door of the glass cabinet.
2 [intransitive,transitive always + adverb/preposition] to move somewhere quietly and smoothly, or to move something in this way
slide into/out of etc
Daniel slid out of the room when no one was looking.
She slid into the driver's seat.
slide something into/out of etc something
He slid the gun into his pocket.
3 [intransitive] if prices, amounts, rates etc slide, they become lower [= drop; ≠ rise]:
Stocks slid a further 3% on the major markets today.
4 [intransitive] to gradually become worse, or to begin to have a problem:
Students' test scores started to slide in the mid-1990s.
slide into
Murphy gradually slid into a pattern of drug abuse.
let something slide
a) to let a situation get gradually worse:
Management has let safety standards slide at the factory.
b) spoken to ignore a mistake, problem, remark etc, without trying to improve or stop it:
Well, I guess we can let it slide this time.
slide, slip, skid
Slide means to move smoothly across a surface. You can talk about people, objects, or liquids sliding This floor's great for sliding on. The door slid open (NOT slided open). A tear slid down her cheek.Slip means to accidentally slide a small distance, and usually then fall down She slipped and hurt her wrist. It's icy - mind you don't slip.Skid means to move across a smooth surface in an uncontrolled way. You usually use it to talk about vehicles Cars skidded on the snow. Jason skidded around the corner on his bike.
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Tim Gallant was the first author to write a book-length defense of paedo-communion in over a century (at least that we're aware of). Then, he self-published his book (Feed My Lambs) under the publishing name of Pactum Reformanda (Latin: "covenant or pact," & "reforming.") Tim now hopes to produce a line of works which are both scholarly and accessible to the layman. As the definitions above suggest, he is interested in promoting a rigorously biblical covenant theology.
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text: Treating electron correlation more accurately and efficiently is at the heart of the development of electronic structure methods. In the present work, we explore the use of stochastic approaches to evaluate high-order electron correlation energies, whose conventional computational scaling is unpleasantly steep, being O(Nn+3) with respect to the system size N and the perturbation order n for the Møller-Plesset (MP) series. To this end, starting from Goldstone's time-dependent formulation of ab initio many-body perturbation theory (MBPT), we present a reformulation of MBPT, which naturally leads to a Monte Carlo scheme with O(nN2 + n2N + f(n)) scaling at each step, where f(n) is a function of n depending on the specific numerical scheme. Proof-of-concept calculations demonstrate that the proposed quantum Monte Carlo algorithm successfully extends the previous Monte Carlo approaches for MP2 and MP3 to higher orders by overcoming the factorial scaling problem. For the first time, Goldstone's time-dependent formulation is made useful numerically for electron correlation energies, not only being purely as a theoretical tool.


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Safeguarding the Churches of Venice, Italy: A Computerized Catalogue and Restoration Analysis
The intent of this project was to contribute to the preservation of the churches of Venice. The goal was to develop a comprehensive catalogue of all the churches of Venice, based on the original catalogue produced by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in 1968. The new catalogue is a searchable database with updated information that is accessible from the World Wide Web. To achieve this goal there were three main objectives: computerization of the existing catalogue, updating the catalogue, and the creation of an Internet version of the catalogue so that the information may be distributed the world over.


What is the Best Color for Blue Sapphire? Part 1
September 3rd, 2009 by James L. Sweaney, CGA, FGA. GG
Classic Blue Sapphire
Classic Blue Natural Sapphire
Our clients often ask "What is the best color blue sapphire?" There are two answers– the obvious is that personal preference should dictate your color choice. Every person has unique abilities to perceive color, based on such things as age, health, culture and genetic gifts. Some people prefer light pastel colors, others prefer rich intense colors. The best color for you is the one that pleases, stimulates, or excites you!
The more complicated answer has to do with gem grading and market preferences, the physical characteristics of natural sapphires, the geological sources of sapphire including Ceylon, Burma, Kashmir, Madagascar, Thailand, Australia, and Montana, and the various methods of color enhancement and heat treatment of sapphire. We'll begin by discussing gem grading and market preferences.
Color is a very complicated phenomenon in gemstones, presenting many challenges for gemologists and gem traders. We begin by grading the color of blue sapphires in terms of hue, tone, and intensity– for a thorough discussion of color grading gems, visit the color grading page at our Gallery of Gems.
Hue can be described as the name of a color, and relates to the actual wavelength of the visible light emanating from the gem. Some gem colors are described as two hues– such as green blue, signifying equal parts green and blue, or greenish blue for a color proportionately more blue than green. In grading gem colors, we normally emphasize the dominant hue by capitalizing it. For blue sapphire, the perfect hue would be simply Blue– not greenish Blue or violetish Blue. The hue of the sapphire below would be described as very slightly violetish Blue, while the hue of the second stone shown below and the blue sapphire ring shown at the beginning of this article is Blue.
slightly violetish blue sapphire color
very slightly violetish Blue sapphire color
Blue sapphire color
Tone is the relative position of a color on a 1 to 10 scale of light to dark. 1 being white, 10 being black. Blue sapphires can range from very pale blues that might be graded 2- 3 on the tonal scale to extremely dark blues that are graded 9.
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3 Responses to "What is the Best Color for Blue Sapphire? Part 1"
 1. simon Says:
 I would like to get a valuation for some jewelry, 1920′ ex Greta Garbo blue sapphire on gold, a black saphire with dimonds plus several items that are no longer used.
 Can you advise.
 2. Madeline Appelin Says:
 I have a ring purchased by my grandfather from Greta Garbo's auction when she left for America, it was bought by her lover Mauritz Stiller and consists of a Blue sapphire and diamonds.
 Would you be able to inform me of a value and place to sell, as i never use it.
 It is a perfect Sapphire set in red and white gold and is very beautiful.
 Madeliene appelin.
 3. James L. Sweaney, CGA, FGA. GG Says:
 I believe you queried my blog about this ring a while back. You should be able to sell your ring effectively in several ways.
 First, to be able to realize the most money, you will need to get a good current Fair Market Value appraisal from a well qualified appraiser– Contact the Gemmological Assn. of Great Britain for a referral for someone local to you. It should include a good digital photograph, along with weight estimates and measurements for the gems, weight and metal quality, gem grading, especially for the sapphire. Add any written documentation you have showing the Garbo provenance– letter from your grandfather, bill of sale, etc. The Garbo provenance may or may not add value, depending on how strong it is and the quality of the ring.
 Once you have a good idea of value, you can look at the markets available to you.
 The highest value you could get would be to sell to an interested private party. Price would be negotiable, exposure would be based on the effort and expense you put into it. You might be able to negotiate between 50 and 100% of Fair Market Value ( Appraisal)
 Another market would be something like Ebay, but you need to know what you are doing here. It's important to make sure you get paid!
 If the value is over $10.000 US, you might look at an auction house like Christy's or Sotheby's. They do charge a seller's premium, usuallly about 10%.
 An immediate market would be a legitimate respected jeweler who buys estate jewelry. Expect to get about 25 to 50% of Fair Market Value, depending on the ring.


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Blue Cliff Record
by David Rothenberg
"It is astonishing how thousand-year-old riddles are brought here to evocative poetic life. David Rothenberg converts them into contemporary verbal music, an arcanum, a profound secret, a mystery without intellectual solution."
—Frederick Franck, author of The Zen of Seeing, The Buddha Eye, and other books
Much as Coleman Barks breathed new life into the work of the great Sufi poet Rumi and reached the hearts and minds of contemporary readers, David Rothenberg now brings us vividly poetic new versions of the enigmatic koans and riddles from the classic Zen Buddhist text, the Blue Cliff Record. Blue Cliff Record: Zen Echoes is an accessible contemporary distillation of this twelfth-century treasure of Zen Buddhism, a lively feast of words and images designed to stretch and open the mind.
With a foreword by poet, author, and translator Sam Hamill.
"David Rothenberg's adaptation of Blue Cliff Record is that rare thing, a work of art that is also useful. It is as bracing as a dive into a cold spring–a wake up call from reality–the splendor of what is."
—Mark Rudman, winner of the National Book Critics' Circle Award for Poetry and author of Rider
"What is unique and wondrous about these poetic responses to the Blue Cliff Record is that here philosophy, spiritual practice and creativity are fused and whole. Each poem remarkably celebrates the Zen past and at the same time builds the foundation for a new interpretation that helps imagine how we, here and now, can live the Dharma on these shores."
—Charles Johnson, winner of the National Book Award in fiction for Middle Passage


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Vibration Response Imaging
Vibration response imaging or VRI, is nominally a medical VR visualisation technology, although it has obvious uses in other fields. It was developed to image patient lungs, and works via detecting vibrations within the target body, via sensors deployed to either side, pressed against the surface.
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As the demands for precise imaging in fields such as medicine, astronomy, and real-time machine vision in hostile environments continue to increase, so the demands placed on imaging equipment become ever more stringent. An imaging method based on Single Photon Avalanche Photodiodes (SPAD) offers the potential to ease this bottleneck greatly.
Technology Review's long, and in depth look at the rise of diffusion spectrum imaging, and how this new neural interface imaging technique is rapidly accelerating the study of both human and animal brains to an extent unparalleled by any previous imaging technique, even fMRI.
Diffusion spectrum imaging is a new technique at time of writing, which allows magnetic resonance brain imaging, at a much higher level of fidelity than fMRI permits.
In mid 2012, Swiss researchers turned the world of alzheimers plaque imaging on its head: by combining a phased imaging source and an integral VR model generator, for the first time ever we can now track the formation of Alzheimers plaques in real-time in living patients.
AR based Medical imaging technologies really began to take off in the early 2000s. There are a growing range of holographic, projective, interactive gesture recognition tools available, which can really make training and diagnosis so much easier.
VRIxp is a medical diagnosis device using what is perhaps a novel form of 3D visualisation. It uses audio analysis of vibration deep inside the body to assemble precise structural detail.
fMRI or functional magnetic resonance imaging, is one of the newest brain imaging technologies for the first decade of the 21st century. It is a basic form of Brain-Computer Interaction.
These are the proceedings of the fourth international medical imaging and augmented reality conference, held in Tokyo, Japan, August 1-2, 2008.
These are the proceedings of the third international medical imaging and augmented reality conference, held in Shanghai, China, August 17-18, 2006.
These are the proceedings of the first international medical imaging and augmented reality conference, held in Hong Kong, 10-12 June 2001.
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Currently, to keep track of a game, soccer fans have the option of reading textual information of the game?s key events in near-real-time, or listening to audio of the text transferred to voice. However, these options require a user?s full...
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can serve as a very sensitive technique for detecting small tumors in the body, but it is not as good at identifying the edges of a tumor. Photoacoustic imaging tomography (PAT) is not as sensitive as MRI, b...
A new 3D view of the body's response to infection -- and the ability to identify proteins involved in the response -- could point to novel biomarkers and therapeutic agents for infectious diseases.
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This week, researchers from Philips Electronics plan to describe a jacket they have lined with vibration motors to study the effects of touch on a movie viewer?s emotional response to what the characters are experiencing.
New functional and imaging-based diagnostic tests that measure communication and signaling between different brain regions may provide valuable information about consciousness in patients unable to communicate.
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text: WHY OLIVE Oil SOAP! Olive Oil Soap leaves behind a thin layer of olive oil, which holds moisture while allowng your skin to breathe. WHY GOATS MILK! Goats milk adds richness, and a creamier later to bath and body soap, and it's also very moisturizing. It is used universally by people with sensitivities to other types of milk for everything from feeding babies to bathing. Adding the milk lowers the pH which helps to maintain the natural pH mantel of your skin. Goat milk is also a natural source of alpha-hydroxy acids. Your skin will look and feel smoother.


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Visualizing Density of Healthcare Workers Across Time and Countries
We present a visualization that makes use of a novel highlighting and animation technique. The primary motivation behind the design of this visualization was to enable people to look at data about healthcare services, and specifically to increase their knowledge about the impact of the amount of healthcare workers per capita. We use animation in the process of showing changes within an individual country over the course of several years, as well as to facilitate comparisons between multiple countries at once, by letting people keep track of selected countries. We discuss the motivation behind our use of animation, our choice to include a search bar, and potential areas for improvement and revision.
Andie Green-Harrison, Søren Knudsen, Sheelagh Carpendale. Visualizing Density of Healthcare Workers Across Time and Countries. In Posters of IEEE VIS 2019 (IEEEVIS).


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1770 Delisle de Sales Map of the Ancient Nation of Assyria (Iran, Iraq)
Description: This is a beautiful example of the 1770 Jean-Baptiste-Claude Delisle de Sales' map of ancient Assyria. Essentially a map of the entire Middle East and Persia, this map covers from the Black Sea to the Gulf of Oman and from the Mediterranean Sea east as far as the western part of India. This area includes the modern day countries of Iraq, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Iran, Israel, and part of Saudi Arabia and Egypt. The map was drawn to illustrate the history of the three Assyrian monarchies of Nineveh, Babylon and Ecbatana. Several important towns, rivers, mountains and other topographical elements are beautifully rendered. This map was issued as part of Delisle de Sales' Histoire des hommes. Partie de l'Histoire Ancienne. Becasue most of Sales' work was burnt under the censorship of heresy, this volume is exceedingly rare.
Date: 1770 (undated)
Source: Delisle de Sales, Histoire des Hommes. Partie de l'Histoire Ancienne (Paris) 1770.
Cartographer: Jean-Baptiste-Claude Delisle de Sales or Jean-Baptiste Isoard de Lisle (1741–1816) was a French philosopher, historian, and heretic active in the late 18th century). Sales is best known for his publication of the multi-volume opus The Philosophy of Nature: Treatise on Human Moral Nature. The work, among other ideas, challenged the Biblical theory that the earth was created in 4004 BC. Instead, Sales asserted, supposedly based upon astronomical observations, that the earth was 140,000 years old. Sales' revolutionary ideas saw him heretic and his works were censored, and for the most part destroyed, by the Catholic Church. Consequently all of his works are extremely rare. Sales was also, notably, a close friend of Voltaire who in 1777 visited him in prison, gifting him 500 pounds towards his release. Delisle de Sales is unrelated to the more famous De L'Isle family of cartographers. Click here for a list of rare maps by Jean-Baptiste-Claude Delisle.
Size: Printed area measures 14.5 x 9 inches (36.83 x 22.86 centimeters)
Condition: Very good. Original platemark visible. Minor wear along original folds. Blank on verso.
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The Brain Health Consortium (BHC) encourages diverse experts to come together to conduct basic research in brain patterning and function, and to translate understanding of stem cell technology for biomedical research.
BHC partners with the Department of Biology to sponsor:
- Weekly seminar series from leaders in the field
- A bi-weekly Work-In-Progress (WIP) talk from BHC trainees
- An annual symposium for BHC members
- Investigator workshops for BHC members to discuss team grants
- Specialty events, including Brain Health Roundup, a Happy Hour to promote scientific exchanges and foster collaborative interactions among faculty and trainees in an informal setting
BHC provides technical support and hands-on training with its Stem Cell Core Facility for cell derivation and various other Cores for multidisciplinary research. BHC supports its members with seed funds and preferential access to its core facilities. BHC also supports teaching about stem cells and regenerative medicine and promotes outreach and public education regarding the potential of stem cells for biomedical research.


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Skip to Main Content
Co-authored documents are becoming increasingly important for knowledge representation and sharing. Tools for supporting document co-authoring are expected to satisfy two requirements: 1) querying changes over editing histories; 2) maintaining data consistency among users. Current tools support either limited queries or are not suitable for loosely controlled collaborative editing scenarios. We address both problems by proposing a new persistent data structure-partial persistent sequence. The new data structure enables us to create unique character identifiers that can be used for associating meta-information and tracking their changes, and also design simple view synchronization algorithms to guarantee data consistency under the presence of concurrent updates. Experiments based on real-world collaborative editing traces show that our data structure uses disk space economically and provides efficient performance for document update and retrieval.


Loading Hiearachical JSON objects
Loading Hiearachical JSON objects
JQuery loadJSON plugin enables you to load hierachical JSON objects and generate hierarchical structures of HTML elements based on the template. In the list example is shown how the array of the objects can be loaded into the template. In this example, array of the objects is exdended so each object in the array have its own array as a property. As a re
Live Example
In this example will be used extended template that can be used for complex objects. Example of the resulting page is shown below:
In this example for each company in the list is shown one manager and nested list of all employees. Details about implementation is described in the sections below.

In this template are placed three elements where properties ID, Name, and Address of some JSON object will be populated. loadJSON plugin will take JSON array, bind properties of the elements of the array to template and replicate template item bound with each element in the array. Additionally, inside the LI element is placed SPAN with class Manager where are placed two SPAN elements for manager's first name and last name, and data list with class "Employees" where can be placed first and last name of employees.
 "ID": 17,
 "Name": "Emkay Entertainments",
 "Address": "Nobel House, Regent Centre",
 "Manager": {
 "FirstName": "John",
 "LastName": "Doe"
 "Employees": [ {
 "FirstName": "Brian",
 "LastName": "Hunt"
 "FirstName": "Mick",
 "LastName": "Henning"
 "ID": 18,
 "Name": "The Empire",
 "Address": "Milton Keynes Leisure Plaza",
 "Manager": {
 "FirstName": "Ana",
 "LastName": "Johnsnon"
 "Employees": [
 "FirstName": "Erick",
 "LastName": "O'Neil"
 "FirstName": "George",
 "LastName": "Halloway"
This array contains elements with properties ID, Name, and Address that will be bound directly to the elements in the HTML template. Additionaly it has nested object Manager with the FirstName and LastName properties, and nested array of Employees with their own FirstName and LastName properties. JQuery loadJSON plugin generate nested list Employees records inside each of the generated company records. This way is implemented hierachical template for nested objects.
Template is defined in the LI HTML element, and under assumption that JSON array is placed into the "hierarchy.js" file, the following code generates output HTML using template and JSON array:
As a results of this call will be generated output shown in the live example above.