Is Uber really decreasing ambulance usage?
Two economists conclude that Uber availability has reduced EMS ambulance transport by 7 percent in major U.S. cities
After calculating the availability of Uber and ambulance usage in major U.S. cities, two economists have concluded that the availability of ride-sharing services has decreased ambulance usage by at least seven percent. Their research is a helpful follow-up to anecdotal reports that patients are picking Uber and Lyft instead of ambulance transport.
Intuitively, it makes sense that given alternative and easily accessible options to reach the hospital, the market would choose those options. An Uber or Lyft ride is a couple of swipes away for millions of users. We are also in a cultural moment of celebrating the gig economy and how it's disrupting everything from vehicle ownership, to vacation lodging, to healthcare.
A medical director of mine was fond of reminding us, "Correlation does not equal causation." Have the researchers truly discovered causation; more Uber cars available leads to less ambulance trips per year? Or have they observed a correlation between two variables?
Are patients asking you if they should have called an Uber or Lyft ride instead of ambulance?
Are patients asking you if they should have called an Uber or Lyft ride instead of ambulance? (Photo/Pixabay)
The full paper, including the description of methods, is worth reading and it's embedded below. Are there other explanations for a decrease in ambulance usage? Several that come to mind for me include:
 - An improving economy. It's good for one's health, generally, to have a job, regular income and benefits.
 - The rate of uninsured Americans has decreased in the wake of the Affordable Care Act. A standard benefit of health insurance is better access to preventative care, vaccinations and immunizations, prescription fulfillment, treatment adherence and health condition screening.
 - Preventative care, through community paramedicine and other social services, often targets the highest ambulance utilizers. It seems a stretch, but plausible, that ambulance use might drop by several percentage points because of call reduction to the top 10, 25, 50 or 100 utilizers in a community.
I don't have data to back up my assertions. Rather, I am suggesting other variables that might have a causation or correlation impact on ambulance usage.
Pros of picking Uber over an ambulance
For consumers, there are many pros to picking an Uber or other types of self-transport over an ambulance. Those reasons include:
 - Knowing the arrival time for the ride-share car at the patient's side.
 - Pricing for the transport is known at the time of request, and depending on proximity, could be considerably less expensive.
 - Selecting their destination, even if it's not the nearest receiving facility.
The only time most people think about EMS and the nearest ambulance is the time between their 911 call and the arrival of the ambulance. Watching the Uber vehicle near its destination on a smartphone map has a longer lead time, with accompanying peace of mind that help is on the way, than listening for the wail of sirens or watching for the flashing of bright lights. Even if that help is just a ride to the hospital.
Cons of picking Uber over an ambulance
For the patient, the biggest con or risk is their condition deteriorating or becoming emergent during transport. It's reasonable for fire chiefs and paramedic chiefs to caution the public about picking an Uber instead of an ambulance when their life is at risk. If their time-critical illness becomes life threatening, it may go unrecognized and untreated by the layperson driver. Other cons of calling an Uber instead of an ambulance include:
 - Selecting an inappropriate facility for the illness or injury, followed by a subsequent trip in another Uber or an ambulance.
 - Delaying care for emergency conditions like myocardial infarction, asthma exacerbation, severe hemorrhage or anaphylaxis that could have been initiated on scene by medical first responders and continued during ambulance transport by EMTs or paramedics.
 - Transportation may not have been the treatment the patient needed. EMTs and paramedics have increasing options for on-scene treatment without transport or the ability to transport the patient to a non-hospital receiving facility.
Make Uber an option for 911 callers
The research doesn't explain if some of the Uber rides were at the direction or scheduling of a 911 operator or hospital-initiated program to transport patients for follow-up or ongoing care. If a nurse, working in a 911 center, is used to triage a low acuity patient into a ride-share vehicle instead of an ambulance, that's still an EMS transport. It's just in a vehicle with lower capital costs and overhead.
What do you tell patients, Uber vs. ambulance?
Patients commonly ask us for reassurance about their decision to call for an ambulance. Are patients asking you if they should have called an Uber or Lyft ride instead of ambulance? If yes, what are you telling them?
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The skeleton-bound organic nitrogen in reef-building symbiotic corals may be a high-resolution archive of ocean nitrogen cycle dynamics and a tool for understanding coral biogeochemistry and physiological processes. However, the existing methods for measuring the isotopic composition of coral skeleton-bound organic nitrogen (hereafter, CS-δ15N) either require too much skeleton material or have low precision, limiting the applications of this relatively new proxy. In addition, the controlling factors on CS-δ15N remain poorly understood: the δ15N of source nitrogen and the internal nitrogen cycle of the coral/zooxanthellae symbiosis may both be important. Here, we describe a new ("persulfate/denitrifier"-based) method for measuring CS-δ15N, requiring only 5mg of skeleton material and yielding a long-term precision better than 0.2‰ (1σ). Using this new method, we investigate CS-δ15N at Bermuda. Ten modern Diploria labyrinthiformis coral cores/colonies from 4 sampling sites were measured for CS-δ15N. Nitrogen concentrations (nitrate+nitrite, ammonium, and dissolved organic nitrogen) and δ15N of plankton were also measured at these coral sites. Among the 4 sampling sites, CS-δ15N shows an increase with proximity to the island, from ~3.8‰ to ~6.8‰ vs. atmospheric N2, with the northern offshore site having a CS-δ15N 1-2‰ higher than the δ15N of thermocline nitrate in the surrounding Sargasso Sea. Two annually resolved CS-δ15N time series suggest that the offshore-inshore CS-δ15N gradient has persisted since at least the 1970s. Plankton δ15N among these 4 sites also has an inshore increase, but of only ~1‰. Coral physiological change must explain the remaining (~2‰) inshore increase in CS-δ15N, and previous work points to the coral/zooxanthellae N cycle as a control on host tissue (and thus carbonate skeletal) δ15N. The CS-δ15N gradient is hypothesized to result mainly from varying efficiency in the internal nitrogen recycling of the coral/zooxanthellae symbiosis. It is proposed that, in more productive inshore waters, greater food uptake by the coral causes a greater fraction of its low-δ15N regenerated ammonium to be excreted rather than assimilated by zooxanthellae, raising the δ15N of the inshore corals. If so, coral tissueand CS-δ15N may prove of use to reconstruct and monitor the state of the coral/zooxanthellae symbiosis over space and time.
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Geochemistry and Petrology

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An enhancement has been observed in the inclusive cross section for direct single electrons produced in e+e- annihilations at the (4S). This is interpreted as evidence for a new weakly decaying particle, the B meson. A branching ratio for BXe of [133 (3)]% is inferred, where the first set of errors is statistical and the estimated systematic error is enclosed in parentheses.
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Family therapy in Inverness, Highlands
Family therapy is about helping families and 'family like groups' find ways to improve things as a family unit using constructive methods. At our Inverness centre, our experienced family therapists will work with all members of the family – young and old – helping you explore ways to move forward as a family unit and providing support as you make changes.
Can family therapy help my family?
There are a number of common issues that can have a huge impact on family relationships. Our family therapists are particularly experienced at supporting families experiencing the following issues:
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- Emotional difficulties after bereavement
- Eating disorders
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- Social policy, such as child protection
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Sometimes if an individual or couple within the family is experiencing particular difficulties, we may suggest individual or couples therapy for them in addition to attending family therapy. We are able to offer a range of therapy options at our Inverness centre including therapy for children or young people.


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For this example, a hand-drawn sketch was scanned and imported as an image and will be traced over, to demonstrate the freehand tool functionality.
The new Freehand tool preference gives the option to specify the degree of smoothing.
The higher the smoothing, the smoother the curve will be, and fewer vertices will be created. The Freehand tool can also be set to no smoothing to revert to the legacy Freehand tool functionality.\
The pond in the upper left corner was traced using the Freehand tool with a high smoothing preference. It is important to note that the speed at which the mouse is moved is not directly correlated to the number of vertices that are created, as the legacy Freehand tool functioned.
The new edit mode of the Freehand tool allows editing on the fly, saving editing steps later with the 2D Reshape tool.
The edit mode can add or subtract area to the polylines simply by snapping to the edge of the polylines, dragging the mouse to create the new surface and snapping back to the edge of the polyline.
The editing capabilities of the Freehand tool are not limited to objects created using the Freehand tool. The edit mode can also be applied to any other 2D objects, such as squares, polygons, circles, arcs, etc.
The edit mode can also be used to subtract surface area from 2D objects. Repeat the same steps used for adding a surface above.

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 [de-ku'bĭ-tus] (pl. decu'bitus) (L.)
1. the act of lying down.
2. the position assumed in lying down.
3. obsolete term for pressure ulcer. adj., adj decu'bital.
Andral's decubitus decubitus on the affected side, a position assumed in the early stages of pleurisy.
dorsal decubitus lying on the back.
lateral decubitus lying on one side, designated right lateral decubitus when the subject lies on the right side and left lateral decubitus when on the left side.
ventral decubitus lying on the stomach.
Andral's decubitus
An obsolete term that formerly dignified a position allegedly assumed by patients with early pleuritis, as described by G Andral (1797–1876).


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Position Overview: We are seeking a skilled and proactive Knowledge Operations Manager to lead our document operations team and ensure the accuracy, clarity, and compliance of our knowledge base and processes. The successful candidate will play a vital role in maintaining high-quality documentation, improving team efficiency, and contributing to the success of our organization. This role requires a detail-oriented individual with exceptional organizational skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
Knowledge Operations Manager Responsibilities: As the Knowledge Operations Manager for our documents team, you will be responsible for the following:
- Knowledge Base Management:
- Own and maintain our knowledge base system, ensuring all content is accurate, up-to-date, and easy to navigate.
- Collaborate with various teams to gather and update information, troubleshoot issues, and improve overall knowledge base usability.
- Proactively identify knowledge gaps and work to address them through clear and concise documentation.
- Quality Assurance and Compliance:
- Set and monitor performance metrics for document specialists and subject matter experts (SMEs).
- Oversee the rollout of new document requirements and ensure compliance with state regulations.
- Collaborate with Legal and Compliance teams to maintain a comprehensive understanding of legal obligations and risks, making informed decisions that align with our organization's goals.
- Process Improvement:
- Develop and implement effective processes for identifying new document requirements and proactively building rollout plans.
- Streamline document creation and update processes to ensure agents are equipped with accurate information for handling new requirements.
- Identify areas for improvement in team accuracy and efficiency and implement strategies to address them.
- Team Collaboration:
- Conduct weekly calls with facilities to understand requirement needs at both facility and state levels.
- Engage with facilities that have low fill rates to address challenges and improve performance.
- Foster collaboration with cross-functional teams to enhance the quality of documentation and align knowledge base updates with organizational goals.
- Continuing Education and Training:
- Revamp and manage the continuing education program for SMEs and specialists, ensuring all updated processes are effectively communicated and understood.
- Develop and administer knowledge check tests to identify gaps and opportunities for improvement in the knowledge base.
- Utilize assessment results to update knowledge base pages and enhance overall training materials.
- Bachelor's degree in a relevant field or equivalent work experience.
- Excellent attention to detail and the ability to create clear and concise documentation.
- Proven track record of improving team accuracy, efficiency, and performance.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to proactively identify and address issues.
- Effective communication and collaboration skills, including the ability to work with cross-functional teams.
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- Proficiency in using knowledge base software and tools.
- Prior experience in process improvement initiatives is a plus.
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Leading up to today, Disney Parks commissioned the most comprehensive survey on vacation memories ever undertaken. Travel trend watcher Ypartnership surveyed 3,600 Americans and Canadians about what makes today's family vacations memorable for both parents and children and there's some interesting findings we can share with you now:
- Nine out of 10 parents said they planned their vacations with the express hope that they would result in a lasting family memory.
- More than two-thirds of family travelers say they think back "often" or "very often" on their favorite vacation experiences.
- Digital photos represent the most popular way to memorialize vacation memories today, cited by 82 percent of respondents.
- The most positive vacation memories are associated with vacations that include both parents and siblings.
- Traditional photo albums remain the preferred method of sharing vacation memories, but 45 percent of family vacationers now post vacation content on social media sites.
- One out of five family travelers share the events that make the memories "real time" as they actually occur.
Here's an interview with Ypartnership CEO Peter Yesawich who shares more insight into some vacation memory trends.


text: The bacterial 16S tag-encoded FLX-titanium amplicon pyrosequencing (bTEFAP) method was used to carry out the classification analysis of bacterial flora in adult female and male horn flies and horn fly eggs. The bTEFAP method identified 16S rDNA sequences in our samples which allowed the identification of various prokaryotic taxa associated with the life stage examined. This is the first comprehensive report of bacterial flora associated with the horn fly using a culture-independent method. Several rumen, environmental, symbiotic and pathogenic bacteria associated with the horn fly were identified and quantified. This is the first report of the presence of Wolbachia in horn flies of USA origin and is the first report of the presence of Rikenella in an obligatory blood feeding insect.


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The BBC was present at the convention doing some great work with archives. George Wright, Head of Prototyping, BBC Research and Development and his team are working with sixty years worth of World Service archives, that's around 500 terrabytes of audio.
The aim of the work is to help users find what they need more easily. The historical importance of the collection is considerable and it will become far more useful once it has been properly tagged with data that is searchable.
The archives have almost no metadata, so the team has created a speech recognition system which goes through the archive and adds tags so that users can navigate. Along with the machine recognition, listeners are volunteering to correct and add tags to ensure that it is all correct.
The R&D team at the BBC built its speech recognition system on top of existing open source software. The audio from BBC World Service has its own idiosyncracies that make speech recognition a tricky prospect for accuracy. If you have heard past broadcasts from the global radio network, you'll spot that people spoke English in a quite different way in the 50s in comparison with the language used today. Add this to the difficulties in recognising proper nouns and foreign words and you can see what the software is up against.
Once the material is tagged properly, it can be used in a number of ways for re-broadcasting, primary source research and to add value to future broadcasts. The archive material is mostly programming and features rather than news reports, but the standard of interviews and the historical value of the archive is unquestionable.
Check out the video where Wright describes the process of tagging audio and how the BBC's history and future has a strong tradition of collaboration and engineering.
You can find more of our video coverage and catch up with the future of broadcasting from IBC here.


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Kruger House Museum, Pretoria
The last house in which President Paul Kruger was to live, between 1883 and 1901, before he left South Africa to go into exile in Europe, the Kruger House Museum lies just a few blocks from Church square, where his bronze statue takes centre stage facing the Palace of Justice.
The beautiful Victorian style home was interestingly built using milk instead of water for mixing the cement as the cement of the time was deemed to be of a poor quality. Paul Kruger's home was one of the first in the city to use electricity, and he had one of the first telephones installed in Pretoria in 1891. The unpretentious home has been refurbished to reflect the time when Kruger and his second wife, Gezina Kruger, lived here and, amongst a number of bits and pieces is a knife that Oom Paul (Uncle Paul), as he was fondly known, used to amputate his thumb after a shooting incident. The lions on the verandah were given to Kruger by Barney Barnato, the mining magnate, as a birthday present in 1896.
Paul Kruger was State President of the South African Republic and was renowned internationally for his struggle for freedom from the British during the Second Boer War (1899 - 1902). Both the Kruger National Park and the Krugerrand coin are named after him, and today pipe manufacturers continue to produce a style called 'Oom Paul', that is similar to the large-bowled, full-bent shape of the pipe with which he was so often portrayed in photographs. Interestingly, the hat he wore on his voyage to Europe is today displayed at the Rijksmuseum in the Netherlands.
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Why You Should Use LCNC To Improve Workflows
The issues with poorly designed workflow processes are well known: lost data, task duplication and wasted time (to name a few). According to IDC, companies lose 20-30% of their revenue every year due to inefficiencies. As the need to drive efficiencies—or the risk of becoming obsolete—becomes more acute, organizations are examining their business processes and workflows. They are identifying where they are cumbersome, out of date, or just generally suboptimal—and how these workflows can be improved.
Unfortunately, while business units seek to drive efficiencies and increase productivity, the IT team is already overburdened. It does not have the resources available to fully support business users in the design and implementation of improved workflows. IT alone cannot create applications as urgently as the business demands them.
This is where citizen development and the use of low-code/no-code (LCNC) platforms becomes key. Here are the key benefits of using LCNC in the re-design of workflows (compared to traditional application development):
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nandor (Qenya)
Main article: Nandor
nandor is a Qenya word meaning "farmer".[1]
While listed by Helge Fauskanger in his Neo-Quenya wordlists, he notes that the word is "perhaps obsolete in LotR-style Quenya, clashing with the name of the Nandor".[2]
[edit] Cognates
 2. Helge Fauskanger, "English-Quenya Wordlist (Quettaparma Quenyanna)" at Ardalambion (accessed 16 June 2011)


November 16, 2020
Transportation Week Night Quiz (11-16-2020)
by Chompers
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Do YOU know which train goes the fastest? Find out the answer to our quiz tonight on Chompers!
>> Rachel: Welcome back to Chompers, your morning and night toothbrushing show. Ready to find out the answer to today's quiz?
>> KIDS: Yeah!
>> Rachel: Well then we better start brushing! Get your toothbrush ready and start on the top of your mouth on one side, and don't brush too hard!
>> KIDS: 3, 2, 1 brush!
>> Rachel: In this morning's quiz, we wanted to know:
Which of these trains is as fast as some airplanes?
When you hear the answer you picked, raise your hand way up high!
A steam engine train (SFX TOOT TOOT)
A subway train (SFX SUBWAY )
A Maglev train (SFX HOVERING)
The answer is (SFX DRUMROLL) … a Maglev train can go almost 400 miles an hour, which is faster than some airplanes! (SFX KIDS WOW)
Switch your brushing to the other side of the top of your mouth and make sure to brush the inside, outside and the chewing side of each tooth.
This morning we learned Maglev trains are powered by MAGNETS
So MAGLEV trains use the power of magnets to "levitate." Which means to is to float in the air.
Magnets can either snap together, or push apart!
But how do magnets really work?
What makes magnets stick together or push apart is a part of the magnet called the POLE.
Switch your brushing to the bottom of your mouth, and keep brushing in small circles all around your teeth.
All magnets have TWO poles. A North Pole (SFX D NOTE), and a South Pole (SFX C NOTE).
If you take two magnets and try to put their NORTH poles together, those magnets will PUSH away from each other (SFX WRONG BUZZER). They won't stick together no matter what you try!
The same thing happens if you try to put the south pole side of two magnets together. They'll push away! (WRONG BUZZER)
Switch your brushing to the other side of the bottom of your mouth and make sure to brush all the way back to those molars!
So how DO magnets stick?
Well, if you put one magnet's north pole (SFX D NOTE) against another magnet's south pole (SFX C NOTE)
Bingo! (SFX DING-DONG) Those magnets will pull together. (SFX DING-DONG)
Alright you're all done brushing for today. Come back tomorrow for more Chompers and to learn about airplanes on Transportation Week. Get some good sleep, and don't forget to
>> KIDS: 3, 2, 1 spit!


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Imperial Shag (Phalacrocorax Atriceps), Antarctic Peninsula
The Imperial Shag, otherwise known as the Imperial Cormorant, hunts in 'rafts', or large groups of hundreds which dive down together in "pursuit-diving" of fish, at up to 25 metres depth.
Given that the Imperial Shag has a small range and is usually found in small populations, pollution or chance extreme weather events can threaten a whole colony.


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By fading of your radio signal we mean that incident wave change in the sector strength of signal received from distant transmitter. The fading of signal may be put in the following two categories namely general fading or synchronous fading and selective fading. The fading is caused because of interference between waves that have traveled by slightly different paths. The fading generally is slow taking some minutes to visit from maximum to minimum signal strength. Generally the entire signal fades synchronously. Such a fading is known as general fading or synchronous fading. Amplitude modulated signals traveling through ionosphere experience general fading. The fading might be sensitive to frequency. Thus in amplitude modulated carrier wave the carrier as well as the two side bands may well not fade inside and out synchronously. Such a fading is called as selective fading. Selective fading commonly ends in signals involving large bandwidth like frequency … Read the rest
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Choose littermates of the same sex to reduce the chance of chinchillas fighting. Only put them together if have grown up together – and make sure they are of the same sex – male with male, female with female.
Avoid unwanted litters. Keep male and female chinchillas apart well before eight months old, as this is when they become sexually mature. Unless neutered, they will breed and usually produce a litter of two babies. It can be difficult to find homes for their young.
Choose littermates of the same sex to reduce the chance of ferrets fighting. Only put them together if have grown up together – and make sure they are of the same sex – male with male, female with female.
Avoid unwanted litters. Keep unneutered male and female ferrets apart as they will breed. It can be hard to find homes for their young.
Avoid unwanted litters. Keep males and females apart as they can breed from about 10 weeks of age. Each litter can produce three to six babies, which can be hard to find a home for.
Choose littermates of the same sex to reduce the chance of guinea pigs fighting. Only put them together if have grown up together – and make sure they are of the same sex – male with male, female with female.
Avoid unwanted litters. Keep male and female guinea pigs apart unless they are neutered. Males can father babies at around nine weeks of age – and females as young as three weeks old. They will breed litters, usually of one to six babies, which can be hard to find homes for.
Keep rabbits and guinea pigs apart. Rabbits can bully and injure guinea pigs. They need their own kind for company.
Avoid unwanted litters. Keep male and female mice apart from before six weeks old. After that they become sexually mature, they will breed and produce an average litter of 5 to 12 babies, which can be difficult to find homes for.
If they do live alone, let them interact with you and other people they trust every day.
How to put rats together
- It's best to put littermates together who have grown up together – males with males, females with females – as they are less likely to fight.
- Females are less likely to fight each other than males living together.
- Keep males and females apart to avoid unwanted litters.
- To put two males together, it may be better to make one of them a baby male, as the older one will be more likely to accept them.
How to introduce unrelated rats
- Always introduce unrelated rats on neutral territory, as rats can be very territorial.
- Initially let them meet for a small amount of time. Gradually extend the time, until they show signs of getting along. Give them a couple of weeks to learn to get along: after that, they usually become the best of friends. They can then move into a cage together that neither have lived in for a week or so – or the smell of the other rat will be there and rats will become territorial.
- Keep a close eye on them and if there is bullying behaviour or fighting, it's best to keep them apart. You need to remain calm too: rats are very good at picking up signs of stress.
Avoid unwanted litters. Keep male and female rats apart from five weeks old. They become sexually mature between six to eight weeks old and can produce litters of between 8 to 18 babies.
How do I know if my rats are being aggressively fighting or just play-fighting?
Look for the signs below. Rats often play with each other, even as adults. Some owners confuse harmless play fighting with true aggression – and make them live alone unnecessarily. Squeaking doesn't always mean a rat is harmed: they do this with both play fighting and aggressive fighting.
Signs of aggressive fighting:
- One of the rats' fur stands on end during the fighting
- Injuries are caused
- One rat attempts to bite the other's bottom or sides
- One of the rats – the weaker one – hides a lot, or creeps nervously around the cage
Signs of play fighting:
- Both rats take turns in chasing and pinning the other rat
- The "bites" – which don't cause injury – are aimed at the back of the neck
Separate rats who frequently fight each other aggressively, to avoid stress and injury.
Syrian hamsters must be housed alone or they will fight if kept together. Dwarf hamsters will often live happily in pairs.


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Attorney for Accidents caused by Drunk Drivers
The legal limit for adult blood alcohol is 0.08% in Washington state. Many studies have been done on drunk driving accidents and, in general, it appears that:
- Drunk drivers are more likely to be male than female;
- They're more likely to be younger than older;
- Of the motorcycle riders killed in traffic accidents, about a third of them have blood alcohol greater than 0.08%;
- Of the children killed each year in traffic accidents, about 14% die from alcohol-related accidents;
- About a fifth of road accident deaths involve drugs such as cocaine or marijuana as well as alcohol;
- Most drivers convicted of drunk driving are habitually heavy drinkers or outright alcoholics (alcohol-dependent).
- In 2010, US adults drove impaired about 112 million times.
Drunk Driver Auto Accident Injuries
Whether and how badly you might be injured in a traffic accident depends on many factors:
- Force of the impact
- Direction and location of the impact on your vehicle
- Type of vehicles involved
- Position of your headrest
- Direction you were facing relative to the impact
- Whether you saw the crash coming or not
- Whether you were thrown from your seat at all and hit against the interior of the car
The severity of injury can also be affected by many factors, such as:
- How quickly medical help arrives,
- Whether anybody tries to move you and inadvertently worsens your condition
- Your basic health
- Your age
The most dangerous injuries are those to the head and spinal cord, because injury to the central nervous system can impair such important abilities as sight, speech, memory, movement and sensation. Burn injuries are also very dangerous, as they're slow to heal, tend to leave large scars, and can impair movement and sensation.
At Fuller and Fuller Law Firm, we understand how distressing it can be if you're injured in a drunk driving accident. If you're too injured to come to us, we can go to you. We'll investigate your situation, gather the facts, and fight for your fair compensation. If you've been injured in an accident with a drunk driver in Tacoma, Olympia, Washington, or any of the surrounding communities, contact our auto accident attorneys today for your free initial consultation.
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On the number of essential arguments of homomorphisms between products of median algebras
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In this paper we characterize classes of median-homomorphisms between products of median algebras, that depend on a given number of arguments, by means of necessary and sufficent conditions that rely on the underlying algebraic and on the underlying order structure of median algebras. In particular, we show that a median-homomorphism that take values in a median algebra that does not contain a subalgebra isomorphic to the m-dimensional Boolean algebra as a subalgebra cannot depend on more than \(m-1\) arguments. In view of this result, we also characterize the latter class of median algebras. We also discuss extensions of our framework on homomorphisms over median algebras to wider classes of algebras.
KeywordsMedian algebra Median-homomorphism Essential argument Hypercube-freeness Congruence distributivity
Mathematics Subject Classification06A12 06D99 06F99
The authors would like to thank the anonymous referee for his/her thorough review and insightful remarks that improved the current paper and that led to the extension of our results to wider classes of algebras.
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sleep - suspend execution for an interval
The sleep utility will suspend execution for at least the integral number of seconds specified by the time operand.
The following operands are supported:
- A non-negative decimal integer specifying the number of seconds for which to suspend execution.
The following environment variables affect the execution of sleep:
- Provide a default value for the internationalisation variables that are unset or null. If LANG is unset or null, the corresponding value from the implementation-dependent default locale will be used. If any of the internationalisation variables contains an invalid setting, the utility will behave as if none of the variables had been defined.
- If set to a non-empty string value, override the values of all the other internationalisation variables.
- Determine the locale for the interpretation of sequences of bytes of text data as characters (for example, singleas opposed to multi-byte characters in arguments).
- Determine the locale that should be used to affect the format and contents of diagnostic messages written to standard error.
- Determine the location of message catalogues for the processing of LC_MESSAGES.
If the sleep utility receives a SIGALRM signal, one of the following actions will be taken:
- Terminate normally with a zero exit status.
- Effectively ignore the signal.
- Provide the default behaviour for signals described in the ASYNCHRONOUS EVENTS section of Utility Description Defaults
. This could include terminating with a non-zero exit status.
The sleep utility will take the standard action for all other signals.
Used only for diagnostic messages.
The following exit values are returned:
- The execution was successfully suspended for at least time seconds, or a SIGALRM signal was received (see the ASYNCHRONOUS EVENTS section).
- An error occurred.
The sleep utility can be used to execute a command after a certain amount of time, as in:
(sleep 105; command) &
or to execute a command every so often, as in:
while true do command sleep 37 done
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Natural mentors have been shown to help improve psychological and educational outcomes of youth, and may serve an important role for youth experiencing risk in the home.
Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health), we investigated the associations between natural mentors during youth and income during early adulthood, including how these relations were moderated by the absence of a father figure and race. We also estimated the lifetime economic benefits to having a natural mentor.
- The presence of a natural mentor alone did not have a significant impact on annual earnings during adulthood.
- However, youth without a father but who had a male mentor earned significantly more, on average, than those without a male mentor.
- These effects were more pronounced in a subsample of African American youth.
- The net present value of total lifetime benefits to having a male natural mentor was approximately $190,000 for all fatherless youth and $458,000 for African American fatherless youth.
These results suggest that natural mentors play a crucial role in economic outcomes for youth, which may vary by sociodemographic factors.


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The power of a learning supply chain
The shift to ecommerce and faster, cheaper delivery has meant exponential growth in orders and shipments. The added complexity in the supply chain is now too much for humans to make optimized decisions. Machine learning can take these vast amounts of data and turn them into improved, end-to-end operations.
Read to find out the answers to:
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EMF Client Platform: Make It Happen! Day 0 and 1
EMF Client Platform: Make It Happen! Day 0 and 1
This part of the series describes how to get started with the EMF Client platform.
The EMF Client Platform is a framework that allows you to create and iteratively develop applications very efficiently starting with the bare description of the data entities of your application (e.g., as an EMF model or an XML Schema Definition). From the very start, the EMF Client Platform will provide you with a fully functioning application, including UI editors and a backend, everything based only on the data model.
Because frameworks are easier to explain and demonstrate with a real-world example, we are providing an example application for the EMF Client Platform called "Make It Happen". It is a very basic ToDo management application with a simple data model containing tasks and assignees. The example application is enhanced in different parts of the EMF Client Application and, therein the features of the framework are described. Every step provides a link to the respective tutorial that explains in detail how to implement the requirements using the EMF Client Platform.
This blog post will describe day 0 and 1 on a conceptual level.
Day 0: Creating the Model
Every EMF Client Platform application starts with an EMF model. In fact, creating a model is already enough to start a fully functioning application that is capable of creating, modifying, storing and browsing instances of this model. Creating a model is not directly related to the EMF Client Platform, so we will call this step "day 0". Day 0 is basically about defining the data entities of your application. On day 1, we will launch the application and enjoy all the features that are there without any additional effort. In this tutorial, we describe how to create the example model including different possibilities for your custom model. If you are already familiar with EMF, you can actually skip day 0 and continue with day 1.
For the example application "Make It Happen", we have chosen a very simple model containing two entities: Task and User. Tasks can form a hierarchy with subtasks and can be assigned to users.
A model of the example application "Make It Happen".
Please refer to this tutorial to learn how to create models in EMF. Alternatively, you can use the example above and continue with day 1.
Day 1: Start the Application
After creating the model shown above, you can immediately start the first version of the "Make It Happen" application without any additional configuration or code generation. This tutorial describes how to install the EMF Client Platform, launch the application and enjoy all the features that are there without any additional effort.
This first application already supports a lot of features such as:
Model Explorer: Showing the hierarchy of model instances, grouped in projects, which allow users to create new elements and change the hierarchy using drag and drop:
Editor: Showing one model element instance, selected in the Model Explorer. Allows users to modify attributes and references of one model element:
Repository Explorer: Showing data sources from which entities can be retrieved, e.g., local files, EMFStore, CDO or a database:
Please see the complete tutorial describing all available features in detail and explaining how to set-up the EMF Client Platform with a custom model.
If you prefer to create your own custom model, please refer to the tutorial describing how to create EMF models.
Please use the links below to see all posts in this series:
Make It Happen! Day 0 and 1
Make It Happen! Day 2
Make It Happen! Day 3
Make It Happen! Day 4


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By Maina Kiarie
Shimoni caves are located in Shimoni village, a sleepy fishing village about 75kms south of Mombasa near the Wasini Islands. Shimoni is along the Mombasa-Lungalunga road, in the heart of Digo land. In late 19th century, the Imperial British East Africa Company, the commercial company chartered by the British government to administer her sphere of influence in East Africa had its headquarters in Shimoni.
A cave is a natural opening in the ground, some part of which is in total darkness having extended beyond the zone of light and it is large enough for a human to enter. Caves are often found on hillsides or cliffs. Most caves are created when slowly-moving water dissolves or eats away at a rock, creating spaces, caverns and even tunnel-like passages.
The caves at Shimoni are limestone caves, several in number, once joined together and believed to extend some 5km inland. In Swahili, the word "Shimoni" means "the place of the hole". Shimoni village derives its name from the presence of caves by the seashore formed by natural forces millions of years back. It is very dark inside the bat infested caves at Shimoni.
During the Indian Ocean trade centuries ago the caves today known as Shimoni caves were used by slave merchants as holding pens for slaves captured by slave hunters -both Arab 'caravans' and Africansfrom the hinterland. The slaves-on-transit were shackled and then fastened on metal hooks on the cave walls to hinder their movement awaiting slave dhows to ship them to Zanzibar, the main slave market on the East African Coast. Slaves were used as porters of ivory from the hinterland to the coast for shipment.
From Zanzibar the slaves were shipped to Arabia, Yemen, Turkey, India and Persia. Driven by the sultanates of the Middle East slave trade in East Africa resulted in African slaves serving as sailors in Persia, pearl divers in the Gulf, soldiers in the Omani army, workers on the salt pans of Mesopotamia (modern day Iraq), domestic slaves, and women as sex slaves.
In the caves can be found iron shackles on the walls, wooden crates likely used to transport slaves in, and old rusted pieces of chains. The metallic studs against which the slaves were held are now being swallowed by stalactites (a type of secondary mineral that hangs from the ceiling of limestone caves) and stalagmites (a type of secondary mineral that rises from the floor of a limestone cave) but some are still visible. They create a picture of what the conditions were like for the slaves held there.
It is also believed that before slave trade peaked at the East African coast in the 18th and 19th centuries Shimoni caves were used as kayas, religious shrines, by the locals and as a hiding place when attacked by warring communities.


) 1963 similar to that in the 1949 Act.[153] The first motorway to open was the M1 motorway, though it did so under temporary powers until the Special Roads Act had been passed.[154] Work on the motorways continued until the 1970s when the oil crisis and The Troubles both intervened causing the abandonment of many schemes.[155]
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Motorways referred to as an expressway in Australia include the Hunter Expressway, which connects the Hunter Region with Newcastle, and the Southern Expressway, which connects Adelaide's outer southern suburbs to the southwestern suburbs.
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New Zealand's first motorway opened in December 1950 near Wellington, running from Johnsonville to Tawa. This five-kilometre (3.1 mi) motorway now forms the southern part of the Johnsonville-Porirua Motorway and part of State Highway 1.[157] Auckland's first stretch of motorway was opened in 1953 between Ellerslie and Mount Wellington (between present-day exit 435 and exit 438), and now forms part of the Southern Motorway.[158]
Most major urban areas in New Zealand feature limited-access highways. Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, Hamilton, Tauranga, and Dunedin contain motorways, with only Auckland having a substantial motorway network.
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Printing memory
So I want to create a program that will print out every memory location and the value located on that address. How would I do this?
I'm well aware I need to use pointers, I was thinking maybe a concactinated loop that creates/modifies a string and then casting it to an integer that I can make equal to another integer and then cout<<&integer;.
Any ideas/thoughts/concerns?
You may have asked something similar @ the MSDN forums and I may have already answer you, but just in case here it goes:
Google up "virtual address space" to learn why you cannot access the memory contents of other executables running. Having said that, with sufficient privileges you can use ReadProcessMemory() to read specific locations of virtual memory in other executables. Google that up too.
If you do not want to read other processes' memory, then you can just attempt to read each memory address in the process address space. Some you'll be able to read, some you won't. You'll probably required structure error handling to avoid bad crashes. Google that up too.
I don't go into more detail because the topics involved are extensive. Best if you read about the subject from more authoritative sources.
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Revista Brasileira de Ciência do Solo
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SANTANA, Reynaldo Campos et al. Nutrient allocation in eucalypt plantations in Brazil. Rev. Bras. Ciênc. Solo [online]. 2008, vol.32, n.spe, pp. 2723-2733. ISSN 0100-0683. _URL_
Forest management practices can alter nutrient exportation from the site. The purpose of this study was to estimate nutrient contents in the aboveground biomass of eucalyptus plantations in Brazil. The influence of key climatic variables on eucalypt productivity and nutrient content was evaluated, using the database from the Reserch Programa on Soil and Eucalyptus Nutrition of the Soil Science, Departament - Federal University of Viçosa, Minas Gerais State, Brazil. Climatic characteristics were an important component of the models. In regions with low water availability the nutrient accumulation in aboveground biomass as well as biomass production were lower. The highest proportion of all nutrients (68 % N, 69 % P, 67 % K, 63 % Ca, and 68 % Mg) was accumulated in the biomass within 4.5 years after planting for harvesting after approximately 6.5 years. After 4.5 years, the potential of fertilizer response was lower. Canopy and stem bark together accounted for 65 % N, 70 % P, 64 % K, 79 % Ca, and 79 % Mg in the aboveground biomass. Debarking in the field can therefore substantially reduce nutrient exportation and contribute to a more sustainable production in eucalyptus plantations.
Keywords : Forest nutrition; biomass; macronutrients.


text: MEGA improves spectroscopy by revealing spectral peaks of interest which would otherwise remain hidden. It also allows detection and relative quantification of J-coupled metabolites such as gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) by automatically removing the spectral overlap from other metabolites. (In conventional spectroscopy, removing spectral overlap is only possible with spectral editing.) Frequency-selective RF pulses are included to manipulate the evolution of J-coupled MR signals. In addition, subtraction of onand off-resonance spectra is used for relative quantification of J-coupled metabolites.


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The Heartland Latino Leadership wishes to thank artist Linda Garcia for her design contributions. Each element of the design incorporates symbols that express the strength, hopes, and culture of the Latino community. Taken together, they relay an even more powerful message of progress toward a fulfilling destiny.
HEART is for the heartland and for the real leadership which must involve your Corazón (Heart and Spirit) as well as the mind.
HAND symbolizes hecho en Mexico or handmade in Mexico. Although all Latinos are not of Mexican heritage, this symbol was chosen because leadership needs hands on efforts to grow a strong community. Many indigenous people have a strong history of folk art.
SEED held in the palm of the Hand; the seed symbolizes growth. Leadership, like a planted seed, benefits not only the sower but a multitude of others.
FRIEZE within the Heart, the step like symbol is originally from Vera Cruz.
This ancient symbol was chosen to represent a historical perspective. You must know where you come from to know where you are going. One must perpetuate their heritage.
RIVERS the outside lines of the Heart represent the Missouri and the Platte Rivers, reinforces the heritage of the Heartland, and invokes it as a new gathering place.


Glass shape influences how quickly we down alcohol
Glass shape influences how quickly we down alcohol
Washington: How quickly you consume down an alcoholic drink may depend on the shape of the glass you're drinking from, a new study has suggested.
For the study, Dr Angela Attwood and colleagues from Bristol's School of Experimental Psychology recruited 160 social drinkers aged 18-40 with no history of alcoholism to attend two experimental sessions.
During one session they were asked to drink either lager or a non-alcoholic soft drink from either a straight-sided glass or a curved 'beer flute'.
They found that the participants were almost twice as slow when drinking alcohol from the straight-sided glass as compared to the curved glass.
However, there was no difference in drinking rates from the glasses when the drink was non-alcoholic.
Importantly, the degree of this error seemed to be associated with the speed of drinking – the participants who tended to show the greatest error in their halfway judgments tended to show the greatest changes in drinking rate.
Therefore, slower drinking rates is likely to have positive impact on the individual and also at a population level.
"Due to the personal and societal harms associated with heavy bouts of drinking, there has been a lot of recent interest in alcohol control strategies. While many people drink alcohol responsibly, it is not difficult to have 'one too many' and become intoxicated. Because of the negative effects alcohol has on decision making and control of behaviour, this opens us up to a number of risks," Dr Attwood said.
"People often talk of 'pacing themselves' when drinking alcohol as a means of controlling levels of drunkenness, and I think the important point to take from our research is that the ability to pace effectively may be compromised when drinking from certain types of glasses," she added.


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Class 1G have been looking at many different types of liquid as part of our early science work. The pupils have been exploring the difference between drinking liquid, cleaning liquid and liquids that we might use for cooking. We have introduced Class 1G to the idea of density – some liquids may be heavier than others. We have demonstrated this scientific fact by mixing milk and honey, and oil and water.
We have also been keen for Class 1G to look at how we can change the colour of liquid using food colouring. We asked each class member to experiment by adding some different colours to a small dish of milk. We then added more than one colour to observe how we can keep on changing the colour of a liquid. Other techniques such as blowing on the liquid to help to mix it were also explored.
A large focus for this learning has been safety. We want the pupils to understand the difference between liquids that we might drink, and liquids that we use to help with household cleaning. We asked the pupils to think of how we can recognise the differences, and what we should do if we are unsure.
You can watch a short video featuring our food colour mixing above.


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Share any resource with your children using the Twinkl Planner tool
The Planner tool tab can be found in the top right of every page on site. From any page, drag and drop resources into the Planner and organise them into named folders, lessons or collections. You can manage and share all your lessons in the Lessons Overview area.
What is the Twinkl Planner Tool?
The Twinkl Planner tool is a time-saving method for quickly and simply collating resources, which can then be easily shared with your children and with colleagues and parents.
Best of all, whoever you share your resources with will be able to access them without needing a Twinkl membership. Whether it's for teaching pupils online, supporting learning at home or collaborative working with colleagues, sharing resources using the Twinkl Planner tool can be a huge time-saver. Best of all, it's included in your Twinkl membership.
Take a look at our video below for all the details on using and making the most of this quick and simple tool.
You can use the Twinkl Planner to collate share ANY Twinkl resource in your membership directly with your child(ren). Your child(ren) can access and use the resources independently online in the classroom or at home.
There are two sharing methods available:
- The PIN code method allows you to share lessons, with a unique PIN code for each lesson.
- The Personal Child Login method - which you need to activate - allows you to share multiple lessons with custom groups, using usernames and passwords.
Please note that the Planner is currently available for desktop only.


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Distribution Table Top of page Sessipis distribution in this summary table is based on all the information available. Prospects for Biological Control. Seeds are dispersed by wind and water and stem fragments can be carried considerable distances by floodwater—downstream and out over floodplains.
A textual diagnostic description of the species that is not necessarily structured. Related observations Show all. Alternanthera triandaLam. An indication of whether a population is stable, or increasing or decreasing. It is true that they are plant ed in undesirable places sometimes but can also provide beneficial uses. Good descriptions of the plants with terse notes on their uses. Alternanthera tenuissimaSuess. This article shows how Alternanthera philoxeroides and Alternanthera sessilis have different water needs and will often be found in different areas and in different size populations according to water availability.
National Assessments, Alternanthera sessilis Summary: Molecular phylogenetics of Alternanthera Gomphrenoideae, Amaranthaceae: Pancho and Soerjani, ; Holm et al. Informations on Alternanthera sessilis has been recorded for the following locations. The plant grows wild, but is also cultivated for food, herbal medicines, as an ornamental plant red variety, as a hedging plantin the aquarium trade though it only grows submersed for short periodsand as poultry feed.
While it is typically found growing on disturbed parts of a variety of wetland habitats, including in water up to 1 m deep Gupta,the plant is adapted to both hydric and xeric conditions Datta and Biswas, Describes biorhythms – those states or conditions characterised by regular repetition in time, whether on the scale of seconds, hours, days, or seasons. University of the West Indies.
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On careful observation you will notice that flowers of Alternanthera sessilis are situated over the stem and their shape is round. Weed Science Society of the Philippines Inc. Invasive alien species in southern Africa: Bracts are ovate, concave, 0. International Rice Research Institute. An online database that provides taxonomic information, common names, synonyms and geographical jurisdiction of a species.
Zettler and Freeman in their discussion on the biocontrol of aquatic plants, state that in India, Alternanthera sessilis a near relative of alligatorweed, is affected by the fungial species Corticium solaniColletotrichum capsiciGlomerella cingulataPhoma spp.
Adventitious and post-cultural vegetation of Kisangani and the Tshopo Upper Zaire. Retrieved from " https: It is reported as native to some of the Pacific Ocean island groups and as introduced to others Gupta, Risk and Impact Factors Top of page Invasiveness Proved invasive outside its native range Has a broad native range Abundant in its native range Highly adaptable to different environments Is a habitat generalist Tolerates, or benefits from, cultivation, browsing pressure, mutilation, fire etc Pioneering in disturbed areas Highly mobile locally Benefits from human association i.
They are light sensitive and the average number of seeds per plant is ca Natural History Natural History Cyclicity. Found along the banks of fresh water streams, canals and ponds from plains to m. Food, Feed or Medicine: Contol and spread of Alligator Weed Alternanthera philoxeroides Mart. The main threat is competition from invasive species sessilks as A.
Alternanthera sessilis – Sessile Joyweed
The food preferences of translocated Rhinos in Manas National Park were studied to find out variati Domin Alternanthera nanaR. In North America it has been recorded flowering during summer or early autumn Holm et al.
Juice of the plant alternathera an ingredient in medicinal hair oils Gupta, The bract are shiny white under the flower's sessile spikes. Brown Alternanthera glabra Alternanthera nodiflora R. Vietnamese traditional medicine also holds an alternanfhera position within the health care system and many of the plants that are used have both dietary and medicinal functions.
This paper gives a detailed description of invasive species throughout southern Africa. Flora of the Marquesas. Factors leading to agro-biodiversity loss in developing countries: A total of species belo Message The user has shared this species from India Biodiversity Portal with you.
During August-October, Alternanthera sessilis produces many utricles that spread with wind and water. Plains from the coast to m.


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Job Title: Family Support Specialist
Location of the Job: Rutland, VT 05701
Years of Experience: 1 to 3 Years
Job Type: Full Time Employee
Education Level: Bachelor's degree
Family Support Specialist Works in partnership with families, social workers, and services providers to promote safety, permanency, and well-being for children and youth referred by the local child welfare agency.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Attends all mandatory training.
- Maintains client confidentiality.
- Maintains minimum direct service hour requirements.
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Quick Answer: Is MCT Good For Your Liver?
How much MCT oil should I take daily?
Start slow.
Most people love a daily dose of MCT oil, but if your body's not used to metabolizing MCTs, you need to give it some time to adjust.
Start with one teaspoon or less per day.
If all goes well, gradually increase your dose every few days or so..
How do you remove fat from your liver?
How do I make my liver healthy again?
How long does it take for MCT oil to take effect?
For those who are looking to get endurance-boosting benefits and better energy levels from their MCT oil, the best time to take MCT oil may be anywhere from 20 to 30 minutes before the workout. That way, it might provide you with sustained usable energy throughout the entire duration of your workout.
Does MCT oil really make a difference?
MCT oil is better for ketone production and weight loss The high intake of fat and low intake of carbs puts your body in a state of nutritional ketosis, in which it burns fat instead of glucose for fuel. Compared with coconut oil, MCT oil is better for ketone production and maintaining ketosis.
What is the nutritional value of MCT oil?
SpecificationNutritional Information1 Tbsp (15ml)Calorieskcal115Total Fatg14Saturated fatg14
What part of the body itches with liver problems?
Can MCT oil hurt your liver?
"Patients with uncontrolled diabetes should avoid taking MCT oil because of increased formation of ketones, which can worsen complications," said Onwuka. "Patients with liver disease like cirrhosis should also avoid taking it since MCTs are primarily metabolized in the liver."
Is MCT oil really good for you?
MCT oil has been shown to support weight and fat loss. This may, in turn, help reduce your risk for heart disease ( 1 ). A study of 24 overweight men found that taking MCT oil combined with phytosterols and flaxseed oil for 29 days reduced total cholesterol by 12.5%.
Does MCT oil make you poop?
Can MCT oil make you gain weight?
Do you poop less on keto?
Should MCT oil be taken on an empty stomach?
If we take MCT Oil on its own then some digestive upset can occur, especially when we are still new to consuming MCT Oil. Frankly there is no side effect to taking MCT Oil other than our body rejecting in the form of loose motions, either because we have taken too much too soon or taken it on an empty stomach.
Is MCT oil good for hair?
Like coconut oil, MCT oil is good for skin and hair, providing a natural moisturizer and helping detangle hair. Furthermore, it can be used to treat dandruff.
Which fruit is best for liver?
What are the side effects of MCT oil?
When taken by mouth: MCTs are LIKELY SAFE for most people when taken by mouth. They can cause diarrhea, vomiting, irritability, nausea, stomach discomfort, intestinal gas, essential fatty acid deficiency, and other side effects. Taking MCTs with food might reduce some side effects.
Are eggs good for liver repair?
Can you heal fatty liver?
In many cases, it's possible to reverse fatty liver through lifestyle changes. These changes may help prevent liver damage and scarring. The condition can cause inflammation, damage to your liver, and potentially irreversible scarring if it's not treated.
What happens if you take too much MCT oil?
Too much of this oil is bound to shock your digestive tract and cause it to react by trying to dispose of its contents through diarrhea. To avoid this, be sure to carefully set your MCT dosage. If you are new to using MCT oil in your diet, it is recommended that you start with a small daily dose of one teaspoon.
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Why more foreign students are attending Australian international schools
Southeast Asian students are flocking to Australian international schools. Source: Shutterstock
Australia has always been a popular destination for international students, but new reports show an influx of foreign student enrolments at Australian international schools at a rate that's unlikely to slow.
According to the Australian Financial Review, the number of non-native students at Australian international schools in 2018 increased by 11 percent from 2016. There are now over 25,000 international students enrolled in schools across the country.
These young learners make up such a significant portion of the K-12 student population that some schools are making special modifications to their facilities to accommodate them.
A hub for Southeast Asian students
Caralyn Dea, Director of International and Boarding at Toorak College, told the Australian Financial Review that the boarding school has 58 international students out of 62 boarders, out of which two-thirds come from China.
She said, "We've just finished renovating our boarding house. It's had a full redesign with feng shui principles built into the structure."
"A boarding school has its culture but it also has to reflect the values of the families who send their children to live and study there."
The major reason why parents from Southeast Asian families are choosing to send their children to Australia to study is to prepare them for university, on top of allowing them to receive a high-quality education delivered in English.
In countries like China, citizens are not proficient in English as it's not a language commonly spoken there. When enrolled in an Australian international school, foreign students can improve their English and subsequently enjoy an easier transition to university.
International schools also have smaller class sizes so teachers can focus more attention on students, helping them identify and address challenges they face.
Experience an English education in Australia
According to the Australian Financial Review, Toorak College "has a dedicated English language unit that ensures the foreign students are sufficiently fluent so they have every chance of high ATARs in their end-of-school exams."
Dr Minglu Chen, a lecturer at the University of Sydney's China Studies Centre, told ABC that families were looking for better English education and a pathway to top Australian universities for their children.
She said, "This is what we could expect from China's growing economy, which is at the moment is the second largest economy in the world, which actually also has a growing middle class.
"I think parents, wealthy middle class parents in China, would prefer their children to be educated in an English-speaking society."
Parents from Southeast Asian families want their kids to receive an overseas education mainly so that they can eventually work or settle down in that country.
The recent tensions between China and the US, as well as the visa crackdown under the Trump administration, is further driving families from Asia to choose Australia instead.
The chance to work overseas and earn a higher wage compared to their home countries is more likely to happen in Australia than the US or UK.
Plus, the country is closer to Asia than Europe, the US or Canada, so parents feel more comfortable sending their kids to Australia where they can visit them more easily or have them return home for short breaks.
By allowing them to receive an Australian primary and secondary school education, students leave better prepared for university life in the country as well as beint more adjusted to the local culture.
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Mar 22, 2010
Guest Blog - Electricity used when pulling weight
We don't typically post items related to science fairs (I get a lot of them - they're always enjoyable but most aren't related to NXT but just use an NXT robot to facilitate something else), but I thought this was an interesting project worth sharing, especially because it's using an NXT to obtain the results - I've posted Keizo's results in the accompanying image.
BTW - Keizo is in 4th grade.
Thanks for sending this in Keizo! - Jim
How Much Electricity Is Used When A Robot Pulls A Certain Weight
By Keizo M.
Hypothesis: I think that the robot will use twice as much electricity when the weight of the car is doubled.
Why I Chose This Project: Last year I got a LEGO Mindstorms NXT 2.0 for my birthday. I really enjoyed it, but while using it, I noticed that the batteries run out quickly. I decided to measure how much electricity would be used when a robot pulls a weight.
Materials: -Lego Mindstorms ® NXT 2.0 -Digital Voltmeter -6 Rechargeable Batteries -Weights
1) Make a robotic car out of Lego Mindstorms NXT 2.0
2) Program the car to go forward and backward for 10 minutes
3) Charge the batteries
4) Measure volts in batteries
5) Put batteries in the car
6) Put weight on the car
7) Run the program
8) After 10 minutes stop the car
9) Take out batteries, and collect data
10) Repeat step 3 through 7 with different weights
Conclusion: When weight was increased, more electricity was used but it didn't double. For example, when I doubled the weight from 1 pound to 2 pounds there was only a 0.066-volt difference.
Discussion: There wasn't a huge difference when I increased the weight. Next time, I should make the robot go for 30 minutes instead of 10 minutes or put a heavier weight
Posted by: James Floyd Kelly (Jim) at 7:26 AM


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Nigeria has a document called the Constitution which sets out the rules on how Nigeria should be run. You could say the constitution is the country's rule-book. Lots of countries have a constitution document that does the same job. Nigeria has had four constitutions since independence - the current constitution was made in 1999, the previous constitutions were made in 1979, 1963 and 1960. You can find a copy of Nigeria's current constitution here:
Nigeria's constitution splits the running of the country up into three arms. These arms are: the "Executive', the 'Legislative' and the 'Judiciary'. Each of these 'arms' or groups of leaders, has a lot of power to influence the way the country is run, but they each also serve to monitor the other arm to make sure that they do not start to misuse the power they have been given.
TIME TO TRY
Try and write a list of 5 rules you think should be in the constitution.


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|Manual for the Use of Focus Groups (Methods for Social Research in Disease) (International Nutrition Foundation for Developing Countries - INFDC, 1993, 97 pages)|
|Part II: Staff training for focus group discussions|
A debrief is a meeting that is held after each focus group to discuss all aspects of the session. The debrief is a very useful activity to include in the focus group session. It is very tempting to limit the debrief sessions to a minimum, but it is extremely useful in evaluating the quality of the session, improving the skills of the team, checking the responses, and designing further question guides or changing question lines.
14.2 The field debrief
This is a very short meeting that is held immediately after the focus group while the team is still in the field. It should be conducted away from the site of the focus group. As people will be rather tired after the session, do not expect the team to be able to give more than 15 minutes concentration time to the field debrief. This meeting should only be used for clearing up any confusion that a team member thinks may be forgotten by the time the full debrief session is held.
14.3 The full focus group debrief
You may need two hours for the debriefing of each focus group, especially in the early part of a project. All team members should be present for this meeting. If you are using interpreters, it is especially important that they attend as they can provide a lot of guidance to the research team. They have often noticed things during the session that have not actually been recorded that may be of use. They can also clarify questions about responses that were recorded by the observer.
If tape recordings are to be transcribed, then they will not be available for the debriefing session. For this reason, you will need to rely on the notes taken by the observer. Use these notes to check whether the focus group discussions are providing you with the information that you require to meet the objectives.
It is quite useful to have a meeting agenda prepared so that you can go through the many aspects of the focus group discussions thoroughly. It is easy to forget all the different parts that need to be discussed, so if you are working with a list of things to cover, the meeting will be more productive. You should design your own agenda, but be sure to include specific points in the following main areas:
· Practical/logistical aspects of the focus group session (including equipment).
· Team skills and performance.
· Wording and comprehension of the questions.
· Information required by objectives being obtained.
· Cultural appropriateness of the session.
In larger projects where distances have to be travelled, a focus group session can take up a half day. In this case, it may be useful to have your focus group sessions in the afternoon and your debrief the following morning. Often if your team members are tired after a session, then holding the major debrief the same afternoon may not be wise. You do not want to rush the debrief as the information that the whole team can provide is very valuable, and may improve the standard of your focus groups quite a lot.


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William Hall was born on April 28, 1827 in Nova Scotia. He was the son of free slaves.
He volunteered for the Royal Navy sometime before 1852 and was decorated in the Crimean War in 1854-55. In 1857, he was sent with a brigade of sailors to Lucknow, India to relieve the British garrison besieged there. Only Hall and one officer survived and between them, they loaded and served the last gun. For this, he won the Victoria Cross, making him the first coloured man to do so.
Hall rose to the position of Quartermaster and Petty Officer before retiring in 1876. He died at home in Avonport, Nova Scotia on August 25, 1904.


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Hybrid stepper Motor are characterized by very high volumic torque compared to Brushless DC motors. Their maximal no load speed is however limited. They can then be a really interesting solution for applications requesting a high torque at low to medium speed.
Micro-Beam offers to control Hybrid stepper motor in close loop with position sensor as well as with the sensorless technology. The advantages of the close loop control are:
- drastically increase the efficiency of the motor (indeed, while controlling the stepper motor in openloop, the supply current is calculated for the worst case load, which means the motor is continuously supplied as it would deliver its maximal torque, while a close loop control allow to adapt the motor current in function of the load).
- increase the robustness of the system by eliminating the stall problems (indeed a brutal increase of load will slow down a motor controlled in closed loop without stalling).
The following video shows some possibilities offered by closed loop sensorless control of a standard stepper motor.
The close loop control can be implemented with sensors, considering Hybrid stepper Motor are characterized a high number of step per turn (around 200). High resolution sensors are then needed to control in close loop such motors. Beside the price of such sensor, this solution is really robust. Really interesting for low speed applications.
To reduce the cost, Micro-Beam proposes a close loop control with the sensorless technology:
- the analysis of the motor phase voltage to indirectly detect the motor position allows to control in close loop a stepper motor with a quite inexpensive solution.
- the last development done in the sensorless technology allows position control, which make possible many applications.
- In order to reduce cost, our drives are able to drive up to 5 stepper motors simultaneously. By that way, the price of the DSP can be divided by 5 for each motor and it simplifies updates of the machines.
6600 series Hybrid Stepper Motor from Sonceboz
|N2300 series from Pittman
Permanent torque from 120 mNm (length 38 mm)
to 190 mNm (length 76 mm)
Maximal speed 10'000 rpm


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In this course, you will learn :
- Combine and apply psychological knowledge about detecting deception.
- Create and evaluate an interview strategy.
- When conducting suspect interviews, use a rapport-building psychological model.
- Look into false confessions.
- In investigations, identify potential forms of cognitive bias.
- Use a simulated case study to apply psychological research.
1. Introduction to the case
- Witness interviews.
- Psychological theories and research on detecting deception.
2. Suspect interviews and establishing rapport
- Psychology behind police suspect interviews.
- Examples of difficult conversations.
- Rapport and respectful communication.
- Impact and dangers of interviewing techniques.
- Prioritising lines of enquiry.
4. Conclusion to the case
- Evidence and truthfulness in interviews.
- Closing the case.


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Publication: Research - peer-review › Journal article – Annual report year: 2010
Problem of high energy use for heating in Slovenian buildings is analyzed with exergy and energy analysis. Results of both are compared and discussed. Three cases of exterior building walls are located in three climatic zones in winter conditions. Results of energy analyses show that the highest heating energy demand appears in the case with less thermal insulation, especially in colder climate. lithe comparison is made only on the energy supply and exergy supply, the results of exergy analysis are the same as those of energy analysis. The main difference appears, if the whole chain of supply and demand is taken into consideration. Exergy calculations enable us to analyze how much exergy is consumed in which part, from boiler to building envelope. They also reveal how much energy is supplied for the purpose of heating. Results show that insulation has much bigger effect than effect of boiler efficiency. However, the most effective solution is to improve building envelope together with boiler efficiency. Better thermal insulation also makes an important contribution to the improvement of thermal comfort conditions. It causes higher surface temperatures resulting in a larger warm radiant exergy emission rate and consequently better thermal comfort.
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- Exergy, Slovenian buildings, Space heating