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Ships of the Italian Navy:
Guiseppe Garibaldi class VSTOL aircraft carrier
The flagship of the Italian Navy is the aircraft carrier MM Garibaldi, built by Fincantieri of Genoa and commissioned in 1985. Garibaldi (C551) is classed as a CVS - Aircraft Carrier ASW (Anti-submarine Warfare). The ship is capable of carrying 18 helicopters or an air squadron of vertical or short take off and landing (VSTOL) aircraft. The carrier can carry out anti-submarine warfare, command and control of naval and aero-naval forces, area surveillance, convoy escort, commando transportation, and fleet logistic support.
Vittorio Veneto helicopter cruiser
The Vittorio Veneto is a purpose built helicopter cruiser that followed from the design of the Andrea Doria class of the 1950s. The addition of a second deck gave her a much greater helicopter capacity. A large central lift is set immediately aft of the superstructure and two sets of fin stabilizers make her a very steady helicopter platform. She has gone through two major refits in 1981 and 1984 which have upgraded her weaponry and radars. Her previous role of Italian flagship was handed over to the carrier Guiseppe Garibaldi in 1995.
Luigi Durand de la Penne class destroyers
The Durand De La Penne Class destroyers were built by Fincantieri for the Italian Navy. The first of class ship, MM Luigi Durand De La Penne (D560), and the second, MM Francesco Mimbelli (D561), were commissioned in 1993. The Durand De La Penne destroyers are 5000 ton multi-role warships able to perform anti-air defence for protecting task forces and convoys, anti-submarine and anti-surface warfare operations, assistance during landing operations and coastal bombardment
Audace class destroyers
Ordered in the late 1960s, these two ships were derived from the Impavido class, but incorporated a number of important advances. A larger, more seaworthy hull was adopted and most of the weaponry is of Italian design. Armament: 1 Mk13 launcher (40 SM-1MR), 8 Otomat SSM, 1 8-cell Albatros SAM (Aspide missiles), 1 5/54 DP, 4 76 mm OTO DP, 2 triple 12.75 inch torpedo tubes.
Maestrale class frigates
An enlarged and much improved Lupo design. The most notable difference is the larger hangar housing two helicopters and the more modern weaponry and sensors. Armament: 4 Otomat SSM, 8-cell Albatros SAM (24 Aspide missiles), 1 5/54 DP, 2 dual 40 mm AA, 2 21 inch torpedo tubes, 2 triple 12.75 inch torpedo tubes
Lupo class light frigates
This class was a major improvement over the previous Alpino class frigates, with a more "multirole" configuration and more modern and powerful weaponry. Designed for all around naval duties. These ships make excellent escorts with their fast speeds and effective weaponry.
Artigliere (modified Lupo) class patrol frigates
Armament: 8 Otomat SSM, 1 8-cell Albatros SAM (Aspide missiles), 1 5/54 DP, 2 dual 40 mm AA These Lupo-class frigates were built for Iraq in the early 1980's, but never delivered. They were taken over for the Italian Navy in 1992. They have been stripped of ASW systems and serve as patrol vessels.
Minerva class large corvettes
This class was built to replace the older corvettes of the DeCristofaro and Albatros
class). While designated frigates and performing many of the jobs of them, these ships are perhaps best described as large corvettes. Fitted for but not installed with Teseo SSMs, these ships are used mainly for patrol and escort duties
Primo Longobardo class coastal submarines
Displacement: 1,862 tons submerged Dimensions: 66.35 x 6.83 x 6 meters (217.5 x 22.5 x 19.5 feet) Propulsion: Diesel-electric, 3 diesels, 1 shaft, 3650 shp, 19 knots Crew: 50 Sonar: IPD-705 active/passive, MD 100S passive flank Armament: 6 21 inch torpedo tubes (12 torpedoes) Depth: 300 meters
Salvatore Pelosi class coastal submarines
Displacement: 1,662 tons submerged Dimensions: 64.36 x 6.83 x 5.66 meters (211 x 22.5 x 18.5 feet) Propulsion: Diesel-electric, 3 diesels, 1 shaft, 4,270 shp, 19 knots Crew: 50 Sonar: IPD-703 active/passive, MD 100S passive flank, M5 intercept Armament: 6 21 inch torpedo tubes (12 torpedoes) Depth: 300 meters
Nazario Sauro class coastal submarines
Displacement: 1,637 tons submerged Dimensions: 63.85 x 6.83 x 5.7 meters (209.5 x 22.5 x 18.5 feet) Propulsion: Diesel-electric, 3 diesels, 1 shaft, 4,270 shp, 19 knots Crew: 49 Sonar: IPD-70/S passive, M5 intercept Armament: 6 21 inch torpedo tubes (12 torpedoes) Depth: 300 meters
San Giorgio class small dock landing ships
The ships provide roll-on/roll-off landing capability for land embarkation; air lift through the use off high capacity aircraft such as Chinook-type helicopters; and transportation by sea to shore, using the ship's own systems and landing ships for landing on unprepared shores.
Lerici class minehunters
Displacement: 520 tons full load Dimensions: 49.98 x 9.56 x 2.7 meters (164 x 31 x 9 feet) Propulsion: 1 diesel, 1 shaft, 1,840 bhp, 15 knots Crew: 47 Sonar: SQQ-14A minehunting (being replaced by SSN-7M + Type 2048) Armament: 1 20 mm
Etna small replenishment oiler
Stromboli class small fleet oilers
Displacement: 8,706 tons full load Dimensions: 129 x 18 x 6.5 meters (423 x 59 x 21 feet) Propulsion: 2 diesels, 1 shaft, 11,200 bhp, 19.5 knots Crew: 124 Aviation: aft helicopter deck Cargo: 1,370 tons fuel oil, 2,830 tons diesel, 480 tons aviation fuel, 200 tons misc stores Fire Control: SPG-70 gun control Armament: 1 76mm/62 DP, 2 20 mm
Harrier VSTOL carrier fighter and bomber
The Harrier II Plus is equipped with a multi-mode radar and has beyond-visual-range missile capability. The italian navy has 16 harriers.
Agusta Bell AB-212 ASW and Sikorsky SH-3D
There both used in the italian navy and on the aircraft carrier and assauslt ships main use for these helicopters is for transportation for militarty troops and material.
Brequet Atlantic
The Atlantique ATL3 maritime patrol aircraft, successor to the Atlantique ATL1 and ATL2, incorporates an enhanced weapon system with a maximum 9,000 kg payload, new technology engines, glass cockpit and sophisticated avionics and sensors. The ATL1, selected as the NATO Long Range Maritime Patrol Aircraft, entered service in 1966 and remains in service
NH 90
The NATO Frigate Helicopter (NFH) is one of two versions of the NH90 twin engine multirole helicopter being developed by NH Industries. The other version is the NH90 TTH Tactical Transport Helicopter.The primary missions of the NH90 NFH helicopter are in the autonomous anti submarine warfare (ASW) and anti-surface ship warfare (AsuW) role.


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The Painted Bird
|The Painted Bird|
1st edition cover
|Media type||Print (Hardback & Paperback)|
|Dewey Decimal||813/.54 20|
|LC Classification||PS3561.O8 P3 1995|
|Followed by||Steps (1969)|
The Painted Bird (Der bemalte Vogel) is a controversial 1965 novel by Jerzy Kosiński which describes the world as seen by a young boy, "considered a Gypsy or Jewish stray," who wanders about small towns scattered around Eastern Europe during World War II.
Major themes
The book describes the wandering boy's encounters with peasants engaged in all forms of sexual and social deviance such as incest, bestiality and rape, and in other forms of extreme violence exciting lust. The book title was drawn from an incident in the story. The boy, while in the company of a professional bird catcher, observes how the man took one of his captured birds and painted it several colors. Then he released the bird to fly in search of a flock of its kin, but when the painted bird came upon the flock, they saw it as an intruder and viciously attacked the bird until it fell from the sky.
The plot
"The Painted Bird," is told from the perspective of a young boy during World War II. He is considered a Jewish stray who is struggling to live during this chaotic period. Kosinski begins the story by introducing the war and linking it with the boy. The young boy's parents are hiding from the Nazis, and he lives in a village with an elderly woman. When the woman dies, he is left to care for himself. From here, he journeys to another village where local townspeople turn him over to the Germans. He escapes and travels to another village, where he sees Jews and Gypsies headed to concentration camps. It is here that Kosinski adds some social commentary, describing the boy's belief that to have fair hair and blue eyes is to be favored by God. Kosinski sums up a Bosch-like world of harrowing excess where senseless violence and untempered hatred are the norm. The boy travels from village to village in Eastern Europe. Throughout the rest of "The Painted Bird," the boy endures various kinds of violence and cruelty. He wanders alone from one village to another, sometimes hounded and tortured, only rarely sheltered and cared for. He becomes an altar boy, and he is exposed to father-daughter incest. After being thrown into a manure pit, he becomes mute. Only at the end of the novel does he become reunited with his parents and regain his speech.
Literary significance & criticism
In his 1995 editorial review Elie Wiesel wrote that the book was: "One of the best... Written with deep sincerity and sensitivity", quoted its publisher from The New York Times Book Review. Richard Kluger, reviewing it for Harper's Magazine, wrote: "Extraordinary... literally staggering... one of the most powerful books I have ever read". And Jonathan Yardley, reviewing it for The Miami Herald, wrote: "Of all the remarkable fiction that emerged from World War II, nothing stands higher than Jerzy Kosinski's The Painted Bird. A magnificent work of art, and a celebration of the individual will. No one who reads it will forget it; no one who reads it will be unmoved by it. The Painted Bird enriches our literature and our lives". "Cynthia Ozick later gushed" – wrote Norman Finkelstein – "that she 'immediately' recognized Kosiński's authenticity as 'a Jewish survivor and witness to the Holocaust'." Time magazine included the novel in its "TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005", accentuating the alleged atrocities perceived by the protagonist.
"Perhaps the most surprising element of this aspect of Kosiński's mystifications is that he obtained from his mother, who was still alive in Poland – the father had died by the time The Painted Bird was published – a letter corroborating the claim that he had been separated from his family during the war."
Norman Finkelstein, former professor of political science at DePaul University, wrote in The Holocaust Industry: "Long after Kosiński was exposed as a consummate literary hoaxer, Wiesel continued to heap encomiums on his "remarkable body of work." Finkelstein wrote that Kosiński's book "depicts the Polish peasants he lived with as virulently anti-Semitic" even though they were fully aware of his Jewishness and "the dire consequences they themselves faced if caught."
The book's reception in Poland was far from uniform nevertheless. The Polish literary critic and University of Warsaw professor, Paweł Dudziak, noted that the Painted Bird is a great, if controversial piece. He stressed that since the book is surreal – a fictional tale – and does not present, or claim to present - real world events, accusations of anti-Polish sentiment are nothing but a misunderstanding of the book by those who take it too literally.
Authorship controversy
According to Eliot Weinberger, contemporary American writer, essayist, editor, and translator, Kosiński was not the author of the book. Weinberger alleged in his collection Karmic Traces that Kosiński had very little fluent knowledge of English at the time of its writing.
M.A. Orthofer addressed Weinberger's assertion by saying: "Kosinski was, in many respects, a fake – possibly near as genuine a one as Weinberger could want. (One aspect of the best fakes is the lingering doubt that, possibly, there is some authenticity behind them – as is the case with Kosinski.) Kosinski famously liked to pretend he was someone he wasn't (as do many of the characters in his books), he occasionally published under a pseudonym, and, apparently, he plagiarized and forged left and right."
Claims of plagiarism
In June 1982, a Village Voice article accused Kosiński of plagiarism, claiming much of his work was derivative of Polish sources unfamiliar to English readers. (Being There, for example, bears a strong resemblance to Kariera Nikodema Dyzmy - The Career of Nicodemus Dyzma, a 1932 Polish bestseller by Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz). The article also claimed that Kosiński's books had actually been ghost-written by his "assistant editors," pointing to striking stylistic differences among Kosiński's novels. The New York poet, publisher and translator, George Reavey, who in Kosiński's American biographer James Sloan's opinion was embittered by his own lack of literary success, claimed to have written The Painted Bird. Reavey's assertions were ignored by the press.
The Village Voice article presented a different picture of Kosiński's life during the Holocaust – a view which was later supported by a Polish biographer, Joanna Siedlecka, and Sloan. The article revealed that The Painted Bird, assumed by reviewers to be semi-autobiographical, was a work of fiction. The article maintained that rather than wandering the Polish countryside, Kosiński had spent the war years in hiding with a Polish Catholic family and had never been appreciably mistreated.
"The significant point about Jerzy Kosinski was that... his books... had a vision and a voice consistent with one another and with the man himself. The problem was perhaps that he was a successful, worldly author who played polo, moved in fashionable circles and even appeared as an actor in Warren Beatty's Reds. He seemed to have had an adventurous and rather kinky sexuality which, to many, made him all the more suspect."
D. G. Myers responded to Blacker's assertions in his review of Jerzy Kosiński: A Biography by James Park Sloan:
"This theory explains much: the reckless driving, the abuse of small dogs, the thirst for fame, the fabrication of personal experience, the secretiveness about how he wrote, the denial of his Jewish identity. 'There was a hollow space at the center of Kosiński that had resulted from denying his past,' Sloan writes, 'and his whole life had become a race to fill in that hollow space before it caused him to implode, collapsing inward upon himself like a burnt-out star.' On this theory, Kosiński emerges as a classic borderline personality, frantically defending himself against… all-out psychosis.
The journalist John Corry, being himself a controversial author, wrote a 6,000-word feature article in the New York Times in November 1982, defending Kosiński, which appeared on the front page of the "Arts and Leisure" section. Among other things, Corry alleged that reports claiming that "Kosiński was a plagiarist in the pay of the C.I.A. were the product of a Polish Communist disinformation campaign."
The book was published and marketed as a fictional work although it was generally assumed that it was based on the author's experiences during World War II. Only later did it become clear to most reviewers that Kosiński was neither the boy in the story nor did he share any of the boy's experiences, as revealed in a series of articles in newspapers and books.(2) The depicted events are now widely known to be fictional. D. G. Myers, Associate Professor of English at Texas A&M University, reviewing a biography of Kosiński noted that initially the author had passed off The Painted Bird as the true story of his own life during the Holocaust: "Long before writing it he regaled friends and dinner parties with macabre

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Art professor's exhibition in Spain addresses algae and climate change
February 18, 2020
UC Santa Cruz art professor Jennifer Parker believes that algae are an "unsung hero of the
planet"–noting that these photosynthetic organisms produce one half of the total global oxygen, while absorbing one third of the carbon dioxide produced worldwide.
Parker is co-founder of The Algae Society Bio Art Design Lab, an international collective of artists and scientists who work on issues related to sustainability and the environment, with a particular focus on the effects of global warming on algae.
Parker recently returned from Complutense University of Madrid, where she put together an exhibition in collaboration with one of her former students, Jose Carlos E spinel, who is now employed there as a professor. Titled Drift and Migrate, it was the first exhibition by the Algae Society in Spain.
Designed to show the impact of human activity and global warming on the marine environment, the show included graphic works, photographs, interactive exhibits, audiovisual installations, and sculpture from more than 50 artists from different parts of the world.
"It is often surprising for people to learn what algae is," Parker noted. "For instance, most people don't necessarily know that giant sea kelp is algae. The topics covered in the exhibition range from plastics in the ocean to acidification of the ocean, and the effects that has on different species like coral and sea turtles, which are both vulnerable to extinction."
"The main focus however is phytoplankton as the very bottom of the food chain and integral to the earth's climate as they absorb carbon dioxide," she added. "Warming oceans contribute to less oxygen, which make for less phytoplankton in some cases or in others, depending on which type of phytoplankton, it can cause a bloom. Both critically influence marine eco-systems–less food for fish as the plankton migrate to cooler patches of the ocean and more carbon dioxide make the ocean acidic, ultimately altering the global climate."
Parker described the impact that collaborative artistic and educational projects like the Madrid exhibition can have on fighting (or adapting) to climate change.
"In a paper just published by David Roberts in Vox about the social tipping point for climate change and the things that 'tip that point', the education system is listed as one of the systems that must change to address climate change," said Parker. "The Algae Society is formed by educators who are actively engaged in teaching—it's part of our formula to help better understand the role of human activity on species living on the planet."
She added that The Algae Society will continue to expand its network in an effort to engage different regions and try different types of outreach opportunities.
"The ultimate goal/dream would be to have individuals around the globe shift their thinking of being extractors of the planet's resources, or protectors of earth, to being collaborators with the earth as an equal partner and living in a symbiotic relationship," said Parker.
"Practically speaking, we'd have cities around the world putting together Algae Society exhibits that share not only the role of how algae, at both the macro and micro level, behave in different ecosystems, but also share the beauty and wonder of these organisms and how cohabitation of the planet is vital to human survival."
Link to UC Santa Cruz News Center
Algae Society member Juniper Harrower, collaborative painting performance with algae, 18 x 24″

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Many of you may have driven the Chicago Skyway, with its half-mile long bridge, known as the "High Bridge." Have you ever wondered why there is a giant bridge on the way to Indiana? Why not simply build a road?
The answer lies in a quirk city law and the political ingenuity of Mayor Richard J. Daley. In the late 1950s, when Daley decided he wanted a toll road to Indiana, the Chicago city charter did not allow for the funding or construction of a toll highway. Daley, undaunted, recognized the lack of and legal restriction to building a toll bridge. Additionally, no restriction existed regarding the length of the approach to that bridge. The result: The 7.8 mile long Chicago Skyway is technically a bridge with a six mile approach.


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The Investigate dashboard enables you to view pivot tables of metrics and attributes for all API traffic and compare relational activity between metrics to investigate and diagnose issues faster. You can access data for the past 30 days in the dashboard.
Select Analyze > API Monitoring > Investigate in the Edge UI to open the Investivate dashboard. The dashboard has two main areas:
- Status Code lets you investigate status code metrics for API proxies and target services.
- Latency lets you investigate latency issues for API proxies and target services.
You can also investigate issues caused by a specific alert in the Investigate dashboard. When an alert occurs, click the name of the alert in the Alert History page to opent the alert in the Invesitgate dashboard.
Use the Investigate dashboard to diagnose an issue
For example, you receive an alert that indicates that the 5xx error rate exceeds the specified threshold. To investigate this issue, you might perform the following tasks on the Investigate dashboard:
- View the fault code versus time matrix to view the fault code activity over the last hour.
- Switch to the fault code versus HTTP status matrix to identify specific HTTP status codes associated with the fault codes whose counts have increased over the last hour, as identified in the previous step.
- Switch to the fault code versus Proxy matrix to identify the API proxies that are triggering the fault codes identified in the previous step.
- Click a box in the matrix that is associated with an API proxy with a high volume of fault codes to view more details and access logs.
- Set up an alert and create a custom report to further assist with diagnosing the issue.
Further troubleshoot the API proxy using trace and other tools to identify a resolution to the issue.
Use the Status Code dashboard
The Status Code dashboard lets you investigate status code metrics for the API proxies and target services in your organization. You can view status code metrics for a one-hour or four-hour window at any time in the past 30 days.
Explore the Status Code dashboard
To display the Status Code dashboard, select Analyze > API Monitoring > Investigate in the Edge UI. The Status Code dashboard displays by default:
As highlighted in the figure, the Investigate dashboard enables you to:
- Configure each matrix by setting its x-axis and y-axis to compare the relational activity between metrics and gain more insights.
- Quickly identify the metrics that are experiencing the highest relative volumes based on the color shading of a block. The darker the block, the higher the relative volume.
- Click a block in the matrix to view metric details.
- Filter the data based on the following:
- Status codes (including all traffic, all errors, 2xx, 4xx, or 5xx)
- Date and time in the past 30 days
- 1-hour or 4-hour window
Use the dashboard to quickly perform the following tasks:
- Access logs in the metric details panel.
- View the current context in the Recent or Timeline or dashboard by clicking > View in Recent or View in Timeline, respectively.
- Create a custom report and add additional dimensions by clicking.
- Create an alert and add additional alert conditions, set up notifications, and generate a custom report based on the alert.
Configure the Status Code matrix
When you select the Status Code dashboard, the following matrices appear by default:
- Fault code versus time
- Fault code versus HTTP status
- Fault source versus API proxy
Configure each matrix to compare any two of the following metrics by selecting a value for the x- and y-axis drop-down lists:
- Fault code
- Fault policy
- Fault source
- HTTP status
- Target (Target service or the ServiceCallout policy. If the target is a ServiceCallout policy, then the displayed
value is prefixed by
sc://. For example,
View Status Code metric details
View details for a particular metric by clicking its block in the matrix.
Details pertaining to the suspected cause are displayed in the right pane, including:
- Fault Source (proxy, target, or Apigee infrastructure)
Details may also include:
- Fault Policy - Information about the policy that triggered the runtime error, including policy type (internal name) and user-defined policy name. You define the name when attaching the policy to the API proxy flow.
- Proxy name
- HTTP Status code
- Fault Code
If the cardinality is greater than one for a specific metric, the details panel may include error distribution details, such as Distribution by Developer App, Distribution by Fault Policy, Distribution by Fault Code, Distribution by HTTP Status, and so on. For example:
If the fault source is target, the details panel will include Error Rate by Target. For example:
Use the Latency dashboard
The Latency dashboard displays latency information for the API proxies and target services in your organization. You can investigate latency metrics for a one-hour winow at any time in the past 30 days.
Explore the Latency dashboard
To display the Latency dashboard, select Analyze > API Monitoring > Investigate in the Edge UI. The Status Code dashboard displays by default. Select Latency in the filter area to display the Latency dashboard.:
When you select the Latency dashboard, the following matrices appear by default:
- Proxy vs Time (max latency in milliseconds)
- Proxy vs Total latency (max latency in milliseconds)
- Proxy vs All targets latency (max latency in milliseconds)
Use the Proxy drop-down box to select Target to view target latencies.
By default, the Latency dashboard shows information for the 10 proxies with the highest total P99 latency for the previous hour. Alternatively, use the Top 10 drop-down box to select a specific proxy or collection.
The Latency dashboard has all of the features of the Status Code dashboard, with the following differences:
- You only configure the total response latency percentile (p50, p90, p95, p99).
- You can only select a one-hour window for latency metrics.
- You cannot select Any for Region in the filters. You must select a specific region to view.
View Latency metric details
View details for a particular metric by clicking its block in the matrix.
Details pertaining to the latency for a proxy (blue line) and target (purple line) are displayed in the right pane, including:
- Total latency (proxy latency plus target latency)
- Latency per target (target response time)
- Distribution by HTTP Status
Hover over the graph to view detailed information:
The Latency per target graph shows the top 16 targets based on the maximum latency, with one graph per target. Mouse over a graph or select the dropdown list to determine the graph that corresponds to each target.
View logs from the metrics details
When viewing metric details for either status codes or latency, click View logs to view all logs for the selected metric:
The Traffic Logs dialog opens and displays a maximum of 1000 log entries. Click a log entry to expand its details in the list:
You can further filter the logs by the:
- Traffic source
- Error type
- Minimum response time
You cannot download the logs data from the Traffic Logs dialog. However, you can create a custom report or download the analytics data to your own data repository, such as Google Cloud Storage or BigQuery, to perform your own data analysis.
Create a custom report from the Investigate dashboard
Create a custom report based on the selected set of conditions. You can edit the custom report after it is created, to add or delete metrics and dimensions, as required. For example, you may wish to narrow your investigation to a particular access token, developer app, or API proxy. For more information, see Analytics metrics, dimensions, and filters reference.
For more information, see Creating custom reports.
To create a custom report:
Click a block in the matrix to display more detail.
In the right pane, click.
The custom report page displays in a new tab with relevant fields pre-populated.
Note: See Creating custom reports for more information about the default custom report settings.
Edit the custom report, as required. See Manage custom reports.
Click Save to save the custom report.
The report is run using the data collected over the last hour by default and the data is displayed in the custom report dashboard. See Exploring the custom reports dashboard.
On the Reports page, custom reports that are generated using API Monitoring are named using the following format:
API Monitoring Investigate Generated.
Investigate a specific alert
To investigate a specific alert, select the name of the alert in the Alert History page. The Investigate dashboard appears. Notice that it contains a graph at the top of the dashboard, and only includes information specifc to the alert:
- View API traffic details at the time the alert was triggered.
- View contextual information about the alert, including time that the alert was triggered in the center of the graph.
- Click Condition details to display the details for the alert condition in a pop-up window.
Click Playbook (if available) to view the playbook for the alert:
Click Manage alert to edit the alert.
Click View report (if available) to view a custom report.
Enable or disable auto-refresh of the page, as required.


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For each file given, GNU strings prints the printable character sequences that are at least 4 characters long (or the number given with the options below) and are followed by an unprintable character.
Depending upon how the strings program was configured it will default to either displaying all the printable sequences that it can find in each file, or only those sequences that are in loadable, initialized data sections. If the file type in unrecognizable, or if strings is reading from stdin then it will always display all of the printable sequences that it can find.
For backwards compatibility any file that occurs after a command line option of just - will also be scanned in full, regardless of the presence of any -d option.
Scan the whole file, regardless of what sections it contains or whether those sections are loaded or initialized. Normally this is the default behaviour, but strings can be configured so that the -d is the default instead.
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Interior with portraits, painting by Thomas le Clear showing two children posing for a photograph in the early days of photography (1865).
Poser-rendered woman, nude, in a standing pose.
A pose or posture is the way the movable parts of a human or animal body are turned and positioned. A pose is mainly determined by the limbs and the spine.
Anatomically, the joints connect the bones of the skeleton in a way that permits movement in certain directions. For every joint there is a limit in every direction it allows. The main limbs are mostly independent from another. However there are also some limbs that influence in certain ways the positions of other limbs. This is for anatomical reasons such as the arrangement of ligaments.
Typical human poses are standing, sitting, kneeling, lying, on all fours, etc. These are very broad terms, however. There is an infinity of pose variations and combinations.
Standing poses are called stances.
Poses and art[edit]
Poses are important elements of visual art because they express so much. A figure can not be drawn, painted, or sculpted without a pose.
To pose means to assume a pose and hold it for a while. Models pose for artists and photographers.
In comics and cartoons, poses are often exaggerated for a more humorous and impressive effect.
Digital 3D models can be manually posed (as if they were dolls) to create rendered art with software such as Poser or DAZ Studio.
Other areas[edit]
Postures are also very important in acting, dance, the military, sports, martial arts, Yoga, etc.
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Type Checking Modular Multiple Dispatch with Parametric Polymorphism and Multiple Inheritance
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Most specific instance selection
Thanks for the post, Sandro. This fits in well with our recent discussions on overloading.
I wonder if someone can justify this mechanism on semantic grounds. Why is it a good idea to even be asking the question of which is the most specific instance? When we are defining a function by pattern matching, we don't list a bunch of patterns in random order and let the compiler tease out which pattern is most specific. It seems to me that there are two cases with overloads:
1. At least one of the overloads is aware of the other and there is a particular order in which overloads should be tried (using the first that applies). This is the case with typical pattern matching of closed algebraic datatypes.
2. The overloads are mutually unaware of each other. In this case, I would argue that no ambiguity should be tolerated. Even if one is more "specific" than another, that may be accidental and shouldn't be used to resolve the overload.
It seems likely to me that the idea of "most specific dispatch" arose out of an attempt to handle both of these cases with a single mechanism. I'd question whether that is a good idea.
Your second case is handled
Your second case is handled in Fortress using the meet rule, where the definitions of each overloaded function must form a meet semilattice, ie. in the paper's words, "The Meet Rule requires every pair of declarations to have a disambiguating declaration, which is more specific than both and applicable whenever both are applicable. (If one of the pair is more specific than the other, then it is the disambiguating declaration.)".
If I understand you correctly, you're positing a scenario where some function foo has definitions on types (t1, t2) and (t0, t3) but dispatched on (t1, t3), where t1 <: t0 and t3 <: t2. In this case, the second definition isn't aware of the first, nor the first aware of the second. The meet rule would require a disambiguating overload to resolve this case.
Edit: as to whether it's a good idea, I'm not sure. I think most of the difficulties arise from the pervasive subtyping of Fortress. I can imagine a simpler language with more controlled subtyping, like an algebraic constructor being its own type that's a subtype of the algebraic type, to be much more straightforward.
Not that case, exactly
For example if one module defines f(Nat) and another f(Number), I'm saying it is a mistake to not report the ambiguity just because Nat is more specific. It's possible the person writing the call only had in mind the Number definition.
Perhaps a more specific
Perhaps a more specific example where this would be undesirable might demonstrate why this would be a bad idea. I'm not seeing how your example differs from overriding a method f by inheriting from Number. The code calling f on Number would know that it's calling a method that could be overridden by any subtypes.
I read this as "most OO languages don't have sensible semantics anyway, so how is this any different?" Fair enough, but I think you can often interpret object encodings in a somewhat sensible way, with methods contributing both an interface and a default implementation. A subclass can be seen as overriding the default implementations while building a record of methods. There is no "most specific type" based dispatch going on in this view, even if that would produce the same result. When we switch to multi-methods, there is no longer a corresponding (somewhat) sensible semantics.
When we switch to
Isn't there? What's the meaning of "sensible"? The Fortress semantics seem quite sensible to me, which is why I asked for a specific example where you think it, or even a single inheritance overriding, isn't sensible and so I can understand precisely what that means.
Edit: consider the example I brought up earlier, of limited subtyping where sum constructors are types that subtype the sum type itself. "Most specific" is then simply pattern matching, and moreover enables a form of extensible sums and cases. There doesn't seem to be anything nonsensical about the principle of "most specific" itself, so what I'm trying to say is that I think your problem with Fortress or multimethods probably lies elsewhere, like with the pervasive subtyping.
"Most specific" is then
But one that suffers from the problem of more specific patterns silently overriding more general patterns. In a modular setting, this looks like a misfeature to me. The "more specific than" relation looks like a proxy for "is intended to specialize". That seems dangerous when these patterns are spread among modules and the authors might not even be aware of each other.
Dangerous and Useful
Usually these specialisations are different algorithms that do the same thing. For example sorting is a family of algorithms. Current languages only impose syntactic and type constraints on the specialised algorithms in a family, but ideally there should be semantic constraints in the form of axioms.
However there will always be things that are difficult to enforce, for example how do you prove that vector addition is actually the same thing as integer or floating point addition.
Rust actually places constraints on where implementations can be declared, which is more restrictive than the axiomatic approach but much simpler to implement. Rusts rules are something like you can only implement a trait declared in another module for a type declared in the same module as the implementation. This leads to the common pattern of declaring a wrapper type in your module to allow you to implement library traits on generic type parameters (which might be instantiated with types declared elsewhere, so you need to wrap in a local type). This means you cannot redefine addition in integers, but you can define a wrapper and redefine addition on wrapped integers. Its overly restrictive because you cannot redefine addition on types that implement the integer-trait, because some of those types might already have addition defined elsewhere, but you can redefine addition on types that implement the integer-trait, and are wrapped in your local type wrapper.
Obviously these features have uses that would be affected if you just removed them and didn't replace them with anything else, but that's usually true for bad features as well as good ones. The question is whether the proposed mechanism is better than alternatives.
I'm generally skeptical of the approach to language design that starts with a mechanism and tries to tweak it until it has nice properties. I'd prefer to start by finding semantics that faithfully model the aspects of the problem we are interested in and then build a language around that semantics. "Most specific" dispatch still seems to me to be a fairly ad hoc mechanism.
Programming as Abstract Algebra
We want to model abstract algebra, so we start with implementing algorithms over common algebraic concepts (Elements of Programming, chapters 1 - 5). Then we understand the patterns of abstract algebra, we can look at algorithms over core computer science concepts like containers. It turns out the algebraic structure of containers can be modelled by a family of iterators, and so we explore the algorithms that can be implemented in terms of different iterators (Elements of Programming, chapters 6 - 9). Then we take what we have and look at how we can do something useful like rearrangements and rotations (which are very useful generic algorithms that turn out to have all sorts of uses, Elements of Programming, chapters 10 - 11). This includes algorithm selection which is where you want trait (or type-class) based dispatch, and specialisation, as you want to select the optimal rotation algorithm depending on the type of iterator supported by the container. This relies on the earlier decision that containers should only implement iterators that are efficient for that container (which follows the general principles of abstract algebra).
So this is all part of a disciplined mathematical model, and not ad-hoc in any way. Reading Elements of Programming should make this clear. Watching this video is a good place to start: _URL_
a use of lazy eval or something more sophisticated
I like the idea of specifying algorithms in the simplest forword form, and yet being able to pull data through layers of them as needed.
But lazy eval at least as implemented in haskell has the idea that if you can access an old calculation, it has to be persistent for the life of the program - it has no optimization that says it's sometimes better to stop caching and recalculate later.
I once tried to do this sort of thing with layers of ring buffers and optimized loops using templates in c++ (I was doing sound processing).
I never figured out why pulling data through many layers of these was slow - I thought I calculated the size and use of the buffers to not have to recalculate on normal use.
But I like this idea best:
YOu specify the algorithm in its simplist form, maybe with some small hint about needed overlap and expected block size, and another program optimizes the buffers and partial generators behind your back.
In other words I want a new model of computing based on metaprogramming!
Lazy evaluation is a misfeature
The problem with lazy evaluation is that the performance is very unpredictable and difficult for people to understand. Having spent some time writing large programs in Haskell, I now think default lazy evaluation was a misfeature. I prefer Rust's eager approach, as performance is much more predictable and understandable. I don't think you actually need lazyness, as you can just use an object and an iterator. If you always access collections through an iterator interface (which I think is the right way to do


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columnID ID of the column. The value must be in the range [0,ColumnCount-1].
The name of the column or a null reference (Nothing in Visual Basic) if the column has no name. If the column is aliased in the SQL query, the alias is returned.
Note that in result sets, not all columns have names and not all column names are unique. If you are not using aliases, the name of a non-computed column is prefixed with the name of the table the column is from. For example, MyTable.ID is the name of the only column in the result set for the query "SELECT ID FROM MyTable".
Column IDs and count may change during a schema upgrade. To correctly identify a column, access it by name or refresh the cached IDs and counts after a schema upgrade.


3 Sides of the Autonomous Routing Triangle
colin howes | april 13, 2021
Traditional IT Service Desk is outdated. The advent of technology solutions has enabled organizations to engage in multiple transformation initiatives simultaneously in order to solve a variety of Service Desk challenges. However, technology-driven transformation often fails to translate into a systematic, process-driven and scalable mechanism for Service Management organizations. IT Leaders buy into the marketing hype and promises in solving specific challenges associated with scalable and agile IT Service Desk operations. The solution therefore lies in addressing a variety of constraints as they optimize ITSM operations for business goals.
In this post, we will focus on ticket routing operations within the IT Service Desk domain. Organizations typically model business decisions against three key constraints: Problem Identification, Ticket Distribution and Workforce Assignment. The goal of an autonomous ticket routing technology is to optimize for all three of these key pillars.
The Iron Triangle of IT Service Desk
Service Desk organizations are constantly evolving and adapting to manage support and services for an ever-growing user base. They operate in narrowly defined constrained environments, where teams are required to meet specific KPI objectives. Once the KPIs are defined, pre-defined frameworks and operational models are adopted to reach optimal performance against the said constraints: the ability to identify IT issues; routing tickets to the right resolution teams and distributing HR assignments based on skill set availability, types of IT incidents and other business goals.
In practice, the scale of business operations make it impossible to address all three constraints, so the decision makers are compelled to adopt intuitive ideas and technology solutions as the path of least resistance. These methods work well under specific circumstances and eventually, must integrate with existing workflows as well as technology solutions. The end result is that the Service Desk staff is forced to perform a growing list of tasks manually, ensuring all solutions work well to meet the predefined KPIs, which in fact may not be optimized for the global objective. This practice denies the often overlooked opportunity for employees to adapt their workforce capabilities necessary to address new challenges facing the dynamic IT Service Desk landscape.
A global view of Service Desk operations is key to optimally address these multiple challenges simultaneously. This is where the role of disruptive AI solutions comes into play: the ability to investigate the trends in data, discovering patterns in support requests and modeling operational workflows to meet all constraints.
This capability is key to solving a myriad of Service Desk issues across the three constraints:
1. Problem Identification:
The traditional process requires users to classify IT issues under known problem categories. Users are often unaware of the correct categories corresponding to their support requests, which may in fact fall under multiple overlapping support categories. The lack of accurate and precise problem classification makes it further difficult to categorize the support request, compelling users to submit tickets under the Other category, which does little to help reach the right resolution teams promptly.
Solution: AI Clusters
NLP technologies analyze historical ticket archives and correlate unstructured and vague tickets to find the most accurate identifiers and features describing a problem classification. The AI technology then generates clusters of similar issue categories, allowing the right resolution teams to find solutions for newly discovered issues faster by addressing the underlying problem root cause.
2. Ticket Distribution:
The scale and variety of support requests and IT issues often makes it challenging to automate the ticket distribution and routing process optimally. Organizations require Service Desk teams to resolve tickets based on business objectives and KPIs such as MTTR and MTTD on issues most impactful toward these goals. As a result, ticket distribution becomes a manual exercise that is detrimental to the overall performance of the Service Desk, despite the availability of traditional automated routing tools.
Solution: Adaptive Load Balancing
Load balancing capabilities based on AI technologies can incorporate a variety of KPIs and constraints to ensure optimal ticket distribution. This results in reduced MTTD and MTTR on mission-critical issues and maintaining highly dependable IT services.
3. Workforce Assignment:
Service Desk organizations are not only overwhelmed by the sheer volume of support requests, but also struggle to make optimal use of the skills and knowledge already available to them. Suboptimal ticket routing, lack of skill set mapping between resolution teams and the ability to accumulate and share the acquired knowledge greatly reduces the ability of Service Desk organizations to scale their operational capacity.
Solution: AI Skill Set Mapping
AI based skill set mapping technologies bridge the skills gap by routing tickets based on the most relevant and available team members as well as making it easier to identify, extract and share applicable knowledge across the ticket lifecycle.
Modern IT Service Desk must constantly evolve and enhance their ability to meet organizational goals based on the constraints associated with ticket routing, skills availability and their ability to shift left resolution through fast problem resolution. In order to address these limitations, the IT Service Desk needs intelligence embedded into decision making as well as the execution process. Optimizing for all three sides of the autonomous routing triangle therefore becomes an ongoing process based on AI models that continuously learn, adapt and implement decisions based on the new ticketing information.
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Considerations for transgender patient documentation in EHRs
Most modern EHRs document sexual identity as a fixed, binary value, but classic designations such as male and female fail to include documentation for transgender patients.
Transgender individuals face unique challenges when it comes to navigating the healthcare system, and the issues they encounter extend into patient documentation as well. Modern EHR systems are often ill-equipped to document non-binary values or to match patients who may have transitioned from a previous identity.
Part of the problem with transgender patient documentation is that EHRs generally don't do a good job of identity management and demographics, said Dan Cidon, co-founder and CTO of NextGate Solutions, a company that develops and sells enterprise master patient index technology.
"One of the many challenges in identity management is for things like this, where there are certain values that are volatile in the sense that they change, like a last name change or maybe somebody changes their address or phone number," Cidon said. "But it could also be in this area of gender and gender reassignment, where not only will what was once considered a fixed value actually changes... it's [also] something that needs to be accounted for."
Dan Cidon, co-founder and CTO, NextGate SolutionsDan Cidon
Cidon added, "There are a lot of systems designed with the classic 'M,' 'F,' and if you're lucky 'U' for unknown, but there could certainly be more designations than that."
There also needs to be a way to include sexual identity and gender identity in patient documentation, the latter of which should be optional, said Kristie Overstreet, Ph.D., a psychotherapist and clinical sexologist in Jacksonville, Fla.
"EHRs could provide a place to document gender identity by asking, 'What is your gender identity?' Then provide either a list of all identities, including an 'Other' with a blank, or just provide a blank so that the identity can be typed in. My recommendation is to just provide a blank so that it can be entered in specifically with how the patient identifies," Overstreet said.
The next step would be to ask what sex the patient was assigned at birth. It is unnecessary to inquire about gender affirming surgery.
"It is common for medical forms to ask about past surgeries," Overstreet said. "The patient has the ability to enter this information here versus a special place designating gender affirming surgery."
Surgery and sexual health information documentation
"Transgender patients find the direct question, 'Have you had the surgery?' rude and intrusive," said Sue Boisvert, senior risk specialist at malpractice insurer Coverys.
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"Culturally competent providers queue up the question by explaining that the patient will need primary care and cancer screening for their reproductive organs, so questions about any surgical procedures the patient may have had are necessary to make sure appropriate care can be provided."
Boisvert added that there are federal standards for documenting sex assigned at birth and gender identity that are based on the Fenway Institute's "Do Ask, Do Tell" guidelines.
"Unfortunately, EHR vendors have been slow to incorporate these guidelines," Boisvert said. "Epic is a notable exception."
Privacy concerns over transgender patient records
Another issue that must be considered when it comes to transgender patient documentation is privacy, Cidon said, because it's not always clear how much a patient wants others to know about their prior identity.
Some places, such as Scotland, err on the side of caution and essentially disregard a patient's prior identity, Cidon said.
"What [Scotland] wanted was basically the ability to say once that identity has changed, all kind of notion of that person's prior identity, whether they change their first name or last name, that should not remain with the record," Cidon said.
'A long way to go' to cultural competency
Finally, there is the issue of accommodating name and pronoun changes. While EHRs have a function to accommodate a name change, such as when a patient gets married and takes a spouse's last name, there is no such feature for pronouns in patient documentation.
"The medical record number will be the same -- and it would be wonderful if there was a unique patient identifier that carried from place to place, but there isn't -- but the name will change," Boisvert said. However, many transgender patients don't have the financial or legal resources to change their name, although a lawyer is not usually necessary for a name change, Boisvert said.
There is a long way to go to make EHR technology culturally competent and compliant.
Sue Boisvertsenior risk specialist, Coverys
There can also be more than one step involved depending on the state, and there are fees involved with each step, Boisvert added. Because transgender people are often unemployed or underemployed, they may not have the financial means or transportation necessary to change their name.
"So they will have a 'preferred' name, which they should be called by, [and which] must somehow be reflected in the EHR. And they will have a preferred pronoun, which may be gender-specific such as she or him, or gender-neutral such as they. Preferred pronoun must also be used," she said.
"Currently, neither preferred name nor preferred pronoun are even contemplated by EHRs, so there is a long way to go to make EHR technology culturally competent and compliant," Boisvert added.
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We have an OLAP database with a typical star shaped schema. It has several dimension tables and some fact tables. Dimension tables have values for the dimensions, and fact tables have FKs to the dimension tables. The values in the dimension tables have to be unique, otherwise the reports look messy
Now, we have this grid distributed application that does some massive computation and puts data into the OLAP tables. The input data gets split into batches, and the batches are sent to workers on the grid. The workers basically do some processing and then insert data into the fact tables. One of the challenges is the Dimension tables aren't prepopulated. So, if a worker sees an output that requires a new record in the dimension table, it has to insert into the dimension table itself.. AND the records in the dimension table should be unique.
Each worker basically does this (assuming for simplicity's sake that there is only one column in the fact table.. and only one dimension
When we insert into dimension table we do this query
When we insert into fact table, we do this
Each batch is executed in it's own transaction.
Again, this is a simple example. Actually, there are several dimension tables, and we insert into each dimension table if required, and do one insert into the fact table that joins all the dimension tables
Ok, so the problem is that when 2 differrent threads are concurrently executing batches that produce Output with the same value. Both threads insert a record into the DImension table. The changes are isolated because we haven't committed the transaction yet. Then both threads insert a record into fact table.. first record in fact table has the FK to first record in dimension table.. second record in fact table has a FK to the second record. Then both commit, which results in duplicate records in the dimension table. Now, a third batch starts up. This third batch doesn't insert any records in dimension table,. but inserts 2 records into fact table! Actually there are other constraints on the fact table that prevent us from have dup records, so third batch fails
So, my main problem is how do I do this concurrently without adding (too many) bottlenecks
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Many dog breeds have characteristic dental formations that result in an overbite, normally caused by the genetic size and shape of the jaws and the palette. The classic look of the Shih Tzu and Lhasa Apso breeds, for instance, is the protruding lower jaw which causes the bottom row of front teeth to overlap the top row. While this is generally called an overbite, the true technical term would be an underbite, as the reference of both terms is to the upper jaw formation in relation to the lower jaw.
Normal Overbite Growth for Shih Tzu Dogs
As with most breeds of dogs, especially the toy breeds, the Shih Tzu will show variations of dental growth in the puppy stage. Each puppy will likely have its own pattern of tooth growth, and it will not be possible to know whether there are going to be problems until the adult teeth start to come in, at about six or seven months. While most Shih Tzu puppies will develop normal growth patterns and the classic overbite, some may need corrective dental work to allow enough room for the adult teeth, since these dogs have small mouths to begin with.
Adult Shih Tzu Overbite Development
Once a Shih Tzu has reached full mature growth status, the lower front teeth will be plainly visible at all times. This is the natural look of the Shih Tzu face. If there are indeed malocclusion problems with either the remaining baby teeth or any adult teeth that have not grown in properly, this will be obvious as well and should be corrected by a veterinarian as soon as possible. Improper nesting of the lower teeth with the upper teeth will cause eating and digestion problems which could lead to more serious health problems in the future.
Inherent Problems with the Shih Tzu Overbite
Any dog that has a protruded lower jaw will naturally have breathing problems, due to the shortened nasal passages caused by the genetic shape of the face. Shih Tzu and Lhasa Apso breeds are recognised for their tendency to make nasal sounds like snorting, snuffling and snoring when they sleep. This is normal for these breeds, yet it can cause problems as they age. Shih Tzu dogs can develop respiratory problems later in their life. They are also susceptible to overheating when they exercise, which can sometimes lead to heatstroke.
Some Approaches to Correcting Overbites in Shih Tzu Dogs
There have been reported experimental procedures that address the overbite issue in Shih Tzu dogs. These include adding biological and synthetic extensions in the upper jaw to compensate for the over-extended lower jaw. The impetus to conduct these types of experimental surgical techniques undoubtedly is to alleviate the breathing problems that are common to this breed. While this may be considered a humane undertaking, the levels of success with these procedures are as yet unsubstantiated.
Conclusions about Shih Tzu Overbite Characteristics
While there is an ongoing debate about the benefits of surgical attempts to correct the genetic facial structure of Shih Tzu dogs to improve their overall health, the fact that many Shih Tzu puppies live to become healthy adults can be a sort of reassurance to owners of this breed of dogs. A healthy adult Shih Tzu can be an excellent house pet that is generally friendly toward strangers and children, and the characteristic overbite of this breed does not necessarily have to be a negative one.


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Australian Law1) relating to prescribing Schedule 4, 8 or 9 poisons by a registered medical practitioner
MUST NOT issue a prescription unless:
the prescription is for the medical treatment of a person other than the practitioner, and,
that person is under the practitioner's care, and named in the prescription, and,
the practitioner has taken all reasonable steps to ensure a therapeutic need exists for that poison.
in the ED, this would imply that an ED doctor should not write a discharge prescription for a physiotherapy practitioner's patient unless they themseleves have had some degree of personal assessment of that patient


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School development index
SDI is an independent and comprehensive school assessment of the schools in Delhi, being done by DCPCR. The Commission's vision is to make information about schools accessible to parents, devise ways to acknowledge well-performing schools and put in place a system for effective governance of schools in the city.
Adhyayan Foundation partnered with DCPCR in 2017 - 2018, to build the framework and the tool for the evaluation. The framework was built keeping in mind the context of children and schools in Delhi along with DCPCR's priorities and vision for the evaluation process. The tool consists of the following themes:
Safety and Security which involves physical, emotional, sexual, structural, fire, hygienic, medical safety of the children;
Teaching and Learning which involves the teachers' availability, qualifications, pedagogy, interaction with students, students' reading proficiency in English and Hindi and arithmetic ;
Parental Participation which involves PTMs, or other means of parental involvement in schools;
Social Inclusion which involves fill rates, retention rates, experience of children admitted under this provision and whether the department is disbursing the reimbursement timely.


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National survey on AI in health and social care
Posted: 29th May 2018
Individuals and organisations working across health and social care are being asked to take part in a national survey to determine how AI (Artificial Intelligence) can be harnessed within the NHS and in preventative health settings.
The Academic Health Science Network (AHSN) Network Initiative on Artificial Intelligence is bringing together leaders with diverse perspectives on AI from clinical, technological, legal and ethical areas, as well as practical on-the-ground experience from innovators in the NHS and in preventative health
Members are drawn from a wide field, including academia, industry, the public sector and the third sector, including citizen groups.
The project's aim is to drive innovation and adoption of AI technology throughout the NHS and social careimproving care at less cost and promoting healthier lifestyles.
Guy Boersma, Managing Director of Kent Surrey Sussex Academic Health Science Network (KSS AHSN), is heading the initiative. He urged anyone involved or interested in AI within health and social care as well as preventative health to take part in the initial mapping survey:
"AI can offer huge potential to improve care and cut costs within the NHS. This exciting new initiative will shape how AI is used. As our starting point we're keen to develop an understanding of how AI is being used today, and where any gaps are.
With an initial focus on the use of AI in diagnostics, the project's aim is to create a user-led ecosystem of experts and innovators in data and artificial intelligence who will drive innovation and adoption of AI technology throughout the NHS and social care, and eventually in preventative health.
The survey runs until 15 June and can be found at


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The difference between the two is not big. Although the names are different, they are basically the same. They can still be understood as the packaging of the collection of Route.
2. Request processing stage:
<=2.1: 1. Match the requested URL with the route template recorded in the RouteCollection.
2. After finding the matching Route, determine whether there is a corresponding Controlled and Action according to the URL of the request.
3. If the above passes, call the Route Handler to process the HttpContext.
2.2+ : 1. When processing the request for the first time, first make a match according to the route set List and _actions.ActionDescriptors.Items (the information of all actions) configured in the startup phase, and generate a list. This list is stored. All URL templates that may be matched, as shown in Figure 2, this list is also List, which records all possible URL patterns. It actually lists the detailed addresses that can be accessed, which is the final address. That is, the endpoint, perhaps why it is called Endpoint routing.
2. The requested Url matches the generated table to find the corresponding MvcEndpointInfo.
3. Call the RequestDelegate method of the matched MvcEndpointInfo to process the request.
The difference between the two is that for the matching of _actions.ActionDescriptors.Items (the information of all actions), the original version is first matched according to the routing template, and then according to ActionDescriptors to determine whether there is a corresponding Controller and action, and the new version first uses the action The information matches the routing template and then matches with the requested URL. Since this kind of work is only performed at the first request, although it is not tested for efficiency, it should feel faster than before.


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The microprocessor provides internal reference voltages of either 1.1V or Vcc (5V on a Uno). Providing a reference voltage through AREF is strictly optional.
The tutorial says it won't work if you don't connect the AREF. Is that because the code is expecting a 3.3v reference? I guess I'll understand how all this works a lot more when I actually get the mic and can start trying it out and seeing what it does.
The microphone can run on 2.4V - 5V, and you match AREF to the supply voltage. We recommend using the 3.3V source on the arduino because it is the 'quietest'. That is, for analog measurements, the 5V supply is not quite as stable a reference as the 3.3V.
Because "5v" can jump around a bit based on the power source, where 3.3v is more strictly controlled by the hardware? So that means I can just solder a jumper straight across from 3.3v to AREF? Some of the images I saw in the non-ada tutorial had resistors. Were those to further fine tune the reference or for safety?


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BELOW are 10 different settings for teaching PLACE that various churches have used effectively. With each setting you will read about advantages and disadvantages to each setting. As you read these more detailed descriptions, remember to find the approach that works best for your church and culture. Each setting is being used successfully somewhere by countless churches. But which one or which combination of multiple settings will work best for you?
After working with churches all across the United States, and on occasion in Canada and overseas, the questions are fairly predictable. One question that is asked over and over is:
"What are the best settings for teaching PLACE?"


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Inside Dentistry
November/December 2010, Volume 6, Issue 10
Published by AEGIS Communications
A Conversation with Harold C. Slavkin, DDS
The university dean and former director of the NIDCR talks about the challenges facing dentistry, dental research, and the delivery of dental healthcare.
INSIDE DENTISTRY (ID): Dr. Slavkin, you have had a number of unique positions within the profession, including dean of a dental school and head of the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR). Could you tell us about those roles you've filled throughout your career? For example, what led you to a career in dentistry in the first place?
HAROLD SLAVKIN (HS): Well, after I graduated from high school in 1955, I enlisted in the Army and was trained to be a dental technician at Fort Sam Houston by Dr. Henry Sutro. Henry was a fantastic mentor and role model who encouraged me to consider going to dental school after the Army. As a dental technician stationed at Forest Glen, Maryland (connected to Walter Reed Hospital), I was assigned to fabricating prostheses for facial burn patients. I was motivated to complete undergraduate studies in English literature and then go to dental school—I did both at USC in Los Angeles. These were critical stages in my journey into dentistry.
As a dental student, I collaborated with other students on research; I attended several IADR meetings and upon graduation in 1965, I practiced part-time as a general dentist in Westwood Village, while I pursued a postdoctoral fellowship. I joined the full-time faculty at USC in July 1968. By this stage, I was dedicated to a career in academic dentistry with a focus on "nucleic acid biochemistry" as related to the head, face, mouth, and teeth—"craniofacial-oral-dental research."
A year later, in 1969, I was asked to become the chairman for the Department of Biochemistry and Nutrition in the dental school, and I served in this capacity for 6 years. In 1975, I took a leave of absence to serve as acting lab chief in the laboratory for Developmental Biology at the National Institute of Dental Research (NIDR) in Bethesda. I loved working and learning at the National Institutes of Health (NIH)—this was a superb experience.
Upon my return to USC, I worked with other faculty to create a new graduate program called "craniofacial biology"—an attempt to foster multidisciplinary research revolving around the critical questions of craniofacial birth defects, head-and-neck cancer, and head and neck trauma. Working with graduate and postdoctoral fellow students and through a broad array of scientific and international collaborations, I pursued studies to understand how teeth are formed, how enamel, dentin, and cementum are formed, what are the key genes involved in human craniofacial anomalies, and a host of other challenging problems. During this period I served as laboratory chief and director for the Laboratory for Developmental Biology in the Gerontology Center at USC (1972–1988), and then as the director for the Center for Craniofacial Molecular Biology (CCMB) from 1989–1995.
In 1995, I was recruited to become the sixth director of the NIDR, serving through June 2000—and I discovered that being in the right place at the right time can be enormously important. This was an incredible experience, rich in opportunities to influence research policy and enhance the reputation of "dental research" within the fabric of biomedical research. During this period, we worked to instill strategic planning, collaboration, and cooperation between all stakeholders (dentists, dental hygienists, physicians, nurses, pharmacists, biomedical scientists, health professions educators, patient advocacy groups, journalists, and Congress). I was blessed with a remarkable staff and with enormous support from my wife Lois.
During this time, working closely with ADA leadership, we were able to change the name of the NIDR to NIDCR, a name that more accurately reflected the depth and breadth of our work. We fostered research on oral health disparities, craniofacial birth defects, oral and pharyngeal cancer, innovations in biomaterials, and saliva as a diagnostic, as well as focusing attention on oral–systemic diseases, training, and collaborations with other Institutes. We were invited to serve as the lead agency for the first Surgeon Generals' Report Oral Health in America.
In August 2000, I officially returned to my alma mater to serve as the 11th dean of the USC School of Dentistry (2000–2008). As we worked closely with students, staff, faculty, alumni, and friends, it became evident that we needed to look beyond the walls of the dental school and become fully aligned with our parent university. At the same time, we needed to foster "student-centered learning" approaches within dental education, develop and expand lifelong learning through CE programs, update equipment and physical clinical resources, and advance a state-of-the-art practice to retain gifted faculty—while remaining focused on the "fundraising" that enabled these changes.
I returned to the University in January 2010 as a tenured professor engaged in research, teaching, and writings.
ID: When you were trained to be a dental technician, how was your aptitude identified, because otherwise it seems to me you would have gone a completely different route?
HS: Yes, I know. I think for me a lot of these roles were sort of accidents, when certain very impressive people arrived at critical junctions in my life—a young person's life. I was coming out of high school at 17 years old—really not academic and not thinking of the university—and a friend's father suggested going into the Regular Army as a volunteer. I got permission from my parents and randomly chose between being a medic or a dental technician. Dental tech took longer, so I thought that was the better choice—that's how I started. Then I realized that after the Army I could moonlight and pay my way through college and dental school. So I did dental technology for probably 8 years.
ID: But you were an English literature major as an undergraduate—we do not see that very often in dental students.
HS: It was suggested to me that dentistry would be a highly focused field, and so I really needed to get a broad liberal arts background, because I would never get that again. That was the coaching that I received, and I took that advice. I thought that I would like it very much, but it also seemed that before focusing on the mouth, it would be wonderful to play with some of the big ideas.
ID: When you started doing research as a student, was that simply to earn some money, like a work study program?
HS: No, it was patient-driven. I was assisting in the clinic, and they were discussing a second division block of the trigeminal. I had never heard of that, and there were no guidelines about where you put the needle, how far it goes in, and what the consequences are if you do not do it right. So I joined a couple of other dental students, and we invented a project and got a little grant from the dental school to get it off the ground.
Later a patient with amputation neuroma came in, and I had never heard of that before. So I teamed up with the head of our oral surgery department to do a case study.
ID: Looking back on these experiences, were there any surprises?
HS: I am greeted everyday with surprises! No two days are exactly the same. Life and living offer "teaching moments" everyday. I have come to believe that almost anything is possible; that change and being a change agent almost always comes with resistance and "push-back"; that learning for me is living (and living is learning); that my wife is my best friend; that children, grandchildren, and family are enormously important; that nurturing and mentoring are profoundly essential at any age; and that one's own health should never be taken for granted.
ID: Can you compare the ins and outs of running a large governmental research agency and running a dental school—which of those two jobs was harder?
HS: In a sense, my training allowed me to adapt to the federal agency—for example, the kinds of people who were leading the other Institutes, and the mindset at the NIH that all of the boats rise with increased funding (not in the same proportion, but they all rise). Harold Varmus as the leader had a very collegiate mix of people; it was very easy on many levels to adapt to that.
Ironically, being a dentist, and having been a dental technician and practiced in the private sector—the dental school was more difficult. Gaining consensus was much more difficult, the needs of the students as they perceived them were very different from the faculty, the differences between faculty backgrounds was enormous, the whole issue of paying the bills in a private school, and raising millions of dollars a year—it was more challenging for me.
ID: So did your job become one of a broader fundraiser?
HS: Yes. I raised much more money at the NIH, but the way you do it is very different. You raise it through your involvement with the Senate and the House and with other institute directors, and so the game is very different. Consuming lots of rubber chicken, raising millions of dollars—but doing it when it is $5,000, $2,000, or $25,000 gifts—it takes a long time to get to $3 or $4 million dollars a year.
ID: As someone who is steeped in research and academia, were you


A computer analysis of photographs could help doctors diagnose which condition a child with a rare genetic disorder has, using a computer program that recognizes facial features in photographs, looks for similarities with facial structures for various conditions, such as Down's syndrome, Angelman syndrome, or Progeria, and returns possible matches ranked by likelihood.
This image shows an average face taking on the average facial features of eight rare genetic disorders that have been built from a growing bank of photographs of people diagnosed with different syndromes. Oxford University scientists have developed a computer program to help doctors diagnose rare genetic disorders by recognizing facial structure in photographs. Credit: Christoffer Nellåker/Oxford University
Zisserman says, 'It is great to see such an inventive and beneficial use of modern face representation methods.'
Identifying a suspected developmental disorder tends to require clinical geneticists to come to a conclusion based on facial features, follow up tests and their own expertise. It's thought that 30–40% of rare genetic disorders involve some form of change in the face and skull, possibly because so many genes are involved in development of the face and cranium as a baby grows in the womb.
They developed a programme that – like Google, Picasa and other photo software – recognises faces in ordinary, everyday photographs. The programme accounts for variations in lighting, image quality, background, pose, facial expression and identity. It builds a description of the face structure by identifying corners of eyes, nose, mouth and other features, and compares this against what it has learnt from other photographs fed into the system.
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MIT's Technology Review featured Professor Catherine Klapperich's SNAP device, co-developed as an IIH project, to purify DNA in the field. SNAP (System for Nucleic Acid Preparation) is able to purify DNA from field samples such as blood and saliva without any electricity or specialized training. This allows samples to be collected in the field, and stabilized without expensive refrigeration. By isolating DNA from the sample, the resulting material remains stable at room temperature for long periods of time.
"Instead of taking blood samples and keeping them cold, with our technology, they would be able to prepare all the samples at the point of care," says Klapperich, an assistant professor of mechanical and biomedical engineering at Boston University. "They would also have a longer period of time to get a much more preserved sample to a central lab someplace else."
A standard bicycle pump is all that's required to power a DNA purifying kit, designed by Catherine Klapperich and her students at Boston University. The thermos-size device, dubbed SNAP (System for Nucleic Acid Preparation), extracts genetic material from blood and other bodily fluids by pumping fluid through a polymer-lined straw designed to trap DNA. A user can then pop the straw out and mail it to the nearest lab, where the preserved DNA can be analyzed for suspicious bacteria, viruses, and genetic diseases.
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Signal conditioning for the recursive least-squares filter in ultrasonic testing of materials
This work aims to enhance the filtering performance of the recursive least-squares adaptive algorithm in the ultrasonic testing of materials by processing the primary input of the filter to improve the correlation properties of the signal and noise and enhance the adaptation and filtering process. The preprocessing is carried out using the SURE and universal threshold methods, which were originally used in wavelet denoising. The standard and proposed realisations of the recursive least-squares filter were applied to process simulated ultrasonic grain noise signals and the echo signals of experimental defects. Preprocessing using the SURE method did not offer good results in the simulation study. The results of the simulation and experimental studies showed that the proposed configuration of the recursive least-squares filter using the universal method performs better than the standard recursive least-squares filter.
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In a time when the majority of young children know more about a computer than agriculture, this project brings agriculture to them in a unique way. This presentation introduces a program that aims to connect elementary students with the vast agriculture industry in the digital age using appropriate technology. The project consists of teaching children in Eastern Kentucky and beyond about agriculture and land use through the virtual dissemination of relevant stories, facts, and activities. In this way children can learn how agriculture is vital to their everyday life. Featured topics include horticulture crops, agronomic crops, livestock, and the history of agriculture practices in Appalachia. The information is being shared through the Facebook social media platform using a page entitled, "Little Aggies. The project's goal is to foster learning about agriculture in an intriguing way, while encouraging reading and greater appreciation for plants, animals, and all living things.
Smith, Heather and Gritton, Joy, "Cultivating Gratitude And Learning: Virtual Agriculture Education For Elementary School Students" (2021). 2021 Celebration of Student Scholarship - Oral Presentations. 7.


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Johns Hopkins University, 2012 - $14,400
Approximately 9-19% of the 4-5 million open abdominal surgeries in the US each year result in postoperative complications, which together cost the health care system $2.5 billion. The main cause of these complications is the improper closure of the fascia, a layer of muscle underneath the skin that protects the internal organs. Currently, fascia closure is performed with the traditional combination of suture and needle. This method poses two problems: first, surgeons have to roughly estimate suture placement across the incision, which can lead to uneven placement and compromise closure integrity; second, the internal organs are exposed to the sharp needle, increasing the chance of bowel puncture and laceration, both of which require additional surgeries to repair.
This E-Team is developing the QuickStitch, a device that will help surgeons close fascia more safely, easily, and consistently. QuickStitch is a plier-like device that can drive and transfer a needle across its jaw. To use it, the surgeon places the fascia between the jaws of the device, squeezes the handle, and toggles a switch to transfer the needle across the layer. The needle is protected in the process, eliminating exposure to the intestines. QuickStitch also improves placement with a built-in visual guide to help surgeons place sutures at regular intervals.


Vince Elliott, president and CEO of The Chemical Free Cleaning Network, Baltimore, Md., and author of "Extreme Green Cleaning," is no stranger to water-activated cleaning solutions; he's been studying their efficacy for some time.
Recently, Elliott connected with a custodial cleaning executive overseeing a high-traffic facility to examine the following questions:
- Do the various water-activated sanitizing technologies actually reduce Reflective Light Unit (RLU) levels as measured by an ATP meter?
- How do the differing technologies compare to each other? Does one perform better or worse, or are they all basically the same?
- What differences in efficacy are there between plain tap water and water-activated technologies?
While Elliott's research is ongoing, he has tested 760 surfaces in the facility so far and has learned a thing or two about the sanitizing products being used.
The goal of the study is to compare and contrast the efficacy of the more popular water-activated sanitizing products in a working environment, says Elliott. But based on an ATP test model of surfaces in the facility, the technologies just don't match the efficacy findings outlined in the lab tests.
He explains: "Lab findings are highlighted on the websites of the various technologies, which generally report a 99.9 to 99.999 percent effective rate for common germs. Our study, based on an ATP testing model, resulted in an effective rate of 71 to 85 percent."
The findings from the study, he notes, are obviously lower than the laboratory-based results being reported for these technologies. However, he's quick to add that no one is exaggerating their effectiveness.
"I'm not saying their results are wrong, because in a lab they are right," he explains. "What I'm saying is that out there where workers are scrubbing through the dirt, and may or may not be following instructions, these are the results — this is what is happening in the real world. Our data suggests that if the lab-based studies were repeated in the field, under everyday working conditions, the lab-based efficacy findings could be lower then the 99.9 percent."
Elliott adds that even if the real-world results for water-activated technologies aren't as high as those achieved in stringent lab-based testing, it is still a sustainability option facility executives should not ignore.
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Whisper Phones
Learn how to make these cheap and easy Whisper Phones for your Reading Block in the Classroom!
Want a fun, easy, and affordable way to engage students while they are silent reading, and at the same time help the issue of those students who always read out loud so they can hear themselves?
What these little gadgets do is create a passageway for the students' voice to travel. They can read very very quietly (whisper), but they will be able to hear themselves through the "phone."
Cute right??
Here's what you need and everything can be found at Home Depot or any home improvement store.
- A 3/4 INCH PVC Pipe (This is a really long pipe for just a couple bucks). One pipe can make approximately 25-30 phones.
- 3/4 INCH Elbow pieces for the pipe. You need two per phone and each is about 45 cents.
-A PVC Pipe Cutter
- Duck Tape to make it look pretty!
1) Use the pipe cutter to cut the pipe into approx. 3 inch long pieces.
2) Connect an elbow on each end of the cut pipe.
3) Wrap the middle with duck tape.
The end!
I do have to admit that I had to watch a YouTube Video on how to use a pipe cutter. Kind of embarrassing that I couldn't open it. But then I realized there are videos dedicated JUST on how to open the darn thing. Here is a link to one:
So yea! There are your handy dandy whisper phones. Kids will love them and if they can hear themselves read, but not bother those around them, they can improve on their accuracy and fluency as readers!
Let me know if you have any questions!
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Cultural Anthropology Program
Kelsey Chatlosh is a doctoral student in the Cultural Anthropology program. Her research focuses on Afro-Chilean activism for recognition, memory and territory, and how activists are contesting dominant narratives of Chilean history and racial identity, re-envisioning the future, and linking with other activist networks. In part, Kelsey is interested to explore how varying configurations of Afro-descendant Chilean consciousness and activism are emerging online through digital ethnography. Additionally, as teacher at Queens College, Kelsey is keen on further exploring and applying methods of digital pedagogy within and beyond the classroom. Prior to the CUNY Graduate Center, Kelsey worked as the Language Access Monitor at the Washington, DC Mayor's Office on Latino Affairs. There, among other projects, she co-founded the website LanguageIsARight.org and worked on a public art and social media campaign to spread awareness of city residents' right to access city programs and services in their own languages.


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