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Returns a sequence of
xs:anyURI values representing the URIs in a URI
The zero-argument form of the function returns the URIs in the default URI collection described in.
If the value of
$arg is a relative
xs:anyURI, it is resolved
against the value of the base-URI property from the static context.
$arg is the empty sequence, the function behaves as if it had been
called without an argument. See above.
The single-argument form of the function returns the sequence of URIs corresponding to the supplied URI in the available URI collections described in.
By default, this function is deterministic. This means that repeated calls on the function with the same argument will return the same result. However, for performance reasons, implementations may provide a user option to evaluate the function without a guarantee of determinism. The manner in which any such option is provided is implementation-defined. If the user has not selected such an option, a call to this function must either return a deterministic result or must raise a dynamic error.
There is no requirement that the URIs returned by this function should all be distinct, and no assumptions can be made about the order of URIs in the sequence, unless the implementation defines otherwise.
A dynamic error is raised if no URI is supplied (that is, if the function is called with no arguments, or with a single argument that evaluates to an empty sequence), and the value of the default resource collection is absent.
A dynamic error is raised if a relative URI reference is supplied, and the base-URI property in the static context is absent.
A dynamic error is raised if available resource collections provides no mapping for the absolutized URI.
A dynamic error
may be raised if
$arg is not
In some implementations, there might be a close relationship between collections (as retrieved
fn:collection function), and URI collections (as retrieved by this function).
For example, a collection might return XML documents, and the corresponding URI collection might return
the URIs of those documents. However, this specification does not impose such a close relationship. For example, there
may be collection URIs accepted by one of the two functions and not by the other; a collection might contain
items that do not have any URI; or a URI collection might contain URIs that cannot be dereferenced to return any
Thus, some implementations might ensure that calling
fn:uri-collection and then
fn:doc to each of the returned URIs delivers the same result as
fn:collection with the same argument; however, this is not
In the case where
fn:uri-collection returns the URIs of resources that
could also be retrieved directly using
fn:collection, there are several reasons why it
might be appropriate to use this function in preference
fn:collection function. For example:
fn:unparsed-textfunction rather than the
fn:docfunction. In XSLT 3.0 it allows the documents in a collection to be processed in streaming mode using the
xsl:streaminstruction. It allows recovery from failures to read, parse, or validate individual documents, by calling the
fn:doc(or other dereferencing) function within the scope of try/catch. It allows selection of which documents to read based on their URI, for example they can be filtered to select those whose URIs end in
.xml, or those that use the
httpsscheme. An application might choose to limit the number of URIs processed in a single run, for example it might process only the first 50 URIs in the collection; or it might present the URIs to the user and allow the user to select which of them need to be further processed. It allows the URIs to be modified before they are dereferenced, for example by adding or removing query parameters, or by redirecting the request to a local cache or to a mirror site.
For some of these use cases, this assumes that the cost of calling
fn:collection might be significant (for example, it might involving
retrieving all the documents in the collection over the network and parsing them). This
will not necessarily be true of all implementations.


Check if a number can be written as sum of three consecutive integers in C++
C++Server Side ProgrammingProgramming
In this section we will see, whether a number can be represented as tree consecutive numbers or not. Suppose a number is 27. This can be represented as 8 + 9 + 10.
This can be solved in two different approach. The first approach is Naïve approach. In that approach, we have to check i + (i + 1) + (i + 2) is same as number or not. Another efficient approach is by checking whether the number is divisible by 3 or not. Suppose a number x can be represented by three consecutive 1s, then x = (y - 1) + y + (y + 1) = 3y. So the number must be divisible by 3.
 Live Demo
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using namespace std;
bool hasThreeNums(int n) {
 if(n % 3 == 0){
 return true;
 return false;
int main() {
 int num = 27;
 cout << "Can be represented";
 cout << "Cannot be presented";
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Yeshua Bible Code
found at the Burning-Bush Passage
The First Four Names of this Picture Bible Code
(Part 5, answers:
'Why this Scroll is on a spindle')
At the burning bush, what did God mean when He told Moses that His Name was:
"I AM that I AM"?
The answer to this question has set in motion many pens. However, the bible code answers it for us!
In the following presentation, I assume that the reader is already familiar with the subject of Bible
codes. (Click here if you are not familiar.) Increasingly complex bible codes will be displayed, all directly related to this one, "Yeshua–Yeshua"
Bible-code. ("Jesus", in Hebrew, is "Yeshua".) Analysis is simplified to maintain
a quick and digestible presentation.
My appreciation to Jacob Rambsel for his initial discovery of the "Yeshua-Yeshua," alongside "Elijah," component of this bible code.
(Remember: Hebrew reads from right to left!)
The bible code below shows the top Yeshua joined with the bottom Yeshua, by sharing the same last letters (at 120-letter skip intervals),. (The extremely important reasons why
this Bible code is at 120-letter skips has already been examined in great detail.)
"Yeshua–Yeshua," in turn, runs alongside in-parallel-with the name of God as revealed at the burning bush, (i.e., "I AM," ) at top;
and also with the name of "Elijah," at bottom. (For the significance of "Elijah," here, see Lesson 1b.) Therefore, the name of
"I AM" is also joined vertically to "Elijah," in just the same manner as "Yeshua" is joined vertically to the bottom "Yeshua."
Hence, since all four words are four letters long, they all join at the same place in the middle, and in the very same directions too! Consequently, the letters in the middle are
shared in overlap, and therefore used twice.
Therefore, horizontally, the top "Yeshua" is beside "I AM," and the bottom, "Yeshua" is beside "Elijah."
The green arrows demonstrate how the four vertical words are joined together in the bible code (at 120-letter skips). Hence, each name is 360 letters long, (120 x 3 =
360), with the whole bible code, therefore, 360 x 2 letters long, spanning from top to bottom.
Ye 120 sh 120 u 120 a 120 u 120 hs 120 eY
ELS start's at Exodus 2:18, + 120 x 3, = 360 letters to Ex. 3:1,
+ 120 x 3 more letters = 720 total letters, which ends at Ex. 3:7
(Also, alongside "Yeshua--Yeshua,"
"I AM" with
in exactly the same directions)
Within these same letters, zigzagging, it says:
"Jehovah," "He will be joined (to mankind)!"
"Part 2, Bible-Code Slide" to see how!
Menorah at Mount (in seven parts)
Yeshua Bible Code Home Page
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As Chief Technology Officer at Route1, Yamian Quintero leads the teams responsible for developing a number of core technologies for Route1 MobiNET and other related products and services.
He is also responsible for expanding the company's intellectual property portfolio. Quintero brings over 10 years of information security experience in the fields of cryptography, identity management, security protocols and smart card technology.
Prior to joining Route1, Quintero was a senior cryptographic developer with Kasten Chase Applied Research. In this role, he was the lead cryptographic engine developer and played a key role in developing a hardware-based cryptographic accelerator. Previously, Quintero held positions as systems architect, project leader, and security researcher responsible for designing and implementing a public key cryptosystem that is used today by a national certification authority. Quintero acquired extensive knowledge in the use and deployment of smart cards, and was involved in the development of a toll collection and electronic purse system. Among Quintero's innovative academic assignments is the development of an automatic theorem proof in the graphs theory field. Quintero has written articles on smart card technologies and cryptographic techniques that have appeared in numerous journals and trade publications.


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I've restored the content of this page, which was changed to a redirect to Timeline ( While there is considerable overlap in terms of the links provided, History of Warcraft is an important source of lore, and we should have an article on it.--Aeleas 03:16, 6 January 2007 (EST)
There is no overlap, it's entirely the same (except chapter headings are removed as they aren't needed for the purpose of the wiki), thats why this page has become redundant as i summarized. Please don't revert it again.. --Zeal (talk - contr - web) 03:42, 6 January 2007 (EST)
Perhaps explaining the history and function of this page would be helpful. The various chapters of the History of Warcraft were copied to WoWWiki to make it easier to cite directly to a local mirror of this official source. If you take a look at what links here[1], you will find that this page is used as a reference on dozens of others. Many of the links are the chapters of the History of Warcraft themselves, and many others are works that are citing the History of Warcraft as an official source of lore. When clicking on the link to History of Warcraft, readers are given a description of what the History of Warcraft is and can see exactly what it contains.
While Timeline ( is very useful, the fact that it is summarized and reorganized means it is no longer a mirror of an official source, and therefore no longer appropriate to cite to. It also doesn't explicitly state what the History of Warcraft is, as this article does.
If a consensus can be shown that History of Warcraft isn't useful in it's current state, then I will concede that it should be deleted and redirected, but there is generally a presumption here against the deletion of an article when someone objects to it.--Aeleas 04:21, 6 January 2007 (EST)
So glad i'm going away this weekened.. There is never any reason to replicate an official and public source for the purpose of citation. Period. This article's previous state was flawed to begin with. It was a list of the events and linking to the articles. This is the same as a category. The linked pages are not using this page as an efficient citation, and WoWWiki should never be cited itself, only used a citation referance as all other citations are. It isn't a mirror of a source, it's a complete reformat, listing and disambiguation of the original source, something that isn't needed. The pages should all be citing the real source when citing. When linking, the Timeline provides the exact same resource, but better, than the existing page. The only thing that i would be willing to except as worthwhile content in relation to this article is an explanation of what it is and a link to the source, throw in a link to the category of the events too if desired. However, i don't feel it deserves this as it's so simplistic and the mere citation of it and looking at the source shows it already, which is what exists in the timeline.
I removed it, and redirected. I purposely left the talk page incase people felt otherwise. It really should be an opt-in article, not op-out. I find the concept of voting to remove it ridiculous. You don't see an article explaning what each section of the WoW official site is now do you? no, that's right, it's not what the wiki is for. If anything this should merely be in the citation index with a brief one sentenace explanation and source link, not an article itself. *breathe* --Zeal (talk - contr - web) 04:45, 6 January 2007 (EST)
We have several reproductions of official sources here, and have found them quite useful in the past. If you want to change that, then the relevant policy which endorses and encourages it, WoWWiki:Lore policy#Concise Articles and Source Text, will need to be voted on and revised. Until then, the 75 or so pages that link here are following the recommended policy.
Certainly not all sections of the WoW website have articles, but the ones that form important sources of lore, like Warcraft_Encyclopedia and History of Warcraft, do. --Aeleas 12:48, 6 January 2007 (EST)
I wasn't part of it being redirected, but I know the administrator Adys told him to get rid of the older topic due to redundant information.Baggins 13:12, 6 January 2007 (EST)
New storys?Edit
Will there be new story's/info in the next expansion (Cataclysm)? Jupitus (talk) 19:57, January 24, 2010 (UTC)
It is unknown at this moment. Benitoperezgaldos (talk) 21:25, January 24, 2010 (UTC)
Backwards listing? Edit
Why are the novels, manga, and RPG books listed backwards?--Mondoblasto (talk) 10:39, August 9, 2010 (UTC)
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About the Study
| How Does This Affect You?
The newborn screening is a blood test done to help identify certain health issues that would not otherwise be seen as early in newborns. Unfortunately, this screening requires that blood be drawn. A heelstick was the common method to withdraw blood, but venipuncture (from the back of the hand) has become a more common approach because it is associated with less discomfort for the newborn. However, venipuncture still causes some unhappiness. Making a newborn cry is bad enough but early negative experiences can also lead to higher anxiety and pain with future medical tests. Oral sucrose, a sugar solution, has been found to have a pain-relieving and calming effect with infants receiving vaccinations.
Researchers from Canada examined steps to reduce discomfort for infants including a topical medication lidocaine, a sucrose solution, or sucrose plus lidocaine. The study, published in Pediatrics, found that oral sucrose was effective at reducing pain in infants during venipuncture.
About the Study
The study was a randomized trial that included 330 healthy full-term newborns. Before their venipuncture, the infants were given one of three treatments to decrease pain:
- 2 milliliters of 24% sucrose solution, administered by mouth using a syringe over 1 to 2 minutes
- 1 gram of liposomal lidocaine 4% cream to the dorsum of the hand
- Both sucrose and lidocaine
The infants were also swaddled and held by a nurse during the venipuncture.
A facial grimace scale assessed pain with scores ranging from 0-100. The average grimace score during venipuncture was:
- 14 with sucrose solution
- 42 with liposomal lidocaine
- 19 with sucrose and lidocaine
Both groups with sucrose were significantly lower than lidocaine alone. There was no significant difference between sucrose or sucrose and lidocaine.
How Does This Affect You?
Randomized trials are considered a very reliable form of research trial. Although no trial can be perfect this trial was well-done and the results are likely to be true. The lidocaine, which is often used for pain reduction in medical procedures, appeared less effective at reducing pain during venipuncture compared to sucrose.
It is not clear if the sucrose directly affects pain levels or if it is simply a happy distraction, but it appears effective in decreasing the stress. The small sucrose delivered was not associated with adverse events, so it may be a safe way to make venipuncture a little less distressing for newborns.
Taddio A, Shah V, Stephens D, et al.
Effect of liposomal lidocaine and sucrose alone and in combination for venipuncture pain in newborns.
Pediatrics. 2011 Apr;127(4):e940-947.
Last reviewed July 2011 by Brian P. Randall, MD
Please be aware that this information is provided to supplement the care provided by your physician. It is neither intended nor implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice. CALL YOUR HEALTHCARE PROVIDER IMMEDIATELY IF YOU THINK YOU MAY HAVE A MEDICAL EMERGENCY. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health provider prior to starting any new treatment or with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition.
Copyright © EBSCO Publishing. All rights reserved.


text: Translation of genomic discovery, such as single-cell sequencing data, to clinical decisions remains a longstanding bottleneck in the field. Meanwhile, computational systems biological models, such as cellular metabolism models and cell signaling pathways, have emerged as powerful approaches to provide efficient predictions in metabolites and gene expression levels, respectively. However, there has been limited research on the integration between these two models. This work develops a methodology for integrating computational models of probabilistic gene regulatory networks with a constraint-based metabolism model. By using probabilistic reasoning with Bayesian Networks, we aim to predict cell-specific changes under different interventions, which are embedded into the constraint-based models of metabolism. Applications to single-cell sequencing data of glioblastoma brain tumors generate predictions about the effects of pharmaceutical interventions on the regulatory network and downstream metabolisms in different cell types from the tumor microenvironment. The model presents possible insights into treatments that could potentially suppress anaerobic metabolism in malignant cells with minimal impact on other cell types' metabolism. The proposed integrated model can guide therapeutic target prioritization, the formulation of combination therapies, and future drug discovery. This model integration framework is also generalizable to other applications, such as different cell types, organisms, and diseases.

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Steam-Based In-Situ Soil Remediation
Mercury occurs naturally in rocks, soils, water, and air; anthropogenic sources of mercury, as a contaminant of concern, are found at 290 Superfund National Priority Sites. Thermal treatment, whether practiced above ground on contaminated materials removed from a site, or in ground, is highly effective in removing more than 90 % of mercury in place, depending on site-specific factors and temperatures achieved usually heating to greater than 300 C is required to meet land disposal standards. Treating mercury in the ground avoids the added hazards of transporting contaminant soil to a treatment facility and reduces exposure risks. PCI proposes an innovative direct-fire catalytically stabilized steam generation technology that offers significant energy savings compared to steam boilers, and unlike boilers can operate at the high temperatures needed to be effective for in-situ mercury removal for a wide range of soil porosities, water content, and locations below or in the vadose zone. The technology promises a compact and low emission system that can provide extremely high rates of heat and mass injection in relatively short times (e.g. 10 million BTU/hr from a 4.5 diameter OD system). The process can achieve clean combustion at temperatures from discharge temperatures 300 C to in excess of 1000 C, depending on level of air and water injection, producing super-heated steam with water contents over 60 %. This technology has been developed to work in shallow to deep well bores and should be ideally suited for thermal steam remediation of contaminated soils, especially those containing mercury and its compounds. Commercial Applications and other Benefits: The proposed effort will lead to the ability to remediate contaminated sites in a more efficient and faster manner, leading to reduced costs for mercury removal as well as removal of non-aqueous liquids and other contaminants. Spin-off applications include enhanced and secondary recovery of crude oils and methane hydrates
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In order to enable API Access to TradeGecko, the following credentials must be gathered:
Privileged Access Token
- Log in to your TradeGecko account.
- Go to _URL_
- Click New Application.
- Enter the details as shown below:
- On the Application Details page, click Create Privileged Access Token.
- Retain the generated API Token. This is your Privileged Access Token.
Inventory Location Name
The Inventory Location Name is required to enable inventory adjustments.
- Log into your TradeGecko account.
- Go to Settings > Locations.
- Under the Label heading, retain the displayed Location Name.
Next: Enable API Access


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Currently, there are no oral medications that are FDA approved for use in dystonia. Among the oral medications used, dopaminergic agents (levodopa), anticholinergic agents (benztropine, trihexyphenidyl), baclofen and clonazepam are the most frequently used. These drugs are usually most effective in children with generalized dystonia. In adults, the side effects of these agents, including memory problems and sedation, often occur before an effective dose can be reached. Surgical treatments for cervical dystonia are of two types. One is selective peripheral denervation in which the nerves to the dystonic muscles are cut. Although this has been reported to be effective, this approach is limited by the ability to access the nerve involved, the need for considerable expertise of the surgeon, and the potential for side effects. Side effects from the surgery are not uncommon and following surgery, there is a long period of rehabilitation.


Wedding Frame
Wedding Frame
Create a personal wedding frame that complements a photo of your wedding day.
Step 1: Collect Supplies and Tools
Instructions: You'll need the following:
- Avery Printable Cotton (3384™)
- Fiskars® Shape Cutter and Wave Edge template (4860)
- Cutting knife
- Scrapbook album or chipboard frame, 12" x 12"
- Dark green scrapbook paper
- Dark green and white ribbon
- Personal photo
- Glue
Step 2: Create Your Design
Instructions: Using your favorite software, create a text box that fills the page. Color the text box a light pale green. Type the couple's names in a darker green text. Copy and paste the names repeatedly to fill the page.
Step 3: Print and Attach
Instructions: Print out the text on two sheets of Avery Printable Cotton. Use both sheets to completely cover the surface area of the album, then attach the sheets to the album with glue.
Attach picture on top with glue.
Note: As an alternative project, you can also glue the sheets to a chipboard frame. Using a cutting knife, trim out the area where the picture will show through.
Step 4: Cut and Attach
Instructions: Use the Fiskars® Shape Cutter and Wave Edge template (4860) to cut 1" borders from the dark green scrapbook paper.
Glue onto the edges of the album or frame.
Step 5: Decorate
Instructions: Embellish with ribbon, covering seam between the sheets of Avery Printable Cotton.


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Workshop 1: Overview of the situation and needs analysis
Director of the Institute for Adult Education of Republic of Srpska, Mr Goran Zmijanjac reading the workshop material
Group work: Needs analysis
Workshop 2: Results of the analysis and defining recommendations
Group work: Discussing strengths and weaknesses and defining recommendations
By carefully listening to the needs of ministries of education in those administrative units that have regulated the field of adult education legally, but also in those who are still in the process of adoption of the law, and with the aim of improving the framework conditions for adult education, DVV International – Country Office B&H in 2018 organised two meetings/workshops on the topic „Laws and Regulation in the Field of Adult Education".
Overall objective of the meetings was to improve implementation of the adult education system through a comprehensive analysis and understanding of adopted laws and regulation in different administrative units of B&H, their comparative analysis in the context of legal solutions and their practical application, in order to identify advantages and disadvantages, and agree on eventual needs for changes of legislation or procedures of their implementation.
The meetings were held on 25th and 26th of October in Tarčin and 22nd and 23rd of November in Jahorina, and the participants were legal associates and contact persons for adult education within the ministries of education from in total 11 administrative units of Bosnia and Herzegovina (9 cantons of Federation of B&H, Republic of Srpska, and District Brčko).
Based on the analysis of all existing laws and regulation, and their implementation and applicability in practice, eleven key recommendations for improvement of the field of adult education for the following period were defined, in which one suggests to the competent authorities that it is necessary to:
Participants of the second meeting, each for its administrative unit, also defined necessary steps by following the mentioned recommendations, whereby the realisation of all the steps defined is planned for the period December 2018 - December 2019.


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The home folder in OS X is the default location where your account's settings and data are stored. By default your home folder is located in the Users directory at the root of the main boot drive, will be named the same as your account's short username, and will have a house icon when you are logged into your account.
Having the home directory located on the main boot volume is a convenient option for quick and easy setup; however, there may be instances where you would like to have it on a separate partition, or better yet on a secondary hard drive altogether.
- Managing large files
If you regularly generate large files that would quickly fill up your hard drive, you might benefit from storing these files on a large secondary drive. While you can keep them in a separate folder, programs using them might cache them, create other temporary files, or organize support files in other locations within your user account and take up space on your hard drive. In this scenario having your user account on its own separate drive might be beneficial.
The advent of solid-state drive (SSD) devices has really opened up the data throughput bottlenecks that hard drives have imposed on computers; however, you can still increase your system's speed a bit by storing data separately from the drive containing the system software. When applications run, the system will be using the hard drive to store RAM contents as part of virtual memory, which will be using some of the drive's throughput. This use will decrease the performance of the drive when loading data or other items, so spreading this to other drives should make up for any performance hit.
Storing user accounts on a separate hard drive makes them more portable, so you can preserve your data separately from the operating system installation. With this setup, you can easily format or even partition the boot drive while maintaining your user account, so you can quickly get your account settings back after a quick format if necessary. This by itself is perhaps not necessary given advanced backup tools like Time Machine, but might make sense when coupled with other reasons for managing the account on separate drives.
If you have decided you would like to migrate your home folder to a secondary hard drive, the process is actually quite simple. Your home folder is just a collection of files and folders owned by your user account, which you have complete control over, so to migrate it just follow these steps.
- Make sure you have a secondary admin account.
When adjusting user settings there is always the potential for something to go wrong, so to ensure that you will at least be able to log in, you should create a new admin account, which will allow you to easily revert changes if needed. You can do this in the Users & Groups (or Accounts) system preferences.
- Copy the home folder to the location of choice.
You can place the home folder anywhere on the secondary drive, though I recommend creating a "Users" folder in which to place it. Once you have established where you would like it to go, open the Users directory on your boot drive and copy your home directory to its destination (it may take a long time to copy, depending on the number and size of files in the home folder).
- Open your user account settings.
Go to the Users & Groups (or Accounts) system preferences, and select your username. You may have to authenticate first by clicking the lock at the bottom of the window.
- Go to the advanced settings.
Right-click your username and choose "Advanced Options," which should bring up a window containing a number of details such as the user ID, group, account name, and log-in shell. The window will also contain a warning stating that changes to these settings might damage your account.
- Change your home folder directory.
In this advanced options window, click the Choose button next to the Home Directory field, and then browse to the new location where you copied your home folder. Select the home folder and click Open, and the path to the new folder should now be in the "Home Directory" field.
After you have made these changes, click "OK" and then log out of your account. Then log back in and your account should load from its location on the secondary hard drive. If all goes well then you should see no difference in behavior. However, if something does go awry then you can log in to the secondary administrator account and edit your account in the same way to revert the home directory back to its original default location.
After logging in to your account successfully, you can then go back to the Users directory on your boot drive and remove the old home folder in there if you would like.
While moving your home folder is easy to do and has its benefits, do keep in mind that there are a few potential drawbacks. For one, secondary drives and volumes are not as protected as your main drive. They can easily be formatted and also set so permissions are ignored, which will allow your home folder to be easily browsed by other accounts on the system and thereby potentially compromise the security of your data on a multiuser setup; however, the impact of this would depend on who you allow access to your computer.
While moving your home folder to a new drive might seem like the only way to quickly access a larger secondary drive through your home directory, there are some alternative setups that will perform the same functions. One easy option is to just mirror the home folder directories (Music, Movies, Documents, and so on) to a directory on the secondary drive, and then create aliases to these folders within the respective folders in your account.
This setup will still use the account's library contents (application preferences and settings) from the main boot drive, while allowing you to easily access the external drive through the aliases so you can store your data and documents. The one drawback to this setup is that some programs will need to be configured to access the external drive instead of the original home folder. For instance, Safari's default downloads folder will need to be changed to point to the secondary drive, and you will need to set the location of your iTunes or iPhoto libraries to point to their locations on the external drive as well, but once these changes are done then everything should work properly.
Do you have a custom or unique home folder setup that has its benefits? If so, let us know about it below in the comments.


How to choose your instrument
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The Healthiest Meat Alternatives
The Healthiest Meat Alternatives
People have been increasingly turning to meat alternatives for a variety of reasons, including environmental, ethical, and health concerns. No matter the reason, it is a good idea to do some research into the best meat alternative options. Often, meat-free products are advertised as healthy because they are vegetarian or vegan, but actually contain preservatives and other unhealthy ingredients.
In recent years, more research has been done on plant-based diets. Studies have shown that eating more plant-based foods can help reduce chronic inflammation, improve heart health, boost mental well-being, and much more. Dairy consumption has also been linked to health problems such as acne, hormonal imbalances, and cancer. In this post, we will explore the healthiest meat alternative choices, and take a look at which options are suitable for those with gluten or soy intolerances.
Soy Bean curd tofu
Tofu is probably the most commonly used meat alternative in North America but has been used in Asian cuisine for ages. It is made from soybeans and is rich in protein and calcium. On its own, tofu is quite bland and tasteless, which has given it a bad reputation. However, its spongy texture allows it to take on the flavor of whatever it is cooked with. The preparation of tofu is important, and purchasing extra-firm tofu and pressing the moisture out of it before cooking makes a huge difference. When cooked well, tofu can be extremely flavorful and add great texture to meals. There are many recipes and videos online outlining how to make the best tofu. Plain tofu is usually gluten-free, but make sure to check the ingredients, as flavored options may have wheat ingredients. Of course, tofu is not soy-free and should be avoided by those with soy allergies.
Tempeh is growing in popularity as more restaurants and cafes offer vegetarian and vegan options. Tempeh is made from fermented soybeans and is high in protein, fiber, calcium, and vitamins. Because it is fermented, tempeh contains prebiotics, which have been shown to benefit gut health. Tempeh is usually firmer and more textured than tofu, and may be a nice way to switch things up if you are used to eating tofu. Tempeh with only soybeans should be gluten-free, but some varieties include other grains, so always check the label if gluten is an issue for you. Again, tempeh is not soy-free.
Fried tempeh with sesame seeds
Seitan is less popular than tofu but is great at mimicking meat texture, especially ground beef. It is made from processed wheat gluten, so it is not gluten-free. However, it is usually soy-free and is therefore a good option for individuals with soy allergies. It is high in protein and has a dense, chewy texture that holds up to many kinds of preparation. You can buy it at the store or make it yourself. Keep in mind that seitan is processed food and should be eaten in moderation.
Textured Vegetable Protein (TVP)
TVP is inexpensive and easy to use. It is made from dehydrated soy, and when you rehydrate it, you can use it for anything you like. TVP should be gluten-free, high in protein, and is an extremely versatile meat alternative. Like seitan, textured vegetable protein is processed food and may not be the best choice for every day.
Fresh wild mushrooms
Mushrooms are a great meat replacement for a savory, meaty taste. Mushrooms are healthy and filling, but will not provide the same kind of protein as other meat alternatives. One great use for mushrooms is as a replacement for burger patties. Use a large portobello mushroom on your bun and load it up with your favorite fixings. Mushrooms are naturally gluten-free and soy-free, and are not processed.
Have you heard of jackfruit? You are probably wondering how fruit could ever serve as a meat replacement. Jackfruit is an exotic, tropical fruit, native to South India. It is in the same family as figs and has a mild, slightly sweet taste. The texture of jackfruit is comparable to that of shredded meat, which makes it a suitable meat replacement. Jackfruit is packed with nutrition and contains a moderate amount of protein and fiber, antioxidants, and almost every vitamin and mineral you need. Compared to other fruits, jackfruit has a lot of protein at 3 grams per cup. Since jackfruit is whole, unprocessed fruit, it is naturally gluten and soy-free.
Pulled jackfruit getting sauteed
Beans and Legumes
In terms of choosing whole foods, beans and legumes are your best bet to replace meat and still get loads of protein and other nutrients. When it comes to nutrition, choosing foods in their most natural state is the surest way to get the healthiest foods with the most nutritional benefit. Beans and legumes are protein-rich foods, which make them perfect meat substitutes. Plus, they are relatively inexpensive, especially when bought dry. Canned beans and legumes are more expensive, but make it very easy to add beans and legumes into whatever recipe you want. There are a huge variety of beans and legumes, including lentils, chickpeas, black beans, pinto beans, kidney beans, etc. They are all gluten-free, but of course, soybeans contain soy. Always read the ingredient label as sometimes sneaky ingredients make it into processed foods. Lentils are high in fiber, folic acid, potassium, calcium, and magnesium. Beans are high in protein, folate, and antioxidants. Legumes are low fat, zero cholesterol, high in calcium, have essential amino acids, and contain powerful antioxidants. If you are not used to eating beans and legumes, start with ¼ cup and slowly increase your consumption, as they can be a little bit difficult to digest at first and may cause bloating.
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As you can see, it is absolutely possible to eat a meat-free diet and still get the nutrition your body needs. It is also possible for meat lovers to eat meat-free dishes that are rich and satisfying. In this post, we have explored the healthiest options to replace meat in your diet. Processed alternatives such as frozen fake chicken fingers may be an appropriate option in moderation, but when it comes to every day, it is best to stick to the most natural foods possible. We hope this post was helpful and peaks your interest in trying some new meat-free dishes. The animals and the planet will thank you!
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The project Biotechnology for a sustainable economy (Ghent Bio-Economy) of Ghent University is a multidisciplinary partnership (MRP) involving 15 professors at Ghent University from the Faculties of Bioscience Engineering, Sciences, Economics and Business Administration, Law, Arts and Philosophy and 1 professor at the University of Antwerp at the faculty of Biology.
This Multidisciplinary Research Partnership is focusing on the synergistic interaction between green and white biotechnology that is expected to lead to substantial scientific progress in the transition from the present fossil-based economy to a biobased economy.
Plant (green) biotechnology on the one hand is important for the primary production of biomass through the genetic improvement of crops. Industrial (white) biotechnology on the other hand is involved in the conversion of these renewable resources into a wide range of bioproducts, biomaterials and biofuels.
The biobased economy is still in its infancy, but is expected to grow exponentially as a consequence of the drive towards sustainable production processes, the strong price increase for fossil resources such as petroleum, and the need to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases such as CO2.


stones. The stones used to resize an aluminum cylinder differ from those used to resize a cast iron or steel cylinder. Remember also that the honing stones must be in good condition. If not, they should be redressed or replaced before you commence the project.
Once the engine block is securely anchored, and the cylinder in position, lower the hone into the bore until the bottom end of the hone protrudes ½ inch or 1.5 centimeters beyond the lowest point of the bore hole. Then adjust the hone until its cutting stones contact the narrowest part of the cylinder; this will normally be at the bottom of the bore. The hone should not be excessively tight against the walls of the cylinder. If you cannot turn the hone by hand, loosen the adjustment knob until you are able to.
The drill should be set to operate within the range of 300 to 700 rpm. When the drill is started, move the hone up and down inside the cylinder at a pace of 40 to 50 times per minute. If all you need to do is a deglazing, just a few strokes will be necessary.
When resizing a cylinder, you will need to work out its narrowest end first. As the cylinder acquires a more uniform diameter, the hone should move gradually further along the cylinder length. The ends of the honing stones should not move more than ½ inch beyond either the top or bottom of the cylinder as the hone is used.
Follow instructions of the hone manufacturer when honing is done. Lubricant such as cutting oil must be used with some hones. Refer to recommendations of the manufacturer to determine the correct lubricant. On the other hand, some hones will not work at all if there is lubricant on the cylinder walls.
As honing proceeds, be sure to check cylinder bore diameter regularly, particularly when resizing. Try to stop every 10 to 20 hone strokes to check not just cylinder size, but its cross hatching. A cylinder is normally honed only enough to produce a uniform pattern of cross hatching on its walls. If a cylinder is being resized for a larger piston, it should be honed until the desired diameter has been reached.
To check bore diameter, remove the hone from the cylinder, and take the measurements described above(INSIDE MEASUREMENT TOOLS). As you cease honing for a measurement, keep the hone traveling up and down in the bore until the cutting stones have stopped turning. As rotation speed decreases, reduce the speed at which you are moving the hone up and down the cylinder. This will maintain proper cross hatching patterns. Once the hone has stopped, loosen its adjusting nut so that you do not scratch the cylinder wall as the cutting stones are extracted from the bore.
If you are resizing a cylinder, it is important to check its size frequently to avoid enlarging the bore too much. When the cylinder is within 0.002 inches or 0.05 millimeters of your desired diameter, the coarse stones you were using should be replaced with fine stones to finish the project. The procedure for finish honing is exactly the same as for coarse honing.
Cleaning the reconditioned cylinder: once honing has been finished, the cylinder walls must be cleaned. It is critical to remove all grit and other particles left by the honing process. The engine block should first be washed with cleaning solvent. Solvent will remove any lubrication oil that was used from the cylinder, however it will not completely remove grit and other particles. To remove these remaining particles, the cylinder must be washed with soap and hot water, and a stiff brush. Be sure your soap solution is very sudsy. Suds will get into cross hatching and float out gritty particles. To complete the cleaning process, wash the cylinder with hot water and dry it with soft clean cloths, or better yet, compressed air. When the cylinder is dry, a fresh coat of new motor oil should be applied to its walls to prevent rusting.
After honing is completed, measure the bore again to be sure it is the proper size. Record your new measurements; you will need them later on to determine piston to cylinder bore clearance.


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Declares a cursor definition.
A cursor is declared in accordance with the select-statement or the result set procedure call specified in procedure-call-statement.
The select-statement may be specified explicitly in ordinary embedded SQL applications or by the name of a prepared select-statement, identified by statement-name, in dynamic SQL statements, see the Mimer SQL Programmer's Manual, chapter 11, Dynamic SQL.
The cursor is identified by cursor-name, and may be used in FETCH, DELETE CURRENT and UPDATE CURRENT statements. The cursor must be activated with an OPEN statement before it can be used.
A cursor declared as REOPENABLE may be opened several times in succession, and previous cursor states are saved on a stack, see OPEN. Saved cursor states are restored when the current state is closed, see CLOSE.
A cursor declared as SCROLL will be a scrollable cursor. For a scrollable cursor, records can be fetched using an orientation specification. See the description of FETCH for a description of how the orientation can be specified.
A cursor will be non-scrollable if NO SCROLL is explicitly specified. The cursor will be non-scrollable and not reopenable by default.
select-statement, see SELECT Statements.
procedure-call-statement, see CALL.
If an execute-statement-command is used, the precompiled statement must be a select or a result-set procedure.
If a procedure-call-statement is specified, it must specify a result set procedure.
The following restrictions apply to procedural usage:
- The cursor cannot be declared as REOPENABLE
- The select-statement cannot be in the form of a prepared dynamic SQL statement, i.e. specifying statement-name is not allowed
- If the cursor declaration contains a select statement, the access-clause for the procedure must be READS SQL DATA or MODIFIES SQL DATA, see CREATE PROCEDURE.
The DECLARE CURSOR statement is declarative, not executable. In an embedded usage context, access rights for the current ident are checked when the cursor is opened, not when it is declared.
In a procedural usage context, access rights for the current ident are checked when the cursor is declared, i.e. when the procedure containing the declaration is created.
The value of cursor-name may not be the same as the name of any other cursor declared within the same compound statement (Procedural usage) or in the same compilation unit (Embedded usage).
The select-statement is evaluated when the cursor is opened, not when it is declared. This applies both to select-statement's identified by statement name, and to host variable references used anywhere in the select statement.
The execution of the result set procedure specified in a CALL statement is controlled by the opening of the cursor and subsequent fetches, see the Mimer SQL Programmer's Manual, chapter 12, Result Set Procedures.
REOPENABLE cannot be used if evaluation of select-statement uses a work table, or if the cursor declaration occurs within a procedure.
If the declared cursor is a dynamic cursor, the DECLARE statement must be placed before the PREPARE statement.
A reopenable cursor can be used to solve the 'Parts explosion' problem. Refer to the Mimer SQL Programmer's Manual, chapter 8, The 'Parts explosion' Problem for a description.
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Scoping the Project
- Establish the brief of the MHP project
- Gather existing information on the mental health activities within the setting
What Needs to be Done
The goal of this activity is to situate the MHP project within the context of ongoing operations of the setting. It involves defining the brief for the project, what problems it is expected to solve, what resources are likely to be involved etc. It also involves gathering information on existing activities within the setting. This activity is mainly an exercise in understanding the setting, the nature of its current health related activities and the nature of the problem which the MHP project will address.
An important task is to make an inventory of health activities which already take place within the setting. This information is important, not only because it prevents duplication of effort, but because it will provide a good level of insight into the health philosophy of the setting.
Information about current health activities and possible problems which may be solved by MHP programmes is usually gained by conducting interviews with the principal stakeholders.
Who is Involved?
Scoping the extent of the MHP project needs to be undertaken by someone who has an in-depth knowledge of the MHP process and who can provide information on what the project typically involves in terms of resources, types of activities, levels of commitment, etc. Some settings will have in-house expertise, for example from the occupational health department, the human resource department or from general management while other settings may need to bring in an external consultant to support this activity.


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Read Pakistan Trust
Read Pakistan is a Trust registered under the Trust Act, with a team of highly professionals motivated for an educated Pakistan moving ahead on creation of reading facilities accessible to all and to train teachers / librarians/ parents to develop a greater emphasis on reading habits in the children/parents coping up with present and future challenges.
The overall goal of Read Pakistan is to ensure that every person gets a reading opportunity and to train the librarians/teachers in developing the reading habits and diffusion of knowledge in Pakistan and promotion of the lifetime reading habit and also to promote quality literacy instruction, advocate life-long reading, clarify educational issues for decision makers, and support research in literacy.
Our Values: Equal opportunities for reading and learning for all.
Vision: We envision a society in which all people have an access to reading and have equal opportunities of learning and personal and professional growth.
Mission: Providing reading facilities to all and Training of Librarians/teachers.
Strategy: Creation of reading facilities accessible to all and to train Librarians/teachers to develop a greater emphasis on reading habits in the children coping up with present and future challenges.
Our Unique Campaigns:
- 100, 000 School Libraries: History's largest campaign of school libraries in Pakistan.
- City of Libraries: To establish 500 libraries in Islamabad and to make it world's first city with such an honorable identity.
- Read Talk: world's first talk series focused and highlighting the value of books.
- Read Blog: The largest database of blogs highlighting the transformative power of reading.
- Read Africa: Providing access to books to African youth.
- CybeRead: World's largest network of literary youth.
- RadioTalk: More than 50 talks by the Chairman till to date.
- Training programs for teachers, parents, librarians and school Principals to make them capable inculcate love of books in Children to make them lifelong learners.
- Read Pakistan Book Club: World's unique and the widespread book club currently conducted in 63 universities on monthly basis in Pakistan, Canada and KSA.


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April 3, 2006 --4:00 p.m.
Latent variables, uncertainty and evidence.
In many areas of science, our models involve latent variables
which cannot be observed. Often these variables are such that,
were we able to observe, them the testing of scientific hypotheses
would be straightforward. A classical example is that of Bernoulli
trials (tosses of a fair coin) observed with error. While every
student knows how to construct a test that the coin is fair,
how should uncertainty in observation be taken into account?
Recently, the notions of fuzzy p-values and confidence levels
have been introduced into the statistics literature as a way
to describe the uncertainty inherent in a randomized test. In
latent variable problems, the natural definition of a fuzzy
p-value is the distribution, given observed data, of that function
of latent variables that would be the p-value were the latent
variables observed. This notion puts our uncertainty directly
onto the p-value scale, and permits simultaneous expression
of the strength of the evidence and our uncertainty.
Several simple examples that show both the flexibility and
the usefulness of the approach will be discussed. These examples
require no more than knowledge of the binomial distribution
and the classical p-value, yet are sufficient to show how the
approach provides a new approach to uncertainty in broad areas
of scientific inference.
April 4, 2006 --4:00 p.m.
Uncertainty in inheritance and the detection of genetic linkage
It has long been recognized that genetic analysis would
be simple if we could observe directly the inheritance of genome
from parents to offspring. However, in human genetic analyses,
this inheritance is often uncertain, even at highly polymorphic
and well sampled genome positions. While Monte Carlo methods
in general, and Markov chain Monte Carlo in particular, permit
imputation of latent variables of scientific interest, simple
integration over imputations loses information regarding our
As discussed in the first lecture, fuzzy p-values describe
the uncertainty inherent in a randomized test. Using this idea,
and taking as our latent variables the unobservable patterns
of inheritance in pedigrees, we apply this idea to show how
fuzzy p-values can summarize both the strength of evidence for
linkage and the uncertainty about that evidence. The approach
also provides a solution to the long-standing problem of providing
a global significance level for the multiple dependent tests
performed in testing for linkage.
We show how realizations from the fuzzy p-value distribution
may be obtained efficiently with only two sets of Monte Carlo
realizations, one from the unconditional distribution of latent
inheritance patterns, and the other conditional on observed
marker data. No resimulation of marker data is required, and
the procedure, being conditional of the observed marker data,
shares with permutation-based tests a partial robustness to
the genetic map and assumed allele frequencies of the markers.
Elizabeth Thompson received a B.A. in Mathematics (1970), a
Diploma in Mathematical Statistics (1971), and Ph.D. in Statistics
(1974), from Cambridge University, UK. In 1974-5 she was a NATO/SRC
postdoc in the Department of Genetics, Stanford University.
From 1975-81 she was a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge,
and from 1981-5 was Fellow and Director of Studies in Mathematics
at Newnham College. From _PHONE_ she was a University Lecturer
in the Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics,
University of Cambridge. She joined the faculty of the University
of Washington in December 1985, as a Professor of Statistics.
From 1988 to 2004, Dr. Thompson was also Professor of Biostatistics.
Since Spring 2000, she has been an Adjunct Professor in Genetics
(now Genome Sciences) at the University of Washington, and an
Adjunct Professor of Statistics at North Carolina State University.
At the University of Washington, Dr. Thompson was Chair of
the Department of Statistics from 1989-94, and was Graduate
Program Coordinator in Statistics, 1995-8, and _PHONE_. From
1990 to 2002 she was a member of the QERM Interdisciplinary
Graduate Program faculty, and served as the alternate QERM Graduate
Program Coordinator for 1998-9. From _PHONE_ she was also
a member of the interdisciplinary faculty group in Computational
Molecular Biology, but since 1999 has focussed primarily on
the development of research and education in Statistical Genetics
at the University of Washington.


Jurisdiction and NCC agreement
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What kinds of cases can be brought before the NCC?
A matter may be submitted to NCC where the following requirements are met:
 1. the Amsterdam District Court or Amsterdam Court of Appeal has jurisdiction
 2. the parties have expressly agreed in writing that proceedings will be in English before the NCC (the 'NCC agreement')
 3. the action is a civil or commercial matter within the parties' autonomy
 4. the matter concerns an international dispute.
Next, parties agree to take the case to the NCC (a chamber within the Amsterdam District Court or the Amsterdam Court of Appeal) and to make English the language of the proceedings. This is the "NCC agreement". The NCC agreement can be recorded in a clause, either before or after the dispute arises (see the Model clause).
The "civil or commercial matter" test is met where the dispute is related to civil law in a broad sense, as opposed to criminal charges or administrative proceedings. These matters may be contractual disputes, claims in tort, property disputes, or intellectual property, anti-trust/competition, technology, construction or corporate matters.
The following special types of cases may be appropriate for NCC proceedings:
 - A claim in a collective action, provided the Amsterdam District Court has jurisdiction based on criteria such as the domicile of one of the parties, or the place where the harmful event occurred.
 - An application seeking a declaration that a collective settlement is universally binding (including third parties), provided the agreement is connected to the Netherlands, so that the Amsterdam Court of Appeal has jurisdiction.
 - A claim to set aside an arbitral award that is filed in Amsterdam, provided that there is an agreement that the proceedings will be in English before the NCC Court of Appeal.
The "international dispute" test is broad in scope. It is met not only where one or more of the parties have their domicile in a foreign jurisdiction, but also where the dispute otherwise involves a relevant cross-border interest, such as shareholders, employees or revenue located in or linked to a foreign jurisdiction.
How can I confer jurisdiction and make an NCC agreement?
Parties may agree a clause that (a) confers jurisdiction and (b) records their agreement for proceedings to be in English before the NCC (the 'NCC agreement'). See the Model clause.


How far is Australia located from Asia?
How close is Asia to Australia?
The total straight line flight distance from Asia to Australia is 4,862 miles. This is equivalent to 7 825 kilometers or 4,225 nautical miles. Your flight direction from Asia to Australia is Southeast (139 degrees from North).
How long is a flight from Asia to Australia?
The total flight duration from Asia to Australia is 10 hours, 13 minutes.
In which direction is Australia from Asia?
Is Australia belong to Asia?
Australia and New Zealand are part of the Oceania continent, and are on separate tectonic plates to Asia. That's why when people talk about the two countries, they may not think of them as being part of Asia. But they are an integral part of the Asia-Pacific region, also known as Apac.
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Which country is the closest to Australia?
Australia lies between the Pacific and Indian oceans. It is the largest island – and one of the largest countries – in the world. Its closest neighbours are New Zealand to the east and Papua New Guinea to the north.
Which subregion of Asia is the closest to Australia?
About Southeast Asia. Southeast Asia is a vast subregion of Asia, roughly described as geographically situated east of the Indian subcontinent, south of China, and northwest of Australia.
How far away is Europe from Australia?
Distance from Australia to Europe is 14092.82 kilometers.
This air travel distance is equal to 8756.87 miles.
How far is Singapore from Toronto?
Distance from Singapore to Toronto is approximately 15000 kilometers.
How far is Singapore to Perth?
Distance from Perth to Singapore is approximately 3920 kilometers.
What language does Australian speak?
The majority of Australians speak English as a first or other language, however a significant number of people also speak languages other than English. About 73% of Australians speak only English at home.
What is Australia known for?
Australia is globally famous for its natural wonders, wide-open spaces, beaches, deserts, "The Bush", and "The Outback". Australia is one of the world's most highly urbanised countries; it's well known for its attractive mega cities such as Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, and Perth.
How many countries are in Australia?
Australia (continent)
Area 8,600,000 km2 (3,300,000 sq mi) (7th)
Countries 3 (Australia, Papua New Guinea and portions of Indonesia)
Languages English, Indonesian, Tok Pisin, Hiri Motu, 269 indigenous Papuan and Austronesian languages, and about 70 Indigenous Australian languages
Time zones UTC+8, UTC+9:30, UTC+10
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Are Australians friendly?
Australians are very friendly and easygoing people. In fact, Australians are renowned for their laid-back nature and unique sense of humour. Another thing Australians are known for is their love of sport, recreation and the great outdoors.
Is Australia part of USA?
Why is Australia not an island?
At about 3 million square miles (7.7 million square km), Australia is the smallest continent on Earth. … According to Britannica, an island is a mass of land that is both "entirely surrounded by water" and also "smaller than a continent." By that definition, Australia can't be an island because it's already a continent.
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What does a licensing system do?
A licence is an official permission or permits to do, use, or own something. A license can be granted by a party to another party as an element of an agreement between those parties. A shorthand definition of a license is "an authorization to use licensed material." Licensing systems manage the creation and validation of licences.
What does LicenceMe do?
LicenceMe allows you to manage game or application licensing by yourself, making you independent of selling platforms. You obtain the possibility to solve the three common licensing questions (and even more):
 - Creation and validation of product keys (Like: SJJDNK-KT6NL4-2RE7DH-NSCYZY)
 - Creation and validation of trials or demos.
 - Creation and validation of licences bond to devices or companies.
But how does LicenceMe do this?
It combines two methods: Partial Key Verification (PKV) (commonly used in the game industry to create product keys) and RSA (an asymmetric encryption / decryption algorithm).
PKV gives you the opportunity to create product keys and simple condition based product keys, for example username/email/… depending.
The RSA encryption allows you to create trials/demos or complex condition based licences (for example device/company/… depending),
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The Blackfriars Bridge over the River Thames was constructed back in Victorian times, and now it's getting a distinctly steampunk facelift with the addition of 4,400 photovoltaic panels. When complete, this installation is expected to be not only the largest solar power array in the United Kingdom, but also the world's largest solar bridge.
The bridge, constructed in 1886, forms the foundation for the new Blackfriars station, which is being upgraded by Network Rail to meet the needs of more passengers and an improved train service. As part of these improvements, a new roof will be added to the historic structure with over 6,000 square meters (around 19,685 square feet) of solar panels.
All this renewable energy will be delivered directly to the Blackfriars rail station, covering 50 percent of the station's energy needs and reducing CO2 emissions by an estimated 511 tons per year. The station will also be pursuing such eco-improvements as a rain harvesting system and solar tubes to allow for more natural lighting throughout the building.
London's Solarcentury is behind the project's solar engineering, working in conjunction with engineers from Jacobs to incorporate solar generation into the station design; the high-efficiency solar modules utilized by the project come courtesy of Sanyo.


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WiFi Bunker
The capsule increases personal space by punching a hole into the WiFi saturated landscape.
Personal space is often seen as a physical diameter or measurable distance between one person and another. It is often associated with the ability to feel comfortable and secure. In this modern age, however, can such a phenomenon as a digital personal space also be identified?
We spend a large proportion of our lives on the internet, where accessibility of personal information increases exponentially as time passes. Looking at the numbers of Facebook users world wide, it is as though the current generation is oblivious to this matter, happily sharing their personal data online. Other growing developments in technology also pose the same risk to ones privacy; take for example Samsung's product: their televisions could possibly be recording the conversations of consumers in their own homes. Who is to say this was not already happening? What control do we really have?
As a consumer we use and trust these transparent technologies and rarely stop to consider the consequences. How can these concerns with the internet and privacy be exploited to create personal space? i.e. can we as a consumer control or defend against this invasion of privacy creating our own private bubble?
An inflatable cubicle capsule is made from a light isolation material. The material, existing of a mylar blanket and a seperate mesh, effectively fends off WiFi signals. When walking with the capsule through a WiFi rich area, the capsule inflates and can be used by the wearer as a shield. This urban landscape, consisting of WiFi signals, has an influence on the capsules shape without effecting the users physical and digital personal space. The capsule increases personal space by punching a hole into the WiFi saturated landscape.
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UW Sees Decrease In Waste Through Solar-Powered Compost
Only weeks after the new solar-powered recycling, composting, and waste kiosks were stationed in Red Square, there has been a 50 percent drop in the amount of garbage collected each week.
On top of the kiosks are solar panels that collect ambient daylight to charge a battery inside the bin, so the kiosks work 24 hours a day. The BigBelly, the middle kiosk that compacts waste, is anchored on each side by two SmartBellys, which collect information about the containers and send it to a management console. Richard Kennelly, vice president of marketing for BigBelly Solar, the company that created the solar-powered kiosks, said the UW is now the first location in the United States to implement solar-powered composting kiosks with smart technology.
While the old trash cans replaced by BigBelly cost just less than $2,000, the new kiosks, which come as a set of three components for each of the three waste streams, cost approximately $8,000. Emily Newcomer, operations manager of UW Recycling and Solid Waste, said the extra costs of the kiosks are offset by their increased efficiency and avoided disposal costs.
"The technology allows us to know when and where to service the containers," Newcomer said. "Plus, since we are capturing all three waste types, our disposal costs are going down as more material is being diverted from the landfill."
Recycling and Solid Waste members saw the need for more efficient waste disposal after their annual trash-in event last year, when students sort trash, which revealed 61 percent of materials in the garbage were compostable.


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Barcode readers identify food and beverage pallet labels, even under challenging conditions
After production is complete, foods are boxed and palletized for transport. Pallet scanning systems are used to register pallets leaving the factory and route them to the correct warehouse or distribution center. Pallets are often shrink-wrapped with reflective materials such as tape or plastic, which can cause no-reads during scanning. Because a pallet contains many barcodes, it can be difficult for the reader to distinguish the right one. Lighting conditions can also present challenges. Factory lighting can vary throughout the day, and occlusions in the camera's line of sight may also render codes unreadable.
Cognex DataMan barcode readers scan pallets as easily as boxes. With a large depth-of-field and wide field-of-view, DataMan readers decipher a pallet label quickly and accurately, even when it is surrounded by other labels. Polarized lighting options enhance the readability of codes covered by shrink wrap or other reflective coverings.


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The robotic gripper was developed at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center as part of a robotic satellite servicing mission. The gripping device can be used to autonomously or remotely grasp and control an out-of-fuel or otherwise disabled satellite. Specifically, the gripper interfaces to the separation ring (marman ring) of the client spacecraft and when closed, is sufficient to constrain all six degrees of freedom of motion between the servicing spacecraft and the client. The jaws are designed with a conformable geometry that allows the same gripper to interface to all spacecraft separation rings commonly used with Atlas V and Delta IV launch vehicles.
The gripper is located at the end of a robotic system consisting of a robotic arm equipped with a tool drive or end effector comprising the input actuator to the gripper as well as the structural, power, and data link between the gripper and the robotic arm. In a notional concept of operations, a servicer would approach the client in an autonomous rendezvous and capture (AR&C) maneuver. When the servicer's sensor suite confirms that the distance, orientation, and relative translational and angular rates with respect to the client are within an acceptable range, the servicer enables the grasping sequence, where the robotic arm, equipped with gripper, extends forward to the client. When the gripper/servicer sensors indicate that the client marman ring is sufficiently within the capture range of the gripper, a trigger signal is sent to the robot control system that commands the end effector to drive the mechanism of the gripper and affect closure around the marman ring.
The gripper consists of a pair of jaws that is driven by an internal transmission. The transmission receives input torque from the end effector and converts the torque to appropriate motion of the jaws.


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(Un) Certain Exploration Facts From Figures
CIM Bulletin, Vol. 70, No. 781, 1977
J. Boldy, Chief Geologist, Gulf Minerals Canada Limited, Toronto, Ontario, At time of writing — Exploration Advisor, Minerals Division, Shell Canada Limited, Toronto, Ontario
This paper is an attempt to place Canadian Precambrian volcanogenic deposits in perspective, by examining and compiling data regarding certain neglected fundamentals of size, grade, value, frequency distribution and spatial density. The discovery roles played by various exploration methods are compared and contrasted, and, using empirical methods, the probabilities of discovery are discussed, combined with the use of an effective 'cost-per-target' program. From these basic observations, realistic exploration judgments may be made. Using similar methodology, this format may be applied to other types of deposits.
Precambrian volcanogenic deposits occur in a natural geometric progression in size. They number 110, of which 70% are pre-producers, producers or past-producers. These deposits are bonanzas and generally have a 'net pre-smelter" value of between $43 and $62 per ton. The statistically typical deposit is that which occupies the modal position, has 400,000 tons of ore, a value of $20 million and occurs with a frequency of 40%. A median deposit has 1.4 million tons of ore, a value of $70 million and occurs with a frequency of 15%. An upper-decile deposit has 13.3 million tons of ore, a value of $750 million and occurs with a frequency of 6.5%. The major, mid-upper-decile deposits have a minimum of 50 million tons of ore, a value of $3 billion and occur with a frequency of 4%. Five major volcanogenic deposits occur in the Precambrian and account for 54% of production. This contrasts with 55 deposits (all below the median) which account for 3.9% of production.
The deposits tend to occur in clusters, and well-developed, prolific districts, such as Noranda, have a density of 1 deposit per S3 square miles. This contrasts with the newer Sturgeon Lake district, which has a density of 1 deposit per 125 square miles. Relatively 'low-risk' opportunities occur in areas of high density and offer a better chance for discovery of modal or median-type deposits. On the other hand, 'high-risk' opportunities occur in areas with a low density, and these areas are more likely to yield a deposit in the upper-decile range.
During the past 20 years, AEM surveys have discovered 17% of the deposits, which contain 41% of the total tonnage. In contrast, 75 years of prospecting have discovered 44% of the deposits, which contain 48% of the total tonnage. Modal, median and upper-decile AEM discoveries tend to be between 3 and 4 times larger than similar discoveries made by other methods.
Empirically, realistic odds for discovery occur in the range between 100:1 and 500:1. This is substantiated by the results of several successful exploration companies. Due to the role played by random chance, there is no control over the ultimate size and value of the discovery. However, an effective 'cost-per-target' program will insure that funds are available to test a sufficient number of meaningful targets over an (un) certain period of time. This has been shown to be the case with an outlay of between $500,000 and $15 million, extending up to 10 years in some instances.
Mineral exploration, Exploration techniques, Precambrian deposits, Volcanogenic deposits, Discovery rates, Frequency distribution, Electromagnetic exploration, Copper, Zinc, Data analysis.


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In a new post to his blog Matthew Weier O'Phinney looks at creating reusable plugins for the Zend_Application component of the Zend Framework. This is a follow-up from his previous article introducing Zend_Application.
What happens when you need a re-usable resource for which there is no existing plugin shipped? Why, write your own, of course! All plugins in Zend Framework follow a common pattern. Basically, you group plugins under a common directory, with a common class prefix, and then notify the pluggable class of their location.
His example shows a plugin that can set the doctype of the view you're using and set the default page title and the separator. He mentions things like the framework's coding/naming standards, dependency tracking, setting up the configuration and, finally, doing the two actions laid out at the start. A few simple lines added to the application.ini file and you're all set to start using the new plugin.


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The Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) Hospice Survey empowers hospice organizations by attracting referral sources, driving business growth, and sustaining compliance with industry regulations, including the current pay-for-reporting requirements and the shift to value-based care on the industry's horizon. By evaluating hospice patient and caregiver experiences, the CAHPS Hospice Survey delivers valuable insights to hospice organizations and contributes to ongoing efforts to improve patient and family experiences. Understanding the impact of the CAHPS Hospice Survey and how to improve ratings is essential to hospices' long-term growth and sustainability.
Question 6 – Communicating Provider Arrival Time
Question 6 is the first of six questions comprising the Communication with Family domain, designed to assess the hospice team's communication proficiency.
Since the CAHPS Hospice Survey is administered two months after the patient's death, the patient's primary informal caregiver is the survey recipient and intended respondent. Primary informal caregiver refers to the person most knowledgeable about the patient's care. Examples include a spouse/partner, child, parent, another family member or a friend of the patient. Although the patient-caregiver relationship is not always familial, the term "family member" throughout the survey refers to the hospice patient.
This question evaluates the caregiver's perception of how frequently the hospice team communicated their visit arrival times throughout the patient's care. Optimizing performance on this question relies on the hospice team's ability to keep the patient's primary informal caregiver aware of visit times and facilitate clear and continuous communication regarding scheduling and arrival.
Tips to Improve Arrival Time Communication
- Establish visit expectations at the start of care by setting up a schedule that meets the patient's needs and accommodates input from the informal caregiver.
- Notify the patient/caregiver when unforeseen delays in arrival time arise (e.g., the provider is running late in traffic).
- Provide reminders for upcoming visits using agency-established protocol (e.g., routinely call the day before morning appointments and the morning before afternoon appointments).
- Communicate with the patient's caregiver any time the patient's status warrants a schedule adjustment and invite input before making any changes, to ensure continued feasibility and convenience.
- As an organization, maintain a culture that empowers providers to sustain communicative relationships with patients and their informal caregivers and acknowledges the integral role they play in hospice care.
Best Practices and Talking Points
Communicating visit arrival times is a critical element of optimizing patient and family engagement in healthcare. Hospice organizations should employ standard protocol that informs patients and caregivers when visits are scheduled and includes ongoing correspondence that reminds patients and caregivers of upcoming appointments as care progresses. The following best practices and talking points facilitate productive communication related to visit arrival:
- At the start of care, identify the appropriate contact for providing visit reminders. If the patient and caregiver live separately, providers can direct visit reminders to the patient but reach out to the caregiver after each appointment to confirm completion of care. I'm going to call your son to confirm that I just visited you.
- Inform the patient/caregiver when to expect visit reminder calls and what phone number to expect them from. I will call you the day before each appointment from this number. If you need to reschedule an appointment, call me at this number.
- At the end of each visit, inform the patient and caregiver when the next visit is scheduled. The next visit is scheduled for Tuesday next week at 9 AM. I will call you on Monday to remind you.
- The most recent Facts and Figures published by National Hospice and Palliative Care Organizations (NHPCO) indicates that approximately half of hospice patients receive care in nursing and inpatient facilities. For these patients, faxing or sending weekly schedules to the respective facility offices is a good way to ensure caregivers at the facility are aware of patient schedules and can anticipate providers' arrival.
- Plan and arrange schedules strategically to ensure they fulfill each patient's needs and work in the context of providers' schedules with other patients. Electronic health record platforms can help streamline scheduling operations and increase seamlessness as hospice providers manage the day-to-day demands of delivering comforting care to patients and their families.
Check our blogs for the series on improving CAHPS Hospice Survey scores by systematically reviewing each survey question and exploring opportunities for improvement. Our next installment will continue the discussion on optimizing communication between hospice care providers and recipients to improve the quality of patient and family lives.


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- The strategic application of elecytolyte balance to minimize heat stress in broilers
- Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)
- Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)
- FAPESP: 2008/08575-4
- Several physiological and metabolic changes are triggered in broilers submitted to high environmental temperatures, resulting in performance losses. Feed formulation manipulation of the dietary electrolyte balance may be applied to reduce the negative impact of heat stress on broiler performance. This experiment was carried out to evaluate the effect of the manipulations of dietary electrolytes by combining changes in the electrolyte (Na++K+–Cl- ) balance (EB) and in the [(K++Cl- )/Na+] ratio (ER) in broiler feeds. In total, 1575 male broilers between 21 and 46 days old were allotted to 15 treatments in a 5x3 factorial arrangement, consisting of five diets with different EB/ER combinations (150/3, 250/2, 250/3, 250/4, and 350/3). Birds were submitted to heat stress at 25 or 35 days old. Live performance, mortality rate, and carcass traits were evaluated. The strategic formulation of diets with different EB and ER improves live performance and minimize the effect of heat stress on broilers. Under thermoneutral conditions, an EB of 250 mEq/kg and an ER of 3 are recommended, whereas under heat stress, and EB of 350 mEq/kg and an ER of 3 should be applied.
- Revista Brasileira de Ciência Avícola / Brazilian Journal of Poultry Science, v. 17, n. 2, p. 237-246, 2015.
- Acute heat stress
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By Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition
A report in the New Scientist indicates the answer is "maybe." Researchers in Denmark conducted a study that found an exposure-response relationship between noise and difficulty getting pregnant. The researchers made their discovery by analysing data from the Danish National Birth Cohort, a project that ran from 1996 to 2002, and focusing on women who had tried to get pregnant during the project "if traffic noise data was available for where they lived." The study was controlled for factors like poverty levels and nitrogen oxide pollution.
Earlier research had suggested that 80% of women who were actively trying to get pregnant usually did so within six menstrual cycles, but the research team found that "for every 10 decibels of extra traffic noise around a woman's home, there was a 5 to 8 per cent increased chance of it taking six months or longer." The article notes that it "is unclear whether traffic noise may be affecting women or their partners."
New Scientist quotes Rachel Smith of Imperial College London, who finds the link between traffic noise and health worrying. Says Smith, "[b]ecause traffic noise is common, even a small effect on health could feasibly have a large impact across a population."
Just as the Danish study was released, a South Korean study was reported that focused on long-term exposure to a noisy environment and male infertility. The study by researchers at Seoul National University, which ran for eight years from 2006-2013, looked "at male infertility by analyzing data from 206,492 men aged 20-59 and calculating the participants' levels of noise exposure." 3,293 of the participants had an infertility diagnosis.
The researchers "found that, after taking into account factors such as age, income, BMI and smoking, men who were exposed to noise over 55 dB at night (a level equivalent to a suburban street or an air conditioner and above the World Health Organization night noise level) had a significantly higher chance of being diagnosed as infertile." Dr. Jin-Young Min, the study's co-author, noted that infertility was becoming a significant public health issue, adding that it was known noise affected male fertility in animals, but his study was the first to show the risk of environmental noise on male infertility in humans.
Both studies' findings have to be replicated in other countries and by other researchers, but the data keep mounting and show that environmental noise pollution is a ubiquitous, pervasive, and dangerous health problem.
Dr. Daniel Fink is a leading noise activist based in the Los Angeles area. He serves on the board of the American Tinnitus Association, is the interim chair of Quiet Communities's Health Advisory Council, and is the founding chair of The Quiet Coalition, an organization of science, health, and legal professionals concerned about the impacts of noise on health, environment, learning, productivity, and quality of life in America.


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Our documentation provides a lot of good information for those of you who have been working with ePublisher and want to get specific information about a topic, but admittedly it can be a bit overwhelming, so I thought I would try to distill this information for a quick-start guide in using ePublisher. By no means is this a comprehensive guide, for that we offer training.
Lesson 1 – Creating and Modifying a Designer Project
1. Go to File -> New. This will bring up the following window:
2. You can chose whatever name you want for the Project and the Target (covered more in depth by training). This window also lets you choose what kind of Format you want to use, for the purposes of this demonstration, we are going to use WebWorks Reverb (which, by the way is the output that our documentation uses). Click Next
3. Click Add put source files for this document. For the purposes of this demonstration, we are going to use FrameMaker:
3. In the next window, we are going to navigate to the following directory:
C:\Users\[yourusername]\Documents\ePublisher Express Projects\Source\Adobe Framemaker
4. We are going to add the book file located in this folder. Click the Open button to add this file, and then you are going to click the Finish button on the next screen.
5. Now you will see something like this in the Document Manager:
6. With the first document selected, as you see in the above image, Go to Project -> Display Preview and you will select the "Heading_1" style by clicking "About the Sample Exploring ePublisher Source Documents (FrameMaker)" paragraph style. Again more in depth coverage of this is done in training:
7. We are going to change the color of this heading by going to Text -> Color in the Style Designer pictured below Notice that now the Text heading is bolded, this indicates that we have made a change to something in the Style Designer:
8. You can actually see the changes by clicking the green Refresh Preview button on the top corner:
9. For the purposes of this small demonstration, we are going to generate with just heading 1's changed, Go to the 3 blue gears in the toolbar to do a generation:
10. Once you click this, you will see logs that will indicate that you are generating and then you may get a message like this, go ahead and click Yes, and you can also select this message not to come up again as pictured below
11. Once you click yes you should be able to view the output and it will look like this when you click the right navigation button on the top.
12. Click File -> Save to save your project for the next lesson
So, this was a very basic example of output that is possible from our sample source files. Right now we have navigation in our Reverb output, but we do not have a table of contents, breadcrumbs or any other bells and whistles that Reverb offers. In the following lessons, I will go over how to get cool features and settings in the output, but for now I hope this gives you a good starting point.


Scottish wildcat kittens offer hope that species can be saved from extinction
Friday, 1st June 2018, 11:36 am
Updated Friday, 1st June 2018, 1:22 pm
Three Scottish wildcat kittens are getting used to their new surroundings at the Highland Wildlife Park - and they offer hope that the species can be saved from extinction.
The trio, born in March to mother Ness, have recently begun to emerge from their den at theÂ Royal Zoological Society park near Kingussie.
Photo: RZSS
They might look similar to domestic tabby cats, but theyÂ are the newest additions to a breeding programme which aims to protect the iconic Scottish wildcat from extinction.
David Barclay, RZSS cat conservation project officer said, 'While it is always a joy to see the excitement in the visitor's faces as they catch a glimpse of the kittens exploring their enclosure, it is an even greater feeling knowing that young wildcats like these could be the saviour of the species in Scotland.
'With little evidence of viable populations in the wild it is clear to see how valuable reintroductions from the captive breeding population could be. These kittens, from a wild born father, possess genes that will allow for new breeding pairs to be established ensuring the population continues to grow.
Photo: RZSS
'Very real threat of extinction'
'The Scottish wildcat is facing the very real threat of extinction due to hybridisation with domestic and feral cats as well as habitat loss and accidental persecution," addsÂ Barclay.
"However, together with our partners in Scottish Wildcat Action, Scotland's national conservation project for the species, we will continue to deliver conservation efforts for the species and make sure we give them the greatest hope of survival for future generations'
How wildcats differ
Although Scottish wildcats share some similarities with domestic tabby cats, the two species are not to be confused.
An adult Scottish Wildcat in captivity at the Highland Wildlife Park (Photo: TSPL)
The Scottish wildcat is the same subspecies of wildcat as is found in continental Europe, but has been separated from them since the end of the last ice age, around 9,000 years ago.
Domestic cats originate from Near Eastern wildcats and have been through a process of domestication. So they have a quite separate evolutionary history to Scottish wildcats and behave quite differently.
Wildcats are less social, generally just coming together for a short period for breeding, normally giving birth to two or three kittens, which the mother will protect fiercely.
Photo: RZSS
Douglas Richardson, head of living collections at the park said, 'RZSS Highland Wildlife Park first bred Scottish wildcats in 1981.Â Over the years we have provided many of our offspring to other high-standard collections and so from quite early-on we sowed the seeds for what is now the formal conservation breeding programme.
'It is comforting to know that the wildcats within the formal breeding programme will provide the lifeline that the species needs to ride-out the very real threat of extinction in the wild.'


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The emoji "Man Artist" depicts a male character who is portrayed as an artist. This emoji can have multiple interpretations, and its meaning can vary depending on the context in which it is used. Here are some possible explanations for the meaning of the "Man Artist" emoji:
Creativity and Artistry: The "Man Artist" emoji represents the world of art and creativity. It can be used to symbolize an individual who is passionate about artistic expression, such as painting, drawing, sculpting, or any other form of visual art. It suggests talent and an appreciation for aesthetics.
Representation of Artists: This emoji serves as a representation of real-life artists, whether professional or amateur. It can be used to acknowledge and celebrate the artistic endeavors of someone, or simply to express admiration for their artistic skills.
Self-Expression and Individuality: The "Man Artist" emoji can represent the idea of self-expression and embracing individuality. Artists are often seen as individuals who think outside the box and challenge norms. This emoji can be used to convey a similar spirit of non-conformity and uniqueness in one's own personality or actions.
Passion and Inspiration: Using the "Man Artist" emoji can imply a strong passion for art and the ability to inspire others through creative expression. It can be used to convey a sense of inspiration or admiration toward someone's artistic work and talents.
Art-related Conversations or Events: This emoji can be employed in conversations related to art shows, exhibitions, art classes, or any other art-related topics. It can be used as a shorthand to indicate the involvement of artists or to express one's interest in the subject.
It is important to note that the exact interpretation may vary from person to person and depending on the specific context in which the emoji is utilized.
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A tunnel beneath the Yellow River, China's second longest, and related water gates and ditches have been completed for the eastern route of the country's giant south-north water diversion project.
Water diverted from the Yangtze, China's largest river, along the eastern route will flow through the tunnel to the parched northern provinces of Shandong and Hebei as well as Tianjin Municipality, the Shandong Provincial Construction Management Bureau of South-to-North Water Diversion Project said in a statement on Sunday.
Dubbed the "throat" of the eastern route, the 585-meter-long tunnel, 9 meters in diameter and up to 70 meters deep, will divert 442 million cubic meters of water annually.
Construction of the key project on the eastern route cost 613 million yuan (97.2 million U.S. dollars) and lasted four years.
The south-north water diversion project was first conceived by former Chinese leader Mao Zedong in 1952 and the State Council, or China's Cabinet, approved the ambitious project in December 2002 after debates that lasted nearly a half century.
The project, with an estimated total cost of 500 billion yuan, has aroused global concerns over land use, possible regional climate changes, environmental damage, impact on agriculture and human suffering in the wake of massive relocations.
The project plans to divert 44.8 billion cubic meters of water annually from the Yangtze through eastern, middle and western routes to relieve water shortages in north China by 2050.
The construction of the 1,467-km-long eastern route began in December 2002 and is expected to supply water to northern China by 2013.


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Number of shapes does not match number of table records。
The following error occurs when adding a theme to a view:
"Number of shapes does not match number of table records."
The error happens when the number of features in the shapefile does not match the number of attributes in the DBF file. These are some common causes that produce the error.
- adding or deleting records to the DBF file corresponding to the existing shapefile
- a system failure occurs during the edit process and the shapefile is saved in a corrupted state
- multiple users editing the same shapefile
- adding features to a theme and the user double-clicks the mouse. A record with zero area is added to the table, but the feature may not bevisible in the view.
Solution or Workaround:
The shapefile may be recovered with one of the following methods. It is highly recommended that a backup copy is made of the shapefile before attempting to use any of these methods.
Use Andrew Williamson's ShapeFile Repairer Utility. Click the link to this ArcScript in Related Information.
Edit the DBF file:
- Open the DBF file.
- Delete the last record.
- Close and save the DBF file.
- Load the shapefile into your View.
Use the ArcInfo Workstation SHAPEARC command:
- Run the SHAPEARC command on the shapefile.
- Run DESCRIBE on the output coverage.
- Make note of the number of shapes.
- Open the DBF corresponding to the shapefile.
- Compare the number of records of the DBF to the number shapes resulting from the DESCRIBE command.
- If the number of DBF records is more than the number of shapes, delete records until the number of shapes matches the number of records.
- If the number of DBF records is less than the number of shapes, add records until the number of shapes matches the number of records.
The shapefile should open in ArcView, but there is no guarantee that attribute information for the shapefile will be correct. To test if the attribute data is assigned to the correct feature, do the following:
- Load the shapefile into a new view.
- Open the attribute table for the shapefile.
- Tile the view and the table.
- Select a record.
- Compare the selected record with the selected feature in the view.
- If the feature does not correspond with the attribute, determine whether and where to add or delete records. The DBF needs to be edited appropriately, keeping in mind that the number of records must equal the number of shapes.
Repeat the comparison steps until the features and attributes are synchronized.