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There are few things more disappointing than watching beautiful oranges ripen only to cut into them and find that the oranges are dry and flavorless. The question of why an orange tree produces dry oranges has plagued many home owners who are fortunate enough to be able to grow oranges. There are many reasons for dry orange fruit, and hopefully this article will help you pinpoint the causes of dry oranges on your trees.
Possible Causes of Dry Oranges
Orange fruit drying on the tree is technically referred to as granulation. When oranges are dry, there are many factors that can be responsible.
Over-ripened fruit – A common cause of dry orange fruit is when the oranges are left too long on the tree after they are fully ripe.
Underwatering – If a tree receives too little water while in fruit, this can cause dry oranges. The basic goal of any tree, not just an orange tree, is to survive. If there is too little water to support both the orange tree and the orange fruit, the fruit will suffer.
Too much nitrogen – Too much nitrogen can cause dry orange fruit. This is because nitrogen will encourage rapid growth of foliage at the expense of the fruit. This does not mean that you should eliminate nitrogen from your orange tree's fertilizing schedule (they need nitrogen to be healthy), but make sure that you have the proper amount of nitrogen and phosphorus.
Weather stress – If your weather is unseasonably warm or unseasonably cold while the orange tree is in fruit, this can be a cause of dry oranges. When a tree is under stress from weather conditions, the fruit will suffer while the tree works to survive the unexpected conditions.
Immature orange tree – Oftentimes, the first year or two that an orange tree produces fruit, the oranges are dry. This is because the orange tree is simply not mature enough to properly produce fruit. It is for this reason that some growers will prune away any fruit that appears the first year an orange tree blooms. This allows the tree to focus on maturing rather than on inferior fruit production.
Poor rootstock selection – Though uncommon, if you find that you have dry orange fruit almost every year, it may be that the rootstock that was used for your tree was a poor choice. Almost all citrus trees are now grafted onto hardier rootstock. But if the rootstock is not a good match, the result can be poor or dry oranges.
Regardless of the causes of dry oranges, you will often find that fruit harvested later in the season will be more affected than orange fruit harvested earlier in the season. In most cases, the reason why an orange tree produced dry oranges will correct itself by the following season.


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E. Cobham Brewer _PHONE_. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
A species of limestone, used for building, and found in the Lower Oolite, in Wiltshire and Somersetshire. It is easily wrought in the quarry, but hardens on exposure to the air. Called Bath stone because several of the quarries are near Bath, in Somersetshire.

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[Embargoed for January 28, 2003, to coincide with the release of the January issue of the journal Pathophysiology.]
TOPICAL OXYGEN HELPS HARD-TO-HEAL WOUNDS HEAL FASTER AND BETTER
COLUMBUS, Ohio – A new study suggests that brief exposures to pure oxygen not only help chronic and other hard-to-heal wounds heal completely, such exposures also help wounds heal faster.
Ohio State University surgical scientists used topical oxygen therapy to treat 30 patients with a total of 56 wounds. The therapy required placing a bag containing pure oxygen over the wound for 90 minutes a day. More than two-thirds of the difficult wounds healed with the oxygen treatment alone.
Wounds in this clinical study ranged from post-surgical wounds to injuries resulting from acute trauma to ulcers – such as diabetic hand ulcers and bedsores. Many of the patients had conditions like diabetes that hindered wound healing.
Ultimately, more than two-thirds (38 out of 56) of the wounds healed with the oxygen treatment alone. Four additional wounds required surgery for complete closure. Altogether, three-quarters of the wounds healed with the use of topical oxygen.
"The quality of closure is very impressive," said Chandan Sen, the study's lead author and director of the Wound Healing Research Program in Ohio State's department of surgery. "There was much less scarring than we had anticipated."
"In most cases, the amount of residual scar tissue in the healed wounds after oxygen therapy appeared to be substantially less than we would expect after treatment with more standard forms of wound care," said Gayle Gordillo, a study co-author and a plastic surgeon at Ohio State. "There was less defective tissue in the area once the wound healed."
The research appears in the current issue of the journal Pathophysiology. Sen and Gordillo conducted the clinical case series study with Richard Schlanger, director of Ohio State's wound healing clinic, and Loree Kalliainen, of Ohio State's department of surgery.
Physicians at the university's medical center monitored participants for up to nine months.
The study included people who had wounds that failed to heal with standard treatments, such as with stitches or the addition of wound care creams, and wounds at high risk of developing healing problems after surgery.
Topical oxygen treatment was delivered with an inflatable, see-through plastic bag with edges that adhered to the skin. It was secured around the affected limb or wounded area, and pure oxygen was administered for 90 minutes a day for four days, followed by a three-day rest period. This cycle was repeated for as long as the wound appeared to be healing.
Participants were treated in the hospital, in their homes or in extended care facilities. Treatment duration ranged from 24 days to about eight months.
Photos were taken before, during, and at the completion of the therapy. Wounds were considered healed once they were completely covered with epithelial tissue. Follow up ranged from less than one month to eight months. When a wound hadn't begun to heal after 16 weeks, physicians attempted to close the injury with surgery.
Acute traumatic and post-surgical injuries had the best healing rates: such wounds on the trunk, arms and hands had a 75 percent and 100 percent healing rate, respectively. Half of all acute wounds on the legs and feet healed. Chronic wounds that responded well to the oxygen therapy included venous stasis ulcers (92 percent healing rate) and diabetic hand ulcers (91 percent healing rate), while bedsores had a less encouraging 44 percent healing rate.
"The differences in healing rates reinforce a link between other health conditions, such as diabetes and obesity, and wound healing outcomes," said Sen, who is also the associate director of the Davis Heart and Lung Research Institute. Most patients in the study had at least one health condition, such as diabetes, cancer or an active infection.
Overall, the wounds least responsive to topical oxygen therapy were post-surgical wounds on the legs and feet, pressure ulcers and neuropathic foot ulcers.
"While topical oxygen helps wounds heal, it alone may not be adequate for managing lower extremity wounds and bedsores," Sen said. "For these types of injuries, topical oxygen may be helpful as an adjunct to surgery or other forms of standard wound care.
"However, it is a good alternative to traditional wound-healing treatments for people with chronic wounds or wounds that have a high chance of healing poorly," he said. "There have been no reported side effects from topical oxygen treatment, and the majority of chronic wounds in this study plus all of the acute wounds either healed or decreased in size during therapy."
Topical oxygen chambers, which have FDA approval, may also be a more cost-effective treatment choice, too.
"The cost of a home health-care nurse can run $100 an hour," said Gordillo. "If a person can take two weeks off his expected healing time, the cost of using topical oxygen will probably pay for itself."
"The alternative to topical oxygen therapy, high-pressure chamber oxygen therapy, is considerably more expensive," Sen said. "Also, it's not readily applicable to all wound patients, as some are sensitive to high levels of oxygen.
"Topical oxygen is a simple form of therapy which, if necessary, many people could use at once, such as in the case of a public disaster," he said. "These bags are also suitable for use in the field, so the treatment may be an option for deployed military troops. Further research testing the potential of topical oxygen therapy is warranted."
The researchers received the topical oxygen chambers used in this study from GWR Medical, Inc. The researchers have no financial interests in this company.
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Recipes: Level 3
Level 3 (for advanced students) looks at further developments in the arrangement of music. Most of the recipes use the seven-point plan from composing in a harmonic style. To remind pupils of this, you may wish to display or distribute the following poster:
At this level, the music generally requires the use of traditional notation and a greater awareness of all the parts at one time. A greater degree of skill needs to be exercised in the arrangement of the music. Full guidance is provided for this. Some recipes are easier to follow, and the music is more successful, if pupils are using computers to compose. It is assumed that pupils use manuscript paper for these recipes, although grids are provided if required.


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I'd like to hear from those who have used Doctrine 2 (or later) and Propel 1.5 (or later). Most comparisons between these two object relational mappers are based on old versions -- Doctrine 1 versus Propel 1.3/1.4, and both ORMs went through significant redesigns in their recent revisions. For example, most of the criticism of Propel seems to center around the "ModelName Peer" classes, which are deprecated in 1.5 in any case.
Here's what I've accumulated so far (And I've tried to make this list as balanced as possible...):
- Extremely IDE friendly, because actual code is generated, instead of relying on PHP magic methods. This means IDE features like code completion are actually helpful.
- Fast (In terms of database usage -- no runtime introspection is done on the database)
- Clean migration between schema versions (at least in the 1.6 beta)
- Can generate PHP 5.3 models (i.e. namespaces)
- Easy to chain a lot of things into a single database query with things like
useXxxmethods. (See the "code completion" video above)
- Requires an extra build step, namely building the model classes.
- Generated code needs rebuilt whenever Propel version is changed, a setting is changed, or the schema changes.
This might be unintuitive to some and custom methods applied to the model are lost. (I think?)-- Not true; custom methods aren't lost because the generated class is a base class; Propel provides an entity class specifically for extension.
- Some useful features (i.e. version behavior, schema migrations) are in beta status.
- More popular
- Doctrine Query Language can express potentially more complicated relationships between data than easily possible with Propel's ActiveRecord strategy.
- Easier to add reusable behaviors when compared with Propel.
- DocBlock based commenting for building the schema is embedded in the actual PHP instead of a separate XML file.
- Uses PHP 5.3 Namespaces everywhere
- Requires learning an entirely new programming language (Doctrine Query Language)
- Implemented in terms of "magic methods" in several places, making IDE autocomplete worthless.
- Requires database introspection and thus is slightly slower than Propel by default; caching can remove this but the caching adds considerable complexity.
- Fewer behaviors are included in the core codebase. Several features Propel provides out of the box (such as Nested Set) are available only through extensions.
- Freakin' HUGE :)
This I have gleaned though only through reading the documentation available for both tools -- I've not actually built anything yet.
I'd like to hear from those who have used both tools though, to share their experience on pros/cons of each library, and what their recommendation is at this point :)

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Capsaicin, the most abundant pungent molecule produced by pepper plants, represents an important ingredient in spicy foods consumed throughout the world. Studies have shown that capsaicin can relieve inflammation and has anti-proliferative effects on various human malignancies. Cholangiocarcinoma (CC) is a cancer disease with rising incidence. The prognosis remains dismal with little advance in treatment. The aim of the present study is to explore the anti-tumor activity of capsaicin in cultured human CC cell lines. Capsaicin effectively impaired cell proliferation, migration, invasion, epithelial to mesenchymal transition and growth of softagar colonies. Further, we show that capsaicin treatment of CC cells regulates the Hedgehog signaling pathway.
Our results provide a basis for capsaicin to improve the prognosis of CCs in vivo and present new insights into the effectiveness and mode of action of capsaicin.


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CALL NUMBER CONSTRUCTION
(For construction of NJ18 call numbers prior to 2001, click here.)
(For construction of NJ18 call numbers prior to 1991, click here.)
In current cataloging, NJ18 numbers are transcribed to labels in 5-6 lines.
|First line||Always NJ18|
|Second line||Artist Cutter|
|Third line||A12 if the artist is the main entry. If the main entry is not the artist (including title main entry), Cutter to the main entry instead. On Orbis ‡ i is always entered between the second and third lines.|
|Fourth line||Date of publication. For A12 numbers, add a B, C, D, etc. to distinguish titles published in the same year.|
|Fifth line||(LC) is always used below NJ18 call numbers.|
|[Sixth line]||"Oversize." If the book is oversize, an additional 6th line indicating Oversize is printed.|
ARTIST Cutter CONSTRUCTION. Cutter to the artist's last name or the first element of the name appearing in subfield a. Current cataloging modeled after 050 parsing precedes the first (artist) Cutter with a period. Earlier cataloging followed the legacy NOTIS practice of preceding the artist Cutter with a space.
- If the entry element of a name changes (usually because of AACR2), the original Cutter is retained. So, Michelangelo continues to have Cutter B88. Capital letter (corresponding to the first letter of the name) followed by digits expanded decimally.
- For names beginning with vowels: Capital letter (first letter of the name), lowercase letter (second letter of the name), numeric for the rest of the name, e.g. Aa6 for Alvar Aalto. For second letter "l" substitute capital L. Albritton, Sarah = NJ18 AL334
- For names beginning with S: Capital letter (first letter of the name), lowercase letter (second letter of the name), numeric for the rest of the name, e.g. Sm57 for David Smith. For names beginning with Sch: Sch and then numeric for the rest of the name, e.g. Sch335 for Carol Schlosberg.
Because NJ18 is an omnibus classification number, the artist Cutters can be long and room for new author numbers is limited. For that reason, when establishing a new artist Cutter, NEVER END THE Cutter NUMBER WITH A DIGIT LOWER THAN 3. If you are shelflisting in an especially tight area (e.g. where a very common last name is used), end the number with a 5 to give plenty of leeway on either side.
When possible, use the filing rules described at LC Call numbers: belletristic works. However, pay careful attention to the actual filing sequence in the NJ18 file. If following the LC call number filing rules will throw off the sequence, file your new artist to preserve the old arrangement. For example, if you are working in an area where German names are common, and it is clear that umlaut u is being filed as ue, file your artist's name as Mueller rather than Mu[i.e. u umlaut]ller.


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CSIRAC - Australia's First Computer
Source: Museum Victoria
The world's oldest complete computer.
CSIRAC (pronounced sigh – rack) stands for Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation Automatic Computer.
The first automatic electronic stored-program computer in Australia and one of the first in the world, CSIRAC is practically intact and is the only first-generation computer still in existence.
Developed by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR, later renamed CSIRO) at its Radiophysics Laboratory in Sydney, CSIRAC ran its first program in November 1949.
Transferred to the Department of Physics at the University of Melbourne in 1955, it remained in service from 1956 until 1964.
After being decommissioned, CSIRAC was donated to Museum Victoria. The computer now forms part of the Museum's Technology Collection and is on public display on the Lower Ground Floor of the Melbourne Museum.


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I need to limit a field on a form, to allow the user to enter time in 24 hour format. But I need to set it to only allow 4 digits, including beginning with zeros. When I use something like Like "####", it doesnt allow leading zeros. Anybody know how this can be done
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I know how to get excel to show only the last four digits of ID numbers. At first I thought I can just import the excel file with the last four digits and hide the column with the full ID numbers but all got imported to Access. If I am stuck with this, how do I get Access field to display only the last 4 digits? I do not want to show "***-**-****", just the last 4 digits only.
In excel I would use the RIGHT function, "=RIGHT(A1,4)." Can I do this type of function, "=RIGHT([field name],4)?
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On database open check field for blanks and extract last 4 digits from other field?
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I want to make the database (a simple table) loop through every record in the field "Last4SSno" and extract the last 4 digits from "SSno" if the "Last4SSno" field is blank, or if the 4 digits in Last4SSno does not match the last 4 digits of "SSno". I have google searched for hours, but I cannot even think of how to phrase a google query right now, and I'm getting a little fried on the idea. I would prefer to do this on database open, but if it has to be done some other way, that is acceptable as well, I'm just adept enough to modify the code to my own uses, it's just the *Private sub OnDBOpen* part and the *DoCMD.RunSQL Insert * in Last4SSno Right("SSno", 4) where "Last4SSno" isnull* part that I cannot seem to find help on(I think).
I could have the whole problem backwards, I just don't know anymore.
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A number is a digit (0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, or 9), a combination of digits, or a combination of one or more digits, a separator, and one or more digits. Microsoft Access provides three techniques or categories of numbers. These should be applied appropriately to make your database as effective as possible. To specify that a column will contain only numeric values, after displaying the table in Design View and selecting the column under Field Name, set its Data Type to Number, Currency, or AutoNumber.
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I am stuck here for a while and I hope you help me. I have failry large table called NANCAP in a database in where I upload large Excel spreadsheets. There is a filed called code and it can be one digit such as 1,2,3,and so on, and it can be two digits 22,23,50,78 and three digits 100,105. There is not problem with three digits code, but I need two 0's to be added to one and one "0" to be added to two digits code to make like this 003,009,025,050. The code uploaded like this :2,3,50,100,105.I am trying to do that by using the update query, however I can not fugure out how to put this into query that Access will see where one "0" or two "00" to be added to the filed based on number of digits in the field
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I have a field of varying length and format. I want to update a separate field to be everything to the right of a forward slash "/" Can anyone help me with this? We'll call the field "Text ID" and an example of the contents would be "SDI 22532993/130". Also, the number of digits to the right of the "/" varies between 1 and 5 digits.
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Have you ever wondered how or why records in a county office were created? The county auditor and recorder offices create a variety of records that help us understand where and how our ancestors were living. Finding an ancestor documented in records like a tax list or a deed book may be the clue that sets you on the track to finding additional information. Representatives from the Franklin County Auditor and the Franklin County Recorder will explain the resources available, how to access the information, and what it is like to do research at a county office in Ohio. This is an excellent opportunity for family researchers to learn how these offices can make their research more complete and use the legal records concerning property to identify family surnames and places where they lived before vital statistics records were being maintained in the probate court office. Additionally, this is a rare opportunity for family historians to talk with the employees of the Auditor and Recorder Offices in a workshop setting.
Date: Saturday, September 22, 2012
Time: 10:00am – Noon
Location: Ohio History Center's Archives/Library Classroom
Cost: $15.00 OHS/FCGHS members, $20.00 non members
Records that the Ohio County Auditor's Office has created in Ohio's History (a sample that highlights items that may be of particular interest to family historians) :
- Tax Lists & Maps: Various types of property records that include names of individuals, property descriptions, and valuation.
- Assessment Lists: Lists of real property valuations including description of lot or tract, value of land & buildings and record of appraisals/reassessments.
- Quadrennial Enumerations (May have been stored with the Clerk of Courts of Common Pleas Office in some counties): Enumeration of white mail inhabitants of the county over 21 years old showing for each: name, address, race, occupation, and whether a freeholder of land within the county.
- Civil War Bounties: Township assessors' lists of volunteers filed with the county auditor for payment of county bounty, showing volunteer, company in which enlisted, age dependents, date of enlistment, and sworn statements of money paid the county for bounties to volunteers.
- Enumerations of Deaf, Dumb, Blind, Idiotic, and Insane: Original reports to the auditor from township assessors showing information for individuals identified with a disability listed. Information may include name of person, "affliction," age, sex, color, residence, whether in charge of a guardian, cause of affliction, and how long afflicted.
- Enumeration of Feebleminded, Cripples, and Epileptics: Information may include name and address of patients, amount of funds contributed toward care, how each person is cared for, if institutionalized the date of admission is given.
- Enumerations of Soldiers and Sailors: Contains enumeration of living veterans who served in the Mexican, Civil and Spanish American wars & the Philippine Insurrection. Showing name, branch of service, war, company, regiment, battery or vessel, rank and address.
- Exemptions from Military Service: Contains original affidavits from physicians relative to a person drafted into Civil War service concerning the reason for exemption.
- Indigent Soldier Burial Records: For each indigent soldier buried by the county this record shows name, last residence, rank, date of death, itemized account of burial cost, place and date of burial. Because the approval came from county's commissioners office, the reports may be filed with the commissioners.
- Manufacturers, Mines, and Labor Miscellaneous Statistics: Township assessor reports of adults employed in various industries. Names not given, but this is an excellent way to get a sense of a county's employment base.
- Militia Rolls: Contains Civil War enrollment of male residents of the county subject to conscription showing name, age, and place of residence.
- Mothers' Pension Records: Shows name of recipient, case number, number of dependent children, monthly award & dates initiated and terminated.
- Oil and Gas Returns: Detailed data on production of oil or gas on leased lands, showing names and addresses of lessor and lessee, location & acreage leased.
- Oil Wall Lists: Shows information on oil wells within the county including name and address of property owner
- Practicing Physicians and Layers Lists: Showing name and township of residence
- Records of Inmates in the State Benevolent Institutions: Record of dependent persons committed to state institutions showing name, age, name of guardian, relationship, financial condition, institution where person is living, date committed and reason for commitment.
Records that the Ohio County Recorder's Office has created in Ohio's History (a sample that highlights items that may be of particular interest to family historians):
- Deed Records: Contains verbatim transcripts of deed filed showing file number, names and addresses of Grantor and Grantee, description of property, date of transfer, and index references to plat books.
- Certificates of Transfer of Real Estate Records: Transfer of real property in estates showing decedent, age, heirs, relationship, portion inherited, description and location of property, date filed and recorded.
- Articles of Incorporation: Transcripts of articles of incorporation of fraternal, religious, social, and immigrant aid associations as well as business concerns.
- Entry Records: Contains copies of original land grants to the first settlers of the county including a description of the land, owner identification, date and acreage.
- Abstract of Mortgage Records: Shows name of grantor and grantee, date mortgage recorded, mortgage, and date cancelled.
- Lease Records: Verbatim transcript of leases, subleases, assignments of leases, and memoranda of leases.
- Mortgage Records: Verbatim transcript of mortgages, showing file number, names and addresses of mortgagor and mortgagee, description of property, total amount and duration of mortgage, and index references to plat books.
- Plat Books: Contains plat maps of all land within the county from its settlement or 1803 (whichever is earlier), showing streets/roads/alleys as laid out, including subdivisions of existing lots and annexations to municipal corporations. Show full name and address of deed holder, description of original property, and date recorded.
- Power of Attorney Record: Verbatim transcript of powers of attorney filed, showing grantee, grantor, date granted, & specific acts authorized to perform.
- Soldiers Discharge Records: Verbatim transcripts of honorable discharges from the US Armed Forces, showing full name, and address of soldier, rank, and last duty assignment.
- Soldiers Grave Records: Soldiers name, location of cemetery, lot, section, block and grave number


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Vitamins and Supplements for Pets: Do They Work?
We tend to take our health very seriously, and as a result, we take the health of our pets very seriously as well. As more people today are taking vitamins, more pets are receiving them as well. With this happening, however, there is a question of whether this helps pets or not.
Like with human nutrition and health, there is no simple answer to this question. Vitamins and supplements for pets both work and cause problems and in different ways. Vitamins and supplements can work to supplement a diet or as pain relief but can cause problems if the pet receives too much of any vitamin or mineral.
Supplementing a Diet
If your pet is not getting the full diet that they need and a few key vitamins and minerals are missing, a vitamin or supplement might be helpful. It's important to remember that specific pets have distinct needs when it comes to vitamins and nutrients. Whether you make your pet's food or buy it, if you are concerned that something is missing, ask your vet what needs to be added to your pet's diet. Your pet's food should provide most of the nutrients that they need, so be careful to give them just the right amount. Without the proper amount of vitamins in their diet, their health will suffer.
Supplements for Medical Reasons
Many vets recommend that older dogs have supplements added to their diets because of their ages. This keeps their older bodies in better shape and gives them additional nutrients that they need, like senior citizens taking calcium supplements to protect their bones. Also, sometimes, pets have a pre-existing condition and are short on specific vitamins or minerals. If this happens, a vet will be able to prescribe the specific vitamins that your pet needs, without adding anything extra into their system.
Additionally, pets can be given additional vitamins and supplements because of an illness. Some pets suffer from chronic pain. In these cases, there are products like Canna-Pet, the first pet supplement made from hemp. The supplement helps pets with a variety of diseases from arthritis to chronic pain. Canna-Pet can also be used as a longevity health supplement.
When Supplements are Unnecessary
If your pet has no preexisting conditions or diseases, supplements may actually be dangerous to your pet's health. With a balanced diet, your pet should be getting everything that they need from their food. For example, if a dog has too much of certain vitamins and minerals, they can develop serious health problems. These can range from problems with the skeleton to dehydration. Finally, sometimes supplements can be contaminated, so be sure to look at the ingredients list and do your research to make sure that your dog is getting the vitamins and minerals needed.
For both humans and animals, moderation is critical. If your pet is in need of extra nutrients, vitamins or supplements can be just what the doctor ordered. Otherwise, they can be bad for your pet, potentially causing more health problems than they solve.
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Connected Substitutes and Invertibility of Demand
We consider the invertibility of a nonparametric nonseparable demand system. Invertibility of demand is important in several contexts, including identification of demand, estimation of demand, testing of revealed preference, and economic theory requiring uniqueness of market clearing prices. We introduce the notion of "connected substitutes" and show that this structure is sufficient for invertibility. The connected substitutes conditions require weak substitution between all goods and sufficient strict substitution to necessitate treating them in a single demand system. These conditions are satisfied in many standard models, have transparent economic interpretation, and allow us to show invertibility without functional form restrictions, smoothness assumptions, or strong domain restrictions.
Document Object Identifier (DOI): 10.3386/w17193
Published: Steven Berry, Amit Gandhi and Philip Haile (2013), \Connected Substitutes and Invertibility of Demand," Econometrica v. 81(5) (September), pp. 2087-2111 (also Cowles Foundation Discussion Paper # 1806R.) citation courtesy of
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How To Level Up Your Sales Coaching with Artificial Intelligence
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Sales coaching has always been an essential part of running a business. It can make a massive difference in your company's overall performance. Coaching also improves the well-being of your sales representatives. It can inspire them to grow past their limitations to achieve new success levels for the organization and in their personal lives.
However, sales coaching isn't as straightforward as you'd wish. Although many organizations have mastered the basics, the landscape is constantly changing. The digit-first economy, in particular, has made the market unpredictable.
Challenges in Traditional Sales Coaching
The following are some of the issues that make this kind of coaching in the traditional setup a significant challenge for organizations;
 - Time challenges: Sales coaching is a time-intensive undertaking. It takes a lot of time. What's more, it eats up both the management and trainees' time. This can often mean that managements try to limit as much as possible the time spent on coaching because they also need to work other revenue-generating aspects of the business. Moreover, the coaching schedules can conflict with time for other sales activities.
 - Feedback challenges: The quality of training feedback that managers can provide is directly related to the amount of time they can allocate to the training process. It means that takeaways from coaching sessions typically vary from one session to the next and from one learner to the next, making consistency very difficult to achieve.
 - Personalization challenges: In an ideal world, this kind of coaching should be personalized to address the challenges faced in individual roles and at a personal level. That's because each role has unique challenges. Also, each sales rep has unique strengths and weaknesses. The best coaching is that which takes these unique scenarios into account. It isn't easy to achieve this in the traditional coaching setup.
 - Ad-hoc coaching: Finally, conventional coaching approaches also create a scenario where you may end up coaching for its sake. Think about it – why do many organizations coach in the first place? It's rarely because they've noticed a skills gap. Instead, they coach because they feel they should coach or because it's the time of the year when they usually coach. This intuition-driven coaching approach has little impact on the bottom line.
Enter Artificial Intelligence (AI)-driven Sales Coaching
AI promises to resolve the above and many other challenges associated with sales coaching by addressing three key areas;
 1. Introducing a data-focused approach
By collecting and rapidly analyzing vast quantities of data related to the sales pipeline and sales rep performance, AI makes it possible to determine where reps are struggling. This information can then inform and influence sales coaching.
For instance, after extensive analysis, AI tools may reveal that a particular representative struggle with selling a given product at a particular sales cycle stage. It may also reveal that the rep struggles even more when facing competition from a specific brand.
With this information at hand, the coaching process can focus on the relevant product and competitor. You can help the rep understand more about the product and how to position it when selling. You can also help them know more about the competitor, including their strengths and weaknesses so that the rep is prepared and armed with the right information as they go out there.
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Remember that the same AI tools can be used to make a more accurate sales forecast by analyzing all sorts of variables around the product. The result is a significantly increased chance of selling.
 1. Deliver smarter, more in-depth training
In addition to providing the platform and tools to crunch data to extract insight, it also provides a smarter, more impactful channel to deliver the information. You'll still rely on traditional training approaches, such as targeted training paths. But you'll also now have a new channel known as cognitive analytics to help you convey the message in a more impactful manner.
Cognitive analytics is a branch of AI that mimics' processes in the human brain to gain insight into unstructured data. The easiest way to explain how such analytics would help in sales coaching is to imagine a sales coach training rep on presentation skills where part of the session involving recording participants giving a presentation. Cognitive analytics can augment in-class feedback from the facilitator with an extra layer of coaching, without necessitating additional effort.
You can even run the videos through machine analysis to give instant, unbiased, and detailed feedback on eye contact, voice tone, emotion, language complexity, etc. in real-time.
 1. Simulate real-world face-to-face scenarios
Finally, the face-to-face role-playing is currently the most effective was to prepare salespeople for the task ahead. The sessions usually comprise the sales rep, a second person playing the part of a buyer, and the coach. When done properly, these role-playing sessions help the agent master the art of engaging targeted customers in specific environments.
Unfortunately, as the name suggests, they are only simulations, which often means that neither of the parties (sales rep or acting buyer) would be serious. This presents a few limitations considering that some things are only learned in the real world by making mistakes and learning from them. Yet, it's also not a very good idea to practice in the workplace as the costs could be too steep for the company.
When used together with Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR), AI can create real-world coaching scenarios without the traditional costs. These three technologies allow you to recreate a real-world-like setting where reps can interact with avatars designed to behave like actual buyers – asking questions, voicing objections, etc.
If you're currently thinking about ways to improve your sales coaching, you can see how incorporating AI into your training activities would enhance your sessions. From collecting data and analyzing it to provide key coaching points to guiding the actual coaching process, it makes your sessions much more productive.
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I am trying to color some alphabets in a string based on input alphabet given. Can anyone suggest me how to achieve it? As I am new to this.
Suppose that I have the following string: "AUSTRALIA"
OUTPUT: (A in red)'A'USTR(A in red)'A'LI(A in red)'A'
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Where do you want to output? MATLAB command line? GUI? Web page? – yuk Jan 10 '12 at 21:43
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If you want to show it as text on axes (GUI), use the text command and Latex formatted strings
text('string','{\color{red} A}ustralia')
You can read about Latex commands here.
Alternatively, there is an undocumented functionality for some UI controls, mentioned in Yair Altmans great website.
That is the way to do it (Taken directly from his site)
In order to actually find the letters instances, use the strrep command.
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Observance days instituted by the United Nations. Some special occasion days are held on national level also. International observance also known as International dedication or International Anniversary, denotes a period of time to observe some issue of international interest or concern. This is used to commemorate, promote and mobilize for action. Many of these periods have been established by the United Nations General Assembly, Economic and Social Council or by UNESCO. Prime occasions are - Women's Day, Water Day, Health Day, Earth Day, May Day or Labour Day, Mother's Day, No Tobacco Day, Enviroment Day, Fathers Day, Anti Drug Day, Teacher's Day, Literacy Day, Girl Child Day, Elders Day, Anti Poverty Day, Children's Day, Child Rights Day, Violence against Women, AIDS Day, Pollution Prevention & Human Rights Day.
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UK Government Voice Encryption Standard Built for Key Escrow, Surveillance
"MIKEY supports EDH but MIKEY-SAKKE works in a way much closer to email encryption. The initiator of a call generates key material, uses SAKKE to encrypt it to the other communication partner (responder), and sends this message to the responder during the set-up of the call. However, SAKKE does not require that the initiator discover the responder's public key because it uses identity-based encryption (IBE)," Dr. Steven Murdoch of University College London's Department of Computer Science, wrote in a new analysis of the security of the Secure Chorus standard.
"In conventional public key systems each party generates their own private key and distributes their public key to anyone who needs it but in an IBE system, all private keys are generated by the network provider from their master private key."
"Secure Chorus facilitates undetectable mass surveillance."
That master key needs to be permanently available so that users can access it, making it a natural target for attackers. But the bigger issue is that it would enable network providers to decrypt calls.
"The existence of a master private key that can decrypt all calls past and present without detection, on a computer permanently available, creates a huge security risk, and an irresistible target for attackers. Also calls which cross different network providers (e.g. between different companies) would be decrypted at a gateway computer, creating another location where calls could be eavesdropped," Murdoch wrote.
Like many other countries, the U.K. has been in the throes of a public and private debate over Internet and phone surveillance since the start of the Edward Snowden revelations several years ago. The surveillance programs revealed by the Snowden have included many run by the GCHQ and NSA, some jointly, some separately. U.K. officials have been discussing the possibility recently of banning or severely restricting strong encryption.
The Secure Chorus standard is in use for some government and intelligence communications in the U.K. now and the GCHQ could use its authority to mandate its use in the public sector and some critical infrastructure organizations, as well. The agency has a program called Commercial Product Assessment to certify encryption products for use in classified government applications, and it has said it will certify only products that implement Secure Chorus.
All of which does not bode well for the security of users' voice communications.
"Although the words are never used in the specification, MIKEY-SAKKE supports key escrow. That is, if the network provider is served with a warrant or is hacked into it is possible to recover responder private keys and so decrypt past calls without the legitimate communication partners being able to detect this happening," Murdoch wrote in his analysis.
"Secure Chorus facilitates undetectable mass surveillance, in a way that EDH based key encryption schemes would not. This is presented as a feature rather than bug, with the motivating case in the GCHQ documentation being to allow companies to listen to their employees calls when investigating misconduct, such as in the financial industry."
The way that the standard is designed, there's no good way to implement it without the key escrow mechanism, Murdoch said.
"By design there is always a third party who generates and distributes the private keys for all users. This third party therefore always has the ability to decrypt conversations which are encrypted using these private keys," Murdoch said by email.
He added that the design of Secure Chorus "is not an accident." There are existing protocols, such as ZRTP, that can accomplish the security tasks Secure Chorus is supposed to, but without the backdoor access of key escrow. However, GCHQ has eschewed those in favor of its own design.
"The claim that GCHQ make is that existing protocols do not support the necessary "scale and usability requirements" but this does not sound plausible to me. The only explanation that I think remains is that GCHQ want people to use encryption systems which permit undetectable mass surveillance," Murdoch said by email.
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|Determinants of child immunization in Nepal: The role of women's empowerment.|
||Pandey, S., & Lee, H.
||Health Education Journal, On-line first, Sept 2011 doi: 10.1177/0017896911419343
Background: Approximately 1.4 million or 13% of all children who die each year could be prevented with widely-available vaccines.
Objective: We examined if women's empowerment improved child immunization using data on 1,056 mothers with young children from Nepal.
Methods: The study utilized the 2006 Nepal Demographic and Health Survey, a nationally-representative sample of 10,793 women from 8,707 households across Nepal. We selected all mothers with first child between the ages of 12 and 23 months at the time of interview. This resulted in a sample of 1,056 mothers.
Results: Among the measures of women's empowerment, mothers' education was significantly associated with child immunization. The odds of being fully immunized for children of mothers with secondary education were 5.91 times the odds for children of mothers without any formal education. Other measures of women's empowerment – women's age at birth of first child, gap in age between spouses, women's knowledge about sexually-transmitted diseases, their role in intra-household financial, health and mobility decisions, and their perceptions toward wife beating – were not associated with child immunization. Among control variables, mothers who received antenatal care were 3.31 times as likely to immunize their children as mothers who did not receive any antenatal care. Other such barriers to health service use such as cost of care, distance to health services, and quality of health services were not significant.
Conclusions: To improve child immunization, Nepal should strengthen its antenatal care services. Additionally, over 56% of mothers in Nepal had no formal education; to improve child health in the long run, the country should focus on education of women and girls.


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The Picts were master craftspeople. They created many intricately carved symbol stones. People at the time would have understood the symbols and figures carved on the stones. Their meanings have been lost over the centuries. Today there is much debate about the meaning of some Pictish symbols.
Early symbol stones were rough, undressed boulders; later stones were carefully shaped and dressed.
The earliest stones show incised animals and geometric shapes unique to Pictish culture like the crescent and v-rod, the double disc and the serpent and z-rod.
Later stones were sculpted in relief, allowing the elaborate designs to stand out from the background. Designs include incised Christian crosses and biblical scenes.
Some Pictish stones have written inscriptions. Pictish letters - called 'ogam' - had no curves, so were well suited for carving on stone. The language the Picts spoke has been lost.
More than 250 symbol stones have survived. They are monuments to the skills of Pictish artists and sculptors, but their meanings are still mysterious.
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Listen to Veni Redemptor, a 5th-century hymn by Ambrosius, Bishop of Milan, played on the Pictish harp.


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Constantine the African
Constantine the African (Latin: Constantinus Africanus) (1017, Kairouan – 1087, Monte Cassino) was a Tunisian doctor of the eleventh century. The first part of his life was spent in Tunisia and the rest in Italy. In Salerno, Italy, he became a professor of medicine and his work attracted widespread attention. A few years later Constantine became a Benedictine monk, living the last two decades of his life in the Monte Cassino monastery.
It was in Italy where Constantine compiled his vast opus, mostly composed of translations from Arabic sources. He translated into Latin books of the great masters of Arabic medicine: Razes Ali Ibn Massaouia Baghdad, Ibn Imran, Ibn Suleiman, and Ibn Al-Jazzar. These translations are housed today in libraries in Italy, Germany, France, Belgium, and England. They were used as textbooks from the Middle Ages to the seventeenth century.
The historians of Constantine
The twelfth century monk Peter the Deacon is the first historian to have written the biography of Constantine. He noted that Constantine was a 'Saracen', the medieval Franco-Italian term meaning a Muslim from North Africa. Later historians such as De Renzi and Daremberg, curator of the National Library in Paris, and Leclerc, author of History of Arab Medicine, relied on Diaconus' account. The German Steinscheider wrote a book dedicated to Constantine, which was printed in Berlin in 1865. The Orientalist Karl Sudhoff made his Berber-Islamic thesis when he discovered new and important documents touching on Constantine's life and religion in the northern Italy; these documents were published in the journal Arkioun in 1922.
Constantine emigration to Italy
Karl Sudhoff, said, according to documents cited above, he emigrated first to Italy as a merchant from Sicily, and was called in those documents Constantine Siculus. He moved to Salerno as a merchant (mercator). Suffering from an illness and took refuge with the king's brother Gusulf. A doctor named "Abbas of Curiat" was the interpreter between the two men, as Constantine ignored the Italian. Constantine noted that Abbas did not ask for the bottle of urine and the doctor who had come to examine it was inexperienced. He concludes that medicine in Italy was limited to a few simple practical knowledge, which led Constantine to ask whether there was in Italy for good books in medicine, he said no. This man, who had an extensive general knowledge, felt he had a civilizing mission that he wanted to accomplish.
He returned to Carthage. He practiced medicine for three years and collected many books of medicine and went to southern Italy carrying with him this treasure. He walked towards Salerno,passing through the coast of Lucania by boat. It is north of the Gulf of Polycastro, a storm arose at sea damaging some manuscripts. The first three parts of the books of Ali Ibn Abbas Al Majoussi were lost. Our man arrived at Salerno with what remained of the books, he converted to Christianity, then moved to Cassino, where he worked as an interpreter. The Sudhof story ends with this event.
These are the parts borrowed and translated word for word from the study of Karl Sudhoff. Sudhoff is a scientist who has a thorough knowledge of history, renowned for its reliability in research. The interpreter between Constantine and the Italian doctor on his first trip, was also a Tunisian doctor. He was called Abbas of Curiat? Curiat is an island lying off the town of Mahdia, Tunisia. May be Abbas was with there with him from Sicily? Constantine was a trader and cultivated, there is nothing surprising, because education in the great mosque of the Zaytuna in Tunis and the scientists houses was open to all. He understood the traditional and the rational knowledge. The trade between Tunisia and Italy were flourishing, and that did not cease during difficult times. Tunisia had offices in various locations of Christian Sicily and southern Italy itself. These include Bari, Taranto, Agripolis and Gaglione.
Tunisia exported olive oil, wax, leather, wool and derivatives, and imported wheat in famine years. Market forces did not prohibit trade with countries of Christians and Constantine was converted to Christianity there is nothing surprising in that the thing was common, particularly if the person was forced, which was the case for prisoners. These include the case of Moroccan Hassan El Ouazzan traveler who converted to Christianity and called himself Leo Africanus, a situation similar to that of Constantine the African.
Constantine scientific production
He arrived at Cassino, bringing with him the manuscripts of medicine that he took from Tunis. They include works of the Kairouanese El Baghdadi.
- The Kairouanese books
- The book of melancholy of Ishaq Ibn Imran.
- The book of the pulse, urine and food regime of Ibn Ishaq Suleiman.
- The book "Zad Al Mussāfir" (Viaticum) of Ahmed Ibn Al Jazzar.
- The Baghdadi books
- The book "Al Hawi" of Abu Bakr Al Razi
- The book "Al Kamil " of Ali Ibn Al Abbas Al Majoussi, at least in part. Constantine translated the first ten books (on the theory of medicine) but his translation of the second ten books (on practice) do not entirely survive. (The same book was retranslated in the twelfth century by Stephen of Antioch, who was dismissive of Constantine's translation.)
The books of Constantine are either by him or translated from Arabic. In many cases he fails to name his Arabic sources. It is so for the "Zad Al Mussāfir" of Ibn Al-Jazzar, that he translated and to which he attached his name, with what some observers have labeled as impertinence. He writes in the introduction of Zad Al Mussāfir the following: "If people are planning to dig into this book that comes from me, I let them sleep in their stupidity. I thought it is my duty to sign it because people envy other people for their work and to seize any book who falls into their hands, I titled Zad Al Mussāfir viaticum as his small volume will not clutter the baggage of the passenger nor hinders his movements. "
Editions of Constantine's Works
Constantine's works are most readily available in two sixteenth-century printed editions, the 1515 Lyons edition and the 1536 Basel edition. (Both editions are readily available online.) The Basel edition is missing some of Constantine's prefatory material, but Mark Jordan notes that, while both Basel and Lyons editions are problematic, and have undergone some humanistic retouching, the Basel edition may be more reliable. Modern scholars of the history of medicine, however, have tended to refer to the Lyons edition.
The Isagoge of Johannitius, which Constantine may have translated (the attribution is contested), has been edited by Gregor Maurach in Sudhoffs Archiv 62 (1978). This edition was never meant to be definitive, and it has received some criticism and corrections, most notably by Ursula Weisser.
The legend of Constantine
In his introduction of the complete works of Ambroise Pare, here what Doctor Malgaine writes: "Constantine was born in Carthage and taken with an ardent desire to learn all sciences he went to Babylonia, learned grammar, logic, physics (medicine), geometry, arithmetic, mathematics, astronomy, necromancy, and music. After exhausting all sciences of the Chaldeans, Arabs and Persians he went to India, asked the scientists of this country, returned from Egypt where he completed his long study and after four decades of travel and work, he returned in his hometown. But the rarity and breadth of his knowledge scared his countrymen, they took him for a sorcerer and banished him. Constantine informed in time, fled and went to Salerno where he remained for some time hidden under the garb of a beggar. The brother of the king of Babylon who passes through this city, recognized him and presented him to the famous Robert Guiscard, who made him his first secretary. But more than eager to rest than with honors he left the court and retired to Monte Cassino where he spent the rest of his life translating from Arabic into Latin various medical books."
- Walsh, J.J. (1908). Constantine Africanus. In The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. _URL_
- See also: Steinschneider, Moritz, "Constantin's Liber de gradibus und ibn al Gezzar's Adminiculum", in Deutsches Archiv fűr Geschichte der Medizin 2 (1879): 1-22
- Confusingly, the title of 1515 Lyons edition (Omnia opera Ysaac) actually refers to Isaac Isra'ili, not Constantine. Renaissance scholars thought of Constantine as a plagiarist because of his tendency to omit the names of the authors of works he translated from Arabic.
- The Fortunes of Constantine's Pantegni, in Burnett and Jacquart, Constantine the African and ʻAlī ibn al-ʻAbbās al-Maǧūsī, 289.
- Ahmed Ben Miled, Ibn Al Jazzar, Constantin l'Africain, éd. Sal


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Objectives: The study analyzed the dating and premarital sexual behaviors of adolescents with different backgrounds who had ever made friends on the Internet. The study also aimed to discern the differing influential factors on the dating and premarital sexual behavior of adolescents of the opposite sex who first met virtually or in-person. Methods: A stratified cluster sampling method was used to identify 1003 second-year public junior high school, high school, and vocational school students in Taipei with Internet friend-making experience. Participants completed a cross-sectional questionnaire. Results: Of the participants, 19.2% had dated a person of the opposite sex first met on the Internet, which was reflected in their lower score for the family relationship portion of the questionnaire (p<.001). The main factor influencing the pursuit of a virtual or reality-based romantic relationship varied with participants; those inclined to a virtual route were influenced by their friendship with opposite gender peers, while the degree of premarital sexual behavior acceptance influenced reality-based relationships (p<.001). The degree of willingness to date was the strongest predictive factor for sexual openness with Internet companions, while acceptance of premarital sexual behavior most strongly predicted pursuit of a reality-based relationship. Conclusions: Family relationship is an important protective factor to reduce high-risk sexual behavior of adolescents. The patterns of adolescent dating and premarital sexual behavior with opposite sex companions first met through the Internet and in person are different. Intervention strategies should take into account these different patterns, necessary to divide groups in designing the intervention courses to meet their different needs. 333.
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|Journal||Taiwan Journal of Public Health|
|Publication status||Published - 2009 Aug 1|
- Internet friend making
- Premarital sexual behavior
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Darwin egg from Beagle voyage found
The egg in question. Photograph: University of Cambridge/PA
Just in time for Easter, a cracked brown egg, believed to be the last of a batch personally collected and then cackhandedly packed by Charles Darwin during his voyage on the Beagle, has turned up in the collection of Cambridge University's zoology museum.
The egg was found by a volunteer, Liz Wetton, who has been helping to catalogue the museum's gigantic collection of birds' eggs for ten years. She sorted, labelled and carefully repacked the egg, recording the fact that it bore the handwritten inscription C Darwin, and then moved on to the next drawer.
It was only when collections manager Mathew Lowe was reviewing her work that he realised the specimen was unique. With Mike Brooke, curator of ornithology, he traced the acquisition of the egg back to the notebook of a late 19th century zoology professor, Alfred Newton, a friend of Darwin and his son Frank.
The notebook also proved, lest anyone doubt her, that Wetton's handling of the egg was blameless, the damage was done over 150 years earlier.
Newton recorded: "One egg, received through Frank Darwin, having been sent to me by his father who said he got it at Maldonado and that it belonged to the Common Tinamou of those parts."
"The great man put it into too small a box, and hence its unhappy state."
Tinamous are related to rheas and ostriches, though they can fly. They are now more commonly known as Nothura, and one is named in the naturalist's honour, Nothura darwinii. Darwin would have stolen his specimens from a male bird, which incubate the eggs and raise the chicks.
It was the extraordinary variety of adaptations of species to their surroundings which fascinated the young naturalist on his five-year journey around the world on the Beagle. He brooded over his observations for years - until he finally published On The Origin of Species in 1859.
"To have discovered a Beagle specimen in the 200th year of Darwin's birth is special enough, but to have evidence that Darwin himself broke it is a wonderful twist," Lowe said.
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As with A, we choose a tempering transform to be easily computable, and so do not actually construct T itself. The tempering is defined in the case of Mersenne Twister as
y := x ⊕ ((x >> u) & d)
y := y ⊕ ((y << s) & b)
y := y ⊕ ((y << t) & c)
z := y ⊕ (y >> l)
where x is the next value from the series, y a temporary intermediate value, z the value returned from the algorithm, with <<, >> as the bitwise left and right shifts, and & as the bitwise and. The first and last transforms are added in order to improve lower-bit equidistribution. From the property of TGFSR, s + t \ge \lfloor w/2 \rfloor - 1 is required to reach the upper bound of equidistribution for the upper bits.
The coefficients for MT19937 are:
 - (w, n, m, r) = (32, 624, 397, 31)
 - a = 9908B0DF16
 - (u, d) = (11, FFFFFFFF16)
 - (s, b) = (7, 9D2C568016)
 - (t, c) = (15, EFC6000016)
 - l = 18
Note that 32-bit implementations of the Mersenne Twister generally have d = FFFFFFFF16. As a result, the d is occasionally omitted from the algorithm description, since the bitwise and with d in that case has no effect.
The coefficients for MT19937-64 are:[42]
 - (w, n, m, r) = (64, 312, 156, 31)
 - a = B5026F5AA96619E916
 - (u, d) = (29, 555555555555555516)
 - (s, b) = (17, 71D67FFFEDA6000016)
 - (t, c) = (37, FFF7EEE00000000016)
 - l = 43
As should be apparent from the above description, the state needed for a Mersenne Twister implementation is an array of n values of w bits each. To initialize the array, a w-bit seed value is used to supply x0 through xn − 1 by setting x0 to the seed value and thereafter setting
xi = f × (xi-1 ⊕ (xi-1 >> (w-2))) + i
for i from 1 to n-1. The first value the algorithm then generates is based on xn. The constant f forms another parameter to the generator, though not part of the algorithm proper. The value for f for MT19937 is _PHONE_ and for MT19937-64 is 6364136223846793005.[43]
Comparison with classical GFSR[edit]
In order to achieve the 2nw − r − 1 theoretical upper limit of the period in a TGFSR, φB(t) must be a primitive polynomial, φB(t) being the characteristic polynomial of
B = \begin{pmatrix}
0 & I_{w} & \cdots & 0 & 0 \\
\vdots & & & & \\
I_{w} & \vdots & \ddots & \vdots & \vdots \\
\vdots & & & & \\
0 & 0 & \cdots & I_{w} & 0 \\
0 & 0 & \cdots & 0 & I_{w - r} \\
S & 0 & \cdots & 0 & 0
\\ \\ \leftarrow m\hbox{-th row} \\ \\ \\ \\
S = \begin{pmatrix} 0 & I_{r} \\ I_{w - r} & 0 \end{pmatrix} A
The twist transformation improves the classical GFSR with the following key properties:
 - The period reaches the theoretical upper limit 2nw − r − 1 (except if initialized with 0)
 - Equidistribution in n dimensions (e.g. linear congruential generators can at best manage reasonable distribution in five dimensions)
The following piece of pseudocode implements the general Mersenne Twister algorithm. The constants w, n, m, r, a, u, d, s, b, t, c, l, and f are as in the algorithm description above. It is assumed that int represents a type sufficient to hold values with w bits:
 // Create a length n array to store the state of the generator
 int[0..n-1] MT
 int index := n+1
 const int lower_mask = (1 << r) - 1 // That is, the binary number of r 1's
 const int upper_mask = lowest w bits of (not lower_mask)
 // Initialize the generator from a seed
 function seed_mt(int seed) {
 index := n
 MT[0] := seed
 for i from 1 to (n - 1) { // loop over each element
 MT[i] := lowest w bits of (f * (MT[i-1] xor (MT[i-1] >> (w-2))) + i)
 // Extract a tempered value based on MT[index]
 // calling twist() every n numbers
 function extract_number() {
 if index >= n {
 if index > n {
 error "Generator was never seeded"
 // Alternatively, seed with constant value; 5489 is used in reference C code[44]
 int y := MT[index]
 y := y xor ((y >> u) and d)
 y := y xor ((y << s) and b)
 y := y xor ((y << t) and c)
 y := y xor (y >> l)
 index := index + 1
 return lowest w bits of (y)
 // Generate the next n values from the series x_i
 function twist() {
 for i from 0 to (n-1) {
 int x := (MT[i] and upper_mask)
 + (MT[(i+1) mod n] and lower_mask)
 int xA := x >> 1
 if (x mod 2)!= 0 { // lowest bit of x is 1
 xA := xA xor a
 MT[i] := MT[(i + m) mod n] xor xA
 index := 0
Python implementation[edit]
This python implementation hard-codes the constants for MT19937:
def _int32(x):
 # Get the 32 least significant bits.
 return int(0xFFFFFFFF & x)
class MT19937:
 def __init__(self, seed):
 # Initialize the index to 0
 self.index = 624 = [0] * 624[0] = seed # Initialize the initial state to the seed
 for i in range(1, 624):
 [i] = _int32(
 _PHONE_ * ([i - 1] ^[i - 1] >> 30) + i)
 def extract_number(self):
 if self.index >= 624:
 y =[self.index]
 # Right shift by 11 bits
 y = y ^ y >> 11
 # Shift y left by 7 and take the bitwise and of _PHONE_
 y = y ^ y << 7 & _PHONE_
 # Shift y left by 15 and take the bitwise and of y and _PHONE_
 y = y ^ y << 15 & _PHONE_
 # Right shift by 18 bits
 y = y ^ y >> 18
 self.index = self.index + 1
 return _int32(y)
 def twist(self):
 for i in range(0, 624):
 # Get the most significant bit and add it to the less significant
 # bits of the next number
 y = _int32(([i] & 0x80000000) +
 ([(i + 1) % 624] & 0x7fffffff))
 [i] =[(i + 397) % 624] ^ y >> 1
 if y % 2!= 0:
 [i] =[i] ^ 0x9908b0df
 self.index = 0
SFMT, the single instruction, multiple data-oriented fast Mersenne Twister, is a variant of Mersenne Twister, introduced in 2006,[45] designed to be fast when it runs on 128-bit SIMD.
Intel SSE2 and PowerPC AltiVec are supported by SFMT. It is also used for games with the Cell BE in the PlayStation 3.[47]
MTGP is a variant of Mersenne Twister optimised for graphics processing units published by Mutsuo Saito and Makoto Matsumoto.[48] The basic linear recurrence operations are extended from MT and parameters are chosen to allow many threads to compute the recursion in parallel, while sharing their state space to


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All you need is a camera or a camera trap so that you can photograph African mammals. The quality of the photographs needs to be good enough to allow us to identify the animal in the image.
A handheld GPS device is useful, but not essential as we have a link to Google Maps on our website that allows citizen scientists to identify the location of their photographs.
|Help update the distribution records of African mammal species.|
|Add your recent photos of animals photographed in Africa.|
THE BROAD PICTURE: The aim of MammalMAP is to update the distribution records of all African mammal species. Through collaborations with professional scientists, conservation organisations, wildlife authorities and citizen scientists across Africa, we consolidate all reliable and identifiable evidence (camera trap records, photographs) of current mammal locations into an open-access digital database. The database software automatically generates online distribution maps of all recorded species which are instantly visible and searchable. The information consolidated within MammalMAP will not only yield crucial information for species conservation policies and landscape conservation policies, but provides an excellent platform for educating the public about African mammals and their conservation challenges.
WHY MAMMALMAP IS NECESSARY: In Africa, our knowledge of mammal distribution patterns is based largely on historical records. However, the last three centuries have seen extensive human-modification of African landscapes with the associated conversion, compression and fragmentation of natural land. With further land development presenting a likely reality for the future, the effectiveness of mammal conservation efforts depends on ecological records being updated so that they accurately reflect mammal distribution patterns in the 21st Century. With MammalMAP we plan to conduct these ecological updates over the coming years, by mapping the current distribution of mammal species (including marine mammals and small mammals) across Africa.
HOW MAMMALMAP CONTRIBUTES TO CONSERVATION: The conservation benefits of this research are multiple. First, the comparison of these updated distribution records with both historical and future records will enable the detection of species' distribution changes in response to human-related and climate-related habitat changes. These change detections will assist the guidance of continent-wide conservation policies and decision making processes. Second, the research will promote and facilitate interdisciplinary and international collaboration amongst scientists and conservation practitioners, with potential benefits to the advancement of conservation science. Finally, both the project input stage (data collection) and output stage (data dissemination) will offer interactive, dynamic and widely applicable education tools suitable for both formal and informal education sectors.
THE WHERE AND THE HOW OF MAMMALMAP: The area of interest for MammalMAP is the whole of Africa. To achieve this we collaborate with scientists, conservation organisations, wildlife authorities and citizen scientists across the continent. Our methods involve consolidating evidence of mammal occurrence in a given location (camera trap records, photographs and other reliable records) into a digital database hosted by the Animal Demography Unit (ADU) at the University of Cape Town. In time, we will use the records in the database to generate distribution maps for all recorded species, in the same way that the ADU has done for birds, reptiles, frogs and butterflies.


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March 11, 2011
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WENHAM, MA –Since the 18th-century Enlightenment, Americans have maintained much friendlier ties with religion than Western Europeans. In fact, the United States and Western Europe's paths to modernity have differed exponentially.
Thomas A. ("Tal") Howard, associate professor of history, will be presenting a lecture entitled "America, Europe, and the Religious Divide" as part of the Old Town Hall Lecture Series sponsored by the Gordon College Institute for Public History. He will be discussing some of the main themes he addresses in his most recent book, God and the Atlantic: America, Europe, and the Religious Divide. The event will take place Thursday, March 17, at 7:30 p.m. at the Salem Old Town Hall.
"The book seeks to explain some of the religious differences between Europe and America," says Howard. "I am especially keen to show how Europeans have interpreted America's early experiment in religious liberty and its long-term effects."
Howard is also the founding director of the College's great books honors program, the Jerusalem and Athens Forum. He was the winner of the Lilly Fellows Program annual book award in 2007. Howard is also the author of Religion and the Rise of Historicism (2000) and Protestant Theology and the Making of the Modern German University (2006).
"The causes of the religious divide between Europe and America are hotly disputed among social scientists and contemporary historians," says Hartmut Lehmann, former director, Max Planck Institute for History and the German Historical Institute, of Howard's book. "By carefully examining European views of America since the late 18th century, Thomas Albert Howard is the first scholar to give historical depth to this debate. Everyone interested to find a way through the labyrinth of transatlantic comparisons and prejudice is well-advised to read this book."
For more information visit _URL_
Gordon College is a multidenominational Christian college of the liberal arts and sciences on Boston's North Shore, offering majors in 38 fields with graduate programs in education and music education. Gordon is nationally recognized for excellence in academics and in character building, and ranks as one of the nation's top Christian colleges. _URL_


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What is market intelligence?
Market intelligence is gathering and analyzing information about the external talent market.
What is the purpose of market intelligence?
The primary purpose of market intelligence is to provide the client with accurate, objective, and complete information about the organization and its competitors' strengths and weaknesses, inform about possible crises, and monitor the implementation of existing solutions.
How can HR leaders benefit from market intelligence data?
Market intelligence helps HR leaders make strategic decisions on workforce planning in terms of:
- Using workforce demographic data through predefined reports to analyze the number of employees, turnover rates, and workforce composition. This information can be linked to headcount planning, budgeting, and critical talent processes such as recruiting and learning.
- Workforce cost planning and simulation provide access to a broad range of data to facilitate simulated planning scenarios and enable continuous performance monitoring.
- Analytics and measures help analyze HR processes such as payroll, employee administration, time management, benefits, organizational structures, relationships, and attributes of jobs and positions.
- Market intelligence helps HR leaders make strategic decisions on workforce planning in terms of also helps to analyze succession programs, talent management, employee skills, and qualifications and ensures continuity of operations.
- Strategic alignment, ensuring that all business activities align with the organization's strategic goals.


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Contemporary alien-visitors yarn from the author of Singer From the Sea, 1999, etc. The benevolent alien Pistach contact hardworking Benita Alvarez. They give her a message cube to present to the authorities—and they also give her the mental balance necessary to break free of her detestable personal circumstances. At length the cube, which shows how the Pistach can help humanity prepare to join the galactic federation by solving such intractable problems as crime, poverty, famine, and slavery, reaches the president. He engages Benita as liaison to the aliens. But predator races have also discovered Earth, say the Pistach, and intend to use the planet as a gigantic hunting ground. Certain politicians are willing to cooperate with them in return for power and wealth. Soon, though, the Pistach methods show near-miraculous results. The Pistach derive their ethos from a holy Fresco painted by the hero Canthorel. The pictures tell a story that inspires and impels the Pistach to help other races, even though the pictures are so dirty that the details cannot be discerned. Naturally, it's unthinkable to clean and possibly damage the Fresco. Then the heretic, T'Fees, cleans the Fresco, revealing the truth: the Pistach were conquerors and slavers! Pistach plunges into despair. The Pistach, however, are notably untalented artists, and this fact gives Benita an idea how humans may be able to help the Pistach.
Another consummately skillful, wise, sometimes hilarious, iconoclastic performance, although possibly too relentlessly polemical for some tastes.


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Hello readers! Welcome. In this article on 'above vs over', we are going to learn the correct usage of both the words with some example sentences. You will have an exercise at the end of the article. Once you are done with reading the article try to finish the exercise so that you can easily consolidate what you have learned.
Above vs Over
Both 'Above' and 'Over' are prepositions used to express the vertical relationship between two things. But the basic difference is that the word Above tends to suggest the meaning 'on a higher level than' whereas the word Over is used to suggest closeness between two things.
- ABOVE – a higher level than
- OVER – closeness
Let's see the following example sentences with the above words.
- The mother dog stood over her pups to save them from rain
- His house was on a hill above a beautiful beach
Both the words 'Above' and 'Over' in the above examples show a vertical relationship. In the first sentence, 'over' suggests closeness between the mother dog and her pups, and in the second example, the word 'above' suggests a higher altitude of the hill compared to the beach.
Some more examples:
- There was a picture above the door
- There was a picture over the door
Both above and over can be used in the above example. The first one suggests that there was a picture on the wall above the door and the second one suggests that the picture was on the door itself. Thus we can use the words above and over to show a higher level and closeness respectively.
Exercise: Fill in the blanks in the following sentences with either above or over.
- My house is _______ the tree
- The maid spreads a blanket _______ the mattress
- The clouds are moving fast ________ the city
- He slept _______ the bench
- He applied red paint _______ the white paint
Post your answers in the comment section below
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text: The importance of exact estimation of plastic deformations in the soils and building materials is noted. The defining relations for stresses and endochronic type deformations generalizing the theory of Sanders-Klyushnikov were proposed. Quasi-statistical equations of the new theory are based on the Novozhilov's idea about the independence of motion of piecewise-linear plane yield surfaces and the technology of conversion from flow theory to endochronic theory. The practical formulas for calculating the uniaxial active and reversible loading of the material are presented. The similarity and difference between the new theory and the Sanders-Klyushnikov's version are demonstrated on the several examples.


text: In the past years Knowledge Management has dealt with various aspects of knowledge retention, knowledge sharing and knowledge development. It is agreed that knowledge documentation is essential for all these purposes, in order to enable their re‑use. Many books and articles have been written on accessibility of documents, revealing an understanding that knowledge that cannot be accessed cannot be re‑used. Most effort has been invested in providing the focused list of relevant documents to the user, while less research has been conducted on how to write the documentation so as to ease its reading, understanding and use. This issue seems to be critical as we notice that existing organizational knowledge is far from being fully utilized: for example, regulations and procedures, including the organization's wisdom, are written; however, recurring faults do occur. People tend not to re‑read entire or partial documents, even when the knowledge therein is needed. This paper describes a framework for the document's internal design. The research hypothesis claims that internal design, using the proposed enabling technique, eases understanding and usage of documents. It therefore reduces the knowledge loss. The research methodology implemented was a qualitative method; the strategy chosen was instrumental: multiple case study (Stake, 1995). The research sample included both organizations (public sector) and the public (KM readers), the research instruments consisting of documentation, archival records, interviews, direct‑observations, participant‑observation and physical artifacts. The findings suggest that internal documentation design eases reading, eases understanding and probably eases use. It therefore leverages knowledge understanding in documents, and reduces knowledge loss. The proposed framework may be useful for a large range of organizational documentation needs, from procedures of work, through SOW's, Engineering Specs, white papers and professional doctrines including organizational knowledge. The framework was designed for organizational Knowledge Management needs, but serves for external rich knowledge documentation as well. It has been used since 2007, in more than fifty cases in five different organizations in Israel.


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An open excavation is an unnatural situation. The average landscape shows no vertical or near vertical slopes.
Soil or dirt is a very heavy material. A cubic foot can easily weigh 114 pounds and a cubic yard can be as heavy as a pick-up truck.
Consider a column of soil which is one foot by one foot and several feet high. At one foot of depth a horizontal plane one foot by one foot is carrying the cubic foot which lies over it. The stress, or load per unit area is 100 lbs. per square foot (psf). At a depth of two feet the horizontal plane is carrying two cubic feet or 200 psf. At a depth of five feet the vertical stress is 500 psf, and so on.
The column described would soon collapse if not supported by similar adjacent columns. Stresses are developed which act horizontally on the column. These lateral stresses can be considered ½ as large as the vertical stresses. At a depth of five feet the vertical stress is 500 psf and the lateral, or horizontal stress is 250 psf.
Undisturbed soil may be visualized as an infinite number of columns of soil adjoining and supporting one another. The system is in equilibrium and is perfectly stable.
When an excavation is cut the system is disturbed. Lateral stresses which existed on the excavation wall are removed as the excavation is done. The soil in the excavation wall immediately begins to move, however slowly, into the excavation.
At the same time the surface of the ground next to the excavation subsides, creating an unnatural situation. The surface of the ground is in tension and some of the weight of the soil in the excavation wall is transferred to the soil back away from the wall face by a phenomenon called shear.
The combination of tension in the ground surface and shear stress causes cracks to form back from the edge of the excavation. Cracks occur from the edge of the excavation. Cracks occur from about to of the depth of the excavation back from its edge. For example, if an excavation 10 feet deep is dug the cracks may be found somewhere between three to seven feet back from the excavation edge. There may be several cracks. They are usually vertical and they may be ½ the depth of the excavation.
When cracks develop, the weight of the soil in the excavation wall is no longer partly carried by the soil back from the excavation's face.
Then the lower part of the excavation wall fails under the great stress from the weight of the soil above it. There is no lateral stress to prevent the failure.
When the bottom of the excavation fails, or "kicks," into the excavation the support for the upper part of the excavation wall is now essentially hanging only be shear and tension forces. Failure occurs.
A third cave-in quickly follows. Soil, like concrete, is normally strong in compression but not at all strong in tension. Reinforced concrete makes use of the compressive strength of concrete and the tensile strength of steel. There is no steel in the soil.
Cave-ins generally come in multiples. If the first one doesn't get you, the second one may and the third is always a possibility.
This example of the mechanics of a cave-in has offered a discussion of some of the forces involved in such accidents. It has by no means considered all of the forces which may be involved in such an occurrence. Weathering, water, vibration and superimposed loads may add to the hazardous conditions leading to cave-ins.


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Creating Your First Machine Image¶
Now that hammr is installed, lets build our first machine image. Hammr can be used to build machine images containing pretty much any software for many different environments – from a trusty ISO image for physical machine deployments; to virtual and cloud environments.
In this example we are going to create a nginx machine image for Amazon EC2 based on Ubuntu 12.04 (64 bit).
To go through this tutorial, you are going to need an AWS account. If you don't have one, create a free account here. If you do not wish to create an AWS account, then you can still follow the tutorial, as creating machine images for other environments follows the same basic principles.
There are three phases when creating your machine image:
- Defining the contents of the machine image in a template configuration file
- Generating the machine image from the template to the required environment, in our case Amazon EC2.
- Publishing and registering the image in AWS, ready to provision one or more machine instances from the machine image
The rest of this section highlights these steps to create your first machine image.


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Subspace is a metaphor for the state the submissive's mind and body are in during a deeply involving play scene. Many types of BDSM play invoke strong physical responses such as extended adrenalin surges that can cause exhaustion. The mental aspect of BDSM also causes many submissives to separate themselves mentally from their environment as they process the experience. Deep subspace is often characterized as a state of deep recession and incoherence. Many submissives require aftercare.
During the scene, the intense experiences of both pain and pleasure trigger a sympathetic nervous system response, which causes a release of epinephrine from the suprarenal glands, as well as a dump of endorphins and enkephalins. These natural chemicals, part of the fight or flight response, produce the same effect as a morphine-like drug, increasing the pain tolerance of the submissive as the scene becomes more intense. Producing a sort of trance-like state due to the increase of hormones and chemicals, the submissive starts to feel out-of-body, detached from reality, and as the high comes down, and the parasympathetic nervous system kicks in, a deep exhaustion, as well as incoherence. Many submissives once reaching a height of subspace will lose all sensation of pain, as any stimuli causes the period to prolong.
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If we consider the AdS-Schwarzschild manifold, defined by $M^n=[s_0,\infty)\times\mathbb{S}^{n-1}$ equipped with the Riemannian metric $$\overline{g}=\frac{1}{1-ms^{2-n}+s^2}ds\otimes ds+s^2g_{\mathbb{S}^{n-1}},$$ where $m>0$ is a fixed positive number, $s_0$ is the unique positive solution of the equation $1+s_0^2-ms_0^{2-n}=0$ and $g_{\mathbb{S}^{n-1}}$ is the standard round metric on the unit sphere $\mathbb{S}^{n-1}$. The scalar curvature of $M$ is equals $-n(n-1)$.
My question is:
There exists some spin structure on $M$?
Since the Hyperbolic space is a particular case when $m\to0$ and the hyperbolic space admits a spin structure, is natural asking for a spin structure on the AdSSchwarschild space?
The existence or nonexistence of a spin structure on a smooth manifold $M$ is a topological question, in that it does not depend on the choice of a Riemannian metric on $M$. Spin structures are obstructed by the second Stiefel-Whitney class $w_2\in H^2(M;\mathbb Z/2)$, in that $M$ admits a spin structure iff $w_2(TM) = 0$.
Since $M^2 = [s_0,\infty)\times S^{n-1}$, its tangent bundle decomposes as
$$TM^3 \cong \pi_1^*T([s_0,\infty)) \oplus \pi_2^*TS^{n-1},$$
where $\pi_1,\pi_2$ are the projections from $M^n$ onto its two components. Since $[s_0,\infty)$ is contractible, its tangent bundle is trivial. The tangent bundle to $S^{n-1}$ is stably trivial, since embedding $S^{n-1}\hookrightarrow\mathbb R^n$ realizes $\underline{\mathbb R}^n \cong T\mathbb R^n|_{S^{n-1}} = TS^n\oplus\nu$, where $\nu$ is the normal bundle to the embedding, and $\nu$ is a trivial bundle.
Since $w_2$ is a stable characteristic class, it vanishes on stably trivial vector bundles, so $w_2(M^n) = 0$, and therefore $M^n$ admits a spin structure.
 - $\begingroup$ Your answer was very useful! I wondering now about the existence of killing imaginary spinors in the AdS Schwarschild manifold, there exists some one? $\endgroup$ – Geom math Dec 22 '17 at 18:55
 - $\begingroup$ Unfortunately, I don't know what an imaginary spinor is. $\endgroup$ – Arun Debray Dec 22 '17 at 18:57
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Why has the fertility rate risen over the last decade in England and Wales?
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05-Jun-2013This story looks at 170 years of industrial change across England and Wales and some of the factors driving it. It draws on data from censuses since 1841 and shows that much of this change has been in the last 100 years.
After 170 years of labour market change, now only 1% of workers are in agriculture
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05-Jun-2013Short video from the ONS looking at 170 years of industrial change in England and Wales. First it looks at which industries people worked in in 1841 and compared it to 2011, as well as, looking at the patterns of change across the whole period. Next it covers the key developments that have had an impact on the main industries in England and Wales, including the steam locamotive, electric telegraph, nuclear power and the world wide web. Lastly it focuses on 2011 and looks at the gender breakdown across the main industries in England and Wales.
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