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Porosity is the ability of the hair to absorb water and other matter (like chemicals).
In the post 'Balancing Moisture & Protein', i gave a brief summery of what hair is. The outer layer of the hair, the Cuticle, is made up of several layers of interlocking scales and is responsible for how porous the hair is.
Different Degrees of Porosity
Low or poor porosity is characterised by very tightly closed cuticles and is generally considered healthy as all or most of the cuticle layer is intact. It doesn't easily absorb water and resists the penetration of chemical treatments.
Normal Porosity is hair that is able to absorb water well but resists permitting too much water to penetrate. This is considered the best porosity to have. Again, all or most of the cuticle layer is in tact and lies down flatly. Hair with normal porosity can hold styles well and receives chemical processing well. Although chemical processes can change the porosity of the hair from average to high.
Highly porous hair is hair that has sustained cuticle damage with lifted, missing, cracked or chipped cuticles. It absorbs significantly higher amounts of water then normal or low porosity hair (up to 55%, in contrast with 31.1% for healthy hair) and is not capable of holding onto that water as the damaged cuticles allow water out just as fast. This type of hair never feels properly moisturised even with constant moisturising. When hair is fully soaked in water, the weight of the excessively absorbed water can lead to significant breakage due to loss of elasticity. Highly porous hair easily accepts chemical treatments such as dyes, but wont hold onto the colour for very long and is easily over processed as it takes significantly less time than low or average porosity types to receive the chemicals. Highly porous hair doesn't hold onto styles as well as normal or low porosity types.
Uneven porosity is a combination of low or average porosity and high porosity and is common in long hair. The longer your hair is, the older it is and the more it has been exposed to mechanical, chemical, environmental and heat damage. Uneven porosity has spotty issues where some parts of your hair hold onto moisture well and some parts (such as the ends) do not.
What Causes Highly Porous Hair?
Genetics does have a part to play with how porous the hair is. Naturally curly hair is more porous than straight hair by nature. Every kink and bend along the shaft where the hair naturally curls or kinks stops the cuticles from lying down flatly and so the cuticles remain slightly raised along these points. The curlier or kinkier your hair is the more porous it is. Other determining factors are mechanical damage caused by rough handling, dry combing/brushing, friction caused by towel drying, scarfs, hair bands and hats, chemicals such as permanent dyes, relaxers, texturisers and perms, heat damage from tools such as blow-dryers, flat irons and curling tongs as well as over exposure to environmental factors such as UV rays and harsh winds. Strong sulfate shampoos, such as sodium lauryl sulfate, are capable of dissolving the fatty acid layer beneath the cuticle (called the Cell Membrane Complex or CMC, the 'cement' that keeps the cuticles in place), which can lead to irreparable gaps in the cuticle layer. Natural soaps, being very alkaline in nature, causes the hair to swell and the cuticle to lift up away from the surface of the hair shaft, penetrating through the cuticle and into the CMC where it can bind with the fatty acid layer and rinse it away, again causing gaps within the cuticles. All these different factors can permanently alter, raise and/or damage the cuticle layer causing highly porous hair.
It is best test for porosity on freshly cleaned and dried hair.
Test One – The Finger Touch Test
Gently hold a few strands of hair with one hand. With the other, run your fingers up the length of your hair, from tip to root. If your hair feels rough with lots of little ridges or bumps (excluding the bumps that are naturally created by the bends in the shaft where the hair curls) then your cuticles are not lying flatly and your hair is porous.
There are some who argue that the first test is not at all effective at determining porosity as the cuticle layers are so microscopically tiny that you can't possibly feel whether they are raised or not unless the hair has sustained significant damage.
Test Two – The Water Test
Take some shed hair (or pull out a strand of freshly washed and dried hair), a stop watch and a tall glass of water. Drop the hair into the glass and wait for one minute. After the minute has passed check to see whether your hair is floating or has sunk. If your hair is floating ON TOP of the water, than you have low/poor porosity. If your hair is floating JUST UNDER the water, your hair has average porosity. If your hair has SUNK to the bottom of the cup then your hair is highly porous. If part of your hair is FLOATING and part of it is SINKING, you have spotty porosity issues.
Healthy hair should not sink at all or only sink slightly (in one minute that is). The rate that the hair sinks is an indication of how quickly it absorbs (and will lose) moisture. The faster the moisture is absorbed into the hair, the more porous it is. Hair should naturally absorb moisture at a slow pace and should be capable of holding it for long periods of time. If hair absorbs enough moisture within one minute to cause it to sink in water, it is absorbing too fast and indicates high porosity.
Correcting Porosity Issues
After you have determined whether your hair has low, average or high porosity you may be wandering how to correct any issues. Here are some suggestions
If you find your hair does not absorb water well than you need to focus on moisture rich products more than protein. Deep conditioning WITH HEAT (a hooded dryer) is highly recommended. The heat will cause the cuticles to open and will allow the much needed moisture to enter into the cortex.
Highly porous hair can be treated in two ways depending on the type of damage caused to the cuticle.
Lifted Cuticles – PH
If your hair is highly porous and you don't necessarily use chemicals or heat and are generally quite gentle with your strands then it is possible that the cuticles are raised. Rebalancing your hair's pH may be all that is required to help return your porosity level to normal. Acidic rinses such as Apple Cider Vinegar (ACV) rinses are an effective way of bringing the pH of your hair back down to optimal levels, thus closing your cuticles and correcting high porosity. For more on pH and hair click HERE.
Damaged Cuticles – Protein
If your hair is highly porous and you regularly use heat and/or chemicals, brush or comb your hair very roughly and/or without slippery products such as conditioner or you have tried correcting your porosity with pH and it hasn't really helped, then you have sustained cuticle damage. You may have missing, cracked or chipped cuticles. You cannot permanently repair damaged hair but you can patch it up temporarily with protein treatments. Protein helps to reinforce the hairs structure and can help fill in the gaps where the cuticles are chipped or missing. This creates a complete layer over your cortex that can resist moisture loss, keeping the hair moisturised for longer and will help to correct high porosity. Again heat can and should be used to help create stronger bonds between the protein and your hair so that the protein is not simply washed down the drain but actually remains on your hair after rinsing.
Uneven porosity can be corrected by either or both of the suggestion listed above. Using pH and protein will help fill in or flatten the cuticles in those places that are causing the spotty porosity problems. Product layering can also be very effective where the porosity issues are uneven, such as at the ends. If you have dry ends, then layering more moisture and oil/butter on the ends will help to create a thicker barrier where your hair is most susceptible to moisture loss and will help your hair retain moisture evenly.
The Best Treatment of All
I'm sure you know what i'm about to say. Prevention is better then cure! Reducing those things can cause the hair to sustain damage is the best 'treatment' we could possibly administer.
- Treat your hair gently.
- Detangle only when your hair is loaded with conditioner to reduce damage caused by friction
- Avoid chemical treatments as much as possible
- Avoid the overuse of heat styling tools
- Avoid harsh sulfate shampoos and alkaline soaps
This brings us to the end of the 'Getting To Know Your Hair Series'. I hope you've enjoyed learning about the different things that can affect the hair and what it takes to keep it healthy. Knowledge is the best tool in any successful hair journey!
If you have any comments, suggestions or questions regarding anything we've discussed in this series, feel free to leave them in the comment boxes or email me at _EMAIL_.


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C# Directory Class
The System.IO.Directory class in the.NET Framework class library provides static methods for creating, copying, moving, and deleting directories and subdirectories. Before you can use the Directory class, you must import the System.IO namespace.
Create a Directory
The Directory.CreateDirectory method creates a directory in the specified path with the specified Windows security. You can also create a directory on a remote compute.
The following code snippet creates a Temp folder in C:\ drive if the directory does not exists already.
string root = @"C:\Temp";
string subdir = @"C:\Temp\Mahesh";
// If directory does not exist, create it.
The CreateDirectory is also used to create a sub directory. All you have to do is to specify the path of the directory in which this subdirectory will be created in. The following code snippet creates a Mahesh subdirectory in C:\Temp directory.
// Create sub directory

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An extention to DBAPI-2.0 for more easily building SQL statements.
Table of Contents
This extension allows you to call a DBAPI Cursor's execute method with a string that contains format specifiers for escaped and/or unescaped arguments. Escaped arguments are specified using '' %X '' or '' %S '' (capital X or capital S). You can also mix positional and keyword arguments in the call, and this takes advantage of the Python call syntax niceties. Also, lists passed in as parameters to be formatted are automatically detected and joined by commas (this works for both unescaped and escaped parameters-- lists to be escaped have their elements escaped individually). In addition, if you pass in a dictionary corresponding to an escaped formatting specifier, the dictionary is rendered as a list of comma-separated = pairs, such as are suitable for an INSERT statement.
For performance, the results of analysing and preparing the query is kept in a cache and reused on subsequence calls, similarly to the re or struct library.
(This is intended to become a reference implementation for a proposal for an extension to tbe DBAPI-2.0.)
for now the transformation only works with DBAPIs that supports parametric arguments in the form of Python's syntax for now (e.g. psycopg2). It could easily be extended to support other DBAPI syntaxes.
For more details and motivation, see the accompanying explanation document at
5-minute usage instructions:
Run execute_f() with a cursor object and appropriate arguments:
execute_f(cursor,'SELECT %s FROM %(t)s WHERE id = %S ', cols, id, t=table)
Ideally, we should be able to monkey-patch this method onto the cursor class of the DBAPI library (this may not be possible if it is an extension module).
By default, the result of analyzing each query is cached automatically and reused on further invocations, to minimize the amount of analysis to be performed at runtime. If you want to do this explicitly, first compile your query, and execute it later with the resulting object, e.g.:
analq = qcompile(' SELECT %s FROM %(t)s WHERE id = %S ')
analq.execute(cursor, cols, id, t=table)
Note to developers: this module contains tests, if you make any changes, please make sure to run and fix the tests.
Also, a formatting specifier is provided for where clauses: %A, which joins its contained entries with AND. The only accepted data types are list of pairs or a dictionary. Maybe we could provide an OR version (%A and %O).
Future Work
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text: A customised African release of CAST (Computer Assisted Statistics Textbooks) has provided much-needed access to a series of modern statistics textbooks for many students in Africa. The recent addition of a collection of interactive CAST exercises has proved valuable in strengthening the learning of statistical concepts by students. A new CAST testing system has been developed to present the exercises as formal test questions. Students can practice beforehand with similar randomised exercises and can get immediate feedback as soon as the test is finished. This paper describes a pilot study in Kenya to evaluate the added benefit of using the CAST tests and is its first evaluation. Use of these tests is linked to an on-line course called "Statistics Made Simple". The effectiveness of the tests is discussed.

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Turkish president Erdogan signs decree turning Istanbul's Hagia Sofia into a mosque after court ruling
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has signed a decree opening the world-famous Hagia Sophia as a mosque, after a court ruled that its conversion to a museum in the 1930s was unlawful.
The court ruled on Friday that the 1934 decree converting the ancient Byzantine cathedral into a museum was not lawful. Immediately after the ruling, Erdogan shared a copy of a decree on Twitter, mandating that the site be turned over to the country's religious directorate and reopened for worship.
In a televised address later in the evening, the Turkish leader said that the first prayers will be held in the Hagia Sophia on July 24.
Dating back to the 6th century, the Hagia Sophia is one of the most visited cultural sites in Turkey, as well as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
UNESCO has expressed concern over Erdogan's vision for the historic structure, noting in a statement on Friday that the building has a "strong symbolic and universal value." It called on Turkey to "engage in dialogue" before taking any steps that might impact its universal value.
Also on rt.com 'Threat to Christian civilization': Russian Patriarch warns Ankara against dividing people by turning Hagia Sophia into mosque
Even before his decree was issued, the Turkish president's plan was condemned by leaders of the Russian and Greek Orthodox churches, who warned that it would be seen as an affront to Christians and create a fracture between East and West. Washington has also urged Turkey to maintain the Hagia Sophia as a museum.
Moscow has also highlighted the cultural significance of the building while acknowledging that the matter was an "internal affair" for Turkey.
Erdogan himself said that opening the Hagia Sophia for worship will not prevent local or foreign tourists from visiting the iconic site, which he said is a part of "humanity's common cultural heritage."
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Relationships between chromosomes - (Jul/29/2010 )
Hi everyone, as a no-biologist I have a very basic question:
How are the chromosomes indexed? Is there any ordering relationship between chromosomes?
In other words, is there any evidence that the linkage between two consecutive human chromosomes,
say 4-th and 5-th, larger than the linkage between non-consecutive chromosomes, say 4-th and 20-th?
From what I have read, chromosomes seem to be ordered by their sizes, but they are independent from
each other from the biological point of view.
I am playing with the ideal to map the whole genome into a high dimensional vector space; and I
am wondering whether each chromosome can be used as, more or less, independent dimension. So that
the whole genome will be mapped to a 23-dimensional geometrical structure.
thanks in advance,
The size ordering is just convenience, as far as I know there there is no difference in the relationship between chromosome 1 and chromosome 2 compared to chromosome 1 and chromosome 20.
there are some hints that the chromosome are not free to move. In S.pombe it is known that the centromeres of all three chromosomes of the cell are located together at the periphery of the cell nucleus.
Thus the situation could be quite complex, where different sections one chromosome are associated with different sections of other chromosome


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Subquery and JOIN
Here you are shown how to convert subqueries into JOIN functions this would be done as using subqueries that contain no aggregate functions unnecessarily causes the response speed of the query to slow down.
DROP TABLE jobs; DROP TABLE ranks; DROP TABLE salary;
CREATE TABLE jobs( employee VARCHAR(40), title VARCHAR(40)); INSERT INTO jobs VALUES ('Gordon Russell','Lecturer'); INSERT INTO jobs VALUES ('Andrew Cumming','Teaching fellow'); INSERT INTO jobs VALUES ('Jim Smith','Technician'); CREATE TABLE ranks ( title VARCHAR(40), rank VARCHAR(40)); INSERT INTO ranks VALUES ('Lecturer','LECT1'); INSERT INTO ranks VALUES ('Teaching fellow','LECT2'); INSERT INTO ranks VALUES ('Technician','TECH1'); CREATE TABLE salary ( rank VARCHAR(40), payment INTEGER); INSERT INTO salary VALUES ('LECT1',2000); INSERT INTO salary VALUES ('LECT2',3000); INSERT INTO salary VALUES ('TECH1',5000); INSERT INTO salary VALUES ('TECH2',6000);
SELECT payment FROM salary WHERE rank = (SELECT rank FROM ranks WHERE title = (SELECT title FROM jobs WHERE employee = 'Andrew Cumming'))
This subquery would be more efficient if it was changed to a
JOIN as there are no
aggregate functions in the queries.
- Use the following steps to change a subquery into a
- Mark all columns with the table name they came from
- If you use the same table in two different
FROMclauses, use aliases
- Move all
FROMstatements together to form a single
- Delete all occurrences of (
WHEREfor AND after the first occurence of
SELECT payment FROM salary, ranks, jobs WHERE salary.rank = ranks.rank AND ranks.title = jobs.title AND jobs.employee = 'Andrew Cumming'
JOIN ONfunctions would also work with:
SELECT payment FROM salary JOIN ranks ON (salary.rank = ranks.rank) JOIN jobs ON (ranks.title = jobs.title) WHERE jobs.employee = 'Andrew Cumming'


Best Types of Beefs That You Can Put Your Hands On
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Not many people are aware of the fact that beef are of many kinds and even if they are, most of them do not know what makes some types better than the others. So, whichever of the two categories you come under, this is just the right guide for you. It will take you through the two different kinds of beef that you must try. However, before we take you through the variety, we'd like to let you know a little about the different features that make some sellers better than some others. Have a look!
 1. Feeding Practice
Farm fed animals that are sustained on vegetarian diet make the best livestock for the meat industry. Only a few sellers like Papa Earth follow this practice of letting animals feed and live in their natural habitat so that they are healthy.
 1. Growth Factor
Products that come from animals that are given hormones and antibiotics for growth are the ones that you should strictly avoid. Instead, the products that come from animals that are allowed to breed and live naturally and sustained on grass (pesticide free soil) are the ones that you should buy.
 1. Quality Control
Now, did you know that all meats in the market do not come from brands that are quality monitored by the Canadian food authority? Which is why you should buy products from sellers like Papa Earth since each and every product they supply is checked by the food authority of Canada.
That said, now let's take you through the 2 types of beef that you must try.
 1. AAA Beef – This beef comes from Black Angus and is one of the most flavoursome meats you will ever taste. One of the things about AAA beef from Papa Earth is that it is Certified Angus Beef ®. The difference between Angus beef and certified Angus beef is that the latter goes through 10 quality tests. Only when it passes all tests that it becomes certified.
 2. Grass Fed and Grass Finished Beef – This one comes from pigs, cattle, and sheep. The animals are fed on crops like sorghum, oats and peas, hay, and so on. Special precautions are taken so that the animals are neither overfed nor underfed.
You must also have a look at the Paper Earth website to explore more details. Another factor that makes these online sellers better than others is that they offer Papa Earth butcherbox of different sizes so that everybody can afford their products. The three different sizes they offer include:
 - Small box worth 125 dollars.
 - Medium box worth 249 dollars.
 - Large box worth 498 dollars.
So, if it's high-quality beef that you're looking for, Papa Earth is the one seller that you can trust blindly.


Pill River
Pill River rises on Monkslade Common at an elevation of 275 metres and flows in a generally north easterly direction to flow through Rodhuish,and Whitley Brake to reach Bilbrook. It flows through Bilbrook Ford before turning north to reach Black Monkey Bridge. It flows beneath the West Somerset Railway to reach Binham Farm. Continuing in a northerly direction it flows through Home Farm before flowing beneath Pill Bridge to reach the sea at Blue Anchor. From the Source on the Brendon Hills the rivers length is approximately 3 miles.
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Inventory Material Specialist II- 2nd Shift
General Dynamics Gulfstream Aerospace - Savannah, GA
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Inventory Material Specialist II- 2nd Shift in GAC Savannah
Unique Skills:
SAP Experience required
RF Scanner Experience required
Education and Experience Requirements:
High school graduate/GED. Must be able to obtain Q or PQ/RI stamp, if applicable. Ability to comply with FAA regulations and Quality procedures. Ability to pass math and reading assessment.Two (2) years of experience in materials, shipping, receiving, warehouse or stockroom operations. Demonstrated experience in materials coordination. Basic knowledge of computer operation. Capable of working in an automated inventory system.
Position Purpose: Under moderate supervision, responsible for a variety of material functions including stocking/distribution of materials, inventory accuracy, and data entry within the applicable stockroom/warehouse. Responsible for verifying material received.
Principal Duties and Responsibilities:
Essential Functions: 1. Interpret route cards to ensure accurate disbursement of materials. 2. Ensure proper putaway/stocking of inventory. 3. Unload carrier vehicles, sort material by destination and ensure material is moved by scanning material to proper locations. 4. Check incoming freight for mishandling and damages; describe and note damages on carrier waybills. 5. Move material from one staging/stocking location to another using appropriate inventory transactions. 6. Responsible for the picking and issuing of material using automated picklist or various pull processes. Ensure the pulling and timely delivery of material to meet production schedules. 7. Process all unplanned demand orders within appropriate inventory system for picking of material and expedite to using department. 8. Process non-stock purchase order, loans/DMT and manufacturing orders through the appropriate receipt process. 9. Generate parts identification tags (e.g. 307 tags). 10. Process internal stock transfers from one plant to another with accuracy. 11. Operate material handling equipment and company vehicles as required. 12. Unload, load and move engines as required. Uncrate and move thrust reverses and nose cowls. 13. Responsible for part/aisle accuracy in assigned areas. 14. Responsible for packaging shipments of aircraft, non-aircraft material, literature and other GAC items being shipped to customer or supplier to meet GAC needs. 15. Work independently and as a team on pulling and issuing of parts to production departments. 16. Learn and apply Lean concepts within functional responsibilities. Support a continuous improvement culture including lean principles, sustainability initiatives, ergonomic improvements, safety, and cross functional teams.
Additional Functions: 1. Perform work that is varied and that may be somewhat difficult in character, but usually involving limited responsibility. 2. Ensure housekeeping in work area and comply with all company safety regulations. 3. Assist team leader in area operation improvements. 4. Perform other duties as required.
Other Requirements: 1. On feet most of shift and must be able to lift up to 50lbs. 2. Requires ability to operate forklift and gas carts. 3. May be required to work overtime, various shifts, and weekend coverage as required by production schedule. Languages Required (in addition to English): None
Additional Information
Requisition Number: 16302
Category: Materials
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Shift: Second
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Let ZFC2 be the Second-Order formalisation of ZFC.
The Second-Order Axiom schema of Comprehension (part of the deductive system for SOL) says that for every formula (of SOL) there is a relation with the same extension (shapiro 1991).
If we formalise ZFC2, then the domain is all sets and the second-order quantifiers range over all the subsets of the domain. But then, what stops Russell's Paradox from arising?
I know it doesn't because ZFC2 is equivalent to Morse-Kelley set theory.
In Second-order Logic, the comprehension schema (considering for simplicity only unary predicate variables) is:
∃X∀x [ ϕ(x) ↔ X(x) ],
where x is an individual variable, X is a 1-ary predicate variable and X may not occur free in ϕ.
What prevents form generating Russell's Paradox?
Two facts:
(i) we cannot substitute X for x.
A s-o language for sets must use individual variables x for sets and unary predicate variables for classes. So, x ∈ A must be formalized as A(x) and thus, using it as ϕ(x), what we get is:
∃X∀x [ ~A(x) ↔ X(x) ].
(ii) the proviso that X may not be free in ϕ prevents from using ~X(x) to get:
∃X∀x [ ~X(x) ↔ X(x) ].
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A small annual plant, baby blue eyes is scientifically known as Nemophila insignis. Nemophilia bloom in the summer, displaying soft pastel flowers. The border plants are also known as "five spot plants," and are not considered edible nor medicinal.
Baby blue eyes typically do not grow over 10 inches (25 centimeters) in height. Most only grow up to 6 inches (15 centimeters). The flowers, which are typically powder blue with white centers, can grow up to 1.5 inches (4 centimeters) in diameter. The flowers, which cover the small plants, can also be darker shades of blue or purple. Some varieties may be spotted or striped.
Though baby blue eyes are hardy plants, they should still be planted before the last frost of spring to ensure that they will grow. Cool, dry areas work best for the propagation of these plants. They should be covered only lightly with soil, then lightly watered regularly in order to be kept moist for optimal growing conditions. Full sunlight or partial shade is usually recommended for these plants.
To protect against possible frost, seeds may be planted indoors up to a month before outdoor seeding. They grow quickly, often in less than two weeks, and can usually be transplanted well, if done so in optimal growing conditions. Transplanted baby blue eyes should be spaced at least 4 to 8 inches (10 to 20 centimeters) apart. Plants may be able to grow in dry soil, but they cannot tolerate humidity well.
Roots of baby blue eyes plants should be kept moist and cool. In order to accomplish this, most gardeners cover the bases of the plants with a rich supply of mulch. Once established properly, the plant self-sows and can propagate itself freely if left alone. To prevent a wide range of the flowers, browned, spent flowers should be trimmed off the plants.
Gardeners seeking small, attractive border plants or bedding edges may wish to incorporate baby blue eyes in their landscaping plans. The low-growing flowers make lovely basket plants or container flowers for those who wish to hang a patch of color around a porch or yard display. Members of the Hydrophyllaceae family, baby blue eyes can also be a lovely addition to rock gardens, garden paths, and walkways.
Helpful bees are attracted to these flowers. Planting Nemophilia can ensure that gardens are filled with the buzzing insects as well as songbirds and other pleasant wildlife. Butterflies also flock to the flowers.
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Child Distress and Chest Pain Linked
Children with chest pains experience higher levels of anxiety and depression
But things are not always as they appear. A recent study found that children with chest pain unrelated to heart conditions also have higher levels of anxiety and depression.
There is not evidence to determine that their mental health is causing the chest pain or vice versa. But the researchers have established that there is a link between these children's mental health and chest pains.
"Ask children about their stress levels."
The study, led by Jennifer L. Lee, MS, a doctoral candidate at the University of Georgia, aimed to better understand the conditions of children who had chest pain not linked to a heart problem. The researchers compared 67 children who had non-cardiac chest pain to 62 children who had an innocent heart murmur. A heart murmur is an extra or unusual sound that occurs with normal blood flow in an otherwise normal heart.
Both groups had an average age of 12 (ranging from 8 to 18) and had been recruited from pediatric cardiology offices. Before each child had been diagnosed by the cardiologist, the children and their parents had filled out questionnaires to assess the child's psychological health and how limited they were in performing day-to-day activities.
The results showed that the children with the non-cardiac chest pain had higher levels of anxiety and depression than the children with the heart murmur.
The children experiencing chest pain also reported higher levels of disability in their daily activities and more general physical complaints that appeared related to stress, such as stomach aches, headaches or joint pain. They were less involved in school and after school activities as well.
The researchers therefore concluded that children experiencing chest pain may be also experiencing higher levels of psychological or social stress which should be explored.
"The fact that these psychological symptoms are higher in non-cardiac chest pain patients suggests the psychological symptoms may be playing a role in the presentation of chest pain," Lee said in a release about the study.
That doesn't mean that psychological issues are causing the chest pain. In fact, it could be the other way around – that the chest pain is contributing to more anxiety and depression. The children with the chest pain did not score high enough on the anxiety and depression assessments to be diagnosed with a mental health condition.
However, the researchers noted that the child may need treatment for the stress, anxiety and depression they are feeling regardless of whether they receive treatment for chest pain. The study was published November 5 in the Journal of Pediatric Psychology. The research was funded by the Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Cardiac Research Group. The authors declared no conflicts of interest.
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Week 1: November 2 – 8. Introduction to C language. Part 1
prb1286 In the school cafeteria to the end of lessons there were some cakes: a vanilla, b chocolate and c fruit. Dima is going to buy cakes before closing the buffet. What is the maximum possible number of cakes can choose Dima?
Three non-negative integers are given - the appropriate amount of cakes, each does not exceed 20000.
Print the maximum possible number of cakes that Dima can choose.
Time limit 1 seconds
Memory limit 128 MiB
Input example #1
4 2 3
Output example #1


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For other uses, see Rhodopis (disambiguation).
"Rhodopis" (Greek: Ροδώπις) is an ancient tale about a Greek courtesan who marries the king of Egypt. The story was first recorded by the Greek historian Strabo in the 1st century BC and is considered the earliest known variant of the "Cinderella" story.[1] The origins of the fairy-tale figure may be traced back to the 6th-century BC hetaera Rhodopis.[2]
Rhodopis, a courtesan, was bathing. An eagle snatched one of her shoes from her maid, carried it to Memphis, and dropped it into the lap of the king (named Psammetichus in Aelian). The king searched for the owner of the shoe. He found Rhodopis in Naucratis and married her.[3][4]
The Greek geographer Strabo (died c. 24 AD) first recorded the tale of the Greco-Egyptian girl Rhodopis in his Geographica.[5] This passage is considered to be the earliest variant of the Cinderella story.[1] Another account of Rhodopis has survived in Aelian's (died c. 235 AD) writings,[6] showing that the Cinderella theme remained known throughout antiquity.
Almost five centuries before Strabo, Herodotus (died c. 424 BC) told the story of the hetaera Rhodopis in his Histories without referring to any element of the Cinderella tale.[2] He wrote that she was a beautiful Thracian courtesan, acquainted with the ancient story-teller Aesop; both were the slaves of Iadmon.[7] Later on, she was taken to Egypt during the reign of Pharaoh Amasis (570–536 BC), and freed there for a large sum by Charaxus of Mytilene, brother of Sappho, the lyric poet.[8]
See also[edit]
 1. ^ a b Roger Lancelyn Green: Tales of Ancient Egypt, Penguin UK, 2011, ISBN 978-0-14-133822-4, chapter The Land of Egypt
 2. ^ a b Herodot, "The Histories", book 2, chapters 134-135
 3. ^ Aelian. "Various Histories 13.33".
 4. ^ Strabo. "Geography 17.1.33". Retrieved 4 June 2014.
 5. ^ Strabo: "The Geography", book 17, 33
 6. ^ Aelian: "Various History", book 13, chapter 33
 7. ^ Herodotus. "The Histories 2.134". Retrieved 4 June 2014.
 8. ^ Anderson, Graham (2000). Fairytale in the ancient world. Routledge. p. 27. ISBN 978-0-415-23702-4. Retrieved 25 March 2010.
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This guide will make use of the VoiceMeeter Banana software to split audio for the selective recording feature in Streamlabs OBS. For example, removing alert audio from your recording and allowing it to come through to you and your stream.
This guide builds on top of the Split Audio using VoiceMeeter Banana guide, so if you have not set up VoiceMeeter Banana yet, please follow that guide first to have the starting point for this guide.
Using both virual outputs of VoiceMeeter Banana
In addition to the initial set up, you also will be using the VoiceMeeter Aux Output (VB-Audio VoiceMeeter AUX VAIO), set as the Mic/Auxiliary Device 2. Your microphone can be set in the Mic/Auxiliary Device 3.
Browser Source Audio via OBS
The next thing to do is have audio from browser sources and widgets, such as the Streamlabs Alert box go through the audio system of Streamlabs OBS instead of having the output to the default playback device of Windows, mixing it with any other audio, such as the game audio.
To do this, open the properties of the browser source or widget and check Control Audio via OBS. For widgets, like the Alert Box widget, this is found under the "Source". After this, you would need to monitor these sources in order to hear the audio again, more about this down below!
Set the Audio Monitoring Device
By default, the monitoring device is the same default playback device set in Windows, which would mean if you were to monitor any sources it would be mixed with any other audio and end up on the recording again. Set the Audio Monitoring Device found in the Advanced Settings of Streamlabs OBS to VoiceMeeter Aux Input (VB-Audio VoiceMeeter AUX VAIO). Now, game audio (default desktop) and monitored sources are separated from each other, each to one of the virtual inputs that VoiceMeeter Banana has to offer.
Advanced Audio Settings
Open the Advanced Audio Settings by clicking the ⚙ icon above the Mixer in Streamlabs OBS. In here set the sources that you want to hear and be on stream only to "Monitor Only". Furthermore, you would need to set the audio tracks, where track 1 will be used for the stream and additional tracks will be used for the recording.
In the following configuration the Alert Box is being monitored and the audio is not on the recording or stream. The stream will get the audio from VoiceMeeter Banana virtual output and the microphone (track 1). The recording will get the audio from the VoiceMeeter Banana virtual aux output (track 2), the microphone (track 3), and optionally the stream audio that includes other audio sources again (track 4).
Advanced Output Mode
In order to select which audio tracks you want to use for stream and recording, you would need to use the Advanced Output mode in the Output Settings of Streamlabs OBS. For Streaming select track 1 and under Recording check track; 2, 3, and 4. Make sure the Recording Format you selected supports multi-track recording, such as TS, MKV, or MP4.
Route audio with VoiceMeeter Banana
Back to VoiceMeeter Banana again where you will "patch" the audio from one of the inputs to one of the outputs, Virtual Output B1 is used for the stream and Virtual Aux Output B2 is used for the recording.
VoiceMeeter Banana has now both virtual inputs in use, the main would be the default desktop audio which usually contains game audio and the aux input contains monitored sources audio. The monitoring you want to "patch" only to A1 and B1, your headset and stream where the desktop audio you want to patch to A1, B1, and B2, your headset, the stream and recording.


the denormal range instead of being flushed to zero as soon as the value is too small to represent with normalization. This default is the same default established by I64 at process startup. LIB$WAIT Problem and Solution
The use of LIB$WAIT in code ported to OpenVMS I64 can cause unexpected results. An example in C follows.
float wait_time = 2.0;
On OpenVMS I64 systems, this code sends an S_FLOATING into LIB$WAIT. LIB$WAIT expects an F_FLOATING, and gives a FLTINV exception.
LIB$WAIT can accept three arguments. The previous code sequence can be rewritten with LIB$WAIT using three arguments to run correctly on both I64 and Alpha systems. The following revised code works correctly when compiled without the /FLOAT qualifier:
_TAG_ __ia64
 int float_type = 4; /* use S_FLOAT for I64 */
 int float_type = 0; /* use F_FLOAT for Alpha */
 float wait_time = 2.0;
A better coding method is to include LIBWAITDEF (from SYS$STARLET_C.TLB) in your application and then specify the floating point data types by name. This code can be maintained more easily.
LIBWAITDEF includes the following symbols:
The following example shows how to include libwaitdef.h in the code and how to specify the floating-point data type names. This example also assumes that the program is not compiled with /FLOAT.
_TAG_
_TAG_ __ia64
 int float_type = LIB$K_IEEE_S; /* use S_FLOAT for IPF */
 int float_type = LIB$K_VAX_F; /* use F_FLOAT for Alpha */
 float wait_time = 2.0;
4.8.5 Incorrect Command Table Declaration
An incorrect declaration of a command table in code ported to OpenVMS I64 can cause unexpected results. For example, for an application, the Command Definition Utility is used to create an object module from a CLD file. The application then calls CLI$DCL_PARSE to parse command lines. CLI$DCL_PARSE may fail with:
%CLI-E-INVTAB, command tables have invalid format - see documentation
The code must be modified so that the command table is defined as an external data object.
For example, if in an application, on VAX and Alpha, the command table (DFSCP_CLD) is incorrectly declared in a BLISS module as:
This should be changed to
Or if it was in a FORTRAN module incorrectly declared as:
then it should be changed to
Similarly, in an application written in C, if the command tables previously were defined as follows:
int jams_master_cmd();
The code should be changed to be an external reference:
extern void* jams_master_cmd;
The changed, correct declaration works on all platforms: VAX, Alpha or I64.
4.8.6 Code that Uses Threads
OpenVMS I64 supports all the thread interfaces that have been supported on OpenVMS since thread support was first introduced. Most OpenVMS Alpha code that uses threads can be ported to OpenVMS I64 without change. This section describes the exceptions. The major porting issue for code that uses threads is the usage of stack space. I64 code uses much more stack space than does equivalent Alpha code. Therefore, a threaded program that works on Alpha might get stack overflow failures on I64.
The default stack size is larger on OpenVMS I64 to help alleviate overflow problems. If the application requests a specific stack size, then the change to the default will be irrelevant, and the application source code might need to be changed to request more stack. HP recommends starting with an increase of three 8-Kb pages (24576 bytes).
Another side effect of the increased stack size requirement is increased demand on the P0 address region. Thread stacks are allocated from the P0 heap. Larger stacks might cause the process to exceed its memory quotas. In an extreme case, the P0 region could fill completely, in which case the process might need to reduce the number of threads in use concurrently (or make other changes to lessen the demand for P0 memory).
HP recommends that you familiarize yourself with the most recent improvements to thread support in OpenVMS, as documented in the HP OpenVMS Version 8.2 Release Notes. One change to the POSIX Threads C language header file PTHREAD_EXCEPTION.H caused problems when porting an application that relied on its former behavior.
The DCL command THREADCP is not supported on OpenVMS I64. For OpenVMS I64, the DCL commands SET IMAGE and SHOW IMAGE can be used to check and modify the state of threads-related image header flags, similar to the THREADCP command on OpenVMS Alpha. For details, refer to the HP OpenVMS DCL Dictionary.
The THREADCP command is documented in the Guide to the POSIX Threads Library.
If you want to change the setting of threads-related image flags, you need to use the new command SET IMAGE. For example:
$ SET IMAGE/FLAGS=(MKTHREADS,UPCALLS) FIRST.EXE Thread Routines cma_delay and cma_time_get_expiration
Two legacy threads API library routines, cma_delay and cma_time_get_expiration, accept a floating point format parameter using the VAX F FLOAT format. Any application modules that call either of these routines must be compiled with either the /FLOAT=D_FLOAT or the /FLOAT=G_FLOAT qualifier to get VAX F FLOAT support. (However, if your application also uses double precision binary data, then you must use the /FLOAT=G_FLOAT qualifier.) For more information about floating point support, consult your compiler's documentation.
If a C language module (which uses either cma_delay or cma_time_get_expiration) is compiled by mistake in an IEEE floating-point mode, a compiler warning similar to the following will be displayed:
cma_delay (
%CC-W-LONGEXTERN, The external identifier name exceeds 31
characters; truncated to "CMA_DELAY_NEEDS_VAX_FLOAT______".
If an object file which triggered such a warning is linked, the linker will display an undefined-symbol message for this symbol. (If a linker-produced image was subsequently executed, the calls to these routines would fail with an ACCVIO.) These compiler and linker diagnostics are intended to alert you to the fact that these CMA routines require the use of VAX format floating-point values, and that the compilation was done in a manner that does not satisfy this requirement.
These routines are no longer documented in user documentation but are still supported for use in legacy applications.
4.8.7 Code With Unaligned Data
HP recommends that you align your data naturally to achieve optimal performance for data referencing. Unaligned data can seriously degrade performance on both OpenVMS Alpha and OpenVMS I64.
Data is naturally aligned when its address is an integral multiple of the size of the data in bytes. For example, a longword is naturally aligned at any address that is a multiple of 4, and a quadword is naturally aligned at any address that is a multiple of 8. A structure is naturally aligned when all its members are naturally aligned.
Because natural alignment is not always possible, OpenVMS I64 systems provide help to manage the impact of unaligned data references. Alpha and I64 compilers automatically correct most potential alignment problems and flag others.
In addition to performance degradation, unaligned shared data can cause a program to execute incorrectly. Therefore, you must align shared data naturally. Shared data might be between threads of a single process, between a process and ASTs, or between several processes in a global section.
Finding the Problem
To find instances of unaligned data, you can use a qualifier provided by most I64 compilers that allows the compiler to report compile-time references to unaligned data.
Table 4-1 Compiler Switches for Reporting Compile-Time Reference
Compiler Switch
Additional assistance, such as an OpenVMS Debugger qualifier to reveal unaligned data at run time, is planned for a future release.
Eliminating the Problem
To eliminate unaligned data, you can use one or more of the following methods:
 - Compile with natural alignment, or, when language semantics do not provide for this, move data to be naturally aligned. Where filler is inserted to ensure that data remains aligned, there is a penalty in increased memory size. A useful technique for ensuring naturally aligned data while conserving memory is to declare longer variables first.
 - Use high-level-language instructions that force natural alignment within data structures.
 - Align data items on quadword boundaries.
Software that is converted to natural alignment may be incompatible with other software that is running translated in the same OpenVMS Cluster environment or over a network. For example:
 - An existing file format may specify records with unaligned data.
 - A translated image may pass unaligned data to, or expect it from, a native image.
In such cases, you must adapt all parts of the application to expect the same type of data, either aligned or unaligned.
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The Clerc Center is pleased to announce that a new American Sign Language (ASL) version of the 15 Principles for Reading to Deaf Children is now online. The 15 Principles are a great starting place for parents and teachers who want to know how to engage young children in book sharing. The new ASL version brings to life each of the principles accompanied by a voiceover in English. A Spanish language voiceover option will be available soon.
The Shared Reading Project (SRP) is designed to teach parents and caregivers how to read to their deaf and hard of hearing children using ASL, and to use strategies to make book sharing most effective.
For a closer look at these strategies, parents and teachers can learn from the Reading to Deaf Children: Learning from Deaf Adults DVD and manual, which gives samples of each of the principles in action. Training workshops on this topic, as well as other workshops related to literacy and language development,are also available from the Clerc Center upon request.
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We consider networked control systems where nodes (sensors, actuators, and controller) are connected via a communication network that allows only one user to transmit at a given time. We tackle the scheduling problem of deciding which node should access the network at each transmission time so as to optimize a quadratic performance objective. Using the framework of dynamic programming, we propose a rollout strategy by which the node elected to transmit at each step is the one that leads to optimal performance over a lookahead horizon assuming that from then on nodes transmit in a periodic order. The proposed strategy leads to a protocol in which a conic state partition determines which node transmits at each step and which can outperform any given periodic protocol. Moreover, we show that some of the protocols previously proposed in the literature, such as the Maximum Error First and the dynamic protocols, can be viewed as rollout strategies for a certain dynamic programming problem. The advantages of using rollout strategies are illustrated by a numerical example.
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Real Inclusion is more than just words and numbers.
Inclusion, diversity and transformation are buzzwords in South Africa at the moment. Does this mean that everyone is on the same page with what Inclusion means? Does inclusion just mean ticking off a checklist of marginalized identities? How can we move beyond tokenism and create real change and inclusion in gaming? and why is this so important?


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32.10.6 Specifying a Coding System for One Operation
You can specify the coding system for a specific operation by binding the variables coding-system-for-read and/or coding-system-for-write.
Variable: coding-system-for-read
If this variable is non-nil, it specifies the coding system to use for reading a file, or for input from a synchronous subprocess.
It also applies to any asynchronous subprocess or network stream, but in a different way: the value of coding-system-for-read when you start the subprocess or open the network stream specifies the input decoding method for that subprocess or network stream. It remains in use for that subprocess or network stream unless and until overridden.
The right way to use this variable is to bind it with let for a specific I/O operation. Its global value is normally nil, and you should not globally set it to any other value. Here is an example of the right way to use the variable:
;; Read the file with no character code conversion.
(let ((coding-system-for-read 'no-conversion))
 (insert-file-contents filename))
When its value is non-nil, this variable takes precedence over all other methods of specifying a coding system to use for input, including file-coding-system-alist, process-coding-system-alist and network-coding-system-alist.
Variable: coding-system-for-write
This works much like coding-system-for-read, except that it applies to output rather than input. It affects writing to files, as well as sending output to subprocesses and net connections.
When a single operation does both input and output, as do call-process-region and start-process, both coding-system-for-read and coding-system-for-write affect it.
User Option: inhibit-eol-conversion
When this variable is non-nil, no end-of-line conversion is done, no matter which coding system is specified. This applies to all the Emacs I/O and subprocess primitives, and to the explicit encoding and decoding functions (see Explicit Encoding).
Sometimes, you need to prefer several coding systems for some operation, rather than fix a single one. Emacs lets you specify a priority order for using coding systems. This ordering affects the sorting of lists of coding systems returned by functions such as find-coding-systems-region (see Lisp and Coding Systems).
Function: coding-system-priority-list &optional highestp
This function returns the list of coding systems in the order of their current priorities. Optional argument highestp, if non-nil, means return only the highest priority coding system.
Function: set-coding-system-priority &rest coding-systems
This function puts coding-systems at the beginning of the priority list for coding systems, thus making their priority higher than all the rest.
Macro: with-coding-priority coding-systems &rest body…
This macro execute body, like progn does (see progn), with coding-systems at the front of the priority list for coding systems. coding-systems should be a list of coding systems to prefer during execution of body.


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Constants are quantities that do not change. They are like crotchety old curmudgeons who are stuck in their ways.
We can also use letters to represent unknown constant values.
Joey gets d dollars for each odd job he does for his Grandpa. His Grandpa literally told him he would pay him d dollars for each job, probably so that old coot could stiff his grandson when it came time to tell him how much d is. No matter what the job is, Joey is paid the same. If Joey does t odd jobs for his Grandpa in a day, how much money does Joey make that day?
We don't have any amounts, and therefore, we can only answer this question in terms of the variables we are given. Joey makes d · t dollars in a day, since this amount is how much he is paid per job times the number of jobs he does. Because Joey gets paid the same amount per job, d will never change; therefore, we call it a constant. The varying quantity in this problem is t, since the number of jobs Joey does per day will vary depending on what his Grandpa forces—pardon us—asks him to do.


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DYSFUNCTION AS AN OBSTACLE IN ACHIEVING SUSTAINABLE SOCIAL ECOLOGICAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF THE REGION (EVIDENCE FROM THE VOLGA FEDERAL DISTRICT)
The creation of a society with a vector of sustainable development predetermines the search for optimal proportions of reproduction of social ecological economic parameters of the territories. The article presents the development results of sustainable social ecological economic advancement model of the regional system and verifies the appropriateness of the social ecological economic systems' parameters of the regions of the Volga Federal District (VFD) to the proposed sustainable development model. We introduce the notion of dysfunction (dysfunctional development) considered as an obstacle and antipode of sustainable development of the territory, and define the boundaries of normally occurring processes and the dysfunctionality for the VFD regions. We performed calculation and evaluation of the territories in terms of their conformity with sustainable development or dysfunction. The proposed method can be positioned as a way of identifying and adjusting dysfunctional territories and can be applied for further definition of effective response tools.
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This study aims to quantitatively clarify the impact of large variable renewable energy (VRE) which is concentrated in some districts. Such districts will have difficulties to balance between power demand and supply, and keep the load frequency control (LFC) ability, and will be forced to curtail much VRE. Authors developed a simulation model to optimize generation mix and hourly operation of thermal and pumped hydro generation considering partial load efficiency, LFC supply and demand, and power transmission between districts. With this model, the authors obtained the following results on Japan's power system in 2030. (1) When VRE ratios to power system size are averaged, the VRE curtailment rates will much decrease. This way is difficult for wind power and other measures are required. (2) The curtailment rates can decrease a little by having some extra capacity of LNGCC though this is a very expensive way. (3) The capacity factors of LNGCC will be very low in some districts, and some incentives to hold LNGCC are required to use VRE stably.


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von Heyking, A.J. Creating Citizens: History and Identity in Alberta's Schools, _PHONE_. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2006.
How does one learn to be a good citizen? A good Canadian? Creating Citizens looks at the role schools have played in creating and sustaining a sense of Canadian identify for generations of Alberta students. History and social studies classes, more than others, are designed to prepare young students for meaningful citizenship and address issues of identity by interpreting the country's and the region's past. By examining history and social studies curricula and textbooks used in Alberta schools from 1905 to 1980, author Amy von Heyking shows how these materials helped shape the ways in which Albertans have identified themselves and their place in the world around them. The complex processes of curriculum development is also explored; by clarifying how the framework of decision-making regarding school content was created, von Heyking provides valuable insights into current debates about the purpose and content of public education. By tracing the evolution of this curriculum over the course of seventy-five years, Creating Citizens gives the reader a unique opportunity to analyze the images of the nation and the region as they were taught to generations of Alberta schoolchildren.


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In Birth on the Land, elders and traditional midwives from ten Nunavut communities share memories of traditional birth.
They share how they sometimes laboured and birthed quietly and alone, while other times they were surrounded by the love and support of their family or community. They describe, and even demonstrate, what they did to facilitate an easy birth and give newborns the best possible start in life.
The elders and traditional midwives also share memories about the transition from giving birth in igluit or tents to having to do so in the company of strangers in institutions introduced by southern colonizers. They remember a time when pregnancy, birth, and death were accepted as a part of life, and when elders, rather than southern caregivers, were the sources of wisdom and authority.
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Abstract of: Language policy and use in the Lodz ghetto _PHONE_
The complex relationship between language and survival at individual and collective levels is manifested in the records which remain from the ghetto at Lodz. The ghetto was a highly multilingual community which functioned mainly trilingually in its administration. Language use focussed on survival and assisted in responding to this imperative by allowing the communication of hope and the expression of grief, both actual and anticipatory. The specialised functions of the seven major languages of the ghetto are considered. Some general conclusions about the fundamentality of language to human experience in extreme conditions are considered in the light of theorising about language and grief.
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The following represents a learning map for a high school physical education course but has provided lessons for more than 9 weeks. In the case that a physical education course is 12 or 18 weeks, the physical education teacher has two options: (1) Repeat a some of the lessons that were already taught for the second 9 weeks of the semester, making appropriate modifications to essential questions, learning targets and instructional activities; or (2) Using the focus classifications table below, create his/her own lessons that would be appropriate for the classroom based on the equipment and space have at his/her school.
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What does the temperature of a compost heap have to do with a baby's sex?
As many gardeners know, a well-tended compost heap generates considerable heat as the mound of organic material decays. Ever wonder who invented this gardener's aid? Well, it just might have been a crocodile!
A female crocodile or alligator doesn't sit on her eggs to keep them warm. She covers them with soil and vegetation, and as this material starts to "compost," the nest mound heats up. But don't think the temperature of an alligator nest is a trivial matter. The nest is made with just the right mixture of mud and vegetation to create a precise range of internal temperatures. Why so specific? Because the sex of hatchling crocs and gators is determined by the temperature within the nest! Eggs incubated at around 89 degrees Fahrenheit produce females, while those at temperatures below 87 degrees produce mainly males. In a well-constructed croc nest the eggs on top will be a few degrees cooler than those closer to the bottom, and -- VOILA! -- when the babies hatch there are usually an equal number of males and females.
This phenomenon (known as temperature-determined sex) is amazing, but it's not unique, also occurring in turtles and lizards. The sex of human babies, however, is not known to be affected by the temperature of their parents' compost heap.
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Acronyms that contain the term MSG
What does MSG mean? This page is about the various possible meanings of the acronym, abbreviation, shorthand or slang term: MSG.
We've found a total of 3 shorthands for MSG:
What does MSG mean?
- monosodium glutamate, MSG(noun)
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How the camera is going to be placed on the Folding Surface Phone
A new mobile device Microsoft products, which many call Surface Phone, has appeared in several patents over the past few months, making us believe that the software giant is still betting on smartphones.
Most patents indicate the addition of a collapsible agent based on two different screens which are connected to each other by a revolutionary joint that supplies a device. This device could be a smartphone, a laptop and a tablet, with Windows 10 as the operating system that adapts to all needs.Surface Phone
Our latest patents give us a fresh look at how Microsoft plans to apply the camera to the Surface Phone if a folding agent could create additional challenges in the design of the device.
The so-called "SPLIT-CAMERA AUTOALIGNMENT" patent describes an approach that has the camera elements separated into two different parts, one on each side of the screen. Every time the user switches to the phone's form factor, all the elements are fine-tuned to power the camera so they can take pictures naturally.
Next, we come across the patent "FLOATING CAMERA MODULE" which analyzes how the camera itself can be a floating component that can be moved according to the form factor and create a number of design advantages, such as lack of bending camera.
Finally, there is the patent "RETRACTABLE CAMERA CAP" which is based on more sophisticated technology according to Microsoft, without giving further details.


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What Does the Bible Teach Us About Food?
Food is a version of God's love
Food is God's most basic way of saying, "I love you. I want to provide for you by nurturing you with food that is beautiful and delectable" (Genesis 1).
In Food and Faith: A Theology of Eating, author Norman Wirzba explores what the Bible can teach us about eating well, and shows how God invites us to share in this love by becoming hospitable and nurturing to others.


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Saxophone Basics is a landmark method by one of the leading figures in saxophone education. It starts at absolute beginner level and progresses to about Grade 2. There are 22 stages and each section includes a wonderful variety of concert pieces from the great composers, traditional tunes and fun, original exercises, 'finger gyms' and 'warm ups' to help establish a sound technique, 'factfiles' and 'quizzes' to teach notation and general musicianship, helpful, clear 'fingering charts' and 'rhythm boxes' and great illustration.
This alto saxophone teacher's book offers tips on how to approach new techniques and motivate young players. This book would be particularly helpful for teachers who are not saxophone specialists
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Geocoder is a complete geocoding solution for Ruby. With Rails it adds geocoding (by street or IP address), reverse geocoding (find street address based on given coordinates), and distance calculations for ActiveRecord objects. It's as simple as calling geocode on your objects, and then using a scope like Venue.near("Billings, MT"). Since it does not rely on proprietary database functions finding geocoded objects in a given area works with out-of-the-box PostgreSQL, MySQL, and even SQLite.
Geocoder has been successfully tested with Ruby (MRI) 1.8.7, 1.9.2, and JRuby 1.5.3.
Geocoder is compatible with Rails 3. If you need to use it with Rails 2 please see the rails2 branch (no longer maintained, limited feature set).
Geocoder also works outside of Rails but you'll need to install either the json (for MRI) or json_pure (for JRuby) gem.
As a Gem
Add to your Gemfile:
and run at the command prompt:
Or As a Plugin
At the command prompt:
rails plugin install git://github.com/alexreisner/geocoder.git
Configure Object Geocoding
ActiveRecord: Your object must have two attributes (database columns) for storing latitude and longitude coordinates. By default they should be called latitude and longitude but this can be changed (see "More on Configuration" below):
rails generate migration AddLatitudeAndLongitudeToModel latitude:float longitude:float rake db:migrate
For reverse geocoding your model must provide a method that returns an address. This can be a single attribute, but it can also be a method that returns a string assembled from different attributes (eg: city, state, and country).
Mongoid: Define your address and coordinate fields right in the model. You also need to include the Geocoder::Model::Mongoid module before calling geocoded_by:
field :address field :latitude, :type => Float field :longitude, :type => Float include Geocoder::Model::Mongoid geocoded_by :address
In your model, tell Geocoder which method returns your object's full address:
geocoded_by :full_street_address # can also be an IP address after_validation :geocode # auto-fetch coordinates
For reverse geocoding, tell Geocoder which methods return latitude and longitude:
reverse_geocoded_by :lat, :lon after_validation :reverse_geocode # auto-fetch address
If you have just added geocoding to a class and have a lot of existing objects you can use this Rake task to geocode them all:
rake geocode:all CLASS=YourModel
Location-Aware Database Queries
To find objects by location, use the following scopes:
Venue.near('Omaha, NE, US', 20) # venues within 20 miles of Omaha Venue.near([40.71, 100.23], 20) # venues within 20 miles of a point Venue.geocoded # venues with coordinates Venue.not_geocoded # venues without coordinates
With geocoded objects you can do things like this:
obj.nearbys(30) # other objects within 30 miles obj.distance_to(40.714, -100.234) # distance from object to arbitrary point
Some utility methods are also available:
# look up coordinates of some location (like searching Google Maps) Geocoder.coordinates("25 Main St, Cooperstown, NY") => [42.700149, -74.922767] # distance (in miles) between Eiffel Tower and Empire State Building Geocoder::Calculations.distance_between( 47.858205,2.294359, 40.748433,-73.985655 ) => 3619.77359999382 # find the geographic center (aka center of gravity) of objects or points Geocoder::Calculations.geographic_center([ city1, city2, [40.22,-73.99], city4 ]) => [35.14968, -90.048929]
Please see the code for more methods and detailed information about arguments (eg, working with kilometers).
Distance and Bearing
When you run a location-aware query the returned objects have two attributes added to them:
obj.distance - number of miles from the search point to this object
obj.bearing - direction from the search point to this object
The bearing is given as a number (between 0 and 360): clockwise degrees from due north. Some examples:
0 - due north
180 - due south
90 - due east
270 - due west
230.1 - southwest
359.9 - almost due north
You can convert these numbers to compass point names by using the utility method provided:
Geocoder::Calculations.compass_point(355) # => "N" Geocoder::Calculations.compass_point(45) # => "NE" Geocoder::Calculations.compass_point(208) # => "SW"
Note: when using SQLite distance and bearing values are provided for interface consistency only. They are not accurate.
More on Configuration
You are not stuck with using the latitude and longitude database column names for storing coordinates. For example, to use lat and lon:
geocoded_by :address, :latitude => :lat, :longitude => :lon
The address method can return any string you'd use to search Google Maps. For example, any of the following are acceptable:
"714 Green St, Big Town, MO"
"Eiffel Tower, Paris, FR"
"Paris, TX, US"
If your model has street, city, state, and country attributes you might do something like this:
geocoded_by :address def address [street, city, state, country].compact.join(', ') end
For reverse geocoding you can also specify an alternate name attribute where the address will be stored, for example:
reverse_geocoded_by :lat, :lon, :address => :location
So far we have looked at shortcuts for assigning geocoding results to object attributes. However, if you need to do something fancy you can skip the auto-assignment by providing a block (takes the object to be geocoded and a Geocoder::Result object) in which you handle the parsed geocoding result any way you like, for example:
reverse_geocoded_by :lat, :lon do |obj,geo| obj.city = geo.city obj.zipcode = geo.postal_code obj.country = geo.country_code end after_validation :reverse_geocode
Every Geocoder::Result object, result, provides the following data:
result.latitude - float
result.longitude - float
result.coordinates - array of the above two
result.address - string
result.city - string
result.postal_code - string
result.country_name - string
result.country_code - string
and if you're familiar with the results returned by the geocoding service you're using, you can access even more (see code comments for details: lib/geocoder/results/*).
By default Geocoder uses Google's geocoding API to fetch coordinates and addresses. However if you wish to use Yahoo's geocoding API you can simply add this to an initializer:
# config/initializers/geocoder.rb Geocoder::Configuration.lookup = :yahoo
Street address geocoding services currently supported (valid settings for the above):
Geocoder.ca: :geocoder_ca (US and Canada only)
Note that the result objects returned by different geocoding services all implement the methods listed above. Beyond that, however, you must be familiar with your particular subclass of Geocoder::Result and the geocoding service's result structure:
To use your Google API key or Yahoo app ID:
Geocoder::Configuration.api_key = "..."
To obtain an API key (not required):
You can set the timeout used for connections to the geocoding service. The default is 3 seconds but if you want to set it to 5, for example, put the following in an initializer:
Geocoder::Configuration.timeout = 5
You can set the language used for reverse geocoding results to German, for example, by setting the following:
Geocoder::Configuration.language = :de
For a list of supported languages see the documentation for the geocoding service you're using.
If you want to use HTTPS for geocoding service connections:
Geocoder::Configuration.use_https = true
Note that currently the only service that supports HTTPS is Google.
It's a good idea, when relying on any external service, to cache retrieved data. When implemented correctly it improves your app's response time and stability. It's easy to cache geocoding results with Geocoder, just configure a cache store:
Geocoder::Configuration.cache = Redis.new
This example uses Redis, but the cache store can be any object that supports these methods:
store#(key) - retrieves a value
store#=(key, value) - stores a value
store#keys - lists all keys
Even a plain Ruby hash will work, though it's not a great choice (cleared out when app is restarted, not shared between app instances, etc).
You can also set a custom prefix to be used for cache keys:
Geocoder::Configuration.cache_prefix = "..."
By default the prefix is geocoder:
If you need to expire cached content:
Geocoder.cache.expire("http://...") # expire cached result for a URL Geocoder.cache.expire(:all) # expire all cached results
Do not include the prefix when passing a URL to be expired. Expiring :all will only expire keys with the configured prefix (won't kill every entry in your key/value store).
Forward and Reverse Geocoding in the


NH hospital calls 8 over brain disease chances
Eight patients who may have been exposed to a fatal brain disease at a New Hampshire hospital have been contacted by the hospital's president, who said Thursday the patients aren't panicking.
Dr. Joseph Pepe called the Catholic Medical Center patients a day after health officials announced that they may have been exposed to Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease - a brain disease characterized by rapidly progressive dementia which can cause death within months after symptoms first appearing. It has no treatment or cure.
Officials believe the extremely rare disease caused the August death of a patient who had brain surgery at the hospital in May, although the cause of death won't be certain until more tests are completed. If that patient had Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, there's a remote chance it was transmitted to other brain surgery patients because the abnormal proteins that cause the disease can survive standard sterilization practices.
In addition to the eight Catholic Medical Center patients, health officials in Massachusetts said five patients there may have also been exposed because a specialized instrument used on the New Hampshire patient had been rented and reused at Cape Cod Hospital.
The Massachusetts patients have also been notified but are believed to be at low risk because they had spinal procedures, not brain surgery, the state health department said.
About 200 cases of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease are recorded annually in the United States, according to the National Institutes of Health, with the vast majority occurring spontaneously. In fewer than 1 percent of cases, the disease is transmitted by exposure to brain or nervous system tissue, and there have been only four reported cases of transmission via surgical instruments. None of those were in the United States, and the most recent case was in 1976, Pepe said.
Some hospitals might opt not to tell patients because of the low risk involved and the anxiety it could create for them, Pepe said, but it was important to keep them informed.
"We felt the risk of that anxiety did not outweigh the ethical principle of letting them know and also preventing them from possibly contaminating or exposing others should they have another brain operation," Pepe said.
The only definitive way to diagnose the disease is through a brain biopsy or autopsy. There are no screening tests, and tests that would point toward a diagnosis of the disease are only effective once symptoms such as memory loss and impaired coordination appear, Pepe said.
But he said the patients he spoke to are responding to their predicament calmly. One expressed more concern the hospital or its surgeons would be harmed by the publicity over the incident, Pepe said.
"They are all fine at this point, but I let them know that they can not only call my chief medical officer and the patient advocate... but also myself, and we will stay with them as long as they need us," he said, adding that he apologized for causing them any anxiety.
The hospital will arrange counseling sessions if any of the patients request them, he said.
"Some may get angry later on, they may have anxiety, and then there are others who do not think anything of it," he said. "One person said, 'You know, I have really many other things more concerning than this.'"


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Let $X$ be an algebraic variety, $S \subset X$ its singular locus, and $x \in S$. Say that $x$ is good if for any neighborhood $U$ of $x$, any top differential form $\omega$ on $U \setminus S$ and some resolution of singularities $U' \rightarrow U$, the pullback of $\omega$ to $U'$ is regular.
An obvious necessary condition is that $S$ is of co-dimension at least 2. An example of a good point is $(0,0,0)$ in the variety defined by $x^2+y^2+z^2=0$. An example of a singular point which is not good is $(0,0,0)$ in the variety defined by $x^4+y^4+z^4=0$.
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Is the notion of good point related to other properties of singular points?
We are mainly interested in the case when $X$ is complete intersection.
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The condition you want is very close to having rational singularities.
Definition: A variety $X$ of characteristic zero has rational singularities if it is:
 1. Cohen-Macaulay and,
 2. for some resolution of singularities $\pi : Y \to X$ we have $\pi_* \omega_Y = \omega_X$.
Now, let me explain why condition 2. is essentially the one you described. If $S$ is codimension 2, then $\omega_X$ is actually defined to be the pushforward of $\Omega^{\dim X}_{X\setminus S}$. In other words, $\omega_X$ is exactly those top forms coming from the smooth locus. Since $Y$ is a resolution and hence smooth, $\Omega^{\dim Y}_Y = \omega_Y$.
The statement that $\pi_* \omega_Y = \omega_X$ simply says that any form from the smooth locus of $X$, also comes from a form on $Y$. Which is exactly what you want.
It is worth noting that this definition is independent of the choice of resolution. In particular, if it holds for one resolution, it holds for all.
For further reading I would suggest Singularities of Pairs by János Kollár.
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Thank you very much for your answer. There is one thing that I did not understand. Do you mean that if $X$ is Cohen-Macaulay and regular outside subvariety of co-dimension 2 then it is good? This will mean that the variety defined by $x^4+y^4+z^4=0$ is good, and I think that it is not true. Or do you mean that if $X$ is Cohen-Macaulay and have rational singularities than it is good. Thank you again, Rami Is it true that the variety defined by $x^4+y^4+z^4=0$ does not have rational singularities? – Rami Feb 3 '12 at 22:37
I've tried to clarify things. But also, if $X$ has rational singularities it is good. Rational singularities implies Cohen-Macaulay and being regular outside a set of codimension – Karl Schwede Feb 3 '12 at 23:50
Sorry for bothering you again, but I still have some qustions: 1. When you discuss direct image do you mean direct image in the derived category or in the abilian category of sheaves? 2. You say " $ω_X$ is actually defined to be the pushforward of $Ω^{dim X}_{X∖S}$." Why it is true? Do you mean that it is true whenever S is of co-dimension 2 or only under certain conditions that are satisfied in this case? what condition? I only see why it is true in the case that X is Gorenstein and only on the level of the abilian category. This should be enough for me but I still want to understand. – Rami Feb 4 '12 at 4:00
I think $\omega_X$ is the unique line bundle on $X$ extending $\Omega^{d}_{X^{\textrm{sm}}}$, where $d$ is the dimension of $X$ and $X^{\textrm{sm}}$ is the nonsingular locus of $X$. The existence and uniqueness of $\omega_X$ are actually not so easy; see Chapter 6.4 in Liu's "Algebraic geometry and arithmetic curves" for a general discussion. In general, if you have a good enough morphism $X\to Y$ of schemes, there exists a unique line bundle $\omega_{X/Y}$ (called the relative dualizing sheaf of $X\to Y$ I think) extending the line bundle $\Omega^r_{X^{sm}/Y}$, where $r$ is the rel. dim. – Ariyan Javanpeykar Feb 4 '12 at 7:34
1. I don't mean the derived pushforward. I mean the ordinary pushforward. In characteristic zero, one also has Grauert-Riemenschneider vanishing which makes $R \pi_* \omega_Y = \pi_* \omega_Y$. 2. This is not trivial, but it's true as I stated it, the Gorenstein condition is not needed. Whenever S has codim 2, $\omega_X$ is the pushforward of the top forms from the smooth locus, the point is that $\omega_X$ is always S2 and it agrees with the top forms on the smooth locus, thus it agrees with the pushforward from the smooth locus. – Karl Schwede Feb 4 '12 at 12:54
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This lecture will be delivered via Zoom online.
In later life – do attachment principles still apply. Drawing on clinical, observational and personal experience, Jeremy will explore the psychodynamic 'tasks' of the second half of life.
During this talk, Jeremy will touch on:
- The 'reverse Oedipus' and the challenge of letting go
- The evolutionary role of grandparents (literal and metaphorical) as culture-bearers
- What attachment research tells us about old age, adaptive and maladaptive
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[MTT38-P03] Grid search method estimating wave source positions
Keywords:Infrasound, Grid Search Method
In our laboratory, 15 units of infrasound sensors developed independently have been set widely distributed along Kochi coast since 2017. Such a wide distribution of infrasound sensors enables us to monitor and maintain data of a large-area at the same time. However, even if these sensors detect the huge-event signals, the precise time and direction for the occurrences are unknown. Hence, it is required to build a new model for analyzation and estimation of the wave source positions.
In this study, as one of the estimation method of wave source points, we introduce the grid search method which is familiar with seismology. To verify this method for the sound wave, we analyzed two months data containing the Mount Sakura-jima eruption events. As results, 53 events were detected, and it is found that the wave source positions for 38 of 53 events were estimated within around 6 km of the crater of the Mound Sakura-jima.


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Shan PlateauArticle Free Pass
Shan Plateau, crystalline massif forming the eastern part of Myanmar (Burma) and forming part of the Indo-Malayan mountain system. The plateau is crossed by the deep trench of the Salween River in the east and is bordered by the upper course of the Irrawaddy River to the west. The average elevation of the plateau is between 2,500 and 4,000 feet (750 and 1,200 m). It is seamed and ribbed by mountain ranges that split up and run into each other. The mountain ranges have an average elevation of between 4,000 and 5,000 feet (1,200 and 1,500 m), with some peaks rising to more than 8,000 feet (2,400 m). The ranges are interspersed with masses of broken hills, which formerly were heavily forested but which have been extensively denuded because of the shifting (slash-and-burn) cultivation practiced by some of the local inhabitants. In between these uplands are valleys and rolling plains that are covered with grass or are farmed for rice. The rocks in the northern part of the Shan Plateau are the source of rubies, sapphires, and other gems for which Myanmar has long been famous. The plateau is the country's principal source of lead, zinc, and silver and is an area of major teak forests.
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History of Peridot
Peridot is the birthstone for August. The gemstone is one of only a few gemstones that occur in only one color, an olive green.
St. Albans Abbey
The intensity and tint of the green, depends on the amount of iron contained in the crystal structure.
Because of its green tint, peridot is often mistaken for emerald.
The first known mention of the gemstone in English dates back to 1705. A translation was made that year from the St. Albans Abbey, which kept it's records in Latin.
The record stated that in 1245, Bishop John bequeathed various items including peridot to the Abbey.
The Middle English Dictionary provides several spellings for the gem, including periodt, peritot, pelidod, and pilidod.
Assigning a gemstone to each birth month originated in 18th Century Poland. The current list of gemstones has not changed since 1912.


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VA refers to MST as the experiences of sexual harassment and/or sexual assault that occurred while the veteran was in the military. Both males and females can experience MST. The perpetrator can be of the same or of the opposite gender. Like other types of trauma, MST can negatively impact a person's mental and physical health, even many years later. The Veterans Health Care Act of 1992 (Public Law 102-585) was signed into law after a series of hearings on women veterans' issues by the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee in July 1992. The Veterans Health Care Act of 1992 authorized VA to provide outreach and establish MST counseling and treatment programs for women veterans who experienced incidents of sexual trauma while on active duty. The Veterans Health Care Extension Act of 1994 (Public Law 103-452) authorized VA to provide MST counseling and treatment to men as well as women. The Veterans Millennium Health Care Act (Public Law 106-117) expanded the focus on MST programs to include outreach and extended VA's authority to provide MST programs until December 2004. The Veterans Health Program Improvement Act of 2004 (Public Law 108-422) extended VA's authority permanently and extended MST counseling and related treatment to veterans whose MST occurred while serving on active duty or active duty for training (as defined under Title 38 United States Code §101(22)) if service was in the National Guard or Reserves.
Following the passage of these public laws, Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Directive 2005-015, Military Sexual Trauma Counseling, March 25, 2005, mandated universal screening of all enrolled veterans for a history of MST and mandated that each VA medical facility appoint an MST Coordinator to oversee the screening and treatment referral process. The directive recommended the use of clinic stop code 524 so that collection of MST treatment data is accessible and consistent across the VA system. Stop codes are identifiers used in VHA's managerial cost accounting system, the Decision Support System (DSS), to indicate the primary clinical group providing the services. DSS is a congressionally-mandated resource management tool. Implementation began throughout VHA in 1994.
VA provides free, confidential counseling and treatment for veterans' mental and physical health conditions resulting from MST that occurred while serving on active duty or active duty for training if service was in the National Guard or Reserves. Veterans do not need to have reported the incident(s) when they happened or have other documentation that they occurred. Appropriate services are provided for any injury, illness, or psychological condition resulting from MST. Veterans do not need to be SC and may be able to receive this benefit even if they are not otherwise eligible for VA health care benefits. Although veterans receiving MST-related counseling and treatment are not billed for inpatient, outpatient, or medication copayments, applicable copayments may be charged for services not related to MST or for other non-SC conditions.


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Activity limitations and factors influencing functional outcome of patients with stroke following rehabilitation at a specialised facility in the Western Cape
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BACKGROUND: Determining the functional abilities and factors influencing outcome of patients with stroke following rehabilitation are essential for the planning of future interventions and services in order to optimise recovery. OBJECTIVES: To determine the activity limitations and factors influencing functional outcome of patients with stroke managed at a specialised rehabilitation centre. METHODOLOGY: A longitudinal study design was used to determine the functional outcomes of patients admitted to the centre on admission and discharge. A data gathering sheet was developed to collect information pertaining to the demographicand medical profile and process of rehabilitation, whereas the Barthel Index was used to collect data relating to functional abilities. For analysis, descriptive statistics as well as inferential statistics (Student t test) were utilised to determine the paired differences. Six prognostic factors influencing functional outcome were selected and tested using linear (bivariate) regression. RESULTS: The mean Barthel Index scores on admission and at discharge were 58.85 and 81.59 respectively. A significant improvement was noted in the execution of functional task of patients with stroke (p< 0.01) between the data collection points. Despite the significant overall improvement, results show a high prevalence of dependence with walking and stair climbing at discharge. Only functional ability on admission (r=0.49) predicted a favourable functional outcome at discharge. CONCLUSION: This study highlights the limitations of younger stroke survivors and the need for continued rehabilitation following in-patient care. It further underscores the administration of a functional rating scale on admission in order to aggressively manage activity limitations.