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Algebraic statistics is the use of algebra to advance statistics. Algebra has been useful for experimental design, parameter estimation, and hypothesis testing.
Traditionally, algebraic statistics has been associated with the design of experiments and multivariate analysis (especially time series). In recent years, the term "algebraic statistics" has been sometimes restricted, sometimes being used to label the use of algebraic geometry and commutative algebra in statistics.
The tradition of algebraic statistics[edit]
In the past, statisticians have used algebra to advance research in statistics. Some algebraic statistics led to the development of new topics in algebra and combinatorics, such as association schemes.
Design of experiments[edit]
For example, Ronald A. Fisher, Henry B. Mann, and Rosemary A. Bailey applied Abelian groups to the design of experiments. Experimental designs were also studied with affine geometry over finite fields and then with the introduction of association schemes by R. C. Bose. Orthogonal arrays were introduced by C. R. Rao also for experimental designs.
Algebraic analysis and abstract statistical inference[edit]
Invariant measures on locally compact groups have long been used in statistical theory, particularly in multivariate analysis. Beurling's factorization theorem and much of the work on (abstract) harmonic analysis sought better understanding of the Wold decomposition of stationary stochastic processes, which is important in time series statistics.
Encompassing previous results on probability theory on algebraic structures, Ulf Grenander developed a theory of "abstract inference". Grenander's abstract inference and his theory of patterns are useful for spatial statistics and image analysis; these theories rely on lattice theory.
Partially ordered sets and lattices[edit]
Partially ordered vector spaces and vector lattices are used throughout statistical theory. Garrett Birkhoff metrized the positive cone using Hilbert's projective metric and proved Jentsch's theorem using the contraction mapping theorem.[1] Birkhoff's results have been used for maximum entropy estimation (which can be viewed as linear programming in infinite dimensions) by Jonathan Borwein and colleagues.
Vector lattices and conical measures were introduced into statistical decision theory by Lucien Le Cam.
Recent work using commutative algebra and algebraic geometry[edit]
In recent years, the term "algebraic statistics" has been used more restrictively, to label the use of algebraic geometry and commutative algebra to study problems related to discrete random variables with finite state spaces. Commutative algebra and algebraic geometry have applications in statistics because many commonly used classes of discrete random variables can be viewed as algebraic varieties.
Introductory example[edit]
Consider a random variable X which can take on the values 0, 1, 2. Such a variable is completely characterized by the three probabilities
p_i=\mathrm{Pr}(X=i),\quad i=0,1,2
and these numbers clearly satisfy
\sum_{i=0}^2 p_i = 1 \quad \mbox{and}\quad 0\leq p_i \leq 1.
Conversely, any three such numbers unambiguously specify a random variable, so we can identify the random variable X with the tuple (p0,p1,p2)∈R3.
Now suppose X is a Binomial random variable with parameter p = 1 − q and n = 2, i.e. X represents the number of successes when repeating a certain experiment two times, where each experiment has an individual success probability of q. Then
p_i=\mathrm{Pr}(X=i)={2 \choose i}q^i (1-q)^{2-i}
and it is not hard to show that the tuples (p0,p1,p2) which arise in this way are precisely the ones satisfying
4 p_0 p_2-p_1^2=0.\
The latter is a polynomial equation defining an algebraic variety (or surface) in R3, and this variety, when intersected with the simplex given by
yields a piece of an algebraic curve which may be identified with the set of all 3-state Bernoulli variables. Determining the parameter q amounts to locating one point on this curve; testing the hypothesis that a given variable X is Bernoulli amounts to testing whether a certain point lies on that curve or not.
 1. ^ A gap in Garrett Birkhoff's original proof was filled by Alexander Ostrowski.
 - Drton, Mathias, Sturmfels, Bernd, Sullivant, Seth. Lectures on Algebraic Statistics, Springer 2009.
 - Paolo Gibilisco, Eva Riccomagno, Maria-Piera Rogantin, Henry P. Wynn. Algebraic and Geometric Methods in Statistics, Cambridge 2009.
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To help visitors understand the geological processes which shaped the Breckland landscape, they can view a column at High Lodge Forest Centre, which is a representation of the deposits to a depth of 13 metres. There is an interpretation board to explain the artist's impression of the geological layers.
In 2004, the Forestry Commission received funding from the Arts Council England, Forest Heath District Council and the 'Arts for All' programme of Suffolk County Council, through the Rural Arts Lottery Programme, for an innovative arts project at High Lodge. The sculptor, Julienne Dolphin Wilding, was chosen to carry out the project and, after a series of public consultation days with adults and children, she chose a geological theme.
The column was constructed around a ten tonne block of concrete and a steel inner tube ten millimetres thick and twelve metres high welded onto a base plate. Twenty-four'mill stone rings' were then mounted onto the tube and bedded in with mortar joints. Using aggregate materials provided by May Gurney and Frimstone Ltd, Julienne built up a series of layers to create an artistic impression of the geological strata.

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What is Sekolah Bogor Raya?
Sekolah Bogor Raya is Bogor's leading "National Plus" school. Founded in 1995, we provide both locally and internationally accredited curricula in a green and pleasant environment in the picturesque Bogor Lakeside residential complex, near the main Bogor Toll exit.
Vision & Mission
- To be a leading international standard school providing high-quality education to equip our students to excel in a rapidly-changing world.
- Sekolah Bogor Raya exists to provide international standard education to our students. Through a commitment to English Language fluency, technological expertise, and inquiry-based teaching and learning, we deliver an international program that integrates global concepts with respect for national culture and identity.
- Play Group & Kindergarten (PG/TK)
- Primary Years Programme (PYP), for students aged 3 to 12, focuses on the development of the whole child as an inquirer.... read more
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I think the biggest difference between Plan 9 and Unix is that Plan 9 rids systems programming of many special cases by reusing the filesystem metaphor as far as possible. This is a deep and pervasive change, and makes doing most things on the system just a matter of reading and writing to files. This leads to neat things like the /env filesystem, which is a per-process view of the contents of shell variables as files. (This makes it easy to write make (mk) rules that depend on shell variables, just by listing the files/variables as prerequisites.)
Inferno's biggest difference is that it runs the entire OS on a virtual machine called emu. Kind of like Java, but not just a language. (Inferno has a language too, called Limbo, which is closer to Go than C.)
Well, probably not surprising given Rob Pike's involvement in both Limbo and Go.


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Fuzzy Generalized Fractal Dimensions Using Inter-Heartbeat Interval Dynamics in ECG Signals for Age Related Discrimination
International Journal of Engineering & Technology
Fractal theory is the propelled technique to analyze the non-linear signals with more complexity. Quantification of chaotic nature and complexity of the multifaceted therapeutic signals requires the estimation of the spectrum of Generalized Fractal Dimensions (GFD) where the complexity means greater inconstancy in the general form of fractal dimension range. This paper has proposed a fuzzy multifractal technique to analyze the age related classifications by using the Fuzzy Generalized Fractal
... neralized Fractal Dimensions (F–GFD) with Gaussian fuzzy valued function through the cardiac inter-beat interval dynamics in electrocardiogram (ECG) signals. It has been revealed that, the designed Fuzzy GFD method accurately categorizes the young and old age subjects by graphical comparison with the typical GFD method. The classification rate of young and elderly subjects has also supported statistically by ANOVA test. Hence the fuzzified multifractal analysis accomplishes significantly to discriminate age groups than the classical multifractal analysis in heartbeat rate time series from ECG signals and also the conventional GFD is a specific case of the proposed F–GFD.


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Why do you live with your tia/aunt?: Making Sense of Cultural and Family Identities as a Latinx Foster Youth
In 2017, more than 690,000 children spent time in foster care, and on any given day in the US, more than 443,000 children are in foster care. One-third of all foster youth are children of color, with 93,507 children identifying as Hispanic/Latinx. People identifying as Latinx are the fastest growing group in the child welfare system. Michael will be interviewing Latinx foster youth from across California, focusing on the cultural and family identities of each participant. Familia/family, culture, and ethnic identity are cornerstones of the Latinx community, so how do Latinx foster youth navigate these spaces? The projects goal is disruption: disrupting extractive research practices, disrupting Black/white binaries, disrupting foster youth research conducted by non-foster youth researchers, and emphasizing Latinx foster youth voices.
- Major: Ethnic Studies and Film, Education Minor
- Mentor: Jill Berrick, Social Welfare


text: An important risk that children face today is online grooming, where a so-called sexual predator establishes an emotional connection with a minor online with the objective of sexual abuse. Prior work has sought to automatically identify grooming chats, but only after an incidence has already happened in the context of legal prosecution. In this work, we instead investigate this problem from the point of view of prevention. We define and study the task of early sexual predator detection (eSPD) in chats, where the goal is to analyze a running chat from its beginning and predict grooming attempts as early and as accurately as possible. We survey existing datasets and their limitations regarding eSPD, and create a new dataset called PANC for more realistic evaluations. We present strong baselines built on BERT that also reach state-of-the-art results for conventional SPD. Finally, we consider coping with limited computational resources, as real-life applications require eSPD on mobile devices.


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The Wallace Garden raises understanding and interest in plant breeding and genetics
The Wallace Garden aims to raise understanding and interest in plant breeding and genetics
The curving pathways in the Wallace Garden reflect the shape of the DNA double helix, and break the oval enclosure into a series of attractive themed beds. These show how humans have created a dazzling variety of cultivated varieties from wild species such as sweet peas, sunflowers and dahlias.
Along the south wall, there is fascinating display of the evolution of the first plants on Earth – from mosses and liverworts through horsetails to the tree ferns and conifers that dominate just before the evolution of flowering plants.
This garden is named in honour of the Usk-born naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace (_PHONE_), whose own work on the theory of evolution by means of natural selection prompted Charles Darwin to publish his 'On the Origin of Species by Natural Selection'. In 2008, we celebrated Wallace's life with a specially commissioned play written by Gaynor Styles of Theatr na nÓg and performed by Ioan Hefin inside the Wallace Garden for both school groups and general visitors.


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Questions about how plants die leads to climate change answers
- Michelle Espy
- Applied Modern Physics
- Sanna Sevanto
- Earth System Observations
How trees die in drought key to plant, climate change questions
How plants die during drought is one of the largest uncertainties in determining how plants will succumb to changing climate.
LANL researchers Michelle Espy, Jesse Resnick, and Igor Savukov of Applied Modern Physics and Nathan McDowell and Sanna Sevanto of Earth System Observations have observed, for the first time, that water content can be monitored non-invasively and unobtrusively in intact trees via ultra-low field (ULF) nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR).
Non-invasive method studies plant function and mortality
As expected, water content correlates with the NMR signal. During three days of continuously monitoring an aspen tree suffering from drought, the researchers saw evidence of changes in water content for day versus night, as well as the overall decline in water content as the tree's health declined.
Although high field magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has been used for in vivo water measurements, the research represents a first in vivo application of the ULF-NMR method to the study of plant function and mortality.
Ultra-low field nuclear magnetic resonance instrumentation can be made simple and portable and adapts non-invasively to the tree. The work demonstrates that the combination of LANL's unique abilities in ULF magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and climate-driven vegetation mortality research can provide understanding of plant function and mortality.
Understanding mechanisms of plant mortality helps future climate forecasting
The scientists' goal is to provide basic insights into questions such as how plants die, especially during drought. While the question of plant mortality is easy to conceptualize, it is difficult to study because of the spatial and temporal variation of processes over the plant.
Understanding these mechanisms of mortality, especially the tipping points, will provide important input to forecasts of future climate because current models cannot simulate vegetation change and related climate effects. The LANL research represents a first step towards fieldable, non-invasive monitoring to answer these fundamental questions.
Work is first look into how water movement changes in a tree
Additional validation with traditionally accepted environmental methods is underway. If validated, the work appears to represent a first non-invasive look at how water movement changes inside an aspen tree over time and during the onset of mortality using the ULF-NMR method.


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Sequencing the Zoo
For their DNA Zoo, researchers at Baylor College of Medicine are sequencing the DNA of more than a thousand species, Texas Monthly reports. It adds that the researchers there, led by Erez Lieberman Aiden, hope to help enable endangered species to persist.
According to Texas Monthly, the project began in 2011 and has amassed samples from 4,234 animals, encompassing 1,105 species. Most of these samples, it notes, have come from zoos or aquariums, and can help ensure that mating animals aren't too closely related and preserve endangered species' genetic diversity. Some sampling approaches have had to be creative, the magazine notes — DNA was collected from southern right whale by sampling the air it snorts out of its blowhole.
"The DNA Zoo won't be the only piece we need to preserve the genomes of these animals to push forward the idea of conservation, but it is a huge piece in that puzzle," Blake Hanson from the University of Texas Health Science Center tells Texas Monthly.
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Chatbot Platforms Compared - Amazon vs. Google vs. IBM vs. Rasa: Which chatbot platform is easiest to train?
Which chatbot platform is easiest to build and train?
Depending on your experience with machine learning, programming, and chatbots, your answer will vary.
I'm here to answer this question as a Digital Marketing Specialist at Globalme by experimenting with the most popular chatbot platforms on the market.
Although we do have experts at Globalme that can configure these chatbots on a whim, this article will paint a picture of how easy (or difficult) it is to configure a chatbot with almost zero experience.
There are three key aspects that we used to compare the platforms:
1. Documentation provided
2. Configuration experience
3. User testing and interface
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This article is a summary of a larger chatbot comparison experiment that compares Amazon Lex, Google Dialogflow, IBM Watson, and Rasa.
In the downloadable white paper, you'll see the full journey unfold when it comes to configuring each chatbot.
If you're a novice that is trying to decide on the simplest chatbot platform to use, then read the summaries below or follow along by downloading the full white paper.
Reading the documentation for each platform was simple enough to follow, and each one of them provided tutorials.
We spent an average of 1 hour reading the documentation and terminologies for each platform.
Rasa had the most interactive documentation out of the entire group. Rasa allowed users to play with the Python code in the Get Started guide, which followed a story-like framework.
Although Rasa had the most entertaining documentation, IBM Watson and Google Dialogflow seemed to have the more thorough yet simple resources to follow.
Reading Amazon Lex's documentation felt like the reader would need to have previous experience with chatbots and machine learning.
In my case, the Amazon Lex documentation was a bit too advanced. The image below shows how a chatbot works on Amazon Lex, but the rest of the documentation wasn't as visual.
Comparing IBM Watson's documentation and Google Dialogflow resources were closer in terms of user experience.
Both gave a great explanation of how their platforms worked, but Google Dialogflow explained difficult concepts with high-quality visual aids and videos.
These videos and the simple wording in the documentation gave us the foundation to understand all the other platforms with ease.
Documentation Winner: For someone who wants to start learning about chatbots, Google Dialogflow's documentation wins.
Comparing the configuration of each platform was more difficult.
Each one provided a different experience, and each one had its quirks.
One thing was for sure: the Rasa chatbot was more difficult to configure on the fly. It wasn't as simple as Dialogflow, Lex, or Watson, but we can appreciate that it still made configuring a chatbot with Python an easy (and fun) experience.
Amongst Amazon Lex, Google Dialogflow, and IBM Watson platforms, Amazon and IBM did a great job of providing examples that we could take and modify for our use case.
It took 2 hours to configure Amazon Lex, and just over 1.5 hours to fully configure IBM Watson.
Why did IBM Watson take only 1.5 hours?
Watson provided enough examples of user intents, entities, and natural language data for our chatbot to be fully configured to our needs.
In fact, we dedicated another half an hour to configure our IBM Watson bot a little more.
It felt so much more intuitive configuring IBM Watson versus Google Dialogflow.
Amazon Lex falls between the two in terms of the configuration experience.
Configuration Winner: The IBM Watson conversational agent takes the cake in our configuration experience.
Testing the chatbots we configured allowed us to detect the elements we needed to work on, as well as any glaring mistakes.
Let's be honest here, testing with the Rasa chatbot was not as easy as the others.
It was so much more satisfying though – there's something about the more primitive look of the chat dialog that gave us multiple "Eureka!" and "Aha!" moments.
When it came down to testing our work in real-time, Google, IBM, and Amazon's platforms were a lot more intuitive.
The three platforms had conversational agents that could be trained and tested after each change or adjustment.
All of them looked pretty in their own way, and each one would give us relevant error messages that pointed to where we misconfigured the bot.
IBM Watson had a tiny edge by labeling each response and command with intents and entities. This gave us the knowledge to understand our dialog and how the bot comprehends our commands.
Google Dialogflow and Amazon Lex had more similar experiences as both platforms used a real-time conversation box to show our bot's training progress.
The real-time conversation box reflected what the chatbot would look like using their platform, but Amazon Lex did a better job of labeling all variables in the responses.
For example, in the image below, the intent and slots were labeled to show what the chatbot "understood" out of the conversation or command.
This was great, but what if we want to share this testing experience with others?
You can test our Google Dialogflow chatbot here.
This is where Google Dialogflow had an edge.
If you are a novice chatbot-builder, you are likely to seek feedback from real-life humans that understand these chatbot platforms better.
In the case of testing your Google Dialogflow agent with others, it's entirely possible. There's an option to share a link to the chatbot or embed the chatbot so that others may use it or test it immediately.
Each platform had its unique strengths in the testing phase. There was no clear winner here because each platform may have a different appeal to individuals.
For example, the IBM interface provides a ton of information we can work with, but the interface might feel less familiar than Google Dialogflow and Amazon Lex.
The testing of each platform would depend on the user's skill level as well.
More advanced users would gravitate towards different platforms depending on their particular needs.
For beginners, all that really differed was the look of the testing environment and how the intent or entity information was presented.
Testing Winner: From a testing standpoint, it was a tie between Google Dialogflow, Amazon Lex, and IBM Watson.
Overall Winner
Which platform made it easiest to train and build a conversational agent?
It was a very close decision. Although it took more time and resources to train Google Dialogflow, we did end up with a great end result.
On the other hand, Amazon Lex provided a sample we could configure right away: a chatbot for a flower shop.
This made the configuration process simple and easy to follow along. It took only 2 hours to configure the Lex chatbot before it understood a user's requests and commands related to projector rentals.
If we were to use the chatbot in the real world, Google Dialogflow looks like it is the easiest to integrate with messaging platforms among the pack because of the number of one-click integrations that are supported.
You can roll out your Dialogflow bot with the click of a button.
Overall Winner: Because of our overall experience with building a complete and fully functional agent, we crowned Amazon Lex as our winner.
Did we factor in user error?
In the complete version of the experiment, there might have been a few user errors that you noticed.
For example, intents and entities may have been configured inefficiently.
Example utterances and prompts may have been too excessive or not thorough enough.
There are certainly areas where human error could have skewed the results, but this is all a part of the overall experience.
What did we learn about configuring a chatbot?
Truth be told, the big three chatbot platforms: Amazon, Google, and IBM were all very similar in experience.
Rasa was the only chatbot platform that was tested which required some hands-on Python coding.
Someone without any prior hands-on experience in coding, chatbots, and machine learning can still build conversational agents with a little time investment.
The chatbot in our example may not have been developed to work in real life scenarios since it only responds to a single case, but they could be built further to work in real situations and use cases.
For the theoretical business Quick n' Easy Projector Rentals, building a chatbot was surprisingly simple.
We picked Amazon Lex as it had the most user-friendly experience
Now that we've picked Amazon Lex as a winner, does that mean it is the go-to platform?
This experiment taught us that the most powerful chatbot platform is the one that successfully satisfies your unique use case with as little effort as possible.
It will depend on the user's technical capabilities, experience with the overall platform (i.e. if you do work on AWS already, Lex will probably feel the most natural), and the complexity of the needed agent.
Each chatbot platform had its own advantages and drawbacks.
What was most important to us was how these chatbots handled user intents, entities, and other variables.
What we learned was that it wasn't the chatbot platform or knowledge in coding that limited our results. It was the lack of user intents, entities, and other variables that can be fed to the platform's algorithms so that it could learn how to communicate better.
If we spent more time with each chatbot platform, then the end result for each would be a lot more fleshed out.
Download the Chatbot Comparison Whitepaper
Want to see how we configured Amazon Lex, Google Dialogflow, IBM Watson, and Rasa?
Download the full study: You can follow the entire experiment in this white paper that shows the steps we took to map out our intents, entities, and other variables.
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RICO Bath Sonicator with Digital Timer
The Ultrasonic energy is produced by converting electrical energy in to Mechanical Vibrations
by using generator and piezo Electric Transducers. Due to Mechanical Vibrations in cleaning liquid
this Phenomenon is called cavitation. In a very short time it removes all dirt & foreign bodies from
components which are immersed in the cleaning liquid.
- Continuous Self Tuning Circuitry For Any change In Workload, Liquid Level And Bath Temp.
- Uniform Cavitations Through Out The Tank
- Separate Oscillator Eliminates Damage To Generator In Case of Failure Of Transducers
- Using 40 Khz Frequency For Effective Cleaning With Low Noise
- Designed For Complete Cleaning Of Small and Large Components Without Dismantling,
- Inner tank and Outer body made of Stainless Steel.


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Out Of Period (often abbreviated OOP) refers to anything that was not discovered or in general use during the time-frame accepted to be covered by the SCA. By contrast, anything that falls within the accepted time-frame is said to be "in period" or simply period.
Some items that would technically be OOP are considered "in period by consensus" (not sure of the exact phrasing) as life would be way too difficult without them. Some examples include:


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Use the Text Conversation feature to show text messages sent by characters.
Create a conversation, format each message, then configure your Style to choose how you want messages to appear in your book.
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Survival and death causes of patients with giant cell arteritis in Western Norway _PHONE_: a retrospective cohort study
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Original versionBrekke LK, Fevang BTS, Diamantopoulos A, Assmus J, Esperø EL, Gjesdal C. Survival and death causes of patients with giant cell arteritis in Western Norway _PHONE_: a retrospective cohort study. Arthritis Research & Therapy. 2019;21:154 _URL_
Background: Our objective was to determine the survival and causes of death in a large and well-characterized cohort of patients with giant cell arteritis (GCA). Methods: This is a hospital-based, retrospective, observational cohort study including patients diagnosed with GCA in Western Norway during 1972–2012. Patients were identified through computerized hospital records using the International Classification of Diseases (ICD)-coding system. Medical records were reviewed. Patients were randomly assigned population controls matched on age, sex, and geography from the Central Population Registry of Norway (CPRN). Date and cause of death were obtained from the Norwegian Cause of Death Registry (NCoDR). The survival was analyzed using Kaplan-Meier methods with the Gehan-Breslow test and the causes of death using cumulative incidence and Cox models for competing risks. Results: We identified 881 cases with a clinical diagnosis of GCA of which 792 fulfilled the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) 1990 classification criteria. Among those fulfilling the ACR criteria, 528 were also biopsy-verified. Cases were matched with 2577 population controls. A total of 490 (56%) GCA patients and 1517 (59%) controls died during the study period. We found no difference in the overall survival of GCA patients compared to controls, p = 0.413. The most frequent underlying causes of death in both groups were diseases of the circulatory system followed by cancer. GCA patients had increased risk of dying of circulatory disease (HR 1.31, 95% CI 1.13–1.51, p < 0.001) but lower risk of dying of cancer (HR 0.56, 95% CI 0.42–0.73, p < 0.001) compared to population controls. Conclusions: We found no difference in the overall survival of GCA patients compared to matched controls, but there were differences in the distribution of underlying death causes.


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|Leaf Identification / II
To the left, you can see leaves from three different
types of oak trees. The Pin Oak, Quercus
palustris, is found in the northern part of the U.S. and southern Canada,
in lowland areas with moderate shade. Its leaves are usually 3" to 4" with
5 lobes and a wedge-shaped base. The Jack Oak,
ellipsoidalis, is found on higher ground and its lower branches are
usually dead. It has dark green leaves and the tree has an overall untidy
look. The Scarlet Oak, Quercus coccinea,
grows in sandy or gravelly areas. Looking at its leaves you will
find a thin, delicate blade with lobes that sometimes almost enclose oval
spaces. The mid-rib of the leaf is yellow.
the right you can see two leaves from walnut trees. Leaflets arranged along
opposite sides of the stem like these are called pinnate
compound leaves (for more information,
see Leaf Terms). The Black
Walnut, Juglans nigra, is found
on high ground over a vast majority of the United States. It is somtimes
missing the end leaflet, and all the side leaflets are attached to the
stem at an angle. The Butternut White Walnut,
cinerea, has an end leaflet, and its side leaflets are attached to
the stem perpendicularly.
Leaf ID III
Illustrations from Tree Finder by May Theilgaard Watts (c) 1963, 1991 Nature Study Guild, used by permission.


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Abstract: Timing errors are a growing concern for system resilience as technology continues to scale. It is problematic to use low-fidelity errors such as single-bit flips to model realistic timing errors. We address the lack of holistic methodology and tools for evaluating resilience of applications against timing errors. The proposed technique is able to rapidly inject high-fidelity and configurable timing errors to applications at the instruction level. Our implementation has no runtime dependencies on proprietary tools, enabling full parallelism of error injection campaign. Furthermore, because an injection point may not generate an actual error for a particular application run, we propose an acceleration technique to maximize the likelihood of generating errors that contribute to the overall campaign with speedup up to 7x. With our tool, we show that realistic timing errors lead to distinct error profiles from those of radiation-induced errors at both the instruction level and the application level.
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Rejoice Hair Transplant offers the latest and improved version of DHI known as Activated DHT. Our clinic for hair transplant in Mumbai is renowned for providing this procedure developed by our founder Dr. Shankar Sawant.
Doctors performing DHI claim that they use very small size punches. Doctors who acquire experience in FUE techniques use small punches. There are many hair transplant surgeons in Mumbai who are using 0.6, 0.7, 0.8 & 0.9 punches depending on the size of the follicle.
But the size of the punch depends on the size of the follicle. Also, a small-sized punch means good healing. The size of the punch should larger than the size of the hair follicle for taking out the complete hair follicle.
Now, DHI is a very old method and it was invented for the direct implantation of hair. It means the hair grafts/follicles are extracted and immediately implanted.
The purpose of DHI was to reduce the time of hair graft stored outside the body. It was necessary to reduce the ischemia time and prevent the graft from going into a shock after surgery. Well, preserved grafts are accepted by the body which makes the DHI treatment a successful one.
What are the disadvantages of the DHI procedure?
Hair transplant is a time-consuming procedure. It takes a lot of time. DHI demands grafts to be extracted from the backside of the scalp and implanted in the front. During this procedure, it is difficult to maintain the position of both, the patient and the doctor. So it is not possible to cover the large area or implant a large number of grafts.
- Proper cleaning of grafts does not happen in DHI
When grafts are extracted, they are covered with clotted blood. If the grafts are not cleaned properly, they are likely to hamper the blood supply when implanted.
- Strategic placement of grafts is important
All individuals have single hair in the front in their hairline. But in the case of In the DHI treatment, there is no scope for strategic placement. Also, it is necessary to clean and segregate the hair grafts as per the number of hairs such as single, double, triple, etc. This segregation is necessary for getting a natural hairline look and feel which cannot take place during a DHI treatment.
What is activated DHT?
To overcome the disadvantages of DHI, Dr. Shankar Sawant has developed a new technique called Activated DHT.
- In this method, we extract grafts with appropriate size punch (0.7, 0.8 or 0.9) depending on the size of the follicles.
- Once we know grafts are coming out good then we do all punching of grafts. The grafts are left in the hole to ensure that they continue to receive blood supply. This takes care of the ischemia time. In scientific terms, it is known as in-vivo preservation.
- We create slits for single follicles in front than for double follicles and then for triple follicles. This helps in implanting the grafts according to the size of the follicle. This prevents the problem of Cobblestone.
- Activated DHT assures the desired density of hair and is much better than the DHI treatment where only the implantation of the graft is possible without no assurance of the desired density of hair.
- Once the slitting process is over, the punched out grafts are extracted. They are cleaned properly with Ringer Lactate solution to make sure the grafts survive after the implantation. This cleaning of the extracted hair follicles removes the clotting of blood around it and ensures that they receive blood supply and increases their chance of survival.
- After proper cleaning grafts are placed in ATPase solution or PRP solution so that survival of grafts increased. This process is called Activation of the follicle.
- In DHI implantation is done with an implanter which has two major disadvantages –This method cannot give good density because while pushing the implanter surrounding follicles may come out. The use of an implanter increases the cost of the procedure.
Hence we have modified the implantation method –
First, we create a slit with a CTS blade so that minimal trauma is done. We do implantation with a NO ROOT TOUCH technique. In this technique, we do not touch the root of the hair follicle. We hold the follicle at the opposite side of the root (i.e. tip) while implanting. This increases the growth rate as well as the percentage of follicle survival.
Why choose Dr. Shankar Sawant's activated DHT?
- Simple daycare procedure – The patient can return home the same day. It can be done during lunch hours while at work
- Special Procedure invented by Dr. Sawant which promises better results especially dense and fuller hair on the scalp
- The procedure was done by Dr. Sawant and his expert team ensuring the highest safety of the patient
- Use of patient's own hair as hair grafts so the hair match in terms of quality, color, and thickness
- Safe and clinically proven treatment which is relied upon by many board-certified cosmetologist.


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PASSIONATE FACT WORKSHOP
STORYTELLING TRAINING WORKSHOP FOR SCIENCE, HISTORY & ENVIRONMENTAL
EDUCATORS, INTERPRETERS, RESOURCE MANAGERS, AND PARENTS
"Facts can lie as dead pieces of information on the listeners' ears. But, woven into story, they come to life. Henry Thoreau, David Attenborough and other great teachers of natural history practice an art of weaving their observations of nature into a garment of meaning and beauty that touches something deep within the human soul. This art is a story way of giving information. It is the inheritance of every naturalist and every great teacher." __ Susan Strauss
The Passionate Fact is a professional training workshop that was originally designed as a five day intensive. Since it's inception, it has been given also in the following forms:
- Lecture / demonstration.
- Half day workshop.
- Full day workshop.
- Follow up workshop.
- Two, three, four day contiguous workshop.
- Note: Portions of the four day workshop can be worked into the context of a shorter workshop__ being designed according to particular requests of an organization.
Day 1, A naturalist's life experience holds a wealth of story material. Personal experience or anecdote is the most accessible story form for the beginner and useful in many situations. In day 1 of the workshop, participants refine a personal anecdote for use in an interpretive program, while at the same time, develop an understanding of the essential elements for developing any compelling story and a story well told. These include:
- Transforming information into image.
- Developing a sense for the "hook phrase" and ending phrase.
- Development of sensory experience.
- Building denouement and the element of mystery.
- Use of metaphoric language.
- Use of repetition.
- Use of voice, the image-making power of sounds, sound effects and dialogue.
Participants need to bring to the workshop a personally moving experience they had in or with Nature, History or Culture. Their story will be put through a series of activities that will shape and transform it __ making it ready for public telling. This journey will deepen the participants understanding of what is needed to form any compelling story, be it mythic, historic or folkloric. Other possible inclusions:
- An introduction to other story forms and their potential interpretive uses.
- Scientific writing samples that demonstrate "a story way of giving information."
- An introduction to voice work. Exploration of story forms and reinforcement of essential story elements will deepen on subsequent days.
In Day 2, the first day's basics are reinforced by learning to tell a traditional story__ more specifically: myth, folk tale, fable, parable, legend or fairy tale. Engaging with the telling of a traditional story, deepens the participant's understanding of the story crafting art as it varies in different cultural styles and has been refined over time. Participants may bring a traditional story of choice to learn or choose from a selection of tales that will be available. Also, voice and movement work from the first day will be further developed as it applies to character voice and narrative word choices. Practice techniques for memorizing stories will be introduced. Various texts of a single story will be studied to better understand the uses of language, dialogue and cultural/historic influences on a story.
In Day 3 & 4, what has been learned from the previous two days is used to transform scientific information into a story form or a "story way of giving information." Participants need to bring to the workshop a small body of specific scientific and/or historic information on a particular subject such as the geology of a specific area, a particular plant, animal or bio-region. This information will already be worked with in certain exercises on Day 1 and Day 2, so participants need to have it available for use already by Day 1. A variety of story structures will be studied. Participants will go through a process for developing a story structure for their scientific information. Model texts and recordings which illustrate how fact can be integrated with story will be studied and discussed. Movement, music, drawing and imaginative activities will be used to enhance and refine the story.
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Lets define edge-cycle in a graph $G$ as a path where the first and the last node are adjacent. (in contrast with the definition of cycle where first and last node are the same).
An edge-tree $T$ is a tree with the additional property that doesn't have an edge-cycle.
In a graph we can compute the number of spanning trees by using the Matrix-Tree theorem.
Is there any similar theorem for the computation of the number of edge-trees of a graph?


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This paper reports a method for measuring the heat capacity of as-grown carbon nanotubes (CNTs) using a microcalorimeter. The microcalorimeter consists of a double-layer suspended silicon dioxide microstructure and two silicon resistors sandwiched in-between the silicon dioxide layers. CNTs for heat capacity measurement are locally synthesized on the surface of the microstructure using laser-assisted chemical vapor deposition. The CNTs and the microcalorimeter are heated to a high temperature with a silicon resistor, and the temperature of the microcalorimeter with CNTs is measured with using the other silicon resistor. The heat capacity of the CNTs is obtained by dividing the measured effective heating power by the rate of temperature increase. The suspended configuration and the low thermal conductivity of silicon dioxide achieve low thermal dissipation, which together with the minute thermal capacity enable significant temperature changes. Using this sensitive microcalorimeter, the heat capacity of as-grown CNTs, 6-14 nJ/K from 340 to 440 K, is measured in-situ without the need of CNT transfer and pretreatment, avoiding damage to the CNT samples. This microcalorimeter is also applicable to in-situ measurement of structure-related thermal properties of porous materials.


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USGS Groundwater Information: Branch of Geophysics
Carole D. Johnson, John W. Lane, Jr., and Frederick D. Day-Lewis, United States Geological Survey
Time-lapse monitoring of subsurface processes is an emerging and promising area of hydrogeophysics. The combined use of non-invasive or minimally invasive geophysical methods with hydraulic and geochemical sampling is a cost-effective approach for aquifer characterization, long-term aquifer monitoring, and remediation monitoring. Time-lapse geophysical surveys can indirectly measure time-varying hydrologic parameters such as fluid saturation or solute concentration. Monitoring of time-varying hydrologic processes provides insight into aquifer properties and structure and aquifer responses to natural or induced stresses, such as seasonal fluctuations or fluid injection experiments for active remediation.
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Office of Ground Water, Branch of Geophysics, in cooperation with USGS Toxic Substances Hydrology Program, Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA), Department of Defense, the University of Connecticut, and Stanford University researchers, has applied time-lapse geophysics for site characterization and remediation monitoring in a number of studies. Recent and ongoing examples of time-lapse monitoring in fractured-rock aquifers include: 1) application of attenuation-difference, borehole-radar tomography used to monitor a series of sodium chloride tracer injection tests in fractured crystalline rock; 2) application of attenuationand velocity-difference tomography and radar-reflection data to monitor steam injection in a fractured limestone aquifer; 3) design of an electrical resistivity tomography investigation to monitor the injection of resistive water into brackish water in a fractured limestone aquifer for aquifer storage and recovery (ASR); and 4) combined application of borehole-geophysical logging with long-term discrete-interval monitoring of hydraulic head and water-chemistry in a fractured crystalline-rock aquifer. These investigations demonstrate the application of geophysical methods to provide quantitative information about the subsurface critical for characterizing aquifer structure, flow dynamics, and hydraulic processes.
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Final copy as submitted to 2004 U.S. EPA/NGWA Fractured Rock Conference for publication as: Johnson, C.D., Lane, J.W., Jr., and Day-Lewis, F.D., 2004, Time-series monitoring in fractured-rock aquifers, in 2004 U.S. EPA/NGWA Fractured Rock Conference: State of the Science and Measuring Success in Remediation, September 13-15, 2004, Portland, Maine. Proceedings: National Ground Water Association, CD-ROM, p. 295-307.


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Floating license behavior when multiple Rational products are installed in the same Eclipse shell
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If an individual installs multiple Rational products in the same Eclipse shell, and if the floating license for one of them is not available, can the other products, or the base Eclipse, or both another product and the base Eclipse be used?
No, all licenses need to be available at product launch for both Eclipse and the products to be used. This document explains the basic current behavior, along with the workaround if the user prefers the old behavior (that is, running a disabled product without a license).
There is a common misunderstanding about the licensing behavior when multiple products are installed into the same Eclipse shell. It is wrongly believed that only when a product is used will it consume a license.
For example, a customer reported when Rational Software Architect v7.0 and Rational Data Architect v7.0 are installed in the same shell, they see licensing errors when starting Rational Data Architect 7.0 by clicking on the shortcut to run Rational Data Architect v7.0. The customer is running Rational Software Architect v7.0 and Rational Data Architect v7.0 and does not have a license for Rational Software Architect. So Rational Software Architect plugins will not run. This is by design for all products and why there is licensing enforcement in the first place. There are multiple reasons it could be requiring a Software Architect license, such as startup plugins, builders, etc. It is incorrect to believe that a product in a shell sharing situation can be completely separate and you cannot load it by loading "knowing" plugins which are product specific. So the Rational Software Architect license failures should be no surprise.
The key to this is the following statement by the customer, "Since no Rational Software Architect specific functionality is apparently being invoked this surprised me." This implies the assumption that Rational Software Architect functionality is somehow separate enough and partitioned to specific perspectives and views. This is a false assumption and is not how Eclipse works. Eclipse loads plugins as needed. If a request for a Software Architect plugin happens underneath the covers (for example Rational Data Architect having an optional plugin dependency on Rational Software Architect to provide enhanced function and Data Architect proceeding to request that plugin get loaded since it was installed) then a Rational Software Architect license will get consumed.
The particular set of errors in version 7.0 prompted a change to the startup behavior in products such as Rational Software Architect v7.5 and Rational Performance Tester v8.0, based on the following four points:
1. If there is no license for one product in the shell then the choice is to remove the product or license it.
2. It is impossible to have two products sharing the same shell and being able to know that licensed content will not be loaded and what will.
3. IMPORTANT: Customers can install two products into the same shell and only when a product is used will it consume a license. This is correct in the sense that only when a product is used will it consume a license. It is incorrect to think running one product in the shell will not consume a license of the other product in the same shell, because once products are installed in the same shell, there is no guarantee it will not consume a license because what action in the user interface or build or gesture could trigger a license to be needed cannot be guaranteed. Shell sharing products are intimately connected. It will require all the products to change their architecture in order to enable this behavior. That kind of architecture will remove the seamless nature of the product integrations that now occur since it requires that products be logically separate and not integrate with each other.
4. Shell sharing products are basically running as a single unified product from the perspective of Eclipse. In order to not have continual errors and random dialogs asking for licenses to pop up all the required licenses to run, the content in that shell needs to be available upon product start.
Thus, in products releases since v7.0, the launch of a product, including Eclipse, will be blocked if it cannot acquire a license for all the products running in the shell.
Most of the issues around the added complexity are related to customers not wanting to consume a license when two products are installed together. The products are not architected for that scenario. They are architected to install two products together to get the combined function of the two products in a seamless scenario. Therefore you need two licenses for two products running in the same shell.
Licensing block workaround
Note: this is not recommended; use it only as last resort.
A product such as Rational Software Architect 7.5 or Rational Performance Tester v8.0 will block the launch of a product if it cannot acquire a license for all the products running in the shell. To work around this blocking behavior:
Add a line to existing \configuration\config.ini:
These changes were made
In the presence of this system property, the "License Cannot Be Found" error dialog now provides an "Ignore" button which will allow users to continue execution of the product.
Licensed plugins will still fail to load and potentially display further error dialogs (that is, if they load sometime after startup).
There is now a "Done" button in the "Manage Licenses" dialog (when there is a license error and where Exit Workbench formerly was the only choice):
There now is a "Manage Licenses" toolbar button with an error icon when executing in unlicensed mode (similar to Manage Licenses toolbar button with warning icon added during last 14 days of a trial license, except this uses an error icon):
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Absolutism In England
World History: (17th-19th century)
Name/School: Carol M. Conti, Blackstone-Millville Regional High School
Grade Level: 9
Topic: Absolutism in England
Lesson: England: From Absolutism to Limited/Constitutional Monarchy
Overview: Using objects from the Historic Deerfield collection to highlight England's move from Absolutism to Limited/Constitutional Monarchy.
Time: one class period (45 minutes)
- Student's notes on English monarchs, _PHONE_
- Overhead projector
- Transparency of 18th century Delftware bowls, (Images courtesy of Historic Deerfield)
- Punch Bowl containing Queen Anne's Image – HD76.006
- Punch Bowl containing inscription of George & Sarah Jenings – HD57.109
- Concepts (Big idea/central theme): Using objects from the Historic Deerfield collection to highlight England's move from Absolutism to limited/constitutional monarchy.
- Content (What students should know): Identify how Delftware bowls created in England reflect both a move to limited/constitutional monarchy and a growing sense of individualism.
- Skills (What students should be able to do): Develop skills necessary for object study and recognize historical significance of objects.
- In the previous class, students will have analyzed the factors that led England to move from Absolutism in the 17th-century to a limited monarchy by the18th-century by examining how factors either strengthened or weakened the power of the monarch. In addition, students will have experienced a prior lesson in which they have analyzed objects as a part of historical understanding.
- Opening activity (homework review): list three facts about Delftware; list two places in which Delftware was made, list one reason why Delftware was popular in the colonies. Use this activity as a means to review the homework assignment, which provided students with background about the Delftware industry.
- Divide the class in half. Group A will be given a picture of the Delftware bowl containing Queen Anne's image. Group B will be given a picture of the Delftware bowl containing the names of a British couple who were to be married. Both groups should answer the guiding questions.
- A. What is this object?
- B. What would this object have been used for?
- C. What image(s) is contained within the object?
- D. Both of these objects were created in the 18th century in Britain. Approximately when do you think this object was created?
- Pair up students; one from group A and one from group B. Students should share their images and their answers to the guiding questions. Working with their partner, students should use that information as well as their prior knowledge to determine the following: How can these objects be used to support the idea that England moved from Absolutism to limited/constitutional monarchy? How do these objects reflect a growing sense of individualism in England?
- This lesson is part of a larger unit on Absolutism. For the unit evaluation project, students, working with a partner or individually, create a guide to absolute rule (based on the popular "Idiots/Dummies Guides" in which they demonstrate the steps one needs to obtain and hold absolute rule, as well as the steps one needs to avoid. As the final project must include text and images, this concept should be incorporated in the guide.
- There would also be a quiz following the completion of this segment of the unit. This quiz would include an evaluate question relating to this lesson.
Extension Possibilities/Interdisciplinary Connections:
- Students could create their own "Delftware" that reflects their sense of individualism or an idea important to them.
Tips and Reflections from Author
- I hope to give each student a copy of the image; however, given budget restraints I may have to put the image of an overhead.
History/Social Science Curriculum Frameworks Learning Standards:
WHII.2 – Explain why England was the main exception to the growth of absolutism in royal power in Europe.


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The advantage of grounding SysML semantics in a declarative approach is that well-known techniques of mathematical logic can then be used to make formal deductions based on the assertions made in a model, in order to prove things that are true or not about the system or domain that is being modeled. Declarative semantics contrast with the operational semantics which specify how a model executes, such that the execution results are evaluated to determine how the system will behave. It is expected that the full semantics for SysML v2 will include both declarative and operational components.
As an example of how the semantics of SysML v2 could be built up from a declarative base, consider the case of the semantics of control nodes used in activity diagrams. Currently (in UML and, so, SysML v1), each type of control node such as a fork node, join node, decision node, or merge node is defined with its own unique semantics. In SysML v2, the general concept of a control node might be specified along with its base semantics. The specific semantics for fork, join, decision and merge nodes could then be specified in the core model library, specializing the base control node semantics. The language formalism would include rules for how this could be done in an unambiguous, rigorous way. A formal mathematically-based language does not have to be difficult to use. The usability of the language will be emphasized using graphical, textual and tabular notations appropriate for practicing system engineers.
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The Object Management Group (OMG) is a software consortium with an international membership of vendors, developers, and end users. Established in 1989, its mission is to help computer users solve enterprise integration problems by supplying open, vendor-neutral portability, interoperability and reusability specifications based on Model Driven Architecture (MDA).
MDA defines an approach to IT system specification that separates the specification of system functionality from the specification of the implementation of that functionality on a specific technology platform, and provides a set of guidelines for structuring specifications expressed as models. OMG has published many widely-used specifications such as UML [UML], BPMN [BPMN], MOF [MOF], XMI [XMI], DDS [DDS] and CORBA [CORBA], to name but a few significant ones.


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Winterberg is a town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located in the middle of the Sauerland, at the source of the Ruhr and Lenne river, at. Population: 14,676 (2002). Area: 148 km². It belongs to the district Hochsauerland.
Winterberg was declared a city about 1270, and was a member of the Hanseatic League from the 13th until the 17th century. As it is located in high hills with swampy ground, it always was a poor city. Only since tourism started about 200 years ago has it blossomed. In 1975 several small villages were merged into the city, increasing the population notably - the center of Winterberg only has 4,536 residents.
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Délicieux: How France Influenced Vietnamese Cuisine
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The French set up shop in Vietnam in 1859, and after quite a few skirmishes, created "French Indochina" in 1885. They remained in Vietnam until they were booted out in the mid 1950's, but those 95 years in between created some major changes in Vietnamese cuisine.
Prior to the initial French occupation, the Vietnamese diet focused primarily on fish, vegetables, herbs, and noodles. Beef was not used widely until the beginning of the French occupation, but today it is a staple of the cuisine, featuring prominently in that most comfortable of comfort foods: Pho.
Pho is a hearty hot soup perfect for those winter blahs, and consists of slices of various kinds of beef and beef balls swimming in beef stock and flavored with basil, lime juice, hot peppers, and sauces. Besides Pho, beef is a main ingredient in many entrees such as butter beef, beef stew, beef with lemongrass and black pepper beef.
The French are famous for rich, luxurious foods like paté, custard, cream and croissants, all of which play an important role in modern Vietnamese cuisine. The crusty, crunchy French baguette is a staple at Vietnamese bakeries, and the best example of the food marriage between the two cultures is Bahn Mi, which is a sandwich consisting of liver pate, sliced meats like pork, beef or chicken, vegetables, cilantro, and pickled vegetables on a baguette.
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Desserts, while not as widely eaten in Vietnam as in other cultures, also reflect a distinctly French influence. Sweets like egg custard tarts, coconut custard, caramel custard and butter cookies, which would be just as at home in a French or Vietnamese bakery, remain favorites. "Vietnamese coffee", that super-strong, rich confection, was born from "Cafe Bombon" which was originally created in Spain and migrated all over Europe. It's a favorite of anyone needing a major caffeine buzz, and consists of espresso and sweetened condensed milk.
Besides beef, pate, custard, baguettes and coffee, the most typical French breakfast food, the croissant, can be enjoyed in endless varieties. Stuffed with ham, chicken, or other types of sliced meats, or served plain with few wedges of Laughing Cow cheese and a pat of butter, the croissant remains a fixture in Vietnam today. Eaten primarily there for breakfast, Vietnamese-style croissant sandwiches are also tremendously popular in American-Vietnamese bakeries where they are often enjoyed as an economical quick lunch for college students or executives on the go.
If you've never sampled the glorious marriage between French and Vietnamese foods, check out your nearest Vietnamese restaurant or bakery for a delectable fusion treat.
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 1. lirelou says:
 Nice article. On a minor historical note, while the French "set up shop" in South Vietnam in 1859, they didn't take control of Central and North Vietnam until 1885. On the plus side, by taking control of the South, they ended the Vietnamese occupation of Cambodia, with its attendant mandatory assimilation policies that would have erased Cambodia's identity and absorbed its territory into Vietnam.
 As for coffee, it pays to note that today Vietnam is the world's #2 coffee producer. Though much sold on the international market is blending quality Robusta, some very fine coffees can be savored in Vietnam itself. Northern and Southern tastes differ,with black and bitter coffee being common to the North as opposed to the cafe sua (condensed milk sweetened) version common to the South. Hanoi is definitely a tea drinkers city for the excellent teas that can be found there, but cafe sua by a Hoan Kiem lake open air coffee bar is a memorable experience.
 2. Ernest Beyl says:
 I see a similarity in the French Pot au Feu and the Vietnamese Pho. Is their a link here? Ernie Beyl
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The name Pralus was first associated with chocolate in 1948 when Auguste Pralus began his first patisserie in France. Francois Pralus furthered the tradition by creating his own single-origin bars from the world's finest beans in 1991. As with many French chocolatiers, the cacao beans are roasted much longer than their European and American counterparts. The result is a darker colored bar with smokier, darker flavors. Explore the dark, roasty, iconic flavors of Francois Pralus chocolates.
- 100 gram bar, 45% milk chocolate
- Made with criollo beans from Indonesia
- Balanced flavors with notes of vanilla, caramel, and milky spices


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Amidst the turmoil of a British military invasion in the fall of 1777, the elected representatives of rebellious New Yorkers met in Kingston to form a new state government. While convened in Kingston in September and October, New York's first Senate met in the simple stone house of merchant Abraham Van Gaasbeek.
In 1887, to recognize Senate House's role in the Revolution, New York State acquired the property, which quickly became a vital community museum. A two-story Museum Building was constructed in 1927 to house and display the site's burgeoning collection. Among its treasures are: major art works by John Vanderlyn and other members of the Vanderlyn family of Kingston, dating from the 1720s through the 1870s, and notable paintings by Ammi Phillips, Joseph Tubby, James Bard, and Thomas Sully.


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09/23/2022: Money Matters In The Classroom
Latest "The JOURNEY" podcast is now available to download wherever you get your podcasts!
This was a wonderful and insightful show this month featuring a long-time partner of Seneca Savings, EverFi. Kassie Soulis of EverFi works as an advocate on behalf of students, teachers, and Seneca Savings to bring financial literacy into the classroom. While financial literacy in schools is not required by New York State (yet), as some other states require, many schools opt into the program to begin to teach students how to better manage their money and prepare for the journey ahead. K-12 students have access to free tools and learning modules learning everything from how to budget, how to open a savings account, what's a credit card, a mortgage, how to manage their cash flow and their credit score. "It's a vital component to helping our students get off on the right foot," says Senior VP of Retail Banking at Seneca Savings, Laurie Ucher. "Often parents have a tough time with many of these aspects because they were never taught. So the cycle continues of kids not really understanding how to create a positive relationship with their money and how to prosper financially in life. These programs we're a part of help break that cycle and help to forge a new path for the students."


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In the last MVC post we looked at Filter Providers but didn't really describe what filters were. Filters are special classes which can execute some functionality at certain points during each MVC request. Historically most filters have been attributes that you can apply to an action method or a controller class (not all as Controllers can also act as filters). Before talking about filters it's worth looking at how a request in MVC is handled.
At the lowest level, all web applications behave the same way:
- A browser (or some other client) issues an HTTP request to your application
- Your application performs some processing based on the incoming request
- The application sends an HTTP response back to the client (this can be HTML, XML, JSon or even just a simple status code)
In an ASP.NET MVC application the incoming request is mapped to a method (called an Action) on a class (called the Controller). Once the controller has been created and the correct action method selected it is the job of the Action Invoker to run the method (action), retrieve its return value (result) and send something sensible back to the client. Along the way the action invoker allows filters to get involved at specific points in the process (and possibly alter it). There are 4 types of filter:
- Authorization filters are executed up front and may prevent the action method from being executed at all if they decide that the user is "not authorized" (implements
- Action filters are executed both before and after the action method is executed. (implements
- Once the action method returns a result it is executed. A Result filter can run code both before and after this happens (implements
- If something goes wrong at any time during the process any Exception filters will be run (implements
I'll describe each of the filter types in future posts. Each filter is represented in MVC 3 as an object of the
Filter class. This class contains 3 properties. The first (called
Instance) holds an object that can implement any combination of the 4 filter interfaces defined above (it can even implement none of them but then your filter will never actually execute). The other two properties (
Scope) relate to the order in which filters are run.
Filters are run in a very specific order. Filters are sorted first by their ascending
Order value. If two filters have the same
Order value then they are sorted by their
Scope value in the following order:
As an example here is the forwards order of a few filters:
- Order = –1, Scope = First
- Order = –1, Scope = Global
- Order = –1, Scope = Last
- Order = 0, Scope = Controller
- Order = 0, Scope = Action
- Order = 1, Scope = First
Note that Action Filters and Result Filters are actually run twice (once before and once after the thing they are filtering). When these filters are running before the action/result to which they apply they are run in forward order. When they are running after the action/result to which they apply they are run in the reverse order. You can think of it like this:
The default filter providers will create filters with the following orders and scopes:
ControllerInstanceFilterProvider– Exposes the controller as a filter with an order of
Int32.MinValueand a Scope of First. This means that the controller will always be the first filter
FilterAttributeFilterProvider– Finds filter attributes (inherits from
FilterAttribute) on the controller and on the action method and exposes them using the Controller and Action scope accordingly. The Order value is derived from a property on the attribute itself (
FilterAttribute.Order) and defaults to –1. In fact, if you try to set a filter attributes order to less than –1 it will throw an
GlobalActionFilterProvider– provides filters in the Global scope and again derives the order from the filter you provide (which defaults to –1). Unlike the
FilterAttribute.Orderproperty you can set a value less than –1.
Finally, filters can specify whether or not they will allow multiple instances by setting the property
IMvcFilter.AllowMutliple (filters derived from
FilterAttribute will provide this value based on any supplied
AttributeUsage attribute they have). If filters allow multiples then each instance of the filter that applies will be run for a given action/result. If a filter does not allow multiples then only one filter of the specified type will be executed. The one which is kept is the one with the highest Order and Scope (i.e the one which would normally be executed last).
Filters are a great feature of MVC that allow you to create a very orthogonal design for your application. Although the initial implementation of filters put a lot of code inside of attributes I don't recommend doing that in MVC 3. Iinstead you should create marker attributes and use
FilterProviders to apply your filter implementation classes where they're needed. In the coming posts I'll look at each of the different types of filters (Authorization, Action, Result and Exception) along with some examples of each from the MVC 3 framework. I'll also discuss the circumstances under which you might like to create your own filters and how you'd go about doing so.
One last thing, there are a few attributes that ship in the framework and get applied to action methods but are not Filters. It's easy to get these mixed up so I'll list some here.
NonActionAttribute are examples of Action Method Selectors and
ActionNameAttribute is an Action Name Selector. Both of these types of attributes get involved in the MVC pipeline before the Action Invoker executes so they are not filters.
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UN Library's Francesco Pisano: 'This body of knowledge is the Silicon Valley of multilateralism'
1.7 million books. Tens of thousands of digital references. All the official UN documents. And the ongoing digitising process of the entire fund. This means making knowledge accessible to all and help to create wisdom. At least for the United Nations Library and Archives in Geneva.
The UN Library is a historical institution. More than a source of international documentation, it plays an essential role in the history of multilateralism. Built long before the birth of the United Nations on private money, it finds its voice in the stronghold of the knowledge it protects.
UN Library and Archives director, Francesco Pisano, describes this body of knowledge as the Silicon Valley of multilateralism, where its history can be fully retraced and its meaning for us as a civilisation defined.
At an age of digitalisation, the library's purpose transcends the sole preservation of knowledge, he says. It can connect people and organisations and address needs to move forward and tackle global issues.
"Digitising documents is an important part of the process today. It is not so much moving from the old paper-based library to the new and modern library, because paper is eternal. There is no conflict between the two, there is continuity. Information about knowledge is everywhere, but it's not accessible for anyone anywhere. And this is what keeps global frameworks from succeeding. Our digitising process aims to change that. To contribute to create wisdom and inspire solutions."
Pisano reflects on the importance of substance versus data in a world where change is necessary to rethink the global framework and face the future, by setting up collaboration across disciplines in the interest of many and not the competition of few. Listen to his conversation on resilience with Geneva Solutions.


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Instead of cutting the residue, the coulter may just push it into the slot. Even if it is cut, heavy residue may bind in the planter units or cause seed units not to plant at uniform depths. Several devices have been developed to solve these problems. Some planters have two coulters. The first, a smooth coulter, which normally cuts through residue best, is placed in front of a second, fluted or rippled coulter. The first cuts the residue, and the second forms the slot. Another method is to place two coulters side by side or place them at a slight angle.
Recently, two other devices have been developed to move the residue. Rake tines drag along the soil surface, creating a vibrating action, which keeps short light residue (chopped wheat straw) out of the coulter's or seed opener's path. But in long heavy residue (such as corn stalks), this device may actually drag the residue.
Two discs, set in a "V" shape and placed in front of the coulters, will cut some residue and move it to the side. You also could use these devices in front of the seed opener to create a smooth soil surface on trashy or rough soil. Sometimes, large cultivator sweeps are used for the same purpose or in no-till ridge planting.
At least three types of seed openers are available on planters: disc (single or double), shank (hoe), or slot (runner). By far, the most popular is the double disc. Double disc openers move through the soil easier and drag less residue than the hoe or runner. Shank and slot seed openers work well in fields where residue is not excessive.
Depth control mechanisms
For uniform planting on uneven fields, each row unit should operate independently of the others. Most planters control the depth of the seed openers from depth (gauge) wheels or bands on the seed openers or from a linkage to the press wheel. Unless gauge wheels are independent of the seed opener (normally double discs), planting over the top of old crop rows (but not in the centers of the rows because of hard soil there) or over other obstructions can cause depth variation. Solve this problem by staying off the old crop rows or by using V-shaped discs or sweeps in front of the seed openers. You won't normally have these problems with depth control from narrow press wheels. However, seed depth may vary on uneven land because the press wheels control depth at some distance from the seed opener.
No-till stand establishment, especially in dry weather, may fail because of difficulty in covering the seed with soil. So lack of moisture, rodents eating the seed, or herbicide injury may result in a poor or variable plant population. To cover the seed firmly, use press wheels or other devices and adjust them properly.
Not all press wheels that work effectively in conventionally tilled seedbeds work in no-till conditions. Wide (3 inches or more), relatively flat-shaped press wheels often do not cover the seed unless the soil is loose. These wide press wheels run on the hard soil or sod that has not been loosened.
Using a small dolly wheel in the furrow just behind the seed opener or using scrapers or small covering discs between the opener and press wheel can cover and firm the soil in the seedbed.
In some conditions in no-till fields, the popular V or slanted, narrow press wheels close the top of the slot, but they fail to firm the soil around the seed. This usually happens on wet, hard, or sod-bound soil where the narrow coulters did not loosen soil to be pressed in the slot. Using a wider coulter, adding weight (or spring down-pressure), or using narrower, heavier (cast iron), press wheels may solve the problem. Offset or single, slanted press wheels may also work.
Some press wheels, like the single, slanted or the small dolly wheel, may give good seed-to-soil contact but may leave the seed poorly covered in wet soil. Scrapers or small covering discs can help.
Despite the type of press wheels used, variable conditions will limit their effectiveness. Instead of changing press wheels or adding other devices, simply adding weight (for example, 400 pounds per row) or spring down-pressure or driving slower may solve many problems.
Traveling too fast often causes one or more of the planter parts to work poorly, resulting in poor depth control or insufficient seed-to-soil contact. Planter seeding rates also may be affected. A no-till planter can rarely be driven faster than 5 mph and still plant effectively. Most often, 3 to 4 mph should be the maximum. Or, in reality, the maximum speed depends on field conditions and the requirements for stand establishment.
Some of these recommendations for machinery management may or may not be useful to you. You should, however, use whatever practices you can to make your planter create the desired characteristics for good stand establishment.
Field considerations at planting time
In the spring, untilled or residue-covered soils often dry and warm up more slowly. Check soil temperatures at the 4-inch depth (at 8 a.m.) before planting. Make no assumptions about soil temperature; check it. The minimum temperature for planting corn is 50 degrees Fahrenheit; for soybeans, 55 degrees Fahrenheit; and for grain sorghum, 60 degrees Fahrenheit. Forages and small grains can be planted in cooler soils. To allow no-till acres time to dry and warm up, plant your conventionally tilled acres first, if possible. Planting shallower than normal (1-1/2 inches with corn, 1 inch with soybeans) will be helpful in cool, moist soils. Certain rotations may provide for lighter residues and permit soils to warm up for early crops.
It is not a good idea to plant no-till fields when it would be too wet for conventional planting. However, after a light to moderate rain, no-till soils may be ready to plant several hours or even a day before conventionally tilled areas. How well the planter functions ultimately determines whether planting can proceed.
In fields with stress or variable conditions, high seed quality is a must. If you know that seed depth or seed-to-soil contact will be less than ideal, you may improve stands by increasing the seeding rate by 10 percent.
Disease-causing organisms survive in crop residues left on the soil surface or in volunteer plants. The probability of increased disease incidence in high residue crop production must be considered and monitored.
For a disease to occur, there must be a susceptible host, an aggressive pathogen or causal agent, and a favorable environment for starting and spreading the infection. If one of these is missing, a disease will not develop. A disease can develop if a pathogen is present in the crop residues, a susceptible crop is planted, and the weather conditions are conducive to disease establishment.
A critical factor affecting the extent and severity of diseases is the survival of disease-causing organisms in crop residues. When a crop is grown continuously, certain fungi and bacteria increase and intensify in crop residues. For example, bacterial blight, anthracnose, brown spot, charcoal rot, downy mildew, pod and stem blight, purple seed strain, and others affecting soybeans become more serious in continuous soybeans and when residues are not covered. Thus, in all tillage systems, avoid growing one crop continuously.
High-residue, no-till planting systems increase the potential for disease but not necessarily its occurrence. Covering disease-bearing residue by tilling speeds decay. Many organisms present in the decay process often work against the disease pathogens. Crop rotations also help to prevent disease pathogens from building up. For instance, you could alternate legumes (soybeans) with grasses (corn, sorghum, wheat).
Improved fertility and pH levels also can help reduce certain effects of disease. For example, low potassium in relation to the levels of other nutrients, especially nitrogen levels, can accentuate stalk rot disease in corn. This occurrence results in weakened stalks and increased lodging.
Cultivating or using herbicides may reduce some diseases or destroy the weed hosts of diseases. For example, destroying Johnsongrass can reduce Maize dwarf mosaic and Maize chlorotic dwarf of corn.
A shallow planting of soybeans often results in less damage from root rot diseases. Using green manure crops and other organic material may also beneficially reduce root rot diseases.
Using high quality seed and using a fungicide seed treatment may reduce some diseases.
Every disease has unique characteristics and environmental requirements. Their symptoms depend on the current crop and the particular sequence of crops you have been growing. Also, the geographical location, native fertility, rainfall, soil and air temperatures, and many other factors affect the presence or intensity of plant diseases.
With any reduced tillage, cutworms, wireworms, seed corn maggots and seed corn beetles can be more frequent soil insect problems. No-till sod plantings may be damaged by seed-infesting pests, rodents and cutworms. Army worms cause damage when corn is 6 to 9 inches or more in height. European corn borers may increase in occurrence where stalks remain on the soil surface for several consecutive seasons.
There is no one best control measure for all situations for all soil insects. Scouting, or anticipating where insects might be a problem, is important. The value of seed treatment insecticides increases as the number of tillage operations decreases. Check labels for use of insecticides in no-till fields.
Insecticides normally should be placed in the furrow or incorporated in a band over the row. Apply insecticides according to the label. Either modify application equipment to work under no-till conditions


text: Understanding recolonization processes of intertidal fish assemblages is integral for predicting the consequences of significant natural or anthropogenic impacts on the intertidal zone. Recolonization of experimentally defaunated intertidal rockpools by fishes at Bass Point, New South Wales (NSW), Australia, was assessed quantitatively by using one long-term and two short-term studies. Rockpools of similar size and position at four sites within the intertidal zone were repeatedly defaunated of their fish fauna after one week, one month, and three months during two short-term studies in spring and autumn (5 months each), and every six months for the long-term study (12 months). Fish assemblages were highly resilient to experimental perturbations— recolonizing to initial fish assemblage structure within 1−3 months. This recolonization was primarily due to subadults (30−40 mm TL) and adults (>40 mm TL) moving in from adjacent rockpools and presumably to abundant species competing for access to vacant habitat. The main recolonizers were those species found in highest numbers in initial samples, such as Bathygobius cocosensis, Enneapterygius rufopileus, and Girella elevata. Defaunation did not affect the size composition of fishes, except during autumn and winter when juveniles (<30 mm TL) recruited to rockpools. It appears that Bass Point rockpool fish assemblages are largely controlled by postrecruitment density-dependent mechanisms that indicate that recolonization may be driven by deterministic mechanisms.


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But African Americans do not perform as well as whites on these tests even if test-takers from both ethnic groups have attained the same number of years of schooling. Because of the lower scores, healthy African Americans may be more likely to be misdiagnosed with Alzheimers disease or other cognitive defects.
In an effort to make neuropsychological tests more accurate, Columbia Health Sciences researchers decided to study whether quality of education, rather than quantity, could explain the lower test scores among African Americans.
In their study, the investigators measured quality of schooling by administering a reading test to 192 elderly African Americans and 192 elderly non-Hispanic whites from Northern Manhattan. The participants, who were all 65 years and older, did not have dementia and were functioning normally in their daily lives.
The researchers found that they could eliminate most of the racial differences found in the neuropsychological test assessments by factoring in the scores from the reading tests. Both blacks and whites with a poor reading test result achieved similar neuropsychological test scores.
The findings suggest that including an assessment of reading skills will help neuropsychologists know what scores to expect from elders with diverse educational backgrounds, says Dr. Jennifer Manly, lead author of the study and assistant professor of neuropsychology in the
Contact: Annie Bayne
Columbia University Medical Center


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Noun. Cross between spider (arachnid) and a rat (rodent), producing the Arachnorodent. These common paests have eight legs like all spiders, but instead have the body of a rat, with the complex eye structure of a spider. They live in walls, particularly the walls of innocent home-dwellers' bathrooms, and poduce scratching noises. Arachnorodents are also seasonal, only infesting homes during the cold months of winter and early spring.
"I was taking a shower last night, and the Arachnorodents were running up and down the insides of the bathroom walls"
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prevent screenshots on android
How the screenshot and why?
A display screen seize is a picture, to some diploma like a photo, that a pc takes of the relative multitude of visible matters being proven on a display at one factor on a timetable. A display capture can be applied for pragmatic purposes or amusement, as an example, to seize the activity of a computer game. It is every day for a screen capture potential to be incorporated right into a running framework for simple use. If someone hacked or using our mobile phone, we need to prevent screenshots on android. Because we already had put a lock for half of the apps including the camera. In case the people seem to take screenshots for any reason. So prevention is better than cure. By having an android anti screenshot, we can prevent our details from others and misused by bad people.
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Display screen captures are probably taken by squeezing the Print screen key in Microsoft home windows.
Display captures might be taken with the aid of squeezing the Print screen key in Microsoft windows.
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Display captures are frequently utilized in educational sporting events, which can be basic showings of a way to run the software. Furthermore, whilst supporting any person distantly with a laptop-associated task or difficulty, display screen captures may be feasible reference apparatuses for displaying the critical advances. The lone occasions wherein a screen capture cannot be taken are simultaneous as the laptop is firing up, and retaining in thoughts that a video is gambling in unique projects which play media.
They can likewise be applied to assist in the investigating of a pc difficulty. For example, a difficulty, in particular in Microsoft® windows® may additionally cause a blunder message to be shown. A blunder message may incorporate an alphanumeric code alluding to the problem. At the point, while the blunder message indicates up on display, a screen capture might be taken, which might then be capable of being saved in a document and shipped off an assist location. This makes imparting about mistake loads much less complicated.
The most broadly diagnosed operating framework getting used all in the course of the planet is Microsoft® windows®. To take a display capture with this institution of operating frameworks is extremely honest. When you have the image on the display screen that you need to trap, press the Print display key to take a display capture. A photograph of a solitary window can be taken by way of a squeezing Alt+Print display. This pastime will replica a display screen capture to the clipboard, permitting it to be glued as a picture into an image-changing program.
To view and keep the screen size, open up the Paint program below "gildings," below the "tasks" tab inside the starting menu. Whilst its miles open, go to the regulate menu and snap-on Glue. This may place the screen seize in the application, and it'd then be capable of being stored as a GIF type record, which may be perused through any windows® laptop.


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This paper is aimed at exploring the various techniques currently used for partitioning last level (L2/L3) caches in multicore architectures, identifying their strengths and weaknesses and thereby proposing a novel partitioning scheme known as Adaptive Block Pinning which would result in a better utilization of the cache resources in CMPs. The widening speed gap between processors and memory along with the issue of limited on-chip memory bandwidth make the last-level cache utilization a crucial factor in designing future multicore processors. Contention for such a shared resource has been shown to severely degrade performance when running multiple applications. As architectures incorporate more cores, multiple application workloads become increasingly attractive, further exacerbating contention at the last-level cache.
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