races. 3.96% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.
There were 1,494 households out of which 41.5% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 56.4% were married couples living together, 8.4% had a female householder with no husband present, and 30.2% were non-families. 21.8% of all households were made up of individuals and 2.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.66 and the average family size was 3.15.
In the city the age distribution of the population shows 29.7% under the age of 18, 7.3% from 18 to 24, 33.2% from 25 to 44, 26.4% from 45 to 64, and 3.5% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 35 years. For every 100 females there were 107.9 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 107.0 males.
The median income for a household in the city was $66,532, and the median income for a family was $74,188. Males had a median income of $56,932 versus $31,855 for females. The per capita income for the city was $27,341. About 5.0% of families and 6.2% of the population were below the poverty line, including 5.3% of those under age 18 and 11.4% of those age 65 or over.
Aerial view of the oil terminal
Oil terminal[edit]
The Valdez Marine Terminal is an oil port in Valdez, at the southern end of the Alaska Pipeline. The terminal was the point of departure for the Exxon Valdez just prior to the Exxon Valdez oil spill.
There are 18 holding tanks at the terminal, and an average of three to five oil tankers depart from the terminal each week. Since the pipeline became operational in 1977, more than 15,000 tankers full of oil have left the terminal.
Media and culture[edit]
Despite its small size, Valdez was at one time home to two weekly newspapers, the Valdez Star and the Valdez Vanguard. In 2004, the Star bought out the Vanguard. Valdez is also home to radio broadcasters KCHU, KVAK, KVAK-FM.
Valdez is also home to the Last Frontier Theatre Conference, hosted by the Prince William Sound Community College. The annual conference attracts playwrights and actors from around the United States.
It is used as a loose base for a multiplayer level titled "Midnight Sun" in the Armored Fury expansion for the 2005 video game Battlefield 2.
In the 2010 video game Battlefield: Bad Company 2 under the name "Port Valdez" is an available multiplayer map. The map landscape is based on the Valdez Marine Terminal with some modifications.
On Deadly Ground (1994) was filmed near Worthington Glacier, Alaska, as well as the Valdez Civic Center and Valdez Airport, and 30 miles (48 km) outside Valdez on Thompson Pass in the Chugach Mountains.
Notable natives[edit]
See also[edit]
 3. ^ PWSCC website
 4. ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Valdez, Alaska
 5. ^ a b c Paragraph edited by the Valdez Museum and Historical Archive Mar 2009
 6. ^ "Prince William Sound / Copper River Ecosystem: Biological and Ecological Resources"
 7. ^ America's Top 10 Snowiest Cities
 8. ^ [1]
 9. ^ "NCDC: U.S. Climate Normals". National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Retrieved 2011-01-30.
 11. ^ "Subcounty population estimates: Alaska 2000-2007" (CSV). United States Census Bureau, Population Division. 2009-03-18. Retrieved 2009-04-30.
 12. ^ Dunham, Mike (2011-01-21). "Neva Egan, the first of Alaska's first ladies, dies at age 96". Anchorage Daily News. Retrieved 2011-02-18.
 13. ^ "Ed Walker obituary". Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman. 2011-10-31. Retrieved 2011-11-24.
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This letter investigates chemical polishing with a hydrofluoric acid, nitric acid, and acetic acid (HNA) mixture as an alternative to chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) to produce smooth surfaces on both slurryand diamond-cut silicon solar wafers. With 30 µm of silicon etched from each side, as-cut wafers appear mirror-like to the naked eye. A quantitative analysis of the specularity of HNA-polished wafers indicates that 97 % of light reflected from slurry-cut wafers falls within ±10 mrad of the specular beam and is isotropically distributed. Conversely, HNA-polished diamond-cut wafers retain a history of the wafer-sawing process: the reflected light is anisotropic with 99.4 % of light within ±10 mrad of the specular beam in the sawing direction but only 89.1 % within ±10 mrad in the perpendicular direction. Topographical characterization by optical profilometry and atomic force microscopy measurements reveals that HNA-polished slurry-cut wafers are spatially uniform with a surface roughness of 45 nm. Diamond-cut wafers have a roughness of only 18 nm but also have residual sawing grooves tens of micrometers across—these are responsible for the anisotropic scattering of light. The HNA-polished wafers are appropriate alternatives to CMP wafers for high-efficiency solar cells, including interdigitated-back-contact and tandem cells that require single-side polished wafers, as well as for other optical applications such as process monitoring with characterization techniques that require planar substrates.
Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)10270-10275
Number of pages6
JournalJournal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics
Issue number10
StatePublished - Oct 1 2016
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 - Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
 - Condensed Matter Physics
 - Electrical and Electronic Engineering
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UNIJOS that, in spite of the multiplicity of advantages offered by the computer, the academic staff seem to possess inadequate computer literacy skills, and that the use of computer for academic work also seems to be minimal in these institutions among the academics. The conventional method appeared to dominate research, teaching and learning activities of these institutions. This is supported by Ogunrewo, (2010) in an appraisal of internet usage among academic staff of universities, that, academic staff do not adequately ultilize internet facilities.
Furthermore, the researcher's interactions with some members of the staff indicate that most of them seem to be ignorant of the various computer literacy skills acquisition methods, and that economic factors and time constraint appeared to be factors militating against the acquisition of computer literacy skill among academic staff.
These scenarios if not urgently addressed, will have far reaching negative effects on both the staff and the products of these universities. The staff may not be able to adequately access current information to update their knowledge for effective teaching. This will lead to producing half baked graduates that may not be adequately prepared to face the challenges of the wider society.
Finally, the researcher's extensive search of the literature shows that, within the context of this research, no work has ever been conducted on the assessment of computer literacy of academic staff of NSUK and UNIJOS. This therefore calls for the need for an assessment of computer literacy skills of the academic staff of these institutions. This research is therefore being carried out to fill this gap.
Purpose of Study
The purpose of this study is to assess the computer literacy skills of academic staff of NSUK and UNIJOS. Specifically, the study will:
- Find out the computer literacy skills possessed by both academic staff members of NSUK and UNIJOS
- Assess the areas to which the academic staff members employ computer skills in carrying out their work.
- Find out the methods available for acquiring computer literacy skills by the academic staff of NSUK and UNIJOS.
- Find out the effectiveness of the methods of computer literacy skills acquisition among the academic staff members.
- Determine problems that hinder the acquisition of the right level of computer literacy skills by academic staff members.
- Identify strategies for the enhancement of computer literacy skills among academic staff members of these Universities.
This study will be guided by the following research questions:
- What are the computer literacy skills possessed by the academic staff members of NSUK and UNIJOS?
- What are those areas to which the academic staff of NSUK and UNIJOS employ computer literacy skills in carrying out their work?
- What are the available methods used by these staff members in the acquisition of computer literacy skills?
- How effective are the methods used by the academic staff in acquiring computer literacy skills?
- What are the problems that hindered the academic staff members of NSUK and UNIJOS in the acquisition of computer literacy skills?
- In what ways can the problems faced by the academic staff in the acquisition of computer literacy skills be improved?
Significance of Study
This study which seeks to assess the computer literacy skills of academic staff of universities will no doubt add to the existing body of knowledge in the department of library and information science.In addition, the findings of this work are expected to be of benefit to the academic staff, the management of the two universities and other researchers.
To the academic staff, it will reveal their weaknesses and strengths in the areas of computer literacy skills acquisition. It will also benefit them as it will identify those areas for which the computer can be used to enhance academic work. These will enable them to adjust accordingly.
Also expected to benefit from the findings are the managements of the two universities as the findings will enable them to understand better the various methods of computer literacy skills acquisitions available. This will guide management in the decision on the choice of the most appropriate method(s) to adopt in the training and retraining of academic staff in the area of computer literacy skills acquisition.
Above all, the findings are expected to identify the major hindrances and remedies for effective acquisition of computer literacy skills. This will help management to adapt adequate means towards enhancing the acquisition of computer literacy skills among the academics.
Furthermore, researchers conducting empirical and non-empirical studies related to this topic will find this work relevant.
Scope of the Study
This study intends to focus on the concepts of computer literacy of academic staff. It will discuss in details the nature of computer literacy skills possessed by the academics, the areas that academic staff apply these skills for academic work, the methods and the effectiveness of the skills acquisition methods, the challenges as well as the remedies to overcome the various challenges militating against the acquisition of these skills.
The work covers Nasarawa state University, situated in Keffi and University of Jos sited in Jos, Plateau State, all within North central Nigeria

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The grant is through the Catawba-Wateree Habitat Enhancement Program of Duke Energy.
A large portion of wildlife habitat, including native plant species, can be found on waterfront property in Cowan's Ford Nature Refuge and Latta Plantation Nature Preserve in northern Mecklenburg County and McDowell Nature Preserve in southern Mecklenburg County.
The department will use the grant money for grassland/shrub land management areas on projects that include:
- improving habitat for rare bird species,
- removing invasive plant species, such as Autumn olive,
- and managing non-native animal species, such as feral hogs.
Autumn olive can reduce native plant species and their habitat, and feral hogs have a negative impact on water quality and threaten many desirable plant and animal populations.
"The money will allow Park and Recreation to do some work that it normally couldn't afford and will go a long way toward helping us protect the wildlife who inhabit the nature preserves along the Catawba River," Chris Matthews said. He is division director for Park and Recreation's Nature Preserves and Natural Resources Division.
In 1994 the department's Nature Preserves and Natural Resources Division began actively supporting the protection, management, and restoration of natural communities in Mecklenburg County. The work includes developing and restoring Piedmont Prairie habitat sites and the protection of rare plant and animal species.


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During the course of the COLLECTORS project, we identified many related EU-projects in order to promote knowledge sharing, leverage on other projects' experiences and results, avoid duplication and maximise the impact of COLLECTORS. The methodology, identified projects, lessons learned, and clustering activities are described in two documents:
- The COLLECTORS report on the identified projects covers the identification, mapping and selection of relevant projects. The report includes the methodology of mapping the projects, the scope, and the description of the identified projects, giving an overall insight in the amount of waste related projects undertaken in Europe.
- The COLLECTORS factsheets describing the clustering activities. To promote knowledge sharing, multiple freshly started EU-projects have been selected and approached for clustering purposes. In order to maximise the impact of the tools and knowledge developed within COLLECTORS, clustering sessions have been held with the main objective to enable these projects to use the COLLECTORS results.
All factsheets contain a short clustering-project summary, a description of the relevant COLLECTORS tools, a description including hyperlinks with the relevant COLLECTORS reports, and lastly a tailored section on knowledge sharing where COLLECTORS partners explain or elaborate on specific questions of the clustering-project. This results in a useful and practical factsheet where project partners of the clustering-project can find and look up relevant information for their future research.
Clustering started with the compilation of a matrix to determine which of the COLLECTORS tools is of most interest to the clustering project. The following tools and/or reports are identified and presented to the projects:
- Life Cycle Analysis (LCA); An environmental assessment on waste collection in Europe by applying LCA, analysing how improving municipal waste collection can reduce the environmental impact for the PPW, WEEE and CDW.
- Cost Benefit Analysis (CBA); A financial assessments on waste collection in Europe by applying CBA, analysing how separate collection for PPW, WEEE and CDW can be implemented while balancing costs.
- Value Chain Analysis (VCA); Assessment of the contribution of waste collection systems to improve circularity and on solutions implemented in waste collection systems that enable the recycler to produce more value, by producing better (qualitative) secondary materials.
- Social Acceptance Analysis (SAA); An assessment in dialogue with citizens of the implemented solutions and key elements for societal acceptance on waste collection in Europe.
- Multiple-Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM); A decision making tool used for prioritising elements and aspects of waste collection systems by weighing and ranking parameters.
- Policy recommendations; Synthesis of all COLLECTORS results, the feedback from stakeholders and experts on the regulatory and governance barriers or catalysers to effective waste collection.
- Good practices; Description of the 12 good performing waste collection practices identified in the COLLECTORS project.


In honor of the 25th anniversary of the opening of its Parliament House, Australia has released its very first cornered coin. The $5 triangular coin's shape is an homage to the Canberra Parliament House's triangular flag pole. (See a photo here.) And while the coin is strange, it's far from the first piece of unconventional currency. Here, a look at some of the world's weirdest money:
Canada's polymer bills
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In late 2011, our neighbors to the north started replacing their paper-cotton $100 notes with bills made of polymer plastic, and soon followed up with plastic versions of the $50 and $20 bills. While the plastic bills are meant to be innovative and are packed with anti-forgery technology, they've also had their fair share of problems: In addition to feeling like Monopoly money, the bills tend to stick together in ATMs, and there have even been reports of the bills melting in extreme heat.
Germany's wooden bills
This one goes back a century: When Germany fell on hard times after World War I, out-of-control inflation rates led towns to print their own forms of unofficial currency, which they called notgeld (German for "emergency money"). Towns printed currency on everything from wood (like the bills above) to aluminum foil to playing cards to try and circumvent the depreciating value of the German mark. Since many types of notgeld were quickly snapped up by collectors, they actually contributed to the return of hard currency.
Palau's holy water coins
In 2008, the small island nation of Palau released a set of silver dollar coins commemorating the 150th anniversary of the apparitions of the Virgin Mary at Lourdes. Each of the limited-edition coins contains the image of the Virgin Mary and a tiny vial of holy water from the grotto in Lourdes, France.
Mongolia's talking Kennedy coin
Mongolia's Kennedy coin takes the adage "money talks" quite literally: Not to be outdone by America's Kennedy half dollar, the 2007 Mongolian 500 Tugrik coin features JFK's likeness and a tiny button that, when pressed, plays a short clip from Kennedy's famous "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech. Perhaps Mongolia took such an interest in Kennedy, says CNBC, because he was "well beloved by Mongolia for launching the Peace Corps." Almost immediately after they were released, the coins were snatched up by eagle-eyed collectors.
Ithaca, New York's local currency
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Ithaca, a pleasant little community in upstate New York best known for Cornell University, has been using Ithaca Hours to stimulate the town's economy since 1991. Indeed, Ithaca Hours are one of the most successful examples of local currency. Over 900 business in the area accept the bills, and some employees even issue them as part of their employees' wages. Each "hour" is equal to $10, since the average hourly wage in Tompkins County at the time was $10 an hour.
Canada's glow-in-the-dark dinosaur coin
After creating plastic money that looked like a toy, the Royal Canadian Mint decided it was time to actually create a coin for fun. This collectible quarter features a colored rendering of the Pachyrhinosaurus lakustai dinosaur (discovered in 1972 in Alberta), whose skeleton also glows in the dark. As for the other side of the coin? A non-glowing version of Queen Elizabeth.


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A Loculoascomycete fungus belonging to the genus Leptosphaerulina was found to survive as symptomless endophyte in the leaflets and rachis of peanut plant (TMV 7). Based on morphological and colony characteristics, it is identified as Leptosphaerulina crassiasca, a fungus that causes the pepper spot and leaf scorch diseases in peanut. Although several common endophytic fungi were recovered from the leaves of peanut, L. crassiasca showed a high relative density of infection. Owing to its endophytic nature, its pathogenicity could not be proved by infection studies. However, its identification as L. crassiasca suggests that this pathogen survives as symptomless endophyte in its host. There are limited studies on fungal endophytes of cultivated crops and hence, the present observation underlines the need to know more about the biology of endophytic fungi of crop plants.
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The Gray Glassy Tiger, also known as the Wood Nymph (Ideopsis juventa) is a species of nymphalid butterfly in the Danainae subfamily. This butterfly is dark gray or black with two rows of circular white dots along the margins of its wings and any elongated white patchs closer to the body. The elongated white patches appear to radiate from the thorax and have a slight pale blue tint.
**Please keep in mind that these specimens are dried and unspread (as shown), meaning the wings are closed. These specimens are useful if you want to use their wings only (for artwork, fairy dolls, jewelry) or simply to study them for science.
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The step list table describes all problems in a dataset. It provides a detailed listing of problem hierarchy (the unit and section divisions that contain the problem) and composition (the steps that make up a problem). Rows in the step list table are ordered alphabetically by problem hierarchy, problem name, and problem step.
The column headings are described in detail below.
- Problem Hierarchy
- The curriculum location in which the problem appears. The depth of the hierarchy can
vary between datasets. For example, some datasets specify only a unit and section curriculum,
while others specify a module, unit, and section. In terms of the DataShop logging format, the
"problem hierarchy" is the list of
namevalues contained in the dataset
levelelement of each context message. (See the context_message element in the Tutor Message guide for a description of how this data is logged).
- Problem Name
- The name of the problem.
- Step Name
- The name of the step within the problem, described as a interface selection and action. Multiple steps commonly appear within a problem.
To export the step list table:
- Click the Export Step List button. Your browser will prompt you to select a folder in which to save the file.
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]> XkbChangeTypesOfKey
XkbChangeTypesOfKey − Change the number of groups and the types bound to a key
Status XkbChangeTypesOfKey
(XkbDescPtr xkb, int key, int n_groups,
unsigned int groups, int *new_types_in, XkbMapChangesPtr p_changes);
− xkb
keyboard description to be changed
− key
keycode for key of interest
− n_groups
new number of groups for key
− groups
mask indicating groups to change
− new_types_in
indices for new groups specified in groups
− p_changes
notes changes made to xkb
XkbChangeTypesOfKey reallocates the symbols and actions bound to the key, if necessary, and initializes any new symbols or actions to NoSymbol or NoAction, as appropriate. If the p_changes parameter is not NULL, XkbChangeTypesOfKey adds the XkbKeySymsMask to the changes field of p_changes and modifies the first_key_sym and num_key_syms fields of p_changes to include the key that was changed. See STRUCTURE for more information on the XkbMapChangesPtr structure. If successful, XkbChangeTypesOfKey returns Success.
The n_groups parameter specifies the new number of groups for the key. The groups parameter is a mask specifying the groups for which new types are supplied and is a bitwise inclusive OR of the following masks: XkbGroup1Mask, XkbGroup2Mask, XkbGroup3Mask, and XkbGroup4Mask.
The new_types_in parameter is an integer array of length n_groups. Each entry represents the type to use for the associated group and is an index into xkb->map->types. The new_types_in array is indexed by group index; if n_groups is four and groups only has Group1Mask and Group3Mask set, new_types_in looks like this:
new_types_in[0] = type for Group1
new_types_in[1] = ignored
new_types_in[2] = type for Group3
new_types_in[3] = ignored
For convenience, Xkb provides the following constants to use as indices to the groups:
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If the Xkb extension has not been properly initialized, XkbChangeTypesOfKey returns BadAccess. If the xkb parameter it not valid (that is, it is NULL or it does not contain a valid client map), XkbChangeTypesOfKey returns BadMatch. If the key is not a valid keycode, n_groups is greater than XkbNumKbdGroups, or the groups mask does not contain any of the valid group mask bits, XkbChangeTypesOfKey returns BadValue. If it is necessary to resize the key symbols or key actions arrays and any allocation errors occur, XkbChangeTypesOfKey returns BadAlloc.
typedef struct _XkbMapChanges {
unsigned short changed; /∗ identifies valid components in
structure */
KeyCode min_key_code; /∗ lowest numbered keycode for device
KeyCode max_key_code; /∗ highest numbered keycode for device
unsigned char num_types; /∗ # types modified */
KeyCode first_key_sym; /∗ first key whose key_sym_map changed
unsigned char num_key_syms; /∗ # key_sym_map entries changed */
KeyCode first_key_act; /∗ first key whose key_acts entry
changed */
unsigned char num_key_acts; /∗ # key_acts entries changed */
KeyCode first_key_behavior; /∗ first key whose behaviors changed */
unsigned char num_key_behaviors; /∗ # behaviors entries changed */
KeyCode first_key_explicit; /∗ first key whose explicit entry
changed */
unsigned char num_key_explicit; /∗ # explicit entries changed */
KeyCode first_modmap_key; /∗ first key whose modmap entry changed
unsigned char num_modmap_keys; /∗ # modmap entries changed */
KeyCode first_vmodmap_key; /∗ first key whose vmodmap changed */
unsigned char num_vmodmap_keys; /∗ # vmodmap entries changed */
unsigned char pad1; /∗ reserved */
unsigned short vmods; /∗ mask indicating which vmods changed
} XkbMapChangesRec,*XkbMapChangesPtr;
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$S$ to a smooth connected complete curve $\overline{S}$ (with constant field that might be larger than ${\mathbf{Q}}$, but that won't matter for the ramification considerations we are about to undertake). Clearly $\overline{S}$ is a finite flat cover of the projective $j$-line over $\mathbf{Q}$ and at the point $s$ over $j=0$ (or $j=1728$) it has ramification degree 4 or 6 (I can't remember which is which) because of etaleness over $M_1$ and the fact that $M_1$ over the $j$-line has ramification over $j=0$ (or $j=1728$) equal to 4 or 6 (due to deformation theory considerations). By design, there is an elliptic curve over the open curve $S$ (namely, the pullback of the elliptic curve $E'_1$ over $M'_1$ that extends the elliptic curve $E$ over $Y$) whose discriminant in the function field of $\overline{S}$ is $(j(j-1728))^{-1}$ (well-defined up to 12th powers of nonzero elements, of course). But the "good reduction" at $s \in S$ forces the discriminant of any model over the function field of $S$ to have valuation at $s$ that is a multiple of 12, whereas for $(j(j-1728))^{-1}$ this valuation is $-4$ or $-6$ (since $S$ at $s$ has ramification over the $j$-line equal to 4 or 6). This is a contradiction, so $M_1$ has no nontrivial connected finite etale cover, assuming $\pi_1(Y) = 1$.
Finally, we prove $\pi_1(Y) = 1$. Note that $Y$ is the open complement in $\mathbf{P}^1_{\mathbf{Z}}$ of the union of the sections $\infty$, $j=0$, and $j=n$ with $n = 1728$. We will now work with any nonzero integer $n$. Since $\infty$ is disjoint from the others, by Saito's argument with the relative Abhyankar's Lemma as explained above, we see that any finite etale cover of $Y$ has normalization over that projective $j$-line over $\mathbf{Z}$ that is etale over $\infty$. Hence, it suffices to show that the open complement of $j(j-n)=0$ in $\mathbf{P}^1_{\mathbf{Z}}$ has trivial $\pi_1$. Making the change of coordinates $t = 1/j$ (which moves $j = 0$ out to $\infty$), this open complement is identified with the open complement $U_n$ in the affine $t$-line $\mathbf{A}^1_{\mathbf{Z}}$ of the locus $nt=1$. So it is enough to prove that $\pi_1(U_n) = 1$. Equivalently, we claim that $U_n$ has no nontrivial Galois connected finite etale covers. This will rest on three special facts about $\mathbf{Z}$: the triviality of $\pi_1({\rm{Spec}}(\mathbf{Z}))$, the triviality of ${\rm{Pic}}(\mathbf{Z})$, and the smallness of the group of roots of unity in $\mathbf{Z}$. Beware that $U_n(\mathbf{Z})$ is empty when $n \not\in \mathbf{Z}^{\times}$.
Let $h:V \rightarrow U_n$ be a Galois connected finite etale cover with degree $> 1$, so over $\mathbf{Q}$ we get a nontrivial connected finite etale cover $V'$ of the $\mathbf{Q}$-fiber $U'_n$ of $U_n$. We first claim that $V'$ must be geometrically connected over $\mathbf{Q}$. Since we're in characteristic 0, this amounts to the condition that $V'$ has constant field $\mathbf{Q}$. If we let the number field $K$ be its constant field then by normality of $V$ it follows that $h$ factors through $(U_n)_{O_K}$, with $V \rightarrow (U_n)_{O_K}$ necessarily surjective. This forces $(U_n)_{O_K}$ to be etale over $U_n$ (since $h$ is a finite etale cover), so since $U_n$ is fpqc over ${\rm{Spec}}(\mathbf{Z})$ it follows that ${\rm{Spec}}(O_K)$ is etale over ${\rm{Spec}}(\mathbf{Z})$. This forces $K = \mathbf{Q}$, as desired.
By the coordinate change $x = t/n$ we identify $U'_n$ with ${\rm{GL}}_1$, so $V'$ is a geometrically connected cover of ${\rm{GL}}_1$ over $\mathbf{Q}$. Thus, for $d = {\rm{deg}}(h) > 1$ we see that over an algebraically closed extension $k$ of $\mathbf{Q}$ the map $h_k$ is identified with the endomorphism $x^d$ of ${\rm{GL}}_1$. That is, the map $h'$ induced by $h$ between $\mathbf{Q}$-fibers is a "$\mathbf{Q}$-form" of the $\mu_d$-torsor ${\rm{GL}}_1$ over ${\rm{GL}}_1 = U'_n$. The set of isomorphism classes of such forms is given by $${\rm{H}}^1({\rm{GL}}_1,\mu_d) = (\mathbf{Q}^{\times}/({\mathbf{Q}}^{\times})^d) \times x^{\mathbf{Z}/d\mathbf{Z}}$$ (since ${\rm{GL}}_1$ has trivial Pic and has unit group $\mathbf{Q}^{\times} x^{\mathbf{Z}}$). Explicitly, for $q \in \mathbf{Q}^{\times}$ and $j \in \mathbf{Z}$ the finite etale cover of ${\rm{GL}}_1 = U'_n$ associated to the class of $(q,j \bmod d)$ is given by the covering equation $y^d = q x^j$. As a covering of ${\rm{GL}}_1$ with coordinate $x$, this has geometric covering group $\mu_d(\overline{\mathbf{Q}})$ via scaling on $y$, so by inspection this geometric covering group action is not defined over $\mathbf{Q}$ (i.e., the automorphism group scheme for the covering is not a constant group over $\mathbf{Q}$, or in other words not all of these geometric automorphisms are defined over $\mathbf{Q}$) except when $d = 2$. Ah, but recall that we arranged for $h$ to be a Galois covering, so in our setting with the covering $h'$ the geometric covering group must be defined entirely over $\mathbf{Q}$ (as a constant group). In particular, $h$ must have degree $d = 2$. Also, the geometric connectedness of the covering forces ${\rm{gcd}}(j,d) = 1$.
To summarize, we have proved that $V \rightarrow U_n$ viewed over $\mathbf{Q}$ is given by $y^2 = q(t/n)$ for some $q \in \mathbf{Q}^{\times}$. By changing $y$ by a $\mathbf{Q}^{\times}$-scaling (as we may certainly do), we can change $q$ by any square multiple we wish, so we can arrange that $q/n$ is equal to a squarefree integer $r$. Then $V$ is identified with the normalization of $\mathbf{Z}[t][1/(nt-1)]$ in the $(nt-1)$-localization of $\mathbf{Z}[y,t]/(y^2 - rt)$. Using that $r$ is a squarefree integer, we claim that $\mathbf{Z}[y,t]/(y^2 - rt)$ is normal (in contrast with the situation for $\mathbf{Z}[y]/(y^2 - r)$ when $r$ is odd!). This is clear after inverting 2, so by Serre's homological criterion the only issue is to check the normality at the generic points in characteristic 2, which is to say that the maximal ideal of the local ring at these points is principal. If $r$ is even (so it is twice an odd integer) then $y$ lies in such primes, so $(2,y)$ is the only such prime and $t$ isn't in this prime. Hence, in such cases $y$ is a local generator (as the equation $rt =


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photoexcitation. With increasing temperature, more and more atoms are completely ionized, and the scope for the above absorption processes decreases. Therefore the matter in the penumbra is more transparent than the low temperature photospheric matter and that in the umbra more transparent than both of these.
Radially outward motions in the sunspot penumbrae (parallel to the photospheric surface), named as the Evershed velocities (after their discoverer) are known to exist. No vertical or tangential velocities were ever observed in the penumbrae. The radial velocityradial to the spotincreases from about 1.0 km/sec at the boundary between umbra and penumbra, reaches a maximum of about 2.0 km/sec near the center of the penumbra and comes to zero at the outer edge of the penumbra. It is also known that the Evershed velocity increases with the depth.
According to Bray and Loughhead:
... The simplest interpretation of the Evershed effect is that it consists of a laminar flow of matter outwards from the umbra along the filaments...
All the above description of the Evershed effect exactly fits our theoretical conclusion that the penumbral matter is in the intermediate temperature range. The commencement of the radial velocity with a finite value (instead of a zero value) at the boundary of the umbra, the sustained laminar-like flow, despite the existence of a steep velocity gradient in the vertical direction, the apparent motion against the pressure gradient, all of these point to the same thing, namely, that the motions in the penumbra pertain to the region of equivalent space.
In Section 3.2.4 we have shown that thermal motion beyond the unit level tends to contract a material aggregate. Therefore the decrease in the intermediate temperature with the increase in the penumbral radius involves a re-expansion that extends all along the radius. Although this manifests as a flow in the penumbral filaments, in reality, its true nature is altogether different.
We shall let Larson explain it:
At this time we will take a look at another of the observable effects of motion in time... its effect in distorting the scale of the spatial reference system.
Thus at higher intermediate temperatures there will be a greater scale distortion (in the manner of contraction) and vice versa.
The Evershed flow is not a genuine change of position of the particles of matter in the space of the reference system: it is, rather, the effect of the occurrence of a scale gradient accompanying the temperature gradient in the intermediate region.
The radiation intensity of the sunspots is measured at several frequency ranges. The current practice of treating this radiation as conforming to the continuum spectrum of the blackbody radiation has lead to conflicting results.
Bray and Loughhead remark, As a direct consequence of the umbra's low temperature, its spectral class is later than that of the photospheredKo as compared to dGo-2 for the photosphere. Then on making a comparison with the observed intensity values they conclude: It follows that the spectral class of the umbra is decidedly earlier than the temperature derived from intensity measurements made in the continuous spectrum would lead one to expect. The origin of this discrepancy is unknown. This must be so, as long as the true status of this radiation is not recognized.
Quoting again from them:... numerous weak [spectral] bands due to unidentified compounds have so far been seen only in spots, and... unidentified bands in the sunspot spectrum are more numerous than those now accounted for.
The entire surface of the photosphere appears covered with uniformly bright cells, called the granules, separated by the darker intergranular material. These granules are believed to be convection cells. Observations show that there is an increase in intensity at the Violet and UV wavelengths giving rise to the appearance of bright, ring-like regions around the spots.
Bray and Loughhead report that it is found that the intensity of the bright ring is greatest immediately outside the penumbra and decreases slowly outwards... the bright rings are unusually intense around spots showing large Evershed velocities.
No satisfactory explanation of the presence of the bright rings in the photosphere around spots... has yet been given. Rightly so. But the moment we realize that the spots are hotter and not cooler than the photosphere, then enhanced brightness can be attributed to the energy transfer from the spot.
Moreover, from heat transfer studies, it is known that an increased heat transfer rate is correlated with smaller size of the convective cells. We see from Bray et al that the size distribution of the solar granulation is extremely uniform over the solar surface...
... Several authors have observed a reduction in the granule diameter or mean spacing in the close neighborhood of sunspots..., which so far has received no theoretical attention. In addition, these areas of reduced granule size adjacent to the spots are found to coincide with the regions of enhanced brightness mentioned above.
Polarization measurements on the integrated radiation from the sunspots indicates that it is partially plane polarized. This, of course, is what is to be expected (see the end of Section 3.1).
We have already discussed some aspects of the magnetic fields, the prominences, and the granulation in association with the spots.
In addition to the continuum and line emission, different other patterns of radiation emission are observed in conjunction with sunspot groups. Non-thermal radio emission in the metric frequency range is often found above spot groups and is known as the Type I continuum storm. Such sunspot groups with Type I emission are also found responsible for the generation of solar flares (sudden, local increases in the surface brightness of the sun).
Emission of micro-waves, soft thermal X-rays, high energy particles (of MeV-BeV range), hard non-thermal X-rays, gamma rays, and non-thermal burst emissions at radio frequencies are all known to occur in the several phases of the solar flares. Some of the radiation is seen to be strongly polarized. The scientists admit that as yet no satisfactory and consistent explanation of the complex nature of these radiation phenomena is available.
Larson discusses at length the processes that generate non-thermal X-rays and radio waves. He explains how stable isotopes become radioactive and emit radiation at radio wavelengths when they are transported from the low temperature region to the intermediate temperature region. In a similar manner, he shows that when matter which has attained isotopic stability in the intermediate temperature region is transported to the low temperature region, it again becomes radioactive and emits X-rays and gamma rays. As such, it is not difficult to account for the origin of the variety of the observed radiations in association with the sunspots, once the presence of the ultra high and the intermediate speed matter in and around them is recognized.
We have shown that reasoning from the principles embodied in the Reciprocal System it is possible to explore the internal structure of the sun. The theoretical understanding so obtained is in consonance with the observations of sunspot and relevant phenomena.
The main thesis derived is that sunspots are produced by the surfacing of the ultra high temperature matter in the solar core in the form of thredules to the photospheric level.
It must be mentioned that the theoretical account of the solar interior herein reported is a simplified one that is meant to serve as the basis for further, more detailed, work.


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Lost Mound is located where the once vibrant Savanna Army Depot once was (still there, just not operational). It is part of the Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife Refuge and is a birder's paradise, yet still fairly unknown. The signs and sights tell you otherwise, but Lost Mound is unbelievable when it comes to birds.
While in Rhode Island we have started to see lots of Northern Mockingbirds. This was a life bird for Dakota, and a bird we seldom see in northern Illinois. Northern Mockingbird with earwig


text: The distribution of archaeomagnetic data in eastern Europe and the Near and Middle East shows a remarkable gap in Turkey. This study presents the first archaeomagnetic results from five different mounds in southeast Turkey, the northern part of Mesopotamia. The rock magnetic experiments indicate that in the majority of the samples the dominant magnetic carrier is magnetite, which is stable to heating to temperatures of 700 degrees C. In general, the demagnetization diagrams are single component and all five sets display well-defined characteristic magnetizations and clustered directions. For the period between 2500 and 700 BCE, the declinations are between 350 degrees and 20 degrees while inclinations are in the range of 49-64 degrees. The directional results are compared with the global geomagnetic field models (CALS7k.2, ARCH3k_cst.1 and CALS3k.4) and the data from the archaeomagnetic database GEOMAGIA50v2. The results are coherent with both the data and the models except for two near-contemporaneous sets dating similar to 2000 BCE, which are offset to the east by more than 20 degrees with respect to CALS7k.2. Archaeointensity measurements were made using the microwave and conventional thermal Thellier methods applied to five sets of samples (four furnaces and a mud-brick wall). These yielded comparable and intriguing results. While those from the furnaces are slightly higher than the CALS7k.2 model and in agreement with the GEOMAGIA50v2 and the Middle East data, the results from the mud-brick wall suggest a high intensity of 100.8 mu T (17.7 x 10(22) Am-2) at similar to 1000 BCE. This result is in excellent agreement with recent claims of extremely high intensity measured in other regions of the Middle East for this time period though less consistent with these being associated with extremely short-lived events. Finally, we discuss our new and other recently published archaeointensity results in terms of geomagnetic intensity versus climate. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.


text: A fresh perspective on British history from award-winning broadcaster Fatima Manji. Why was there a Turkish mosque adorning Britain's most famous botanic garden in the eighteenth century? How did a pair of Persian-inscribed cannon end up in rural Wales? And who is the Moroccan man depicted in a long-forgotten portrait hanging in a west London stately home? Throughout Britain's museums, civic buildings and stately homes, relics can be found that reveal the diversity of pre-twentieth-century Britain and expose the misconceptions around modern immigration narratives. In her journey across Britain exploring cultural landmarks, Fatima Manji searches for a richer and more honest story of a nation struggling with identity and the legacy of empire.


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This paper describes how to model software and hardware components in the UML. The component model illustrates the software components that will be used to build the system. These may be built up from the class model and written from scratch for the new system, or may be brought in from other projects and third party vendors. Components are high level aggregations of smaller software pieces, and provide a 'black box' building block approach to software construction.
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- Estimating the impact of environmental conditions on hatching results using multivariable analysis
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- Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)
- Hatching results are directly related to environmental and biological surroundings. This research study aimed at evaluating the influence of incubation environmental conditions on hatchability and one-day-old chickling quality of five production flocks using multivariable analysis tool. The experiment was carried out in a commercial hatchery located in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. Environmental variables such as dry bulb temperature, relative humidity, carbon dioxide concentration, and number of colony forming units of fungi were recorded inside a broiler multi-stage setter, a hatcher after eggs transference, and a chick-processing room. The homogeneity of parameter distribution among quadrants inside the setter, the hatcher, and the chick room was tested using the non-parametric test of Kruskal-Wallis, and the fit analysis was applied. The multivariate analysis was applied using the Main Component Technique in order to identify possible correlations between environmental and production parameters. Three different groups were identified: the first group is represented by temperature, which was positively correlated both with good hatchability and good chick quality; the second group indicates that poor chick quality was positively correlated with air velocity and relative humidity increase. The third group, represented by carbon dioxide concentration and fungi colonies forming units, presented strong positive association with embryo mortality increase.
- Revista Brasileira de Ciência Avícola. Fundação APINCO de Ciência e Tecnologia Avícolas, v. 10, n. 4, p. 215-222, 2008.
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2. Mark off inches on the coffee can. Put the can outside, away from the house in a calm, protected area but not under a tree.
3. Read the depth of snowfall directly off the collecting can. About ten inches of snow is equal to one inch of rain so if you wish to know the amount of precipitation, divide the depth of the snow by ten.
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For example, Watch around 2:10 here. What is this false stop called? is there a single word?
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The only term I've heard used is False Ending – Digital Chris Feb 22 at 4:01
The accepted answer is good - but let me recommend music.stackexchange for future questions about musical terminology. – Carl Witthoft Feb 22 at 16:07
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In classical music tradition such a dramatic break in the music (not so much a false ending) is called a grand pause, a caesura, or very informally, railroad tracks.
A grand pause is a more expansive break, often notated with a whole measure of rest, sometimes with the initials "G.P." over the bar.
A caesura is typically a shorter break that often happens abruptly. It's notated with two right-slanting parallel lines (looking like railroad tracks, whence the informal label) that can be placed at any point within the measure.
Your Yanni example is somewhere in the middle of the two, and could be appropriately called either one - either a shorter grand pause or a caesura.
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In music theory, it simply referred to as a whole rest or a blank measure. But in sound engineering and electronic music design, the simulation of a malfunction, false-start/stop etc is referred to as an "edit" which comes from "edited glitch" and is also sometimes shortened to "itch" for the meaning of the word itch and how an intentional error in a composition creates the feeling of an itch that needs to be scratched, the scratch being the point in the composition where the edit resolves itself, having temporarily tricked the listener into thinking that something may have gone wrong.
For wild examples of edits in electronic music, see the works of composer/producer James Holden, especially his piece "a break in the clouds" which was meant to introduce the edit-techno genre as the first release on his record label "border community" -- better still, see his dub remix of Britney Spears' "Breathe on Me" _URL_ which is almost 100% edits & itches with ONE final satisfying scratching of the edit-gl/itch.
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Do you have a reference for this? – Peter Shor Feb 22 at 15:08
_URL_%28music%29 is close, points to a lot of relevant things, which, in terms of finding a citation, is probably in an indie record label's mission statement or interview with an electronic musician. only reason i know this particular terminology is that i and/or people with whom i've worked (as the band "meerkat") had to invent a lot of the terminology ourselves. -- (Warp Records is particularly established, you might find a good mission statement there, or something from their artists such as Aphex Twin or Boards of Canada) – miercoledi Feb 22 at 17:04
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- A hospital treating contagious diseases.
- A building or ship used as a quarantine station.
- A storage space between the decks of a ship.
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Monday, 14 September 2015
Should sail-shades, be treated as cable-nets and tension membranes?
Builders of sail-shades hold standard calculations for sail-shades. These calculations are trivial, basically one page: as far as the ones I've seen. Assume elevation of cable, determine horizontal component of wind loading, apply to post and determine moment in post. Job Done!
Treated as a cable-net suggests the pretension would snap the posts. Since this doesn't happen in practice, pretensions are not high. Which then suggests that the sail-shade is not tensioned, and that also not able to support load of kids climbing onto the shade. Also one verandah builder told me story, that he had seen failed sail-shade with the cables and shackles whipping up and down damaging several very expensive cars.
So seems more rigorous assessment is required. But councils appear to grant approval for the simple approach on regular basis. Checking as cable-net/tension membrane takes considerable longer.


Efforts aim to reduce burning of sugar cane fields
Smoke fills the air as a sugar cane field burns Wednesday morning near Main Project Road in Schriever.
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Published: Wednesday, November 13, 2013 at 7:35 p.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, November 13, 2013 at 7:35 p.m.
Like football and the leaves changing colors, burning sugar cane crops is a fall tradition that helps growers but irritates others.
Louisiana farmers are being educated about how to minimize the impact of field burning on the public and there is ongoing research to determine how to lessen the need to burn crops.
The reason the crops are burned is to remove mulch after harvesting so a new sugar cane crop can begin to grow.
Mulch "will actually rot the cane and kill it and the seed bed," said Michael Daigle, president of the Thibodaux-based American Sugar Cane League.
Sugar cane stalks continue to grow for several years — up to four crops of cane from one planting, Daigle said. Even after the surface plant dies, the roots will go dormant in the winter and sprout again when the soil temperature rises.
Without removal, mulch may delay the emergence of plant sprouts by two weeks, and farmers could lose up to 35 percent of the crop, he said.
In recent years, scientists have begun researching ways to reduce and possibly eliminate sugar cane burning but have yet to find a sustainable and cost-effective method to do so. Scientists have experimented with mechanical removal and creating new varieties of cane that can tolerate mulch while still remaining strong and healthy.
"We have conducted at least 10 experiments every season for the last 10 years looking at ways to mitigate the effects of cane mulch," Ryan Viator, former sugar cane researcher with the U.S. Department of Agriculture Research, said last year.
The LSU AgCenter and the state Department of Agriculture and Forestry developed a course to teach farmers about safety, the best time to burn, fire behavior and other burn-management techniques, said Ken Gravois, LSU AgCenter sugar cane researcher.
"It's strongly recommended that farmers and their employees be certified by the state as a certified prescribed burn manager and only burn when the weather conditions are safe," he said.
"(The farmers) get certification and the sugar mills provide weather data to all of the farmers every morning. If the farmer has a field next to a hospital, church, subdivision, and the wind is blowing that way, they can't burn that particular field. They're very conscientious of the environment and their neighbors," Daigle said.
Because cane-burning season coincides with the ragweed allergy season, sometimes it's hard to tell which is affecting a person who gets irritated outside.
Dr. Matthew Beyer, ear, nose and throat specialist with the Hagen-Beyer Clinic in Houma and Thibodaux, said smoke from cane burning can aggravate allergy symptoms but is not always the cause of respiratory illness.
"We'll see patients that come in because their sinuses are irritated, but that's not a true allergic reaction. It's not due to the person's system overreacting to something," Beyer said. "You can think of it as if you inhaled pepper and start sneezing. You're not allergic to pepper, but it causes a response."
To determine the difference between a ragweed infection and smoke irritation, Dr. David Hagen, who works with Beyer, said he'll often look at the patient's medical history and location. If the person is repeatedly being treated for sinus problems around this time of year, it's more likely he or she is dealing with ragweed. However, if the problem is inconsistent and the person is near cane fields, smoke may be the problem.
Smoke irritation, ragweed season, and colds and flu combine to make the late fall and early winter the "upper respiratory tract season," Hagen said
"(The smoke) is kind of like the straw that broke the camel's back. All of those things are hitting at the same time," he said.
Doctors said some people are more sensitive than others to smoke and similar irritants. That can depend on family history or other conditions like asthma or sinus problems.
To minimize the impacts of smoke on your respiratory system, you should stay indoors during the peak cane-burning hours of 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Using a sinus rise can also help alleviate symptoms. But if it doesn't, you should visit your doctor.
The amount of patients being seen as a result of the cane smoke has dropped in recent years because farmers are taking more precautions, Hagen said.
But Beyer said that doesn't mean residents shouldn't be careful.
"There are no known demographic risks of burning sugar cane. But we do know that the smoke is toxic to an extent," Beyer said. "It's just like any other smoke. It's not a major public health risk, but I wouldn't recommend going out and running around in it."
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Dragon's teeth was a phrase used in ancient Greek mythology.
In 2376, Captain Kathryn Janeway, along with the Vaadwaur Gedrin and Commander Chakotay discovered numerous Vaadwaur soldiers in stasis, from the year 1484. After seeing them, Chakotay told of the myth of dragon's teeth, which was the story of when a dragon was killed in battle, its teeth were spread throughout a battlefield. The teeth then took root and warriors sprung from them to continue fighting. (VOY: "Dragon's Teeth")
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Toss a fair coin six times. What is probability of :
 - a- all heads
 - b- one head
 - c- two heads
 - d- an even number of heads
 - e- at least four heads.
I have the answers so I ask if you could explain how you should derive rather than just giving me the answers please.
I know for a, you just multiple 1/2 6 times. But for the rest I need your help please.
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There are $2^6$ possible outcomes, one for each sequences of six heads-or-tails.
a. How many sequences of six tosses have all heads? One. Since there is one good outcome and $2^6$ possible outcomes, then the probability is $$\frac{1}{2^6}.$$
b. How many sequences of six tosses have exactly one head? Six (pick which toss is heads). So the probability of getting exactly one head is...
c. How many possible sequences have exactly two heads? Pick the two tosses that are heads; then you get...
d. An even number of heads means either no heads, two heads, four heads, or six heads. There is one sequence with no heads, one sequences with six heads, then xxx sequences with two heads, and yyy sequences with four heads. So the total number of "good" outcomes is $1+1+$xxx$+$yyy. So the probability is...
e. At least four heads... that means either no tails, one tail, or two tails. You already figured each of those in (a), (b), and (c) (well, for heads, but you can see that it's the same answer if you want to know the probability of "exactly one head" and the probability of "exactly one tail", right?). So...
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Do you know Pascal's triangle? The line 1 6 15 20 15 6 1 (just below the bottom one shown in the article) is the one you want. For two heads, you can choose the first head in 6 ways, then the second in 5, but you have counted each possibility twice (two different orders). Thus there are 6*5/2=15 ways to get two heads and the probability is $\frac{15}{2^6}$. For e you just add the chance of 4, 5, and 6.
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Scene Text Recognition via Transformer
Mar 18, 2020
Xinjie Feng, Hongxun Yao, Yuankai Yi, Jun Zhang, Shengping Zhang
Scene text recognition with arbitrary shape is very challenging due to large variations in text shapes, fonts, colors, backgrounds, etc. Most state-of-the-art algorithms rectify the input image into the normalized image, then treat the recognition as a sequence prediction task. The bottleneck of such methods is the rectification, which will cause errors due to distortion perspective. In this paper, we find that the rectification is completely unnecessary. What all we need is the spatial attention. We therefore propose a simple but extremely effective scene text recognition method based on transformer [50]. Different from previous transformer based models [56,34], which just use the decoder of the transformer to decode the convolutional attention, the proposed method use a convolutional feature maps as word embedding input into transformer. In such a way, our method is able to make full use of the powerful attention mechanism of the transformer. Extensive experimental results show that the proposed method significantly outperforms state-of-the-art methods by a very large margin on both regular and irregular text datasets. On one of the most challenging CUTE dataset whose state-of-the-art prediction accuracy is 89.6%, our method achieves 99.3%, which is a pretty surprising result. We will release our source code and believe that our method will be a new benchmark of scene text recognition with arbitrary shapes.
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From a total population of 88,975, Westminster has a median age of 40. The average age of males, in Westminster, is 39.1 while the average age of females is 40.6. When you compare this to median age of California, Westminster is 4.4 years older.
The median income of individuals, in Westminster, is $22,821 while the average household income is $53,660. When comparing the median income of people living in Westminster to the rest of California, the average income in Westminster is $7,085 less.


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I wonder if this feature is available in TeX system? For example, given a formula within a table, it can apply the formula and display data after the calculation.
There is the package
Here's a simple example of using R, knitr and xtable to produce a LaTeX table.
Assume you have the following document called
In short, the code between
To convert the file into latex and then to pdf you could just open the rnw file in the open source R IDE called RStudio and click "Compile PDF". Or you could issue commands like this from the command line.
It would produce output like this:
To run the above example, you would need to install:
For more information check out the knitr website: _URL_
If you use LuaTeX you can extend TeX with any C math library and create Lua bindings.
Generate the binding
Generate the binding with
then compile the module
Now the module is available in LuaTeX with
Using the library
The result of this code:
Since this approach does not make use of any ConTeXt features this code should work in LaTeX as well with only minor modifications. However, it only works with LuaTeX.
This description is based on a talk by Luigi Scarso at BachoTeX 2011. All credits go to him.


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Definition of gunfire in English:
The repeated firing of a gun or guns: they'd been caught up in gunfire in Beirut
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- It was not known if the governor was wounded by gunfire from the assailant or from shots fired afterward.
- Fires continue to belch smoke over the city and sporadic gunfire echoes through the flooded streets.
- Yesterday there were sporadic exchanges of gunfire and a tank firing shells in the city.
Words that rhyme with gunfirebonfire • crossfire • bushfire
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―Ion gunner
The ion cannon was a multi-scale weapon which could be fitted, in varying sizes and power levels, to just about any kind of starship, from small starfighters to the largest capital-class warships and space stations. Small-scale ion cannons were also used by various military organizations and/or criminals.
The principles behind ion cannon technology were too complex to explain to the average citizen of the galaxy, particularly . Suffice to say, such weapons allowed non Force-sensitive beings to harness the power of Force lightning. While ion cannons did little to no damage to organic beings, they were extremely effective in shutting down the electrical systems of any type of machine or mechanism that the beam came into contact with.
This article is called Ion cannon. Ion cannon has been written from a simple, Ric Olié point of view. A non-simple version of Ion cannon can be read on Darthipedia. Darthipedia is the Star Wars Humor Wiki.
Primitive ion cannons were used by Jawas as aids to the illegal procurement of technology, typically things such as droids or small vehicles, which they would then repair or rebuild and, as often as not, sell it back to whomever they had stolen it from. Pirates also prized ion cannons for the booty they yielded during raids.
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In Team Cherry's Hollow Knight, there are a lot of areas with their own kinds of enemies. One of these areas is The Hive.
Under Kingdom's Edge is a large community of bees called The Hive. The Hive is built from brown and translucent honey-like materials. In addition, the architecture in the area follows a hexagonal shape just like honeycombs.
In The Hive, the Knight will encounter different kinds of enemies: Hivelings, Hive Soldiers, Hive Husks, Hive Guardians, and the Hive Knight who is the optional boss of the area.
In this area, the Knight can also encounter and obtain a lot of items: ten Geo Deposits (with two only reachable by entering the north entrance), two Grubs (with one only reachable by entering the north entrance), a Mask Shard, a Whispering Root with 20 essences, and the Hiveblood Charm which you can only obtain after defeating the Hive Knight.
Reach The Hive
Before being able to reach The Hive, the Knight must first obtain the Tram Pass, which can be found in the wreck of a tram in the Failed Tramway in Deepnest, to access Kingdom's Edge.
After obtaining the Tram Pass, this is what the Knight must do:
- From Deepnest or Ancient Basin, enter the Tram and interact with the glowing button in the rightmost part of the Tram (if you start from Deepnest, interact with the glowing button twice to reach Kingdom's Edge).
- Next, exit the Tram and proceed to the right where you'll encounter spike pits, which you can easily jump and dash over
- Continue to the right until you reach a wall and two Hivelings. Kill the Hivelings then with the Soul gained from killing them, cast the Vengeful Spirit/Shade Soul Spell on the wall to break it and reveal a pathway (going up the wall and exiting above leads to Kingdom's Edge).
Once in The Hive, the Knight can open a path that can help access the further depths of The Hive. Just continue on the path of the area until you reach this part of the map:
Then, there will be a breakable wall that leads back to Kingdom's Edge.
Additionally, there is another entrance to The Hive but this time it is an isolated part of The Hive which contains a Grub and Geo Deposits. This entrance can be found just before entering Kingdom's Edge's central cliff. You will find a few more stray Hivelings and a breakable floor (exactly before the entrance to the central cliff). Then, this pathway is filled with pools of acid


the second order reaction in Eq. 3, the equations for the means are coupled to the second moments. In fact, the n th moment equations contain terms that involve the n+ l moments. Thus, there is no closure to the system. The simplest closure scheme is to assume that all moments factorize (e.g., ). This represents the macroscopic limit in which fluctuations are ignored. In this limit, we recover Eqs. 6–8 from the master equation.
The diffusion limit and the chemical langevin equations
The general form of the master equation for a system consisting of N chemical species and M reactions is
where n is a N-dimensional vector of species numbers, F i and B i are the backward and forward rates for the i th reaction, and the vectors δ i contain the stoichiometric constants for the ith reaction. For the simple model given by Eqs. 1–3, N = 3, M = 3, and p n (t) = Pr[A(t) = n1, B(t) = n2, and A_B(t) = n3]. The forward and backward rates are F1 = γ, B1 = δn1, F2 = k1n1, B2 = k2n2, F3 = k3n1n2, and B3 = k4n3. The δ i vectors are the rows of the stoichiometric matrix
The (i,j) element in the above matrix represents the change in the j th chemical species when the i th reaction proceeds in the forward direction.
If the molecule numbers are large as compared to 1, then the master equation Eq. 16 can be approximated by the continuous process [28, 35]
This result can be derived in several ways. One method is to note that Eq. 15 represents a second order finite differencing of Eq. 18, with a grid size of 1. Another method is to make use of the shift operator
where f(n) is an arbitrary smooth function and for our purposes k is an integer. If the shift operator is used in Eq. 15, the diffusion limit is achieved when the Taylor series expansion given in Eq. 21 is truncated at j = 2.
Sample paths consistent with Eq. 18 can be generated using the following set of SDEs
where the w k (t) are independent Gaussian white noise processes. These equations are often referred to as the chemical Langevin equations. For Eqs. 1 – 3, the explicit form of the SDEs are
BioNetS generates numerical solutions to the SDEs given by Eq. 22 using either an explicit or semi-implicit Euler method. The form of these methods is
where ε = 0 for the explicit method and ε = 1 for the semi-implicit method and the Z k (t) are independent standard normal random variables. The advantage of using the chemical Langevin equations is that in the appropriate parameter regime, numerical solutions to the set of SDEs given by Eq. 22 can be generated much more efficiently than using the Gillespie algorithm. We expand upon this point in the Examples section. Higher order numerical algorithms for SDEs are available [36], but the noise structure of the chemical Langevin equations makes these schemes very cumbersome to implement. In the Examples, we verify that the Euler methods given by Eq. 26 are sufficient to produce reliable results. We note that the Δ matrix is generally sparse, and BioNetS takes advantage of this sparseness to optimize the efficiency of the two Euler methods (see Numerical Methods, below).
Hybrid schemes
It is often desirable to allow some of the chemical species to be treated as continuous random variables and some to be treated discretely. This is particularly true for the case of transcriptional regulation by transcription factors. In this situation there can be as few as one DNA/transcription factor binding site and mRNA abundances can be as small as 10 or fewer. In contrast, protein abundances can be in the thousands. The technical difficulty with implementing hybrid schemes that include both discrete and continuous random variables is that the Gillespie method requires constant transition rates between reactions. This may not be the case, if some of the chemical species are evolving continuously in time. BioNetS overcomes this problem in one of two ways.
Let N d ε, then the discrete reactions determine the fastest time scale in the system. In this case the Gillespie algorithm is used to update the discrete reactions, and the random time stepΔt j is used to update the SDEs.
A pseudo-code description of the above algorithm is displayed in Table 3:
Numerical methods
BioNetS generates code that is tailored to efficiently simulate biochemical reactions. The optimization techniques used by BioNetS allows the software to simulate large systems in reasonable times without requiring high-end computational hardware.
Techniques used to optimize the Gillespie method are:
 - For the discrete variables, the program uses data structures that allow only the chemical species and reaction rates that are affected by the current reaction to be updated.
 - A bisection search is used to determine which reaction occurred.
The code has both an explicit and a semi-implicit solver, for simulating the chemical Langevin equations. The user specifies at runtime which method to use. By default the semi-implicit solver will be used. The semi-implicit solver uses Newton's method to solve the implicit equations, and for that the program needs to compute the Jacobian and solve a linear system at each iteration. For updating the chemical Langevin equations and hybrid models optimization techniques include:
 - The sparse nature of the stoichiometric matrix is used to efficiently store and per form matrix operations.
 - After every reaction, only the species and reaction rates affected by that reaction are updated. This can be seen in the Rates.cpp file, where all the different cases have been worked out and written for optimal execution speed.
 - The Jacobian is sparse, and the code takes full advantage of this fact. The program solves and factorizes the Jacobian using sparse methods. Before the code generation, BioNetS computes the entries in the Jacobian symbolically and finds a permutation that decreases the number of fill-ins during the LU factorization. As a result, no zero entries are saved, and the sparse structure is fully exploited. The sparse structure is then used in the LU solve. In the code, no pivots are visible, and no if-statements are left.
Results and discussion
In this section we present several examples which serve as illustrations of how to use BioNetS and test the accuracy and efficiency of the numerical methods. One particular concern is the accuracy of the Euler methods. While these methods are only of order
, we show that when the approximations that lead to the chemical Langevin equations are valid, the difference between the numerical solutions of the SDEs and the exact discrete Gillespie method are negligible. Currently, the graphical user interface to BioNetS runs on the Macintosh OS X operating system, though the software will generate portable C/C++ code that can be compiled and run in any computing environment. The files needed to install and run BioNetS can be downloaded from The following examples illustrate the way in which models are entered and run in BioNetS. More detailed documentation is available with the software package.
We begin with a simple system that consists of the following two reactions:
In this system, monomer molecules M are produced at an average rate γ and degraded at an average rate δ m M(t). Two monomers can then bind to form a dimer molecule D. The average forward and backward rates for the this reaction are k1M(t)(M(t) - 1) and k2D(t), respectively. The dimers are degraded at a rate δ d. We will treat two cases. In the first case the cell volume is assumed to be constant, and in the second case the cell is allowed to grow and divide. To model cell growth, the cell volume V c is treated as a random variable V c V, where V is a non-negative discrete random variable and α represents a unit of volume. The random variable V is governed by the reaction
The above reaction causes V to grow exponentially fast with an average rate of k3. Note that logistic growth is produced when the backward reaction in Eq. 32 is included.
Constant volume
We start by considering the simple case in which the volume of the cell remains constant. To use BioNetS follow these steps. Copy BioNetS onto your machine, and double click to launch. Help is included as part of the program, and accessed from the Help menu. The Help document


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Blast Injuries: Radiological Dispersal Devices and Radiation Injury
Radiological Dispersal Devices (RDDs) or "dirty bombs" consist of radioactive material combined with conventional explosives. Their force is so powerful they can disperse such material over an area as large as multiple city blocks. People in the immediate area may be killed or injured initially from the effects of the blast and not from radioactivity. RDDs are primarily used to produce psychological rather than physical harm by inducing panic and terror in the target population. The clinical presentation of exposed casualties will mostly resemble conventional injuries. This is because the clinical effects of all but the most severe radiation exposures are delayed.
A survey conducted with specialized radiological equipment is the only way to confirm the presence of radiation. If radioactive material is used in a terrorist bombing, victims must be assessed for both exposure and contamination. People exposed to radiation can suffer radiation illness if their dose is high enough, but they do not become radioactive. Contamination occurs externally when loose particles of radioactive material are deposited on surfaces, skin, or clothing. Internal contamination occurs when radioactive particles are inhaled, ingested, or lodged in an open wound. Contaminated patients should be decontaminated as soon as possible after being treated for life-threatening injuries. The radioactivity levels of contaminated patients should not pose a health risk to care providers. Guidelines for protection and treatment are provided below.
Triage and Staff Protection
- Establish an ad hoc triage area in a location based on the hospital's disaster plan and the anticipated number of casualties. Stock a sufficient quantity of hospital-supplied gowns to replace contaminated clothing.
- Establish both a contaminated area and a clean area and separate them by a buffer zone.
- Remove contaminated outer garments when leaving the contaminated area.
- Using a radiation meter, survey the bodies of persons when they exit a contaminated area.
- Follow standard guidelines for protection from microbiological contamination.
- Survey hands and clothing with a radiation meter at frequent intervals.
Decontaminating the Injured
- Survey the patient with a radiation meter using a consistent technique and trained personnel.
- Note exceptionally large amounts of surface or imbedded radioactive material.
- Handle easily-removable radioactive objects with forceps and store them in lead containers.
- Use a standardized form to record location and level of any contamination found.
- Remove patient clothing by carefully cutting and rolling it away from the face toward the feet to contain the contamination.
- Double-bag clothing using radioactive hazardous waste guidelines and then label the bag.
- Repeat the patient survey and record contamination levels.
- Wash wounds with saline or warm water first. Gently cleanse intact skin with soap and water, starting outside the contaminated area and washing inward; do not irritate or abrade.
- Flush eyes, nose, and ears, and rinse mouth if facial contamination occurred.
- Survey and note radiation level again; repeat washing until survey indicates radiation level is no more than twice background or the level remains unchanged.
- Cover wounds with waterproof dressing.
- For mass casualties, consider establishing separate shower areas for ambulatory and non-ambulatory patients.
Diagnosis and Treatment
- Perform sequential CBCs with differential to assess declines in lymphocyte levels.
- Monitor for fluid and electrolyte balance and for evidence of hemodynamic instability.
- Treat symptomatically and focus on preventing infection; use antibiotics.
- Consider cytokines, e.g., Neupogen® and hematopoietic growth factors.
- Perform surgical interventions within 48 hours or delay them until after hematopoietic recovery.
Acute Radiation Syndrome (ARS) is caused by high doses of radiation that are rapidly delivered to large portions of the body. A dirty bomb will likely generate low levels of radiation exposure. Symptoms can be immediate or delayed, mild or severe, based on radiation dose.
- Nausea or vomiting may occur minutes to days after exposure. The rapid onset of vomiting is a major factor in diagnosis and dose estimation of radiation.
- Early onset of vomiting followed by symptoms of bone marrow suppression, gastrointestinal destruction, and cardiovascular/central nervous system effects are signs of acute illness.
- Depending on the stage of illness, a patient may be asymptomatic.
Cutaneous Radiation Injury is acute radiation injury to the skin.
- Transient itching, tingling, erythema, or edema may be seen within hours or days, and is usually followed by a latent period; lesions may not be seen for weeks to months post exposure.
- The delay in occurrence differentiates these lesions from thermal burns.
- Treat localized injuries symptomatically, focusing on pain and infection control.
Internal Contamination should be considered if persistently high survey readings are noted following decontamination. It generally does not cause early symptoms. Nose or mouth contamination may indicate inhalation or ingestion.
- Assessment may include analyzing urine, blood, and fecal samples or whole body counts.
- Radiation experts may recommend early administration of radionuclide-specific decorporation agents such as Prussian Blue, DTPA, or Bicarbonate.
- Gastric lavage, antacids, and cathartics assist in clearing ingested contaminants.
- In urban areas, hundreds to thousands may seek care. Many may seek radiological screening, many will need decontamination, and many will simply seek reassurance.
- Psychogenic illness symptoms, such as nausea or vomiting, may manifest.
- Vomiting due to radiation exposure is usually recurrent rather than episodic.
- Include mental health professionals on the response team.


Trystan Spangler | 3 Sep 18:27 2011
ANNOUNCE: hspec-0.8.0 (command line runner and nested specs)
hspec version 0.8.0, Behavior Driven Development for Haskell, is now available!
This latest release includes a command line runner that can search through directory trees for specs and support for nested specs.
From the hspec specs:
the "describe" function - takes a description of what the behavior is for - groups behaviors for what's being described a nested description - has it's own specs - may be displayed indented
And from the hspec command line runner:
hspec searches through files or folders and runs any top level declarations with a type of 'Specs' or 'IO Specs'. Monadic specs must be fully qualified, list-based specs may be qualified or not. You can specify specific *.hs files or directories to search through or let hspec search the current directory tree for specs to run. usage: hspec [OPTIONS] [TARGET_LIST] -f FORMAT --format=FORMAT Specifies what format to use for output. By default the specdoc format is used. FORMAT can be silent, progress, specdoc, or failed_examples. -o FILE_NAME --output=FILE_NAME Specifies the file to use for output. By default output is directed to stdout. FILE_NAME can be stdout or stderr for those handles. -e REGEX --example=REGEX Only execute examples with a matching description. By default all examples are executed. -c TRUE|FALSE --color=TRUE|FALSE Force output to have or not have red and green color. By default color is only used when output is directed to stdout. --runfile=FILE_NAME Use a specific file to log the last run results. This is read when using the --rerun option. By default the file ".hspecLastRun" logs the last run results. -r RERUNOPT --rerun=RERUNOPT Rerun a specific subset of specs. This looks at the last run file specified by -runfile. RERUNOPT can be "all" or "failed". By default the last run file is ignored and all specs are run. -h, -? --help Display this help. -v --verbose Display detailed information about what hspec is doing. --specs Include the specs for the hspec command line runner itself. When used, the target list will not default to the current directory. A non-empty target list will still be searched though.
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Yes, dog paternity tests are now commonly done amongst our canine friends to determine canine parentage. Your little Lola may have had a liaison with 2 or 3 other dogsso which one is the father of her puppies?
In most cases, dog breeders actually seek this type of test when they are unsure about which male sired a litter of puppiesyou might ask yourself why this is so important – for a dog breeder it is hugely important in order to be able to provide the dog's lineage to a dog buyer. The results of the test provide genetic proof to the buys who will want a guarantee of the dog's pedigree.
So Canine DNA testing has changed thiswhilst before it would have been impossible to know which dog sired a litter of puppies (if more than one male was involved) and breeders would rely on guess work, it is nowadays possible to pin point the biological father of the litter. By comparing the DNA of the puppies with the DNA of the dogs you suspect may have sired the litter, this type of canine test tell you exactly which male is the biological sire of the litter.
PCR – Polymerase Chain reaction for Canine Parentage
Dog DNA is analyzed using a scientific technique known as Polymerase Chain Reaction. Using an enzyme known as DNA polymerase which helps read the genetic code, scientists can then make thousands of replicas of the DNA with which to work. PCR has changed the face of DNA tests. Samples can be collected by the dog owner using a dog DNA test kit. Things are made more complicated when there is a case of a multiple sired litter or when the alleged fathers, so to speak, are brothers. But generally, determining canine parentage, even in cases where the alleged fathers are related, can still be done by means of a paternity test.


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Authors: M.I. Kilani, P.G. Galambos, Y. Haik and C.J. Chen
Affilation: Florida State University, United States
Pages: 210 - 213
Keywords: pump, spiral
This paper introduces a new viscous micropump produced using surface micromachining technology. The pump consists of a disk with a spiral protrusion that rotates at a close proximity over a stationary plate. Fluid contained in the spiral channel created by this geometry is subject to a net tangential viscous stress and a positive pressure gradient is established in the direction of flow. The paper describes the design and fluid modeling of the micro spiral pump.


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- a twist or curl, as in a thread, rope, wire, or hair, caused by its doubling or bending upon itself.
- a muscular stiffness or soreness, as in the neck or back.
- a flaw or imperfection likely to hinder the successful operation of something, as a machine or plan: There are still a few kinks to be worked out of the plan before we start production.
- a mental twist; notion; whim or crotchet.
- bizarre or unconventional sexual preferences or behavior.
- a person characterized by such preferences or behavior.
- to form, or cause to form, a kink or kinks, as a rope.
Origin of kink
Related Words for kinkcrimp, wrinkle, flaw, imperfection, hitch, quirk, curve, entanglement, knot, crinkle, coil, curl, tangle, loop, corkscrew, frizz, cramp, pain, stitch, pinch
Examples from the Web for kink
Contemporary Examples of kink
Indeed--she has helped educate the world on the titillating culture of kink.
In 2011, Rihanna vocalized her own taste for kink in her hit single SM.
On the one hand, she was anxious about her colleagues knowing about her kink.
Those needs varied depending on where respondents were in the kink universe.
Sometimes she sees clients who are ambivalent about their kink identities.
Historical Examples of kink
In this way the tube will not kink or lose its shape while being wound.Boys' Book of Model Boats
Raymond Francis Yates
She looked at Miss Avery intently, trying to understand the kink in her brain.Howards End
E. M. Forster
There was a kink in my leader about one inch above the hook.
Nothing but the sword of old Xiphius gladius could have made that kink!
He kissed his fingers, and waved them in the direction of Kink's Hotel.The Dop Doctor
Clotilde Inez Mary Graves
- a sharp twist or bend in a wire, rope, hair, etc, esp one caused when it is pulled tight
- a crick in the neck or similar muscular spasm
- a flaw or minor difficulty in some undertaking or project
- a flaw or idiosyncrasy of personality; quirk
- British informal a sexual deviation
- US a clever or unusual idea
- to form or cause to form a kink
Word Origin for kink
Word Origin and History for kink
1670s, a nautical term, from Dutch kink "twist in a rope" (also found in French and Swedish), probably related to Old Norse kikna "to bend backwards, sink at the knee" (see kick). Figurative sense of "odd notion, mental twist" first recorded in American English, 1803, in writings of Thomas Jefferson. As a verb, 1690s, from the noun.
- A tight curl, twist, or bend in a length of thin material.
- A painful muscle spasm, as in the neck; a crick.
- A mental peculiarity; a quirk.
- Peculiarity or deviation in sexual behavior or taste.
- To form or cause to form a kink or kinks.