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This paper was originally published in Ecological Economics.
"Abstract: Natural capital is usually presented as a recent concept, used for the first time in the 1970s, adopted in an important contribution by David Pearce in 1988, and widely used by ecological economists in the early 1990s. First employed to incorporate natural constraints into the economic lexicon, and to oblige economists to take the environment into account, the concept has also been used to include the environment in narrow economic valuations.
To take a global view of these controversial uses, this paper reconsiders the genesis of natural capital as an economic concept, not in its present-day form, but from its almost unknown, ancient origins in the 1900s–1910s, in the writing of Alvin S. Johnson. The article first sheds light on this historical and theoretical moment, and then shows how it can help interpret current controversies about natural capital…"
Read on and access the full paper at: Ecological Economics.


70% of the Iranian youth surf internet illegally
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Iranian government has announced in a report that 23.5 million youth is using web in Iran and among 69.3 percent are using vpn's and proxies to access the global internet.Presently citizen of Iran is often facing firewall when trying to access websites that doesn't meet Iranian government internet censorship policy.In Iran using vpn is illegal and is violating the governement law,which can lead user for punishment.
excluding to this,Iran has a policy of filtering online content which leaves major and famous websites like "facebook "twitter" "youtube",iranian cannot access these websites without using vpn or proxies.
according to the filtering advocates of Iran,Internet censorship in Iran helps to protect people from immoral content,such pornographic websites and other content.but with the use of vpn major citizen of iran is able to breaks down the restrictions.
last month Iran permit 3g mobile internet licenses for two Iranian companies which was considered the first step towards providing easier internet access on Iran,
but with filtering policy Iranian government are also accused of deliberately slowing the internet which makes Iranian users difficult to access on non-restricted websites.The 3g permit granting caused controversy with some of the country's officials who said video calls functions on smartphones could open youngsters to dubious content.
later on The ministry of telecommunication,technology and information said that video calling wont be available until and unless skype or facetime and any other video calling service being accessible on normal internet connections.
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Past and future editions of 'Water usage in agriculture and horticulture'
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Release date: 09 June 2011 at
Theme: Agriculture and Environment | Department: Environment, Food and Rural Affairs | Coverage: England
Geographic breakdown: Region
| Designation: National Statistics
Summary: The results in this statistical notice are split into four sections covering: (i) water sources; (ii) water usage for irrigation; (iii) water usage for various activities (including irrigation); and (iv) water quality (practices to reduce or prevent pollution). The notice incorporates results from both the 2009/10 FBS and the 2010 Irrigation Survey.

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The Department of Biological Sciences Greenhouse Facility is located in the Virginia Tech University Greenhouse Complex on Washington Street, beside the Virginia Tech Horticulture Gardens.
The Department of Biological Sciences Greenhouse Facility supports the educational and research needs of the department. The Teaching Plant Collection is extensively used for teaching our undergraduate courses. The facility supports faculty and student research projects. In addition to meeting essential teaching and research needs, the facility provides tours for visitors and local schools. Also, other departments in the university use our plant collection for classes. For example, the Art Department uses the greenhouses for basic art and painting classes.
Undergraduate Courses Taught Using the Virginia Tech Greenhouses
BIOL 1015, 1016: General Biology Lab
BIOL 1115, 1116: Principles of Biology Lab
BIOL 1125, 1126: Biological Principles Lab
BIOL 2204: Plants and Civilization: The uses of plants as sources of food, medicine, drugs, spices, beverages, poisons, fiber, oils, and plant exudates.
BIOL 2304: Plant Biology: Introductory botany. Form, growth, function, reproduction, and ecological adaptations of major groups of plants.
BIOL 3204: Plant Taxonomy: Systematic survey of vascular plants, emphasizing identification, terminology, classification, evolutionary relationships.
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Maintain greenhouse facilities on weekends, Saturday and Sunday, holidays, staff vacation and sick leave days.
Properly water teaching collection and research projects.
Check the greenhouse's environmental equipment to maintain proper temperatures and functions.
Must be very independent, responsible, reliable, and have some knowledge in caring for plants.
Hours/week: 3-4 hours per day on weekends, plus 3-4 hours on staff vacation and sick leave days.
Contact: Debbie Wiley (_PHONE_) or _EMAIL_.
This species has the largest unbranched inflorescence of any herbaceous plant in the world. Commonly known as the "Corpse Plant", A. titanum has an intensely powerful stench that is released when it blooms. The bloom will last only 2-3 days. After the bloom dies, a leaf stalk will begin to emerge that resembles a tree sapling.
For more information on the corpse flower, including photos, visit this link.
The Virginia Tech Biological Sciences Greenhouse Teaching Plant Collection provides educational opportunities and experiences through the availability of high quality plant specimens. The Teaching Plant Collection features over 300 species, hosting a variety of interesting and important genera, including aquatic, desert, tropical, local, rare and endangered species. Our teaching plant collection has been specifically acquired and maintained to meet the needs of the undergraduate courses.
Whereas the Department of Biological Sciences and the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute have limited access to plant growth facilities, a new facility was designed, funded, and constructed. The mission of the facility is to provide "state of the art" plant growth space to support and promote scholarship in plant systems by scientists at Virginia Tech. We strive to fully integrate this facility in the learning, discovery, and engagement activities of the department of Biological Sciences, the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute and other plant related departments and institutes at Virginia Tech.
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Creating JavaFX sequences in Java programs (Part I)
By Michael Heinrichs on Jun 15, 2008
The last article explained, how sequences are represented in the runtime and touched some of the possibilities to create new JavaFX sequences in Java programs. This article and the follow-up will focus on sequence-creation and give an overview of additional possibilities.
The helper-class Sequences
The helper class Sequences in the package com.sun.javafx.runtime.sequence provides a number of methods to create sequences. Most of them have also been presented in the last article.
The methods can be divided in two groups. The first group are distinct factory methods. They create a new sequence from some kind of elements-list:
- make() - Creates a sequence from a java.util.List, a part of an array or from explicitly listed elements.
- fromArray() - Creates a sequence from the elements of an array.
- fromCollection - Creates a new sequence with the elements of a given Collection. Since the elements of a Collection are unordered there is no guarantee about the order in the sequence.
- range / rangeExclusive() - Creates sequences, which represent Integeror Number-intervals.
- singleton - Creates a sequence with a single element.
- emptySequence() - Creates an empty sequence.
The second group alters an existing sequence. As sequences are implemented immutable, a new sequence is created and returned.
- concatenate() - Creates a new sequence by concatenating sequences.
- filter() - Creates a new sequence by masking out some of the elements of a sequence.
- reverse - Creates a new sequence by reversing the order of a sequence.
- subsequence - Creates a sequence, which is a fragment of a sequence.
- upcast - Creates a new sequence by upcasting the elements of a sequence.
- map - Creates a sequence which one would get after applying a mapping-function to the elements of a sequence. The mapping-function must be defined by implementing the interface SequenceMapper, which is also part of the package com.sun.javafx.runtime.sequence.
- sort - Creates a new sequence by sorting the elements of a given sequence. The order can be induced either by the natural order of the elements, if they implement java.util.Comparable, or by providing a java.util.Comparator of the elements.
The class SequenceBuilder
The SequenceBuilder in the package com.sun.javafx.runtime.sequence provides a convenient way to create sequences incrementally. It is similar to the class StringBuilder, which creates Strings.
An instance of SequenceBuilder can only create one sequence at a time. It starts with an empty sequence to which elements are appended by calling one of its add()-methods. The result can be extracted by calling the method toSequence().

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At a sports camp, there is sufficient food for 72 athletes to last 6 days. If 18 athletes are absent from the camp, how many more days can the food last for the other athletes? State the assumption made.
There are 72*6=432 portions of food. Now there are 18 athletes absent, so there are 72-18=54 athletes. 432/54=8 days.


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What is Digital Partnering?
Digital partnering is a pair group that uses technology to share ideas and work together.
Collaboration can be Simple Using OneDrive
Collaboration doesn't have to be time consuming. If fact, it can be as simple as sharing ideas.
OneDrive allows teachers to post student work to a Group. Members can view and comment upon work within the Group. This provides an excellent opportunity for digital partnering.
For example, consider the activity we completed today. I posted all the students' amusement park maps created using Microsoft Word into a Group folder.
Students acted as business consultants. They were divided into partners. Each student logged into their OneDrive account to view their partner's amusement park map. They examined the current attractions on the map. Using the Comments system they suggested five new attractions that would make the park even better.
In the following class, students will view their own map to read their partner's suggestions. They will then combine the suggestions with their own ideas to generate a list of possible new attractions for their park. This list of new attractions will be used to create a survey. Survey data will be organized in Excel and graphed. The graph will be analyzed to select a new amusement park ride.
Seven Benefits to Digital Partnering
There are several advantages to students working in pair groups digitally:
- Time to Think: Not everyone can generate ideas quickly. Some people need more time to think. Digital partnering allows a student the opportunity to work at their own pace to process information and develop a solution, without the pressure of their partner sitting beside them waiting for input.
- Efficient: Work can begin immediately. There is no need to move around the room and adjust seating, which can create a commotion and can be time consuming.
- Focus on Task: Students can focus their attention on the task without the distraction of their partner. Chatter about unrelated topics is eliminated.
- Increase Student Involvement: There is no coasting or allowing your friend to do all the work when engaged in digital partnering. Since each student is responsible for generating ideas and posting them to the Comments pane, they must participate.
- Spark Inspiration: Often when students hand in their work they think it is done and they never have to look at it again. However, by having a partner comment upon the work it can inspire students to look at their work in a new way. As students gain a fresh perspective this can spark even more ideas for how to improve.
- Equal Opportunity: Outgoing? Shy? The personality of the student does not matter. When students work together face to face, often the shy student may not contribute as much to the conversation. Not because they do not have the ideas, but because they are overpowered by the ideas flowing from their outgoing partner. Digital partnering gives everyone equal opportunity to share ideas.
- More Receptive to Feedback: Too often suggestions for ways to improve can be taken personally, especially in face-to-face interactions. A person may become offended and want to defend their work in front of a peer. Technology creates a comfortable distance between people. This allows each student to focus on the ideas presented not on "saving face".
Commenting, Idea Generation, and Digital Partnering
Commenting is a skill that takes time to develop. Often students are not familiar with how to provide feedback to peers. Sharing ideas, through a commenting activity, provides a focused, meaningful way to help students practice this skill effectively. It also prevents students from posting hurtful criticism or vague feedback such as good job on their classmate's work because they have specific task they must complete.
Over the next few months, the Grade 7 class is going to continue to use OneDrive to collaborate. We are building towards success by engaging in simple tasks. In the previous class, students viewed fellow classmates' amusement park maps and posted one thing they really liked about the park. Today we expanded the complexity of the task to use Comments in a new way.
To prepare students for the task, we reviewed an amusement park map together. On the overhead projector was a sample map. Students were asked to provide suggestions on attractions that are missing from the amusement park that visitors may enjoy. I modeled how to add a comment and post the ideas. Once familiar with the activity, students were partnered with a classmate. These are the steps they completed:
- Login to OneDrive
- Access the Group folder
- View partner's amusement park map in the Word Web App
- Critically evaluate the contents of the document to generate ideas
- Activate the Comments pane
- Select part of the document
- Post a comment that contains five new attractions that can be added to the park
- Close the Word Web App.
- Log off OneDrive
Here is a sample comment. It is unedited. At first glance you might notice the grammar errors. If you focus on those you will be missing something wonderful – the exchange of ideas.
Notice the excellent suggestions by George. Now notice, how the student responded to their partner's ideas. The reply is positive and acknowledges the suggestion they like the most.
What is so amazing about these comments is I never asked students to reply to their partner. On their own students discovered how to reply to a comment. As well, the quality of their replies was such a pleasant surprise.


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Determine whether widget value was changed by user or by software?
 - Control widgets like QSpinBox, QCheckBox etc emit signals like valueChanged, stateChanged etc. These signals are caused either by direct user action upon the widget, or by external calls of setValue, setChecked etc.
 I'd like to treat these two cases differently. Is there a straightforward way to find out where the signal comes from?
 Or is there a way to implement alternative forms of setValue, setChecked etc that do not emit valueChanged, stateChanged etc?
 - That's interesting,
 The first approach that comes to my mind is to determine if the mouse is in the widget you're using:
 I'm neither sure if QTest functions such as QTest::mouseClick move the mouse to the widget nor your specific implementation.
 - _USER_-W
 I assume the answer is that you cannot do these things.
 - Lifetime Qt Champion
 Can I ask why you need this?
 We sometimes block signals to avoid GUI triggering user function during
 loading data etc.
 Is that what you need it fo r?
 - why I need this? - for logging user actions, and not the system's response to them.
 - Moderators
 IIRC all such Widgets have a valueChanged signal that is emited when ever the value changed(either software or user) and an editingFinished() that only emits when an user interacted with the classpressing enter or switching focus.
 Besides that the other option is subclassing for example QSpinBox,
 add 2 new signals e.g valueChangeSystem and valueChangedUser
 a function that is connected to the valueChanged signal
 MySpinbox::customChanged(int value){
 emit valueChangedUser(value);
 emit valueChangeSystem(value);
 - Lifetime Qt Champion
 Hi _USER_-W,
 there are indeed some widgets that handle both cases differently - for example QLineEdit which has textEdited() and textChanged().
 Unfortunately QSpinBox only has valueChanged() so you can't distinguish it here.
 I think you could subclass QSpinBox and change it so setValue() returns another signal to distinguish between user and program changes.
 You would have to do this for all your widgets, however.
 - Thank you for your excellent suggestions. For the time being, 'hasFocus' solves my problem.
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Textile Finishing
Finishing is the term used for a series of processes to which all bleached, dyed, printed and certain grey fabrics are subjected before they put on the market. Finishing is done to render textile goods fit for their purpose or end-use or serviceability of the fabric. It should be considered that every finishing process should improve the serviceability of the fabric like dimensional stability, fastness to washing, fastness to storage, wearing quality, resistance to fibre slippage, strength of the fabric, fabric handle etc. Cotton and polyester has different processes of finishing. Fabric that contains lycra needs another additional process done that is called heat setting.
The finishing processes are classified into two main streams:
 1. Mechanical finishing
 2. chemical finishing
Most of the finishes that are given to the fabric are mechanical finishes. Mechanical finishes are :
 1. Shearing
 2. Sueding
 3. Compacting
 4. Calendaring
 5. Steam/ Heat setting.
Chemical finishes includes bio-polishing and softening but bio-polishing is carried out with dyeing in exhaust method. Softening is done in exhaust method as well as in mechanical method.
The main procedures of softening can be divided into two segments:
 1. Open width finishing line for fabric of open form
 2. Tube width finishing line for fabric of tubular form
Machines Used in Finishing :
 1. De-watering Machine
 2. Dryer Machine
 3. Compactor Machine
 4. Stenter Machine
 5. Slitting Machine
 6. Sueding Machine
 7. Tumble Dryer Machine
1. De-watering Machine : De-watering machines are used to reduce the excess water remaining on the wet fabric after dyeing. Softening chemicals and other finishing chemicals can be applied while de-watering as well. De-watering machines also help to keep in control the GSM of the fabric by maintain proper tension around the whole process. The padding rollers help to apply mixtures of finishing chemicals on the fabric surface. D-ewatering machines can remove from 40-50% of the water content of the fabric. The main parameters of a de-watering machine that are to be considered while operating are the followings:
 1. Machine speed (m/min)
 2. Padder pressure (bar)
 3. Wet stretching (%)
Fig : Path diagram of a dewatering machine
2. Slitting Machine : This machine basically opens a tubular fabric into open form by slitting along the needle mark of the fabric to aid the slitting process. In addition to opening the fabric, it also untwists the fabric via. rope de-twister device, maintains the fabric width, mangles water from the fabric by extracting up to 60% prior to slitting. The slitting line of the tube fabric is monitored carefully to avoid unnecessary wastage of fabric.. The fabric is passed through a set of padders into a de-twister by which the rope fabric untwists and is spread out with the help of a spreader and the fabric is opened. The fabric is then passed through a few sets of rollers in order to create an even and crease-free surface for stentering.
Fig : Path diagram of a slitting machine
 The main parameters of a slitting machine that are to be considered for operating based on the difference among the fabric types are:
 1. Feed %
 2. Padder pressure (bar)
 3. Machine speed (m/min)
Fig : Slitting Machine
4. Dryers: De-watering and slitting processes of the fabric removes up to 60% of the water content of the fabric. But the dyed fabrics need to be dried completely before proceeding towards further processing. This is why dryers are used to remove water from the fabric without applying any tension. Another thing that the dryer does is controlling lengthwise shrinkage of the fabric which eventually leads to the controlling of the GSM of the fabric.
Dryers are of two types-
 1. Tube dryers for the tubular fabrics
 2. Chain dryers/relax dryers for the open fabrics.
Dryer have heating chambers with blowers that provides the necessary heat required to dry the fabric. A conveyer belt passes the fabric through the heat chambers. Temperature of the heat applied depends on the shade of the fabric. There are motors in the heating zone that controls and regulates the gas release of the machine. Chain dryers have a 100% overfeed system and an underfeed system up to 50%. The width of the fabric is controlled by sticking it widthwise to a pinned chain-rail that can be controlled manually. The fabric width is extended with the chain-rail before it enters the heating chambers, keeping the width still while the fabric dries. The receiving end of the machine has a to and fro plaiting system which leads the fabric to pile on easily having the same width.
Fig : Schematic diagram of a chain dryer
 Setting parameters for different fabric type of knit fabric :
Fabric type
Overfeed speed
Temperature (°C)
Machine speed
Single jersey White 15-25 120-140 8-15
Dyed 15-25 140-150 8-15
White 35-40 120-140 8-10
Dyed 35-40 140-150 10-15
Rib White 15-20 120-140 10-15
Dyed 15-20 140-160 8-15
Interlock White 20-25 120-140 15-20
Dyed 20-25 140-160 15-20
Lacoste 30 140 20
6. Sueding Machine :
Sueding involves creating peach skin like surface on the fabric which gives soft, smooth feel and provide more formal look while maintaining comfort and casual feel. Method of Application: Open width knitted fabric is passed over rotating high speed carbon brushes. There are a total of six rollers active, three rotating in the opposite direction of the fabric direction and the other three rotating along the fabric direction. By adjusting angle of
contact with the brushes, pressure against fabric and speed of fabric being sueded, the intensity of sueding can be varied.
Effect: Peaching softens fabric handle and gives a greater degree of warmth to the fabric. Surface hairs of the fabric are separated from each other, giving a sort piled surface. It however lightens the shade of a colored fabric and can give slight unevenness. Where grey fabric is emersed, the subsequent wet processing, that is dyeing and washing, may be used to remove the dust generated.
Factors affecting the degree of sueding
 1. Number of rollers in operation
 2. Direction of rotation of the rollers against the fabric
 3. Fabric tension
 4. Fabric speed
 5. Wrapping angle on the roller
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Asheville to Chattanooga distance
The driving distance or the travel distance from Asheville to Chattanooga is 226.5 Miles
. The straight line distance from Asheville to Chattanooga is 160.1 Miles. The kilometer based traveling distance is 364.458 KM and the KM based straight line distance is 257.7 KM.
Asheville location and Chattanooga location
Asheville is located at the latitude of 35.594981 and the longitude of -82._PHONE_. Asheville is situated at the latitude of 35._PHONE_ and the longitude of -85._PHONE_. The traveling source point address is Asheville, NC, USA. The destination travel point address is Chattanooga, TN, USA.
Asheville to Chattanooga travel time
The travel time between Asheville and Chattanooga is 3.52 hours
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Ray Kurzweil speaks
Interesting speech by Kurzweil on YouTube today.
Someone asked a question at the end, asking:
With the improvement in speed of digital bits (and the slower transfer within the human brain), one day soon it may be faster to communicate person to person than within your own body. What does this mean socially?
It's an interesting question, but I think it is not really a good question. Within the human body, most communication already takes place quite slowly, in the form of sending proteins and other chemicals around. In my opinion, normal speech already travels faster than the human circuitry. Does that mean that we are more communal than our bodies? Yes and no, of course. It means that things are different now because humans can talk. Will computers and digital communications mean differences in our society? I think yes, but not necessarily differences more than people's society is different from animals.
I mean, look at bees. They communicate and live a hive like existence. That is because their communication only works when they are basically touching each other. Unless people have to be touching each other, I disagree that digital communications will make us more like bees. I suggest it will make us less communal.
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An Energy Efficient Hybrid Code Combining Technique for Cooperative Wireless Networks
In this paper, an energy efficient hybrid code combining technique is proposed for a cluster based cooperative wireless networks. The authors' scheme uses hybrid of selective repeat ARQ and Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) for code combining techniques. In the existing cluster based code combining techniques, energy consumption is more in the cluster heads and hence the energy level of the cluster head is drained before the data reaches the destination. In order to overcome this, a clustering technique is proposed in which the selection of cluster heads is based on the connectivity and the residual energy of each node. The clustering architecture consists of source cluster, destination cluster and relay clusters.


modulus of volume expansion
Shearing Deformation
Shearing Deformation
Shearing forces cause shearing deformation. An element subject to shear does not change in length but undergoes a change in shape.
The change in angle at the corner of an original rectangular element is called the shear strain and is expressed as
$\gamma = \dfrac{\delta_s}{L}$
The ratio of the shear stress τ and the shear strain γ is called the modulus of elasticity in shear or modulus of rigidity and is denoted as G, in MPa.
$G = \dfrac{\tau}{\gamma}$
The relationship between the shearing deformation and the applied shearing force is
$\delta_s = \dfrac{VL}{A_s G} = \dfrac{\tau L}{G}$
where V is the shearing force acting over an area As.
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The modest brick home was commandeered to be used as the Federal Command Post while the Carter family, and two neighboring families, took refuge in the basement. At 4 PM on November 30, 1864, General John Bell Hood gave the order for the Confederate Army of Tennessee CSA to attack the breastworks held by the Federal troops in Franklin. The battle that ensued is now called "the Gettysburg of the West". The 1,000 bullet holes that today remain in the side of the house testify to the ferocity of the fighting. Indeed, the Carter house is the most bullet-damaged building that remains standing from the entire Civil War. This Registered National Historic Landmark is now open to the public and serves as a memorial to the Carter Family and to the countless heroes in the Battle of Franklin. Visitors tour the house with a guide who explains the rich history of this tragic site.


QuSpin: a Python package for dynamics and exact diagonalisation of quantum many body systems. Part II: bosons, fermions and higher spins
Phillip Weinberg, Marin Bukov
SciPost Phys. 7, 020 (2019) · published 9 August 2019
We present a major update to QuSpin, SciPostPhys.2.1.003 -- an open-source Python package for exact diagonalization and quantum dynamics of arbitrary boson, fermion and spin many-body systems, supporting the use of various (user-defined) symmetries in one and higher dimension and (imaginary) time evolution following a user-specified driving protocol. We explain how to use the new features of QuSpin using seven detailed examples of various complexity: (i) the transverse-field Ising chain and the Jordan-Wigner transformation, (ii) free particle systems: the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model, (iii) the many-body localized 1D Fermi-Hubbard model, (iv) the Bose-Hubbard model in a ladder geometry, (v) nonlinear (imaginary) time evolution and the Gross-Pitaevskii equation on a 1D lattice, (vi) integrability breaking and thermalizing dynamics in the translationally-invariant 2D transverse-field Ising model, and (vii) out-of-equilibrium Bose-Fermi mixtures. This easily accessible and user-friendly package can serve various purposes, including educational and cutting-edge experimental and theoretical research. The complete package documentation is available under _URL_
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Instructions: As a team, develop the next two sections of the Architectural Design Document (ADD). The summary of this section should total 150 to 175 words and will include a matrix.
- In the ADD, label this section "Functional Requirements." Identify architecturally significant functional requirements and quality requirements for the system. Prepare an executive summary on each, and explain how you will solve them through architecture. You should specifically compare and contrast architectural patterns and design patterns in your solution. Most important, identify why you chose your solution to the problems identified. These are your design decisions.
- Summarize your design decisions by creating a matrix that shows the problem and how you solved it through software architecture techniques you have learned from this course. For example, if you decided on using a client/server pattern for this system, what problem did this solve? Prepare a draft of this portion of the ADD. Your final submission in Week Five will receive a final grade. Submit your summary using the Assignment Files tab.
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Lack of sufficient physical memory can significantly hamper the performance of Linux desktop and server environments. When your desktop is sluggish, one of the first things to do is to free up RAMs. Memory usage is even more critical in multi-user shared hosting or mission-critical server environments, where different users or application threads constantly compete for more memory.
When it comes to monitoring any type of system resources such as memory or CPUs, visualization is an effective means to help understand quickly how they are consumed by different processes and users. In this tutorial, I describe how to visualize memory usage in Linux environment using a command-line tool called smem.
Physical Memory Usage: RSS vs. PSS vs. USS
In the presence of virtual memory abstraction, accurately quantifying physical memory usage of a process is actually not straightforward. The virtual memory size of a process is not meaningful because it does not tell how much of it is actually allocated physical memory.
Resident set size (RSS), reported by top command, is one popular metric which captures what portion of a process' reported memory is residing in RAM. However, aggregating RSS of existing processes can easily overestimate the overall physical memory usage of the Linux system because the same physical memory page can be shared by different processes. Proportional set size (PSS) is a more accurate measurement of effective memory usage of Linux processes since PSS properly discounts the memory page shared by more than one process. Unique set size (USS) of a process is a subset of the process' PSS, which is not shared by any other processes.
Install Smem on Linux
The command-line tool smem can generate a variety of reports related to memory PSS/USS usage by pulling information from /proc. It comes with built-in graphical chart generation capabilities, so one can easily visualize overall memory consumption status.
Install Smem on Debian or Ubuntu
Install Smem on Linux Mint
Install Smem on Fedora or CentOS/RHEL
On CentOS/RHEL, you need to enable EPEL repository first.
Check Memory Usage with Smem
When you run smem as a unprivileged user, it will report physical memory usage of every process launched by the current user, in an increasing order of PSS.
If you want to check the overall system memory usage for all users, run smem as the root.
To view per-user memory usage:
smem allows you to filter memory usage results based on mapping, processes or users in the following format:
- -M
- -P
- -U
For a complete usage of smem, refer to its man page.
Visualize Memory Usage with Smem
Visualized reports are often easier to read to identify the memory hogs of your system quickly. smem supports two kinds of graphical reports for memory usage visualization: bar and pie graphs.
Here are examples of memory usage visualization.
The following command will generate a bar graph that visualizes the PSS/USS memory usage of a user alice.
The next command will plot a pie graph of the overall PSS memory usage of different processes.
As a summary, smem is a simple and effective memory analysis tool that comes in handy in various circumstances. Using its formatted output, you can run smem to identify any memory issues and take an action in an automatic fashion. If you know of any good memory monitoring tool, share it in the comment.
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As the name implies, Undelete, from Executive Software® is a utility the can undelete deleted files. It can do so in various ways, giving you a better protection than most simular tools.
The Recovery Bin
You can install UnDelete as a Windows service. By doing this, it will replace the standard Recycling bin with it's own Recovery Bin. When a file is deleted, the file is transfered to the Recovery Bin. A key difference between this and the standard recycle bin is that this will also capture files deleted from across the network. If a user accidently deletes a file on the server, it can be found in the Recovery Bin.
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The Recovery Bin itself is easy to use. As you can see, it has a treeview containing the structure of your system. You can easely navigate to the folder the file was deleted from, and then recover the file with just a few clicks. The Recovery Bin can also hold multiple versions of the file, in case you have deleted a file at the same location multiple times.
To avoid your system running full with deleted files, you are able to set a size limit for each drive, and what action should be taken when it is reached, Eg, setting the bin to automatically purge when it's full will result in the oldest files (those who have been in the bin the longest) being deleted automatically until the file(s) fit the bin.
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Another feature of the Recovery Bin is that it includes search functionality, allowing you to find a file if you don't know it's exact location. This also include the ability to search for files deleted by a specific user, or at a specific time.
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The Recovery Bin allows you to manually (or automatically) delete files from the bin. However, if you deleted a file from the bin, you can still recover it using Undelete from disk, given that the file hasn't been overwritten by the Recovery Bin.
Emergency Undelete®
This allows you to recover files on systems that don't have UnDelete installed. It can run almost completely from CD (except for some registry keys), thus making the chances of a recovery larger since there is only a little disk access. It will scan the drive for lost files, in a way most undelete programs do. To be honest, I was very amazed when I ran it on our server, looking at the number of files it was able to recover.
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Finally, there's somewhat of a contradiction here, since it also comes with a program called SecureDelete. While UnDelete will try to recover deleted files, SecureDelete enables you to delete files in such a manner that they can't be recovered, not even using Emergency Undelete. This can give you the privacy/security required in some situations, like when you decide to sell or dispose your hardware.
Undelete (and the accompanied programs) are good at what they do, and have earned their spot in the market. But what can it do for us developers? Well, it depends on how you work. Undelete can't compete with (let alone replace) sourcecode/version-control programs like SourceSafe and others. This is mainly because it captures deleted files, not the changes to files. However, as even the most skilled computer users (including us developers) can make mistakes, unwanted deletions can happen very fast. In the case that you aren't using version-control software (often with smaller, single developer projects), this would mean you would probably have to go back to the latest backup, and potentially lose a day's work.
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Understanding Excretory Products and their Elimination.
Excretion is the process by which waste products of metabolism and other non-useful materials are eliminated from an organism. Mammalian (human) urinary system consists of a pair of kidneys, a pair of ureters, a urinary bladder and a urethra. The kidneys are dark-red, bean-shaped organs about 11 cm long, 5 cm wide and 3 cm thick, each weight about 150 gm in an adult male and about 135 gm in adult female.
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What Was the Main Religion in Colonial Pennsylvania?
In general, no primary religious group dominated in colonial Pennsylvania. Religious sects that had a strong presence in this area included Quakers and Lutherans.
Pennsylvania was officially founded in 1682 by William Penn. It represented one of the 13 original American colonies. The colony's founder considered himself a Quaker; freedom of worship for Quakers was a prominent reason for the colony's founding. Penn also strongly believed in religious tolerance for all individuals. He was one of the main voices against the oppressive Church of England. Under Penn's leadership, Pennsylvania developed into a colony that promoted and granted religious freedom. As a result, worshipers from nearly every major religious group of the time could be found in the region.


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Some matrix representations of diverse diagonal arrays are studied in this work; the results allow new definitions of classes of elliptical distributions indexed by kernels mixing Hadamard and usual products. A number of applications are derived in the setting of prior densities from the Bayesian multivariate regression model and families of non-elliptical distributions, such as the matrix multivariate generalized Birnbaum–Saunders density. The philosophy of the research about matrix representations of quadratic and inverse quadratic forms can be extended as a methodology for exploring possible new applications in non-standard distributions, matrix transformations and inference.
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Explains the natural and human-affected factors that determine the concentration of contaminants in groundwater, especially where the concentration is different at the surface than at depth, and where pumping varies with time.
We estimated in-place resources of 1.07 trillion short tons of coal in this area using a geology-based assessment methodology. Of that total, recoverable coal was 162 billion tons, 25 billion economically recoverable.
Using the Fischer assay measure of oil yield, we estimated a total of 1.44 trillion barrels of oil in three assessed units. There is currently no economic method to recover oil from this geologic unit.
The electric power generation potential from identified geothermal systems is 9,057 Megawattselectric (MWe), distributed over 13 states. Undiscovered resources are estimated to provide an additional 30,033 MWe.
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You can set up your smart system to notify you of any event that occurs with your door/window sensor. If you haven't already entered your notification information, such as your email address or text number, you need to do that now.
If you have a Vera3, click here to set your notification preferences.
If you have a VeraLite, click here to set your notification preferences.
When your notification preferences have been set, find the door/window sensor on your Dashboard and hover your mouse over the top right of the device's box so that the "wrench" icon appears to make changes, as shown:
Click the wrench icon, and when the window appears, choose the "Notifications" menu as shown below. This is where you'll set up your notifications.
First, give your notification a name, so your notification will be easy to identify when you get it. In this example, we'll call the notification "Back door opened."
Now let's decide when you'll be getting a notification from the door/window sensor. Above the notification name field, you'll see a drop-down menu labeled "Add notification for:" Click it and you'll see your options, as shown below:
In this first option, you can get a notification when the door/window sensor is tripped in any way, such as being armed or bypassed.
In the second option, you'll get a notification if an armed door/window sensor has been tripped.
In the third option, you can get a notification if the battery level on your door/window sensor is getting low and should be replaced.
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Definition of the noun algerian capital
What does algerian capital mean as a name of something?
- an ancient port on the Mediterranean; the capital and largest city of Algeria
- lexical domain: Locations - nouns denoting spatial position
- synonym of Algerian capital: Algiers
- instance of: port = a place (seaport or airport) where people and merchandise can enter or leave a country; national capital = the capital city of a nation
- part of: Algeria / Algerie / Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria = a republic in northwestern Africa on the Mediterranean Sea with a population that is predominantly Sunni Muslim
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area of the Algerian capital, Algiers, and from its warren of narrow streets and small houses carried out terrorist attacks in the European part of the city. In January 1957...
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IZA DP No. 13404: Changes in Female Employment in Mexico: Demographics, Economics, and Policies
The unemployment and labor force participation gender gaps narrowed in Mexico after the 2008 global economic crisis, when female labor force participation increased. This paper aims to understand female labor force participation growth and identify its main determinants. For that purpose, the paper estimates a probit model with data from the National Employment Survey of 2007 and 2017, when the unemployment rate returned to the pre-crisis level. Broadly, the results show that increasing labor force participation of women ages 36 to 65 sustained the growth of overall female labor force participation, women's educational attainment can offset any individual or household obstacle to women's employability, and childcare availability significantly supports mothers' employability.


Contrary to appearances, Netflix's hit movie Marriage Story is not a story about divorce. It is, as its title indicates, a story about marriage. More specifically, it is the story of how a good marriage goes bad for one simple reason: Appreciation Deficit Disorder.
What is appreciation deficit disorder?
While Appreciation Deficit Disorder isn't a clinical disorder, if it was it would be defined as something like this: a "disorder" characteristic of couples like Marriage Story's Charlie (Adam Driver) and Nicole (Scarlett Johansson)– who are in decent, functional relationships, but who are "appreciation-deficient" with regards to themselves, their spouses, and their relationship as a whole.
In fact, the failed marriage between Charlie and Nicole could be considered a textbook example of this as-yet undiagnosed "disorder" because it displays all the classic symptoms of this brand-new, made-up malaise.
Here are the symptoms of appreciation deficit disorder:
1. Physical and emotional withdrawal
Example: Charlie and Nicole have been living parallel lives for the last joyless and sexless year of their marriage.
2. Criticism
Example: Nicole repeatedly criticizes Charlie for being selfish, whereas Charlie repeatedly criticizes Nicole for being… Nicole;
3. Contempt
Example: Charlie claims that Nicole hated him during the last year of their marriage, whereas Nicole feels Charlie has been contemptuously ignoring her core needs;
4. Negative sentiment override
Example: The spouses are both so flooded with negative emotion that they each accuse one another of rewriting their shared past, as when Charlie insists that Nicole has only decided, after the fact, that she wasn't happy with their life in Brooklyn, when at the time she was.
Fortunately, appreciation deficit disorder contains, embedded within itself, its own obvious cure: appreciation.
Indeed, the renowned couples therapist Terry Real considers appreciation not only the single "most effective" strategy for improving a relationship, but he goes so far as to say, "This one principle is equal to all the others combined." As we will see, most of the top couples therapists in the world agree.
How to avoid appreciation deficit disorder:
Step 1. Appreciate one another
Marriage Story opens with tender and heart-warming expressions of mutual appreciation between Nicole and Charlie. At first sight, it certainly doesn't seem like they suffer appreciation deficit.
The world's pre-eminent marriage researcher, John Gottman, would say (with one important reservation) that Charlie and Nicole both have good "love maps," a term that evokes the amount of "cognitive room" one has for all the little quirks of their spouse's personality and personal history, as well as the marriage itself.
Gottman's research shows that having good love maps is the very foundation of the seven-story "sound marital house" that constitutes a strong, sustainable relationship. His research also shows that having good love maps is a necessary prerequisite for building the next level up in the sound marital house, "fondness and admiration."
Step 2. Be grateful for the things you appreciate
Researchers like Sara Algoe, Amie Gordon, Emily Impett, and Samantha Joel would also be impressed with the way that Charlie and Nicole express gratitude for how their partner invests in their relationship– a tendency that functions as a "booster shot" for relationship commitment and overall happiness.
For instance, even when Charlie complains about Nicole's untidiness – "It's not easy for her to put away a sock, or close a cabinet, or do a dish" – he nevertheless expresses his gratitude for her effort and attributes it to her fondness for him: "but she tries for me."
Likewise, Nicole peppers her appreciations of Charlie with generous expressions of gratitude, singling out, for example:
He takes all of my moods steadily, he doesn't give in to them or make me feel bad about them.
As the marriage historian Eli Finkel explains in his widely-praised book The All-or-Nothing Marriage, "In the long run, people who experience elevated levels of gratitude also experience stronger relationship commitment and are less likely to break up."
But if Charlie and Nicole are so good at appreciating one another in all of these ways, then why do they break up?
Step 3. Express your appreciation
While they feel appreciation, Charlie and Nicole don't express their appreciation out loud to one another. When we finally hear Nicole's appreciation of Charlie articulated out loud, we come to understand that one of the main factors that causes both their marriage and their divorce to unravel is the unwillingness to give voice to appreciation.
Most of the top couples therapists in the world – John Gottman, Sue Johnson, and Terry Real – emphasize the crucial importance of not just appreciating our partners but expressing that appreciation.
For instance, Terry Real writes, "When I speak of cherishing, I do not mean just feeling warm and fuzzy inside. I mean doing something to let your partner know what you are appreciating."
Gottman makes the same basic point:
When you acknowledge and openly discuss positive aspects of your partner and your marriage, your bond is strengthened.
Why is expressing appreciation so important? Perhaps for the same reason that it's so important not just to appreciate a house plant, but also to water it.
Step 4. Appreciate one another's life dreams
Why does Nicole refuse to read her appreciations out loud to Charlie? While there are many answers to this question, they all ultimately boil down to another, more fundamental symptom of ADD.
Nicole is both hurt by and angry at Charlie because he has failed to listen for and appreciate her deepest needs and most-cherished longings.
According to Gottman, whenever there is a gridlocked conflict in a relationship the thing to do is dig down to what he calls the "dream within the conflict."
By "dream" he means the hopes, aspirations and wishes that are part of people's very identity and that give purpose and meaning to their lives. In Gottman's experience, the best way to drill down to the dream beneath the conflict is to explore the underlying symbolism of the surface-level desires at play in the disagreement.
If he had taken me in a big hug and said 'Baby, I'm so excited for your adventure and of course I want you to have your own piece of earth' then we might not be getting divorced.
The marriage researchers Shelly Gable and Harry Reis have shown that when partners communicate and celebrate their individual successes with one another they both feel greater positive emotions and mental health, and also experience increased feelings of trust, intimacy, and satisfaction in the relationship.
As Eli Finkel explains, "Enthusiastic responses are beneficial because they convey the listener's shared joy in the event and appreciation of the personal significance of the event for the discloser."
Step 5. Appreciate (or, at the very least, accept) your partner's influence
In Marriage Story, Nicole complains that all of the furniture in their apartment was Charlie's taste. She bemoans the fact she didn't even get to pick their apartment but just moved into his.
More generally, and perhaps most significantly, she remarks that during their marriage:
It would be so weird if he had turned to me and said 'And what do you want to do today?'
In their long-term study of 131 newly-wed couples who they followed for nine years, Gottman and his fellow researchers found that even in the first few months of marriage, men who allowed their wives to influence them had happier relationships and were less likely to eventually divorce than men who resisted their wives influence.
"Statistically speaking," he writes, "when a man is not willing to share power with his partner there is an 81% chance that his marriage will self-destruct."
Marriage Story Adam Driver Scarlett Johansson
Step 6. Appreciate and assert your own needs and dreams
It seems fair to say that Nicole also fails to appreciate her own dreams and assert her influence in a way that Charlie can understand.
She says, "I made noises about wanting to move back to LA, but they came to nothing, but "making noises" is a far cry from clearly and insistently articulating your dreams and desires. And unfortunately, as Terry Real writes:
You cannot create an extraordinary relationship unless you're willing to do the hard work of identifying what it is that you want and pursuing it.
It is for this reason that, out of the many possible forms of appreciation that exist, Real prioritizes the cultivation of self-appreciation.
"First and foremost," he says, "I want you to cherish yourself. I want you to value your own wants and needs. I want you to value your voice."
Real has a confrontational way of encouraging people to appreciate and express their own wants up front. He invites them to swallow this bitter pill:
You don't have the right to complain about not getting what you never asked for.
Step 7. Appreciate relationality
If Nicole had discerned and appreciated her own dreams more fully, she might have been able to summon the courage to not only stand up for herself but to speak up for herself and ask for more out of Charlie and for more out of their marriage.
This is the very essence of what Real calls "fierce intimacy" or "daring to rock the boat." Grabbing your partner by the collar and saying, 'Such-and-such is really important to me. You better take it seriously. I'm not kidding."
Unfortunately, because Nicole doesn't fully appreciate her own needs, she cannot articulate them to Charlie, let alone roll up her sleeves and fight like hell to make sure he meets them.


Collecting customer information
Collecting customer information
Collecting Information about customer needs.
So we recognise that customers and consumers have needs and wants. We are now going to look at how we gather information about customer needs and want, since by satisfying these needs and wants is how we make profit. There are internal and external sources of information, and we tend to categorise basic information or data as either primary or secondary. Let's have a look at these terms more closely in the following paragraphs.
Secondary data could be out of date. An example might be that we are comparing the data on pensions in Central America. Each piece of research will be collected at a different time and have different ways of collecting the data, and you also should appreciate that the pension systems will be different in each country. Clikc here for more on marketing research.
So what's the difference between information and data? Data can be any fact or statistic, which then becomes information once we add some intelligence to it. For example if we have an average of 7 whilst this is a piece of data, once it becomes 7°C or kilometres per hour, it now has contextual meaning and becomes a piece of information. Often the words are interchangeable.
Internal and External Sources
Internal data is any data which relates to the inside of your business. There are going to be many examples of internal data which might include the number of employees which you have, diferent products which you have in stock or the state of the cash flow budget. Can you think of other examples of internal data? External data is any data from outside of your business. Here we are into the realms of marketing research, which is research for the purposes of marketing. An example might be competitor price research or looking at the nature of your competitors' promotional activities. You could also look at specific market segments for demographics (which is the study populations) and you could include the income of your target group, or the average age of your defined consumer.
Primary and Secondary Data.
Your information or data is divided into primary and secondary. Primary data is data which is collected for the first time. Secondary data, or desk research, is data which already exists. Primary data is collected for your purposes only, and focuses on a particular problem which you have to solve. This might be why are low income households buying less baked beans? It is specific to your question or problem, although it does have some negative points. Primary data is notoriously expensive, and it takes time and commitment on the part of the business to see it through. Secondary data on the other hand is much cheaper and can be undertaken far more quickly. The downside of course is that the data may have been collected for the reasons other than for your specific problem, and it is often difficult to compare datasets that have been collected at different times and for different reasons.
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bull-roarer, an instrument consisting of slit board or chamber attached to a cord. When swung around in the air, it emits a deep, vibrant, "whirrrrrr"-like sound. The mythology of some Native South Americans (e.g., the Tupí-Guaraní) indicates that women originally controlled such sacred instruments of power as bull-roarers, flutes, or trumpets, but, through some calamity (often involving women's inability to hunt), lost possession of these instruments to men. The control of such instruments legitimizes adult male power. Thus, at puberty, Bororo boys are shown how to use bull-roarers, and they participate in secret rituals with the adult men. There are separate ceremonies in which men taunt women with bull-roarers, sexual songs, and clay phalluses. Taboos exist against women seeing these instruments, which are normally concealed in the men's house but removed for ceremonies. Women's real attitude toward bull-roarers is difficult to gauge; some secretly admit to have seen the sacred instruments, but open defiance of the taboos would invite severe sanctions and is avoided. Among some groups, the instrument is merely a toy. The bull-roarer is also important among the Australian aborigines. See matriarchy.
The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th ed. Copyright © 2012, Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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»Nomad Commands (CLI)
Nomad is controlled via a very easy to use command-line interface (CLI). Nomad is only a single command-line application: nomad, which takes a subcommand such as "agent" or "status". The complete list of subcommands is in the navigation to the left.
The Nomad CLI is a well-behaved command line application. In erroneous cases, a non-zero exit status will be returned. It also responds to -h and --help as you would most likely expect.
To view a list of the available commands at any time, just run Nomad with no arguments. To get help for any specific subcommand, run the subcommand with the -h argument.
Each command has been conveniently documented on this website. Links to each command can be found on the left.
Nomad's CLI supports command autocomplete. Autocomplete can be installed or uninstalled by running the following on bash or zsh shells:
$ nomad -autocomplete-install
$ nomad -autocomplete-uninstall
»Command Contexts
Nomad's CLI commands have implied contexts in their naming convention. Because the CLI is most commonly used to manipulate or query jobs, you can assume that any given command is working in that context unless the command name implies otherwise.
For example, the nomad job run command is used to run a new job, the nomad status command queries information about existing jobs, etc. Conversely, commands with a prefix in their name likely operate in a different context. Examples include the nomad agent-info or nomad node drain commands, which operate in the agent or node contexts respectively.
»Remote Usage
The Nomad CLI may be used to interact with a remote Nomad cluster, even when the local machine does not have a running Nomad agent. To do so, set the NOMAD_ADDR environment variable or use the -address= flag when running commands.
$ NOMAD_ADDR=https://remote-address:4646 nomad status
$ nomad status -address=https://remote-address:4646
The provided address must be reachable from your local machine. There are a variety of ways to accomplish this (VPN, SSH Tunnel, etc). If the port is exposed to the public internet it is highly recommended to configure TLS.


Difference Between Talent and Skill (With Table)
There are so many people having different talents and skillsets. And talent is something that is inborn, but skills are developed by a person later. Talent can be improved later by taking classes and guidance, but talent is something that develops within it just only need to be smoothened.
Talent can be developed, but mostly it is an inborn ability. Skills are gained by hard work and dedication with proper guidance. For example, a talented person born gifted with a good voice can become a singer, but a person who does not have a good voice but wants to become a singer needs to develop skills in cantando.
Talent vs Skill
The difference between Talent and Skill is that talent is inborn, or we can say that a person is born with a talent they do not need to learn from outside. And Skill is what a person needs to develop, by hard work and dedication one can develop good skill in any topic they want.
Talent is the ability or potential that is given by God to some people, or we can say that it is a congenital ability of a person that can be improved with time. Talent development does not take much time and hard work because it is a built-in potential of a person. Only a few people have this ability. The rest need to develop it.
Skill is expertise in something, or it is an ability to do something expertly and with perfection. Anyone in the world can develop skills by learning and taking guidance from experts. Skill development needs hard work and strong efforts. Then, only one can gain achievement in a particular topic.
Comparison Table Between Talent and Skill
Parâmetros de comparaçãoTalentHabilidade
DefiniçãoTalent is the built-in ability of a person which can be improved with time, and it does not need much effort.Skill is developed by people. It needs hard work and effort.
Propriedade deOwned by only a few people because it is god gifted.It can be developed by anyone with the help of proper guidance and hard work.
Development processSelf-acknowledgment is best for finding out your hidden talent.Skill development needs hard work and dedication with proper guidance from experts.
NecessidadeSelf-Realization is needed. Development is needed to gain a specific skill set.
Instructions It only requires improvement from the right person.Proper guidance and training are required.
What is Talent?
Talent does not need much hard work and effort for its development; instead, it only needs improvement or clearness for development. It is gifted by God to only a few peoples, and for finding it out, people need self-acknowledgment and self-realization.
Talent in a person can be recognized at an early age only, and further, it just needs to be improved. For example, some people are inborn singers they only need is guidance, people who have very good sketch making talent, etc. Talent should be recognized and should be praised because only a few people have this.
Talent is unknown until it is recognized or acknowledged. It needs proper guidance from the right people to make it uncovered and developed. And people who have particular talent are considered to be lucky because of their inborn ability.
O que é habilidade?
Skill is acquired by those who do hard work, and it can be achieved by anyone in the world with proper training from certified institutions. A person is said to be an expert if he or she has mastered in their skills and they can train other people too with their knowledge.
Skill is not hidden like talent. Rather, it is known because one chooses to develop a specific skill set, and for that, they take proper training. For example, a person develops the coding skills they are not inborn with it, Communication in the proper way needs to be developed it is not natural, etc.
People make money by developing other people's skills with their knowledge and expertise. Skill development requires more time than developing talent because people start from the ground level. People develop a specific skill for getting a job and for becoming an expert in a particular topic.
Main Differences Between Talent and Skill
 1. Talent is the built-in ability of a person which can be improved with time, whereas Skill needs to be developed with proper training and guidance by an expert.
 2. Talent does not require much time and effort for its development, but Skill development needs hard work, more time, and dedication.
 3. Skill can be gained by anyone out there, But on the other hand, Talent is god-gifted and is owned by very few peoples who need to be recognized.
 4. Talents need recognition because it is covered within people's personality While, Skills are known, and the person who wants to develop their skill knows that in which topic he or she needs training.
 5. A person who is talented in a particular thing can teach others for developing others skills, While a person who is not talented needs to develop their skills for gaining expertise in a particular topic.
A person with talent should be praised because it is gifted by God to them, and only a few people have this. But people who do not have any inborn talent can develop their knowledge in a particular topic, and that is called gaining skills. Skills are very important if you want a good job and want to impress others. Talent does not require much time because it just needs to be improved.
Skill development takes more time than Talent development, and more hard work is needed for developing a particular skill set. One can develop several types of Skills, but as Talent is god-gifted, it is unique. Talent needs self-realization for its acknowledgment. But a person who wants to develop skills already knows that in what topic he or she wants to get expertise. There are so many institutions or training centers from where a person can gain skills and can achieve success in their life.
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Information Bottleneck for Gaussian Variables
Gal Chechik, Amir Globerson, Naftali Tishby, Yair Weiss; 6(Jan):165--188, 2005.
AbstractThe problem of extracting the relevant aspects of data was previously addressed through the information bottleneck (IB) method, through (soft) clustering one variable while preserving information about another - relevance - variable. The current work extends these ideas to obtain continuous representations that preserve relevant information, rather than discrete clusters, for the special case of multivariate Gaussian variables. While the general continuous IB problem is difficult to solve, we provide an analytic solution for the optimal representation and tradeoff between compression and relevance for the this important case. The obtained optimal representation is a noisy linear projection to eigenvectors of the normalized regression matrix Σx|yΣx-1, which is also the basis obtained in canonical correlation analysis. However, in Gaussian IB, the compression tradeoff parameter uniquely determines the dimension, as well as the scale of each eigenvector, through a cascade of structural phase transitions. This introduces a novel interpretation where solutions of different ranks lie on a continuum parametrized by the compression level. Our analysis also provides a complete analytic expression of the preserved information as a function of the compression (the "information-curve"), in terms of the eigenvalue spectrum of the data. As in the discrete case, the information curve is concave and smooth, though it is made of different analytic segments for each optimal dimension. Finally, we show how the algorithmic theory developed in the IB framework provides an iterative algorithm for obtaining the optimal Gaussian projections.


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The Excavator and Tractor Teach Us Shapes and Other Educational Car Videos
3D educational car cartoons are the new way to learn colours, shapes and songs! As the orange tractor brings by a truckload of playground balls, the excavator digs into the pile and pulls out a unique shape. Can you identify each shape he throws into the air? Guess what, you'll also get to sing your nursery rhymes along with this video! Check out many more free cartoons for boys and girls at SeeZisKids!


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A dillybag or dilly bag is a traditional Australian Aboriginal bag, generally woven from the fibres of plant species of the Pandanusgenus.[verification needed]. It is used for a variety of food transportation and preparation purposes.
The dilly bag, otherwise known as yakou, yibali or but but bag, is a bag worn around the neck to hold food like berries, meat, fish etc. The Dilly bag is normally woven out of vines or tough dried grasses and sometimes had feather or animal fur inside the bag to stop small pieces of food falling through holes in the weave. Mainly used by women to gather food but can be used by men to help carry some tools for hunting.
Another use for the dilly bag (also named Mukurtu) was as a holder for personal or tribal artifacts. The "Dilly bag" term is also used to describe bags used by non-aboriginal Australians, for example a smaller food bag carried by swagmen along with their swags. The term is also used by Australians to describe similar bags for other purposes.


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NGFS Scenarios Phase III
The NGFS scenarios provide a framework to assess and manage climate-related risks, by exploring the transition and physical impacts of climate change. In this third vintage, the NGFS scenarios have been brought up to date with an updated set of climate scenarios, including the most recent country-level climate commitments made at the COP26 in 2021, and the latest GDP and population pathways. NiGEM is used to convert the IAM output into macro-economic impacts.
Summary & aims
The climate scenarios were originally designed to provide policymakers with advice on the risks from climate change and identify possible solutions. They form a key part of scientific assessments such as those conducted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Since 2020, they have been adapted by the NGFS to help central banks and supervisors explore the possible impacts on the economy and the financial system. They are regularly made available as a public good and have a number of useful applications.
NIESR joined the consortium in 2019 and have used NiGEM to bridge the gap between Integrated Assessment Models (IAM) and macro-economic impacts of climate risks, both physical and transition.
- Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)
- International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)
- University of Maryland (UMD)
- Climate Analytics (CA)
- Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ)
This project directly links IAM data with the expanded version of NiGEM which deals with climate channels in a macro model to provide the impacts of various NGFS scenarios.
In order to match IAM starting points, a forecast base is created within NiGEM for each IAM, referred to as a climate neutral base as no transition or physical effects from climate are used in this forecast.
The transition shock consists of both a carbon price shock and a recycling shock. The IAM scenario data is imported exogenously into NiGEM for the carbon pricing scenarion which then executes under standard rational expectations to provide final macro economic impacts. The revenue generated from the carbon price is then used to provide the effects of the government use of this revenue, for example through tax relief etc.
Finally, the GDP damage for each temperature profile in the various scenarios is considered. In NiGEM, physical damages are modelled as both demand and supply (where the productive capacity of an economy is affected) shocks. The combination of these shocks must mimic the GDP effects supplied by the damage functions.


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There is a new University Entrance Exam that competes with SAT and ACT – the Classic Learning Test
Try the practice exam (or get your teenager to try it). It involves reading comprehension of a CS Lewis piece etc.
Given the standards at the OCSB (and throughout Ontario), this blog wonders how OCSB students would do on the CLT
OCSB Example 1: High school english students using maquettes to do a "Hamlet in the Hood" scene:
Example 2: Grade 7/8s proud to make it through first round of spelling bee by spelling N-E-A-T
Example 3: Grade 3 blogging (and their atrocious spelling and sentence structure)
This blog advocates for a return to curriculum like Core Knowledge:
CK Grade 8 English: Animal Farm and Dostoyevski


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What does the world look like through the eyes of a mantis shrimp? It's not a question most of us would think to ask, but a new study has given us the answer: It looks like nothing humans (or any other animals) have ever seen.
It turns out that these exotic sea critters—affectionately known to the researchers in the study as "shrimp from Mars"—can see a kind of light that, as far as we know, is not apparent to any other animal on the planet. Not only that, but certain parts of the shrimps' bodies can reflect the same kind of light, creating a signal only other mantis shrimp can see. Thanks to this phenomenon, the creatures have their own visual code—a completely private way to communicate with one another as they scuttle across the ocean floor.
A research team well versed in the ways of mantis shrimp was tipped off by a set of unusual structures within the animals' eyes. These structures use the same principles as man-made detectors built to sense circularly polarized light—a specialized kind of light used to reduce the glare off computer monitors and take clearer photographs. When the researchers poked tiny electrodes into the shrimps' eyes and directed circularly polarized light onto them, they found that the same cells responded in different ways, at times recognizing the properties of circularly polarized light.
As for what one mantis shrimp looks like to another, Tom Cronin, a biologist at the University of Maryland Baltimore County and one of the study's authors, says that "it's impossible to know."
For more information on the super-sight of mantis shrimp, see the related Discoblog post.


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- Town Departments
- Find information about animal adoptions, rabies vaccinations and more.
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- Find information about Town codes and common violations.
- Code Enforcement
- Find information on parks, recreation activities, recycling and trash services.
- Community Service
- Find court schedules, policies, procedures and payment information.
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- Development Services
- Visit the Sunnyvale Economic Development website.
- Economic Development
- Find information about the Town's annual budget and other financial information.
- Find information about fire, emergency and rescue services in Sunnyvale.
- Find current employment opportunities and information about working for the Town of Sunnyvale.
- Human Resources
- Find information about the Sunnyvale's public library.
- Find information from the Dallas Sheriff's Department on public safety in Sunnyvale.
- Public Safety
- Find information on establishing water service, utility billing, payments and more.
- Public Works
- Find information about property taxes and payments.
- Tax Assessor
- Find contact information, mission, goals and objectives of the Town's executive officer.
- Town Manager
- Find official Town documents, such as Council agendas and minutes, elections, and taxes.
- Town Secretary


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Average weather and climate in Philippines
Most of the Philippines have a typical tropical marine climate. So you will find typical hot and humid weather throughout most of the year. From June to September, the country experiences a rainy season. In this period typhoons are common. From October to February, the northeastern monsoon brings cold winds from the north, which creates cool and dry weather. From March to May the Philippines experiences very hot summers. The country's average temperature can range from 25 degrees Celsius – 32 degrees Celsius (78-90° Fahrenheit), with humidity around 77 percent. Highland areas are much cooler, with nighttime temperatures at night dropping to 20 degrees Celsius (68° Fahrenheit).
Interested in the more detailed Weather and Climate of Philippines?
Please select a city in or below the map you wish to travel to or the one closest to your destination. Each selected city will show you the following graphs:
1. Average minimum and maximum temperature over the year
2. Average monthly precipitation over the year (rainfall, snow)
3. Average monthly hours of sunshine over the year
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Busy Bees Benefits: How to Implement an Employee Benefits Strategy
When your employees are happy at work, they are more engaged, which boosts productivity levels. Not only this, but engaged and motivated employees can also have a positive effect on your recruitment strategy, with "brand ambassadors" doing wonderful things for your company reputation.
Offering a relevant employee benefits package can improve your business's bottom line while attracting new talent, engaging with your workforce and boosting productivity. However, understanding where to start can be difficult, especially if you are a small business or start-up.
This process has three important steps:
 1. Implementation
 2. Communication
 3. Update and Develop
Find out more about these three steps and implement an employee benefits strategy that makes an impact.