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Dropped right in it
STEVE HANSEN last night insisted his Wales team are a better side than when he took over as coach - even though they stand just 80 minutes away from their first Six Nations whitewash.
Coach Hansen claimed the championship table, which sees his team glued to the bottom, does not tell the whole story of the European campaign.
He predicted Wales have the ability to bounce back by making it a hat-trick of straight victories in France on Saturday.
And Hansen said Wales cost themselves victory against Ireland at the weekend because they took their foot off the gas after Stephen Jones' dramatic drop-goal in the closing moments.
Ronan O'Gara responded within 30 seconds to clinch a thrilling 25-24 win for Ireland, with Jones having a further drop-goal attempt charged down.
Hansen admitted, "If we want to be really honest and critical, we could say we lost our composure after Stephen's drop-goal.
"Everyone threw their arms in the air, as if to say, `We have done the job.'
"But we didn't secure the ball from the restart - and we saw what happened then.
"You learn best from a harsh lesson. And it was a harsh lesson."
Hansen insisted, however, that Wales can plan for the future in earnest, despite a Six
Nations record that reads played 4, lost 4.
The key word in Hansen's vocabulary has always been "performance" and he used it after the Irish defeat to point out Welsh improvements since they were deemed unlucky to lose two Tests in South Africa last summer.
"We have shown since then, against three of the best teams in the world in New Zealand, England and Ireland, that we can compete," said Hansen.
"And we have got another opportunity against France to do likewise. We should be excited about going to Paris because the more you play that type of opposition the better.
"I believe we are quite a way up the ladder from when we played South Africa on tour last summer.
"If we remove Italy from the equation and compare the rest of the Six Nations, I think we have performed a lot better, even though we have lost our games.
"If we lose to France we will finish bottom of the table, but I think we have been a lot closer than some people think.
"I think we can keep growing and keep learning."
Hansen said some of Wales' young guns had tears in their eyes after being denied victory against Grand Slam battlers Ireland.
"There was a fair bit of pain involved," Hansen admitted, before insisting the agony could be put to good use.
"If we use it right in the future we will get some reward for it. There is no point in making mistakes if you are not learning from them.
"The game was there for us one second - and gone the next."
But Hansen maintained, "We performed just about as well as we could have, although the history books will say Ireland won the game.
"We showed a lot of character in the performance which we can be pleased with."
Hansen reserved a special word for rookie tight-head prop Gethin Jenkins, normally a loose-head, saying, "I thought he was simply outstanding. Everybody thought we were crazy putting him
there, but he is very athletic and gave us a bit of oomph.
"Iestyn Thomas also had a big game at loose-head. He scrummaged superbly."
Jenkins is likely to start again at Stade de France, but Hansen could be forced to make yet another change at hooker after the injury curse struck again when Jonathan Humphreys had a recurrence of his shoulder trouble.
There is also a doubt over wing Mark Jones who injured a leg. But looking ahead to Paris, Hansen said, "They shouldn't get the wooden spoon out of the kitchen drawer yet."


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use strict;
use warnings;
use Data::Dumper;

use qpid;

my $broker            = ( @ARGV > 0 ) ? $ARGV[0] : "localhost:5672";
my $address           = ( @ARGV > 1 ) ? $ARGV[0] : "amq.topic";
my $connectionOptions = ( @ARGV > 2 ) ? $ARGV[1] : "";

# create a connection
my $connection = new qpid::messaging::Connection( $broker, $connectionOptions );

eval {
    # open the connection and create a session, and both a sender a receive
    $connection->open();

    my $session = $connection->create_session();

    my $receiver = $session->create_receiver($address);
    my $sender   = $session->create_sender($address);

    # send a simple message
    $sender->send( new qpid::messaging::Message("Hello world!") );

    # receive the message, fetching it directly from the broker
    my $message = $receiver->fetch(qpid::messaging::Duration::SECOND);

    # output the message content, then acknowledge it
    print $message->get_content() . "\n";
    $session->acknowledge();

    # close the connection
    $connection->close();
};

die $@ if ($@);

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You will get an overview of rapid control prototyping (RCP) and hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) simulation technology.
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Legal requirements around COVID vaccinations for health and care staff to end
By Ben KempMarch 11, 2022No Comments
From the 1 April, the legal requirement for health and care staff to be double jabbed will be removed. The requirements from the Care Quality Commission (CQC) for registered care homes will be lifted from 15 March.
A public consultation on mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations was announced on 31 January to collect views on the removal of "vaccination as a condition of deployment as Omicron replaces Delta as dominant COVID-19 variant". The consultation posed a series of questions about the government's proposals, which covered the following areas:
proposed legislative change
steps to further increase vaccine uptake
equality impacts
90% of responses supported the removal of the legal requirement for health and social care staff to be double jabbed and as a result the Government is revoking the regulations. There was some variation between different groups, with members of the public most likely to support revocation (96%) whereas 30% of managers and 22% of organisations providing health and care services opposed revocation.
The Government says that it "is continuing to work closely with royal colleges and professional regulators to strengthen guidance and consult on updating the code of practice on the prevention and control of infections in relation to COVID-19 requirements for CQC-registered providers of health and social care in England".
CQCMandatory VaccineNHSVaccine

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}


Identification: Japanese Barberry is a compact woody deciduous shrub with arching branches. It generally grows from 2-3' but can get as high as 6-8' in ideal conditions, forming thick impenetrable thickets. The leaves are small, oval, smooth and untoothed, from 1/2-1 1/2" long. Leaf colors include green, bluish-green to dark red and purple. The shrub blooms in the northeastern U.S. from early April through May with small, 1/4", pale to bright yellow flowers hanging in clustered umbels from the underside of each stem. These flowers form bright, 1/2" red berries that persist into late winter. In autumn the foliage varies in shades from yellow to crimson. The bark is brown with older stems deeply grooved, growing in a zig-zag form and covered with very sharp single spines growing from every node. The inner bark is yellow, as are the roots, and when scraped these parts have a pungent odor. The Japanese Barberry may sometimes be confused with the Common, or European Barberry (Berberis vulgaris) which used to be considered a pest in the 1930s as it colonized open farmland but since second generation forests have grown up in the northeast, Berberis vulgaris seems to have lost the competitive edge to Japanese Barberry and itself is no longer considered invasive. There is a native barberry, Berberis canadensis, which grows only in the southeastern U.S. and not in Canada or in New England, the areas where Japanese Barberry is currently becoming a very serious invasive pest. Whereas all three Berberis have spiny stems, red berries and yellow inner bark, B.vulgaris and B.canadensis have toothed leaves as opposed to the smooth leaves of B. thunbergii, and the spines of the B. thunbergii are usually single and unforked at each node whereas the spines of B. vulgaris tend to be double or tripled branched.
Original Distribution: Discovered growing in the mountains of Japan by Russian botanist Carl Maximowicz in 1864 and named after Swedish botanist C.P.Thunberg (1743-1828).
Current Distribution: Extends from Nova Scotia south to North Carolina and west as far as Montana. Has been reported as invasive in twenty U.S. States, straight down the eastern seaboard from Maine through North Carolina and west into Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Wisconsin and Missouri. B. thunbergii's progress in the United States has, to date, been held in check to the south by, probably, its need for cold winter temperatures for stratification of the seeds, and to the west by, probably, drought conditions. Although very drought tolerant once established, a very dry terrain would tend to discourage its incursion.
Site and Date of Introduction: In 1875 seeds imported from Russia were planted at the Arnold Arboretum in Boston, Massachusetts. Shrubs grown from these same seeds were planted in 1896 in the New York Botanic Garden. The exotic shrub was apparently regarded as an interesting specimen plant and there are no records of the species having naturalized in the U.S. until after 1910, when it began colonizing roadside verges and open pastures.
Mode(s) of Introduction: By 1920 Japanese Barberry was being promoted by U.S. nurseries as an attractive landscaping alternative to the European (also known as "Common") Barberry, B. vulgaris, which had been brought over by early European settlers to use as hedgerows and for dyes, jams and medicinal purposes. European Barberry had itself had become naturalized and, because it was an alternate host to Black Rust Stem, (Puccinia graminis) a serious fungus that attacks all cereal crops, the shrub was actively eradicated by the USDA from farmland in the 1910s. Because of B. thunbergii's s attractive fall foliage in a variety of cultivars (there are currently 17 extant cultivars) and the fact it was widely believed to be unsusceptible to Puccinia graminis, the Japanese Barberry became very popular as an ornamental shrub, often planted by a doorway or alongside the house. It began spreading from cultivation in suburban and rural retreats and by the 1960s had dispersed widely and exponentially. By the 1970s it began to be regarded as a problematic invasive in the United States. The sale of Japanese Barberry was banned throughout Canada in 1966 but in the U.S. it is still widely propagated and sold as a problem-free, easy-to-grow shrub.
Reason(s) Why it has Become Established: Berberis thunbergii has become naturalized, to the point of running rampant, in North America for many of the same reasons that this shrub is still a popular nursery plant. "Rugged, adaptable, no serious problems or pests, easy to maintain, transplants readily, shade and drought tolerant, deer resistant" is typical ad copy found at any site offering this shrub of "colorful fall foliage." Although it prefers well-drained sites it does just as well in wetlands. It is now found in black ash swamps, wetlands, open woodlands, pastures, meadows and disturbed areas. The shrub also has a disturbing tendency to do quite well in the dense shade of forest canopies, such as oak canopies in Wisconsin, and mixed deciduous canopies of New Jersey and New York where it can form dense thickets that prevent the growth of native plant species. It reputedly prefers sun to part shade but will flower and fruit even in heavy shade. The shrub is propagated by seed widely dispersed by birds. A rise in populations of the ruffed grouse and turkey, due in part to the regrowth of second generation forest, may have much to do with the dispersal of barberry seed, along with the seed's high (up to 90%) germination rate. Vegetative propagation is also an option for this adaptable plant. Any stem that touches the ground can root, as can any bits of root left in the ground after pulling up a plant. Because the shrub leafs out very early in spring and maintains its foliage well after the rest of the forest canopy has dropped its leaves, this may give B. thunbegrii a photosynthetic advantage over native plant species as well. White tailed deer avoid browsing on this plant, which also gives it a competitive advantage over native species. The seeds can remain dormant in the soil for over ten years.
Ecological Role: Originally found in the mountains of Japan Berberis thunbergii served as a forest understory sheltering the forest floor from effects of erosion while simultaneously providing cover and a food source for birds and small mammals. Its growth was held in check in its island biogeography by climate and soil limitations that do not, unfortunately, operate as restrictively in the wider North American habitat.
Benefit(s): This shrub serves as a nesting habitat for birds and cover for small mammals. The abundant berries that last from fall through much of winter is a food source, although not a preferred one, for many species of birds. The seeds apparently vary in palatability and are not very nutritious but if they are the only food source available a bird will eat them. A useful act performed by a thicket of Japanese Barberry is that of protecting oak seedlings from deer browsing. Protected by a briar of thorns which the white-tailed deer scorn to eat, an otherwise endangered seedling can get started in life. The plant contains a substance known as Berberine, an isoquinoline alkaloid, that has a wide variety of medicinal uses and is much valued in traditional Chinese medicine and other folk medicine cultures for its antibacterial properties and is used in the treatment of intestinal symptoms and as a bitter tonic. The roots and stems make a deep yellow natural dye.
Threat(s): This plant is rapidly displacing native plant species and creating impoverished monoculture areas. Under forest canopies where it doesn't have to compete with similar shrubs that need more light, Berberis thunbergii can form thick stands and displace native plants, reducing variety in wildlife habitat and forage. Studies done in New Jersey have indicated that dense stands of Japanese barberry can change the soil pH and reduce the layer of litter on the forest floor. This change in soil pH may in turn aid the spread of Japanese barberry, as well as prevent the regrowth of native species, even after eradication of the invasive species. It is currently found to be invasively present in 43 protected forest sites in New York State. Connecticut has declared Berberis thunbergii to be "probably one of the most destructive invasive plants in CT." The Japanese barberry can also hybridize with the common barberry (Berberis vulgaris) and become susceptible to black stem rust. For this reason Canada, although having somewhat relaxed their stringent ban on Japanese barberry, (under pressure from nursery lobbying), insists on new cultivars being proven free from black rust fungus, even though it is only a temporary fix because of the hybridization possibilities.
Control Level Diagnosis: Highest Priority. The threat of B. thunbergii as an invasive plant should not be underestimated. It is not a creeping vine growing over everything with tropical abundance but it is a highly persistent competitor with an abundance of advantages over native species. At this point in time eradication may be an unattainable goal but an organized and coordinated plan of control should be instituted immediately. The first thing that should be done is to ban the selling of Japanese Barberry from all nurseries, as was done in Canada. Nurseries can instead promote native species such as winterberry (Ilex verticillata), bayberry (Myrica pensylvanica) and inkberry (Ilex glabra) all of which have many of the same attributes of Japanese barberry without the pest's proclivities.
Control Method: The best thing is not to plant Japanese barberry at all. Gardeners need to be alerted to the invasive dangers of this plant and nurseries should be offering native species alternatives. For the existent problem, a few options are available, including manual, mechanical and chemical methods. Small isolated plants can be dug up by hand, (wear thick gloves) and it is important to remove every bit of root, including the long taproot, because the plant can regenerate from a piece of root. Because this plant leafs out very early in spring it is easy to identify and not too difficult to dig a smaller plant out of the soil when the ground is moist. For larger plants, (and these shrubs can achieve very large growth, due to their pattern of stem development and vegetative cloning), a hoe or a Weed Wrench is most useful and least intrusive on any surrounding non-target species. Shrubs can be mowed repeatedly, and will eventually give up the fight to survive, although any seed left in the soil can remain viable for years so the area must be continuously monitored. Clipping hedges of barberry plants in late summer, before they set fruit, can help keep down the seed dispersal, although there will always be a few berries left hanging because every arching branch of barberry bears hundreds of flowers. Chemical means such as glyphosate (e.g. Roundup) and Triclopyr have been used with success in eradicating large forest infestations of Japanese barberry. Again, because of the species' early spring leaf out, it is easy to identify and spray carefully before other native vegetation has grown up. Application in late summer during fruiting is also considered effective, but must be applied very selectively as glyphosate will kill anything green with which it comes into contact. There is potential for biological control of Japanese barberry with the tephritid fly, which has been shown in Europe to severely reduce the seed production, but this has not been studied thoroughly in the U.S. Any biological control considered must of course be studied carefully, lest yet another invasive species be introduced into a new habitat.
http://www.centerforplantconservation.org/ this site has a great website listing of everything to do with invasive plant species in the US and globally.
http://www.invasions.bio.utk.edu/ Institute for Biological Invasions, University of Tennessee, run by Dr. Daniel Simberloff. Includes a comprehensive bibliography of literature and fact sheets on many invasive species.
Ehrenfeld, J.D. 1997. Invasion of deciduous forest preserves in the New York metropolitan region by Japanese barberry (Berberis thunbergii) Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society, 124: 210-215.
Ehrenfeld, J.G. 1999. Structure and dynamics of populations of Japanese barberry (Berberis thunbergii DC) in deciduous forests of New Jersey. Biological Invasions 1:203-213.
Kourtev, P.S., W.Z. Huang and J.G. Ehrenfeld. 1999. Differences in earthworm densities and nitrogen dynamics in soils under exotic and native plant species. Biological Invasions 1:237-245.
Silander, J.A. and D.M. Klepeis. 1999. The invasion ecology of Japanese barberry (Berberis thunbergii) in the New England landscape. Biological Invasions 1:189-201.


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Wed, Aug 19, 2015 - Page 6 News List
UN backs Syria peace plan after airstrikes
AFP, DAMASCUS
The UN Security Council on Monday backed a push for Syrian peace talks as the death toll in government air strikes on a rebel-held town outside Damascus neared 100, sparking global outrage.
The unanimously approved Security Council statement, the first of its kind in two years, was described as "historic" by French Deputy Ambassador to the UN Alexis Lamek.
It came just hours after UN officials expressed horror over Sunday's deadly raids on Douma, among the bloodiest regime attacks in Syria's four-year war.
Calling for a political transition to end a conflict that has killed about 240,000 people, the council text was adopted by Russia, a key ally of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, and the other 14 member states despite reservations from Venezuela.
The 16-point plan backs a peace initiative, set to begin next month, aiming to set up four working groups to address safety and protection, counterterrorism, political and legal issues and reconstruction.
The council demanded that all sides work for a an end to the war by "launching a Syrian-led political process leading to a political transition that meets the legitimate aspirations of the Syrian people."
It made no specific mention of Assad's future, but Western governments have made clear that a transition would involve his exit from power at some point in time.
Venezuela, which has friendly relations with Syria, disassociated itself from parts of the statement.
The statement was adopted a day after regime air strikes on a marketplace and other parts of Douma, in the rebel bastion of Eastern Ghouta, killed at least 96 and injured 240, according to Britain-based monitoring group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.


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\subsection{Experimental settings}
For a fair comparison, we follow the experimental setting in Deep CORAL, \textit{i.e.} using the Office dataset and the ImageNet pretrained AlexNet model. The Office dataset contains images collected from three domains: \textit{Amazon, DSLR, Webcam}, each has identical thirty one categories.  We use one of the three domains as the source domain, and one of the rest two as the target domain, leading to six cases in total.

To make the training procedure more stable, moving average is employed when computing the losses. We use accumulated covariance and mean value to calculate LogCORAL loss and mean loss:
\begin{equation}
\mathbf{C}=0.9 * \mathbf{\widetilde{C}} + 0.1 * \mathbf{C_{batch}}
\end{equation}
\begin{equation}
\mathbf{M}=0.9 * \mathbf{\widetilde{M}} + 0.1 * \mathbf{M_{batch}},
\end{equation}
where $\mathbf{C}$ is the moving average covariance matrix, $\mathbf{\widetilde{C}}$ is the accumulated covariance from last iteration, and $\mathbf{C_{batch}}$ is the covariance matrix from the current batch. The terms for mean value are similarly defined as above.

\subsection{Experimental results}
We compare our proposed model with the Deep CORAL method, and also include the CNN method as a baseline, in which we fine-tune the pretrained AlexNet model using source domain samples without considering domain adaptation.

The experimental results are shown in Table~\ref{table:result1}. After applying our combination model (LogCORAL+Mean), for each domain shift, five out of six shifts reach the highest accuracy. The average accuracy raised $2.28\%$ and $1.07\%$ compared to CNN and Deep CORAL.

We further conduct an ablation study as shown in Table~\ref{table:result2}. Optimizing the mean loss or the LogCORAL loss individually could gain performance improvements over the baseline CNN method, which shows the first-/second-order information is useful for domain adaptation. We also observe that optimizing LogCORAL outperforms the Deep CORAL method in Table 1 in terms of average accuracy, which demonstrates the effectiveness of minimizing geodesic distance instead of using simple Euclidean distance on covariance matrices. Combing the mean loss and logCORAL loss gives further improvements in general, and raises the average accuracy by $0.39\%$.

We take A-W as an example to show the learning curves in Figure~\ref{fig:comp}. We observe that our proposed model converge fast. Moreover, minimizing the mean loss or the Deep LogCORAL loss individually improves the test accuracy compared to the baseline CNN method, and combining two losses further improves the accuracy.
\begin{figure}[h]
  \centering
  \includegraphics[width=1.0\linewidth]{images/curve.png}
  \caption{Comparison of learning curve of the models on A-W domain shift.}
  \label{fig:comp}
\end{figure}
Furthermore, we also conduct additional experiment by combining the mean loss with the Deep CORAL loss, which improves the average accuracy from  $71.80\%$ to $71.94\%$. This again verifies our motivation that it is beneficial to use both first-order and second-order statistical information for domain adaptation. However, this result is still worse than our final approach (logCORAL+Mean). We attribute this to the usage of geodesic distance on second order covariance matrices in Riemannian space which has only weak correlation with first order Euclidean information. We will demonstrate this in the following session.

\subsection{Visualization}
After demonstrating that minimizing the LogCORAL and mean losses individually helps shorten the distance between the two domains, we further investigate if the Euclidean and Riemannian distances correlated to each other.

\begin{figure*}[h]\label{fig2}
\centering
  \subfloat[]{\includegraphics[width=0.46\linewidth]{images/AW_cnn.png}\label{fig2:f1}}
  \centering
  \subfloat[]{\includegraphics[width=0.46\linewidth]{images/AW_mean.png}\label{fig2:f2}}
   \hfill
  \centering
  \subfloat[]{\includegraphics[width=0.46\linewidth]{images/AW_logcoral.png}\label{fig2:f3}}
  \centering
  \subfloat[] {\includegraphics[width=0.46\linewidth]{images/AW_two.png}\label{fig2:f4}}
  \caption{learning curves of different models on domain shift A-W. (a):Learning curve of CNN (\textit{i.e.} only optimize classification loss). (b):Learning curve of mean model (\textit{i.e.} optimize mean loss and classification loss). (c):Learning curve of Deep LogCORAL (\textit{i.e.} optimize LogCORAL loss and classification loss). (d):Learning curve of combination model (\textit{i.e.} optimize mean loss, LogCORAL loss and classification loss).}
\end{figure*}

Figure~\ref{fig2:f1} shows the learning curve of CNN, and also calculate the mean and LogCORAL loss even they are not used in learning procedure. Figure~\ref{fig2:f2} shows the learning curve of mean model (\textit{i.e.} optimizing mean loss and classification loss), and we also calculate the LogCORAL loss.
Figure~\ref{fig2:f3} shows the other way around which optimizes LogCORAL loss and classification loss, and we also calculate the mean loss.

From Figure~\ref{fig2:f1} we observe that, without optimizing any of those distances, mean loss and LogCORAL loss would both go up. When optimizing mean loss, LogCORAL loss remain stable while mean loss has a obvious drop down, see Figure~\ref{fig2:f2}. However if we optimize LogCORAL loss in Figure~\ref{fig2:f3}, LogCORAL loss goes down but mean loss goes up. Those results indicate that those two losses have very weak correlation. This also explains why minimizing the two distances at the same time can achieve even better accuracy for domain adaptation.

We further show the learning curve in Figure~\ref{fig2:f4}, where we optimize both losses. In this case, both the mean and LogCORAL losses go down, and we achieve better result.

\subsection{Discussion with other state-of-the-arts}
Deep domain adaptation is a fast growing research area. Many state of the art methods have been proposed on this topic. Generally speaking those methods can be classified into two main categories. First category is discrepancy based model, for example DAN \cite{long2015learning}, which directly minimizes the domain discrepancy (\textit{eg}, MMD) to bring the source and target domains closer. The second category is the adversarial model, for example GRL \cite{ganin2015unsupervised}, which aims to confuse a domain classifier to learn transferable features.

Our method falls into the first category. We extend the CORAL method by using second order Log-Euclidean distance and combining with first order mean loss. We show that a proper distance is important for employing second-order statistical information to minimize the domain discrepancy.
Some recent works give even higher accuracy on the Office dataset by using both the discrepancy and adversarial principles (for example, the JAN+A method~\cite{long2016deep}), and we believe it would be interesting to incorporate the proposed Log-Euclidean distance into those works to further boost the performance. We leave this to the future work for further study.

\section{Introduction}
\input{introduction.tex}
\section{Related Work}
\input{related_work.tex}
\section{Methodology}
\input{methology.tex}
\section{Experiment and Discussion}
\input{experiment_result.tex}
\section{Conclusion and Future Work}
\input{conclusion.tex}

\input{main.bbl}

\end{document}

\subsection{Deep CORAL approach}
As described in \cite{sun2016deep}, CORAL loss is built to calculate the  distance of second-order statistical information between two domains. It first calculates the covariance matrix of the features extracted from the "fc8" layer for each domain, and then minimizes the Euclidean distance of the covariance matrices of two domains.

Formally, let us denote by $\mathbf{D_{S}} = \left[\mathbf{x_{1}},\ldots,\mathbf{x_{n_{S}}}\right]$ as the source domain features that are extracted out of ``fc8" layer, in which $\mathbf{x_{i}}$ is the $i$-th source sample with $d$ being the dimension of features. Similarly, $\mathbf{D_{T}} = \left[\mathbf{u_{1}},\ldots,\mathbf{u_{n_{T}}}\right]$ denotes the target domain features extracted from the ``fc8" layer, in which $\mathbf{u_{i}}$ is the $i$-th target sample. The CORAL loss is then defined as follows,
 \begin{equation} \label{eq1}
 L_{CORAL} = \frac{1}{4d^2}\|\mathbf{C_{S}} - \mathbf{C_{T}}\|^2,
\end{equation}
in which the covariance matrices $\mathbf{C_{S}}$ and $\mathbf{C_{T}}$ are given as follows:
\begin{align}
\mathbf{C_{S}}&=\frac{1}{n_{S} - 1}(\mathbf{D_{S}}^T\mathbf{D_{S}} - \frac{1}{n_{S}}(\mathbf{1}^T\mathbf{D_{S}})^T(\mathbf{1}^T\mathbf{D_{S}}))\\
\mathbf{C_{T}}&=\frac{1}{n_{T} - 1}(\mathbf{D_{T}}^T\mathbf{D_{T}} - \frac{1}{n_{T}}(\mathbf{1}^T\mathbf{D_{T}})^T(\mathbf{1}^T\mathbf{D_{T}}))
\end{align}
where $n_{S}$, $n_{T}$ is the batch size of the source domain and target domain respectively. $d$ is the feature dimension, and $\mathbf{1}^T$ is a vector that all elements equals to $1$.

The Deep CORAL method simultaneously minimizes the above loss and the classification loss, such that the domain distribution mismatch is minimized, and the discriminative ability is also preserved.

\begin{table*}[h]
\caption{Accuracy comparison for the CNN (without adaptation), CORAL (baseline adaptation) and combine method (extended adaptation method combined with LogCORAL and mean model). Note that A: amazon, W:webcam, D: DSLR, A-W means use amazon as source domain and use webcam as target domain (analogous for the rest).}
\centering
\begin{tabular}{@{}llllllll@{}}
\toprule
Accuracy             & A - W                   & D - W                   & A - D                   & W - D                   & W - A                   & D - A                   & AVG  \\
\midrule
CNN                  & 63.34$\pm$0.88          & 95.21$\pm$0.52          & 65.14$\pm$1.26          & 99.26$\pm$0.06          & 49.23$\pm$0.22          & 51.37$\pm$0.48          & 70.59 \\
CORAL                & 66.12$\pm$0.45          & 95.24$\pm$0.49          & 66.38$\pm$2.54          & 99.24$\pm$0.10          & 50.71$\pm$0.24          & \textbf{53.12$\pm$0.69} & 71.80 \\
Ours (LogCORAL+Mean) & \textbf{70.15$\pm$0.57} & \textbf{95.45$\pm$0.07} & \textbf{69.41$\pm$0.51} & \textbf{99.46$\pm$0.31} & \textbf{51.57$\pm$0.46} & 51.15$\pm$0.32          & \textbf{72.87} \\
\bottomrule
\end{tabular}
\label{table:result1}
\end{table*}

\subsection{Deep LogCORAL approach}
To push the classifier closer to target domain, an essential problem is to precisely model the distance between two domains. Deep CORAL use squared Euclidean distance to measure distance, while evidence shows that measure distance on other manifolds such as Riemannian manifold may be more precise in measuring matrix distance and can get better result in domain adaptation \cite{huang2016riemannian}. According to this assumption, we design a new LogCORAL layer after ``fc8" to measure distance in Riemannian manifold.

Covariance matrix is a symmetric positive semi-definite (PSD) matrix, but adding a small $\epsilon$ to the eigenvalues of covariance matrix transforms it into SPD without significantly change its property. Therefore after getting covariance matrices from the source and target domains we can calculate the distance on Riemannian manifold.

\textbf{Log-Euclidean Riemannian metric:} Log-Euclidean metrics was first proposed in \cite{arsigny2007geometric}. It has the capacity to endow Riemannian manifold and also demonstrated that the swelling effect which is clearly visible in the Euclidean case disappears in Riemannian cases.
Logarithm operation on the eigenvalue of PSD matrices make the manifold to be flat, and then Euclidean distance can be calculated on this flat space, which makes it much easier to caculate the geodesic distance.

\textbf{LogCORAL Forward Propagation:} The input of this layer is the covariance matrices calculated in Equation~(2) and (3). The forward process can be easily calculated by using singular value decomposition (SVD) to get the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the covariance metrics, followed by applying logarithm operation on eigenvalues. The LogCORAL loss is defined as the Euclidean distance between the logarithm of covariance matrices:
\begin{equation} \label{eq4}
L_{LogCORAL} = \frac{1}{4d^2}\|log(\mathbf{C_{S}}) -log(\mathbf{C_{T}})\|^2,
\end{equation}
where the $log()$ operation is the logarithm of the PSD matrix. We take the source domain covariance matrix $\mathbf{C_{S}}$ as an example. Let us denote the eigen-decomposition of $\mathbf{C_{S}}$ as  $\mathbf{C_{S}} = \mathbf{U_{S}}\mathbf{\Sigma_{S}}\mathbf{U_{S}}^T$, then the Logarithm operator is defined as $log(\mathbf{C_{S}}) = \mathbf{U_{S}}log(\mathbf{\Sigma_{S}})\mathbf{U_{S}}^T$, where $log(\mathbf{\Sigma_{S}})$ is calculated by applying the Logarithm operator on the diagonal elements of $\mathbf{\Sigma_{S}}$. The same procedure is applied to the target domain covariance matrix.

\textbf{LogCORAL Back Propagation:} Back-propagation can be derived following the technique described in \cite{huang2016riemannian}. For simplicity, we denote $\mathbf{C_{S}\prime}=log(\mathbf{C_{S}})$ and $\mathbf{C_{T}\prime}=log(\mathbf{C_{T}})$. Taking the source domain as an example, the gradients can be derived as follows:
 \begin{equation} \label{eq7}
 \frac{\partial L_{LogCORAL}}{\partial \mathbf{C_{S}}} = \frac{1}{2d^2}(\mathbf{C_{S}\prime}-\mathbf{C_{T}\prime})\frac{\partial \mathbf{C_{S}\prime}}{\mathbf{C_{S}}},
 \end{equation}
where
\begin{multline}
\frac{\partial \mathbf{C_{S}\prime}}{\mathbf{C_{S}}}=\mathbf{U_{S}}( \mathbf{P}^T \circ (\mathbf{U_{S}}^Td\mathbf{U_{S}} ))_{sym} \mathbf{U_{S}}^T + \\ \mathbf{U_{S}}(d\mathbf{{\Sigma}_{S}} )_{diag}\mathbf{U_{S}}^T
\end{multline}
\begin{align} \label{eq8}
d\mathbf{U_{S}}&=2( \frac{\partial L_{LogCORAL}}{\partial \mathbf{C_{S}\prime}} )_{sym} \mathbf{U_{S}}log(\mathbf{\Sigma_{S}})\\
d\mathbf{\Sigma_{S}}&=\mathbf{\Sigma_{S}}^{-1} \mathbf{U_{S}}^T(\frac{\partial L_{LogCORAL}}{\partial \mathbf{C_{S}\prime}} )_{sym} \mathbf{U_{S}}\\
\mathbf{P(i,j)}&=\left\{
                \begin{array}{ll}
                  \frac{1}{\sigma_{i}-\sigma_{i}}, i \neq j,\\
                  0,   i=j
                \end{array}
              \right.
\end{align}
where $\circ$ is Hadamard product, \ie, element wise product, $sym$ operation is defined as $\mathbf{A_{sym}} = \frac{1}{2}(\mathbf{A}+\mathbf{A}^T)$, $diag$ operator is to keep only  diagonal values of $\mathbf{A}$  and set the rests to zeros, and  $\sigma_{i}$ denotes the $i$-th eigenvalue in $\mathbf{\Sigma_{S}}$.
For the target domain, the calculation is the same except the sign is negative.

After implementing the LogCORAL layer, we can build our Deep LogCORAL structure. As in Deep CORAL, we have source domain with label and target domain without label as shown in the green rectangular in Figure~\ref{fig:structure}.

\subsection{Mean Layer}
Note that we have considered the second-order statistic information between two domains, intuitively we can also use the first order statistic information, the mean value, as it is also one type of the representative information for a dataset. As shown in the green rectangular of Figure~\ref{fig:structure}. We create a mean layer after fc7 which calculates the mean value along the column to get a mean vector of features. Then we calculate the Euclidean distance of the mean vectors between two domains as mean loss.
Definition is showen as follows:
\begin{equation} \label{eq12}
\mathbf{L_{Meanloss}} = \frac{1}{2d}\|\mathbf{1}^T\mathbf{D_{S}} - \mathbf{1}^T\mathbf{D_{T}}\|^2
\end{equation}

By incorporating the mean loss into the model, now there are three losses: classification, LogCORAL and mean losses to be optimized. The whole structure is shown in Figure~\ref{fig:structure}.

\begin{table*}[h]
\caption{Accuracy comparison for the Mean, LogCORAL and combined model (combined with LogCORAL and mean model).}
\centering
\begin{tabular}{@{}llllllll@{}}
\toprule
Accuracy      & A - W                   & D - W                   & A - D                   & W - D                   & W - A                   & D - A                   & AVG  \\
\midrule
Mean          & 66.29$\pm$0.74          & \textbf{95.56$\pm$0.19} & 68.67$\pm$0.46          & 99.51$\pm$0.23          & 49.83$\pm$0.85          & 50.74$\pm$0.74          & 71.77 \\
LogCORAL      & 68.83$\pm$0.57          & 95.23$\pm$0.15          & 68.64$\pm$1.41          & \textbf{99.52$\pm$0.41} & 50.94$\pm$0.28          & \textbf{51.73$\pm$0.61} & 72.48 \\
LogCORAL+Mean & \textbf{70.15$\pm$0.57} & 95.45$\pm$0.07          & \textbf{69.41$\pm$0.51} & 99.46$\pm$0.31          & \textbf{51.57$\pm$0.46} & 51.15$\pm$0.32          &\textbf{72.87}\\
\bottomrule
\end{tabular}
\label{table:result2}
\end{table*}

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Looks like the folks at Google have done it again. First they started with a nifty mapping tool, and then they added a feature that showed satellite images as well. Now they've come up with another option that overlays a satellite image and a map. So now it's actually possible to identify landmarks while you're looking at a map.
Now all we need is a traffic monitor feature that tells us how fast things are moving.
Bo, show me something better at MS and I'll take this back, but you guys really need to get moving!!
I stand corrected... http://virtualearth.msn.com/ C'mon MS marketing, surely you can get more press than this.
So is the microsoft version more up to date?


Blizzard has announced a restructuring of the Heroes of the Storm development team.
I bloody love Civilization. It's one of my go-to games to relieve stress – just kick back, relax, and manage my way through the ages. It's never necessarily seemed the best fit for consoles – but against all odds, the Nintendo Switch version of Civilization 6 works brilliantly.
Two Point Hospital is looking like a worthy successor to its spiritual predecessor – all-time classic, Theme Hospital.
How do you deal with a genius surgeon who refuses to wash their hands after using the toilet? In Two Point Hospital's simulation, answering this question might be more trying than you'd think.
Establishing a functioning society on another planet, as it turns out, isn't as simple as building a SimCity.
Part of what makes Final Fantasy 12 so special is that it's the most complicated in the series.
The Zodiac Spear is infamous, and with good reason – getting it was always a nightmare.
Microsoft has just dropped what has to be the most surprising announcement of gamescom 2017: a new Age of Empires game.
Play games. Watch games. Get free stuff for your games. What's the catch?
Classic RTS with little bit of MOBA brings the Dawn of War series up to date.
Loving or hating Halo Wars 2 largely depends on what you look for in an RTS.
Is Halo Wars 2 a decent RTS or are we looking at another mediocre attempt to make the genre work on consoles?
2016 may have been Steam's biggest year in terms of the number of games released, but none of them topped the most-played charts.
Miss any of our BlizzCon 2016 coverage over the weekend? No need to fret. We've rounded up the important bits below.


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Leicester 1 - 0 West Ham (And Other Ramblings)
1. I Find Your Lack Of Faith Disturbing
Adieu, 2016! You began so promisingly and tailed off like Roberto Firmino driving home for Christmas. (And you'll remember how puritan the British media are about footballers drinking so I'm sure we haven't heard the end of that story...)
Anyway, enough about drunk Scousers - this isn't a report on our first game of 2016, when we convincingly dispatched Liverpool 2-0 - instead it's about our year ending finale when we somehow contrived to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory at the home of the Champions, Man City. Arsenal. Man Utd. Wait, what the fuck...Leicester, it says here?
So heartwarming
2. That's Not How The Force Works!
Ah yes, those loveable scamps Leicester City, who won the Premier League last year with a frankly delightful mix of scintillating counterattacking football, a solid defence, homespun Italian wisdom, racism and odds defying luck.
If you consider our own season last time round, I find it tinged with frustration. Had we got even half of the contentious decisions involving our games down the stretch, we would have ended up in the Champions League positions. Consider those awful late penalty decisions at Chelsea and Leicester, the rescinded red card for Kouyate at home to Palace, the incorrectly disallowed goal against Arsenal and so on.
But this a game played by fans up and down the land every week. We gather around with other fans and bemoan our luck, think only of the times we played well and dream of the "what if" scenario where nothing goes wrong. It's a pointless endeavour as it fails to consider the other side of the coin, where we need to consider all those times we did get lucky.
What is remarkable about Leicester, however, is that their "what if" story lasted for a season. Those pub conversations that we all have where we discount the possibility of bad luck and bad form and player injuries and suspensions all magically joined up. Their competitors dissolved and they won the league going away. It wasn't even close, and was as deserved a victory as we've seen for many years.
And almost as suddenly as they arrived on the scene, they disappeared. Kind of like Sylvester Stallone when he made Copland and we all thought he was going to be a serious actor and then he just carried on as before. As an example, going into this game they were five points behind us, despite the fact that we have played most of this season on drugs.
I can't begrudge Leicester their title win, as it was deserved and a truly remarkable story. However, their team contains some players who are very easy to dislike, and every time I see them I think how unfair life is that a thing like this could have happened to someone as seemingly unpleasant as Jamie Vardy. But mostly I just wonder if we'll get our own "what if" story one day.
3. In My Experience, There's No Such Thing As Luck
This game proved to be an almost perfect microcosm of our season, and indeed a good example of how "what if" scenarios generally play out. Going into it, we were largely positive after three successive wins, including our 4-1 demolition of Swansea. Leicester, by contrast, were spiralling somewhat with just one win in nine league games, and Vardy suspended for a red card picked up at Stoke. Somehow though, we started appallingly and despite recovering somewhat, there was only a frustrating disappointment at the end of it all.
The Leicester owners had actually ordered 30,000 Vardy masks for fans to wear to the previous home game against Everton, which must have been a terrifying ordeal for Shinji Okazaki. This at least gave me comfort that our owners aren't the only ones who make insufferably stupid decisions to appease their fanbase.
Chat shit, get 30,000 masks with your face on
Even without Vardy, the Foxes were all over us in the opening twenty minutes here and had plenty of chances to take the lead before they actually did so. Islam Slimani rose unchallenged to thump home an Albrighton cross after 20 minutes, which might not have been quite so frustrating if he hadn't done almost the exact same thing after 5 minutes, hitting the post on that occasion.
There is no denying that the player most at fault for the goal was Dimitri Payet, who failed to track Albrighton and allowed him to cross unchallenged for what was ultimately the winning goal.
At this stage, we were being outfought and out thought in the middle of the park as Danny Drinkwater was running things, and Riyaz Mahrez was finally producing some semblance of the form he showed last season.
Randolph needed to produce a couple of excellent saves to keep it to one, and we were seemingly hanging on. Curiously though, after Michail Antonio had thumped the bar from close range, that essentially signalled the end of Leicester as an attacking threat and we remained in the ascendancy for the rest of the game. Payet and Cresswell both tested Schmeichel with free kicks, and there was a ludicrous goal mouth scramble that somehow didn't result in a goal, but largely we just piled on lots of pressure without creating clear cut enough chances to fashion the goals to win this game.
4. Look At The Size Of That Thing
As far as the statistics go, we had 60% of the possession and 25 shots on goal and yet it's hard to say we deserved to win this game. We didn't deserve to lose either, it should be said, but then who cares what anybody deserves? What if? What if nothing. And this is why we can't win the League, just in case you're wondering.
xG map for Leicester City - West Ham. That's some shot volume for West Ham. pic.twitter.com/4muZkzOCf7
— Caley Graphics (@Caley_graphics) December 31, 2016
This shot map from Michael Caley shows up the disparity in chances for both sides, but it's worth noting that we mustered just five attempts on target, as opposed to four for Leicester. Given that we currently appear to be operating with the level of precision usually reserved for Royal Mail it can't be too big of a surprise that we couldn't get over the line here.
5. Great Shot Kid, That Was One In A Million
If you're wondering why shots on target would be relevant, firstly - why? Secondly, here are our numbers from last year (as shown at Footcharts):
And for this year:
As you can see, we've gone from being one of the best around to being worse than Swansea, somehow. At the same time as regressing hugely in terms of how frequently we hit the target, we have also started allowing the opposition to shoot on our goal whenever they want. Generally this is not a great recipe for success unless you are West Brom, in which case I have no fucking idea what is going on.
There is a theory that if you get lots of bodies into your own box, then you can disrupt opposition shot success, and Pulis is pretty much Exhibit A for this way of thinking. Alternatively, one could also theorise that West Brom have just been very lucky and will start regressing soon, but then we'd also have to consider that both Swansea and Palace have been unlucky and will start to recover as well. That's a lot to get your head around after a big New Year celebration.
The reality is that that this one metric on it's own isn't the key indicator of anything beyond whether a team is getting enough shots on target. Which we are not.
6. What I Told You Was True, From A Certain Point Of View
One notable element of this game was the way in which the home crowd got themselves very very agitated about....everything.
Indeed, it was almost as though they had been stoked up a bit by their ownership into believing they were somehow being victimised, by giving them 30,000 masks in support of a banned player, but I'm sure the Premier League would never let that happen.
Anyway, after Robert Huth and Daniel Amartey were both fortunate to stay on the pitch after poor challenges, one might have thought they'd have considered themselves fortunate, but alas, they had gone full Goodison by this point.
Every decision was met with howls of derision, and even the most straightforward judgement by referee Anthony Taylor was greeted as though he were Frank Drebin in The Naked Gun.
Referees every Leicester game.
I actually thought Huth's tackle was fair enough, but in this day and age anything with studs showing is asking for trouble. Also Robert Huth is a prick, so I was all up for seeing him get sent off. As it was, Payet was roundly booed for the rest of the game for having the temerity not to jump straight up having been poleaxed by the German.
The Amartey foul, however, should have been a straight red and would surely have been picked up on review if Taylor hadn't mystifyingly given him a yellow at the time. Noble hobbled off soon after (to boos, shockingly), as he couldn't run off the knee high impact of the Ghanaian's studs, and is now a doubt for the Man Utd game.
Havard Nordtveit then decided to get in on the act with a bonkers thigh high lunge at Ben Chilwell, which also should have been a straight red, although given his leniency up to that point Taylor could hardly have sent him off without looking foolish.
Just to remind us what a true fairytale story Leicester are, Kaspar Schmeichel then ran 40 yards to instruct Taylor to send Nordtveit off, and got himself booked in the process.
They're just so refreshingly different!
7. Kill Him
With Noble's departure we saw the introduction of Manuel Lanzini into the deeper role he filled so well at Spurs, and he did pretty well again. The one obvious difference between the two is that Lanzini can beat a man, and therefore he can physically carry the ball forward from midfield. He lacks Noble's defensive diligence, but that's why you have two holding midfielders and I would stick with him for the Man Utd game, although that may be a moot point if Noble is injured.
The reality is that Noble appears to have lost a yard this season, and without the players around him playing as well as they did last year (Payet and Kouyate here, as examples) his own weaknesses become magnified.
I don't think he's finished, by any stretch, but our midfield isn't functioning as well as it did last season and at some point Bilic might have to consider the only thing he hasn't changed is his captain. With Obiang playing so well and Kouyate and Ayew both away for a month at the AFCON, he can probably mix and match for a while, but if we ever get them all fit and in the country at the same time then the reality is that a decision will have to be made.
If nothing else, it seems odd that the engine room of one of our best performances of the year - Spurs away - has never been revisited.
8. You Were The Chosen One
At the same time, Dimitri Payet seems to be in a rut. His performance at Swansea was a little under par, but covered up by better displays around him, and the fact that Swansea aren't a professional football team.
Come back. Please.
Here though, he dipped back to the level of some of his early season form. As I've said previously, even when he's playing brilliantly, Payet flits in and out of games and never seems to completely imprint himself upon matches. His peripheral nature is probably the main reason why he is playing for us and not for Real Madrid. The reality is that if he could do all he does going forward, and still track back to prevent Albrighton making his cross, then he wouldn't be at a bottom half Premier League team.
But at this point, we need the Payet of the Middlesbrough game. That guy seemed infuriated by our failings and single handedly dragged us back into the game by sheer force of personality. A sort of relaxed Hulk, if you like.
Somehow, however, that seems to have disappeared as the season has progressed. I don't believe that he doesn't care - I've said many times that is the first refuge for fans who don't want to look any deeper at why players aren't performing - but his interventions aren't having the same impact they once did. Indeed, his 90 minutes of futility here felt like some sort of performance art homage to our season overall. Nothing really worked, it wasn't bad but it wasn't good. It just happened and nobody knows why. A bit like season 2 of Broadchurch.
Instead of immediately questioning the player though, perhaps we should be asking ourselves why his form has dipped. Is our formation designed to get the best out of him? I can't answer that, as I'm not sure that our formation is designed to get the best out of anybody, but this is what we should be asking before we simply say a player doesn't care.
We don't need Payet to show more passion, or get booked more frequently, or turn into the second coming of John Moncur, who sacrificed being a useful player for being a crowd favourite at the end of his career. Instead, we just need him to be better.
9. The Circle Is Now Complete
With this game out of the way, the transfer window opens and all the problems of this season of futility can now be fixed!
Terrifyingly, the two players seemingly at the top of our list are Jermain Defoe and Glen Johnson. You'll remember them as being part of our 2002 relegation team, which just happens to have been 14 fucking years ago. Sadly, they are both probably pretty reasonable targets given that we don't want to spend huge sums and we have very obvious positions of need at centre forward and right back.
In an ideal world we would be using this window to buy promising young players and loan them back to their clubs before taking them in the summer. This model has worked very well elsewhere, but in order for it to work you need proper scouting and a solid league position. We have neither. It would be lovely, for instance, to think that we might pick up Moussa Dembele from Celtic, but instead he'll doubtless join Spurs for a strangely small transfer fee in the summer, and then terrorise us forever. If only he was Colombian.
Instead, we are once again scratching around for older players or loans to rescue this lost season and prop us up until the summer. And all being led by David Sullivan, a man who could only be given that job if he owned the Club, because if he had to interview for it on the strength of his track record would be laughed out of the room.
Still, Happy New Year everyone.
10. You Have Much To Learn
Anyway, I'm sure the Club are approaching the transfer window with the necessary degree of professionalism.
It's my time to shine the next month 😉🤗 happy transfer window.
— Jack Sullivan (@jsullivanwhu) January 1, 2017
Oh for fucks sake
Posted by HeadHammerShark at Monday, January 02, 2017
Labels: Leicester, Premier League
very sensible account of what`s happening
Stu From Saturday 12:20 PM
Couldn't agree more - especially the summing up of Leicester and their rabidly apoplectic fanbase.
HeadHammerShark 5:54 PM
Cheers Stu - just saw your other replies too. Will get in touch via Biggie and try and arrange a pre match beer one evening. Midweeks are better as I don't have the little ones with me.
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Violant de Montcada i de Vilaragut (ca. 1440 - Barcelona, 24 d'agost de 1524) fou abadessa del monestir de Santa Maria de Pedralbes de 1477 fins al 1514, càrrec del qual fou doblement destituïda.

Biografia
Era filla de Pere de Montcada i de Luna, senyor de Vilamarxant, i de Joana de Vilaragut; així, doncs, hereva del llinatge de la fundadora del monestir de Santa Maria de Pedralbes –Montcada–, on va ingressar de ben petita. En fou nomenada abadessa el 1477, després de la mort de l'abadessa Violant de Centelles, d'edat avançada.

Assabentat de la vida relaxada de les monges de la comunitat –que feien sortides fora del convent, no tenien un dormitori comunitari o no vestien hàbits austers–, el rei Ferran el Catòlic va aconseguir que el papa Sixt IV decretés en una butlla del 1475 que a la mort de Violant de Centelles s'escolliria una abadessa de fora del monestir. Juntament amb el rei Joan el Sense Fe havien pressionat perquè l'escollida no fos ella sinó una monja de les clarisses de Jerusalem de Barcelona, on se seguia la línea reformadora, més estricta, i segurament consideraven que seria més fàcil de controlar.

La comunitat, però, escollí Violant de Montcada, que ja era al monestir de feia molts anys i havia ajudat amb encert en les tasques de govern l'anterior abadessa. Inicialment el rei acceptà l'elecció i forçà unes reformes que no es devien dur a terme amb prou compliment, per la qual cosa ho posà en coneixement del papa. Davant una inspecció dels visitadors Violant de Montcada es va defensar dient que actuava segons la regla de santa Clara, però aquests li van dir que havien de procedir segons manava la Inquisició. El papa Innocenci VIII va destituir-la a petició del rei l'any 1489, tot i que ella es va mantenir en el càrrec fins que el 1495 va arribar Teresa Enríquez amb tres companyes del convent de Santa Clara de Palència, per substituir-la.

Violant de Montcada, sentint-se víctima d'una intromissió reial, va anar a Roma per denunciar la imposició del rei Ferran, un plet que va durar quatre anys i va passar pels papes Alexandre VI, Pius III i Juli II. En un primer moment es va donar la raó a Teresa Enríquez, però Violant de Montcada va aconseguir remarcar que ella era l'elegida canònicament i que Teresa havia estat imposada pel rei. Finalment aquesta fou excomunicada, tot i que el papa la va absoldre a canvi de renunciar al càrrec. Violant de Montcada va ser confirmada com a abadessa el 1506, però va decidir viure al Convent de Santa Clara de Barcelona i no va tornar a Pedralbes.

Al 1510 fou obligada a abandonar el càrrec, per segon cop, i el rei Ferran va fer que el papa nomenés una nova abadessa: la seva filla il·legítima, Maria d'Aragó, que va haver d'abandonar el seu convent de Santa Maria de Gracia de Madrigal de las Altas Torres i arribà a Pedralbes el 1514. Violant de Montcada deixà el convent de Santa Clara i va anar a viure al carrer de Santa Anna, on morí.

Referències

Abadesses clarisses catalanes
Monestir de Pedralbes
Montcada (llinatge)
Franciscans catalans

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We roll out SPEAK's June 23rd release via our label and RED and attached is Hype Machine's tweet about SPEAK's Gates going #1 at hypem.
Our Alternative radio campaign will begin next week. Early supporters are spinning in San Diego, Denver, Detroit and Des Moines.
Austin quartet Speak have been getting rave reviews for their earliest of efforts and the best new track, "Gates," is sure to continue that.
Speak occupies the space between synth power pop and indie rock. While there's certainly an alt slant to their work, Speak uses the synth as just one part of a complicated song structure, whereas most of their peers use it as a sort of white noise to drench the whole song with. There's nothing wrong with either approach, but whatever Speak is doing, they need to keep on doing it, because "Gates" is another dynamite track. The wonderfully fluctuating vocals take center stage on this cut. Lead singer Troupe Gammage (yes, that's actually his name) displays a falsetto that sounds like a crisper, purer version of Michael Angelakos of Passion Pit. The hook here is beyond infectious and much to your pleasure will likely be stuck in your head till the end of the week.
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Adam Schiff claims Donald Trump 'violated multiple criminal laws'
On CNN's "State of the Union" on Sunday, Representative Adam Schiff (D-CA) claimed that former President Donald Trump "violated multiple criminal laws."
Anchor Jake Tapper said, "You're a former federal prosecutor before you became a member of Congress. Do you think the evidence is there that Donald Trump committed any of the crimes I just mentioned and that the cases are prosecutable, that you could get a conviction?"
Schiff said, according to Breitbart News, "I think that the evidence is there that Donald Trump committed criminal offenses in connection with his efforts to overturn the election. Viewing it as a former prosecutor, I think there's sufficient evidence to charge the president."
He continued, "This is someone who, in multiple ways, tried to pressure state officials to find votes that didn't exist.
"This is someone who tried to interfere with a joint session, even inciting a mob to attack the Capitol. If that's not criminal, then I don't know what is."
Tapper said, "So you're going to vote yes on insurrection, on referring insurrection, obstruction of an official proceeding and conspiracy to defraud the federal government, all three?"
Schiff added, "I can't comment on what referrals we're going to make. We will have a vote on referrals as well as approving our overall report. But I can tell you our process has been to look meticulously at the evidence and compare it to various statutes.
"Is there sufficient evidence as to each element of a particular crime? We're not referring or won't be voting to refer everyone we think there may be evidence because we want to focus on those for which we believe there's the strongest evidence."
Tapper asked, "Do you think he committed insurrection, obstruction of an official proceeding and conspiracy to defraud the federal government?"
Schiff said, "I will say I think the president has violated multiple criminal laws. And I think he has to be treated like any other American who breaks the law, and that is he should be prosecuted."
The January 6 panel has subpoenaed five House Republicans: Kevin McCarthy, the party's leader, as well as Jim Jordan of Ohio, Mo Brooks of Alabama, Andy Biggs of Arizona, and Scott Perry of Pennsylvania.
The final public meeting for the select committee is scheduled for Monday, and the full report will be made available on Wednesday.
According to a source familiar with the situation, the panel is anticipated to announce that it will refer at least three criminal charges against former President Donald Trump to the Justice Department, including insurrection, obstruction of justice, and conspiracy to defraud the federal government.


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Barcelona President Backs Ronald Koeman To Deliver Trophies
Ronald Koeman has the backing of the new Barcelona president, Joan Laporta.
"Ronald, you have our confidence," he said, addressing the coach.
"We want to get back to making history in the Champions League, but this year we need to go out and try to win the league title and the Copa del Rey
Laporta will also open talks with Lionel Messi over a new contract. The Argentine's contract ends in June and he will need to be convinced into staying.
"We will, for example, try to convince Leo to stay at the club," Laporta said during the speech. "Sorry Leo… I will do my best and he knows it!
"We're going to try, of course, to convince him to stay here because he's the best player in history. Sorry, but I love you and Barcelona also loves you. If this stadium were full, you wouldn't want to go."
Messi continues to lead Barcelona's attacking unit with 28 goals in 37 appearances across all competitions. Without him, the forward line has no consistent scoring threat even from prominent figures like Antoine Griezmann, Ousmane Dembele or Philippe Coutinho.
There is still a possibility of convincing the 33-year-old into staying. He is being approached by Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain.
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1. First of all, Andrew wrote a quite useful script to provide a daily review of activity on the honeypot. Essentially this does two things, lists session interaction and files downloaded within the last 24hours. You can modify the time interval to more days as well. The cool thing is that you can create a cron job with it and you'll get a daily email with any "human" activity in your system.
#Number of days worth of sessions to list.
You will have to enter the corrent paths per your Kippo installation (if you followed my guide these would be /home/kippo/kippo/…).
2. Next, a web application to display stats about your honeypot.
I have not tried to set it up yet, it's called kippo-stats and you can find it here.
At present, it seems to be the default script that people use to visualize data stored by Kippo.
First of all, I pulled all my logs into a master log file "masterlog".
This will check the master log file for all the unique IP connections connecting to the server before they started their brute force attacks. I'll use the ipcons.txt file in the next scripts.
This will pull out a list of all the usernames used in attacks against the server.
This will pull out a list of all the passwords used against the server for each connection.
There are more interesting queries of course, and you can come up with your own. Some additional ones are included in the Kippo-Graph package (see below).
Ajaxterm is a python script that is a webserver in itself, so since it will be accepting outside connections on a specific port it would be good practice to create an unprivileged user to run ajaxterm. This part is optional… but highly recommended.
These commands will create a limited user account named 'honeypot' that will have no login shell by default, and no password in the shadow file (so you can't login as this user). They will also create a home directory for the user, and this is where you can store the ajaxterm files.
[ -f "$PIDFILE" ] && kill "`cat $PIDFILE`"
[ -f "$PIDFILE" ] && echo "$NAME :: service is running -- pid `cat $PIDFILE`" || echo "$NAME :: service is NOT running -- no pid file found"
6. I have heard in the past about Tomasz Miklas' kippo-stats script (not to be confused with kippo-stats web app above) but it was nowhere to be found. Even the attachment link in Kippo's Google Group was invalid.
7. As stated above, mig5 created a Kippo deb package on his own. You can found the kippo-deb package on his website here, and the public git repository on github here.
8. Don't forget my own project, Kippo-Graph. A full featured tool with a web interface to visualize and display statistics, geolocation information and generated graphs from Kippo MySQL data.
9. Finally, another project of mine, Kippo2MySQL. A simple script based on kippo-stats perl above that reads data from Kippo's text-based log files and inserts them in a MySQL database.
That's the end of this post. Hopefully someone will find it useful in the future by having all of the Kippo add-ons joined together. If you have any other suggestions leave a comment.
In the future, all of the above would be categorized into individual pages under a parent Kippo-Scripts/Tools page for better browsing.
I sure love Kippo now. Nice collection of scripts here.
Feel free to add mine to the collection.
Here is some code I made up for Kippo usage. It allows you to record the IP,USERNAME,PASSWORD captured by Kippo and then test if those same auths can be used on the originating IP. If it does login, then records the Valid auths for later usage.


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"Tell Me" is the second single from Diddy's 2006 album, Press Play. The song features Christina Aguilera and is produced by Just Blaze. According to All Access, the single hit radio stations on November 7, 2006.

Background and composition
The song was co-written by R&B singer–songwriters Static Major and Yummy Bingham. Diddy's rap was written with Royce da 5'9". "Tell Me" is written in the key of A minor with a tempo of 99 beats per minute.

Critical reception
Andy Kellman of AllMusic highlighted this song on album. Los Angeles Times editors Natalie Nichols and Serena Kim wrote that Diddy gives Aguilera a "task on the club-thumping." Mike Joseph of PopMatters wrote that: "Pop princess Christina Aguilera serves as little more than hook girl on her guest spot."

Commercial performance
The song reached the top 10 in the United Kingdom, reaching number eight, and entered the top 20 in 15 countries. The song debuted on the Top 75 singles chart in the UK at number 20, based on download sales alone, during the week ending December 10. In the United States, "Tell Me" charted at number 47 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming Diddy's lowest-charting single since "Diddy" peaked at number 66 in 2001.

Music video
The video for "Tell Me" was shot during the last week of September 2006 in Los Angeles and was directed by Erik White. The video was premiered on TRL October 30, 2006. The video entered the TRL charts two days later at number 10. In the UK the video was premiered on the November 17, 2006, being the same day Aguilera kicked off her world tour.

The video begins with Diddy in a virtually empty white room except for the stereo equipment mentioned above, with the track "Diddy Rock" (feat. Timbaland), another track from Press Play, playing in the background. After his attractive female assistant asks Diddy if he wants her to "press play", the speakers and TV turn on and the track begins. While Diddy raps he is blown away by the power of the speakers, and Aguilera is seen on the television. By the time Aguilera's catchy hook comes in, the white room has shattered and Diddy and Aguilera are seen on either side of a fan in some sort of dark wind tunnel. It is now seen that Aguilera has donned a classy, ****, yet modern look for the video, in contrast to the 1920s and 30s glamorous look she has used to promote her own album.

This setting then shatters in the middle of the second verse to feature clips of the two performers, as well as backup dancers, performing in front of flashing neon lights. As the song ends, the camera zooms out to show that the lights form the promotional "Press Play" symbol associated with the album.

Track listing
CD single
"Tell Me" (Explicit Album Version) (featuring Christina Aguilera) - 4:06
"Tell Me" (Instrumental) (featuring Christina Aguilera) - 4:26
"Tell Me" (A Cappella) (featuring Christina Aguilera) - 4:36
"Come to Me" (Explicit Version) (featuring Nicole Scherzinger, Yung Joc, Young Dro & T.I.) - 3:51

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

References

2006 singles
Christina Aguilera songs
Sean Combs songs
Bad Boy Records singles
Song recordings produced by Just Blaze
Songs written by Sean Combs
Music videos directed by Erik White
Songs written by Royce da 5'9"


The celebration of annunciation was established by the church in the fourth century, after it began to celebrate Christmas independently. The date was defined by counting 9 months before Christmas.
"Salvation cannot be bought or sold: it's a gift. It's given to us, it's free. We can't be saved through ourselves: Salvation is a totally free gift. It's not bought through the blood of bulls or goats: it can't be bought. But in order to receive this salvation, we need a humble heart, a meek heart, an obedient heart. Like that of Mary. And the model for this road towards salvation is the same God, his Son, who didn't consider being equal to God an advantage which cannot be abandoned. Paul said this.", said pope Francis at today's mass in Santa Marta residence.


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China threatens response to Taiwan visit by US admiral
Reports say Rear Admiral Michael Studeman arrived in Taiwan on Sunday
Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman Zhao Lijian. Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman Zhao Lijian. (AP photo)
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — China will respond to the reported visit of a U.S. Navy admiral to Taiwan, China's Foreign Ministry said on Monday (Nov. 23).
A two-star navy admiral overseeing U.S. military intelligence in the Asia-Pacific region made an unannounced visit to Taiwan on Sunday (Nov. 22), Reuters reported. Neither Taiwan's Ministry of National Defense (MND) nor the U.S. Pentagon have confirmed the trip.
Taiwan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) did confirm on Sunday that a U.S. official had arrived in the country but did not provide any further details, adding the visit has not been made public.
China Foreign Ministry Spokesman Zhao Lijian (趙立堅) said at a press conference in Beijing that China "resolutely opposes" any form of exchanges between U.S. and Taiwanese officials, reported Reuters. Zhao told reporters that China urges the U.S. to recognize the extreme sensitivity of the Taiwan "issue."
"The Chinese side will, according to how the situation develops, make a legitimate and necessary response," he added without giving further details, according to Reuters.
Sources speaking on condition of anonymity told Reuters that Rear Admiral Michael Studeman, director of J2, which is in charge of intelligence, at the U.S. military's Indo-Pacific Command was visiting Taiwan. Under the Donald Trump administration, Washington has increased high-level visits to Taiwan.
In August, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar became the highest-ranking U.S. Cabinet official to visit the country since the severing of diplomatic relations between Taipei and Washington in 1979. Azar was then followed by Under Secretary of State Keith Krach, who attended a memorial serviced for late President Lee Teng-hui (李登輝) in September.
On Dec. 5, Andrew Wheeler, head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, is expected to lead a 10-person delegation to Taiwan for a three-day visit to talk about marine litter, air quality, and children's issues.
Rear Admiral Michael Studeman
Studeman J2
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US Taiwan military exchanges
US admiral departs Taiwan after three-day visit
US Navy admiral makes unannounced visit to Taiwan
Taiwan official details China's plan to solve Taiwan 'problem' by 2049: US military journal


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Vijay Vazirani: Planar Graph Perfect Matching is in NC
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Vijay Vazirani, Univ. of California, Irvine
Abstract: Is matching in NC, i.e., is there a deterministic fast parallel algorithm for it? This has been an outstanding open question in TCS for over three decades, ever since the discovery of Random NC matching algorithms. Within this question, the case of planar graphs has remained an enigma: On the one hand, counting the number of perfect matchings is far harder than finding one (the former is #P-complete and the latter is in P), and on the other, for planar graphs, counting has long been known to be in NC whereas finding one has resisted a solution!
The case of bipartite planar graphs was solved by Miller and Naor in 1989 via a flow-based algorithm. In 2000, Mahajan and Varadarajan gave an elegant way of using counting matchings to finding one, hence giving a different NC algorithm.
However, non-bipartite planar graphs still didn't yield: the stumbling block being odd tight cuts. Interestingly enough, these are also a key to the solution: a balanced tight odd cut leads to a straight-forward divide and conquer NC algorithm. However, a number of ideas are needed to find such a cut in NC; the central one being an NC algorithm for finding
a face of the perfect matching polytope at which $\Omega(n)$ new conditions, involving constraints of the polytope, are simultaneously satisfied.
Paper available at: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1709.07822.pdf
Joint work with Nima Anari.


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A numerical study on laminar incompressible flows in 2-D straight walled diffusers in the low Reynolds number regime (105-1048) is presented to investigate performance and various flow regimes that might exist. Tail channels are situated downstream the diffusers. Geometries with area ratios AR=1.15 to 5 and non-dimensional lengths of L/W1=1 to 48 are considered. Results are presented in terms of flow regime maps for Reynolds numbers of 105, 210, 314, 420, 629, 1,048 and pressure recovery coefficients maps for Re numbers of 105, 210, 314, 420 and 629. In addition time resolved simulations of impulsively starting flow are considered at Re=210, 314 for 12 geometries on the flow regime map. Four flow regimes can be distinguished depending on diffuser geometry. With increasing divergence angle the flow goes from attached to symmetrically separated to asymmetrically separated and finally to a non 2-D pattern respectively.


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This document summarizes changes since the last production release on the BIND 9.10 branch. Please see the CHANGES file for a further list of bug fixes and other changes.
ICANN is in the process of introducing a new Key Signing Key (KSK) for the global root zone. BIND has multiple methods for managing DNSSEC trust anchors, with somewhat different behaviors. If the root key is configured using the managed-keys statement, or if the pre-configured root key is enabled by using dnssec-validation auto, then BIND can keep keys up to date automatically. Servers configured in this way will roll seamlessly to the new key when it is published in the root zone. However, keys configured using the trusted-keys statement are not automatically maintained. If your server is performing DNSSEC validation and is configured using trusted-keys, you are advised to change your configuration before the root zone begins signing with the new KSK. This is currently scheduled for October 11, 2017.
This release includes an updated version of the bind.keys file containing the new root key. This file can also be downloaded from https://www.isc.org/bind-keys .
named now provides feedback to the owners of zones which have trust anchors configured (trusted-keys, managed-keys, dnssec-validation auto; and dnssec-lookaside auto;) by sending a daily query which encodes the keyids of the configured trust anchors for the zone. This is controlled by trust-anchor-telemetry and defaults to yes.
A new tcp-only option has been added to server clauses, to indicate that UDP should not be used when sending queries to a specified IP address or prefix.
The built in mangaged keys for the global root zone have been updated to include the upcoming key signing key (keyid 20326).
Windows installs were failing due to triggering UAC without the installation binary being signed.
Corrected a bug in the rndc control channel that could allow a read past the end of a buffer, crashing named. Thanks to Lian Yihan for reporting this error.
The built-in root hints have been updated to include IPv6 addresses for B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET (2001:500:84::b), E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET (2001:500:a8::e) and G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET (2001:500:12::d0d).


The Cultural Olympiad: Carrying the Torch for Art?
This text explores the cultural politics and poetics of the London Olympics. It begins by looking at the growth of 'feel good' art in the context of the economic recession. It goes on to discuss the contemporary role of poetry in public culture , and the relationship b between the aesthetics of sport and literature. It concluded with a detailed reading of the poetry commissioned for the Olympic Park.
The first version of the text was published in the poetry magazine Agenda in its Spring Issue 2012. Parts of it were also reproduced in Soundings 50 and on line by the History Workshop Journal.
View the full document here: The Cultural Olympiad: Carrying the Torch for Art?


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Electrification Coalition Applauds Federal Grants for Bus Electrification
Federal Transit Administration awards $130 million for bus electrification programs, bringing health, economic, and environmental benefits to additional communities
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 9, 2020 WASHINGTON, DC — The Electrification Coalition praises the $130 million in Fiscal Year 2020 funding provided by the Federal Transit Administration's Low or No Emission Vehicle Program (Low-No) to purchase electric buses and charging infrastructure, expediting the transition of additional bus fleets away from diesel to American-made energy. There are numerous benefits of shifting transit bus fleets to electric—lowering fuel and maintenance costs for cities and transit agencies, improving air quality for communities, and reducing our dependence on oil. Cities are increasingly turning to transit bus electrification to combat the economic, health and security impacts of our dependence on a foreign and volatile fossil fuels market. Converting 100 buses to electric reduces diesel consumption by 8.8 million gallons over their useful life and lowers average lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions by up to 60%. With the mounting impact that COVID-19 is having on both respiratory health and financial resources in cities around the country, bus electrification offers a path to address local budgetary, sustainability, and accessibility concerns in a meaningful and lasting way. "The Low-No Program is helping accelerate the leadership of Cities and transit agencies who are working to create an electrified transportation future that will lower costs, increase sustainability, and reduce our dependence on oil," said Ben Prochazka, National Director of the Electrification Coalition. "The EC is excited to work with forward-thinking leaders across the country to leverage federal funding opportunities to fast-track the U.S. transition to an electrified transit future." There is significant pent-up demand for the popular Low-No Program, with the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) receiving applications for nearly six times the amount of available funding in FY 2019. The recent Get America Moving Again report, from the EC and sister organization Securing America's Future Energy (SAFE), contains recommendations to expand this program, and early steps to increase funding are being taken on Capitol Hill. SAFE has applauded provisions in the House Transportation and Infrastructure (T&I) Committee's new INVEST in America Act that increase electric bus funding five-fold. In testimony before the House T&I Committee last year, Prochazka urged lawmakers to expand the Low-No Program and take additional steps to advance bus electrification, including creating low- or zero-interest loans and continued support of bus programs through the FAST Act surface transportation law. The Electrification Coalition (EC) worked closely with numerous Low-No funding recipients both this year and in FY 2019, including providing technical resources, as well as total cost of ownership modeling to show the cost benefits of buses, and supporting the grant application process. A complete list of FY 2020 Low-No grant funding recipients can be found on the FTA website.
About the Electrification Coalition: The Electrification Coalition is a nonpartisan, nonprofit group of business leaders committed to promoting policies and actions that reduce America's dependence on oil by facilitating the deployment of electric vehicles on a mass scale. The members of the Electrification Coalition are leaders of companies representing the entire value chain of an electrified transportation system. For more information, visit www.electrificationcoalition.org.
Media Contact: Adam Snider, Electrification Coalition asnider@electrificaitoncoalition.org | 202-365-8971


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The Landing is a place where AU staff, students and friends can connect, share and communicate.
It's about ownership
The Landing is owned by its inhabitants: anyone and everyone who is logged in can blog, create wikis, share files, podcast, share bookmarks, create groups, engage in discussion and much much more.
It's about controllable privacy
For practically everything you create, you decide exactly who can access it - how much or how little you reveal is up to you.
It's about trust
Because everyone has a verified identity, you can be sure that people are who they say they are and are accountable for what they say and do here.
Athabasca Landing is a secure, social media system operated by Athabasca University Canada's Open University. Like all social systems, the Landing gains value as it assists community members in meeting, interacting, supporting and encouraging each other and their collaborative activities. We thus invite you to explore the many tools and functions of this system. By adding content and inviting your colleagues to do so as well, we enrich and enhance our distributed learning community.
If you have questions, suggestions or concerns about anything you see on the Landing, please email Landing@athabascau.ca
Athabasca Landing was named after the original settlement that grew into the current town of Athabasca, Alberta. Athabasca Landing served as a debarkation site for paddle steamers and human powered craft heading north to the Klondike gold fields, northern settlements and the Arctic Ocean. The Landing served historically as a source of community, provision and support. This online version of Athabasca Landing aspires to provide these same services to current and future members of the Athabasca University Community.
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Lab notebook: Physique Electricité.
Author/Creator Lapicque, Louis (1866-1952)
Title Lab notebook: Physique Electricité.
Subject Research
Description Handwritten lab notebook with mathematical and experimental notations. The words "Mme. M. Lapicque" and "Physicque Electricité" are written on the title page (p. 3). The second part of this notebook is dedicated to analytical geometry. Part of the Louis Lapicque Papers, a collection of the P.I. Nixon Medical Historical Library, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.
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Digital Format JP2
Notes "Louis Lapicque was born August 1, 1866. He was a very influential, early 20th century French physiologist who was a pioneer in the field of neural excitability. One of his main contributions was to propose the integrate-and-fire model of the neuron in an article published in 1907. This model is still one of the most popular models in computational neuroscience for both cellular and neural networks studies and in mathematical neuroscience. The Lapicque concepts of excitability and nerve transmission form a part of the basic framework of modern neurophysiology." -- Finding aid
Digitization Specifications 24-bit color; 400 dpi; Epson Expression 10000XL flatbed scanner
Access Rights and Restrictions This material may be used freely, with attribution, for research, study and educational purposes. Please credit "P.I. Nixon Medical Historical Library, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio". For permission to publish, distribute, or use this image for any other purpose, please contact the Digital Archive Team at DigitalArchive@uthscsa.edu.
Collection Identifier Lapicque
URL Finding Aid: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/uthscsa/00029/hscsa-00029.html
Call Number Archives, Box MS 22, Series 2, Folder 2