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IATA / ICAO Codes: ABD / OIAA
Airport Name: Abadan International Airport
Location: Abadan, Iran
GPS Coordinates: 30°21'55"N by 48°13'59"E
Airport Type: Public
Elevation: 7 feet (2 meters)
# of Runways: 2
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The closest airport to Abadan International Airport (ABD) is Basrah International AirportBasrah Airport (BSR), which is located 36 miles (58 kilometers) WNW of ABD.
Abadan International Airport handled 354,974 passengers last year.
Because of Abadan International Airport's relatively low elevation of 7 feet, planes can take off or land at Abadan International Airport at a lower air speed than at airports located at a higher elevation. This is because the air density is higher closer to sea level than it would otherwise be at higher elevations.
Abadan International Airport (ABD) has 2 runways.
The furthest airport from Abadan International Airport (ABD) is Totegegie Airport (GMR), which is located 11,898 miles (19,148 kilometers) away in Mangareva, Gambier Islands, French Polynesia.
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Rank Distance & Direction Airport Name & IATA Code Airport Location Further Actions
1 36.27 miles (58.38 km) WNW Basrah International AirportBasrah Airport (BSR) Basrah, Iraq
2 56.29 miles (90.59 km) ENE Mahshahr Airport (MRX) Mahshahr, Iran
3 74.14 miles (119.31 km) NNE Ahwaz International Airport (AWZ) Ahwaz, Iran
4 80.12 miles (128.94 km) S Kuwait International Airport (KWI) Kuwait City, Kuwait
5 83.96 miles (135.12 km) ENE Omidiyeh Air Base (OMI) Omidiyeh, Iran
6 143.29 miles (230.61 km) N Dezful Airport (DEF) Dezful, Iran
7 184.47 miles (296.88 km) ESE Bushehr Airport (BUZ) Bushehr, Iran
8 189.19 miles (304.47 km) SW Qaisumah Domestic Airport (AQI) Qaisumah, Hafar Al-Batin, Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia
9 203.77 miles (327.94 km) NE Shahrekord International Airport (CQD) Shahrekord, Iran
10 212.14 miles (341.41 km) N Khorramabad Airport (KHD) Khorramabad, Iran
11 252.61 miles (406.54 km) WNW Al Najaf International Airport (NJF) Al Najaf, Iraq
12 266.98 miles (429.67 km) E Shiraz International Airport (SYZ) Shiraz, Iran
13 269.77 miles (434.15 km) NE Isfahan International Airport (IFN) Isfahan, Iran
14 282.09 miles (453.98 km) NNW Shahid Ashrafi Esfahani Airport (KSH) Kermanshah, Iran
15 285.36 miles (459.24 km) SSE King Fahd International Airport (DMM) Dammam, Saudi Arabia
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1 11,898.27 miles (19,148.37 km) SSE Totegegie Airport (GMR) Mangareva, Gambier Islands, French Polynesia
2 11,650.55 miles (18,749.70 km) SE Tureira Airport (ZTA) Tureia, Tuamotus, French Polynesia
3 11,554.74 miles (18,595.50 km) SSE Nukutavake Airport (NUK) Nukutavake, Tuamotus, French Polynesia
4 11,540.12 miles (18,571.98 km) SSE Pukarua Airport (PUK) Pukarua, Tuamotus, French Polynesia
5 11,410.41 miles (18,363.24 km) SE Hao Airport (HOI) Hao, Tuamotu Island, French Polynesia
6 11,277.87 miles (18,149.94 km) SSE Fangatau Airport (FGU) Fangatau, French Polynesia
7 11,237.91 miles (18,085.62 km) SE Raroia Airport (RRR) Raroia, French Polynesia
8 11,224.74 miles (18,064.42 km) SE Makemo Airport (MKP) Makemo, French Polynesia
9 11,188.82 miles (18,006.61 km) SE Anaa Airport (AAA) Anaa, Tuamotus, French Polynesia
10 11,114.37 miles (17,886.80 km) SE Fakarava Airport (FAV) Fakarava, Society Islands, French Polynesia
11 11,108.35 miles (17,877.11 km) ESE Rurutu Airport (RUR) Rurutu, French Polynesia
12 11,067.77 miles (17,811.81 km) W Mataveri International Airport (IPC) Easter Island, Chile
13 11,056.70 miles (17,793.99 km) SE Apataki Airport (APK) Apataki, French Polynesia
14 11,030.57 miles (17,751.94 km) SE Arutua Airport (AXR) Arutua, Tuamotus, French Polynesia
15 11,009.49 miles (17,718.01 km) SE Manihi Airport (XMH) Manihi, French Polynesia
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Characters and Settings: The Choices People Make
Category: Characters
Created on Tuesday, 17 June 2014 21:02
Published on Tuesday, 17 June 2014 21:02
Characters and Settings:
The Choices People Make
Bonnie Cowgill
Copyright © 2003, Bonnie Cowgill, All Rights Reserved
When considering the elements of fiction, few things are as important as characters and settings. History revolves around people. People create and are created from places and periods. Themes, plots, and moods are nothing more than ideas until they're attributed to people and places. But what happens when you have a theme, a plot, a mood, and no character to inherit them? Or you have a theme, a plot, a mood, a character, but lack a place to plant the seeds?
Characters from setting
What country, time period, culture will showcase your story? Characters are often either products of their environment or in opposition against it, with degrees of separation wedged in, depending on importance of setting vs. character in the individual story.
Hardy, enduring personalities can come from environments that teach practicality and steadfast methods, in work and in love. Shallow, flighty personalities can come from environments that make few demands and don't instill strong values from the outset.
Let's play pretend. If writers take their settings and pretend they grew up in their chosen environments, we can begin to extrapolate from values and surroundings to build a character who is a product of his environment.
A man who grew up in the American south during the depression has learned the value of money, so deeply that he knows the pain of being unable to feed his family. He's a hard working man, but he finds himself subject to periods of inactivity later in life. Maybe he's been laid off from his company, and having lived through the depression he knows the consequences of not having an income.
If he knows the consequences, and they affect him, it probably means he's a caring father. He worries about the survival of his family because he hasn't been able to find a job. His wife understands, or she doesn't understand, and that shapes his personality too. If she understands, he may be the sort of man who feels comfortable talking to his wife in bed at night about his feelings of failure and uselessness. Maybe he hides that from his kids because he doesn't want to scare them, which makes him outwardly seem a stoic and withdrawn man, but in the dark before sleep he finds succor in his wife's confidence and understanding arms. He hides it from the neighbors because his troubles are none of their business. He remains strong because someone knows what he's going through, and his wife promises him that life has its ups and downs, and up will come again.
Maybe the story calls for a man who appears not care about his family. He finds himself without a job, and instead of getting out of bed day after day to comb the classified section of the newspaper, he crawls back under the covers. He tries to pretend that the freezer isn't empty, and that his kids aren't going to school in clothes that weren't washed because milk was more important than laundry detergent that week.
He sinks into depression; he resents his children because worrying about their care and well-being makes him feel like less of a man every time he has to decide that the kids can't have new shoes or ice cream Friday night. He starts to drink because he has to get out of the house or he'll explode, and his buddy next door offered to buy. The first night out at the bar was the first time in months that he relaxed and forgot about the responsibilities waiting for him at home. He isn't a bad guy, our unemployed father on the fast track to alcoholism. He's a man who has tasted failure and found escape from his faults in the bottom of a bottle.
Setting from Characters
Some stories start with the idea of a choice to be made. What kind of person might find herself faced with this choice the story hinges upon? In what environment would this choice logically exist?
Let's pretend again, this time that we have a story idea. Will the student tell her professor about the other student who cheated, or will she keep her mouth shut? If outing the other student is the choice necessary to tell the story, what kind of a person would rat out a fellow student?
Is she a character with honor, or a character with a competitive streak? She might blow the whistle if cheating is something so deeply wrong to her that she can't do anything but tell the truth. What kind of environment would inspire such honor? An Ivy League school?
Maybe she's not a student, but a businesswoman, or a mother, or a teacher, and she witnesses a shady deal, an incident of child abuse, from another parent or another teacher. Is she living in an environment where honor may cost her safety?
What if Eliza Carroll is a student who points out a cheater? Why did she do it? Is she a competitive woman in a school that grades on a curve? Did the other student really cheat, or does Eliza need to eliminate a step in the competition ladder to save her own butt when the semester marks come out?
Let's decide that Eliza Carroll is a woman who chose to keep her silence after witnessing her brother beating his child. She kept her mouth shut because she lives in a culture or a region that has laws against child abuse so stringent that talking to the authorities will mean her beloved sister-in-law could lose her child, or where her beloved brother could go to jail. Besides, Eliza's brother isn't normally like that. Maybe he had a high-stress day and lost control once.
Where could Eliza live, where could her story take place?
In the first scenario if Eliza reports the cheater she could leverage herself into the top spot. If she's discovered to be a liar she could lose everything. If someone discovers she played the role of tattletale, the cheating students friends could make her life miserable.
In the second scenario, if she reports her brother he could lose his child, his job, and his life to a judicial system that acts on black and white instead of shades of gray. She could lose contact with her nieces and nephews, and she could lose the trust of her sister-in-law. Maybe her brother's downfall would destroy her parents.
She could be a woman living in the high-stress 21st century, with the pressures of a competitive business world, who knows that sometimes good people do bad things, and sometimes one bad thing can ruin a person's entire life. It could be a world where one warm body might be the difference between personal success or failure, a world of every man for himself. It could even be a world, or a culture, where people value their parents and strive to ensure their parents feel they lived a comfortable life, and die knowing they raised good children.
What other locations, cultures, time periods could reflect that? Could such a culture be created? An entire society can be built off something as small as one character and her choice to hide or reveal something.
What choices make a man?
How does environment affect the choice a man makes?
What kind of society evolves from the choice of honor or deception, of war or peace?
The choice to love or hate, to fight or hide, to act or look the other way?
Characters can be products of their environment, but they're also products of choice. Take a setting, pick a situation and pose a choice to even a ghost of a character idea, and the man will make himself. Conversely, the choice a character makes could be the foundation of a city, a culture, or an entire world. The Civil War and World War II exploded from the choices and ideals of one man in each situation, creating a society where ethnicity and issues of faith have built, and continue to build, many facets of politics and culture.

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But that is not all. The lure of getting someone else's money is strong. Many, including the bureaucrats administering the programs, will try to get it for themselves rather than have it go to someone else. The temptation to engage in corruption, to cheat, is strong and will not always be resisted or frustrated. People who resist the temptation to cheat will use legitimate means to direct the money to themselves. They will lobby for legislation favorable to themselves, for rules from which they can benefit. The bureaucrats administering the programs will press for better pay and perquisites for themselves — an outcome that larger programs will facilitate.
The attempt by people to divert government expenditures to themselves has two consequences that may not be obvious. First, it explains why so many programs tend to benefit middle- and upper-income groups rather than the poor for whom they are supposedly intended. The poor tend to lack not only the skills valued in the market, but also the skills required to be successful in the political scramble for funds. Indeed, their disadvantage in the political market is likely to be greater than in the economic. Once well-meaning reformers who may have helped to get a welfare measure enacted have gone on to their next reform, the poor are left to fend for themselves and they will almost always he overpowered by the groups that have already demonstrated a greater capacity to take advantage of available opportunities.
The second consequence is that the net gain to the recipients of the transfer will be less than the total amount transferred. If $100 of somebody else's money is up for grabs, it pays to spend up to $100 of your own money to get it. The costs incurred to lobby legislators and regulatory authorities, for contributions to political campaigns, and for myriad other items are a pure waste — harming the taxpayer who pays and benefiting no one. They must be subtracted from the gross transfer to get the net gain — and may, of course, at times exceed the gross transfer, leaving a net loss, not gain.
These consequences of subsidy seeking also help to explain the pressure for more and more spending, more and more programs. The initial measures fail to achieve the objectives of the well-meaning reformers who sponsored them. They conclude that not enough has been done and seek additional programs. They gain as allies both people who envision careers as bureaucrats administering the programs and people who believe that they can tap the money to be spent.
Category IV spending tends also to corrupt the people involved. All such programs put some people in a position to decide what is good for other people. The effect is to instill in the one group a feeling of almost God-like power; in the other, a feeling of childlike dependence. The capacity of the beneficiaries for independence, for making their own decisions, atrophies through disuse. In addition to the waste of money, in addition to the failure to achieve the intended objectives, the end result is to rot the moral fabric that holds a decent society together.
Another by-product of Category III or IV spending has the same effect. Voluntary gifts aside, you can spend someone else's money only by taking it away as government does. The use of force is therefore at the very heart of the welfare state — a bad means that tends to corrupt the good ends. That is also the reason why the welfare state threatens our freedom so seriously.


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Grant to physicist gives study of strongly interacting systems a boost
Department of Energy funds will support UC Riverside research that could lead to development of novel materials
Author: Iqbal Pittalwala
A physicist at the University of California, Riverside, has received a grant of about $523,000 from the U.S. Department of Energy to study the possible emergent behavior of "strongly interacting systems," an important area of focus in solid-state physics.
Specifically, when the repulsive Coulomb force between electrons in a solid becomes strong, new behaviors — not easily understood from knowledge of the microscopic laws of nature — are possible.
The quantum Hall effect is one such example of a new behavior, and the research will aim to better understand the various potential behaviors of such strongly interacting systems. Superconductivity is another example of an emergent phenomenon; vibrations of the host crystal can result in an effective attraction between electrons, which can lead to a superconducting state.
Michael Mulligan is an assistant professor of physics and astronomy at UC Riverside.
Michael Mulligan, an assistant professor of physics and astronomy and the two-year grant's principal investigator, explained that superconductors are materials that transmit electricity without any resistance. The use of "conventional" superconductors, such as aluminum or lead, is limited by the fact that these materials only exhibit superconductivity at extremely low temperatures of about a few degrees above -460 degrees Fahrenheit.
"A major question has been how to raise this superconducting transition temperature," Mulligan said. "'High-temperature' superconductors, the first materials of which were discovered in the 1980s, have superconducting transition temperatures that are significantly 'warmer,' from about -250 to -90 degrees Fahrenheit. A long-term goal of our research is to improve our understanding of the mechanism underlying the phenomena of 'high-temperature' superconductivity."
The research combines recent advances from high energy and condensed matter physics with insights from quantum information theory. Mulligan will be joined in the research by graduate students at UC Riverside and the California Institute of Technology, grant sub-awardee Shamit Kachru of Stanford University, along with Kachru's postdoctoral scholars and graduate students.
"From a fundamental point of view, the research helps to improve our understanding of the possible states of matter of many-particle systems," Mulligan said. "From the practical point of view, an improved understanding could have technological applications in terms of the development of novel materials. The main thrusts of our research include improving our understanding of 'non-Fermi liquid' metals — unconventional metals with unique physical properties — and the conditions under which gravity emerges holographically from nongravitational theories."
Mulligan, a condensed matter theorist specializing in 2-D quantum materials, joined UCR in 2016. He received his doctoral degree at Stanford University, after which he held postdoctoral appointments at MIT, Microsoft Research Station Q, and Stanford University. He is the recipient of a UC Regents Faculty Fellowship and a UCR Hellman Fellowship.
The research project is titled "Duality, emergent gravity, and strongly interacting systems."
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Rural relegated to the background, urban 'sought to be seen' as future of India
By Arjun Kumar*
The Centre for Habitat, Urban and Regional Studies, Impact and Policy Research Institute, (IMPRI), New Delhi, recently organised the book release of 'Remembering India's Villages' edited by Prof Santosh K Singh followed by a panel discussion on 'Why India's Villages Matter: Challenges and Possibilities' in order to highlight why villages need to be approached differently.
Insisting on the necessity to discuss the villages along with the cities, the #WebPolicyTalk on #RuralRealities saw the participation of Surinder Jodhka, professor of Sociology, Centre for the Study of Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi; Prof Santosh Singh, Chandigarh-based academic and commentator; Dr Mekhala Krishnamurthy, associate professor of sociology and social anthropology, Ashoka University, Sonepat; and Manish Thakur, professor, public policy and management, Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Kolkata.
Prof Surinder Jodhka said the title of the book 'Remembering India's Villages' itself suggests that Indian villages have been forgotten. However, they continue to be a significant component of the Indian society, and to some extent they are still talked about. Two-thirds of the Indian population still resides in the rural areas and another 10% is still in close touch with the villages.
Post-1990s, a new India began to take shape in the form of shopping malls, political corridors, and global imaginations. The idea of India in this sense was very different from what the sociologists and social anthropologists such as MN Srinivas had been studying in the 1940s and 1950s. At that time, the village was a microcosm of India, it was like a case study.
In the 1990s, the cultural imagination of India began to take different shape. The middle class had represented India in some sense even before the 1990s, but from that decade onwards, the middle class essentially appeared to become India.
Today, it is possible to find books on the Indian economy without a chapter on agriculture even though it was and continues to be a major sector of the Indian economy. While the service sector has been booming, followed by the manufacturing sector, the agriculture sector has been going down. Agriculture, however, is just one component of the village life.
Prof Santosh Singh, editor of the book, talking about the trajectory of change in the idea of rural over decades, highlighted how in the 1980s there was a special interest in the villages of India. Even though the 1990s the emphasis was more on new and changing India, about globalization, the idea of rural did come up, but more as a crisis. However, things changed. A large number of suicides began being reported from the areas that were supposed to lie in the Green Revolution belt of India.
In the 1970s the village studies took the centre stage and all sociologists and anthropologists would study at least one village each. But there was gradual disappearance of rural issues in the subsequent decades. Urban is seen as the future of India and the rural has got relegated to the background. Now, not many are interested in studying about rural India. He believed, his book would create a bridge and remind people about villages, giving them the attention that they deserve.
Wondering why do the Indian villages matter, he said, a commonsensical answer would point towards the fact that two-thirds of Indians still live in rural areas; but the theoretical reason is very different. Today, rural and urban are always viewed as bipolar islands, two completely different ideas, even though they do have a unidirectional connection.
Everyone wants to migrate to the urban areas as it is believed that people can only fulfill their dreams in there, and the rural areas do not provide that possibility. Referring to the urban to rural migration during the pandemic, he said, while doing a comparative analysis there is a need to find out what factors drive people back home at the time of crisis.
Prof Manish Thakur talked about how most people have not really engaged with the idea of village as such and have just looked at it as an empirical container. They have focused on caste, class, agrarian relations, modernity but have not looked at it as a blueprint of collective life. Today, the state has influenced and entered the village in a big way through its policies and programmes.
Today the villages have become, metaphorically, a railway platform where everyone is just waiting to catch the next train and leave
The idea of the village has been subjected to multiple sorts of ruptures by the state on one hand and the market on the other, he said. Today the villages have become, metaphorically, a railway platform where everyone is just waiting to catch the next train and leave. People come back, but not because of the sense of belonging. We have conspired to make villages into places of despondency and despair, places that do not inspire people.
Dr Mekhala Krishnamurthy recounted incidents from the time when she engaged with people from rural areas during her field research. The notion that the village has a particular sense of intimacy, moral economy and interdependence is often used by protagonists of globalization and urban sites to produce a sense of interconnectedness. The village has always been more than agriculture and agriculture has always been more than the rural.
She recalled David Ludden's remark that, for the longest time in Indian and South Asian history, urbanization happened inside agriculture. The cities emerged from within agriculture itself. We have a lot to learn from the people living in rural India. In a sense, they are scholars, too. Rather than rethinking the village, more time needs to be spent on listening to the way people are moving and talking about it.
Prof Thakur agreed with Dr Mekhala's point that we need to speak to the villagers themselves. We also need to look at the ideological work on the idea of village. Millions of Indians are compelled to give up villages. They work in cities, and only go back to villages during festivals. To this, Dr Mekhala added, belongingness has a material basis as well, it could the basis in the family, maybe someone prefers the openness that the rural areas offer in comparison to the cluttered cities.
Prof Jhodka added that even the migrants who live in the urban areas never really leave their villages, they come back, they do not get 'urbanised'. Referring to the need to re-vision villages, he said, villages have always been changing. They had been changing even before the British arrived. The idea of market and state was there even in the 5th century. People have lived in villages for centuries and will continue to live there. Villages are not going anywhere, we just need to approach them differently, which is what Prof Santosh Singh's book reminds us.
*Inputs: Simi Mehta, Anshula Mehta, Ritika Gupta, Sakshi Sharda, Swati Solanki, Mahima Kapoor. Acknowledgment: Sneha Bisht, research intern at IMPRI
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Professor of Sustainable Food Systems, Open Rank
KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Physical Sciences, Geology, Environmental, Earth & Marine Sciences
Academic Posts, Professors / Chairs
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology: Faculty Positions: Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering Division (faculty)
As part of a University-wide strategic focus on Climate and Livability, KAUST is seeking outstanding individuals to deliver impact driven research that will push the boundaries of what is known about our planet and advance the goals of this important initiative. Amongst a number of targeted faculty hires, we are inviting applications from high-caliber candidates to build an innovative program that will bring new insights, solutions and focus to the area of sustainable food systems.
To ensure we meet the nutritional requirements of a growing population while avoiding further degradation to already vulnerable ecosystems, will require a transformation of current approaches to food production. There is a specific need for research that advances sustainability in agriculture, particularly in the face of climate changes, through efforts that reduce the environmental footprint while enhancing the resiliency of global food production systems.
KAUST is seeking creative and ambitious faculty who can bridge multidisciplinary fields to address the diversity of issues that threaten the stability and security of local-to-global food supplies, and channel this knowledge into tractable solutions. Potential areas of focus might include, but are not limited to: sustainable intensification; the food-water-energy nexus; global food systems and logistics; climate risk and vulnerability; urban food systems; macroalgal production systems; sustainable aquaculture; negative emissions farming; and food systems digitization.
About KAUST
KAUST is an international, graduate research university dedicated to advancing science and technology through interdisciplinary research, education, and innovation. KAUST attracts top faculty, scientists, engineers and students from around the world to conduct curiosity-driven and goal-oriented research to address the world's most pressing scientific and technological challenges. Located in Saudi Arabia, on the eastern shores of the Red Sea, KAUST provides an award-winning campus to live, work, study and play. As a faculty, you will have access to superb research facilities, guaranteed baseline research funding, generous infrastructure support, entrepreneurship opportunities through our innovation and economic development focus, and highly competitive internationally benchmarked salaries.
KAUST is ranked among the top universities based on research performance and innovation outputs. According to the 2019 Normalized Nature Index rankings, KAUST was #18 globally. In Nature Index's most recent Young Universities Rankings (2019), KAUST was #1 for institutions under 20 years of age and #6 for those under 50.
Candidates should have a clear vision for delivering sustainable solutions in local-to-global food production and possess a strong background in both basic and applied science. Experience in the design or application of food systems modeling and analysis tools, big-data analytics and/or machine learning will be viewed favorably. Candidates applying for a position at the Assistant Professor level should illustrate their potential for high-impact research. Candidates applying for Associate and Full Professor positions should possess a distinguished track record in research and a strong commitment to service and teaching at the graduate level.
Applications should include a cover letter, a CV that includes a list of publications, and a concise statement of research vision and plans (maximum 2 pages) and teaching interests (1 page). The names and contact details of at least three (and up to five) referees is also requested. While the position is open rank, there is a preference for junior candidates. Applications will be evaluated as soon as they are received, with the position remaining open until it is filled.
The successful candidate will likely have a primary affiliation with the Plant Sciences program, although there is an expectation for multi-disciplinary engagement across campus. Further information about KAUST academic programs, research activities, and community life can be found at https://www.kaust.edu.sa.
Enquiries related to this position can be addressed to Prof Matthew McCabe, Director of the Climate and Livability Initiative via email to climate@kaust.edu.sa
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Q: How do you calculate a (non-self) correlation matrix in pandas with multicolumns? Suppose I have a pandas dataframe with multicolumns, like so:
import pandas as pd
iterables = [['a', 'b'], ['1', '2']]
my_index = pd.MultiIndex.from_product(iterables, names=['first', 'second'])
df = pd.DataFrame([[1, 2, 3, 4], [5, 6, 7, 8]], columns=my_index)

Then df produces
first  a   b
second 1 2 1 2
0      1 2 3 4
1      5 6 7 8

Now if I want the self-correlation of df['a'] with itself, that's straight-forward: df['a'].corr() gets me that. Note that such a correlation has shape (2, 2).
What I would like to do is calculate the correlation matrix of df['a'] with df['b']. Supposedly, the code df['a'].corrwith(df['b']) should give me this. This code does run, but the result has shape (2,), which doesn't look right to me. Why should the self-correlation matrix given by .corr() give a result with a different shape than a correlation given by .corrwith()? I need a correlation matrix of the same shape as df['a'].corr(), because I want to plot Seaborn heatmaps, and I need the 2D correlation matrix.
Thanks in advance for your time!

A: You want to use the corr() function from the DataFRame, not from the Series.
It would look like:
In [1]:
# Create the Dataframe
import pandas as pd
iterables = [['a', 'b'], ['1', '2']]
my_index = pd.MultiIndex.from_product(iterables, names=['first', 'second'])
df = pd.DataFrame([[1, 2, 3, 4], [5, 6, 7, 8]], columns=my_index)
df

Out [1]:
first     a       b
second  1   2   1   2
0       1   2   3   4
1       5   6   7   8

In [2]:
## Get the correlation matrix
df.corr()

Out [2]:
        first     a           b
        second  1   2       1   2
first   second
a          1    1.0 1.0     1.0 1.0
           2    1.0 1.0     1.0 1.0
b          1    1.0 1.0     1.0 1.0
           2    1.0 1.0     1.0 1.0

EDIT
Documentation
*You can choose the function behind it
method : {'pearson', 'kendall', 'spearman'} or callable
pearson : standard correlation coefficient
kendall : Kendall Tau correlation coefficient
spearman : Spearman rank correlation
callable: callable with input two 1d ndarrays*

A: The key to this problem was to recognize that the result of the .corr() DataFrame function is itself a pandas DataFrame. If we run the code in the question, and then use the .loc function, we can get a subset of the correlation matrix. The result of df.corr() is
        first   a           b
        second  1   2       1   2
first   second
a          1    1.0 1.0     1.0 1.0
           2    1.0 1.0     1.0 1.0
b          1    1.0 1.0     1.0 1.0
           2    1.0 1.0     1.0 1.0

and the result of df.corr().loc['a', 'b'] is
second  1    2
second
1       1.0  1.0
2       1.0  1.0

This is what I wanted.

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