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DERMS: The Platform for Distribution Grid Modernization
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The power industry is undergoing significant changes with an increasingly growing share of both intermittent renewable generation at the bulk power and distributed energy resources (DERs) at the distribution level. These changes create operational and reliability challenges with the variable nature of the bulk solar PV and wind generation, while planning the retirement of conventional baseload generation and experiencing variability in demand due to the DERs. At the same time, advancements in data communications, connected devices, building automation, and consumer sentiment are among many other drivers causing fundamental changes in the electric power industry.
Maintaining the reliability and affordability of the power supply have been the long standing objective of power system operations. Additional flexible resources and real-time energy balancing are needed to maintain grid reliability and stability in the face of the variability, intermittency, and continued growth rate of wind and solar generation coupled with increasing adoption of DERs at the retail and customer level. Properly managed, demand-side resources can provide such flexibility, and harnessing those can enhance system reliability, resilience, and stability of the power supply, and also make it affordable.
FERC's landmark Order 2222 mandated all ISO/RTOs to allow DER Aggregations (DERAs) to participate in all ISO/RTO product markets they are technically capable to participate in, and to designate DER Aggregators as a type of Market Participant. This is a far-reaching order since it crosses over into the distribution and retail electric power jurisdiction. Order 2222 formalizes the integration and participation of DERs in all aspects of the bulk and retail power system and market operations. The order requires RTOs to accept DER Aggregations as small as 100kW, with no size limit on individual assets that make up the aggregation.
This landmark FERC Order is, in part, a reflection of the capabilities and the economics that can be gained through the integration of DERAs with system operations and energy markets. DERAs (a.k.a., Virtual Power Plants) are resources on the distribution grid that can effectively act as a generator and/or a load.
Providing visibility and situational awareness to all grid-edge resources, and dispatching or controlling of these resources to provide various grid services, have become requirements for distribution grid operation, and can provide high value to bulk system operations and energy markets.
Figure 1: Smart connected demand-side assets provide flexibility needed to mitigate the intermittency impact of renewable generation
THE EMERGING OPERATIONAL REQUIREMENTS OF THE DISTRIBUTION GRID
Traditionally, the focus on distribution grid operations has been on managing distribution wires and the protection, control, and regulating equipment to reliably deliver power from supply substations to end-use customers. Software tools and systems have been used to monitor the status of the distribution grid facilities in order to reliably deliver power at required voltages, and in the case of an outage, restore the system safely and in a timely fashion. Due to economic and technical considerations, the scope of coverage of a utility's Distribution SCADA (D-SCADA) and Distribution Management System (DMS), have been limited to the primary (high and medium voltage) distribution equipment, with the assumption that the facilities and equipment under control are owned by the utility. Distribution Outage Management Systems (OMS) are also widely used to support system restoration following an outage.
In many cases, utilities are faced with technology and organizational silos, and the resulting compartmentalization of data. For example, a Customer Service group may maintain customer data in their Customer Information System (CIS) that may not be accessible to operators and systems in the Grid Operations group.
With the expanding penetration of DERs not owned by the utility, there is significant functional expansion and changes in distribution operations and the role of a distribution utility. This is due in part to the impact of DERs on the distribution grid and the capabilities they can provide in support of the grid and wholesale market operations. The distribution operator will need to have visibility to DERs and the parts of the grid where they are located, the ability to forecast the DER capabilities to offer various grid services, the ability to schedule and control them in real time, and operators must be able to assess their impacts on the grid.
Also, customer and third-party owned resources are typically operated under a given tariff or contract, and are subject to compensation for services provided under the terms of the tariff or contract. Thus, distribution utilities need capabilities that bring together commercial aspects of DER operations along with the grid related information, operational requirements, and constraints. A Distributed Energy Resource Management System (DERMS) provides such capabilities.
Figure 2: DERMS brings together commercial operations and grid operations for the modernized grid
ADMS Ensures Real-Time Reliability of Distribution Grid
Figure 3: Major functionality of DERMS in contrast to ADMS
ADVANCED DISTRIBUTION MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS (ADMS)
An Advanced Distribution Management System (ADMS) is a modular system integrating D-SCADA, DMS, and distribution. OMS is offered as a fully integrated solution or provided on an à la carte basis.
ADMS utilizes the real-time data acquisition capabilities of SCADA along with DMS and OMS applications to support real-time distribution grid operations. The key objective here is to improve system reliability indices, including System and Customer Average Interruption Duration Indices (SAIDI/CAIDI) and the System Average Interruption Frequency Index (SAIFI).
A quick use case will help illustrate the purpose and efficiency of an ADMS system. If a pole is knocked over by a car, a DMS application like FLISR (Fault Location, Isolation and Service Restoration), with the help of real-time D-SCADA information and fault detectors located in the field, would identify and isolate the fault location. The OMS will locate the nearest truck to dispatch to the location. The ADMS then creates switching orders for the field personnel to perform restorations. The OMS function uses the last-gasp information of Advanced Meter Infrastructure (AMI) to detect customer outages.
DERMS manages DER and DER Aggregation lifecycles from registration to supply of grid services and settlements, and provides for integration from IoT devices to markets and across utility enterprise systems.
Figure 4: DERMS brings together operational and commercial data from diverse sources and provides information to key systems and processes
A properly designed and implemented DERMS addresses both grid reliability operations as well as commercial aspects of dealing with DERs, such as the associated transactions with customers and other third party DER asset owners. A DERMS provides the monitoring and control of DERs directly or through aggregators and third party head-ends, and manages DER metering and telemetry data. It interfaces and exchanges data and controls with other enterprise and legacy systems, including DMS/ADMS, breaking the silos of data across the distribution utility organizations to serve as the system of record for all data related to DERs and their operations. DERMS provides the capability to model the distribution grid topological connectivity and power flow and voltages, and extends the distribution grid operator's visibility to parts of the grid not visible to the ADMS. It also provides the capabilities to forecast, schedule, and analyze DER impacts on the grid, and monitor DER operations as well as transactions with customers, aggregators, grid operators, the ISO and other stakeholders. A DERMS addresses both grid reliability operations and the commercial aspects associated with managing customers, their assets, and their contractual issues.
Some vendors with experience in demand management position DERMS myopically, as simply an extension of a Demand Response Management System (DRMS). This view lacks power system expertise to model and assess the impacts and benefits that controlling demand side assets, both DR and DER, may have on operations of both the distribution grid and the bulk power system. These may include providing frequency response to mitigate the impact of reduced system inertia, managing reverse power flows, and addressing the distribution grid operating constraints, such as voltage limits, phase imbalances and their impact on distribution grid losses, or fluctuations resulting from the intermittency of DER operations, among others. These capabilities are covered by a full function DERMS.
In a nutshell, DERMS helps turn DERs from being a grid reliability challenge into cost-effective grid services, which in turn improve grid reliability, stability, and resilience, while also improving supply economics.
A well-designed DERMS allows a utility to minimize renewable energy curtailment, and instead to leverage DERs to provide grid services, including capacity, various forms of reserves, frequency response, and voltage support, to mention a few. More generally, DERMS helps optimize the use of DERs so they are best utilized across multiple systems, by considering technical, operational and economic factors, while also meeting local customer, tariffs, contracts, and Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) requirements. A well designed DERMS, such as OATI's webSmartEnergy® DERMS Solution, provides among others:
Versatility: Handling a wide range of DER assets and DER Aggregates with homogeneous or heterogeneous DER types
Enhanced Visibility: Leveraging field interfaces and sources of data
Scalability and Adaptability: Supporting large volumes of data representing customers, DERs, and their operations. Provide scaling to support a growing organization's needs.
Performance: Providing required performance for monitoring, dispatch and control and management of large numbers of DERs
Field and Enterprise Integration: Supporting industry interoperability standards integrating with DERs, 3rd party head-ends and enterprise systems — AMI, OMS, DMS, MDMS, CIS, EMS, GIS, and others systems
Cyber Security: Adhering stringently to industry and federal cyber security standards.
Based on our field experience, when properly managed by a DERMS, DER assets can yield annual revenue streams in the range of $50 to $500 per kW DER capacity across the different products and services they offer. This does not include the additional "resiliency" benefits to the grid and consumers. To assess and monetize the value of resilience, subjective metrics are typically used, which could far exceed the quantifiable benefits quoted above.
LESSONS LEARNED AND PATH FORWARD
The great change of distribution grid operations we are observing today is reminiscent of a similar paradigm shift that we witnessed in North America more than twenty-five years ago
In 1996, FERC Orders 888 and 889 mandated "Transmission Open Access" to enhance competition in the generation and supply of electric power. This accelerated the de-regulation of the electric power industry and ushered in the break up and separation of bulk generation from transmission, opening transmission to all sources of generation. These led to the creation of Independent System Operators (ISO) to administer and manage energy and ancillary services markets. At that time, system vendors and newly forming ISOs quickly realized that a simple application of power system applications, originally developed as part of utility control centers and Energy Management Systems, could only address a small fraction of the requirements for managing the open transmission grid and administering market transactions with multitudes of new generation resources and a variety of stakeholders. New technologies and methods were developed at great expense to support the infrastructure required to interface with market participants, manage transactions, and also manage the grid.
OATI was born along with this Open Access and owes its success to pioneering cost effective solutions that addressed the operational issues that bulk power system operators were facing from those FERC Orders.
In the new FERC Order 2222 arena, conventional power system applications and solutions dealing primarily with reliability and operations of the grid have limitations, such as the performance and scalability needed to address numbers of data points and also control orders of magnitude larger than what they were designed for. More important, they lack the functionalities required to address the commercial and transactive side of problems, such as enrolling retail customers, validating and registering their assets, forecasting asset capabilities, baselining of every single metering point, modeling local operational requirements and power purchase agreements (PPAs), and monitoring and controlling ubiquitous DERs using inexpensive sensors that utilize newly formed communications and message payload protocols and standards, among others. Once again, OATI is leveraging its pioneering webSmartEnergy® DERMS solution built upon its field-proven platform and experience compiled during the last 25+ years to address these emerging industry needs.
The OATI DERMS design and development support each element in the complete life cycle of managing DERs:
Registration and Enrollment of Customers, Entities and their Resources: Managing various tariffs, creating standard and customized programs and services, and enrolling customers, aggregators and service providers and their DER assets and capabilities into these programs and services.
Resource Aggregation: Aggregating assets and their capabilities based into dispatchable resources, a.k.a Virtual Power Plants, based on various criteria, e.g., DER, customer, tariff/contract calcifications, Grid Service capabilities, grid and market pricing locations, etc.
Grid Topology Mapping: Modeling and tracking distribution grid topological connectivity from service delivery points to supply substations, the interface to transmission system. It provides for tracing function to update the topology based on as operated switching configurations. Aggregations and other DERMS functions leverage this capability.
Forecasting: System and Operations Planning: Forecasting load, DER and DER Aggregation capability forecasts, including solar PV, battery storage usage, and EV charging load, as well as Grid Service capability forecasts.
Scheduling and Schedule Coordination: Scheduling operation, dispatch and control of DERs, DER Aggregations and associated Grid Services. This may include various notifications, stakeholder and operational coordination, approvals and adjustments.
Optimization: Economic and operational optimization of resource and grid Service schedules while considering resource and commercial constraints, system conditions and market opportunities.
Telemetry and Monitoring: Cost-effective IoT level telemetry for monitoring the status of DER assets through industry standard protocols, interfaces to 3rd party head-ends, and use of OATI IoTSCADA capabilities. Graphical visualization techniques including geospatial maps provide overview and drilldown monitoring and alarming capability.
Dispatch and Control: Dispatching, disaggregating and/or controlling of DERs and DER Aggregations. Dispatch and control actions are monitored and exceptional conditions are alarmed.
Metering, Verification and Settlements: Handling metering and sub-metering data, baseline computations, dispatch performance assessments, and settlements with stakeholders and participating DERs for retail and bulk power services provided.
Logging and Record Keeping: Maintaining DER operational data in support of various management and regulatory reporting, business intelligence, and after-the-fact and post mortem analysis, and dispute resolution.
In contrast to the above elements, ADMS technology is architected to support real-time assessment of distribution grid conditions and provide system restorations following an outage. This architecture is highly influenced by the need for real-time processing of grid telemetry data, alarms and controls. As such, it is built around a database representing the status of only the primary distribution circuits, transformers, and regulators.
Furthermore, the ADMS operating model is typically built around utility owned assets with operators having full control of the assets, and behind-the-meter resources are not represented. In general, an ADMS does not deal with commercial aspects like tariffs or contracts, third-party supplied services, measurement, verification, or settlements, essential elements of a DERMS solution and necessary for business operations in the SmartGrid.
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El Rosal de Patio, son mutaciones de enanismo de algunas rosas antiguas, y un grupo de híbridos de rosas modernas de jardín.

Historia
Desde la década de 1970 muchos de los creadores de rosas modernas nuevas se han centrado en el desarrollo de rosas compactas (típicamente 1' a 3' en altura y anchura) que son adecuados para pequeños jardines, terrazas y contenedores. Estos combinan características de grandes rosas en miniatura y pequeñas floribundas lo que resulta en la clasificación de las "rosas de patio". El Dr. D.G. Hessayon afirma que la descripción "patio roses" surge después de 1996.

Algunos catálogos de rosas incluyen polyanthas antiguas que han resistido el paso del tiempo (por ejemplo, 'Nathalie Nypels', 'Baby Faurax') dentro de su selección de patio. Creadores de rosas, especialmente Chris Warner en el Reino Unido, la creadora danesa Rosa Eskelund y la empresa danesa de Poulsen (bajo el nombre de Patio escaladores) también han creado escaladores de patio, plantas pequeñas de estilo rampante con flores de pies a cabeza y que son adecuados para espacios reducidos.

Características
Las rosas de Patio están representadas por pequeños arbustos de flor la mayoría con remontancia que tienen un rango de altura que va desde una altura de 35 a 60 cm y anchura igual: 30-60 cm.

Las rosas de Patio son a menudo comercializadas y vendidas por la industria floral como plantas de interior, pero es importante recordar que estas plantas son descendientes principalmente de arbustos al aire libre nativas a las regiones templadas, por lo que la mayor parte de las variedades de rosa de patio requieren un período anual de latencia fría para sobrevivir.

Son arbustos remontantes. Producen ramilletes compuestos en general por 3-11 flores simples a dobles, que florecen en verano-otoño.

Cultivo
Son muy adecuados para bancales, borduras, setos y también para su cultivo en jardineras.

En plantas cultivadas en el terreno:
Aunque las plantas están generalmente libres de enfermedades, es posible que sufran de punto negro en climas más húmedos o en situaciones donde la circulación de aire es limitada.
Se desarrollan mejor a pleno sol. En América del Norte son capaces de ser cultivadas en USDA Hardiness Zones 5b a 10b.
En la poda de primavera es conveniente retirar las cañas viejas y madera muerta o enferma y recortar cañas que se cruzan. En climas más cálidos, recortar las cañas que quedan en alrededor de un tercio. En las zonas más frías, probablemente hay que podar un poco más que eso. Requiere protección contra la congelación de las heladas invernales.

En plantas en maceta:
Humedad, en los rosales de interior en macetas es muy importante una alta humedad del aire.
Riego, debe ser abundante, dejando que el sustrato de la maceta se seque ligeramente entre 2 riegos.
Abono, al regar es bueno añadir un poco de fertilizante líquido al agua.
Poda, la poda en estos casos consiste en reducir su altura aproximadamente a la mitad. Es preciso ir cortando las rosas marchitas lo que ayuda a conseguir mejores floraciones posteriores.

Algunos ejemplares
Algunas variedades y obtenciones de rosas Patio conseguidas por distintos obtentores.

Véase también
 Rosa, Rosal, Rosaleda, Rosalistas, Horticultura, Vivero
 Galería de rosas
 Rosa favorita del mundo
 Rosas antiguas de jardín, Rosas modernas de jardín

Referencias

Enlaces externos

http://articulos.infojardin.com/rosales/tipos_de_rosales.htm.
Cultivo de rosas de patio de fichas.infojardin.com/rosas/patio-rosas-patio.htm.

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Емануель Яримович деколи також Яремович (, 1865 Болехів — р. і м. нар. невід.) — архітектор, підприємець.

Народився 1865 року в Болехові. Закінчив реальну школу. У 1884–1891 роках навчався на будівельному факультеті Львівської політехніки. Працював у Дирекції державних лісів і майна. Згодом — у львівських архітекторів. Займався приватною архітектурною практикою. У 1902–1910 роках працював головним архітектором міста Ясло Підкарпатського воєводства. У 1904–1912 роках володів підприємством із виробництва бетону в Яслі, що призвело до конфлікту з магістратом, який мав власну фабрику бетону і який змусив Яримовича закрити підприємство. Дата і місце смерті невідомі.

Проекти
 Низка будівель на Загальній крайовій виставці у Львові 1894 року. Більшість зведені Яримовичем за проектами інших архітекторів. Це зокрема молочарня Цегельського, зала машин А (ескіз Зигмунта Горголевського), хата з околиць Бродів, а також хата подільська, наддністрянська, краківська, мазурська, татранська, дзвіниця (усе за проектами Юліана Захаревича), брама від вулиці Стрийської (арх. Міхал Лужецький), котельня і електрична підстанція.
 Дім Едмунда Лозинського на вулиці Самчука, 6 у Львові (1896).
 Спорудження загального шпиталю у Самборі спільно з будівничим Станіславом Кшановським (близько 1901 року).
 Дім гімнастичного товариства «Сокіл» у Самборі. Спорудженню передували три варіанти проектів Яримовича, виготовлені протягом 1901–1902 років. Будувала фірма Броніслава Бауера у 1903–1904 роках.
 Вілли на вулиці Коновальця, 70-72, 74 у Львові (усі 1902).
 Вілла на вулиці Залізняка, 2, 4, 6 у Львові (усі 1902).
 Дім кредитної спілки на розі вулиць Собеського і 3 травня в місті Ясло (1905—1907).
 Проект фабрики з виробництва бетону в місті Ясло (1909).
 Житловий будинок на вулиці Павлова, 10 (1914—1923, співавтор Альберт Корнблют).

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Джерела

 Łoza S. Jarymowicz Emanuel // Architekci i budowniczowie w Polsce. — Warszawa: Budownictwo i Architektura, 1954. — S. 132.
 Księga pamiątkowa Towarzystwa «Bratniej Pomocy» Słuchaczów Politechniki we Lwowie. — Lwów, nakładem Towarzystwa «Bratniej Pomocy» Słuchaczów Politechniki, 1897. — S. 223.

Уродженці Болехова
Випускники Львівської політехніки
Архітектори Львова
Персоналії:Ясло
Архітектори XIX століття
Архітектори XX століття


The HEATH WING (and the northern part of the Norman Wing) is the original Hanworth. Its build was commissioned by George Poynter Heath and his wife Elizabeth Jane (nee Long Innes) in 1864. The first hand made red brick was laid on July 16, and the house was completed before mid-1865, when they most likely moved in with their growing family. They named it 'Hanworth' after their hometown in Norfolk, England. The HEATH WING honours Heath and his family. The original homestead remains reasonably true for its majority and is easily identifiable as it is the only part of the present day building to be red brick.
Captain Heath engaged prominent Brisbane architect James Cowlishaw to design his family home. Hanworth House is important in illustrating the early development of East Brisbane, and is one of the suburb's (and Brisbane's) earliest surviving houses and evidence of the fine riverine estates that lined the Brisbane River in the mid-19th Century (along with Eskgrove, Riversdale or Mowbray Park, Shafston House and Bulimba House) Hanworth is situated on the stretch of the River known as Humbug Reach.
The present day front door is original timber and opens into a grand Entry Foyer. The story of Hanworth House unfolds with true depth and colour in a quirky gallery of sorts that greets everyone who enters the House. The walls here are lined with various photographs, portraits, lithographs, clippings and other paraphernalia that reflects the ownership and the life of Hanworth House – a true "from then to now" portrayal.


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Artists For A Better World
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2005 Arts Festival: Attendees Loved It
October 2, 2005 – Hollywood, CA: The Fifth Annual Artists For A Better World Arts Festival, held at Celebrity Centre International in Hollywood from September 29 through October 2, 2005 completed another series of events celebrating aesthetics and the ideals of creating a better world. Talented artists of many artistic disciplines joined together to exhibit, educate, perform, entertain, award and especially engender artistic participation with attendees.
Carmelita Pittman enjoyed reciting poetry at the "Poetry Under Glass" event. She also participated in the "Dance Create" event, and exhibited a painting she made to help raise funds for hurricane Katrina victims. She said, "I believe the 'Awards Event' was the highlight of the festival. The talent this year was exceptional."
Richard Reich, Emcee of the awards ceremony, thought the entertainment at the Awards ceremony was great. He liked the validation of artists. "It was great being part of an effort to award artists who are helping to create a better world through their art. I had a ball!!"
Leslie Silton, Event Producer, Director and Performer attended "Storytelling Night" and her own "Poetry Under Glass" event. She found the Pavilion a great venue for a high quality poetry event. She enthused, "I got to perform, got to pull together some of my favorite poets and got to show off great poetry to the public. I was pleased to provide an opportunity for poets to perform and realize an emotional blast."
Jeannie Deva delivered her "Secret to Vocal Power" workshop and attended the Awards show on Saturday Night. She found the entertainment, including world-class salsa and ballet dancers, to be wonderful. Her successful workshop introduced many people to Celebrity Centre International.
Larry Williams, Assistant Stage Manager of the Awards Event, said, "It's very cool to award artists who are helping others, and by example, leading others to do the same. It kind of creates a perpetuating effect of using aesthetics to help others."
Becky Mate, Co-Producer and AFABW Treasurer, attended "Storytelling Night," the "Screenwriting Workshop," the "Awards Event" and the Visual Arts Display. She was struck by their high quality. What she liked most were the audience responses and laughs at "Storytelling Night," as well as the fact that the attendees of the "Screenwriting Workshop" got so much inspiration and practical information to forward their writing careers. She also enjoyed the appreciation the artist awardees expressed to Artists For A Better World for recognizing their efforts. She was also enthralled with a number of the visual art pieces that had her intrigued and mesmerized.
Artists For A Better World International is a global network of artists who share a vision of creating a better world through aesthetics and is open to persons of goodwill from all religions, nationalities, creeds, races and cultures. In short, any and all who desire to help in the creation of a better world. By uplifting the culture through aesthetics, by raising the awareness of artists and others about the power the artist has in forwarding social betterment and by working with and supporting community service activities, AFABW and its members are making and inspiring positive changes in society.
2005 Arts Festival: Poetry Under Glass (With a Side of Music)
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Work-related risk factors for sciatica leading to...
Risk factors for sciatica by: Euro, Ulla Published: (2019)
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Euro, U., Heliövaara, M., Shiri, R. et al. Work-related risk factors for sciatica leading to hospitalization. Sci Rep 9, 6562 (2019) doi:10.1038/s41598-019-42597-w
Work-related risk factors for sciatica leading to hospitalization
Euro, Ulla1,2; Heliövaara, Markku3; Shiri, Rahman4;
Knekt, Paul3; Rissanen, Harri5; Aromaa, Arpo3; Karppinen, Jaro1,2,6
1Medical Research Center Oulu, Oulu University Hospital and University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
2Center for Life Course Health Research, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
3National Institute for Health and Welfare, Department of Health, Helsinki, Finland
4Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Helsinki, Finland
5National Institute of Health and Welfare, Department of Public Health Solutions, Helsinki, Finland
6Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Oulu, Finland
Springer Nature, 2019
The aim of this study was to assess the effects of the general strenuousness of work and various physical exposures on the risk of hospitalization for sciatica. The study population consisted of Finns aged 30 to 59 who had participated in a national health examination survey in 1978–80 (N = 3891). The participants were followed up until the end of 2011 and information on work-related determinants was acquired by a questionnaire. After adjustment for confounders, sedentary work involving handling fairly heavy objects/physically light work (HR 1.57; 95% CI 1.05–2.34), lifting or carrying heavy objects (2.10; 1.35–3.26) and exposure to whole-body vibration (1.61; 0.95–2.72) predicted sciatica, whereas heavier workloads appeared to reduce its risk (0.48; 0.26–0.89). There was an interaction between body mass index and exposure to whole-body vibration for the risk of sciatica. Overweight (1.94; 0.96–3.93) and obese (3.50; 1.44–8.46) participants exposed to whole-body vibration were at an increased risk of sciatica. Individuals of normal weight who were exposed to vibration, and overweight and obese individuals who were not exposed to vibration were not at an increased risk. The risk of hospitalization for sciatica seems to be highest among obese individuals exposed to whole-body vibration and among those lifting or carrying heavy objects.
10.1038/s41598-019-42597-w
https://oadoi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-42597-w
3142 Public health care science, environmental and occupational health
This work was supported by Medical Research Center Oulu, University of Oulu (UE) and the Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture (grant no: 253715, RS).
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Q: Cannot set headers after they are sent to the client' I am new to nodeJs but I already make research in order to solve my issue but it seems that I lacking a bit in async functionalities.
I have found this solution but it does not work which I will post it down below :
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Here is my code
 router.put("/placeOrder", [auth, isVerified, isExists], async (req, res) => {
  try {
    const productList = req.body; // body
    await Promise.all(
      productList.map(async (element) => {
        // compare between the inserted element and the store one here
        let getItemPrice = await Order.findOne({
          _id: element._id,
          buyerId: req.user._id,
          orderStatus: "PENDING",
        });
        if (!getItemPrice) {
          return res.status(400).json({
            status: "failed",
            message: "order not exists",
          });
        }

        getItemPrice.items.map(async (item) => {
          await Order.findOneAndUpdate(
            {
              "items.productId": item.productId,
            },
            {
              $set: {
                orderStatus: "ACTIVE",
                "items.$.itemStatus": "ACTIVE",
                paymentMethod: element.paymentMethod,
              },
            }
          );
        });
      })

    );
    res.status(200).json({
      message: "Order has placed",
    });
  } catch (error) {
    return res.status(400).json({
      status: "failed",
      message: error.message,
    });
  }

  // update documents
});

I am trying to check if the Id does not exist within my array if not exists just through an error that Id does not exist, it is working fine but it keeps print error to the logs that say:
TypeError: Cannot create property 'Symbol(level)' on string 'Cannot set headers after they are sent to the client'
Thanks for your time and collerations

A: You cannot send multiple responses.
productList.map(async (element, i) => {
    // compare between the inserted element and the store one here
    let getItemPrice = await Order.findOne({
      _id: element._id,
      buyerId: req.user._id,
      orderStatus: "PENDING",
    });

    getItemPrice && getItemPrice.items.map(async (item) => {
      await Order.findOneAndUpdate(
        {
          "items.productId": item.productId,
        },
        {
          $set: {
            orderStatus: "ACTIVE",
            "items.$.itemStatus": "ACTIVE",
            paymentMethod: element.paymentMethod,
          },
        }
      );
    });
  }

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Demurrage due to delays in discharge due to damaged condition of cargo.
On November 26, 2019 November 26, 2019 By Professor Simon BaughenIn Carriage of Goods, Charterparties, Sea Carriage, Uncategorized, Voyage Chater
Alianca Navegacao E Logistica LTDA v Ameropa SA (The Santa Isabella) [2019] EWHC 3152 (Comm)
A vessel carried a cargo of white corn/maize from Mexico to South African Ports under a Synacomex form charter incorporating the Hague Rules. On arrival the cargo was found to have suffered extensive damage and that led to a delay in discharge resulting in demurrage becoming due. Voyage charterers claimed that they were not liable for demurrage due to delays resulting from fault of the disponent owners. They alleged that the damage to the Cargo, and the delays at Durban and Richards Bay, were caused by (a) the Vessel taking the Cape Horn route rather than the Panama Canal route from Topolobampo to Durban, (b) failure by the Vessel to ventilate the Cargo in accordance with a sound system, (c) failure by the Vessel to disinfest areas of the Vessel outside of the cargo holds following loading at Topolobampo and/or (d) the Vessel proceeding to Durban at less than her warranted speed.
Andrew Henshaw QC (sitting as a Judge of the High Court) found that the owners' obligation was to proceed on the usual and reasonable route to the discharge port and that where there were more than one such routes they were entitled to choose one rather than the other and that choice did not require owners to calculate the effect of taking that route on the cargo being carried. Both the Cape Horn route and the Panama Canal routes were usual routes to Durban and the owners committed no deviation, nor breach of art. III(2) of the Hague Rules, in taking the former. In determining which route to take the judge stated[91]:
"cargo considerations may be relevant in the elementary sense that a much longer voyage is likely to be detrimental to a perishable cargo. However, the case law does not in my view require shipowners to undertake the far more refined analysis urged by Ameropa, which would involve (in the present case) considering in detail how predictable climactic conditions on the Cape Horn and Panama Canal routes would impact on the need to ventilate the cargo and the vessel's ability to do so.
However, the owners were found to have been in breach of art III(2) of the Hague Rules in failing properly to ventilate the cargo on the voyage and this had resulted in the delays experienced at Durban and Richards Bay. It was common ground that as owners were not bailees the legal burden of proof in showing breach of art III(2) fell on charterers. Charterers argued that the arrival of the cargo in a damaged condition gave rise to an inference of breach. The judge rejected this, stating [52]:
"As a matter of common sense, the arrival in a seriously damaged condition of a cargo loaded in apparent good order and condition calls for an explanation, and a want of care on the part of the shipowner is a possible inference. In the present case, Alianca's explanation is that the length and/or route of the Voyage made damage inevitable. On that basis, I am inclined to the view that it is for Ameropa to show, on the balance of probabilities, that the damage suffered in fact arose from a breach of contract by Alianca."
Ameropa succeeded in showing that the damage did arise from a breach of contract by disponent owners.
The owners were also in breach of their obligation to proceed at the warranted speed but it was not possible to identify any particular element of damage or loss caused by that breach.
Demurrage. Delays due to damaged cargo. Burden of proof under Hague Rules. Usual and reasonable route. Deviation.
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As the investigating surveyors representing cargo underwriters at the time, it was nice to know that a case as complex as this was satisfactorily resolved!
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From the Director: Trench
By Adam Davis
None of the guys I worked with wanted me there. They drove Dodge trucks, I drove a Volkswagen Fox. They lived in Tinley Park, I lived in Chicago. They were meaty, I was longhaired and skinny. They would be at this throughout the year and likely their lives, I would leave at the end of the summer and head back to school.
Every morning I would clamber down into a trench to straddle a large concrete pipe and wait for the next pipe to swing toward me. I would, as fast as I could, slather tar around the male end of the pipe as it hung in the air. Then I would shout to the guy running the backhoe, "more my way," or "back it up a little," or "lower, lower," and I would try to guide the pipe dangling from a steel cable attached to the backhoe's claw into the pipe I was straddling.
They ignored me or messed with me for sport, and they said things around me and to me that I'm still not sure what to do with. I hadn't really heard people talk this way before—not so regularly and naturally—and I definitely hadn't been on the receiving end of so much casual but real invective. And every morning I would get back in the trench, squeezed between crumbling earth walls and loose large concrete pipes, and I would trust these guys to swing heavy concrete objects my way.
In those two months, I didn't say much more than "down," "back up a little," and "okay." Mostly I tried not to screw up or stand out, which meant, in part, listening to the guys I worked with. At first, I listened because I had to in order to do the work. Then I listened harder, differently—not to do the work but to understand the guys who were doing it.
I believed then and I believe now that they wanted to make me uncomfortable—to unsettle me, to let me know that they were in charge and I wasn't. They wanted to jab at me for all the ways I was different from them. They wanted to scare me, and sometimes they did—but weirdly, maybe inexplicably, I found myself listening more rather than less.
I thought of my time with these guys when I read this passage in Javier Marías' novel A Heart So White: "Listening is the most dangerous thing of all, listening means knowing, finding out about something and knowing what's going on, our ears don't have lids that can instinctively close against the words uttered, they can't hide from what they sense they're about to hear, it's always too late"
What exactly was I doing, there in the trench with a concrete pipe swinging toward me, with my ears wide open?
As Marías says, it's dangerous to listen. But it seems to me it can be more dangerous not to. When people hurl offensive words, threatening words, dangerous words, they show that the thoughts behind these words are already there. I believe it's better for these thoughts to be spoken aloud, than to be simply, maybe quietly, acted on, and better they be spoken to people who will listen and perhaps push back—in that moment and over time—than to people who will unconditionally or unwittingly reinforce.
In my own limited and contingent experience, listening to people talk, no matter how repellent the words or the beliefs behind them, has been a move in the direction of safety. A threatening verbal exchange is still in the realm of language, not the realm of force, and, even though it rarely feels this way, it's often an exchange. From a school hallway at eight through public encounters as I near fifty, I've seen that being listened to can deflate a threatening talker's vitriol, both right then and over the longer term. It may not be the safest course for every situation or for every person, but more than I would have thought, listening—especially in tense and difficult moments—can disarm.
I wouldn't have put it this way there in the trench, but now I think that there are moral reasons to listen and also prudent reasons to listen. Even if, as Marías says, it's always too late.
Adam Davis is executive director of Oregon Humanities.
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UPenn student paper 'news' article refers to groups protesting Lia Thomas as 'transphobic'
Dave Huber - Associate Editor •March 19, 2022
The University of Pennsylvania student paper is at it again, taking sides in the quite legitimate debate over transgender swimmer Lia Thomas' participation in sporting events.
According to The Daily Pennsylvanian, groups such as Concerned Women for America and Save Women's Sports on Thursday protested Thomas' appearance at the NCAA Women's Swimming Championships held at Georgia Tech.
D.P. reporters Delaney Parks and Emi Tran state that demonstrators held placards reading "#PennCheats" and "Save Women's Sports," and "loudly denounced" the inclusion of trans women in women's sports.
Selected speakers "proceeded to champion transphobic rhetoric," Parks and Tran continue, and protesters "alleged" that trans women threaten the sanctity of women's sports. Some had "invalidated" Thomas' gender identity by "misgendering" and "deadnaming" her.
What's more, protesters made several Georgia Tech students feel "uncomfortable" on the allegedly "traditionally safe and inclusive campus."
MORE: UPenn law groups support transgender swimmer, blast 'attack on trans rights'
"What I see [are] grown adults coming to a college campus and bullying a woman who's trying to compete in the sport which they have no association with," said one Georgia Tech student. "Why are these people who are not qualified to talk about this coming to our campus and disturbing our peace?"
From the story:
Avery Quick, a Georgia Tech student, said that she was just walking to class when she encountered the protest. Her frustration at the situation motivated her to counter several of the protestors' arguments — engaging in lengthy debates with them where she defended Thomas' right to swim.
"It's so f***ing annoying," Quick told the DP. "We're proud to have the amazing center that we do — we always have swimmers come here for competitions. It sucks that it is not a safe place for her." …
Students added that while they were open to respectful discourse on contentious topics, the behavior of some of the protestors and the manner in which the protest was conducted made them feel unsafe.
"We don't want to like necessarily curtail their freedoms. We just want to provide a counter-narrative and like make a lot of people to know that real Georgia Tech students want to feel safe," Naiki Kaffezakis, the president of the Grad Pride organization at Georgia Tech, told the DP.
Quick also said she was "upset" at Georgia's "Save Girls Sports Act," which would forbid trans women from participating in women's sports, as well as neighboring Florida's so-called "Don't Say Gay" bill which, she alleged, would "ban classroom discussion of LGBTQ+ issues." (It does, but only for grades K-3.)
BREAKING: Penn women's transgender swimmer Lia Thomas has won the NCAA Championship title in the 500-yard freestyle race. https://t.co/vCdPx3Cryg
— The Daily Pennsylvanian (@dailypenn) March 17, 2022
A month ago, the D.P. said that the UPenn women's swimming team had offered its "full support" to Thomas — without noting that "support" was anonymous and only represented "several" members of the team.
Thomas won the 500-yard freestyle event on Thursday, beating 2021 Olympic silver medalist Emma Weyant of the University of Virginia. On Friday, Thomas tied for fifth in the 200-yard freestyle.
Thomas will compete in the 100-yard freestyle event on Saturday.
MORE: D.P. omits key fact in report claiming Lia Thomas has 'full support' of team
IMAGE: Daily Pennsylvanian/Twitter screencap
Dave Huber
Dave has been writing about education, politics, and entertainment for over 18 years, including a stint at the popular media bias site Newsbusters. He is a retired educator with over 25 years of service and is a member of the National Association of Scholars. Dave holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Delaware.


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Nokia 5330 Mobile TV Edition Combines Mobile Broadcast TV (DVB-H) and Social Networking
Written By Sam on 17 November 2009
Nokia launched its most awaited Mobile TV Edition of Nokia 5330. Focusing on the mobile broadcast (DVB-H), social networking capabilities, Music, and gaming, Nokia 5330 is a complete entertainment hub for all the users at an affordable price.
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MRS Advances (1)
Through diffusion study on Olkiluoto veined gneiss and pegmatitic granite from a structural perspective
Mikko Voutilainen, Jussi Ikonen, Juuso Sammaljärvi, Jukka Kuva, Antero Lindberg, Marja Siitari-Kauppi, Lasse Koskinen
Journal: MRS Advances / Volume 1 / Issue 61 / 2016
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 February 2017, pp. 4041-4046
Spent nuclear fuel from Finnish power plants is planned to be deposited deep in the crystalline bedrock in Olkiluoto, Finland. The bedrock needs to be well characterized to assess the risks inherent to the long term safety of the site. In the bedrock the possibly released radionuclides are mainly transported by water conducting fractures and their transport is retarded by diffusion and sorption. In porous materials these properties are typically linked to microscopic pore structure (pore size distribution, tortuosity and constrictivity) and chemical nature of the minerals and groundwater.
In this work transport properties of veined gneiss (VGN) and pegmatitic granite (PGR) samples from Olkiluoto were studied using various through diffusion experiments and the C-14-PMMA autoradiography. Through diffusion experiments were performed on rock cores using HTO and 36Cl in water phase and He in gas phase as tracers. The effective diffusion coefficients (De) determined for the VGN were found to be dependent on the tracer molecule (De(HTO) < De(He) < De(Cl)) whereas for the PGR such a dependence was not found. The porosity distributions determined by the C-14-PMMA autoradiography revealed the difference in the pore structure between the samples. The porosity of VGN consists mostly of grain boundary pores and pores between biotite lamellae. Due to a high content of nanometer scale pores anion exclusion affected the results of 36Cl and Knudsen diffusion the ones of He for VGN. Furthermore, in the PGR micrometer scale intra- and intergranular fissures form a connected network for diffusive transport and thus all tracers diffuse at the same rate.
Pore and mineral structure of rock using nano-tomographic imaging
Jukka Kuva, Mikko Voutilainen, Antero Lindberg, Joni Parkkonen, Marja Siitari-Kauppi, Jussi Timonen
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 April 2015, pp. 235-240
In order to better understand the micrometer-scale structure of rock and its transport properties which arise from it, seven monomineral samples from two sites (Olkiluoto and Sievi, Finland) were studied with micro- and nanotomography and scanning electron microscopy. From the veined gneiss of Olkiluoto we studied biotite, potassium feldspar, plagioclase (composition of oligoclase) and cordierite, and from Sievi tonalite biotite and two grains of plagioclase (albite). These minerals were the main minerals of these samples. Samples were carefully separated and selected using heavy liquid separation and stereomicroscopy, their three dimensional structure was imaged using X-ray tomography, and their precise mineral composition was determined using scanning electron microscopy and energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (SEM/EDS). The micrometer-scale mineral structure of these samples was observed together with their pores and fissures, and alteration effects were identified whenever applicable. Nanotomography combined with SEM analysis was concluded to be a good tool for analyzing effects of alteration in monomineral samples.
Investigation of mineralogy, porosity and pore structure of Olkiluoto bedrock
Juuso Sammaljärvi, Antero Lindberg, Jussi Ikonen, Mikko Voutilainen, Marja Siitari-Kauppi, Lasse Koskinen
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 June 2014, pp. 31-37
Spent nuclear fuel from TVO's (Teollisuuden Voima Oy) and Fortum's nuclear power plants will be deposited deep in the crystalline bedrock in Olkiluoto, Western Finland. The bedrock needs to be well characterized to assess the risks inherent to the waste disposal at the site. If radionuclides (RN) are transported, it happens via water conducting fractures. Retardation may occur either by diffusion into stagnant pore water or by immobilization on mineral surfaces of the rock matrix.
RN's retardation from flowing water is linked to parameters defining porosity and microscopic rock pore structure, such as pore size distribution, connectivity, tortuosity and constrictivity, and by the mineralogy and chemical nature of the minerals and charge of the pore surfaces.
In this work, centimeter scale rock cores from Olkiluoto were investigated. The work is part of the in situ project REPRO (Experiments to investigate Rock Matrix Retention Properties) where the diffusion and sorption of RN are studied experimentally. Porosity and pore structures were characterized with the PMMA autoradiography method and polarized microscopy, which was used also to ascertain the mineralogy of the samples.
The results show that the rock from the REPRO site has low porosity with a mean value of 0.5% and a range of 0.1-1.5%. Rock heterogeneity explains the variation of porosity values. Correlation between the porosity and the mineralogy was found. Areas of high porosity correspond to areas of altered minerals, such as cordierite, biotite and plagioclase, which cover spatially between 10 and 20% of the rock volume
Release of U, REE and Th From Palmottu Granite
Mira K. Markovaara-Koivisto, Nuria Marcos, David Read, Antero Lindberg, Marja SiitariKauppi, Kirsti P. Loukola-Ruskeeniemi
Interpretation of trace metal mobility in geological environments is often hampered by conflicting data from alternative experimental protocols and the lack of detailed mineralogical characterization of the host medium. To illustrate this issue, the release of uranium, thorium and the rare earth elements (REE) was investigated in polished rock slab samples from the U-Th deposit at the Palmottu Natural Analogue study site (SW Finland) by means of leaching experiments. The samples were sequentially leached with artificial groundwater of moderately high carbonate content at pH8, and nitric acid solutions at pH5 and pH3. The mineralogy and composition of the U, Th and REE mineral phases was studied using SEM-WDS and EDAX methods before and after each leaching step. In parallel, leaching was carried out on crushed material of the same samples and the leachates analysed by ICP-MS.
The most notable U minerals are uraninite, uranophane and two secondary U-Pb phases. Thorium occurs predominantly in monazite and at lower concentrations in uraninite. Accessory thorite is also present, which together with monazite contains most of the REE. Differential leaching of the elements was noted across all phases on the timescale of the experiments. Uraninite is partly dissolved at pH3. The main secondary uranium phase, uranophane, was stable in moderately acidic solution, but easily dissolved in the artificial groundwater and at pH3. Some release of REE was observed although the main REE-bearing phase, monazite, showed no evidence of degradation.
This study provides insights in the preferential release of radionuclides in granitic bedrock. An understanding of these processes is essential when assessing the safety of a spent fuel repository. Once released from the primary waste form U is expected to precipitate as secondary phases within micro fractures, as observed at Palmottu and numerous other deposits.
Accumulation History of Uranium in Boulders - New Support for Postglacial Matrix Diffusion
Kari Rasilainen, Juhani Suksi, Antero Lindberg
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 February 2011, 1073
Geological formations are being considered as host media for nuclear waste disposal. The occurrence of natural U in rocks provides a possibility to test the radionuclide migration models used in safety studies of the disposal over comparable time periods. Here we study U accumulation into boulders as a process analogue for matrix diffusion; the boulders were found in glacial till in Hämeenlinna, southern Finland. Based on the glacial history of the site, matrix diffusion simulations, and independent U-series disequilibria (USD) dating, the U accumulation was interpreted to originate from the end stage of the latest glaciation, i.e. the system age is about 10 000 years1,2. The known time scale offers a rare opportunity for quantitative model testing; normally the time scale is difficult to determine for a single process in a natural analogue.
The U accumulation was earlier1,2 interpreted to be due to matrix diffusion and sorption. The postulated accumulation history consists of short in-diffusion and out-diffusion stages, as well as a longer chain decay stage. The in-diffusion was caused by U-rich waters discharging on the boulders at the end stage of the glaciation. The subsequent partial out-diffusion represents the period the boulders were temporarily submerged in the Yoldia sea during the early stage of the Baltic Sea. The final isolated radioactive chain decay stage began when the boulders, and their surroundings, rose above the sea level due to land uplift.
In this paper we report the first radiochemical results of a new larger boulder from the same area as the one studied earlier1; qualitatively, also the U distribution appears to be the same. Due to the larger dimensions, we can sample the inner zone of the boulder which matrix diffusion can not have reached within the postulated time, i.e. the state of the boulder before the U accumulation. The large amount of sample material containing almost only the recently accumulated U provides an opportunity to experimentally approach the kinetics of U fixation in situ. Understanding the long-term U fixation is essential in natural analogue studies, because the matrix diffusion model only has fast reversible adsorption (based on Kd) as the fixation process. Attempts to separate and quantify sorbed U in natural analogues have been reported elsewhere3.


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Thetford Castle – was built on the country's largest man-made mound. These days there is very little of this Norman motte and bailey castle remaining, but the grounds are something special to explore.
Burgh Castle – the Romans built Burgh Castle, near Great Yarmouth, as a means of keeping the Saxons at bay. Three of its walls remain, while the fourth has long since disappeared into the depths of Breydon Water.
Caister Castle – is a fifteenth century castle built for a commander of Henry V. It houses the country's largest private collection of motor vehicles and proves a fantastic legacy to the architecture of the period.
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http://evolutionaryanthropology.duke.edu/research/animal-locomotion-lab
My primary interest is in the evolution of primate locomotion. I am studying the mechanics of movement in primates and other vertebrates in the laboratory to understand the relationship between movement and postcranial morphology, and the unique nature of primates among mammals. Current projects include the origins of primate locomotion and the evolution of vertebrate bipedalism.
Degrees & Credentials
Ph.D., State University of New York, Stony Brook 1995
Collaborative Research: Measuring Leaping Performance, Evaluating its Anatomical Correlates, and Reconsidering the Importance of Leaping in Primate Origins and Early Evolution awarded by National Science Foundation (Co-Principal Investigator). 2021 to 2022
Collaborative Research: Biomechanical Significance of Bone Material Variation in the Primate Locomotor Skeleton awarded by National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator). 2014 to 2020
Ontogeny of Heel-strike in African Apes awarded by National Science Foundation (Co-Principal Investigator). 2015 to 2020
Doctoral Dissertation Research: Descent Locomotion Behavior in Primates awarded by National Science Foundation (Collaborator). 2018 to 2020
Effects of Aging and Nutrition on Gait Mechanics: Interpretations of Skeletal and Muscular Material awarded by Wenner Gren Foundation (Co-Principal Investigator). 2015 to 2018
The Effects of Vibration on Mouse Behavior awarded by American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine (Investigator). 2015 to 2016
Gait Mechanics of Inverted Walking: Implications for the Evolution of Suspensory Locomotion awarded by L.S.B. Leakey Foundation (Principal Investigator). 2015
Doctoral Dissertation Improvement: The Biomechanics of Vertical Clinging and Grasping in Primates awarded by National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator). 2012 to 2014
Gait Mechanics in Primate and Nonprimate Quadrupeds awarded by National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator). 2005 to 2010
Biomechanics and Inflammation in Osteoarthritis awarded by National Institutes of Health (Consultant). 2003 to 2008
Schmitt, D., et al. "Patterns, variability, and flexibility of hand posture during locomotion in primates." The Evolution of the Primate Hand Anatomical, Developmental, Functional, and Paleontological Evidence, edited by T. Kivell et al., Springer, 2016, pp. 345–69.
Peebles, Alexander T., et al. "Validity of Using Automated Two-Dimensional Video Analysis to Measure Continuous Sagittal Plane Running Kinematics." Annals of Biomedical Engineering, vol. 49, no. 1, Jan. 2021, pp. 455–68. Epmc, doi:10.1007/s10439-020-02569-y. Full Text
Hill, Cherice N., et al. "Racial differences in gait mechanics." Journal of Biomechanics, vol. 112, Nov. 2020, p. 110070. Epmc, doi:10.1016/j.jbiomech.2020.110070. Full Text
Zeininger, Angel, et al. "The effect of ankle osteoarthritis and total ankle arthroplasty on center of pressure position." Journal of Orthopaedic Research : Official Publication of the Orthopaedic Research Society, Sept. 2020. Epmc, doi:10.1002/jor.24857. Full Text
Zeininger, Angel, et al. "Mechanics of heel-strike plantigrady in African apes." Journal of Human Evolution, vol. 145, Aug. 2020, p. 102840. Epmc, doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2020.102840. Full Text
Queen, Robin, et al. "A novel method for measuring asymmetry in kinematic and kinetic variables: The normalized symmetry index." Journal of Biomechanics, vol. 99, Jan. 2020, p. 109531. Epmc, doi:10.1016/j.jbiomech.2019.109531. Full Text
Cullen, Mark M., et al. "Gaze-behaviors of runners in a natural, urban running environment." Plos One, vol. 15, no. 5, Jan. 2020, p. e0233158. Epmc, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0233158. Full Text
Abbott, Emily M., et al. "Hurry Up and Get Out of the Way! Exploring the Limits of Muscle-Based Latch Systems for Power Amplification." Integrative and Comparative Biology, vol. 59, no. 6, Dec. 2019, pp. 1546–58. Epmc, doi:10.1093/icb/icz141. Full Text
Queen, Robin M., et al. "Gait Analysis Reveals that Total Hip Arthroplasty Increases Power Production in the Hip During Level Walking and Stair Climbing." Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research, vol. 477, no. 8, Aug. 2019, pp. 1839–47. Epmc, doi:10.1097/corr.0000000000000809. Full Text
Granatosky, Michael C., and Daniel Schmitt. "The mechanical origins of arm-swinging." Journal of Human Evolution, vol. 130, May 2019, pp. 61–71. Epmc, doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2019.02.001. Full Text
Miller, C. E., et al. "Limb phase flexibility in walking: A test case in the squirrel monkey (Saimiri sciureus)." Frontiers in Zoology, vol. 16, no. 1, Feb. 2019. Scopus, doi:10.1186/s12983-019-0299-8. Full Text
Wiktorowicz-Conroy, A. M., et al. "The Scaling of Postural Mechanics in Felidae and Artiodactyla." Integrative and Comparative Biology, vol. 51, OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC, 2011, pp. E150–E150.
Evolutionary perspectives on the mechanics of locomotion: What selective pressures tells us about how to get someone to walk again.. October 1, 2012
Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Anatomy and Musculoskeletal Health.. September 1, 2012
Innovations in team-oriented approaches to medical education, training, and research.. September 1, 2012
Mechanical, energetic, and neural control determinants of locomotor performance in mammals: implications for evolution, athletics, and pathology. June 1, 2012
Mechanical, energetic, and neural control determinants of locomotor performance in mammals: implications for evolution, athletics, and pathology.. June 1, 2012
Evolution and health: Using animal models and an evolutionary perspective to understand bone and joint disease. April 1, 2012
Biomechanics in the trees: A primate perspective on limb mechanics and its implications for basic and clinical sciences. January 8, 2010
Evolution, Obesity, and Arthritis: Understanding human musculoskeletal health from an evolutionary perspective. January 8, 2009
Bass Connections Faculty Team Member . Movement, Grace, and Embodied Cognitiion . August 2015 - May 2016
Bass Connections Faculty Team Member. Look Before You Leap! Using Eye Tracking to Understand the Evolution of Locomotor Decision-making. July 2015 - May 2016
Bass Connections Faculty Team Member. Shining Evolutionary Light on Global Health Challenges. August 2014 - May 2015
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Menu Guide wins national award
Menu Guide wins the 'Innovation and Technical' category at the OPSS Regulatory Excellence Awards 2021
We are proud to announce that Menu Guide won the 'Innovation and Technical' category at the UK Government's Office for Product Safety and Standards (OPSS) Regulatory Excellence Awards 2021 on 10 June 2021.
The Awards, which are open to a wide variety of organisations, recognise outstanding achievements in supporting businesses, protecting consumers, fighting coronavirus, rebuilding the economy and unleashing innovation.
Menu Guide, with their Primary Authority partner, Milton Keynes Council, was one of 35 finalists chosen from a record number of submissions in five categories. Entrants were required to show how they met a particular challenge and demonstrate the benefits and impact of their work.
Developed in partnership with hospitality providers, Menu Guide provides a quick and simple way to create edit, store and share interactive online allergen menus at any time via a scannable QR code or website short-link. This user-friendly tool streamlines kitchen operations, promotes effective allergen management and supports serving staff.
Most importantly, by showing consumers exactly what's on the menu, it helps the growing number of people with food allergies or dietary intolerances to make informed, safe food choices when eating out or ordering takeaway.
Held online this year, the OPSS Regulatory Excellence Awards were attended by more than 250 people, including representatives from business organisations and public sector regulatory professionals.
Paul Scully MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State in the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and Minister for London, provided the opening address before videos were shown highlighting the work of the finalists. The external judging panel, chosen for their breadth of knowledge and expertise, explained how they selected the winners.
Menu Guide's creator, Philip Kenchington said: "We are immensely proud to have received this prestigious award recognising how Menu Guide supports food businesses and protects consumers. During the past year, our partnership with Milton Keynes Council has been extremely active, with environmental health and trading standards staff reviewing all aspects of Menu Guide, providing Primary Authority advice to us and encouraging us to enter these awards."
Alison Hunt, Principal Trading Standards Officer for Milton Keynes Council said: "Milton Keynes Council is very proud of the work undertaken with Glint Media Ltd t/a Menu Guide, through the Primary Authority scheme, on their technical solution to providing allergen information through a single digital reference point. It is enormously gratifying that this achievement in innovation and regulatory compliance has been recognised by the Regulatory Excellence Awards 2021 and we take this opportunity to thank the Office of Product Safety and Standards for this occasion to showcase the dedication and inspirational work undertaken in the field of regulation, and in particular through Primary Authority Partnerships."
Restaurateur, Andrei Lussmann said: "Menu Guide has greatly simplified the process of creating, storing and updating allergen information. Using an online system, with all the information in one place, minimises errors, reduces paperwork and saves kitchen time. Our waiting staff say that they feel more comfortable dealing with enquiries and our diners are impressed with its interactive, user-friendly features. This must be the way forward for the hospitality industry."
To find out more about the Awards, please read the OPSS news release
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Camiknickers, kamiknickers, avlett från franskans cami "del"/"överdel" och engelskans knickers "knäbyxor"; kortbenta trosbyxor som liknar shorts, ursprunget är mamelucker. Först knälånga 1916, på 1930-talet blev trosorna lårkorta och kallades franska knickers.

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Q: How do I deploy Blazor WebAssembly Core Hosted Self-Contained App to IIS I have developed a Blazor WebAssembly App that will be used on a Server running Windows 2012 on our Intranet. This is targeting .Net 5.0 Core Hosted and Self-Contained. I need to deploy to IIS 8.5 and have some questions.
When I add the website in IIS, do I point to the root deploy directory with the executable and web.config?
Is there anything else I need to do so that IIS will find the index file in the wwwroot sub-directory?
Is is appropriate to put the deploy directory for this app directly under inetpub?
The publish task created a rather large BlaorDebugProxy directory. This is for release so I don't understand why this was created. Is there a way to prevent this from happening?
I want to access the app using ServerName\AppName. If I create the site with 'AppName' for the host name, will that work or is there something else I need to do?
When I try to browse to the site from IIS, I get a 500.19 'The requested page cannot be accessed because the related configuration data for the page is invalid.' I have not made changes to the file as it was created by the publish process. It is:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<configuration>
  <location path="." inheritInChildApplications="false">
    <system.webServer>
      <handlers>
        <add name="aspNetCore" path="*" verb="*" modules="AspNetCoreModuleV2" resourceType="Unspecified" />
      </handlers>
      <aspNetCore processPath=".\AppName.Server.exe" stdoutLogEnabled="false" stdoutLogFile=".\logs\stdout" hostingModel="inprocess" />
    </system.webServer>
  </location>
</configuration>
<!--ProjectGuid: 60862cf1-bea8-48f4-8ae9-270f2f537927-->

Any ideas why this is not working?
PLEASE NOTE that this is using the SELF-CONTAINED model.
Also, I have made sure that the directory has granted full permissions to the App Pool Identity for this App.
The answer below and the supposed duplicate all refer to installing the framework. However, I thought that the whole point of the self-contained model is that it does not rely on an installed framework.
I have searched extensively and see many references that touch on these issues but nothing that says specifically how to get IIS (especially an older version) to host the self-contained model. The Microsoft pages talk about advantages and disadvantages and how to create the files but no details about how to host them or the other questions I listed above.
Has anyone done this successfully who can provide some guidance?
Thanks !

A: Firstly, please ensure that the Asp.net Core IIS Hosting Bundle installer has been installed on the server.
https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download/dotnet/5.0

Besides, the identity under where your web application runs in IIS should have full access to the root folder of your website. Try to grant the IUSR account full control to that physical path.
Last, please refer to the below link to hosting Core-based web application in IIS.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/host-and-deploy/iis/?view=aspnetcore-3.1
Feel free to let me know if the problem still exists.


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EO 9066 Exhibition Offers Glimpse Into Past
Posted On May 9, 2017 Community News, Education, Civil Rights
Above: Curator Greg Williams with wartime newspapers that reflected the racial bias of the time. Below: Archival photos from CSUDH and San Jose State University. (Photos by RYOKO OHNISHI)
By RYOKO OHNISHI, Rafu Contributor
CARSON — Letters sent to a Gila River detainee from the War Relocation Authority in 1945, a hand-drawn map of Tule Lake Segregation Center, comic books, magazines, newspapers, posters, artwork — more than 500 items that describe the lives of Japanese American detainees during World War II are exhibited at the California State University Dominguez Hills Library.
Greg Williams, director of Archives and Special Collections at CSUDH, curated the archival exhibition commemorating the 75th anniversary of Executive Order 9066 (Feb. 19). He is also the principal investigator of the California State University Japanese American Digitization Project (http://csujad.com).
The exhibition shows a variety of archival materials donated by the South Bay Japanese American communities over the past 50 years to CSUDH and also throughout the CSU system. In addition, the exhibition includes some of Williams' personal collection, such as his grandfather's collection of The Grand Rapids Herald, published in Michigan. The headlines reflect the fact that U.S. newspapers at the time routinely referred to both Japanese nationals and Japanese Americans as "Japs."
The project is led by CSUDH and funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Park Service. CSUJAD is still accepting donations of materials to add the archives.
The exhibition, which opened on Feb. 9, will be on view until Friday, May 19. Hours are Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Library Cultural Arts Gallery (LIB-1940). For information, call (310) 243-3895.


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Former Nissan chairman Ghosn released after posting bail
TOKYO — Wearing a mask, cap and what looked like a construction worker's outfit, the former chairman of Nissan Motor Co., Carlos Ghosn, left a Tokyo detention center Wednesday after posting 1 billion yen ($8.9 million) bail.
Although his face was obscured as he left the facility, Ghosn's identity was apparent as he smiled after arriving at a building in downtown Tokyo, having removed his jacket, mask and hat.
There was a scramble by media to follow Ghosn after he boarded a small Suzuki van, topped with a ladder, and traveled from the Tokyo Detention Center toward downtown. Motorcycles trailed the van in formation as it passed through city streets to one of the defense lawyer's offices. Ghosn later left in another car, which was mobbed by media.
Ghosn, the former head of the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Motors alliance was arrested on Nov. 19. He is charged with falsifying financial reports and with breach of trust.
The Tokyo District Court confirmed the 1 billion yen ($8.9 million) bail was posted earlier in the day, after a judge rejected an appeal from prosecutors requesting his continued detention. That cleared the way for Ghosn to leave the facility after spending nearly four months since his arrest.
Before his release, Ghosn, who turns 65 on Saturday, issued a statement reasserting his innocence.
"I am innocent and totally committed to vigorously defending myself in a fair trial against these meritless and unsubstantiated accusations," he said.
A date for his trial has not yet been set.
Suspects in Japan often are detained for months, especially those who insist on their innocence, like Ghosn. Some legal experts, including Junichiro Hironaka, one of his lawyers, have criticized the system as "hostage justice," saying the long detentions tend to encourage false confessions.
Ghosn's lawyer in France, Jean-Yves Le Borgne, said the lawyers in Japan will be leading the defense but he was in touch with them.
"He is catching his breath and settling in," Le Borgne said of Ghosn.
French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said a presumption of innocence for Ghosn was crucial, while noting the importance to France of the alliance between Nissan and French automaker Renault SA.
"It is a good thing that Carlos Ghosn can defend himself freely and serenely, and his release will permit Carlos Ghosn to defend himself freely and serenely," he said.
The French government owns about 15 percent of Renault SA, making it an influential voice in the future of the alliance. Le Maire said the "solidity" of that future was of tremendous importance.
Hironaka said his legal team had offered new conditions for his release, such as installing a surveillance camera at his doorway and promising not to use the internet. He is allowed to make voice calls, but not to travel abroad.
Prosecutors contend that suspects may tamper with evidence and shouldn't be released. Two of Ghosn's earlier requests to be released on bail were rejected.
Some critics of Japan's legal system hope that Ghosn's release, so many weeks before preparations for his trial are ready, may set a precedent and help bring about change.
Ghosn says he did not falsify financial reports because the compensation he is alleged to have under-reported was never paid or decided upon. The breach of trust allegations center on a temporary transfer of Ghosn's investment losses to Nissan's books that he says caused no losses to the automaker. The charge also points to payments to a Saudi businessman that he says were for legitimate services.
Nissan declined comment on the criminal case against Ghosn but said an internal investigation had found unethical conduct. Nissan has dismissed Ghosn as chairman, although he remains on the board pending a decision at a shareholders' meeting.
Ghosn's family has said that he has lost weight while in detention, and he looked thinner in his court appearance. Hironaka has said he is in good spirits. Ghosn thanked his family and friends, who, he said, "stood by me throughout this terrible ordeal."


Ever since May 2002, all prime ministers in this country have been provisional. But we may not have to wait long now for a legitimate, elected government.
Nepal must have set some kind of a world record by not forming a government even four months after an election. Mercifully, political parties have finally realised that there is no alternative to working together to institutionalise the republic and address the people's immediate needs. The new government will have to get down to brass tacks right away to make up for lost time.
Taking the peace process to its logical conclusion will have to be at the top of the agenda. Rehabilitation of Maoist combatants, reform of the Nepal Army and addressing the needs of the immediate victims of war are all linked to the peace process.
After the distraction of government formation is over, the Assembly should function smoothly so we can get on with the work of drafting a new constitution that will restructure the state. There is great public scepticism that a new constitution will be ready in two years.
But while we wait, the really urgent task is to restore governance. This must happen in parallel with state restructuring. To establish the credibility of the new government and to end the current state of anarchy and neglect of public services, the people want to see a government that is responsive to their needs.
More than a decade without elections undermined the state's legitimacy. It will be hard work to restore law and order. One quick way to generate faith in the capacity of the government and rekindle hope is to show immediate and tangible improvements in service delivery. The people don't need much: they just want law and order, they are sick of queuing for fuel and suffering power cuts, they want to be sure they can travel without being stuck on the highway, in deficit areas people need food urgently.
Several articles in this issue deal with the gory details of urban decay, lawlessness, the unacceptable rise in crime. At the root of all these problems is the prolonged lack of legitimate government and the unnecessarily lengthy post-election powerplay. This is a classic example of what happens when elected leaders lack accountability and are obsessed about retaining power at all cost.
Police posts removed during the insurgency need to be restored. VDC secretaries need to be in the villages. School teachers must be liberated from extortion. A stopgap political setup will have to be devised at village, district and municipality levels till the next local elections are held. Development can't happen in the present vacuum.
Nepalis are experts at coping. They have shown great forbearance and tolerance of their leaders as they try to reach a power-sharing deal. Let's not let it reach breaking point again.


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