Is my dog dying right now?
Why didn't my vet catch this earlier?
How could my dog get cancer almost overnight?
These three questions keep dog lovers up at night after they get the awful news that their beloved dog has cancer. That's why Dr. Demian Dressler answers them right up front in his excellent best-selling book The Dog Cancer Survival Guide: Full Spectrum Treatments to Optimize Your Dog's Life and Longevity. Co-authored with veterinary oncologist Dr. Susan Ettinger, it's a must-read if you're facing dog cancer.
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There are three questions guardians tend to ask first when they get a cancer diagnosis. Because these three questions seem to weigh on the mind and could distract you from learning anything new, I am going to answer them as best I can.
How Could Cancer Happen Overnight?
One of the hardest things for most guardians to grasp is how they didn't see this coming. Many times the dog seems healthy right before she's brought in for an evaluation. Sometimes dogs don't seem sick at all.
How did this grave illness escape your attention? The answer may surprise you: your dog may have hidden it from you.
Dogs have an old, genetic program that encourages them to conceal any sign of illness, a legacy from when they ran in packs. The pack mentality oriented them toward maintaining their position in the hierarchy and defending the pack from predators. Weak dogs slow down the pack and become predators' targets. As a result, they risk losing their rank in the hierarchy or being left behind, which is a terrible fate for a dog. A dog will do just about anything to avoid this – including behaving as if nothing is wrong for as long as she can.
Despite generations of domestication, dogs still think like wild animals when they feel ill. If your dog felt sick before his diagnosis, you can bet he did everything he could to make you think he was just fine.
When a dog can no longer hide his symptoms, he gives up trying and seems to get sick overnight.
This is called decompensation, and it often occurs just before the guardian takes the dog to the vet. This leads me to the second reason that cancer seems to sneak up on us: our reliance upon sight.
Humans use sight as their primary information-gathering sense. We see our dog eating, walking, playing, sleeping, going to the bathroom, and wagging her tail when we come home. Over time, we use this visual information to create a picture in our mind of what is normal for our dog. As long as we see all of these things happening, we assume that nothing is off-kilter.
Dogs, on the other hand, use their sense of smell as their primary means of gathering information. When they sniff each other (a habit we often find funny or gross) they are actually gathering information. Is she in heat? Is he healthy? What did she eat for breakfast? All these questions and many more can be answered by decoding a dog's scent.
Our puny human noses cannot smell our dog's illness.
Because of our dog's ability to compensate for their symptoms, our eyes are blind, too. Given all of this, we cannot possibly blame ourselves for not discovering cancer before decompensation occurred.
We cannot possibly blame ourselves for not discovering cancer before decompensation occurred.
This is a complicated question, and there is no one "right" answer. Let's start with the most obvious and least controversial answer I have.
Some cancers simply are not visible to the naked eye, cannot be felt with the fingers and don't produce a noise that can be heard with a stethoscope. These cancers are often advanced by the time the dog decompensates and the guardian realizes something is wrong. This can be true for human cancers, too. In deep body cancers, we don't usually realize something is wrong until after symptoms start to show up.
Cancer can take a long time to develop; we'll talk more about this later. For now, it's important to realize that cancer does not appear overnight. It just seems to.
Cancer does not appear overnight. It just seems to.
Some dogs are born with genetic mutations passed on from their parents' DNA, which can develop into cancer later.
This is a very complex subject, so I'm going to vastly over-simplify it.
Cancer goes through many steps – for the sake of explanation, let's pretend it is ten steps – before it is fully developed and diagnosed. If a dog is born with a genetic mutation that predisposes her to develop cancer, she may already be on, say, step three of ten, at birth. If the cancer does develop, it may take years for recognizable signs to appear.
To the guardian, that cancer may seem to pop up overnight when, in fact, it developed over the genetic history of the dog. If it were possible to trace the molecular history of that genetic mutation all the way back to where it began in her ancestors, you could even say that in some cases cancer develops over millennia.
In some cases cancer develops over millennia.
It would be ideal if vets had screening tests that could catch cancer early, but, we don't. While some human cancers can be found by measuring certain markers in the blood, we can't do this for most dog cancers.
Routine physical exams can uncover suspicious lumps and bumps. Unfortunately, many dog lovers seem to think of the vet like they do a car mechanic: they take the dog in only when something is obviously wrong. Regular physicals are critical for finding cancer as early as possible, but, even they can't always catch cancers that start on a microscopic level, or are located deep in the body.
Regular physicals are critical for finding cancer as early as possible, but, even they can't always catch cancer.
When some vets find a lump during an exam, they recommend taking a "wait and see" approach. They advise the guardian to look for changes or growth before testing the lump for cancer. However, waiting can be problematic. If a lump is cancerous and left untreated, it can spread, becoming much harder to treat later.
No one, not even my oncologist co-author Dr. Ettinger, can tell what a lump is without testing it for cancer cells. When I see or feel a lump on a dog, I can often make an accurate, educated guess about whether it is a malignancy. However, I can also make an inaccurate, educated guess.
No one, not even an oncologist, can tell what a lump is without testing it.
Many vets are hesitant to recommend extensive or expensive testing procedures, because we are sensitive to guardians, who might be thinking that we're just "running up the bill." This is especially true if tests come back negative. If you weren't going to find anything, why did you order that test in the first place?
While it's true that there may be a few vets who run unnecessary tests, it's impossible to know for certain that cancer is present without at least a fine needle aspirate and/or a biopsy. Metastasis, or cancer spread, can only be confirmed with X-rays or some other imaging test, blood tests, urine tests, and other screening tools, depending upon the cancer's type. There is simply no way around it – in order to get a diagnosis, we must run tests.
So what's different about cancer? Three things.
Cancer is the number one killer of dogs (following euthanasia), according to organizations like the National Canine Cancer Foundation. This is not yet common knowledge among vets.
According to estimates, one in three dogs will get cancer, and this increases to one in two in dogs over the age of ten. Those are scary numbers, and not every vet believes they are accurate, because the data is coming from a foundation, rather than a systematic examination of every clinic's cases. This leads me to the second reason some vets don't push for early cancer screening.
One in three dogs get cancer, and one in two dogs over the age of ten. Most vets don't yet realize we are in the middle of a dog cancer epidemic.
What are the strengths of their study?
Were enough animals included in the study to make the results statistically significant?
What are they overlooking in their conclusions?
Could they be manipulating the data to serve a particular agenda?
How was their research funded? By drug companies? By the government? By themselves?
Do they have any financial interest in the outcome of their work?
Do they have personal bias that might influence their interpretation of the data?
It's easy for vets to read their trade journals and assume that the authors are unbiased. But too often, they aren't.
Like so many of us, veterinarians sometimes blindly trust published literature, rather than looking for bias.
It's also just as easy for some vets to be swayed by marketing from pharmaceutical companies.
If you've brought a new puppy into your life in the last few years, you may have received a "puppy kit" from your vet. Pharmaceutical companies, dog food companies, and pet product manufacturers regularly provide free "gifts" to veterinarians to hand out to new puppy guardians. Perhaps the folder that held your puppy's papers was also an ad for a heartworm medication. Perhaps the new doggy toy has the name of a popular dog food printed on the tag. I freely admit to using some of these gifts in my own practice.
While it's wonderful when vets save money and give their clients a gift at the same time, it's also an implied endorsement of the company's products. Does it create a potential bias toward using that company's products? Certainly. Is that bad? Not necessarily. The promoted products have a beneficial purpose that could be lifesaving. However, we should ensure that each vet is aware of her bias, does her own research, and asks those tough questions of the information presented by the companies involved.
Veterinarians are swayed by their relationships with pharmaceutical companies.
Unfortunately, when it comes to cancer, we have just a handful of conventional tools: chemotherapy, radiation, and surgery. In many cases, guardians consider those tools too expensive and not good enough at extending life, enhancing the quality of life, or providing comfort to the dog. Some vets agree, even if only on a subconscious level. The cure for systemic dog cancer has not been found, at least not yet, by conventional oncology.
In general, vets are animal lovers who entered the profession so they could be around animals all day long. Limited tools and dispiriting, confusing statistics make dealing with cancer a frustrating experience for most vets. It is profoundly unsatisfying not to be able to cure a dog with cancer.
Vets can be sabotaged by stress, just like any other person. This is another reason why you must step up and advocate for your dog by becoming a fierce dog guardian.
Vets can be sabotaged by the stress of not being able to treat dog cancer with traditional tools.
You will probably never really know why the cancer wasn't caught earlier. Perhaps we didn't look hard enough or often enough, we didn't use our existing diagnostic tools early enough, or we simply need better tools. Or, perhaps we could have done more, and we still would not have found the cancer.
You may never get a good answer to why your vet didn't catch the cancer earlier. Some questions are just never answered.
Let's turn ourselves to the last question dog guardians usually ask when they face a cancer diagnosis.
No, he's not. He's alive right now, and the healthy cells in his body are operating as they always have. They are living right now. Many of them are even fighting the cancer.
If he's breathing, he's alive.
There is another way to look at it, of course. Here's another, equally valid answer: this may be a tough pill to swallow, but yes, in a way, your dog is dying right now. Death is inevitable and always has been. It's an unavoidable part of life on our planet. From this point of view, nothing has really changed, but you may now be more aware of your dog's eventual death than you were before you received the cancer diagnosis. Or, you may understand that death is inevitable, but are feeling that death is coming too soon. I think most dog lovers feel this way about the possibility of their dog's death.
Whichever perspective feels most comfortable for you, the chances that your dog is going to expire as you are reading this are low. You have time.
You may know a woman who had breast cancer, one of the most common human cancers. Perhaps she had no idea that she was sick until a doctor found a spot on her mammogram. Her body appeared healthy, and indeed most of her cells were normal. She didn't actually feel sick; she had time to get treatment and live a good life. Maybe she even beat the cancer into remission.
… I have seen some recoveries that can only be described as miraculous, and I take nothing for granted when it comes to a dog's ability to heal.
There is no way for you to know, right now, that your dog will definitely die of cancer, any time soon. Each dog, each case, is different. That's why I am so glad that you are taking the time to educate yourself, so you can make decisions that will lead to the best outcome.
There is no way for you to know, right now, that your dog will definitely die of cancer, any time soon. So let's not focus on the when, right?
As you'll learn, your dog's body is already hard at work, fighting the cancer cells. Remember, cancer is not an immediate death sentence. Cancer is a living process that happens in a living body.
And your dog's body might be better equipped than most to handle the challenges of cancer, just because she is a dog.
Dogs live in the moment, and they don't worry about trying to change things they cannot change. So while your dog may have cancer, the good news is that she isn't upset about it the way she would be if she were human. We can all be grateful for that!
…the good news is that she isn't upset about it the way she would be if she were human.


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Honda Siel Cars India (HSCI), sold 7,728 units in September 2010 as against 5,794 units sold in September 2009 marking an impressive growth of 33.38%.
The company's best-selling model Honda City showed a remarkable growth of 44% selling 6,164 units in September 2010 as against 4,281 units sold in September last year.
The cumulative sales of the company for the period April-September 2010 has also stands at 30,185 units from 27,530 units during the corresponding period last year. This reflects a growth of 10%.
Model wise break-up for September 2010: City- 6164; Jazz-649; Civic-574; Accord-253; CR-V-88.


June is quickly becoming known around these parts as "Bike Month" and in the spirit of this event the residents of Vancouver will be hosting some big Car Free street parties on Car Free day, Sunday June 15! On that day, FOUR communities will present their own Car-Free Festivals: Kitsilano, West End, Main Street, and Commercial Drive. Each Festival is envisioned and organized by the local core organizers, and each has a unique flavour.
I will be volunteering that day, most likely in the west end, my hood, and blocking the streets from cars! This event is to be 100% volunteer driven. As well as being 100% car free ourselves my family is very excited to learn that the focus of our neighbouhood car free event will be dancing in the streets!
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class GuessingGame
  def initialize(answer)
    @last_guess = nil
    @answer = answer
  end

  def guess(guess)
    @last_guess = guess
    if guess > @answer
      return :high
    end
    if guess < @answer
      return :low
    end
    if guess == @answer
      p :correct
    end
  end

  def solved?
    @last_guess == @answer ? true : false
  end
end

# Reflection
# How do instance variables and methods represent the characteristics and behaviors (actions) of a real-world object?
#   Instance variables and methods represent the characteristics and actions of real-world objects. If an object is like a noun, instance variables are like the words that describe that noun -- here what the answer to the game is, whether the game has been solved, what the guesses are. Instance methods, then, are like the special actions that particular object can do. In this example, this means it can process guesses and know whether or not it has been solved.
# When should you use instance variables? What do they do for you?
#   You should use instance variables when you are creating a specific object from a class. Instance variables allow you to keep that particular object's state as a series of values and re-use it as needed through other methods.
# Explain how to use flow control. Did you have any trouble using it in this challenge? If so, what did you struggle with?
#   Flow control is the process of controlling the way a computer flows through a program, restricting what comes out based on what has come in. In this challenge, we use flow control to return certain values in the guess function, depending on if the guess is high, low, or correct. We also use it to return true or false, depending on whether or not the answer of the game has been guessed by the user. I didn't struggle with flow control in the challenge.
# Why do you think this code requires you to return symbols? What are the benefits of using symbols?
#   This code returns symbols because they are unique and immutable. We don't need multiple instances of a string "High" or "Low," we just need the single instance of each, which is then used when necessary. Also the state of high or low will not change -- we don't need to change the name of the thing returned, nor do we need different behavior to determine high or low. The symbol for high is always for when the number is too high, and hte symbol for low is always for when the number is too low. Symbols are quick to access because there's only ever one copy and it can't change. Ruby even talks to itself via symbols.

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I've just read the Wikipedia article but I'm none the wiser as to how this would get us nearer to a pattern that simply matches all diacritics.
I wonder how Andrew West implemented BabelPad | Convert | Other | Strip Diacritics ?
Topic: Unicode extended character properties?
to select a row and click a button for Open selected filter.
Is there any good reason why the filter to Convert Word documents to text leaves the BOM in the UTF-8 text output file?
The help page for this filter does not state that the BOM may need to be removed afterwards!
Topic: Input filenames containing non-ANSI characters?
A workaround is one thing, but were you able to confirm whether or not my conjecture about data caching was valid?
If so, is there anything that can be done to prevent the bad output that I observed without such a workaround?
Have you thought of a response on this yet?


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1 - In the Hands of Physicians
Rachel Hynson
Book: Laboring for the State
Chapter 1 explores the gradual introduction of family planning to Cuban women, highlighting the Revolution's centralization of state authority as well as its rejection of medical plurality. The chapter argues that medical leadership implemented policies that ultimately increased state control over women's labor and reproductive decisions. Early public health models failed to include access to abortion and helped fuel rumors that the government had criminalized the procedures. But revolutionary leadership never responded to these popular rumors and instead emphasized the benefits of hospital births and the ideological dangers of birth control; evidence suggests that poor Afro-Cuban women and rural women were specific targets of this effort to regulate reproduction. By 1965, following an unexpected baby boom, the Ministry of Public Health began to provide women with some contraceptive options. But reproductive autonomy was not the goal of these reforms, and Cuban women's persistent reliance on unauthorized abortions to regulate reproduction reveals that state health programs were not meeting the needs of all its citizens. The chapter shows that it was only after 1971 that both contraceptives and abortions became more available to Cuban women, reflecting a shift to bring the ideology more in line with that advanced by the Soviets.
17 - Population and Migration
from Part III - Governance and the Management of Multiple Global Risks
Augusto Lopez-Claros, Arthur L. Dahl, Maja Groff
Book: Global Governance and the Emergence of Global Institutions for the 21st Century
Among the social challenges facing humanity, population and migration are at the root of many problems. Globalization has very significantly advanced across a range of areas, except with respect to the free movement of people. Extreme inequality has maintained rapid population growth in some regions, while in others the falling birth rate is leading to a rapid aging of the population. The anticipated global population of up to 11 billion in this century could only be supported with fundamental changes in lifestyles, consumption patterns, social relationships, institutions and value systems towards social justice and equity. Regional and global carrying capacities must be respected. Migration should be seen not as a threat but as an opportunity for both migrants and receiving communities. Large-scale, environmentally induced migrations can be anticipated and planned for to reduce human suffering.
Fishery bycatch is among the most important threats to the European population of Greater Scaup Aythya marila
DOMINIK MARCHOWSKI, ŁUKASZ JANKOWIAK, ŁUKASZ ŁAWICKI, DARIUSZ WYSOCKI, PRZEMYSŁAW CHYLARECKI
Journal: Bird Conservation International , First View
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 January 2020, pp. 1-18
For Greater Scaup Aythya marila, classified as 'Vulnerable' on the European Red List of Birds, the south-western Baltic Sea is one of the most important wintering sites in Europe. In this area, a large concentration of gillnet fishery temporally overlaps periods of the most abundant occurrence of foraging diving birds. The aim of the article is to show how bycatch can impact the population of a diving duck. To assess this, we calculate the Potential Biological Removal (PBR) for the studied Greater Scaup population and we model the population change according to age-structured matrix models. Summing all the available recent figures on Greater Scaup bycatch in north-west Europe yields an estimated mean annual total of 3,991 individuals (2% of the flyway population). For a baseline stable population, an age-structured matrix model indicates that at this bycatch level the Greater Scaup population that winters in north-west Europe will decrease by 36% over the next 30 years, qualifying the status of the population as 'Vulnerable' according to IUCN criteria. As this population also experiences decline prior to bycatch, this decrease will be 57%, which qualifies the status as 'Endangered'. PBR as an indicator of population vitality does not work in our case because the PBR-informed allowable bycatch values have a significantly negative impact on the population. Our results indicate unambiguously that fishery bycatch is among the most important threats responsible for the Greater Scaup's decline. While recent data suggest that some improvement has taken place in the species' status over the last 10 years, measures to protect Greater Scaup from bycatch are required. The solution should involve the prohibition of gillnet fishing in selected key sites and the use of mitigation techniques in other areas.
Changes in the waterbird community of the Parc National du Banc d'Arguin, Mauritania, 1980–2017
THOMAS OUDMAN, HANS SCHEKKERMAN, AMADOU KIDEE, MARC VAN ROOMEN, MOHAMED CAMARA, COR SMIT, JOB TEN HORN, THEUNIS PIERSMA, EL-HACEN MOHAMED EL-HACEN
The Parc National du Banc d'Arguin in Mauritania hosts the largest concentrations of coastal waterbirds along the East Atlantic Flyway. In spite of this importance, a review of the changes in the numbers of waterbirds in the area is lacking since the first complete count in 1980. Here we analysed the seven complete waterbird counts made since then, and the additional yearly counts made in one subunit (Iwik region) since 2003. We present evidence for changes in the community composition of waterbirds over the past four decades. Total waterbird numbers showed a decrease between 1980 and 2017, with only Great White Pelican Pelecanus onocrotalus showing a significant increase in numbers. Five species showed significant declines: Long-tailed Cormorant Phalacrocorax africanus, Red Knot Calidris canutus, Bar-tailed Godwit Limosa lapponica, Eurasian Curlew Numenius arquata, and Western Marsh Harrier Circus aeruginosus. In the remaining species, the variation in numbers between counts was too large, and the number of complete counts too small, for trends to be detected. The yearly counts at Iwik region also showed sharp decreases in the numbers of Red Knot, Bar-tailed Godwit, and Marsh Harrier, but not of Long-tailed Cormorant and Eurasian Curlew. A multivariate analysis revealed a significant change in species composition over time, which was caused mainly by changes in the species depending on the intertidal mudflats for feeding (generally in decline) vs. the species depending on fish and crustaceans in the sublittoral and offshore zones (often showing increases).
TwinsMX: Uncovering the Basis of Health and Disease in the Mexican Population
Ana V. Leon-Apodaca, Enrique Chiu-Han, Ivett Ortega-Mora, Talía V. Román-López, Ulises Caballero-Sánchez, Oscar Aldana-Assad, Adrián I. Campos, Gabriel Cuellar-Partida, Alejandra E. Ruiz-Contreras, Sarael Alcauter, Miguel E. Rentería, Alejandra Medina-Rivera
Journal: Twin Research and Human Genetics , First View
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 January 2020, pp. 1-6
TwinsMX is a national twin registry in Mexico recently created with institutional support from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. It aims to serve as a platform to advance epidemiological and genetic research in the country and to disentangle the genetic and environmental contributions to health and disease in the admixed Mexican population. Here, we describe our recruitment and data collection strategies and discuss both the progress to date and future directions. More information about the registry is available on our website: https://twinsmxofficial.unam.mx/ (content in Spanish).
Drivers of population change in common farmland birds in Germany
MALTE BUSCH, JAKOB KATZENBERGER, SVEN TRAUTMANN, BETTINA GERLACH, RAINER DRÖSCHMEISTER, CHRISTOPH SUDFELDT
Farmland bird populations in Germany are declining at a higher speed than species inhabiting other habitats. We studied potential causes for bird population changes based on data from standardised German breeding bird monitoring schemes. We related population trends to covariates describing the changes in the agricultural landscape in Germany, weather conditions during the breeding season and for some migratory species, conditions at stopover and wintering sites. Linear mixed effect models were used to analyse effect strength at species level and conclusions are drawn for the overall group of farmland bird species. The area of grassland and fallow land was shown to have the strongest positive effects and the area of maize and rapeseed the strongest negative effects on farmland bird population trends. The results obtained also indicate that despite the consistent influence of weather conditions during the breeding season, land-use changes had a stronger impact on bird populations than weather. Conditions at Sahel wintering sites did not show a consistent effect on population trends. Based on these findings the study quantitatively underpins and ranks key factors shaping farmland bird populations in Germany.
Age stage, two-sex life table of Habrobracon hebetor (Braconidae) on Spodoptera exigua (Noctuidae) reared on different sugar beet genotypes
Yaghoub Fathipour, Ladan Talaee, Abdoolnabi Bagheri, Ali Asghar Talebi, Jahangir Khajehali
Journal: Bulletin of Entomological Research , First View
The present study was carried out to unveil interactive relevance among consecutive and alternate members of a tritrophic system comprised of sugar beet genotypes, beet armyworm, Spodoptera exigua (Hübner), and its parasitoid, Habrobracon hebetor (Say) using demographic parameters. To do so, H. hebetor was reared on S. exigua fed on 10 sugar beet genotypes, including SB26; SB27; SB29; SB33; SB34; (7112*SB36)*Sh-1-HSF-5; FC220; FC301; SBSI006; and HM 1339RZ in a growth chamber at 25 ± 1 °C, 60 ± 5% RH, and 16:8 (L: D) h photoperiod. The data was analyzed based on the age-stage, two-sex life table theory. Our results revealed high variation in duration of different life stages of H. hebetor on S. exigua reared on different sugar beet genotypes examined. The shortest (10.605 days) and longest (13.721 days) pre-adult period of H. hebetor was on S. exigua reared on SB26 and SB34, respectively. The longest (17.2 days) and shortest adult longevity (7.5 days) was on S. exigua reared on SB26 and SB27, respectively. The highest values of the intrinsic rate of increase (r) (0.209 day−1) and finite rate of increase (λ) (1.233 day−1) were observed on S. exigua reared on SB34 and their lowest values (0.159 and 1.172 day−1, respectively) were recorded on SB27. Resistant and susceptible genotypes to S. exigua, FC301 and (7112*SB36)*Sh-1-HSF-5, respectively, were only genotypes on which H. hebetor had greater and approximately equal r compared with S. exigua. This finding indicates high capability of H. hebetor to be successfully employed against S. exigua on sugar beet genotypes which are extremely different in resistance to this pest.
Pocket-sized echocardiography for screening structural heart disease: diagnostic accuracy and cost-effectiveness for population-based studies
Avisa Tabib, Niloufar Samiei, Mohammad M. Peighambari, Fariba Rashidi Ghader, Maryam Moradian, Ahmad Mohebbi, Gholamreza Omrani, Alireza A. Ghavidel, Bahareh Kazemborji, Feridoun Noohi, Majid Maleki, Yousef Rezaei, Saeid Hosseini
Journal: Cardiology in the Young , First View
The standard transthoracic echocardiography has some limitations in emergent and community-based situations. The emergence of pocket-sized ultrasound has led to influential advancements.
In this prospective study, in the hospital-based phase, children with suspected structural heart diseases were enrolled. In the school-based phase, healthy children were randomly selected from six schools. All individuals were examined by experienced operators using both the standard and the pocket-sized echocardiography.
A total of 73 individuals with a mean age of 9.9 ± 3.2 years in the hospital-based cohort and 143 individuals with a mean age of 12.8 ± 2.9 years in the school-based cohort were examined. The agreements between the standard and the pocket-sized echocardiography were good or excellent for major CHDs in both cohorts (κ statistics > 0.61). Among valvular pathologies, agreements for tricuspid and pulmonary valves' regurgitation were moderate among school-based cohorts (0.56 [95% confidence interval 0.12–1] and 0.6 [95% confidence interval 0.28–0.91], respectively). The agreements for tricuspid and pulmonary valves' regurgitation were excellent (>0.9) among hospital-based population. Other values for valvular findings were good or excellent. The overall sensitivity and specificity were 87.5% (95% confidence interval 47.3–99.7) and 93.8% (95% confidence interval 85–98.3) among the hospital-based individuals, respectively, and those were 88% (95% confidence interval 77.8–94.7) and 68.4% (95% confidence interval 56.7–78.6) among the school-based individuals, respectively. The cost of examination was reduced by approximately 70% for an individual using the pocket-sized device.
When interpreted by experienced operators, the pocket-sized echocardiography can be used as screening tool among school-aged population.
The Hungarian Twin Registry Update: Turning From a Voluntary to a Population-Based Registry
Adam D. Tarnoki, David L. Tarnoki, Bianka Forgo, Helga Szabo, Dora Melicher, Julia Metneki, Levente Littvay
Since our last report on the voluntary Hungarian Twin Registry (HTR) in 2012, the number of pairs or multiplets included increased from 310 to 1044. Efforts to turn the registry into a population-based one are on the way. Nearly 128,000 twins living in Hungary (98,500 adults) will be mailed information on how to register on the new HTR website. Twins will be asked to invite their spouses and immediate family members. Meanwhile, strong cooperation through exchange programs has been developed with other foreign twin registries. Current research focuses on radiogenomics, musculoskeletal, cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, gut microbiome as well as basic molecular research and yielded new awards and further publications.
5 - Population Structure and the Emergence of World Englishes
from Part I - The Making of Englishes
By Salikoko S. Mufwene
Edited by Daniel Schreier, Universität Zürich, Marianne Hundt, Universität Zürich, Edgar W. Schneider, Universität Regensburg, Germany
Book: The Cambridge Handbook of World Englishes
Print publication: 02 January 2020, pp 99-119
From a uniformitarian perspective, I interpret the emergence of Old English as the outcome of colonization and language contact. Likewise, I argue that its spread and speciation into so many varieties around the world, including creoles and pidgins, are consequences of different instances of colonization, which varied according to whether this involved settlement, exploitation, or trade. Each colonization style produced a different population structure, which in turn influenced how the language was appropriated and restructured by its non-heritage speakers. In England itself, one must invoke how the colonization of the land by other European nations subjected the language to the superstrate influence of the colonizers, who shifted to it. Ecological factors such as population structure (which determine patterns of social interactions and language transmission) and periodization (associated with particular moments of language shift or appropriation) help account for the differential evolution of English around the world.
The Specter of Dwindling Numbers: Population Quantity and Jewish Biopolitics in the United States
Michal Kravel-Tovi
Journal: Comparative Studies in Society and History / Volume 62 / Issue 1 / January 2020
Over the last three decades, the organized American-Jewish community has preoccupied itself with sociodemographic concerns regarding maintenance of a viable Jewish life in the United States. In this article, I study a key dimension of this preoccupation with population trends: the quantity of the Jewish population, that is, the number of Jews. I show the centrality of this dimension in shaping a cluster of anxious discourses and interventionist engagements directed toward stemming numerical decline. Analyzing this policy world in terms of a "Jewish biopolitics," I assess how the voluntary nature of American Jewry has shaped a distinct biopolitical field, reliant on "making Jews" by both biological and cultural reproduction, enmeshing dimensions of quantity and quality. Juxtaposing this Jewish biopolitical engagement with the one exercised by the Israeli state, I flesh out broader considerations and contributions, and introduce the exploratory concept of "minority community biopolitics." The article is grounded in an anthropological study of policy, including fieldwork, interviews, and a review of the flurry of archival and public materials related to the topic.
Re-establishment of the Mediterranean monk seal Monachus monachus in Cyprus: priorities for conservation
Haris Nicolaou, Panagiotis Dendrinos, Melina Marcou, Savvas Michaelides, Alexandros A. Karamanlidis
Journal: Oryx , First View
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 December 2019, pp. 1-3
Once widespread throughout the Black and Mediterranean Seas and the coasts of north Africa, the Endangered Mediterranean monk seal Monachus monachus has disappeared throughout most of its original range. In Cyprus evidence suggests that the species became effectively extinct at the end of the 20th century. Following an increase of seal sightings around the island, a monitoring programme was established in 2009 to evaluate the status of the species. During 2009–2018, using field surveys, photographs from camera traps and an information network, we recorded an increasing number of seal sightings, and the birth of several pups, indicating the permanent presence of the species on the island. This is the first recorded re-establishment of a Mediterranean monk seal population in an area of its former range following near eradication.
VARIETY, COMPETITION, AND POPULATION IN ECONOMIC GROWTH: THEORY AND EMPIRICS
Alberto Bucci, Lorenzo Carbonari, Giovanni Trovato
Journal: Macroeconomic Dynamics , First View
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 December 2019, pp. 1-28
We provide aggregate macroeconomic evidence on how, in the long run, a diverse degree of complexity in production may affect not only the rate of economic growth, but also the correlation between the latter, population growth and the monopolistic (intermediate) markups. For a sample of Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries, we find that the impact of population change on economic growth is slightly positive. According to our theoretical model, this implies that the losses due to more complexity in production are lower than the corresponding specialization gains. Using a finite mixture model, we also classify the countries in the sample and verify for each cluster the impact that the population growth rate and the intermediate sector's markups exert on the 5-year average real gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate.
Potential ecological and socio-economic effects of a novel megaherbivore introduction: the hippopotamus in Colombia
Amanda L. Subalusky, Elizabeth P. Anderson, Germán Jiménez, David M. Post, David Echeverri Lopez, Sebastián García-R., Laura J. Nova León, Juan F. Reátiga Parrish, Ana Rojas, Sergio Solari, Luz F. Jiménez-Segura
Introduced species can have strong ecological, social and economic effects on their non-native environment. Introductions of megafaunal species are rare and may contribute to rewilding efforts, but they may also have pronounced socio-ecological effects because of their scale of influence. A recent introduction of the hippopotamus Hippopotamus amphibius into Colombia is a novel introduction of a megaherbivore onto a new continent, and raises questions about the future dynamics of the socio-ecological system into which it has been introduced. Here we synthesize current knowledge about the Colombian hippopotamus population, review the literature on the species to predict potential ecological and socio-economic effects of this introduction, and make recommendations for future study. Hippopotamuses can have high population growth rates (7–11%) and, on the current trajectory, we predict there could be 400–800 individuals in Colombia by 2050. The hippopotamus is an ecosystem engineer that can have profound effects on terrestrial and aquatic environments and could therefore affect the native biodiversity of the Magdalena River basin. Hippopotamuses are also aggressive and may pose a threat to the many inhabitants of the region who rely upon the Magdalena River for their livelihoods, although the species could provide economic benefits through tourism. Further research is needed to quantify the current and future size and distribution of this hippopotamus population and to predict the likely ecological, social and economic effects. This knowledge must be balanced with consideration of social and cultural concerns to develop appropriate management strategies for this novel introduction.
3 - Our Conjoint Experiments
John M. Carey, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, Katherine Clayton, Stanford University, California, Yusaku Horiuchi, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire
Book: Campus Diversity
Print publication: 19 December 2019, pp 45-67
Fully randomized conjoint analysis can mitigate many of the shortcomings of traditional survey methods in estimating attitudes on controversial topics. This chapter explains how we applied conjoint analysis at seven universities and describes the population of participants in our experiments.
4 - Space Within Cities
from Part II - Urban Economics
Steven Brakman, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands, Harry Garretsen, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands, Charles van Marrewijk, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
Book: An Introduction to Geographical and Urban Economics
Print publication: 12 December 2019, pp 113-152
The organization of space within cities is mainly driven by spatial equilibrium forces. This chapter argues that a person who is indifferent about living in two locations within the city must derive the same net utility from these locations. This allows us to explain how rent costs decline away from the city centre as people need to be adequately compensated for higher transportation costs. We can extend the basic framework to incorporate the choice of different transport methods, changes in the slope of the rent gradient, the choice of the amount of land to use (and thus population density), building height, individual heterogeneity, the role of amenities, and observed segregation within the city.
Burden of gastrointestinal illness in Sweden-SMS as a tool for collecting self-reported gastrointestinal illness
M. Säve-Söderbergh, J. Toljander, J. Bylund, M. Simonsson
Journal: Epidemiology & Infection / Volume 147 / 2019
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 December 2019, e322
We collected monthly reports on gastrointestinal illness (GII) episodes among 2348 adults in a 1-year cohort in South West Sweden. The GII episodes were collected by SMS (Short Message System) and validated by telephone interviews among the cohort participants and nationwide. The annual incidence was 0.64 and 0.43 cases per person-year for 28-day self-defined GII (any symptom) and acute GII (vomiting and/or ≥3 episodes of diarrhoea), respectively. The incidence was about 20% higher for the 14-day recall, compared with 28-day recall. The duration of illness was on average 2.3 days. We observed a unimodal seasonal distribution of GII, with the highest prevalence during winter. Responses collected by SMS highly correlated with responses collected by telephone. SMS survey was an efficient tool for the collection of repeated estimates of GII.
James L. A. Webb, Jr, Colby College, Maine
Book: The Guts of the Matter
Print publication: 12 December 2019, pp 1-4
The Guts of the Matter is a study of our oldest ecological problem: the transmission of infectious intestinal pathogens from human waste. Over deep time, fecal pathogens have killed innumerable infants and young children and been a principal constraint on human population growth. Over the past several generations, we have gained increasing control over the transmission of infectious intestinal disease. These advances have contributed to an ongoing population explosion that is dramatically transforming global ecological systems. The introduction provides a guide to the book's structure, introducing the individual chapters with a brief summary of each.
Chapter 3 - SDG 3: Good Health and Well-Being – Framing Targets to Maximise Co-Benefits for Forests and People
By Rosemary A. McFarlane, John Barry, Guéladio Cissé, Maya Gislason, Marta Gruca, Kerryn Higgs, Pierre Horwitz, Giang Huu Nguyen, Jane O'Sullivan, Subhashis Sahu, Colin D. Butler
Edited by Pia Katila, Carol J. Pierce Colfer, Wil de Jong, Kyoto University, Japan, Glenn Galloway, University of Florida, Pablo Pacheco, Georg Winkel
Book: Sustainable Development Goals: Their Impacts on Forests and People
Print publication: 12 December 2019, pp 72-107
SDG3, Health and Wellbeing for All, depends on many other SDGs but there are also potential conflicts and trade-offs. In this chapter, ee stress the importance of forests to global health and well-being as well as for Indigenous and local populations. In contrast, short-term economic and human health gains from further forest conversion (e.g. deforestation for food production) will create direct and indirect health risks for humans, as well as for other biota. Controlling indiscriminate burning and clearing of forests can reduce significant harm to health and well-being, via improved quality of water, soil and air, by reducing exposure to some infectious diseases, through preservation of traditional (and future) medicines, and by supporting other forest resources and services, including climate regulation. Many infectious diseases are associated with forest disturbance and intrusions and some may be prevented or modified through forest management. Universal access to sexual and reproductive health-care services, including family planning, is a critical SDG3 target to decrease demographic pressures on forests at local, regional and global scales, and to enhance well-being. Greater exposure to green space, including the 'urban forest', is likely to have many benefits for mental, social and physical health for the increasingly urban global population.
Older adults' integration in the labour market: a global view
Axel Börsch-Supan, Felizia Hanemann, Brian Beach, Didier Halimi, Susana Harding, Marieke van der Waal, Daisuke Watanabe, Ursula M. Staudinger
Journal: Ageing & Society , First View
What governs labour force participation in later life and why is it so different across countries? Health and labour force participation in older ages are not strongly linked, but we observe a large variation across countries in old-age labour force participation. This points to the important role of country-specific regulations governing pension receipt and old-age labour force participation. In addition to the statutory eligibility age for a pension, such country-specific regulations include: earnings tests that limit the amount of earnings when pension benefits are received; the amount of benefit deductions for early retirement; the availability of part-time pensions before normal retirement; special regulations that permit early retirement for certain population groups; and either subsidies or extra costs for employers if they keep older employees in their labour force. This paper asks two questions: Can we link a relatively low labour force participation at ages 60–64 to country-specific regulations that make early retirement attractive? and Can we link a relatively high labour force participation at ages 65–74 to country-specific regulations that make late retirement attractive? To answer these questions, we compared the experiences in a set of developed countries around the world in order to understand better the impact of country-specific rules and laws on work and retirement behaviour at older ages and, by consequence, on the financial sustainability of pension systems.


BHS Tiger Pascal Guilavogui gained 143 total yards, scored six touchdowns and had a 74- Yard TD run nullified by a holding penalty, kicked five PAT's, all in the first half as Beardstown defeated Pleasant Hill 48-22 in their season opener.
Guilavogui scored on the Tigers' second play from scrimmage on a 58 yard TD toss from QB Clint Cooper at the 8:06 mark in the first quarter. His PAT kick was good as the hometown lads broke out on top 7-0.


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Police overwhelmed, development stalled, as gang violence spirals in Haiti
Haiti's protracted political and humanitarian crisis - marked by spiking levels of gang-related violence and a badly struggling national police force - are reversing crucial security and development strides made since the country's devastating 2010 earthquake, the senior UN representative in Port-au-Prince told the Security Council on Tuesday.
"Years of hard-fought recovery gains are being undone, and Haitians are grappling with setting the country back on a path to democracy," said Helen La Lime, the Secretary-General's Special Representative in Haiti.
Turf wars
Briefing the 15-member Council, Ms. La Lime said more than 2,100 murders and some 1,300 kidnappings were reported in 2022, and gang violence overall reached levels not seen in decades.
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Turf wars involving two gang coalitions, namely the G9 coalition and G-Pep, reached unprecedented levels in several neighbourhoods of Cité Soleil.
"This violence is part of well-defined strategies designed to subjugate populations and expand territorial control," she said, citing the deliberate killing of men, women and children with snipers positioned on rooftops.
Brutal tactics
Dozens of women and children as young as 10 years old have also been brutally raped as a tactic to spread fear and destroy the social fabric of communities under the control of rival gangs.
In addition, she said, gangs are besieging and displacing whole populations who already live in extreme poverty, by intentionally blocking access to food, water and - amidst a cholera outbreak - health services.
Nearly five million people face conditions of acute hunger across Haiti, and while most schools are now operating, thousands of children, especially those living in gang affected areas, have yet to start their school year.
Support 'yet to materialize'
Against that backdrop, the Special Representative reiterated her calls for the deployment of an international specialized force to assist the Haitian National Police (HNP).
That force was first requested by the Government in October, but has yet to materialize.
"Haitians overwhelmingly want this assistance so they can go about their daily lives in peace," she said.
In a December briefing to the Security Council, Ms. La Lime stressed that, despite Government investment, the HNP "continues to be under-resourced and insufficiently equipped to address the enormity of the task ahead."
Sanctions on spoilers
Nevertheless, the Special Representative welcomed the Council's adoption of a new sanctions regime on those who support criminal activities and armed group violence in the country, as well as new bilateral sanctions.
She also praised incremental progress towards holding critical elections by February 2024.
"[Haiti] urgently needs to see those in positions of influence and leadership - whether at the national, or local levels, and including the diaspora - put aside their differences and do their part for the restoration of legitimate state institutions," she said.
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For me spring means new growth. It always makes me think of seeds, flowers and gardens. I was instantly drawn to the fun seed activities that were shared on last week's linky and I'm excited to share them with you this week.
What fun seed or planting activities have you done?
Flower, Plant & Garden Pinterest Board.
I love spring, and I am loving all the great seeds, gardening, and flower posts around now, too! Thanks so much for featuring our seed activities.
Thank you so much for sharing our bean seed dissection! Always love seeing all the great ideas shared each week~ thanks for the great linky party!
I love the seed activities! My son is into seeds because, you know, Angry Birds eat them, so I'll try some of these with him. Thanks, and thanks for hosting!
I love all the seed activities. I would like to invite you to link up this post to my Money Saving Monday Link Up.


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CAN FD Technology Day in Prague - MACH SYSTEMS s.r.o.
On October 11th 2018, we attended the CAN FD Technology Day in Prague, Czech Republic. The topic for this event was CAN FD protocol (physical layer and other specifications) and its adaptations of higher-layer protocols such as CANopen FD, SAE J1939, CAN FD functional safety and cyber security.
Mr. Miroslav Machacek, Managing Director of MACH SYSTEMS s.r.o., presenting a comparison of theoretical and real bandwidths of CAN, CAN-FD, and Automotive Ethernet (BroadR-Reach/100BASE-T1) networks.


The Internet has become such a large part of our lives and when used correctly can open up a world of opportunities. At Glenfield Primary School we teach the children about Internet Safety throughout the year, encouraging them to act responsibly. For more information on Internet Safety at home please look at the links at the side of this page.


Magnet Boy is an app that combines a puzzle with an arcade style game that puts your brain to the test. Magnet Boy flies from one magnet to another and collects parts for a robot. Then a rebuilding of broken machines is followed by a puzzle challenge that will test both your brawn and your patience alike. It is down to you to move Magnet Boy from one platform to the next while collecting robot parts on every level you can. It's a mobile gaming experience like you have never seen before.
The background to Magnet Boy is that he must help the professor put the robots back together again. The robots were the creation of the professor and he was delivering them to Earth when and evil villainous warlord, jealous of the professor's success, decided to smash the robots into pieces. Magnet Boy has the power to collect the robotic parts and reassemble them back to their former glory.
To shoot or propel Magnet Boy forward you will need your best point and pull gaming skills. You need to skilfully project Magnet Boy to areas where there are robot parts, and once achieved you then need to collect them and reassemble the robots back to the way the professor had before the evil villain had got his destructive forces to work on them.
However, it's not all straight forward as you need to adapt Magnet Boy's charge whilst he is flying through the air. While he is flying in between magnets there is no charge so it's up to you to update the charge accordingly, failure to do so could see Magnet Boy drift away from the target and away from the field of play. When Magnet Boy flies towards a positively charged magnet he is negative and vice versa. If you choose to skip a magnet you will need to keep Magnet Boy neutral.
Magnet Boy features one level packed with 20 different sub-levels that are all available for free. You can purchase another three levels absolutely free when you buy an in-app purchase. Magnet Boy is a fun app game with frighteningly dangerous black holes and mystical portals to encounter. It runs neatly on an iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad platforms. The colours are vibrant and the cartoon characters are smoothly animated as Magnet Boy flies, bounces, twists, turns and tumbles through space thanks to its powerful physics engine.


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Biography and Psychology V: Henry Francis Harding (1826-1896)
Photograph of Henry Harding, c. 1886
In September 1896, the editor of Bethlem magazine Under the Dome had "a very serious loss" to report: the death of the un-official "Sub-Editor", Henry Francis Harding, at the age of seventy. Harding had contributed regularly to the magazine since its foundation, compiling a regular column, Notes Apropos, (which related articles in the outside press to events in Bethlem and vice versa), writing a variety of articles on historical and other topics (signed X. or H.F.H.) and compiling the index to each annual bound volume.1 In addition, Harding received credit in publications going beyond the Hospital. When Theo Hyslop's Mental Physiology was published in 1895, he thanked "his friend, Mr. H.F. HARDING, for revisal of the proof-sheet".2
It would not be obvious from either of these sources that Henry Harding was,throughout this time, a patient at Bethlem, although Harding himself made no secret of this fact. Indeed, he often took it upon himself to remind others of the need to avoid the potential separation (at least to outsiders) between the official function of the hospital and its therapeutic one. For example, in a lengthy report of the opening of the new recreation hall in June 1896 by the Duke of Cambridge, Harding listed the many prestigious persons present, before concluding:
Last but not least (seeing that the raison d'être of the Recreation Hall and of the Hospital, generally, is the patients, and which, it should be added, is practically and in kindly form recognised by those governing, or otherwise controlling the inner life of the Hospital), we were pleased to see present a fair contingent of the said patients, with nurses and attendants..3
In one of his earlier columns, Harding commented that "we who write these notes are of the genus patient (species: "Voluntary") – and very patient, if a somewhat lengthy abiding in Bethlem be taken – and should it not? – as evidence thereof.".4 When he wrote these lines in 1893, Harding had indeed been at Bethlem for an unusually lengthy period, following his admission in December 1886. His casenotes state that the former Law Stationer (who had left work the previous March, feeling "overworked", perhaps not surprising at the age of 60), came to Bethlem "because he felt his misery & agitation would make him lose control." Nonetheless, he was never certified, and it is entirely possible that it was Harding's personal situation, rather than his state of mind, that led to his lengthy stay. Elderly and un-married, Henry seems to have come to regard the Hospital as the family he never had, emphatically stating of Bethlem: "therein are we not a happy family! We are, we are...".5
While it is obvious to see the benefit to the Hospital of such an enthusiastic advocate, Harding also reminds us that life within the Hospital was varied, and one person might have multiple roles. Henry Harding was not "just" a Bethlem patient, but also Sub-Editor, social campaigner, chronicler, companion and friend: someone who could legally have left Bethlem at any point, but chose not to. An unusually personal note in the usually factual Physician's Weekly Report of 19 August 1896 records that "Mr H Harding VB has died of natural causes & his loss will be much felt."
"Mr H.F. Harding", Under the Dome , vol. 5, no. 19 (Sept 1896) 2 Hyslop, T.B. Mental Physiology, London (1895) 3 Harding, H.F. "Opening of the Recreation Hall by H.R.H. the Duke of Cambridge" Under the Dome, vol. 5. No. 18 (June 1896) 4 Harding, H.F. "Notes Apropos" Under the Dome, vol. 2, no. 8 (Dec 1893) 5 Harding, H.F. "Notes Apropos" Under the Dome, vol. 2, no. 7 (Sept 1893)
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Black Lives in Early Modern Bethlem
So what relationship did Bethlem have with Black Londoners - was it open to them, or did it only look to exclude minority ethnic communities?
Exercising the Brain 2
Almost two years ago, one of our volunteers here at the Archives and Museum (who has since moved on to other things) wrote a post about her experiences...
We continue our look at Bethlem's changing locations.


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Q: how i can lazy load thumbnail images to scroll view vertically with pages? i have photo gallery which loaded to scroll view vertically and i only want to load visible pages to avoid memory issues like table views did. Is there a way to do this? i am using core data to get images and there are more than 150+ images in it.

A: I used this: http://www.markj.net/iphone-asynchronous-table-image/ and I'd think it would help in your scenario as well

A: if you are using vertical only scroll you may use UITableView with custom UITableViewCell.
This way, you get the lazy load done.

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Q: What is this plastic wrap used in electronics? I will occasionally receive electronic components from China tightly wrapped in this plastic film. It's much thicker than general plastic wrap that's bought from the store and does a good job at adhering to itself when wrapped.
I have tried wrapping the same parts using generic plastic wrap for food but it fails to adhere; providing a loose wrapping that will unspool itself.
Is this material something used in packaging? Does it have a name?
Is this possibly some kind of wrappable heat shrink?

A: It's a kind of cling wrap. I bought a small roll of it last time I was the market in Shenzhen for a few CNY. From the photo you can see the color in bulk which is greenish compared to the water clear color of Glad Wrap type cling wraps. In thin layers it still looks clear.
I've seen similar stuff for sale here in industrial size lots for protecting acrylic sheets etc., but it's nice to be able to score small quantities.

Probably not static safe (I have not tested it) but good for holding little bits of hardware together.
Edit: Conductivity between probes less than 0.1nS so definitely not static safe.
Edit2: In fact, the way cling wrap works is that it generates static when you stretch it, which is what makes it stick to itself. So you can't have antistatic cling wrap. That's why another name of this material is stretch wrap, because you have to stretch it to make it work. You can buy it for wrapping pallets, for example.
Edit3: Oh, those are DIP packages. Didn't recognize them at first. That's not good.


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Navalny launches his campaign
Alexei Navalny participates in a spontaneous debate with a businessman in Vladivostok. Photo by Evgeny Feldman from https://navalny.feldman.photo/
Alexei Navalny announced that he would run for president of Russia on December 13, 2016. On February 8, 2017 a judge in Kirov found Navalny guilty of embezzlement and gave him a five-year suspended sentence, which meant that he would be ineligible to participate in the election. The entire show trial was a repeat of a trial that took place in 2013, in which the verdict was identical, word for word. That trial was condemned as unjust by the European Court of Human Rights.
Nevertheless, Navalny continued his campaign, travelling around the country opening headquarters in dozens of cities. He was greeted by crowds of supporters and also opponents, including on one occasion some angry Cossacks. Twice attackers threw green chemicals into his face: in Barnaul and in Moscow. The first attack caused no serious harm, but the second one damaged Navalny's eyes and he had to fly to Spain for an operation. The attacker was identified by social media users as Alexander Petrunko of the pro-Putin SERB movement, but he was not arrested.
Metal pipe assault
Navalny held his first election rally in Murmansk on September 15, 2017. He spoke to a large crowd and the rally took place without incident. But in Moscow the head of Navalny's campaign headquarters, Nikolai Lyaskin, was hit on the head with a metal pipe wrapped in newspaper as the rally was ending. Again, no one was arrested, but later the police told Lyaskin that they suspected that he had organised the attack himself as a "provocation". A couple of months later Lyaskin quietly resigned as head of the Moscow headquarters.
Navalny's next rallies were in Yekaterinburg and Omsk, then Novosibirsk, Vladivostok and Khabarovsk the following weekend. On September 29 Navalny was detained coming out of his home as he was heading to Nizhny Novgorod for a rally. He was held at a police station until late at night, and instead of a rally some of his supporters in Nizhny Novgorod turned out to walk around in protest during a "Positive Nizhny" festival that had been hastily set up by the local authorities. Many of them were detained.
Navalny was released with an instruction to appear in court on October 2, but meanwhile he held two more rallies in Orenburg and Arkhangelsk on September 30 and October 1. Authorities didn't bother to stop him. The following day he and his campaign chief, Leonid Volkov, were both sentenced to 20 days in prison. While in prison Navalny called for mass demonstrations on October 7, Putin's birthday. After his release on October 22 he continued to hold rallies all over Russia and to demand that he be allowed to participate in the election. Navalny has asked people to boycott the election if he is not on the ballot. Russian authorities have said that calling for a boycott is equivalent to calling for the overthrow of the government.
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Tagged as: Alexei Navalny, Human rights, Politics, Russia, Vladimir Putin
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Yixia Wang1,2; Lishan Ran4; Nufang Fang1,2; Zhihua Shi2,5; Shi, ZH (reprint author), Huazhong Agr Univ, Coll Resources & Environm, Wuhan 430070, Hubei, Peoples R China.; Fang, NF (reprint author), Northwest A&F Univ, Inst Soil & Water Conservat, 26 Xinong Rd, Yangling 712100, Shaanxi, Peoples R China.
Abstract Although soil erosion and land use change have long been focuses in carbon research, the combined influence of soil erosion and vegetation rehabilitation on aggregate stability and the associated soil organic carbon (SOC) and total nitrogen (TN) remains unclear. The current study evaluated the effects of soil erosion on aggregate stability and the associated SOC and TN dynamics in relation to vegetation rehabilitation after the implementation of the "Grain-for-Green" project in the hilly Loess region. A check dam sediment sequence was dated using Cs-137 activity and erosive rainfall events. The SOC and TN in the bulk soil and aggregate fractions were measured in soils from rehabilitated grasslands and sloping croplands and in sediments retained by the check dam. The results showed that vegetation rehabilitation led to 78%, 27% and 9% average increases in the macroaggregate amount, mean weight diameter (MWD) and mean geometric diameter (MGD), respectively. In addition, rehabilitation resulted in the highest SOC and TN concentrations and contents in macroaggregates among all the aggregate size fractions. Soil erosion facilitated the modification of the aggregate size distributions along with soil mineralization and induced the incorporation of deeper SOC-poor soils during transport. These processes resulted in the aggregate-associated SOC and TN concentrations and contents in the sediments being significantly lower than those in the eroding sloping cropland soils. The highest reductions were found in micro aggregates, which exhibited decreases of 48% and 44% for SOC and TN, respectively. Moreover, reaggregation and gully soils incorporated during soil erosion led to higher values of macroaggregate amount and aggregate stability at depositional sites than those at eroding sloping cropland sites in this study. Our study contributes to the understanding of the effects of soil erosion and vegetation rehabilitation on SOC and TN dynamics, which is crucial for understanding the restoration efficiency in soil erosion control and ecosystem security evaluation.
Corresponding Author Shi, ZH (reprint author), Huazhong Agr Univ, Coll Resources & Environm, Wuhan 430070, Hubei, Peoples R China.; Fang, NF (reprint author), Northwest A&F Univ, Inst Soil & Water Conservat, 26 Xinong Rd, Yangling 712100, Shaanxi, Peoples R China.
GB/T 7714 Yixia Wang,Lishan Ran,Nufang Fang,et al. Aggregate stability and associated organic carbon and nitrogen as affected by soil erosion and vegetation rehabilitation on the Loess Plateau[J]. CATENA,2018,167:257-265.
APA Yixia Wang,Lishan Ran,Nufang Fang,Zhihua Shi,Shi, ZH ,&Fang, NF .(2018).Aggregate stability and associated organic carbon and nitrogen as affected by soil erosion and vegetation rehabilitation on the Loess Plateau.CATENA,167,257-265.
MLA Yixia Wang,et al."Aggregate stability and associated organic carbon and nitrogen as affected by soil erosion and vegetation rehabilitation on the Loess Plateau".CATENA 167(2018):257-265.


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