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Classical Lie algebras and their representations
Affine Kac-Moody algebras
Quantum groups
Algebraic combinatorics
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2001: Medal of the Australian Mathematical Society
2019: Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science
Selected grants
Quantum vertex algebras; Molev A; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Projects (DP).
Classical and affine W-algebras; Molev A; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Projects (DP).
Affine Lie algebras at the critical level; Molev A; DVC Research/Bridging Support Grant.
Vertex algebras and representations of quantum groups; Molev A; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Projects (DP).
Quantum algebras: their symmetries, invariants and representations; Molev A; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Projects (DP).
Infinite dimensional unitarizable representations of Lie superalgearas; Zhang R, Molev A; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Projects (DP).
Representations and Applications of Quantum Groups; Zhang R, Molev A; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Projects (DP).
Capelli identities for classical Lie superalgebras.; Molev A; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Small Grants.
Sugawara Operators for Classical Lie Algebras (American Mathematical Society, 2018)
Yangians and Classical Lie Algebras (American Mathematical Society, 2007)
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Molev, A. (2018). Sugawara Operators for Classical Lie Algebras. Providence: American Mathematical Society. [More Information]
Molev, A. (2007). Yangians and Classical Lie Algebras. Providence, RI, USA: American Mathematical Society.
Molev, A., Mukhin, E. (2014). Yangian Characters and Classical W-Algebras. In Winfried Kohnen, Rainer Weissauer (Eds.), Conformal Field Theory, Automorphic Forms and Related Topics, (pp. 287-334). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Science+Business Media. [More Information]
Molev, A. (2006). Gelfand-Tsetlin bases for classical Lie algebras. In M. Hazewinkel (Eds.), Handbook of algebra. Vol 4, (pp. 109-170). Amsterdam ; New York: Elsevier.
Molev, A. (2003). Yangians and their applications. In M. Hazelwinkel (Eds.), Handbook of Algebra. Vol 3, (pp. 909-959). Amsterdam ; London: Elsevier.
Jing, N., Kozic, S., Molev, A., Yang, F. (2018). Center of the quantum affine vertex algebra in type A. Journal of Algebra, 496, 138-186. [More Information]
Jing, N., Liu, M., Molev, A. (2018). Isomorphism Between the R-Matrix and Drinfeld Presentations of Yangian in Types B, C and D. Communications in Mathematical Physics, 361(3), 827-872. [More Information]
Jing, N., Liu, M., Molev, A. (2018). Isomorphism between the R-matrix and Drinfeld presentations of Yangian in types B, C and D. Communications in Mathematical Physics, 361, 827-872. [More Information]
Kozic, S., Molev, A. (2017). Center of the quantum affine vertex algebra associated with trigonometric R-matrix. Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General, 50(32), 1-21. [More Information]
Molev, A., Mukhin, E. (2017). Eigenvalues of Bethe vectors in the Gaudin model. Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, 192(3), 1258-1281. [More Information]
Arakawa, T., Molev, A. (2017). Explicit generators in rectangular affine W-algebras of type A. Letters in Mathematical Physics, 107(1), 47-59. [More Information]
Frappat, L., Naihuan, J., Molev, A., Ragoucy, E. (2016). Higher Sugawara Operators for the Quantum Affine Algebras of Type A. Communications in Mathematical Physics, 345, 631-657. [More Information]
Molev, A., Ragoucy, E., Rozhkovskaya, N. (2016). Segal-Sugawara vectors for the Lie algebra of type G2. Journal of Algebra, 455, 386-401. [More Information]
Molev, A., Ragoucy, E. (2015). Classical W-algebras in types A, B, C, D and G. Communications in Mathematical Physics, 336, 1053-1084. [More Information]
Molev, A., Mukhin, E. (2015). Invariants of the vacuum module associated with the Lie superalgebra gl (1∣1). Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, 48(1), 1-20. [More Information]
Futorny, V., Molev, A. (2015). Quantization of the shift of argument subalgebras in type A. Advances in Mathematics, 285, 1358-1375. [More Information]
Isaev, A., Molev, A., Ogievetsky, O. (2014). Idempotents for Birman-Murakami-Wenzl algebras and reflection equation. Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, 18(1), 1-25. [More Information]
Matsumoto, T., Molev, A. (2014). Representations of centrally extended Lie superalgebra psl(2|2). Journal of Mathematical Physics, 55(9), 1-22. [More Information]
Molev, A., Ragoucy, E. (2014). The MacMahon Master Theorem for Right Quantum Superalgebras and Higher Sugawara Operators for gl(m|n). Moscow Mathematical Journal, 14(1), 83-119.
Iorgov, N., Molev, A., Ragoucy, E. (2013). Casimir elements from the Brauer-Schur-Weyl duality. Journal of Algebra, 387, 144-159. [More Information]
Molev, A., Rozhkovskaya, N. (2013). Characteristic maps for the Brauer algebra. Journal of Algebraic Combinatorics, 38(1), 15-35. [More Information]
Molev, A. (2013). Feigin-Frenkel center in types B, C and D. Inventiones Mathematicae, 191(1), 1-34. [More Information]
Isaev, A., Molev, A., Ogievetesky, O. (2012). A New Fusion Procedure for the Brauer Algebra and Evaluation Homomorphisms. International Mathematics Research Notices, 2012 (11), 2571-2606. [More Information]
Davydov, A., Molev, A. (2011). A categorical approach to classical and quantum Schur-Weyl duality. Contemporary Mathematics, 537, 143-171. [More Information]
Molev, A. (2011). Combinatorial Bases For Covariant Representations Of The Lie Superalgebra math symbols gl(m/n). Academia Sinica. Institute of Mathematics. Bulletin, 6(4), 415-462.
Isaev, A., Molev, A. (2010). Fusion procedure for the Brauer algebra. Algebra i Analiz, 22(3), 142-154. [More Information]
Gow, L., Molev, A. (2010). Representations of twisted q-Yangians. Selecta Mathematica, New Series, 16(3), 439-499. [More Information]
Molev, A. (2009). Comultiplication rules for the double Schur functions and Cauchy identities. The Journal of Combinatorics, 16(1), R13-1-R13-44.
Molev, A. (2009). Littlewood-Richardson polynomials. Journal of Algebra, 321(11), 3450-3468. [More Information]
Chervov, A., Molev, A. (2009). On higher-order Sugawara operators. International Mathematics Research Notices, 2009 (9), 1612-1635. [More Information]
Futorny, V., Molev, A., Ovsienko, S. (2009). The Gelfand-Kirillov conjecture and Gelfand-Tsetlin modules for finite W-algebras. Advances in Mathematics, 223(3), 773-796. [More Information]
Billig, Y., Molev, A., Zhang, R. (2008). Differential equations in vertex algebras and simple modules for the Lie algebra of vector fields on a torus. Advances in Mathematics, 218(6), 1972-2004. [More Information]
Molev, A. (2008). On the fusion procedure for the symmetric group. Reports on Mathematical Physics, 61(2), 181-188. [More Information]
Isaev, A., Molev, A., Os'Kin, A. (2008). On the Idempotents of Hecke Algebras. Letters in Mathematical Physics, 85(1), 79-90. [More Information]
Molev, A., Ragoucy, E. (2008). Symmetries and invariants of twisted quantum algebras and associated Poisson algebras. Reviews in Mathematical Physics: a journal for survey and expository articles in the field of mathematical physics, 20(2), 173-198. [More Information]
Hopkins, M., Molev, A. (2006). A q-Analogue of the Centralizer Construction and Skew Representations of the Quantum Affine Algebra. Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications (SIGMA), 2, 092-1-092-29. [More Information]
Arnaudon, D., Molev, A., Ragoucy, E. (2006). On the R-Matrix Realization of Yangians and their Representations. Annales Henri Poincare, 7, 1269-1325. [More Information]
Hopkins, M., Molev, A. (2006). On the skew representations of the quantum affine algebra. Czechoslovak Journal of Physics: europhysics journal, 56(10/11), 1179-1184. [More Information]
Molev, A. (2006). Representations of the twisted quantized enveloping algebra of type Cn. Moscow Mathematical Journal, 6(3), 531-551.
Molev, A. (2006). Skew representations of twisted Yangians. Selecta Mathematica, New Series, 12(1), 1-38. [More Information]
Billig, Y., Futorny, V., Molev, A. (2006). Verma modules for Yangians. Letters in Mathematical Physics, 78(1), 1-16. [More Information]
Futorny, V., Molev, A., Ovsienko, S. (2005). Harish-Chandra modules for Yangians. Representation Theory, 9, 426-454.
Bahturin, Y., Molev, A. (2004). Casimir elements for some graded Lie algebras and superalgebras. Czechoslovak Journal of Physics: europhysics journal, 54(11), 1159-1164. [More Information]
Molev, A., Tolstoy, V., Zhang, R. (2004). On Irreducibility Of Tensor Products Of Evaluation Modules For The Quantum Affine Algebra. Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General, 37(6), 2385-2399. [More Information]
Molev, A., Retakh, V. (2004). Quasideterminants And Casimir Elements For The General Linear Lie Superalgebra. International Mathematics Research Notices, 2004 (13), 611-619.
Molev, A. (2004). The 8th Problem: Littlewood-Richardson problem for Schubert polynomials. Gazette of the Australian Mathematical Society, 31(5), 295-297.
Molev, A. (2003). A new quantum analog of the Brauer algebra. Czechoslovak Journal of Physics: europhysics journal, 53(11), 1073-1078. [More Information]
Molev, A., Ragoucy, E., Sorba, P. (2003). Coideal subalgebras in quantum affine algebras. Reviews in Mathematical Physics: a journal for survey and expository articles in the field of mathematical physics, 1(1), 789-822. [More Information]
Molev, A. (2002). Irreducibility criterion for tensor products of Yangian evaluation modules. Duke Mathematical Journal, 112(2), 307-341. [More Information]
Molev, A., Ragoucy, E. (2002). Representations of reflection algebras. Reviews in Mathematical Physics: a journal for survey and expository articles in the field of mathematical physics, 14(3), 317-342. [More Information]
Molev, A. (2002). Yangians and transvector algebras. Discrete Mathematics, 246(1), 231-253. [More Information]
Molev, A., Olshanski, G. (2001). Degenerate affine Hecke algebras and centralizer construction for the symmetric groups. Journal of Algebra, 237(1), 302-341.
Futorny, V., Molev, A., Ovsienko, S. (2008). Gelfand-Tsetlin Bases for Representations of Finite W-Algebras and Shifted Yangians. VII International Workshop Lie theory and its applications in physics, Sofia, Bulgaria: Heron Publishing.
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The Daily Caller: Ancient Christian Communities In Middle East Could Be Eradicated, Says Author
The Islamic State targets adherents of any religion outside its radical version of Sunni Islam, and the ancient Christian communities of the Middle East and North Africa are no exception.
With territory spanning Iraq and Syria, in addition to affiliates from Nigeria to Afghanistan, the Islamic State has clearly stated its aim of establishing an Islamic caliphate and imposing Sharia law.
In Iraq, militants notoriously targeted Christians in Mosul, giving residents three options. Either they could pay a tax, flee or convert to Islam. Christian homes and businesses were marked with the first letter of an Arabic-language, derogatory term for Christians. But the letter soon became a symbol of solidarity with persecuted Christians online.
Syrian Christians are caught amid battles between the Bashar al-Assad regime, rebel groups and jihadi organizations like Jabhat al-Nusra and the Islamic State. In Syria's northeastern province of Hasakah, hundreds of Syrian Christians were kidnapped by Islamic State militants earlier this year.
"Defying ISIS: Preserving Christianity in the Place of Its Birth and Your Own Back Yard," a newly-released book by Johnnie Moore, documents the suffering of the region's Christians and calls the world to step up its awareness and support.
"It's not at all unrealistic to believe that if something doesn't happen in Iraq and Syria to stop this rampant terrorism… these ancient Christian communities can be eradicated," Moore told The Daily Caller News Foundation. "ISIS will eliminate Christians if they have the opportunity to."
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Jane's whole life has been like one long hate crime. As a teenager, her classmates beat her to a pulp because she shaved her legs. Her family believed that praying would cure what the belt didn't. Jane was born a man. Today, she is a woman. Jane, a transgender woman, asked PublicSource not to use her name because of fear that she might be targeted. She completed her transition from male to female in rural Pennsylvania about two years ago.
"You start to hate yourself," said Jane, 59, who is tall, with fair skin and a quiet, even voice. The color on her cheekbones matched her rose-colored sweater, with three pearl buttons dotting the collar.
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Tidewater Cove hosts groundbreaking
Published 10:20 pm Monday, June 21, 2021
By Rachel Austin
WTCSB board members Vicki Wiggins-Pittman and Lula Holland stand with WTCSB Executive Director Demetrios Peratsakis, Delegate Clinton Jenkins and Commissioner of the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services Alison Land at the groundbreaking of the new memory care unit at Tidewater Cove.
Tidewater Cove hosted a groundbreaking ceremony for its new Memory Care Unit on June 16.
Located off East Washington Street, Tidewater Cove is an assisted living facility that has primarily provided care to geriatric individuals with serious mental illness. The facility recently was approved to go from its 65-bed capacity to 80 beds. Ten of these beds are dedicated to the new memory care facility.
"We're excited," said Demetrios Peratsakis, executive director of the Western Tidewater Community Services Board. "We think it's great. You have to start with a vision, but the vision doesn't happen without the right supports and the right talent."
This new unit comes from a partnership between the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services and WTCSB. Notable guests attended this groundbreaking, including Delegate Clinton Jenkins, Suffolk Mayor Mike Duman, DBHDS Commissioner Allison Land and multiple members of the WTCSB.
The goal for this new unit is to continue hospitalization prevention work by providing care for patients with dementia and neurocognitive disorders like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease and hopefully, in the future, branch out to veterans who have Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.
"In Virginia, currently what often happens is they end up psychiatrically hospitalized, and they often end up in state hospitals," said Dr. Suzanne Mayo, director of community integration with the DBHDS. "And I think our state hospitals are great. Personally, I work with them every day, but they're not meant to treat dementia. They're meant to treat many other types of mental illnesses. Actually, the recommended treatment for these behavioral symptoms of dementia is not being put in an institution, is not being given medication alone to manage the behaviors, it's really person-centered care and person-centered care environments that specialize in dementia."
This special care is needed, as many with these conditions experience complex behavioral and medical needs. The proper care can be hard to obtain, as many are temporarily detained in psychiatric facilities or do not receive the right care due to a lack of resources.
Peratsakis also discussed other programs Tidewater Cove plans to implement to help the efficiency and effectiveness of its services. These new plans include same-day access and primary health screenings and a regional interdisciplinary team. The team will have medical, behavioral health and geriatric specialists to assist caregivers in making ongoing plans that minimize risks or resident and caregiver crises from occurring and support community-based providers.
"We are also working statewide with huge issues going on with dementia, so it's not just in this area," said Land. "[Tidewater Cove is] just so progressive in being the first to pilot project to really try and make an impact. Because it's not just our state hospitals that have issues, it's all of them. It's private hospitals and other supervised residential programs, [assisted living facilities], and long-term cares that are having these patients in their hospitals but don't have the competency to really build that confidence so that we can manage them in the community."
The expansion for this memory care unit was approved on May 20, and demolition started immediately. The wing is now being prepared for a new nurse's station, bedrooms, and separate locking doors to keep wanderers safe and allow other residents their freedom.
"This is exciting," said Duman. "There's a lot of great things going on in Suffolk, and this is right at the top."
"Demetrios many years ago opened the doors for me on mental health, and he gave me an opportunity to serve," added Jenkins. "I'm so thankful for that, and I still use those skills today."
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College Basketball|As N.C.A.A. Field Comes Together, Integrity Is on the Bubble
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As N.C.A.A. Field Comes Together, Integrity Is on the Bubble
When the Final Four was held in Indianapolis in 2015, a tournament bracket on the JW Marriott Indianapolis became a part of the skyline.Credit...Streeter Lecka/Getty Images
By Joe Drape
They will emerge sometime Sunday from the New York Marriott Marquis, a committee of 10, having concluded more than 96 hours of deliberations to fill the 68-team bracket for the N.C.A.A. tournament. They will have tallied each team's Quadrant 1 victories, parsed their R.P.I. rankings and agonized over their "body of work."
What will not have been discussed is which programs bought their players, and for how much, or the federal investigation underway to determine who, exactly, the bad guys are in college basketball. The selection committee's chairman, Bruce Rasmussen, promised.
"Our committee is intensely focused on selecting and seeding and bracketing the right 68 teams," Rasmussen, the athletic director at Creighton, said on Wednesday before going into seclusion with his colleagues. "We're not going to pay any attention to that because it's not in the purview of our committee."
What about the cloud hanging over this tournament? What about — dare I ask — the integrity of the game?
"There are issues with men's basketball at this time," Rasmussen conceded. "It's not perfect. It never has been perfect. It never will be perfect. But there are a lot of great things that are happening with Division I men's basketball."
But what if Louisville, or Southern California, or Oklahoma State — all implicated by the feds in their investigation — goes from an N.C.A.A. bubble team to the National Invitation Tournament? Will its fans believe the committee really did keep its blinders on?
We'll know by the end of Sunday, but what we know now (and always) is that the N.C.A.A. has a billion reasons to look the other way. The organization clocked $1.06 billion in revenue and a $105 million in profit for its 2017 fiscal year, according to a financial statement released recently.
Television rights packages with CBS and Turner accounted for more than $800 million of its revenue, so do not expect Jim Nantz, Charles Barkley or their broadcast colleagues dispatched to the tournament sites over the next three weeks to harp on how college basketball isn't perfect. The networks have agreed to pay $8.8 billion to be the mouthpiece of the Division I men's basketball tournament through 2032.
Money like that buys an awful lot of silence.
"Unless your coach and program are dealing with it, nobody cares," said Jay Bilas, an ESPN analyst and frequent critic of the N.C.A.A. "They want the games. They want to fill out their brackets. It's like steroids in baseball. We've been paying players in basketball and football, and the N.C.A.A. continues to fiddle."
As evidence, Bilas cited the herculean effort the organization put in to clear players in record time when the pay-to-play investigation indicated that some of them were from the country's most prominent programs, including Duke, North Carolina, Kentucky and Michigan State. According to documents uncovered by investigators, dozens of top players received financial and other benefits that could violate N.C.A.A. rules.
"They got it done in a day because the tournament was coming," Bilas said of sorting the players' eligibility. "They've never done anything in a day but sign contracts."
So if broadcasters are not going to talk about the ills of the college game, can they at least refrain from the big wet kisses they shower on the coaches?
Often, those coaches are the highest-paid people on the court, sometimes the highest on their state's payroll. They are crowned as geniuses, talked up as role models, about how they do things "the right way."
If you drank a shot of whiskey every time you heard a broadcaster or analyst extol the virtues of a coach, you wouldn't make it to the night session of Thursday's first-round games.
What is never said, however, is that the "right way" increasingly means runners and shoe representatives and envelopes stuffed with cash. It means no-show classes for the one-and-dones, who quit going to class in January anyway, knowing that they will leave campus shortly after their final tournament game.
Maybe Bilas is right. Maybe no one cares about anything but the games and picking brackets. Maybe the N.C.A.A. tournament is nothing more than a basketball version of "The Bachelor" — a few weeks of outrage and heartbreak, with a sappy theme song.
The tournament certainly never lacks for drama. But what if this year's edition gives the recent finale of "The Bachelor" a run for its money? What if the programs at the center of the federal investigation — Louisville, Arizona, Auburn and Oklahoma State — all make it to the Final Four in San Antonio?
That would be the "One Shining Moment" that college basketball deserves.


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Modi's 'Make in India' a casualty as steel, auto firms spar over sourcing
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Indias steel ministry is putting pressure on automakers to use locally made steel by refusing to back down on tougher import rules despite warnings that the new regulations could disrupt the production of cars, government and industry sources said
India remained a net importer of steel during April-November after exports dropped over 30 per cent.
New Delhi: India's steel ministry is putting pressure on automakers to use locally made steel by refusing to back down on tougher import rules despite warnings that the new regulations could disrupt the production of cars, government and industry sources said.
The steel ministry in August announced stringent import rules for some high-grade steel products that are sourced by carmakers from countries such as Japan and South Korea but not yet manufactured in India.
India's auto industry, which includes companies such as Maruti Suzuki, Hyundai Motor Co, Honda Motor Co and Ford Motor Co, is staring at production stoppages if new tougher rules on steel imports are not relaxed, a federal minister warned in a letter.
"The shipments of the auto component industry have started getting impacted which possess significant risk of production stoppage of the whole automobile industry in the immediate future," Anant Geete, heavy industries minister, said in the Jan. 4 letter to steel minister, Chaudhary Birender Singh.
"There is also a risk that if the import of steel (raw material) is restricted, then the industry may go for import of the components itself which may affect the government initiative of 'Make in India'," Geete said.
The new rules are expected to come into effect on Feb 17.
The letter and the internal discussions at the steel ministry have not been previously reported. Reuters has reviewed a copy of the letter.
Despite the warning from the auto industry, the steel ministry is unlikely to back down, three sources with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters.
This week the ministry called the country's biggest steel producers such as JSW Steel and Tata Steel, Steel Authority of India Ltd (SAIL) for a meeting with carmakers including Maruti, Hyundai, Honda and Ford.
In the meeting, which was held two days after Geete's letter to Chaudhury, the officials continued to push carmakers to work with steel companies to manufacture high-grade automotive steel locally and even form joint ventures, if needed, five sources with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters.
"We have told the auto companies that we need to step up local manufacturing and they need to sit with the local steel companies here to let them know the specifications because our companies are well-equipped," a senior government official with direct knowledge of the discussions said.
A spokesman for the ministry said talks were ongoing with foreign companies to make value-added steel in India.
IMPORTS RISE
The steel ministry's push is the latest from Modi's administration which is desperate to check imports and show the success of its manufacturing programme, aimed at building a domestic industrial base and boosting jobs and growth.
The auto industry will, however, face disruption if the import of some of these crucial steel products comes to a standstill, Vinnie Mehta, director general at the Automotive Component Manufacturers Association of India, told Reuters.
The steel ministry has already granted a two-month exemption to carmakers on new quality control rules for imports which were originally due to come into effect on Dec 18. Auto companies want an extension until the end of 2019.
Carmakers continue to rely on imports because they say local steel companies are unable to match the quality, consistency and price, three company sources said.
An Asian carmaker which failed to source stainless steel exhaust pipes locally has instead decided to import the entire fuel exhaust system, said Sugato Sen, deputy director general at the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers, a trade body.
There are fears that other carmakers will do the same, which will hurt local manufacturing and jobs, he said.
"Some suppliers are reluctant to go through the trouble, while others who are doing it have found there to be delays in getting clearances," Sen said.
JSW Steel, Tata Steel, SAIL, Maruti, Hyundai, Honda and Ford did not reply to a Reuters email seeking comment.
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Select Upload. It will open another page and there should be a blank text with the a browse button next to it.
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Q: Limits and convergence - selecting the right epsilon for proofs Show that if limit of sequence $x_n$ goes to $x$ as $n$ goes to $ \infty$ and $ x > a$, then $x_n > a$ all but finitely many $ n$.
I have started it like this:
$x_n > x - \epsilon$ (as  $|x_n- x| < \epsilon$ for all $\epsilon$)
$x_n > a - \epsilon$
From here on, how does one chose the right epsilon to show that $x_n > a$?

A: It is always best to draw a number line (if possible do it mentally rather than on paper) and position $x, a$ on it: $$------a-----x-----$$ Now things are crystal clear. As $n\to\infty$ the values of $x_n$ will come near $x$ and from the figure above you can see that as one moves near $x$ one gets greater than $a$.
The question is "how near should one go to $x$ in order to become greater than $a$?". Since the distance between $x$ and $a$ is $|x-a|=x-a$ one has to move closer to $x$ by anything less than this amount. Choose any positive $\epsilon$ less than $x-a$ and you are done. In particular you can choose $\epsilon=(x-a) /2$. Note that $\epsilon=x-a$ also works because the inequality used in limit definition is $<$ and not $\leq $.

A: Let $\epsilon = \frac {x-a}{2}$
Then $x-\epsilon = \frac {x+a}{2} >a$
Thus  $x_n > x-\epsilon \implies x_n >a$

A: If a sequence $x_n$ converges to $x$, by definition it means for every $\epsilon >0$ there exist a $N$ such that $$|x_n-x|<\epsilon\tag{1}$$ for all $n>N$
Now (1) can be rephrased as $x_n\in (x-\epsilon, x+\epsilon)\tag{2}$ for all $n>N$
Take $\epsilon=x-a$ (as $x>a, x-a$ is a positive number and hence the choice of taking $x-a=\epsilon$ makes sense).
By definition there exist a $N$ such that
$$x_n\in (x-\epsilon, x+\epsilon)$$ for all $n>N$. Now put the value of $\epsilon $ you get $$x_n\in (x-(x-a),x+x-a)=(a,2x-a)$$
Therefore $x_n>a$ for all $n>N$

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function cargarCiudades(idPais){

$("#tablaCiudades").dataTable().fnDestroy();

$('#tablaCiudades').DataTable({

'paging':true,
'info':true,
'filter':true,
'staveSave':true,

'ajax':{
		"url":baseurl+"Cconfig/getCiudadesConfigControler",
		"type":"POST",
		"data":{
		"idPais":idPais
		 },
		dataSrc:''
		},
	'columns':[
		{data:'idCiudad','sClass':'dt-body-center'},
		{data:'ciudad'},
		{data:'activo'},
		{"orderable":true,
	render:function(data, type, row){

return ' ';

	}
}
],
//Inicio extra
"columnDefs":[
	{
		"targets": [2],
		"data": "activo",
		"render":function(data, type, row){

		if(data==0){
		return "Inactivo";
		}else if(data==1){
		return "Activo";
		}

	}
	},

	{
		"targets": [1],
		"data": "ciudad",
		"render":function(data, type, row){
		return "  "+row.ciudad+"";
	}
	}

],
//Fin extra
"order":[[1, "asc" ]], // Nº de Columna que ordena
});

}

function cargarPaises(){
$("#comboPaisesConfig").html("");

$.post(baseurl+"Cconfig/getPaisesConfigControler",
	{
		sitReg: 1
	},
	function(data){
var c = JSON.parse(data);
$.each(c,function(i,item){

$('#comboPaisesConfig').append('<option value='+item.idPais+'>'+item.nombrePais+'</option>');
});
idPais2=$('#comboPaisesConfig option:selected').val();
cargarCiudades(idPais2);
});

}

$('#comboPaisesConfig').on("change",function(){
var idInmo=$(this).val();
cargarCiudades(idInmo);
})

cargarPaises();

$("#botonModalCiudades").on("click",function(){
$comboPais=$("#comboPaisesConfig").val();
	$("#idPais").val($comboPais);
});

//Agregar Ciudad
$("#agregarCiudadesConfig").submit(function(event)

{
event.preventDefault();

	$.ajax({
		beforeSend:function(){

			popCarga(1);
		},
			url:$("#agregarCiudadesConfig").attr("action"),
			type:$("#agregarCiudadesConfig").attr("method"),
			data:$("#agregarCiudadesConfig").serialize(),
			success:function(respuesta)
		{
			if(respuesta!="El registro ya existe"){

			alert("Agregado con exito");
			$('#nombreConfigCiudad').val("");
			$('#btnCerrarModaloCiudad').click();

			cargarPaises();

			popCarga(0);

			}else{

			popCarga(0);
				alert("El registro ya existe");

			}

		},
			error:function(){
			popCarga(0);
			alert("ERROR GENERAL DEL SISTEMA, INTENTE NUEVAMENTE");
	}

	});

});

function cargarCiudadUpdate($idSeleccionado){
$('#uComboidPaisesConfig').html("");
$.post(baseurl+"Cconfig/getPaisesConfigControler",
	{
		sitReg: 1
	},
	function(data){
var c = JSON.parse(data);
$.each(c,function(i,item){

	if(item.idPais==$idSeleccionado){
		$('#uComboidPaisesConfig').append('<option selected value='+item.idPais+'>'+item.nombrePais+'</option>');
	}else{
		$('#uComboidPaisesConfig').append('<option value='+item.idPais+'>'+item.nombrePais+'</option>');
	}

});
});
}

//Actualizar Ciudades
$("#actualizarCiudadesConfig").submit(function(event)
{
	event.preventDefault();

		$.ajax({
			beforeSend:function(){
				popCarga(1);
			},
				url:$("#actualizarCiudadesConfig").attr("action"),
				type:$("#actualizarCiudadesConfig").attr("method"),
				data:$("#actualizarCiudadesConfig").serialize(),
				success:function(respuesta)
			{

				if(respuesta=="correcto"){
				popCarga(0);

				alert("Actualizado con exito");

				$('#btnUpdateCerrarModaloCiudad').click();

				cargarPaises();

				}else{
					popCarga(0);
					alert("El registro ya existe");
				}

			},
				error:function(){
				popCarga(0);
				alert("ERROR GENERAL DEL SISTEMA, INTENTE NUEVAMENTE");
		}

		});
});

selCiudades=function(idCiudad,idPais,ciudad,activo)

	{
		cargarCiudadUpdate(idPais);

		$('#idCiudadConfig').val(idCiudad);
		$('#uConfigNomCiudad').val(ciudad);
		$("#uConfigEstadoCiudad").val(activo);
		$("#llave").html(idCiudad);

}

//Eliminar Ciudades
$("#eliminarCiudadesConfig").submit(function(event)
{
	event.preventDefault();

		$.ajax({
			beforeSend:function(){
				popCarga(1);
			},
				url:$("#eliminarCiudadesConfig").attr("action"),
				type:$("#eliminarCiudadesConfig").attr("method"),
				data:$("#eliminarCiudadesConfig").serialize(),
				success:function(respuesta)
			{

				if(respuesta=="correcto"){
				popCarga(0);

				alert("Actualizado con exito");

				$('#btnUpdateCerrarModaloCiudad').click();
				$('#btnEliminarCiudadesModal').click();

				cargarPaises();

				}else{
					popCarga(0);
					alert("El registro ya existe");
				}

			},
				error:function(){
				popCarga(0);
				alert("ERROR GENERAL DEL SISTEMA, INTENTE NUEVAMENTE");
		}

		});
});

function popCarga(val){
    if (val==1){

	    $("body").css("margin",0);

        $("#popCarga").css("position","fixed");
        $("#popCarga").css("width", "100%");
        $("#popCarga").css("height", "100%");
        $("#popCarga").css("top", "0px");
        $("#popCarga").css("display", "table");
        $("#popCarga").css("background", "rgba(0,0,0,0.7)");
        $("#popCarga").css({ opacity: 0});
        $("#popCarga").html('

');
        $("#popCarga").css("z-index", "100000");
        $("#popCarga").fadeTo(200, 1).css("visibility", "visible");

		$("#popCarga>div>img").css("position","fixed");
		$("#popCarga>div>img").css("position", "absolute");
		$("#popCarga>div>img").css("top", "40%");
		$("#popCarga>div>img").css("left", "50%");
		$("#popCarga>div>img").css("z-index", "10000");

    }else{
        $("#popCarga").fadeOut('fast');
    }
}

$("#btnEliminarCiudad").on("click",function(){
		$("#flagCiudades").val($("#idCiudadConfig").val());
});

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ICER's Use of FDA Approval Volume to Calculate Budget Impact Thresholds: A Scenario Analysis
FDA Regulatory Pathways
Brian Leinwand
Anne Shah
ICER's reliance on the average number of FDA drug approvals to calculate budget impact thresholds leads to significant variability.
As part of its value framework, the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER) conducts a budget impact analysis to estimate the short-term affordability of a product or service in relation to an internally-developed cost threshold. Over the last 3 years, ICER has revised its budget impact threshold from $904 million for 2015-2016 to $915 million for 2017-2018 to a current value $991 million.
One of the primary inputs that ICER uses to calculate its budget impact threshold is the number of new drugs approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) per year, a metric that can vary year to year. In this report, Avalere examines the impact of using new drug approval volume on ICER's budget impact thresholds.
Avalere's analysis finds that because the number of FDA drug approvals can vary dramatically, ICER's reliance on the number of FDA drug approvals can lead to substantial and unpredictable variability in the budget impact threshold, which is important when used as a benchmark for affordability. For example, utilizing the lowest, average, and highest yearly number of FDA approvals during a 20-year period results in budget impact thresholds of $1.81 billion, $1.18 billion, and $684 million, respectively, in comparison to ICER's threshold which has ranged from $904 million to $991 million (Figure 1).
Under the ICER methodology, the year in which a product is approved determines the budget threshold that will be applied to it, and these thresholds vary significantly from year to year. As a result, the year in which a drug is approved plays an important role in determining whether ICER's "budget alarm" will be triggered and the percentage of patients that ICER estimates can gain access before restrictions would need to be applied. This wide and arbitrary variation in ICER's budget threshold may limit its reliability as a benchmark. Stakeholders relying on ICER's conclusions may wish to appropriately contextualize their interpretations to ensure that decisions impacting patient access to medications result from methodologically sound approaches.
Download the report for a full discussion of our research findings and methodology.
Funding for this research was provided by The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA). Avalere maintained full editorial control.
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package com.cloud.exception;

import com.cloud.utils.SerialVersionUID;

/**
 * ConnectionException is thrown by Listeners while processing the startup
 * command.  There are two uses for this exception and they are distinguished
 *   1. If the flag is set to true, there is an unexpected error during the
 *      processing.  Upon receiving this exception, the AgentManager will
 *      immediately place the agent under alert.  When the function to enable
 *      to disable the agent, the agent is disabled.
 *      should be disconnected and reconnected to "refresh" all resource
 *      information.  This is useful when the Listener needed to perform setup
 *      on the agent and decided it is best to flush connection and reconnect.
 *      situation where it keeps throwing ConnectionException.
 */
public class ConnectionException extends CloudException {

    private static final long serialVersionUID = SerialVersionUID.ConnectionException;
    boolean _error;

    public ConnectionException(boolean setupError, String msg) {
        this(setupError, msg, null);
    }

    public ConnectionException(boolean setupError, String msg, Throwable cause) {
        super(msg, cause);
        _error = setupError;

    }

    public boolean isSetupError() {
        return _error;
    }

}


In a recent test by federal inspectors Albany airport security staff failed to detect the components of a fake bomb but did confiscate the bottle of water in the same bag. Is the war on Liquids distracting inspectors or are they just not very good at this. In an earlier inspection at Newark, they failed 20 of 22 tests. Every-time I take off my shoes and belt get yelled at for having a laptop, I am reminded that these are the guys that miss the real bombs 80% of the time, great.
In one test, TSA inspectors hid the components of a fake bomb in carry-on luggage that also contained a bottle of water. Passengers are prohibited from carrying containers holding more than three ounces of liquids, gels or aerosols through airport checkpoints. The screeners at Albany International confiscated the water bottle but missed the bomb. In all, the inspectors slipped four banned items through the main checkpoint during the test, sources said.
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Q: `xargs` with spaces in filenames I'm trying to list only non-image files, searching only in the most recent 500 files. So I run
ls -t | head -500 | file | grep -v 'image'
which isn't right: it displays a help message. Changing it to
ls -t | head -500 | xargs file | grep -v 'image'
I now sometimes get the output I want, but if the filename has spaces in it—for example Plutonian\ Nights\ -\ Sun\ Ra.mp3—then xargs will run file Plutonian, file Nights, etc.

How do I either help xargs see the spaces, or otherwise accomplish what I'm trying to accomplish?

A: Using xargs, it can be done in this way:
find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 file | grep -v 'image'

But xargs is so yesterday. The cool kids use parallel today. Using parallel, it would be:
find . -type f | parallel file | grep -v 'image'

See. No use of -print0 and -0. parallel is really smart by itself.
UPDATE
For listing only the most recent 500 files, your command would be:
ls -1t | head -500 | parallel file {} | grep -v image

Important
In case your parallel is old and above syntax doesn't work, then install the new version of parallel as explained here: http://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/parallel_tutorial.html

A: Use "find" with "-print0" option & pipe the output to "xargs" with "-0" option.
Even though I know (and use) this technique, I see that user @Jens has answered a similar question, where you can find more Details :
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16758525/use-xargs-with-filenames-containing-whitespaces

A: I have two crude suggestions that might help.  Neither feels particularly satisfying though, so perhaps something better will come up.
First, use sed to add quotes to everything, so you'd only end up with trouble if there are quotes in the file name like
ls -t | head -500 | sed -e 's/\(.*\)/"\1"/' | xargs file | grep -v 'image'

The other is to use the ls to find the 501st most recent then use find to get the newer stuff like
find -newer $(ls -t | head -501 | tail -1) -type f -exec file {} \; | grep -v image

A: For generic advice regarding processing of file names potentially containing spaces, see Why does my shell script choke on whitespace or other special characters?
The difficulty with what you're trying to do is that there's no nice way to list the N most recent files with standard tools.
The easiest way to do what you're doing here is to use zsh as your shell. It has glob qualifiers to sort files by date. To run file on the 500 most recent files:
file *(om[1,500])

With the Linux file utility, pass the -i or --mime-type option to get output that's easier to parse. Image files are identified by lines ending with image/something.
file --mime-type *(om[1,500]) | sed -n 's~: *image/[^ ]*$~~p'

If you need to cope with absolutely all file names, including those with a newline in their name, use the -0 option for null-delimited output. Recent versions of GNU sed can use null bytes as the record delimiter instead of newlines.
file --mime-type -- *(om[1,500]) | sed -zn 's~: *image/[^ ]*$~~p'

If you don't have zsh, you can use ls and cope with file names that contain spaces but not newlines or trailing spaces by passing the -L1 option to file. This invoked file on one file at a time, so it's slightly slower.
ls -t | head -n 500 | xargs -L1 file --mime-type -- | sed -n 's~: *image/[^ ]*$~~p'

A: You might try
printf "%s\0" $(ls -t | head -500) | xargs -0 file | grep -v image

This forces xargs to null-delimit the file name arguments.


20 years later, Amazon is the fourth most valuable brand in the world, 7th largest website and king of eCommerce (check the top 10 sites in the world for organic visibility and you'll know what I mean).
We've already written about Amazon's genius marketing tactics and strategies here, so in this article I'm just going to go deep on one, maybe one of the most important drivers of the company's success: SEO.
In fact, SEO is a major business driver for almost every retail brand. And after giving it some thought, I figured it's as interesting to look at those who chase the king as learning from the king himself. So, I analyzed the 50 largest online shops for SEO tactics that stand out.
The awareness of advanced SEO eCommerce tactics is pretty low and many people think you can't beat Amazon. That's not true. You just need to know how. In my research, I looked explicitly for advanced tactics. There are tons of "introduction", "101" and "basics" articles about e-commerce SEO but there's no advanced guide. So if you're new to SEO this article might not be for you. I looked for sites that do something outstanding in SEO.
The strongest weapon offline retail has against the online tsunami that's running over it is good service. You cannot (yet) replicate that online. But there are several ways to provide at least some degree of customer service that also works very well for SEO.
And… "direct answers", a collection of questions in a fold-out container.
Notice that neither featured snippets nor direct answers in the examples above feature Amazon. In fact, the query "are the yeezys true to size" doesn't have a single retailer on Google's first page. But people ask these question – usually when they consider buying the product.
That's an opportunity! Most online retailers haven't yet figured out how to efficiently rank in featured snippets.
Houzz has about 49,000 featured snippets to date – a third more than Amazon.
Wayfair packages content in a different way – and it's pretty darn good. Look at the content at the bottom of their "wallpaper" page.
It seems hand-written and very targeted to the specific problems that come with putting a wallpaper on a wall. But what stuns me is the incredible content they have on category pages like "dog beds".
Google those questions and add the questions from the direct answers to your collection. In the direct answers box, click every answer because it spins new ones up, until they repeat themselves.
Use H-tags to structure your content. The main keyword should go into an H1 or H2 and the questions into an H2 or H3. H-tags increase your chance of getting a featured snippet or direct answers box, but make sure they're nested.
For example, if you write about a car you need to mention windshield wipers, tires, horsepowers – basically all the relevant and important stuff. That's also one reason for the importance of listing product specs in the content when trying to rank for certain keywords. Search engines "expect" certain elements or content on a page if it wants to rank for a certain keyword.
Sears ranks on position #2 for the keyword "appliances" and Lowes on #12. Both have text at the bottom of the category page.
Sears' text is 264 words long.
Lowes' text is 122 words long.
The Natural Language API tells you how many entities Google found in your text.
It also tells you the entity's salience, which means how important the entity is to the text. The more entities with a high salience you have in your content, the more relevant it is to the topic it tries to rank for. The strongest relevance is indicated by a Salience value of 1. The number next to the entity in the screenshot above is its salience ranking (see screenshot below).
Lowes' content has 31 entities and Sears' 62!
Sears' text is almost double as long as Lowes' and has double the amount of relevant entities. It makes sense, you can only cover so many words in a text. But again, length alone is only a proxy for more relevant content/entities!
Yes, this is just one small example and surely other factors have an impact here. But ranking factor studies from Searchmetrics[*] and SEMrush[**] found content length and relevance to have significant impact on rank.
Look at the text length of the top 10 results for your keyword. That will give you a good gauge of how much to write and how often to mention the entities in your text.
Cover as many entities as possible in content that's comfortable and quick for users to consume. Structure it with headings, lists and whitespace.
Websites use personalization to counter this problem but it's not enough. Online shops have to selectand curate products to keep their users' attention. Spotify curates music with RapCaviar. Facebook curates your feed with algorithms. Tinder curates dates. Online retailers have to do the same.
But you can't just say "here are some selected products". Selected for who? Good curation comes from people (see Oprah on Amazon) or occasions: Birthdays, Mother's Day, Valentine's Day, Christmas, Black Friday, Single's Day, etc.
There's another way to help consumers make a choice and get them hooked at the same time: discovery.
But now, I'd argue, we have a fourth intent: discovery.
Online retailers don't push this enough.
That's why platforms like Pinterest are now competing with online retailers (read that again). Pinterest was one of the first companies to bring window shopping to the internet. Their whole business model is built upon inspiration and ideas.
This tells me that users have an inherent discovery intent when looking for brands and it seems that those brands don't do a good enough job in making it easy for users to browse through their products.
This page about bedroom furniture discovery ranks for ~15,000 keywords!
At the bottom of the page, users can shop items that are mentioned in the discovery content. The URL ranks for almost 600 keywords but most of them started to come up recently (source: AHREFs).
My favorite discovery approach comes from German fashion retailer AboutYou, which features collections from celebrities that are easy to discover.
You can click on the clothes in the image to buy. The celebrities advertise their collections on AboutYou and the shop ranks for their names – win/win!
Create landing pages for occasions, like birthdays or anniversaries.
Narrow their focus down to age, gender and other variables. For example: "10 father's day gift ideas for 50 year olds".
Cover different angles and tastes. For example, "10 gift ideas for wives who hate jewelry".
Lead people through the steps of an occasion. For example, Christmas: 1) get a tree, 2) plan dinner, 3) get gifts, etc.
Get brand advocates to curate products on your site and advertise it on your homepage. It doesn't have to be fashion. Ideally they're celebrities but micro-influencers work as well. Usually, this "tactic" leads to an increase in backlinks from those influencers and other sites.
Incentivize your users to put together their own collections and share them with their friends on Facebook, Instagram or Snapchat. That will give you additional brand exposure, which increases the search volume for your brand and brand combination keywords.
In the study, the average uplift of revenue per user from social proof was +2.3%. But social proof is not new. It's one of Robert Cialdini's six key principles of influence and Charlie Munger's 25 cognitive biases. People inherently do things that they see other people are doing. That's why Yelp ratings and Amazon reviews work so well.
Adidas uses social proof by integrating an instagram feed for its "SHARE HOW YOU WEAR IT" campaign on product pages. Besides social proof, it adds fresh content to the page and builds community. Both of which are beneficial to SEO.
Nike has an equivalent, called "share your look".
Engage your users to post pictures with your product on social networks and add a specific hashtag or tag you in their posts. This works even better when you provide an incentive, like a contest or discount.
Engage with users and repost their content to keep them posting pictures and spread your brand through social networks.
Online retailers need to create content outside of category and product pages to be present when customers are in the awareness stage of the user journey. The best tactic to address this is Microsites and guides.
Microsites are environments built around content that's dedicated to a certain topic or theme. They go beyond just ranking for keywords that are connected to products and instead cover the complete user journey.
Nordstrom has a Microsite dedicated to help men with everything fashion, from "how to tie a tie" to "how to measure dress shirts".
It works pretty well on social media.
Amazon, which also owns IMDB (6th largest site in the world) and Alexa Internet (a web analytics tool and search agency), has a very well performing Microsite around AWS. It has 273,000 pages, ranks for 1.2M keywords and collected 32.7M backlinks.
So, how does Amazon get all these backlinks?
The devops page on the AWS Microsite ranks for ~500 keywords, such as "devops" (46,000 monthly searches) or "what is devops" (10,000 monthly searches).
The Microsite performs so good because it's well interlinked throughout the navigation and the footer.
Guides are less attached to a space and can be used more loosely across a site. They can be on a blog or as text on a category page. Just as Microsites, successful guides cover every stage of the user journey.
Home Depot knows how to create well-performing guides: their blog ranks for ~84,000 keywords with > 220,000 backlinks!
The article on "10 outdoor spring cleaning tips" got over 600 backlinks and was shared 145 times just on Facebook (source: AHREFs).
The article on "DIY floating shelves" ranks for > 1,700 keywords.
Overstock collected >100,000 backlinks and ranks for >200,000 keywords with guides.
Williams Sonoma's blog is focused on recipes, ranks for ~64,000 keywords and gained ~118,000 backlinks over time.
An example for home improvement comes from Black & Decker, whose ideas & inspiration Microsite ranks for > 26,000 keywords.
Once again, Wayfair is worth a mention: their ideas and advice Microsite ranks for >70,000 keywords and has >6,000 backlinks.
Do extensive keyword research. Use tools like Answer the Public and Ubersuggest to get a long list of queries and questions. For example, it suddenly becomes clear that some people use vacuum cleaners to kill spiders.
Or, as shown in ubersuggest, some people want special vacuum cleaners for pet hair.
You could create a whole Microsite around vacuum cleaners with own design and content for each step of the user journey and use case of the product.
If you're a local business, use Google Shopping Insights to understand where people have the biggest need for your product.
It will also give you the search volume (or interest) trend over time of your product and provide demographics for each city, which you can also use for paid campaigns.
Say you want to create an AdWords campaign to sell vacuum cleaners. You could see from the Google Shopping Insights map above that your campaign should target users with zip codes around New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston and Dallas.
The different needs and questions people have of a product are not always clear before the keyword research – but they should be after.
Map the keywords to the user journey.
A user journey can give you clarity on all kinds of business questions. In SEO, it gives you a roadmap for content creation when you start out and a guide to fill gaps in the content when you're already further down the road.
Problem awareness is difficult to address with SEO because you cannot create demand with a pull marketing channel like SEO to make people aware of a problem. But you can get people to your site and show them problem there. The best place for that is the homepage. The best keyword are brand keywords.
Solution awareness is best addressed by the guides and Microsites we covered in this chapter. Focus on queries that revolve around questions ("how to…?", "what…?", "when", "can you…?").
For solution comparison, consumers use "vs" queries ("product x vs. product y"). Notice that you can compare both, products and brands and you should create content for both.
Even when users make a decision to buy, they still look for the best offer. Commonly used keyword modifiers are "best", "cheap" or "cheapest", "fast" or "fastest", "simple", etc. (example: "cheapest [product]"). Tweak your content for these searches, especially your meta-titles and H-tags.
Once the product is bought, people have questions about its implementation or usage (for our example: "how to clean dyson vacuum cleaner").
The best example for implementation content is probably assembling Ikea furniture.
Questions about product usage should get their own keyword research and be addressed in the FAQ on the product page. On top of that, create additional content on your blog or on a Microsite.
The more support you can provide online the faster you can help your customers. Remember, people don't like to pick up the phone anymore, so make sure you put some love into your support content.
After-sales revolves around repair, replacement or resale. Many manufacturers give the opportunity to rank for the corresponding keywords away. Instead, they leave a vacuum that's filled by other businesses.
Optimizing for local keywords is the best way to go here because people usually look for help with a product locally. Start by checking the search volume for combinations of your brand and cities (e.g. "[brand][city]").
3. Create Microsites around the biggest topics that answer all questions users have in every stage of the user journey, preferably with one piece of content each.
4. Link to the pieces of content on category and product pages. In return, on the Microsites you should link to product and category pages.
Internal linking optimization has a huge impact on organic rankings. For online shops with thousands of products and pages, it's one of the most important levers. To fully assess it, I'd have to completely crawl a site, which is impossible for giants like Amazon or eBay. Instead, I picked out two specific tactics that improve internal linking in a scalable way: HTML sitemaps and fat footers.
HTML sitemaps are an efficient way to help users and search engines to find products/content.
I looked at the amount of outgoing links in big eCommerce sites' HTML sitemaps to get a better understanding of how they use them.
Not all shops I looked at had an HTML sitemap. I think that's a missed opportunity. What's interesting is that some went beyond the regular HTML sitemap.
It has one for each department, for example "clothing".
They also have a directory for every product, sorted alphabetically. The directory pages are set to meta=noindex, meaning they don't appear in Google's search results but search engine bots can follow the links. This way, those pages with only links and no content aren't dragging down the sites' overall quality score.
I personally don't think you have to be as granular as Aliexpress to improve internal linking but I like the creative approach and I think more sites should try that out.
Another underrated tactic to improve internal linking are fat footers. The advantage of linking out of your footer is that these links appear on every page of the site and make it easier for search engines to crawl it. Fat Footers are loaded with links to categories and other important pages. They contain way more links than regular footers.
A nice example comes from the already mentioned German eCommerce brand AboutYou. They link to every category in the footer.
…and on category pages to related searches.
They don't link to iPhones, iPads or iWatches on the Mac page and vice versa. I thought this was an elegant solution to create "silos" in the site structure. They distribute link juice better within the category, seem to improve crawl rate and make it easier to compare subdirectories.
Fat footers are not limited to product categories. Amazon uses a fat footer on the AWS Microsite to link between solutions, products and resources.
Add an HTML sitemap to your site, either linked in the footer or in the navigation. List all categories, subcategories and most important pages. Think about adding sitemaps for different criteria, like "brands" or "most popular products".
Create a fat footer and link to all of your categories. If you have too many or don't want to overload the footer, at least add the most trafficked or monetary valuable ones.
Customize your footer for each category to some degree. You can still link between products and categories. But if your CMS allows you to customize the footer for different subdirectories, give it a shot and measure the effect on search engine visits (with your server log files).
Google is constantly evolving its search algorithm, opening new doors and closing old ones. For example, the impact of content on rankings is growing. Even though backlinks are still the biggest ranking factor, their importance decreases. That shuffles the cards and allows for competition. In return, it keeps the pace high. Companies have to evolve with Google, which becomes increasingly harder the bigger a company gets.
Fat footers and HTML sitemaps help users and search engines to navigate through your site.
Structured long-form content + curated products + social proof = massive SEO traffic.


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OGT launches new, easy-to-use Cytocell FISH probes website
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New website makes it easier to access expert FISH advice
Oxford Gene Technology (OGT), The Molecular Genetics Company, has launched a new version of its Cytocell® fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) probes website - designed to provide a wealth of information and advice, offer refined functionality, and be easy-to-use. Cytocell is well known for its complete and comprehensive range of FISH probes, exceptional customer support, service and expertise. In the spirit of sharing this expertise and knowledge, OGT has redeveloped the website to increase accessibility to the brand's know-how.
New whitepaper describes benefits of using OGT's CytoSure Medical Research Exome Array in genetic research
OGT announces expansion of Cytocell operations in the UK
OGT announces launch of updated SureSeq Interpret NGS analysis software
Taking on board feedback from customers requesting a visual search aid, OGT has created an interactive chromosome search tool designed to be familiar to cytogeneticists and facilitate the quick and easy identification of appropriate probes. The tool provides a visual representation of the chromosome using the ISCN (International System for Human Cytogenetic Nomenclature) G-banding end users are familiar with, and uniquely, enables scrolling over the chromosome bands to pinpoint the location to be targeted by a probe. The new website also includes a redesigned probe search function, allowing users to quickly locate probes by conducting a free text search or by filtering using a comprehensive set of probe filter options. New product pages make it easy to access an increased number of resources and simpler to request samples and quotes.
A re-vamped support section includes Cytocell's popular FISH 'n' Tips area, a collection of tips from Cytocell experts—soon to be opened up for contributions from end users—enabling the sharing of knowledge and best practice within the FISH community. The site now also features instructional video content including a detailed protocol video for pre-treatment of formalin fixed, paraffin embedded samples prior to FISH - a notoriously difficult step in the process. In addition, the quick-to-access FAQ section has expanded and features question grouping by stage of the FISH process to make relevant information easy to locate.
Emma Shipstone, EVP Marketing at OGT commented:
Our Cytocell brand is already very well known for the excellent level of knowledge and support we provide customers. We wanted to expand the global reach of this to enable customers even easier access - providing them with expertise and information online, and at their fingertips, 24/7. The new website is all about providing more of our support in a quick, easy and accessible fashion. We've listened to what our customers have been telling us and the feedback we're getting from the new site has been enormously positive.
https://www.ogt.com/news_events/news/1720_ogt_enhances_customer_experience_with_new_cytocell_website
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Tags: Chromosome, Chromosome 1, Chromosome 2, Chromosome 3, Chromosome 4, Chromosome 5, Chromosome 6, Chromosome 7, Chromosome 8, Chromosome 9, Chromosome X, Chromosome Y, Fish, Fluorescence, Gene, Genetics, Hybridization, X chromosome
Oxford Gene Technology. (2019, June 19). OGT launches new, easy-to-use Cytocell FISH probes website. News-Medical. Retrieved on July 16, 2019 from https://www.news-medical.net/news/20180308/OGT-launches-new-easy-to-use-Cytocell-FISH-probes-website.aspx.
Oxford Gene Technology. "OGT launches new, easy-to-use Cytocell FISH probes website". News-Medical. 16 July 2019. <https://www.news-medical.net/news/20180308/OGT-launches-new-easy-to-use-Cytocell-FISH-probes-website.aspx>.
Oxford Gene Technology. "OGT launches new, easy-to-use Cytocell FISH probes website". News-Medical. https://www.news-medical.net/news/20180308/OGT-launches-new-easy-to-use-Cytocell-FISH-probes-website.aspx. (accessed July 16, 2019).
Oxford Gene Technology. 2019. OGT launches new, easy-to-use Cytocell FISH probes website. News-Medical, viewed 16 July 2019, https://www.news-medical.net/news/20180308/OGT-launches-new-easy-to-use-Cytocell-FISH-probes-website.aspx.
OGT's popular ESHG workshop free to view online
OGT launches new CytoSure Constitutional v3 +LOH array for genetic analysis of developmental disorders
Baylor Miraca Genetics Laboratories licenses SNP probe technology from OGT
OGT announces direct sales and support services in Europe
Oxford Gene Technology announces leadership changes
Oxford Gene Technology launches Cytocell FISH probe for bladder cancer
OGT expands SureSeq NGS portfolio with a complete library preparation solution
Oxford Gene Technology expands portfolio of fluorescence in situ hybridisation probes
OGT increases NGS cancer panel content to provide more flexibility for customization


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What to stream: 'Five Came Back' on Netflix, 'Fantastic Beasts' on VOD
!Featured, Amazon Prime, Documentary, Hulu, Netflix 03/31/2017 Sean Axmaker
The three-part original documentary Five Came Back, based on the book by Mark Harris, explores how Hollywood filmmakers John Ford, William Wyler, John Huston, Frank Capra, and George Stevens documented World War II and how their experiences informed their lives and their work after the war
"[T]he advantage the documentary has over the book is that it's able to show off the films themselves, as well as a good deal of related footage that brings the war, and the filmmakers themselves, to life," writes Todd McCarthy for Hollywood Reporter. "Director Laurent Bouzereau, who is best known for his innumerable "making of" documentaries, most notably those about Steven Spielberg films, is right at home with this sort of material and has uncovered a treasure trove of unfamiliar footage of wartime Hollywood."
Not rated. Queue it up!
Netflix also has many of the wartime documentaries shown in the film, including John Ford's The Battle of Midway (1942), William Wyler's The Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress (1944), and John Huston's San Pietro (1945) and Let There Be Light (1946).
Pay-Per-View / Video-On-Demand
The "Harry Potter" spin-off / prequel Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them sends British magic scholar New Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) to 1920s New York, where he inadvertently releases a magical creatures into the human world. Katherine Waterston and Colin Farrell co-star (PG-13).
20th Century Women stars Annette Bening as a single mother of a teenage boy determined to give him good life lessons with the help of Elle Fanning, Greta Gerwig, and Billy Crudup. Benning earned an Oscar nomination for her performance (R).
Andrew Garfield and Adam Driver are Jesuit priests searching for their mentor in 17th century Japan in Silence, Martin Scorsese's provocative drama of faith under fire, adapted from the novel by Shusaku Endo (R).
Pablo Larrain's Neruda, a historical thriller through the lens of mythmaking and storytelling, is available on some Cable On Demand systems (but not Xfinity, which is my system) and on SVOD through most services. Reviewed on Stream On Demand here.
Also new: Patriots Day with Mark Wahlberg as a Boston cop at the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing (R), A Monster Calls, a drama of loss and healing starring Felicity Jones (PG-13), the comedy Why Him? with James Franco and Bryan Cranston (R), and the thrillers The Blackcoat's Daughter with Emma Roberts and Kiernan Shipka (R) and Voice from the Stone with Emilia Clarke and Marton Csokas (R).
Available same day as select theaters nationwide is the Cold War-era spy thriller Despite the Falling Snow starring Rebecca Ferguson and Charles Dance (PG-13) and the comedy Is That a Gun in Your Pocket?… with Andrea Anders and Cloris Leachman (R).
Rooney Mara and Jason Segel star in the science fiction thriller The Discovery, a dark drama about the scientific discovery of the afterlife and how that reverberates through the present life. It co-stars Robert Redford, Riley Keough, Jesse Plemons, and Mary Steenburgen (not rated). It premiered at Sundance earlier this year is also getting a limited theatrical release
Also new: Wes Anderson's The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004) starring Bill Murray (R).
The new Netflix original series 13 Reasons Why, based on the young adult novel by Jay Asher, is a high school mystery around a teen suicide. 13 episodes now available, plus Beyond the Reasons, a discussion about the issues facing teenagers with the cast, producers, and mental professions.
More streaming TV: Better Call Saul: Season 2, the Breaking Bad prequel, arrives as the third season begins on cable. In fact, a lot of TV shows arrived at the end of April, among them the first season of American crime drama Rosewood with Morris Chestnut, the first two seasons of the sitcom The Carmichael Show: Season 1-2 with Jerrod Carmichael and the medical drama The Night Shift. Also new: the debut seasons of sitcoms Life in Pieces and Cooper Barrett's Guide to Surviving Life, romantic drama Chesapeake Shores from the Hallmark Channel, Finish crime drama Bordertown, and the animated American comedy also called Bordertown from Comedy Central.
There's the animated spy spoof Archer: Season 7 and the Canadian cult comedy Trailer Park Boys: Season 11 and for kids there's Dinotrux: Season 4.
Stand-up: Jo Koy: Live from Seattle
The sentimental Swedish comedy A Man Called Ove (2015), about an ill-tempered widower befriended by outgoing new neighbors, was nominated for two Oscars (PG-13, with subtitles).
From Finland comes Black Widows: Season 1, about the wives of career criminals who plot to kill their husbands.
Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger Part IV (2000) joins the first three Toxic comedies from Troma (R).
Amazon Prime / Hulu
The werewolf horror film Skinwalkers (2006) stars Elias Koteas and Rhona Mitra caught between warring wolf packs (PG-13). (Amazon Prime and Hulu)
The new original series Harlots, takes on the subject of sex workers through the story of warring brothels in 18th century London. Two-time Oscar nominee Samantha Morton and Downton Abbey actress Jessica Brown Findlay star. New episodes debut each Wednesday.
Jeff Goldblum is back to battle the alien invasion in Independence Day: Resurgence (2016) and this time Liam Hemsworth is in the pilot's seat (PG-13).
Dwayne Johnson narrates and produces Rock and a Hard Place, a documentary about the Boot Camp program for juvenile offenders in Miami-Dade County (not rated).
FilmStruck / Criterion Channel
Ten Ingmar Bergman productions have been added to FilmStruck, including the six-hour TV mini-series version of Scenes from a Marriage (1973).
Newly available on The Criterion Channel is Ken Loach's The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006) and Kevin Macdonald's documentary Touching the Void (2003).
Richard Rush's The Stunt Man (1980) is one of the great movies about movies and features one of Peter O'Toole's most spellbinding performances (R). Reviewed on Stream On Demand here.
The low-key comedy Lake Tahoe (Mexico, 2008) ambles along like a Mexican shaggy dog comedy in the Jim Jarmusch style (not rated, with subtitles)
AcornTV
The British mini-series comedy Asylum, starring Ben Miller as a political whistleblower stuck in an embassy where his presence drives everyone crazy, makes its American debut on Acorn.
Jack Taylor: Set 3 features three new mysteries with Iain Glen as the former cop turned private investigator in Galway, Ireland.
Acorn, Amazon Prime, Criterion Channel, Five Came Back, HBO Go, HBO Now, Hulu, Netflix, Sundance Now, VOD
'The Civil War' – Ken Burns's nonfiction epic on Netflix
Hollywood goes to war – The documentaries of 'Five Came Back' on Netflix
'Intelligence: Complete Series' on Netflix and Amazon Prime
What to stream: 'Anne' of Netflix for families and 'I Love Dick' on Amazon for grown-ups
What to stream: Oscar winner 'The Salesman' on VOD, more 'Sense8' on Amazon, and new movies and TV for all
What to stream: Hulu's riveting 'Handmaid's Tale' and 'Dear White People' on Netflix
What to stream: 'Iron Fist' disappoints, 'Julie's Greenroom' inspires on Netflix


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Q: Add UIView on UIViewController I want to add a "custom" uiview onto a uiviewcontroller, this custom view i created with xib and its a seperate from the view controller,
does anyone know how to add a uiview with a xib into a uiviewcontroller?
Many thanks in advance

A: You mean an additional view, not the main controller view? In that case you can declare a property for the view and load the NIB by hand:
@interface Controller {}
@property(retain) IBOutlet UIView *extraView;
@end

…

- (void) viewDidLoad // or anywhere else
{
    [[NSBundle mainBundle] loadNibNamed:@"extras" owner:self options:nil];
    NSAssert(extraView != nil, @"The extra view failed to load.");
    [[self view] addSubview:extraView];
}

This assumes that you set the Controller as the file owner in the Interface Builder and you link the view to the extraView outlet. Also note that there might be more elegant solutions, like inserting the extra view into the main NIB for your controller; depends on the situation.

A: It looks like you want the most common scenario – simply load an intialized custom UIView subclass into a controller.

*

*Create a new XIB, called "View XIB" in the Xcode new file wizard.

*In the Interface Builder select the File Owner object and on the Object Identity tab in the Object Inspector (Cmd-4) enter Controller (or however your controller class is named) into the Class field.

*Do the same with the view, entering the name of your view class.

*Ctrl+drag from the file owner to the view, you should be able to connect the view to the view outlet defined on your controller.

*Save, let's say Controller.xib.

*In your code, initialize the controller using initWithNibName:@"Controller" bundle:nil. The initialization code should load the interface for you and set the view property to the view unpacked from the interface file.

Go through some Interface Builder tutorial, IB is a very nice tool and it's good to be familiar with it.


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What does iOS14 mean for paid social?
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Earlier this year, Apple announced the latest iteration of iOS14; users were given the power to opt-in or out of sharing their personal data with third parties.
Unfortunately for us marketers, we rely pretty heavily on this third party data. Before the rollout of iOS14.5, users automatically opted-in to share their data when agreeing to an app's terms and conditions when first installed… because everyone reads the terms and conditions, right?
With tracking on Apple devices now being optional, a lot of platforms stand to miss out. It isn't just the social giants like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and TikTok – it's every single app that relies on using a third party to collect information about its users.
The update is great for users (who are becoming increasingly concerned with the amount of personal data they share with advertisers). For advertisers, however? Not so much.
With 1.65billion Apple devices in use across the world, that's a lot of lost ad revenue.
What's happening with iOS14 and Facebook?
Facebook is currently the second-largest online advertising platform, with a hefty 23.7% share of global digital ad spend. With such a vested interest in tracking its users across the internet, it's no surprise that Facebook has been the most outspoken critic on the rollout of iOS14.
If its advertisers can't attribute conversions to customer IDs through cookies, Facebook stands to lose out on a lot of ad spend. It was so annoyed by the move from Apple, that it took out a two-page spread in the Wall Street Journal:
Facebook is in full attack mode!
It's put out full-page ads in today's New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal to attack Apple https://t.co/RiJ7VMJj2H pic.twitter.com/rXkMxYIlRs
— Matt Navarra (@MattNavarra) December 16, 2020
How did Apple react? With a Tweet:
We believe users should have the choice over the data that is being collected about them and how it's used. Facebook can continue to track users across apps and websites as before, App Tracking Transparency in iOS 14 will just require that they ask for your permission first. pic.twitter.com/UnnAONZ61I
— Tim Cook (@tim_cook) December 17, 2020
While Apple may have been on a PR rollercoaster, positioning itself as a hero privacy protector for the people… they do stand to benefit financially from the implementation of iOS14.5. If an app can't track its users through third parties, they'll be more inclined to introduce subscriptions within the app – which Apple will then take a cut of.
And that's (more or less) the tea.
Expect the worse, hope for the best
As it stands, we still don't know what the true impact of iOS14.5 will be on Facebook (and other) online digital ad platforms.
Thankfully, there's some good news. 59% of users have said that they would still allow tracking, if it helped improve their experience, and directly impacted how an app delivered
relevant content.
Without the power to track the behaviours of iOS14.5 users across the internet, tracking pixels become largely redundant, since they can't function correctly. This will have an immediate knock-on effect on targeting options. Limited targeting options means less opportunity to serve users with personalised ad copy.
An irrelevant customer experience? Bye-bye, users.
It isn't necessarily all doom and gloom. Only time will tell how many users have chosen to opt-in (or out) of being tracked on their devices.
So… what do we do now?
Facebook has definitely been hit hardest by the rollout of iOS14.5 In response, Facebook is making changes to how its tracking pixel is implemented, and subsequent event tracking, to minimise the likelihood of data being lost. Here are some steps you can take:
Adapt for Aggregated Event Measurement:
Facebook has set a limit of eight conversion events (either custom or pre-determined) for optimisation and reporting. Moving forward, ad sets not optimised for any of those eight conversion events won't be delivered.
Make sure all of your domains are verified
Now, Facebook wants every single domain verified. So, your UK site will need a pixel, and your US site will need a separate pixel. If your domains aren't verified, you won't be able to set (or edit) conversion events.
Remember, you'll need to verify the domains in the client's Facebook Business Manager, too – not yours.
Keep your Facebook SDK up-to-date
The latest version of Facebook's SDK is 8.1 – and keeping it up-to-date is best practice anyway. You'll be able to continue serving personalised ads to iOS14 users, and receive app conversion event reporting.
Anticipate future data loss
Inaccurate data is every advertiser's worst nightmare. A loss in conversion data will have a knock-on effect on the performance and reliability of your future campaigns.
To help negate the impact of iOS14 on reporting, you may need to look into working with a third party that will collect first-party data.
Apple now requires that all App Store apps prompt users to opt-in or out of sharing their data, and being tracked by third parties.
The policy is causing friction between Apple and advertisers, who rely on third-party data to track user behaviour across other apps and websites.
Advertisers will see a limited ability to accurately retarget and measure campaign performance when targeting iOS users,
In the wake of several Facebook controversies (hello, 2016 US Election, it's no surprise that Apple is implementing more privacy measures, in an attempt to help keep its users safe online. And, unlike lawmakers (who can only enact policies to punish the non-compliant – like with GDPR in the UK) – Apple controls the hardware and the App Store on iOS devices. That means they can force all apps to comply with their terms.
iOS14 making its presence felt in your online advertising results? Get in touch with our team today, to find out how we can help.
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Q: Is there any functional reason a phaser has a button instead of a trigger? I've always thought it was a little odd that modern phasers don't have triggers, but have buttons instead.
Older phasers came with triggers, or at least something that very much resembled what we would call a trigger.

Sometime post model 2287, the Federation decided to ditch the trigger and use a button instead.
In-universe, do we have any idea why they would replace a trigger on the bottom with a button on the top?
Is there some sort of tactical advantage?

A: I don't think it matters too
Much, it's a matter of modern aesthetics.
A trigger in a gun was mechanical, whereas in older phaser that are pistol shaped the trigger is really just a button. In modern phasers which are not pistol shaped any longer but shaped more like a TV remote a topside button makes more sense.
In either case they performed the same function.

A: I very much doubt that any real weapon designer would have come up with any of the designs above because they are going to be very difficult to aim. The 23rd century "trigger" designs lack any kind of sights, and the 24th century designs compound this fundamental flaw in the following ways:

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*You have to put your thumb between your eye and the emitter, making it even harder to figure out what you are pointing it at.

*With the trigger design your thumb goes around the handgrip, providing an opposing grip to your fingers and thereby helping stabilise the weapon. Having to use your thumb to depress a button loses that stabilisation, so accurate shooting gets even harder.

*Everyone knows what a trigger is and how to use it. Why change such a basic bit of user interface? At some point the switch to the 24th century design would have meant that everyone in Starfleet needed to relearn how to shoot.

*A button on top of the device is much more prone to accidental activation than a trigger in the usual place, especially in combat. A smart grip that detects when its being held helps somewhat, but not enough to be safe.

*The 23rd century designs require you to hold a vertical grip in order to shoot forwards. The 24th century designs force you to bend your wrist downwards at an unnatural angle, again making the whole thing harder to aim.
In short, I don't believe there is a good in-universe answer unless you want to posit a corrupt supply chain or crazy ideologue in the Starfleet Weapons Procurement Division.
(Edit: the crazy ideologue in question believes that, since Starfleet is primarily a diplomatic and scientific service rather than a military force, the standard issue sidearm should be an overpowered toy rather than a real weapon)

A: The answer is in the picture you posted:

DISCREET WEAPON: During the 2360s Starfleet used a small "cricket" phaser that could be concealed easier.

The remote-control design with the fire-button on top and the horizontal grip is easier to conceal than the pistol-design with the vertical grip and the fire-button on the front. It looks less like a weapon and more like a tool. This makes it easier for Starfleet officers to appear as friendly and unarmed while they actually do carry a weapon.
Later designs are incremental improvements on this design.

A: People are comfortable with things that are familiar. When designing weapons, particularly for military use, muscle memory is strong contributing factor to design. For example, pilots initially had trouble with the flight stick in the F-16 because it responded to pressure, but didn't move. Eventually, it was redesigned to give a bit of the feel that pilots expected.
Consider the Noisy Cricket Type 1 phaser...
It's a very tiny weapon, designed to be easily concealed (as your image indicates). It is cradled in the hand rather than gripped like a modern firearm. There's not a lot of surface area underneath, and the traditional trigger finger is an important part of supporting the weapon. Moving the activation button to the top makes sense. You don't want to jostle your grip (and your aim) by moving a significant supporting digit. The grip makes sense here, because they're clearly trying to make a very small weapon, and a conventional pistol grip would result in a much larger weapon.
The larger phasers have a similar grip style and a functionally identical trigger mechanism, the top-mount thumb-trigger. This keeps training for the Type 1 weapon relevant for Type 2 weapons. The skills learned for one weapon are transferable to other similar weapons.
Of course, the Type 3 Phaser is significantly different, which serves as a good reason for why phaser rifles aren't used more often. Most people aren't sufficiently trained in them to carry them when you don't really need the extra firepower.


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Jack William Pithey, GOLM, CBE (ur. 5 września 1903 w Potchefstroom) – rodezyjski polityk. Pełnił obowiązki prezydenta Rodezji od listopada 1978 do marca 1979, był także przewodniczącym Senatu tego kraju oraz deputowanym w Izby Zgromadzeń w latach 1964–1970 (wybrano go z okręgu Avondale w wyborach uzupełniających).

Zarys biografii
Urodził się 5 września 1903 w mieście Potchefstroom, położonym w burskim Transwalu. W 1923 przeprowadził się do Rodezji Południowej. W  1958 został sekretarzem sprawiedliwości w rządzie Federacji Rodezji i Niasy. Stanowisko to sprawował do 1961. W latach 1962–1963 tę samą funkcję pełnił w rządzie Rodezji Południowej.

Był członkiem Frontu Rodezyjskiego, poparł jednostronne ogłoszenie niepodległości przez Rodezję 11 listopada 1965.

1 września 1931 poślubił Mary Wood. Para doczekała się trojga dzieci – dwóch synów i córki.

Bibliografia
 Louise Newitt (ed.), Prominent Rhodesian Personalities, Cover Publicity Services, Salisbury, 1977

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