As CNET points out, the move underscores the progress that OnePlus has achieved on its own, however. And it now looks like the first carrier partnership will be with T-Mobile. OnePlus will also sell unlocked versions of the phone in the USA, which will be able to use other carriers such as AT&T.
The 6T is allegedly launching in October, and there will be a specific version "optimized for T-Mobile's network".
According to a new report from CNET, that will be changing this year as the OnePlus 6T is expected to be sold both unlocked through OnePlus's website and by T-Mobile in the United States. Now, we are not sure how accurate this is, but rumors have pointed to a similar time-frame for the launch of the new OnePlus smartphone. Reportedly, it is speculated that the OnePlus 6T will be priced somewhere around $550 that will be a hike of $20 in comparison to the current flagship's price tag. And why shouldn't it, the company makes flagship killer phones that can take on the likes of the Samsung Galaxy S9, Apple iPhone X, etc, and sells it for half the price.
While OnePlus phones are popular among their fans, chances are that someone wouldn't know what a "OnePlus" is if you stopped and asked them on the street. OnePlus' "T" revisions typically offer slight tweaks to the main generational upgrades released earlier in the year, so perhaps we'll see minor tweaks to the OnePlus 6's design or, more specifically, its controversial notch. Indeed, most Americans still buy their smartphones from their carriers, and a smartphone's popularity is often dictated by it's availability at carrier stores. OnePlus phones don't have some of the bells and whistles like a 1440p display, wireless charging, and a microSD card slot, but the price is right. Basically, the OnePlus 6T will cost much more than its predecessor. Still, if you've been hoping for carrier support for OnePlus before you pick one up, that wait may be coming to an end soon.
Sources confirm that the OnePlus 6T will launch in October.
Criticizing the Iran nuclear deal , Harris stated , "all of this accelerated after the JCPOA was signed in 2015". Trump said Monday that he was open to new talks to reach a "more comprehensive deal" with Iran.


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Ваку́ла — фамилия белорусского и украинского происхождения. Известные носители:

 Вакула, Лидия Алексеевна (в замужестве — Белозёрова; 1945—2022) — украинская актриса театра и кино.
 Вакула, Нинель Андреевна (род. 1949) — советская гребчиха-байдарочница.
 Вакула, Светлана Владимировна (род. 1977) — белорусская гребчиха-байдарочница.

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Disney has just released a wide variety of their CG animated classics on Blu-ray 3D, including the much anticipated 'Toy Story' titles that 3D enthusiasts everywhere have been waiting for. So we thought we'd commemorate the occasion with a complete ranking of Pixar's illustrious filmography, going from worst to first.
Pixar has had an overwhelming amount of success. Compared to other movie studios they've put out the most consistent line of quality films since 1995. They simply know how to tell meaningful stories, with colorful characters, set against a backdrop of stunning, jaw-dropping CGI animation that truly revolutionized animated filmmaking.
Now you've got to understand that picking through the line-up of Pixar movies and ranking them accordingly from worst to first is one of the hardest lists I've ever had to create, mostly because trying to rank them is akin to trying to rank your own kids according to how much you love them. There's only one Pixar movie I really hate, which I guess makes it the red-headed step-child of the family. The rest, however, are separated by only a few percentage points.
The one Pixar movie that I could completely do without. So much so, I won't even be adding it to my collection. That's how much I loathed this movie. It was high time that Pixar released a stinker – they've been too good for too long – and boy did this one have quite the stench, namely the Odor of Larry the Cable Guy. It's almost as if the brains at Pixar had just had enough and decided that this movie was going to coast along, relying on the fact that it was going to sell gobs of merchandise. I hate to think John Lasseter and crew mailed it in, but that's what it felt like here. It was so bad in fact that you couldn't say, "Well, even Pixar's worst is better than most other studio's best." It simply didn't live up to the lofty expectations that the studio has set for itself.
The entire movie evened out to around 70 minutes of Larry the Cable Guy delivering animated stand-up comedy, while the rest of the movie was padded with familiar 'Cars' jokes and a few guest appearances from Lightning McQueen. Yes, the star of the franchise took a backseat during this movie. It's not that he made the greatest character in the first place, but 'The Mater Show' was a painful experience all around.
Over the years 'Cars' has become less and less entertaining to me. It always seemed like the Pixar franchise that was created more to sell toys than to be a good movie. I can still get through the first 'Cars' without disliking it too much. Its animation is glorious and its storyline is a light-hearted kiddie version of 'Doc Hollywood.' There's nothing too offensive about 'Cars' it's just that when compared to the other Pixar movies I doesn't really seem to stand up in quality. It's one of the few Pixar movies that can be used over and over as an electronic babysitter for the kids, but it will likely end up boring adults after they've seen it a few too many times.
Now here's where we enter a bit of a gray area. From here on out this list is extremely close. Even though their positions may seem like they're way behind number one, they're only separated by the slimmest of margins.
So it is with 'A Bug's Life.' A wholly entertaining film which produces its own spin on the age-old tale of 'Seven Samurai.' If there's a reason I rank this one so low, it's that it just doesn't emotionally resonate with me like most of the other Pixar films. It's a fun story, full of hilarious characters and a good helping of danger, but for me there's just a little something missing from it. That emotionally heart-tugging moment that has become a hallmark of Pixar movies.
This may seem like a strange ranking for Pixar's newest 'Toy Story' film. Needless to say this has really been one of the most successful and entertaining film franchises known to man. Somehow the 'Toy Story' movies have either gotten better or maintained the same quality throughout the entire trilogy. Even though I hold apprehension about the recently announced fourth 'Toy Story' movie, I must admit I felt the same anxiety about this one. Could lightning strike a third time? Was Pixar finally running out of ideas and doubling back on itself? Could they possibly pull off another quality piece of storytelling?
I may have 'Toy Story 3' ranked in the ninth spot, but that doesn't mean I disliked it. Quite the opposite, I enjoyed this movie immensely. Its ending is the perfect send-off for such memorable characters. If there's one thing that causes 'Toy Story 3' to be ranked so low in my opinion it's that the story of Buzz and Woody -- frightened about Andy moving on -- seems like the exact same story they used in the second movie. Even then though, 'Toy Story 3' was able to turn it up a notch and face the toys with a real mortality question. What will happen to them when Andy finally gives them up? He's not going to keep them around forever.
I honestly can't think of a real "negative" thing to say about the movie. From this point on it's almost reasonable to say we have an eight-way photo finish for first place. That's how close these movies are in my eyes.
Now where's our Blu-ray release? You've got to think that the intricately constructed world of 'Nemo' is going to be one of the best demo releases out there whenever Disney decides to release it.
Ah, the innovator. The movie that started it all. The film that defined a new medium in film. Who knew that CG animation would almost completely replace hand-drawn animation? After 'Toy Story' we saw a veritable revolution in animation. It completely changed the industry as we knew it. Hand-drawn animation was a thing of the past – for better or worse – CG animation was here to stay.
I remember seeing previews for this movie and thinking, "Well, this is most likely going to be the first Pixar movie I dislike." I just couldn't picture a movie about a rat who cooks in Paris being all that fun or engaging. I wondered how it would score with children who normally wouldn't be able to handle what seemed like a fairly abstract premise. This wasn't a simple a tale of toys secretly coming to life, or monsters living in closets.
I was glad my initial trepidations about the movie were simply wrong. 'Ratatouille' is an altogether genius setup and execution. It whisks you along with lush animation and an intricately emotional story. Speaking of emotion, I still get teary-eyed every time Anton Ego takes that very first bite of ratatouille at the end. The way that scene is handled is masterful.
One of the few sequels that I can unequivocally say is better than the first. Not that 'Toy Story' is a slouch by any means, but 'Toy Story 2' is the movie that really solidified Pixar as a force to be reckoned with. The only real competitor that Pixar had was Dreamworks and the only movie they had released by this time was 'Antz.' Even though 'Shrek' came shortly after and made a boatload of money at the box office, Pixar had already put out three premium quality films and set the bar so high it would be almost impossible for other studios to live up to them.
They were able to take their original story and characters that started it all, and expound on them exponentially. They seamlessly integrated new characters into the franchise which became just as loveable as the originals. They produced a storyline that was full of fun and humor, but also comprised just enough danger to keep everyone interested. 'Toy Story 2' really is one of the best movies Pixar has to offer.
I remember seeing 'Monsters, Inc.' for the first time and being in awe about the direction CG animation was going. Sully's hair was something to behold. The way it moved and flowed offered a sense of realism that CG hadn't even attempted until then. It was marvelously rendered, creating something so lifelike that it simply left me stunned.
It helped that 'Monsters, Inc.' also offered a great story, featuring numerous fun asides that Pixar snuck in that make me laugh even today. Every time I watch it I notice another monster detail that may have escaped me before. The level and scope of 'Monsters, Inc.' was amazing from start to finish. It remains one of my all-time favorite Pixar movies.
That first few minutes of 'Up' are what really makes this movie for me. The rest of the film is fun, humorous and full of adventure, but that dialogue-free beginning is literally some of the most heart-wrenching cinema I've ever watched. If the last scene in 'Ratatouille' gets me teary-eyed, the first scene in 'Up' turns me into a blubbering mess. Watching Carl and Ellie meet and grow old is so sweet, so tender, that you completely forget you're supposedly watching a kids' film. Then you realize you're watching a movie made for everyone.
That first portion of 'Up' is tremendously skilled filmmaking. Pixar was able to create a wholly original beginning without dialogue that not only managed to keep adults engrossed in the emotional aspect of what was happening, but oddly enough, it never alienates the children in the audience. Somehow that passionately created montage of Carl's life that was walks an almost impossible tightrope of universal adoration.
'Wall-e' seemed like a monumental task really. Not since Dumbo had a feature character done so little speaking. What dialogue Wall-e did have was more electronic noises than anything. The entire crux of the movie rested on Wall-e's character design. How Pixar was able to create a loveable, relatable robot with binocular eyes I will never know.
'Wall-e's story was demonized by some commentators, saying that it was intentionally forcing a liberal agenda on the kids of the world. I disagree. It's simply a "what if?" scenario. What if earth became so wasteful we had to live on a cruise ship in space because we'd covered the world in trash? Truthfully, I thought it was brave of the guys at Pixar to portray the future of this race of humans as morbidly obese bags of flesh. In a world where shows like 'Glee' teaches teenagers that being obese is the same thing as being a different race or having a disability, the team behind 'Wall-e' was bold to take a stance on the subject that was pretty far from politically correct. In my mind that's a very commendable attribute.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, 'The Incredibles' isn't just my favorite Pixar film, it's also one of my favorite superhero films ever made. Pixar managed to create a completely new group of superheroes who, after the movie is over, are just as memorable and likeable as superhero mainstays like Superman and Batman.
'The Incredibles' also offered a much more adult-oriented movie experience. While it was fun for the kids to ogle the superpowers, the sense of real danger and excitement is a draw for many adults. At first I was taken aback by Pixar's willingness to not only show violence, but also imply that there are people in this movie – namely Syndrome's henchmen – that actually die. There aren't any convenient ejection seats when their flying contraptions burst into balls of flame when they collide with rock walls. It seems like an odd thing to focus on, but I think it's a pretty important aspect of the movie.
Not to mention the fact that 'The Incredibles' perfectly blended a superhero movie with all the best bits of the 'Bond' movies that have come throughout the past few decades. 'The Incredibles' is a thrilling ride, and for my money the best ride Pixar has to offer.
Whew! That was one tough list. I know that everyone has their own opinion when it comes to ranking the Pixar movies and I look forward to checking out your lists in the forums. Follow the link below and let us all know how you'd rank Pixar's filmography from first to worst.


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Q: Bash regex evaluation failure I have the following regex pattern I'd like to use to validate git commit messages. (((CMS-)|(UIDEV-)|(CONTENT-)|(RPT-))[0-9]+\\s-\\s)|(NOTICKET- )
However when I have a sample message of CMS-7120 - test commit message, the regex match fails and enter the if condition. I used to have \\d+ but realized that wasn't POSIX compliant and changed it above but unsure why I'm not getting a match. Tested it on regex101 and I do get a match there. Any thoughts on what is wrong here?
#!/usr/bin/env sh
. "$(dirname -- "$0")/_/husky.sh"

pattern="(((CMS-)|(UIDEV-)|(CONTENT-)|(RPT-))[0-9]+\\s-\\s)|(NOTICKET- )"
message="$(cat $1)"

if [[ !($message =~ $pattern) ]]; then
    echo "bad commit message"
    exit 1
fi

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Q: R Word Count - matching all combination of one string in another string I am trying to count all combinations of matching/fuzzy matching first string column to second string column in a data frame
Eg:
string1 = "USA Canada UK Australia Japan India"
string2 = "USA Canada India UK Australia China Brazil France"
Expected results

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*Single word match count = 5 (USA Canada UK Australia India) matched

*Two word match count = 2 (USA Canada, UK Australia) consecutive words matched

*Three word match count = 0

*Four word match count = 0

*Five word match count = 0

*Six word match count = 0

*In total = 5 + 2 = 7
Thank you for your time and great someone can help to write this function or point me to use any existing package

A: This code should do the trick:
string1 <- "USA Canada UK Australia Japan India"
string2 <- "USA Canada India UK Australia China Brazil France"

str1 <- unlist(strsplit(string1, " "))

library(ngram)
for(i in 1:length(str1)){
  ng1 <- ngram_asweka(string1, min = i, max = i, sep = " ")
  ng2 <- ngram_asweka(string2, min = i, max = i, sep = " ")
  print(paste(i, "word match count", length(which(ng1 %in% ng2)), sep=" "))
}


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What are the implications of P=NP? [duplicate]
What would be the real-world implications of a constructive $P=NP$ proof? (9 answers)
Is there a list of implications of $P=NP$?
Presumably, a proof of $P \ne NP$ will be by contradiction, for which a list of consequences of $P=NP$ would be useful.
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$\begingroup$ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P_versus_NP_problem, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P_versus_NP_problem#P_.3D_NP, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/… $\endgroup$
$\begingroup$ @Juho I was looking for mathematical implications. $\endgroup$
– PyRulez
If P=NP, then all of the NP problems can be solved deterministically in Polynomial time.
This is because the NP problems are all essentially the same problem, just stated in different terms.
As far as lists go -- many of the NP-Complete problems are enumerated here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NP-complete_problems
Further implications? Our cryptosystems break down, armchair philosophers argue about what it means, the world changes, and somebody gets a Fields medal or Turing award + a big hunk of cash, etc... but that's a tangent.
For example, one of the classic NP problems is clique. If you could solve clique with a polynomial time algorithm, this would prove that P=NP, and then you could also use your method for solving clique to solve all of the other problems on that wiki-list, as an implication.
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$\begingroup$ If P=NP then all NP problems can be solved deterministically in polynomial time because you've just said that they're in P and that's what P means. It has nothing to do with "the NP problems are essentially the same problem." It would make sense to say "If there is a deterministic polytime solution for any NP-compete problem, then P=NP because all problems in NP are essentially the same problem." $\endgroup$
– David Richerby
There wouldn't be a lot of practical implications. In practice, the question is not whether a problem can be solved in polynomial time, the question is whether it can be solved in a reasonable amount of time.
Let's say I can solve the Travelling Salesman problem for n cities in n^12 nanoseconds. So what? N=50 still takes thousands of years.
No fast algorithms for this problem are known. P=NP doesn't magically give us any fast algorithms.
Of course P = NP would affect a huge number of open problems in computer science, where certain problems are obviously in P, and obviously in NP but not known to be NP-complete, and it is unknown where exactly between P and NP they are - all these problems would be known to be in P. (See this question for example: Existence of NP problems with complexity intermediate between P and NP-hard )
And if a guaranteed polynomial time algorithm for checking primality hadn't been known, we would know that one exists (but that knowledge would have been no help whatsoever to find this algorithm).
$\begingroup$ "There wouldn't be a lot of practical implications." There might not be a lot of practical implications. It's possible that P=NP, that the proof is nonconstructive and the best algorithm for TSP runs in time $\Theta(n^{12})$. It's also possible that we prove that P=NP precisely by finding an $O(n\log n)$ algorithm for SAT or TSP or something like that. Without knowing why P=NP, we can't say what practical implications that would have. $\endgroup$
It also implies that some unsolvable problems may just be very hard. One of which being "which specific genes cause the phenomenon of consciousness" which could yet be solvable.
ConundrumConundrum
$\begingroup$ No. P=NP would only have implications for which solvable problems can be solved efficiently. It wouldn't make unsolvable (undecidable) problems solvable: we know unconditionally that they can't be solved. $\endgroup$
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Objectives. The purpose of our study was to identify the suitability of various skeletal muscles as reference regions for calculating the T2 SI ratio for a semiautomated quantification of the extent of myocardial edema with T2-weighted images. Methods. Thirty-four patients with acute myocardial infarction (MI) were enrolled. The extent of myocardial edema was determined by T2 SI ratio map, using 4 different muscles as reference: major and minor pectoralis, serratus anterior, teres minor-infraspinatus, and subscapularis. The size of myocardial edema as visually quantified was used as the standard of truth. The control group consisted of 15 patients with chronic MI. Intra- and interobserver variability were assessed. Results. Due to poor image quality four patients were excluded from the analysis. In acute MI patients, serratus anterior muscle showed the strongest correlation with the visual analysis (; ) and low inter- and intraobserver variability, while the other muscles resulted in a significant interobserver variability. In contrast, the use of other muscles as a reference led to overestimating edema size. Conclusions. In acute MI patients, serratus anterior resulted to be the most reliable and reproducible muscle for measuring the extent of myocardial edema.


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Q: Unity 3D Launcher Color/Transparency with MyUnity 3.0 I have Ubuntu 12.04 LTS beta. I installed MyUnity 3.0 to be able to control the color and opacity of the launcher to override the whole chameleon idea. So far it seems the transparency setting works (under 'launcher' tab), but the color doesn't. The color of the launcher will update when I change it, but when I close MyUnity it reverts back to chameleon immediately. Any idea how to fix it? Thanks.

A: here is a bug report on this issue https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/975350


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International Journal of Scientific and Engineering Research (IJSER)
Research Articles => Electronics => Topic started by: IJSER Content Writer on September 20, 2011, 06:22:35 am
Title: Building Bilingual Corpus based on Hybrid Approach for Myanmar-English Machine T
Post by: IJSER Content Writer on September 20, 2011, 06:22:35 am
Author : Khin Thandar Nwet, Khin Mar Soe, Ni Lar Thein
International Journal of Scientific & Engineering Research Volume 2, Issue 9, September-2011
Download Full Paper : PDF (http://www.ijser.org/onlineResearchPaperViewer.aspx?Building-Bilingual-Corpus-based-on-Hybrid-Approach-for-Myanmar-English-Machine-Translation.pdf)
Abstract—Word alignment in bilingual corpora has been an active research topic in the Machine Translation research groups. In this paper, we describe an alignment system that aligns English-Myanmar texts at word level in parallel sentences. Essential for building parallel corpora is the alignment of translated segments with source segments. Since word alignment research on Myanmar and English languages is still in its infancy, it is not a trivial task for Myanmar-English text. A parallel corpus is a collection of texts in two languages, one of which is the translation equivalent of the other.Thus, the main purpose of this system is to construct word-aligned parallel corpus to be able in Myanmar-English machine translation. The proposed approach is combination of corpus based approach and dictionary lookup approach. The corpus based approach is based on the first three IBM models and Expectation Maximization (EM) algorithm. For the dictionary lookup approach, the proposed system uses the bilingual Myanmar-English Dictionary.
Index Terms— EM Algorithm, IBM Models, Machine Translation, Word-aligned Parallel Corpus, Natural Language Processing
PROCESSING Myanmar texts is difficult in its compu-tation because sentences in Myanmar texts are represented as strings of Myanmar characters without spaces to indicate word boundaries. This cause problem for Machine Translation, Information Retrieval, Text Summarization and many other Natural Language Processing. Bilingual word alignment is the first step of most current approaches to Statistical Machine Translation or SMT [2]. One simple and very old but still quite useful approach for language modeling is n-gram modeling. Separate language models are built for the source language (SL) and the target language (TL). For this stage, monolingual corpora of the SL and the TL are required. The second stage is called translation modeling and it includes the step of finding the word alignments induced over a sentence aligned bilingual (parallel) corpus. This paper deals with the step of word alignment.
Corpora and other lexical resources are not yet widely available in Myanmar. Research in language technologies has therefore not progressed much. In this paper we describe our efforts in building an English-Myanmar aligned parallel corpus. A parallel corpus is a collection of texts in two languages, one of which is the translation equivalent of the other.
Although parallel corpora are very useful resources for many natural languages processing applications such as building machine translation systems, multilin-gual dictionaries and word sense disambiguation, they are not yet available for many languages of the world. Myanmar language is no exception. Building a parallel corpus manually is a very tedious and time-consuming task. A good way to develop such a corpus is to start from available resources containing the translations from the source language to the target language. A parallel corpus becomes very useful when the texts in the two languages are aligned. This system used the IBM models to align the texts at word level.
Many words in natural languages have multiple meanings. It is important to identify the correct sense of a word before we take up translation, query-based information retrieval, information extraction, question answering, etc. Recently, parallel corpora are being employed for detecting the correct sense of a word. Ng [7] proposed that if two languages are not closely related, different senses in the source language are likely to be translated differently in the target language. Parallel corpus based techniques for word sense dis-ambiguation therefore work better when the two lan-guages are dissimilar.
The remainder of the paper is formed as follows. Sec-tion 2 describes some related work. Alignment Model is presented in section 3. Section 4, discuss about Proposed Alignment Model. In section 5, we describe Overview of System. In section 6, we present experimental results. Finally, section 7 presents conclusion and future work.
2 RELATED WORK
A vast amount of research has been conducted in the alignment of parallel texts with various methodologies. G. Chinnappa and Anil Kumar Singh [6] proposed a java implementation of an extended word alignment algorithm based on the IBM models. They have been able to improve the performance by introducing a similarity measure (Dice coefficient), using a list of cognates and morph analyzer. Li and Chengqing Zong [11] addressed the word alignment between sentences with different valid word orders, which changes the order of the word sequences (called word reordering) of the output hypotheses to make the word order more exactly match the alignment reference.
K-vec algorithm [13] makes use of the word position and frequency feature to find word correspondences using Eucli-dean distance. Ittycheriah and Roukos [8] proposed a maximum entropy word aligner for Arabic-English machine translation. Martin et al. [9] have discussed word alignment for languages with scarce resources. Bing Xiang, Yonggang Deng and Bowen Zhou [1] proposed Diversify and Combine: Improving Word Alignment for Machine Translation on Low-Resource Languages. This approach on an English-to-Pashto translation task by combining the alignments obtained from syntactic reordering, stemming, and partial words. Jamie Brunning, Adria de Gispert and William Byrne proposed Context-Dependent Alignment Models for Statistical Machine Translation [10]. This models lead to an improvement in alignment quality, and an increase in translation quality when the alignments are used in Arabic-English and Chinese-English translation.
Most current SMT systems [14] use a generative model for word alignment such as the one implemented in the freely available tool GIZA++ [16]. GIZA++ is an implementation of the IBM alignment models [15]. These models treat word alignment as a hidden process, and maximize the probability of the observed (e, f) sentence pairs using the Expectation Maximization (EM) algorithm, where e and f are the source and the target sentences. In [4] all the conducted experiments prove that the augmented approach, on multiple corpuses, performs better when compared to the use of GIZA++ and NATools individually for the task of English-Hindi word alignment. D.Wu, (1994) [3] has developed Chinese and English parallel corpora in the Department of Computer Science and University of Science and Technology in Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong. Here two methods are applied which are important once. Firstly, the gale's methods is used to Chinese and English which shows that length-based methods give satisfactory result even between unrelated languages which is a surprising result. Next, it shows the effect of adding lexical cues to a length –based methods. According to these results, using lexical information increases accuracy of alignment from 86% to 92%.
A hybrid approach to align sentences and words in English-Hindi parallel corpora[12] presented an align-ment system that aligns English-Hindi texts at the sen-tence and word level in parallel corpora. They described a simple sentence length approach to sentence alignment and a hybrid, multi-feature approach to perform word alignment. They use regression techniques in order to learn parameters which characterize the relationship between the lengths of two sentences in parallel text. They used a multi-feature approach with dictionary lookup as a primary technique and other methods such as local word grouping, transliteration similarity (edit-distance) and a nearest aligned neighbors approach to deal with many-to-many word alignment. Their experiments are based on the EMILLE (Enabling Minority Language En-gineering) corpus. They obtained 99.09% accuracy for many-to-many sentence alignment and 77% precision and 67.79% recall for many-to-many word alignment.
3 ALIGNMENT MODEL
Essential for building parallel corpora is the alignment of tanslated segments with source segments. Alignment is a central issue in the construction and exploitation of parallel corpora. One of the central modeling problems in statistical machine translation (SMT) is alignment between parallel texts. The duty of alignment methodology is to identify translation equivalence between sentences, words and phrases within sentences. In most literature, alignment methods are categorized as either association approaches or estimation approaches (also called heuristic models and statistical models). Association approaches use string similarity measures, word order heuristics, or co-occurrence measures (e.g. mutual information scores).
The central distinction between statistical and heuristic approaches is that statistical approaches are based on well-founded probabilistic models while heuristic ones are not. Estimation approaches use probabilities estimated from parallel corpora, inspired from statistical machine translation, where the computation of word alignments is part of the computation of the translation model
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Health & Safety day 2018: choose the safest way!
Few days before the international Health & Safety day scheduled on April 28, the ArcelorMittal sites in Luxembourg celebrated their number one priority.
In 2017, ArcelorMittal in Luxembourg recorded its best result in terms of lost-time injury frequency rate* which was 0.2 compared with 1.4 the previous year, which corresponds to a single lost-time accident for all sites in Luxembourg – including both employees and co-contractors.
This result, to be sustainable, requires constant vigilance from everyone. That is why this year the main theme invited our employees and its co-contractors to question the moments of inattention and safety rules bending which consequences can be serious or even fatal. The chosen slogan "that one time could kill you" illustrates the risks associated with a short lack of concentration or with a one-time compromise with a security rule.
In Belval, the employees lived virtually the everyday risks they might face. An escape game simulating an invasion of aliens required shared and constant vigilance in order to escape from the space station, safely.
In Differdange, virtual reality has also been used to deal with vertigo!
In Bissen, they acted together with professional actors to raise awareness on loading operations.
In Luxembourg-city, our colleagues learned tips to protect their spinal column against sedentary work with a physiotherapist.
For many sites, the Health & Safety day is also the day of the environment. In Dudelange, employees learned how to maintain a hive. Indeed, the site has set up 7 hives last summer, a beekeeper comes regularly to ensure their proper operation. Our colleagues have also planted a plot of fallow flowers. Can't wait for honey!
In AOB, they learned how to make their own shelf with pallets and brought safety Do-It-Yourself tips at home.
In Dommeldange, movie and discussions on safety were a friendly and efficient opportunity to share the progress made and underline the one still to be achieved.


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Q: When used inside a function, transform.zoo can't access variables I found out that zoo's transform is not able to use additional (i.e. not part of the zoo object) variables when used in a function body.
Let me explain:
I entered the following code at the prompt to create a small two-column zoo object z and to add a new column calculated from an existing column and a variable x:
library(zoo)
z <- zoo(matrix(1:10, ncol=2, dimnames=list(NULL, c("a", "b"))), order.by=2001:2005)
x <- 2
transform(z, c = x*a)

I got the desired result, a zoo object with a new colum c.  No problem here.
Now I'd like to use transform in a function body; the variable for the calculation is passed as a parameter to the function:
rm(x)
f <- function(data, x) { transform(data, c = x*a) }
f(z, 2)

This stops with Error in eval(expr, envir, enclos) (from #1) : object 'x' not found. If I assign x <- 2 at the prompt, it works (therefore the rm(x) above).
With dataframes (i.e. transform.data.frame) there is no problem.
I think that when transform.zoo calls transform.data.frame, the bindings of the formals of f are lost.   I don't understand R's environments well enough to find out what exactly is wrong here.
Edited to add: Not only can transform not get the formals but also no variables from inside the function body.
Is there a way to make transform see x? (I know I could work without transform, but it's a nice tool for short, succinct code.)

A: I think the best advice is: Don't do that!
transform(), with(), subset() are really sugar for use at the top level, to make things somewhat easier to write data manipulation code. If you are writing functions you should use the general replacement functions [<- and [[<- depending on what you are doing.
If you don't believe me, see the Warning in ?transform

Warning:

    This is a convenience function intended for use interactively.
    For programming it is better to use the standard subsetting
    arithmetic functions, and in particular the non-standard
    evaluation of argument 'transform' can have unanticipated
    consequences.

What I mean by using [<- or [ or other functions is to write f like this
f <- function(obj, x) {
  cd <- coredata(obj)
  cd <- cbind(cd, c = x * cd[, "a"])
  zoo(cd, index(obj), attr(obj, "frequency"))
}

f(z, 2)

Which gives the desired result
> transform(z, c = x*a)
     a  b  c
2001 1  6  2
2002 2  7  4
2003 3  8  6
2004 4  9  8
2005 5 10 10
> f(z, 2)
     a  b  c
2001 1  6  2
2002 2  7  4
2003 3  8  6
2004 4  9  8
2005 5 10 10

f is complicated because coredata(obj) is a matrix. It might be neater to
f2 <- function(obj, x) {
    cd <- as.data.frame(coredata(obj))
    cd[, "c"] <- x * cd[, "a"] ## or cd$c <- x * cd$a
    zoo(cd, index(obj), attr(obj, "frequency"))
}

f2(z, 2)

> f2(z, 2)
     a  b  c
2001 1  6  2
2002 2  7  4
2003 3  8  6
2004 4  9  8
2005 5 10 10

You really need to understand environments and evaluation frames to use transform() - well you can't you'd need to learn to use eval(), which is what transform() calls internally, and specify the correct values for envir (the environment in which to evaluate), and enclos the enclosure. See ?eval.


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Rick's big point is that the journey of life is the reward. And it doesn't have to be scripted by your parents, your boss, society, or anyone else. It is your journey and yours alone. It doesn't have to be a straight line. It is your line. There doesn't have to be a "logical" progression. It is your progression in the journey.
I remembered this talk when I was at Deloitte & Touche Consulting Group, who I joined right after I graduated from U.T. Austin. While I can say some good things about my experience working there for two years, I can also tell you that I felt "maxed out" after a year. I was, frankly, bored. And I was frustrated that I had not followed my dream to start a business upon graduation. I didn't feel ready and I underestimated my ability to "learn the ropes" quickly as I went. It also bothered me that Deloitte was charging our clients around 10x more per hour than they were paying me. I believed that I could do this work on my own and probably charge a similar hourly rate to theirs, and I needed to prove that to myself. I was looking for a way out - I, in short, felt somewhat like Rick did at IBM. Thankfully, at Deloitte, they would pay for some promising people's MBA education if they returned post graduation. I saw the path and I convinced Deloitte that I could be one of those people. Deloitte gave me the opportunity to test my mettle. I was accepted to Wharton, and I began my first business - consulting - at the end of my first semester. I cleared around $250-$350/hour per project, and I felt more career freedom than ever before. There was no going back (you can read about my journey in my first few businesses in this Lucky7 post) - I was now solidly on the entrepreneurial path. Rick's class prepared me for Deloitte, which in turn prepared me to launch my own consulting business. As I would tell U.T. Austin students that would visit me during EIR office hours, this is a great way to prove to yourself that you can be an entrepreneur. Do the job that you did for an employer on your own, as a consultant, to start the entrepreneurial journey in a lower-risk way (it has limited upside, though, as I wrote about in my state of tech entrepreneurship in Austin post).
After starting five businesses and being the entrepreneur myself, I'm on a different journey now. One where I'm dedicated to helping others achieve their goals. You cansee our emerging portfolio, and we're very thankful to the entrepreneurs that allow us to invest and hopefully help them along in their journey.
What teacher has had an impact like that on your life? I'm sure you can name one. Please tell us all about them in the comments section below.
For more on the journey being the reward, I have some simple advice for you in this Lucky7 post. Entrepreneur CEOs - this advice will especially help you.
A final word: Thank you, Rick, for your incredible dedication at McCombs. You made a big impact on me, and it was a sincere pleasure to be in one of your last classes in your 34-year history (so far) there. Seeing your talk 20 years after I was a student in your class was, to say the least, a very reflective experience. I can also tell you that your talk was one of my inspirations when I wrote this Lucky7 post on what Benjamin Franklin may have meant when he famously said, "remember that time is money".


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Africa remains a continent full of incomprehensible contradictions. Take Pneumonia for instance – it is a preventable disease but still kills more children under the age of 5 than many well known diseases combined.
At least 16 percent of all children who die under the age of five, especially in Africa, are killed by pneumonia, a disease that can be prevented by a vaccine.
As expected, the most affected children live in poor and rural communities in many African countries that often lack access to vaccines and other prevention and treatment tools.
Today, at least a million children could be saved with more prevention and treatment interventions. Unfortunately, the vaccine against Pneumonia is the most expensive, making its sustainability a great challenge for countries that are transitioning from GAVI's support.
Besides, many people are still not aware of its overwhelming death-toll, and the disease has been overshadowed on the global health agenda. It also gets very little attention in the media.
To mark the World Pneumonia Day on 13 November, civil society organizations from Africa and Haiti asked their governments to eradicate Pneumonia.
He called on African governments to allocate more finances for immunization and broaden vaccines access within their countries during routine vaccination campaigns, for the disease to be eliminated.
Health officials argue that African governments need to honor their commitments to Immunization and shape the vaccine market to ensure sustainability for the Pneumonia vaccine.


Direct Mail On Its Way Out?
In the world of direct marketing, testing determines the winning channel. In other words, test all channels and rollout the winning tests. So the core channel, offers and creative executions are selected based on results and not the marketer's preferences.
DMNews invited a couple of guests to respond to their question: "Will direct mail remain a top channel?"
Dave Lewis, CMO, Message Systems, a 25-year direct marketing veteran for both offline and online says, " Direct mail has been the workhorse for generations of direct marketers. But it's time to put that workhorse out to pasture, and recognize that digital messaging – e-mail for today – is the one for our future."
The answer to the question posed by DMNews is not yes OR no, but yes and no. It all depends upon the test results.
In fact, the core medium varies from one market segment to another. If your target market revolves around rural areas, then your core medium may indeed be solo direct mail. But in suburbia and exurbia, you will likely see markets that gravitate mainly to online.
Your core medium for some market groups may actually require multichannel support for maximum profitability.
Direct mail suffers from ever increasing costs. But email suffers from lack of credibility that continues to battle the growth of spam. So saturation continues to dilute email as an acquisition tool. It works best with existing customers who already enjoy a relationship with the advertiser.
As direct mail increases in price and its volume in the media mix decreases, direct mail gains new strength because of its growing credibility. The high cost of entry in using direct mail weeds out the fly-by-night businesses.
Unfortunately, email's low cost attracts low quality businesses and spammers.
So I predict that direct mail as a direct marketers' workhouse will continue to grow for some time.
The bottom line: the best marketers favor what works based on testing and remain media agnostic.
Posted on December 16, 2008 by Ted Grigg and filed under Direct Marketing Strategy, Online Marketing.


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Blended Families, Family
Blended Family Discipline: If, When and How
by Gara Lacy, Family Law Attorney
Every stepparent knows the difficulties faced when it comes to disciplining stepchildren. How do I establish boundaries in the home? Do I discipline my spouse's children? It becomes an even more Herculean task when the stepparent also has children. Two sets of kids with different parents. Oh, if it could only go the way of the Brady Bunch! Alas, our lives aren't designed as a 30-minute sitcom.
By it's very nature, discipline is designed to be punitive in nature. But it's not effective if there is no education associated with it. After all, the point of discipline is to teach morals and values. Discipline works best when clearly thought out with boundaries and consequences defined. Preparation is key. When there is no preparation, that's when resentment and hurt feelings appear.
If, How and When to Discipline:
1. Get On the Same Page
It's not unusual when bio-parents and stepparents disagree on discipline—if, when and how. It is one of the more difficult issues in a remarriage context. While your parenting styles may not match that of one another, your attitudes toward misbehavior and consequences should. Keep in mind that children can either be a wedge or a bond. When you don't show a united front, you show the chinks in the armor of your marriage and invite the child to challenge the relationship. No, you won't always agree but you must work in concert with your spouse. Agree to disagree but show unity in front of the kids.
2. Establish Rules and Boundaries for the Household
Working in conjunction with your spouse, prepare a list of household rules. Make the rules fairly consistent with the rules at play before the stepfamily was formed so that they are recognizable. Be explicit about the rule and the reason it is employed in your home. The rules for all kids in the home must be consistent so that there are no accusations of favoritism between bio-kids and stepkids. This is true even when kids aren't in your home on a full-time basis. If needed, post the rules, especially if you have younger kids in the home. When it comes to the repercussions of offending the rules, follow through. Kids, especially those who have been through a family break-up, need to witness stability in their new home. Ensure that you are enforcing the limits that you create.
Positive reinforcement plays a central role in discipline as well. Just as we teach what is unacceptable behavior, we need to reinforce our children's efforts to model "good behavior." Obviously, rewards need to be consistent across the board as well.
3. Rely Upon the Bio-Parent to Enforce Discipline
Initially, it's best if stepparents act as advisers in the home while leaving the bio-parent to dole out the punishments. After all, no one wants the lead in their own Disney sequel about the evil stepmom/stepdad. However, as the role of the stepparent evolves over time, eventually the role of enforcer will evolve too. Go slow. Make certain that relationships have matured to the point where the children trust you as their stepparent enough to hold you up as an authority figure. Be clear that the rules were predetermined by both the bio-parent and stepparent.
4. Don't Take It Personally
You once were a child so you know very well that children are meant to test boundaries. It's their attempt to establish their own values and morals. It happens throughout childhood but becomes more apparent during the teen years. Don't take it personally. Children in every home test their parents. It doesn't happen only in stepfamilies.
Stepparents often expect instant love and race to the finish line in that regard. Experts report that it can take four to seven years for a stepfamily to bond. In those intervening years, there will be high and lows, some days that are better than others. Love may not appear as early as you would like. Still, respect is expected. In your home, this needs to be the resounding lesson coming from both parents.
5. If These Approaches Don't Work, Seek Professional Help
I like the concept of the family meeting. My parents employed it as did my husband and I. When things needed discussing, we sat down and talked until cooler heads prevailed. However, there may be times when professional help is needed. Reach out to a respected religious leader or stepfamily coach. Also, psychologists and psychiatrists exist that specialize in stepfamily issues. Don't be ashamed to ask for help when it's needed. Families are the building blocks of society, the place where we learn to co-exist as respectable and respectful adults. It's worth getting involved in the messiness of family life to ensure that your kids and stepkids receive the start in life they deserve. As for you…you deserve a successful blended family.
Gara Hoke Lacy is an attorney and stepmom coach living in Charleston, West Virginia. Upon her marriage, she became the custodial stepmother of three, who are now young adults. Her experiences and advice, both as a stepmother and stepchild, are chronicled on her website https://www.suddenlystepmom.com.


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You cannot apply padding or margin to a inline element.


Despite high vaccination coverage in most European countries, large community outbreaks of measles do occur, normally clustered around schools and resulting from suboptimal vaccination coverage. To determine whether or when it is worth implementing outbreak-response vaccination campaigns in schools, we used stochastic outbreak models to reproduce a public school outbreak in Germany, where no vaccination campaign was implemented. We assumed 2 scenarios covering the baseline vaccination ratio range (91.3%–94.3%) estimated for that school and computed outbreaks assuming various vaccination delays. In one scenario, reacting (i.e., implementing outbreak-response vaccination campaigns) within 12–24 days avoided large outbreaks and reacting within 50 days reduced outbreak size. In the other scenario, reacting within 6–14 days avoided large outbreaks and reacting within 40 days reduced the outbreak size. These are realistic time frames for implementing school outbreak response vaccination campaigns. High baseline vaccination ratios extended the time needed for effective response.


Metro has unveiled its refined concepts for the Sepulveda Pass Transit Corridor - the proposed rail line slated to link the San Fernando Valley to the job centers of the Westside and Los Angeles International Airport.
The project, which is currently in the midst of its feasibility study, has nearly $10 billion in local funding through the sales tax increases approved under Measure R and M. Each of the four concepts now under consideration - which have been pared down from six options presented in June 2018 - would run between Van Nuys in the north and Los Angeles International Airport in the south. All would be expected to attract more than 100,000 daily passengers, and provide an end-to-end trip that comparable to - or faster than - a car trip down the 405 Freeway.
A north-to-south trip on the HRT 1 alignment would begin at the Van Nuys Metrolink Station and proceed south underneath Van Nuys Boulevard, with stops planned at the Van Nuys Orange Line Station and Ventura Boulevard. The subway tunnels of this alignment would run below the route of the East San Fernando Valley Transit Corridor, a proposed light rail line between the Orange Line and the Sylmar Metrolink Station that is scheduled to begin construction in 2022. From Ventura Boulevard, the route continues south below the Santa Monica Mountains, with a station at the UCLA campus, a connection to the Purple Line's Wilshire/Westwood Station, and a terminus at either Expo/Bundy or Expo Sepulveda Station.
HRT 2 would run along a similar path to HRT 1, except that the alignment would veer west from Van Nuys Boulevard to instead travel beneath Sepulveda Boulevard in the Valley, with stations once again at the Orange Line and Ventura Boulevard. This alternative would capture an estimated 120,000 daily trips with a 16-minute end-to-end trip.
Unlike its two heavy rail counterpart, HRT 3 would not be built exclusively underground. A map shows the alignment beginning on an aerial structure at the Van Nuys Metrolink Station, then proceeding west in the existing rail right-of-way before turning south at Sepulveda, with stations at Sherman Way, the Sepulveda Orange Line Station, and Ventura Boulevard. After passing south of Ventura Boulevard, the alignment would travel below ground with stations at UCLA, the Purple Line's Wilshire/Westwood top, and a terminus at either Expo/Bundy or Expo/Sepulveda Station.
Metro projects that HRT would attract 133,000 daily passengers with an 18-minute end-to-end trip. The alignment could save money due through lower-cost aerial construction, although would result in more impacts to existing properties and a loss of parking along Sepulveda Boulevard.
Metro's fourth concept, MRT 1, would be a monorail system. It would begin in a similar fashion to HRT 3, traveling above-grade from the Van Nuys Metrolink Station within an existing right-of-way, then in an elevated structure above Sepulveda Boulevard. After crossing Ventura Boulevard, the alignment would shift to the median of the 405 Freeway, where trains would run in at-grade and above-grade structures, before undergrounding to place stations at UCLA, the Wilshire/Westwood Station, and a terminus at either Expo/Bundy Station or Expo/Sepulveda Station.
A monorail system, long-discussed in Los Angeles but never built, would offer cost savings relative to heavy rail - especially with extensive at-grade and above-grade construction. However, this would result in a slowers speed - approximately 26 minutes end-to-end - and fewer passengers - approximately 105,000.
Notably absent from these options is any mention of light rail. According to Metro staff, the shorter trains and smaller cars of light rail would not offer sufficient capacity for the demand anticipated along the corridor - in fact, ridership would exceed capacity on the southern part of the light rail line.
Also eliminated from further condition were alignments terminating at the Westwood Veterans Administration Campus, which was determined to be located too far west to serve as a southern terminus for the project.
While Metro currently hopes to complete the first phase of the Sepulveda Pass project - between the Valley and the Westside - prior to the 2028 Summer Olympic Games, a second phase of the project - scheduled to break ground in 2048 - is planned to extend service farther south.
The presentation has unveiled two initial concepts for a path between the Westside to Los Angeles International Airport.
In one concept, the alignment would continue underground or on aerial structures from Expo/Sepulveda Station, paralleling Sepulveda Boulevard and the 405 Freeway. Stations could potentially be located at Venice Boulevard, Washington Boulevard, Jefferson Boulevard, Playa Vista, and Manchester Boulevard, with a terminus at the new Airport Metro Connector Station, which will connect to the Green and Crenshaw/LAX Lines, as well as the LAX Automated People Mover.
If built as a monorail, an aerial alignment along the 405 Freeway is shown in the presentation.
Metro is also considering an alignment beneath Centinela Avenue with stations at Venice, Washington, Jefferson, Manchester, and the eventual terminus at LAX.
A second alternative, the Centinela concept could be built as an extension of the Purple Line, which could veer south after reaching the Veterans Administration Campus just west of the 405 Freeway.
All stations on both conceptual alignments would be considered opportunities for park-and-ride facilities.


you guys probably all already know about this link, but I didn't until I came across it on an old post today, so I thought I'd share it with those of who who like me didn't have a lot of time to fiddle around with textures and battled your way through with lightwave presets.
These surface shader presets are free and there are loads- comes with their own plugin in the shaders tab- it's so cool!!
Looks good but it says for v.7.0-7.5. Anyone using it with later versions?
it works all the way up to the most recent release.
I've checked out these textures in LW but they only work for me in v.8.0. I've tried loading them in versions 8.2 and 8.3 but no luck. Anyone have success using this plug-in with 8.2 or 8.3? SimbiontLW contains many nice textures but it's not the only program that has problems with the latest versions of LW. Don't know what's changed since 8.2 to cause these bugs but I'm definitely hanging on to v.8.0 for awhile. I guess third-party guys have some catching up to do but anyway if anyone has had success getting this to work with 8.2 or 8.3 I'd sure like to hear how you did it. Thanks for all the help and yes the shaders are cool!
are you getting black textures with red x's on them?
That's exactly it - you must have seen them somewhere.
O.K.-I finally got Simbiont to work with 8.2 and 8.3. All you have to do ( as found on the website ) is to replace the config files found within LW's Program files with the config file found within Simbiont's Plug-in folder. I'm not sure what got lost in the original installation into 8.2 and 8.3 but I did notice there was a difference in file size when pasting in the new file. Thanks for the help and the link.


This film focuses on the work of micro-providers in Nottingham and demonstrates how their approach can be very flexible, creative and responsive to individual needs and preferences, enabling a move away from traditional services. It looks at three new types of enterprise.
Break Barriers is a micro-provider service set up by a home care manager who saw the limitations of that business model for delivering personalised support. The service provides tailored PA support and short breaks. A user and carer talk about the difference the support from Break Barriers has made to their lives, while the founder talks about the challenges and rewards of starting up a new business. She believes budget holders get better value for money and improved outcomes.
Shared Lives Plus is a members' organisation to support very small providers. The film introduces their work and staff discuss the importance of providing support for business start up and sharing learning.
Finally, Space Inclusive is introduced as an alternative to day centres, set up by two former special educational needs teachers. It provides opportunities for young people with learning disabilities to determine their own day activities, including learning to live independently, life skills and skills for employment.
Micro providers are important for ensuring people who use personal budgets and direct payments have genuine choice and control over their care and support.
Micro providers have the potential to give value for money and improve user and carer outcomes.
Micro provider businesses can be challenging to start up so members' organisations offering business support and advice play an important role.


A large number of JNU students and teachers were yesterday stopped from marching to the Parliament Complex over various demands, including academic freedom, with police resorting to lathicharge and use of water canons.
The National Commission for Women has ordered a probe into alleged manhandling of JNU students and a woman journalist during a protest march here.
"We have ordered a probe and sent a team today to meet the police officials and we will further pursue the matter on Monday," NCW Acting Chairperson Rekha Sharma said.
The protesting students had claimed that the "attack" by the police was "unprovoked", with a woman journalist alleging that a man in uniform "groped" her and asked her to vacate the place.
The "Padyatra", which started at the varsity's campus, was organised by the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union (JNUSU) and the Jawaharlal Nehru University Teachers' Association (JNUTA).
The associations are demanding academic freedom, and accessible and equitable education.
The teachers' body had requested other associations to join the protest march.
Their other demands include withdrawal of the executive council decision to constitute a committee to take action against teachers and the immediate withdrawal of notifications replacing chairpersons who were opposed to implementing compulsory attendance.


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TV5120 - Advanced Microbiology and Immunology
Administered by: College of Public Health, Medical & Vet Sciences
Available to graduate students with a degree in Veterinary Science (other appropriately trained graduates may enrol at the discretion of the Director of the Australian Institute of Tropical Veterinary and Animal Science).
This is a student-orientated course that seeks to build on undergraduate knowledge in the fields of veterinary microbiology and immunology. It is structured around six main themes/sessions that deal with: - Host-parasite interactions at a cellular and molecular level; - Tests used to detect infectious agents and the immune response to these agents; - Application of tests in the diagnosis and management of infectious diseases.
discuss the animals host's immune response to infectious agents and apply this knowledge to predict how to diagnose and correctly select immunoprophylaxis of a particular disease;
use your knowledge of the key features of immunopathology of important and common diseases across a range of animal species to predict the pathogenesis and pathology of those diseases;
select the most appropriate procedures for sample collection and sample handling to ensure that laboratory results are optimal;
analyse and select and interpret the most optimal diagnostic tests, both patient-side and in the laboratory available for important and common diseases in a range of animals;
map test results with other epidemiological features of a disease in order to predict infectious or parasitic agent spread and origin.
Prerequisites: TV5110
Combinations: MI2021 PC2201
Coordinator: Dr Graham Burgess
Lecturers: Dr Jackie Picard, Dr Graham Burgess.
26 hours lectures - multi-mode (including distance) based lectures
39 hours tutorials - multi-mode tutorials and assessments
Assessment: assignments.


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Output is 4 4 on gcc.
Please explain this output

A: This is undefined behaviour. The order of evaluation of the function parameters is not defined by the C standard.
Relevant sections: C99 Section 6.5.2.2 Paragraph 10

The order of evaluation of the function designator, the actual
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also in C99 Section 6.5.2.2 Paragraph 10

There is a sequence point after the evaluations of the function
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Zabbix Conference 2014 is approaching, every day welcoming new registrants and guests, who are wishing to participate in the Zabbix biggest event of the year! To give the Zabbix Conference attendees a better idea of which places you will have a chance to visit during the event, we provide you with a map, pointing to the important locations.
The official part of Zabbix Conference 2014 will take place in the Radisson Blu Daugava Hotel, which is located directly on the Daugava River waterfront and in a walking distance of only 15 minutes to Old Riga center.
As of Thursday, 11 September 2014, the Zabbix team will welcome its guests at the BBQ Welcome Party that will take place in the courtyard of Radisson Blu Daugava Hotel. The party will be held in rock style 🙂 so be prepared to ROCK and have FUN!
After the Day 1 of the official part of the conference, all conference attendees will continue to communicate and interact with each other in a more relaxing atmosphere of The Black Cat House Restaurant. Each year the Zabbix team is organizing Zabbix Conference Party, which is the central event of the conference that gathers together all guests, participants and Zabbix team. So, make sure you do not miss it!
Please join us for the Zabbix Conference 2014!
Radisson Blu Daugava Hotel - the venue of the Zabbix Conference 2014.
Riga Airport offers free wi-fi.
Most of the pubs and nightlife activities are located here.
"Zabbix Conference Party" will happen in The Black Cat House Restaurant, located in the heart of Old Riga.
"Post-Conference Evening" trip to The Secret Soviet Bunker.
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Baek Ji-young's "Good Boy" - An All-Around Good Listen
As nice as it (sometimes) is to have a wellspring of fresh new rookies tossed into the K-pop tidal wave on a regular basis, it's always great to see a veteran singer make a comeback — especially if said veteran singer does it right. A woman of many faces but always a diva, Baek Ji-young has largely been doing it right since 1999, and her latest mini-album Good Boy does not disappoint. Though it is comprised of just three songs, it is a solid effort that showcases some of the best of Baek Ji-young's talent while proving that even after all this time, she's still got it.
Baek Ji-young is largely known as a ballad songstress and OST queen, having lent her voice to some of the most memorable OST songs in recent years, but she initially debuted as a pop idol and has released a steady string of dance numbers in the twelve(!!) years that she's been active. However, after "My Ear's Candy" came out in 2009, it seemed for a time that she might not return to releasing dance tracks; though her last album Pitta featured one dance track called "Bad Girl," it all but tanked, and nearly all of her recent releases have fallen squarely into the ballad genre.
Admittedly, I thought this might be a smart call; I wasn't the biggest fan of "My Ear's Candy," and even though it isn't pleasant to admit it, there is a serious bias against age in K-pop, particularly against older singers who continue to dance in their stage performances. Baek Ji-young is now 36 years old, and she often shares the stage with industry juniors who are half her age or even younger; whether or not she (and other stars who have passed the 30 benchmark) should throw in the towel and yield to the younger performers is often a difficult question to answer. However, any concerns about Baek Ji-young's ability to keep pace with the young whippersnappers should be effectively silenced by her latest single, album, and performances. In an industry saturated with far too much of the same (can someone please explain to me the difference between A Pink, Girl's Day, and Five Dolls?), Baek Ji-young stands out as a mature and seasoned performer who continues to develop and push the envelop with her music.
So let's get to it, shall we?
The first track off of "Good Boy" is the title track and single, for which a music video has been released. Featuring B2ST's Jun-hyung as the rapper, "Good Boy" is a dark, sexy, and fast-paced song that proves beyond a doubt that Baek Ji-young can go head-to-head with the best of them — and given her age and experience, the song comes off as filled with conviction. Baek Ji-young plays her part well. The track nicely shows off her vocals, but doesn't skimp on the choreography. I'm very pleased that it doesn't feature excessive amounts of autotone (in fact, there is almost none); in my humble opinion, Baek Ji-young is one of the few singers who actually carries herself well in live performances (take note, industry juniors), and it would be a shame if the song and performance for "Good Boy" were unable to do justice to her talent. The only slight bit of dissatisfaction with this track is that it sounds a bit too much like Britney Spears' "If U Seek Amy" — very similar beats and chords back both songs.
The album's second track, "Voice," which features Leessang's Gary, is by far my favorite. A smooth pop ballad, but far unlike any of the ballads she has recently released, "Voice" showcases Baek Ji-young's impressive vocal range and is set to a pleasant background of earthy instrumentation. A head-bopping track if there ever was one, this song would be great to drive to — if only I had a car or even a highway on which to drive it at the moment. But what stands out the most about this song is that it isn't a ballad or a dance track — which means that it is different, but more importantly, refreshing. It's nice to hear a K-pop song that doesn't sound like… well, pretty much like every other K-pop song out there. The more difficult it is to categorize, the better. Baek Ji-young earns major points for this track.
The third and last track (kind of) is called "Today More Than Yesterday," a pop-rock tune with a catchy beat. This is absolutely the album's feel-good song — it needs to be featured while the credits roll at the conclusion of a romantic comedy. Another song that relies more on instrumentation than it does on the synthesizer, this and "Voice" prove that K-pop can still survive even if you pull the plug. Given the character of the other two songs, "Today More Than Yesterday" nicely rounds out the mini-album; Baek Ji-young has provided a taste of three different styles of music, but they aren't so disparate as to leave listeners wondering how they fit together on the same album. This is aided by the fact that Baek Ji-young promoted herself this cycle as a rocker and not a sex goddess; if all of her promotional images had followed the image of "Good Boy," the other two songs might have been head-scratchers. Instead, given the heavy use of instrumentals and raw vocals, the image of Baek Ji-young as a punk rock chick are appropriate and fit all three songs.
The last "song" on the album is an acoustic version of "Good Boy." If this song doesn't adequately showcase not only the versatility of the song itself, but Baek Ji-young's own ability to adapt to diverse styles, then nothing will. I almost prefer this to the original version — it is incredibly unique. Including this was an excellent idea.
As mentioned, given the implicit discrimination that older singers in K-pop face (especially female singers), it might have been easy for Baek Ji-young to fall into a trap of trying to follow the "trends" in order to stay relevant — but it's safe to say that she hasn't, and that is a very good thing. I don't think my heart could take Baek Ji-young prancing around in a fluffy pink skirt whilst singing about oppa, but then again, such a scenario is laughable and wholly unrealistic. Rather, she's carved out a niche for herself in an industry that might be content to stick her in a corner with a label branded across her forehead. Good Boy stands as a reminder that Baek Ji-young isn't going anywhere, nor has she been boxed into the ballad genre by her past successes.
Additionally, Good Boy as an album and Baek Ji-young's accompanying performances demonstrate (as though she needed to) that age ain't nothin' but a number. It's unfortunate to see comments expressing that she should "act and dress her age" — what on earth does that even mean in K-pop? Nobody in K-pop acts their age — that's the whole point of cutesy, nonsensical aegyo! In a business saturated with girls who act about ten years younger than they actually are, it's great to see Baek Ji-young kicking it like a mature musician. No pretending necessary here — Baek Ji-young has been there, done it, and she's here to do it again. I look forward to the rest of her promotions and hope to see her perform all of the songs on the album.
How about you, Seoulmates? Is Good Boy on your playlist this spring?
Album Rating: 4.5/5
(LOEN Entertainment)
Tags: Baek Jiyoung
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