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MiCRO FAQ
Newsletter Q4 – 2021
2021 | A Year of Adaptation
As we begin 2022, I am excited to let you know that 2021 was a year full of accomplishments in our Latin American markets. Notwithstanding COVID, the MiCRO team and our partners pushed through and continued improving our innovative insurance products that protect vulnerable families from natural disasters. We expanded in existing markets and into new markets while working closely with our partner banks, MFIs, NGOs, insurance and reinsurance companies to offer affordable, understandable and regulator-approved insurance policies.
I am proud to announce that in Guatemala, our sales increased more than 30% with our partners Aseguradora Rural and Seguros Universales having sold more than 40,000 policies since the launch of the first version of our product! In El Salvador this past year, our newly improved products grew nearly 200%. Since our first product was launched in 2018, we have helped 21,000 policyholders mitigate the effects of natural disasters with over 25,000 critically needed policy payouts in that country. In Colombia, the product designed in partnership with SBS Seguros Colombia and Marsh to protect borrowers has regained pre-pandemic sales levels with more than 13,000 policies sold. In Mexico, our newest market, we recently began working with Fondo De Aseguramiento del Pacifico and are excited about our growth in this huge market. Also, together with the World Food Program in Guatemala and El Salvador, and with the United Nations Development Program in Colombia, we launched products that will for the first time be de-linked from credit products and instead be bundled to other interventions offered by these organizations. A very promising way to reach the unbanked population, too.
Turning to 2022, MiCRO is looking to build its capital base to meet anticipated growth targets. This will undoubtedly mean changes to our shareholder composition, a change that will bring new insights and experiences to the board and shareholder group. I am excited for the future of MiCRO in 2022 and beyond!
Carlos Boelsterli
Guatemala | Continuing to expand
Aseguradora Rural has a 32% growth
New product launched for the unbanked population
Nine-fold growth with Seguros Universales
Since inception, 40,000 households have been protected and 80,000 payouts have been triggered
It is exciting to see how the solutions designed with our local partners continue to position themselves positively in Guatemala, our first country of operations in Central America. Aseguradora Rural, the first insurer to launch parametric microinsurance protecting the vulnerable population against natural disasters, grew 32% in 2021. Meanwhile, Banrural has sold more than 40,000 policies since the launch of the first version of "Esfuerzo Seguro", which is about to implement its third, improved version.
Aseguradora Rural also launched a new product designed together with the World Food Program. It is the first product de-linked from credits, and instead it is bundled to other interventions offered by this organization to strengthen the resilience of its beneficiaries in Guatemala.
Policies insured by Seguros Universales also grew significantly in 2021 (897%!), and, after an initial phase getting to know the product, they recently began to offer plans with higher insured limits to micro-entrepreneurs. Furthermore, the next aggregator is now ready to start distributing the product as well.
Since the first product was launched in 2017, products designed by MiCRO have triggered more than 80,000 payments in Guatemala, thus helping more than 40,000 policyholders to mitigate the effects of natural disasters.
El Salvador | Operations are Strengthened
Seguros Futuro had a 200% growth
In 2021, an improved version of Produce Seguro was implemented to better protect the productive activity of small producers and microentrepreneurs. This protection is insured by Seguros Futuro and distributed by Banco de Fomento Agropecuario, and achieved 196% growth in the last 12 months.
Seguros Futuro also launched "Emprende Seguro", a product that will protect the beneficiaries of the World Food Program in El Salvador and help improve their resilience to natural phenomena.
Since the first product was launched in 2018, products designed by MiCRO have triggered more than 25,000 payments in El Salvador, helping more than 21,000 policyholders mitigate the effects of natural phenomena.
Colombia | Version 2.0
A new channel was added to the SBS Seguros Colombia program
A new product was launched in collaboration with UNDP
Since inception, 13,000 households have been protected and 2,000 payouts have been triggered
"Mi Inversión Protegida", the product designed in partnership with SBS Seguros Colombia and Marsh to protect Bancamía's productive credit clients, has regained pre-pandemic sales levels. More than 13,000 policies have triggered over 2,000 payments to date, which, together with the agility in the payment of claims by SBS, has helped to make this product's protection more tangible.
Also with SBS Seguros Colombia as insurer, in November we launched "Mi Siembra Segura", an innovative product designed for beneficiaries of the United Nations Development Program. The product is a complement to a community store project aimed at strengthening the economic resilience of Afro-Colombian, indigenous, and small producer women by protecting them against the occurrence of excessive rainfall events or severe droughts, in addition to offering them coverage against personal accidents. We are honored to be able to contribute to this admirable UNDP project, and to help families displaced by violence in Colombia to move forward.
"Mi Negocio Protegido" was another product launched in the Colombian market in November, with the support of SBS Seguros Colombia. With this new and innovative insurance, UNI2 – Microcrédito (formerly Finamiga) will protect urban entrepreneurs and rural producers against damages and extraordinary expenses caused by natural phenomena.
Mexico | A New Market
A four-fold growth was achieved with Fondo de Aseguramiento Agrícola del Pacífico and Plus-Re
New partnerships and collaborations were created
At the end of last year, we announced the conclusion of the first commercial agreement in Mexico with Fondo de Aseguramiento del Pacífico and Plus-Re, through which we reached corn producers in the northwest part of the country. The positive experience of the first year is being reflected with sales growth of 400% in 2021.
In addition, MiCRO is establishing alliances with microfinance institutions, cooperatives, banks, and other entities interested in marketing parametric insurance. As a result of these efforts, we are working with two cooperatives to develop affordable insurance for their members, and we have signed a collaboration agreement with Prodesarrollo, a microfinance network in Mexico that connects 62 institutions that have an impact on more than 5.2 million people. The agreement will facilitate the implementation of a pilot program with its members in 2022.
LATAM | MiCRO as a Trusted Partner and Expert
MiCRO remains an active participant in international forums, being a trusted partner and expert both in the insurance industry and in the academic sector. During 2021, we acted as a source of information and experience in different risk management dissemination platforms, including the following:
December 13th: The Micro Insurance Network (MIN) organized an event to share experiences around technological solutions to boost inclusive insurance. MiCRO presented together with other experts from Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia and Mexico to an audience of almost 100 in La Paz. The session was also transmitted via FaceBook live.
September 27th: The CNSEG in Brazil invited MiCRO to its annual conference to share its regional experience with public private partnerships. This was a great opportunity to highlight MiCRO's positive results implementing innovative solutions by early involving the authorities and other stakeholders during the product design phase.
March 25th: MiCRO participated in a dialogue with regulators about index-based insurance in Costa Rica, an event organized by the Access to Insurance Initiative (A2ii). An excellent opportunity to highlight the importance of public private partnerships to succeed implementing innovative tools to enable insurance inclusion.
May 14th: With the title "Parametric insurance as a tool for inclusion", MiCRO presented its regional experience expanding traditional insurability boundaries with index-based insurance during the Annual Insurance Association event of Costa Rica.
March 24th: MiCRO was invited to share its experiences with "Digital solutions to boost insurance in Mexico", an event organized by Mexican Insurance Association (AMIS) and the Micro Insurance Network (MIN).
October 28th: MiCRO presented how our solutions addresses needs along the value chain during the annual ANDE event in Mexico.
October 20th: The Micro Insurance Network (MIN) organized an event to raise awareness about technological advances enabling inclusive insurance. Participants were aggregators with access to the target population, re/insurers and the Peruvian authorities.
June 21st: The Microinsurance Center at Milliman invited MiCRO and two other organizations from Bangladesh and Sri Lanka to their Annual Conference to describe their journey to building a business case based on inclusive insurance.
October 28th: MiCRO's experience in Colombia, Guatemala and El Salvador was showcased during ISF's Annual Forum in a session about innovative approaches to reduce the risk financing gap in LAC. The panel was formed by representatives from the World Food Program (WFP), the Interamerican Development Bank (IADB) and MiCRO.
November 25th: MiCRO took part of the VI Experts' meeting of the Community of Practice on Agro Insurance and Holistic Risk Management of Central America and the Dominican Republic, organized by ECLAC. In the meeting, participants exchanged lessons learned and good practices by country for the last year.
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Oh my, that takes me back. My French Canadian uncle who had the most beautiful baritone used to sing this every Christmas Eve at the family gathering at my grandparents. He sang it in French, of course. "Minuit Chretien". Still brings tears to my eyes. BTW, my British grandmother used to make the Tortiere for her daughter every year as my aunt was not a very good cook. Tortiere is traditional for French families to eat after Midnight Mass.
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In this one the singer has a bit of trouble starting the song and the audience gives her a bit of hand.
Those are great, Stiler! I especially like the one with Boy!
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to find more info about my recent DXpeditions to San Andrés and Providencia in 2004 and 2006. You can also find all HKØGU logs.
The San Andrés archipelago consists of three Islands and some Islets, so called cayos (cays), is located in the western Caribbean off the nicaraguan coast and belongs to Colombia. The rather flat main island San Andrés is about 7 miles long and over 2 miles wide. Providencia is a mountainous island of about 5 miles in diameter and is located some 50 miles north of San Andrés. The third island, Santa Catalina, is connected to Providencia with an about 300 meters long pedestrian bridge - the "Lovers Bridge" and is about 1 mile in diameter. The islands are surrounded by the third biggest coral reef in the world - an "El Dorado" for divers and snorkelers.
to find our travel report and a few photographs about San Andrés and Providencia.
Send your application well in advance; the mail is very unreliable.
Licence fee is 7 US $ for an HKØ/Homecall licence or 70 US $ for a genuine HKØ licence. The HKØ/Homecall licence is valid for one year, the genuine HKØXYZ licence is valid for 10 years. DXpedition teams can apply for a special call sign like 5KØXYZ - this licence is valid only for the time of the DXpedition and is free of charge.
Attention: Since 2008 "genuine" HKØ-licenses like HKØXY are issued only to native hams, foreign hams get now HKØ/homecall or DXpeditions-calls for teams like 5KØA or others.


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Wallace hardly had a chance to show the mettle of his No. 2 Dodge, as he fell out after 109 laps. He is now 375 points out of 10th, in 19th position.
"At times we had the fastest car in the field, by far the best car I've had all year long," Wallace said. "This was a really great car, but the bad luck just keeps continuing.
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Risk studies are carried out by geographers in different schools and countries. The geographical approach to risk focuses on the interaction between physical and human elements in territories.
The case of wetlands shows the advantages of this approach. Wetlands can help to reduce the risk of flooding and improve water quality; nevertheless, their functions are generally undervalued.
This analysis was carried out through a case study: the Po delta. Both "natural" (flooding, drought) and "technological" hazards were considered. A comparative analysis was also performed in Camargue, in order to try out the methodology.
Field work and document analysis point out the relationship between risk perception and the geo-historical evolution of the territory. Risk is linked to a territorial system, to its history, actors network and stakes; consequently, the territory itself should constitute the core of risk analysis.
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package tc.oc.tracker.trackers.base;

import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.Map;

import javax.annotation.Nonnull;
import javax.annotation.Nullable;

import org.bukkit.OfflinePlayer;
import org.bukkit.World;
import org.bukkit.block.Block;
import org.bukkit.entity.Entity;
import org.bukkit.entity.FallingBlock;

import tc.oc.tracker.base.AbstractTracker;
import tc.oc.tracker.trackers.AnvilTracker;

import com.google.common.base.Preconditions;
import com.google.common.collect.Maps;

public class SimpleAnvilTracker extends AbstractTracker implements AnvilTracker {
    HashMap<Block, OfflinePlayer> placedAnvils = Maps.newHashMap();
    HashMap<FallingBlock, OfflinePlayer> ownedAnvils = Maps.newHashMap();

    public boolean hasOwner(@Nonnull FallingBlock anvil) {
        Preconditions.checkNotNull(anvil, "anvil");

        return this.ownedAnvils.containsKey(anvil);
    }

    @Nullable
    public OfflinePlayer getOwner(@Nonnull FallingBlock anvil) {
        Preconditions.checkNotNull(anvil, "anvil");

        return this.ownedAnvils.get(anvil);
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        Preconditions.checkNotNull(anvil, "anvil");

        if(offlinePlayer != null) {
            return this.ownedAnvils.put(anvil, offlinePlayer);
        } else {
            return this.ownedAnvils.remove(anvil);
        }
    }

    public boolean hasPlacer(@Nonnull Block block) {
        Preconditions.checkNotNull(block, "block");

        return this.placedAnvils.containsKey(block);
    }

    @Nullable
    public OfflinePlayer getPlacer(@Nonnull Block block) {
        Preconditions.checkNotNull(block, "block");

        return this.placedAnvils.get(block);
    }

    @Nullable
    public OfflinePlayer setPlacer(@Nonnull Block block, @Nonnull OfflinePlayer offlinePlayer) {
        Preconditions.checkNotNull(block, "block");
        Preconditions.checkNotNull(offlinePlayer, "player");

        return this.placedAnvils.put(block, offlinePlayer);
    }

    @Nonnull
    public OfflinePlayer clearPlacer(@Nullable Block block) {
        Preconditions.checkNotNull(block, "block");

        return this.placedAnvils.remove(block);
    }

    public void clear(@Nonnull World world) {
        // clear information about blocks in that world
        Iterator<Map.Entry<Block, OfflinePlayer>> blockIt = this.placedAnvils.entrySet().iterator();
        while(blockIt.hasNext()) {
            Block block = blockIt.next().getKey();
            if(block.getWorld().equals(world)) {
                blockIt.remove();
            }
        }

        // clear information about entitys in that world
        Iterator<Map.Entry<FallingBlock, OfflinePlayer>> entityIt = this.ownedAnvils.entrySet().iterator();
        while(entityIt.hasNext()) {
            Entity tnt = entityIt.next().getKey();
            if(tnt.getWorld().equals(world)) {
                entityIt.remove();
            }
        }
    }

}

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Q: Expected value of the sech of a normal random variable I am curious if there is any closed form for the following integral.
$$
H(k) = \frac{k}{\sqrt{2\pi}}\int_\mathbb{R} sech(t) e^{-\frac{k^2 t^2}{2}}dt
$$
So far, what I've got is the following result: If we define $F(k):= H(\sqrt{\frac{2}{\pi}}k)$, then
$$
 F(k) = k F(\frac{1}{k})
$$
but I don't think it is that useful. Also, I have tried the following idea: $H(k)$ can be written in terms of the pdf (at 0) of the sum of two independent variables, one is a normal with mean 0 and the other one follows a sech distribution.

A: As @Bob Dobbs commented, using
$$\text{sech}(t)=\sum_{n=0}^\infty \frac{E_{2 n}}{(2 n)!} t^{2n}$$ using the exponential integral function
$$\int t^{2n}  e^{-\frac{k^2 t^2}{2}}\,dt=-\frac{1}{2} t^{2 n+1} E_{\frac{1}{2}-n}\left(\frac{k^2 t^2}{2}\right)$$
$$\int_0^\infty t^{2n}  e^{-\frac{k^2 t^2}{2}}\,dt=2^{n-\frac{1}{2}} k^{-(2 n+1)} \Gamma \left(n+\frac{1}{2}\right)$$
$$H(k)=\frac{1}{2 \sqrt{\pi }}\sum_{n=0}^\infty \frac{2^n\, E_{2 n} \,  \Gamma \left(n+\frac{1}{2}\right)}{(2 n)!}\,k^{-2 n}$$ which does not seem to have a closed form even inn terms of special function.
Converting the series expansion into a simple Padé approximant, using $t=\frac 1 {4k ^2}$, a rather good approximation seems to be
$$H(k)\sim\frac 12 -\frac{t \left(4014355439 t^2+768501000 t+26097105\right)}{12729407095
   t^3+7448005794 t^2+898986525 t+26097105}$$ which is $O\left(\frac{1}{k^{14}}\right)$
which seems to be decent.
$$\left(
\begin{array}{ccc}
k & \text{approximation} &\text{solution} \\
 0.5 & 0.2721144728 & 0.2534350510 \\
 1.0 & 0.3718590167 & 0.3706321367 \\
 1.5 & 0.4239836019 & 0.4238919207 \\
 2.0 & 0.4509710566 & 0.4509710480 \\
 2.5 & 0.4661656602 & 0.4661646055 \\
 3.0 & 0.4754077398 & 0.4754075871 \\
 3.5 & 0.4813910557 & 0.4813910350 \\
 4.0 & 0.4854631489 & 0.4854634468 \\
 4.5 & 0.4883490124 & 0.4883490641 \\
 5.0 & 0.4904633764 & 0.4904633785
\end{array}
\right)$$
For sure, we could do much better using Padé approximants of higher order.
Edit
Consider the coefficient
$$a_n=\frac{2^n\, E_{2 n} \,  \Gamma \left(n+\frac{1}{2}\right)}{(2 n)!}$$ which grow extremely fast $(a_{20}\sim 1.03\times 10^{16})$
$$\left|\frac{a_{n+1}}{a_n}\right|=\frac{1}{2} \left|\frac{E_{2 (n+1)}}{(n+1) E_{2 n}}\right|$$ Using the good approximation (see here)
$$E_{2n} \sim (-1)^n 8 \sqrt{\frac{n}{\pi}} \Bigg[\frac {4n}{e \pi} \,\frac{480 n^2+9}{480 n^2-1}\Bigg]^{2n}$$ gives
$$\left|\frac{a_{n+1}}{a_n}\right|=\frac{8 n}{\pi ^2}\left(1+\frac{1}{2 n}+ O\left(\frac{1}{n^6}\right)\right)$$ probably implies that the series is of no use.

A: Another approach.
Write
$$\text{sech}(t)=2 \sum_{n=0}^\infty (-1)^n e^{-(2 n+1) t}$$
$$H(k)=\sum_{n=0}^\infty (-1)^n\, e^{\frac{(2 n+1)^2}{2 k^2}}\, \text{erfc}\left(\frac{2 n+1}{k\sqrt{2}   }\right)$$ which, as a summation, is much more pleasant since; if
$$a_n= e^{\frac{(2 n+1)^2}{2 k^2}}\, \text{erfc}\left(\frac{2 n+1}{k\sqrt{2}   }\right)\qquad \implies \qquad \frac{a_{n+1}}{a_n}=1-\frac{1}{n}+\frac{3}{2 n^2}+O\left(\frac{1}{n^2}\right)$$
where we could even use
$$e^{\frac{m^2}{2 k^2}} \text{erfc}\left(\frac{m}{\sqrt{2} k}\right)=\sqrt{\frac{2}{\pi }}\sum_{p=0}^\infty (-1)^p \, (2 p-1)!! \, \left(\frac{k}{m}\right)^{2 p+1}$$
If we have to compute the sum as
$$H(k)=\sum_{n=0}^p (-1)^n\,a_n+\sum_{n=p+1}^\infty (-1)^n\,a_n$$ and we search for $p$ such that
$$a_{p+1} \le \epsilon$$ we need to solve for $t$
$$e^{t^2} \text{erfc}(t)\le \epsilon \qquad \text{where} \qquad t=\frac{2 p+3}{k\sqrt{2} }$$ Using
$$e^{t^2} \text{erfc}(t)\sim  \frac{1}{t\sqrt{\pi } } \implies p=\frac{k}{\epsilon \sqrt{2 \pi } }-\frac{3}{2}$$ and then a lot of terms will need to be added.
Computing the partial sums for $k=1$
$$\left(
\begin{array}{cc}
p & \sum_{n=0}^p (-1)^n\,a_n \\
 1 & 0.280129 \\
 10 & 0.388692 \\
 100 & 0.372607 \\
 1000 & 0.370831 \\
 10000 & 0.370652 \\
\cdots & \cdots  \\
\infty &0.370632
\end{array}
\right)$$

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Like a lot of tech entrepreneurs, Chariot Solutions CEO Mike Rappaport had an entry-level gig where he learned how to code.
In 1985, Rappaport took a "gopher" job at ATD American, a manufacturing and distribution center where his dad worked. He ran errands and other minor tasks until an opportunity arose to develop software: By the end of the summer he had created a sales system that the company would be using for several years.
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Some high school and college friends helped him pedal the code-fueled football pool across campuses for commissions. Though the one-off enterprise was fun and profitable, by 1992 Rappaport settled down with his first official company: a software subsidiary of ATD called Skylight Systems, which ultimately led him to create Chariot Solutions in 2002.
Rappaport has long since put his pool-running days behind him. "These days it's more like fantasy football," he said. "I've been in my current league for over 20 years!"
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Robert Andrews Millikan (Morrison, Illinois, 1868. március 22. – San Marino, Kalifornia, 1953. december 19.) amerikai kísérleti fizikus, aki 1923-ban elnyerte a fizikai Nobel-díjat az elektron töltésének megméréséért, és a fotoeffektussal kapcsolatos munkájáért. Később a kozmikus sugárzást tanulmányozta.

Származása

1868. március 22-én született az Illinois állambeli Morrisonban, mint Silas Franklin Millikan tiszteletes második fia. Anyja Mary Jane Andrews volt. Nagyszülei régi új-angliaiak voltak, akik 1750 előtt vándoroltak be Amerikába, és pionír-telepesek voltak a középnyugaton. Millikan gyerekkorában vidéki életet élt és a Maquoketa High School-ba járt Iowa-ban. Rövid ideig bírósági jegyzőkönyvvezetőként dolgozott.

Tanulmányai

Millikan az Oberlin College-ban szerzett bakkalaureátus fokozatot klasszikus humán szakon 1891-ben és – ott elsőként – fizikai doktorátust a Columbia Egyetemen 1895-ben. Önéletrajzában magyarázta el, miért nyergelt át a fizikára:

"A második tanév végén […] görög professzorom […] megkért, hogy tanítsak elemi fizikát az előkészítő tanszéken a következő évben. Amikor azt mondtam, hogy én nem tudok semmit fizikából, azt válaszolta, 'Bárki, aki jó a görög óráimon, tud fizikát tanítani.' 'Rendben,' mondtam 'önnek kell majd vállalnia a következményeket, de megpróbálom és meglátjuk, mire megyek.' Azonnal megvettem Avery könyvét, a Fizika alapjai-t, és 1889-es nyári vakációm nagyobb részét otthon töltöttem…és igyekeztem alaposan megtanulni a témát. […] Kétlem, hogy életemben valaha is jobban tanítottam, mint első fizikakurzusomon 1889-ben. Oly intenzíven elkötelezett voltam abban, hogy tudásom a csoporté előtt tartsam, hogy talán átragadt rájuk valami az én érdeklődésemből és lelkesedésemből."

Millikan lelkesedése a tanítás iránt fennmaradt egész pályafutása során, és – Henry Gordon Gale-lel – szerzőtársa volt egy népszerű és nagy hatású tankönyvsorozatnak, ami sok tekintetben megelőzte korát. Más korabeli könyvekkel összehasonlítva úgy kezelték a tárgyat, ahogy a fizikusok gondolkodtak róla. Sok házi feladatot is belevettek, amik elvi kérdéseket tettek fel, és nemcsak képletek mechanikus alkalmazását igényelték.

Az elektron töltése

A Chicagói Egyetem professzoraként 1910-ben publikálta olajcseppkísérletének első eredményeit, amivel megmérte egyetlen elektron töltését. Azóta ezt a kísérletet változó eredménnyel fizikushallgatók generációi ismételték meg. Az ún. elemi töltés egyike az alapvető fizikai állandóknak, és pontos ismeretének nagy a fontossága. Kísérletében a gravitációs erő ellenében két elektróda között elektromos erőtérrel olajcseppecskéket "függesztett fel". Az elektromos tér ismeretében a csepp töltését meg tudta határozni, és kimutatta, hogy az eredmény megmagyarázható, mint egy közös érték (-1,592×10−19 coulomb, az elektron töltése) egész számú többszöröse. Ez egy kicsit kisebb érték, mint az elemi töltés modern értéke (-1,60217653×10−19 coulomb), ami valószínűleg a levegő viszkozitásának akkor használt pontatlan értéke miatt lehet.

Vita

Nem sokkal később Felix Ehrenhaft "szabadúszó fizikus" azt állította, hogy hasonló kísérletet végezve ő kisebb töltést mért, mint Millikan elemi töltése. Ehrenhaft szerint e "változékonysága" az éterelméletet és a szubelektronok létezését támogatja. Ez Millikant további kísérletsorozatra ösztönözte, aminek eredményét 1913-ban publikálta, ebben eredeti eredményét megerősítette. Ez vitához vezetett, mivel bár Millikan a publikációban kijelentette, hogy nem válogatott cseppeket használt, hanem 60 napon keresztül az összes megfigyelt cseppet, laborjegyzőkönyvei viszont 175 cseppről tanúskodtak 1911. november 11. és 1912. április 16. között. Az eredményhez viszont csak 58-at használt fel.

A reakció bősz volt, mivel a jegyzőkönyv olyan kifejezéseket tartalmaz, mint "nagyon lassú, valami nem jó" és "ez majdnem pontosan helyes, a legjobb, amim csak volt". Azonban ezek egyikét sem használta adatként a számításhoz. Bár megvádolták csalással és beteges tudománnyal, mások szerint kísérleti éleslátását és személyes szakértelmét használta fel arra, hogy helyes fizikai alapokon eldobja a megbízhatatlan megfigyeléseket. Goodstein szerint a kutatások azt mutatják, hogy adatainak összessége nem vezet lényegesen más eredményre.

Fotoeffektus

Amikor Albert Einstein 1906-ban publikálta termékeny hatású cikkét a fény részecskeelméletéről, Millikan meg volt győződve róla, hogy az nem lehet helyes a sok bizonyíték miatt, ami azt mutatta, hogy a fény hullámtermészetű. Évtizedes kísérleti programba kezdett, hogy tesztelje Einstein elméletét, ami – ahogy ő mondta – "egy műhely megépítését igényelte vákuumban", hogy a fotoelektróda nagyon tiszta fémfelületét előállítsa. Eredményei Einstein jóslatát minden részletében megerősítették, de Millikant ez nem győzte meg Einstein radikális magyarázatáról, és ahogy 1916-ban írta: "Einstein fotoelektromos egyenlete … megítélésem szerint nem tekinthető úgy, mint ami bármilyen értelemben kielégítő elméleti alapokon nyugszik", még ha "az történetesen nagyon pontosan leírja" a fotoeffektus "viselkedését". 1950-es önéletrajzában mindazonáltal kijelentette, hogy az ő munkája "aligha enged meg más interpretációt, mint amit Einstein eredetileg javasolt, nevezetesen a fény szemikorpuszkuláris, azaz fotonelméletét magát."

Mivel Millikan munkája maga is formálta a modern részecskefizika alapjait, ironikus, hogy meglehetősen konzervatív volt a véleménye a fizika 20. századi fejlődésével, mint például a fotonelmélettel kapcsolatban. Másik példa 1927-es könyve, ami kétségtelennek tartja az éter létezését, és Einstein relativitáselméletét csak egy diplomatikus lábjegyzetben említi az Einsteinről szóló fejezet végén az eredmények listáján, mint aki "a speciális relativitáselmélet szerzője 1905-ben, és az általános relativitáselméleté 1914-ben, amelyek nagy sikerrel magyaráztak meg másképpen meg nem magyarázható jelenségeket és jósoltak meg újakat."

Későbbi élete

1917-ben George Ellery Hale csillagász meggyőzte Millikant, hogy minden évben töltsön néhány hónapot a Throop College of Technologyban, egy kis pasadenai kutatóintézetben Kaliforniában, amit Hale fontos tudományos és oktatóközponttá akart fejleszteni. Néhány évvel később a Throop College-ból lett a California Institute of Technology (a "Caltech"), és Millikan otthagyta Chicagót, hogy a Caltech végrehajtó tanácsának elnöke legyen. 1921-1945 között szolgált e poszton. A Caltechen kutatómunkáját a kozmikus sugárzásra – a kifejezést ő maga találta ki – összpontosította. 1927 körül Freidrich Hunddal közösen megalkotta a kvantumviselkedéssel kapcsolatos Millikan–Hund-elméletet. Az 1930-as években vitába szállt Arthur Comptonnal a kozmikus sugárzás mibenlétéről, hogy vajon az fotonokból (Millikan nézete) vagy töltött részecskékből (Compton nézete) áll-e. Millikan szerint a kozmikus fotonok az atomok "születéskori felsírásai" voltak, amiket Isten folyamatosan teremtett, hogy ellensúlyozza az entrópiát és megakadályozza az Univerzum halálát. Végül Comptont igazolták azok a megfigyelések, miszerint a Föld mágneses tere eltéríti a kozmikus sugárzást, azaz töltött részecskékből kell állnia. Ma tudjuk, hogy a kozmikus sugárzásban vannak fotonok is.

Magánéletében Millikan szenvedélyes teniszjátékos volt. Nős volt, három fia született, akik közül a legidősebb, Clark B. Millikan, kiemelkedő aerodinamikai mérnök lett.

1953-ban halt meg kaliforniai otthonában, San Marinóban, és Glendale-ben temették el.

További információk
 A Nobelprize.org hivatalos oldalán
 Millikan életrajz rengeteg képpel (angol)
 "Famous Iowans," by Tom Longdon

Amerikai fizikusok
Nobel-díjas fizikusok
1868-ban született személyek
1953-ban elhunyt személyek
Amerikai Nobel-díjasok
A Francia Természettudományi Akadémia tagjai
Amerikai egyetemi, főiskolai oktatók

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Gary Schiltz to retire, Tom Vipond becomes new GM
Gary Schiltz will retire this month after 40 years, most recently as general manager. He was instrumental in establishing KOFAB and PFI as household names in the food processing industry. We thank him for his tremendous leadership.
Tom Vipond has been named the new general manager, effective Jan. 3, 2022. He spent 20 years in various roles at PFI, and recently returned after a brief departure.
"I've met and worked with many outstanding individuals during my tenure here. My thanks to all who've contributed to PFI's success over the years," said Schiltz. "I'm leaving the company in the extremely capable hands of Tom Vipond, whose vast experience in the food industry, much of it with PFI, will be invaluable as the company navigates the future."
"I'm beyond excited to lead PFI into its next chapter," said Vipond. "My focus will be on continuing to grow the company while providing outstanding customer service and leading with empathy. Gary leaves some very big shoes to fill, but I'm looking forward to the challenge."


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Home/Environment/Some 14 million tonnes of microplastics pollute ocean floor: study
Some 14 million tonnes of microplastics pollute ocean floor: study
Sydney, Australia, Oct 6 (efe-epa).- There are about 14 million tonnes of microplastics on the seafloor, an Australian study published on Tuesday revealed.
This is 25 times higher than what previous studies had shown.
"Our research found that the deep ocean is a sink for microplastics," said Denise Hardesty, Principal Research Scientist and co-author of the study conducted by the Australian government agency responsible for scientific research, CSIRO.
The study, which is the first ever global estimate for microplastics on the seafloor, also reveals that the number of these small particles of plastic at the bottom of the oceans is generally higher in areas where there is a greater amount of floating garbage, even in remote parts of the planet.
"The results show microplastics are indeed sinking to the ocean floor," said Justine Barrett from CSIRO's Oceans and Atmosphere who led the study.
"Even the deep ocean is susceptible to the plastic pollution problem," she added.
The study by the CSIRO scientists carried out using a robotic submarine, which collected samples off the coast of southern Australia at a depth of three kilometers (1.86 miles), indicates that the amount of plastic on the seafloor is 25 times higher than previously believed, according to the statement released by the agency.
Based on the results of the density of the plastics found in the deep ocean offshore from South Australia and scaling up to the size of the ocean, the researchers estimated the total amount of microplastics on the seafloor around the world to be about 14 million tonnes.
Experts estimate that at least eight million tonnes of plastic is dumped into the sea every year, which after decomposing become tiny particles that are ingested by fish and even the phytoplankton that form the base of the marine food chain.
Hardesty said that plastic pollution of the world's oceans was a globally recognized environmental problem and that "by identifying where and how much microplastic there is, we get a better picture of the extent of the problem."
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Brazil's Amazon has over 800 clandestine airstrips on indigenous lands: study
Protest in southern Mexico calls for protection of water ecosystems
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Bing has started to increasingly incorporate several Facebook features to rewards its users with an improved browsing experience. You can now search for photos using Bing that have been shared by your own friends on Facebook.
While Bing had already introduced the facility to tag friends on Facebook in the search results, the photo search feature is yet another step towards integrating Facebook with its own search engine. The photos of friends related to the search were earlier displayed on a side bar on the right of your screen.
However, the enhanced feature now offers you a chance to click on the chosen image to view that photo album through Bing itself. In addition, you can also browse through your own galleries as well as tagged photos. You can also post comments as well as share that image.
You merely need to click on the chosen photo to expand it while comments will be displayed on the side bar on the right. However, Bing will only display photos that have been permitted to do so by Facebook users. Thus, you and your friends will be able to view photos only if all privacy settings are satisfied.
Facebook had stressed after a study that less than 17 percent of your friends observe your postings on your wall. Bing's new photo integration feature will ensure that both you as well as your friends will be able to share a lot more than before from a single search result instead of visiting different sites.
Bing continues to add vital features as well as improve its services for faster searching by its users. However, you need to remain on track while searching for photos or data since returning back to your base search can often become a problem once you enter too deep into the maze of the results data.
Bing has certainly gone afar in delivering much more than simple search results to its users. Its integration with Facebook and other innovative solutions will certainly propel this search engine's popularity to new heights.


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It generates floating iframe on the web page.
It can read another page as dialog(floating iframe) on main page.

## Usage
You need to make 2 files for main page and dialog page.

#### dialog page
Make dialog html page as you like.
For example,
```
<html>
<head><title>dialog</title></head>
<body>
<h2>dialog</h2>
</body>
</html>
```

#### main page
Set element name to function.
```
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function() {
    floating_frame.action(".floating_frame");
});
</script>
```

Make anchor link and set url of dialog page to `data-href` and set same element name as function's one.
```
<a href="javascript:void(0);" class="floating_frame" data-href="dialog.html">click here!!</a>
```

Click this anchor link, then dialog page appears as floating iframe on main page.

## Examples
- see [examples](https://github.com/Esfahan/floating-frame/tree/master/examples)

## License
- see [LICENSE file](https://github.com/Esfahan/floating-frame/blob/master/LICENSE)


I feel like this has been covered ages ago, but nevertheless. Not quite scanning, but I have some Motorolla GP328 and DP 3601 radios that need some programming tweaked. Names of channels etc. Is this something I can do myself by downloading some form of software from somewhere - or does it have to go through a registered dealer?
Don't have to go through a Motorola dealer but it's advisable to get this done professionally. You'll need the software, a RIB (Radio Interface Box) and the software.


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Q: Does the keys appended to a dictionary vary depending on python machine/env I started practicing codefights recently, its supposed to be a great practice space for online interview questions.
Problem being, this is my solution in python for a simple question on finding the first non repeating character in a string :
def firstNotRepeatingCharacter(s):
    d = dict()
    for i in range(len(s)):
        key = s[i]
        print d
        if key in d:
            d[key] += 1
        else:
            d[key] = 1
    found = '_'
    for key in d:
        if d[key] == 1:
            found = key
            break
    return found

which when I run on my local jupyter notebook gives me the following output :
firstNotRepeatingCharacter('abacabad')

{}
{'a': 1}
{'a': 1, 'b': 1}
{'a': 2, 'b': 1}
{'a': 2, 'b': 1, 'c': 1}
{'a': 3, 'b': 1, 'c': 1}
{'a': 3, 'b': 2, 'c': 1}
{'a': 4, 'b': 2, 'c': 1}
Out[89]:
'c'

Which is awesome. That is the answer.
However running the same on codefights  env gives an error:

So my question being, I being a python noob, the append in a dictionary does it add keys to random place or is it in an orderly fashion ??
Or the output difference is because of some difference in the python env of the jupyter noteboook and their online compiler.

A: It's not stored in order. You can try using OrderedDict https://docs.python.org/3/library/collections.html#collections.OrderedDict

A: You can use collections.Counter to count character occurrences.
Since the keys in a dictionary have no order, you need to loop over the string:
import collections

def first_singleton(s):
    counter = collections.Counter(s)
    for c in s:
        if counter[c] == 1:
            return c
    return None

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The Happy Day
From McClure's Magazine Vol. XXI No. 1 (May, 1903)
On Ascension Day, Eli, his wife Josephine, their two children, the boy and girl, and Josephine's mother, made a little excursion to Paris. They were dressed in their holiday clothes, shabby enough to all except the wearers. For them those old, time-worn, weather-beaten garments had a glamour of past as well as present festivity, which caused them to glimmer here and there, as with threads of gold and silver, under the lights of happy memory. A fruit stain on Josephine's frock was associated with a rollicking day in the Bois de Boulogne and a luncheon of new milk and cherries, a paint spot on Eli's coat brought reminiscences of ecstacies of observation in the Jardin des Plantes, and both were to be regarded as decorations of the creation-old order of childish joy of life rather than blemishes.
The humble family had that same simple loyalty toward their poor little possessions which they had toward one another. Josephine smoothed Eli's old coat, and said, lovingly, how fine it looked, as good as new after all these years, and Eli eyed with a sort of veneration the perennial flower in Josephine's hat, while both parents and the grandmother glanced constantly with rapture at the little ones, who were decked out wonderfully in some precious odds and ends. The grandmother, small and old, but alert, like an aged sparrow whose coat might rust, while its wing-power had not begun to run down, looked at everybody and everything; herself, her children, and the day, as with a quick jerk of assenting approbation.
All the country was dim beneath shifting folds of mist when they started that morning on the little river steamer for Paris, but they did not object to that. They seated themselves on the deck aft, in a radiant semicircle of content. Their mouths described upward bows of delight, their eyes were boldly confidential with joy. Their rustic faces, except the grandmother's, which was like an ivory hieroglyphic of past happiness, deepening, as one watched, by that of the present, gleamed as with a pale freshness of flowers, through the mist. They looked at the strangers around them with a sort of challenge, which was at once charming and pathetic. "Look at us!" they seemed to cry, "Look, how happy! Pit your happiness against ours, if you dare!"
Josephine laughed with the abandon of a child when some raindrops blew in her face.
"So much better than the hot sunshine!" said she.
The grandmother also laughed, though there was a chill in her old bones; she was not able to comprehend it at the same time with her happiness. She extended her black skirt over the blue holiday frock of the little girl, and did not feel the damp wind in her thin knees.
Eli carried a large lunch basket. They were to stay the whole of that blessed Ascension Day, and they were to do a wonderful and unprecedented thing. They would do no less: Eli, Josephine, the grandmother, and the little ones, than to go to the great, the superb Exposition of all the Nations, with the glories of which Paris and all the world rang. They would go as well as the rest. Eli had been saving the money for a long time.
When the little party reached the Porte Monumentale, they all bent their necks backward like geese and stared up at the gaudy blue arch topped with that artless Frivolity of Paris, and they drew long breaths. The grandmother laid a hand on each of the children's heads, and held them forcibly with their round-eyed, innocent faces upturned in the true slant of observation.
"Look, Louis; look, Marie! See what thine eyes have never seen before and will never see again, and remember until the day of thy death, 'tis the Porte Monumentale, 'tis the great entrance to the great Exposition of Paris. Look, look!"
"Yes, look, both of you, and remember," acquiesced Josephine, and Eli turned his eyes from the gate to the upturned faces of his children, and nodded admonishingly and smiled, for he seemed to see in their round eyes the image of the whole reflected to greater glory.
Then Eli approached the office to purchase the admission tickets, with his family pressing close to his heels lest they be separated. How dreadful it would be should that happen, and some other woman pass in on Eli's ticket! Josephine cast a sidewise eye of suspicion at a stout woman in a jetted cape, who was pushing up ponderously in the rear, with a blank face, as averted from any alertness of purpose as a cow's. Then Josephine contracted her brows fiercely, set her mouth, drove her sharp elbow relentlessly into the soft bulk of the woman, and wedged herself in front of her. The woman expressed her mind with husky volubility. Josephine leaned back imperceptibly against her, and did not turn, but smiled triumphantly against the shoulders of Eli's holiday coat.
When the tickets were bought, Eli strutted into the grounds, Josephine keeping resolutely at his side, with the girl holding to a fold of her skirt, while the grandmother, with the boy in hand, brought up the rear.
Then the glory of the occasion began to wax toward its full. They trudged about from one wonder to another. They halted suddenly, as if at a word of command, before a statue in the avenue; they ranged themselves in an awestruck tableau before a new palace. They entered a grand portal hesitatingly, and passed between the glittering spectacles, huddled together, half with fear, half with ecstacy. They eyed the uniformed attendants with apologetic deference. They were not quite convinced that their admission fees entitled them to so much. They would have melted meekly away at a wave of a hand in a gold-laced cuff.
When they reached the Venetian glass exhibit, the grandmother caught her breath and turned quite pale. This poor old daughter of a humble line, confronted by this array of costly and fragile splendor, could at first comprehend only that inseparable minor note of all human achievements: destruction. She had possessed so little that the possibility of loss pushed always between the object and the full grasp of her soul.
She gathered her cloak and her skirts tightly around her with one hand, she held the boy in a firm clutch with the other.
"Do not touch, Louis," she hissed in his ear. "See you not what it says? Do not touch."
Josephine also drew her garments about her, and said to the little girl that she must be careful.
As for Eli, he passed with stiffened body, but his very soul bent low before this dazzle of unwonted preciousness.
While they were before the Venetian glass, an American purchased a superb piece, and the card marked "Vendu" was hung upon it. All the members of the little family turned their open faces like a clump of homely flowers toward the American.
The vase had cost one thousand francs. Who must he be who could pay one thousand francs for a single little vase? Generations of Eli's simple race had never at one time owned as much money as that, and to see it paid for a vase which one could dash to worthless fragments with a blow! They were dazzled, they experienced an exhilaration of spirit as if they had tasted strong wine. Come, this was tasting life to see a man purchase a thousand-franc vase! They looked at one another, they nodded, and laughed. Their eyes flashed. They were happier than the man who had bought the vase, they had more for nothing. They had driven the one successful bargain of the poor with the rich in all life.
When the clock struck noon, and it was time for luncheon, the rain was falling in a solid slant.
"It will lay the dust," Josephine said, smiling. "It might have been dusty otherwise."
The grandmother nodded. She held a corner of her cloak over the boy's cap. Josephine drew a corner of hers over the girl, who had in her hat an end of blue ribbon forked like a bird's wing, which might spot.
Eli found a beautiful dry place in a corner of an arcade of an unfinished building. No workmen were about on Ascension Day, and they were not disturbed.
Once an attendant passing by looked at them doubtfully, then went on with a friendly nod. He had figured in similar parties himself, and knew the disadvantages of rain.
Josephine and the grandmother spread out the luncheon, which was sumptuous; a bottle of red and one of white wine, a long twist of bread, slices of cold ragout of mutton, salad, and cheese. They ate as if that new savor of the beautiful which they that day apprehended extended to their food. The children especially never believed that the bread was like that which they usually ate, and the thin wine might have been bottled in Paradise. They discovered in it long after-tastes of wonderful flavors.
Their spirits were not in the least affected because they could not lunch under the trees as they had planned. They thought this much pleasanter. They chattered like blackbirds as they ate, filling the air with a silvery splutter of merriment. They were so unreservedly gay that one might have questioned if they had ever known sorrow, yet their ancestors had starved on the starved land before the Revolution, and there had been nothing except poverty and privation in their own lot. But they had kept untarnished and unscathed through it all, as if it had been a precious family jewel, their power to make merry and keep holidays in the midst of their ceaseless pilgrimage through the valley of shadows.
It rained hard the rest of the day; at five o'clock they took the steamer for home. When they went on board there was no room under the awning on the forward deck, but they only laughed.
"If the sun shone it would put our eyes out," said Josephine.
A man on the deck aft, where they settled themselves, had a brown dog in a leash, and he had crawled under the bench, which put an idea into the grandmother's head:
"Creep under the bench, both of you," she said to the children.
"Yes, creep under the bench, 'twill keep you dry," said Josephine.
She caught Marie's blue skirt by the hem and turned it up over her head, and the child looked like an inverted bluebell. Then the boy and girl crept under the bench with the brown dog, who was friendly, and all the family laughed at the exquisite joke of it.
The banks of the old river, rosy and green and purple with new bloom, showed faintly through the heavy slant of the rain. The decks were glossy with wet. The fog and smoke waved overhead like shifting wings, everything was dull and dark, and it was cold, too, for the season. But Eli and his family in their poor, dripping holiday garments beamed, entrenched in their own indomitable sunshine of temperament.
And each of them carried home an especial treasure, fitting his or her especial needs, from the great Exposition.
Eli had to keep for the glorification of his whole future life the gaudy image of the Porte Monumentale, with the Frivolity of Paris at the summit. He was one whom a first impression stamped too deeply for erasure by others, and that was what he carried away with him.
Josephine gloated over a splendid court dress, foaming with lace, and glittering with silver over long lights of satin, in which her spirit would go clad, until earthly imaginations became a blank to her. The boy led home in triumph a toy-bear which walked and grunted, and the girl hugged close a flaxen-haired doll, who was a princess living in the French Palace of Diverse Industries. But it was the old grandmother who bore homeward the strangest treasure of all. She had paused, gaping and speechless, before a wonderful piece of embroidery by a patient artist of Japan. There she saw pictured gray, plumed geese, with long, curving necks, a-swim in a pool of satin needlework, and her imagination leapt to true life for the first time. The old woman had tended geese in her childhood, she fed and plucked them now, that being a labor suited to her later as well as her earlier years. Geese had always been for her the symbol of toil. Now she was able through that marvel of Japanese art to idealize her poor, common daily life. She sat on the deck of the river steamer, old and poor, dripping with rain which gleamed on her thin face like tears, but she looked out at the radiance which she had that day discovered over her life, and she laughed and chattered like a young girl out of the pure exuberance of her joy. And the others laughed and chattered with her, for the great inertia of happiness possessed them all.


Filmed at Urban Outfitters, Manchester, I was commissioned by Adidas to capture the fun creativity of the event and to deliver an edit which would appeal to the demographic of the attending audience.
All works © Russell Agro 2012. Please do not reproduce without the expressed written consent of Russell Agro.


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