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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (often abbreviated PNAS or PNAS USA) is a peer-reviewed multidisciplinary scientific journal. It is the official journal of the National Academy of Sciences, published since 1915, and publishes original research, scientific reviews, commentaries, and letters. According to Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2018 impact factor of 9.58.[1]PNAS is the second most cited scientific journal, with more than 1.9 million cumulative citations from 2008-2018.[2] In the lay press, PNAS has been described variously as "prestigious",[3][4] "sedate",[5] "renowned",[6] and "high impact".[7]
PNAS is a delayed open access journal, with an embargo period of 6 months that can be bypassed for an author fee (hybrid open access). Since September 2017, open access articles are published under a Creative Commons license. Since January 2019, PNAS is online-only, although print issues are available on-demand.
PNAS was established by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in 1914,[note 1][8][9]:30 with its first issue published in 1915. The NAS itself had been founded in 1863 as a private institution, but chartered by the United States Congress, with the goal to "investigate, examine, experiment, and report upon any subject of science or art".
Prior to the inception of PNAS, the National Academy of Sciences published three volumes of organizational transactions, consisting mostly of minutes of meetings and annual reports. For much of the journal's history, PNAS published brief first announcements of Academy members' and associates' contributions to research.[10] In December 1995,[11]PNAS opened submissions to all authors without first needing to be sponsored by an NAS member.
Members were allowed to communicate up to two papers from non-members to PNAS every year. The review process for these papers was anonymous in that the identities of the referees were not revealed to the authors. Referees were selected by the NAS member.[10][12][13]PNAS eliminated communicated submissions through NAS members as of July 1, 2010[update], while continuing to make the final decision on all PNAS papers.[14]
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In 2003, PNAS issued an editorial stating its policy on publication of sensitive material in the life sciences.[15]PNAS stated that it would "continue to monitor submitted papers for material that may be deemed inappropriate and that could, if published, compromise the public welfare." This statement was in keeping with the efforts of several other journals.[16][17] In 2005 PNAS published an article titled "Analyzing a bioterror attack on the food supply: The case of botulinum toxin in milk",[18] despite objections raised by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.[19] The paper was published with a commentary by the president of the Academy at the time, Bruce Alberts, titled "Modeling attacks on the food supply".[20]
The following people have been editors-in-chief of the journal:
1914-1918: Arthur A. Noyes
1918-1940: Raymond Pearl
1940-1949: Robert A. Millikan
1950-1955: Linus Pauling
1955-1960: Wendell M. Stanley
1960-1968: Saunders Mac Lane
1968-1972: John T. Edsall
1972-1980: Robert Louis Sinsheimer[21]
1980-1984: Daniel E. Koshland, Jr.
1985-1988: Maxine Singer
1988-1991: Igor B. Dawid
1991-1995: Lawrence Bogorad
1995-2006: Nicholas R. Cozzarelli
2006-2011: Randy Schekman
2011-2017: Inder Verma[22]
2018-2019: Natasha Raikhel
2019-present: May Berenbaum
The first managing editor of the journal was mathematician Edwin Bidwell Wilson.
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^ Lear, John (August 11, 1986). "On Our Knees". The Gettysburg Times. Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. p. 4 – via Newspapers.com.
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^ Fersht, Alan (May 3, 2005). "Editorial: How and why to publish in PNAS". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 102 (18): 6241-6242. doi:10.1073/pnas.0502713102. PMC 1088396. PMID 16576766.
^ Garfield, Eugene (September 7, 1987). "Classic Papers from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences" (PDF). Essays of an Information Scientist. 10 (36): 247. Retrieved 2007.
^ Schekman, Randy (2009). "PNAS will eliminate Communicated submissions in July 2010". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106 (37): 15518. Bibcode:2009PNAS..10615518S. doi:10.1073/pnas.0909515106. PMC 2747149.
^ Cozzarelli, Nicholas R. (2003). "PNAS policy on publication of sensitive material in the life sciences". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 100 (4): 1463. Bibcode:2003PNAS..100.1463C. doi:10.1073/pnas.0630514100. PMC 149849. PMID 12590130.
^ Harmon, Amy (February 16, 2003). "Journal Editors to Consider U.S. Security in Publishing". Archives. The New York Times.
^ Fauber, John (February 16, 2003). "Science articles to be censored in terror fight". Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
^ Wein, L. M. (2005). "Analyzing a bioterror attack on the food supply: The case of botulinum toxin in milk". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 102 (28): 9984-9989. Bibcode:2005PNAS..102.9984W. doi:10.1073/pnas.0408526102. PMC 1161865. PMID 15985558.
^ "Provocative report on bioterror online". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. June 29, 2005.
^ Alberts, B. (2005). "Modeling attacks on the food supply". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 102 (28): 9737-9738. Bibcode:2005PNAS..102.9737A. doi:10.1073/pnas.0504944102. PMC 1175018. PMID 15985557.
^ Sinsheimer, Robert L. (August 29, 1976). "Caution May Be an Essential Scientific Virtue". Los Angeles Times. XCV (270). p. IV:5 – via Newspapers.com. Robert L. Sinsheimer is head of Caltech's biology division and chairman of the editorial board of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
^ Robbins, Gary (December 28, 2017), "Renowned Salk Institute scientist loses a top post due to gender discrimination claims", Los Angeles Times
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We, the parents and family members of the St. Brigid School Community, are heartbroken at the unilateral decision to close our school. We are also angry at the process which kept families completely in the dark until decisions were made, decisions that have a huge impact on our lives and the lives of our children.
St. Brigid Families are all ALL invited to join us this Sunday at St. Brigid Church, 8th Street and Avenue B, at 10am for Sunday Mass. Community discussion and planning meeting to follow at St. Brigid School Cafeteria.


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Along with other administration work, the Secretaries deal with all of the Doctors' referrals to the Hospitals, and liaise directly with Hospital staff regarding any queries for appointments, admission dates, etc. If you have any problems about your referral they will be pleased to help.
The part-time Computer Administrators are responsible for inputting new patients' records onto the computer system and updating records, as necessary, e.g. Consultants' letters.
Our Receptionists have a very demanding job. They are usually your first point of contact and are a valuable source of information. Please be patient if you are kept waiting or appear to be asked some apparently irritating questions as we need to assess the urgency of some calls and ensure full details are available to the G.P. who will probably be carrying out the consultations.
The District Nurses care for patients in their own homes, advising patients on nursing problems and self-care, and showing carers how to cope in their absence. Duties range from injections and dressings to caring for the terminally ill. Wound Clinics are held at the Rosedale Community Centre. Contact number is 01482 344450.
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The team dispense prescriptions/medication and deal with patients' queries. Any queries the dispensary staff are unable to deal with will be passed on to the Pharmacist or a GP for further action.


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In November 2009, a panel of experts formed to provide guidelines on preventative healthcare presented startlingly different mammogram recommendations than those, which American women have been receiving for years.
The recommendation most women receive is, "If you're 40 or over, have a mammogram every year or two." Some agencies even go so far as to recommend yearly mammograms. Now, the United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommends that women ages 50 to 74 who are at average risk for getting breast cancer undergo a routine mammogram every two years. And the panel does not recommend mammograms for women under fifty if their risk of breast cancer is normal.
Radiation exposure (the same type as that used in a mammogram) is a known risk factor for the development of breast cancer.
Mammograms will miss approximately 20 percent of the breast cancers that are present at the time of screening (false-negatives) meaning that the woman is exposed to the radiation and discomfort of the mammogram for no benefit.
Some studies show that women have a 30 percent chance of receiving a false positive diagnosis from a mammogram, meaning this original mammogram may be followed by a diagnostic mammogram (more radiation exposure) or ultrasound. One study following 2,400 women over a ten-year period reported an additional 539 mammograms in that period due to positive results. But only 58 mammograms actually identified cancers.
When a woman receives a false positive, a study has shown that this false report causes anxiety that may not be dispelled by a correction of the diagnosis. A phone survey of 68 women three months after they received a "suspicious" result from a mammogram showed that one-quarter of them were still worried about the false diagnosis, and that worry was affecting their mood or functioning.
The key to health is finding a competent physician who is not trigger-happy with drugs, radiation and invasive procedures, and working with him or her to develop a sound plan to stay healthy.


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Arthur: Kids Are from Earth, Parents Are from Pluto: A Marc Brown Arthur Chapter Book 36 by Marc Brown
Marc Tolon Brown is perhaps best known for his series of childrens books about Arthur the aardvark, which was turned into an animated television show on PBS. Brown is a three-time Emmy Award winner, for his role on the television show inspired by his books.
He lives on Marthas Vineyard and in New York City with his wife, Laurie Krasny Brown. He has three children, sons Tolon and Tucker, and daughter Eliza. The names of his two sons have been hidden in all of the Arthur books except for one: Arthurs Tooth.
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The 5th season of the television series Arthur was originally broadcast on PBS in the United States from September 25 to November 27, and contains 10 episodes. The special "Arthur's Perfect Christmas" served as the finale to this season. Steven Crowder replaced Luke Reid as Brain. This is the last season where Michael Yarmush voices Arthur due to his voice changing. Starting in season 9, he returns to voice the character Slink, one of the Tough Customers. Weinberg as producer.
"Kids are from Earth, Parents are from Pluto " is the first half of the second episode in the fifth season of Arthur. Lakewood Elementary is hosting a Parents Open.
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Blackheath also drilled two initial holes BO 3 and BO 4 which did not intersect the Santa Helena Breccia, due to the dip of the contact of the breccia body with adjacent granitic host rocks and the inclination of the drill hole. Nonetheless, these two drill holes also intersected intermittent tungsten mineralization, which further increases management's belief in the Borralha Tungsten Project and the potential for further tungsten mineralization throughout the 127 km² mining concession. Hole BO 3 had intermittent anomalous WO3 between 15 and 61 metres and Hole BO 4 intersected 19 metres of 0.06% WO3 from 3 to 22 metres. Both holes were drilled at an inclination of 60°.


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Hi Nergal, it's partly to do with making people more aware of Cookies to Keep and partly to do with making this list easier to use.
Regarding saved passwords, websites differ in behaviour. Some design their password forms in a way the browser can recognise, in which case it gets stored to that part of browser storage. However, many websites store 'logged in' status in a cookie, so when you visit a website even if the browser has your credentials saved, some websites will not automatically log you back in.
The improvements we want to make are mainly about prompting first-time users to whitelist any websites they don't want to get logged out from, and also making it easy to do this in a single click.
We also want to make it easier for all users to whitelist their favourite websites. It's quite a painstaking process to find all the websites you want to whitelist in the Cookies to Keep list. We'd like to automate this process into one or two button clicks. One possible way to achieve this could be to ask if the user wants to whitelist their bookmarked websites. But there may be other good options - all suggestions welcome!
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Preparing Students for Manufacturing Jobs
Tour of Manufacturing provided glimpse into future.
Robb Murray, Mankato Free Press, 10-27-2013
Mankato, Minn. -- The Tour of Manufacturing of South Central Minnesota took place Saturday, with on-site tours of 11 different places of interest in the world of area manufacturing.
Crysteel Manufacturing, V-TEK, MTU Onsite Energy, Wells Concrete and other giants of local manufacturing were open for all to walk through, learn about and experience first hand.
But if you wanted a look at one aspect of the future of manufacturing, a good place to stop would have been Minnesota State University, Mankato's College of Science, Engineering and Technology. Whether you're interested in the latest technology in 3-D printing or speaking with the young men and women who will make up tomorrow's work force, Minnesota State Mankato was the place to be.
Kalysha Rivera, a Prior Lake native who came to Minnesota State Mankato because of the reputation of its manufacturing program, said her future is set.
"I already have a job," she said, "and I'm not even done with school yet."
She'll graduate soon and when she does she'll walk off the graduation ceremony stage and into her new full-time job.
What will make local manufacturing watchdogs even happier is that this new graduate — in addition to being a female in a male-dominated profession — is staying local.
Rivera already works part-time for EI Microcircuits, and when she's done with school that part-time job will become a full-time job. A local graduate staying local, another worker with skills obtained locally.
Rivera and other students were on hand at Minnesota State Mankato Saturday to demonstrate what they've been learning. With a few quick buttons, Rivera sets a robotic arm on the task of grabbing one wooden ball at a time from a grid, and placing it precisely where it's been programmed to set it.
The exercise is intended to mimic the process of a larger machine pulling objects from one area and placing them on to pallets, something common in the world of manufacturing. Getting a chance to work on this kind of equipment is what makes Minnesota State Mankato a great place to start training for a career in manufacturing, she says, and gives students a taste of what they'll see in the "real world."
Gender-wise, she says, she was a definite minority in her department. She said it was a little awkward at first, but she also said she never felt unwelcome in the department.
"I never had an issue," she said. "Everyone here is great."
Students like Rivera, if they too choose to stay local, have a vibrant manufacturing environment in which to plant themselves.
Jonathan Zierdt, president and CEO of Greater Mankato Growth, said manufacturing is an area where south central Minnesota does well — better, in fact, than many other areas of the state.
"Almost one in every four jobs are directly linked to manufacturing," he said. And when the jobs that manufacturing jobs support are factored in, it comes to roughly 60 percent of all area jobs have an either direct or indirect link to manufacturing.
"Manufacturing is a major economic driver," in south central Minnesota, Zierdt said.
Whether the public's perception keeps pace, however, is another question.
"I think people drive by and see a bunch of big buildings and don't really know what's going on," Zierdt said. "They're a major driver of the economy, a source of pride. And it also represents job opportunities."
According to the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development, 23 percent of all private-sector jobs in south central Minnesota come from manufacturing. As of 2012, nearly 20,000 were employed in manufacturing jobs. And those jobs, on average, pay better. Zierdt said the average weekly wages for manufacturing jobs is $835 for manufacturing jobs, versus the average of $695.
Elsewhere at Minnesota State Mankato, they're working on the cutting edge of 3-D printing technology.
Brian Martensen, the interim dean of the College of Science, Engineering and Technology, said the university tries to partner with area manufacturers to provide skilled graduates, such as Rivera, who can step right into a job with a decent wage. But they're also conducting research.
Minnesota State Mankato recently received a donation of a $150,000 3-D printer that creates, basically, whatever you tell it to create. Similar printers in the department work in wax and plastic.
The entire version of this story can be read in a print copy of the Mankato Free Press. Call the Mankato Free Press at 625-4451 or (800) 657-4662 to find out how to purchase a print copy. The Free Press also prints select stories online at www.mankatofreepress.com.


Alphabet's Nest is looking at a big, potential market for its technology: Seniors who want to age independently.
It has been in talks with senior living homes, sources say.
It's CTO Yoky Matsuoka is billed to speak at the largest senior housing conference in the fall.
Nest, a division of Google that sells home automation products, is exploring new products to help seniors live independently for as long as possible.
Several people familiar tell CNBC that the company has been approaching senior living facilities and experts in the aging space with a pitch about incorporating Nest's devices.
The company has floated a few ideas about how it could tweak its products for older Americans. One idea involves using its motion sensors to help people get to the bathroom in the middle of the night by automatically turning on lights, or notifying those who move around a lot in excessive heat that they might be at risk for dehydration.
Another area of exploration involves predicting potentially life-threatening falls. It's an ambitious long-term play, but companies with sensors in the home could potentially track changes in movement and other telltale signals before a fall.
The ideas are only in the discussion stage, and may not find their way into shipping products.
More than one million Americans live in assisted-living facilities today, a number that is expected to double by 2030 as the Baby Boomer generation ages. This demographic also has money to spend, which is why tech companies are looking at the space. CNBC has previously reported that Amazon is also considering technologies for "aging in place," which gives older Americans an opportunity to remain at home.
Nest products can already be useful in elder care, for instance by letting family members check in on loved ones through its camera products or letting only specific people into the home through its smart locks (like Meals on Wheels providers or caregivers). Nest's talks with aging experts have been ramping up in recent months, say several sources familiar with the conversations.
Grant Wedner is one of the lead people who has been spearheading efforts in this area, two people said. Before joining Google, Wedner was a senior director at design consulting firm IDEO where he led partnerships for its health portfolio and spent time looking at end-of-life experiences. He's also on the board of several healthcare companies, according to his LinkedIn.
The upcoming conference schedule of Nest's chief technology officer, Yoky Matsuoka, also hints at the company's ambitions: She's a featured speaker at the National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care's fall conference, talking about how technology can impact the future of aging.
Spokespeople for Nest declined to comment and Wedner couldn't be immediately be reached for comment.
Nest, which Google acquired for $3.2 billion in 2014, had been its own company under Google-parent Alphabet, but rolled back into Google in February. The move was meant to bring more cohesion between Nest's smart home products, like its home security system and smart thermostat, and Google's artificial intelligence software, including its smart assistant. In July, the division formally moved onto the Google Home team, which creates smart speakers and other living room products, and Nest's former CEO, Marwan Fawaz, stepped down.
This reorganization could also affect the prioritization of elder-care related features.
Outside Google, several smart camera startups are seeing early successes in the aging space. CNBC spoke to a few that didn't intend to get into aging, but saw opportunities after they started shipping products for other purposes. Aging experts say that's a promising approach, as seniors often don't opt to use products that are specifically targeted to them, with a preference for mainstream consumer products that are easy for them to use.
Lighthouse AI, which makes a camera with 3-dimensional sensors that anyone can control with simple commands, launched as a security product, but the company says many of its customers use it to help loved ones age at home. For example, a user could set up cameras in a relative's home and set an alert for the device if there's no movement for a long stretch of time. The camera's two-way speaker could be used to check on the user's mental status and combat loneliness.
Another smart-camera startup, Cherry, is launching a pilot with home care network Tri-Cura to dispatch caregivers if something seems off, via a 24/7 video feed.
"I see a lot of potential if that kind of device could interact every day, asking the person how they are doing, feeling, what their activity level is, how they are eating, said" Victoria Kulli, a registered nurse who works with seniors in Pittsburgh, and a resident fellow at the Jewish Healthcare Foundation. "It's easy to see and identify deterioration quickly."
But many of Kulli's patients are low-income and she warns that these companies will need to take the time to help with setup and installation. And they might run into issues with seniors who lack Internet access, or can't afford smart devices throughout the home.
Overall, though, experts see a lot of opportunity for tech companies in the space.
"We have more and more older adults and proportionally fewer family members to take care of them," said Seth Sternberg, co-founder and CEO of a home care start-up called Honor, and a former Google product manager. "In-home devices like Fitbit or Nest really should come together with in-house services to dramatically reduce the cost of care to the elderly and the family-members who support them."


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Fashion Isn't Ready for the Regulation Coming for It
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For the last two years, LVMH has been gearing up to provide consumers with unprecedented levels of information about where and how its clothes and shoes are made.
Across its brands, from Louis Vuitton and Dior to Celine and Loewe, the French luxury titan is pushing to unravel complex supply chains, trace the origins of its products and pin down granular data needed to comply with an oncoming wave of regulation aimed at addressing fashion's environmental impact. It's a huge undertaking to track the information across houses and products, and it's still a work in progress.
"We have a gap in every maison," said LVMH environmental deputy director, Alexandre Capelli.
The company is racing to align with new laws; on Jan. 1, France quietly made it mandatory for fashion's biggest companies to give shoppers detailed information about environmental characteristics like the proportion of recycled material in a product, as well as where garments are sewn and materials woven.
The law is an early salvo in a broad regulatory push taking shape across Europe and the US that is set to end years of lax controls over the fashion industry's environmental footprint and links to labour abuses.
Compliance is complicated and will require companies to have a much greater command of their supply chains than most currently do. And while some of the proposed new rules are likely to take years to wend through the legislative process (and even longer to come into force), others – like France's new law – will require companies to act now.
Fashion isn't ready.
A Test Case
France's new requirements fall under the country's Anti-Waste for a Circular Economy, or AGEC, law, which aims to push companies towards more circular production and shoppers towards more responsible consumption habits. It requires brands to provide consumers with much more transparency about the countries they source from and the environmental impact of the materials used.
For instance, if a brand says a T-shirt is made of recycled material, it will need to disclose the proportion that is recycled. If more than 50 percent of a garment is made of synthetic fibres, it needs to carry a warning that it will shed microfibres in the wash. There are strict guidelines governing whether a company can claim an item is recyclable, and brands are required to publish the country where a product is made, as well as where the core material it contains is processed and manufactured.
"It's the first time a regulation has required so much disclosure in the entire industry," said Baptiste Carriere-Pradal, speaking in his capacity as co-founder and director at public affairs consultancy 2B Policy. He also chairs the Policy Hub, an EU advocacy group that represents the interests of fashion trade groups. "The industry is not prepared at all."
Though the law's introduction is staggered to give smaller brands more time to get ready, it came into force for the biggest brands this month. Just figuring out whether a company is covered can be complicated. This year, the law applies to businesses that sell more than 25,000 items a year in France and generate revenue in excess of €50 million ($54 million) in the country. It doesn't cover leather goods.
"It's really complicated," said Sophie Bonnier, head of environmental excellence and circularity at French luxury conglomerate Kering. "We have to define for each brand who is concerned, when, and then have to find the information to be published." In Kering's case, the conditions mean that Gucci and Balenciaga are covered this year, but other major labels, like Bottega Veneta and Saint Laurent, are not.
Brands are expecting a grace period as they scramble to gather the information needed to comply. The law was passed in 2020, but details of the new requirements were only published in April, providing scant time to process the huge volumes of data needed, they say.
A quick scan of many major players' French websites shows mixed uptake so far and highlights some of the complexity involved. A pair of leggings for sale at Nike are promoted as mostly recycled, but there's no percentage breakdown of the recycled content. A black polyester "skort" for sale at Zara offers up details of manufacturing locations, but misses any information about the risk of microfibre shedding in the wash. A synthetic Louis Vuitton jersey dress doesn't carry a similar warning because the garment is dry-clean only, LVMH said.
Adding to the challenge for many brands, information on what's expected is largely in French and exactly how some of the data should be calculated and presented hasn't yet been defined. The rapid turnover of many styles, somewhat inherent in the trend-driven nature of fashion, makes things harder too.
LVMH is scaling up a partnership with traceability and data management platform Fairly Made to gather and keep track of the information it needs to comply. This year, the luxury giant's priority is to nail down details for products that carry over season-to-season, said Capelli. Zara-owner Inditex and Kering both said they are working to make sure they comply fully. Nike did not respond to a request for comment.
Across the industry, meeting the conditions of the law is a big and complicated task that requires fashion brands to deliver on years-long commitments to improve their supply-chain traceability, a task that ultimately requires time and money to build out capabilities and processes across the business.
"It requires a change in the way you operate," said Carriere-Pradal. "At the same time, it's revealing that a lot of this information was not to hand."
A Regulatory Crunch
For brands, being caught flat footed is becoming riskier as regulation that is likely to require big changes to business operations moves forward globally, bringing with it the threat of financial penalties and legal action.
To be sure, the penalties associated with AGEC aren't large (€15,000 at most); the bigger risk is reputational and legal, with NGOs, consumer protection agencies and shoppers themselves very focused on what brands are saying, said Joanna Peltzmann, a partner leading the environment practice at Paris at law firm Osborne Clarke.
Around the world, several brands are already facing litigation for making allegedly misleading environmental claims. Other laws under consideration globally could bring heftier fines measured in percentages of brands' global revenue, with the scope of what's covered set to increase significantly.
The European Union is working through a suite of policies intended to reshape the way fashion operates by the end of the decade. Planned regulations include new design requirements to make products more durable and reduce their environmental footprint and to provide more transparency for consumers about items' impact on the climate.
Countries including France and Germany have already toughened up due diligence requirements, making brands more accountable for bad behaviour in their supply chains; regulation the European Union is also considering.
Over the last 12 months, New York and California have passed bans on toxic "forever" chemicals commonly used in waterproof outerwear. The proposed New York Fashion Act, which blends tough due diligence and transparency requirements, could expose companies to penalties worth up to 2 percent of global revenue if passed.
The best positioned brands will be making strategic investments that set them up to comply with the likely new rules now. Many big companies have already stepped up spending on traceability tools in anticipation of demands for more data and disclosure, similar to LVMH's efforts with Fairly Made. And companies are putting teams from design to sourcing into training on sustainability requirements, while also hiring subject experts and public affairs specialists into senior roles to help stay on top of the changing landscape.
"Management of sustainability matters is clearly moving from a question of 'good practice' or 'guidance' to hard law," said Susanne Bullock, a partner at law firm Gibson Dunn & Crutcher. "Brands are well advised to monitor these developments closely."
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The Truth Must Dazzle Gradually by Helen Cullen – Blog Tour Review.
On an island off the west coast of Ireland, the Moone family are shattered by tragedy.
Murtagh Moone is a potter and devoted husband to Maeve, an actor struggling with her most challenging role yet – being a mother to their four children. Now Murtagh must hold his family close as we bear witness to their story before that tragic night.
We return to the day Maeve and Murtagh meet, outside Trinity College in Dublin, and watch how one love story gives rise to another. And as the Moone children learn who their parents truly are, we journey onwards with them to a future that none of the Moones could predict . . .
Except perhaps Maeve herself.
With thanks to the publisher for the copy received. The Truth Must Dazzle Gradually is a lovely, passionate and sad novel that is all about the Moone family. It takes place in Ireland over a period of roughly 40 years, from when Murtagh and Maeve met in Dublin, their marriage and the tragedy that tore the family apart.
The first part of the novel concerned Maeve and Murtagh, you saw how both of them got to know each other, fall in love and also her illness. I know nothing at all about her condition but I really appreciated how the author showed the affect it had on her and her family. As you read more, after the events on Christmas Eve 2004, the focus switched to the Moone children, how they dealt with their loss and felt about being in their childhood home.
One of the reasons I liked this novel so much, was that there was no wrong way. In today's society it is easy to judge and criticise. But with the four children, now adult, and Murtagh, they all coped with their grief in different ways. Not always right for each other, but right for the individual. I liked all of them but the two I felt more for were Murtagh and Mossy. It is difficult to say why, apart from I felt that both of them seemed much warmer characters. Especially Mossy the only one who had a family of his own.
The book has inspired me to read The Lost Letters of William Woolf as quickly as possible.
The Lost Letters of William Woolf by Helen Cullen – Extract – Blog Tour.
Today I am sharing an extract with you. The Lost Letters of William Woolf is a book that I have been trying to read for a few months. I hope to read it soon.
My Great Love…'
William Woolf is a letter detective at the Dead Letters Depot, where he spends his days reuniting lost mail with its intended recipient.
But when he discovers a series of letters addressed simply to 'My Great Love' everything changes.
Written by a woman to a soulmate she hasn't yet met, her heartfelt words stir William in ways he has long forgotten.
Could they be destined for him? And what would that mean for his own troubled marriage?
William must follow the clues in the letters to solve his most important mystery yet: his own heart.
Lost letters have only one hope for survival. If they are caught between two worlds, with an unclear destination and no address of sender, the lucky ones are redirected to the Dead Letters Depot in East London for a final chance of redemption. Inside the damp-rising walls of a converted tea factory, letter detectives spend their days solving mysteries. Missing postcodes, illegible handwriting, rain-smudged ink, lost address labels, torn packages, forgotten street names: they are all culprits in the occurrence of missed birthdays, unknown test results, bruised hearts, unaccepted invitations, silenced confessions, unpaid bills and unanswered prayers. instead of longed for missives, disappointment floods postboxes from Land's End to Dunnet Head. Hope fades a little more every day, when door bells don't chime and doormats don't thud.
William Woolf had worked as a letter detective for eleven years. He was one of an army of thirty, having inherited his position from his beloved uncle, Archie. Almost every Friday throughout William's childhood, Archie, clad in a lime-green leather jacket, rode his yellow Honda Dream 305 over for tea, eager to share fish and chips doused in salt and vinegar served with a garlic dip, and tales of the treasures rescued that day.
Listening to Archie opened William's mind to the myriad extraordinary stories that were unfolding every day in the lives of ordinary people. In a blue -lined copy book, he wrote his favourites and unwittingly began what would become a lifelong obsession with storytelling, domestic mysteries and the secrets strangers nurse. What surprised William most when he started working there himself was how little Archie had exaggerated. People send the strangest paraphernalia through the post: incomprehensible and indefensible, sentimental and valuable, erotic and bizarre, alive and expired. In fact, it was the dead animals that so frequently found their way to this inner sanctum of the postal system that had inspired the Dead Letters Depot's name. A photo taken in 1937, the year it had opened, showed the original postmaster, Mr Frank Oliphant, holding a pheasant and hare aloft, with three rabbits stretched out on the table before him. By the time William joined in 1979, it was a much more irregular occurrence, of course, but the name still endured. He still felt Archie's presence amid the exposed red brick walls of the depot, and some of the older detectives sometimes called William by his uncle's name. Their physical similarities were striking: muddy brown curls, chestnut beards flecked with rust, the almond shaped hazel eyes that flickered between shades of emerald green and cocoa, the bump in the nose of all Woolf men.


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How should brands take advantage of AR and VR content?
By Mike Waters
It's hardly a radical prediction now that AR and VR content will soon join the great toybox alongside print, TV, social media and all the other serious media channels.
Inevitably, AR and VR will reshape content in their image, says Dialogue Content Production Editor, Mike Waters, in the second part of our look into content marketing trends as to how new technology is driving and affecting content.
What's the background to AR and VR?
The successful adoption of all technology happens on a bell curve. First comes basic research and development, because you've got to invent something before you can use it. Next comes the ascent – markets develop, hardware gets refined, momentum is built. Then comes true maturity and, in time, everything reaches its full potential. Finally, the inevitable decline kicks in as people move on. Rinse, repeat.
AR and VR technologies are both somewhere in the ascent stage right now. A fair comparison would perhaps be with the early mobile phones that were the size of a brick. Or, for anyone reading this who remembers the 1990s, 56k plug-and-play modems. Punchlines now, yes, but the potential for greater things was there. And they didn't stay like that forever.
Today's ascent will become maturity in the near future. When that happens, the audience will automatically expect – and demand – high-value content that's in line with their interests.
But in certain areas, this is happening already. It is wise to start considering how this will affect your content strategy now and avoid getting caught out on a much less comfortable catastrophe curve later.
So we'd better get started.
What's the difference between augmented reality and virtual reality?
Simply put, augmented reality adds something to what already exists and virtual reality replaces what already exists entirely.
In practical terms, they don't share quite as much as their names imply – one isn't just the lite version or the grown-up version of the other. They also have different requirements that have major implications for both hardware and content.
Virtual reality depends on immersion being as complete as possible. Would you believe you're wandering through the jungle if you can hear a train carriage around you? This means the real world has to be completely closed off somehow for VR to work, limiting when, where and how it can be used. But, once you're in, you're all the way in. This makes content more difficult to both create and access, but of dramatically greater impact.
Augmented reality systems and content for an AR set-up, however, offer an upgrade to the real environment the user is automatically immersed in already. You're not sensing something else; you're sensing something more. This means content is easier – relatively speaking – to create, but it's probably not going to have the user's full attention. However, that's hardly unfamiliar territory for brands and a situation that's fairly straightforward to navigate.
Why is AR and VR content going to be important?
Trick question. AR and VR content already are important, but within specialist areas rather than in the mainstream. At the moment, that mostly means entertainment. Also, that dividing line between specialist and mainstream is getting increasingly blurry.
Let's take one famous example. If the 752 million people who have downloaded the AR-based Pokémon Go were a country, they'd be the world's third largest nation behind only China and India. And good luck catching all of them.
To prove that wasn't a fluke, Snapchat Lenses are another AR success story and a third of the platform's daily audience of 187 million people are joining the fun. More about Snapchat in a moment.
Piggybacking off the infrastructure and publicity this has bought AR means medical, military, aviation and even sporting applications are gradually becoming normal options within their fields. Google Glass was a bit of a misfire first time around, true, but that's coming back for another try with the professional-oriented Google Glass Enterprise.
But what about VR? That's tougher; it takes more hardware, so it has been stuck in the familiar 'next big thing but not quite here' purgatory for years as costs drop and capabilities improve. As a rough estimate, VR is a few years behind where AR is now but both hardware and content are nevertheless building momentum.
Put plainly, there just hasn't been the breakthrough VR hardware equivalent of the iPhone or VR content killer app equivalent of Pokémon Go yet. Either, or ideally both, of those happening will probably be the decisive ignition points that set off a serious ascent.
AR and VR branded content
What AR and VR means for brands is the $100 billion question, isn't it? Come to think of it, that's probably an understatement by at least one order of magnitude.
We're seeing more success stories every week, and the automotive and retail sectors in particular are devoting serious attention and investment to AR and VR content. That means serious money is in the mix too. Market-foresight advisory firm ABI Research forecasts a cumulative automotive sector market value for AR alone of $5.5 billion by just 2022.
That makes a lot of sense: both the automotive and retail sectors have a long history of people trying a product out before they buy. It would be a genuine surprise if they did not think AR and VR content were worth exploring.
Automotive AR and VR
In the automotive sector alone, examples of AR and VR content are plentiful. Audi has "released an AR app which enables users to place photorealistic 3D models of Audi vehicles on a surface wherever you are located and resize it as you find fit" developed with Apple's ARKit. Also taking the racing line, BMW and Snapchat have also joined forces to showcase both the former's new X2 model and the latter's augmented trial lens.
VR content is making its mark too and Lexus promoted their new model, the LS, with a VR campaign centred on a trio of well-received short films. Other marques such as Volvo (but its mighty parent company Geely's other car brands won't be far behind…), Jeep (ditto their parent Fiat Chrysler) and Hyundai (ditto their subsidiary Kia) are going down the same road to offer digital showroom experiences or even virtual test drives.
AR and VR virtual car showrooms
This is all leading to a reimagining of the automotive marketplace itself. In China, automotive brands are partnering successfully with ecommerce sites and opening virtual showrooms. According to consultancy Frost & Sullivan, one million vehicles were sold – $15 billion worth, all told – in 2016 alone.
As you may have seen elsewhere on this site, Alibaba's Tmall B2C platform – where customers can pay deposits online and even enjoy extra discounts – is an early success story. BMW, Maserati, Chang'an Automobile Group and Chery Automobile have all already opened 'storefronts' there.
There are more examples like these every day, but the one thing they all have in common is that they are making AR and VR routine parts of the customer decision journey. The trend is clear; both brands and consumers are moving towards a post-dealership environment thanks to AR and VR content.
My prediction? In time, this approach will become so commonplace that brands that don't offer such a service will be penalised by audiences. It'd be like not having a website in today's environment; sending all the wrong signals for all the wrong reasons.
AR and VR branded content challenges?
At the moment, brands are grappling with the gimmick problem. VR and AR might be interesting toys, the recurring refrain goes, but are they really helping? Are they a serious component of a marketing strategy, or are they a novelty?
The end user must always be kept in mind when creating AR and VR content – as you would with any other campaign – and enthusiasm shouldn't get the better of anybody. IKEA's Place AR app has navigated this issue successfully, and it allows the user to see what 2,000 items from their catalogue would really look like in their home before buying. You're still on your own with wielding the Allen keys, though.
Hardware not yet being settled is another headache, and especially so for VR. This feels like something that will be sorted out once the market-defining hardware of VR gets invented the same way cars had the Ford Model T, but brands are in the inconvenient limbo of wondering when and where the lightning will strike. In the meantime, building flexibility into content would be a prudent precaution.
The best a brand can get
There are other issues for AR and VR content, but the one thing they have in common is that they all have or will have solutions sooner or later. None is ultimately impossible to deal with; they just might need a little more thought, patience, testing or good old-fashioned character-building hard work. That kind of investment now will pay dividends in the not-too-distant future, so have a go at it and don't skimp.
As a final thought, there is one last lesson in the adoption bell curve that is relevant for AR and VR content: something has been truly accepted only when it is done without thought. In time, using both will be as natural as making a phone call, sending an email or glancing at a web page. Content must keep up with this. If you don't, your competitors will.
The secret to success with AR and VR content is finding the best way to build them into how your audience will naturally think to look for or experience something. That's not a technology issue; that's a people issue – just like everything else to do with content.
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Q: How to add a node based on a keyword in R using XML package Below is sample xml code to show the structure of my xml code. And I have XML file names to loop through and if I find author IDs matching those already in the below code, I would like to add a new node under the same author, not at the end of the document. The matching string can be found by searching through file names such as: bk110_abcd991992_588966_Gambardella_20100514.xml
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<catalog>
    <books>
       <book>
          <authorid>588966</authorid>
          <bookid>bk101</bookid>
          <author>Gambardella</author>
          <title>XML Developer's Guide</title>
          <genre>Computer</genre>
          <price>44.95</price>
          <publish_date>2000-10-01</publish_date>
          <description>An in-depth look at creating applications with XML.</description>
       </book>
    </books>
    <books>
       <book>
          <authorid>985371</authorid>
          <bookid>bk102</bookid>
          <author>Ralls</author>
          <title>Midnight Rain</title>
          <genre>Fantasy</genre>
          <price>5.99</price>
          <publish_date>2000-12-18</publish_date>
          <description>A former architect battles corporate zombies</description>
       </book>
    </books>
</catalog>

As seen in the xml file name above (bk110_abcd991992_588966_Gambardella_20100514.xml), author ID: 588966 already exists in our code, thus I would like to add a book node for Gambardella. Please don't worry about the looping part through multiple file names, just show me how to find that string (authorID) and how to add a new node and the new code should look like the following. I appreciate your help
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<catalog>
    <books>
       <book>
          <authorid>588966</authorid>
          <bookid>bk101</bookid>
          <author>Gambardella</author>
          <title>XML Developer's Guide</title>
          <genre>Computer</genre>
          <price>44.95</price>
          <publish_date>2000-10-01</publish_date>
          <description>An in-depth look at creating applications with XML.</description>
       </book>
       <book>
          <authorid>588966</authorid>
          <bookid>bk110</bookid>
          <author>Gambardella</author>
          <title>Text Mining</title>
          <genre>Computer</genre>
          <price>14.95</price>
          <publish_date>2010-05-14</publish_date>
          <description>Gaining Insight from text data</description>
        </book>
    </books>
    <books>
       <book>
          <authorid>985371</authorid>
          <bookid>bk102</bookid>
          <author>Ralls</author>
          <title>Midnight Rain</title>
          <genre>Fantasy</genre>
          <price>5.99</price>
          <publish_date>2000-12-18</publish_date>
          <description>A former architect battles corporate zombies</description>
       </book>
    </books>
</catalog>

A: I would probably use the xml2 package here, which is easier to use in a pipe format. Manually adding all the xml fields can be a little laborious, so you might want to try creating a little wrapper function around this.
Starting by loading in the necessary packages, we can read, modify and save the xml like this:
library(tidyverse)
library(xml2)

read_xml('bk110_abcd991992_588966_Gambardella_20100514.xml') %>%
  xml_find_first('//authorid[.=588966]/parent::book/parent::books') %>%
  xml_add_child('book') %>%
    xml_add_child('authorid') %>% xml_set_text("588966") %>%
    xml_add_sibling('bookid') %>% xml_set_text('bk110') %>%
    xml_add_sibling('author') %>% xml_set_text('Gambardella') %>%
    xml_add_sibling('title')  %>% xml_set_text('Text Mining') %>%
    xml_add_sibling('genre')  %>% xml_set_text('Computer') %>%
    xml_add_sibling('price')  %>% xml_set_text('14.95') %>%
    xml_add_sibling('publish_date') %>% xml_set_text('2010-05-14') %>%
    xml_add_sibling('description') %>%
     xml_set_text('Gaining insight from text data') %>%
  xml_root() %>%
  write_xml('updated_file.xml')

Now we have
updated_file.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<catalog>
  <books>
    <book>
      <authorid>588966</authorid>
      <bookid>bk101</bookid>
      <author>Gambardella</author>
      <title>XML Developer's Guide</title>
      <genre>Computer</genre>
      <price>44.95</price>
      <publish_date>2000-10-01</publish_date>
      <description>An in-depth look at creating applications with XML.</description>
    </book>
    <book>
      <authorid>588966</authorid>
      <bookid>bk110</bookid>
      <author>Gambardella</author>
      <title>Text Mining</title>
      <genre>Computer</genre>
      <price>14.95</price>
      <publish_date>2010-05-14</publish_date>
      <description>Gaining insight from text data</description>
    </book>
  </books>
  <books>
    <book>
      <authorid>985371</authorid>
      <bookid>bk102</bookid>
      <author>Ralls</author>
      <title>Midnight Rain</title>
      <genre>Fantasy</genre>
      <price>5.99</price>
      <publish_date>2000-12-18</publish_date>
      <description>A former architect battles corporate zombies</description>
    </book>
  </books>
</catalog>

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Emerg Med (Fremantle). 2001 Mar;13(1):51-6.
Randomized controlled trial of midazolam premedication to reduce the subjective adverse effects of adenosine.
Hourigan C1, Safih S, Rogers I, Jacobs I, Lockney A.
Department of Emergency Medicine, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Perth, WA, Australia.
To determine the safety and efficacy of midazolam premedication to minimize the subjective adverse effects of adenosine.
Double-blind prospective randomized controlled trial of patients presenting to an urban emergency department. Included were a convenience sample of patients who would have received adenosine by the existing department protocol. Exclusion criteria were pregnancy, benzodiazepine allergy, regular benzodiazepine medication, alcoholism, altered mental state (precluding informed consent), and age less than 18 or greater than 65 years. Subjects received either 1.5 mg of intravenous midazolam or normal saline placebo 5 min prior to the administration of adenosine. Side-effect recall was judged by a questionnaire at 1 h and 24 h postadenosine administration.
A total of 34 patients were recruited into the trial, 16 in the placebo group and 18 in the midazolam group. The groups were well matched for demographics, treatment and outcome. There was a significant reduction in the midazolam group for complaint scores of palpitations (P = 0.04) and chest pain (P = 0.02) and a trend to reduction in complaint scores for most other parameters. There were no adverse outcomes in any of the patients studied.
Co-administration of midazolam can safely reduce the recall of the unpleasant adverse effects of adenosine. Its use may be most appropriate in patients who are particularly anxious or have had previous adverse experiences with adenosine.


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Students will have an understanding of the environmental impacts on their life and know how to deal with environmental problems, such as pollutions, and to live in harmony with other organisms.
This module reviews and introduces important topics and theories in mathematics that are relevant to everyday science and engineering. In this module selected issues in Arithmatic and Number Theory; Algebra and Systems of equations; Trigonometry and Coordinate Systems; Functions and Series; Calculus and Partial Differential Equations are considered. In all cases, "real world" applications of mathematics are emphasized.
This module offers an overview of the microbial diversity, under different perspectives comprising phylogeny, physiology, metabolism and ecology and putting in evidence the implications that microorganisms have on nature and human activities. The dynamics of the microbial genomes, the uniqueness of some metabolic processes and other aspects of the biology of microorganisms will be anlaysed in a context of eco-physiology. The content of this module provide the students with the necessary background to explore the role of microorganisms in human, animal and plant health and disease; in biotechnological applications; or as models in different areas of research.
This module introduces students to concepts concerned with biodiversity, the genetic basis of evolution and evolutionary processes that leads to and maintains or limits biodiversity. Students will be introduced to the major groups of organisms from an evolutionary perspective and evaluate how these groups are related to one another and how they evolved. The role of biodiversity in the maintenance of healthy ecosystems and their potential for adaptation to recent changes in the environment will also be discussed.
Identification of minerals and rocks is fundamental to understand the earth and environmental processes. This module focuses on the study of the chemistry, occurrence, classification and economic relevance of minerals and their effects on the environment. It also comprises the classification of rocks and chemical principles of petrology, including genesis, and identification of igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks. At the end, mineralogical and petrological processes relevant to understand environmental changes during geological and modern times will be discussed.
This module has a strong hands-on component where students will train how to identify minerals and rocks from their properties.
Understanding, modeling and predicting processes in the atmosphere and the ocean have gained importance in the last decade. This module focuses on physical phenomena such as heat transfer, atmospheric and oceanic circulation and waves.
Main characteristics of the Surface and Deep Ocean Circulation will be foccused, with emphasis on the importance of Thermohaline circulation (the global conveyor belt) as a temperature regulatory mechanism as well as a vital component of the global ocean nutrient and carbon dioxide cycles.
Ocean – Atmosphere Interactions will be analysed namely in what concerns climate evolution. Relationships between solar radiation variability (sunspot activity) and historical climate oscillations will be referred.
Oceanic waves will be described, introducing the main wave theories (Airy, Stokes, Cnoidal). Attention will be given to unusual waves, such as rogue and tsunami waves, as well as to infragravity waves and their importance in the shore characteristics.
Large-scale environmental phenomena and problems including the greenhouse effect, El Niño / La Niña, Arctic and North Atlantic oscillations, etc. will be examined as well as the role of the atmosphere - ocean system in climate change. It will be also debated the modern methods and technologies essential to understand and predict these phenomena.
At the end, evidence for changes in ocean and sea level due to global warming will be explored and the connection between human activity and the current warming trend will be focused, considering some of the potential social, economic and environmental consequences of climate change.
This module provides students with a basic understanding of the major coastal processes and systems with relevance to coastal zone management. Topics include the coastal geomorphology and morph-dynamics (genesis and evolution), coastal landform classification (estuaries, deltas, beaches, barriers, dunes etc), the complex coastal processes (wind, tides, current, waves and clime), coastal ecosystems (mangroves, coral reefs, salt marshes, etc) sea-level fluctuations (causes and consequences on the costal zones) and human-coastal interactions.
Coastal hazards related with sea-level rise, erosion, storms, tsunamis and other phenomena and their management will be also highlighted.
This module aims to introduce students to the principles of Animal Physiology, as well as, to some of the laboratory techniques used in the acquisition of physiological data.
The course will focus on organ-system physiology of both terrestral and aquatic organisms within an ecophysiological perspective.
Particular emphasis will be given to nervous, muscular, cardiovascular, respiratory, renal, digestive, and endocrine physiological mechanisms, and their interaction with the ecological features of the environment.
Laboratory work will be designed to familiarize students with some of the laboratory techniques and equipment used in physiological research.
This module emphasises on understanding the principal chemical controls of element distribution within Earth Systems. It will be mainly focused on fundamentals of the geochemistry of Earth materials, including basic geochemistry (major element, trace and rare earth element), radiogenic and stable isotopes, geochemical cycles, Earth differentiation and Earth surface geochemistry. The methods used in geochemistry to study the Earth systems and to understand the environmental and paleoenvironmental problems will be reviewed.
This module introduces basic concepts of algorithmic problem solving and logical thinking. It covers problem solving strategies, basic data structures, as well as data and procedural abstraction. Through step-by-step practice, students learn basic skills to write their own code in an easy-to-master programming language for simple problem solving, and to perform simple debugging and testing. It serves as the first programming module and requires no prerequisite.
This module will focus on the study of web and multimedia technologies.
The students will be able to understand what is the web, what is multimedia and how do they work. It's a hands-on module that requires the use of the computer as an artistic and creative tool.
This module will also prepare students, with the basic technical and aesthetical skills, on how to create web and multimedia products with visually dynamic and creative graphics through best working practices. Students will design web pages by using Adobe Photoshop, HTML and CSS files by editing them by using text editors and other tools. Usability principles will be one of the considerations when designing web pages.
This course introduces the study field of Geographic Information Science. It sets out the key components and insists on links between technology, data, methods and organization. Provides an introduction to spatial development, the terminology for this field and the classes of applications of Geographic Information Systems. It is presented the features of existing GIS software and the described modes of creating, editing, import, display and analysis of spatial data that GIS software provides. As well, it covers open source technologies for handling geographical information (FOSS4G).
The module briefly reviews the fundamentals of descriptive statistics especially on the topics of correlations and reliability indicators. It then introduces advanced topics in statistics such as sampling, hypothesis testing, ANOVA, chi-square test. The focus will be on differentiating between various types of variables and using the right technique to conduct hypothesis testing to produce meaningful conclusions. The module also goes into data analysis using regression techniques. The assumptions behind using regression analysis are emphasized with residue analysis.
This module will focus on the understanding of the effects and risks of pollutants to biological systems, including human population.
It will begin by studying the major classes of pollutants that can impact health, the environmental sources of these substances, their transport and resilience in the environment and the routes for human and animal exposure to these chemicals.
Basic concepts of toxicology will be reviewed, including dose-response relationships, chemodynamics and chemokinetics. The potential impact on human health will be addressed by reviewing common negative effects on health (e.g. organ toxicity, carcinogenesis, endocrine disruption, neurodevelopmental effects, etc).
The module will also review the existing procedures for monitoring environmental pollutants. Finally, a strong emphasis will be given to risk assessment and to the analytical procedures available for measuring environmental pollutants and for testing the potential negative effects of new pollutants in animal and human health.
Simple laboratory experiments in ecotoxicology will be run in order to provide hands-on training to students.
To present students knowledge and understanding of renewable and sustainable energy and their management in the area of technology, finance and regulatory practices.
This module focuses on environmental natural disasters, as landslides, earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis, floods, and other natural hazards in order to understand their origins and consequences, and evaluate their impacts in the earth dynamics and on the risks for human society. Discussions of how and why natural hazards occur; how human society should prepare for each of them; what kind of hazard events (secondary hazards) may occur after an initial disaster, will be debated.
Historical and contemporary case studies will be utilized to investigate the interaction between society and natural hazards.
The module will begin by reviewing the major international agreements in the environmental area. The local legislation on environment will also be reviewed at the end of the course and compared with relevant international legislation.
The market failures (public goods and the tragedy of the commons) are setting the scene for the environmental law. Indeed, our program cover two regulation areas that somehow are interconnected. Firstly, the module address environmental problems from the global prespective and therefore the main instruments of regulation as a set of broad policies (concepts and principles) which have been developed and used as the basis of the international environmental law. Furthermore, the modules also makes reference to the influence of environmental international law and other branches of law such as human rights law, international humanitarian law, trade law and, increasingly, in international investment law. Concurrently, it studies the main sources of environmental law, emphasizing the importance of the volutary mechanism as sources of international law. It further studies the main treaties and conventions directly related to the environment protection, namely the instuments applying to the global commons and international regulation of shared environmental impacts.
Secondly, if focus on the local reality (Macao acquis) and therefore of departing from Macao Basic Law, it concludes the study addressing the Macao SAR instruments on environment protection, side-by-side the sources of administrative and criminal individual responsibility.
Finally, students will have the opportunity to shortly research on one related environmental area from the legal and local point of view.
Development projects can have a significant impact in both the environment and populations. These include impacts as diverse as those derived from the manufacturing of construction materials, from ecological changes in non-urban areas, from energy consumption of built structures, or from undesirable effects to populations during and after construction. Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is a key instrument for sustainable development as it allows to integrate all the potential impacts of a project and to suggest measures for their mitigation and management. The module provides an overview of the EIA process, including of the tools most commonly applied for environmental assessment and management. The EIA framework at a regional (Macau, Hong Kong and Mainland China) and international level will be discussed. The different steps of an EIA study, including Screening, Scoping, Impact analysis, Mitigation and Impact Management, Reporting, Reviewing, Decision-Making, Implementation, and Monitoring will be reviewed. The concepts of Strategic Environmental Assessment and Cumulative Effects Assessment as tools for sustainability will be discussed. Finally, the concept of environmental standards and environmental management systems and their application to different fields will be reviewed.
In addition, the module aims to give practical training to students on EIA via hands-on analysis of case-studies. EIA analysis will be simulated to specific project in order to apply the EIA concepts learned in this module in real-life projects and understand how EIA can be incorporated in projects at the design, construction and operation phases.
By being aware of the concept and steps of EIA, developers can better integrate, from the start, measures in the planning and design of their projects that will minimize environmental and social impacts. The module will thus provide a comprehensive understanding of the process of EIA in various contexts.
This module focuses on marine pollution and ecotoxicology: from the definition of pollutant versus contaminant to the different types of pollutants that these ecosystems are subjected to (from organic to inorganic). Also, will be focused the effects of these pollutants on the coastal systems, from the cellular level to the population and ecosystem level. The students will be able to understand different mechanisms of bioaccumulation, biomagnification and elimination processes. Will be debated some strategies to control pollution in coastal systems. The contents of this module will promote a greater awareness for the importance of coastal systems, their management and conservation.
This module provides a basic introduction to plant physiology which is essential in the understanding of how plants adapt and survive in different environments. Students will be first introduced to basic topics such as the structures and functions of the plant cell, photosythesis, transport mechanisms, metabolism and growth. Emphasis will also be given on current concepts and understandings related to how plants react to changes as well as stress in the physical environment like light, temperature, water availability, nutrients, pollution and defense against herbivory. Students will be engaged in both laboratory and field experiments to gain a deeper understanding of the concepts learned in class.
The module aims to reflect on the moral challenges created by scientific advances in disciplines such as Biology or Neurosciences and to debate how controversial topics in these areas ought to be decided. We will start by reviewing and debating historical concepts in ethics like Moral Reasoning, Cultural Relativism, Subjectivism, Ethical Egoism, Utilitarianism, Kantianism or the Social Contract. From these, we will try to reach a consensus within the class on which should be the general rules to be followed during ethical dilemmas and apply them to controversial issues raised in the specific field of Bioethics. These include topics like pre-natal screening, assisted reproduction, cloning, genetic enhancement, organ transplantation or assisted suicide. A case-study approach will be taken to overview these and other issues in bioethics and to try to identify general rules on which decision ought to be taken. Finally, the relationship between societies, non-human animals and ecosystems will be discussed from the perspective of bioethics and environmental ethics. The global impact of human activities in our planet will be reviewed and the role that individuals and organizations play towards the sustainable development of societies debated.
This module focuses on the pollution of different environmental comparments, namely air, soil and water pollution, putting forward prevention measures on global and local scale and on treatment and remediation technologies. The contents of this module provide the students with tools to contribute to sustainable practices within primary production, aiming at preserving water and soil resources, with knowledge on technologies for water/wastewater treatment and for soil management and requalification, and with knowledge on valorisation solutions for water, by-products and residues produced during different human activities. Contribution of good practices to sustainability on a gobal scale will be approached.
The module Environmental Philosophy and Ethics focuses on the relationship of humans with nature and their environment. While numerous philosophers have written on natural philosophy throughout history (Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Machiavelli, Rousseau, Locke, Marx, Merleu-Ponty, Heidegger, Rawls, etc.), environmental philosphy and ethics only developed into a specific philosophical discipline in the 1970s. This emergence occurred due to the increasing awareness in the 1960s of the effects that technology, industry, economic expansion and population growth were having on the environment.
Sound philosophical and ethical reflections are indispensable today for consistent sustainable development and policies on local, national, and international level. The module Environmental Philosphy and Ethics reflects systematically on responsible interactions of people and societies with nature and the environment (ecological justice) on the individual (micro), the institutional (meso) and the socio-political level (macro). Aiming at sustainable societies, the module explores coherent philosophical and ethical principles for individuals and institutions underpinning the need to equitably balance the needs of those alive today (intragenerational justice) with the needs of future generations (intergenerational justice). Philosophcial and ethical foundations for a sustainable use of resources and energy are assessed: e.g. biodiversity, circular economy; decarbonisation, low/zero waste societies; waste hierarchy, user-polluter pays principle; transparency and accountability; economic incentives etc. Also the currrent inequalities between polluters and victims are addressed in order to promote a more just and ecologically sustainable form of development.
Seminars will be organized regularly to discuss specific topics in Environmental Science. These seminars will be taught by Professors from USJ, Professors from other institutions of higher education, non-academic professionals developing work in areas of interest to our students and also by individual students from the programme. The goal is to broaden the topics discussed during the programme and increase the students interaction with professionals from the field, thus enriching their learning experience, and also to give students practice in speaking in front of an audience while exploring topics of their own interest.
This module will review and evaluate scientific theories, biological knowledge from genetics to ecosystems, that are essential to conservation biology and its applications. It will review concepts in biodiversity, applied ecology, environmental management, community, population and landscape ecology. Emphasis will be given to the various mechanisms that cause changes, specially the loss, restoration and maintenance of biological diversity, as well as the consequence of these changes, specially in today's world. The implications of conservation for ethics, law, policy and economics will also be dealt with. Management principles and tools for conservation will be discussed and students are expected to apply this by taking part in practical field activities to identify and evaluate current conservation issues in the region.
Writing scientific papers and communicating research efficiently are major keys to a sucessful academic career. This course provides an overview of the principles and techiques to define research questions, draft a paper and improve data presentation.
Lectures will be followed by practical exercises to apply the concepts discussed and strengthen communinication skills.
This module will offer an opportunity to improve writing and oral skills, but also to gain insights on how to publish and communicate efficiently across fields, which is critical to promote collaborations and translational research.
Urban ecology is the scientific study of the relation of living organisms with each other and their surroundings in the context of an urban environment. Environmental planning is a process of identifying, assessing and coming up with solutions to environmental issues. This overview module explores urban and environmental planning issues and problems, and reviews the ways planners grapple with them. Topics cover urban environmental issues and their impacts on the future of the city, including: food, water, urban health, biodiversity, landscape performance, pollution and toxicity, building health, resource consumption, waste management, and more.
This module will prove the students the oportunity to develop a scientific project, which will include defining a research question, methods, collect data, and elaborate a final report. Students will have the chance to work on their individual research and experience lab work appropriate to their project goals. Students will receive constant guidance from a supervisor (from USJ staff) that will be assigned at the beginning of the project.
This course will provide an overview of the principles of epidemiology and its relationship with public health. The content will focus on key terms for describing disease occurrence in the population, identify several commonly used study designs, and interpret measures of association and causality. Particular emphasis will be given to environmental epidemiology. This module will cover a description of the emerging methods used in enviromental epidemiology and to analyse epidemiological events affecting public health. Current and future directions of molecular biology, genetics (e.g. microarrays and proteomics) and pharmacology will also be discussed. A strong emphasis will be given to discussion of scientific papers.


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Ňagov (, ) je obec na Slovensku v okrese Medzilaborce v Prešovském kraji. Žije zde  obyvatel.

Historie
První písemná zmínka o obci pochází z roku 1557.

Geografie
Ňagov leží v Nízkých Beskydech v údolí Ňagovského potoka v nadmořské výšce 372 m n. m., 5 km od okresního města Medzilaborce. Obyvatelé jsou především rusínské národnosti.

Pamětihodnosti
 Řeckokatolický chrám Zesnutí přesvaté Bohorodice

Odkazy

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Externí odkazy

Obce v okrese Medzilaborce
Obce v regionu Horní Zemplín


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I have been asked many times why I sell hypnosis recordings to help lower blood pressure.People point out that there is already an adequate remedy available to everyone in tablet form.But to me, this misses the point.When your body presents you with a symptom this should be seen as a form of communication between your body and your mind.A physical symptom like that of high blood pressure tells you that your body is overloaded or compromised in some way.The symptom is effectively trying to tell you to take a step back, and revise the ways in which you are doing things.
If there were no tablets, pills or potions available, our only option would be to seek a different way of living; we would look for natural ways in which to reduce stress or tension and so on.But the majority of people in the Western world tend to take the tablet and continue living in the same reckless way, donning blinkers so as not to see the long term consequences.
But the human body does give way in the end.If you keep ignoring symptoms, it will produce more and different diseases, until it becomes increasingly more difficult to ignore the messages which your body is transmitting.Think about it in this way for just a moment; if you had a broken leg and you took morphine or some other pain killer so that you no longer felt the pain, would you still set out for a five mile jog?The answer here is clearly a resounding "no".So why would a person with high blood pressure, just take tablets to lower that pressure, and yet continue living life in exactly the same way as before?Surely an intelligent person would seek to look at the cause and try to find a way in which to relieve that trigger to disease?
More and more people are aware that they have lost the ability to relax.But relaxation is a natural ability and one which can easily be relearned.Hypnosis is particularly useful in the area of mind and body communication.With hypnosis you can learn to relax and thereby benefit from the natural relaxation response, including that of lowering high blood pressure.But this is not all that hypnosis can do to assist you in looking after your health.
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GE Transportation and the Kryukov Railcar Building Works (Kremenchuk, Poltava region) have concluded an agreement on localization of production of 30 TE33A diesel locomotives in Ukraine, General Electric Transportation announced. The diesel locomotives will be delivered to the Ukrainian Railways public joint-stock company (Ukrzaliznytsia) under a contract signed earlier this year.
Before signing the agreement with the Kryukov Railcar Building Works, the American company organized a special conference in Odesa, where it gathered dozens of leading Ukrainian manufacturers of railway equipment and components to inform them about opportunities for cooperation and its requirements.
The manufacturers also learned about the opportunity to join GE Transportation's global supply chain after certification of their products.
The final phase of production of TE33A locomotives for Ukrzaliznytsia began last month at GE Transportation's plant in plant in Erie (Pennsylvania, United States).
"We hope that the agreement will continue in 2019. We also hope that we will not limit ourselves to delivery of diesel locomotives and that we will continue our international cooperation on production of other products and other types of railway equipment," the Kryukov Railcar Building Works' President Volodymyr Prikhodko said.
As reported earlier, Ukrzaliznytsia and GE Transportation signed a framework agreement on establishment of a 15-year partnership for upgrade and modernization of Ukrainian railway rolling stock on February 23. The framework agreement provides for supply of up to 225 General Electric locomotives of the Evolution Series by 2034 and long-term maintenance of the locomotives.
Under the first agreement, which is worth USD 140 million (including VAT), Ukrzaliznytsia will receive 30 locomotives by the end of the first quarter of 2019. The state-owned Ukreximbank provided funding.


Kid Kelly these days is the host of nationally-syndicated "Backtracks USA", where he produces both an 80s and a separate 90s version of the show, delivered on CD to Hot AC stations nationwide. Its cool. Even more cool, is this recording of Kelly on WHTZ New York!
Kid Kelly has so much energy here, and if you're used to that geeky little voice (Ryan Seacrest wannabe?) voicing Backtracks USA on your favorite Hot AC, this will be an awesome aircheck. Not only does Kelly really COOK on this aircheck, but that scripted, syndicated approach is nowhere to be found and we hear all Kelly and his real talent!
This is why Kid Kelly got the host gig. In our opinion, while others may have a more, ahem, 'professional' approach, or more humor, none were more exciting and upbeat to listen to than Kelly. Listen now and find out why.
I can't stand Kid Kelly's voice! Ever since MG left I can hardly stand to listen to the program just because of his voice.
Todays backwords track is "Don't you want me?" By- Human League.


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 Jabber Software Foundation – nadace zodpovídající za rozvoj a standardizaci protokolu XMPP, pozdeji XMPP Standards Foundation