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Matrìca: opening of the Research Centre at Porto Torres
Framework agreement signed today by Sardinia Region, the Italian National Research Council (CNR), the Universities of Cagliari and Sassari, and Matrìca. Logo unveiled and transfer of headquarters to Porto Torres confirmed.
Porto Torres, 13 February 2012 – A new Research Centre and a new logo for Matrìca, the "green chemistry" joint venture between Polimeri Europa (ENI) and Novamont, based in Porto Torres (Sassari, Italy).
The new Matrìca Research Centre was inaugurated today within the Porto Torres facility. The Centre – which currently covers 700 m2 and shortly, with the opening of the pilot plant section, will be expanded to more than 3500 m2 – will operate in close collaboration with the Novamont and Polimeri Europa research infrastructures.
Today´s inauguration is an important step forward, made possible – as stated by Daniele Ferrari, Chairman of Matrìca and CEO of Polimeri Europa – by effective partnerships with local organisations and the local area. ´At this point, after the positive outcome of the environmental impact evaluation, we are optimistically awaiting the issuing of the Integrated Environmental Authorisation, on which a planning meeting was held a few days ago by the local authorities, and the issuing of the building permits, which will enable the immediate opening of the yard for the construction of the plants envisaged in the first phase of the project´.
Catia Bastioli, CEO of both Matrìca and Novamont, illustrated the parameters of the research operations, taking account of the European strategic guidelines for the Bioeconomy, and highlighted the opportunities afforded to this part of Italy by the development of the third-generation biorefinery project. ´The partnerships with various local organisations will make it possible to gather important information on native crops, which will help with the planning of the production chain, and will also allow for the development of important synergies on the products of the Biorefinery, such as biolubricants, biofillers and bioplastics´.
Today has seen the signing of the framework agreement with the regional research system. The framework agreement, signed by the President of Sardinia Region, Ugo Cappellacci, the representative of the CNR and the Rector of the University of Cagliari, Giovanni Melis, the Rector of the University of Sassari, Attilio Mastino and Matrìca CEO, Catia Bastioli, will make it possible to exploit the potential synergies between the respective infrastructures and to make the most of the scientific and technical expertise on offer for the carrying out of research programmes.
Matrìca, in Porto Torres, also presented its new, calligraphic logo, which makes the name of the company seem as if it has been written with a free-flowing hand gesture. The shape of the ´M´ recalls the cycles of nature, whereas the final leg of the same letter forms a dynamic number one, symbolising a new beginning, the first stage of a renewed, more balanced and more self-aware pact between Man and Nature. The colour, a vibrant blue with a touch of violet, helps to differentiate the brand yet further in a sector dominated by the use of green, with an eye to the milestones of the Blue Economy.
At the opening ceremony, during which it was also confirmed that the official procedure of changing the registered offices of Matrìca to Porto Torres is now under way, included speeches by the President of Sardinia Region, Ugo Cappellacci, the President of the Province of Sassari, Alessandra Giudici, the Mayor of Sassari, Gianfranco Ganau and the Mayor of Porto Torres, Beniamino Scarpa, as well as His Eminence, Father Paolo Atzei, Archbishop of Sassari.
Matrìca Research Centre - Technical Profile
The Research Centre was designed to optimise the various phases of the production processes of the plants that will be constructed, in order to provide them with specialist analytical assistance, to support the operations associated with the development of the ´Agricultural Production Chain´ and, last but not least, to promote the development of new technologies for the full exploitation of organic raw materials.
The Research Centre is currently constituted by a 700m2 facility encompassing laboratories, offices and service areas, and by a 3,500m2 site that will, in future, play host to the pilot plants.
In its current configuration, the laboratory is split into two operational areas:
analysis room, where all of the chemical, physical and instrumental profiling that is necessary for the management of the processes is carried out; the techniques used include chromatography, spectrophotometry and potentiometry.
test room, where all of the preliminary tests for the pilot experiments and distillation trials (including vacuum testing) are conducted.
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Book Title: Ship of Fools
Author: Sophia Soames
Publisher: Self-published
Cover Artist: Aurelia Morris
Genre: Contemporary M/M Romance
Trope/s: Finding love, Family Christmas, instalove, Set in the UK
Themes: This story contains descriptions of sexual roleplay and consensual violence, and elements of mild BDSM.
Length: 50 000 words
It is a standalone story.
Andreas Mitchell is single, stupid and bored, and should have a good long think about the amount of bad life choices he has made lately. Instead he heads straight for the one guy he knows will become his worst mistake yet.
Luca Germano makes no choices at all, instead he lives quietly in the background, and prefers the safety of his own hand to risking his heart. And someone as pretty and fearless as Andreas Mitchell, is the last person on earth he should let into his life.
Especially at Christmas.
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I barely finish that thought, before my office door opens. He doesn't even knock, Luca Germano, before entering and walking up to me with determination in his steps.
"We are ready to deliver. I was just wondering if you would like to come down and look her over before I go home." He grunts.
He's wearing skinny jeans today, and a torn knitted hoodie. A speck of oil still lingering on his hand, and a polishing rag stuck in his back pocket.
"I trust you." I say, taking the glasses off my nose, and placing them on the table in front of me. "The crew downstairs speak very highly of you. Thank you for helping us deliver on this one. I'm sure the car will be much appreciated by its new owner."
I'm talking a load of shite, in a voice that belongs to someone like Mr Lambert. I do that, sometimes, when I speak with older clients. Try to make myself more mature, more sophisticated, and less of the twinkly brat I really am.
"Ahm…" He grunts, again. He's a man of few words, Luca Germano. He still scares me, because he's unpredictable. I can't read him, not really. Sometimes he comes across as happy and carefree, at other times he seems almost terrified of me.
"Let me guess…" I tease. "Tonight you are working out, then you are going to go and have a nice glass of water at Club Eden. Am I right?"
"What?" he huffs.
"Yeah? That's what you do, most weekends." I giggle. I've immediately lost the stupid fake maturity. It doesn't take much. Told you, I'm an idiot, and clearly a fool, because now Luca Germano is blushing and squirming, and looking at me like I've lost my mind.
"Why would you say that?" He huffs out, suddenly back to being annoyed with me. Then he looks scared, breathing too heavily, running his greased hand through his cropped hair. He's had it cut again. I bet it's soft against his fingers.
I'm clearly losing my touch here, and I need a break. Luca Germano turned me down for a simple reason. He's probably gay, because most people frequenting Club Eden, are… gay. Since it's a gay club. Yet, I'm feeling less confident by the second here, sat behind my desk being... frankly, both rude and stupid with one of our freelance tech crew. Because I know what I am doing, I'm flirting, and why the hell I am flirting with him, of all people? I don't understand myself anymore. Well, I do. He's handsome, in a rugged way. A little bit scary, because the man clearly works out and is both tall, fit and muscular. The kind of man with big hands that would toss me around a bed with ease and completely dominate in the bedroom. He's also staring at me like I have two heads.
Note to self, also the kind of man I should avoid, because I usually end up in a state like last weekend. Do I take any notice? No. Here I go again.
"You usually spend the evening stalking me around the club, and staring at me." It's a little bit of a lie, but I'm smiling and batting my eyelashes. I'm giving the guy a chance here. I wouldn't mind a hookup with him. I would even let him do me, like a little good pick-me-up.
"Look, mate." He says again, with surprising strength, as he walks up to my desk and leans his knuckles on the top. Leaning over me and staring at me with an intensity that scares me. I actually shuffle my chair an inch backwards, because... Yeah. Intense.
"Don't mess around with me, I'm not into all that." He's serious too, enough for me to feel intimidated.
"Mate, it's an invitation to fuck, not a bloody job interview." I nip back, trying to blow my chest up like a bloody baboon. I'm not impressive, I realise that, as he smirks at me.
"Just leave it. Not interested." He huffs. I just laugh, because as he stands back, he turns around far too quickly for a man not interested. He's also sporting a semi in his jeans, unless he's hung like a horse. He's probably hung, but that bulge...?
"Look, Luke." I try, but he cuts me off.
"Luca. Not Luke."
"Luca, my bad." I try a smile, but he doesn't take the bait. Just stares, like he does. Maybe it's just his thing, and perhaps I have read all this wrong from the start.
"I go to Eden for a drink at the weekend, because my best mate from school mans the bar. That's why I go there. I hang out and shoot the shit with a guy who I have known since I was three. Is that clear?" He's pissed off, and now he's frightening me. Just a little. In a good way.
"Crystal." I nip back.
"I'm not interested in being one of your fuckbuddies, okay? So leave it. I'm very happy to work for you, and you have a great team downstairs, so if you have a project you need me for? Ring me. If not? Then I hope you have a great Christmas... and all that."
He's lost his steam at the end, clearly not holding a planned-out speech. He would never make a salesman, because now he is twirling around in a circle again, almost tripping over his own feet as he walks out of my office, leaving the door wide open behind him.
I don't go down and check out the car. I probably should, before the handover to the new owner this afternoon. I should probably be there to sign it off. Instead I lean back in my chair and let my eyes close. Just for a second to calm myself down.
What on earth am I doing? That? That display of complete and sheer unprofessionalism was ... staggeringly stupid. I could lose my job. It could be seen as harassment, on a grand scale. I need to stop, whatever it is I think I am doing.
In any case, I need to go home, grow up and grow a bloody brain, because the one I have at the moment? It's fried.
Sophia Soames should be old enough to know better but has barely grown up. She has been known to fangirl over tv-shows, has fallen in and out of love with more popstars than she dares to remember, and has a ridiculously high-flying (un-)glamorous real-life job.
Her long-suffering husband just laughs at her antics. Their children are feral. The Au Pair just sighs.
She lives in a creaky old house in rural London, although her heart is still in Scandinavia.
Discovering that the stories in her head make sense when written down has been part of the most hilarious midlife crisis ever and she hopes it may long continue.
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Q: Can someone tell me what this command does? I have encountered the following command in an internet tutorial. I couldn't understand how it works.
git log | grep commit  > ~/filename.txt

Someone please explain me how it works.

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*git log outputs the Git history.

*The pipe (|) instructs the shell to pass the output as a data stream into grep.

*grep will extract all the lines containing the string commit from the output of git log.

*> redirects the result of grep to the file filename.txt in the home directory (~).

A: You can safely try this out.
Change into a directory with a git repo.  Try "git log" to see what ist does.
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The Official 24 Blog #2: Bring Back Tony Almeida!
by joshuarivers | Nov 20, 2013 | Characters, Uncategorized
Hello all you 24 fanatics this is your weekly Wednesday edition of the Official 24 Blog. I am once again your official #bringbacktony President Joel Wood and this week I am going to discuss my favorite topic. A topic and person who ANYONE who watches 24 has an opinion on- Tony Almeida. Now the last time we saw Mr Almeida, it was a very different Tony that we had all grown to love over 5 seasons. He was a bitter, broken man. No longer was Tony Almeida a patriot but rather a vigilante. A man with a misguided sense of direction who had been so consumed with revenge over the previous 4 years that he'd turned his back on the only 3 people who cared about him, most notably Jack Bauer.
Tony Almeida played both sides of the field the whole day. He enlisted the help of Bill Buchannon, Chloe O Brian, and Jack Bauer to bring down the corrupt Juma regime. Tony saved millions of lives but also killed thousands more but his motives were clear. Tony wanted Alan Wilson, the man behind Charles Logan and the entire Sentox Nerve Gas Conspiracy that spanned 3 seasons and resulted in the deaths of David Palmer and Michelle Dessler. Tony had taken a turn for the worse. A turn that can be argued started way back in Season 3 when Tony went against Jack and CTU to save his wife, Michelle. Season 4, Tony was bitter but not yet broken due to Michelle leaving him but by the end of Season 4, Tony had come back to life and reunited with his Wife by season's end. Then in Season 5, Michelle Dessler was killed by a car bomb and Tony's life changed forever. By the time Season 7 rolled around, Tony had faked his death, cut his hair, and grew a full goatee to look more the villain role. Now, with 24: Live Another Day set to debut in May, 2014, I will now list reasons as to why I think Howard Gordon and the 24 crew should bring Tony back to the fold after 5 years.
Tony Almeida is Jack Bauer: I know, confusing right? Hear me out. Tony Almeida and Jack Bauer have been linked for 6 of 24's 8 seasons. Both characters have lost everything and everyone who meant anything to them. Jack still has Kim but with him on the run the last 4 years, there's no telling how much contact they've had. Jack learned how to deal with a corrupt government. Jack's had problems with every president since the David Palmer administration. Tony Almeida was also close to Palmer but ever since Logan, Tony has had a negative view of the government in general and it was only heightened by the government conspiracy that resulted in the death of his wife. By the end of Season 8, Jack Bauer himself had taken a turn for the worse. He wasn't putting innocent lives at risk but you have to wonder what state of mind he'll be in at the start of Season 9. He's not as different from Tony as you'd think.
Jack needs tactical support: Yes, we know Jack has Chloe back. The brains behind the operation will be back to help Jack stay a step ahead but let's face it, Chloe is not a FIELD Agent. She only shot a gun twice in her 6 season run and the 2nd time, she was forced too by Jack Bauer. Even though we'd all like to think Jack can just shoot his way through 100 bad guys without breaking a sweat, he's going to NEED someone in the field who can shoot a weapon. Someone who knows how to kick ass as much as Jack. Enter Tony Almeida. Jack has representatives from 2 major governments after him. Jack, whether he knows it or not, WILL need Tony Almeida. I know Jack and Tony ended on a bad note but IF Jack wanted to kill him, he'd be dead. Jack knows what Tony went through and a reconciliation with Jack Bauer would make for a VERY powerful scene, if It were to happen.
Tony needs his redemption: Alan Wilson was the man behind Charles Logan, Christopher Henderson, Graem Bauer, and the entire Sentox Nerve Gas Conspiracy. He was the man responsible for the deaths of David Palmer and Michelle Dessler and their unborn son. He was the guy Tony Almeida was after for FOUR years and yet when the time came for him to finally get his redemption, he gets hauled off to jail? It doesn't feel right. Tony deserves a better ending to his story. Tony had been on the right side of the law for years. He was a major character for five seasons and deserved a better ending than that and 24 fans have been demanding it since the end of 24 Season 7. They cried for his return in Season 8. Then we heard they were saving him for the 24 Movie that never got going. Now it's time to give the fans what they want. You brought Chloe back. That was good. Now you need to bring Tony Almeida back. Don't just automatically bring him back to side with Jack and pretend like Season 7 didn't happen. Have both of them struggle with it. Jack and Tony know how close they were but they also know they can't just forget what happened 5 years ago. Have them struggle with the idea of needing each other. Then when they DO reunite, it'll make for one of the most powerful moments in 24 history. Remember in Season 4 when Jack and Audrey were in trouble and Jack called the only person he could trust and Tony appeared out of nowhere? Remember how powerful that moment was? Now imagine that times 10. Make it happen, Producers. Your fans are clamoring for it.
Well…That's all for this edition of the Official 24 Blog. Next week I will conduct an Interview with one of the Co Hosts of the 24 Podcast, Mark Sieverkropp. That should be interesting! Just a reminder Next Friday will be my monthly appearance on the 24 Podcast recapping the events of Season 3 but don't miss Episode 14 this week as Josh and Mark recap the second half of Season 3 including the controversial decision of Tony Almeida. Until next week, My name is Joel Wood and this is the longest day of my life.
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Nigerian Stocks: Worth a Second Look
Stock & Analyst Updates	 2447 VIEWS
Tuesday, September 28, 2021 / 08:22 AM / by Coronation Research / Header Image Credit: Ecographics
Now that we are almost three-quarters through the year, Nigeria stock market investors might want to take a look at what factors and sectors have driven the market's performance and why.
Last week, the exchange rate at the Investors and Exporters Window (I&E Window) weakened by 0.49% to a record low of N414.90/US$1, following a 17.34% fall in turnover in the space. Elsewhere, the Central Bank of Nigeria's FX reserves rose by 2.04% to US$36.09bn - its highest level in over six months. We maintain our view that the FGNs US$4.0bn Eurobond issuance and the US$3.3bn allocation from the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) Special Drawing Right (SDR) will help shore up the external reserves and provide some respite to the exchange rate pressure. Amidst these developments, we expect the I&E Window rate to trade range-bound in the near term
Bonds & T-bills
Last week, the Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN) bond market saw renewed bullish sentiments as market players sought to cover lost auction bids in the secondary market. Additionally, expectations of reduced local currency bond supply, and a consequent decline in bond yields following the FGN's US$4.00bn Eurobond issuance, led to increased activity in the bond space. Consequently, the average benchmark yield for bonds fell by 7bps w/w to close at 11.23%. The yield of an FGN Naira-denominated bond with 10-years to maturity rose by 8bps to 12.02%, the yield on the 7-year bond closed flat at 11.60%, while the yield on the 3-year bond fell by 12bps to 9.15%. At the FGN Bond primary auction, the Debt Management Office (DMO) allotted a total of N277bn (US$647m) to investors, the highest total issuance since the June 2021 auction. This brings the total bond issuance in 2021 so far to a record N2.19trn (FY2020: N1.88trn). Stop rates were unchanged on the February 2028 (11.60%) and March 2036 (12.75%) bonds. However, the stop rate on the March 2050 bond expanded by 20bps to 13.00%. Demand at the auction was relatively strong, with a recorded total subscription of N334.32bn and a bid-to-offer ratio of 2.2x. The auction outcome supports our view that a future rise in bond yields, if any, is unlikely to be sharp over the coming months due to unaggressive borrowing as the DMO manages its debt service costs.
Trading in the Treasury Bill (T-Bill) secondary market was bearish, given the sustained liquidity squeeze and the shift in investor attention to the FGN bond PMA. As a result, the average benchmark yield for T-bills rose by 4bps in the week to close at 5.61%. Elsewhere, the average yield for OMO bills rose by 8bps in the week to close at 6.43%. Specifically, the annualised yield on a 349-day T-bill fell by 1bp to 8.30%, and the yield on a 326-day OMO bill shed 10bps to 7.41%. At this week's Tbill PMA, we expect the DMO to roll over maturing bills worth N111.87bn across all tenors.
The price of Brent crude rose by 3.65% last week to close at a US$78.09/bbl, the highest since September 2018. Year-to-date, Brent is up 50.75% and has traded at an average price of US$67.76/bbl, 56.78% higher than the average of US$43.22/bbl in 2020. Over the week, the price rallied as the Hurricane Ida induced output disruptions continued to support the market. By the week's close, reports from the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) showed that 31 production platforms in the Gulf of Mexico are still evacuated. As a result, approximately 16.18% (300,000 bpd) of the crude oil production in the Gulf is still shut-in. Elsewhere, supply from the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allies (OPEC+) remains below target as some of its members, e.g., Nigeria and Angola, have been unable to increase production in line with their increased quotas as under-investment or maintenance delays persist from the pandemic. Consequently, we maintain our view that the price of Brent oil is likely to remain well above the US$60.00/bbl mark for several months.
The NGX All-Share Index (NGX-ASI) edged higher by 0.05% last week. Consequently, the year-to-date return rose to -3.25%. MRS +9.75%, Oando +6.70%, Okomu Oil Palm +5.77% and Lafarge Africa +4.19% closed positive last week, while Presco -8.18%, Honeywell Flour Mills -5.00%, Unilever Nigeria -2.22% and PZ Cussons -1.71% closed negative. Sectoral performances were mainly positive: the NGX Insurance +1.75%, NGX Oil & Gas +1.38% and NGX Industrial Goods +0.23% indices gained, while the NGX Banking -0.79% and NGX Consumer Goods -0.04% indices declined. The Model Equity Portfolio will resume next week
The domestic recovery has continued in 2021 as various sectors of the economy have largely reopened following the pandemic. However, Nigerian stocks are lagging - they are down 3.2% year-to-date. The benchmark All-Share Index (ASI) fell by 3.0% in Q1 2021 and 2.9% in Q2 2021 as local currency T-bill and bond yields began trending upwards and as stocks began to look relatively expensive in valuation terms.
The YTD losses are primarily thanks to a 16.1% fall in telco and index heavyweight, Airtel Africa. As a reminder, Airtel Africa was one of the best performing names of 2020 as foreign investors took advantage of the stock's fungibility as an alternative means to repatriate funds. However, the spread between the stock's Lagos and London listings rose to as high as 145.6% (N551.34) in April 2021, leading to a selloff and sharp correction in the share price in Lagos.
On sectors, the banking stocks, led by Guaranty Trust Holdco (-14.2%) and Zenith Bank (-5.4%), were the primary contributor to the markets poor performance, with the banking index down 6.2% YTD. This is because banks earnings have remained under pressure amidst the low-yield environment, and investors have largely ignored the fact that they are trading at significant discounts to their Sub-Saharan African peers and their own historical valuations. In addition, the Industrial (-4.5%) and Consumer Goods (-4.3%) sectors, led by Nestle Nigeria (-7.0%) and BUA Cement (-12.1%), also lent a hand as investors sold down companies whose margins have come under the most pressure from the high-inflationary environment and FX weakness. In the case of BUA Cement, the stock was trading at an incredibly expensive valuation.
The Oil & Gas (O&G) sector has been the bright spot this year - the O&G index is up 60.9% YTD. Upstream Oil & Gas companies such as Seplat Energy (+74.0%) have benefitted from the strong rally in oil prices this year. In comparison, the downstream players such as TotalEnergies Marketing Nigeria (+47.7%) have seen product volumes surge following the reopening of the economy.
Where do we go from here? The second quarter was the first time since Q1-20 that Nigerian equities have lost in two successive quarters. However, Q3-20 is set to buck the trend. The market has seen renewed interest as local currency yields have begun falling again in recent months and H1-2021 earnings impressed across the major nonbank stocks. As a result, the ASI is up 2.5% quarter-to-date with less than a week to go in the quarter.
Like we mentioned in our series on Total Returns (see Coronation Research, "Why you need to study Total Equity Returns", 9 August 2021 & "The role of dividends in total return" 17 August 2021), current market yields still do compensate for the level of domestic inflation. The monetary authorities also seem to be happy with yields at this level. As a result, fixed income remains not an easy sell unless under the heading 'You have nowhere else to go'.
Consequently, equities look more attractive going forwards, with some select stocks generating yields higher than the 1-year T-bill. Our study on the Bond Equity Earnings yield Ratio (BEER) buttresses this point. The bond equity earnings yield ratio (BEER) is a metric that is often used to evaluate the relationship between the earnings yield of a stock market (the inverse of the price-to-earnings ratio) relative to bonds. A number above one indicates that bonds offer more value than equities.
Stocks likely to attract the most attention as we round off the year include Zenith Bank, Guaranty Trust Holdco, UBA and MTN Nigeria - these stocks have expected dividend yields of between 6% and 14% (consensus estimates).
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3. Interest Rates and Banks' Margins
4. Why Equities Have Been So Bad
5. Dividend Yields and Investment Returns
6. The Role of Dividends in Total Return
7. Why You Need to Study Total Equity Returns
8. FX Policy Deja Vu
9. MPC Likely to Hold Rates
10. Inflation on the Downtrend -OpEd by Coronation Research
11. Nigeria's Oil Conundrum
12. CBN Funding the Government
13. The World Bank Blueprint
14. Bitcoin and Nigeria
15. Oil Prices and Foreign Exchange (FX) Reserves
16. The CBN's Box of Tools
17. Slow GDP Points to MPR Rate Hold
18. Comparing Mutual Funds, Apples and Oranges
19. Transparency and Foreign Direct Investment
20. The Strange Yield Curve
21. Naira Bonds Sell-Off, US Bonds Rise
22. Oil Prices to the Rescue?
23. The CBN and Interest Rates
24. Monetary Policy Rate Decision
25. Inflation and Interest Rates
26. The US 10-Year Bond and Nigeria
27. T-Bill Rates Heading Towards 10.0%
28. Q4 2020 GDP and the Implications for Markets
29. Eurobonds and Foreign Financing
30. Why Inflation is Important
31. Nigerian GDP Better Than Thought
32. Naira Crawling Peg?
33. A Year in Two Charts
34. Interest Rates on the Rise
35. Oil Above US$50.00 per Barrel
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\section{Introduction}
Speech Perception has been seen as the process by which the sounds of a language are heard, seen, interpreted and understood. Since several decades, researchers have been looking into various aspects of speech perception, from finding perceptual or acoustic cues in speech signals, to highlighting the fundamental units and theories. Researchers in the field of experimental and developmental psychology have also shown deep interest in area of speech perception, studying whether speech perception is rather an active sequential or categorical cognitive process. Many perceptual learning theories have also combined with findings of language acquisition, phonological development and word learning. While focusing on linguistic effects on speech perception, it has been observed that early language experience profoundly affects how speech sounds are perceived throughout life. The influence of linguistic experience begins very early in development \cite{kuhl2004early}. A rich literature has documented that by 12 months of age, infants' ability to discriminate nonnative consonants already begins to decline while the ability to discriminate native consonants improves \cite{kuhl2008phonetic, kuhl2006infants, werker1984cross}. For adults, discrimination of non-native consonants remains far from `native-like', even after periods of intensive training \cite{logan1991training, flege1999age, lim2011learning}.

Children acquire language mainly through listening, watching, and imitating language before they know any words. By the time they are born, it has been well researched that human infants are already well prepared for language acquisition and show a preference for speech over other types of complex sound \cite{vouloumanos2007listening}. During the period of perceptual attunement, there comes a stage where the bilingual infants can discriminate best between phoneme distinctions which are most common across the two languages and collapse the less frequent ones; we term this period as the \textsc{critical period} \cite{bosch2003simultaneous, sundara2008development}. The same developmental trajectory is observed in bilingual and monolingual infants if more sensitive testing paradigms are used \cite{albareda2011acquisition}.
Our main contributions in this work are summarized:
\begin{itemize}
    \item We perform experiments on state-of-the-art visual lip-reading models in a bilingual and monolingual setting and determine the occurrence of a critical and sensitive period.
    \item We study how critical periods effect language acquisition and derive strong correlations with theories in cognitive science, psychology and linguistics with deep neural based models.
\end{itemize}

\section{Methodology}

Visual speech recognition (VSR) combines deep learning approaches and large-scale datasets with audio and videos. Recent advances in visual speech recognition have achieved remarkable recognition rates, even surpassing human performance. However, interpreting how deep neural networks acquire language is still an under-studied area. We try to explore this problem and draw parallels with how humans learn languages by conducting experiments in monolingual and bilingual training environments.

An early and essential task for humans is to make sense of the speech, requiring attention to audio and visual cues. We focus on the visual part of the language learning using a state-of-the-art visual speech recognition model described in \cite{petridis2018audio}. Visual speech recognition models learn to recognize speech from lip movements and other facial cues. VSR models try to predict visemes which are the visual equivalent of a phoneme.

Literature from cognitive science and linguistics states the occurrence of a sensitive or critical period during the phase of language acquisition during which infants can best discriminate the phoneme distinctions that are most common across the two languages. Psycho-acoustic tests have indicated that human vision classifies visemes (visual representation of phonemes) into different classes \cite{alothmany2010classification}. We convert phonemes to visemes, details of which are listed in the experiment section. Moreover, we try to observe occurrence of a critical period in visual lip reading model and draw comparisons between how humans and VSR model learn to recognize the visemes and whether there is a critical period.

We train two types of VSR models, i.e., monolingual and bilingual. The monolingual model is exposed to only one language (either English or Mandarin). In contrast, the bilingual model is trained in both English and Mandarin. We try to evaluate the accuracy of common visemes between the two languages in monolingual and bilingual testing environments. Also, infants show experimental influences on speech perception and its neural foundation \cite{werker2018perceptual}. We incrementally expose the VSR model with English and Mandarin data to simulate the infant's exposure to the outside world and thus the language acquisition. The initial model is trained with 25\% of the whole data, and subsequent models are trained with 50\%, 75\%, and 100\% of the dataset.

We train three models with different dataset splits, namely, monolingual English (trained on only English), monolingual Mandarin (trained on only Mandarin), and a bilingual English-Mandarin model (with an equal amount of data from English and Mandarin). We study effects of exposure to the data and the change in occurence of the critical period during training of the model.

\section{Experiments}

We use a state-of-the-art audio-visual speech recognition model \cite{petridis2018audio} and modify it to predict visemes given a video as an input. We perform our experiments on the largest publicly-available lipreading datasets namely Lip Reading in the Wild (LRW)\cite{Chung16} and LRW1000\cite{yang2019lrw} in English and Mandarin respectively. The videos in both datasets are very short in length, which helps in analyzing how articulation varies in a single word.

LRW consists of short segments (1.16 seconds) of BBC News anchors articulating 500 short words. There are more than 1000 speakers and a significant variation in background, speaker types, head pose \textit{etc}. LRW1000 is also a challenging dataset due to its large variation in scale, resolution and background clutter. There are 1000 unique word classes (referred to as `pinyins') from over 2000 speakers.

Both datasets have been provided with training and testing splits. We split the training data into four equal halves by dividing the number of samples per word/pinyin. Furthermore, we train monolingual (English or Mandarin) and bilingual models (Both Engish and Mandarin) under various training splits of 25\%, 50\%, 75\%, and 100\%, and we study the impact of the amount of data used for training the models on the existence of the critical period. The datasets contain videos labeled with the corresponding word. We convert the words into visemes to train our models. The translation process is as follows:

\begin{itemize}
    \item We first use python library \textit{epitran}\footnote{http://github.com/dmort27/epitran} as a tool to transliterate text in both English and Mandarin, to International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) format.
    \item Secondly, we use speech marks \textit{metadeta} provided in the documentation by Amazon Polly\footnote{https://docs.aws.amazon.com/polly/latest/dg/using-speechmarks1.html}, a cloud based service that converts text to lifelike speech. Currently, it lists phonemes and the corresponding visemes for around 30 languages. We follow the tables for British English\footnote{https://docs.aws.amazon.com/polly/latest/dg/ph-table-english-uk.html} and Mandarin Chinese\footnote{https://docs.aws.amazon.com/polly/latest/dg/ph-table-mandarin.html}.
    \item As demonstrated in Table~\ref{fig:viseme classification}, we segregate visemes into three categories and use the following nomenclature. For each viseme `v':
    \begin{itemize}
        \item If `v' is common for both English and Mandarin, labelled as simply `v'.
        \item If `v' is unique for English, labelled as `v\_E'.
        \item If `v' is unique for Mandarin, labelled as `v\_M'.
    \end{itemize}
\end{itemize}

\begin{figure}
    \centering
    \includegraphics{samples/viseme-classification.png}
    \caption{Viseme Classification, All symbols taken from http://nidaba.co.uk/Contents/Segments}
    \label{fig:viseme classification}
\end{figure}

\begin{figure}[!h]
    \centering
    {%
    \includegraphics[width=0.46\linewidth]{samples/LRW_LRS.PNG}}\quad
{%
    \includegraphics[width=0.46\linewidth]{samples/LRW1000_CMLR.PNG}}
    \caption{Viseme Distribution for LRW, LRS2, LRW1000, CMLR \textit{(Left to Right)}}
    \label{fig:LRW and LRS2}
\end{figure}

The viseme distributions of LRW and LRW-1000 are shown in Figure~\ref{fig:LRW and LRS2}. To establish whether this distribution is similar to everyday spoken speech, we also plot the visemic distribution from the testing sets of two sentence level datasets, namely LRS2 \cite{Afouras18c} for English and CMLR \cite{zhao2019cascade} for Mandarin. We conclude that in both languages, common visemes occur with a higher frequency.

We train two types of models, i.e., monolingual and bilingual, over different training splits as explained above. Input to monolingual and bilingual models differs in the type of data used and the number of visemes to predict.
Table ~\ref{table:viseme classification} shows the visemes specific to English and Mandarin, and it also mentions visemes common across the two languages. For monolingual models, we predict language-specific visemes and common visemes for a given video. Moreover, for bilingual models, we predict all visemes across the two languages.

We train multiple monolingual and bilingual models with an increasing amount of data, and we measure viseme classification accuracy at each epoch on the test set to check for a sudden rise in accuracy. This indicates the presence of a critical period.

\subsection{Data Preprocessing:} We shuffle the order of the input videos at each epoch, resize them to 96×96, and then random crop them to 88×88 as the final input to the model. We select a batch of videos in each training iteration. Each video is flipped horizontally with probability 0.5, converted
to grayscale, and normalized to [0, 1]. On LRW-1000, we chose 40 frames for each word and put the target word at the center to make it similar to the data in LRW. It is found by \cite{feng2020learn} that it can provide more context and improve the performance.

\section{Results}
In this section, we demonstrate our results and provide a detailed analysis to support our hypothesis. First, we present the viseme classification accuracy over each dataset split for both monolingual scenarios and bilingual in Table~\ref{table:viseme classification accuracy}. We observe on par accuracy for each dataset split. To summarize our results, we divide this section into three categories. First, we examine whether there occurs a critical period as seen in infants during language acquisition. Secondly, we explore how these critical periods affect the above language acquisition. Finally, we compare cognitive precursors and acquisition of first and second language learners, by inspecting performance on visual speech recognition models.
\begin{table}[!ht]
\caption{Viseme Classification Accuracy over training dataset splits}
\label{table:viseme classification accuracy}
\begin{tabular}{ ccccc }
\toprule
\multicolumn{1}{c}{} & \multicolumn{4}{c}{\% of Training data used} \\
{Model} & 25\% & 50\% & 75\% & 100\% \\
\midrule
Monolingual English & 83.81\% & 87.57\% & 89.88\% & 94.60\% \\
Monolingual Mandarin & 79.96\% & 81.22\% & 85.18\% & 87.86\% \\
Bilingual English-Mandarin & 82.14\% & 85.92\% & 86.31\% & 91.67\%  \\
\bottomrule
\end{tabular}
\end{table}

\begin{figure*}[!ht]
  \centering
  {%
    \includegraphics[width=0.23\linewidth]{samples/LRW_25.PNG}}\quad
{%
    \includegraphics[width=0.23\linewidth]{samples/LRW_50.PNG}}\quad
{%
    \includegraphics[width=0.23\linewidth]{samples/LRW_75.PNG}}\quad
{%
    \includegraphics[width=0.23\linewidth]{samples/LRW_100.PNG}}
  \caption{Viseme Classification Accuracy for Monolingual English model on LRW dataset using 25\%(a), 50\%(b), 75\%(c), 100\%(d) training splits, respectively (left to right) across each epoch number. \textcolor{black}{\textsc{Grey}} depicts common visemes in English and Mandarin and \textcolor{blue}{\textsc{Blue}} highlights other English visemes.}
  \label{MonoEnglishAllResults}
\end{figure*}
\begin{figure*}[!ht]
  \centering
  {%
    \includegraphics[width=0.23\linewidth]{samples/LRW1000_25.PNG}}\quad
{%
    \includegraphics[width=0.23\linewidth]{samples/LRW1000_50.PNG}}\quad
{%
    \includegraphics[width=0.23\linewidth]{samples/LRW1000_75.PNG}}\quad
{%
    \includegraphics[width=0.23\linewidth]{samples/LRW1000_100.PNG}}
  \caption{Viseme Classification Accuracy for Monolingual Mandarin model on LRW1000 dataset using 25\%(a), 50\%(b), 75\%(c), 100\%(d) training splits, respectively (left to right) across each epoch number. \textcolor{black}{\textsc{Grey}} depicts common visemes in English and Mandarin and \textcolor{red}{\textsc{Red}} highlights other Mandarin visemes.}
  \label{MonoMandarinAllResults}
\end{figure*}
\begin{figure*}[!ht]
  \centering
  {%
    \includegraphics[width=0.45\linewidth]{samples/BI_25.PNG}}\quad
{%
    \includegraphics[width=0.45\linewidth]{samples/BI_50.PNG}}\quad
{%
    \includegraphics[width=0.45\linewidth]{samples/BI_75.PNG}}\quad
{%
    \includegraphics[width=0.45\linewidth]{samples/BI_100.PNG}}
  \caption{Viseme Classification Accuracy for Bilingual English-Mandarin model on LRW and LRW1000 dataset using 25\%(a), 50\%(b), 75\%(c), 100\%(d) training splits, respectively (left to right) across each epoch number. \textcolor{black}{\textsc{Grey}} depicts common visemes in English and Mandarin, \textcolor{red}{\textsc{Red}} highlights other Mandarin visemes and \textcolor{blue}{\textsc{Blue}} highlights other English visemes.}
  \label{BiEnglishMandarinAllResults}
\end{figure*}
\subsection{Occurrence of Critical period} During training on monolingual and bilingual models respectively, we observe a period of surge in viseme classification accuracy on the corresponding test sets. This highlights a stage where the learning capability is maximal. This can be compared to the critical period observed by psychologists during the phase of perceptual attunement where visemes can be best distinguished. In Figure~\ref{MonoEnglishAllResults} (a), the critical period occurs around epoch number 15, as we see a soar in classification accuracy for 95\% of visemes. Moving from Figure~\ref{MonoEnglishAllResults} (b) to (d), we see a similar sensitive period for monolingual English-only models at epoch number 10 for 50\% training split, and later shifts to epoch number 7 and 5 approximately as the exposure to amount of data increases to 75\% and 100\% respectively. For monolingual Mandarin-only models and bilingual English-Mandarin models (as shown in Figure~\ref{MonoMandarinAllResults} and ~\ref{BiEnglishMandarinAllResults}), identical critical trajectories are recognised around the same time across the splits. This clearly shows how deep learning based computational models follow the same theory of language acquisition as mentioned in \cite{albareda2011acquisition} for both bilingual and monolingual environments.

\subsection{Effects of critical periods on language acquisition}
The occurrence of a critical period exhibits a steep increase in the learning ability of the model as visemes become more discriminable. However, it is noticed that once this critical phase has reached, the learning ability, i.e., the relative accuracy increase per epoch, decreases and becomes stable. To visualize the same, we plot the relative viseme classification accuracy using heat maps as shown in Figure ~\ref{HeatMapsAll}. The relative increase in accuracy from the previous epoch is highest during the critical period \textit{(circled in red for each case)} and then it starts to decline and stabilizes after a few epochs. Furthermore, the critical period occurs later if the model is exposed to less data, as shown in Figure ~\ref{MonoEnglishAllResults} and ~\ref{MonoMandarinAllResults}. Consequently,  language acquisition depends on the occurrence of the critical period, which is affected by the amount of exposure to the language, i.e., language acquisition would be quicker in linguistically rich environments.

\begin{figure}
  \centering
  {%
    \includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{samples/allHeatMaps2.PNG}}  \caption{Heatmap representation of Viseme Classification Accuracy for Monolingual English model, Monolingual Mandarin model, Bilingual English-Mandarin model \textit{(Left to Right)}}
  \label{HeatMapsAll}
\end{figure}

\begin{figure}[!ht]
  \centering
  {%
    \includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{samples/accNEW4.PNG}}  \caption{Accuracy for each viseme. \textcolor{red}{\textsc{Red}} and \textcolor{blue}{\textsc{Blue}} bars depict accuracies for Monolingual Mandarin and English training throughout. \textcolor{green}{\textsc{Green}} denotes L2 performance after critical period of L1 and \textcolor{purple}{\textsc{Purple}} denotes L2 performance after full training of L1.}
  \label{crossInferenceResults}
\end{figure}

\subsection{Impact of L1 and L2 learning performance in Bilingual setting}
According to the critical period hypothesis, there is an ideal time window to acquire language in a linguistically rich environment, after which further language acquisition becomes more difficult and effortful. It also states that the first few years of life are crucial when an individual can acquire a language if presented with adequate stimuli and that language acquisition relies on neuroplasticity. Literature mentions that if language input does not occur until after this time, the individual will never achieve a complete command of the language \cite{Nielsen1960SpeechAB, lenneberg1967}.
We inspect this theory by experimenting using our visual speech recognition models. We simulate language acquisition in a bilingual environment for English and Mandarin languages and compare them to monolingual English and Mandarin models. The models are trained in two ways; in the first case, the model is trained on L1 language till the \textsc{critical period} is achieved, and then it is switched to L2 second language and trained till the model converges. In the other scenario, the model is trained on L1 language \textsc{till convergence} and then switched to L2 second language and trained till convergence. In both cases, the model inferences on L2 second language. We express the accuracy of each viseme in Figure ~\ref{crossInferenceResults}. \textsc{Green} and \textsc{Purple} bars highlight the cross inference results switched after the critical period and full training, respectively.

Between the training schemes discussed above, we see an average drop of 6\% in accuracy on common visemes, while 11\% and 13\% drop in accuracy for non-common visemes of Mandarin and English respectively. These results support our claim and show that till the \textsc{critical period}, the model can be compared to a child that has the ability to analyze sounds and build sets of rules for morphology and syntax from the spoken language around them. While training till convergence, the model can be compared to an adult whose abstract phonological grasping ability gradually declines. Comparing with monolingual training throughout, we see a higher accuracy gain, reinforcing that humans learn L1 as a natural process, without any active intervention.

\section{Conclusion}
Through our experiments, we conclude that we can draw several connections between theories in cognitive psychology related to early language acquisition and methodological computational modelling. We underline the presence of a critical learning period and emphasize on the effects of the same. We also briefly analogize theories in second language acquisition and the importance of critical period during this learning adaption.

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/* Desc: A laser sensor using OpenGL
 * Author: Mihai Emanuel Dolha
 * Date: 29 March 2012
 */

#ifndef _GPULASER_HH_
#define _GPULASER_HH_

#include <string>
#include <vector>

#include "gazebo/rendering/ogre_gazebo.h"
#include "gazebo/rendering/Camera.hh"
#include "gazebo/sensors/SensorTypes.hh"

#include "gazebo/common/Event.hh"
#include "gazebo/common/Time.hh"

#include "gazebo/math/Angle.hh"
#include "gazebo/math/Pose.hh"
#include "gazebo/math/Vector2i.hh"

#include "gazebo/sdf/sdf.hh"

namespace Ogre
{
  class Material;
  class Renderable;
  class Pass;
  class AutoParamDataSource;
  class Matrix4;
  class MovableObject;
}

namespace gazebo
{
  namespace common
  {
    class Mesh;
  }

  namespace rendering
  {
    class Scene;

    /// \addtogroup gazebo_rendering Rendering
    /// \{

    /// \class GpuLaser GpuLaser.hh rendering/rendering.hh
    /// \brief GPU based laser distance sensor
    class GpuLaser : public Camera, public Ogre::RenderObjectListener
    {
      /// \brief Constructor
      /// \param[in] _namePrefix Unique prefix name for the camera.
      /// \param[in] _scene Scene that will contain the camera
      /// \param[in] _autoRender Almost everyone should leave this as true.
      public: GpuLaser(const std::string &_namePrefix,
                          Scene *_scene, bool _autoRender = true);

      /// \brief Destructor
      public: virtual ~GpuLaser();

      // Documentation inherited
      public: virtual void Load(sdf::ElementPtr &_sdf);

      // Documentation inherited
      public: virtual void Load();

      // Documentation inherited
      public: virtual void Init();

      // Documentation inherited
      public: virtual void Fini();

      /// \brief Create the texture which is used to render laser data.
      /// \param[in] _textureName Name of the new texture.
      public: void CreateLaserTexture(const std::string &_textureName);

      // Documentation inherited
      public: virtual void PostRender();

      /// \brief All things needed to get back z buffer for laser data.
      /// \return Array of laser data.
      public: const float *GetLaserData();

      /// \brief Connect to a laser frame signal
      /// \param[in] _subscriber Callback that is called when a new image is
      /// generated
      /// \return A pointer to the connection. This must be kept in scope.
      public: template<typename T>
              event::ConnectionPtr ConnectNewLaserFrame(T _subscriber)
              { return newLaserFrame.Connect(_subscriber); }

      /// \brief Disconnect from a laser frame signal
      /// \param[in] _c The connection to disconnect
      public: void DisconnectNewLaserFrame(event::ConnectionPtr &_c)
              { newLaserFrame.Disconnect(_c); }

      /// \brief Set the number of laser samples in the width and height
      /// \param[in] _w Number of samples in the horizontal sweep
      /// \param[in] _h Number of samples in the vertical sweep
      public: void SetRangeCount(unsigned int _w, unsigned int _h = 1);

      /// \brief Set the parent sensor
      /// \param[in] _parent Pointer to a sensors::GpuRaySensor
      public: void SetParentSensor(sensors::GpuRaySensor *_parent);

      /// \internal
      /// \brief Implementation of Ogre::RenderObjectListener
      public: virtual void notifyRenderSingleObject(Ogre::Renderable *_rend,
              const Ogre::Pass *_p, const Ogre::AutoParamDataSource *_s,
              const Ogre::LightList *_ll, bool _supp);

      // Documentation inherited.
      private: virtual void RenderImpl();

      /// \brief Update a render target.
      /// \param[in, out] _target Render target to update (render).
      /// \param[in, out] _material Material used during render.
      /// \param[in] _cam Camerat to render from.
      /// \param[in] _updateTex True to update the textures in the material
      private: void UpdateRenderTarget(Ogre::RenderTarget *_target,
                                       Ogre::Material *_material,
                                       Ogre::Camera *_cam,
                                       bool _updateTex = false);

      /// \brief Create an ortho camera.
      private: void CreateOrthoCam();

      /// \brief Create a mesh.
      private: void CreateMesh();

      /// \brief Create a canvas.
      private: void CreateCanvas();

      /// \brief Builds scaled Orthogonal Matrix from parameters.
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      /// \param[in] _right Right clip.
      /// \param[in] _bottom Bottom clip.
      /// \param[in] _top Top clip.
      /// \param[in] _near Near clip.
      /// \param[in] _far Far clip.
      /// \return The Scaled orthogonal Ogre::Matrix4
      private: Ogre::Matrix4 BuildScaledOrthoMatrix(float _left, float _right,
               float _bottom, float _top, float _near, float _far);

      /// \brief Sets first pass target.
      /// \param[in] _target Render target for the first pass.
      /// \param[in] _index Index of the texture.
      private: virtual void Set1stPassTarget(Ogre::RenderTarget *_target,
                                             unsigned int _index);

      /// \brief Sets second pass target.
      /// \param[in] _target Render target for the second pass.
      private: virtual void Set2ndPassTarget(Ogre::RenderTarget *_target);

      private: event::EventT<void(const float *, unsigned int, unsigned int,
                   unsigned int, const std::string &)> newLaserFrame;

      private: float *laserBuffer;
      private: float *laserScan;
      private: Ogre::Material *mat_1st_pass;
      private: Ogre::Material *mat_2nd_pass;

      private: Ogre::Texture *_1stPassTextures[3];
      private: Ogre::Texture *_2ndPassTexture;
      private: Ogre::RenderTarget *_1stPassTargets[3];
      private: Ogre::RenderTarget *_2ndPassTarget;
      private: Ogre::Viewport *_1stPassViewports[3];
      private: Ogre::Viewport *_2ndPassViewport;

      private: unsigned int _textureCount;
      private: double cameraYaws[4];

      private: Ogre::RenderTarget *current_target;
      private: Ogre::Material *current_mat;

      private: Ogre::Camera *orthoCam;

      private: Ogre::SceneNode *origParentNode_ortho;
      private: Ogre::SceneNode *pitchNode_ortho;

      private: common::Mesh *undist_mesh;

      private: Ogre::MovableObject *object;

      private: VisualPtr visual;

      private: unsigned int w2nd;
      private: unsigned int h2nd;

      private: sensors::GpuRaySensor *parent_sensor;
      private: double lastRenderDuration;

      private: std::vector<int> texIdx;
      private: static int texCount;
    };
    /// \}
  }
}
#endif

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RT-PCR Tests Covid 19 Are More Sensitive Than the ANTIGEN Test
RT-PCR tests are more sensitive than the ANTIGEN test, but there are some disadvantages. They can produce false-negative results, especially in early infection, and potentially expose the patient to others. Fortunately, the RT-PCR vs ANTIGEN test for children is the same. It has no known side effects and is approve.
RT-PCR & ANTIGEN testing for COVID-19 are the same tests for adults and children. The antigen test is a more accurate way to test for the disease, but the PCR test looks at the actual virus. The antigen test looks for the immune response that the body has to the virus. The PCR test is more sensitive and can detect the virus in various stages of infection. In addition to this, it usually takes one to two days to get results.
COVID-19 RT-PCR antigen Test is a Blood Test
The RT PCR Test Covid 19 test is a blood test that detects the presence of antibodies to COVID-19. The immune system produces antibodies in response to the infection. The results are not available immediately but will usually be available in one to two business days. If the child has been exposed to the virus, they should be isolated from senior citizens and immunocompromised people.
The COVID-19 RT-PCR versus ANTIGEN test for children uses a laboratory technique called PCR to detect the virus in a child's blood. It is a highly sensitive diagnostic test and is the "gold standard" for COVID-19 infection. The PCR is accurate and is a highly specific indicator of the virus.
As the RT PCR Test Covid and ANTIGEN is the same for adults, the ANTIGEN test is the same for children. The RT-PCR and ANTIGEN combines several different methods to determine the infection in the body. The compared to RT-PCR has a higher sensitivity and better specificity. It has a lower cycle threshold than the ANTIGEN test.
RT-PCR & ANTIGEN Test For COVID-19
The RT PCR Test Covid & ANTIGEN test for COVID-19 is a simple blood test that detects the virus' genetic material using a lab technique called RT-PCR. It may be obtained through saliva or fluid samples taken from the back of the nose. The sample is sent to a laboratory to undergo analysis.
The ANTIGEN test has the highest sensitivity among COVID-19 tests in Canada. It also is used to identify the viral strain responsible for the symptoms of SARs. The ANTIGEN test is a blood test. It does not diagnose the disease, but it can help health care professionals make informed decisions about the course of treatment.
Children Identifies The Genetic Material Of The Virus
The RT PCR Covid 19 and ANTIGEN for children identifies the genetic material of the virus. It is performed by using a laboratory technique called RT-PCR. The health care professional collects fluid samples from the back of the nose, such as a swab or a tube.
Although the RT PCR Covid 19 and ANTIGEN for children is not the same as the one for adults, it is still important to check for any possible symptoms. If you have the respiratory syncytial virus, you must consult a doctor or other healthcare provider. It is essential to be tested if you are in contact with a person who has the respiratory syncytial virus.
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The six RCAF pilots on this Op Reassurance deployment work with Romanian Air Force fighters for air policing and alert response.
Alongside the Canadian Army and the Royal Canadian Air Force, the Royal Canadian Navy is forging ahead with full spectrum targeting to allow seamless interoperability across the Canadian Armed Forces as well as with allies for future operations.
Expanded tool sets used by adversaries to influence culture, actions and decisions of liberal democracies is the focus of a new Centre of Excellence in Europe.
The shifting of funds sends a negative signal as we await release of the Defence Policy Review (will it be pre-Summer or not until Fall?).
Cyber security falls under the heading of 'defense of the realm' and is seen as a matter of national security. For Canada's armed forces, cyber aptitude tests could prove highly valuable.
Mixed messages from the U.S. create uncertainty over the future of NATO and European security.
Air dominance needs to be established and ensured, rather than assumed.
Several issues facing the Prime Minister and his still-fledgling government fall into the damned if you do, damned if you don't category. Then there's the Middle East.
The latest DPS Report Card indicates the process has become more complex, and questions the process of restricting innovation options.
A robust foreign policy requires a robust defence policy – were both lacking for the mission in Afghanistan?
Defining Canada's Roles and Commitments.
Of the many flashpoints developing around the world, Russia and China are two simmering challenges. Are they going to erupt or stay the course?
CANSOFCOM circumvents criticism that military planners are so busy examining the last conflict that they often miss being properly prepared for the next.
The current situation in Eastern Europe reveals that the "Cold War" between democracy and communism has never truly been put to rest.
Were Western democracies naïve to Russian and Chinese agendas?
How Defence Policy realities will affect the Canada First Defence Strategy Update.
The new Commander of the Royal Canadian Navy, has taken the wheel during a time of renewed fiscal restraint. How will these priorities affect readiness throughout the fleet?
Is North Korea a serious threat or is the West distracted by ploys intended to impress North Korea's own populace?
Increased criminal, commercial and naval activities along our western coast will influence Naval fleet considerations.
An interview with the Chief of Staff, Strategic Training Education Programs, looks at the perceived value of educating our military.
The CF is determined to follow the government's new Defence Policy Statement. MGen Walt Natynczyk, appointed as Chief of the Canadian Forces Transformation on 1 June 2005, will lead that effort.
Through applying Lessons Learned from the Green Ribbon Task Force, police find that cooperation is key to solving cross-jurisdictional cases.
The defence technology investment strategy identifies Simulation & Modeling for Acquisition, Requirements, Rehearsal, and Training (SMARRT) as a key R&D activity for enabling the development of future force concepts and identifying future capabilities.
There has arisen a problem surrounding the understanding and use of the terms used to describe the governance of defence issues and problems. Growing dependence on civilian business management publications and incorrect use of these terms by government managers and civilian consultants has come to create problems for the government's lexicon.
...Force Multiplier or Achilles Heel?
The recent efforts of the Canadian Navy in the Global War against Terrorism in the Arabian Sea.


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What Happens if My Trainer Fails To Show Up?
Am I allowed to bring electronics to the class?
Can my parents sit in the class?
If I skip classes would I be able to get a refund?
Can I join more than one class?
Will I be able to join in the class in the midst of semester?
How do I choose which class to enrol?
Except for public holidays, MIDP does not allow for any class to be cancelled or postponed to a different date.
If a trainer has to take an emergency leave, the class will be conducted by another suitable and qualified trainer. Note that no additional class outside of the current schedule will be conducted to replace any missing or postponed class.
Example: A student of Competitive Debating with Trainer X on Fridays at 10AM may choose to attend Competitive Debating with Trainer Y on Saturdays at 5PM if they could not attend their original class.
Yes, you may change classes if you have transportation issues or any other classes clashing, however, we do not suggest doing so.
Yes, all electronic devices are allowed in our classes. However if it distracts you from the subject matter at hand, the trainer may confiscate it and give it back to you once the class is over.
Parents are not allowed to sit in during a class session. However, you may invite them to be observers during debate tournaments and sparring sessions!
No, you will not be able to get a refund.
Yes, you may join a debate class and a public speaking class. Joining more than one debating class or public speaking class is dependant on your trainers.
The Malaysian Institute for Debate and Public Speaking is located at the following address: A-7-12A, Atria Sofo Suites, Jalan SS 22/23 Damansara Jaya, 47400 Petaling Jaya, Selangor.
It will be dependant on the availability of the class and whether you will be able to cope with what is being taught and be able to cope with what has been taught prior.
Payment should be made on the 1st week of each month unless there is no class on that day, then payment can be made on the week following that.


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pasta dishes, meat and fish dishes and of course different pizzas.
The theme of the Hotel Ideal you can find also in the restaurant / pizzeria: The cuisine is based on healthy seasonal products, which guarantee the best taste. Our bar offers a simple and informal atmosphere for relaxing with a good aperitif or a fresh drink until late in the evening.
Before or after dinner our bar awaits you for relaxing in company. You find a place also on the patio on hot summer evenings.


Please join us every Monday for "knitting with friends" open knitting. Complimentary coffee and tea.
Knitters are invited to bring their "Works in Progress" every Wednesday. This is to encourage you to wear them by the last Wednesday of the month. Pack a picnic.
Join us every Friday for a free pattern and pack a picnic lunch to enjoy outside!


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Mix 104.1 announce lineup for free MixFest concert
Mix 104.1 has announced plans for their annual MixFest concert, which this year will return as a free day-long event at the Hatch Shell in Boston on Saturday, September 8. Train will headline the festival alongside Gavin DeGraw and Andy Grammer. The show, which will be held rain or shine, is scheduled to begin at 4 p.m.
Train is touring in support of their new album, California 37. The band's sixth studio effort and follow-up to 2009's Save Me, San Francisco, debuted at #4 on the Billboard 200 after its release in April. Train recorded the album in their hometown of San Francisco, as well as Los Angeles, with Butch Walker and Espionage producing. It features singles "Drive By" and "Feels Good at First".
DeGraw, who recently performed in Massachusetts with Colbie Caillat, continues to tour in support of 2011's album, Sweeter. The singer's third studio effort features hit singles "Not Over You" and "Sweeter", both of which were co-written by Ryan Tedder of OneRepublic. The New York native and one-time Berklee College of Music student recently stared on ABC's "Dancing With The Stars".
Grammer, who is currently on the road with Train, continues to promote his self-titled debut album. Released in June of 2011, it features hit singles "Keep Your Head Up" and "Fine By Me".
Last year's MixFest concert featured Lifehouse, Sara Bareilles, Grace Potter & the Nocturnals, Michelle Branch and Javier Colon.
Train maps summer tour with The Script
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Let's Hear It For The Good Guys: The EPA
November 29, 2014 by Jim Fuglie, posted in Law, Government, Politics
Well, there probably aren't a lot of North Dakotans who think they'd like to see a greater presence by the Environmental Protection Agency in our state right now. That's unfortunate, because there are a lot of environmental problems here that aren't being addressed. But fortunately, one of those who would welcome it, in the form of Special Agents … Continue reading Let's Hear It For The Good Guys: The EPA
The Best Thanksgiving Meal Ever
When I left home on Thanksgiving Day 2001 I had a shotgun, a box of shells, a game vest, a gallon jug of water, a cooler, a propane stove with a small bottle of propane, a bottle of red wine and a wooden camping box made for me and given to me by my friend … Continue reading The Best Thanksgiving Meal Ever
A Canadian Shuffle: Keystone or Energy East?
"North Dakota oil producers were scheduled to feed the Keystone pipeline with 100,000 barrels of crude oil per day." --Jack Dalrymple, in the Republican response to the President's weekly radio address, March 10, 2012 "The Keystone XL pipeline will move 830,000 barrels of oil a day, including 100,000 from North Dakota's Bakken region." --Sen. John … Continue reading A Canadian Shuffle: Keystone or Energy East?
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November 5, 2014 by Jim Fuglie, posted in Law, Government, Politics
Here are the two best things the North Dakota Democratic-NPL Party can say about Tuesday's election: They picked up a seat in the North Dakota State Senate, and only one of their incumbents lost. The Senate seat was a big one: Erin Oban's win over Senator Margaret Sitte. She was the number one target of … Continue reading No. Yes. No. No. No. No. No No.
It's Election Day; Have A Beer
It was a warm dry day, June 8, 1990. North Dakota was still in the grip of one of its most severe droughts, with little or no spring rainfall in most of the state and temperatures running well above normal. I was driving back to Bismarck from somewhere in the northeast part of the state … Continue reading It's Election Day; Have A Beer
Why a Sesquicentennial Matters
Yesterday was North Dakota's 125th birthday. Officially it is called a sesquicentennial. I am only going to try to spell that correctly once. There was a grand party at the state's Heritage Center, which celebrated the grand opening of its new $50 million facelift. Words fail me trying to describe it. I can only say … Continue reading Why a Sesquicentennial Matters
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The red color is eye- catching, there's a window to peek inside, and the inscription invites you to help yourself to the gourmet bonbons. It measures 5" X 5" X 6" high and can hold at least a pound of wrapped candies. I bet you can find the right place for this fun storage tin, whether on a kitchen shelf or your office desk.
Or fill it up with special goodies to create a memorable gift.


Alonso, Ricardo and Rantakari, Heikki (2014) The art of brevity. USC Marshall School of Business Research Paper Series. University of Southern California, Marshall School of Business, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
We analyze a class of sender-receiver games with quadratic payoffs, which includes the communication games in Alonso, Dessein and Matouschek (2008) and Rantakari (2008) as special cases, for which the receiver's maximum expected payoff when players have access to arbitrary, mediated communication protocols is attained in one-round of face-to-face, unmediated cheap talk. This result is based on the existence for these games of a communication equilibrium with an infinite number of partitions of the state space. We provide explicit expressions for the maximum expected payoff of the receiver, and illustrate its use by deriving new comparative statics of the quality of optimal communication. For instance, a shift in the underlying uncertainty that reduces expected conflict can worsen the quality of communication.


A summary of interviews conducted with several elders concerning Treaty 6 and 8. No index terms provided.
3 p. transcript of a summary of interviews written by Richard Lightning, probably in 1976. Tape number IH-221A, transcript disc 25A.


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Faculty Profile for Dr. Michelle Hamilton
Dr. Michelle Hamilton
Professor — Dept of Health & Human Performance
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Program Director, Faculty — Center for P-16 Initiatives
mh42@txstate.edu
Early Childhood motor skills, correlates of motor behavior; Education success
Hamilton, M., Liu, T., & Elghary, S. (2017). The Relationship Between Body Weight and Motor Skill Competence in Hispanic Low SES Preschool Children. Early Childhood Education Journal, 45(4), 529–535. https://doi.org/Doi:10:1007s10643-016-0785-y
Liu, T., Hoffmann, C., & Hamilton, M. (2017). Motor skill performance by children in Head Start and typically developing children on PDMS-2. Early Childhood Education Journal, 45, 53. https://doi.org/doi:10.1007/s10643-015-0755-9
Liu, T., Fedak, A. T., & Hamilton, M. (2016). The effects of physical activity on stereotypic behaviors of children with autism spectrum disorder. International Journal of School Health, 3.
Liu, T., Hamilton, M. L., & Smith, S. (2015). Motor Proficiency of Head Start and Typically Developing Children on MABC-2. Journal of Childhood and Adolescent Behavior, 3, 198-. Retrieved from doi:10.4172/2375-4494.1000198
Liu, T., & Hamilton, M. (2014). Gross motor performance by children with autism spectrum disorder and typically developing children on TGMD-2. Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 36(2014, June).
Award / Honor Recipient: Presidential Distinction Award for Excellence in Service, College of Education. January 1, 2017 - September 1, 2017
Award / Honor Recipient: College Acheivement Award for Service, College of Education. January 1, 2016 - September 1, 2016
Award / Honor Recipient: San Marcos Women's Hall of Fame, City of San Marcos. September 1, 2015 - December 1, 2015
Award / Honor Recipient: Runner Up for the Presidential Excellence in Service Award, College of Education. January 1, 2012
Award / Honor Nominee: Excellence in Diversity Award, College of Education. January 1, 2011
Hamilton, Michelle (Principal), Castaneda, E (Principal), Nava, M (Principal). TX State 60X20, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, State, $200000. (Submitted: September 1, 2015, Funded: September 15, 2015 - August 31, 2017). Grant.
Hamilton, Michelle (Principal), Dawson, S. (Co-Principal). Local P-16, College and Career Readiness Marketing Grant, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, State, $50000. (Submitted: 2013). Grant.
Dawson, S. (Co-Principal), Hamilton, Michelle (Co-Principal). Regional P-16, College and Career Readiness Marketing Addendum Grant, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, State, $50000. (Submitted: 2013). Grant.
Dawson, S. (Co-Principal), Hamilton, Michelle (Co-Principal). Regional P-16. College and Career Readiness Marketing grant, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, State, $236000. (Submitted: 2012). Grant.
Pope, Michelle (Principal). Grant to assist in college access, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, State, $300000. (Submitted: 2011, Funded: January 1, 2011 - December 31, 2013). Grant.
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The University of Edinburgh: Equine Science (Online Learning)
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This programme involves an in-depth scientific approach to managing health and welfare, reproduction, behaviour, nutrition and exercise for horses.
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Americans consume foods and drinks that are high in sugar and starches more than ever before. Alarmingly, a steady diet of sugary foods and drinks can ruin teeth, especially among those who snack throughout the day. Grazing habitually on foods with minimal nutritional value, and frequently sipping on sugary drinks — such as pop, energy drinks and juice — all have a tendency to contribute towards tooth decay and send you straight to the dentist.
Sugar on teeth supplies food for bacteria, which produces acid. The acid in turn can eat away the enamel on teeth. Almost all foods have some type of sugar that cannot and should not be eliminated from our diets. Many of them contain important nutrients and add enjoyment to eating. Dentists know that there is extra risk for tooth decay if your diet is high in sugars and starches. Starches can be found in everything from bread to pretzels to salad dressing, so read labels and plan carefully for a balanced, nutritious diet.
If you choose to consume sugary foods and drinks, do so with meals.
Brush your teeth twice daily and floss daily.
If you are interested in finding out more about how to reduce your risk of tooth decay, contact our Westerville dentists through our website or call us directly at (614) 882-1135. Westerville Dental Associates standard is to be the very best at providing our patients optimal care, while making them feel right at home.


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Enterprise Security Startup Uniken Nabs $1.8 million from Exfinity Venture Partners
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Uniken, an enterprise security solution firm which enables enterprises to rapidly grow digital connections in secured environments, has raised $1.8 million from Exfinity Venture Partners.
With the fresh funding, the company is now planning for expansion and is also looking forward to establish itself in the US. It will invest in technology, brand and infrastructure to establish itself as market leader in India.
Sanjay Deshpande, CEO of Uniken, said,
Over the last year, we have made successful forays into the global markets and received endorsements for REL-ID in Israel and the US. With this partnership with Exfinity, we aim to make REL-ID a strategic asset for global enterprises to rapidly grow their digital business.
The company was founded by Sanjay Deshpande, Nanjundeshwar Ganapathy, Prakash Salvi and Nilesh Dhande in 2013 with an aim to enable fast growing enterprises accelerate their digital services delivery by protecting more than 10 million digital end-points. It provides digital solutions to thwart traditional security threats for enterprises.
It currently operates in India, Israel and the US. Earlier, in January 2014, the company raised Series A round of funding of Rs 30 crore from Nexus Venture Partners.
Uniken currently claims to have more than 2 million users who use the platform across 23 installations across India, including banks like ING Vysya Bank, Yes Bank, Axis Bank, Bank of India and State Bank of India.
Balakrishnan V, Chairman of Exfinity Venture Partners, said,
The increasing ferocity of cyber-attacks and the blurring of the lines between cyber security and our personal, financial and national security have led to an upswing in investment over the past two years. Uniken provides a digital connectivity and access platform that creates a private digital network of users, apps and devices. Exfinity's philosophy is to back companies that create disruption and Uniken fits the bill.
While Indian corporates still do not give as much importance to enterprise grade security solutions as their western counterparts, enterprise security startups from India continue to rise up, primarily banking on western clients for their revenue.


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So, anyway, I bring this up today because of the fourth dimension. In everyday life, we think of the three dimensions of length, width, and height (or breadth or whatever).
A point has zero dimensions, just a dot, no extension at all.
A line has one dimension; it extends simply along that one dimension (left-right or up-down or whatever) forever.
A plane has two dimensions; it's a flat surface that extends forever in two dimensions (left-right and up-down or whatever).
The regular world around us has three dimensions; it extends in all three (left-right and up-down and forward-backward).
But there is a fourth dimension, which is also utilized a lot in science-fiction. But this dimension is also quite important to everyday life anyway. The fourth dimension is time. Just like the other three dimensions, time is measured by extension, duration. Everything that is, exists in time as well as the other three, because nothing endures forever. It's really hard to visualize time as just another dimension like the first three, but Einstein proved that mathematically, that's exactly what it is. In fact, physicists generally refer now to the universe as spacetime, a four-dimensional realm that requires time to be considered as a dimension at right angels to all three spatial dimensions. I know, really hard to visualize. I tend to think of it (rightly or wrongly) as size. That over time, the universe is constantly and consistently growing — but it's completely unnoticeable to us because we're part of that universe, growing along with everything else. You could only notice it if you were somehow outside spacetime. I don't know if this analogy a) helps at all, b) makes any sense, or c) is even accurate. So never mind.
But I've always loved the idea of traveling in the fourth dimension, somehow jumping to a distant future or a distant past. Certainly a lot of my interest in this comes from my 35-year relationship with Doctor Who, a television show in which the main character can travel anywhere in time or space. Of course, the truth is we are always traveling in the fourth dimension. Time marches on at the rate of 60 seconds/minute. We're always moving "forward" in time. Or at least that's how we experience it, due to the way our consciousnesses work.
And from a religious standpoint, eternity and eternal life are intriguing concepts in relation to time. We often think of eternal life as being synonymous with everlasting life, and therefore meaning "life in heaven after death." But that's not quite accurate. Eternity doesn't mean "everlasting" — it means "outside of time." So the eternal life that Jesus promises doesn't actually mean "heaven"; it means a special way of living here, a way of not being caught up in time. Again, it's hard to really visualize this; I usually describe it as "life lived in the present," not stuck in worries about the past or the future. I've also wondered if it's a lot like mindfulness.
That's enough for today. I've put enough ahem time into this.


Covenant wanted to renovate the dining room and living area of the existing town center at the same time they were building the new Alpine Vista senior living apartment building. They asked Whitney to update the current blue and red flowered color scheme to a modified lodge look, more in keeping with the beautiful Colorado mountain area in which they are located.
Whitney refaced the existing fireplace in stone and wood, added rich wood floors and wood beam ceilings. More casual rustic furniture was chosen with patterned and textured fabrics that bring warmth to the space. Landscapes from local artists were selected to finish the look. These same colors and styles were carried into the adjoining apartment building in the corridors and community areas. The completed design reflects a more elegant, yet comfortable and approachable Colorado style that Whitney was striving to achieve.