The Saint Lucia Bureau of Standards (SLBS) will launch a committee to spearhead and participate in work on the adoption of international standards for Cannabis.
The SLBS has established a National Ad Hoc Mirror Committee of ASTM International on Cannabis (Committee D37) which brings together representatives of educational and research institutions, state and non-state actors with a wealth of knowledge and experience that will guide the participation in the ASTM committee and adoption of the appropriate standards.
The SLBS has an established Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with ASTM International which is responsible for the development of American standards for testing and metrology. Under the terms of the MOU, Saint Lucia can join technical committees of the ASTM and contribute to the development of these standards.
The mirror committee is expected to meet four (4) times per year to review the standards for development that are under the work plan of ASTM D37 Cannabis. Members of the committee are expected to review documents and circulate them within their organization for suitable comments and feedback. Members also share areas of concern for their organization, which requires standards development.
An orientation and launch of this new committee took place on Friday, 22nd March 2019, at 9:30 am at the office of the SLBS, Bisee Industrial Estate Castries.


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PUBLISHED: January 1, 2008 at 12:00 a.m. | UPDATED: September 6, 2017 at 11:22 a.m.
Hundreds of thousands of New Year's revelers flocked to the 119th Rose Parade on Tuesday to view elaborate floats at an event that this year included protests against the 2008 Beijing Olympics and President Bush.
A Honda pickup truck that morphed into a spacecraft, a giant blossoming rose and a Chinese dragon undulating in the breeze were among the floats – all made largely of dried petals, seeds and fresh flowers – to raise cheers from the crowds.
Despite the protesters attending the parade, the event was largely a festive affair.The city estimates more than a million people visit Pasadena during the parade and Rose Bowl game festivities.
Twenty-three people were arrested by Tuesday afternoon, including one protester, Pasadena Police Department Lt. Keith Jones said. Jones said the protester was "arrested for holding up a sign that blocked other patrons' view of the parade."
Dozens of anti-war protesters led by "Peace Mom" Cindy Sheehan staked out spots across from television cameras, hoisting signs reading "Impeachment is Patriotic."
After the procession's last float inched out to start along the parade's 5 -mile route, a group of more than 100 anti-war protesters, including Sheehan, marched behind it. Parade watchers sitting in the grandstand booed and yelled at the protesters.
"This is not the occasion for this," Mary Feichtel, 63, of Florida, said of the protests.
Sheehan spoke later to a gathering of protesters at Pasadena City Hall. "We are all here for accountability," Sheehan said. "You didn't ruin anybody's parade. They got to see the truth."
Members of Falun Gong, the spiritual movement outlawed by the Chinese government in 1999, and other human rights activists protested a float honoring the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. Demonstrators wanted people to turn their backs on the float as it rolled along the route, though few appeared to join in the protest.
The irrigation firm Rain Bird International won the prestigious Sweepstakes Trophy for most beautiful entry for it's "Preservation Celebration" float paying tribute to the intimate relationship of water and life. The float featured eight waterfalls, Bengal tigers and animal expert Jack Hanna.
The City of Torrance's "Festival of Flowers" won the Lathrop K. Leishman Trophy for most beautiful noncommercial entry.
One of the biggest crowd pleasers was American Honda's "Passport to the Future," which won the Crown City Innovation Trophy. It featured a Honda Ridgeline pickup truck that morphed in a cloud of smoke into a spaceship.

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text: Q: Optimize or minimize a vector function in matlab I need to minimize a vector function at all points of x f(x) = a+bx+cx^2+d*x^3. The values of a,b,c,d has to be optimized for the same. Is their any algorithm in matlab that can do the same? I used gamultiobj algorithm for the same, but it generated a large number of these values for each pareto point. I just need a single set of value for the same.

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Melarsomine For Veterinary Use
Arsenical Antiparasitic
Treatment of heartworm
Melarsomine is an antiparasitic medication derived from an organic arsenic compound that is used in a veterinary hospital setting to treat dogs that are suffering from heartworm disease.
Veterinary Medicine Uses for Melarsomine
Melarsomine contains arsenic, which is the active ingredient that kills both the adult and immature (>4 months old) heartworms. After treatment with melarsomine, the patient should undergo cage rest for four to six weeks. Additional medications that is used to treat heartworm disease include other antiparasitics, antibiotics, and steroids.
Potential Side-Effects of Melarsomine
The most-common side effects of melarsomine include pain, swelling, and tenderness at the injection site; fever, lethargy, a loss of appetite, vomiting, gagging, lung congestion, and depression. Hard nodules also can develop and persist at the injection site. Older dogs, such as those aged eight years or older, tend to be more susceptible to depression, vomiting, and loss of appetite as compared to younger patients.
More-severe side effects of melarsomine, although rare, include coughing up blood, diarrhea, excessive drooling and panting, and death. It is important to note that these signs can be directly related to treating heartworm disease and not necessarily the drug itself.
For this reason, surgical removal of the heartworm may be recommended to help improve the patient's prognosis. If left untreated heartworm disease can prove fatal, so the risks of treatment are usually accepted.
Drug Interactions with Melarsomine
Although melarsomine is FDA-approved for use in canines, there are certain situations where the drug should be avoided or used with extreme caution. For instance, if the pet has a known allergy to melarsomine, it should be avoided. This medication also should be used with extreme caution in patients who are pregnant, nursing, or already receiving treatments for other diseases, especially those affecting the kidneys or lungs.
Melarsomine is approved for use in dogs only. It never should be administered to cats or to other pets.
Melarsomine has been shown to interact with Caparsolate and glucocorticoids, so extra care needs to be practiced in these types of cases.
Precautions for Using Melarsomine
When it is in its powder form, melarsomine should be stored upright at room temperature. Once reconstituted, however, the medicine should be stored in a refrigerator. Melarsomine should be disposed of if not used within 24 hours after reconstitution.


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Confession: I was one of those so-called experts who went around waving scary graphs and warning against the risks of Brexit, a fully paid-up participant in 'Project Fear' as Leave campaigners characterised it. As a non-UK citizen (and thus non-voter) I was fairly agnostic and tried to keep out of the larger, more philosophical issues at play during the referendum. My public views, and the graphs I brandished at events leading up the poll, related strictly to FDI. And in that I saw more risks than rewards from Brexit.
In the end, this FDI 'expert' was ignored along with all the others. So, what now?
The UK's status as a safe-haven investment destination has been thrown into doubt, at least temporarily, and investors face years of uncertainty over what trade deals might emerge, what access to European markets will be maintained, and a lot else besides. One thing I warned in my scare-mongering speeches was that investment agencies in countries such as Germany and Ireland would make hay from Brexit and would have a strong hand to play in poaching investors from the UK if it left the EU. It is too soon to tell how successful these efforts will be, but within hours of the referendum results being announced, we here at fDi heard from a few such agencies that were already drawing up plans to target UK-based firms. Our cover story for this issue details some of these efforts and assesses how foreign investors might view a post-Brexit UK.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the Atlantic, the world's best established investment destination is busy putting its own FDI status under threat, as detailed in our feature. Much attention is being paid to the bombastic proclamations of Republican candidate Donald Trump, who demonises free trade and claims (unrealistically) he will somehow stop American companies from closing US factories or relocating functions overseas. But anti-trade and anti-FDI rhetoric has been rife throughout this long campaign season, on various sides of the political spectrum, and will only worsen as election day draws nearer and as the fight for voters in crucial Rust Belt swing states intensifies.
I guess I'd better dust off my scary graphs and take them Stateside. But unfortunately, the very voters who could benefit most from job-creating inbound FDI projects are the most likely to vote for the candidate who stands to do the most damage to the US's appeal for inward investment – and, like their counterparts across the pond, are also the least likely to be swayed by the remonstrations of an egghead with a PowerPoint presentation.


African heads of state have endorsed two major new initiatives to help end AIDS by 2030. The community health workers initiative aims to recruit, train and deploy 2 million community health workers across Africa by 2020. The western and central Africa catch-up plan aims to rapidly accelerate access to HIV treatment in the region and close the gap in access between African regions. The initiatives were endorsed at the AIDS Watch Africa Heads of State and Government Meeting, held on 3 July during the 29th African Union Summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Under the leadership of countries and regional economic communities, and in collaboration with UNAIDS, the World Health Organization, Doctors Without Borders and other partners, the catch-up plan in western and central Africa, which started implementation in late 2016, seeks to dramatically accelerate the scale-up of HIV testing, prevention and treatment programmes, with the goal of putting the region on the Fast-Track to meet the 90–90–90 targets by December 2020.
While the world witnesses significant progress in responding to HIV, with 57% of all people living with HIV knowing their HIV status, 46% of all people living with HIV accessing treatment and 38% of all people living with HIV virally suppressed in 2015, the western and central Africa region lags behind, achieving only 36%, 28% and 12%, respectively, in 2015. The gap is considerable: 4.7 million people living with HIV are not receiving treatment, and 330 000 adults and children died from AIDS-related illnesses in 2015.
The catch-up plan will aim to increase the number of people on treatment from 1.8 million to 2.9 million by mid-2018, giving an additional 1.2 million people, including 120 000 children, access to urgently needed treatment.
The first call for a catch-up plan for the region was made at the United Nations General Assembly High-Level Meeting on Ending AIDS in June 2016. Since then, at least 10 countries (Benin, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Côte d'Ivoire, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Senegal and Sierra Leone) have developed country operational plans deriving from the western and central Africa catch-up plan with a focus on ensuring the needed policy and structural changes.
The community health worker initiative aims to accelerate progress towards achieving the 90–90–90 targets by 2020—whereby 90% of all people living with HIV know their HIV status, 90% of people who know their HIV-positive status are accessing treatment and 90% of people on treatment have suppressed viral loads—and to lay the foundation for sustainable health systems. Championed by the President of Guinea and African Union Chair, Alpha Condé, the initiative seeks to confront the acute health workforce shortages across Africa and improve access to health services for the most marginalized populations, including people living in rural areas.
Substantial evidence, from both Africa and elsewhere, demonstrates that well-trained, properly supervised community health workers provide an excellent quality of care and improve the efficiency and impact of health spending. Community health workers have helped devise some of the most effective service delivery strategies for HIV testing and treatment, and studies have also linked community-delivered services with increased rates of immunization, exclusive breastfeeding and malaria control coverage.
UNAIDS estimates that there are more than 1 million community health workers in Africa today, but most focus on a single health problem and are under-trained, unpaid or under-paid, and not well integrated in health systems. The new initiative endorsed by AIDS Watch Africa seeks to retrain existing community health workers, where feasible, and to recruit new health workers to reach the 2 million target.
While community health workers may hold the key in many settings to achieving the 90–90–90 targets, the benefits of this new initiative extend well beyond the AIDS response. The initiative will expedite gains across the health targets of Sustainable Development Goal 3, create new jobs that will strengthen local and national economies and offer new opportunities to young people. The new initiative is aligned with the World Health Organization's Global Strategy on Human Resources for Health.
At the AIDS Watch Africa meeting, the participants also called on member states and development partners to support the African Union campaign to eliminate new HIV infections among children and keep mothers alive as part of the Start Free, Stay Free, AIDS Free collaborative framework.


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Der Windglider ist ein Windsurfbrett. Entwickelt und produziert wurde das Sportgerät bis Anfang der 1980er Jahre im saarländischen Altforweiler von  Fred Ostermann.

1982 verkaufte Fred Ostermann das Unternehmen Windglider an die französische Unternehmensgruppe BIC, welche auch die weltbekannten BIC Feuerzeuge und BIC Kugelschreiber herstellt. Hauptmerkmal war eine Hohlkehle am Heck des Boardes, welche neben der Gewichtseinsparung den Vorteil hatte, die Stabilität des Rumpfes zu erhöhen.

Windsurfen wurde erstmals anlässlich der olympischen Sommerspiele 1984 in Los Angeles olympische Disziplin.
Der Windglider war seinerzeit das einzig zulässige Surfboard, mit dem die Wettkämpfe ausgetragen wurden.

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This is why pharmacists are anally retentive.
A post from another pharmacist. I think it bears repeating.
I don't mean it in a bad way. It is the strength in us as pharmacists. We pay attention to details but in doing so, we sometimes drive people crazy.
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Excellent post, Nancy. Thanks so much for sharing.


Wondering what it takes to become a leading force in health and fitness education? Our Health and Fitness National Field Manager, Darren, reveals how he achieved career success and what inspires him to push for every day victories.
Struggling to find motivation in your professional life? Get set to feel inspired.
"Before joining The Training Room, I started out in the army. I think that's where I developed a lot of my management skills that I now use every day. I was medically discharged and started working in manufacturing – the regiment and people skills were familiar but the work bored me silly. I knew it was time for a career change and this is where the health and fitness industry came in.
I qualified as a gym instructor in Glasgow and started working with a gym lots of our students now choose when they graduate. It is actually the same gym that hosted the first The Training Room course in Scotland. Being in the gym environment cemented my want to work in this industry. I haven't looked back since.
When I hit 35 I needed more than I was getting from the industry – I'd had a fair bit of exposure to tutors from The Training Room and wanted a piece of the action. I retrained at Level 3 whilst working as a Health and Fitness Manager and doing 15 hours of personal trainer sessions – I know how much pressure comes with working full time and studying so I can really appreciate the hard-work our students put in.
Becoming a tutor was a very natural step for me – I used all my experience from my army, manufacturing and health and fitness backgrounds and put this into practice in the classroom. I worked every weekend course there was, built up great relationships with my students and saw my career with The Training Room soar – I'm proud to see that ethos has fed down to our tutors today.
From being a tutor to working my way up to acting Regional Manager, then National Field Manager, the personal trainer course offering has largely stayed the same. That's not to say there haven't been a host of improvements. The way we offer the personal trainer course has evolved – we listened to feedback and made changes. As an example, we introduced a part time course that enables students to dip in and out of learning – they can start in any way and on multiple platforms. We've also got a strong, talented and mobile team of tutors – it's incredible to see how much we can achieve for our students.
We all strive to build strong relationships with our students. I'm still in contact with many of them; it's great to hear how their careers are progressing. One student really sticks out in my mind – he started his course in 2015 in the Edinburgh academy – I saw in him the traits of a good personal trainer. He had great chat and social skills, his only downfall was that he saw himself as a bit of a lady's man! Anyway, he worked hard, qualified first time and got a job with Pure Gym thanks to the Career Support Team – after 6 months working as a personal trainer he was promoted to Assistant Manager, 6 months later full Manager, then became the youngest Cluster Manager in Pure Gym's history! If everyone puts in the hard work that he did, you can make whatever you want for yourself.
That was one of my proudest moments, but the definite 'I've made it moment' was being awarded Manager of the year with The Training Room. I'd been acting Manager at that stage so I was only really covering – the award was such a huge honour. It's only a wee trophy but the recognition was just incredible. It was the proudest moment of my career.
I've taken that feeling and brought it through my subsequent working life. I didn't really come from anything educationally so to get to the stage where I'm at the level I am now is a real motivator. I never thought I could achieve this kind of success in my career. It's all about having the right attitude – you've got to keep improving and working up, then you'll succeed.
I think the end goal should be everyone's motivator. It certainly is for me, that and my family – they inspire me to strive for more. I first recognised that when I was working in the gym – my then manager would split his week working up North and down South. It made me realise that even up in Scotland, you can strive for more and be a big part of something else. He showed me that anything was possible, nothing was impossible.
I always try and use that to inspire those around me – whether that's tutors, students or the team in head office. It's something I'd also pass on to anyone looking to become a Personal Trainer: stop blocking yourself from achieving the amazing. If you believe in your ability to pass the course and further yourself, it'll pay off.
Of course, you've got to work hard too and put the hours in. But you should be able to look back at why you wanted to join the course or start your new career in the first place and use that to motivate yourself. You never know where that initial experience will take you.
Inspired by Darren to start your journey to becoming a qualified personal trainer?


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On April 12 at 6:30pm in Taylor Hall, Room 102, a rare program of films by Ricky D'Ambrose will take place. A Q&A session with the filmmaker and a reception will follow the screening. The event is free and open to the public.
D'Ambrose is a Brooklyn-based writer and filmmaker. His films have been shown at international competitions, such as the Venice and Berlin film festivals, and at stateside festivals, such as the New York Film Festival.
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\section{Introduction}

     The bubbly flows are usually rather complex - multiphase, buoyancy driven, with different types of background turbulence etc. Therefore, different classifications of these flows were used (see for recent reviews Refs. \cite{ris}-\cite{ppf} and references therein). \\

  The bubbly flows can be roughly divided, for instance, into two classes: `pseudo-turbulence' and `buoyancy driven turbulence' \cite{ris}. In the `pseudo-turbulence' the collective (homogeneous) effects due to rising of multiple single bubbles and their wakes at comparatively small gas fraction play the main role, whereas in the `buoyancy driven turbulence' the effects of inhomogeneous swarms of rising bubbles (with the buoyancy-caused instabilities) at comparatively high gas fraction are the main factor. \\

   The turbulence can be transformed into deterministic chaos at the high gas fractions. Figure 1 shows (in the log-log scales) horizontal energy spectrum obtained in a recent direct numerical simulation at high gas volume fraction $\langle \alpha_g \rangle = 0.5$. The spectral data for the Fig. 1 were taken from figure 12b of the Ref. \cite{ppf}. The dashed curve is drawn to indicate the exponential spectrum
 $$
 E(k) \propto \exp-(k/k_c)   \eqno{(1)}
 $$
 where $k_c$ is a characteristic wavenumber (its position is indicated by the dotted arrow). We will return to this DNS with more details below.\\

\begin{figure} \vspace{-0.7cm}\centering
\epsfig{width=.45\textwidth,file=fig1.eps} \vspace{-3.6cm}
\caption{Horizontal kinetic energy spectrum at high gas volume fraction $\langle \alpha_g \rangle = 0.5$.}
\end{figure}

 The exponentially decaying spectra (in the wavenumber and frequency domains) are typical for the deterministic chaos \cite{oh}-\cite{kds}. The turbulence can be restored (through the distributed chaos) with decreasing of the gas volume fraction. Since the velocity field of the `buoyancy driven turbulence' is characterized by significant anisotropy (see, for instance, the Ref. \cite{ppf} and references therein), the vertical energy spectrum can be dominated by the distributed chaos whereas the horizontal spectrum is already dominated by the deterministic chaos (cf. Fig. 4) due to the high value of the gas fraction.\\

     In the Section II a possibility of appearance of the helical distributed chaos, dominated by the third moment of the helicity distribution, in the the bubbly flows has been presented and the kinetic energy spectrum typical for this chaos has been obtained. In Section III this spectrum has been compared with the spectra obtained in different numerical simulations and in a laboratory experiment. In Section IV  a general case of the helical distributed chaos has been considered and the kinetic energy spectra typical for this chaos has been obtained. In Section V these spectra have been compared with the spectra obtained in different numerical simulations and in a laboratory experiment.

\section{Helical distributed chaos}

   At the simplest approach to the problem of the bubbly flows the dynamics of the liquid phase is simulated using the Navier-Stokes equations for  incompressible viscous flow
 $$
 \frac{\partial {\bf u}}{\partial t} + ({\bf u} \cdot \nabla) {\bf u}  =  -\frac{\nabla p}{\rho} + \nu \nabla^2 {\bf u}  +{\bf F}  \eqno{(2)}
$$
$$
\nabla \cdot {\bf u} =  0 \eqno{(3)}
$$
with the body force term ${\bf F}$ in the Eq. (2) exerted at the bubble-liquid interface (see, for instance, Ref. \cite{lai} and references therein).\\

     For the inviscid case ($\nu=0$) the equation for the mean helicity corresponding to the Eqs. (2-3) is
$$
\frac{d\langle h \rangle}{dt}  = 2\langle {\boldsymbol \omega}\cdot {\bf F}  \rangle \eqno{(4)}
$$
where the helicity density is $h={\bf u}\cdot {\boldsymbol \omega}$, the vorticity is ${\boldsymbol \omega} = \nabla \times {\bf u}$ and $\langle...\rangle$ represents an average over the liquid volume. It is clear that the mean helicity cannot be generally considered as an inviscid invariant for these flows.  Let us consider the case when the large-scale motions contribute the main part to the correlation $\langle {\boldsymbol \omega}\cdot {\bf F}  \rangle$, but the correlation is quickly approaching to zero with reducing spatial scales (that is typical for turbulent flows). Despite the mean helicity is not an inviscid invariant the higher moments of the helicity distribution $h={\bf u}\cdot {\boldsymbol \omega}$ can be considered as the inviscid invariants in this case \cite{mt},\cite{lt}.\\

   Indeed, let us divide the liquid volume into cells with volumes $V_i$ moving with the liquid (using the Lagrangian description) \cite{mt}\cite{lt}. An additional restriction on the considered cells is the boundary condition ${\boldsymbol \omega} \cdot {\bf n}=0$ on their surfaces $S_i$. Moment of order $n$ can be defined as
 $$
I_n = \lim_{V \rightarrow  \infty} \frac{1}{V} \sum_j H_{j}^n  \eqno{(5)}
$$
with the helicity in the subvolume $V_i$
$$
H_j = \int_{V_j} h({\bf r},t) ~ d{\bf r}.  \eqno{(6)}
$$
   Due to the quick reducing of the correlation $\langle {\boldsymbol \omega}\cdot {\bf F} \rangle$ with the spatial scales the partial helicities $H_j$ can be still (approximately) considered as inviscid invariants for the cells $V_i$ where the spatial scales of the liquid motion are small enough. These cells provide the main contribution to the $I_n$ with $n \gg 1 $ for sufficiently chaotic (turbulent) flows (cf. \cite{bt}).  Hence, $I_n$ for sufficiently large $n$ can be considered as an inviscid quasi-invariant whereas the total helicity $I_1$ cannot. For sufficiently chaotic (turbulent) flows the value $n=3$ and even value $n=2$ can be regarded as sufficiently large  ($I_2$ is the Levich-Tsinober invariant of the Euler equation \cite{lt}). For the viscid cases the `high' moments $I_n$ can be still regarded as adiabatic invariants in the inertial range of scales. \\

    Let us now return to the Fig. 1. When the gas volume fraction becomes smaller than $\langle \alpha_g \rangle = 0.5$ the parameter $k_c$ in the Eq. (1) becomes fluctuating. Then, in order to calculate power spectrum in this case one should make use of an ensemble averaging \citep{b}
$$
E(k) \propto \int_0^{\infty} P(k_c) \exp -(k/k_c)dk_c \eqno{(7)}
$$
with probability distribution $P(k_c)$. \\

  Each of the above considered adiabatic invariants $I_n$ has a corresponding attractor in the phase space. The basins of attraction of these attractors are significantly different: larger $n$ - thinner the corresponding basin of attraction (the phenomenon of intermittency). Therefore, the flow dynamics is dominated by the first available invariant $I_n$ having the smallest order $n$. Let us start from  $I_3$ for simplicity (for general case see below).

    The dimensional considerations can be used in order to estimate characteristic velocity $u_c$ for the fluctuating $k_c$
 $$
 u_c \propto |I_3|^{1/6} k_c^{1/2}    \eqno{(8)}
 $$
  Assuming a Gaussian (with zero mean) distribution for the characteristic velocity $u_c$  \cite{my}, we obtain from the Eq. (8)
$$
P(k_c) \propto k_c^{-1/2} \exp-(k_c/4k_{\beta})  \eqno{(9)}
$$
where the parameter $k_{\beta}$ is a constant.

\begin{figure} \vspace{-1.5cm}\centering
\epsfig{width=.47\textwidth,file=fig2.eps} \vspace{-3.9cm}
\caption{Power spectrum of the vertical velocity fluctuations in the liquid phase obtained in the Eulerian-Lagrangian DNS for small value of the  gas volume fraction $\alpha = 0.005$.}
\end{figure}

    Substituting the Eq. (9) into the Eq. (7) one obtains
$$
E(k) \propto \exp-(k/k_{\beta})^{1/2}  \eqno{(10)}
$$

 \section{Direct numerical simulations and experiments - I}

   Let us start from the simplest approach Eqs. (2-3) with the Eulerian-Lagrangian model where the gas phase is composed of spherical non-deformable bubbles which are defined by their centroids position and velocity vectors in initially quiescent water \cite{lai}. Figure 2 shows power spectrum of the vertical velocity fluctuations of the liquid phase obtained in a direct numerical simulation using this model for a vertical channel with rising homogeneous swarm of bubbles for small value of the  gas volume fraction $\alpha = 0.005$. The spectral data were taken from Fig. 3a of the Ref. \cite{lai}. The dashed curve indicates the stretched exponential spectrum Eq. (10).\\

   This model does not take into account the effects of the bubbles shape deformation, collisions between bubbles and possibility of their coalescence. These effects were taken into account in the `volume-of-fluid' direct numerical simulations, which is a kind of the two-fluid model \cite{lai}. \\

   Figure 3 shows power spectrum of the vertical velocity fluctuations in the liquid phase obtained in a direct numerical simulation using this model for a vertical channel with rising homogeneous swarm of bubbles for the same small value of the  gas volume fraction $\alpha = 0.005$. The spectral data were taken from Fig. 3b of the Ref. \cite{lai}. The dashed curve indicates the stretched exponential spectrum Eq. (10).\\

	   Results of another two-fluid direct numerical simulation with buoyancy driven turbulence were reported in the Ref. \cite{ppf}. The power spectrum of the {\it horizontal} velocity fluctuations of the liquid phase obtained in this DNS  at high gas volume fraction $\langle \alpha_g \rangle = 0.5$ was already shown in the Fig. 1. Figure 4 shows power spectrum of the {\it vertical} velocity fluctuations in the liquid phase obtained in this DNS  at the same value of gas volume fraction. The spectral data were taken from Fig. 12b of the Ref. \cite{lai}. The dashed curve indicates the stretched exponential spectrum Eq. (10). One can see that at this high gas volume fraction the horizontal velocity fluctuations are already dominated by the {\it deterministic } chaos (with the exponential spectrum Eq. (1)), while the vertical velocity fluctuations are dominated by the {\it distributed} chaos (with the stretched exponential spectrum Eq. (10)). \\
\begin{figure} \vspace{-1.2cm}\centering
\epsfig{width=.45\textwidth,file=fig3.eps} \vspace{-3.9cm}
\caption{Power spectrum of the vertical velocity fluctuations in the liquid phase obtained in the `volume-of-fluid' DNS for small value of the  gas volume fraction $\alpha = 0.005$.}
\end{figure}
\begin{figure} \vspace{-0.45cm}\centering
\epsfig{width=.45\textwidth,file=fig4.eps} \vspace{-3.6cm}
\caption{Power spectrum of the vertical velocity fluctuations in the liquid phase obtained in the two-fluid DNS for high value of the  gas volume fraction $\langle \alpha_g \rangle = 0.5$.}
\end{figure}

\begin{figure} \vspace{-0.45cm}\centering
\epsfig{width=.45\textwidth,file=fig5.eps} \vspace{-3.9cm}
\caption{ Power spectrum of the horizontal velocity fluctuations in the liquid phase obtained in the experiment \cite{rrl} at moderate gas volume fraction $\alpha = 0.07$.}
\end{figure}

   Let us now turn to the experimental data. Figure 5 shows power spectrum of the {\it horizontal} velocity fluctuations in the liquid phase obtained in a homogeneous swarm of bubbles (2.5-mm-diameter) rising in water at moderate gas volume fraction $\alpha =0.07$. The measurements were made
using laser Doppler anemometry and optical probes \cite{rrl}. Figure 6 shows power spectrum of the {\it vertical} velocity fluctuations in the liquid phase obtained under the same conditions. The spectral data for the Figs. 5 and 6 were taken from Figs. 5b and 5a of the Ref. \cite{ris} correspondingly. The dashed curves indicate the stretched exponential spectrum Eq. (10). One can see that the both horizontal and vertical spectra correspond to the distributed chaos type Eq. (10) with the same value of $k_{\beta}$.\\

\section{Variability of the helical distributed chaos}

\begin{figure} \vspace{-1.5cm}\centering
\epsfig{width=.45\textwidth,file=fig6.eps} \vspace{-3.5cm}
\caption{The same as in the Fig. 5 but for vertical velocity fluctuations}
\end{figure}

  Let us consider general case with the first available (with a minimal $n$) adiabatic invariant $I_n$. The particular estimate Eq. (8) can be replaced by the general estimate obtained from the dimensional considerations
$$
 u_c \propto |I_n|^{1/2n}~ k_c^{\alpha_n}    \eqno{(11)}
 $$
where
$$
\alpha_n = 1-\frac{3}{2n}  \eqno{(12)}
$$
Since the straightforward analytic calculations of the ensemble averaged spectrum cannot be performed in the general case one can use an asymptotic method. One can generalize the stretched exponential spectrum Eq. (10)
 $$
E(k) \propto \int_0^{\infty} P(k_c) \exp -(k/k_c)dk_c \propto \exp-(k/k_{\beta})^{\beta_n} \eqno{(13)}
$$
where $\beta_n$ and $k_{\beta}$ are some constants. The distribution $P(k_c)$ can be estimated from the Eq. (13) at the asymptotic of large $k_c$
\cite{jon}
$$
P(k_c) \propto k_c^{-1 + \beta/[2(1-\beta_n)]}~\exp(-\gamma k_c^{\beta_n/(1-\beta_n)}) \eqno{(14)}
$$
with the $\gamma$ as a constant parameter.\\

 If again the $u_c$ has Gaussian distribution a relationship between the exponents $\beta_n$ and $\alpha_n$ can be readily obtained from the Eqs. (11) and (14)
$$
\beta_n = \frac{2\alpha_n}{1+2\alpha_n}  \eqno{(15)}
$$

  Substituting $\alpha_n $  Eq. (12) into the Eq. (15) one obtains
 $$
 \beta_n = \frac{2n-3}{3n-3}   \eqno{(16)}
 $$
 For $n \gg 1$ the Eqs. (13) and (16) provide
$$
E(k) \propto \exp-(k/k_{\beta})^{2/3}  \eqno{(17)}
$$
and for $n=2$
$$
E(k) \propto \exp-(k/k_{\beta})^{1/3}  \eqno{(18)}
$$

\section{Direct numerical simulations and experiments - II}

\begin{figure} \vspace{-1.5cm}\centering
\epsfig{width=.45\textwidth,file=fig7.eps} \vspace{-3.5cm}
\caption{Kinetic energy spectrum at $Re=104$ and $At=0.004$.}
\end{figure}
\begin{figure} \vspace{-0.45cm}\centering
\epsfig{width=.45\textwidth,file=fig8.eps} \vspace{-3.1cm}
\caption{As in the Fig. 7 but for $Re=296$.}
\end{figure}
\begin{figure} \vspace{-1.5cm}\centering
\epsfig{width=.45\textwidth,file=fig9.eps} \vspace{-3.5cm}
\caption{Kinetic energy spectrum at $Re=113$ and $At=0.90$.}
\end{figure}
\begin{figure} \vspace{-0.25cm}\centering
\epsfig{width=.45\textwidth,file=fig10.eps} \vspace{-3.2cm}
\caption{As in the Fig. 9 but for $Re=358$.}
\end{figure}
   In recent paper Ref. \cite{prp} results of direct numerical simulations of the pseudo-turbulence in the buoyancy driven bubbly flow were presented for different values of the Atwood and Reynolds numbers. In these numerical simulations the Navier-Stokes equations
 $$
 \rho [\frac{\partial {\bf u}}{\partial t} + ({\bf u} \cdot \nabla) {\bf u} ] =  -\nabla p +  \nabla \cdot [2\mu \mathcal{S}]  +{\bf F}  \eqno{(19)}
$$
$$
\nabla \cdot {\bf u} =  0 \eqno{(20)}
$$
were studied with the density $\rho = \rho_f c+\rho_b (1-c)$, the viscosity $\mu = \mu_f c+ \mu_b (1-c)$ and the deformation rate tensor $\mathcal{S}$. The body force term
$$
{\bf F} = (\langle \rho \rangle-\rho) g {\bf e_z} + \sigma \kappa {\bf n}  \eqno{(21)}
$$
 where $g$ is the gravity acceleration, ${\bf e_z}$ is an unit vector in the vertical direction, ${\bf n}$ is the unit normal vector to the bubble interface, $\kappa$ is the curvature of the bubble surface, $\sigma$ is surface tension coefficient.  The first term in the right-hand side of the Eq. (21) represents the buoyancy force and the second term represents the surface tension. The DNS were performed in a cubic domain with periodic boundary conditions.

    Figure 7 shows the kinetic energy spectrum for Reynolds number (constructed using the bubble diameter $d$) $Re = [\rho_f (\rho_f-\rho_b)gd^3]^{1/2}/\mu_f = 104$ and Atwood number $At = (\rho_f-\rho_b)/( \rho_f+\rho_b) = 0.004$. The spectral data were taken from Fig. 5a of the Ref. \cite{prp} ($k_d$ is the wavenumber corresponding to the bubble diameter). The dashed curve is drawn to indicate correspondence to the spectrum Eq. (18). Figure 8 shows analogous spectrum but obtained for $Re = 296$.

\begin{figure} \vspace{-1.55cm}\centering
\epsfig{width=.45\textwidth,file=fig11.eps} \vspace{-3.5cm}
\caption{Power spectrum of the vertical velocity fluctuations for the set 1 (`large' bubbles) at $b = \infty$ and $\alpha \simeq 0.01$. }
\end{figure}
\begin{figure} \vspace{-0.45cm}\centering
\epsfig{width=.45\textwidth,file=fig12.eps} \vspace{-3.5cm}
\caption{As in the Fig.11 but for $b \simeq 1$.}
\end{figure}

     Figure 9 shows the kinetic energy spectrum for Reynolds number $Re =113$ and Atwood number $At = 0.90$. The spectral data were taken from Fig. 6a of the Ref. \cite{prp}. The dashed curve is drawn to indicate correspondence to the spectrum Eq. (18). Figure 10 shows analogous spectrum but obtained for $Re = 358$.\\

     In Ref. \cite{prak} results of an experiment performed for the bubbly flows in a quiescent liquid (a vertical water tunnel) and in the presumably isotropic homogeneous turbulence generated by an active grid in this water tunnel were reported. The rising bubbles were produced by capillary islands at the bottom of the tunnel. Two type of the capillary needles were used in order to obtain two sets of the bubble sizes: set 1 with the inner diameter of the needles equal to 500$\mu$m and set 2 with the inner diameter of the needles equal to 120$\mu$m. The bubbles in the set 1 had diameter $ 3<d<5$mm whereas in the set 2 the diameter was $2<d<4$mm. The mean velocity of the flow was in the upward direction. \\

\begin{figure} \vspace{-1.5cm}\centering
\epsfig{width=.45\textwidth,file=fig13.eps} \vspace{-3.5cm}
\caption{Power spectrum of the vertical velocity fluctuations for the set 2 (`small' bubbles) at $b = \infty$ and $\alpha \simeq 0.01$. }
\end{figure}
\begin{figure} \vspace{-0.5cm}\centering
\epsfig{width=.45\textwidth,file=fig14.eps} \vspace{-3.5cm}
\caption{As in the Fig.13 but at $b \simeq 1$.}
\end{figure}
\begin{figure} \vspace{-1.35cm}\centering
\epsfig{width=.45\textwidth,file=fig15.eps} \vspace{-3.65cm}
\caption{Power spectrum of the streamwise liquid velocity fluctuations for the near-wall bubbly flow. }
\end{figure}

     In order to characterize activity of the background flow the authors of the Ref. \cite{prak} used the so-called bubblance parameter \cite{lb},\cite{rll}:
 $$
 b = \frac{1}{2}\frac{\alpha U_r^2}{u_0^2}      \eqno{(22)}
 $$
 $U_r$  is the velocity of the bubble rising in still water, $u_0^2$ is typical turbulent fluctuations of the fluid velocity when the bubbles are absent. For single-phase flows $b=0$ and $b \simeq \infty$ for the case when the velocity fluctuations are mainly caused by bubbles.\\

     Figures 11 and 12 show the power spectra of the vertical velocity fluctuations measured in the experiment for the set 1 (`large' bubbles) but with different values of $b$ (for Fig. 11 - $b = \infty$ and $\alpha \simeq 0.01$, whereas for Fig. 12 - $b \simeq 1$).  The spectral data were taken from Figs. 6a and 6c of the Ref. \cite{prak} respectively. The Taylor hypothesis relating the wavenumber ($k$) and frequency ($f$) spectra using relationship  $f =Uk/2\pi$ (where $U$ is the mean velocity of the flow) can directly relate the power spectra  $E(f) = E(k)~2\pi/U$ (see, for instance, \cite{kv} and references therein).  Therefore, the dashed curves are drawn to indicate correspondence to the spectrum Eq. (10) dominated by the third moment of the helicity distribution.  \\

       Figures 13 and 14 show the power spectra of the vertical velocity fluctuations measured in the experiment for the set 2 (`small' bubbles) but with different values of $b$ (for Fig. 13 - $b = \infty$ and $\alpha \simeq 0.01$, whereas for Fig. 14 - $b \simeq 1$).  The spectral data were taken from Figs. 6b and 6d of the Ref. \cite{prak} respectively. The dashed curves are drawn to indicate correspondence to the spectrum Eq. (18) dominated by the second moment of the helicity distribution.\\

       Another example of interaction between bubbles and a background near-wall turbulent flow was presented in a recent paper Ref. \cite{mrl}. This Large-Eddy simulation was performed in a convective air-water channel flow in order to simulate bubbly near-wall turbulence at the fuel rods in the pressurized water reactors' hot channels. Such reactors are widely used at the nuclear power plants. In the streamwise and spanwise directions of the channel the periodic boundary conditions were used in this simulation. It is well known that the small vapor bubbles appearing  at  the fuel rods and then departing into the near-wall turbulence significantly alter the flow and, consequently, the heat and mass transfer. When the near-wall turbulence reached a state which is usually considered a fully developed one (at $Re_{\tau} =400$) about 600 small air bubbles were introduced in this simulation at the wall's surface. Detachment of the bubbles, their deformation and transport were allowed in a close proximity to the corresponding wall. About 50\% of the bubbles were detached from the wall at the end of the simulation.\\

       Figure 17 shows a power spectrum of the streamwise liquid velocity fluctuations at the dimensionless height $y^+ =20$ above the wall surface. The spectral data were taken from Fig13a of the Ref. \cite{mrl} for the bubbly flow ($h$ is the half channel height). The dashed curve is drawn to indicate correspondence to the spectrum Eq. (18) dominated by the second moment of the helicity distribution.

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Welcome back to another round of Quick Takes—a post that indulges in the topics that aren't worth dedicating a full article to, but are still on my mind.
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NXT Evolve
I've mentioned this multiple times in multiple ways, but I feel like I'm one of the only people on the planet who watches 205 Live. Even then, I do it out of necessity these days, rather than want, as it's no longer the show it once was.
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It seems like that may be finally happening with reports that "NXT Evolve" has been filmed and will even include belts that have been made already. I have a few quick thoughts on that:
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Bad Bunny Wins the 24/7 Championship
As I've written about before, I have no interest in seeing time dedicated to Bad Bunny wrestling at WrestleMania. However, WWE has to capitalize on Bad Bunny's 24/7 Championship reign by maximizing the amount of time they get focused on Saturday Night Live.
The ideal scenario would be for the title to change hands multiple times throughout the episode as various cast members just abandon their scenes in order to pin someone for the title. If that's asking too much, how about some backstage skits that act as interstitials where it's a running gag throughout the show? For instance, you do a segment or two, go to a commercial, come back and there's Lorne Michaels and company talking about how the last skit went well, then someone wins the 24/7 Championship. They drop it a few segments later in another "Hey, did you see where Kenan went?" kind of deal.
Get Colin Jost and Michael Che to do something referencing Braun Strowman as they have history. Bring back an old cast member like Steve Martin and give him the belt. Have fun with it!
But most importantly, at the very, very least, they need to have R-Truth sneak up on Bad Bunny and win the title back after his musical performance.
Kyle O'Reilly's "Seizure"
Many people were upset thinking Kyle O'Reilly had suffered a seizure following NXT this week. For a short while, all that was being talked about was that he had gotten stretchered out and it could have been complications from diabetes.
My immediate thoughts were "Oh my god. That's horrible. I really, really hope this is a work." Wrestling is strange, isn't it? I can't imagine another sport or television show or form of media where your gut reaction can be that you hope something is entirely fake because you know from the past that you've been fooled and will never fully trust anything.
Suffice it to say, it's great that this wasn't an actual seizure or anything and that Kyle was just selling Adam Cole's attack. For it to be that convincing means there's all that much more reason to consider pushing him to the moon and to give a pat on the back to those who got the fans ringside to buy 100% into it.
Make Your Team for $15
Many people were really upset over the WWE on FOX Twitter account tweeting out one of those "build your team for $15" posts featuring some of the female Superstars.
Like with practically everything in this world, there are points made on both sides that I agree with, yet I can't help but to feel like this is also much ado about nothing.
Here's the bite-size boiled down version of the arguments:
They do this all the time with everything. Sports, musicians, whatever. It's not something new, nor is it something inherently malicious.
But yes, it's different when a fan makes this, rather than something that has more ties directly to the people involved.
However, this is Fox's Twitter account. It's not Vince McMahon tweeting it.
Even then, though, be honest. People get paid differently and people are booked as more important parts of the show. It's just a fact of life. If that weren't true, everyone would hold the championship right now, get the main event, be paid the same amount of money and so on. That doesn't happen, does it?
People don't like to admit that, though, so they get upset when those tiers are brought to their attention. Nobody wants to see confirmation that they're on the low end.
If everyone was at the $5 tier, the whole concept wouldn't work. Participation trophies defeat the purpose of a trophy to begin with. If everyone gets first place, there is no first place.
I think everyone just needs to take a deep breath, admit that what happened here was that people were upset that the different tiers that do exist, kayfabe and shoot were brought to the forefront rather than still hidden behind a wall of deniability, and then move on.
Nobody in their right mind thinks any of these women or the others listed are worth $1. That's not the point this thing is trying to make. But I'll be damned if you can honestly try to make an argument that in any means, the character of Ruby Riott, who hasn't won a single thing in WWE, is as valuable of a star as Charlotte Flair, who has won more titles than any woman.
Also, where's the outrage for when this has happened before with building a team for Survivor Series made out of the men? Sounds like there's another trigger going on, too.
Also, where's the outrage for the rankings in the video games? Not everyone has 100/100 stats.
Also, where's the outrage for how people are announced in prioritized order for the WWE Draft? Eh? Eh?
Calm down. It's not that big of a deal. Also, the more you keep saying that you don't care about someone's opinion of yourself, the more you expose that you desperately want people to think you have thicker skin than you do. It's a self-defeating task. Wolves don't lose sleep over the opinions of sheep.
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Agents are great when it comes to identifying the emotional attributes of a property, such as the "touch and feel" of materials, or the "flow of space" that will encourage a sale. By backing that up with some sound technical advice, you could convince a more informed buyer.
Get a handle on the statutory constraints so you can advise buyers effectively. You do not need an architect for this – just do the homework.
Read it. Don't propose departures from this document unless you are looking for long-term headaches.
Understand the relevant issues – not just coverage, setbacks and height, but also rulings on outbuildings, street access and parking.
Do not underestimate the influence of ratepayers' associations, homeowners' associations, body corporates and other relevant civic associations.
When it comes to alterations and new builds, architects can spend up to a year designing and getting approvals before spending another year supervising construction. This is the reality of the process, and it requires a professional team and a realistic budget. Usually "great flow" is a result of careful planning and design. Review the property plan and consider if it can be improved with an alteration.
Very often buyers will not have this vision and will walk away from a good potential opportunity.
Assess the building for its ability to be flexible. Building work consumes energy, and saving existing building work benefits the environment and the budget.
Consider whether a building can be changed to better suit the buyer's requirements or the environment it is in. Some buildings are so badly planned and built that they are unchangeable and require demolition. If this is the case, be sure to inform potential buyers.
A building needs to respond to its climatic region with correct insulation and heat gain protection to avoid high electrical consumption. Views are great, but large south-facing single-glazing panels will mean high electricity bills or fireplace dependence. Likewise, west facades need sun protection.
Agents should assess a property's insulation, and the most important aspect is to find out what is in the ceiling. A simple R-value table in the SANS 204 Energy Efficiency in Buildings publication will tell you what the minimum spec required is for the region, which is translated into either polystyrene board or fibreglass blanket thickness.
Having the correct information on hand can assist a sale in today's market, where buyers are more concerned than ever about electricity consumption.
Glazing orientation, size and type affects insulation, and this has a major impact on comfort and livability. Performance single-glazing and double-glazing units have become the norm in all our projects, as they provide insulation in winter and prevent heat gain in summer. The UV filters even protect furniture.
These components are not big wow factors on show day, but informed buyers will appreciate an agent who has considered glazing and is able to offer solutions for potential problems. There are four basic rules: beware large south glazing for heat loss; beware large west glazing for heat gain; beware not enough north-facing glazing; and make sure east light enters a kitchen.