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Q: How to generate a graphical matrix from a dataset where each variable has been specified as binary TRUE/FALSE – convert data into required format? thanks in advance for your help
I am trying to generate a graphical matrix to illustrate the number of scientific papers reporting a certain biodiversity indicator for each type of agroforestry system.
CONTEXT
Using descriptive summary statistics to analyse a large database on silvoarable agroforestry on aspects of agroforestry systems, biodiversity and ecosystem services, as part of a systematic mapping review.
GOAL
To illustrate the number of scientific papers reporting on various biodiversity indicators for each agroforestry system. To do so I would like to generate a graphical matrix (e.g. Adjacency matrix, Balloon plot), that shows the number of papers reporting on each agroforestry system and each type of biodiversity indicator. See also the attached figures.
Exemplary sketch of the desired outcome

Inspirational example from Ditzler et al. (2021)

DATA
The database consists of hundreds of variables including everything from the location of the study to the specific biodiversity and ecosystem services addressed in the study. Here I have made a subset of the database that only includes the unique paper ID (ID.P), AC.TYPE (alley cropping type) and eight biodiversity variables (BD).
tibble::tribble(
                  ~ID.P, ~ID.S,         ~AC.TYPE, ~BD.SUB.FLORA, ~BD.SUB.FAUNAMACRO, ~BD.SUB.FLORAMICRO, ~BD.SUB.FUNGI, ~BD.SUB.BACTERIA, ~BD.SUB.SOILFAUNA,       ~BD.SUB.SPEC,     ~BD,
                     24,     4,     "NUT.ARABLE",       "FALSE",            "FALSE",            "FALSE",       "FALSE",          "FALSE",           "FALSE",            "FALSE", "FALSE",
                     92,     1,  "TIMBER.ARABLE",        "TRUE",             "TRUE",            "FALSE",       "FALSE",          "FALSE",           "FALSE",        "LANDSCAPE",  "TRUE",
                     99,     9,            "SHB",       "FALSE",            "FALSE",            "FALSE",       "FALSE",          "FALSE",           "FALSE",            "FALSE", "FALSE",
                     98,     5,            "SHB",       "FALSE",            "FALSE",            "FALSE",       "FALSE",          "FALSE",           "FALSE",            "FALSE", "FALSE",
                      7,     2,  "TIMBER.ARABLE",          "NA",               "NA",               "NA",          "NA",             "NA",              "NA",               "NA", "FALSE",
                    125,     1, "BIOMASS.ARABLE",          "NA",               "NA",               "NA",          "NA",             "NA",              "NA",               "NA", "FALSE",
                     45,    17,     "NUT.ARABLE",       "FALSE",            "FALSE",            "FALSE",       "FALSE",          "FALSE",           "FALSE",            "FALSE", "FALSE",
                     47,     2, "BIOMASS.ARABLE",       "FALSE",            "FALSE",            "FALSE",       "FALSE",          "FALSE",           "FALSE",            "FALSE", "FALSE",
                     69,     2,  "TIMBER.ARABLE",       "FALSE",            "FALSE",             "TRUE",        "TRUE",           "TRUE",            "TRUE", "MICROBIO.BIOMASS",  "TRUE",
                     14,     1,  "TIMBER.ARABLE",          "NA",               "NA",               "NA",          "NA",             "NA",              "NA",               "NA", "FALSE",
                     12,     7, "BIOMASS.ARABLE",        "TRUE",            "FALSE",             "TRUE",       "FALSE",          "FALSE",           "FALSE",            "FALSE",  "TRUE",
                     51,     1, "BIOMASS.ARABLE",       "FALSE",            "FALSE",            "FALSE",       "FALSE",          "FALSE",           "FALSE",            "FALSE", "FALSE",
                    169,     1,             "NA",          "NA",               "NA",               "NA",          "NA",             "NA",              "NA",               "NA", "FALSE",
                     94,     7,  "TIMBER.ARABLE",        "TRUE",             "TRUE",            "FALSE",       "FALSE",          "FALSE",           "FALSE",        "LANDSCAPE",  "TRUE",
                     49,     1,  "TIMBER.ARABLE",       "FALSE",            "FALSE",            "FALSE",       "FALSE",          "FALSE",           "FALSE",            "FALSE", "FALSE",
                     99,     1,            "SHB",       "FALSE",            "FALSE",            "FALSE",       "FALSE",          "FALSE",           "FALSE",            "FALSE", "FALSE",
                    131,     1,          "MIXED",          "NA",               "NA",               "NA",          "NA",             "NA",              "NA",               "NA", "FALSE",
                     45,    13,   "FRUIT.ARABLE",       "FALSE",            "FALSE",            "FALSE",       "FALSE",          "FALSE",           "FALSE",            "FALSE", "FALSE",
                    152,     1, "BIOMASS.ARABLE",          "NA",               "NA",               "NA",          "NA",             "NA",              "NA",               "NA", "FALSE",
                     37,    29,             "NA",          "NA",               "NA",               "NA",          "NA",             "NA",              "NA",               "NA", "FALSE"
                  )

ISSUE
My issue is that I cannot convert my dataframe into the required format to generate the graphical matrix I wish to create. I have tried the xtabs() and the aggregate() function to create a contingency matrix (also called cross table), but without luck (see below). I think it is because my data is based on binary TRUE/FALSE.
CrossTab_AC.TYPE_BD <-
  xtabs(~ AC.TYPE + BD.SUB.FLORA + BD.SUB.FAUNAMACRO + BD.SUB.FAUNAMACRO + BD.SUB.FLORAMICRO + BD.SUB.FUNGI + BD.SUB.BACTERIA + BD.SUB.SOILFAUNA + BD.SUB.SPEC + BD,
        data = BD_database) %>%
  as.data.frame.table()

CrossTab_AC.TYPE_BD %>%
  sample_n(20) %>%
  head(10)

Then, I try plotting the dataframe using ggballoonplot()
ggballoonplot(CrossTab_AC.TYPE_BD, x = "AC.TYPE", y = "BD.SUB.FAUNAMACRO",
              size = "Freq", fill = "Freq") +
   scale_fill_gradientn(colors = my_cols_pal_10) +
  guides(size = FALSE)

Unfortunately, this is not working..
Instead, I should have a data format like what they use in there ggballoonplot example:
car_data
#>         Car  Color Value
#> 1       bmw    red  86.2
#> 2   renault    red 193.5
#> 3  mercedes    red 104.2
#> 4      seat    red 107.8
#> 5       bmw  white 202.9
#> 6   renault  white 127.7
#> 7  mercedes  white  24.1
#> 8      seat  white  58.8
#> 9       bmw silver  73.3
#> 10  renault silver 173.4
#> 11 mercedes silver 121.6
#> 12     seat silver 124.0
#> 13      bmw  green 106.6
#> 14  renault  green  66.6
#> 15 mercedes  green 207.2
#> 16     seat  green 129.9

ggballoonplot(car_data, x = "Car", y = "Color",
              size = "Value", fill = "Value") +
   scale_fill_gradientn(colors = my_cols) +
  guides(size = FALSE)

Hence to me, it seems as if the real issue is how to convert the binary TRUE/FALSE dataset into some sort of summarised version that allows me to plot it as a graphical matrix.
I have checked on other posts here on StackOverflow, for instance, this visualizing crosstab tables with a plot in R]6.
Please, any help is highly appreciated!

A: First of all we don't have your colors so I just used the colors from the example. Next you need to convert your data to longer format using pivot_longer. After that I converted your true/false to 1/0 which isn't necessary because you only need to count the number of rows by both groups using group_by and summarise to get the counts to represent in your plot. When that is done, you can just plot it like this
library(ggplot2)
library(dplyr)
library(tidyr)
library(ggpubr)

my_cols <- c("#0D0887FF", "#6A00A8FF", "#B12A90FF",
             "#E16462FF", "#FCA636FF", "#F0F921FF")

BD_database %>%
  select(-c(ID.P, ID.S)) %>%
  pivot_longer(cols = -AC.TYPE) %>%
  mutate(value = case_when(value == "TRUE" ~ 1,
                           value == "FALSE" ~ 0)) %>%
  na.omit() %>%
  group_by(AC.TYPE, name) %>%
  summarise(n = n()) %>%
  ggballoonplot(x = "AC.TYPE", y = "name", size = "n", fill = "n") +
  scale_fill_gradientn(colors = my_cols) +
  guides(size = FALSE)
#> `summarise()` has grouped output by 'AC.TYPE'. You can override using the
#> `.groups` argument.
#> Warning: `guides(<scale> = FALSE)` is deprecated. Please use `guides(<scale> =
#> "none")` instead.

Created on 2022-08-01 by the reprex package (v2.0.1)

A: I found a solution to my issue by refining the answer from Quinten.
Below are my methods for Ecosystem services which essentially is the same as what I wanted for the Biodiversity indicators.
Firstly, I decided to plot the graphical matrix with ggplot instead of ggballoonplot because the output seems easier for me to wrangle and make neat.
Secondly, I added a group_by() piece to the pivot_longer() operation with the arguments to group AC.TYPE and the names (Ecosystem Services indicators, ES).
Thirdly, I summarised the occurrences of AC.TYPE – ES pairs (for TRUE's), since changing the TRUE to 1 only counts the 1's and leaves out zeros.
try <-
  ES_database %>%
  filter(AC.TYPE != "NA") %>%
  select(-c(ES)) %>%
  pivot_longer(cols = -AC.TYPE) %>%
  mutate(value = case_when(value == "TRUE" ~ 1,
                           value == "FALSE" ~ 0)) %>%
  group_by(AC.TYPE, name) %>%
  summarize(count = sum(value))

This gave me this data table:

I could now simply plot it with ggplot() using these lines of code:
 ggplot(try, aes(x = AC.TYPE, y = name)) +
  geom_point(aes(size = count), shape = 21, colour = "black", fill = "cornsilk") +
  scale_size_area(max_size = 20, guide = "none")

Special thanks to @Quinten who has been very helpful!

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The grain was planted last October and harvested in July. While the wheat was growing, we "under-sowed" it with red clover as a weed suppressor and nitrogen-fixing cover crop.
The neighboring block is planted with oats and field peas to condition the soil for next year's grain crop. In an adjacent block, we are growing eight row flint corn and panther edamame. Next year, we hope to plant potatoes, garlic and winter squash before returning the ground to pasture in year three.
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Popular video pinball game Timeshock! will soon have full video pinball cabinet support following Arcooda's announcement on Tuesday that is has partnered with Barnstorm Games.
Barnstorm, the team behind popular video pinball game Pro Pinball: Timeshock!, and Arcooda have been working together to create Timeshock! - The Arcade Edition.
It is the second partnership Arcooda has announced in the past three months.
Arcooda partnered with FarSight Studios, creators of The Pinball Arcade, in December 2016. Together the two companies created Arcooda Pinball Arcade.
Arcooda Pinball Arcade contains 70 video pinball games. This software is an advancement of The Pinball Arcade, tailored exclusively for Arcooda's arcade and pinball machines.
Barnstorm is the second company Arcooda have partnered with to enhance already well-known and loved video pinball games and make them compatible for full cabinet support.
Arcooda described Timeshock! - The Arcade Edition as "an advanced and integrated video pinball cabinet version of the renowned Pro Pinball: Timeshock! video game".
Timeshock!, part of the four video pinball tables released between 1995 and 1999 through the Pro Pinball series, was a ground-breaking video pinball game that pioneered the genre.
The Pro Pinball series has stood the test of time and is still regarded as one of the most realistic video pinball experiences in the market today.
Timeshock! - The Arcade Edition has been specifically designed to work on Arcooda's full-sized Arcooda Video Pinball machine.
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Additional game play features will also be added to Timeshock! - The Arcade Edition.
"Pro Pinball is one of the premium titles available as a video pinball table with a rich history," Steve Josifovski, Arcooda CEO, said.
Timeshock! - The Arcade Edition will be available as an exclusive product on Arcooda Video Pinball and Touch Wizard arcade machine series.
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From dust to dust
Today's blog is a guest post from filmmaker James Bartlett, who is looking for support for a short climate film, From dust to dust.
Australia has long been dragging its feet on the global stage in our obligation to dramatically reduce our carbon footprint to zero. As the efforts of other nations begin to dwarf our own, it has become painfully clear that our elected government cares little about the impacts of climate change. What are the implications of this ambivalence and where are we heading?
From Dust to Dust is a third-year-graduation project by students at the Australian Film, Television and Radio School (AFTRS) that explores these issues. This 12-minute drama, with elements of absurdity and black comedy, takes place in a near future; an environment that is barely habitable after decades of abuse and ignorance. Small towns are suffering the effects of the climate crisis, where fresh water has become increasingly difficult to attain. For some rural areas of Australia, this is already a reality.
The Story: In the fictional outback town of Houston, the search for water has become a grim task as the societal systems we take for granted are beginning to evaporate. Overwhelmed, the town's residents feel overwhelmed and their energy is simply applied to surviving. Some cling on to a thin shred of hope that the rain will come, the river will flow, and people will return to the once bustling town. But this denies the future reality for the town in a hotter world.
A lone postman on a pedal bike rides west from town to town delivering letters that delineate the end and edge of a once habitable of the world. It is a futile task that is becoming harder as each town he visits is more desolate than the last. Despite his tribulations, he turns a blind eye to the fate of this world in which he works, until he stumbles upon the last remaining resident of the town Houston; a fanatic preacher with a secret buried beneath the desert sands.
Why make a film about these issues? As filmmakers we believe that screen stories have a duty to raise awareness. We are a small group of passionate young people wanting to make art that reflects and addresses issues we deem imperative. Through the medium of film we wish to share our vision of the future and re-engage those that have become exhausted and ambivalent to the greatest challenge facing us. We aim to capture the reality of climate change in Australia and speculate on its repercussions if the problem in full measure has continues to be ignored even as society is severely disrupted.
From Dust to Dust paints a picture of our future existence if selfishness and cognitive dissonance accelerate the destruction of our environment to the point of no return.
Crowdfunding. We are currently running a crowdfunding campaign through the Australian Cultural Fund, where donations above $2 are tax deductible. All donations received will fund the production of the film. We aim to shoot in areas of regional NSW. Most of our budget will go towards hiring equipment, transport and accommodation. It is our goal to ensure that, in whatever small way possible, we are contributing to the economies and local businesses of the regional towns that we film in.
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Airguns - an underestimated disruptive factor | Umweltbundesamt
› Topics› Water› Antarctic› The German Environment Agency and the Antarctic› Underwater noise›Airguns - an underestimated disruptive factor
Airguns in the Antarctic – Underwater noise in one of the last refuges of rare marine mammals
Source: Sebastian French / Fotolia.com
The oceans surrounding Antarctica are among the few regions in the world where there is little underwater noise caused by human activities. An UBA study shows that the scientific use of airguns can emit noise in to this sanctuary at distances of 2000 kilometres which may reduce the naturally available communication range of blue and fin whales to as little as 1%.
Underwater sound disturbance
Whales and seals rely heavily on their sense of hearing and their ability to hear their environment is essential for their survival. Man-made underwater noise is now virtually unceasing in all of the world's oceans and is causing changes in the natural background noise to which marine mammals have been exposed. Shipping is one source of chronic noise with high masking potential. Much louder, although far briefer noise is emitted by airguns which are used to explore the seafloor or to drive the foundation pillars of wind power plants. Their sound bursts can be 1000 louder than a ship and have long been suspected of damaging marine mammals' hearing. Underwater noise can also disturb communication among a species and disrupt perception of the other ambient signals which whales, for example, rely on to find food or a mate.
A new study by the Federal Environment Agency shows that the potential long-distance impact of underwater noise is significant. The study analysed the impact of airgun signals on the communication ranges of marine mammals and determined that short, low-frequency sound signals may result in a continuous received sound at long range with a high disturbance potential for blue and fin whales. The study modelled the sound propagation of airgun signals at distances up to 2000 km from the source. The modelled airgun noise signals were then overlaid with vocalisations of the fin whale, blue whale and Weddell seal to assess the distances over which their communication could potentially be disturbed or prevented.
The model demonstrated that airgun signals can have an impact at distances of at least 2000 km, thus possibly affecting animals within the specially protected region of the Antarctic south of 60°S even when research vessels are operating north of 60°S. Even at medium-range distances between 500 and 1000 km, airgun signals are stretched and become intermittent noise that has a high masking potential. At distances of 1000 km and more, airgun signals are stretched and become continuous sound, and the natural communication range of blue and fin whales in the Antarctic can be reduced to 1% of the range without masking.
The airguns used to explore the seafloor are basically metal cylinders in which air is compressed under high pressure and then released in explosive bursts. The shot of air creates a gas bubble that makes a very short but very loud sound when it bursts. Most of the sound waves produced by airguns are in the low-frequency range up to 300 Hz, making an overlap with the sounds and songs of whales and seals likely. The baleen, blue and fin whales of the Southern Ocean in particular communicate mostly in this frequency range.
Detailed results of modelling
The UBA study modelled the sound propagation of airgun signals across distances of 100, 500, 1000 and 2000 km. The modelled wave forms were overlaid with the song and calls of the fin whale, blue whale and Weddell seal to assess the distances over which masking of the communication signals could potentially occur. The signals were analysed using a leaky integrator within the bandwidth of the modelled vocalisations.
Although a number of questions remain unanswered, the study reaches the following conclusions based on the assumptions made for propagation and masking modelling:
A model to predict potential masking by intermittent sounds was established. This model is based on a leaky integrator and level detector in combination with a simple model for sound propagation of animal vocalisations.
The masking potential of airguns is greatest for low frequencies below 300 Hz. It follows that baleen whales (e.g. fin and blue whales), which communicate in the low-frequency range, are probably the most strongly affected species.
Airgun signals have a long-distance impact across distances of at least 2000 km, thus potentially affecting animals south of 60°S even when research vessels are operating north of 60°S.
Even at medium-range distances (500 - 1000 km), airgun signals are stretched and become intermittent noise that has a high potential to reduce the communication range of marine mammals which vocalise in the low-frequency range.
The modelled communication ranges of the blue and fin whales are reduced significantly by airgun signals, most of which are less than 5% of the natural potential communication range.
Seals are most likely less affected but their far-ranging, low-frequency vocalisations are also significantly masked: the modelled communication ranges are mainly less than 3% of the natural potential communication range.
The developed model of sound propagation enables a reliable estimation of signal stretching and can be adapted to other environmental conditions. It must be noted, however, that the knowledge about hearing in baleen whales is very limited and there is a lack of empirical data with which to evaluate sound propagation.
The study outcome indicates that masking effects of airgun signals are likely and that significant impacts on the vocalisation behaviour of animals is possible across long distances. The masking model suggests that a population effect cannot be ruled out and should be included in the consideration of the environmental effects of impulse noise such as from airguns. The model will be further developed in a follow-up project to enable its applicability to other marine regions. One such region is the Arctic, where the use of airguns to explore the ocean floor for mineral resources is expected to be high in the next few years.
The German Ministry of Environment developed a sound protection concept for the North Sea with the aim of protecting the native harbour porpoise from the harmful effects of noise due to injury or other disturbance. The UBA is developing a corresponding concept for the Antarctic to protect the native species of whales and seals and is seeking to put the matter on the agenda for discussion at the annual meetings of Consultative Parties to the Antarctic Treaty (ATCM).
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The Embassy of India along with Anandalok and B.P. Koirala India-Nepal Foundation organized a four day film festival to celebrate the 150th birth anniversary of Nobel laureate and India's best loved poet Rabindranath Tagore. President Dr. Ram Baran Yadav inaugurated the Rabindra Sangeetanjali, along with launching "Geetanjali" in Nepali recited a short excerpt from his father's book.
Various Nepali artists paid tribute to Tagore's life and legacy by performing his tunes in Nepali, along with singers and performers from the Anandalok choir and the students of Kendriya Vidyalaya. The artists sang in Bengali yet the smoothness and meaning of the poetic lines was understood perfectly by the audiences.
Screening of Tagore's various plays such as Teen Kanya, Kabuliwala, Chrulata and Chokher Bali were screened. Sarwanam group also presented a paly Rabindranath Ka Patraharu during the festival.


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How Duke Nukem 3D managed to be ahead of its time while trapped in the past
Up and atom.
Article by	Dan Whitehead, Senior Contributor, Eurogamer.net
Updated on 13 January 2015
I've lost track of how many times I've played through the opening chapters of Duke Nukem 3D. It's a game that still delights me today, over 20 years since its original release, and also a game that makes me cringe with embarrassment for the easily amused adolescent twerp I was. It somehow still manages to represent both the best of what games can be, and the worst of gaming's lazy vices.
Back in 1996, when it was still necessary to append "3D" on the end of a title so people knew to expect polygons, Duke Nukem hit the FPS genre like an atom bomb. Following indecently close behind the mould-breaking Doom, it ushered in not only an era of proper solid 3D game worlds, but showed that those worlds could be funny as well as fun, and deserving of exploration for reasons beyond another colour-coded keycard.
Where Doom offered a series of mazes hewn from brushed metal and bright red rock, Duke Nukem 3D offered a recognisable facsimile of the real world. Admittedly, it was a version of the real world populated mostly by strippers and toilets, but those first few levels were an absolute revelation at the time.
Hollywood Holocaust is still the greatest opening level of any shooter ever. It's still a delight to explore.
I was working on an internet magazine in 1996, and still remember the stunned conversation in the pub at lunchtime after we'd downloaded the shareware demo of Duke on an office PC. Light switches that worked! Toilets that you do a wee in! Mirrors that reflected your character! A movie projector that played an actual movie (or a pixellated looped animation of a woman enjoying herself rather a lot)! Everyone wanted to take turns poking around with the demo, just to see what we could find and do.
That first level - charmingly titled Hollywood Holocaust - was an absolute treasure trove of interaction and environmental feedback, and one that rewarded curiosity. Even playing through those stages again, courtesy of the generous Duke Nukem 3D: Megaton Edition that's recently come to PlayStation Vita and PS3, I'm still amazed at just how much stuff there is to find and do in this game. Even some of the secret areas have secret areas.
It's a nice fit with the Vita, too. Certainly, the crisp but smaller screen is kinder to the chunky graphics than a giant HD TV, although the difference between the polygon environments and the flat sprite characters looks weirder than ever. Control is a little slippery, having been designed for inputs far less nuanced than we're used to today. There are some nice additions though, such as using the front touch screen to swap weapons. The odd fish-eye effect that earlier versions of the Megaton Edition suffered from has been largely eradicated. Some other default settings are harder to appreciate - duck on the triangle button? - but it shows that Duke was a game that could transition surprisingly well across platforms and decades.
What has aged less well is Duke's bawdy nature, which comes to the fore in the game's second stage, Red Light District. For all my excitement in 1996 at the game's technical and design innovations, I'm ashamed to say that I never thought anything of the crudely animated strippers who expose their tassled breasts at the press of a button, or the sticky, smutty nature of a world where literally everything seems related to sex - from the shops to the cinema to the nightclub - or at least the puerile naïve version of sex that plays so well for teenage boys.
The Duke Caribbean expansion swaps urban grunge for sun-kissed beaches, your weapons for water pistols and the half-naked women for...half-naked women.
Such moments don't make me howl in outrage, but they do make me roll my eyes at what passed for wit in 1993. It's lowest common denominator stuff, but I'm glad it hasn't been cleaned up for this re-release. There should always be room for art - and, bone-headed as it is, Duke Nukem 3D is a creative work that warrants the a-word as much as anything else - that is dumb, or gross, or offensive. I've got shelves of old VHS tapes of grotty horror and exploitation movies whose only reason for existing is to be as disgusting as possible. I long since outgrew the ability to take pleasure in them, but they serve as a time capsule of sorts.
I feel the same about Duke's sticky-palmed aesthetic, which is simultaneously pathetic and almost endearingly naïve. I view it through much the same lens as the casual racism and homophobia that permeates 1980s action movies, or the gratuitous sex scenes in a well-thumbed horror paperback from the same period. So much of Duke is parody, yet the women aren't. Duke is a caricature. His enemies are literal cartoons. Yet the passive females are notably realistic, created from digitised photographs and video loops that could have been ripped from any porn mag or stag reel. They're interactive scenery objects with pixel boobs.
It's literal objectification, open and unashamed of its prurience. It's a museum piece, not just of how blatantly sexist games used to be, but of how blind to that I was as a young man. And that's important. I'm glad that the same game that reminds me of how amazing those early 3D game worlds could be is also one that reminds me that both the industry and I still had a lot of growing up to do.
Giant boss fights are traditional these days, but Duke's iconic final football field showdown was a blockbuster treat back in the day.
That's why the attempts at the same tone in Duke Nukem Forever fell so flat. It's one thing when a piece of entertainment reflects the mores of its era, only to look grotesque in hindsight. It's another entirely for a modern retread of that material to co-opt the same mores purely for effect. It actually feels worse because its not even sincere in its old fashioned views. It's why the Carry On movies still hold a nostalgic charm, while Sex Lives of the Potato Men is widely and rightly reviled.
Of course, the dumb sex stuff, so ubiquitous in the first two levels, quickly takes a back seat in Duke Nukem 3D, as the game whisks our quip-stealing hero off to alien worlds for most of the rest of the game. And yet it's no coincidence that the game becomes progressively less interesting the more time you spend away from those early feature-dense areas. There's a reason why those are the bits everyone remembers.
So I still love Duke Nukem 3D, for all its faults and for all its reminders of how readily we once giggled at crude digital boobs. It was a game that made absolutely enormous strides forwards in the way video game worlds are designed and realised, even as it clung so very desperately to a mentality best left in the 1970s. It's a moment in time, frozen in code as technology stretched ahead and attitudes changed, and there's sweet oblivious 20-something me, frozen right alongside it.
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2. Which carnivore has the strongest jaw?
3.	For approximately how long can a hippo stay under water?
4.	Which Mongoose from the following is active during the night?
5. Which endangered Giraffe has been translocated to Nakuru National Park and Nairobi's Giraffe Centre?
6. What is the average life-span of an elephant?
7. Which of the following animals is taxonomically related to the Kongoni?
8. What is the approximate gestation period of the Rock Hyrax in months?
9.	If you visit Tsavo parks which Baboons would you encounter there?
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11. Which of the following antelopes is adapted to living on rocky outcrops?
12. Which of the following is a ruminant?
13. What is the name of the Stork-like bird which makes one of the largest nests in the world?
14. Which is the smallest Owl in Kenya?
15. Which group does the White-bellied Go-Away Bird belong to?
16. Which bird is the Secretary Bird most closely related to?
17. Which of the actions below makes Cuckoos 'parasitic breeders'?
18. One of the following birds is a Palaearctic (Eurasian) migrant, which one is it?
19. Which of the following trees that can be found between an altitude of 1,000m and below?
20. What is the name of the delicate-looking flower, often coloured purple or yellow and seen growing on a long thin straight stem above long grass?
21. Pyrethrum is indigenous to which one of these countries?
22. Kenya's coast is an enormous tourist destination that also attracts sports fishermen from all over the world. Which of these fish is the most commonly caught, tagged and released?
23. Which of these lizards is nocturnal?
24. Which snake from the following is non-poisonous?
25. To which of the following insects are termites related?
26. To which of the following insects is the spider closely related?
27. Which is the smallest ethnic group in Kenya today?
28. Apart from the Maasai which other tribe is a speaker of Maa?
29. Who was the first European to climb to the peak of Mt. Kenya?
30. Which town or city in Kenya has the longest established National Museum of Kenya?
31. One square mile is approximately how many square kilometres?
32. Mzee Jomo Kenyatta's real name was?
33. Which is the oldest hotel in Nairobi?
34. Vasco Da Gama reached Malindi in which year?
35. The Aberdares National Park is an important wildlife refuge. What else is it important for?
36. Around which town in Kenya is the tea industry based?
37. Why is the east coast of Africa dangerous nowadays?
38.	Which of the following is the KWS logo?
39. Your client is feeling the effects of heat exhaustion. What should you do?
1. The Hyraxes account for some of the few non-primates where the teats are found on the chest (between the forelegs). Name two other mammals apart from primates, with this feature that are found in Kenya.
2. Give an example of a pattern change, as a young animal becomes adult, displayed in mammals, birds, insects, reptiles and fish and indicate which pattern changes to what?
3. List five behavioural differences between Common and Grevy Zebras ?
4. Some people claim that the Rock Hyrax is closely related to the Elephant., list five similarities ?


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Scandal Rocks United Nations Over Revelation That UNRWA Teacher Has No Pictures of Hitler on His Facebook Page
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By The Daily Freier Staff
Last Updated 10/9/2015 at 12:30 PM
Khan Yunis, Gaza: The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Middle East (UNRWA) is in turmoil today after published reports revealed that one of their own maintains a Facebook page with absolutely no pictures of Hitler, Jews being hunted down, nor of religious Jews being run over with a car. Fares A., a mathematics teacher at Sayyid Qutb Elementary School in Khan Yunis, maintains a Facebook profile containing strictly pictures of his family, pictures of himself in front of somebody else's Ferrari, a picture posted by his high school sweetheart (whom his wife can't stand) of the two of them together in the early 1990's, and pictures of what appears to be an outdoor barbecue event with particularly tasty lamb.
Fares's fellow teachers at Sayyid Qutb Elementary were in a state of shock today. "You think you know a guy, and then, bang, this happens." stated a disheartened History Teacher Hassan M. " I mean, he's been to my house, we talk football…..I guess next time I will be more careful with my friendships." Geography teacher Layla R. was equally upset. "This man has tarnished the dignity of Gaza. This is even worse than when the Mossad kidnapped our Bumblebee."
UNRWA's spokesman Chris Gunness appeared at a hastily prepared press conference to address the growing scandal. "We take this accusation very seriously and we will investigate it as soon as we finish investigating the finances of a blog that criticizes us."
As this article went to press, reports emerged that Fares was desperately posting his latest scores for the game Naqbaville on his Facebook page in an attempt to salvage his family's honor.
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But first, it sent some of those portfolio managers to The Ammerman Experience for specialized media training. We introduced them to the "rules of the road" when appearing on financial and other business programs, including how to develop and deliver memorable responses – responses that stand out from those given by others from competing firms. And our coaching didn't end when they left our TV studio. We watched their performances on CNBC and Bloomberg, and provided a post-training critique.


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With two superheroes on the same network, a crossover between Arrow and The Flash was bound to happen eventually, and the CW wasted no time pairing Barry Allen and Oliver Queen together. Sure, the two characters have interacted before, but nothing beats a good ol' fashioned superhero team up. Other than small details here and there, not much was known about this TV event, but after months of waiting, we finally know what events will bring these two radically different heroes together.
The CW has released the official descriptions for the crossover, which will kick off on December 2 with The Flash and conclude on December 3 with Arrow. In the first episode, titled "Flash vs. Arrow," Oliver, Diggle and Felicity will head to Central City to investigate a case involving a boomerang (more on that later). Barry and Oliver partner up to stop a metahuman Barry has been tracking named Ray Bivolo who can control people's emotions, but after the encounter goes wrong, Oliver tells Barry he still has a lot to learn. This prompts Barry to go after Bivolo alone, but the emotion manipulator infects Barry with rage, and the only one who can stop Barry's reign of terror is Oliver.
In the second episode, titled "The Brave and the Bold," Team Arrow finds the location of the boomerang killer named Digger Harkness, but before they can find him, Diggle's wife Lyla and an A.R.G.U.S. team interfere. Before Diggle can find out what A.R.G.U.S.'s interest in the fugitive is, Harkness attacks the building. Despite help from Flash, the boomerang killer escapes, and when he plants five bombs around Starling City, Oliver and Barry will need to work together to save the day.
Harkness, better known as Captain Boomerang in the comics, was previously rumored to appear in the crossover (as well as the preceding Arrow episode), so his inclusion isn't much of a surprise. What is surprising is an appearance from Bivolo, who in the comics is a minor Flash villain that goes by the moniker Rainbow Raider.
Like TV Bivolo, Rainbow Raider can control emotions, only he uses special goggle that shoot different rainbow-colored beams of light to accomplish this, each color representing a different emotion. Whether Bivolo will have the color gimmick is unclear, but once again, The Flash has demonstrated that it has no problem delving into more obscure supervillains to appeal to fans.
Both Bivolo and Harkness are dangerous, but they also personify the contrast between The Flash and Arrow. The Flash is a light-hearted show that deals with fantastical and unusual problems with the metahumans Barry encounters, while the Arrow world is darker, grittier and filled with more intense enemies. Besides following the protagonists, the crossover will also explore the interactions with the supporting players, such as Team Arrow working with Team Flash, and Harrison Wells and Detective Joe West deciding that the Arrow is a bad influence on Barry. Whether you're a fan of Arrow, a fan of The Flash or especially a fan of both shows, this crossover sounds like it will have plenty of exciting offerings when it hits TV screens next month. If you aren't caught up on either shows, now would be a good time to start binge-watching.


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How to Write a Support for Tenure Letter for My Professor
DR. KELLY S. MEIER
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One of your favorite professors might be adjunct faculty scuttling to different campuses to earn a living. Helping this professor gain tenure would be a strong way to recognize the great teaching you received. In addition to an extensive application and evidence of scholarly work, recommendation letters help a faculty committee determine eligibility for tenure. In your letter to the committee, provide a glimpse into the academic impact and service to the institution provided by your professor.
Emphasize Teaching Skills
Highlight Scholarship
Discuss Service
Differentiate Your Professor
1 Emphasize Teaching Skills
Don't hesitate to write about how your professor makes a difference in the classroom. Provide specific examples of creative teaching techniques that have helped you become immersed in the course content. Discuss how you grew as a student and scholar because of your classroom experience. Advising students is an important part of being an effective teacher. If you've sought advice about courses to take or career paths to explore, be sure to include how your professor invested in your success. Finish this section by stating that you wouldn't hesitate to recommend this professor to your peers.
2 Highlight Scholarship
Evidence of scholarship and research is a critical factor in the tenure evaluation process. Ask your professor for a list of publications and research projects and cite a few in your letter. If possible, illustrate how the publications were germane to your experience as a student. For example, if you used a textbook authored by your professor, discuss how this book elevated your experience as a student. If you've participated in a research project with your professor, be sure to describe that experience and what you learned from your involvement.
3 Discuss Service
Write a paragraph that provides evidence of how your professor has contributed to the university as a whole. Include examples of involvement with academic clubs, service on committees and an eagerness to participate in university activities. You can get some of this information from your professor, but firsthand observation is more compelling. For example, if your professor is the adviser to a club, discuss the message this sends about her commitment to the institution and to student development.
4 Differentiate Your Professor
Finish your letter with a paragraph that shows how your professor is one of the best role models on campus. Your closing paragraph is the ideal spot to highlight unique things like organizing special study sessions, eating lunch with students in the cafeteria or organizing an end-of-year picnic. Write with passion about how this professor has made a profound impact on who you are as a student and your future career path. Finish with a compelling summary that demonstrates how important it is to keep this professor on campus.
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Dr. Kelly Meier earned her doctorate from Minnesota State Mankato in Educational Leadership. She is the author and co-author of 12 books and serves as a consultant in K-12 and higher education. Dr. Meier is is a regular contributor for The Equity Network and has worked in education for more than 30 years. She has numerous publications with Talico, Inc., DynaTEAM Consulting, Inc. and Kinect Education Group.
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Workplace bullying and discrimination can cost businesses big
On behalf of Law Offices of Allan A. Sigel, P.C. posted in Employment Discrimination on Tuesday, October 23, 2012.
Last year, jury decisions and out-of-court settlements for harassment cases, including discrimination and retaliation complaints, resulted in more than $356 million. According to Asher Adelman, the founder of an employment issue watchdog group called eBossWatch, "This report makes it clear that employers and managers should be doing everything in their power to cultivate and ensure a healthy work environment," and for more reasons that just office morale or human decency -- it costs companies when these incidents occur.
Harassment and discrimination laws have existed for decades, but bullying laws are not yet a reality. There are, however, states and advocacy groups that are pushing towards this new legislation. There are 20 states in which anti-bullying bills have been introduced, but none have passed. This may be due to influence by business groups that do not want to become open to additional complaints or lawsuit damages.
According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, these bills define bullying as "actions taken by one employee against another 'that a reasonable person would find hostile,' including verbal abuse, insults" and humiliating behavior. Victims of bullying in the workplace have been able to file suits for bullying by 'piggybacking' on assault or discrimination claims.
Claims of violent or aggressive behavior in the workplace, be it in the form of bullying or discrimination are serious issues for all employees. Victims of incidents like these may not know where to turn for legal advice in these situations, and may fear retaliation for coming forward. Speaking with an experienced employment law attorney who specializes in discrimination and wrongful termination can present options to these people in need.
Source: The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, "Workzone: Erasing harassment makes fiscal sense," Bill Toland, Oct. 21, 2012
Tags: bullying, employment discrimination, harassment
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This is one of the graphs that you prefer to watch go down and to the right: median site load time over the last three months.
Page load time has been shown to correlate directly to user frustration; users are more likely to leave after the first visit and never come back as a site loads slower. With the benefit of great tooling and advice, we've been able to cut our site load time by about 25% and create a clear vision of how to continue on the path to an ever-faster website.
Two types of tools are essential for our performance testing: the tools to track what makes page loads slow, and the tools to log historical page load data and correlate it against code changes.
The waterfall will also show you information about asset size, load order, and what assets are blocking rendering and downloading. You can also use Chrome's dev tools to watch the headers of individual requests to check for large cookie sizes and gzip compression. A related resource for performance suggestions will come from installing and running PageSpeed Insights, which will point out which assets are too large, uncompressed, uncached, loaded improperly, or otherwise unoptimized.
Another fantastic tool for finding performance issues is the free WebPagetest. It allows you to test site performance from a variety of worldwide locations, and provides a ton of information in its output. For example, here's a recent test of the Airbnb homepage. We can select the median result, then look at what assets are loaded and when page rendering begins and ends. It has several comparison views, and will even export a video. The visual aid it provides may show that although time-to-pageload is low, visual completion might come significantly later.
On the server, we use New Relic, which will highlight server inefficiencies and allow you to track down things like cache misses. It also has some tremendously useful information about performance in general, such as which pages users spend the most volume of time loading, so you know where to invest your optimization efforts. You can also watch as deploys go out and compare the current average load time against prior time periods to look for both regressions and the results of your optimizations.
Lastly, we use a RUM tracker to watch performance trends in conjunction with historical WebPagetest data. That RUM data is compiled using episodes.js and sent to a Hive cluster, which we then query for data based on page, location, or composite medians and averages.
With this approach, we can reduce the time to load the page by as much as possible by allowing users to load directly from edge CDN servers close to them. If you're using Dyn DNS or Amazon's Route 53, you can experiment with sending users to different CDNs based on latency or geography.
Special thanks to Steve Souders for the fantastic tech talk he gave at our office in March, and for the advice on how to make our pages faster.
Originally published at nerds.airbnb.com on June 26, 2013.


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Amy Tan's Motifs In Fish Chines, By Amy Tan
In amy tan's " fish cheeks ", Tan's uses a motif to express her main message. The motif that is carried throughout the story is culture and a message she ties into that is that always keep culture close to who you are. In the short story tan tells us something she learned from her mom was if you are "want[ing] to be the same as american on the outside… but [on the] inside you must always be chinese." ( tan 7 ) tan tells us this because she wants us to realize that it doesn't matter who or what we are; meaning if we are wanting to be american great but keep your culture close to and apart of you.
Imagery In Elizabeth Bishop's Poem 'The Fish'
Many know how the classic fisherman's story goes: patient waiting that results in the catching of a fish, but not just any fish. A huge fish. A fish bigger than expected or imagined. A "whopper", so to speak. However, in her poem "The Fish," poet Elizabeth Bishop rejects the common sequence of events that occur within the fisherman's tale and instead, through vivid imagery, reverent diction, and contradictory comparisons, pushes the assertion that even the seemingly weak and battered deserve respect for their survival and the hardships they have endured.
Junie Moon And The Gold Fish Analysis
Chap 1 JUNIE MOON AND THE TRAVELING GOLD FISH BY HELEN PENDLETON My name is Junie Moon and I am a gold fish, named by my owner , 4 year old Melissa Rodgers. She liked the name and would not budge when she was told to change it. I really like Melissa.
Symbolism In Big Fish Water
In the movie Big Fish water is an important symbol throughout the whole movie. Without water us humans cannot survive or live, it is a basic necessity for life, our bodies are 55-65% water. (water.usgs.gov) water is a symbol of life we need it to live. In the movie one example of water being used as a symbol for life is when Will had come home from Paris, Edward is laying in bed and on his table beside his bed is a big pitcher of water. At this point Edward looks very ill, he looks pale and clammy, he drink some water which could also be symbolizing that he is in want of health and life.
Symbolism In Amy Tan's 'Shabby Chinese Dinner'
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Before the narrator's crush arrives for dinner she contemplates, "What would Robert think of our shabby Chinese Christmas?" Her questioning shows her fear of embarrassment in the about the upcoming dinner. Tan's use of the word "shabby" focuses on the narrator's feelings that her traditional Chinese dinner is not as good as the traditional American Christmas
Personal Narrative: The Master Fish Story
Upon reading the third chapter, I was able to associate with many of the myths and stories that the author narrated as part of a counseling technique. Few of the myths helped me gain a broader understanding as to why I behave and think in a certain way when things are not right. One of my issues is letting go. While I have got better at it, I found it very hard to let things go.
Two Kinds By Amy Tan
In the story that being raised in a different culture can cause conflicts. In the story "Two Kinds" by Amy Tan Is telling about how immigrated parents from other countries can have different perspectives than their kids. Tan is also showing how not having a good communication with your kid can make them disobedient. "Only two kinds of daughters," she shouted in Chinese. " Those who are obedient and those who follow their own mind!"
Personal Narrative-Mottled Fish
I unfold a snow-white paper; rub down a jet-blank inkstick; pick up my favorite brush and carefully dip it in Chinese ink. There's no hurry. Without hesitation, I begin to leave the mottled fish down on the paper. The fish seem dumbfounded for a while, but soon understand that they regain their bodies, their freedom. These inky creatures, one by one, lazily stretch their fins, wriggle to move along, and finally nestle down at the each corner of their new pool.
The Fish Poem Analysis
Kwinton Smith ENGLISH 101: Essay 1: Poetry Instructor Graves June 17. 2013 Living in the Moment In the two poems "The Fish" and "To His Coy Mistress" the common theme would be not to waste time and to make the most of life. The author of "The Fish," Elizabeth Bishop uses a fish to talk about making the most in life and in "To His Coy Mistress," Andrew Marvell uses a mistress to help push across the idea of not wasting time.
Interruption In Amy Tan's Mother Tongue
he Interruption that Amy tan's "Mother Tongue" Illustrates Our identity is very important because they define who we are. It is in our human nature to want to control how other perceives us. However, we often become stressed trying to meet the standards set by other. This stress comes from Interruptions in our identity. In "Amy's Mother Tongue", Amy Tan was faced with a type of interruption called that forced her to have multiple identities.
Essay On Asian Carp
An invasive species is defined as a species that isn't native to a country and has negative effects on our economy, environment, or health. The species I am researching is the Asian carp. Its scientific name is Cyprinous Capario. The Asian carp live in many different areas around the United States, such as the Great Lakes area and the Mississippi River. Lake Michigan is home to very diverse populations and species.
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New Mexico Announces Sweeping Free Tuition Program. Will More Texas Schools Follow Suit?
Texas colleges, including UT-Austin and UT-Rio Grande Valley, are implementing their own tuition-free programs.
By Kristen CabreraSeptember 19, 2019 9:02 amEducation
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On Wednesday, New Mexico announced a plan that would essentially provide a free college education for any state resident who choose to go to a state college or university. This news may sound familiar. Some higher education institutions in Texas are offering free tuition as well, though with more restrictions on who qualifies.
Katie Mangan is a senior writer for the Chronicle of Higher Education. She is based in Austin. Mangan says New Mexico's plan has attracted some controversy because it would make tuition-free college available for students of all financial backgrounds.
"There are people who argue that if your goal is to get more of low-income and disadvantaged students to be able to afford college, the money should really be focused on those students," Mangan says.
New Mexico's plan will not give money to students right away. First the state makes sure that students go through what Mangan calls as a "last dollar" approach.
"You do have to exhaust other sources of scholarships and grants before this money will kick in," Mangan says. "If, for instance, you have a Pell Grant or if you have another scholarship you have to use that money first and the state is then going to kick in whatever is uncovered."
The news of the free tuition program came as a surprise to some because New Mexico is one of the poorest states in the country. The state plans to pay for the program with revenue the government collects from the oil and gas industry in the state.
"In New Mexico's case, as in Texas, a lot of this money is going to be able to come from the revenues that come from oil and gas," Mangan says. "That's a pot of money that is available to help make college more affordable in both of these states."
In Texas, universities themselves have taken on the task of making tuition free to low-income students. New Mexico's state-led effort targets all students who want a higher education.
"College debts are just soaring," Mangan says. "It's more than $1.5 trillion what students owe at this point, and it's become what many people see as a crisis that affects not only low income people but middle class people as well."
According to Mangan, skepticism has been growing about whether people should attend college due to rising tuition costs and the lack of jobs in professional fields after graduation. New Mexico hopes to tackle this issue by attracting more students to universities.
"People are wondering whether it's really worthwhile to take out those big loans to get a degree," Mangan says. "Many people are feeling like they're not getting the jobs that they had hoped to, straight out of college. That's what these free college programs many people hope will at least put out a signal that college is affordable, it's valuable and everyone has a shot at it."
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In my last post I described how to create custom page layouts.
Now using those page layouts, we need to create Pages and deploy them in pages library of the publishing site.
Follow the below mentioned steps in order to achieve the above.
Add the required directives in Home.aspx page and add web part zones within the page. You can download Home.aspx page here.
Deploy the solution and you should be able to see Home.aspx page created in the pages library using the custom page layout created.


The DA has today filed our Heads of Argument to the Supreme Court of Appeal asserting that both Mr Zuma and the National Prosecuting Authority's (NPA) requests for leave to appeal are void of any merit and should be dismissed with costs.
We contend that both applications for leave fail to meet the requirements of having a credible chance of success and compelling reasons why they should be heard. It is in the interests of the Rule of Law, due process and the Constitution that the prosecution continue as per the order of the North Gauteng High Court.
It is of the utmost public interest that Mr Zuma stand trial for the 783 charges of fraud, corruption, racketeering and money laundering for which he stands accused without delay.
We are encouraged that the SCA has been prepared to hear this case such an accelerated basis and we look forward to arguing that both appeals should be dismissed with costs on 15 September 2017.
This battle has been hard-fought by DA for more than 8 years and we will continue to fight for Mr Zuma to have his day in court so that justice can finally be served.


The Tamil Nadu National Law School, Tiruchirappalli, imparting high quality legal education, invites all legal researchers, academicians, advocates, legal experts, students and other stake holders working in and interested in the field of IPR to take part in the one day National Seminar on "Intellectual Property Rights: New Age Challenges" organized by the university on 12-November-2016.
Note: The above identified issues /sub-themes are only illustrative. Participants may select the related topics covered under the main theme.
A maximum of two authors are permitted per paper.
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The trochlear notch (), also known as semilunar notch and greater sigmoid cavity, is a large depression in the upper extremity of the ulna that fits the trochlea of the humerus (the bone directly above the ulna in the arm) as part of the elbow joint. It is formed by the olecranon and the coronoid process.

About the middle of either side of this notch is an indentation, which contracts it somewhat, and indicates the junction of the olecranon and the coronoid process.

The notch is concave from above downward, and divided into a medial and a lateral portion by a smooth ridge running from the summit of the olecranon to the tip of the coronoid process.

The medial portion is the larger, and is slightly concave transversely; the lateral is convex above, slightly concave below.

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  Upperextremity/arm/radiology/lat-elbow at the Dartmouth Medical School's Department of Anatomy

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