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Artur Schnabel: The RCA Victor Recordings (2-CD)
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Sony Classical pays tribute to Artur Schnabel — one of the twentieth century's most influential pianists and musical thinkers. This release brings together the pianist's sessions for RCA Victor, recorded within an intense six days of activity in 1942. Beethoven's G Major and Emperor concertos with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra appeared commercially shortly after these recording sessions. The two late Beethoven Piano Sonatas, Nos. 30 and 32, were issued for the first time in 1976. The final works on the release, Schubert's Impromptus, D. 899, receive their first commercial pressing in this belated release.
Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major, Op. 58
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Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat Major, Op. 73 (Emperor)
Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 30 in E Major, Op. 109
Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 32 in C Minor, Op. 11
Schubert 4 Impromptus, D. 899


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Q: Interpretation of the quantum field in light of the interpretation of propagators In Page 38 of David Tong's QFT notes and Page 27 (Chapter 2.4 The Klein-Gordon Field in Space-Time under the heading Causality) of Peskin and Schroeder's Introduction to Quantum Field Theory, the propagator $D(x-y)$ is interpreted as

the amplitude for a particle to propagate from $y$ to $x$

and is given by $D(x-y) \ = \ \langle 0 | \phi ( x ) \phi ( y ) | 0 \rangle $, where $\phi (x)$ is the real Klein Gordon field in the Heisenberg Picture.
This interpretation of the propagator seems to imply that $\phi ( y ) | 0 \rangle$ is a particle that has been prepared at spacetime coordinate $y$ while $\phi ( x ) | 0 \rangle$ is a particle at spacetime coordinate $x$. However, we also know that the mode expansion for $\phi(x)$ is given by the following combination of creation and annihilation operators:
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\phi(x) = \phi ( \mathbf { x } , t ) = \int \frac { d ^ { 3 } p } { ( 2 \pi ) ^ { 3 } } \frac { 1 } { \sqrt { 2 E _ { \mathbf { p } } } } \left( a _ { \mathbf { p } } e ^ { - i p \cdot x } + a _ { \mathbf { p } } ^ { \dagger } e ^ { + i p \cdot x } \right)
$$
which seems nothing like a simple particle at spacetime coordinate $x$.
It would be a nice interpretation if $\phi ( x ) | 0 \rangle$ is indeed a particle at spacetime coordinate $x$ but this interpretation makes no sense given the mode expansion for $\phi(x)$.
Hence, is there a self-consistent way to interpret the quantum field given the common interpretation and the form of the propagator?

A: Let us define a quantum field as an integral over creation and annihilation operators for each momentum in the Schroedinger picture, i.e. Heisenberg picture at $t = 0$.
$\phi_0(\vec x) = \int \frac{d^3 p}{(2 \pi)^3} \frac{1}{\sqrt{2 \omega_p}} (a_p e^{i \vec p \cdot \vec x} + a^\dagger_p e^{-i \vec p \cdot \vec x})$
where:
$a_p$ annihilation operator
$a^\dagger_p$ creation operator
$[a_k, a^\dagger_p] = (2 \pi)^3 \delta^3(\vec p - \vec k)$ equal-time commutation relations
$a^\dagger_p |0\rangle = \frac{1}{\sqrt{2 \omega_p}} |\vec p\rangle$ creation of a particle with momentum $\vec p$
$|0\rangle$ vacuum
To understand what the operator $\phi_0(\vec x)$ does, we can act on the vacuum and project out a momentum.
$\langle \vec p|\phi_0(\vec x)|0\rangle = \langle 0| \sqrt{2 \omega_p} a_p \int \frac{d^3 k}{(2 \pi)^3} \frac{1}{\sqrt{2 \omega_k}} (a_k e^{i \vec k \cdot \vec x} + a^\dagger_k e^{-i \vec k \cdot \vec x})|0\rangle$
$= \int \frac{d^3 k}{(2 \pi)^3} \sqrt{\frac{\omega_p}{\omega_k}} (e^{i \vec k \cdot \vec x} \langle 0|a_p a_k|0\rangle + e^{-i \vec k \cdot \vec x} \langle 0|a_p a^\dagger_k|0\rangle)$
$= e^{-i \vec p \cdot \vec x}$
This is the same as the projection of a position state on a momentum state in one-particle quantum mechanics:
$\langle \vec p| \vec x \rangle = e^{-i \vec p \cdot \vec x}$
Therefore $\phi_0(\vec x) |0\rangle = | \vec x \rangle$, that is $\phi_0(\vec x)$ creates a particle at position $\vec x$.

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For two years, Republicans had been working to correct one of the party's greatest embarrassments of recent years: the flawed polling that led so many in the party to believe Mitt Romney was on the cusp of victory in 2012. But after dramatically underestimating Democratic turnout in 2012, it was now obvious that the GOP had erred in the other direction in 2014. Their pollsters had understated Republicans' leads in a number of states, causing the RNC and GOP campaign committees to pour money into places where it wasn't needed and hold money back from places where it might have made a difference — such as Virginia, where Republican Ed Gillespie lost by less than a percentage point.
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Clive Harber's article is based on his input to the Tide~ conference in 2004.
Clive [Birmingham University] & Jeff Serf from Wolverhampton University were co-leaders of the Tide~ Seeking Ubuntu project.
My academic area is the politics of education and education for democracy. I have a particular interest in sub-Saharan Africa where I've been working and doing research for over 25 years. Given the agenda of this conference, which has sessions focusing on Rwanda, Uganda, South Africa and one called 'A fresh look at Africa', I want to put these two interests together and talk about education for democracy in Africa. The challenges this highlights are important to understanding Africa but they also raise questions for our own thinking in Tide~ about citizenship education and about education in this country.
In recent years an important theme of debates about aid and international development has been the need for poverty reduction. Education is seen [by DFID for example] to play a key role in poverty reduction:
"The elimination of poverty and progress towards sustainable development will only take place if there is increased and improved levels of education. Governments and international agencies have endorsed the force of this argument on many occasions" [DFID, 2000b:1]
However, two important arguments are not clearly developed in this documentation. I propose to address these in relation to Africa.
The first … concerns the political [as opposed to the economic] link between education and poverty reduction via democracy. This is the argument that authoritarian government has exacerbated poverty and that education can play an important role in supporting democratisation, sustainable democratic development and therefore poverty reduction.
The second … is that education per se does not necessarily contribute to democratisation and indeed much of contemporary schooling may do exactly the opposite. Only forms of education that are more consciously designed to foster democratic values and behaviours and peaceful conflict resolution can help to further democratic processes.
Democratisation in Africa
Throughout the Cold War, Western and former Soviet bloc countries supported dictatorial regimes in Africa simply because they were pro-Western or pro-Soviet.
Internal pressures for democratisation grew in the early 1990s. A number of factors contributed, including the poor economic, social and human rights performance of authoritarian regimes in Africa, the collapse of the Marxist-Leninist alternative at the end of the 1980s and increasing hardship and poverty resulting from the loan conditions imposed by the World Bank.
Externally, democratisation or 'good governance' also became one of the conditions of loans and aid. This also stemmed partly from the end of the Cold War and the 'victory' of democracy, but also from the fact that the free market structural adjustment programmes of the 1980s had failed to produce much in the way of the predicted economic success in Africa. The World Bank explained this by the failure of public institutions in Africa – what was required for structural adjustment was not only less government but better and more democratic government [Abrahamsen, 2000].
Authoritarianism and poverty in Africa
The Human Development Report of the United Nations Development Programme has argued that there have been impressive gains in life expectancy, nutrition, adult literacy, poverty reduction and human rights in many developing countries over the last thirty years. The report puts much of this progress down to the spread of democracy and human rights.
"The basic conditions for achieving human freedoms were transformed in the past 10 years as more than 100 developing and transition countries ended military or one party rule, opening up political choices. And formal commitment to international standards in human rights has spread dramatically since 1990"
[UNDP, 2001:10]
However, it also notes that progress in sub-Saharan Africa has been disappointingly slow. Indeed, despite being richly endowed with natural resources, Africa is marked by poverty. Already-low incomes have been falling.
In the first 25 years of post-colonial Africa, authoritarian government was often justified on the grounds that Africa could not afford the competitive politics of democracy and that it was a price worth paying as it would bring the order and stability necessary for economic prosperity.
This was patently not the case and I would argue that there are a number of ways that authoritarian rule has exacerbated levels of poverty in Africa:
Openness, transparency and accountability are not the hallmark of authoritarian rule. It therefore creates an ideal context for corruption.
At the time of his death, General Abacha of Nigeria's personal fortune was estimated at between $3 to $6 billion [McGreal, 1999b]. In what was then Zaire, President Mobutu amassed a personal fortune of $10 billion. Much of the money stolen from the state has been invested overseas. According to one UN estimate, $200 billion or 90% of sub-Saharan Africa's gross domestic product was put into foreign banks in 1991 alone [Ayittey, 1998:20]. Corruption robs schools, hospitals and welfare services of funds and scares away foreign investors. In contrast, it has been suggested that the relative tolerance, civility and integrity of political life in Botswana could result from the fact that the Botswana Democratic Party leadership have predominantly been owners of large cattle herds. They therefore have a significant income before entering politics [Diamond, 1988:22].
Authoritarian rule has been marked by violence caused by civil unrest, violent repression and wars against neighbours.
UNESCO, for example, noted that out of 53 countries in Africa not less than 17 have suffered or are currently affected by the scourge of war [1997:9]. Again this climate of violence does not create a favourable climate for internal or external investment. For example, net foreign investment in sub-Saharan Africa dropped dramatically from $1.22 billion in 1982 to $498 million in 1987. In July 1997 the IMF halted a $205 million aid package to Kenya to reinforce its protest against corruption and poor governance. However, at the same time Kenya stood to lose at least $280 million from tourist earnings because of the political violence that hit the coastal region in August of that year. By contrast, after the civil war in Mozambique ended in 1992, its gross domestic product grew by an annual average of 6.6% for the next four years [Ayittey, 1998:11,188, The Mercury, Durban 24/12/97].
Wars and the existence of military governments have resulted in levels of military expenditure which are far too high, essentially unproductive and dangerous.
In many parts of Africa the military has often been used against the civilian population rather than to protect it. In 1990-91, for example, military expenditure as a percentage of combined spending on education and health was 208% in Angola, 190% in Ethiopia and 121% in Mozambique [UNDP, 1998:171]. Africa spends close to $8 billion a year on the importation of weapons and the maintenance of the military. African children, holding their own parallel mini-summit to the OAU Summit in Cameroon in 1996 noted that African leaders spend vast sums of money on arms. One 17 year old Ugandan said: "We wish that money to be used for economic activities, education and peace and more children's summits. Africa is full of mess" [quoted in Ayittey, 1998:173,79].
Authoritarian governments thrive on, and deliberately create, an atmosphere of repression, censorship, intimidation and intolerance.
This stifles debate and the internal search for creative solutions to developmental problems, including the issue of poverty reduction. It also contributes significantly to the brain drain of highly educated Africans.
It is estimated that there are about 100,000 highly educated African professionals working in the US alone. This has been linked by the IMF to the upsurge of absolute poverty in sub-Saharan Africa as investment in education in Africa is not being translated into a catalyst for economic growth [Kigotho, 1999].
Another important aspect of this repression is the politics of exclusion, where the winner takes all and, in terms of public spending, favours only its own ethnic group, region or party. This in turn results in violent attempts to overthrow the regime or secede as in Rwanda, Burundi and Ethiopia, Liberia, Somalia and Zaire. In contrast, in Botswana the BDP has tended to play down its ethnic base and has distributed the results of government programmes equitably in regional terms [Holm, 1988:191].
Under authoritarian systems the needs and interests of the poor can too easily be ignored by unelected and unresponsive elites more concerned with self-enrichment.
In relation to the political empowerment of poor people the UNDP has argued that:
"People must organise for collective action to influence the circumstances and decisions affecting their lives. To advance their interests, their voices must be heard in the corridors of power … Ending human poverty requires a democratic space in which people can articulate demands, act collectively and fight for a more equitable distribution of power … Government that acts in the interest of poor people is easier to achieve in democratic political systems where the poor represent a significant electoral bloc" [UNDP, 1997: 94,103,105]
Rural poverty is an important aspect.
This is particularly significant because the majority of the African population live in rural areas. Post-colonial political elites have been essentially urban elites unresponsive to rural needs because the undemocratic nature of their rule has made it unnecessary to answer to a rural electorate. Indeed, independence frequently led to a worsening of conditions for farmers as shown by the changes in prices paid to farmers, rural revenues or the distribution of public expenditure.
Bayart [1993:63-70] notes that rural areas have often been said to have subsidised the towns or agro-industrial investments, which provide little benefit for peasant farmers. In Cameroon, for example, between 1960 and 1980 60-75% of all levies made on the agricultural sector were used to finance other activities. The result has been a dramatic deterioration in rural living conditions.
Timberlake [1985], in a book written in the mid 1980s points out that since independence Africa has gone from food self-sufficiency to widespread hunger. It's also interesting that one of the key points made by Amartya Sen is that no famine has ever taken place in a democratic state.
This analysis of Africa is very much in line with the general analysis in Amartya Sen's important work: Development as Freedom. In this book the Nobel prize winner argues that freedom is development both because freedom should be the major goal of development in its own right and because it is the most effective way of achieving the other social and economic goals of development.
Sierra Leone provides a stark model in which most of these factors come together … and acts as a worrying reminder to nearby Gambia of what can go wrong. Sierra Leone is 162nd out of 162 in the UNDP's Human Development Index [UNDP, 2001]. After a long period of one party and military rule, a democratically elected government came to power in 1996. However, by this stage a brutal civil war had been in progress for ten years, with the opposition to the democratically elected government coming from the rebel Revolutionary United Front [whose stated aim is to end corruption]. The war has generated about 500,000 refugees. As one commentator put it:
"Successive administrations have ignored the needs of rural people, creating a pool of disenfranchised youth, from which the RUF has recruited a rebel force capable of sowing terror" [Doyle, 1999]
Therefore, there are good reasons for the promotion of democracy, both in terms of moral arguments for human rights and freedoms and in terms of the relationship between democracy and development.
The late Julius Nyerere, former President of Tanzania, put it that: "Democracy means much more than voting on the basis of adult suffrage every few years; it means [among other things] attitudes of toleration and willingness to co-operate with others on terms of equality" [Nyerere, 1998:27]
In this quotation Nyerere is arguing that democracy is not composed solely of the political institutions and processes of the state. If democratic institutions are to survive and prosper they must be embedded in a society composed of individuals and organisations that are permeated by the values and practices which are supportive of democracy.
The skills and values of democracy are socially learned. They are not in the DNA. It is therefore important that African education systems and the NGOs that work with them play a part in fostering the knowledge, skills and values necessary to promote and protect a democratic political culture.
Unfortunately, however, schools in Africa have traditionally tended to promote authoritarian values and practices. They have not encouraged participation, debate, responsibility and critical enquiry and have preferred instead to use chalk and talk and rote memorisation to reinforce teacher-centred discipline [Harber, 1997]. Indeed, some systems, schools and teachers in Africa [as in many other parts of the world] have actually made matters worse by being directly violent to pupils; through corporal punishment, sexual abuse and learning to 'hate the other'.
Therefore, as UNESCO put it,
"It is clear that in this context of societal crisis and conflict, the pursuit of development in Africa is highly problematic without the flourishing of a democratic political climate. It is therefore imperative that the continent should initiate a comprehensive educational programme to promote the enduring value of democracy and peace as a crucial feature in the quest for national development and transformation" [UNESCO, 1997:9]
Clive completed his input by referring to the work in Towards Ubuntu and the need for basic debates:
"The people responsible for some of the major atrocities in history could read and write and do sums – so the ideological framework needs to be clear. We need to debate: literacy for what? … numeracy for what? … education for what?"
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'Growing old is actually very good' says a Harvard trained physician, Dr. Bill Thomas, and also states that this is highly significant to know.
Dr. Thomas has been very popular in the news about his positive and somehow radical view of growing old. A Washington Post article has used his crusade in order to alter all the negative opinions concerning aging and also aid people to consider the 'post adulthood' as a good thing.
Dr. Thomas thinks that all the Americans consider the process of growing old as a thing that is very frightening, that it has a huge impact causing lack of autonomy, isolation, and loneliness.
Thomas was named a medical director in one nursing home in 1991, in upstate New York. He viewed this home as a very depressing home for the elderly and their bodies and minds were dispirited and dull.
So, did he make and what were the actions that he took in order to alter the lives of the old people and add some spark in their life? The Washington Post clarified that he made up a choice to change this place. He brought a lot of plants and made a flower and vegetable garden, and he also included 100 parakeets, four cats, several hens and rabbits, and two dogs, as well as a day-care for the kids for the staff.
This action was in fact a big revelation, even though having all those animals inside a nursing home was against the state law. The spirits and lives of the old people were much restored when they took care of the animals and plants, a lot of the people begin to dress up, get out of the room and eat again. The prescriptions utilized were reduced by about 50% that before and this mostly referred to the agitation medications. The cost of the drugs was going down rapidly and also the death rate.
Eden Alternative was the name given to this approach – according to the idea that this type of homes for the old people need to resemble a garden and not a hospital – and many other facilities also started to use this approach like the ones in Australia, Europe, Japan and Canada, and also in all the 50 U.S. states (the state of New York also voted down the animal restriction law).
Dr. Thomas also developed little, intimate residencies which were named Green House, in which people were designated their own bathroom and their own room.
The outcome was amazing – in just a month and half, all the wheelchairs were picked up in a truck. Thomas stated that the reason for the big use of wheelchair is because the facilities are quite bit.
This is the thing that shows in reality that age is nothing more than a number. And also the only thing that is missing is the loving touch whether from animals or people, and this proves that longevity ad happiness depend on the spirit and the mind.


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Global State of Security Operations Report Finds 93% of SOCs Employing AI and Machine Learning Tools to Detect Advanced Threats
SecOps Teams Turn to Next-Generation Automation Tools to Address Gaps in Security; MITRE ATT&K Framework Becomes Ubiquitous
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Oct. 19, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Micro Focus (LSE: MCRO;NYSE: MFGP), in partnership with CyberEdge Group, today published the 2020 State of Security Operations report, which reveals that security operations centers (SOCs) across the globe are most concerned with advanced threat detection and are increasingly looking to artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technologies to proactively safeguard the enterprise. The report's findings show that over 93 percent of respondents employ AI and ML technologies with the leading goal of improving advanced threat detection capabilities, and that over 89 percent of respondents expect to use or acquire a Security Orchestration and Automated Response (SOAR) tool within the next 12 months. These findings indicate that as SOCs continue to mature, they will deploy next-gen tools and capabilities at an unprecedented rate to address gaps in security.
"The odds are stacked against today's SOCs: more data, more sophisticated attacks, and larger surface areas to monitor. However, when properly implemented, AI technologies such as unsupervised machine learning, are helping to fuel next-generation security operations, as evidenced by this year's report," said Stephan Jou, CTO Interset at Micro Focus. "We're observing more and more enterprises discovering that AI and ML can be remarkably effective and augment advanced threat detection and response capabilities, thereby accelerating the ability of SecOps teams to better protect the enterprise."
As the volume of threats rise, the report finds that 90 percent of organizations are relying on the MITRE ATT&K framework as a must-use tool for understanding attack techniques, and that the most common reason for relying on the knowledge base of adversary tactics is for detecting advanced threats. Further, the scale of technology needed to secure today's digital assets means SOC teams are relying more heavily on tools to effectively do their jobs. With so many responsibilities, the report found that SecOps teams are using numerous tools to help secure critical information, with organizations widely using 11 common types of security operations tools and with each tool expected to exceed 80 percent adoption in 2021.
Key observations include:
COVID-19: During the pandemic, security operations teams have faced many challenges. The biggest has been the increased volume of cyberthreats and security incidents (45 percent globally), followed by higher risks due to workforce usage of unmanaged devices (40 percent globally).
Most severe SOC challenges: Approximately 1 in 3 respondents cite the two most severe challenges for the SOC team as prioritizing security incidents and monitoring security across a growing attack surface.
Cloud journeys: Over 96 percent of organizations use the cloud for IT security operations, and on average nearly two-thirds of their IT security operations software and services are already deployed in the cloud.
The 2020 State of Security Operations report takes a close look at the front lines of IT security and security operations, providing a deep analysis of the most pressing industry challenges and the technologies being embraced to solve for those challenges. This survey specifically references the opinions of IT security professionals who find and mitigate vulnerabilities, detect threats, perform security investigations, respond to incidents, and do countless other operational tasks on a daily basis.
The 2020 State of Security Operations report is available today.
Micro Focus, in partnership with CyberEdge Group, developed a 15-question web-based survey. The survey was promoted via email to 410 security operations professionals in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, India, and Japan in August 2020.
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Boarding Schools in a Minute gives an overview of independent residential schools in North America.
Boarding Schools in a Minute gives an overview of independent residential schools in North America. There is much more to boarding schools than these brief headlines convey. Hopefully, these bullets will encourage you to explore this very special education option in depth.
95% of these boarding schools are high schools serving grades 9 through 12 with many schools offering a Post-Graduate Year or Grade 13. A handful of junior boarding schools serve grades 6-9.
Most boarding schools operate within a traditional school year of September through May. A few schools begin their year in August. A couple end their school year in June. One school only operates during the summer session.
In 2018 there were approximately 450 boarding schools. Tuition at these schools ranges from free to well over $60,000 per year. Boarding schools come in many shapes and sizes. Some are small with 125 or so students in grades 10 through 12. Others are large with over 1200 students in grades 9 through 12. Most fall into what is best described as a medium-sized school with a population of 350-450 students.
Many boarding schools are non-sectarian, i.e., they adhere to no particular religious denomination's teachings and views. What they offer instead is an amalgam of mainline religious thought and philosophy. Other schools follow the teachings and beliefs of a particular religion. For example, Jesuit boarding schools adhere to the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church.
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Still have questions? Wondering if it's worth it? 10 Top Reasons to Go to Boarding School along with 5 Things You Didn't Know About Boarding Schools should help address your concerns. And be sure to read Shari Bunks Geller's article Parent Perspective: Words of Wisdom for the Reluctant Parent. Many parents have stood at the same fork in the road as you are standing in. Do you send your child away to boarding school or do you send her to the private day school in your area? Consider your options carefully. Usually, the deal-clincher will be whether or not you have time to supervise your teenager 24/7. Good parenting requires you to deal with that issue. If you don't, the results could be unpleasant.
Any independent school is A Partnership of Three. That's really what makes the independent school experience so special. The boarding school experience adds another dimension to the experience because it is a total experience involving your child 24/7 for weeks at a time. The academics, athletics and extracurricular activities are interwoven into your child's schedule in a remarkably balanced way. Even better, your child will have dozens of experienced faculty and staff keep their eyes on her 24/7. That has to be reassuring.
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The Black Oak tree is a tall growing deciduous shade tree that can be found in the Eastern United States.
What food does the Black Oak tree produce?
* The Black Oak tree grows acorns, which are an important food source for wildlife, such as deer, squirrels, small rodents, turkeys, grouse, jays and other birds.
Can the wood from the tree be used for building?
* The wood from Black Oak trees is used for flooring in homes, building (train) boxcars and in making barrels (cooperage).
What animals like this tree?
* Birds, butterflies and hummingbirds like this tree as a food source.
* Acorns (nuts) are edible after tannins are leached or boiled out of them.


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Compare Malta to other countries
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If Malta were your home instead of Djibouti you would...
live 17.71 years longer
The life expectancy at birth in Malta is 80.11 while in Djibouti it is 62.40.
make 10.8 times more money
The GDP per capita in Malta is $29,200 while in Djibouti it is $2,700
use 14.4 times more electricity
The per capita consumption of electricity in Djibouti is 373kWh while in Malta it is 5,357kWh
spend 14.2 times more money on health care
Per capita public and private health expenditures combined in Malta are $1,834.70 USD while Djibouti spends $129.20 USD
Malta has an unemployment rate of 5.90% while Djibouti has 60.00%
The number of deaths of infants under one year old in a given year per 1,000 live births in Malta is 3.59 while in Djibouti it is 50.20.
Djibouti consumes 0.6468 gallons of oil per day per capita while Malta consumes 1.9866
be 2.1 times more likely to be in prison
135 in every 100,000 people are currently imprisoned in Malta compared to 63 in Djibouti
1.60 in every 100,000 people are murdered annually in Malta compared to 7.00 in Djibouti
The GINI index measures the degree of inequality in the distribution of family income. In Malta it is 27.10 while in Djibouti it is 40.90.
The percentage of adults living with HIV/AIDS in Malta is 0.10% while in Djibouti it is 1.20%. 100 people in Malta and 800 people in Djibouti die from AIDS each year.
The annual number of births per 1,000 people in Malta is 10.24 while in Djibouti it is 24.08.
More Information about Malta
With its 412,655 people, Malta is the 173rd largest country in the world by population. It is the 201st largest country in the world by area with 316 square kilometers.
Great Britain formally acquired possession of Malta in 1814. The island staunchly supported the UK through both world wars and remained in the Commonwealth when it became independent in 1964; a decade later it declared itself a republic. Since about the mid-1980s, the island has transformed itself into a freight transshipment point, a financial center, and a tourist destination. Malta became an EU member in May 2004 and began using the euro as currency in 2008.
Languages spoken: Maltese (official) 90.1%, English (official) 6%, multilingual 3%, other 0.9% (2005 est.)
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 Kirill, a male given name
 Kirill (Gundyaev), a Russian Orthodox bishop
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Fleet News
Supply chain and logistics providers prepare for hard brexit
Mark Salisbury Aug 23, 2018
Thursday, August 23, 2018 - 09:20
Fleet News, General News, News, Newsletter, Top News
One in six (17 per cent) of UK manufacturers have identified supply chain disruption as being the single biggest factor that will impact their business post Brexit.
A new report from Sheffield Hallam University and SSG Insight has found that 83 per cent of British manufacturers are now preparing for a hard Brexit scenario by actively forging new relationships with "Rest of World" (RoW) territories, a move that will place new demands on supply chain networks and logistics providers.
Orders from EU-based countries are expected to take a dramatic decline following Brexit, prompting nearly half (44 per cent) of manufacturing companies to identify Asia as a focus area for the future, as well as the Americas, Africa and the Middle East.
When considering the implications on the supply chain for doing business with RoW territories, cultural and language differences have been raised as a major concern for more than a quarter (28 per cent) of UK manufacturing companies. This figure compares to just six per cent concerned with the actual process and logistics of transporting products via sea or air.
Within global supply chain networks, lack of defined legalities around product standards and specifications have been highlighted as a problem area, with tariff barriers and a lack of trade agreement adding to the complexities.
To help mitigate the issues posed by worldwide transportation and better support ambitious growth plans, manufacturing companies in Britain are actively investing in creating new, agile supply chains through the cloud.
This latest industry snapshot draws on extensive research amongst the UK's leading manufacturing executives. The report, Harnessing Brexit, Technology and Insight: British Manufacturers, a Competitive Edge in an Age of Uncertainty and Opportunity, is co-authored by Dr Hongwei Zhang and Professor Sameh Saad from Sheffield Hallam University and Jon Moody of SSG Insight. It discusses the optimism and concern around two of the most critical challenges facing modern Britain: Brexit and the relentless rise of technology, particularly in the form of Industry 4.0.
The report reveals that manufacturers are more than twice as likely to point to global competition than Brexit when asked what they consider to be the biggest challenge disrupting industry, closely followed by the Internet of Things and capability to handle data from connected technologies. More than half (59%) of UK manufacturers are intending to invest in smart, connected technology to drive forward international growth.
Dr Zhang, Principal Lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University, said: "British manufacturers have undeniably faced tough economic times in the past, but they are now at a critical juncture. Whilst Brexit-ambiguity is having an unsettling effect on the sector, our research has found that it could prove to be the catalyst for manufacturers and logistics firms to digitally transform and better compete worldwide."
SSG Insight has earned an impressive reputation for delivering world-class data analysis, helping British manufacturers compete globally by effectively managing their assets to drive better business performance. Jon Moody, Chief Product Officer, said: "The UK is entering a new era and – despite the question marks that hang over tariff rates and regulatory barriers – new market opportunities and agile supply networks are developing across the world. As many manufacturers actively forge relationships with new territories and commit to investing in technology, it's clear that a confidence is very much emerging from the uncertainties."
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Q: CollectionView Styling with Storyboard So I'm currently building an app using collectionViews. However the next I want the rows to center align. (if that make sense).
As you see on this picture:

There is a huge white area between the 2 items. Why doens't the second item go right below the 1st one with a white space of like 8px?
Also I want my App to work on iPad and iPhone so scaling is import for me with this app. I was hoping I could just have each row represent 25% of the view area. How would I accomplish this? But still keep it nice/clean and function-able on both iPads and iPhones.
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Also if I lower the size so I can fit 3 below each other, they first stack vertically instead of horizontally. Even tho it's a horizontally scrollable collectionview?

A: The white space is because the UICollectionView is using the default UICollectionViewFlowLayout
Use this method to achieve what you want:
func setCollectionLayout()
{
    let totalWidth = UIScreen.main.bounds.width
    let size = totalWidth * 0.1 // this is how you set item with a proportion of the screen
    let collectionLayout = UICollectionViewFlowLayout()
    collectionLayout.scrollDirection = .vertical
    collectionLayout.itemSize = CGSize(width: size , height: size)
    collectionLayout.minimumInteritemSpacing = 8
    collectionLayout.sectionInset = UIEdgeInsetsMake(8 , 0 , 8 , 0)
    collectionView.collectionViewLayout = collectionLayout
    collectionView.layoutSubviews()
}

If you want any further customization you can override UICollectionViewFlowLayout


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State health department investigating sexual assault of sedated patient by man receiving treatment for PCP use at Norwalk Hospital
The state Department of Public Health is investigating after a Stamford man, receiving treatment for PCP use, was recently charged with sexually assaulting a heavily sedated woman at Norwalk Hospital late last month.
On Tuesday, a day after Rodney Daniels, 44, faced a judge on charges of first-degree sexual assault and making a false statement, a spokesperson for DPH said the department's investigation was ongoing.
The extent of DPH's investigation into the matter was unclear, but the department has purview over regulating hospitals.
Daniels remains in custody on $500,000 bail as he awaits an Oct. 26 court date.
In an arrest warrant affidavit, investigators noted that hospital staff took more than five hours to notify authorities about suspicions that Daniels had sexually assaulted the woman.
When asked about the delay, a hospital spokeswoman said she could not comment further, citing medical privacy laws.
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Mixed-effects multilevel analysis followed by canonical correlation analysis is an effective fMRI tool for the investigation of idiosyncrasies
Sungman Jo, Hyun Chul Kim, Niv Lustig, Gang Chen, Jong Hwan Lee
Department of Brain and Cognitive Engineering
We report that regions-of-interest (ROIs) associated with idiosyncratic individual behavior can be identified from functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data using statistical approaches that explicitly model individual variability in neuronal activations, such as mixed-effects multilevel analysis (MEMA). We also show that the relationship between neuronal activation in fMRI and behavioral data can be modeled using canonical correlation analysis (CCA). A real-world dataset for the neuronal response to nicotine use was acquired using a custom-made MRI-compatible apparatus for the smoking of electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes). Nineteen participants smoked e-cigarettes in an MRI scanner using the apparatus with two experimental conditions: e-cigarettes with nicotine (ECIG) and sham e-cigarettes without nicotine (SCIG) and subjective ratings were collected. The right insula was identified in the ECIG condition from the χ2-test of the MEMA but not from the t-test, and the corresponding activations were significantly associated with the similarity scores (r = −.52, p =.041, confidence interval [CI] = [−0.78, −0.17]) and the urge-to-smoke scores (r =.73, p <.001, CI = [0.52, 0.88]). From the contrast between the two conditions (i.e., ECIG > SCIG), the right orbitofrontal cortex was identified from the χ2-tests, and the corresponding neuronal activations showed a statistically meaningful association with similarity (r = −.58, p =.01, CI = [−0.84, −0.17]) and the urge to smoke (r =.34, p =.15, CI = [0.09, 0.56]). The validity of our analysis pipeline (i.e., MEMA followed by CCA) was further evaluated using the fMRI and behavioral data acquired from the working memory and gambling tasks available from the Human Connectome Project.
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Jo, S., Kim, H. C., Lustig, N., Chen, G., & Lee, J. H. (2021). Mixed-effects multilevel analysis followed by canonical correlation analysis is an effective fMRI tool for the investigation of idiosyncrasies. Human Brain Mapping, 42(16), 5374-5396. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.25627
Mixed-effects multilevel analysis followed by canonical correlation analysis is an effective fMRI tool for the investigation of idiosyncrasies. / Jo, Sungman; Kim, Hyun Chul; Lustig, Niv et al.
In: Human Brain Mapping, Vol. 42, No. 16, 11.2021, p. 5374-5396.
Jo, S, Kim, HC, Lustig, N, Chen, G & Lee, JH 2021, 'Mixed-effects multilevel analysis followed by canonical correlation analysis is an effective fMRI tool for the investigation of idiosyncrasies', Human Brain Mapping, vol. 42, no. 16, pp. 5374-5396. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.25627
Jo S, Kim HC, Lustig N, Chen G, Lee JH. Mixed-effects multilevel analysis followed by canonical correlation analysis is an effective fMRI tool for the investigation of idiosyncrasies. Human Brain Mapping. 2021 Nov;42(16):5374-5396. doi: 10.1002/hbm.25627
Jo, Sungman ; Kim, Hyun Chul ; Lustig, Niv et al. / Mixed-effects multilevel analysis followed by canonical correlation analysis is an effective fMRI tool for the investigation of idiosyncrasies. In: Human Brain Mapping. 2021 ; Vol. 42, No. 16. pp. 5374-5396.
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Influence comes in many forms ? religion, music, books, and authors. By experiencing different people's views, we gain a sense of understanding the world through their eyes. We take cues from others, how they think, act and do in the world, and internalize their beliefs. The religious zealot thinks Jesus' way of life is best ? they try to internalize his lessons. The new age musician looks to his contemporaries ? he believes certain groups play music more in-tune to the way he thinks of the world. Authors are also influenced by their contemporaries. Where would Roddy Doyle be without James Joyce? Where would Toni Morrison be without Faulkner? Would Virgil's the Aeneid be the same story if it wasn't influenced by Homer's Odyssey? Influence has us accept the influential person's beliefs, but we may not agree with all of those beliefs. Homer was a great poet in Virgil's mind, but Odysseus was a bastard Achaean. Homer detailed the hero's win in battle while Virgil wondered more about the victim. The Aeneid echoes a similar plot line in The Odyssey ? a sea-farer wandering from land to land after the Trojan War in hope of going home. Virgil, however, differed in some of his episodes. In Book VI of The Odyssey, Odysseus meets Princess Nausikaa, who, by the gods' will, falls in love with him so that she may give him aid. Odysseus eventually leaves, and Nausikaa is left alone. Virgil proffered a question to the encounter: what if Odysseus had stayed in Skheria with Nausikaa? The poet answers his own question in Book IV of The Aeneid with the passionate Queen Dido (Nausikaa) and the main character Aeneas (Odysseus). The love of Dido for Aeneas is tragic and a hindrance in The Aeneid, but in The Odyssey love is a helpful tool for Odysseus to finally go home.
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