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Q: ASP.NET vs creating/opening .HTML file in C# I am currently attempting to import D3 (data driven documents) visualizations into Spotfire. My approach is to embed a web page into Spotfire, run the HTML and Javascript there, and then reference variables regarding the data tables, filtering and such from the SDK (C#).
I was wondering which approach would be better: making an ASP.NET project (which I have little experience with), or just creating an HTML file from inside a standard C# project, making a filestream, writing all the Javascript and HTML into the HTML file and then opening it.
However, when someone changes the filtering properties in Spotfire, I would need to reflect that by updating the Javascript to pass in different variables into D3. I'm not sure if this makes one of the approaches impossible or not.
Can someone point me in the right direction?
Thanks,
Arthur

A: Based on the information provided in the question, it appears you are comfortable working in Javascript. Why not give node.js + Express.js a shot?  If the code needs to be run locally you could pair it with appJS as well.

A: ASP.Net MVC can work for you as well.


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Features Business and Operations Health & Safety
From the Editor's Desk: November 2008
By Cam Wood
The widespread concern over the state of our food safety continues to dominate headlines. We could go about the scientifics of it all, jump on the blame bandwagon, and such; but the real issue of what it all means to the pizza market on a day to day basis is fairly clear.
While Canadians have not traditionally been as xenophobic as our neighbours to the south, issues like this are likely to give rise to a more demanding consumer on the origins of their food.
At the end of September, the United States Department of Agriculture's country-of-origin-labelling law came into effect. And while targeted specifically at the retail level, the law is surely set to expand into greater purpose.
Processed foods have been spared in the initial guidelines; meaning such items as tomato sauces, meatballs, sausages and mixed-product packages (vegetables) do not fall under these guidelines … yet. Nor has the commercial food sector been affected … yet. But there is little doubt that this legislation will be expanded into the foodservice industry, given that a 2007 Consumer Reports survey revealed that 92 per cent of Americans support the law.
What does that mean for Canadian pizzerias?
Our culture is influenced by the trends of the western world's largest consumer market, so it's likely we will see this same brand of legislation come our way. Canadian producers will already be coping with the cost introducing this change to their exports.
But more so, consumers in Canada rarely live in a Made-in-Canada bubble. They take note, and begin to ask questions.
As early as July – before the Listeria bacteria was found – an Associated Press-Ipsos poll found that 46 per cent of consumers were concerned they may get sick from eating contaminated food. The survey also revealed that 86 per cent of respondents said produce should be labelled so it can be tracked all the way back to the farm gate. A clear 56 per cent added that they believe there are not enough inspectors to keep us safe from tainted imports.
It's very likely that many of you have been answering questions on the source of your cheese and meat products since the outbreak of Listeria across Canada in August. Cheese companies in Quebec have shuttered their operations because of it, and the provincial government is responding with a total aid package to the tune of $19.7 million.
Chinese dairy products, American tomatoes, Mexican peppers and Canadian beef, have all suffered through terrible food safety issues of late. But in tragedy comes opportunity – the opportunity to distinguish yourself from the competition.
Wouldn't it be a great addition to the strength of your brand to be known as the pizzeria with the answers, not on consumers' hunger, but on consumers' thirst for knowledge? As independents, you have control over the source of your ingredients – and first-hand knowledge of what is going on your customers' pies and its origins.
Being proactive, and sharing that information quickly and readily will go a long way to easing the concerns your customers may have over food safety. Or do you think the counter staff at the large chains can answer those same questions better than you?
From the Editor's Desk: January/February 2008
From the Editor's Desk: December 2008
From the Editor's Desk: September/October 2008
Earthstone Ovens
Ordering Pizza Hut From Your Facebook Page? It's on the Way
Outwit your competition

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El Ministerio de Defensa Civil, Emergencias y Eliminación de Consecuencias de Desastres Naturales de la Federación de Rusia (en ruso, Министерство Российской Федерации по делам гражданской обороны, чрезвычайным ситуациям и ликвидации последствий стихийных бедствий), comúnmente conocido como Ministerio de Situaciones de Emergencia de Rusia (en ruso, МЧС России), es uno de los veintiún ministerios federales del Gobierno de la Federación de Rusia cuya función principal es dirigir los servicios subordinados de rescate de emergencia y extinción de incendios.

Es un órgano ejecutivo federal de Rusia con atribuciones de ministerio de Seguridad responsable del desarrollo e implementación de la política estatal, la regulación legal, así como la supervisión y control en el campo de la defensa civil, protección de la población y territorios frente a emergencias naturales y antropogénicas, garantizando la seguridad contra incendios y seguridad de las personas en cuerpos de agua —es decir, las organizaciones paramilitares estatales que tienen derecho a adquirir armas pequeñas de mano de combate y otras armas—.

El Ministerio de Situaciones de Emergencia incluye el Servicio Federal de Bomberos del Servicio de Bomberos del Estado (en ruso, Государственная противопожарная служба Российской Федерации).

Además, a diferencia de otros países cuyo ministerio de Defensa se encarga del servicio militar, el Ministerio de Situaciones de Emergencia es el responsable de del servicio tanto civil como militar.

Es responsable de aproximadamente el 25 % de la totalidad de las inspecciones realizadas en el país.

Símbolos

Historia
A partir de 1932, los asuntos de defensa civil fueron realizados por las Unidades de Defensa Aérea Local bajo las nacientes Fuerzas de Defensa Aérea Soviéticas, que fueron transferidas a la NKVD en 1940.

En 1960 fue devuelto al Ministerio de Defensa como una rama de servicio de las Fuerzas Armadas Soviéticas (las Fuerzas de Defensa Civil del Ministerio de Defensa) y una agencia de informes directos, mientras que el MVD retuvo el servicio de extinción de incendios.

A raíz de los eventos del terremoto de Armenia de 1988 y el desastre de Chernobyl, el 17 de julio de 1990 una decisión directiva del Presídium del Sóviet Supremo condujo a la formación del Cuerpo de Rescate Ruso, que finalmente fue formado por el gobierno soviético el 27 de diciembre de 1990, fecha considerada como la creación oficial del Ministerio de Situaciones de Emergencia de Rusia.

El 17 de abril de 1991, el Presídium del Sóviet Supremo nombró a Serguéi Shoigú como presidente del Comité Estatal para Situaciones Extraordinarias (Государственный Комитет по чрезвычайным ситуациям, ГКЧС), que sucedió al RDC.

El 19 de noviembre de 1991 el Comité Estatal se fusionó con la Sede de Defensa Civil de la URSS (dependiente del Ministerio de Defensa) para crear el Comité Estatal de la Federación de Rusia para Asuntos de Defensa Civil, Situaciones Extraordinarias y Liquidación de Desastres Naturales (en ruso, Государственный комитет по делам гражданской обороны, чрезвычайным ситуациям и ликвидации последствий стий последствий стихийный последствий стихийный последствий стихийный последствий стихийный последствий стихийный Рийриinated toСтехийным).

El 10 de enero de 1994, el comité de Estado pasó a formar parte del Gobierno de Rusia y el ministerio fue nombrado Ministerio de Asuntos de Defensa Civil, Situaciones de Emergencia y Ayuda en Desastres, con Sergei Shoigu como ministro.

El 1 de enero de 2002, el Servicio de Bomberos del Estado de Rusia, el servicio nacional de bomberos, pasó a formar parte del ministerio con 278 000 bomberos, retirados del control del Ministerio del Interior después de 84 años. El 12 de mayo de 2012, Vladímir Puchkov fue nombrado nuevo ministro, en sustitución de Shoigu, quien más tarde fue nombrado ministro de Defensa tras un breve período como gobernador de la provincia de Moscú.

El 23 de mayo de 2022, el presidente de Rusia, Vladímir Putin, nombró a Aleksandr Kurenkov como nuevo Ministro de Situaciones de Emergencia. El puesto lo había ocupado anteriormente el ex viceministro, Alexander Chuprian, en calidad de interino, desde la muerte del anterior ministro, Yevgueni Zínichev, en septiembre de 2021. El portavoz del Kremlin, Dmitri Peskov, señaló que «Putin conoce personalmente bien a Kurenkov. Y la elección significa que, según el jefe de estado, las cualidades personales, oficiales y profesionales de Kurenkov lo harán el mejor para desempeñar estas funciones».

Escalafón del Servicio Interno

Véase también
 Gobierno de la Federación de Rusia

Referencias

Enlaces externos

Situaciones de Emergencia
Rusia

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Inep is also responsible for some international education assessment, statistics and research studies in which Brazil is invited to take part.
Created and operated worldwide by the OECD, this assessment seeks to assess competencies of 15 year-old students. PISA is executed every three years and consists of a cognitive large scale test and a socio-economical questionnaire, filled by students and school principals, in order to provide contextual information on educational environment. The test evaluates competencies on Reading, Mathematics and Sciences, focusing on one of these areas of knowledge in each of its editions. Inep is the Brazilian institution accountable for performing this study and disseminating the results in the country.
The studies carried out by the Latin American Laboratory for Assessment of the Quality of Education (LLECE), of UNESCO's Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean (OREALC), seek to evaluate the quality of education provided by elementary schools. Inep participates in these studies since the First Regional Comparative and Explanatory Study (Perce), which was conducted in 1997 and was the first comparative educational assessment of Latin American countries. The second study (Serce) was implemented in 2006, with the participation of 16 countries. The third study (Terce) was implemented in 2013. The results will become available in December, 2014.
Operated by the OECD, the INES program is responsible for the construction of internationally comparable education indicators, as well as the preparation of technical studies, research and surveys, seeking to analyze the dimensions of a set of indicators. Based on such data, OECD publishes an annual study entitled 'Education at a Glance', which aims to disseminate educational indicators that enable OECD member countries and partner countries of the organization to develop new educational projects, or the improvement of existing ones.
Talis is an international research on Teaching and Learning, which was conducted in 2007/2008 by OECD as part of the INES program. It was the first international survey to collect data on the learning environment and the working conditions that schools offer teachers, aiming to contribute to the development of more effective educational policies in this area. The second survey was conducted in 2012/2013.
Inep is an active participant in two working groups of the Educational Mercosur: Indicators, whose goal is to identify a set of comparable indicators of educational systems of member countries and associates of Mercosur and define new indicators to meet specific regional demands at different levels and teaching modalities; and Terminology, which aims to systematize the terms that refer to education and their correspondence in the different member countries and associates.
Inep is a participant in the Ibero-American Network of National Agencies of Accreditation of Higher Education (RIACES). This is an association of Ibero-American evaluation and accreditation agencies, intended to promote cooperation and exchange experience in higher education assessment and accreditation, contributing to the quality assurance of higher education in the participating countries.
Inep also participates in the Network of National Accreditation Agencies of the Educational Mercosur (RANA), which responsible for the assessment and accreditation of higher education careers within the scope of the member and associate countries of Mercosur.


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Why I walked 5 kms in a gale
January 4, 2014 June 17, 2020 by Diane Lee
Dave Fitzsimons: an amazing athlete, a humble man
This post was first published on 1 August, 2010. Given that I've started my half marathon training, it's timely to look back and see how far I've come. Dave would be looking down, smiling to himself and saying: I can't believe she's still running!
Dave Fitzsimons died on 7 September 2008, from non-Hodgkins lymphoma. Today I walked 5 kilometres to honour his memory.
Dave was one of the nicest, warmest, most empathetic human beings I have ever known. I knew him as my manager, a client and my friend. When you talked to him, he made you feel like you were the only person in the world who mattered. He always had time for a coffee and a chat; he was always interested in what I was up to.
I didn't know he was an Olympic athlete until I had known him for quite some time. He went to Montreal and Moscow as a long distance runner: and he still holds records in South Australia. But it was like him to downplay his amazing athletic achievements.
His leukemia was a shock to us all, and probably, most of all to him. I can imagine that if you'd put that much effort into your fitness, you would feel betrayed by your own body. The good thing, if there is such a scenario, is that he went quickly, and within a year of his diagnosis. I went to his funeral. I don't think the church where it was held had seen that many people attend a service in years. His son, John, spoke about his father, devastated by a life cut short. He was a young 58.
Dave's final words to his son were: "Do some living for me".
Well, Dave, I intend to honour your request. And that's one of the reasons I walked today in weather that can best be described as crap. Athletics SA ran the inaugural Fitzy's 5 as a way to pay tribute to you, your favourite race and to raise money for cancer research. You would have been humbled, surprised and grateful at the number of people who attended, some who knew you, some who didn't.
I walked the course today, but I've set myself a challenge: to run the whole 5 kms next year. You are the only person I would do this for. Just like you are probably one of the only people who would have gotten me up and out of bed at 6am on a Sunday to walk 5 kms in a gale.
Dave, I'm trying to do some living for you. I hope I make you proud.
Update: I now run between three and five kilometres, three or four times a week. Dave, you were the inspiration I needed to get moving.
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20 thoughts on "Why I walked 5 kms in a gale"
Hannah Robinson says:
I loved reading this Di.
I lost someone close to me suddenly nearly 1 year ago and I want to do something in her memory. This just gave me inspiration to start something.
<3 xxx
unplugged1 says:
So glad that it touched you Han. I am sure your friend would love that you want to start something in memory of her 🙂
_kerrym says:
I have had this blog entry open to read for a week now, it is so touching. Thanks for sharing! It is really touching and reduced me to tears. It was my grandmothers bday yesterday and she past away at Christmas and this has helped me today, as I prefer to go to the cemetery.
Thanks Di!
Kez xx
I'm so glad that it helped you. Interestingly, I am now back in the workplace where I first met and worked for Dave. It's lovely to be among people who remember him and speak so highly of him. It keeps him alive somehow. I hope that's how you feel about your grandmother 🙂
opps prefer was 'prepare'
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1 May 2012 marks the 7th year anniversary of losing my best friend, and the smartest and most sensitive yet tortured soul it has been my privilege to love. Occasionally I still feel sorry for myself and cry at the injustice of a life that doesn't have him in it. But mostly, I keep it together because at his funeral, I silently promised him that I would live life for the both
of us. I keep that promise better some days than others, but I never forget. And in his memory, I advocate for the rights of the gay community and have a zero tolerance policy on bullies. If it was up to me, I might listen to the internal voice cautioning me that it's more politic, safer and comfortable to keep silent and remain inactive. But in his memory, I speak out against homophobic and bullying behavior. In this small way, I honour our love and friendship. We all have our equivalent of hauling our ass out of bed and running in a gale. This is mine.
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It seems that people come into our lives for a reason. How awesome that you too, Kyung, have walked in your own gale. Wish more people would do so because it would make this world a much better place.
Cullen Habel says:
Brilliant. What a gift for you to have known a person like Dave Fitzsimons and what an honour that you'd share it. The more I hear of people like this and the more I know, or remember, the firmer I become in my own life goals.
I was lucky to have known him, Cullen. I wish he had been in our lives longer, but he left an awesome legacy. Whenever I think of leaders and leadership in the context of excellence, I always think of Dave. He's the benchmark of quality for me.
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I must respond to John Elson's letter of Dec. 9 in which he dismisses the opinion of Tom Fletcher on climate change.
Yes many scientists trot out the government mantra but who provides funding to scientists? It's a brave scientist who disagrees with the hand in the public purse. Some are brave enough to disagree and go against the bias shown by most media outlets.
CO2 is exhaled by humans and is critical to life yet it is called 'carbon pollution' in fact the earth and plants need more CO2. Without it people would starve and, in the past, CO2 concentrations have been 10-15 times higher, nothing catastrophic happened. It is plant food.
As for temps, El Nino and La Nina play a huge part – 2016 will be declared as hot as 2015, even slightly hotter because El Nino did not vanish until the middle of the year. But it is almost certain that next year, large falls will measured over the oceans exactly as happened after the end of the last very strong El Nino in 1998. There has been no significant warming in 18 years….it is called weather and fluctuations in temps have been happening since the big bang.
Meanwhile, we are being ripped off by governments who slap taxes on anything and everything under the guise of climate change. All that will happen is the regular Joe will be finding it harder to pay for renewable energy because it is extremely expensive to maintain. So time will tell how much of this propaganda is true or false.


The use of speech analytics in call centers is increasing but many people are still wondering whether to use it or not. For those who do not know it yet, speech analytics is nothing more than an automated way of analyzing the content of the calls.
In the case of voice calls, the recordings must be transcribed by a transcription mechanism prior to be converted into text and thus, a computer program, automatic and intelligent enough to search what we want to find out without intervention human, can analyze them.
Different to what many people think, the Speech Analytics is not only used to monitor more calls and get a more accurate quality index. This is not the real benefit of this tool.
With the use of Speech Analytics, organizations can analyze handled calls by finding offending words, synonyms, phrases, sequences, business opportunities, mentions of competitors and brands, specific needs of customers etc.
It can also be analyzed adherence to the scripts, presence or absence of important procedures, such as confirmation of address, social security number etc. It is all a matter of creativity and knowing of how to use the tool, which with its own use, day by day becomes "smarter".
Filters and separates records for further analysis of sales techniques, achieving results, business opportunities, etc.
It should be noted that computers still cannot replace the analytical capacity of a qualified professional with huge product and business rules knowledge, but it would not be feasible to manually analyze a large volume of handled calls. For this reason, if your need is to analyze a large volume of handled calls (or even 100% of them), the shortcut seems to be Speech Analytics.
The implementation of the hybrid business model is a great solution for organizations that have a large monitoring team and at the same time need to increase the quantity of monitored calls. In this way, more efficiency can be achieved with an equivalent or even less running costs.
Know the CYF Analytics Solution.
The CYF Analytics work with IBM Watson and others providers.


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\section{Introduction}
Dielectronic Recombination (DR) plays a central role in astrophysics. It is the most important electron-ion recombination process in photoionized cosmic plasmas. Moreover, DR rates are used to model different astrophysical systems as stellar and solar coronae and the intergalactic medium~\cite{Mul1999,Sav2000}. Theoretical and experimental uncertainties in the low temperature DR rates can dramatically change the values of parameters describing the properties of the cosmic plasmas and the interpretation of data from satellites on cosmic systems.

Actually, the quality and accuracy of the laboratory experiments on DR processes with colliding beams of electrons and ions are very high and
atomic codes to evaluate transition amplitudes rather sophisticated~\cite{Sch2001,Sch2006}. The transfer of knowledge obtained from laboratory measurements of the DR rates to astrophysical plasma modelling is based on the assumption that the electron beam of the cooling device can be described with a Maxwellian distribution with energy spread as low as about 10 meV (experimentally verified) and that the astrophysical plasma be in a state of global thermodynamical equilibrium or in a LTE with a Maxwellian distribution over a wide range of temperature from $10^{-3}\,\mathrm{eV}$ to $10^{6}\,\mathrm{eV}$.

On the contrary, signals of deviations from LTE in astrophysical plasmas have been observed and reported in the past~\cite{Sho1969,Col1989} and, as a very recent result, astrophysical X-ray sources active in stellar coronae, active galactic nuclei, X-ray binaries, supernovae and after-glows from gamma-ray bursts indicate the presence of a departure from Maxwellian distribution of the particles in many different types of plasmas~\cite{Guo2004}.

We have recently shown that, in electron cooling devices, generalized electron distributions that differ from the Maxwellian one in the low energy part, due to subdiffusion of electrons and ions, with depleted energy tails, may account for the observed enhancement in Radiative Recombination (RR) and that the existence of a cut-off in the momentum distribution (as the one introduced in astrophysics by Spitzer in the past~\cite{Spi1940}) could have important consequences on the X-ray spectra emitted during RR~\cite{Mae2006}.

In this work we introduce a new expression of the plasma DR rate as a function of the temperature, derived assuming a small deformation of the Maxwell distribution and containing factors that modify the usual, well known exponential behaviour. Deviations are caused by presence of correlations among particles in non ideal plasmas, of random electric microfields distribution and of random forces whose effects are non linear~\cite{Fer2005,Fer2006}. All these effects are taken into account by means of an appropriate parameter $q$, which is the entropic parameter of the nonextensive Tsallis thermostatistics~\cite{Boo2005,Gel2004}. Among many generalised statistics, this is the one (together with Renyi statistics) which introduces a cut-off in the energy distribution when particles sub-diffuse ($q<1$) .

We apply this new DR rate to the study of the $\mathrm{C}^{3+}$ case, as for carbon ions there exist experimental data and theoretical calculations we can use in our semi-phenomenological treatment and may compare with our results. We want to show what is the effect of the deformation on the plasma DR rate and calculate, in particular, the rate at low temperature. The same application will be extended elsewhere to the DR of Fe ions exploiting the experimental and theoretical results of Ref.~\cite{Sav2006}.

\section{The dielectronic recombination rates}
The general formula for a reaction rate with a Maxwell-Boltzmann statistics, by definition, reads
\begin{equation}
\alpha(k_{B} T)=\langle\sigma v\rangle=4\pi\left(\frac{\mu}{2\pi k_{B} T}\right)^{3/2}\int_{0}^{+\infty}v^{3}\sigma(v)\exp\left(-\frac{\mu v^{2}}{2k_{B} T}\right)\,\mathrm{d}v\, ,\label{Maxwellian reaction rate}
\end{equation}
where $\mu$ is the ion-electron reduced mass, $T$ is the temperature of the system, and $\sigma(v)$ is the interaction cross section.

For a given DR resonance $i$ located at $E_{\mathrm{res},i}$ and characterized by the width $\Gamma_{i}$ and the strength $\bar{\sigma}_{i}$, the corresponding cross section can be written as
\begin{displaymath}
\sigma_{i}(E)=\frac{\bar{\sigma}_{i}}{\pi}\frac{E_{\mathrm{res},i}}{E}\frac{\Gamma_{i}/2}{(E-E_{\mathrm{res},i})^{2}+(\Gamma_{i}/2)^{2}}\, .
\end{displaymath}

By using the Clayton-Tsallis distribution for small deformation, if the distribution has a cut-off at $E=k_{B} T/(2\delta)$ (for $\delta>0$), with $\delta=(1-q)/2$~\cite{Cor1999}, the reaction rate~\ref{Maxwellian reaction rate} transforms into
\begin{equation}
\alpha_{(\delta,\gamma)}^{\mathrm{DR}}(k_{B} T)=\underset{i}\sum\alpha_{i_{(\delta,\gamma)}}^{\mathrm{DR}}(k_{B} T)\, ,\label{our plasma rate}
\end{equation}
with
\begin{eqnarray}
\alpha_{i_{(\delta,\gamma)}}^{\mathrm{DR}}(k_{B} T)&=&\left(\frac{2}{\pi k_{B} T}\right)^{\frac{3}{2}}\frac{\bar{\sigma}_{i}\,E_{\mathrm{res},i}\,\Gamma_{i} c}{2\sqrt{\mu c^{2}}}\left(1+\frac{15}{4}\delta\right)\times\nonumber\\
& &\int_{0}^{\frac{k_{B} T}{2\delta}}\mathrm{d}E\,\frac{1}{(E-E_{\mathrm{res},i})^{2}+(\Gamma_{i}/2)^{2}}\cdot\exp\left[-\frac{E}{k_{B} T}-\delta \left(\frac{E}{k_{B} T}\right)^{2}\right]\, .\label{rate to be calculated}
\end{eqnarray}

Working out the integral in Eq.~\ref{rate to be calculated}, the general expression of the rate~\ref{our plasma rate} becomes
\begin{eqnarray}
\alpha_{(\delta,\gamma)}^{\mathrm{DR}}(k_{B} T)&=&
\sqrt{\frac{2}{\pi}}\left(1+\frac{15}{4}\delta\right)\underset{i}\sum\frac{\bar{\sigma}_{i}\,E_{\mathrm{res},i}\,c}{(k_{B} T)^{\frac{3}{2}}\sqrt{\mu c^{2}}}\left[1-\frac{\delta}{2}\left(\frac{\gamma_{i}}{k_{B} T}\right)^{2}\right]\times\nonumber\\
& &\exp\left[-\frac{E_{\mathrm{res},i}}{k_{B} T}\left(1+\delta\,\frac{E_{\mathrm{res},i}}{k_{B} T}-\frac{\gamma_{i}^{2}}{4E_{\mathrm{res},i}
k_{B} T}\right)\right]\times\nonumber\\
& &\exp\left[-\delta\left(\frac{\gamma_{i}}{k_{B} T}\right)^{2}\left(\frac{\gamma_{i}^{2}}{4\left(k_{B} T\right)^{2}}-
\frac{E_{\mathrm{res},i}}{k_{B} T}\right)\right]\times\nonumber\\
& &\left[\mathrm{Erf}\left(b\sqrt{\frac{1}{4a}}+\frac{k_{B} T\sqrt{4a}}{4\delta}\right)-
\mathrm{Erf}\left(b\sqrt{\frac{1}{4a}}\right)\right]\, ,\label{non-Maxwellian rate}
\end{eqnarray}
with
\begin{equation}
\begin{cases}
b\sqrt{\displaystyle{\frac{1}{4a}}}=\left(\displaystyle{\frac{\gamma_{i}}{2k_{B} T}}-\displaystyle{\frac{E_{\mathrm{res},i}}{\gamma_{i}}}\right)
\cdot\left[1-\displaystyle{\frac{\delta}{2}}\left(\displaystyle{\frac{\gamma_i}{k_{B} T}}\right)^{2}\right]\\
\displaystyle{\frac{k_{B} T\sqrt{4a}}{4\delta}}=\displaystyle{\frac{k_{B}T}{2\delta}\frac{1}{\gamma_{i}}}\left[1+\frac{\delta}{2}\left(\displaystyle{\frac{\gamma_{i}}{k_{B} T}}\right)^{2}\right]\nonumber
\end{cases}
\end{equation}
and $\gamma_{i}=\Gamma_{i}\sqrt{\pi}/2$, under the condition $\delta<2(k_{B} T/\gamma_{i})^{2}$.

With a pure Maxwellian distribution, for any $k_{B}T$, the energy
tail contains particles of high energy. If the lowest resonance
level contributing to the DR rate lies at $E_{\mathrm{res},i}>k_{B}
T$, the factor $\exp(-E_{\mathrm{res},i}/k_{B} T)$ that goes to zero
for low $k_{B} T$ must balance with the factor $(k_{B} T)^{-3/2}$.

From the general expression~\ref{non-Maxwellian rate}, we can see
that all resonances contribute to the rate when the distribution is
Maxwellian (recovered with $\delta=0$).

If the distribution has a cut-off, the particles with $E>k_{B}
T/(2\delta)$ are absent and the factor $(k_{B} T)^{-3/2}$ must be
balanced with $\exp\left[-\frac{E_{\mathrm{res},i}}{k_{B}
T}+\delta\left(\frac{E_{\mathrm{res},i}}{k_{B}
T}\right)^{2}\right]$.

The Maxwellian and the slightly deformed distribution intersect at
$E_{\mathrm{int}}=2k_{B} T$. Let us consider a resonance at
$E_{\mathrm{res},i}$ with a negligible width $\Gamma_{i}$. If
$E_{\mathrm{res},i}<E_{\mathrm{int}}$, the rate
$\alpha_{i}^{\mathrm{DR}}(k_{B} T)$ of Eq.~\ref{rate to be
calculated} corresponding to this resonance increases when
$\delta>0$ and decreases when $\delta<0$. If on the contrary
$E_{\mathrm{res},i}>E_{\mathrm{int}}$, the rate
$\alpha_{i}^{\mathrm{DR}}(k_{B} T)$ of this resonance increases with
respect to the Maxwellian rate if $\delta<0$ and decreases if
$\delta>0$.

If we do not neglect the width $\Gamma_{i}$ of the resonance, the
factor $\exp\left[-\frac{E_{\mathrm{res},i}}{k_{B}
T}\left(1-\frac{\gamma_{i}^{2}}{4E_{\mathrm{res},i}k_{B}
T}\right)\right]$ can have a significant role. If
$\gamma_{i}^{2}<4E_{\mathrm{res},i}\,k_{B} T$ the rate is depleted,
otherwise when $\gamma_{i}^{2}>4E_{\mathrm{res},i}\,k_{B} T$ the
rate is enhanced.

Using the non-Maxwellian $q$-distribution, only resonance levels
below the cut-off contribute to the rate. In this case the important
corrective factor is $\exp\left[-\frac{E_{\mathrm{res},i}}{k_{B}
T}\left(1+\delta\frac{E_{\mathrm{res},i}}{k_{B} T}
-\frac{\gamma_{i}^{2}}{4E_{\mathrm{res},i}}{k_{B} T}\right)\right]$,
and the rate is less depleted with respect to the previous case as
$k_{B} T$ increases.

An astrophysical plasma at $10^{5}-10^{6}\,\mathrm{K}$ has a value
of plasma parameter that strongly differs from the value at
$T=10^{2}-10^{3}\,\mathrm{K}$ if the electron density does not
diminish of the factor $10^{9}$. The correlations among the
particles are different in the two extreme cases and therefore the
plasma does not preserve its Maxwellian behaviour. We must consider
at each value of the plasma parameter a given deviation from the
ideal case and thus a different degree of non-extensivity described
by a suitable value of the parameter $\delta$. For instance, above
$10^{5}\,\mathrm{K}$, we assume $\delta=0$, because the system is
Maxwellian, having a plasma parameter much smaller than one, while
for $T<10^{3}\,\mathrm{K}$, we could assume $\delta=0.2$.

We chose to restrict ourselves to a temperature range between
$T=0.8\cdot 10^{3}\,\mathrm{K}$ and $T=10^{4}\,\mathrm{K}$, in order
to work with a fixed value of $\delta$ only. We report in
Fig.~\ref{recombination plot} two plots (for $\delta=0.05$ and
$\delta=0.15$, corresponding to $q=0.9$ and $q=0.7$, respectively)
of the DR plasma rate~\ref{our plasma rate} for $C^{3+}$ (curve 1);
only the 21 resonance levels reported by Mannervik {\it et
al.}~\cite{Man1998} between $0.176\,\mathrm{eV}$ (i.e. $2\cdot
10^{3}\,\mathrm{K}$) and $0.586\,\mathrm{eV}$ (i.e. $7\cdot
10^{3}\,\mathrm{K}$) have been included. Resonance levels above
$0.586\,\mathrm{eV}$ were not taken into account.

\begin{figure}
\begin{center}

\includegraphics[width=0.9\textwidth]{dielectronic}

\caption{Plots of dielectronic recombination rates against the plasma temperature ($\delta=0.05$ left, and $\delta=0.15$ right). The four curves refer to: 1) the non-Maxwellian recombination rate $\alpha^{\mathrm{DR}}_{(\delta,\gamma)}(k_{B} T)$ with 21 resonances (thick dashed line); 2) the fit from Schippers~{\it et al.}~\cite{Sch2001}, used for comparison with our results (thin solid line); 3) the Maxwellian recombination rate $\alpha^{\mathrm{DR}}_{(\delta,\gamma)}(k_{B} T)$ with 21 resonances and $\delta=0$ (thick solid line); 4) the non-Maxwellian fit $\alpha_{\mathrm{fit}}^{\mathrm{DR}}(k_{B} T)$ (thin dashed line).}\label{recombination plot}

\end{center}
\end{figure}

As a comparison, the curve 2 represents the experimental fit (Burgess DR rate) of Schippers~{\it et al.}~\cite{Sch2001}, with five fitting levels distributed between $0.169\,\mathrm{eV}$ and $7.969\,\mathrm{eV}$. In Ref.~\cite{Sch2001}, while below $T=10^{4}\,\mathrm{K}$ experimental data are used, above $T=10^{4}\,\mathrm{K}$ the authors use theoretical calculations from the AUTOSTRUCTURE code. The method for obtaining the fit curve 2 is based on converting the laboratory experimental DR rate, as function of the relative energy, into a cross section and convoluting it with an isotropic Maxwellian electron energy distribution.

In curve 3, we report the Maxwellian rate from Eq.~\ref{non-Maxwellian rate}, with $\delta=0$ and $\gamma_{i}\neq 0$; again this Maxwellian curve contains only the 21 levels of Mannervik~{\it et al.}~\cite{Man1998}. This curve is always higher than the curve 2: a possible explanation could be that the strengths of the most important levels, considered in Ref.~\cite{Man1998}, are too large.

The curve 4 is then a new fit that takes into account the deformation of the distribution ($\delta\neq 0$) with $\gamma_{i}=0$ and $\bar{\sigma}_{i}\,E_{\mathrm{res},i}$ proportional to the coefficients $c_{i}$ of Ref.~\cite{Sch2001}. We define it as
\begin{equation}
\alpha_{\mathrm{fit}}^{\mathrm{DR}}(k_{B} T)=\frac{1}{T^{3/2}}\left(1+\frac{15}{4}\delta\right)\sum_{i=1}^{5}c_{i}\exp\left[-\frac{E_{i}}{k_{B} T}-\delta\left(\frac{E_{i}}{k_{B} T}\right)^{2}\right]\, .\label{non-Maxwellian fit}
\end{equation}

The $\alpha_{\mathrm{fit}}^{\mathrm{DR}}(k_{B} T)$ lies inside the 20 per cent of uncertainty of the fit rate in the temperature region considered.

As evident from Fig.~\ref{recombination plot}, the effect of the deformation is to increase the value of the maximum, with a small shift of its position towards higher temperatures, and to lower the rate of curve 1 below the curve 2 for $T<0.8\cdot 10^{3}\,\mathrm{K}$. This is due to the fact that the resonance levels considered are all above this low temperature.

\section{Conclusions}
In conclusion, with the correction introduced due to small deformations of the electron distribution, the calculated corrected DR rate agrees with the experimental fit at low temperature, which is given with an uncertainty of about 20 per cent.

We remark that when using information obtained in laboratory DR experiments on the DR rate to discuss properties of astrophysical plasmas, we must
consider the different state of deformation in the distribution function of the laboratory and the astrophysical plasmas, if both are not in the Maxwellian equilibrium state.

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No problem is solved at the level on which it was created. The solution to every problem is to be found on a level that is slightly, or even greatly, above the conflicting p—erceptions.As long as you are eye to eye with the difliculty, you will fight the problem rather than resolve it.
To solve a problem it is first necessary to view it form a higher level, thus gaining a larger perspective. In the area of physical healing this is obvious. A physician or any medical facility can only arrest an illness, keep it from progressing, reduce infection, and provide conditions in which health may occur. The actuality of healing is always a #miracle that happens through the restoration of wholeness. No matter what the problem, healing always comes from a higher level.
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🧐 agile monocle S01E07: Experiments
Season 1 of agile monocle comes to a conclusion and today we talk about experiments.
The kind of experiments I'm talking about happens all the time on three levels:
Experiments on the way of working
Experiments at the organizational level
Experiments at the strategic level
Way of working experiments
Despite "WoW" becoming an omnipresent three-letter buzzword, I do like the term "way of working" over anything that has the "Agile" word before any term.
Way of working can be anything from doing a regular facilitated meeting to adopting a framework like Scrum in one or multiple teams. Way of working might also be teams saying "they're agile" because they don't plan anything, ever.
Sometime adopting a tool forces a change in the way of working, agile or otherwise: if you use Jira you are automatically part of the agile club, right?
I think one of the most useful thing someone in might position can help with is supporting teams in reading "cues" about the experiments that they are running, or transforming something they do in a
"Think cues, not Measures with a capital M. When you lose weight, you may track your weight with a scale. That's a measurement. You may also notice your clothes fit better (or less well), or pull ups at the gym feel just a tiny bit easier—signaling a difference. Probably not part of a Measurement program, but very useful indicators of change. And you may notice them before you see significant progress on the outcome measure."
Esther Derby — Steering Signals
I don't get the chance to coach every team I do training with, so after meeting them in the safe environment of the training course, they are on their own. Sometimes I somehow keep in touch with people telling me how they are trying to experiment some for of new way of working.
The daily/scrum standup is one of the most frequent experiment people feel like they can do on their own. I do love when people tell me that it's hard, because it is. Beware of anyone telling you that doing the daily scrum is easy.
There is another way of working experiment that it's being taken lightly and it is the about the Scrum roles.
I'm seeing more and more frequently people that have been told that they are now a "Product Owner" or a "Scrum Masters" by people who have no idea what a Product Owner and a Scrum Master are. And then your own friendly agile coach find himself in the position of having to tell them "Well, we'll see about that…".
Assigning new roles to people creates expectation, so you should thread carefully this topic because roles are not part of the "way of working" experiment, they are part of broader organizational experiment.
Organizational experiments
Organizational experiments are trickier because of:
sunk costs fallacies
scaling issues
For most companies it takes a lot of time and effort to run an organizational experiment: because of existing roles, policies, processes, departments, teams gaining the necessary buy-in to re-arrange even a little part of a company is an exhausting task.
That's one of the main reason why companies go with a Big-Bang approach to organizational change: it is somehow harder to experiment with 3 teams than it is to announce a 15-teams "transformation".
But collecting "cues" from 15 teams and steering direction is several orders of magniture harder than doing it for 3 teams.
Even in the land of agile re-organization, we are still treating a company like a deterministic, mechanistic system.
"[…] forcing an experiment to work when it's not meant to loses valuable information that tells us why it's not working in the first place. Spotify's Squad structure doesn't work for your company because your company isn't Spotify. Great! Let the experiment fail, so that you can identify what exactly isn't working and design a different experiment to solve that."
Tim Casasola — Internal experiments are a product problem, not an engineering problem
Strategic experiments
Even trickier than ways of working and organizational experiments: our strategies are still stuck at the level of a MBA student's homework while everything around us changes constantly.
I have yet to see a company running proper strategic experiments. How many companies you know embraced Beyond Budgeting, for example?
I'm sure that what happened this year with the pandemic has probably sped up the adoption process for lighter strategic framework, but most of the companies right now entering Q4 are setting yearly budget for 2021 based on 2020 budget.
We need to start treating strategy as a continuous process, and not just as some words on a PowerPoint slide.
Ways of working, organizational and strategic experiments must go hand in hand.
Strategy is a loaded word, I think we need better tools — like Wardley Mapping — in order to unravel the components, movements, patterns that define a strategy process. Otherwise it's really just words on a slide. Strategy should and can be broken down and be accessible to anyone in the company — let's get rid of the monolithic strategy.
Define good experiments
We take experiments lightly, and we shouldn't. Experiment should be run according to the scientific method: that doesn't mean having formulas or equations, but we have at least take into account a well defined outcome, some constraints and a time-box.
Too many experiments at work are not even called "experiments": we jump into action, doing changes according to a plan, copy&pasting ways of working, organizational structure and strategic guidelines, only to find out that, well, it didn't work.
🧐 Now try this: I think this simple workshop by John Cutler might be an invaluable tool to help teams define their own experiments on good terms. If you work with managers or executives, this other workshop might help finding better questions.
S01E01: Teams
S01E02: Meetings
S01E03: Metrics
S01E04: Data Science
S01E05: Requirements
S01E06: Planning
S01E07: Experiments
agile monocle Season 1 comes to and end. It's been a good ride. And an experiment in and on itself, whose terms and constraints have been:
English language (can and will improve)
Weekly issues (harder than expected)
Forced deadline (each Monday at 9 AM)
Limited to seven episodes (it helped with focus)
Time-boxed writing (90' per article, it emerged along the way)
The mission will stay: "agile as a lens and not as a hammer" is strong enough to keep me looking for good questions that go beyond Agile with the capital "A". Expect more diversions.
I somewhat accrued an audience of 34 people (thank you!), and mostly all of them are Italians, which doesn't really validate my resolution of writing in English but you gotta start from somewhere, I guess.
While I'll take a pause before working on Season 2, I'll be more than glad to keep it alive with your questions and topics I might explore in the future.
You can reach agile monocle on Twitter, or you can connect with me personally on Twitter or on LinkedIn. See you soon.
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