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The University of Tennessee System Announces One Health Initiative
Effort to Focus on Animal, Environmental Issues with Implications for Human Health
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – The University of Tennessee System has announced the creation of the UT One Health Initiative (UTOHI), an effort to enhance research collaborations across the state and region to address rapidly emerging health challenges.
The One Health concept is a global effort that transcends political boundaries, recognizing that the health of humans is connected to the health of animals and the environment. To solve society's most complex health problems, issues must be addressed cohesively across human, animal and environmental health instead of independently. For example, approximately 70% of emerging infectious disease cases in humans and livestock are a consequence of spillover events from wildlife. The COVID-19 virus that is currently ravaging China and threatens to become more prevalent internationally is believed to have crossed over from a wild animal population.
The UTOHI will focus on animal and environmental health issues of particular relevance to Tennessee that may also have broad implications regionally, nationally and globally.
Mosquitos, ticks, and other arthropods serve as vectors for disease-causing pathogens. Becky Trout Fryxell, an associate professor of medical and veterinary entomology, has made it her mission to improve animal and human health by minimizing the negative impacts of arthropods.
"The importance of One Health to society cannot be ignored, and the contributions of agricultural and natural resources research along with studies and advances in veterinary medicine are core to advancing environmental health for the benefit of all living things," says Hongwei Xin, dean of UT AgResearch.
UTOHI will consolidate resources from across the UT System to build on the history of leadership and engagement in One Health studies within the UT Institute of Agriculture (UTIA) and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville campus. Efforts to coordinate studies began in February 2019, attracting more than 50 interested faculty and scientists representing numerous departments and colleges. The group has been working since their initial meeting to develop a framework for the UTOHI.
The formation of the UTOHI formalizes the effort, says UT System Interim President Randy Boyd. "UT has officially engaged with its statewide resources of UT Knoxville, including the UT Institute of Agriculture (UTIA), Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), UT Health Science Center and others, to make significant contributions to the global One Health effort."
For almost a decade, Debra Miller has worked to advance One Health as a research priority that transcends the boundaries of wildlife, livestock, and human and environmental health.
Photo by Kristy Keel-Blackmon
Debra Miller, a veterinarian specializing in wildlife pathology who holds a joint appointment in the UT College of Veterinary Medicine and the UTIA Department of Forestry, Wildlife and Fisheries, and who also serves as director of the UTIA Center for Wildlife Health, has been named as interim director of the UTOHI. "Our vision is for the UT One Health Initiative to be a clearinghouse for transformational discoveries to improve animal, human, plant and environmental health," she says. "We believe the initiative has the opportunity to be a global incubator for future generations of One Health experts across multiple disciplines and professions."
Nina Fefferman, professor in UT Knoxville's Departments of Mathematics and Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and one of the members of the organizing committee, agrees. "People from so many disciplines are coming together in ways that will help us better protect public health, agriculture, wild animal and plant life, and our environment. United through UTOHI, we will be able to contribute on every level from fundamental new scientific discoveries, to getting information into the hands of policy makers, and then to recommendations that individual farmers or families can use to keep themselves and their communities healthy."
In the 2018 hunting season, TWRA stepped up surveillance for chronic wasting disease in deer. Hunters, processors, and taxidermists submitted more than 3,100 deer for testing by the end of January 2019. Of those, 185 were confirmed positive for CWD. All were harvested from three West Tennessee counties. This September, the disease was confirmed to have spread to a fourth West Tennessee county.
Photo by Amy Snider-Spencer, Tennessee Wildlife Resource Agency
UTOHI is uniquely positioned to research One Health issues of concern to Tennessee's human, animal and plant populations and to the state's economy, including Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in the state's deer populations; high pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI)—a 2015 outbreak of which resulted in the death of tens of thousands of chickens in Tennessee and approximately 50 million animals (with a $3-billion economic impact) nationwide; and Lyme disease and other tick-associated syndromes that are on the increase in Tennessee. Developing strategies to control plant diseases will also be a focus because of their implications for global food security.
An initial investment of $2.7 million is being jointly provided by multiple sources across the university system, including UT AgResearch, UT Office of the Vice President for Research, UT Knoxville Office of Research and Engagement, UT Knoxville Office of the Provost, the UT College of Veterinary Medicine and UT Extension. Also offering a financial investment is the UT-ORNL Joint Institute of Biological Sciences.
The UTOHI will draw from the expertise of faculty from across the system and ORNL with diverse backgrounds including agriculture and natural resources; ecology and evolutionary biology; engineering; computational sciences; nursing; social work; law; education, health and human sciences; business; libraries; and both human and veterinary medicine. The UTOHI is expected to create new strategic partnerships among academia, state and federal agencies, industries, non-government organizations and other stakeholders while delivering innovative solutions to amplify the health and well-being of humans, animals, plants and the environment in Tennessee and beyond.
To learn more about the UTOHI, visit onehealth.tennessee.edu.
Melissa Tindell
mtindell@tennessee.edu
Jennifer Sicking
jsicking@tennessee.edu
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Welcome to part 3 of the Alternate picking guitar lesson series. During this lesson you will learn how to take the alternate picking technique you learnt in Part 1 and 2 and use it on scale fragments. By practising on scale fragments you are developing a skill you will use in your improvisations and it will then take you to understand how to use scales and modes before you can really start sounding great.
If you want to learn all about scales and modes, chords, arpeggios and theory then please see Be The Guitarist.
This first exercise is for you to develop both speed and accuracy by working in quarter notes, eighth notes and sixteenth notes with the same set of notes. Some guitarists like to keep the metronome setting the same, for example 90 bpm and play the exercise below, this can prove difficult because you are doubling your speed each time you change up the next note type.
Lets start by picking through an A minor pentatonic scale with strict alternate picking.
By simply practising an A Ionian mode (major scale) with alternate picking you will start to make this your default picking pattern which makes lead guitar playing a lot easier. Practise this picking pattern of every down followed by an up with all the positions of the major scale.
Taking fragments from a scale like the A Dorian as shown below is a great way to isolate particular finger patterns and develop an even ability with varying finger patterns across the strings. All of these fragments combine to form scale runs that you hear from everyone from Paul Gilbert to Joe Satriani. Notice the exercise below is in triplets so you are aiming to play 3 notes per a click, not 4 as you have previously been doing. Try to hit the first triplet of each beat a little bit harder as this will build your ability to be a dynamic guitarist.
Come back for more alternate picking guitar lessons or have a look around the blog section for something different.


Luk 10:38 Now as they went on their way, he entered into a certain village: and a certain woman named Martha received him into her house.
Luk 10:39 And she had a sister called Mary, who also sat at the Lord's feet, and heard his word.
Luk 10:40 But Martha was cumbered about much serving; and she came up to him, and said, Lord, dost thou not care that my sister did leave me to serve alone? bid her therefore that she help me.
Luk 10:42 but one thing is needful: for Mary hath chosen the good part, which shall not be taken away from her.


She was dressed in a black skirt with black shoes, on her eyelids there was still some black mascara from the night before. But it was about the black stockings; she had woken up in the morning, put on her black underwear with a small hygienic pad in case of extra discharge, she had been walking around the house picking up shoes, bending over the sofa crawling on the floor and looking under the tables, her right breast squeezed against her right arm – a drop came out, as soon as she leaned against the sofa, another drop came out and by the time she was finally in a vertical position three milk drops rained over her left leg.
These were the drops in a place that got noticed, these were the drops that made you think that any of the yellow white spots on her dresses could be her milk – the breasts came off from her dress and as garden sprinklers started rotating, sprinkling all over her hair making it blonder, her nails got whiter, walls around her got bleached out, everything became one mass, the breasts kept on turning until people's eyelids got stuck together, their nostrils were leaking milk, they were sneezing and yawning milk. And the 3 drops on the right stocking stayed untouched.


We have friends from Australia staying with us for ten days and are working through a list of my favourite places in Chiang Mai. I wouldn't rate this one as a favourite but it is certainly different, so with a spare couple of hours I decided to show them the strange Buddhist temple I wrote about HERE.
I won't add anything further but just let the photos tell the story – whatever that story is. I found the most interesting aspect this time was that there were families walking around with young children. It was Sunday so an educational afternoon out I guess! I made sure I got a couple of family shots so keep an eye out for them.
The following photos are in a slideshow with controls on the far left and right. WARNING – some of them are pretty graphic with sexual and violent images so if this isn't your scene please give it a miss. Gaun refuses to go into the display area. Too many "ghosts" she says. Probably a wise move.
Good grief – I can see Guan's point – fancy taking kids there!!


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0.4 seconds.
That's the time it takes you to blink.
It's also about how long goalkeepers have to save a penalty kick or fail trying.
And it's certainly not enough time for a goalie to react and respond.
So goalies can't solely rely on their speed and agility to save a penalty kick.
Instead they have to pretty much guess which direction to go and rely on either luck or game theory.
[Why penalty kicks are so unfair to the goalies]
Game theory is a popular strategy in economics where the outcome of a situation relies more on how well you predict your opponent's actions than how you perform your own.
So since the goalie has no choice but to guess, they're better off guessing logically than randomly.
That's where economists come in.
I would like to know what you do in the last 80 penalty kicks you faced?
Do you have any tendencies?
What does this guy do against right-footed kickers versus left-footed kickers?
That's economist Ignacio Palacios-Huerta.
He studied over 11,000 penalty kicks, and in 2008 during the UEFA Champions League Final, it paid off, sort of.
It was Manchester United against Chelsea.
The game came down to a penalty shootout which was the perfect opportunity for Chelsea to put Huerta's advice into action.
Along with several pointers Huerta had given Chelsea's goalie a key insight about Manchester United star Cristiano Ronaldo.
Ronaldo would almost certainly kick the ball to the right if he paused on the run-up.
And the advice worked.
Ronaldo indeed paused and indeed kicked the ball to the right.
Chelsea's goalie followed Huerta's advice and made the save.
Ultimately Manchester United won the game, but despite Chelsea's loss, it was clear that economists and statisticians can help even the odds when it comes to penalty kicks.
Because otherwise, it's a crap shoot for the goalie.
In 2014 for example, FiveThirtyEight calculated that 72.5% of penalties in World Cup history went in.
For all competitions worldwide, it's even higher.
And when you take a closer look, it's no wonder.
Human response time takes roughly 1/10 of a second to kick in.
The average kicker kicks a 70 mile per hour ball, which means the goalie won't even register the ball's direction until it's about 25 feet away.
It will take him another .5 to .7 seconds to react and reach for the ball, but by that point, it's all over.
Now the goalie can improve the odds if they start to move before the ball is even kicked,
but the goalie still has to basically guess a side and just go for it.
So if time is the goalie's enemy, maybe we should just move the penalty kicker further back.
But for now, economists are a goalie's best friend when it comes to stopping penalty kicks,
and turns out, Huerta is helping a team in the 2018 World Cup, though he wouldn't tell us who.
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This automated DVD rental retailer has made great strides in recent years, practically turning the video rental (and post-theater) industry on its head. In fact, redbox is so popular and growing so quickly that even some of the largest Hollywood studios are feeling threatened by its value proposition in the space.
Though the success of the service itself is reason enough for little red machines to keep popping up on every corner, social media also seems to be playing into the strengths of the DVD rental company.
Last summer redbox started its "Free Movie Mondays," a promotion where an alphanumeric code was distributed on Monday afternoons that could be used to redeem a free rental. Because the same code was used for everyone, fans of the service did whatever they could to spread the word about redbox's great deal—posting codes on Facebook, tweeting them to friends, and even putting sticky notes on the rental machines themselves. One technologist in Kansas City even went so far as to set up a Twitter account for redbox that would automatically tweet the new code on Mondays.
As the promotion succeeded and more people learned about redbox, it didn't take long for the company to rethink its strategy. redbox eventually went on to take over the redbox Twitter account (discontinuing the practice of tweeting codes), plus they started a blog where they could directly engage with fans: the redblog. This is the stage that many companies are in today; they are just beginning to test the waters of social media and are doing lots of experimentation. redbox posts regular reviews of upcoming and released titles, but also uses it as a platform to highlight and promote its fans.
While redbox is doing a great job with supporting its community through social media, it seems as though redbox underestimated how much fans really loved their service. While the "Free Movie Mondays" used to occur on every Monday, redbox recently scaled the promo back to the first Monday of the month only—likely a business decision more than anything (can you imagine how much they lose in rental fees by offering a free night?). And even more recently, redbox made another update to its free rental SMS campaign, stating that all SMS users would now be receiving their own unique codes. The move to less frequent and unique codes says to me that social media did its job too well: allowing friends to share information (including rental codes) with one another in real-time.
While social media has allowed their business to grow and to provide an effective means for friends to share their love of the service, it also served as a tool that would undermine its core business model: getting people to pay for DVD rentals.
With the recent changes to the free rental promotion and redbox's continued community efforts in social media, this company is likely to continue growing for a long time.
Have you seen situations where social media worked so harmoniously that it was viewed as working too well? How would you advise redbox to leverage social media to the benefit of their business?
I wonder if they listened to their customers via the social media platforms before they made the business decision to scale back the free Monday rentals? I am sure they could have come to a good medium had they listened to what their customers were asking for rather than just chopping the promotion off at the root. I understand why they made the decision, and to your point I am sure it was costly. But, it seems they may have had an opportunity to truly chat with their customers and conceive an organic plan via suggestions on FB and Twitter that would have worked better with their customers and not potentially upset those who expected the Monday discounts. Not sure, I was unaware of their SM efforts until your post. Nice work.
From what I've seen, redbox is doing a good job of communicating with customers. From their tweets, to their blog, to their emails, I continue to see great stuff coming from them. Case in point was the change to the unique SMS codes: I received an email from redbox explaining everything succinctly and completely.
Also, I think the way that redbox has been communicating with customers is probably a big part of their success, just as I mention in the post.
The problem was much more severe than what you think. When redbox opened up, we were _never_ paying for a rental, and we were using them daily. Now, we would pay occasionally for an extra day or two. But the first day was always free. Furthermore, we were always sharing the codes with the random stranger in line after us, which always gave them a smile, but removed a dollar from RedBox's revenue.
I'm certain that I wasn't the only one doing this, as it was extremely easy to look up codes. In fact, Mike's article mentioned that people would put post-it notes on the machines themselves, eliminating the need to tell someone by word of mouth, and making that night's "sales" a complete loss. RedBox needed to shore that up, as I'm sure it had a very negative effect on their cashflow. Once they did, they then could go back and re-evaluate and communicate with their customers. I don't think they had the convenience of time to do it any other way.
We were in a very similar situation last summer. My wife and I would hardly ever pay for the initial rental fee. Between "Free Movie Mondays" and the March Madness promo we were getting a couple of DVDs per week, all without paying.
I think this was a great strategy (free rentals) to encourage early adoption of the system, but I also respect and approve of the way redbox has been cutting the promotion back. Along each step of the way they've been actively communicating with customers and explaining the changes, which makes me as a consumer feel ok about the changes.
The other thing I appreciate about redbox cutting back these free rentals is that it is a smart business decision. They can't go on giving away free rentals forever if that is their core business. redbox went about this right way and they communicated every change. I really appreciate that.
Hey Mike. RedBox is owned and was started by McDonalds corporation. One of the more brilliantly marketed companies out there.
I believe the original point to RedBox was simply to get people into McDonalds to rent a DVD and hopefully walk out with food. I don't think their original goal was to make a lot of revenue off of DVD sales. However, like you mentioned, they may have underestimated just how popular this service would become, as now they are placing them in locations that are not McDonalds.
I knew redbox started out being owned by McDonald's, but sometime last year they were acquired by Coinstar (which seems like a more natural fit). And according to this article from Investment U, it was in redbox's plans to have 20,000 kiosks in place by 2009. I wonder how close they are to that number now?
It just seemed like an abrupt decision that may have alienated their customers, which was my point above. I understand why the decision needed to be made, but it seemed like it was very abrupt and may not have been with much communication. I state that I was previously unaware of their strategy with social media, so I was most likely way off base, per Mike's comment.
You are right about the fact that this is the type of situation that COULD alienate a customer base if not handled correctly. Fortunately, redbox seems to have done a good job with this (at least in my opinion).
I think this is an example that a lot of other companies could learn from, rather than just storming in and making sweeping changes that end up affecting their customers.
Yes I know couple f social bookmarking sites which help users to generate revenue from sharing their bookmarks. Particularly xomba.com. Its really good in getting traffic to your content which you want to share with people.
I would like to advise redbox to provide coupon codes for all week days rather than on mondays only. I think that would be great in growing their business.


NESCA News & Notes: The Downside of "Grit"
NOTE: This is an expanded version of an article published in the Post's Sunday "Outlook" section. It has been adapted from chapter 7 of The Myth of the Spoiled Child: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom about Children and Parenting.
Cognitive ability isn't the only factor that determines how children will fare in school, let alone in life. Drawing on a substantial body of research, science writer Dan Goleman reminded us of that fact almost twenty years ago in his book Emotional Intelligence, emphasizing the contribution of such attributes as self-awareness, altruism, personal motivation, empathy, and the ability to love and be loved.
But a funny thing has happened to the message since then. When you hear about the limits of intelligence these days, it's usually in the context of a conservative narrative that features not altruism or empathy but something that sounds very much like the Protestant work ethic. More than smarts, we're told, what kids need to succeed is old-fashioned self-discipline and will power, persistence and the ability to defer gratification.
They have to be able to resist temptation, put off doing what they enjoy in order to grind through whatever they've been told to do -- and keep at it for as long as it takes.
Emblematic of this shift is Paul Tough's recent bestseller How Children Succeed, which opens with a declaration that what matters most for children are qualities like "persistence, self-control, curiosity, conscientiousness, grit, and self-confidence." But that's the last time he mentions curiosity or self-confidence; those words don't even appear in the index. It's self-control and grit that occupy Tough for much of the book.
Nor is this emphasis unique to Tough. "Grit" -- defined by its most prominent proponent, Angela Duckworth, as "the tendency to sustain perseverance and passion for challenging long-term goals" -- has been greeted with a degree of breathless enthusiasm unmatched since -- well, since the last social science craze.
The hard-line inner-city charter school chain known as KIPP has integrated the idea of grit into its teacher training. So has the Lenox Academy for Gifted Middle School Students in Brooklyn, as NPR recently reported. Every school in one Houston-area school system will now "emphasize grit through a district-wide set of expectations and lessons," according to its website. ASCD, a prominent international education organization based in Alexandria, has just published a book called Fostering Grit.
The problems with grit, however, go well beyond the fact that it's not exactly a fresh idea. On reflection the case for its value becomes steadily less convincing -- and even downright troubling.
To begin with, not everything is worth doing, let alone doing for extended periods, and not everyone who works hard is pursuing something worthwhile. People who are up to no good often have grit to spare. Persistence is just one of many attributes that can sometimes be useful for reaching a (good or bad) outcome, so it's the choice of goal that ought to come first and count more.
Moreover, persistence can be counterproductive and even unhealthy. Often it just doesn't make sense to continue with a problem that resists solution or persist at a task that no longer provides satisfaction. Hence the proverbial Law of Holes: When you're in one, stop digging.
Gritty people sometimes exhibit what psychologists call "nonproductive persistence": They try, try again even though the result may be either unremitting failure or "a costly or inefficient success that could have been easily surpassed by alternative courses of action," as Dean McFarlin at the State University of New York and his colleagues put it in the Journal of Personality. Even if you don't crash and burn by staying the course, you may not fare nearly as well as if you had stopped, reassessed, and tried something else.
The benefits of knowing when not to persist extend not only to the outcomes of a decision but to the effects on the individual who made it. Following a year-long study of adolescents, Canadian researchers Gregory Miller and Carsten Wrosch concluded that those "who can disengage from unattainable goals enjoy better well-being...and experience fewer symptoms of everyday illness."
The motives for displaying grit also raise important psychological questions. What matters isn't just how long one persists, but why one does so. Proponents of grit rarely ask: Do kids love what they're doing? Or are they driven by a desperate (and anxiety-provoking) need to prove their competence? As long as they're pushing themselves, we're encouraged to nod our approval.
To know when to pull the plug requires the capacity to adopt a long-term perspective. Continuing to do what you've been doing often represents the path of least resistance, so it can take guts to cut your losses. That's as important a message to teach one's children as the usefulness of perseverance.
Doesn't grit enjoy empirical support, though? A review of the research cited to defend the notion raises a host of doubts. In one study conducted by Duckworth and her colleagues, freshman cadets at West Point who scored high on a grit questionnaire ("I finish whatever I begin") were less likely to quit during the grueling summer training program. But what does this prove other than that people who are persistent . . . persist?
Even the achievement claims seem less persuasive when you look closely. Are more A's given to students who report that they put off doing what they enjoy until they finish their homework (as one study found)? Sure. In other words, those who do what they've been told, regardless of whether it's satisfying or sensible, are rewarded by those who told them to do it.
Interestingly, earlier research, including a pair of studies Duckworth herself cites to show that self-discipline predicts academic performance, discovered that students with high grades tend to be more conformist than creative. If persistent students get higher grades, that may not make a case for grit so much as a case against using grades as a marker for success.
What's striking here isn't the finding itself but the lesson derived from it. If enjoying a complex mental life interferes with performance in a one-shot contest to see who can spell more obscure words correctly, is that really an argument for grit?
Her value judgment, in other words, is that children should spend their time trying to improve at one thing rather than exploring, and becoming reasonably competent at, several things. But for anyone who favors breadth and variety in life, no reason has been offered to prefer a life of specialization – or to endorse the idea of grit, which is rooted in that personal preference.
That's true for adults as well as children, by the way, but grit has been applied primarily to kids. Grit is sometimes sold as a tool to accomplish whatever goals one chooses, but in practice the focus is on training children to accomplish the goals imposed on them by adults.
Regardless of age, though, the concept isn't just philosophically conservative in its premises but also politically conservative in its consequences. The more we focus on levels of grit (or self-discipline more generally), the less likely we'll be to question larger policies and institutions.
Consider Paul Tough's declaration that "there is no antipoverty tool we can provide for disadvantaged young people that will be more valuable than the character strengths…[such as] conscientiousness, grit, resilience, perseverance, and optimism."
Really? No antipoverty tool -- presumably including Medicaid and public housing -- is more valuable than an effort to train poor kids to persist at whatever they're told to do? Whose interests are served by such a position?
In the field of education, meanwhile, some people are trying to replace a system geared to memorizing facts and taking tests with one dedicated to exploring ideas. They're committed to implementing a democratic, collaborative approach to schooling that learners will find more engaging than what they're offered now. But those enamored of grit look at the same status quo and ask: How can we get kids to put up with it?
Duckworth acknowledges that it's desirable for students to develop a long-term interest in what they're doing, but the main thrust of her work is that "hard things" are worth doing just because they're hard. Her goal is to figure out how to make students pay "attention to a teacher rather than daydreaming" and "behav[e] properly in class." And in her more recent research, she even created a task that's deliberately boring, the point being to find strategies for resisting the temptation to do something more appealing instead.
Whether that uninteresting stuff is worth doing apparently doesn't matter. As long as kids keep at it.


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Hiranandani Estate is an upmarket condominium-style township built by the Hiranandani Group in the city of Thane, a part of the Mumbai Metropolitan Area in Maharashtra. It is accessible via Ghodbunder Road which connects the Eastern Express Highway to the western suburbs of Borivali, Kandivali, and Mira Road.

Hiranandani Group has developed 2.6 million square feet of commercial real estate space in the Hiranandani Estate township across 350 acres on Ghodbunder Road, Thane.

The township has a distinctive skyline which stands out in comparison to buildings from neighbouring complexes, particularly because of the heavy usage of Art Deco and Neoclassical architectural influences. Designed to be self-sufficient, the township includes the Hiranandani Hospital, the Hiranandani Foundation School (ICSE), and an exclusive club house along with other cafes, restaurants, ATMS, and its own transportation system connecting the township to Thane railway station. The township is also famous for its wide roads, broad pavements and landscaping.

The township is also home to the Hiranandani Business Park Thane which houses numerous BPOs and MNCs.
The estate also houses the upmarket highstreet shopping center named The Walk which has shops from both domestic as well as international brands and has many restaurants from the likes of Pizza Hut and KFC to other Indian brands.
Recently, Rodas Enclave, a gated community of 18 storied residential buildings has come up in the northeastern corner.

Governance
Residents form co-operative societies to take care of issues related to utilities and aesthetics, resolve neighbourly disputes and hold events on festivals or other occasions. The Hiranandani Estate Residents Welfare Association (HERWA) serves as a town council and deals with issues related to the township. HERWA is further divided into sub-committees, such as the bus committee. The township also has its own newspaper - "Hiranandani Estate News" - which is published on a monthly basis.

The Hiranandani Estate Action Forum was created recently to voice the concerns of residents regarding the lack of security within the township as well as to deal with other issues such as forest land encroachment, water supply, development of a community centre, etc. The Forum recently staged a protest rally to bring these issues to the developer's notice. Since then, the forum has discussed these issues with the developer of the township, and hopes to resolve them as soon as possible. Members of the forum meet every Sunday from 9AM to 10AM at the Club House.

Hiranandani Estate prohibits any religious buildings as the developer and the residents want to live in a secular, cosmopolitan neighbourhood.

Transportation

HERWA also has a bus committee which manages and operates bus service from Hiranandani Estate Sales Gallery to Kopri, Thane East. This bus service is reserved for residents and employees of companies with offices within Hiranandani Estate.

BEST operates two buses which connect Hiranandani Estate to other parts of Mumbai. These are:

1) A-13 Express

Hiranandani Estate to Backbay Depot

This service is operated using airconditioned King Long buses and is used by commuters who travel to localities in South Mumbai.

The route schedule for this service can be found at the BEST website.

2) 492 Ltd

Waghbil to SEEPZ via Hiranandani Estate

This service is used by commuters who wish to travel to Powai, SEEPZ, or Andheri (E).

Hospitals
Hiranandai Estates township has a world class hospital called "Hiranandani Hospital" within its beautiful campus.

References

External links

 Developer's official website

Neighbourhoods in Thane
Geography of Thane
Year of establishment missing

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DECOLONIZATION IN EAST AFRICA. WHAT WERE THE POLITICAL PARTIES AND NATIONALS INVOLVED
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East Africa or Eastern Africa is the easterly region of the African continent, variably defined by geography or geopolitics. it comprises two traditionally recognized regions: East Africa, made up of Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda; and the Horn of Africa, made up of Somalia, Djibouti, Eritrea, and Ethiopia.
Eastern Africa consists largely of plateaus and has most of the highest elevations in the continent. The two most striking highlands are in Ethiopia and Kenya, respectively, where large areas reach elevations of 6,500 to 10,000 feet (2,000 to 3,000 metres). Twin parallel rift valleys that are part of the East African Rift System run through the region. The Eastern, or Great, Rift Valley extends from the Red Sea's junction with the Gulf of Aden southward across the highlands of Ethiopia and Kenya and continues on into Tanzania. The Western Rift Valley curves along the western borders of Uganda and Tanzania. Between the two rift valleys lies a plateau that comprises most of Uganda and western Tanzania and includes Lake Victoria. The volcanic massif of Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in Africa, reaches 19,340 feet (5,895 metres) in northeastern Tanzania. The Horn of Africa, a major peninsular extension of the African mainland into the Arabian Sea, contains the vast lowland coastal plains of Somalia.
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In the UN scheme of geographic regions, 20 territories constitute Eastern Africa:
•	Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi – in Central East Africa, are also included in the African Great Lakes region and are members of the East African Community (EAC). Burundi and Rwanda are sometimes also considered to be part of Central Africa.
•	Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somalia – collectively known as the Horn of Africa.
•	Comoros, Mauritius and Seychelles – small island nations in the Indian Ocean.
•	Réunion and Mayotte – French overseas territories also in the Indian Ocean.
•	Mozambique and Madagascar – often considered part of Southern Africa, on the eastern side of the sub-continent. Madagascar has close cultural ties to Southeast Asia and the islands of the Indian Ocean.
•	Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe – often also included in Southern Africa, and formerly of the Central African Federation.
•	Egypt, Sudan and South Sudan (newly independent from Sudan) – collectively part of the Nile Valley. Situated in the northeastern portion of the continent, and are often included in Northern Africa. Also members of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) free trade area.
Due to colonial territories of the British East Africa Protectorate and German East Africa, the term East Africa is often (especially in the English language) used to specifically refer to the area now comprising the three countries of Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. However, this has never been the convention in many other languages, where the term generally had a wider, strictly geographic context and therefore typically included Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia and Sudan.
DECOLONIZATION OF EAST AFRICA
The decolonization of east Africa followed World War II as colonized peoples agitated for independence and colonial powers withdrew their administrators from Africa.
The only two world powers to officially and actively support African decolonization through the entire 20th century were the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China — all others varied their opinions from the strong and stubborn defense of colonialism to a half-hearted support to fait-accompli situations.
POLITICAL PARTIES IN EAST AFRICA
Ideally, political parties should be the institutional transmission belt that conveys the will of the voter to government and back. They are the vehicle through which popular sovereignty is expressed and then transformed into public policy and action. In addition, multiple parties provide a mechanism for competition, so that voters have a choice in conveying their mandate to the rulers. In and of itself, competition has an intrinsic value: it forces parties to provide a better 'product' to the voter. In a sense, therefore, it is difficult to conceive of a practical democracy without parties except in small communities where direct democracy may be still practicable
PARTY SYSTEMS IN THEIR NATIONAL CONTEXT
The East African countries have allowed considerable numbers of political parties to register. Again, Kenya leads the field with 66 registered political parties. At the opposite extreme, the seven main Sudanese political parties have been operating under such difficult conditions since 1989, when all secular political organizations were banned, that it would be difficult to describe the country as one that upholds a party system. Sudan is a one-party civil–military autocracy that justifies its rule on religious grounds. Since 2005, the ruling party has extended power sharing to some regional parties without compromising that basic position. Again, the other three countries fall in between. Next to Kenya, Tanzania has a relatively liberal party structure, with 25 registered parties. Uganda and Ethiopia have both allowed the registration of a plurality of parties but freedom for opposition parties remains severely constrained.
PARTY SYSTEMS AT COUNTRY LEVEL AND POLITICAL PARTIES IN EAST AFRICA: DIVERSITY IN POLITICAL PARTY SYSTEMS.
UGANDA: AN AUTHORITARIAN ONE-DOMINANT-PARTY SYSTEM
Uganda represents the global pattern of a dominant authoritarian party that is ill disposed to open and fair electoral competition from other parties. The Ugandan Government resisted the introduction of multiparty competition more strongly than any of the governments in the region, except Sudan's. President Yoweri K. Museveni came to power in 1986 following a six-year guerrilla campaign against the central government. His position was that party competition was responsible for the country's violent post-independence history. He was determined from the start that his ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM)—an offshoot of the guerrilla army that brought him to power—would be transformed into an all-inclusive national political 'movement', not a party. Parties in Uganda, Museveni said quite rightly, had tended to be sectarian and ethnically focused in the past.
Nevertheless, pressure for political pluralism mounted, and a referendum inviting Ugandans to decide for or against a multiparty system was organized in 2000. Scared that multiparty politics would reintroduce violence, and partly because of electoral irregularities, Ugandans voted 90 per cent in favour of the 'movement system'. But agitation for multiparty politics did not cease. Opposition parties began to operate more or less openly. In another referendum on the subject held on 28July 2005, 92 per cent of the voters opted for a multiparty system. This followed a 2004 court order declaring restrictions on opposition political parties unconstitutional. The dominant political party is the National Resistance Movement (NRM)
TANZANIA: A ONE-DOMINANT-PARTY SYSTEM
In one-dominant-party systems, political parties in opposition, although given free rein by the government, tend to be small, fragmented and ultimately ineffectual in providing a credible alternative to the main party in ideological and policy terms.
This was largely the case in mainland Tanzania (Tanganyika as it was then) in the two pre-independence elections (in 1958 and 1960) and also after multiparty politics was reintroduced in 1995 following prolonged agitation for political pluralism in the early 1990s.
The autonomous island of Zanzibar, however, represents a very different situation: essentially it has a two-party system that reflects a sharp ethnic cleavage between Africans in Zanzibar (represented by the former Afro-Shirazi Party, now the Revolutionary State Party (Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM))-Zanzibar, on the one International, and on the other Zanzibaris of Omani origin in alliance with Africans from Pemba Island (represented by the Civic United Front, CUF). Here yet again the FPTP majoritarian system has aggravated the political situation rather than help it.
Zanzibar's party politics are as turbulent as those of the mainland are calm. The Tanganyika African National Union (TANU) was the party that won independence from the United Kingdom in 1961, under the leadership of the late President Julius K. Nyerere. It is remarkable testimony to the wide national following the party commanded even at the time that, in the election preceding independence, in 1960, it won 70 of the 71 seats being contested. The winner of the single seat won by a non-TANU candidate immediately joined TANU, leaving the country without a viable parliamentary opposition; he had stood as an independent candidate only because he was opposed to the official TANU candidate. President Nyerere won 99.2 per cent of the votes cast in the 1962 presidential election, compared to 0.8 per cent cast for the only opponent, Zuberi Mtevu of the African National Congress. By
the time Nyerere moved to declare Tanzania a one-party state in 1965, Tanzania had made it so by popular choice.
KENYA: POLITICAL FREEDOM AND THE EMERGENCE OF COMPETITIVE
Multiparty politics was restored in Kenya in 1991 after prolonged demands for change, often violently suppressed. In August 1992, however, Kenya's incumbent ruling party (the Kenya African National Union, KANU) amended the constitution to outlaw the formation of coalition governments, sensing that the divided opposition parties would go into the December 1992 elections separately
ETHIOPIA: AN AUTOCRATIC ONE-DOMINANT-PARTY SYSTEM
Party politics was unknown for most of Ethiopia's history since it was an absolute monarchy until the 1974 revolution, when the Dirgue overthrew the government of Emperor Haille Selassie II. The Dirgue instituted single-party rule in 1984 after its first decade in power when it pursued a revolutionary socialist policy. Thus the Ethiopian Workers' Party came into being after a decade when there were effectively no political parties of any description. It was modelled on the monolithic Soviet bloc ruling parties.
A more relaxed but never truly free party system had to await the violent overthrow of the Mengistu Haille Mariam government in 1991 by the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) coalition under the leadership of Meles Zenawi. The EPRDF had fought a protracted guerrilla war for 18 years against the Dirgue, principally in Tigrai. Like the NRM in Uganda, the EPRDF was a guerrilla army with a socialist revolutionary agenda that transformed itself into a ruling party.
Ethiopia is most accurately described as a one dominant-coalition party state. As constituted in 1991, the EPR DF is actua lly a coa lition of five parties united by their mutual antipathy to the Mengistu dictatorship. The dominant partner was and still is the Tigrai People's Liberation Front (TPLF) led by Meles Zenawi. The other four parties in the EPRDF are the Amhara National Democratic Movement, the South Ethiopian People's Democratic Movement, the Oromo People's Democratic Organization, and the Ethiopian United Peoples' Democratic Force. Apart from the TPLF, none of these parties commands support in its ethnic homelands or in the capital. The EPRDF is therefore essentially the TPLF in power, a minority regional party.
SUDAN: A DICTATORSHIP WITH ESTABLISHED PARTIES IN THE SHADOWS
Sudan has strong tradition of active political parties—secular, religious and sectarian in origin—that have dominated the political landscape of the country since competitive politics was introduced by the British colonial authorities after the Second World War. Sections of these parties have tended to break away and fuse into others.
The military dictatorships—of Gaffar al Nimeiry (1969–84) and now Omar Beshir (from 1989 to the present)—banned these parties.
The most influential political parties in the dominant north of the country are sectarian-based, and their origins go back to the Mahdist uprising in the 1880s.
They are (a) the Umma Party, founded in 1945 on the foundations of the AlAnsar sect, pledged to upholding the strict Islamic teachings of the Great Mahdi who led the popular religious revolt in 1883 against the Anglo-Egyptian condominium then ruling Sudan; and (b) the Democratic Unionist Party (a fusion of the People's Democratic and National Unionist parties of the 1950), fronted by the Khatmiyya sect. The latter were traditional rivals of the Mahdists, based on the Mirghrani family, who had favoured closer integration with Nasserite Egypt. Both parties draw their core support from the north. Successive military governments in the country have tried to play them off against each other.
This, then, is the picture of the party system in Sudan at the end of 2005—a military dictatorship in pursuit of an Islamic state, flush with oil money, bringing parties into partnership with the government or discarding them as and when it suits it.
Party leadership in East Africa is strongly associated with founding personalities or those to whom leadership is bequeathed by the original leaders. In Sudan we have already seen the role played by the el Mahdi family in the Umma Party and the Mirghrani family in the Democratic Unionist Party. In Tanzania, as long as Julius Nyerere was alive (even after he gave up the presidency in 1985) he wielded overwhelming influence over the operations and philosophy of the CCM; indeed, it was at his suggestion in 1991 that the party decided to open up Tanzania to multiparty competition. The Uganda People's Congress consulted Milton Obote,
its founder, throughout all his years of exile in Zambia. When he died, the party nominated his widow as its presidential candidate. In Kenya, the Kenyatta family supported KANU both before and after the rule of President Daniel Arap Moi. Even when parties do not have a long history, they tend to be identified with strong personalities behind them—Yoweri Museveni with the NRM; Meles Zenawi with the EPRDF; and John Garang with the SPLM. Very often, the philosophy and the day-to-day management of the party depend on the leader. In his heyday in Kenya, Daniel Arap Moi ordered party branch elections on the basis of petitions addressed
to him personally. It was his personal decision, in December 1991, to yield to his critics' demands for multiparty politics, an announcement that took many of his most vocal supporters by surprise.
This style of leadership selection and management may have the advantage of relying on tried and tested hands and of predictability. But on the whole we were not able to find any political party in East Africa that has held regular elections for the membership to choose its leaders. Even in the CCM, the most open and participatory of all of them, the leadership is chosen by consensus resulting from broad consultation, rather than open competition and voting.
This style does have severe drawbacks. The passing of a leader or his exit from power could put the party in jeopardy, if not practically destroy it. KANU in Kenya functioned for a while after Arap Moi left the presidency in 2003. It even held bitterly contested and divisive national elections the following year. But after an internal schism that saw the exit and registration of a 'New Kanu' faction, and defeat in several by-elections, in 2006 KANU was considering either merger with the resurgent opposition coalition, the ODM, or allowing its members to take out personal membership in the ODM and, in effect, belong to two parties at once. This split the party even more. In Uganda, Kabaka Yekka has proved impossible to revive without the personal participation of the kabaka (king) of Buganda. The fortunes of the FDC are closely tied to those of Kizza Besigye. The SPLM has been under internal stress after the death of John Garang. All these developments betray the lack of strong institutional foundations in East Africa's political parties that can guarantee leadership from one personality to the next, and one generation to another.
As stated above, political parties are the Cinderella of democratization studies and funding in Africa. In a modest effort to close that gap, a considerable part of this report has focused on the political parties and party systems in five East African countries—Ethiopia, Kenya, Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. These countries have some similarities, but upon closer inspection there are also some gaping differences, especially on this subject. In this concluding section of the report, we attempt to flesh out some generalizations that apply to the region, and to account for the differences between countries, before proceeding to some suggestions as to what could be done to advance our understanding of party systems in Africa.
The capacity and effectiveness of party systems are strongly conditioned by the degree of political liberty and tolerance in a country. After 2002, Kenya seems to have made considerable progress in widening the scope of multiparty competition and individual freedom. This was the result of two decades of pro-democracy activism. Kenya's lead is followed by Tanzania and to a lesser extent Uganda. The same cannot, however, be said of Ethiopia and Sudan. Opposition parties in Uganda and Ethiopia, in particular, operate under severe political constraints, and in Sudan
they can only resume activity at the pleasure of the government. The scope of liberal political activism (and of political parties) is narrowest in Sudan. Still, the party systems in the five countries bear some similarities.
• Fragility and structural weaknesses, particularly in parties that are not associated with the government in power. Parties in general lack strong organizational capability; recruitment of new members is intermittent; fund-raising is weak; and management is lax and often informal.
• Lack of adherence to formal rules, regulations, procedures and programmes. Practically all the parties have constitutions, but the operative procedures for internal elections, discipline and publicity are lax and often unwritten.
• Leadership centred on a dominant personality, family or clique, often commanding a substantial popular following. Major decisions are therefore made at this level.
Most parties are dominated by strong personalities (or families) for historical and social reasons. Followers identify parties with personalities and accord them support on that basis, not on account of the party's platform or ideology.
• A strong tendency for parties to break up and fuse with others over and over again. Parties out of government are especially vulnerable to this endless fusion and fission. For this reason parties (in the formal legal sense) tend to have short lives, as they mutate into new coalitions, merge, or reinvent themselves. Almost the only thing that remains constant is the cultural and ethnic base.
• A weak and unreliable financial and human resource base. We encountered no party out of government that had a sound financial base as a result of membership support. As a result, it has proved difficult to recruit and retain qualified staff to manage the business of the party.
• The FPTP majoritarian electoral system. This seems to have a negative effect on the representation of political parties in government. FPTP systems have an inherent tendency to exclude even major parties from power, particularly in systems like those in East Africa (outside Tanzania) where membership is confined to regions or ethnic groups.
• Lack of a mass membershiprecruited from primary associations, notably ethnic groups, particular regions, traditional and religious groups, and social movements. Again, with the exception of the CCM in Tanzania, parties in East Africa tend to have a narrowly-based membership built on pre-existing social organizations.
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Impact of Social Media on Community Development in District Swat, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa[Full-Text ]
Razia Rashid, Ms.Nazia Rafiq
Social media has an influence on development process. There are so many networking sites like Face book, Twitter, LinkedIn etc which have a great influence on community's social, economic, educational sectors and many others. This study aims to assess the situation of population in rural areas of Pakistan and information facilities available to them.
Application of Geographical Information Systems and Chromatographic Analysis for Monitoring of Organic Derivatives Near the Petroleum Settlments in Alexandria[Full-Text ]
Samah Abdel Monem Hawash, Moustafa Mohamed Saleh Abbassy, Mamdouh El-Hattab
This research was objected to assess the potential of petroleum contamination in the surface soil near the industrial and municipal activities at the Iking Maryout regions, and to find out the origin sources of hydrocarbon contamination using n-alkane profiles and indices. During the year September. 2014; thirty-two surface soil sampling were collected along the Iking Maryout region in the southwestern parts of Alexandria and analyzed using gas-chromatography with flame ionization detector (FID) detector. Geo-statistical analysis of n-alkanes in soil samples, using Spline interpolation was conducted.
A Comparative study to determine the prevalence of infertility associated with Hyperthyroidism in women of different ethnic groups in Quetta, Pakistan[Full-Text ]
Gulsika Kakar., Masroor Ahmad Bajwa., Irfan Shahzad Sheikh., Abdul Malik Tareen., Ferhat Abbas., Abdul Wadood
Hyperthyroidism has an important impact on infertility. Generally, infertility is a social, medical, and psychological as well as an extremely sensitive issue for females in all countries of the world. Hyperthyroidism interferes with the various indicators of reproduction and pregnancy. The objective of study was to find out the prevalence of Hyperthyroidism related infertility in women of different ethnic groups. The
IMPACT OF SOCIAL MEDIA ON STUDENTS' ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE[Full-Text ]
Agwi Uche Celestine and Ogwueleka Francisca Nonyelum
Social networking has become a common international trend which has spread its reach to almost every corner of the world. The use of Social media sites have exploded and evolved into an online platform where people create content, share it, bookmark it and network at a prodigious rate. Among the prominent users of the social media are the students.
A FUZZY LOGIC BASED ALGORITHM FOR ELECTRIC POWER NETWORK MANAGEMENT[Full-Text ]
Chukwuagu .M.Ifeanyi
This project work is aimed at developing an efficient Algorithm for the management of Electric Power network using fuzzy logic. The fuzzy logic model functions as a system operator in making decision for load shedding and transfer switching. The new developed algorithm will solve the problem of inefficiencies associated with the conventional methods for the management of the system. The new technique uses the system data frequency variation, load variation and voltage variation and the experience of the system operators to formulate fuzzy rules, which are then simulated using fuzzy logic toolbox in MATLAB.
Vulnerability Assessment and Evaluation of Associated Attacks on Physical and Virtual Networks[Full-Text ]
Moses Ashawa
There is no system in the 21st century that has no vulnerability. Most networks seem to be very secure because the vulnerabilities in them are yet to be discovered. However, these vulnerabilities decrease in networks that undergo regular checks and upgrade in their directories with embedded security parameters which have cryptographic primitives. Lack of network checks has fashioned various attack vectors in which hackers exploit to break into the security of private, public and even virtual networks. Network attacks such as brute forcing, man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack, social engineering and Advanced Persistent Threats (APT) occur as a result of the combinations of several vulnerabilities which are embedded in them.
AN IMPROVED ROUND ROBIN LOAD BALANCING ALGORITHM IN CLOUD COMPUTING USING AVERAGE BURST TIME[Full-Text ]
Abdulrahman Abdulkarim, Souley Boukari, Ishaq Muhammed
Cloud Computing is the collection of large number of resources like hardware and software that are provided by the cloud providers to the consumers as a service over the internet. In cloud computing every task requires to be executed by available resource to achieve minimum waiting time, reduce makespan, best performance and maximum utilization of resources. Considering the growing importance of cloud, finding new way to improve cloud services is an area of concern and research focus .
STUDY OF AIR TEMPERATURE PROPAGATION OF PARKED CAR[Full-Text ]
Musthaq Ahmad; Jamshid Ali Turi
Thermal comfort is only one factor that affects the driving experience. Several infants/children death reported across the globe after left in the parked car and high temperature create heat stroke. The aim of the paper is to determine the temperature variation inside the car cabin under direct sunlight in Malaysia also to reduce the temperature variation inside the car cabin by installation of exhaust fans.
GENERALIZATION OF VELOCITY AND ACCELERATION TENSOR/VECTOR IN PARABOLOIDAL COORDINATES BASED ON RIEMANNIAN GEOMETRY AND GREAT METRIC TENSOR[Full-Text ]
Omonile, J.F; Yusuf, A.O; Egbunu, F and Howusu, S.X.K
It is well known that Euclidean metric tensor is the foundation on which theoretical physics and mathematics are built upon even before now. But with the discovery of a great metric tensor in Spherical polar coordinates in all gravitational fields in nature has made Riemannian Geometry to be unlocked for exploration and exploitation in theoretical physics and mathematics. In this paper, we are out to obtain the generalized velocity and acceleration tensor/vector in Paraboloidal Coordinate based upon the great metric tensor.
LONG-TERM IMPACT OF OIL POLLUTION ON VEGETATION DIVERSITY AND STRUCTURE IN A SECONDARY RAINFOREST, RIVERS STATE, NIGERIA[Full-Text ]
Tambeke Nornu Gbarakoro, Nsirim L. Edwin-Nwosu, Aline Mekeu Edith Noutcha, Odidika Christian Umeozor, Love A. Akonye, Samuel Nwabufo Okiwelu
Phytoremediative ability of plant and natural regeneration have been documented but there is no unanimity on the rate of regeneration at an unremediated site. During studies on the long-term effects of oil pollution on soil microarthropods eco-toxicology, assessment of above-ground vegetation was undertaken. Assessment comprised, determination of Total Hydrocarbon Content (THC) values in soil, plant form (Trees, shrubs, grasses and sedges) composition and relative abundance, and the evenness and unevenness of numbers of individuals from each species, an indicator of species diversity.
Comparative Analysis of the Source Parameter Imaging and Spectral Depth Techniques of Determining Depth to Magnetic Sources in a Sedimentary Environment, using Aeromagnetic Data[Full-Text ]
M.T. Tsepav
The results of Spectral Depth Analysis and Source Parameter imaging methods of interpreting Aeromagnetic data in some parts of the Bida basin have been presented and compared.The area falls within latitudes 7.300 N and 10. 000 N; and longitude 4.000E and 7.000E. Before using each method, the regional residual separation was done using Oasis montaj to get the residual data for onward processing. The SPI requires the gridding of the residual values and the conversion of this to image map from where depth could be read off easily.
Optical Properties of Bamboo Doped Cadmium Sulfide Thin Film for Industrial Applications[Full-Text ]
Nwori Augustine, Okpala Uchechukwu.V
Thin films of bamboo doped cadmium sulfide were deposited on glass substrates using chemical bath method. The effect of deposition time on the optical properties of the films were studied. Cadmium chloride (CdCl22½H2O) and ammonium thiocynate (NH4CNS) were used as the sources of Cd2+ and S2- ions respectively. The dopant, bamboo fibre extract was whittled down using top down approach and sieved.
Mitigating the Challenges of Global Warming by Harnessing the Electric Power Generation Potential of Gas Flaring in Nigeria[Full-Text ]
Lawal, Olatunji A, Akinyemi, Toluwanimi O, Ramonu, Olayinka J
The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change had its Conference of Parties (COP 21) in Paris, 2015. This availed Nigeria an opportunity to strengthen her leadership role in the international climate negotiations. Nigeria's clarion voice was heard showing strong support for an equitably, just and legal binding climate change agreement that will provide the much needed support for developing countries to mitigate the global warming challenge. This study depicts the mitigation strategies of global warming and effects of gas flaring on the environment, economy and electric power generation capability of Nigeria as she hope to ratify the agreements made in Paris and meet up with the Intended Nationally Determined Contributions to cut CO2 emission by 20%. The data of the gas flare taken in July, August, September, and October 2017 were selected to forecast for the year 2030 and a linear regression method was deployed for these analyses using Microsoft Excel and IBM SPSS 23.
Response of Japanese quail (Coturnix coturnix japonica) Laying Hens to Dietary Threonine Levels in the Tropical Northern Savannah of Nigeria[Full-Text ]
Samuel, I., Bawa, G. S. and Daudu, O. M.
In order to describe the response of Japanese quails to dietary amino acids after sexual maturity, accurate estimates of the amounts of each amino acid required for maintenance and egg production are needed to exploit its production potentiality. This experiment was therefore carried out to investigate the response of Japanese quail Laying Hens to Optimum Dietary Threonine Levels in the Tropical Northern Savannah of Nigeria.
Effect of remittances on the real effective exchange rate: The case of Uganda (1999-2016)[Full-Text ]
Nakijoba Sawuya, Lesego selotlegeng
Attaining sustainable economic growth and development is one of the fundamental goals for developing economies. Recent studies have shown that remittances can achieve this. However, it is also seen to be detrimental to the sustainability of the economy due to exertion of pressure on the real exchange rate. This paper investigates the effect of remittances on real effective exchange rate in the Uganda over the period 1999-2016, controlling for other fundamental variables like as, real interest rate, gross capital formation and trade openness.
Cervical Cancer Knowledge among Women in Rural India[Full-Text ]
Mrs. Shyama Devi, Dr. Harindarjeet Goyal
According to the registry data, at least 18,600 cases of cervical cancer are reported in UP in a year which is about 15% of all such cases reported annually in India. World Health Organization (WHO) estimates suggest that death rate for cervical cancer stands at 56%.
FPGA Design and Implementation of Convolution Encoder and Viterbi Decoder[Full-Text ]
Mr.J.Anuj Sai, Mr.P.Kiran Kumar, Mr. V.Vamshi Krishna Reddy,Mr.L.Shiva Nagender Rao
Communication system transmits data from source to transmitter through a channel which may be wired or wireless. In this paper let us see about wireless channel communication. Data transmission over wireless channel is affected by attenuation, distortion, interference and noise, which affect the receiver's ability to receive correct information. Convolution encoding with Viterbi decoding is a powerful method for forward error correction.
Study the Relation between Homocystein and Some Physiological and Oxidative Stress Parameters in Iraqi Diabetics Patients Type2[Full-Text ]
Saja M. Thakir and Alia H. Ali
The aim of this study is to explain the effect of type2 DM on the concentration of blood glucose, HbA1c, serum uric acid. Lipid profile concentration, Homocysteine (Hcy) concentration, High sensitive CRP (hsCRP) concentration. Oxidative stress parameters that include Lipid peroxidation Malondialdehyde (MDA). Antioxidant parameters that include Glutathione (GSH), water soluble vitamin (vitamin C) and Lipid soluble vitamin (vitamin E). Sixty diabetic patients was used in this study with the range of age from 50 to 69 years from Specialized Center For Endocrine diseases and Diabetesof Baghdad Health Department/Al-Rusafa .
STUDY OF TRANSMISSION TOWERS AND PROPER SELECTION IN TERMS OF ITS EFFECTIVENESS, BEHAVIOR, DEFLECTION AND ECONOMIC EVALUATIONS[Full-Text ]
Jemal Bedane Halkiyo, Sultan Bedane Halkiyu, Yemisrach Mulugeta, Dr Rajeshekhar Angadi
A tower or mast is a tall skeleton structure with a relatively small cross-section, which has a large ratio between height and maximum width. A tower is freely standing self-supporting structure fixed to the base or foundation while a mast is tall structure, pinned to the base. Self-supporting latticed structures are used in a wide variety of civil engineering applications, most commonly to support transmission lines that transmit and distribute electricity. The towers are with various heights e.g. the height of television towers may vary from 100m to 300m, while those for radio transmission and communication networks the height may vary from 50 to 200m etc. In this research the height of tower is 100m.
Classification of Plant Communities of Sialkot District Punjab, Pakistan & the Determination of Effects of Environmental Variables on their pattern of distribution[Full-Text ]
Arifa Zereen, Sheikh Saeed Ahmad, Zaheer-Ud-Din Khan, Almas Jahan
This study is an endeavor to study different plant communities of Sialkot District and the effect of environmental variables on their pattern of distribution. A total of fifty one species after twenty seven families were recorded from the study area. Plants were properly identified with the help of flora of Pakistan and available literature. For statistical analysis of the data multivariate techniques were employed. For classification of plant communities Two Way Indicator Species Analysis (TWINSPAN) program was used, which divided vegetation of the area into two major communities.
Les propriétés mécaniques des mortiers renforcés par des fibres en acier[Full-Text ]
MASMOUDI.M
L'objectif de ce travail consiste en l'étude des mortiers renforcés par des fibres en acier dans le but d'amélioré les caractéristiques mécaniques à savoir la résistance à la flexion et à la traction, le comportement de l'interface fibre/matrice et son influence sur la résistance et enfin l'influence des propriétés de la matrice et les caractéristiques géométriques de la fibre sur la résistance.
Urbanization as a Transformative force[Full-Text ]
Sarmada Madhulika Kone
Growth is a general phenomenon of any biological system. A settlement's growth can either be a planned or a biological process. With cities in today's context, whose power lies in financial ability, aim at economic growth which results a change in demographic distribution across its region. A rapid urbanization indicates a country's economy in its developing stage towards a modernized and a matured one, with a regulating plan for urbanization avoids imbalanced distribution of man power and uneven development across the country. The study aims at identifying the need for regulated urbanization for balanced growth, which acts as a catalyst for nation's development with supporting cases across the world.
Sustainability management in mining closure plan and its structural development demand in Mongolia[Full-Text ]
Batzorig Uuganchimeg, Dr. Prof Li Guangming, Arturo Cortés, Anne Wambui Mumbi, Boudahri kawtar
The main assumptions presented in this paper are the main assumptions that relate to the sustainable development of the mining sector, specifically mining closure that will significantly shape the development of country's environmental future. So that planning for mine closure should be undertaken progressively throughout an operation's life cycle by systematic policy, social participation and license holder's responsible. This paper will include correspondences between factors that are pillaring sustainable development and how should Mongolians implement international's standard and strategy of its. As case study, one of Mongolian first coal mining Nalaikh's negative condition is illustrating that how can mining without closure plan damage its environment but also economically. Some of suggestion implementation approaches based on developed countries standard for Mongolian mining industry will be given in this paper. Mongolian mining can be more environmental friendly by adopting those Social, Environmental, Economic and Responsible, Systematic development.
Analysis of Factors Affecting Rubber Cultivation in Kerala[Full-Text ]
Lince Rachel Varghese, Dr.K.Vanitha
Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), an interdisciplinary area, focuses on methodologies, and extract useful knowledge from data. Data Science field comprises of everything related to data cleansing, preparation, and analysis.This combines statistics, mathematics, programming, problem-solving and capturing data in cleverly inventive ways. Data science looks at things differently, in the activity of cleansing, preparing and aligning the data.Hevea brasiliensis, the rubber tree is the source of Natural Rubber (NR) which is the most versatile raw material of nature, having multifarious uses This paper analyses and studies the factors that affect the yield of rubber in Kerala.
ICT and Innovative Practices in Higher Education[Full-Text ]
Prof. Muttappa M. Mantur
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is a vehicle to enhance the quality of the education. As the world is moving rapidly into digital media and information, the role of ICT in education is becoming more important in the 21st century. The opportunities for education arising from developments in information and communication technology are very promising. In recent years, increased computing power, improved wireless and user-friendly technology, and reduced telecommunication costs have contributed to lowering barriers to information access and exchange. Changes in the economic and social fundamentals call for transformation in the skills, capabilities and attitudes of the masses. This requires a shift in the delivery and pedagogy used in the current education system.
Reserve Estimation of Beani Bazar Gas Field, Bangladesh Using Wireline Log Data[Full-Text ]
Farzana Yeasmin Nipa, G. M. Ariful Islam
Reserve estimation is very important part for determination of gas field's lifetime which is known as production duration of gas fields. Beani bazar gas field very rich in condensate has been discovered in October 1982. Although drilling was completed in May 1981, but in view of economic considerations the production testing of two potential gas sands detected from well logs were not conducted with the expensive parker rig at that time.
Performance Analysis of Different types of Decoders for MIMO Technique in Wireless Communication: A Review[Full-Text ]
S.N.Raut, Rajesh M Jalnekar, Snehal G. Katre
The requirement of the high data rate in communication systems had a remarkable increase in the last decagon due to the rising interest in wideband services like video, especially in mobile functions. Although, several blockades must be burst to accomplish the need of future communication system.
Utilizing Fly Ash and Alccofine for Efficient Soil Stabilization[Full-Text ]
Lovedeep Singh Sambyal, Neeraj Sharma
The main objective of this research work was to study the engineering characteristics of clay soil. 51.8 million hectares of land area in India are covered with Expansive soil. The property of these expansive soils, in general, is that they are very hard when in dry state, but they lose all of their strength when in wet state. In light of this property of expansive soils, these soils pose problems worldwide that serve as challenge to overcome for the Geotechnical engineers. One of the most important aspects for construction purposes is soil stabilization, which is used widely in foundation and road pavement constructions; this is because such a stabilization regime improves engineering properties of the soil, such as volume stability, strength and durability.
Red Soil Stabilization Using Silica Fumes and Alccofine[Full-Text ]
Jeevan Singh, Neeraj Sharma
The main objective of this research work was to study the engineering characteristics of red soil. The engineering behavior of residual soils in the area, derived from the in-situ weathering and decomposition of parent rock, is determined by certain physical characteristics designated as engineering properties. For this work both Primary and secondary data from organizations were in use. Red soils occur mostly in tropical and sub-tropical regions with hot, humid climatic conditions. It has been suggested that a mean annual temperature of around 25°C is required for their formation, and in seasonal situations there should be a coincidence of the warm and wet periods.
Environmentally Sound Recycling Technology of Scrap Printed Circuit Boards for Developing countries[Full-Text ]
P.Parthasarathy, Sandip Chatterjee, M.R.P. Reddy, Keshav A. Bulbule
From the use of renewable resources and environmental protection viewpoints, recycling of waste printed circuit boards (PCBs) receives wide concern as the amount of scrap PCBs increases. However, treatment for waste PCBs is a challenge due to the fact that PCBs are diverse and complex in terms of materials and components makeup.
Design and experimental characterisation of a solar dish with small rim angle[Full-Text ]
Djelloul Azzouzi, Boussad Boumeddane, Abderahmane Abene
In this study, a description of the geometrical and optical parameters of the designed solar parabolic concentrator is presented. A suitable choice of the aluminium facet sizes has been optimized and applied. The different steps of concentrator design process are implemented in order to obtain an acceptable adherence of the 152 aluminium facets with the concentrator primary surface. It is indicated that the reflective surface is affected by the number of facets. An azimuth-elevation tracking system was realized.
A Study on Subgrade Soil Using Locust Bean Pod Waste Ash as Admixture[Full-Text ]
J.A Ige and W.O. Oyeniyan
Locust bean pod husk is by-product of agricultural processing of the African locust bean fruit. The husks are been abandoned in a dumping site and this causes environmental nuisance. The empty pods are the needed raw material which was burnt by furnace to become ash which was aimed at using as an admixture to improve the geotechnical properties of sub grade soil.
Transparency and Public Participation In Madagascar Environmental Law Case study: Mining activities[Full-Text ]
Andriamirado RAKOTO
This article pointed out the importance of transparency and public involvement in decision-making process. Mining in Madagascar has tremendous potential to further the country's development but is the most controversial area of economic development. So while although there are concerns about participation in decision-making more generally in Madagascar, participation in the mining sector is the most sensitive and high profile area and thus an appropriate field of study.
Antibiotic susceptibility pattern of enterococci isolated from clinical samples[Full-Text ]
Soamyaa Srivastava
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Inspiration from the classics: Echoing the creativity in the Novels of Gloria Naylor[Full-Text ]
P.K.Selvaraj , Dr. K. Rajkumar
The creative work of Gloria Naylor's was praised by literary critics for the richness of her language, depth and the variability of her characters. Her themes of wish, survival and individual redemption, has been articulated in a series of novels and essays that won her popular applause. Right from the beginning of her career, Naylor has fashioned a sense of place, a sense of community where people live together. According to Naylor, family and group of people portray her communal history as a black American. Gloria Naylor wrote novels that highlighted the strengths of women and men particularly African-American women, men and the possessiveness on the lives of people due to racism, sexism and survival.
Event Finder Based on Current GPS Location: The city of Madinah as Use-case[Full-Text ]
Toqeer Ali, Turki Alghamdi and Hatem M. El-Boghdadi
The Global Positioning System (GPS) is widely used in many portable devices for positioning purposes. Many applications were developed to use this service for tracking of objects in different environments and wide range of applications. In big cities, there are always many kinds of educational, medical, cultural and religious events. Residents and visitors to these cities need to be aware of the ongoing and upcoming events in the city. In this paper, we employ the GPS and propose a framework to use mobile application connected with the GPS to deliver the activities and events in a certain geographical area within the city.
Variations in Forest Carbon Stocks along Environmental Gradients in Weiramba Forest of Amhara Region, Ethiopia: Implications of Managing Forests for Climate Change Mitigation[Full-Text ]
Zelalem Teshager, Mekuria Argaw, Abeje Eshete
Climate change, caused by global warming, is the most pressing environmental problem of the world today and it is a phenomenon partly resulting from the abundance of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. The problem of increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide can be addressed in a number of ways. One of such actions is forestry development and forest management undertakings that can contribute to mitigation. This study was conducted in Weiramba Forest, with the objectives of estimating of the carbon stock and its variation along the environmental gradients in Weiramba Forest. A systematic sampling method was used to conduct the vegetation sampling.
Potential Metallopharmaceutical agents; synthesis, spectroscopic characterization and antiproliferative study of novel metal complexes of tetra thiosemicarbazon ligand[Full-Text ]
Abdou S. El-Tabl, Moshira M. Abd-El Wahed, Prasad V.Bharatam, Abdelhaleam A. Aly
There has been much interesting in the development a new tetrathiosemicarbazone ligand and its Fe(III), Co(II), Ni(II), Cu(II), Zn(II), Cd(II), Pb(II), Al(III), Ca(II), Ba(II), Sr(II), Mg(II), and Ag(I), complexes . Complexes have been characterized by elemental analysis, IR, UV-Vis spectra , 1H-NMR spectra, Mass spectra, Magnetic moments, Conductances, Thermal analyses (DTA and TGA) and ESR measurements The spectral data show that the ligand behaves a neutral or dibasic –octadentate type. Molar conductances in DMF solution indicate non-electrolytic nature of the prepared complexes. The ESR spectra of the solid complexes indicate anisotropic or isotropic type (dx2-y2) ground state with considerable covalent bond character. To study the cytotoxicity of the ligand and some of its metal complexes against human liver cancer cell (HePG-2 cell line).
The prediction of moisture adsorption isotherm for commercial sodium bicarbonate powder[Full-Text ]
Yué Bi Yao Clément, Bouatene Djakalia, Akmel Djédjro Clément, and Tano Kablan
The quality of preserved sodium bicarbonate powder is largely dependent on its moisture content, moisture migration and moisture uptake of the sodium bicarbonate during storage. Therefore, the water activity level, which corresponds to a range of equilibrium moisture contents, must be determined by, for example, the use of moisture isotherms. Sorption isotherms are therefore of great importance in post-harvest procedures, especially for predicting drying and storage, which help to establish the final moisture content of the product under certain environmental condition.
Efficiency Analysis of UTME Registration Process in Nigeria: Case Study of a Typical CBT Centre in Ibadan, Oyo State[Full-Text ]
Mojisola A. Bolarinwa, Ebenezer O. Olowolaju
JAMB UTME, the only entry route for admission into any Nigerian tertiary institution has few accredited centres having adequate facilities where registration can be carried out. This has resulted in pressure on the few accredited centres within the short timeframe allowed for registration. Thus, there is need for efficiency in the registration process to ensure that as many students as possible are registered within the short timeframe, while maximising financial turnover of registration centre operators.
EVALUATING THE DEVELOPMENT ABOUT PROFESSIONAL PHYSICAL FITNESS AND BASIC TECHNIQUES OF FEMALE VOLLEYBALL ATHLETES AT AN GIANG UNIVERSITY AFTER A TRAINING YEAR[Full-Text ]
Dao Chanh Thuc, Duong Ngoc Truong
The study aims to evaluate the development of professional physical fitness and basic techniques related to the effective training of female volleyball athletes at An Giang university after a training year. The study was conducted through some methods, namely integrated research and relevant literature reviews, pedagogical observation, interview, pedagogical examination, and statistic mathematics.The author has selected 11 tests about professional physical fitness and 7 basic techniques tests for female volleyball athletes in order to evaluate the effective training and the development of female volleyball athletes at An Giang University.
HYDROGEOPHYSICAL INVESTIGATION OF THE AQUIFERS OF BRINE FIELD OF AWE AND ENVIRONS, CENTRAL BENUE TROUGH, NIGERIA[Full-Text ]
Nuhu Degree Umar, Ibrahim Giza Idris, Aliyu Itari Abdullahi
Geophysical investigations, mainly vertical electrical sounding (VES) using Schlumberger electrode configuration array were performed at 21 locations across the study area. Results of the VES revealed that the study area is characterized by 3, 4 and 5 geo-electrical layers with 9 different curve type signatures. Also, results of the VES show that Awe area has the highest occurrence of saline zone within the central Benue Trough, compared to Keana and Giza saline zones.
Efficiency of differentiated human umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cells in to neurons for treating Alzheimer disease[Full-Text ]
Eglal El. Metwally A. Hassan, Magdy M Youssef, Nivin .A. Salaha, Farha .A. El-Chennawi
After isolation of mesenchymal stem cells from Wharton's jelly of umbilical cord. Using flow cytometry analysis showed positive in differently markers of cells (Cluster of differentiation (CD) 146, 90 and 105), and negative in (Cluster of differentiation (CD 45). Their differentiation under definite conditions indicated that they consumed multilineage variation potential. From the results we obtained which built cells of human umbilical cord involved, we inaugurated that after treatment with Neurobasal –A media for 12 days, hUCMSCs showed moderately MAP2 and highly choline acetytransferase using Immunocytochemistry staining this action should be enhanced when cells are in planted with Neurobasal® –A media, thus MSCs hold great promise for different neurodegenerative diseases. This work aimed to the efficiency of WJMSCs to differentiate into neurons and use these cells in the treatment of (AD).
Determination of the curie point Depth,geothermal gradient and heatflow of Guzabure and its environs,Chad Basin, Nigeria using Aeromagnetic data[Full-Text ]
Nwobodo A.N, Ezema P.O and Ugwu G.Z
The Curie point depth,geothermal gradient and heatflow of Guzabure and its Environs Chad Basin Northeastern,Nigeria was estimated from spectral analysis using Aeromagnetic data.Six aeromagnetic maps covering an area bounded by latitudes12° 00' to 13° 00' North and longitudes12° 30' to 14° 00' East were used as basic data for determining the nature of the of the magnetic anomalies over the area. Regional anomally was removed from the total magnetic intensity field to obtain the residual anomaly field using polynomial fitting.
The Innovation of Value Chain Model of Cocoa Oil Industry to Increase The Sustainable Value Added[Full-Text ]
Sudirman Zaid, Dedy Takdir Syaefuddin, Halim
This research aims to innovation of value chain model of the cocoa oil industry based on resources event agent (REA) in the Lembah Lanipa Agropolitan Area of North Kolaka Regency of Southeast Sulawesi Province in order to increase the value added of the business sustainably.
DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF MULTI-INPUT UNINTERRUPTIBLE POWER SUPPLY[Full-Text ]
Olatoye N. O, Onwusuru I. M, Ekoko E. C, Uka C.S.
The paper is on the design and implementation of Multi-Input Uninterruptible Power System (MIUPS). The system [1] [2] consists of the inverter section, the charger, the control circuit and the change over circuit. The inverter changes the DC voltage from the battery to AC voltage; the charger charges the battery when there is supply from the AC mains; the control unit monitors the battery against over charge and over drain; while the change over circuit select the AC input by changing from failed one to available one. The response time to overcome or detect any irregularity in power supply, the ease at which it harnesses various inputs and the ability to quickly change to its internal battery are of keen interest. This write up does not only discuss the design and construction of 1KVA MIUPS but also discusses the operation and limitation of the equipment.
Analysis of the Effect of Electrical Torque on Quadcopter Behaviour for Optimal Performance using MATLAB[Full-Text ]
Dr K. F Akingbade, A.O Safiriyu
This paper focus on analyzing the behaviour of a Quadcopter from its general principle of operation considering the effect of electrical torque when current flows through its major control unit, motors. Detail analysis of the Brushless DC motor used on the quadcopter was carried out using Emax MT1806-2280Kv motor as guide and its transfer function derived considering the relationship between the current flowing and the applied Voltage.
Crypto Currencies and their future - The Destruction ahead[Full-Text ]
Umar Fawad Sharif
Crypto currencies have become one of the main headlines in 2017 due to its parabolic rise in value and popularity. A Crypto Currency is an electric currency that uses cryptography for security. Due to crypto security feature it is difficult to counterfeit.


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package org.apache.wicket.examples.repeater;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.List;

import org.apache.wicket.AttributeModifier;
import org.apache.wicket.markup.html.basic.Label;
import org.apache.wicket.markup.html.link.Link;
import org.apache.wicket.markup.repeater.Item;
import org.apache.wicket.markup.repeater.RefreshingView;
import org.apache.wicket.model.AbstractReadOnlyModel;
import org.apache.wicket.model.IModel;

/**
 * page that demonstrates a RefreshingView
 *
 * @see RefreshingView
 *
 * @author igor
 */
public class RefreshingPage extends BasePage
{
	private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;

	/**
	 * Constructor
	 */
	public RefreshingPage()
	{
		final List<IModel<Contact>> contacts = new ArrayList<IModel<Contact>>(10);

		// populate list of contacts to be displayed
		ContactDataProvider dp = new ContactDataProvider();
		Iterator<Contact> it = dp.iterator(0, 10);
		while (it.hasNext())
		{
			contacts.add(dp.model(it.next()));
		}

		// create the refreshing view
		RefreshingView<Contact> view = new RefreshingView<Contact>("view")
		{
			private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;

			/**
			 * Return an iterator over models for items in the view
			 */
			@Override
			protected Iterator<IModel<Contact>> getItemModels()
			{
				return contacts.iterator();
			}

			@Override
			protected void populateItem(final Item<Contact> item)
			{
				Contact contact = item.getModelObject();
				item.add(new Label("itemid", item.getId()));
				item.add(new ActionPanel("actions", item.getModel()));
				item.add(new Label("contactid", String.valueOf(contact.getId())));
				item.add(new Label("firstname", contact.getFirstName()));
				item.add(new Label("lastname", contact.getLastName()));
				item.add(new Label("homephone", contact.getHomePhone()));
				item.add(new Label("cellphone", contact.getCellPhone()));

				item.add(AttributeModifier.replace("class", new AbstractReadOnlyModel<String>()
				{
					private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;

					@Override
					public String getObject()
					{
						return (item.getIndex() % 2 == 1) ? "even" : "odd";
					}
				}));
			}
		};

		add(view);

		add(new Link<Void>("refreshLink")
		{
			private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;

			@Override
			public void onClick()
			{
				// noop
			}
		});
	}
}

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