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Ka tou rere ku ia E Paihere-kowao
Ta rereka te mata na Maraki
Ki te iwi e———–
The Mataura Valley has, for centuries, hosted trails known to many generations of southern | Ka tou rere ku ia E Paihere-kowao
Ta rereka te mata na Maraki
Ki te iwi e———–
The Mataura Valley has, for centuries, hosted trails known to many generations of southern Māori. The many names denoting landmarks, land forms, rivers and tributaries, attest to nearly a thousand years of continuous knowledge and understanding of the area.
From the earliest explorers such as Rakaihautu of the Uruao waka (canoe), Paiherekowao, Tamatea Ariki Nui of the Takatimu waka (canoe), the Waitaha (including Rapuai and Hawea people) who began the fires of occupation in the time of the giant flightless moa, to the coming of Kati Mamoe, and latterly Kai Tahu (Ngai Tahu) people.
Lasting deeds remembered
The deeds of prominent personalities are inextricably linked to local landmarks, and remembered today – those of Kati Mamoe chief Te Rakitauneke whose famous taniwha (dragon) Matamata now forms the profile of the Hokonui Hills, and Paroparo Te Whenua whose discovery of kakakana (lamprey) favoured the waterfalls at Mataura as a major seasonal food gathering site. These histories are punctuated also by the inconsolable grief of Weka, who acting on the loss of his wife Nuku and child on a hunting expedition in the northern reaches of the valley, composed a moving lament on the terrace of East Gore (a place known as Onuku).
The Mataura River, along with its accompanying natural trails, guided early travellers from the pounamu (greenstone) fields of the west to the coastal regions of the east and south. The valley’s accommodating typography ensured regular visitations from both passing travellers and those gathering seasonal food (including eel, native trout, duck, weka, lamprey) and other commodities such as the highly valued stone, porcelanite - used for making knives. These trails were at times utilized by trading and marriage parties, and sometimes warriors seeking utu (revenge) to maintain their mana and control over local resources.
Encampment sites denote many types of mahika kai (natural food gathering sites) available within the valley – Waikakahi (the Waikaka Stream flowing into the Mataura River) indicates a source of kakahi (freshwater mussel) and Te Au-nui Pihapiha Kanakana (the falls at Mataura) indicates a source of kanakana (lamprey) (see photo right). Other sites were well known and well used, such as Wharekorokio (a significant eeling encampment) at a si |
Zinc stearate can be described as a white powder, which is insoluble when water is added. There are two methods to make zinc stearate. The first is the water method. The second is the melting method. The water | Zinc stearate can be described as a white powder, which is insoluble when water is added. There are two methods to make zinc stearate. The first is the water method. The second is the melting method. The water-method produces acidic zinc stearate, while the molten one is alkaline.
This water method is also known to be a wet one. If water is used as the medium, the catalyst will be added in order to adjust a certain temperature and pressure. Add the metal hydrogenxide to make the catalyst. This will replace the metal-ion, and the catalyst is replaced to create the hard fat. It is necessary to use acid in order to create a salt of metal. Further processing is performed on the enzyme and it can then be recycled. It is then centrifuged, dried, ground and weighed to produce an industry standard product that has a mesh number between 200-600. Because the water used in the production is often slightly over-acidic, the end product will be acidic.
In the melting process, also called dry, metal oxide or zinc oxide is added to the moltenstearic (usually in the presence catalysts, as otherwise it will take a very long time for the reaction to occur) and controlled by a temperature and pressure. Response is what determines the stir speed of the stearate. The catalyst is able to completely react the product obtained by dry processing.
It is also known by the name zinc stearate-emulsion or aqueous Zinc Stearate. It may be used as an emulsion, color retention agent (lubricant), release agent, or other purpose. White emulsion with no precipitation.
Emulsions of zincstearate in rubber and plastics can be used in numerous applications, including coatings, inks paints thermal paper, cosmetics, etc. It is divided into three different grades, according to market watchers: paper-grade, paint-grade, and rubber-grade. The papermaking quality has the greatest, with the second being the coating, while the rubber grade is among the most poor.
1. Water-based spray paint: These paints are high quality and have outstanding results.
2, water-based ink : can be used as filling agent, flat agent, stability, antisettling, and waterproof.
3, Textile products: This can be used as an agent for polishing the surface to increase hydrophobicity.
Cosmetic products 4: To enhance the smoothness of your surface, you can use them as lubricants
5. It’s used by the paper industry to provide waterproofing for surface protections like special paper or thermal paper.
6, sanding papers: These can be used for smoothening the surface of grinding. They are also waterproof and anti-wear.
Zinc stearate is an emulsion that can be used for heat stabilization, lubricant and grease as well as to thicken the product. The PVC resin heat stabiliser can usually be made from it. It is used in industrial transparent products and can also be mixed with calcium soap. It can also be used to make non-toxic items. It is used mainly in soft products. In the recent years, there have been hard transparent products used such as mineral water bottles, pipes and other products. This product can be used because of its excellent lubricity. It has the ability to decrease scale formation.
Application zinc stearate-emulsion as waterproofing agent in coatings
It is now possible to develop waterproof coatings that are versatile and high performing. This zinc stearate/emulsion coating has these features:
1. It has no effect on the performance of the surface or the color thereof
2. Surface can be painted or decorated with metallic effects.
3. It provides long-lasting protection against erosion from water, freezing and pollution.
4, self-cleaning power, strong wind, rain and snow can remove the treated dust from the surface. 5, coating thickness is only 515m. The active area of coating is greatly increased. Its cost savings are about 3x that of traditional paint.
6, with 100% permeability, to keep the original permeability from the building substrate.
7. Enhance the thermal insulation and protect the original surface colour. It will meet all market requirements.
The use of zinc-stearate emulsion to lubricate coatings
Material wear can occur from friction. Lubrication helps to alleviate this. The surface coating may be coated with aqueous zinc steelate to lower the friction coefficient.
As friction pairs move against each others, the temperature increase caused by changes in material’s surface properties affects the friction coefficient. It depends on the operating conditions of the friction couple. After being heated, the aqueous Zinc Stearate transforms from a hard-state to an liquid state. As a result, the friction coefficient is reduced.
By rubbing the two materials together, the zincstearate/lubricating coating film sticks to each other. Because of its shear strength, this transfer film transfers onto the dual substrate to form friction. Because it helps reduce friction, Furthermore, it can adhere strongly to the substrate surface with its |
Why can people pop their eyeballs out?
Sean Donahue, Coleman Professor in Ophthalmology and Neurology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, says eyes being pushed forward can be caused by various factors such as trauma or thyroid disease where the muscles | Why can people pop their eyeballs out?
Sean Donahue, Coleman Professor in Ophthalmology and Neurology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, says eyes being pushed forward can be caused by various factors such as trauma or thyroid disease where the muscles that move the eye get very swollen and push the eyes out forward, making them appear more prominent.
How does Kim Goodman pop her eyes out?
Kim Goodman (USA) can pop her eyeballs to a protrusion of 12 mm (0.47 in) beyond her eye sockets. Kim discovered her talent when she was hit on the head by a hockey mask, but can now pop out her eyes on cue. …
What to do if someone’s eye falls out?
An eye popping out of the socket is considered a medical emergency. Do not attempt to force your eye back in place, as this can lead to further complications. Contact an ophthalmologist for an emergency appointment as soon as possible. It is recommended that you have someone else drive you to the appointment.
What do sunken in eyes mean?
What are sunken eyes? The delicate skin under your eyes can sometimes appear dark, sunken, and hollow. While sunken eyes are usually just a result of aging, dehydration, or not getting enough sleep, they could also be a sign of a medical condition.
What happened to Kim Goodman’s eyes?
She discovered her eyeball popping talent one day when she was hit over the head. Her eyeballs popped out much further than usual and ever since that day she could pop them out on cue, as well as when she yawns.
Who has the largest forehead in the world?
1 What is the world record for the biggest head? 2 Who has the biggest face in the world? 3 Who is the biggest mouth? 4 Who has the smallest forehead?…
|Known for||Longest nose in the world|
|Height||5 ft 10 in (178 cm)|
What happens if your eyeball pops out?
What to do if your eye popped out of the socket. An eye popping out of the socket is considered a medical emergency. Do not attempt to force your eye back in place, as this can lead to further complications. Contact an ophthalmologist for an emergency appointment as soon as possible.
Can your eyes pop out from pressure?
In this eye disorder, increased pressure in the eyes damages the nerves that connect the eyes to the brain. Usuall |
Management Information Systems Quarterly
Digital music formats and the Internet as a distribution mechanism have fundamentally disrupted the music industry by altering the way music is packaged, distributed, and consumed. This disruptive innovation has come in two stages. First, it enabled music to | Management Information Systems Quarterly
Digital music formats and the Internet as a distribution mechanism have fundamentally disrupted the music industry by altering the way music is packaged, distributed, and consumed. This disruptive innovation has come in two stages. First, it enabled music to be purchased as an individual song (digital single) or as an album (digital album) or to be enjoyed without paying for it (unlicensed digital music). More recently, music has become available as a streaming service (streaming music). Prior to these innovations, music was primarily distributed as an album using a physical medium such as the CD. Building on multi-generation diffusion models, we identify and quantify different types of concurrent demand migration in the music industry such as generational substitution, unbundling, and piracy effects in the first stage and streaming effects in the subsequent stage. Measuring the relative contributions of factors that drive each of these different migration types, we find that the introduction of licensed digital downloads (digital single and digital album) has weakened the piracy effect. Since the introduction of licensed digital downloads, the piracy effect on the demand for CDs has decreased about 15 percent every year. At th |
Caribbean Primate Research Center (Cayo Santiago)
On September 20th, 2017 a category-5 Hurricane (Maria) made landfall in Puerto Rico.
The free-ranging rhesus macaque colony at Cayo Santiago, | Caribbean Primate Research Center (Cayo Santiago)
On September 20th, 2017 a category-5 Hurricane (Maria) made landfall in Puerto Rico.
The free-ranging rhesus macaque colony at Cayo Santiago, research site where our work on maternal care and the development of social behavior was conducted, as well as the surrounding community of Punta Santiago were severely devastated by the hurricane.
As of October 22nd, 2017 the heroic efforts to rebuild the basic infrastructure of the primate center, and to provide aid to the affected surrounding community, continue.
To help save this invaluable research resource, please consider donating to ongoing efforts to rebuild Cayo Santiago and/or to relief efforts to the roughly impacted staff and community of Punta Santiago. Regular updates can be found here.
Is dominance in your blood?
Humans are social creatures. We form close family structures, we surround ourselves with friends, and we learn from each other. In fact, a supportive social environment can have very positive effects on our individual beh |
Do you recall your first reading or watching of Romeo and Juliet? This well-known tale's terrible conclusion is a prime example of dramatic irony: While the lovers' respective lives are known to the audience, neither pair is aware of the other's continued | Do you recall your first reading or watching of Romeo and Juliet? This well-known tale's terrible conclusion is a prime example of dramatic irony: While the lovers' respective lives are known to the audience, neither pair is aware of the other's continued existence. Each drinks their poison without being aware of what the audience is aware of. The use of dramatic irony in literature, cinema, and television is very effective.
What Is Dramatic Irony in Writing?
Dramatic Irony is a popular form of irony in which an utterance, event or situation appears deliberately contrary to what one might expect.
Dramatic irony is a literary technique whereby the reader or audience comprehends events or people in work better than the characters. Dramatic irony is a type of irony that is expressed through the structure of a work. It occurs when the audience has a very different understanding of the circumstances than the characters do. As a result, the characters' words and actions have very different and frequently conflicting; meaning for the audience than they do for the characters.
Although the theatrical irony is most frequently linked with the theater, there are instances in the literary and performing arts.
What Is Dramatic Irony?
Irony can take the form of dramatic irony. It is a literary and dramatic method where the audience or reader is more knowledgeable than the characters they are watching. This technique frequently results in tragedy because the audience interprets the characters' actions differently than the actors or characters do.
What Is the Difference between Dramatic, Situational, and Verbal Irony?
- The situational irony, in which what you expect to happen does not, and linguistic irony, in which words do not signify what they seem to mean, are not the same as dramatic irony.
- Dramatic irony occurs when the viewer is better known than the character. It builds suspense and anxiety. When there is a discrepancy between what is anticipated and what happens, situational irony takes place. Situational irony can be seen, for instance, in the burning down of a fire station.
- When a character says something that differs from what they truly mean or how they feel, that is verbal irony. Only in this case does the irony originate from a character.
- When the design of anything shows the discrepancy between what people believe happened and what did, this is known as structural irony. This is evident when songwriters employ untrustworthy or incredibly gullible narrators. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger and The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald are two examples of this.
Examples of Dramatic Irony in Literature
In literature, the reader is kept in suspense and anxiety by what the central characters don't know, but the audience does. Dramatic irony is referred to as "tragic irony" when applied in tragedies.
1. Oedipus is destined to kill his father and fall in love with his mother in Sophocles' Greek tragedy Oedipus Rex. Unaware that he is the one who killed Laius, Oedipus promises to avenge the death of his father. He gouges out his eyes after learning the news because he is so distraught.
2. The reader knows that Odysseus is returning home in The Odyssey, Homer's epic poem, to test his wife Penelope's loyalty.
3. Quasimodo seeks to defend Esmeralda from the gypsies in Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame because he thinks they are coming to harm her. The audience realizes that they are indeed there to save her.
4. Dan Brown uses dramatic irony to highlight CIA Agent Simkins' ignorance of the mysteries Langdon and his sidekick, Katherine Solomon, are searching for in The DaVinci Code by taking the reader inside the George Washington Masonic Memorial.
5. Shakespeare is a pro at using dramatic irony. In the play Macbeth, Macbeth pretends to be Duncan's ally while preparing to kill him. In addition, while Iago is manipulating Othello in Othello, the audience is aware of it.
Guidelines for Writing Dramatic Irony
1. By allowing various characters access to various sorts or quantities of information, you may make your story more complex and multilayered. The characters' interactions with one another and their decisions in light of their knowledge will be on display for the viewers.
2. Pique interest by letting the reader know more about the protagonist. As an illustration, as your protagonist is waiting for his wife to arrive, she was slain in a previous chapter. Now that the hero has learned that his wife has passed away, the reader is gripped with anticipation and dread for what they know is about to happen.
3. Think about investigating the viewpoint of the story's antagonist rather than narrating the tale from your hero's perspective. This will provide the reader with information that the protagonist is missing, resulting in dramatic irony and tension.
4. To accentuate and heighten dramatic irony, center pivotal moments in your narrative around sarcastic remarks made by your characters. For instance, in Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park, John Hammond's character frequently claims that he "spared no expense" when creating the theme |
[Taza Schaming, Part 2: The Tools I Use] This is some of the technology that I use for my project. We have a radio, the GPS, and then my receiver and antenna setup. This is the radio that I | [Taza Schaming, Part 2: The Tools I Use] This is some of the technology that I use for my project. We have a radio, the GPS, and then my receiver and antenna setup. This is the radio that I actually put on the bird. I sewed these backpack harnesses by myself, and they’re made out of Teflon which is really strong material. They actually go on just like a backpack, like you’d wear a backpack to school, and these little radios have a nice long antennae on them. They emit a pulse every couple of seconds, so when they’re emitting a pulse if I’m listening for them I can hear a beep beep beep sound and I know I’m near whatever bird’s carrying this radio. I use this GPS constantly. Whenever I trap a bird I GPS the location. Whenever I’m actually radio tracking, each time I find a bird, and each time that bird moves to a different location I GPS wherever it is. The geographical data that I’m collecting is really important. I’m trying to understand better what habitats nutcrackers are using so that we can design appropriate management strategies to protect those habitats. This is a receiver and it’s connected with a cord to the antenna. With this receiver antenna setup I am able to actually track individual birds. I can program in 20 different frequencies and I can switch from frequency to frequency. When I decide I want to take one bird, say I want to track bird number 201, I will type in 201’s frequency and then I will actually be able to use this antenna to determine which direction the bird is, and then I will be able to follow the bird by using the antenna, and by changing the sensitivity on this receiver. Without this technology, I wouldn’t be able to track individual birds, therefore I wouldn’t really understand what birds needed in terms of habitat, and therefore I couldn’t, one couldn’t develop management strategies to help preserve the birds. And if it turns out that these birds are declining, which we anecdotally think they are, we really need to know what habitats are important to the birds so that we can design really good management strategies to actually protect the birds. [Produced by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and Hobart and William Smith Colleges through the Crossing Boundaries Project]End of transcript
Finding Your Study Subjects: Tools of the Wildlife Biologist
Taza Schaming, a Cornell graduate student, explains the tools she uses to track individual birds in her study of the impact of climate change on Clark’s Nutcrackers. After she has banded and placed radio tags on individual nutcrackers using hand sewn Teflon backpack straps, she uses a radio antenna to track them and keep tabs on their social lives and foraging behavior. Without these tools, she would not be able to be so nosy. |
The field of computing is constantly expanding and growing, and cloud computing is no exception. It is gaining attention by offering various computing services such as cloud storage, cloud hosting, and cloud servers to various businesses and academic institutions. From the other end, | The field of computing is constantly expanding and growing, and cloud computing is no exception. It is gaining attention by offering various computing services such as cloud storage, cloud hosting, and cloud servers to various businesses and academic institutions. From the other end, there are several concerns over cloud security and privacy. In the cloud computing environment, security is still a major issue. With all of the advantages of cloud computing, there are numerous security issues about infrastructure, virtualization, networking, data, and service providers that serve as a major barrier to cloud acceptance in the IT industry. In this paper, various protection and privacy issues related to cloud infrastructure are analyzed.Keywords: Security, Privacy, Cloud.
The advanced generation of Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS), Galileo system and GPS system use a modern modulation process named as Binary Offset Carrier (BOC) modulation. BOC signal is the product in time domain of PRN code, a sinusoidal carrier, a subcarrier and a data sequence. This paper presents the general difference between BPSK modulation and BOC modulation. Followed by this, BOC scheme is further explained in detail along with its different variants, Acquisition techniques and Tracking schemes.Keywords: GNSS, BOC, BPSK, Acquisition techniques and tracking schemes.
Fog computing helps in storing data near to end users and it is taken as the modified level of cloud computing. There are many cloud platforms where we can store the data but because of some limitations, lots of data could not be processed on time. Apart from that, there are various challenges in terms of load balancing over cloud which we need to handle very carefully sothat there is no congestion, less energy consumption and minimum delay in processing. With the help of optimized load balancing models and algorithms, we can increase the productivity of fog-cloud networks. The main objective of this study is to compare the results of load balancing algorithms which creates warehouse of data at very fast access rate to the mobile users. At present scenario, this can be easily done using fog computing in very accessible way. It is an interface between end users and cloud layer and provides higher data access and retrieval services to the end users. This paper includes architecture of cloud computing and its attributes which is necessary to concentrate on the interplay and coordination in between fog and cloud layer. This paper also focuses on some important parameters which are considered in minimizing load over fog-cloud and try to improve the data access rate.Keywords: Fog-Cloud computing, optimization, delay in power or energy consumption, workload distribution.
The mathematical modelling and linearization of the laboratory non-linear aerial dynamical system, the Twin rotor MIMO system (TRMS), are presented in this paper. It can be used to solve real-world problems and to test the efficiency of controllers in control engineering. To achieve stable hovering conditions, a feedback control system with Tilted-Integral Derivative (TID) and Integral-Tilted Derivative (I-TD) controllers is linked within the continuous feedback loop for improving the control signal and varying the operational gains accordingly, taking into account high order nonlinearities and TRMS instability. Grey Wolf Optimization, a reliable and powerful metaheuristic evolutionary algorithm, is used to optimize the designed controllers. Manual disturbances are applied to both the yaw and pitch actuator angle stabilization controllers to validate their accuracy.Keywords: Dynamical Aerial System, TID, I-TD, Grey Wolf Optimization, TRMS, Controller Design.
Use of waste product (discarded item for consumption) in concrete as partial replacement of cement could be a stepping stone in development of sustainable ecofriendly materials. In this paper waste glass powder is used for the investigation regarding replacement of cement in concrete. The pozzolanic properties of fine glass powder make it suitable for application in concrete. In order to commenced the study a number of experiments has been takes place like Compressive Strength Test (CST), Slump Test (ST) and Flexural Strength Test (FST). Above mentioned tests were conducted to investigate the replacement of cement by using 10% glass powder. A set of different curing age (7 days and 28 days) is considered for the experimentation purposes. Results obtained from strength tests of the glass powder based concrete were promising and clearly indicating towards the better economic aspects of glass powder for utilization as the replacement of cement in concrete.Keywords:
Algal biomass is considered as best option for clean and green energy due to its fastest growth, sink for pollutants. This study deals with biofuel production from the algal biomass collected from River Kharkai at Jamshedpur, Jharkhand processed under laboratory. Chlorella vulgaris, Chlamydomonas rheinhardii, Botryococcus braunii, Scenedesmus sp.,Microcystis aeruginosa, Nitzschia sp.,Cladophora sp.,Porphyridium cruentum,Zygnema sp.,Spirogyra sp., Synechoccus sp are the major algal species recorded during study period that have biofuel generation capacity. An amount of 0.865 g dry wt m-2 algal biomass collected from the site. Soxhlet extraction method having chloroform: methanol (2:1) was used for Lipid extraction. 21.87% of lipid was extracted from collected algal biomass. Extracted lipids were further hydrolyzed for release of fermentable sugar by trans-esterification and single step acid hydrolysis process. These fermentable sugars converted into an amount of 56.76% bioethanol which shows the green energy potential of River Kharkai.Keywords: Algal Biomass, Green Energy, Bioethanol, River Kharkai.
Research paper presents simulation study of submitting technical losses of existing and renewable integrated real time network. All along with variations recorded in voltage profile at 400 KV levels are deliberately presented with test network modeling of existing system that is a part of Indian National grid synchronized at 765 KV and 400 KV voltage levels. Disturbances recorded for the financial year 2018-19 is being practiced to judge the increment of losses that are possibly to raise with the adherence of renewable energy system from 20 % to 70 % in a gap of ten percent. The paper discusses test network modeling basics, operations strategy in case of voltage issues are briefed. System deficiencies are represented with possible suggestions.Keywords:
In the recent years, the scenario of education has changed a lot. It has moved from one platform to another by using various new techniques and technologies. In this sector, the new technology tha |
Oh, the many things we’ve gotten wrong about health. And iron is a big one! So many people don’t realize that what appears to be “iron deficiency” is actually iron dysfunction.
Your ability to utilize oxygen properly in your body and | Oh, the many things we’ve gotten wrong about health. And iron is a big one! So many people don’t realize that what appears to be “iron deficiency” is actually iron dysfunction.
Your ability to utilize oxygen properly in your body and make energy in your cells is the ultimate predictor of health. That’s why it’s so important to understand how iron and oxygen interact in the body.
When we talk about anemia, what that means is the body has a low amount of healthy red blood cells to carry oxygen through the body. Yes, that is a big problem. BUT, instead of asking WHY red blood cells are low or WHY serum iron is low, we just usher in iron supplements.
It’s really hard to be truly “iron deficient”
Iron has been heavily added to our food system for 70+ years, it’s in tap water, pharmaceuticals, birth control, and cosmetics. HOW could we be truly deficient?
Many people are consuming massive quantities of iron every day, yet still have low RBC and low serum iron. It doesn’t add up! (unless, of course, you are literally bleeding out).
Morley Robbins equates using iron to try to stimulate red blood cells as the equivalent of “using cocaine to stay awake and alcohol to stay asleep.” On the surface, it gets the job done, but also while causing serious damage to your health and body and doesn’t address any underlying issues.
Iron is the metal that ages us. It reacts with oxygen to create rust (without the presence of copper). It triggers magnesium loss that leads to chronic inflammation. Iron is at the root of chronic illness.
There is a difference between iron deficiency and iron dysregulation. There is also a difference between iron in the blood and iron in the tissue. We are actually struggling with iron overload in the tissues.
What is iron overload?
Iron overload is an excess of iron that accumulates in the tissues, liver, endocrine glands, joints, and other organs.
This can manifest as hormone imbalances, PCOS, arthritis, diabetes, hypothyroidism, infertility, chronic infection, bacterial/yeast overgrowth, depression and many other chronic illnesses.
Excessive amounts of iron, combined with lack of bioavailable copper and retinol are the biggest contributing factors to iron overload. Iron overload is one of the biggest contributing factors to inflammation and chronic illness.
How does iron get unbound?
Due to nutrient deficiencies and modern living, we are not able to metabolize or process iron the way we were designed. When iron can’t maintain homeostasis, it results in chronic unbound iron that reacts badly with oxygen (oxidation!).
So how does iron get unbound? There are many factors at play, but some of the biggest contributors are:
TOO MUCH IRON FROM:
- Fortified foods (grains, wheat, bread, cereals)
- Birth control
- Tap water
- Prenatal and multivitamins
- Baby formula
- Even makeup and cosmetics!
- Bioavailable copper
- Retinol (preformed vitamin A from animal foods)
- Ceruloplasmin (copper-activated protein)
Unbound iron = chronic inflammation
“When you introduce too much iron into the mitochondria, med |
William Shakespeare definitely wouldn’t have taken China into a consideration when he exclaimed, ‘What’s in a name?’ For Chinese revisionism and belligerence, changing geographical and historical names is a matter of State policy. Intrude into foreign territory when | William Shakespeare definitely wouldn’t have taken China into a consideration when he exclaimed, ‘What’s in a name?’ For Chinese revisionism and belligerence, changing geographical and historical names is a matter of State policy. Intrude into foreign territory when no one’s looking, occupy geographical features and give them ‘historical’ Chinese names- this is how Chinese expansionism works.
China is at it yet again. Recently, a Chinese PLA statement indicated that India had entered “Shenpao Shan” area near the Southern bank of Pangong Tso. This was the first time that China actually used “Shenpao Shan” for the geographical feature instead of “Heiding”, which means “Blacktop” and recognises Indian sovereignty over the mountain.
Therefore, when the PLA started claiming that India had crossed into “Shenpao Shan”, the strategic experts were left befuddled because they couldn’t understand what China meant. However, now it has become clear that by using “Shenpao Shan” that translates into “Vulcan Mountain”, China was trying to claim sovereignty over Blacktop.
But then China’s name-changing tactics in Ladakh aren’t really surprising. The blacktop is still just a geographical feature; Beijing can go as far as changing the names of entire countries, after occupying them. Therefore, in the 1950s and 1960s, Tibet became Xizang (Western Tsang) and East Turkestan became Xinjiang (New Frontier).
India itself is a victim of Chinese revisionism and geographical name-changing. Take for instance China occupied Ladakh. The Chinese PLA illegally occupies a part of Ladakh since the 1962 Sino-India war. Interestingly, Beijing calls this occupied territory- Aksai China that translates into “Chin’s desert of white stones. The nomenclature, of course, militates against factual realities. Ladakh was separated from China by independent countries of Tibet and East Turkestan, and therefore ‘Aksai Chin’ couldn’t have historically existed.
On the Eastern side of the Line of Actual Control (LAC) — the de facto Indo-Tibetan border, Beijing calls India’s Arunachal Pradesh ‘South Tibet’. In 2017, China unilaterally renamed six places in Arunachal Pradesh, as a retaliatory move after the Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama visited the Indian state.
Within China also, there is a tendency to patronise the Chinese language over native languages. Therefore, the name of Xinjiang’s Capital was changed from Dihua to Urumqi in 1954. Zhenxi in Xinjiang was also changed to Barkol as a part of Han Chinese domination and imposition of Chinese culture over Xinjiang’s Uyghur demographic profile.
On its other fronts also, China follows similar name-changing policies. Take the Russian Far East, for example. Recently, Chinese diplomats and State-run media started claiming sovereignty over the Russian Far East city of Vladivostok. China once again tried to impose a traditional Chinese name over the Russian city.
Hu Xijin, the editor-in-chief of Global Times, a CCP mouthpiece that serves as an extended arm of the Chinese Foreign Ministry, refused to refer to Vladivostok as “Tongzhi Dongfang” or “Ruler of the East”, which is the meaning of its Russian name and chose to call it by the Chinese pseudonym- Haishenwei.
In fact, one will find that every single territory disputed by Beijing has a different Chinese name. Very often, Chinese propaganda tries to popularise Beijing’s nomenclature and overwhelm the traditional/ native names, a case in point being Japan’s Senkaku Islands chain.
Japan had purchased the Senkaku Islands from a private owner in 2012, but China still claims sovereignty over it. Beijing calls the Island chain as ‘Diaoyu Islands’ and claims sovereignty over them.
If you think, China only renames mountains and cities, you are grossly mistaken. Chinese revisionism in islands and reefs is no less visible than that in mountains and cities. Recently, China unilaterally renamed 80 islands and other geographical features in the South China Sea in a bid to assert sovereignty over these features.
The word ‘South China Sea’ itself is a misnomer. There is no historic name like the South China Sea, and for other claimants in the region, this Sea can assume different names. Vietnam, for example, calls it the East Sea. The world has given China a long rope by accepting the term the South China Sea. And if the location of the Sea is the real determinant, other names like Southeast Asia Sea could be a more accurate description.
How long before the fringe movement to rename the South China Sea the Southeast Asia Sea gathers more steam?
— Dhruva Jaishankar (@d_jaishankar) August 26, 2020
China has an in-built ability to suddenly change geogra |
A lot has already been extensively discussing the game creation process. Even individuals with a superficial knowledge of the gaming industry realize that making entertainment is not inherently enjoyable. With the best of ideas, there may be issues, bottlenecks, miscalcul | A lot has already been extensively discussing the game creation process. Even individuals with a superficial knowledge of the gaming industry realize that making entertainment is not inherently enjoyable. With the best of ideas, there may be issues, bottlenecks, miscalculations, and other surprises.
It isn’t a random tale because each team’s production cycle is unique. Nobody says we won’t tell you anything. Here is where we, as a gaming studio, can help. Be prepared for a wild ride into the world of game development!
The Side and Inside Perspective of Video Game Development
A person who has just passed the video game development process looks at it from the outside and thinks it’s effortless. That’s a big deal. Some people came together and played a game. Many people who haven’t played games before still think that game developers are too slow at making them.
The truth comes out if we don’t look at non-professionalism, and it’s not pretty. The steps to making a video game are complicated and have many segments. Here, you’ll find:
- Preliminary planning and conceptual work are both exciting and exhausting for game designers.
- Work on design and art that inspires and breaks the nerves of artists who must accept and implement ongoing changes.
- Programming and testing are like the fine jewelry work of a glassblower, where we can only fix errors while the glass is still hot.
- Creating sounds and music that should give the game its own unique and inimitable voice and make sound designers think hard about how to avoid being similar to others;
- As well as many other people who connect departments, coordinate, communicate with the customer, and so on.
Game development often equates to game design. This comparison isn’t accurate, and we’ve already told everyone who cares about it. So let’s go over the basics again.
People who make games are the first people to work on a project. They come up with the general idea of the game, come up with an idea, vision, plot, and characters, and figure out who the target audience is for the game. There are many things that they come up with for dialogue, victory and defeat conditions, all of the gameplay elements, and how they will react to the player’s moves. They write the well-known game design document, a guide for the rest of the team.
Game developers work with game designers to make their ideas come to life on paper. It is when they come in. They write code to create an interactive product and put art into it. The artists have already done this, so they don’t have to do this anymore. The developers ensure that the main character and the game world can’t be separated. They also do everything they can to make the idea work.
The Development Stages of a Game
The list below would be the most fundamental of all the phases, squeezed as much as possible:
- People generate concepts in the pre-production stage
- Then they will embody the idea on the production stage
- post-production, where the idea is polished and given to the players on a marketing tray
We’ll elaborate on this relatively simple game development life cycle to further demonstrate the process.
Before you do anything, you should know what you’re doing precisely. It may seem cheesy, but many individuals skip this step, expecting all the specifics to emerge throughout the process. It’s difficult to imagine a more unsophisticated approach to game production.
This step is the construction of the skeleton, the design of the roots, or whatever you want to name it. The bottom line is that it steers the preliminary work. And the more precisely you plan it out, the more harmonic, easy, and trouble-free the subsequent evolution will be.
So, what questions should occur at this critical stage of creating a video game?
- Budget for the game. A limited budget should not imply inferior quality or purposefully awful gameplay. It is a rough assessment quantity of features, the degree of visuals, and the general “packing” of the game.
- Type of game. It should not be confused with the genre. We determine the game style here depending on the budget from numerous options: mini 2D game, casual 2D/3D game, mid-core 3D game, or hardcore 3D game.
- The platform for gaming. It is vital to decide on the forum you will construct the game for mobile devices, PC, consoles, or even a web game.
- Game genre. There’s much to choose from here, including simulation, strategy, sports, adventure, RPG, puzzle, board, etc. You should select the genre based on the size of the eventual game. For example, suppose you have a limited budget. In that case, you should avoid genres like RPGs or simulations since they need the creation and execution of a great deal of complexity.
- The intended audience. This point, too, has complexities. When creating a casual game, you want to reach as many diverse players as possible. It is critical to establish the game’s primary customer if it has a more precisely established genre.
Answers to these documented questions give an established standard for all team members to build on as they work. After this information package is clear, we go |
What is a Living Will / Advance Health Care Directive?
It can be difficult to think about a time in your life where you may not be able to make medical decisions for yourself. Many of us associate this type of situation with aging or becoming termin | What is a Living Will / Advance Health Care Directive?
It can be difficult to think about a time in your life where you may not be able to make medical decisions for yourself. Many of us associate this type of situation with aging or becoming terminally ill. However, an accident or sudden illness could suddenly strike down a healthy adult without warning. If this were to happen to you or your spouse, would either of you know each other’s wishes regarding what health care you want or do not want? Would your children or other family members know your preferences, either?
California residents can use the Advance Health Care Directive (ACHD) to make their wishes for medical care known legally.
The AHCD allows you to do two things that can take the pressure off family members and medical professionals in deciding what care should be provided and who should make health decisions on your behalf:
- Written Instructions for Future Health Care
- Appointing a Health Care Agent
#1: Written Instructions for Future Health Care
With ACHD, you can create a legal written document that states your wishes as to what medical treatments should be used or not used to keep you alive. It also indicates your preferences for other medical decisions that may need to be made if you are unable to make them for yourself in a life or death situation, including:
- Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) or the use of devices that use an electrical shock to restart your heart if it stops beating
- Mechanical ventilation that could be used if you are unable to breathe on your own
- Tube feeding or intravenous feeding to supply your body with fluids and nutrients if you cannot eat or drink
- Dialysis that could be used to remove waste from your blood and manage fluid levels when your kidneys do not function
- An |
Precision medicine aims to carefully target cancer and other diseases with the right drug at the right time for the right patient (a mantra that is getting a bit old). It’s a worthwhile goal, but it spends a lot of health care time, energy | Precision medicine aims to carefully target cancer and other diseases with the right drug at the right time for the right patient (a mantra that is getting a bit old). It’s a worthwhile goal, but it spends a lot of health care time, energy, and money on the tail end of disease.
I believe we should be more aggressively pursuing precision health: ways to prevent disease and, when that isn’t possible, intercept and treat it earlier.
My colleagues and I at Stanford have been working on novel technologies that, although they are still in development stages, point the way to how precision health could work.
Precision health begins with customized risk monitoring based on models drawn from every individual’s age, family history, genetic sequencing, and exposome (the collection of nongenetic exposures that affect human health and disease). Each of us would be monitored in ways that are unique to our risks, which would likely be different from our co-workers or neighbors, who have different disease risks.
This kind of monitoring would occur in several ways. Devices like the Fitbit and Apple Watch, already used by millions of people, provide ways to measure physiology. Integrating sensors into clothing will extend their reach. But we must also monitor biomarkers in the blood, in exhaled air, in saliva, and in urine and stool. This would ideally be done by home devices that don’t require you to wear something or change your behavior.
The smart toilet represents one such device. In developed countries, every home has a toilet, which the inhabitants use every day. Adapting this tool to detect markers of disease such as blood in the stool, sugar in the urine, or circulating tumor cells and send warning signals to the user — and his or her physician — could detect disease while it is still preventable, or at least treatable.
Early cancer detection presents a challenge: the amount of a biomarker or the number of circulating cancer cells in the blood is extremely low. A tube of blood or two, or six, might have too little to measure. Our team decided to flip around the problem. Instead of bringing blood to the sensor, we brought the sensor to the blood. We developed the MagWIRE, a magnetic wire that attracts circulating cancer cells labeled with magnetic nanoparticles. Inserted into a vein for 10 to 20 minutes, it would be able to “scan” almost the entire blood volume for cancer cells and capture them, allowing for accurate measurement.
But what about cancers that aren’t showing their hand, or aren’t making the biomarkers we’ve learned to look for? It’s possible to force them to reveal themselves using tiny rings of single-stranded DNA called minicircles. We initially used minicircles that code for a protein called secreted embryonic alkaline phosphatase, which isn’t present in adult cells. The minicircles also contain a promoter that regulates production of a protein called survivin. The promoter is “on” only in cancer cells. When we injected these minicircles into mice, all cells took them up. Two days later, embryonic alkaline phosphatase began to appear in the blood of mice with cancer, but not in those without.
If this technology pans out in humans, you could pop an early cancer detection pill once a year and then have your blood or urine tested for the molecule wired into the minicircle. This technology would also let doctors see where those active cancer cells are by forcing them to make a signal that shows up on imaging.
To make early cancer detection happen in real time, rather than on artificial monthly or yearly schedules, we have been looking at ways to re-engineer immune cells to constantly patrol the body for signs of cancer. When such genetically modified immune cells encounter cancer cells, they send a signal by secreting a compound of our choosing into the blood that could be measured in the urine by a smart toilet.
This represents a powerful approach because those cells would potentially live with you forever, serving as 24/7 cancer detectors.
To make these kinds of advances work, we must develop a better understanding of the biology of cancer and other diseases. Today, the technology is way ahead of the biology, especially regarding the transition from health to illness. Much more work is needed to identify the earliest tell-tale signs of illness and their molecular signs.
To do that, my colleagues and I have been working with Google and Verily on Project Baseline. Designed from the ground up to study in a deep way what’s happening when you are healthy, it will offer clues as to what happens when people transition to illness.
The reality of precision health is still a long way off. But the goal of preventing disease, and identifying it early when it occurs, is a payoff worth working for.
Sanjiv Sam Gambhir, M.D., is chair of radiology at Stanford University School of Medicine and director of the Canary Center at Stanford for Cancer Early Detection.
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Following a report issued late last month by the World Health Organization suggesting cell phones may be carcinogenic, The Economist has published a response column dismissing the report as overblown. According to the report, low-frequency microwaves such as those emitted | Following a report issued late last month by the World Health Organization suggesting cell phones may be carcinogenic, The Economist has published a response column dismissing the report as overblown. According to the report, low-frequency microwaves such as those emitted by cell phones simply do not have enough power to produce anything but extremely low levels of heat. “No matter how powerful the transmitter, radio waves simply cannot produce ionising radiation,” the column reads. “Only gamma rays, X-rays and extreme ultra-violet waves, which operate in the far (ie, high-frequency) end of the electromagnetic spectrum, along with fission fragments and other particles from within an atom, and cosmic rays (those particles’ equivalents from outer space) are energetic enough t |
Submitted to: Arthropod-Plant Interactions
Publication Type: Peer Reviewed Journal
Publication Acceptance Date: 2/18/2012
Publication Date: 9/1/2012
Citation: Sisterson, M | Submitted to: Arthropod-Plant Interactions
Publication Type: Peer Reviewed Journal
Publication Acceptance Date: 2/18/2012
Publication Date: 9/1/2012
Citation: Sisterson, M.S. 2012. Host selection by a phytophagous insect: the interplay between feeding, egg maturation, egg load, and oviposition. Arthropod-Plant Interactions. 6:351-360.
Interpretive Summary: The glassy-winged sharpshooter (Homalodisca vitripennis) is a primary vector of Xylella fastidiosa in Southern California and southern portions of the San Joaquin Valley. For insect transmitted pathogens, patterns of pathogen spread reflect movement patterns of the vector. Thus, a better understanding of movement patterns of the glassy-winged sharpshooter will provide insight into spread of X. fastidiosa. Key aspects of insect movement patterns include selection of plants for feeding and egg laying. Studies on selection of plants for feeding found that plant species varied in quality for providing nutrients to mature eggs and that females preferentially fed on plant species that imparted the greatest egg maturation rate. Studies on selection of plants for egg laying found that females were more likely to deposit eggs as egg load (number of mature eggs carried by a female) increased. Further, females were more likely to accept a low-ranked egg laying host as egg load and time since last egg deposition increased. Results of this study will improve understanding of the epidemiology of diseases caused by X. fastidiosa and will aid in development of novel management strategies for the glassy-winged sharpshooter.
Technical Abstract: Understanding movement patterns of phytophagous insects among plants is a primary goal of insect ecology. Adult females may visit plants for the purpose of depositing eggs, feeding, or both. For some species, egg maturation may be dependent on adult feeding. As a result, rates of egg maturation may be dependent on both quality and quantity of available food sources. Such effects of the plant community on egg maturation could in turn affect oviposition behavior via changes in egg load (number of mature eggs carried by a female). To determine if such effects are possible, experiments were conducted using the glassy-winged sharpshooter, Homalodisca vitripennis. No-choice tests demonstrated that eggs accumulated in the female abdomen as time since last oviposition increased largely as a function of feeding plant species. In choice tests, females were observed most frequently on plant species that imparted the greatest egg maturation rate in no-choice tests. Direct tests of the effects of egg load on oviposition behavior found that females were more likely to deposit eggs as egg load increased. Similarly, acceptance of a low ranked oviposition host increased with egg load and time since last oviposition. The results indicate that adult feeding affects egg maturation, plants vary in quality for providing nutrients to mature eggs, and egg load affects oviposition behavior. Thus, quantity and quality of feeding plants within a community will affect egg maturation rates which, in turn, may affect choice of oviposition plant. |
When I moved on to my plot, I inherited a leylandii trunk that was far too big to cut up by hand. It was at best something to perch on, which is exactly what I did with it until I read Sepp Hol | When I moved on to my plot, I inherited a leylandii trunk that was far too big to cut up by hand. It was at best something to perch on, which is exactly what I did with it until I read Sepp Holzer's Permaculture (Permanent Publications, £18.95). Here I found my solution: a raised bed that looks after itself. Powered by rotting wood, it needs no feeding or watering for years. It's called hugelkultur, and it works remarkably well.
Hugelkultur, in simple terms, is a raised bed with very steep sides. Deep at the centre of the bed is rotting wood, brush or other bulky organic material, covered with upturned turf and topsoil. The wood at the centre acts like a sponge, absorbing water and releasing heat as it breaks down. It also feeds the bed, slowly releasing nutrients. It's best if the wood is a whole trunk, because this rots slowly and steadily, rather than all at once (which is what happens if you use bark chippings).
The wood has to be buried deep, though, or you get a huge amount of nitrogen lock-up. As wood breaks down, it robs nitrogen from the soil to aid decomposition; once broken down, it releases it again, but that is some time away and nearby plants may struggle, especially if they're trying to establish themselves.
My trunk was 10ft long, a foot or so across and just beginning to rot, so perfect for the job. It was buried to where the soil changed colour and became heavier, and on top went brambles, twigs, more brush and very rough compost and autumn leaves. I also put in some nettle and comfrey tops, to help with potential nitrogen lock-up issues. I had no turf to hand, so a layer of grass clippings and then topsoil went on top.
In the first year, you ne |
Wednesday, 13 January 2016
In the past, the meteorological service for aviation users in Europe was organized at the level of each country: the National Met Service provided information to the Air Navigation Service Provider in charge of controlling the national | Wednesday, 13 January 2016
In the past, the meteorological service for aviation users in Europe was organized at the level of each country: the National Met Service provided information to the Air Navigation Service Provider in charge of controlling the national air space, with little cooperation between neighboring countries. Reducing the fragmentation of this organization is often seen as a way to reduce it's cost and to enhance the global quality of the service. With this in mind the European Commission has decided to set up the Single European Sky (SES) initiative. As part of the SESAR European program (Single European Sky Air Traffic Management Research program), major European meteorological service providers (mainly UK MetOffice, DWD – Germany, and Meteo-France) have developed a prototype for a unique access point to all meteorological information from Europe, the METGATE. Th |
Researchers from Zhangda Hospital found that sleeping face-down can improve your breathing if you have the disease
With symptoms including a fever and dry cough, it can be tricky to know if you’ve been infected or simply have the common cold.
Now, | Researchers from Zhangda Hospital found that sleeping face-down can improve your breathing if you have the disease
With symptoms including a fever and dry cough, it can be tricky to know if you’ve been infected or simply have the common cold.
Now, scientists have advised that if you think you have the virus, it may be wise to reconsider your sleeping position.
Researchers from Zhangda Hospital found that sleeping face-down can improve your breathing if you have the disease.
In the study, the researchers analysed 12 coronavirus patients on ventilators, and found that lying face down was better for the lungs.
Professor Haibo Qiu, who led the study, said: “This study is the first description of the behaviour of the lungs in patients with severe COVID-19 requiring mechanical ventilation and receiving positive pressure.
“It indicates that some patients do not respond well to high positive pressure and respond better to prone positioning in bed (facing downward).”
While the study only assessed 12 patients, the researchers hope the findings will encourage people showing symptoms to re-think their body positioning in bed.
Professor Chun Pan, co-author of the study, added: “It is only a small number of patients, but our study shows that many patients did not re-open their lungs under high positive pressure and may be exposed to more harm than benefit in trying to increase the pressure.
“By contrast, the lung improves when the patient is in the prone position.
“Considering this can be done, it is important for the management of patients with severe COVID-19 requiring mechanical ventilation.” |
How Does Domestic Violence Affect Children?
So often, we hear victims of domestic violence say that they stayed in an abusive relationship for the children. This is a sacrifice and gift that many victims are willing to give their children. There seems to be | How Does Domestic Violence Affect Children?
So often, we hear victims of domestic violence say that they stayed in an abusive relationship for the children. This is a sacrifice and gift that many victims are willing to give their children. There seems to be a belief that, as long as a child is not being physically harmed by the abuser or not witnessing the physical abuse perpetrated by the abuser, the children are better off in a two-parent household. But what are we really giving our children when we stay in an abusive relationship?
First, no matter how careful you are to ensure the children do not witness any physical abuse—perhaps they are in another room or they are asleep—they can still hear what is happening. They can hear what leads up to the physical abuse—yelling, threatening, belittling, demeaning, etc. And children sense the tension– the enraged abuser, the hurt and scared victim, the broken objects in the home. They are often witnesses to the aftermath of the abuse—the bruises, the fear, the apology from the abuser, the promises that it will never happen again. To believe that the children in a home where domestic violence occurs have no idea about the abuse is to hide behind a lie of convenience and denial.
Living in a home where domestic violence occurs can affect children in a myriad of ways.
The brain development of children in the first 5 years of life who are exposed to domestic violence can be negatively affected. If a child does not have a secure ongoing relationship to a caretaker and that caregiver is unable to co-regulate her emotions in the presence of a stressor so that the child can regulate his or her own emotions the child can have poor mother-infant attachment.
Further, a study of 1,116 twins found that exposure to domestic violence during childhood lead to decreased IQ compared with the children who were not exposed to domestic violence.
Children often internalize events and behaviors. Like many children who blame themselves for their parents’ divorce, children often blame themselves for the cycle of abuse they witness. This can lead to anxiety and/or depression. For school-age children, it can lead to lower self-esteem, acting out in school, skipping school and psychosomatic issues such as headaches and stomachaches.
Teens who have witnessed abuse may start acting out by fighting with family members. They may begin to engage in risky behaviors such as having unprotected sex and/or using alcohol or drugs. Boys may tend to engage in fighting or bullying behavior. Girls may tend to be more withdrawn and may experience depression.
Young children who witness domestic violence often regress and begin bed-wetting, thumb-sucking, having trouble sleeping and showing signs of separation anxiety.
A boy who witnesses his mother being abused is 10 times more likely to abuse his female partner as an adult. Girls who see their fathers abuse their mothers are 6 times more likely to be sexually abused.
Witnessing the nightmare of an abusive relationship normalizes that kind of relationship for children. They often grow up to believe that love is equivalent to pain and fear.
Not only is it harmful for children to see one of their parents hurt or abused by their other parent, there is no guarantee that the abuser will refrain from abusing the children. If someone is willing to abuse their partner, why would they stop there?
The myth that children should grow up in a two-parent household at all costs is not only false, but it can be devastating for children. We should consider the emotional trauma of helplessly watching as one of your parents continues to be scared and hurt by the other parent. Studies show that children need a safe, stable environment, whether there are two parents or one parent in that environment. Not only is this critical for children, the guilt children may feel as adults knowing that a parent stayed in an abusive relationship for them can be crippling.
No one deserves to be abused. And no child deserves to witness a parent hurt another parent. As a society, we pay lip service to the welfare and success of our children. However, if we cannot ensure that each child lives in a safe and stable home f |
Posted: June 16th, 2017
A nurse prepares to administer a vitamin K injection to a newborn infant. The mother asks the nurse why her newborn infant needs the injection. The best response by the nurse would be:
A. | Posted: June 16th, 2017
A nurse prepares to administer a vitamin K injection to a newborn infant. The mother asks the nurse why her newborn infant needs the injection. The best response by the nurse would be:
A. “You infant needs vitamin K to develop immunity.”
B. “The vitamin K will protect your infant from being jaundiced.”
C. “Newborn infants are deficient in vitamin K, and this injection prevents your infant from abnormal bleeding.”
D. “Newborn infants have sterile bowels, and vitamin K promotes the growth of bacteria in the bowel.”
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Racist Textbooks Endured, Presenting Alternate ‘History’ to Alabama Students for 70 Years
Slaves in Alabama could thank their masters for providing them with one of the earliest versions of social security, according to a ninth grade textbook used | Racist Textbooks Endured, Presenting Alternate ‘History’ to Alabama Students for 70 Years
Slaves in Alabama could thank their masters for providing them with one of the earliest versions of social security, according to a ninth grade textbook used for more than a decade in public schools.
The textbook — Charles Grayson Summersell’s “Alabama History for Schools” — dismissed realities of slavery, glorified the Confederacy and defended deeds of the Ku Klux Klan.
Summersell’s textbook was the ninth grade companion to Frank L. Owlsey’s “Know Alabama,” written for fourth graders. In addition to repeating much of the same Lost Cause ideology, the two esteemed authors shared similar career paths, which included serving as chair of the history department at the University of Alabama. They influenced tens of thousands of grammar-school children, high school and college students, and professors.
Both authors also drew from predecessors such as Alabama history textbook writers L.D. Miller, Albert B. Moore, L. Lamar Matthews and others for a now-disputed version of history repeated for about seven decades.
Teachers were still using Owsley’s and Summersell’s books after classrooms were widely integrated in the late 1960s, and they continued to use revised editions well into the 1970s. The later editions toned down the contention that slaves were mostly happy and contented.
Wayne Flynt, history professor emeritus at Auburn University, gives multiple examples of how Summersell and other authors defended slavery in Alabama.
“Just one big happy family, with well-intentioned whites taking care of a child-race, which knew no better,” Flynt summarized. “Of course, to be fair to them (these authors), they were creatures of their times, many the sons or grandsons of slave owners. And the civil rights movement educated my generation as stories about Confederate valor and honor dominated theirs.”
Slavery as Social Security
Perhaps Summersell’s most unsettling statements to high school students come when he cites benefits he contends slaves enjoyed. In the 1957 edition of his textbook, he writes:
With all the drawbacks of slavery, it should be noted that slavery was the earliest form of social security in the United States. It was the legal responsibility of the master to take care of aged workers. It was against the law to emancipate a slave after he was too old to work. The master was responsible for looking after his over-aged slaves.
The author devotes little space to the “drawbacks” of slavery. Scattered through the chapter on slavery, he mentions that punishment for slaves included lashing. He acknowledges it was against the law to teach slaves how to read and write. He states that slaves were not allowed to leave the plantation without a pass and could not own property.
Summersell described the |
In Power Automate, we need to parse a lot of strings and collections and, sometimes, it’s essential to understand if we have something that exists inside another collection. Power Automate has the “contains” function that helps with this.
For | In Power Automate, we need to parse a lot of strings and collections and, sometimes, it’s essential to understand if we have something that exists inside another collection. Power Automate has the “contains” function that helps with this.
For example, if you want to go through a list of people and get the unique names, you would need to:
- Define an array variable
- For each element
- If it exists in the collection, add it to the array.
It’s a simple example, but it would be a lot harder without the “contains” function.
So let’s see how to use it.
It follows a simple pattern.
- Collection (either a string or an object)
- Value to search
Let’s start with a simple example:
createArray('1','2','3') contains(variables('TEST_ARRAY'),'2') will return true
It makes sense since two exist somewhere in the collection. But how about if we provide the number “two” instead of the string “two”?
createArray('1','2','3') contains(variables('TEST_ARRAY'),2) will return true
The number will be converted to a string and then compared. Speaking of comparisons, let’s try with spaces and see what we get.
createArray('Manuel','T','Gomes') con |
Citizen Science Condition Monitoring Project
This project engages with citizen scientists and the Community Collaborative Rain, Hail, and Snow (CoCoRaHS) Network to promote drought impacts reporting. Observers provide weekly “condition monitoring” reports to document | Citizen Science Condition Monitoring Project
This project engages with citizen scientists and the Community Collaborative Rain, Hail, and Snow (CoCoRaHS) Network to promote drought impacts reporting. Observers provide weekly “condition monitoring” reports to document effects of weather and climate on their communities.
In collaboration with the National Integrated Drought Information System, the National Drought Mitigation Center, and the CoCoRaHS network, the Carolinas Integrated Sciences and Assessments (CISA) program developed the Condition Monitoring approach as a pilot under the Coastal Carolinas Drought Early Warning System (now part of the Southeast DEWS). This successful regional effort was expanded to a national scale in 2016. As of November 2019, over 48,000 reports had been submitted by more nearly 4,500 observers. |
Solenoid valve, also called the electric valve. With the development of microelectronics and computer technology, more and more problems have arisen in the use of these electric valves. For example, the control accuracy is not high, field debugging is inconvenient | Solenoid valve, also called the electric valve. With the development of microelectronics and computer technology, more and more problems have arisen in the use of these electric valves. For example, the control accuracy is not high, field debugging is inconvenient, fault diagnosis method is not perfect, which makes the original electric valve more and more unable to meet the needs of modern industrial development, will be eliminated. Therefore, it is of great significance to effectively transform the electric valve, an important industrial mechanical product, to improve its intelligence, to computerize its control process, to digitize its communication function, to intellectualize fault diagnosis and processing, and to remotely detect it.
The actual valve position has only three positions: open, close and middle. The valve position is controlled by the output torque of the valve motor. At present, the stroke switch is usually used to control valve motor and torque switch to protect the valve. However, stroke switches and moment switches are usually installed on the electric actuator, so the valve position signal cannot be obtained directly from the valve shaft, which makes the indication value of the valve position only an approximate value, leading to the valve closed lax or inadequate opening. If the output torque is too small, it will cause difficulty in opening and closing the controlled valve, which will easily cause electric power and burning. If the output torque is too large, once the control of the electric actuator fails, it will easily cause damage to the local structure of the valve. Therefore, this control method can not directly control the opening and closing of the valve, and the control accuracy is relatively low.
All along, the solution to valve leakage is from the valve. Optimize the design of valve structure, select the material of valve according to different process conditions, improve the quality control level in the production process of the valve, and optimize the selection of valve according to various process conditions in the chemical production process.
Electric valves are composed of valves and electric actuators, but up to now, the production of these two parts is still produced by different manufacturers. The structure of the valve is relatively simple, while the structure of the electric actuator is relatively complex. Therefore, more and more people are turning their attention to the electric actuator and devoting themselves to improving its intelligence level.
In recent years, with the rapid development of microelectronics, computer, communication network technology, and electromechanical integration technology, valve electric actuator has developed rapidly. These intelligent sanitary valve electric actuators adopt microprocessor system, and all control functions can be realized by programming. At present, the main products of the advanced intelligent valve electric actuator are:
Adamant Valves introduced intelligent electric actuators including an electric actuated butterfly valve in the 1990s. Compared with ordinary actuators, they have the following characteristics:
(1) Convenient parameter remote control setting function. Before putting into use, as long as the special setting tool provided by the manufacturer is used, the alignment actuator can be set by remote control. It not only simplifies the setting of working procedures, but also improves the safe operation of equipment, especially in places requiring explosion-proof.
(2) Rich online display functions. Using liquid crystal display technology and built-in liquid crystal display board, not only can accurately display the valve opening and closing status and normal valve opening, but also can display important information when parameter setting or actuator failure occurs.
For more information, please visit http://www.adamantvalves.com/ |
THIS ARTICLE IS MORE THAN FIVE YEARS OLD
This article is more than five years old. Autism research — and science in general — is constantly evolving, so older articles may contain information or theories that have been reevaluated since their original publication | THIS ARTICLE IS MORE THAN FIVE YEARS OLD
This article is more than five years old. Autism research — and science in general — is constantly evolving, so older articles may contain information or theories that have been reevaluated since their original publication date.
New artificial intelligence software can decode conversations between small monkeys called marmosets. Researchers reported the findings today at the 2017 Society for Neuroscience annual meeting in Washington D.C.
Marmosets are social animals that live in groups. Their vocabulary includes 10 to 15 calls — twitters, trills, chirps, ‘phees’ and various kinds of peeps, each with its own meaning. Studies suggest that like human babies, baby marmosets learn to communicate by hearing other marmosets talk to them1,2.
The monkeys’ human-like communication system has made them popular among scientists who study language, social communication or vocal production. Marmosets carrying autism-linked mutations are also good models for altered social behavior in the condition.
Visual representations of marmoset calls, called spectrograms, also appear as distinct patterns of frequencies. But it is tedious to manually extract the different calls from hours of recordings of screeching monkeys, cage noises and people talking in the background.
“Either you hire a bunch of graduate students to sit through and listen to all of it and classify it or you come up with a way for a computer to do it,” says Samvaran Sharma, an engineer at the McGovern Institute at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, who presented the work. Sharma developed the software with colleagues in Robert Desimone’s laboratory at MIT.
The new program first separates the audio from background noise and detects which segments of the recording contain a monkey call. Spectrograms of those segments are then turned into black and white images. So, for example, a chirp looks like a series of thin vertical white brush strokes, while a phee looks like a thick, slightly curved dash.
These letter-like images are then passed on to an artificial neural network for classification.
Neural networks are algorithms modeled after the brain that excel at finding patterns. To learn the calls, the neural network takes a bunch of examples — say, the images created to represent a phee. It works out what core characteristics define a phee and then uses that pattern to figure out whether a new picture is a phee or something else.
The result is a nicely classified string of marmoset words that researchers can read. From there, they can piece together what the monkeys are saying to each other.
To test the program, the team used samples from hours of audio from small groups of marmosets as they roamed around in their cage interacting with each other. Wireless mics that the monkeys wore on their collars recorded the audio.
The software sifts monkey talk from background noise with 80 percent accuracy and correctly identifies which call the monkeys make more than 90 percent of the time.
The team is working to improve the program’s accuracy. They plan release the code as an out-of-the-box program that requires no expertise to use, Sharma says.
For more reports from the 2017 Society for Neuroscience annual meeting, please click here. |
by Alicia Rudnicki, Library Mix
Who are we? This review is part of a continuing focus on the issues of identity—such as struggling to fit in, having a sense of place, and practicing tolerance.
Machismo versus maturity | by Alicia Rudnicki, Library Mix
Who are we? This review is part of a continuing focus on the issues of identity—such as struggling to fit in, having a sense of place, and practicing tolerance.
Machismo versus maturity
Matt de la Peña’s Mexican Whiteboy is an important book for teens to read no matter what their ethnic or racial background. Danny, the central character, gives voice to the difficult feelings of being split between two cultures and never feeling whole.
Aside from providing a backdrop for discussions about racism, Mexican Whiteboy is ripe with valuable talking points such as the importance of family, maturity versus machismo, taking responsibility for one’s own success, and the negative impact of hiding the truth. It also shows how sports can motivate us to achieve and can draw cultures together.
Danny may be a skinny 16-year-old, but he has long, powerful arms that are made for pitching fastballs. What he doesn’t have is a solid mental game. The emotional instability of his life and his sense of otherness keep him from showing the baseball team at his very white school what he can do.
Danny’s dad, who is Mexican-American, disappeared from his life under mysterious circumstances years ago. Danny doesn’t know where he is, but misses him deeply.
It helps that his mom—who is white and still loves his dad although divorced from him—has maintained close ties with Danny’s paternal relatives.
Brown boy, pale boy
This summer Danny has chosen to live with his dad’s family in the San Diego suburb of National City. Meanwhile, his mom and sister have moved north to San Francisco and are trying out a new life with his mom’s fiancé, a successful white businessman.
Danny is a scholarship student and is a “shade darker than all the white kids at his private high school, Leucadia Prep. Up there, Mexican people do under-the-table yard work and hide out in the hills because they’re in San Diego illegally. Only other people on Leucadia’s campus who share his shade are the lunch-line ladies, the gardeners, the custodians. But whenever Danny comes down here, to National City—where his dad grew up, where all his aunts and uncles and cousins still live—he feels pale.”
Not only does Danny feel pale in the hood, but he often feels clueless since he speaks only a tiny bit o |
Mesothelioma Causes & Risk Factors
Asbestos exposure is the main cause of malignant pleural mesothelioma. Certain occupations, including construction and military service, may increase the risk of exposure and development of mesothelioma.
What | Mesothelioma Causes & Risk Factors
Asbestos exposure is the main cause of malignant pleural mesothelioma. Certain occupations, including construction and military service, may increase the risk of exposure and development of mesothelioma.
What Causes Mesothelioma?
The main cause of mesothelioma is exposure to asbestos.
Doctors first suspected the connection between asbestos and mesothelioma in the 1890s. Research in the 1960s confirmed asbestos exposure as the most important risk factor for the disease.
The heavier the asbestos exposure and the longer a person is exposed throughout their lifetime, the higher the risk for mesothelioma.
Still, even among asbestos-exposed people, pleural mesothelioma is rare. The American Cancer Society estimates there will be approximately 3,000 new cases of mesothelioma in the U.S. in 2019.
How Does Asbestos Cause Mesothelioma?
Pleural mesothelioma develops after a person inhales asbestos. The long, thin fibers pass through the lungs, and they get trapped in the pleura, which is the lining of the lung.
Once trapped, the fibers can trigger tissue damage leading to mesothelioma. This latency period for mesothelioma takes between seven and 70 years.
- Chronic inflammation and cellular injury lead to abnormal cell growth and reproduction.
- Genetic mutations (changes) move cells on the pathway from normal to cancerous.
- Free radical damage causes other cellular changes, leading to cancer.
- The production of cell proteins drives abnormal cell growth and reproduction.
A 2018 study published in Frontiers in Immunology detailed a newly discovered mechanism for how asbestos may lead to mesothelioma.
Asbestos fibers may alter immune function in a way that allows mesothelioma cancer cells to develop unchecked by normal immunity.
Is Asbestos the Only Cause of Mesothelioma?
Although mesothelioma can occur without previous asbestos exposure, this is exceedingly rare.
More than 80 percent of pleural mesothelioma cases are directly caused by asbestos.
In a few very rare instances, radiation exposure may contribute to a person developing mesothelioma. Pediatricians have reported a very small number of spontaneous cases — cancers without any apparent cause — in children.
Genetic Causes of Mesothelioma
Medical researchers have documented a rare genetic mutation called BAP1 that increases mesothelioma risk.
A 2018 study published in the journal Familial Cancer found another potential genetic link to the disease.
In addition to the BAP1 gene, a newly identified, rare mutation in the RBM15 gene also may predispose a person to developing mesothelioma.
Yet even in the family members with the RBM15 mutation, most who developed mesothelioma also had documented histories of asbestos exposure.
The key takeaway: Cancer experts and occupational health scientists agree asbestos exposure is the main cause of pleural mesothelioma.
Where Does Asbestos Exposure Occur?
Patients with pleural mesothelioma have reported several sources of asbestos exposure, but the majority of exposures have occurred at industrial job sites.
Until the 1980s, many worksites, including refineries, construction sites and power plants, were heavily contaminated with asbestos. Some workers sustained long-term, high-dose asbestos exposure over the course of their careers.
This type of heavy exposure is more likely to lead to asbestos-related diseases such as pleural mesothelioma.
Short-term and one-time asbestos exposures, such as what might occur in a home remodeling project or homeowner installation of loose-fill insulation, are much less likely to cause health problems.
Occupational Asbestos Exposure Risk
People previously employed in certain industries and workplaces have a higher likelihood of experiencing long-term asbestos exposure.
- Jeffrey Asbestos Mine
- WR Grace Vermiculite Plant
- National Gypsum drywall manufacturing facilities
- Other heavy construction sites
Secondhand Asbestos Exposure
Some people have been exposed to asbestos carried home on the clothing or skin of an asbestos worker. This is known as secondhand exposure.
Cases of pleural mesothelioma after secondhand asbestos exposure show that even a small level of asbestos exposure can cause disease, if it occurs over a long period of time.
However, most cases of mesothelioma are attributed to direct occupational exposure.
Military Asbestos Exposure
Some veterans have a history of asbestos exposure from living on a ship or other vessels, and working at shipyards and other military facilities.
- Todd Shipyards
- Hunters Point Naval Shipyard
- USS Alabama
- Fort Bragg
- Brooklyn Navy Yard
Environmental Asbestos Exposure
Some people experience long-term exposure because they live near asbestos mines or naturally occurring asbestos deposits.
Libby, Montana, and Coalinga, California, are areas that face these challenges.
Other Mesothelioma Risk Factors
The most important thing to remember is that the main cause of pleural mesothelioma is long-term, frequent and heavy exposure to asbestos.
The asbestos industry continues to argue that certain types of asbestos do not cause pleural mesothelioma.
However, researchers and mesothelioma experts maintai |
Strep throat is the most common bacterial form of Sore throat. Every year millions of people visit their primary care clinic visits because of a sore throat. In addition to the costs on an individual level, it’s estimated that Strep throat is | Strep throat is the most common bacterial form of Sore throat. Every year millions of people visit their primary care clinic visits because of a sore throat. In addition to the costs on an individual level, it’s estimated that Strep throat is responsible for over half a billion dollars in healthcare costs.
Strep throat is caused by a bacteria called Streptococcus pyogenes, which belongs to Group A beta-hemolytic Streptococci. This bacteria attaches itself to the surfaces of the throat and releases its toxins. This causes fever, sore throat, and enlarged tonsils. Strep throat is usually self-limited and can resolve spontaneously without the need for treatment. Although in rare cases, it may result in serious complications like Rheumatic heart disease, inflammation of the kidneys, and others. That is why antibiotic therapy is usually recommended in confirmed cases.
Generally, Strep throat affects mainly school-aged children between 5-15 years old. And to a lesser extent adults who are in frequent contact with children. Strep throat is usually frequent in schools and military facilities.
Myocardial infarction or known more commonly as a "heart attack" is one of the most common causes of death worldwide. Usually it's a disease affecting older people with a history of heart diseases, diabetes, and smoking. It’s usually due to blockage in the arteries that supply the heart, causing it to stop. A heart attack is characterized by crushing chest pain, nausea, and difficulty breathing. On rare occasions, heart attacks can happen from something other than a blockage, one of these being a Strep throat infection.
Researchers from Belgium described two cases of heart attack that resulted as a complication of Strep throat infection. Both of the affected indiv |
This article is from our Toronto Feature series. Features from past programs are not updated.
This content is from a series created in partnership with Museum Services of the City of Toronto and Heritage Toronto. We gratefully acknowledge funding from the Ontario Ministry of Tourism | This article is from our Toronto Feature series. Features from past programs are not updated.
This content is from a series created in partnership with Museum Services of the City of Toronto and Heritage Toronto. We gratefully acknowledge funding from the Ontario Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sport, and the Department of Canadian Heritage.
Toronto Feature: The Princes' Gates
"Princes' Gates Named After Royals"
Directors of the CNE (see Canadian National Exhibition) liked to dub their exhibition the nation's showplace. For the 60th anniversary of Confederation, they decided to do something spectacular. In late 1926 they hired architect Alfred Chapman to design a new east side entrance to the fair. Evoking the style of ancient Greece and Rome, Chapman's gate featured a central arch and a 91-metre long structure surmounted by a statue of the Winged Victory. It was to be Toronto's equivalent of the celebrated gates of great European cities.
The gates were originally named "The Diamond Jubilee of Confederation Gates," but when the directors learned that Edward, Prince of Wales, and his brother Prince George were going to be in Toronto that year, they changed the name. The Princes were both present at its official opening on Tuesday, August 30, 1927, and the Princes' Gates were born.
Often incorrectly called the "Princess Gates," they were constructed of precast concrete--cutting edge technology at that time. The nine pillars on either side of the main arch represent the Canadian provinces at that time. The statue of the Goddess of Winged Victory was carved by Charles McKechnie. On either side of the central arch are various figures representing progress, industry, agriculture, arts and science-- entirely appropriate for an exhibition that considered itself at the forefront of all.
By 1986 it was clear that the Winged Victory statue was deteriorating, so it was taken down and replaced the next year with an exact glass-reinforced polymer plastic copy. The nine north columns were replaced in 2004, with restoration on the rest of the structure completed in 2010. |
Graduate School of Education,
The University of Tokyo
Keywords: awe, admiration, adoration, respect, emotion words
This research argues that awe is prototypically a negative emotion for (and being forgotten by) modern Japanese people. This | Graduate School of Education,
The University of Tokyo
Keywords: awe, admiration, adoration, respect, emotion words
This research argues that awe is prototypically a negative emotion for (and being forgotten by) modern Japanese people. This is important because previous studies, especially in western countries, often consider awe as a positive emotion. This research shows important empirical findings from a series of my previous questionnaire studies on my own theoretical framework of the “respect-related emotions” (Muto, 2014) such as awe, admiration, adoration, and respect in Japanese people. Over 2,500 students in several universities participated in several paper-and-pencil questionnaires at their own university and about 800 adults sample ages 20–79 participated in an online survey. Collected data were all statistically analysed. First, I found that the two words “ifu” and “ikei,” both denoting awe in Japanese, take on negative affective valence compared with other respect-related emotion words. Surprisingly, about 30% of university students and 15% of adults participating in this study answered that they did not und |
Cultural Intelligence is the capability to manage cultural diversity: the set of knowledge, skills, and abilities needed to recognise, understand, reflect on, and adapt to cultural differences.
Individuals with high Cultural Intelligence (CQ) display four critical compet | Cultural Intelligence is the capability to manage cultural diversity: the set of knowledge, skills, and abilities needed to recognise, understand, reflect on, and adapt to cultural differences.
Individuals with high Cultural Intelligence (CQ) display four critical competencies:
CQ Drive is a willingness to work with diverse others.
CQ Knowledge is an understanding of culture and cultural differences.
CQ Strategy is the ability to flex mentally.
CQ Action is the ability to flex verbal and nonverbal behaviour.
CQ Strategy and cultural perspective taking
Flexing mentally (CQ Strategy) is concerned with cultural perspective taking. Cultural perspective taking is the active consideration of alternative worldviews. This helps you transcend the automaticity of your own cultural framework. Imagining the world from the perspectives of others helps you to interpret their intentions and behaviours more accurately. It also reduces your tendency towards stereotyping and bias. As a result, you can respond with greater cultural sensitivity, which builds trust and decreases interpersonal tension.
Perspective taking works by creating in your mind a mental overlap of yourself and your partner. When engaged in perspective taking, you see more of yourself in your partner. This decreases ‘Us and them’ distinctions and related prejudices. Perspective taking also increases mimicry—your unconscious mirroring of your partner’s behaviours. Mimicry is important in building social rapport.
Improving cultural perspective taking
Prompts can help you improve your cultural perspective taking. The prompt must encourage you to reflect on how culture might be affecting your counterpart’s values and beliefs.
Here is an example:
‘Before you decide how to respond in this interaction, write down a few sentences describing your counterpart’s interests and concerns as a person living within their culture.
Now consider how your counterpart’s behaviours and decisions in this situation may be guided by his or her cultural values and beliefs’.
Prompts are useful when planning for intercultural interactions. They can also be used to encourage reflective monitoring in real-time, during your exchanges with others. |
We live in a busy world. Multitasking is a necessity.
There is no time to sit down and simply eat.
We have forgotten how to give food the attention it deserves.
Studies show that you eat more and make less healthy choices when | We live in a busy world. Multitasking is a necessity.
There is no time to sit down and simply eat.
We have forgotten how to give food the attention it deserves.
Studies show that you eat more and make less healthy choices when you’re unaware of yourself and your eating. If you eat while checking your mail or watching television you will likely eat more than is necessary by not being in touch with your true hunger.
Maybe this is why mindful eating is becoming more and more popular. But have you tried it? Do you know what is it and how it’s done?
Mindful eating is not about what you eat and it’s not a diet; it’s all about how you eat your food. Mindful eating helps you to be more aware about what you put in your mouth and in time helps you become more mindful throughout your life.
When you see small children eat, they do it with such joy and enthusiasm. Children examine their food, get their fingers in it, and take their time to eat. They eat when they are hungry and until they’re full.
As adults, we’ve stopped doing that. More and more people don’t know when they are truly hungry or full. We eat looking for comfort and to reduce stress more than to nourish ourselves.
With mindful eating, you can learn to recognize your physical hunger which is located in the stomach, and distinguish the difference between this hunger and the mental hunger which is in your head.
Here are some tips to you getting you started down the path of mindful eating:
1. Make sure you have time for your meal and you can eat without any distractions. Eat your meal in silence. Forget what you think you know about the food you are about to eat. Open your mind and your senses.
2. Plate your dinner and take time to look at it. Imagine you have never seen it before. Notice the shape, the colors and how it presents itself.
3. Smell the food. See if you can get a picture of the taste based simply on the smell. Notice what the smell does to your mouth. Do you produce saliva, or maybe you get impatient and just want to eat it? Take your time and listen to your body. What is it telling you?
4. Take a bite and observe how you move your arm to your mouth. Be aware of your lips. Did the food touch your lips? Let the bite rest in your mouth for a moment and feel your impulse to chew it. Ignore it and see if you can taste any flavors without chewing.
5. Chew very slowly and very carefully. Observe the flavors, the textures and ignore the impulse to swallow. Chew for as long as you can while keeping your senses open. When you swallow be aware. Feel how your body reacts. Notice how the taste lingers in your mouth and the smell is still present in your nostrils.
6. Take a deep breath and when you are ready take another bite.
If, at first, the above is too challenging, then start by laying down your knife and fork between each bite when you eat dinner. Just remember, you are not allowed to pick them up before your mouth is completely empty.
Gitte Lindgaard lives in Denmark with her husband and two daughters. She has a degree in Nutrition and Health and specializes in empowering people to be aware and take responsibility for healthy living. Gitte practices yoga and after recovering from whiplash, she began teaching yoga to people with disabilities. Gitte believes in doing something every day that her future self will be proud of. Follow her on Twitter here.
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Freedom-fighter and Dalit activist Krishnammal Jagannaathan is often referred to as India's Joan of Arc. Krishnammal believes in a participatory approach, motivating people to change their own lives. In 1981, | Freedom-fighter and Dalit activist Krishnammal Jagannaathan is often referred to as India's Joan of Arc. Krishnammal believes in a participatory approach, motivating people to change their own lives. In 1981, she cofounded Land for Tillers Freedom (Lafti) to facilitate the distribution of land to landless peasants. Lafti takes bank loans to buy land; the peasants pay the organization back over time. She has also mobilized women on many issues, including wages, land, housing, and sexu |
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It’s not too often people announce big problems solved. But EducationSuperHighway did it this week, announcing that the classroom internet connectivity gap is effectively closed – one year ahead of schedule, no less.
The nonprofit launched in 2012, and when it explored school connectivity data the following year, it found that just 30 percent of school districts had sufficient bandwidth to support digital learning, or 100 kbps per student. EducationSuperHighway wanted 99 percent of students to have that level of bandwidth by 2020.
The deadline was an arbitrary one, since the nonprofit’s founder and CEO, Evan Marwell, had no idea how long it would actually take to make that amount of progress. “We saw the first big leap of results in the 2015-16 year,” Marwell remembered. “I said ‘OK, this actually could happen.’”
The early finish hasn’t changed the organization’s planned closing date of August 2020. Marwell said they’ll take the extra year to try to reach the 98 school districts in the final 1 percent. The districts serve 750,000 students, after all. And Marwell wants all of them to experience the types of teaching and learning high-speed internet access facilitates.
“When we started all of this, it wasn’t because we wanted to get broadband in every classroom,” Marwell said. “We believed if we had connectivity in every classroom, that would give every teacher the opportunity to take advantage of digital learning.”
Their plan seems to have worked. EducationSuperHighway surveyed school districts and found that 94 percent use digital learning in at least half of their classrooms every week. And 85 percent of teachers support even greater use of digital learning in their schools, according to a recent survey by NewSchools Venture Fund and Gallup.
Marwell acknowledges internet connectivity is only a starting point. There is still a digital divide in classrooms based on what technology is being used and how. But it’s an important starting point.
“Without the connectivity you don’t even have a chance,” Marwell said.
When EducationSuperHighway launched, the Perry-Lecompton school district, in a rural area outside of Topeka, Kansas, still had laptop carts that teachers had to reserve if they wanted students to use computers in their classrooms. J.B. Elliott, the district’s current superintendent and then-principal of its lone high school, said teachers wasted a lot of time getting the cart at the start of class, passing out the laptops, getting students signed on and connected to the internet and then introducing their assignments. And he remembers battery life on those laptops lasting just an hour.
The whole setup was frustrating for teachers and students alike. So Elliott petitioned the school board to give each high schooler an iPad and improve the school’s infrastructure to support increased internet use.
It was a well-timed initiative. EducationSuperHighway’s advocacy supported the district’s efforts perfectly. The organization lobbied the Federal Communications Commission to allow districts to get or improve their Wi-Fi with money from a program called E-rate. E-rate is funded by collecting fees that telecommunications companies pass on to customers, and it supports massive discounts on goods and services for schools and libraries. EducationSuperHighway also drove bandwidth pricing way down making prices transparent (the group collected information from districts to create a searchable tool). Now districts know exactly how much their neighbors pay for bandwidth and it allows them to negotiate better deals. EducationSuperHighway also rallied the support of governors from all 50 states, getting them to prioritize classroom internet connectivity and set aside matching funds for infrastructure improvements.
The progress toward universal connectivity is remarkable. Yet with one element of the digital divide effectively closed, administrat |
Let’s Help Save the Global Climate by Restoring Local Land
As part of its presidency of the UN Climate Conference (COP26), the UK launched a “Nature Campaign” to tackle climate change and biodiversity loss. Nature based solutions (Nb | Let’s Help Save the Global Climate by Restoring Local Land
As part of its presidency of the UN Climate Conference (COP26), the UK launched a “Nature Campaign” to tackle climate change and biodiversity loss. Nature based solutions (NbS) can make land use more sustainable and slow climate change – but only if they work locally. An opinion piece by Dr. Gerrit Hansen, former program director in the field of climate change at the Robert Bosch Stiftung.
The COP26 in Glasgow is placing a heavy emphasis on looking after and planting trees – they are an equal part of the priorities “coal, cars, cash and trees” touted by UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson a few weeks ago. He is pushing for world leaders to pledge an end to deforestation by 2030 – and for big producers and consumers of commodities like soya or palm oil to end land clearances. But he should be aware that there has been no lack of international initiatives to protect or restore ecosystems – and that they can easily fail.
The New York Declaration on Forests has not delivered, while the Great Green Wall and the African Forest Landscape Restoration Initiative (AFR100) are over-pledged but under-implemented. NbS have led to conflict with communities over land and some countries to think planting trees absolves them from decarbonizing their economies. But as our climate goals require the availability of natural carbon sinks, it’s lucky there are NbS that look after human rights and local livelihoods – and build resilience, store carbon, protect biodiversity.
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The Robert Bosch Stiftung promotes a regenerative world, in which life and livelihoods are sustained by a just transition of land use – in keeping with the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement.
Successful NbS empower locals – in grassroots groups, villages, towns, sub-national administrations – to design and participate in land restoration. For example, the Global Landscapes Forum is the largest knowledge-led platform on sustainable landscapes. It is building a global community of practitioners (GLFx), whose local chapters bring stake-holders together, online or offline. They mobilize the local community and coordinate projects – growing trees and hedges, or restoring watersheds and grasslands, or both.
The Robert Bosch Stiftung gave GLFx chapters in the greater Sahel region seed funding, enabling local activities and targeted capacity building – meeting GLFx representatives at GLF’s Forest Food Finance Conference in Glasgow was a highlight. We’re also excited to team up with the World Resources Institute to put national AFR100 pledges into inclusive and decisive action on the ground. AFR100 initially sought to restore 100 million hectares of Africa by 2030. But since COP21 in Paris, 32 countries have pledged to restore 128 million.
WRI will use subnational platforms to integrate local stakeholders and marginalized groups – including women and youths – to help design and identify best policies – and bring local successes to scale (and other AFR100 regions). This shows NbS can be crucial not only for tackling the climate crisis. They can make livelihoods sustainable, improve health and biodiversity, strengthen climate resilience and reduce inequalities. After meeting so many enthusiastic practitioners from around the world in Glasgow, I am sure this can be done. |
Did you know you can speak Latin?
Last week we added our 133rd language to the uTalk app – and it’s a good one!
Latin has been around ever since the year 75 BC and it has evolved from Old Latin to | Did you know you can speak Latin?
Last week we added our 133rd language to the uTalk app – and it’s a good one!
Latin has been around ever since the year 75 BC and it has evolved from Old Latin to Classical Latin, to Early Modern Latin and finally Modern Latin. Along with Greek, its roots are used in theology, biology, and medicine right up to the present day. Romance languages, such as Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, French, and Romanian have developed from Latin. Later on, many words from all these languages were taken into English, so even if you’ve never actively learned it – you might actually speak Latin.
Here are a few examples of Latin words and phrases that we use regularly:
1. ad hoc: to this
Ad hoc refers to something that was created for a specific purpose or situation as the need arises, without previous planning. An ad hoc political committee, for instance, is formed specially to deal with a specific situation.
2. vice versa: the other way around
For example: “I like you and vice versa” means that you also like me.
3. carpe diem: seize the day
This phrase comes from a poem by Horace and is used to encourage people to enjoy the moment without concern for the future.
4. sic: thus
Sic is used with square brackets [sic] after a quotation indicate that an odd or unusual phrase was reproduced exactly as it was |
Learn about the core elements of IT management, including operations, tech support and personal computing, as well as terms related to IT careers, certifications and project management.
This glossary contains definitions related to IT Certifications.
CompTIA Project+ is | Learn about the core elements of IT management, including operations, tech support and personal computing, as well as terms related to IT careers, certifications and project management.
This glossary contains definitions related to IT Certifications.
CompTIA Project+ is the Computing Technology Industry Association's certification program designed to demonstrate a person has a validated understanding of and skills in project management.
Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) is an information security certification developed by the International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium, also known as (ISC)².
A cloud architect is an IT professional who is responsible for overseeing a company's cloud computing strategy.
IT career paths
Software engineering is the process of developing, testing and deploying computer applications to solve real-world problems by adhering to a set of engineering principles and best practices.
Hard skills are specific abilities, capabilities and skill sets that an individual can possess and demonstrate in a measured way.
A cloud engineer is an IT professional responsible for any technological duties associated with cloud computing, including design, planning, management, maintenance and support.
Terms related to the processes and services implemented and managed by an organization’s information technology (IT) department. Topics covered include systems management, configuration management, API management and DevOps, as well as real-time performance monitoring and management.
service level indicator
A service level indicator (SLI) is a metric that indicates what measure of performance a customer is receiving at a given time.
Virtual Machine Disk format (VMDK)
VMware Virtual Machine Disk format (VMDK) is a format specification for virtual machine (VM) disk image files.
IT service management (ITSM)
IT service management (ITSM) is a general term that describes a strategic approach to design, deliver, manage and improve the way businesses use IT.
Terms related to personal computers, including definitions about computers sold as consumer products and words and phrases about laptops, tablets and smartphones.
Apple AirDrop is a native feature in iOS and macOS that lets users share data from one device to another on the same Wi-Fi network.
Apple Bonjour is a group of networking technologies designed to help devices and applications discover each other on the same network.
death by PowerPoint
Death by PowerPoint is a phenomenon caused by the poor use of presentation software.
Terms related to project management, including definitions about project management methodologies and tools.
A project charter is a formal short document that states a project exists and provides project managers with written authority to begin work.
A constraint in project management is any restriction that defines a project's limitations.
Lean management is an approach to managing an organization that supports the concept of continuous improvement, a long-term approach to work that systematically seeks to achieve small, incremental changes in processes in order to improve efficiency and quality.
Terms related to computer fundamentals, including computer hardware definitions and words and phrases about software, operating systems, peripherals and troubleshooting.
management information systems (MIS)
Management information systems (MIS) is a department within an enterprise responsible for controlling the hardware and software systems that the organization uses to make business-critical decisions.
Clock speed is the number of times a second that a circuit operates and is most associated with the central processing unit (CPU).
Defragmentation is the process of locating the noncontiguous fragments of data into which a computer file may be divided as it is stored on a hard disk, and rearranging the fragments and restoring them into fewer fragments or into the whole file. |
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Most folks have encountered stepping in dog poo in public areas. Besides being smelly and annoying, dog poop causes many environmental and social issues. Sadly, at least 40% of people won’t pick up after their dog in public areas. The | Most folks have encountered stepping in dog poo in public areas. Besides being smelly and annoying, dog poop causes many environmental and social issues. Sadly, at least 40% of people won’t pick up after their dog in public areas. The act of cleaning up after your dog has become a touchy subject for most folks. Here are six reasons why everyone should clean up after their dogs, no matter if you’re out in public or at home.
It Will Help Prevent the Spread of Parasites and Disease
The Centers for Disease Control states that a single gram of dog poop can contain 23 million bacteria! The bacteria can contaminate the soil and cause infections and parasites that could even infect humans. Some of these diseases and parasites that can affect humans include:
- Giardia– causes upset stomach and diarrhea in humans, and symptoms can last up to 2 weeks. If left untreated, symptoms can also return.
- Salmonella- causes diarrhea, upset stomach, vomiting, and fever.
- E-Coli– causes watery or bloody diarrhea, fever, and upset stomach.
- Roundworms– larvae from roundworms can enter the human body and travel through the liver, lungs, and central nervous system, causing fever, coughing, enlarged liver, and sometimes pneumonia. The larvae can also go to the eyes and cause infections, scarring, and even blindness in humans.
- Hookworms– the larvae of these worms can live in the soil, and once they have contact with human skin, they can migrate into the skin and cause infection and inflammation. Getting infected with hookworms can be something as simple as walking barefoot through the yard or playing volleyball while barefoot in the sand. You don’t have to step in poop to get infected either. By not picking up after the dog, the hookworm larvae will get into the soil.
Picking Up After Your Pets Is Better For The Environment
It takes a long time to let dog poop “dissolve” in your yard! And while that poop is “dissolving” away, it is contaminating the soil and groundwater when it rains, which in turn spreads diseases. There have been many air quality studies indicating that dog poop pollutes the air we breathe. The EPA recognizes dog poop as an environmental hazard, especially for groundwater. The bacteria found in dog poop is found to cause algae and weeds in sources of water. The number of bacteria can even shut down local swimming areas due to overgrowth in the water, which can make humans and animals sick. As far as air quality concerns, according to the EPA, air quality testing in cities such as Cleveland and Detroit revealed that anywhere from 10-50% of the bacteria in the air came from dog poop.
Poop Attracts Bugs and Rodents
Dog poop that is lying around in your yard will attract flies, fleas, ticks, and cockroaches, as well as rodents such as mice and rats. Yuck!
Cleaning Up is A Common Courtesy- Don’t Ruin it For All of Us!
Many hotels, national parks, beaches, and even campsites are starting to restrict dogs from being allowed on their property due to folks not cleaning up after their pets. The only way we can fix this is to pick up after our pets. Otherwise, we will ruin the ability to have our dogs allowed in these areas.
Dog Poop is Not a Good Fertilizer
The idea of dog poop being a good fertilizer seems to be a reasonable one; after all, cow poop makes an excellent fertilizer, right? When, in fact, dog poop usually kills grass and plants. If you look at cows, their diet is mostly grass and grains, and this is one of the reasons their poop makes an excellent fertilizer. Whereas dogs have a diet consisting primarily of protein, which makes their poop acidic enough to kill plants. Just think about all those brown spots in lawns where the dog poop was.
Some folks state that dog poop can be composted. Technically it can be. However, it depends on what purpose the compost will be used. For using the compost on anything edible, such as vegetables or fruit trees, there are some extra steps in the composting process. When composting, you need to make sure the poop i |
Every teacher has felt challenged by teaching teenagers at some point, mostly because of one key factor: motivation.
Or in teen learners’ case, lack of motivation. While adult learners normally come to class keen to make the most of their lesson time and | Every teacher has felt challenged by teaching teenagers at some point, mostly because of one key factor: motivation.
Or in teen learners’ case, lack of motivation. While adult learners normally come to class keen to make the most of their lesson time and kids can normally be enthused through fun activities and praise, teen learners are a little different. Their participation in class is not guaranteed. In fact, as their sense of independence develops, they love to question authority and resist doing things they don’t see the point in.
So, what’s a teacher to do with a class of indifferent teens?
Well, getting teenagers enthused is possible, and well worth the effort– at their best, teen learners can be curious, insightful, creative and great fun. All it takes is a little experience, a slightly different approach and a few simple tricks and tips to turn your teen classroom into a productive and positive place.
Provide rules and routines, but be flexible
Teenagers might be vocal about challenging the system, but they still find authority and stability reassuring, so:
- Set up a classroom routine that you follow in each lesson, and
- Make the class rules clear and enforce them firmly and fairly.
Similar to when you teach kids, it’s a good rule of thumb to start out strict so the boundaries are clear, then loosen up as you and your class get to know and trust each other. Procedures for beginning and ending the lesson, seating plans, and turn-taking structures are all great tools to use with teenagers.
However, one thing to note when you’re putting these rules and routines in place: teens will be much more receptive if they understand why they’re being asked to do something. Accept questions as legitimate rather than as challenges to your authority, and take the time to explain how your classroom structures are beneficial to the group.
And, crucially, don’t be afraid to adapt the rules if your teen learners can reason why a change is necessary. Your goal is to provide boundaries, but also to show you take your teen learners opinions and concerns seriously.
Involve your teen learners in decision making
Giving your teen learners a sense of ownership and belonging in the classroom helps involve them in the learning process and build motivation. A great way to do this is by integrating decision making into your lessons.
In practical terms this means that, while you as the teacher should decide the broad structure and goals of each lesson, you can let your students make smaller decisions about how they want to learn. For example, you might ask your teen students if they’d prefer to complete an activity individually or in groups, let them choose which of the lessons tasks to work on first, or decide with them as a group what the submission date for their homework should be.
A good rule of thumb for these decisions is to provide two or three options to choose between and go with the group majority. Building in this kind of structured autonomy works really well with teenagers as it provides the right balance between independence and security, and the opportunity for them to voice their opinions – something most teens love to do!
Another simple way to let your students steer the learning process is to ask for feedback. Finding out what they’ve enjoyed (or not) in class will give you useful insight into what kind of activities motivate your teen learners and which make them lose interest. One note on negative feedback, though: rather than take it personally, accept that your students will naturally find some activities more engaging than others and be prepared to explain why any activities they don’t enjoy are part of the lesson.
Set the right tone in your classroom
One thing pretty common to all teenagers is worrying about what other people think of them. Whether it’s their fellow students, their parents or their teachers, the opinions of other people matter to teenagers. Setting the right tone in the classroom can help reduce anxiety and improve learning conditions for your students.
Getting it right comes down to three factors:
Make sure your students feel respected by enforcing basic classroom etiquette like listening when other people are speaking and taking a hard line on any negative behaviour such as laughing at others.
A lot of language learners find speaking a new language awkward and embarrassing. Teens, more than any other age group, are sensitive to being laughed at or made to feel silly. A great way to encourage a supportive atmosphere in the classroom is to use authentic praise. You can (and should) model giving sincere praise as a teacher, but building in time for your students to give positive and sincere feedback to each other can also be highly effective.
While it might be tempting to become a kind of friend-figure to your teen learners (and building up a good rapport with them can certainly help motivate the class) it’s important to maintain authority and a little distance. A good rule of thumb is to take a genuine supportive interest in their lives and their opinions, but don’t offer details about your own unless they ask. And even then, be sparing. You want to be friendly, but not a friend.
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The vast area around the French city of Verdun remains suspended in the year 1916. During the First World War, these hills and gorges were cratered by a continuous ten-month-long artillery bombardment more intense than any before and any | The vast area around the French city of Verdun remains suspended in the year 1916. During the First World War, these hills and gorges were cratered by a continuous ten-month-long artillery bombardment more intense than any before and any since. The mature beech forests that cover the hills were home to some of the Great War’s most bitter fighting; as many as 150 shells fell for every square meter of this battlefield.
“Douaumont, Destroyed Village”
“Here, stood the church.”
As well as being the longest battle of the Great War, the Battle of Verdun also has the ignominy of being the first test of modern industrialized slaughter. Not for nothing was the battlefield known as “The Mincer.”
“There’s nothing like Verdun. This is a place where the world changed,” says Christina Holstein, a British historian. Over 60 million shells were fired into this area between February 21 and December 18, 1916, killing 305,440 men out of 708,777 casualties.
A German trench and Delville Wood, near Longueval (Somme), that were destroyed in 1916 in the Red Zone
The zone rouge (English: red zone) is a chain of non-contiguous areas throughout northeastern France that the French government isolated after the First World War. The land, which originally covered more than 1,200 square kilometres (460 sq mi), was deemed to be too physically and environmentally damaged by the conflict for human habitation. Rather than attempt to clean up the former battlefields, the land was allowed to return to nature. Restrictions within the zone rouge still exist today although the control areas have been greatly reduced.
The French government actually formed a special agency dedicated entirely to the ongoing munitions clearing, called the Department du Deminage.
Battlefield relics – 100’s of rifles
Under French law, activities such as housing, farming or forestry, were temporarily or permanently forbidden in the zone rouge. This was because of the vast amounts of human and animal remains and millions of unexploded ordnance contaminating the land. Some towns and villages were never permitted to be rebuilt after the war.
After WWI, unable to keep up with the impossible task of removing endless undetonated weapons, human and animal remains, the French government decided on a forced relocation of residents which led to the creation of the Zone Rouge. Entire villages wiped off the map were considered “casualties of war”.
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Hortal, J., Ladle, R.J., Stropp, J. & Tessarolo, G. (2022) Accounting for biogeographical ignorance within biodiversity modelling. Research Outreach, 129, 2502594871. | Hortal, J., Ladle, R.J., Stropp, J. & Tessarolo, G. (2022) Accounting for biogeographical ignorance within biodiversity modelling. Research Outreach, 129, 2502594871. doi:10.32907/RO-129-2502594871. Available at: https://researchoutreach.org/articles/accounting-biogeographical-ignorance-biodiversity-modelling/
Biodiversity data can be analysed to predict species distribution at various scales of time and space. However, survey completeness and temporal decay in data quality introduce uncertainty into biodiversity models. Researchers Joaquín Hortal, Juliana Stropp (National Museum of Natural Sciences, Spain), Richard Ladle (University of Porto, Portugal), and Geiziane Tessarolo (State University of Goiás, Brazil), among others, are constructing the first Maps of Biogeographical Ignorance (MoBIs) that account for uncertainty in biodiversity analysis. Presented alongside species distribution models (SDMs), MoBIs ensure conservation resources are appropriately distributed. |
Water pollution is creating major threats to the public health. Pakistan is included among the most dangerous countries where people do not have access to safe water. It ranks at 80th number among 122 countries in the world. Most of the citizens still | Water pollution is creating major threats to the public health. Pakistan is included among the most dangerous countries where people do not have access to safe water. It ranks at 80th number among 122 countries in the world. Most of the citizens still do not have water to drink. The people are compelled to buy toxic water from tanker mafia, which is causing diarrhea, typhoid, intestinal worms and hepatitis.
It is also estimated that more than 250,000 children die due to water borne diseases each year. As many as 3.5 million children are at high risk and can die at any time because the water we use is full of bacteria and causing deadliest diseases.
The available statistics of water in Balochistan portray a bleak picture. Water pollution is one of the main environmental issues in Balochistan. These environmental issues are causing healt |
Ribozymes are catalytic RNA molecules, enzymes made of RNA. They were probably the key to the early development of life on the planet in the RNA world, but are still present in contemporary cells, carrying out some of the most important reactions | Ribozymes are catalytic RNA molecules, enzymes made of RNA. They were probably the key to the early development of life on the planet in the RNA world, but are still present in contemporary cells, carrying out some of the most important reactions such as the synthesis of proteins. Although clearly not as well suited to this role as proteins, ribozymes nevertheless can achieve some impressive rate enhancements. Mechanistic and structural studies have revealed much of the way that this is achieved. But perhaps even more interesting ribozyme species may still await discovery.
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|Publication status||Published - Apr 2015|
- RNA world
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology(all) |
Old English clæg "stiff, sticky earth; clay," from Proto-Germanic *klaijaz (source also of Old High German kliwa "bran," German Kleie, Old Frisian klai, Old | Old English clæg "stiff, sticky earth; clay," from Proto-Germanic *klaijaz (source also of Old High German kliwa "bran," German Kleie, Old Frisian klai, Old Saxon klei, Middle Dutch clei, Danish klæg "clay;" also Old English clæman, Old Norse kleima, Old High German kleiman "to cover with clay").
Some sourc |
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For college students living on hectic schedules and living on a budget it can be hard to spend a little extra cash on organic groceries which are on average more expensive than conventionally grown products. Fortunately, eating organic | For For the Body and the Earth
For college students living on hectic schedules and living on a budget it can be hard to spend a little extra cash on organic groceries which are on average more expensive than conventionally grown products. Fortunately, eating organic does not have to be as expensive as some might think and it’s to ones health and the environment.
To become a savvy shopper one must be knowledgeable about the difference between organic products and conventionally grown items.
When items boast the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) organic label on them it means that farmers did not use chemical fertilizers to promote growth. These farmers also use more advanced methods of growing produce, such as crop rotation.
Only foods that are processed according to the standards set by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are labeled, these are not to be confused with foods bearing “Natural” or other similar labels.
The second step to efficiently shop for organic products is being aware of the benefits they offer and when it is not necessary to shop organic.
According to a study published by the Stanford medical school, researchers found little difference in the health benefits between eating organic and conventionally grown produce given their composition of essential vitamins and nutrients.
“When it comes to organic foods I don’t really take the time to do research about it. I just assume it’s more expensive than regular food,” said Ramon Marquez, chemical engineering sophomore, “so I don’t go out of my way to get organic food.”
Choosing to eat organic can be more about controversial issues like the environment and animal welfare than precise health benefits. Organic farmers use methods that do not deplete the soil. Usually organic meats, such as chicken, get exposure to the outside world and are not injected with hormones unlike their conventionally bred counterparts who never see sunlight and often have bodies that are too big for their legs to carry.
The same research study conducted by Stanford found that in children who eat organic produce as opposed to conventionally grown have much less traces of pesticide in their urine.
“I could see the benefits towards the environment,” said Jose Iraheta, an undeclared freshmen.
“I think its mostly a money thing. I wouldn’t mind looking into it, but my budget right now is literally pennies. I feel like I should know more |
The Bakken shale oil fields of North Dakota and Montana began production in 2005. They have produced approximately 11.5 days of world oil consumption since then.
Estimates indicate that the total oil available in the Bakken fields may be | The Bakken shale oil fields of North Dakota and Montana began production in 2005. They have produced approximately 11.5 days of world oil consumption since then.
Estimates indicate that the total oil available in the Bakken fields may be as high as eight months of world oil consumption.
The world consumes approximately 87 million barrels of oil per day. That means that it consumes a billion barrels of oil every 11.5 days.
The Bakken oil fields have produced one billion barrels of oil since 2005. The estimate is that the fields will produce a total of 20 billion barrels, or 230 days of world consumption: about 7.6 months.
The headline on Yahoo is that the fields have produced a billion barrels of oil. It is an impressive headline. But to understand the magnitude of the Bakken fields, we need to compare this with consumption.
And the point is?
It's a drop in the bucket. No big deal, despite the impressive production numbers.
World oil consumption is a poor metric unless all the oil from Bakken is being sent to the entire world. Obviously it isn't. Nonetheless, oil consumption in the U.S. and other areas Bakken oil is sold to is relevant.
One billion barrel's worth of profits not going to Arabs.
One billion barrel's, not going to fund Islamists.
Profits not funding Moslem invasion of Europe and
Billions in sales of oil stsying in The USA improving
It's a caution – Peak Oil might be true. Peak rate of exploration is definitely true.
The other way to look at the Baaken Field production is the 1 Billion barrels of oil was over threee years of consumption in the U.S.
Oil if fungible, which means you put your oil in one part of the "international oil market cloud" and your customer takes their oil out from another part of that cloud. They don't get the same oil out as you put in. But you get to put the oil in and they get to take the oil out. In the internet cloud the data is nol fungilbe, because your recipient must take out the same data you put into the cloud. With oil it is different, your customer doesn't need the same oil you put in they just need oil, any oil. So you put some in and they take some out. Oil is fungilbe so world oil consumption is a fine metric. |
Boiler “short cycling” occurs when an oversized boiler quickly satisfies process or space heating demands, and then shuts down until heat is again required. Process heating demands can change over time. Boilers may have been oversized for additions or expansions that never | Boiler “short cycling” occurs when an oversized boiler quickly satisfies process or space heating demands, and then shuts down until heat is again required. Process heating demands can change over time. Boilers may have been oversized for additions or expansions that never occurred. Installing energy conservation or heat recovery measures may also reduce the heat demand. As a result, a facility may have multiple boilers, each rated at several times the maximum expected load. Boilers used for space heating loads are often oversized, with their capacity chosen to meet total building heat losses plus heating of ventilation and infiltration air under extreme or design-basis temperature conditions. No credit is taken for thermal contributions from lights, equipment, or people. Excess capacity is also added to bring a facility to required settings quickly after a night setback. Cycling Losses A boiler cycle consists of a firing interval, a post-purge, an idle period, a pre-purge, and a return to firing. Boiler efficiency is |
myocarditis It is a rare but serious disease that can weaken the heart and disrupt the electrical system responsible for regular contractions.
Usually, as the authors of a new research paper published in the journal Circulation explain, they arise from a viral | myocarditis It is a rare but serious disease that can weaken the heart and disrupt the electrical system responsible for regular contractions.
Usually, as the authors of a new research paper published in the journal Circulation explain, they arise from a viral infection. However, the reasons may also be different.
See also: The deputy minister caused a storm of words about vaccines. a. Upright gut
In June of this year, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Immunization Practices Advisory Committee reported a possible link between the mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccine and myocarditis, especially in people under the age of 39. But follow-up research shows that cases of myocarditis associated with vaccination against the emerging corona virus are rare and usually mild, she says Donald. Mother. Lloyd Jones, president of the American Heart Association, who was not associated with the study described in the publication.
– For the most part, research continues to show the benefits of vaccination against COVID-19 – 91 percent. Effective in preventing severe COVID-19 complications, including hospitalization and death – also outweighs the very low risk of side effects, including myocarditis – He adds.
According to the authors of the new study, post-vaccination cases of the disease mainly affected adolescents and young adults.
The researchers noted that previous studies had already shown a link between the disease and other vaccinations such as smallpox.
While the data currently available on symptoms, disease severity, and short-term effects are limited, we decided to investigate a large group of potential cases of this disease associated with COVID-19 vaccination in North American adolescents and adults under 21 years of age, says co-author of the study., the professor. Jane W Neuberger.
The researchers analyzed data from 26 pediatric centers in the United States and Canada on patients under the age of 21 who had symptoms of disease that appeared a month after vaccination and study results.
In all, the researchers evaluated 139 cases of young adults between the ages of 12 and 20.
90% of the patients are male, with a mean age of 15.8 years. Almost all cases of the disease developed after vaccination with an mRNA-based preparation, and symptoms appeared, on average, within 2 days of vaccination.
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Study: Active People Are 50% Less Likely to Develop Anxiety Than Their Peers
According to a new Swedish study, consistent cardio is your best bet against a clinical diagnosis
According to an intrepid study published by Swedish researchers in Frontiers | Study: Active People Are 50% Less Likely to Develop Anxiety Than Their Peers
According to a new Swedish study, consistent cardio is your best bet against a clinical diagnosis
According to an intrepid study published by Swedish researchers in Frontiers in Psychiatry, dedication to physical activity can drastically decrease your risk of developing clinical anxiety as you age.
Scientists at Lund University assessed the long-term mental health of 200,000 different Swedes, focusing specifically on those who’d raced Vasaloppet, an iconic, 56-mile cross country skiing event that attracts thousands of competitors each year. It just turned 100, by the way.
Because Vasaloppet is a grueling race that necessitates consistent training, its participants are a convenient proxy for poking into the lives of physically active people. Plus, as the race mostly contains Swedes, its names can easily be cross-referenced with data from the Swedish national registry of patients, which keeps track of diagnoses of clinical anxiety disorder over multi-decade periods.
The researchers compiled this information, then did the same for a pool of roughly 200,000 randomly-selected inactive Swedes. The findings were pretty clear: “Skiers had a significantly lower risk of developing anxiety during the follow-up compared to non-skiers.” Up to 20 years after their race, at which point some of them had had surely cut back on cardio, they were still leading calmer lives. One of the lead authors, Dr. Lena Brundin, says: “The link between exercise and reduced anxiety is strong.”
There was one not-so-great finding from the study, though. Vasaloppet’s best female finishers — while still less anxious than their inactive peers — were more likely to develop anxiety disorders than other racers. Why is that? Scientifically, that’s unclear. But we can hazard some guesses. It’s possible that the drive to compete has deleterious impact on mental health, which is a theme we’ve seen play out consistently at the highest levels of professional sports.
Why aren’t the top male finishers experiencing the same anxiety? Well, while Vasaloppet is an excellent resource for sourcing healthy people en masse, it’s an imperfect institution. Women were banned from racing from 1924 to 1980. (In 1978, two women actually competed while disguised as men.) Even once they were officially allowed to race again, they weren’t allowed to qualify for awards until 1997.
The sample size for the Frontiers in Psychiatry study included about 38% women, which shows A) female racers are still underrepresented at the event, and B) those who do race might feel extra pressure to prove that they deserve to. It’s possible this could suck some of the mental health benefits away from the activity. It isn’t just cardio, after all.
That said, the findings of this study confirm that finding a consistent cardio routine in your life is the least arduous or inexpensive solution to fortifying your mental health for the next 20 years. And it doesn’t have to be anything overly impressive, either. Dr. Brundin says: “It is not necessary to complete extreme exercise to achieve the beneficial effects on anxiety.” Just go for one 30-minute walk, every single day. It snowed? All the better. Get out there and get moving. Your brain will pay you back in kind.
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No56 [LANGUAGE] Let’s nihonGo! / How to talk about the food?
Hello there! This column will teach you useful Japanese phrases that cover a variety of topics.
Roll up, roll up for an amazing lesson about sushi | No56 [LANGUAGE] Let’s nihonGo! / How to talk about the food?
Hello there! This column will teach you useful Japanese phrases that cover a variety of topics.
Roll up, roll up for an amazing lesson about sushi!
Konnichiwa, Mina-san! (Hello, everyone!) Last time I taught you how to stylishly order food in a restaurant. This time, I’m going to let you know how to talk about the food you have ordered. Because we went to a ramen restaurant last month, this time we’re going to go somewhere different. Now, when you say “Japan” you probably think of “sushi”, right? Of course, you can eat sushi in the UK too, but everyone really should have a go at eating real authentic sushi in Japan. There are so many different types of sushi restaurant in Japan – from casual kaiten sushi (conveyor belt sushi) places to o-sushiya-san restaurants where the chefs have honed their skills for many years. So let’s pretend we are at a traditional o-sushiya-san. At restaurants like this you can sit at the counter or at a table, but as you’ve come all this way for authentic Japanese sushi, let’s take a counter seat where you can watch the delicious fare being prepared right before your very eyes.
(S= Staff, C= Customer)
S: Sono maguro doodesuka.
(How was the tuna?)
C: Shinsende Oishiidesu.
(It tasted fresh and delicious.)
S: Soodesuka. Moohitotsu doodesuka.
( I see! How about another one? )
C: Jaa itadakimasu.
There are three key points about this dialogue that I would like to explain. The first point is “doodesuka”. “Doodesuka” (how is it?) is an expression used when you want to ask someone their opinion about something. If someone in a restaurant ever asks you this, try telling them “oishiidesu” in response. This brings me to my second point – “oishii” means “delicious” and if you add “desu” on the end, the whole phrase means: “this is delicious”. Next, why not try explaining in Japanese why you think something is delicious. Let’s look at “shinsen de” in the above conversation, which is the third point I want to talk about. “Shinsen” means “fresh” and “de” is used to indicate that you’re talking about the reason for something. So “shinsen de oishii desu” means “It is tasty because it is fresh”. Other adjectives to talk about food include: “atatakaku (hot) + te”, “tsumetaku (cold) + te”, “karaku (spicy)+ te”, “amaku (sweet) +te”, and “suppaku (sour) + te”.
So now you can describe the taste of food in Japanese!
Now why did the customer say “itadakimasu” end of the conversation?
“Itadakimasu” literally means “I am receiving something”. In this case, what you are receiving is food, so before you start to eat you say “itadakimasu” to indicate your gratitude to the people who made or served your food. There are some people who are interested in Japan and press their palms together when they say “konnichiwa”, but when you greet someone in Japan, you don’t press your palms together like this (although it is a custom in countries such as India or Thailand). However, lots of people do press their palms together when they say “itadakimasu”. If you go to a restaurant in Japan, why not try out saying “itadakimasu” before you eat and “gochisoosama” when you have finished your meal (I talked about this phrase in the previous column). It is bound to make the chefs and the restaurant staff smile.
Congratulations, now you can express your opinions about food in Japanese! Next time I’ll teach you all about asking for directions!
Sayoonara, Jaa mata!
(Goodbye, see you!)
▶ Here’s more information about ordering food and other things in japanese.
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What is so special about cord blood?
- Blood from the umbilical cord and the placenta contains blood-forming stem cells.
- These blood-forming stem cells can treat some diseases of the blood, immune system, and metabolism. In | What is so special about cord blood?
- Blood from the umbilical cord and the placenta contains blood-forming stem cells.
- These blood-forming stem cells can treat some diseases of the blood, immune system, and metabolism. In addition, this type of stem cells can help counteract the harmful effects that some cancer treatments have on the immune system.
- Another source of these stem cells is from bone marrow. However, obtaining marrow is painful to a donor and is not without risk.
What are your cord blood banking options?
- Private Cord Blood Banking
- There are several companies that store your baby’s cord blood.
- The private companies will charge a collection fee and then an annual storage fee
- Public Cord Blood Banking
- At the present time, the local public cord bank is not affiliated with WakeMed. We apologize for the inconvenience.
How is cord blood collected?
- All of our providers are trained to collect cord blood.
- Collection is performed by draining the blood from the umbilical cord with a needle at the time of delivery |
HDI(High Density Interconnection)
It is a PCB with precise electrical components that is made to meet the needs for slimness, high density integration and high reliability.
It is mostly used in server, desktop, PC, laptop, and tablet | HDI(High Density Interconnection)
It is a PCB with precise electrical components that is made to meet the needs for slimness, high density integration and high reliability.
It is mostly used in server, desktop, PC, laptop, and tablet PC.
- SSD (Solid State Drive)
- SSD is the substitute for previous hard disk drive that stores data by using memory semiconductors.
- SSD is the perfect substitute for hard disk drive which has weak points such as noise, heat, long buffering time, delay for continued reading and writing when spinning at high speed by the mechanical means.
- Impedance Control
- Registration of layer
- Build-up Technology
- Any Layer Full Stacked Via
Description Mass Development Patterning Line/Space 50/60 40/50 Drilling Via/Land PTH 200/400 150/350 Laser 100/275 85/235 BOM CTE=50ppm CTE=30ppm Tg=150 ℃ Tg=175 ℃ Nomal PSR Low CTE & High Perfomance
- Notebook & Desktop PC, Server, High-end computer, etc. |
What is Brahmanism/meaning/concept
The Aryan conquerors who occupied the territory of India propagated the Brahmanic religion or Brahmanism. Historically, this religion is the ancient version of Hinduism. Its sacred books are | What is Brahmanism/meaning/concept
The Aryan conquerors who occupied the territory of India propagated the Brahmanic religion or Brahmanism. Historically, this religion is the ancient version of Hinduism. Its sacred books are the Vedas, which date from 1500 to 800 BC. C. It is a polytheistic religion where the various forces of nature are also idolized. Priests are known as brahmins.
Its main deities are Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva
Brahma is the main deity and essence of everything that exists in the universe. At the same time, he is the father of all gods. According to Vedic accounts, in their origin, the gods were mortal, but Brahma made them immortal.
Vishnu is the god who symbolizes goodness and the preservation of the indestructible within a changing world. In the Vedas, it is stated that the highest state of consciousness in human beings is inspired by the presence of Vishnu. Brahmanism
Shiva is the deity associated with the order of nature. At the same time, it is she who governs supernatural forces that go beyond human reason. With its strength it marks the course of time and destroys everything so that it can be reborn again. It is the god of knowledge who inspires the great masters of Hinduism.
beliefs and values
Practitioners of this religion promoted love and respect for any form of life. They rejected aggression and violence in any of its forms. Although they accepted divorce and polygamy, they did not approve of adultery. His followers led a humble life where the most important was respect for the elderly and the sick.
Brahmins promoted strict ethical values and for this reason gambling, profit and cruelty to animals were prohibited. Likewise, drunkenness, suicide, greed and aggressive behavior were frowned upon. Many followers of Brahmanism practiced an asceticism based on fasting, chastity and austere living. Among them, physical self-punishment and the practice of yoga were common. Brahmanism
Karma and the vision of the soul
In Brahmanism, it was deeply believed in the existence of karma. In this sense, karma works as a law that governs all actions. So, if we do good, we will receive good things and if we do bad, negative things will happen. In other words, positive karma creates happiness and peace, and negative karma causes pain and suffering. Consequently, the only way to achieve happiness is to do good and avoid evil.
Likewise, in Brahmanism, it is believed in the reincarnation of the human soul. Thus, the soul is in a permanent learning process and if we perform good deeds we will reincarnate in a superior being. Brahmanism
On the contrary, if we lead a life inspired by negative karma, the spirit’s next reincarnation will be in a lower body (for example, an animal). Your vision of the soul is connected with the caste system, because through the good or bad actions performed during life it is possible to rise or fall in social category in a next reincarnation. |
The name water penny beetle is a colloquial term for any beetle belonging to the family Psephenidae. Roughly 260 known species exist, but it's likely there are many more that have not yet been discovered. Their name comes | The name water penny beetle is a colloquial term for any beetle belonging to the family Psephenidae. Roughly 260 known species exist, but it's likely there are many more that have not yet been discovered. Their name comes from the flat, round appearance of their larvae.
Water penny beetles look very different from their larvae. Adults are dark-colored, generally black or dark brown, and measure 4 to 6 millimeters (.15 to.23 inches). Their bodies are slightly flattened and their antennae are short and threadlike. The larvae vary slightly in appearance according to their species. All of them have a flat, round shape, with their legs and heads covered by their dorsal plates. However, they can range in length from 3 to 10 millimeters (.12 to.39 inches) and vary in color from pale amber to almost black.
Water penny beetles are found all across the globe, on every continent except Antarctica. The larvae -- beetles before they pupate into their adult form -- are aquatic and are generally seen in fast-moving rivers and streams, or occasionally lake shores, clinging to rocks or other hard substrates. Adult beetles from this taxonomic family are land-dwelling, but still tend to live close to water and often hide under rocks or logs.
Feeding and Predation
Since adult water penny beetles only live for a short period of time, experts think they may not feed at all. However, little is known about members of family Psephenidae, and more research is required. Water penny larvae are known to be strict herbivores who feed on algae and other microorganisms that grow on freshwater rocks. When it comes to predation, both the beetles and their larvae are seen as prey by a range or birds, fish and rodents. They're more active at night than during the day to avoid potential predators.
Adult water penny beetles must use their short life -- probably only a couple of weeks -- to mate and lay eggs so the next generation can come into being. Exact details of reproduction depend on the species, but all members of this family are thought to be sexually dioecious and utilize internal fertilization. Females lay their eggs near the edge of the water so the aquatic larvae can drop into it once hatched. Over the next one to two years, the larvae grow and then emerge from the water to pupate into their adult forms. |
Dielectric materials are insulating materials that are used in cables to provide physical separation between the conductors, which are typically made of metal. These materials are chosen for their ability to reduce the amount of electrical signal loss that occurs as a signal travels | Dielectric materials are insulating materials that are used in cables to provide physical separation between the conductors, which are typically made of metal. These materials are chosen for their ability to reduce the amount of electrical signal loss that occurs as a signal travels through the cable. This is because they have a relatively high resistance to the flow of electric current, which means that they do not allow the electrical charge to flow easily from one conductor to the other.
In cables, the dielectric material is typically a solid, non-conductive substa |
The New Warp Drive Idea Isn’t Very Warpy
Headline after headline is sharing the exciting news: a pair of theoretical physicists have realized that our sci-fi dreams may be real: it may be possible to build an actual, operational warp drive | The New Warp Drive Idea Isn’t Very Warpy
Headline after headline is sharing the exciting news: a pair of theoretical physicists have realized that our sci-fi dreams may be real: it may be possible to build an actual, operational warp drive. One problem: it doesn’t go all that fast.
Let’s start with the physics (such as they are) of warp drives. In 1994, Mexican physicist Miguel Alcubierre figured out how to make a warp drive (sort of) possible. In physics, we understand the nature of gravity through Einstein’s theory of general relativity. General relativity (or just “GR” is you’re feeling brief) tells us that space and time bend, warp, and flex in the presence of matter of energy. In turn, that bending and warping and flexing of spacetime instructs matter how to move.
As Alcubierre discovered, the upshot of all this is that by carefully manipulating spacetime around a spacecraft (say, by compressing the space in front of the craft and stretching it out behind you), you can move without…moving. The space in front of you pulls, the space behind you pushes, and while standing perfectly still you get to move forward as fast as you want…even faster than the speed of light, hence the “warp drive” moniker.
One problem: An Alcubierre “drive” requires a giant ball of material with negative mass. As in, literally something weighing negative pounds. That’s what you need to make spacetime warp the way you want it to for a…warp drive.
That stinks. Negative mass doesn’t really exist, so you can’t build an Alcubierre drive.
According to the pair of theoretical physicists, however, you can still build a warp drive, it just won’t be as fun. They demonstrated that an incredibly dense shell of matter (as in, taking the entire mass of the Earth and compressing it to make an eggshell), you can affect spacetime in another way.
Remember, “spacetime” includes both space and time, and general relativity allows you to manipulate both. You can slow down or speed up the passage of time just as easily as you can bend and warp space.
A shell of super-dense material bends both space and time – for any passengers inside the shell, the experience time at a slower rate than the outside the universe. That means that for a few seconds or minutes on their watch, they can appear to travel for hundreds or thousands of years, which is plenty of time to hop from star to star.
The warp drive is here! Almost. The physicists found that this “drive” still needs to be accelerated by a normal propulsion system; the time-bending effects only work when it’s already traveling at constant speed. And no matter what, you can never bend spacetime enough to achieve faster-than-light speeds. To do that still requires matter with negative mass.
So it’s not much of a warp drive, but more of a time-distortion bubble. Which is still a cool thing, theoretically. If you jumped inside one (and used a regular rocket to get you moving), by the time you finished your lunch you could be arriving at a distant solar system. We don’t have any hopes of making one of these in the near future, however, because of the enormous amounts of mass needed to construct the bubble.
In the meantime, enjoy your life on Earth and keep on dreaming. |
Logistic Regression is basically a predictive model analysis technique where the target variables (output) are discrete values for a given set of features or input (X). For example whether someone is covid-19 positive (1) or negative (0). It | Logistic Regression is basically a predictive model analysis technique where the target variables (output) are discrete values for a given set of features or input (X). For example whether someone is covid-19 positive (1) or negative (0). It is a very powerful yet simple classification algorithm in machine learning borrowed from statistics algorithms.
Around 60% of the world’s classification problems can be solved by using the logistic regression algorithm. In this blog, we will explain what is logistic regression, difference between logistic and linear regression with python code explanation.
Logistic regression is one of the most common machine learning algorithms used for binary classification. It predicts the probability of occurrence of a binary outcome using a logit function. It is a special case of linear regression as it predicts the probabilities of outcome using log function.
We use the activation function (sigmoid) to convert the outcome into categorical value. There are many examples where we can use logistic regression for example, it can be used for fraud detection, spam detection, cancer detection, etc.
Linear Regression is used when our dependent variable is continuous in nature for example weight, height, numbers, etc. and in contrast, Logistic Regression is used when the dependent variable is binary or limited for example: yes and no, true and false, 1 or 2, etc.
Linear regression uses the ordinary least square method to minimize the error and arrives at the best possible solution, and the Logistic regression achieves the best outcomes by using the maximum likelihood method.
In the 19th century, people use linear regression on biology to predict health disease but it is very risky for example if a patient has cancer and its probability of malignant is 0.4 then in linear regression it will show that cancer is benign (because probability comes <0.5). That’s where Logistic Regression comes which only provides us with binary results.
It is a mathematical function having a characteristic that can take any real value and map it to between 0 to 1 shaped like the letter “S”. The sigmoid function also called a logistic function.
Y = 1 / 1+e -z
So, if the value of z goes to positive infinity then the predicted value of y will become 1 and if it goes to negative infinity then the predicted value of y will become 0. And if the outcome of the sigmoid function is more than 0.5 then we classify that label as class 1 or positive class and if it is less than 0.5 then we can classify it to negative class or label as class 0.
Sigmoid Function acts as an activation function in machine learning which is used to add non-linearity in a machine learning model, in simple words it decides which value to pass as output and what not to pass, there are mainly 7 types of Activation Functions which are used in machine learning and deep learning.
You can find the dataset here Dataset. First of all, before proceeding we first import all the libraries that we need to use in our algorithm
import numpy as np import matplotlib.pyplot as plt from matplotlib.colors import ListedColormap import pandas as pd from sklearn.model_selection import train_test_split from sklearn.preprocessing import StandardScaler from sklearn.metrics import accuracy_score from sklearn.linear_model import LogisticRegression
After initializing all the libraries that we need in our algorithm know we have to import our dataset with the help of the pandas library and split our dataset into training and testing set with the help of the train_test_split library.
dataset = pd.read_csv(r'dataset.csv') x = dataset.iloc[:,[2,3]].values y = dataset.iloc[;, 4].values x_train, x_test, y_train, y_test = train_test_split(x,y, test_size=0.2, random_state=0)
As we divide our dataset on the basis of train and test split know we have to scale our feature dataset with the help of StandardScaler library and apply logistic regression on the training set and check the accuracy sore with the help of accuracy_score library.
# Feature Scaling sc = StandardScaler() x_train = sc.fit_transform(x_train) x_test = sc.transform(x_test) # Fitting logistic regression to the training set Classifier = LogisticRegression(random_state=0) Classifier.fit(x_train, y_train) # Predicting the test results y_pred = classifier.predict(x_test) print("Accuracy score: ", accuracy_score(y_test, y_pred)) # Accuracy score : 0.9125
We have successfully applied logistic regression on the training set and see that our accuracy scores come 89%. So, if we take on basis of algorithm it is not so much worse for prediction. As we get the accuracy score of our model now we can see a pictorial representation of our dataset first we have to visualize the result on the basis of the training dataset.
X_set, y set = X_test, y_test X1, X2 = np.meshgrid(np.arange(start = X_set[:, 0].min()- 1, stop = X_set[:, 0].max() + 1, step = 0 |
The informant grew up in Omaha, Nebraska. Here, he explains why a local creek from his home town was dubbed “Rawhide” Creek.
N: There’s a bunch of Native American–Native Indian– stories. Those aren’t technically my | The informant grew up in Omaha, Nebraska. Here, he explains why a local creek from his home town was dubbed “Rawhide” Creek.
N: There’s a bunch of Native American–Native Indian– stories. Those aren’t technically my culture but– there’s a creek called Rawhide Creek. That supposedly has that name because a young man a long time ago, maybe the 1800s? I couldn’t tell ya. He set out to kill as many Indians as he could. And he killed a young girl. So her family, uh, to get revenge tracked him down. Found, like, the group he was a part of and said “You all die or you give him up” and they immediately gave him up. And so they took him to the creek, beat him to death, and skinned him. And there’s where you get the name Rawhide Creek.
The informant also told a similar story as to why a local bridge was named “Heartbeat Bridge”. It seems that in this region, it’s important to remember tragedies, and in order to do that, the areas that tragedies happened in are named after them. |
Speaking Sanskrit to spice up your class not only provides your students with a much more authentic experience but also allows you to immerse yourself into the history and culture behind the practices.
Bandha (Sanskrit: बन्ध) is a sans | Speaking Sanskrit to spice up your class not only provides your students with a much more authentic experience but also allows you to immerse yourself into the history and culture behind the practices.
Bandha (Sanskrit: बन्ध) is a sanskrit word that means ‘lock’ or ‘hold’, or ‘tighten’.
Mūlabandha (Sanskrit: मूलबन्ध): “root lock”. It is An inner contraction of the anus which draws the downward-tending apāna breath upward through the medial channel.
Uddiyana Bandha (Sanskrit: उड्डियान बन्ध) is a sanskrit word that refers to ‘Abdominal Lock’.
Jālandharabandha (Sanskrit: जालन्धरबन्ध) “the lock of the net bearer” “Contract the throat and press the chin firmly against the chest”. From the Haṭha Yogha Pradīpikā (chapter III)
Mahābandha (Sanskrit: महाबन्ध) translated as “The great bandha”,it is the combination of all three bandhas together while the breath is retained outside. |
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Which words came first? And whence comes “first?”
In his Historiai, Book II, Herodotus tells how an Egyptian king, Psamtik (he calls him Psammetichus), undertook an experiment. | Which words came first? And whence comes “first?”
In his Historiai, Book II, Herodotus tells how an Egyptian king, Psamtik (he calls him Psammetichus), undertook an experiment. He entrusted two children to a herdsman, charging him to allow no one to utter a word in their presence, to keep them in a cottage and to care for them, from time to time allowing goats into their apartment to supply them with milk. Two years passed, and one day, when the herdsman entered their room, the children ran to him and clearly said βηκος (bēkos), the Phrygian word for bread.
Herodotus’s account of Psamtik’s linguistic experiment, true or not, makes good reading. But did their caprine contacts cause the children to say “beeeeeh-kos?” In Greek βηκία (bēkia), as used by Hippocrates (cited by Galen), meant little sheep. Baaaaah!
Speech is prehistoric, having emerged many thousands of years ago, and we cannot possibly know what the first spoken word was. There is even debate about who might have uttered it. Did it emerge with homo sapiens? Neanderthals were supposedly incapable of it, lacking as they did the requisite anatomical apparatus, but the discovery that they possessed a hyoid bone suggests otherwise.
On the other hand, there is abundant linguistic and archaeological evidence of proto-languages, the precursors of those we speak today. Latin is an obvious direct forebear of modern Italian, and ancient Greek of modern Greek. And languages can develop in different ways from common ancestors—compare modern French and Canadian French, or Portuguese and Brazilian. But proto-languages go back much further than any of these, being the earliest attested or hypothetically reconstructed forms of languages, including such gems as proto-Algonquian, proto-Athapaskan-Eyak, and proto-Hattic. Best known is proto-Indo-European, and its discovery contained a surprise: that there was a single linguistic forerunner of most Indian and European languages.
Sir William Jones, an English judge (pictured), whom Dr Johnson described as “the most enlightened of the sons of men,” came to Calcutta in 1786 and tackled Sanskrit—a tough task.
Sir William Jones (1746–94). Steel engraving from the portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds
As Monier Williams tells us on page one of his Sanskrit Grammar (1857), devanagari, the Sanskrit script, had 14 vowels (all but one having two forms), 33 simple consonants, and 400–500 conjunct consonants. But Jones mastered it and made his discovery: “No philologer could examine [Sanskrit, Greek, and Latin] without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists.”
Thomas Young, discussing Johann Christoph Adelung’s Mithridates, oder Allgemeine Sprachenkunde (Quarterly Review, October 1813), called that common linguistic source “Indo-European.” And in 1916 Carl Darling Buck introduced the term “proto-Indo-European” to describe the theoretical roots from which modern words are thought to have developed.
Now take the hypothetical root PER, meaning “through” or “in front,” the latter in two senses: front running and confronting (compare “persuasion” and “per |
What is a MEL file?
A file with.mel (Maya Embedded Language) extension is a scripting language that is used by Autodesk Maya to create graphical interfaces. It lets you automate the creation of graphical elements using executable scripts in addition to | What is a MEL file?
A file with.mel (Maya Embedded Language) extension is a scripting language that is used by Autodesk Maya to create graphical interfaces. It lets you automate the creation of graphical elements using executable scripts in addition to Maya’s graphical interface. MEL empowers you to create graphical interfaces without learning programming. This is achieved by creating Macros and custom actions that speed up repetitive tasks. These procedures and scripts let you create custom modelling, animations, dynamics and tasks rendering. Autodesk Maya 2020 can be used to open and view contents of an EML file.
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A programmer’s reference manual is available for developers on Maya’s documentation section. MEL is based on shell scripting commands, similar to UINX, to achieve things. The scripting based commands makes it irrelevant to conventional and object oriented programming (OOP), resulting in no usage of data structures, calling functions, or using OOP as in other languages.
Some key points about MEL are as follow.
Comments - Every statement in MEL must end with a semi-colon (;), even at the end of a block.
Returning Values - Stating an expression that returns a value does not automatically print the value in MEL. Instead it causes an error.
3 + 5; // Error: 3 + 5; // // Error: Syntax error // print(3+5); 8
Commands for Create, Edit and Delete - The same command is used to create things, edit things or query information about existing things. However, a flag controls what (create, edit, or query) the command does.
// Create a sphere named "mySphere" with radius 5 sphere -radius 5 -name "mySphere"; // Edit the radius of mySphere sphere -edit -radius "mySphere"; // Print the radius of mySphere sphere -query -radius
Return Value from Function - Function syntax automatically returns a value. To get a return value using command syntax, you must enclose the command in backquotes.
$a = getAttr("mySphere.translateX"); // Function syntax $b = `getAttr mySphere.translateY`; // Command syntax |
Folate is extremely important for reducing homocysteine levels in the blood, which is a biomarker and indicator that is linked to increased risk of heart attacks, strokes and cardiovascular disease.
Whilst folate does not have a direct effect on | Folate is extremely important for reducing homocysteine levels in the blood, which is a biomarker and indicator that is linked to increased risk of heart attacks, strokes and cardiovascular disease.
Whilst folate does not have a direct effect on weight loss or fat metabolism, it is one of many nutrients necessary for the production of red blood cells, which carry oxygen from the lungs to other parts of the body.
Folate is one of many nutrients necessary for the production of red blood cells, it will help improve oxygen uptake and reduce the chances of fatigue.
Folate deficiency may lead to anaemia, and thus increase the chances of fatigue, weakness and dramatically affect your energy levels in the gym.
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Not only is PVC pipe one of the most popular plumbing supplies, but it is also one of the most reliable. PVC pipes have a lifespan of about a century. Several factors affect the pipe’s lifespan, including the environment it is in and the | Not only is PVC pipe one of the most popular plumbing supplies, but it is also one of the most reliable. PVC pipes have a lifespan of about a century. Several factors affect the pipe’s lifespan, including the environment it is in and the method of its installation. The good news is that you can take important measures to shield your PVC pipes from damage and decay.
What Is Special About PVC Pipes?
Many families use polyvinyl chloride (PVC) pipes because they are inexpensive, lightweight, and long-lasting. Some of the most frequent benefits of PVC include:
- Durability even under extreme conditions
- Perfect for plumbing
- Commonly used for primary water supply lines
The smooth inner lining of PVC pipes prevents silt from accumulating and protects water from corrosion, making them extremely useful.
These pipes are suitable for use as the primary water supply line or the main sewage pipe in a house because of their high-water pressure capacity. As long as the pipes are not severely damaged, one can use this lightweight material for a lifetime.
PVC pipes are readily available. However, they come in a limited range of sizes.
Despite meeting ANSI regulations, there is the worry that polyvinyl chloride compounds could be introduced into the water supply, which raises toxicity concerns. Because of this and the possibility of melting, the use of PVC pipes for the distribution of drinking water inside the home is prohibited by law in some areas.
Are PVC Pipes Durable?
During the 1960s, polyvinyl chloride (PVC) pipes became widely available as an alternative to the traditional plumbing materials of the period. These new pipes, which were both affordable and long-lasting, quickly gained widespread adoption and are now the standard for water transportation outside of the home. The exact longevity of PVC piping is unknown; however, it is predicted that PVC pipes will survive for roughly 100 years.
PVC pipes have a relatively short lifespan compared to other materials. To extend the life of your PVC and protect it against deterioration, we’ll examine the factors that contribute to PVC’s deterioration and the steps you can take to mitigate them.
PVC Piping Degrades When Exposed to Sunlight
UV rays from the sun are particularly damaging to PVC piping. A PVC pipe that is laid above ground and subjected to direct sunshine may degrade more quickly than it would otherwise. Sunlight’s UV radiation can degrade the molecular structure of PVC, making it easy to damage and prone to shattering.
Even if your PVC pipes must be installed above ground, you may take precautions to keep them safe. Painting the pipes or concealing any visible pipes are both effective methods. PVC pipe manufacturers advise covering any exposed piping with a thin coat of light latex-based paint.
In addition to keeping the pipes from fading in the sun, this will also help them last longer. Also, if you’re looking to buy PVC pipe, it’s best to do so from a company that keeps its inventory under cover until it’s sold to you.
PVC Fails Due to Improper Installation and Use
Inadequate preparation and installation can lead to a piping system failure. This is true of any part of the plumbing system. PVC cement is used to bond pipes to fittings, and one of the most common errors in installing PVC piping systems is applying too much or too little PVC cement. Due to its porous nature, PVC can be damaged by an excess of cement. Conversely, when too little cement is used, it can cause the pipe to leak or break.
Another problem that can arise from improper installation of PVC piping systems is what’s known as a short insertion. This occurs when a pipe is not inserted completely into its fitting. Since there is now a space where water might seep out and impurities can collect, the quality of the water supply is likely to decline.
Any debris, burrs, or other potential residue-causing elements should be eliminated before installation begins. If you want your PVC pipe connections to hold and your cement to adhere properly, make sure the pipe’s edges are as smooth as possible.
Additionally, the water velocity that the system will work with must be addressed, especially in irrigation systems. Pipe deterioration can be avoided by selecting a pipe diameter suitable for the anticipated water flow.
Underground PVC Pipes Are Being Ruined by Debris and the Elements
There obviously will not be any issues with sunlight for underground PVC piping systems, but there could be issues with dirt and debris falling on them or the ground shifting or freezing. PVC pipes are susceptible to damage from friction caused by the dirt and rocks that are buried alongside them. Even more so, PVC pipes could crack in sub-freezing weather. Soil movement, contraction, and expansion brought on by freezing and thawing can wreak havoc on a plumbing system. PVC may be more malleable than other materials, but it still has a breaking point. Shifting soil is a common cause of failure.
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What You Need to Know About : Deliberative Democratic theories
Deliberative democratic theories comprise a diverse array of approaches and insights on deliberative democracy, the idea that citizens directly contribute to ongoing substantive and inclusive public discussion and debate and seek to | What You Need to Know About : Deliberative Democratic theories
Deliberative democratic theories comprise a diverse array of approaches and insights on deliberative democracy, the idea that citizens directly contribute to ongoing substantive and inclusive public discussion and debate and seek to arrive at reasoned consensus through appeals to the public good. Deliberative democratic theories also emphasize the necessity of deliberation within government itself and especially in those governance practices in which public officials and citizens work together. This body of work consists of insights from many sources—from advances in moral or political philosophy to the testing of novel empirical hypotheses. With origins in critiques of existing political practices, deliberative democratic theory has grown into a complex interdisciplinary body of intellectual, methodological, and practical scholarship.
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Over the last day or two, I’ve been telling the conquests of Niketas Ooryphas, the terrifying Byzantine admiral who delivered the shocking attack on the menacing Cretan pirates in the Corinthian Gulf in the late 9 | Over the last day or two, I’ve been telling the conquests of Niketas Ooryphas, the terrifying Byzantine admiral who delivered the shocking attack on the menacing Cretan pirates in the Corinthian Gulf in the late 9th century AD.
The Cretan pirates: from the Madrid Skylitzes manuscript
The story is based on several translated texts of Byzantine date:
On Wednesday, I presented in a post the basic problem the portage event creates for the interpretation of the diolkos road: if Niketas really dragged his fleet, then it means the old portage road of Corinth was still in use 1500 years after its construction, or had been put back in use since antiquity.
In my paper on the subject at the Archaeological Institute of America, I provided a series of arguments against Niketas dragging his fleet over the Isthmus in AD 972. Here is a summary of the first part of my argument against the historicity of the portage:
1. First, the account is embedded in the Life of Basil, a text sponsored by the Byzantine Emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus (I love that name: “born in the purple”) to praise the activities of his grandfather, Basil I. One should perhaps be a little skeptical about an unbelievable deed in a document intended to praise the actions of the emperor’s grandfather, written 75 years after the event described
2. One should also be somewhat skeptical about accounts that describe the overland movement of large ships as a simple matter. Our ancient sources consistently describe beaching or launching military ships in antiquity as difficult activities requiring tremendous effort. So much more difficult it was to move ships long distances overland! The standard Byzantine military vessel, the dromon (see image), was over 30 m long and 4 m wide and high, and weighed many tons. For some comparative modern perspective, these figures are about twice the length and width of an 18 wheeler tractor trailer truck. To haul an entire fleet of these ships over the isthmus in a single night would have been an incredible fleet.
3. The Corinthian Isthmus seems narrow and flat from Acrocorinth, but spans 7,000 meters across and climbs steeply from sea level to an elevation of 85+ meters at the spine, creating a grade averaging over 2%, increasing the necessary required traction force for the portage significantly. The land bridge could only have created very real difficulties for moving large and heavy vessels.
4. Our most reliable ancient accounts of ship portages over this Isthmus describe the feat as a time-consuming and costly endeavor. Thucydides notes that in 428 BC, the Peloponnesians had to prepare hauling machines to convey ships across and that the Spartans worked busily to build them. Polybius suggests that Demetrius of Pharos’ transfer of vessels in 220 BC came at some significant cost in money. And a remarkable inscribed poem from Corinth recording the transfer of Marcus Antonius’ fleet in 102-101 BC characterizes the deed as a heroic feat remarkable in that it was “accomplished within a few days with little confusion, and with great planning and safety.”
These accounts suggest that dragging a fleet was an incredibly involved affair that required minimally a hard road surface, the preparation of wheeled sleds or wagons for moving the vessels, and some time. The notion t |
MyPlate and the Update on Dairy
The dairy food group is one of the five food groups found on MyPlate. Why is it so important? Because dairy contains nutrients, such as calcium, vitamin D, potassium, and protein, needed for | MyPlate and the Update on Dairy
The dairy food group is one of the five food groups found on MyPlate. Why is it so important? Because dairy contains nutrients, such as calcium, vitamin D, potassium, and protein, needed for bone health and for the health and maintenance of our bodies. This makes dairy an important part of the MyPl |
In 1858, a great French novelist Alexandre Dumas (1802 –1870) visited the Caucasus.
On his nine-month journey through the region, one of the places that captured his imagination most was Ateshgah, the | In 1858, a great French novelist Alexandre Dumas (1802 –1870) visited the Caucasus.
On his nine-month journey through the region, one of the places that captured his imagination most was Ateshgah, the fire temple located on the outskirts of Baku, Azerbaijan. Dumas recorded his impressions in his Travels in the Caucasus, which was published the following year in Paris.
Dumas challenged his fellow Frenchmen not to delay in visiting this incredible site. How correct he was. Today, the Ateshgah temple has been converted into a museum and is no longer the living monument that Dumas so richly described. The fire worshippers are long gone, and the flames no longer burn spontaneously in the domed cupola. Instead, the eternal flame is fed from gas channeled in through pipes underground.
Dumas ended his account by saying, “We visited the Mount Vesuvius of Baku. The Ateshgah is greater than the Mount Vesuvius volcano of Naples because it burns eternally. Then we returned to Baku.”
Source: Azerbaijan State News Agency |
We, human beings have, seriously altered and endangered the environment in our evolution from the primitive phase, when both we and our livelihoods were determined by the environment we lived in, to the modern phase today, when we are constantly tampering with | We, human beings have, seriously altered and endangered the environment in our evolution from the primitive phase, when both we and our livelihoods were determined by the environment we lived in, to the modern phase today, when we are constantly tampering with it, for a better human civilisation. The consequences of our meddling with the environment, mostly for our own benefits and ease of life, are becoming ubiquitous in the form of global warming, climate change and loss of biodiversity, rather mass extinctions, amongst other similar phenomenas.
The awareness of our detrimental actions has dawned upon us and concerted action has begun to preserve the environment and even reverse the damages done. The human race has together initiated a number of programmes to this end. More recently, in 2015 a climate pact was reached in Paris with an aim to control the global rise in temperature and prevent the concomitant disastrous impact on the human civilisation and our only planet, which sustains life, the Earth.
The environment prevention and protection movements have history of their own both within India and world. In this chapter, we will look at genesis and evolution of environmental movements in the country and discuss some of the major environmental movements in the country. Finally, we will analyse the role of women in the environmental movements in the country.
Environment, the sum of range of complex physical, chemical, and biotic factors, has had a privileged position throughout the history of human civilisation in the Indian sub-continent. Beginning with the nature worship, also evident in many other primitive societies, to non-violent traditions of Buddhism and Jainism which preached nonkilling of animals and even plants. In 1730, Amrita Devi Bishnoi and more than 300 others belonging to Bishnoi sect, sacrificed their lives in protests of felling of Khejarli trees in Rajasthan. This is the earliest noted incident for own market protection in India.
The British, in their pursuit of furthering Britain’s economic interests, first regulated the forests and then promoted commercial exploitation of the forests, which was resented by the tribal forest dwellers. In fact, the genesis of concern for environmental protection in India can be traced back to the early twentieth century when people, especially forest dwellers, protested against the commercialization of forest resources during the British colonial period.
However, it was only in the 1970s that a coherent and a relatively organized awareness of the ecological impact of state’s monolithic development process started to develop and grow into a fully-fledged understanding of the limited nature of natural resources and to prevent the depletion of such natural resources. The origins of Indian environmental movement can be traced to the critique of nationalized economic development that gathered momentum in the aftermath of Jayaprakash Narayan’s ‘total revolution’ movement of the 1970s.
Although colonial rule throughout the world was accompanied and supported by exploitation of forest and environmental destruction, independence of India from the British colonial rule did not stop any of these processes. Rather, the disruption of the relationships between local societies and their natural resources bases, has continued in the worldwide movement toward modernisation, as in India.
India in comparison to Western countries
Unlike in the West, where modern environmentalism was given birth to, by scientists; in India, it began through the protests of rural communities.
There was an unequal competition over resources such as forests, fish, water, and pasture. On one side were local communities who depended on these resources for subsistence; on the other, were urban and industrial interests who appropriated them for commerce and profit. State policies tended to favour the latter, leading to protests that called for a fairer and more sustainable use of the gifts of nature.
Reasons for the emergence of environmental movements in India
Some of the important reasons for the emergence of environmental movements in India, are:
- Control over natural resources.
- Ineffective developmental policies of the government.
- Socioeconomic reasons.
- Environmental degradation/ destruction.
- Spread of environmental awareness and media.
Ramchandra Guha, an eminent environment historian, lists three events which occurred within the country, in 1973, that facilitated debate on environmental issues in India:
- In April 1973, the government of India announced the launching of Project Tiger, an ambitious conservation programme aimed at protecting the country’s national animal.
- The publication of an article in Economic and Political Weekly, in 1973, entitled “A Charter for the Land” authored by B. B. Vora, a high official in the Ministry of Agriculture in government of India, which drew attention to the extent of erosion, water logging and other forms of land degradation in the country.
- In 1973, in Mandal, a remote Himalayan village, a group of peasants stopped a group of loggers from felling a s |
May 17 2018
Socratic Seminar: The Great Gatsby
a. The title of the book is a metaphor of Gatsby. He serves as this grand illusion of a
great and larger-than-life character as portrayed by the | May 17 2018
Socratic Seminar: The Great Gatsby
a. The title of the book is a metaphor of Gatsby. He serves as this grand illusion of a
great and larger-than-life character as portrayed by the gossip and rumors at his
b. As far as Nick is concerned, Gatsby is truly great. Even at the end of the novel
when his pretentions to wealth and social status have been revealed as fraudulent,
to Nick, Gatsby is still a better person than Daisy, Tom and everyone else. Gatsby
has been a true friend to Nick, and Nick is keen that Gatsby understands that this
is more valuable than any amount of wealth or than having been able to pretend
he had gone to Oxford.
c. Nick said this quote after his many encounters with Gatsby, once he finally
realized that Gatsby was pure of heart. Nick was initially (and justifiably)
doubtfuland suspicious of Gatsby, a shady “entrepeneur”, made rich by an
unspoken (criminal) means whose life goal was to win over the wife of another
man. However, by the end of the novel Nick concluded that Gatsby had gone
through all this trouble and became who he was so that he could hopefully one
day win back the love of his life, Daisy. Meanwhile, Nick also figured out by then
the disdain he had for the other people he had met and associated with. His
cousin, Daisy, was exposed to him as vain and simplistic womanwho wants
security and a lifestyle over true love. The rest of Nick’s squad was also exposed
to be vain, money oriented and superficial. Everyone who had attended Gatsby’s
parties and associated with him never did so out of true friendship, but rather out
of selfishness and their desiresto be associated with money and high end parties.
d. Though Gatsby has always wanted to be rich, his main motivation in acquiring his
fortune was his love for Daisy, whom he met as a young military officer in
Louisville before leaving to fight in World War I in 1917. It’s clear that since his
motivations were for love, it makes us like Gatsby and be capable of overlooking
some of the mistakes that he had made in his lifetime.
e. Gatsby becomes a representation of America itself: restless, resourceful and
active. It’s those qualities, along with his determination, that we give American
heroes, like Ben Franklin and George Washington. Like a child, Gatsby retains a
kind of innocent quality.
f. In my opinion, Gatsby is not great. I see the title as reflecting what he wanted to
think of himself as being - the image he had cultivated and wa trying to present to
the rest of the world. If I had to rename the novel with the same structure but
more accurate, I would title it The Delusional Gatsby.
a. the ideal that every US citizen should have an equal opportunity to achieve
success and prosperity through hard work, determination, and initiative.
b. While Gatsby’s story arc resembles a traditional rags-to-riches tale, the fact that
he gained his money immorally complicates the idea that he is a perfect avatar for
the American Dream. Furthermore, his success obviously doesn’t last – he still
pines for Daisy and loses everything in his attempt to get her back.
“But I didn't call to him for he gave a sudden intimation that he was content to be
alone--he stretched out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way, and far
as I was from him I could have sworn he was trembling. Involuntarily I glanced
seaward--and distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far
away, that might have been the end of a dock.” (1.152)
In our first glimpse of Jay Gatsby, we see him reaching towards something far off,
something in sight but definitely out of reach. This famous image of the green
light is often understood as part of The Great Gatsby’s meditation on The
American Dream – the idea that people are always reaching towards something
greater than themselves that is just out of reach.
“His heart beat faster and faster as Daisy's white face came up to his own. He
knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her
perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God. So he
waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning fork that had been struck upon
a star. Then he kissed her. At his lips' touch she blossomed for him like a flower
and the incarnation was complete.” (6.134)
This moment explicitly ties Daisy to all of Gatsby’s l |
Good study habits are usually beneficial. But with the COVID-19 epidemic, it’s even more crucial now. According to Sana, a lot of kids are concerned about sick relatives or acquaintances. Others experience more widespread stress. Additionally, kids | Good study habits are usually beneficial. But with the COVID-19 epidemic, it’s even more crucial now. According to Sana, a lot of kids are concerned about sick relatives or acquaintances. Others experience more widespread stress. Additionally, kids across the world are exposed to various teaching methods. Some institutions are resuming in-person instruction with masking and spacing requirements. Other schools feature staggered courses and part-time pupils. Others take all of their lessons online, at least initially.
Your lessons could be disrupted by these circumstances. Additionally, without a teacher or parent watching them, pupils might have to do more. They’ll need to organize their schedule and do more independent study. However, many pupils never acquired those abilities. According to Sana, it may be comparable to instructing pupils to learn to swim by “simply swimming” to them.
Good news: Science may be useful.
Psychologists have studied the most effective study habits for more than a century. For practically every subject, some advice is helpful. Do not, for instance, simply cram! And instead of merely reading the information again, put it to the test. For various kinds of classes, other strategies are more effective. This covers techniques like utilizing graphs or varying the subjects you research. Here are 10 suggestions for improving your study habits. |
By John LaForge
“[W]e should be carefully monitoring the oceans after what is certainly the largest accidental release of radioactive contaminants to the oceans in history,” marine chemist Ken Buesseler said last spring.
Instead, the U.S | By John LaForge
“[W]e should be carefully monitoring the oceans after what is certainly the largest accidental release of radioactive contaminants to the oceans in history,” marine chemist Ken Buesseler said last spring.
Instead, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency halted its emergency radiation monitoring of Fukushima’s radioactive plume in May 2011, three months after the disaster began. Japan isn’t even monitoring seawater near Fukushima, according to a Sept. 28 story in “The Ecologist.”
The amount of cesium in seawater that Buesseler’s researchers found off Vancouver Island is nearly six times the concentration recorded since cesium was first introduced into the oceans by nuclear bomb tests (halted in 1963). This stunning increase in Pacific cesium shows an ongoing increase. The International Business Times (IBT) reported last Nov. 12 that Dr. Buesseler found the amount of cesium-134 in the same waters was then about twice the concentration left in long-standing bomb test remains.
Dr. Buesseler, at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, announced his assessment after his team found that cesium drift from Fukushima’s three reactor meltdowns had reached North America. Attempting to reassure the public, Buesseler said, “[E]ven if they were twice as high and I was to swim there every day for an entire year, the dose I would be exposed to is a thousand times less than a single dental X-ray.”
This comparison conflates the important difference between external radiation exposure (from X-rays or swimming in radioactively contaminated seawater), and internal contamination from ingesting radioactive isotopes, say with seafood.
Dr. Chris Busby of the Low Level Radiation Campaign in the UK explains the distinction this way: Think of the difference between merely sitting before a warm wood fire on one hand, and popping a burning hot coal into your mouth on the other. Internal contamination can be 1,000 times more likely to cause cancer than the same exposure if it were external, especially for women and children. And, because cesium-137 stays in the ecosphere for 300 years, long-term bio-accumulation and bio-concentration of cesium isotopes in the food chain – in this case the ocean food chain – is the perpetually worsening consequence of what has spilled and is still pouring from Fukushima.
The nuclear weapons production complex is the only other industry that has a record of deliberate whole-Earth poisoning. Hundreds of tons of radioactive fallout were aerosolized and spread to the world’s watery commons and landmasses by nuclear bomb testing. The same people then brought us commercial nuclear power reactors. Dirty war spawns dirty business, where lying comes easy. Just as the weapons makers lied about bomb test fallout dangers, nuclear power proponents claimed the cesium spewed from Fukushima would be diluted to infinity after the plume dispersed across 4,000 miles of Pacific Ocean.
Today, globalized radioactive contamination of the commons by private corporations has become the financial, political and health care cost of operating nuclear power reactors. The Nov. 2014 IBT article noted that “The planet’s oceans already contain vast amounts of radiation, as the world’s 435 nuclear power plants routinely pump radioactive water into Earth’s oceans, albeit less dangerous isotopes than cesium.”
See also Fukushima police sends nuclear contamination case against Tepco execs to prosecutors |
Trends in Essential Skills- What will Essential Skills look like in the future?
A little back story about Essential Skills, About 25 years ago, the Office of Literacy and Essential skills developed the Essential Skills framework that includes these 9 skills | Trends in Essential Skills- What will Essential Skills look like in the future?
A little back story about Essential Skills, About 25 years ago, the Office of Literacy and Essential skills developed the Essential Skills framework that includes these 9 skills that provided a foundation for learning all other skills and enable people to better prepare for, get and keep a job, and adapt successfully at work.
The 9 skills include:
Working with others
After reading the article by David, Janet, and Scott named Competency frameworks and Canada's Essential Skills in the link:
It shows that in times of change especially during COVID we might have to adapt the 9 essential skills that we came to master in the last 25 years to fit towards the future times.
Computer Skills to be adapted to Digital Technology:
The world and technology are constantly changing, we must be open and willing to keep learning. The connection among people and computer skills has been recorded widely in the previous many decades yet still can't seem to be checked on through the perspective of the current worldwide pandemic. I think we can all agree that the quickly developing writing on computerized innovation use during the current COVID‐19 pandemic has been significant. I think expanding computer skills to digital technology to include more avenues of communication is important in our world today.
Working with others may need an online component
When COVID-19 constrained organizations everywhere in the world to send their employees to work from home or remote working, the title of teamwork had a redefining moment. Despite the fact that the pandemic may have been the impetus for distant work for a huge number of employers and employees it's a long way from the solitary motivation to work from home but it is the best way forward.
Document Use will need a subsection or put new emphasis on online forms
At the point when COVID-19 lockdowns came, Canada's business protection framework neglected to cover enough of the Canadian labor force that was influenced and flopped officially to stay aware of the flood in applications for benefits. In addition to the fact that CERB had to drastically build the portion of laborers who were covered, yet it additionally needed to adopt a fundamentally more adaptable strategy to characterizing the qualifying conditions under which former employees were paid. We had to adapt fast to the online systems of using documents.
I felt like these 3 points were important to address as improving Es |
John Locke was an influential 17th-century philosopher and physician who is widely considered to be one of the most important figures in the history of Western philosophy. Locke’s ideas about the mind and personal identity were largely influenced by his work on the philosophy | John Locke was an influential 17th-century philosopher and physician who is widely considered to be one of the most important figures in the history of Western philosophy. Locke’s ideas about the mind and personal identity were largely influenced by his work on the philosophy of language, and his work on the philosophy of mind had a significant impact on the development of cognitive science.
John Locke is most famous for his ideas about the natural rights of man. He believed that government should be instituted to protect people’s natural rights and that people should consent to be governed by their government. Locke also believed that all people had a right to freedom of speech and thought.
His theory of personal identity is based on the idea that the self is a conscious, thinking being. According to this view, what makes you who you are isn’t your body or some set of physical characteristics; it’s your consciousness and how you think about yourself. Locke didn’t believe we have an immaterial soul that exists separate from our bodies; instead, he thought that a person is their consciousness. His theory says that each person has a soul—which he called an “active principle”—and as long as that soul is capable of thought, then that person continues to exist over time even if their body changes significantly or even dies completely.
Locke also developed theories on property rights and freedom of speech that continue to influence political thought today. |
In Japanese, describing things that can be experienced with the senses (excluding visual), is a little bit different to the way that we would convey it in English. Traditionally, we would use unique verbs for each of these situations, such as ‘ | In Japanese, describing things that can be experienced with the senses (excluding visual), is a little bit different to the way that we would convey it in English. Traditionally, we would use unique verbs for each of these situations, such as ‘smells like (A)’, ‘tastes like (A)’, ‘feels like (A)’, etc. While this is still possible in Japanese, it is not the most common way.
is a grammar construction that focuses on the source of the smell, sound, taste, or feeling, and makes the sensory experience itself the subject of the sentence. To use がする
, simply attach it to the end of any phrase that expresses which type of ‘sense’ is being created/given off by the subject.
I like this soap because it smells like roses. (Literally, ‘it gives off a rose smell’)
I hear someone coming up the stairs. (Literally, ‘the sound of someone coming up the stairs is being made’)
This banana tastes weird. (Literally, ‘it gives off a strange flavor’)
It feels like I'm being watched by someone. (Literally, ‘the feeling of being watched is happening’)
Japanese often uses 気（き） ‘energy’, ‘spirit’, as something that can be perceived with the senses. Due to this, there are many phrases which use ～気（き）がする
in the same way as this grammar point.
Shoot, I feel like I forgot to lock my door. (Literally, ‘my attention is being drawn to that I may have forgotten to lock the door’)
I feel like I forgot something. (Literally, ‘my attention is being drawn to that something was forgotten’) |
A very effective technology for the removal of hardness from water is pellet softening.
The technology is exceptionally suited for large-scale and centralized water treatment. Pellet softening is therefore frequently applied for the production of drinking water.
The name pellet softening | A very effective technology for the removal of hardness from water is pellet softening.
The technology is exceptionally suited for large-scale and centralized water treatment. Pellet softening is therefore frequently applied for the production of drinking water.
The name pellet softening originates in the waste product formed: small, rock-hard marble balls that are called pellets. Pellet softening is distinguished by the following advantages:
The heart of the pellet softening installation is the reactor. The pellet reactor is a reactor filled with fine-grain sand. Supply water and chemicals (caustic soda, lime wash or sodium carbonate) are injected into the bottom of the reactor and mixed intensively.
The chemicals increase the pH of the water so that calcium carbonate, lime, leaves the solution and crystallizes on the fine sand in the form of rock-hard balls, the pellets.
The pellets formed are fluidized by the upward force of the water. The pellets gradually grow. This makes them heavier, and the surface of the whole pellet bed becomes smaller. Large pellets also fluidize less well than small ones. In most applications, the pellets grow to about 1 mm. Through periodic removal of the large pellets and input of new fine sand, the composition of the pellet bed can be controlled.
RWB has a great deal of experience with the realization of pellet softening installations. Pellet softening requires very specific knowledge and practical experie |
Huevos haminados, eggs cooked slowly through the night, are one of the most recognizable foods of the Sephardic kitchen. But in fact, the uniquely Jewish cooking method long predates its popularity among the Jewish community in Spain. | Huevos haminados, eggs cooked slowly through the night, are one of the most recognizable foods of the Sephardic kitchen. But in fact, the uniquely Jewish cooking method long predates its popularity among the Jewish community in Spain. With the Spanish Expulsion of 1492, it spread widely to other Jewish communities while simultaneously remaining a hallmark of Sephardic cuisine.
The name huevos haminados (or just haminados for short) derives from Ladino, combining eggs with the name for the Shabbat stew in which they were cooked, hamin, the Sephardic precursor to what Ashkenazi Jews call cholent. Such eggs emerge from the pot brown in color, with a nutty and meaty flavor, along with a deliciously creamy yolk.
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Inquisition trial records from both Spain and Mexico document the popularity of these eggs among crypto-Jews. In A Drizzle of Honey: The Lives and Recipes of Spain’s Secret Jews, David M. Gitlitz and Linda Kay Davidson highlight indictments that point to the “red eggs” some conversos ate alongside their “Jewish meat and Sabbath stew,” indicating they maintained a secret Jewish lifestyle. Haminados were thus recognized as a genuinely Jewish food item.
Despite their Sephardic association, haminados have ancestors that predate the Spanish Jewish community. In the Talmudic Tractate Shabbat we are told that Jews in the Galilean city of Tzippori left eggs heating on the Sabbath for long and slow cooking. In other parts of the Talmud, we find distinct terms to describe eggs that are roasted, boiled in water, stewed in other liquids, or cooked in ashes.
The dry-heat method appears to have been the earliest way to long-cook eggs. Throughout history, in many places, Jews prepared their Shabbat eggs in this manner. Yemenite Jews roasted them in the oven next to their jachnun or kubaneh, Egyptian Jews buried them in the coals of the bathhouse fire, and in parts of Germany and Austria, some Ashkenazim placed eggs in a separate container alongside their cholent. Still today, many Iraqi Jews leave eggs to roast slowly on the lid of their pot of t’beet (a chicken-and-rice Shabbat dish).
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Technically, such eggs are called huevos asados — roasted eggs. But they developed directly into haminados in medieval Spain. Dry-roasted eggs shrink inside their shells, but by placing them inside the moist hamin, Sephardim got the same taste with a more pleasant texture.
Haminados became so beloved to Sephardic Jews that they began eating them at other times: Shabbat morning for desayuno (breakfast), Purim (due to the similar sound of hamin and the villainous Haman) or even at regular meals during the week. In order to eat them with dairy foods and still observe the kosher laws, one more development took place: the eggs emerged from the meaty hamin pot and were cooked in water by themselves. To maintain the classic look and flavor, many put onion skins or coffee grounds into the water. (Apparently, the brown color comes from the Maillard reaction, and develops even in plain water. But tradition runs strong, and perhaps these additives deepen the color beyond the chemical reaction alone.) The onion skin technique had already become common in 15th century Spain.
With their post-1492 spread, Sephardic Jews transferred haminados to their new homes all around the Mediterranean. Some regional names for them highlight their origins: “Jewish eggs” or “eggs of Salonica” (once a highly Jewish city). Furthermore, for around 1,000 years after the fall of the Roman Empire there were virtually no chickens (and thus no eggs) in Europe. So, while Ashkenazim already consumed lots of eggs by the 14th century, haminados were more strongly linked to Sephardim, who, in Muslim lands, had never stopped eating eggs in the first place.
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What Is Decentralized Finance
The versatile, expanding industry of decentralized finance challenges the traditional financial system by limiting the influence of intermediaries and by giving power to people via the peer-to-peer model.
What is the broader meaning of decentralized finance?
| What Is Decentralized Finance
The versatile, expanding industry of decentralized finance challenges the traditional financial system by limiting the influence of intermediaries and by giving power to people via the peer-to-peer model.
What is the broader meaning of decentralized finance?
What is Decentralized Finance?
Blockchain technology and cryptocurrency lie at the core of decentralized finance (DeFi).
Financial transactions between parties are managed without relying on intermediaries, such as banks, brokerages, and other similar entities. Mostly operating on the Ethereum platform, this is done by using smart contracts – encrypted computer programs that execute automatically when predefined conditions are met.
Financial transactions are recorded in computer code as blockchain is a decentralized, distributed public ledger. Contrary to this, traditional financial transactions occur on a private ledger that is entirely owned and managed by a large financial institution.
- Also read: Regulated DeFi in Focus
How is DeFi Being Used Now?
The ever-expanding DeFi universe has a variety of use cases:
1. Financial transactions. This major use case includes anything from payments and trading to lending and borrowing.
2. Decentralized exchanges (DEXs). DEXs coordinate large-scale trading of crypto assets between many users, facilitating peer-to-peer (P2P) financial transactions.
3. E-wallets. Digital wallets can operate independently of crypto exchanges and give users access to everything from trading digital currencies to engaging in blockchain gaming.
4. Stablecoins. As cryptocurrencies are highly volatile assets, stablecoins attempt to peg their market value to some external reference, like the U.S. dollar, to stabilize their value.
5. Synthetic assets. This asset type is basically a tokenized derivative that mimics the value of another asset – fiat currencies, cryptocurrencies, stocks, commodities, etc.
6. Yield harvesting. Yield farming is an investment strategy in DeFi that involves lending or staking crypto coins or tokens with the aim of getting rewards in the form of transaction fees or interest.
7. Non-fungible tokens (NFTs). NFTs are digital tokens with unique properties, which make them as singular and unique as they are. These digital tokens grant the buyer ownership of digital artwork.
- Also read: What are NFTs?
8. Crypto loans. Crypto loans allow traders to receive liquid funds without selling their crypto assets. Instead, they use their assets as collateral for a cash or stablecoin loan.
9. Blockchain gaming. In blockchain gaming, digital assets are developed on the blockchain and have a real-world value in the form of NFTs.
- Also read: The Rise of Blockchain Gaming
The Future of DeFi
The meaning of decentralized finance is a hot search term as DeFi has become the most popular crypto concept.
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Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton asked why.
— Bernard Baruch, American financier, philanthropist, and statesman
Mathematics should be a subject that stimulates a child’s sense of inquisitiveness, to excite | Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton asked why.
— Bernard Baruch, American financier, philanthropist, and statesman
Mathematics should be a subject that stimulates a child’s sense of inquisitiveness, to excite and incite an interest for its application in everyday life and not exclusively within the classroom.
The Mathematics Mastery programme sets an ambitious curriculum to provide the children with the impetus and the tools necessary to master Mathematics, thereby equipping them with the kindling to enflame the self-confidence they need for the successful application of Mathematics. The journey that our children embark on throughout our broad and balanced curriculum begins in the Early Years and, through a spiral of planned and sequenced lessons, builds upon previous knowledge to instil our pupils with the mathematical confidence and the knowledge to be secondary school ready. By the end of Year 6 we intend for our pupils to have a sound comprehension of all four of the operations, including working with fractions and decimals, an understanding of the number system and place value of large integers, connecting multiplication and division questions, making links between percentages and ratio and to confidently calculate both written and mental arithmetic problems.
In order to build a depth of understanding, we place problem-solving at the heart of our Mathematics curriculum. Pupils are provided with the opportunity to explore the maths they are learning through an understanding of mathematical thinking in which they are empowered to seek solutions, make new discoveries and reason about their findings. Vocabulary is a key element to this intention, paralleled with the need to stimulate and develop the use of mathematical language throughout the academy. We introduce the vocabulary required for each concept as and continually model and use this language so that its use becomes embedded in the children’s learning. Our lessons include talk tasks to enable children to practise using this vocabulary whilst enabling the opportunity for them to discuss their reasoning. New concepts are taught through using concrete representations, which are then reflected pictorially to ultimately embed a deeper understanding of the new concept. This practice is returned to regularly throughout the children's learning to continually enhance their mathematical problem solving skills.
The curriculum is designed, developed, and adapted |
In this Q&A, we ask author Cameron Hodges about his team’s research monitoring the behaviour of a Malayan krait near a university dormitory in Thailand, and find out a little bit more about the author himself.
Go to: The | In this Q&A, we ask author Cameron Hodges about his team’s research monitoring the behaviour of a Malayan krait near a university dormitory in Thailand, and find out a little bit more about the author himself.
Go to: The research | The bigger picture | About the Author
What’s your article about?
Our article provides a detailed description of the observed movements, habitat use, and behaviours exhibited by a highly venomous snake (Malayan krait) which shared space closely with humans at a university student dormitory complex in northeast Thailand. The data used in the paper was taken from a larger Malayan krait spatial ecology study, and was intended to demonstrate how these highly cryptic and potentially dangerous snakes behave among a densely populated residential area.
The study highlights the potential for conflicts to arise between kraits and humans, and in the article we provide suggestions drawn from the snake’s behaviour and habits in attempt to help minimize the chances of snakebites from occurring.
What is the background behind your article?
Malayan kraits are responsible for the most snakebite mortalities in Thailand, with the majority (ca. 70%) occurring within the northeast region of the country. Many of the bites are known to occur to victims while within homes during the night. Despite this, no studies have examined the movements and behaviour or Malayan kraits among residential areas in attempt to gain useful information for conflict prevention.
Furthermore, based on our experiences with locals of Nakhon Ratchasima province, we have found that there are concerning knowledge gaps about this species, with few knowing of this species or whether or not it is venomous. Additionally, it appears that locals familiar with this species are often under the impression that it is quite rare and only occurs in pristine evergreen forests.
Why is it important?
Bettering our understanding of how animals live among human-modified landscapes is vital for conservation, as natural areas are being lost and degraded rapidly. Additionally, it is also important to study venomous snakes living among humans in tropical developing countries, as snakebite is a major public health problem which afflicts more than 2 million people globally each year.
Understanding how medically significant venomous snakes live among humans in regions most afflicted by snakebite will allow us to better develop snakebite prevention strategies. One of the best ways to do this is through the use of radio-telemetry to study the movements, behaviour, and natural history of free-ranging snakes.
Did you have any problems setting up the experiment/gathering your data?
Most of the issues I experienced in my study were related to either the low detection rates, which resulted in a small sample size, and problems commonly associated with using smaller radio-transmitters (i.e. short battery life, reduced signal range, and increased chance of premature failures).
Where you surprised by anything when working on it?
I was surprised how much time most of the Malayan kraits I tracked remained in settlement habitat despite having forested areas available.
What are the key messages of your research?
The telemetered Malayan krait in our study predominately sheltered and foraged among student dormitories, despite being captured and translocated to an adjacent forest on two occasions. Our observations highlight considerable potential for conflicts to occur, along with the need for education programs and implementation of prevention strategies.
The bigger picture
What does your work contribute to the field?
My study provides needed insight into the natural history and behaviour of an urban adapted nocturnal elapid from Southeast Asia.
Does this article raise any new research questions?
Yes, in attempt to better understand why the kraits use settlements so frequently, I would like to know whether prey abundance is higher among settlements than in the remaining less-disturbed areas on the university campus.
What is the broader impact of your article?
Findings from my research on Malayan kraits in human-dominated landscapes may also help build our understanding of how other active foraging snakes live among humans in the tropics. Behaviours exhibited by Malayan kraits may be similar to other urban adapted krait species, including the common krait (Bungarus caeruleus), which is responsible for many snakebite deaths in South Asia.
Who should read your article?
This article will be especially important for building/land managers and snake-human conflict mitigation teams (i.e. “snake rescuers” and snake education teams), as they would be able to implement and disseminate the suggestions made to help facilitate safe coexistence between humans and venomous snakes.
About the Author
How did you get involved in ecology?
I have been passionate about wildlife (especially reptiles) for as long as I can remember, and by the age of 16 I had decided I wanted to become a herpetologist. While working towards my bachelor’s d |
Markets often fail to deliver socially-efficient outcomes where a natural resource is characterised by conditions of open access. A resource is described as an open access resource when it is not possible to prevent anyone who wishes to use it from doing so, or | Markets often fail to deliver socially-efficient outcomes where a natural resource is characterised by conditions of open access. A resource is described as an open access resource when it is not possible to prevent anyone who wishes to use it from doing so, or where the cost of imposing such restrictions is prohibitively high. Examples of open access resources include
*natural forest areas, including tropical moist forests
*acquifers (i.e. surface and underground fresh water stocks)
*the earth’s atmosphere
To illustrate why open access conditions often lead to inefficient outcomes, let us consider the case of a marine fishery. As we shall see, marine fisheries are prone to being over fished. In an extreme case, the stock of a particular species may be driven to a level at which it cannot recover, and the species becomes extinct.
There are two reasons why excessive harvesting is likely to occur in these circumstances. First, the actions of each fishing boat imposes external costs on all others. When one boat withdraws fish from the sea, the total stock is reduced, and so it becomes more difficult for others to catch fish. Each fishing vessel incurs private or internal costs, but also imposes external costs on others by increasing the amount of effort that is required to catch a given quantity of fish. The excessive harvesting arises because the owner of each vessel takes account of only private revenues and costs in deciding upon the amount of fishing to be undertaken. For a socially efficient outcome, all costs – private and external – should be included in this decision.
In conditions of open access, whenever private profits can be obtained, more vessels will tend to be attracted to fish in these waters. Where the number of boats is large, individualistic, uncooperative behaviour is likely to prevail. Even though each fisherman realises the effects of his actions on others, he is likely to proceed in a self-interested way, grabbing whatever he can on the assumption that everyone else is doing the same.
The second cause of inefficiency arises from the lack of incentives to “invest” in future stocks. When fish stocks are low, rational behaviour suggests that boat owners reduce their catch today to allow stocks to recover and grow. Investing in the future in this way offers the prospect of larger returns in the future for small costs today. But the open access regime implies that this action is very unlikely; any individual who invests in this way is unlikely to be able to appropriate the returns on his investment. The returns ultimately become available to the whole industry, not to the individual “investor”. Moreover, a free-rider problem exists here. Any one individual can benefit by others agreeing to reduce their catches, but by increasing his own catch (compare this with the cartel model we discussed earlier).
Market forces alone will not generate efficient collective outcomes because each fisherman will equate his private marginal costs and marginal benefits. The two kinds of externalities we have |
1716 has 24 divisors (see below), whose sum is σ = 4704. Its totient is φ = 480.
The previous prime is 1709. The next prime is 1721. The reversal of | 1716 has 24 divisors (see below), whose sum is σ = 4704. Its totient is φ = 480.
The previous prime is 1709. The next prime is 1721. The reversal of 1716 is 6171.
1716 is nontrivially palindromic in base 14.
1716 is a nontrivial binomial coefficient, being equal to C(13, 6).
It is a house number.
1716 is an undulating number in base 14.
It is a nialpdrome in base 12 and base 13.
It is a junction number, because it is equal to n+sod(n) for n = 1695 and 1704.
It is a congruent number.
It is an inconsummate number, since it does not exist a number n which divided by its sum of digits gives 1716.
It is an unprimeable number.
1716 is an untouchable number, because it is not equal to the sum of proper divisors of any number.
It is a polite number, since it can be written in 7 ways as a sum of consecutive naturals, for example, 126 +... + 138.
It is an arithmetic number, because the mean of its divisors is an integer number (196).
It is an amenable number.
It is a practical number, because each smaller number is the sum of distinct divisors of 1716, and also a Zumkeller number, because its divisors can be partitioned in two sets with the same sum (2352).
1716 is an abundant number, since it is smaller than the sum of its proper divisors (2988).
It is a pseudoperfect number, because it is the sum of a subset of its prop |
So you’ve got your small group ready to go: you picked a time and place, you selected what you want to study, and you’ve got people showing up for it! What do you do now? The first meeting together can have a | So you’ve got your small group ready to go: you picked a time and place, you selected what you want to study, and you’ve got people showing up for it! What do you do now? The first meeting together can have a lot of fun energy, but there can also be a lot of anxiety in people—especially if it’s a new group and they don’t know many people there, or if they haven’t experienced a small group before. It’s important to make good impression at that first meeting. How do we make our first meeting fun, compelling, and informative?
1. Keep it Relational
The most important goal on the first night is to set up the relational feel that you want the group to have and help everyone feel comfortable with each other. This is what sets small groups apart from classes and other meetings. It’s also the easiest way to ease people’s anxiety—after all, it’s sort of like the first day of school. As the leader, introduce each person who arrives to the other people in the group.
Don’t rush the start of the group on the first week. People may show up late because they are nervous or they might have trouble finding the place you’re meeting. Instead, intentionally engage in casual conversation before sitting down to start the group discussion. When you do gather everyone to start, it might help to call out the relational tension to show them they’re not alone and it’s okay to laugh about it. You could say something like, “Let’s just all feel awkward together—it’ll be fun!” or, “Kinda feels like the first day of school doesn’t it? Don’t worry, we’re way less mean than those kids!” You can also mention that it may take a few weeks to learn each other’s names, and that’s normal. (To help with this, you could use nametags for the first weeks.)
Icebreaker questions are a great tool to use anytime to help put people at ease, to get them comfortable talking, and to help them get to know each other. They’re especially valuable at the first meeting. Sharing even one or two personal things creates lots of opportunity for connecting with each other. People will learn they’re in similar careers, live near each other, have kids the same age, or come from the same hometown. My favorite icebreakers for the first week are:
- Tell us your name, how long you’ve lived in this community, and what you do for a living.
- Share one of your favorite things about your current job.
- Share your favorite local restaurant that you’d recommend.
2. Cast a Clear Vision
The first week is your chance to cast a clear and compelling vision about what group members can expect their group experience to be like. It’s often helpful to hand out a small list of “Group Guidelines” (click here for ideas of what to include). You don’t want to make them feel overwhelmed with “rules,” but setting up simple guidelines can help everyone feel more comfortable. I like to include:
- Everything that is shared in this group stays here—it’s all confidential.
- The goal is for everyone to be heard in this group, and for no one to dominate.
- When people share, we listen without judging, criticizing, or giving advice.
- We commit to pray for each other.
In addition, it’s helpful to be clear about the start and end time for the meetings. I like to commit to ending the group on time every week, and then I ask them to commit to being on time so we can start on time every week. This helps group members plan better, and it immediately starts to build trust. I also like to ask people to tell me if they won’t be able to make it. Life happens, and not everyone will be able to make it every week, but you as the leader definitely want to know if someone can’t make it.
Depending on what you plan to study in the group, make sure group members are prepared. Let them know where to purchase the book (or that you will get the book for them), or let them know to bring their Bible each week (and whether it’s okay to use a Bible app on their phone or tablet). If you’re using video curriculum, let group members know that and if they will need any accompanying book or questions ahead of time. I’ve found it’s really helpful to share the vision for the study you’ll be doing together. This is an opportunity to get them excited about it, so share how you hope it will impact them, why you’re excited about it, and any interesting details that might pull them in. Your excitement will be contagious, so don’t under-sell it!
Lastly, spend some time talking about your goals for the group in general. Maybe your hope is that friendships will formed or that people will learn new things about the Bible. If you’d led groups before, share why you love leading groups. If it’s your first time leading, share why you’ve decided to start. When I was a new leader, I liked to say something like, “I’m still pretty new to leading, so I appreciate your grace as I figure it out.” This put me at ease and the rest of the group a |
Design- life is all about designing and setting things in patterns. Designing makes any object look much better and organized. The same is the case when it comes to designing on technical levels. As the world revolutionizes, the changes also occur in | Design- life is all about designing and setting things in patterns. Designing makes any object look much better and organized. The same is the case when it comes to designing on technical levels. As the world revolutionizes, the changes also occur in the world of tech designing.
The two most prominent designs are the Flat and Gradient designing. Both the designs are well renowned and have a history of their significance. First, let us discuss what exactly these designs are and how they have ruled the designing world.
What is Flat Design?
Simply put, flat design is a user interface design style that utilizes simple two-dimensional elements and bright colors. Flat design was developed for responsive design, where websites scale smoothly on a device screen, especially smartphones. Flat designs use simple shapes and minimal textures and ensure that the created designs work well and load fast.
Flat designs are also cellphone friendly as they work effortlessly on cells while using less space and reducing visual noises. Flat design provides users with streamlined and more optimal user experience. It also eliminates unnecessary clutter, which proves how usable it is.
How Long Have Flat Designs Been Ruling?
While many designers have programmed their way to flat design, it is safe to say that tech giants such as Microsoft and Apple made flat design pretty popular. Microsoft launched the “Metro” design on its software available at that time like Windows 7. Large, bright, grid-like shapes dominated the Windows 7 style.
The style became popular and was kept in Windows 8 as well. As the popularity of the design progressed, Apple too was drawn to flat design and launched it in the release of iOS 7 in 2013. iOS seemed to have made a significant impact on the app designers and web developers, and flat design was the latest trend and had been ruling since then.
As technology advanced, the flat design seemed to fit well in the scenario too. The screens became high-def, and the need to display crisper imagery doubled. Displaying boxes and textures without drop shadows was a lot easier. Hence, flat designed seemed to accommodate in the present world.
What are gradients?
Gradients, also known as color transitions, are colors that blend from one to another ranging to as many colors as you like. Gradients are not limited to two shades or hues, as many vibrant colors can be used as a person likes. Gradients can blend similar colors to a unique color as well.
A few decades back, gradients were a popular way to add color and depth to designs. They had remained popular, but then the flat designs took over. The gradient trend is exceptionally versatile. It can be used to express emotion or be subtle as well.
Gradients and Their Comeback
Recently, gradients have made a comeback in popularity but in a different style and manner than its application before. Now the gradients are much softer, playful, and blend quite easily. The days when there used to be harsh color transitions, irritating metallic finishes, and rainbows are way behind us!
They have already been named “Gradient 2.0” design by communities. It is quite clear that gradients are becoming a trend again, but what makes them different from the 2000s? They are being fit in the background as well. Designers are blending similar bright colors in backgrounds and adding depth and visual designs to it.
The possibilities are endless! Colors can be easily blended in a gradient. Designers can easily create apps by just combining apps, and there is much room for creativity as well.
The Gradient Trend in Action, The Reason It Is Being Accepted Again
So ‘how have the gradients come back into action? What trends are those that make the gradient acceptable?’ They are versatile, and there are several ways gradients are expressive, some of them are:
Logo designing is an effective way to express change. Gradients came back in action when some of the famous App like Instagram changed its logo that involved gradients. In 2016 jaws were dropped when the logo of Insta was altered. After the rebranding by apps, many logo creation services have started using gradients again.
The brand now displays a wildly-colored semi-flat logo, and the gradient splashed over it. Various brands and applications have rebranded icons and moved from an already-flat version of it. Mozilla Firefox, Tinder, and Asana are some apps that have rebranded their logos.
Utilizing Gradients in Web Design
Gradients have a variety of uses; one of them is web design. You can easily use a combination of bright colors and form a subtle background. Fun, funky vibes and photo overlays can be easily added. Gradients can also make web designs bold yet classy. A significant impact can be made without being visually too expressive or overwhelming.
As flat designs do not have a variety of colors and gradient do, they seem a logical decision in web design. Gradients are not just used instead of flat design but also as something entirely new.
Adding Gradients in Apps
We all live in a world with a plethora of apps where one struggles to overthrow the other. In this mess, gradient usage in apps plays a vital role. In a sea of apps, one has to find a way to stand out. Either as background or in designing, gradients are a great way to help an app stand out.
Apps like Snapchat and Skype have now started adding gradients in their backgrounds and other filters. Gradients are applied depending on your moods like bold colors for energetic feel, pastels for a calming experience and dull combinations to express sorrow.
Packaging and Gradients
Not just in designing or apps but gradients slowly have a comeback in packaging as well. Gradients are used as a background element is packing. As gradients have varieties, the type of color can be used to express the nature of the |
Adapt to the agile & growing needs of your organization. New data types, new data products, and new apps are easily added to the mesh without any impact on established data services.
What is a data mesh?
A data mesh is a network | Adapt to the agile & growing needs of your organization. New data types, new data products, and new apps are easily added to the mesh without any impact on established data services.
What is a data mesh?
A data mesh is a network of distributed data products linked together, which follow FAIR principles (findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable) using smart APIs.
Another way to understand the concept of a data mesh is to think of it like the world wide web:
- You have your data in one or more data products, which are like web servers
- You have an analysis platform, which is like a web browser
- Data products have smart APIs, which allow the analysis platform to access and utilize any data product, like HTTP / DNS
Following the WWW concept, when you have a web server, you can serve domain-specific content. Similarly, Tag.bio’s data product serves domain-driven analysis functionality.
Why this matters:
This decentralized WWW pattern scales better than the centralized data lake pattern.
- Data products are developed, published and maintained independently by domain-centric teams
- Data products are able to communicate within the data mesh via smart APIs
- Data sources and functionality available within each data product are tightly versioned
- The same data product can be accessed by multiple teams, analysis platforms, R/Python SDKs, and third-party clients
Similar to how a web browser allows a user to browse for and interact with content served by many disparate web servers, the analysis platform allows a user to browse for and interact with content served by the data products. The content can be private or public with access dependent on the user’s authorization roles.
Why this matters:
- A centralized platform for access to registered data products
- Ability to cross-compare disparate data in one platform
- Store a reproducible history of all your analysis activities and reusable UDATs (useful data artifacts)
- The analysis platform allows FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable, reusable) interaction with both data and analyses
In order for a web browser to communicate with the web servers, it needs a common language, which is the HTTP. In the data mesh case, the analysis platform can communicate with the data products using a common language, which is the smart API.
Why this matters:
- Smart API is a universal communication protocol to access domain-specific data and functionality within data products
- It enables each data product to communicate domain-specific language and functionality to end users
- A common way to extract and transfer data from data products to third party softwares (i.e. R, Python, Jupyter notebook, Tableau)
Data must be FAIR
Tag.bio’s data mesh focuses on making the data FAIR.
“I know where to look for any of my organization’s data.”
“I can access the data that I need.”
“I integrate this data with another data.”
“I can use the same data to ask and answer different types of questions.”
Advantages of the data mesh
Attempting to bring all of your data into the same place and the same universal schema is unsustainable at scale. A decentralized data mesh solves that problem, with domain-driven – yet harmonized – data products designed and quickly deployed by smaller, specialized teams.
Each data product in the mesh can be worked on independently. As each data product is containerized, it can be deployed as soon as any changes are ready.
As new data arises, new data products can be constructed and deployed to the mesh. The same data product can be accessed by many analysis platforms and teams. This allows your organization to scale your data mesh as you grow.
Accelerate time to value
Get value from day one. As a single data product with a single analysis app can be released within hours. This allows domain experts to instantly start asking and answering their own questions. |
Tolkien's Modern Middle Ages
J.R.R. Tolkien delved into the Middle Ages to create a critique of the modern world in his fantasy, yet did so in a form of modernist literature with postmodern implications and huge commercial success. | Tolkien's Modern Middle Ages
J.R.R. Tolkien delved into the Middle Ages to create a critique of the modern world in his fantasy, yet did so in a form of modernist literature with postmodern implications and huge commercial success. These essays examine that paradox and its significance in understanding the intersection between traditionalist and counter-culture criticisms of the modern. The approach helps to explain the popularity of his works, the way in which they continue to be brought into dialogue with twenty-first century issues, and their contested literary significance in the academy.
J.R.R. Tolkien, Fantasy, Literary Theory, Postmodern, Ecocriticism, Gender
Literature in English, British Isles | Medieval Studies
Siewers, Paul and Chance, Jane M., "Tolkien's Modern Middle Ages" (2009). Faculty Books. 15.
"The reconsideration and further development of commentary on the disparate sources of, influences on, and analogues to LotR that I have summarized here make Tolkien’s Modern Middle Ages a worthy addition to the canon of Tolkien scholarship."--W.A. Senior, Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts "The outward appearance of this nicely designed volume spells 'quality' - and indeed, fair is not foul (though, as we all know, not all that is gold glitters...). The overall quality of the essays assembled in this collection is quite high and the two editors did a good job in dividing the fourteen papers into four parts - the medieval in postmodern Middle-earth, Middle-earth and Victorian medievalism, modern ideologies in Middle-earth, and visualizing medievalism in Middle-earth...To sum up: the collection is an interesting example of what happens when medievalists (most of them anyway) read modern theories and apply them to Tolkien's work."--Hither Shore |
Here Lies Gandalf
Keywords:The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings, LotR, Gandalf, Tolkien, Elrond, Bilbo, Gollum, characterization, character development
Mercer shares his initial thoughts on Gandalf as | Here Lies Gandalf
Keywords:The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings, LotR, Gandalf, Tolkien, Elrond, Bilbo, Gollum, characterization, character development
Mercer shares his initial thoughts on Gandalf as a character, and how he greatly underestimated his genius in planning, great power, and actions being done behind the scenes. Mercer references events from The Hobbit along with The Lord of the Rings proving these character qualities through Tolkien’s writing. Whether it was the pass through the Misty Mountains guiding the party to safety, or discovering/identifying the Ring’s identity, Gandalf proves to be a methodical character unlike any other.
How to Cite
Mercer, A. “Here Lies Gandalf”. Mallorn: The Journal of the Tolkien Society, no. 12, Jan. 1978, pp. 10-15, https://journals.tolkiensociety.org/mallorn/article/view/298.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. |
Your blue bin is for dry mixed recycling. Leave it at the kerbside by 06:30 on your collection day.
We need your help to ensure we collect good quality materials for recycling.
- Empty any liquid from bottles and cartons | Your blue bin is for dry mixed recycling. Leave it at the kerbside by 06:30 on your collection day.
We need your help to ensure we collect good quality materials for recycling.
- Empty any liquid from bottles and cartons and give them a quick rinse before recycling.
- Rinse food packaging to remove food residue
- Keep cardboard and paper dry
- Place all items directly into your bin – do not use plastic bags
- Do not put food waste, clothes/shoes or electrical items in your blue bin. They cannot be recycled as part of this service.
Why do I need to empty and rinse containers?
If you empty and rinse bottl |
The guitar and the ukulele look very similar and many people just assume that the latter is a mini version of the former. This isn’t exactly true. While there are similarities, there are enough differentiating factors to make both instruments unique in | The guitar and the ukulele look very similar and many people just assume that the latter is a mini version of the former. This isn’t exactly true. While there are similarities, there are enough differentiating factors to make both instruments unique in their own way. This can lead to the question “can you play the same songs on guitar and ukulele?”
Let’s find the answer out
What Is Same?
Since both are stringed instruments that are played either by plucking the strings or strumming them, a lot of things can be transferred between the two. To start with, the fundamentals will be the same. The chords and notes will stay the same between the two instruments. If the song is pretty simple, even the strumming and picking technique will be the same. So, if all you want to do is strum along in a fairly basic manner, just knowing the chord shapes is enough and you can interchangeably play either instrument without any issues.
What Will Be Different?
The most obvious difference will be the chord shapes and the position of the notes. While the chords and notes themselves can be carried over, you cannot do the same with the method to play them. The frets on both instruments are configured slightly differently because of the way they are tuned and because of their physical form.
The next big difference will be the way they sound. Due to the difference in sizes, an acoustic guitar will sound much larger and fuller when compared to the sound of a typical ukulele. An electric guitar will sound even more different.
The way both instruments feel will also be different. Guitar strings are generally much stiffer and under a lot more tension. This can be a problem for a ukulele player trying to play a song on the guitar. Each note and chord will require substantially more force. Developing the strength needed to do this takes time and for a ukulele player, this will mean that even if they manage to play a few notes or chords, playing for any extended amount of time can be tiring which can lead to a reduction in accuracy and the quality of sound produced.
A guitarist will find it much easier to play the ukulele but they will also face a few challenges. The frets are much narrower on a ukulele. This can make it challenging to place the fingers accurately. They can also end up picking or strumming the strings with more force than is needed for a ukulele leading to a harsher sound and in extreme cases a snapped string or two.
Can All Guitar Songs Be Played On The Ukulele?
The straightforward answer is you can but not exactly as it is played on the guitar. This is because the guitar has a much higher octave range. However, most guitar songs can be adapted to a ukulele. This will require some effort and you will need to spend some time making the necessary changes.
Start by identifying the scale and the chords used in the song. Learn the corresponding finger shapes for the same chords on a ukulele. If all you are aiming to do is play casually, just play these chords and that is more than enough in most cases. If, however, you want to accurately adapt the song to the ukulele, some more work will be needed. Identify the notes and translate them as best as you can to the ukulele. Put it all together and it should lead to a great result that might sound different but will still sound good.
Of course, there are some guitar songs that are almost impossible to play on a ukulele without altering the song substantially. These would include heavy metal songs and songs with long and layered lead lines that fall outside the limited range of the ukulele.
Can All Ukulele Songs Be Played On The Guitar?
This is a much easier endeavor from a technical standpoint. The only caveat is that you should already be someone who has prior experience playing the guitar reasonably well. If you are a complete beginner or a novice, it will be like driving an 18-wheeler after just learning to drive a small hatchback. It can be done but it is far too challenging.
Let’s say that you can play the guitar reasonably well, it shouldn’t be a big problem. Most ukulele songs are fairly simple and mostly comprise a few chords and notes. Adapting this to a guitar is a fairly simple process. You can even embellish it with a few advanced guitar techniques to further enhance the way the song sounds.
However, once again there is a caveat. There are some advanced playing techniques that are unique to a ukulele. If the song depends predominantly on these techniques, then adapting them to a guitar will change the entire feel of the song.
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Over its 181-year history, Chicago has maintained its reputation as one of the world's grandest cities by always changing — evolving, improving.
We took a quaint carriage road next to the lake and turned it into beautiful Lake Shore Drive. We | Over its 181-year history, Chicago has maintained its reputation as one of the world's grandest cities by always changing — evolving, improving.
We took a quaint carriage road next to the lake and turned it into beautiful Lake Shore Drive. We built a roof over railroad lines. We created Millennium Park. This perpetual drive to improve our city is exactly why the city should embrace the Obama Presidential Center, a global destination that will not just remind people about our nation's first African-American president, but of the journey we took together to make the story of President Barack Obama possible. The plan for the presidential center calls for a reimagining of the northern end of Jackson Park, turning just under 20 acres of the 543-acre park into a campus that will serve as a hub of activity for the community and the city.
The Obama center would increase public engagement with the park, create jobs and give the South Side an economic boost. Despite these benefits, the plan has also drawn some criticism: Specifically, some seem to reject out of hand any proposed changes to a park co-designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, while others argue that the presidential center design will somehow weaken the historic integrity of the park.
Some historians are ignoring the fact that, through its history, Jackson Park has not been a delicate artifact that has been perfectly preserved for more than 100 years. Rather, it is a city park that has been altered significantly since it was first developed.
The addition of the Women's Park & Gardens, filling in portions of the lagoon with sports courts and, of course, the transformation of a carriage path into a six-lane road, are all significant changes that have been made to the park over the years.
Preserving historic land is important, but it's hard to argue the 20-acre site of the Obama center is historically significant. With the exception of the Women's Park & Gardens (which came along later in history and is being elevated in the center's design), it is among the least significant sections of the park historically. No important archaeological remains have been discovered there.
Essentially a site of two athletic fields stranded between roads, the site in its current state does little to engage community or contribute significantly to the experience of Jackson Park. Drive by it on a beautiful spring day and you're likely to see little activity. Can anyone really argue this specific site is contributing significantly to Jackson Park or the community, or embracing Olmsted's vision?
The Obama center design will change that, creating a new center for active community life that will add to Chicago's iconic parks and help bring back some of the bravado of the World's Fair, for which the park is known. Another question that has been raised is whether or not it is appropriate to locate a museum in a park. Do the two uses work together, or against each other?
What is being proposed with the presidential center is a relationship that has been well-known in Chicago since the time of the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893: a museum that faces the city, and serves as one of many gateways for members of all communities into a large park.
Since the Field Museum's origins in Jackson Park during that exposition, and the continued presence of the Museum of Science and Industry, many iconic Chicago muse |
what is a step in practicing correct personal hygiene
Correct handwashing involves the following steps: Wet your hands with clean water and apply soap. Lather the soap. Scrub your hands for 20 seconds and make sure to get the back of | what is a step in practicing correct personal hygiene
Correct handwashing involves the following steps: Wet your hands with clean water and apply soap. Lather the soap. Scrub your hands for 20 seconds and make sure to get the back of your hands, between your fingers, and under your nails. Rinse off the soap.
What is the first thing a person in charge should do when someone arrives?
What is the first thing a person in charge should do when someone arrives at the foodservice operation and says they are there to conduct an inspection of the operation? Ask for identification.
What are 4 steps in practicing correct personal hygiene?
What is a step in practicing correct personal hygiene? … routinely inspecting incoming shipments of food or supplies for insects.
Which condition requires the person in charge to exclude a food handler from the prep area?
Vomiting • Diarrhea • Jaundice (yellow skin or eyes) Exclude the food handler from the operation. Food handlers with jaundice must be reported to the regulatory authority.
What tool should be provided to the staff when receiving and inspecting foods?
Principals of Receiving Food Shipments. -Schedule deliveries for off-peak hours when staff can do the inspection. – Provide staff with the tools they need.
What method of pest control can a person in charge of staff member perform?
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Which poor food handling practice would likely lead to foodborne illness quizlet?
Poor cleaning and sanitizing. The five common mistakes that can lead to foodborne illness are failing to cook food adequately, holding food at incorrect temperatures, using contaminated equipment, practicing poor personal hygiene, and : a. Purchasing food from unsafe sources.
What is the leading cause of foodborne illness Servsafe?
Failing to cook food correctly. Holding food at incorrect temperatures. Using contaminated equipment. Practicing poor personal hygiene.
What are the poor food handling practices?
The top 5 risk factors for foodborne illnesses include improper holding temperatures of potentially hazardous foods, not cooking food to appropriate temperatures, the use of dirty and contaminated utensils, poor self-hygiene practices of staff, and receiving food from unsafe sources.
Which foodborne illness is most often caused by incorrectly can food?
For example, Clostridium botulinum, found in improperly canned foods, produces the lethal neurotoxin that causes botulism.
Which poor food handling practice would likely lead to foodborne illness Servsafe?
Poor personal hygiene can cause a foodborne illness when food handlers: Fail to wash their hands correctly after using the restroom. Cough or sneeze on food. Touch or scratch wounds and then touch food.
When should hands be washed during food prep to avoid cross contamination?
How often should food workers wash their hands? · Before starting work · Before handling cooked or ready-to-eat food · After handling or preparing raw food · After …
When must a food handler wash their hands quizlet?
After using the restroom or changing a diaper, you should wash your hands, following all five steps, once |
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Analysis of Ability for Understanding the Basic Concepts of Probability Theory
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This study aims to analyse the skills to understand mathematical concepts in the Probability Theory subject. As a scientific discipline, Probability Theory is one of the statistics study program subjects that require mathematical skills to learn. One of the skills needed for learning is the skill of understanding mathematical concepts. The analysis of skills in understanding mathematical concepts in the Probability Theory course shows that students still have difficulty checking the truth anddoi:10.2991/assehr.k.210508.103 fatcat:6etvx7v6izee3a7er4vwugksom |
ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease or Motor Neuron Disease, is a chronic progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects people worldwide, with approximately 20,000 in the U.S. alone. The majority of ALS cases (~ | ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease or Motor Neuron Disease, is a chronic progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects people worldwide, with approximately 20,000 in the U.S. alone. The majority of ALS cases (~90%) are sporadic. However, ~10% of ALS cases are caused by genetic mutations.
Several genes have been discovered that are causative for ALS, including the gene encoding the sigma-1 receptor (S1R).
In patients with ALS, motor neurons in the brain and spinal cord that convey messages to the muscles degenerate, affecting the brain’s ability to communicate with muscles.
This leads to muscle wasting and progressive paralysis. Patients rapidly lose their ability to walk, speak, eat and breathe and become fully dependent on their caretakers.
ALS is a devastating disease, for patients, their families and caretakers.
Pridopidine for ALS
Pridopidine was assessed in the HEALEY ALS platform trial for the treatment of ALS.
In February 2023, Prilenia announced initial results from the pridopidine arm of this Phase 2 study. These results provide valuable insights, which will inform future clinical development for pridopidine in ALS. Additional analyses are underway, including from the open-label extension study, and complete study results will be presented at upcoming scientific meetings.
Pridopidine is a promising drug candidate for the treatment of ALS for several reasons:
Pridopidine activates sigma 1 receptor and improves motor neurons survival and muscle function in animal models of ALS.
Recent data show that some individuals with decreased or loss of function in the sigma 1 receptor develop ALS.
Pridopidine is an oral drug with an established safety profile.
Pridopidine demonstrated potential clinical efficacy in maintaining total functional capacity in HD patients. Many aspects of functional capacity are shared between HD and ALS.
These findings highlight the therapeutic potential of pridopidine for treating ALS. In addition, Prilenia holds Orphan Drug Designation for pridopidine in ALS in both the U.S. and Europe.
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TREATMENT AND CARE
As a comprehensive health center, we often work with people from different cultural backgrounds. These cultural backgrounds include areas of heritage, community, spirituality, family and individual identity, and geography. We work with these individuals to develop | TREATMENT AND CARE
As a comprehensive health center, we often work with people from different cultural backgrounds. These cultural backgrounds include areas of heritage, community, spirituality, family and individual identity, and geography. We work with these individuals to develop a cultural assessment for the purposes of improving their healing from addiction, mental health struggles, and overall healthcare.
Recovery is highly contingent on the presence of good therapeutic relationships, and many people of different cultural backgrounds often struggle with feeling supported and understood in healthcare. There may be language barriers or cultural insensitivity involved, leading to limited treatment compliance, awareness and trust. Taking the time to do a good cultural assessment can help build the foundation for good care. It also can give clinicians highly useful information such that we can make better recommendations.
What are some of the important factors present in this cultural assessment? This article describes some of the themes we have noticed in treatment and the importance of attending to such cultural health dimensions.
A cultural assessment is fundamentally open-ended in that it encourages the patient to express his or her views about heritage and lifestyle. We have many people who are part of a s |
“Eat Breakfast Like a King, Lunch Like a Prince, and Dinner Like a Pauper”
We can eat as much as a prince at lunch! That is – little less than breakfast and little more than dinner.
The quantity is defined here but | “Eat Breakfast Like a King, Lunch Like a Prince, and Dinner Like a Pauper”
We can eat as much as a prince at lunch! That is – little less than breakfast and little more than dinner.
The quantity is defined here but quality also plays an important role, especially when lunch is eaten outside home/ at work. Some of us end up carrying packed lunches from home, which let us admit are often boring!
What is eaten at lunch is vital because it should be something that gives you the needed energy to carry on work and at the same time not be too heavy to cause lethargy both for adults as well as children.
According to the metabolic clock, 10am to 2am is the time when our body is in the state of metabolism. Eating a fruit around mid-morning helps to speed up metabolism and fill our body with life-giving enzymes. A nourishing meal close to midday when the metabolism is most active will provide the fuel body needs for an energetic afternoon.
It’s common to want to skip lunch if you are trying to lose weight or cut calories, but that strategy rarely works. Skipping meals often leads to weight gain and eating small frequent meals rather keeps the metabolism active and weight under control. Skipping any meal increases food intake at subsequent meal and often lead to overeating of the wrong kind of foods.
What constitutes a good lunch?
There is a standard guideline to follow while choosing foods at each mealtime. This includes filling half the plate with fruits and vegetables, one quarter with cereals and the rest with protein rich foods such as pulses, lean meat, eggs, etc
So, no matter how unrealistic it may seem, we need to ensure that majority of our meal comprises of veggies and fruits as oppose to cereals (like chapatti, rice, bread, etc)
- Eating a good salad at lunch can increase alertness and make us feel energetic.
- Always carry a fruit for lunch time (cut/uncut). it helps to overcome the craving for sweets post lunch as well
- Other than vegetables, always carry a source of protein rich food. This will not only give you satiety i.e. ward off hunger for longer time, but also improve productivity at work. for vegetarians, it means carrying a pulse preparation such as dal, sprouts, etc and for non vegetarians it can eggs, lean meat, grilled fish, etc
- The carbohydrate content of lunch need not be too large. So it’s better to stick to either 1-2 medium chapattis or just a bowl of vegetable pulao (avoid eating plain rice, adding vegetables to it increases its fiber content)
- Also, it is essential to carry a dairy product with lunch. your best bet is to carry a bowl of curds or a glass of buttermilk
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As technology advanced in the twenty-first century, the world experienced introduction of the internet which made the universe a global-village as people can communicate with ease. Notably, the web resulted in the creation of the social sites which have ensured that people | As technology advanced in the twenty-first century, the world experienced introduction of the internet which made the universe a global-village as people can communicate with ease. Notably, the web resulted in the creation of the social sites which have ensured that people can interact with others who are even miles away. Although these social sites have improved social interactions, they also have negative impacts on the society since some users hide their real identities. The act of using a fake social media account is defined as catfishing,' and the word was coined by the directors of the 2010 Catfish documentary. The paper explains why catfishing is an act of social deviance and explains different reasons why people choose to be catfish on social networks.
Reason why Catfishing is an act of Social Deviance
Social deviance defines the act of an individual going against the communitys norms. There are different societies across the world, and all of these communities have their own rules and regulations which people must follow to achieve coexistence in the society. First, catfishing is a social deviance since it entails cheating. Notably, most communities are against the practice of deception since all individuals are expected to remain straightforward in all their activities. It is evident that most people who create catfish accounts are usually seeking to generate a romantic relationship with other social media users, but now with ill motives. Contrary, societal norms expect that people must respect each other, and this involves the need not play around with others feelings. Additionally, it is legitimate to identify a catfish as someone who is deviant since it consists of impersonating another individual. In most occasions, catfishes use other peoples pictures in their profiles, hence imitating their existence.
Reasons why People Engage in Catfishing Behaviors
First, the principle of innovation refers to peoples modification of their lives so that they can meet the societal expectations. For example, whereas the society embraces wealthy persons, it is believed that richness is achieved through hard work, but some people decide to innovate possible ways of acquiring wealth. Similarly, the people participate in catfishing activities so that they can live up to the societys expectations. It is fundamental to note that most of the catfishes from social media create unreal accounts |
Roxbury in Delaware County, New York — The American Northeast (Mid-Atlantic)
Built circa 1840
Jay Gould went on to become a partner in the tanning business with Zadock Pratt in Gouldsboro, Pennsylvania; | Roxbury in Delaware County, New York — The American Northeast (Mid-Atlantic)
Built circa 1840
Jay Gould went on to become a partner in the tanning business with Zadock Pratt in Gouldsboro, Pennsylvania; a town named for him. Gould had a storied and controversial career as an investor, railroad developer and as an innovative businessman and skilled speculator on Wall Street. He rescued the Union Pacific Railroad from near bankruptcy, built the Missouri Pacific system and controlled many other railroads along with the Western Union Telegraph Company and the Manhattan Elevated Railroad. His efforts earned him one of the largest fortunes of the late nineteenth century. He died at
The building continued to be used as hardware store and in 1905 a two story front was added to the building by the owner Frank Enderlin and the Greek Revival style structure became known as the Enderlin building.
Erected by Gould Family/Roxbury Historic Preservation Commission/ MARK Project.
Topics. This historical marker is listed in these topic lists: Industry & Commerce • Railroads & Streetcars. A significant historical year for this entry is 1852.
Location. 42° 17.048′ N, 74° 33.892′ W. Marker is in Roxbury, New York, in Delaware County. Marker is at the intersection of New York State Route 30 and Bridge Street, on the right when traveling north on State Route 30. Touch for map. Marker is in this post office area: Roxbury NY 12474, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 7 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies. The Hamlet of Roxbury Historic District (within shouting distance of this marker); The Roxbury Central School (approx. 0.2 miles away); The Methodist Church (approx. 0.2 miles away); The Jay Gould Memorial Church (approx. 0.3 miles away); Kirkside (approx. 0.3 miles away); Woodchuck Lodge (approx. 1.3 miles away); "Those Hills Comfort Me" (approx. 1.3 miles away); 1899 Round Barn (approx. 6.2 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Roxbury.
Regarding Enderlin Building. Jay Gould
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1. Jay Gould. (Submitted on April 16, 2019, by Steve Stoessel of Niskayuna, New York.)
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When we’re not getting the results we want from the behaviors we’ve been performing, we can fall into a vicious cycle. We can be tempted to do something that reinforces the behavior. Our subconscious mind is like a self-aware machine, it knows | When we’re not getting the results we want from the behaviors we’ve been performing, we can fall into a vicious cycle. We can be tempted to do something that reinforces the behavior. Our subconscious mind is like a self-aware machine, it knows when it’s being stimulated and it doesn’t like that. The cycle repeats itself until we just start acting like robots.
The problem is that we really only understand how our behavior works when we’re in a position of control. For example, even when you’re driving and have absolutely no control over the situation, you still know whether or not you’re going to hit the brakes. When you’re in a position of control like with your car, you can make conscious decisions about what you are going to do.
The reason why we are conditioned to respond to our environment is because the environment has an effect on us. When you are in a position of control, you can consciously decide how to respond. You can consciously choose to do something that you know will help maximize your own well being, or you can make an unconscious decision to just let go.
In operant conditioning, the more you do something, the more you do it, and the more you do it, the more you do it. There is a lot of research showing that doing things will get you more of what you want in life. As the saying goes, “you can’t go home again.
Operant conditioning is one of the most classic findings from psychology, and one of the first things you learn in Psychology 101. You learn that if you want something, you have to do something to get it. The more you do something, the more you do it. Thus, operant conditioning is the process of making something happen just because you want it to happen. It works the same way in almost all life situations.
The problem is that many people have difficulty controlling their desires. They have to think “I want to go to the movies,” and “I want to go shopping,” and “I want to eat lunch,” and “I want to go to school.” In order to achieve these things, they have to do something. The problem is that there’s only so much willpower a person can muster to get what they want.
If we can just get ourselves to go to our favorite restaurant that’s good for us, and to go to school that’s good for us, then we can be successful. To be successful, we need to develop the ability to learn to control our impulses. The problem is, that’s usually a skill that we can’t take to school, because it’s hard for us. We have to learn it at home.
Respondent and operant conditioning is the process of training the brain to learn to control the impulses that usually accompany our behavior. The key to doing this is to force the brain to learn that it can only learn to control these impulses if we make ourselves do it. It sounds easy, but it takes a lot of time and effort. Its not easy to learn that if someone tells you what to do, then you can only do it if you do it.
Another key to making this work is to set up a “learning environment.” Your school days can be as boring as someone’s summer vacation, so you can get used to the idea that learning new things will be a slow process. What your learning environment needs is a variety of different things to occupy your attention. One of these things is to create a learning environment in which you can perform a behavior, and, if you get the results, then you can do it again.
In the past, students have done this by making a learning environment t |
October 14, 2022
The climate crisis is devastating Latinx* communities. From extreme heat to floods to wildfires, Latinx people are bearing the brunt of climate change. In the United States, climate change is a priority for | October 14, 2022
The climate crisis is devastating Latinx* communities. From extreme heat to floods to wildfires, Latinx people are bearing the brunt of climate change. In the United States, climate change is a priority for the Latinx community. When asked about their top policy issues, 81 percent of Latinx respondents indicated that climate change was a “top concern” or one of “several important concerns” in a 2021 Pew Research Center poll. By contrast, only 67 percent of non-Latinx people indicated the issue was an important concern. This challenges the conventional wisdom that only affluent, white liberals are concerned about climate change. By exploring the issues of geography, health, income, and wealth, this article will illustrate that low-income Latinx people are one of the most vulnerable populations affected by the existential threat of climate change.
While all people are harmed by the effects of climate change, a recent Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) report highlighted that climate change impacts ethnic groups differently, with Latinx people being among the groups disproportionately at risk. The majority of the Latinx population, from mainlanders to Puerto Ricans, are geographically situated in areas with weak energy infrastructures that are at risk of failure from the stresses of climate change. For example, Puerto Rico’s energy infrastructure received an F grade from the island’s civil engineers in 2019 as the residents of the island experienced chronic power outages and struggled to restore their electric grids destroyed by Hurricane Maria five years ago. The recent Hurricane Fiona has once again left most of Puerto Rico without power. This sounds the alarm for concern as increased global warming has made hurricanes “…wetter, windier, and altogether more intense.” As climate change intensifies this natural disaster, hurricane-prone regions with large Latinx populations, like Puerto Rico, Texas, and Florida, are at higher risk of experiencing harm than white-majority regions in the Midwest or the Northeast.
On the mainland, 55 percent of Latinx people live in states with various natural disasters intensified by climate change. This includes record drought periods in California, deadly heat waves in Texas, and frequent flooding in Florida. Scientists are increasingly pointing to the overwhelming science between warmer temperatures and exacerbated hurricanes to link Hurricane Ian, which recently devastated Florida, to climate change.
Overall, low-income Latinx people have a higher chance of living in areas with critical infrastructure that is vulnerable to climate change-related natural disasters. One study found that “climate-change attributed extreme weather effects,” like Hurricane Harvey, were particularly felt by low-income Latinx neighborhoods. In the case of Hurricane Harvey, 48 percent of flooded households were Latinx versus 33 percent of affected white households.
Low-income Latinx families are more likely to live in neighborhoods with hazardous environmental waste. About 29 percent of Latinx people live within three miles of a superfund site. If this is not bad enough, a 2019 report from the Government Accountability Office found that climate change poses an added threat to people living near superfund sites. Intensified natural disasters exacerbate the already harmful impacts of hazardous sites on the immediate health of low-income Latinx and other people living close to these sites.
The devastating health impacts of climate change prompted the American Medical Association to declare climate change a public health emergency. Latinx people are 21 percent more likely than whites to live in urban heat islands. Temperatures are higher in these areas because they lack urban vegetation needed for cooling and excessive heat gets stored in urban concrete and asphalt. This is especially a concern for urban areas with higher Latinx populations as heat islands can have “temperatures 22 degrees Fahrenheit hotter than rural and suburban areas.” For example, in major counties, like Los Angeles County with a Hispanic or Latinx population of 49.1 percent, “on a hot summer day, the neighborhoods with the highest percentage of Latino residents were 6.7 degrees hotter on average than those neighborhoods with the fewest Latinos.” Similar temperature differences are observed for other metropolitan areas in Southwestern states with high Latinx populations.
A Yale University survey on energy access in Latinx communities found that only 48 percent of Latinx respondents had central air-conditioning, and an Indiana University survey found over 40 percent of Latinx households were energy insecure, meaning they cannot afford the energy required to cool their homes or heat their stoves. Increased daytime temperatures, reduced nighttime cooling, and overall higher air pollution associated with urban heat islands create a recipe for disastrous health impacts. This can be especially observed in increased respiratory difficulties, as 2.3 million Latinx people reported having asthma in 2018, and with Puerto Ricans reporting twice the asthma rate compared to non-Latinx whites. Climate change increases comorbidities for Latinx health.
As extreme heat shatters records, it will have significant consequences for Latinx labor and mortality. For example, Latinx farmworkers who have to work in extreme heat are 20 times more likely than other outdoor workers to die from heat exposure. Scholarship on extreme heat and racial health equity emphasizes ways in which heat exposure poses fatal health risks, including respiratory illnesses, heat exhaustion, heatstroke, and heat-related mortalities. Studies also find heat exposure is associat |
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