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Piribedil is an antiparkinsonian agent and piperazine derivative which acts as a D2 and D3 receptor agonist. It also has α2-adrenergic antagonist properties. The drug has been shown to enhance working memory capacities in normal aging adults. It showed a positive effect in restless legs syndrome.
Pirinixic acid is a hypolipidemic drug and a potent agonist of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-α (PPAR-α), a member of the PPAR subfamily of the nuclear receptor superfamily of transcription factors.
Pirisudanol is the succinic acid ester of pyridoxine and of deanol. It has been used in Europe in the treatment of mild cognitive impairment as well as fatigue and depression.
Pirnabine is a synthetic cannabinoid receptor ligand, which was developed for the treatment of glaucoma.
Piroxicam-Beta-Cyclodextrin is a complex of the nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drug (NSAID) piroxicam and an inert cyclic macromolecule, beta-cyclodextrin. It is made by enwrapping medical piroxicam and medical beta-cyclodextrin.
Pirprofen is a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug.
Pitavastatin Calcium is a competitive inhibitor of the enzyme HMGCR (HMG-CoA reductase) results in a reduction in LDL cholesterol synthesis.
Plasdone C-12 is a Povidone, pharmaceutical grade linear homopolymers of vinylpyrrolidone.
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The researchers at Queen Mary University of London and Newcastle University have found that India continues to be a hub of unregulated antibiotics produced by Multinational companies. India has among the highest antibiotic consumption rates and sales in the world and therefore it may lead to increased risks of antimicrobial resistance in the country .According to research published in the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology millions of unapproved formulations of antibiotics are being sold in India which may defeat the efforts of various agencies to curb rising antimicrobial resistance.
Of 118 different formulations of FDCs being sold in India between 2007 and 2012, the team found that 64 percent (75) were not approved by the national drugs regulator, the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO), even though the sale of unapproved new medicines is illegal in India. Only five of the formulations were approved in the UK or US.
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Active Voice: Precisely, What Do We Mean— Force, Work & Power?
Having participated in ACSM’s 2015 annual meeting in San Diego, I was highly impressed with the quality of the science being reported. At the same time, however, I was greatly disappointed with the frequent inappropriate use of the term “work.” While “work” in everyday language can refer to anything from a vocation to a composition of music, for science and medicine it is defined in the international system of measurement as, “the product of a force component by the magnitude of displacement (distance)” and quantified in joules (J). A quantity of work can be performed over any period of time and, if quantified in terms of a unit of time, it must be reported as “power” for which the international system unit is the watt (W).
Having lived and worked in the Scandinavian countries for over three years where research into exercise has been carried out vigorously for almost 100 years, I believe that I can trace the problem of the inappropriate use of the term “work” to the fact that there is no equivalent term in any of the Scandinavian languages for “exercise”. Investigators from these countries employ a term for muscular activity that is the same one used in these languages for any vocation (Norwegian – arbeid, Swedish – arbete, and Danish – arbejde). It is, therefore, not surprising that the Scandinavian investigators such as Erling Asmussen, P.-O. Åstrand, Bengt Saltin, and Björn Ekblom have used the term “work” instead of “exercise” when publishing in English. However, it is incorrect.
Further support to my objection regarding what I heard at ACSM’s annual meeting is my observation that, in every instance where the presenter inappropriately identified the physical activity as “work” he/she then quantified the performance in watts, the international unit for Power. If an investigator does, indeed, wish to present the total work involved in a physical activity, the international unit must be the joule (J) which is independent of time. Work performed per unit of time is Power, the measure of the exercise intensity.
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This is a bite-size research episode, where we briefly describe research findings on a specific topic. This week, Megan talks about the need for multiple concrete examples in order for students to transfer the underlying idea to new problems.
In the last episode, we talked about the research on concrete examples. (If you haven't listened to that episode yet, we recommend listening to it before listening to this one.) One of the points we made was the need for multiple concrete examples. Students need multiple examples, preferably with different surface details, to help them understand the underlying idea and to increase the likelihood that they will be able to apply that underlying idea to novel problems int he future. Research by Gick and Holyoak (1, 2) illustrates this point.
Spontaneous transfer from the general and fortress story to the tumor problem is quite low (20%). When students are given a hint, more are able to transfer (92%). However, a hint is not always feasible.
But, spontaneous transfer does improve when students are given multiple concrete examples with different surface details.
In one experiment (2), students were given two stories, the general story and a fire chief story, that were similar in underlying structure but different in surface details. At the end of the stories the underlying structure was summarized. After reading these stories, the students were asked to summarize both stories, and make some other ratings. Now, 62% of students spontaneously transfer the solution from the two stories to the tumor problem before the hint. After being given a hint, 82% in total can transfer. This is still not 100%, but is moving in the right direction!
These experiments highlight the importance of providing multiple concrete examples with different surface details. It also demonstrates how difficult transfer can be, even when we're trying to transfer information in the same physical context (in this case, a lab) and close in time (in this case, during the same experimental session). To read more about transfer, check out this blog and this blog.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/236141
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The 17th annual Alaska Tsunami Ocean Sciences Bowl was held February 28–March 2.
The Pugnacious Dawgsharks from Cordova traveled to Seward to compete against 17 other teams from around Alaska. Sarah Hoepfner, Lindsay Hammer, Elaina Allen and Katie Bailer wrote a research paper and gave an oral presentation titled: Bilge Dumping in Prince William Sound—Small Vessels, Big Impacts. They also participated in the quiz bowl. These two and three year veterans of the event placed 11th overall.
Ocean Fusion, consisting of team members from Cordova, Dillingham and Petersburg only participated in the quiz bowl and placed 13th overall. Cordova students Cody Howard, Sam Johnson and Patrick Batista were part of this team.
High school students at the Tsunami Bowl ROV Challenge piloting their ROV.
During the event, Science Center educators organized an optional ROV Challenge. Ten teams were given an hour and a half to design and build an ROV and accomplish a series of tasks. Students had to drive their ROV through hula hoops, pick up a neutrally buoyant ring and place it on an underwater hook, scoop up a beach ball and bring it poolside, and hover in front of a target. All these tasks simulate oil spill cleanup efforts using ROVs. Teams were judged by how well they completed the tasks and worked together as a team. First, second and third place went to the teams from Homer, Dillingham and Petersburg.
The ROV Challenge was sponsored by the Prince William Sound Regional Citizens’ Advisory Council. A special thanks to the Cordova students who volunteers their time for the ROV Challenge!
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/236146
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A sinking fund is built up aggregating the following: (i) a certain fixed amount being set aside annually and (ii) compound interest received by investing the amounts set aside and the interest. A sinking fund may be created either to: (a) replace fixed asset or (b) for payment of a liability at a future date.
(a) the amount set aside annually is a charge against the profit and loss account for sinking fund built for replacing an asset. Hence profit and loss account is debited; on the other hand, profit and loss appropriation account is debited for creating a sinking fund to repay a liability, e.g., redemption of debentures.
(b) At the end of the estimated useful life of the asset, the sinking fund investments are realized to repay to liability and in this way liability account and sinking fund investment accounts are closed. The balance in Sinking Fund Account is transferred to General Reserve Account except the amount of gain credited to Sinking Fund Account on account of sale of investments at a profit.
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Over 264 million children and youths across the world don’t have access to basic education, a UNESCO report recently stated.
The UN in its SDG4 aims to provide elementary education to all the children globally by 2030 but the report says that though 83 per cent children go to school, only 45 per cent are able to complete secondary school education.
The new Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report by the UNESCO is part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
The report was based on data from 128 countries over the period 2010- 2015.
“According to the report representing 90 per cent of the global population of upper secondary school age, less than one in four young people had completed upper secondary school in 40 countries and less than one in two in 60 countries,” she said in the report.
There were 40 countries where less than one in four young people had completed secondary education, but only 14 where at least 90 percent had done so.
The UNESCO also sounded a note of caution on measures to promote competition between schools and give parents more choice on the school their children would attend.
A majority of highly developed countries had increased school choice policies in the last 25 years, but evidence suggested that they benefit better-off families and the most able students, the report warned.
That was the case even where the policies were accompanied by voucher programs aimed at facilitating school choice by poorer families.
Meanwhile, CARE India, a leading NGO working with marginalised women and children in the area of education, has shared few points to be addressed in education sector.
The GEM report which gives the global scenario of the education states that India is also amongst the countries which has not been able to provide even the basic elementary education. In India, the spending on education constitutes an insignificant part of the GDP.
1. Indian is not being able to provide basic elementary education despite having several schemes and right to education.
2. About 264 million children globally do not have access to education in 2017. Possible measures to achieve education for all till 2030 in Indian context and at global level.
3. The GEM report states need to provide access of education to children whereas WDR 2018 stresses upon the learning outcomes only.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/236152
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Want to meet Erdos? Wait Here On Broadway.
I don't really know why, but this photo reminded of the eccentric Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdos (1913-1996). Erdos published more papers than any other mathematician in history. He didn't care about possessions and donated his many awards to those in need. He lived his life as a vagabond, traveling to conferences and the homes of his colleagues all over the world. He would just show up at a colleague's home unannounced, and tell them: "my brain is open". He collaborated with more mathematicians than anyone else, and mathematicians began assigning each other an Erdos Number to describe the "collaborative distance" between themselves and Erdos. Those who co-wrote a paper with him got an Erdos Number of 1. Those who collaborated with #1 collaborators got an Erdos Number of 2... The Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon is the same idea applied to the movie industry.
Paul Erdos had his own vocabulary. Although he was an Atheist, he called God, the "Supreme Fascist" (SF). When he couldn't find his socks, or his passport, he accused SF of hiding them. He spoke of "The Book" where the most elegant mathematical proofs were written down. He called children "epsilons", women "bosses", and men "slaves". People who stopped doing math had "died", people who had died had "left", alcohol was "poison", people who married were "captured", people who had divorced were "liberated", and to give a mathematics lecture was to "preach"... Mathematicians would joke, "Want to meet Erdos? Just stay here and wait. He'll show up".
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Britons killed in the D-Day landings are to be remembered at a memorial part-funded by a £20m government grant.
The memorial for those who died in the Normandy campaign will be unveiled in the French region on the 75th anniversary of D-Day in 2019.
It will have the names of the thousands of members of the British armed forces and Merchant Navy who died, as well as those from other nations.
The government's contribution comes from Libor fines levied on banks.
D-Day took place on 6 June 1944 and began the liberation of German-occupied north-western Europe.
George Batts, former national secretary of the Normandy Veterans' Association, was 18 when he took part in the assault.
He said having a British memorial had been "the dream of Normandy veterans for many years".
He told BBC Breakfast: "All we who came back have lived our lives. But our friends and colleagues we left behind have had nothing.
"On each of the three British beaches, roughly 1,200 were killed, so you can imagine the sights that it was on those beaches.
"I don't like talking about it because it's not fair, to my mind, on their dependents. But it was horrific, it was frightening. But at the same time, all we young lads of 18, we virtually grew up overnight and it did set us up for our lives."
A fundraising appeal will now be launched by the Normandy Memorial Trust, supported by the Royal British Legion, to add to the government's contribution.
The memorial will pay tribute to several thousand sailors and airmen who were lost at sea, and those who died from their wounds after being brought back to the UK for treatment.
The United States and Canada both have D-Day memorials.
It is hoped many of the remaining UK veterans, and the families of those who fought, will attend the unveiling ceremony planned for 6 June 2019.
Prime Minister Theresa May said the memorial would be a "fitting tribute" which would "provide a timely reminder that we should never take our freedom for granted".
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It is an abbreviation of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus, i.e. a virus which damages the immune system. HIV lives and multiplies only in the human body.
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I have also learned that this container is basically an incomplete cone, and that constructing a cone where R1 is just a slice within that cone can aid in finding the volume of the container in order to find F=(rho)gV.
I do not want this done for me. I want help in figuring this out myself. The math is a bit confusing and I'm basically looking for formulas and explanations I can tie together. Thank you!
That's really good, but what was the question you are trying to answer?
Usually these sorts of questions involve filling up the container with more water or water leaking out through a hole. Do you have the full question from a book/worksheet?
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/236157
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Help. According to dictionary.com, it means, "to give or provide what is necessary to accomplish a task or satisfy a need; contribute strength or means to; render assistance to; cooperate effectively with; aid; assist: He planned to help me with my work." To accomplish a task, or satisfy a need. That's what most businesses strive to do, isn't it?
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/236162
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Spirulina is a natural “algae” (cyanobacteria) powder which is amazingly rich in protein and also a good source of antioxidants, B-vitamins as well as other nutrients. When harvested appropriately from non-contaminated ponds and bodies of water, it happens to be one of the most powerful nutrient sources available for the human body to its advantage.
It is mainly composed of proteins and vital amino acids, which is typically recommended to vegetarians as a result of its huge natural iron content. The high concentration of protein and iron also makes this product suitable during pregnancy, after a surgical procedure, or anytime the immune system requires support.
Research has also shown Spirulina is effectiveness for treating precancerous growths inside the mouth, enhancing the immune system, boosting memory, increasing energy and metabolism, reducing cholesterol, preventing cardiovascular disease, treating wounds, and improving digestion and bowel health.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/236164
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There’s a temperature pattern in the Pacific Ocean that causes warming and cooling every 20-30 years.
The Pacific Decadal Oscillation shifts heat around the globe, but the Earth is steadily warming overall.
The Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) is a climate phenomenon that occurs primarily in the North Pacific Ocean. The “oscillation” happens between warm phases (positive values) and cool phases (negative values) that last anywhere from 10 to 40 years. The warm and cold phases are associated with changes in sea surface temperatures (SST). While the causes of the PDO are still unknown, the primary effects seem to be changes in northeast Pacific marine ecosystems and a changing jet stream path.
It’s important to note, however, that the phases are not set in stone; there are frequently short sets of 1-5 warm years during a cool phase and vice-versa. Secondly, the “warm” and “cool” phases are less descriptive than they would appear. The cool period, for instance, is actually associated with extremely high sea surface temperatures in the Northern Pacific (Figure 1).
One way to test whether the PDO is causing climate change is to plot the Global Temperature Anomaly alongside the PDO Index (shown below). What we find is that although the PDO index appears to influence short-term temperature changes, global temperatures have a distinct upward trend, while the PDO Index does not.
Figure 2: Pacific Decadal Oscillation index (blue, University of Washington) versus Global Temperature Anomaly (red, NASA-GISS). Smoothed data (thicker blue and red lines) and trend lines (thick straight line) are added. © John Cook.
Natural oscillations like PDO simply move heat around from oceans to air and vice-versa. They don't have the ability to either create or retain heat; therefore, they're not capable of causing a long-term warming trend, just short-term temperature variations. Basically they're an example of internal variability, not an external radiative forcing. If PDO were responsible for warming the surface, the oceans would be cooling, which is not the case.
These results are expected. The long-term warming trend is a result of an energy imbalance caused primarily by an increase of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. In contrast, the PDO is an internal process and does not increase or decrease the total energy in the climate system.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/236166
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Some of the most famous artists of the Dutch Golden Age will be on display at Louvre Abu Dhabi as part of its first international exhibition of 2019.
The exhibition, ‘Rembrandt, Vermeer and the Dutch Golden Age: Masterpieces from The Leiden Collection and the Musee du Louvre’, will run from February 14 to May 18 and feature paintings and drawings by the two named Dutch masters, as well as their contemporaries.
Director of Louvre Abu Dhabi, Manuel Rabate, said: “As Louvre Abu Dhabi’s first international exhibition of the year and part of our 2018-19 cultural season ‘A World of Exchanges’, the exhibition underscores the connections between artists that, no doubt, made this period ‘golden’.
The exhibition will retrace Rembrandt’s artistic journey in Leiden and Amsterdam and his relationships with rivals and peers including Johannes Vermeer, Jan Lievens, Ferdinand Bol, Carel Fabritius, Gerrit Dou, Frans van Mieris and Frans Hals.
The show will also explore the artistic traditions that flourished in Leiden and wider Netherlands during this period. During the Golden Age, the Dutch Republic became a world leader in trade, science, and the arts, known for its cultural exchange, exploration and discovery.
Some 22 Rembrandt paintings and drawings will be included among the exhibition’s 95 artworks, as will Vermeer’s ‘Young Woman Seated at a Virginal’ and ‘The Lacemaker’ – the two paintings Rabate explained will be hung together for the first time in 300 years.
The exhibition is curated by Blaise Ducos, chief curator of Dutch and Flemish paintings at the Musee du Louvre, and Lara Yeager-Crasselt, curator of The Leiden Collection and a specialist in 17th-century Dutch and Flemish art.
Mohamed Khalifa Al Mubarak, chairman of the Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi, said: “The very inception and early success of Louvre Abu Dhabi was founded on our close friendship with France and our multi-layered partnerships with global museums and art institutions.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/236168
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Emergent bilingual is a term proposed by García (2009) that is used to describe students in schools whose home language is not English. The term emergent bilingual validates the fact that these students are actively becoming bilinguals. This use of both languages of instruction has been referred to by García and her colleagues (García & Kleifgen, 2018; García, Johnson, & Seltzer, 2017) as translanguaging. They describe translanguaging as the "multiple discursive practices in which bilinguals engage in order to make sense of their bilingual worlds" (García, 2009). Emergent bilinguals benefit when teachers take a position or stance (García, 2009) toward the use of both languages and do not adhere to an absolute strict separation of languages. In dual language programs where the two languages are strictly separated, students are treated like two monolinguals. For example, in an English-Spanish dual language classroom, students may be treated like monolingual speakers of English during English instruction and monolingual speakers of Spanish during Spanish instruction. This separation does not allow students to strategically draw on their home languages as a resource (Freeman, Freeman & Mercuri, 2018). Cummins (2007) argues for the strategic use of both languages during instruction.
While it is essential to have large, macro-spaces for student language immersion in our dual language programs, where students in dual language programs have time dedicated to the use of each language of instruction, it is also important for smaller, micro-spaces to exist. It is in these micro-spaces where instruction can be intentionally and strategically planned (García, Johnson, & Seltzer, 2017) by the teacher to support and encourage the flexible use of a student's linguistic repertoire to make meaning while becoming bilingual, biliterate and bicultural. This could be referred to as a third space in dual language classrooms where instruction is not only in English or Spanish, but both.
The reality in dual language classrooms is that the students' home language is present even when instruction is in the other language. Often students can be heard speaking among themselves in their home languages to negotiate the meaning of instruction in the other language.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/236170
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The electron transfer chain (ETC) of many filamentous fungi is highly branched, containing numerous ’core’ and alternative respiratory enzymes, such as the alternative oxidase (AOX) and alternative NADH dehydrogenases. Although the precise physiological role of the alternative respiratory enzymes in fungi is somewhat obscure at present, they have been implicated in various cellular mechanisms, for example, reduced reactive oxygen species (ROS) generation in Aspergillus niger by enhanced activity of the alternative NADH dehydrogenases. In order to better understand the physiological relevance of the alternative NADH dehydrogenases in fungi, the effects of inhibition of these enzymes in submerged cultures of A. niger was investigated. Cultures were grown in the presence of a known inhibitor of the alternative NADH dehydrogenases of plants, 7-iodoacridone 4-carboxylic acid (IACA), and culture metabolism and performance was assessed. In IACA-pretreated cultures, both growth and glucose consumption rates decreased, the yield of biomass on glucose and intracellular protein concentrations increased, although intracellular ATP concentrations were lower. These distinct differences are consistent with an increased electron flux via Complex I of the ’core’ ETC paired with AOX, and accordingly further work will focus on investigation of this relationship.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/236173
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As an ancient Indian architectural science, Vastu Shastra prescribes certain principles of home design, which are aimed at increasing the flow of positive energy in a home. Some home owners build their houses according to vastu principles, which include using directional guidelines regarding the placement of specific rooms or features of the home. While this isn’t an option in modern apartments, the best part about vastu is that you can use its principles to decorate your apartment to bring positivity to your home. In this ideabook, we’ve highlighted 6 home décor tips that vastu prescribes for increasing health, wealth and harmony.
Airy, clean and clutter-free: Open and airy rooms also bring in positive energy, so create a couple of open spaces where the family can enjoy bonding in a tranquil and cosy setting.
Add colour: Using colour in your homes not only provides relief from the monotony of plain white or cream walls, but also adds brightness to the home, thereby lifting the positivity in the ambiance.
Bring in nature: Decorate your home with flower arrangements, potted plants or even floating some petals in an urn to add a refreshing element to any room. However, keep in mind that just as fresh flowers and plants increase positive energy, a wilted arrangement or plant can add negativity.
Decorate with mirrors: Mirrors are commonly used by vastu practitioners as a tool for remedying defects in the design or energy inside a home. If placed correctly, they can bring in wealth and happiness into the home. It serves as a tool for reflecting positive energy throughout the area.
Happy walls: Adding images or photographs such as happy family pictures or calming landscapes can increase the positivity in any area. Use images of the sunrise, the ocean or a waterfall to increase the flow of energy. Avoid images of death, hunger or any other negative element as this might have adverse effects on the inhabitants of the home.
Use Vastu accessories: Just like Feng Shui uses the laughing Buddha or coins to correct the energy flow in a home, Vastu employs pyramids or yantra to harmonize negative energies in your home. Usually, glass or crystal pyramids are used for this purpose.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/236174
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Who wrote the 95 thesis and posted them on the church at Wittenburg, Germany?
Who was the German monk who rebelled against the Catholic church?
Martin was riding his bike. He looked back to see if his friend was still behind him. Suddenly he heard the crunching of broken glass. Martin had ridden through broken pieces of a bottle. His front tire began to wobble.
Martin will leave his friend.
Martin's bike will get a flat tire.
Choose the grammatically correct sentence.
Martin set a goal and worked hard to reach it.
Which word best describes Martin?
Martin Luther was a sacred composer.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/236175
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Tourism, in fact, may promote mutual understanding among nations.
Many people, however, argue that children should be looked after in the kindergarten.
Parents, as far as I amconcerned, should never lose sight of the side-effects of computer games ontheir children.
Environment, as I seeit, has a far-reaching influence on one’s personality.
Research, relating to identical twins, has highlighted how significant inherited characteristics can be for an individual’s life.
Initially, the usedbottles, discarded by the customers into the collecting point, are transportedby the rubbish truck to the cleaning plant.
News broadcasts aboutworld disasters, which are now available 24 hours a day, can make people feelanxious.
Office technology, which requires only basic training to use, is the cause of much frustration at work.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/236176
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Many of the math skills your child needs for kindergarten develop naturally through talking and playing. Children learn best through experience. They remember best when it’s fun.
Try these activities to give meaning to numbers, practice writing numbers and counting.
Tape pieces of newspaper or junk mail on a wall or door to a height taller than yourself. Any type of paper will do. Show your child how to use a measuring tape or a long piece of string to measure the heights of objects around the house. Measure furniture, door knob heights, a favorite toy or the family pet. Mark the heights on your wall chart with a thick mark or stickers. Be sure to measure and compare your child and yourself.
Write the numbers 1 through 10 on individual pieces of paper and set aside. Pour salt or fine sand into a box lid or any container with a flat bottom and low sides. Pick a numbered piece of paper and ask your child to write the number in the salt with her finger. Shake the box lid to make the number disappear and do it again!
Play I Spy Numbers. Ask your child to look for numbers around the house. Make a game of who can say the number first. Play the game when you go places too. Look for house numbers, numbers on license plates and gas prices on great big signs.
Play Simon Says. When you say “Simon says clap three times,” count out loud with your child as she claps.
Play hopscotch and board games.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/236179
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When Brigham Young's Pioneer Company left the "Last Crossing" of the North Platte River on June 19, 1847, Young detailed nine men remain behind to run the ferry during high water for emigrant traffic. However, they soon moved the ferry downstream about five miles to compete with a rival outfit that had begun ferrying emigrants. The Mormon Ferry may have been moved several times during its six years of operation, but in 1849 the mileage records of Captain Howard Stansbury of the Corps of Topographical Engineers document it at this site.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/236180
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Child and family services have significantly evolved over the last few centuries. Many different forms of help for children and families in need were offered throughout the community. Today we have many different agencies to help with the welfare and survival of many children and their families.
There are now many programs for children to ensure safety, morals, values, and educational success. Children’s parents are also given opportunities through agencies and programs to participate in more positive ways in their children’s lives, and in return more positive lives for themselves.
The resources and organizational information that are available here are intended to give hope of a better future and to protect the innocence of our children from the many different types of situations we all experience at one time or another.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/236181
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The Rio Grande flows through the Santa Elena Canyon. On the left is Mexico and on the right, Texas.
Background: I’d traveled I-10 from Houston en route to and from Mesa, Arizona, at least once a year beginning in 1999 and noticed the signs for Big Bend National Park, but I never had the combination of time and money to make the trek to the southwest tip of Texas. In early December, 2012, I completed a house/pet-sitting job in Las Cruses, New Mexico and planned the trip to Big Bend before my next house/pet-sitting assignment in Houston.
Getting to Big Bend is, indeed, a long trek. Chisos Basin Lodge, the only lodging other than camping in the park, is located far from any major city. From the lodge to San Antonio, 448 miles (7 hrs); from the lodge to El Paso, 340 miles (almost 6 hrs). The park has 1,252 sq. miles, which is larger than the state of Rhode Island. It is the largest protected area of Chihuahuan Desert topography and ecology in the United States, according to Wikipedia.
The Window can be viewed from the Chisos Basin.
The Mule Ears is another of the often-photographed rock formations.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/236183
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[Source: ScienceDaily] – Loss of memory with advanced age is a significant problem within most societies, and appears particularly severe in advanced industrialized nations. A less visible and often ignored problem comes from a food supply high in cholesterol and saturated fat, which has led to high obesity rates particularly in the United States.
Researchers from the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) have linked memory loss to a diet high in saturated fat and cholesterol.
Collaboration between two laboratories at MUSC and one at Arizona State University led researchers to discover that rodents that were fed a diet high in cholesterol and saturated fat displayed impairment in working memory. This memory loss is associated with inflammation in the brain, as well as the impairment of structural proteins that affect how a nerve cell functions. As inflammation is associated with a poor diet, the failure of functions in other key organs such as the eye and the ear also could be expected.
Assuming that the same phenomenon occurs in human beings, the study suggests that as humans age, memory may be preserved and brain functions improved by restricting the consumption of cholesterol and saturated fats. As cases of obesity and obesity-related diseases have increased exponentially in the United States, and are second only to tobacco use for premature mortality and the number of health-care dollars spent, the importance of this issue is immediate.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/236185
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"dataset": "gair-prox/c4-pro",
"token_count": 267
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•Three soundscape perception parameters, i.e., PLS, POS and SDI are important to indicate “objective” soundscape information.•Physical characteristics of visual landscape in terms of local landscape spatial patterns could have more effect on soundscape perception than that of on-site landscape composition.•“Objective” soundscape information from soundwalks is of equal importance as subjective soundscape information from the general public in landscape management practice.
(2011) Barber J.R. et al.
(2010) Benfield J.A. et al.
Visualisation in Landscape and Environmental Planning.
(2011) Brown A. et al.
(2005) Corry R.C. et al.
(2006) De la Fuente de Val G. et al.
(2006) Dramstad W.E. et al.
Contributions of cultural services to the ecosystem services agenda (2012) Terry C. Daniel et al.
Short- and long-term changes in right whale calling behavior: the potential effects of noise on acoustic communication. (2007) Susan E Parks et al.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/236192
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"dataset": "gair-prox/c4-pro",
"token_count": 233
}
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Theatre is located in the center of the city, located in the region of shrinking the city's peninsula. Hellenistic theater is a pioneering structure has not yet been able to prove. Roman period in the Hellenistic tradition in terms of building plans Although there have been in excess reap the semicircle; In terms of construction technique it was performed in the Roman architectural tradition. Cavea (seating rows) to diazoma (press the middle of the road) against a slope of up have been put on the inclined plane formed on the upper part of the vault. Theatre is one of the unique examples of Anatolia with this feature.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/236193
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"dataset": "gair-prox/c4-pro",
"token_count": 131
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The buildings housing the exhibition remained physically “frozen” at the point they had reached in 2008. The walls tell of the passage of the generations that accompanied the fort as it aged over the years, illustrated by graffiti with the dates and names of its artists, the words and drawings of soldiers who served at the fort, and the signatures of the many curious spectators who visited the site in its abandonment.
The buildings we designed to host visitors had been used by the garrison rather than for war, and have now been transformed into welcoming, comfortable spaces. This area in particular showcases our project, with the newly built areas marked by the colour red in such a way as to provide a clear distinction between the new architecture and the historic architecture.
Today Forte Col Badin is not just a museum, but a cultural centre that provides spaces available to visitors equipped with modern facilities including a guest house, bookshop, café, and conference room.
The interior has been designed with simple, geometric forms in order to avoid introducing new meaning to the historic rooms or alter the perception of the architectural space. Traditional material was used (larch), but treated in a modern way by bleaching it.
There is no distinction between furniture and displays with tables and stools also used as display panels and cases. The experience of visitors should be to feel the presence of a time when this was a ‘war machine’, and its evocative force.
The polished cement floors and tables with cementite finish, the galvanized iron window frames, outdoor systems with iron pipes and grey sheathed cables, slide unnoticed into history.
Light, never evenly diffused, causes light and shade giving a sculptural quality and depth to the spaces, while the pale colours of the stable LEDs allow an objective look at the objects.
The finds interact with the historic masonry behind them, in itself a rich source of further finds to be brought to the surface.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/236194
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"dataset": "gair-prox/c4-pro",
"token_count": 393
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In this three-week class, students will study and apply the elements and principles of the "pointillist" or Divisionist movement/style of art and learn about the artists associated with it. Specifically, the class will focus on an area of Seurat's painting to highlight the effectiveness of this painting technique. Students will experiment with the "Q-Tip technique" for a more exciting and purposeful organization of visual materials.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/236195
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"dataset": "gair-prox/c4-pro",
"token_count": 86
}
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Two of the major problems people have with their dogs are 1) pulling on leash and 2) reactivity on leash. These two problems are related and can be helped with the techniques in this video. Both ends of the leash get training in this practical video for trainers and pet owners. It takes two to pull, so training people and dogs together makes for a very effective solution. The three major topics covered are: 1. BAT Leash Skills for People 2. Loose Leash Walking 3. Heel Grisha does practical demonstrations of when to use each skill, breaking them down into easy-to-learn steps. She also explains several ways to teach heel and loose leash walking, since not every technique fits every dog.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/236197
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{
"dataset": "gair-prox/c4-pro",
"token_count": 146
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Background: No guidelines exist for assessment of aetiology of intellectual disability in adults with intellectual disability by adult physicians, although robust guidelines exist for paediatric populations. It was speculated that the paediatric guidelines would also be suitable for adults.
Aims: In rural/regional setting with limited clinical genetics, to perform a quality assurance evaluation on genetics assessment of aetiology of developmental disability in adults attending a dedicated healthcare clinic for adults with intellectual disability, compared results with paediatric standards, speculates if these seem appropriate for adults and speculates on a role for clinical genetics services.
Methods: Retrospective chart audit of eligible patients looking at genetic clinical assessment, tests selected (molecular karyotype, G banding, metabolics), and yields of positive results. The results were compared with the recommended paediatric guidelines.
Results: Of 117 eligible adult patients, ideal genetic history was incomplete for 40% of patients without Down syndrome because of physician cause and lack of information. The number of abnormal genetic results increased from 46% to 66%, mainly from the molecular karyotype, though not all may have been clinically relevant. The improved yield from this test was similar to that in paediatric studies. Use of G banding and metabolic testing could be refined.
Conclusion: Improvement can be made in clinical genetic assessment, but results generally support use of molecular karyotyping as first tier testing of cause of unknown intellectual disability in adults, as in the case for paediatric populations. The study highlights a necessary complementary role for clinical geneticists to interpret abnormal results.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/236198
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{
"dataset": "gair-prox/c4-pro",
"token_count": 316
}
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SIXTY years ago, a pair of North American brothers on a farm near Minnesota needed a high-powered, four-wheel drive tractor for their business.
An original Steiger tractor outside the Steiger factory in Fargo, USA. Picture courtesy Case IH.
When they couldn't find one on the market they built it themselves, and the first Steiger rolled out of the their shed.
Douglass and Maurice Steiger built the first Steiger in 1957 for their own use, but the reaction from fellow farmers was immediate, and in 1958 they built another for a neighbour, and the Steiger dynasty was established. The brothers went on to start a full-scale manufacturing business.
The Steigers of today look a lot different to the early models which were painted a vibrant shade of lime green. That all changed when the brand was purchased by Case IH in 1986, but many older farmers still have fond memories of those first Steiger tractors at work in Australia.
Today, the Steiger name lives on at the top end of the Case IH tractor range, with five models from 400 to 600 horsepower, including Quadtrac and Rowtrac four-tracked row crop systems.
And it's still making a name for itself in the history books, last year becoming the world's first articulated tractor to offer Continuously Variable Transmission (CVT).
As well as targeting fuel efficiency and operator fatigue, the CVT transmission provides faster acceleration to field or road speed, full power availability at low ground speeds for special applications and implements, and full hydraulic flow availability at low ground speeds, for drilling and planting.
"It all adds up to a tractor designed to ensure the most efficient operation at all times, in all conditions, regardless of the task or terrain. It has the capacity to reduce engine speed to the minimum required for the tractor's workload, in order to maximise fuel efficiency," said Case IH Australia/New Zealand High Horsepower product manager Alyx Selsmeyer.
"We're very proud the Steiger name endures after so many years and that it still stands for innovation, power, efficiency and reliability at the highest of levels. The Steiger will stand up to anything, and not only get the job done but exceed all expectations in the process," she said.
There are now more than 25 million Australians.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/236201
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{
"dataset": "gair-prox/c4-pro",
"token_count": 479
}
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Learn How to Use The Atlas using Online Video. Use the Subtitles to improve Reading & Literacy Skills .....at the same time!
Use this elementary online educational video to learn how maps are made and how to use the Atlas, table of contents and index to find any point on the map, or even plot Amelia Earhart's famous flight. Learn the differences between special and general Atlases, and then see the purpose and use of a general Atlas. Briefly review the history of Atlases and cartography. Show how Atlases and maps are made, and show the information provided by various kinds of maps found in a general Atlas.
Learn the purpose and use of a general Atlas.
Briefly review the history of Atlases and cartography.
Show how Atlases and maps are made.
Show the information provided by various kinds of maps found in a general Atlas.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/236205
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"dataset": "gair-prox/c4-pro",
"token_count": 182
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Scientists from Environment Protection Authority (EPA) Victoria have engaged with the IMOS ships of opportunity facility to develop and install an autonomous sampling equipment on Spirit of Tasmania 1. With its peerless unbroken daily sailing record this vessel provides a unique platform to routinely sample a high repeat record of marine conditions in Bass Strait that up until now have been constrained by weather from satellite measurements or research vessel obligations.
The system has been highly useful already, having been applied to monitoring of channel dredging and to calibrate complicated numerical models of Port Phillip Bay. The ship path includes a north-south transect through the inner bay and runs across the Sands region which is the dominant zone of mixing and flushing. It then crosses Bass Strait, supplying unprecedented open water information.
The system has the capacity to integrate additional sensor equipment, providing a test bed to pilot research techniques that may one day become routine across many SOOPs. The facility is sustained through partnership with research projects (University of Tasmania and Melbourne University), ship operators (TT Line) and government (CSIRO).
Plot of the track showing salinity measured across the tack.
The configuration of the marine monitoring system was modelled on a simple robust design used by the University of British Columbia's Earth and Ocean Science Department on BC Ferries networks between 2002 and 2006.
It is a compact sensor pack (400mmx 150mm x 200mm) that can be mounted horizontally or vertically in a location convenient to the vessel operator. The system includes a Seabird SBE45 thermo-salinograph (TSG), a Wetlabs combination fluorometer turbidity sensor (FLNTU) to measure temperature, salinity, turbidity and chlorophyll across Bass Strait.
The observing platform became operational in September 2008 and provides an unbroken record, except when the vessel is taken offline for a 3 week refit every 12–18 months.
Algal bloom response and recovery from December 2008.
Two BC Ferries were instrumented with autonomous water sampling as part of Stratogem program undertaken by University of British Columbia, 2002-2004. Repeated tracks across Strait of Georgia.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/236211
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"dataset": "gair-prox/c4-pro",
"token_count": 434
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Design a wood workbench with a metal top for a wipeable work surface you can use for many different projects. Create the plan yourself to customize the size of the workbench and to fit the area you have available. Or work with an existing bench plan and make changes where you need to. Use the workbench in your garage or workshop.
Customize a wooden work bench with a metal top.
Consider the majority of projects you will use the workbench for. Sheet metal is a smooth wipeable surface ideal for many projects including woodworking, painting, sanding, car repairs and other general projects.
If you will be welding on or near the table, consider using a heavier metal like galvanized steel to prevent potentially dangerous burning beneath the metal. If most of your projects require you to sit, consider building a seat or stool with the same materials.
While sheet metal is ideal for a workbench surface, it can be a tricky material to work with if you haven't handled it before. As the edges are sharp, always wear heavy duty gloves when cutting it.
Measure the surface area the sheet metal will cover and mark the measurements on the metal. Use a pair of tin snips meant for cutting a straight line.
Ask for assistance at the hardware store to determine the right snips for you as some are made for cutting curves and angles.
You can build a small workbench suitable for a corner or a long workbench the length of your garage. For a smaller workbench, add castor wheels in case you need to move the bench elsewhere.
Adjust the height of the table according to how you will be working. For instance, a table you will will stand and work at will be higher than one you wish to sit in front of.
Or, create a workbench with two different heights.
Build storage into the workbench to house tools and other odds and ends cluttering up your work space. Depending on the height of the workbench, you can add two or three shelves beneath the tabletop.
Organize it further with galvanized steel boxes, tool caddies and smaller tool boxes organized to hold specific tools, such as those needed for plumbing, working on your car and other projects.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/236216
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"dataset": "gair-prox/c4-pro",
"token_count": 453
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1. A design of ultra-low noise amplifiers - description of some ultra-low noise AC and DC amplifiers. See the examples here.
2. A white paper about principles and design of ultra-low noise and high bandwidth transimpedance amplifiers. See the examples here.
3. An article in EDN 5/2012 about a design of an ultra-low distortion oscillator, the original paper is here. See the examples here.
4. A white paper about a modified version of the ultra-low distortion oscillator for frequencies below 10 Hz.
5. A detailed explanation of AC modulation in AD24USB.
6. A connection of various sensors to AD24USB.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/236217
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"dataset": "gair-prox/c4-pro",
"token_count": 145
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Here is the transcript of the handwritten draft beginning with the words "Im Juli 1930 bin ich ..." This file contains 11 handwritten pages and two and one fifth typewritten pages, which are at the end of the document. The document is dated at the beginning and signed at the end. There are no stamps except on the last page and that stamp is a PWIS (NORWAY) stamp [Prisoner of war Interrogation Service].
For completeness sake I will again mention that [m] and [n] stand for overlined m and n which are variants of mm and nn. [A modern-spelling, expanded text has also been posted].
Aumeier uses the letter combination hs instead of the "sharp s" usually presented by sz or ß. This is unique with Aumeier and I have retained it.
The draft contains a large number of underlines.
ANY interpretation is of course a prerogative of the historian. I am not a historian. I will therefore limit myself to an expression of surprise to find that the current handwritten text contradicts others by Aumeier by categorically stating that he, Aumeier, never witnessed any gassings while he was in Auschwitz and none took place during his tour of duty there. He writes that he knew of no gas chambers. He describes the camp physician as being concerned about prisoner health. He describes food rations for Jewish prisoners laboring in Russia and Estonia as being German Army rations.
In his other handwritten notes, such as the one consisting of 17 pages and beginning with the words "Unter Führung des Lagerkommandanten..." and in the draft of 43 pages beginning with "Persönliche Angaben..." Aumeier does describe gas chambers and gassings. He also describes the camp physicians as routinely selecting prisoners for gassing upon arrival in Auschwitz and he mentions the removal of gold teeth from the gassed victims. None of that is in the present note.
I am sure there will be a long and bitter controversy and the issue which one of his notes reflects the truth might not be settled.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/236219
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{
"dataset": "gair-prox/c4-pro",
"token_count": 440
}
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"Unpacking the Ontogeny of Gesture Understanding: How Movement Becomes " by Elizabeth M. Wakefield, Miriam A. Novack et al.
Gestures, hand movements that accompany speech, affect children's learning, memory, and thinking (e.g., Goldin‐Meadow, 2003). However, it remains unknown how children distinguish gestures from other kinds of actions. In this study, 4‐ to 9‐year‐olds (n = 339) and adults (n = 50) described one of three scenes: (a) an actor moving objects, (b) an actor moving her hands in the presence of objects (but not touching them), or (c) an actor moving her hands in the absence of objects. Participants across all ages were equally able to identify actions on objects as goal directed, but the ability to identify empty‐handed movements as representational actions (i.e., as gestures) increased with age and was influenced by the presence of objects, especially in older children.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/236220
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"dataset": "gair-prox/c4-pro",
"token_count": 208
}
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The GO GEORGE system has been designed with bus stops in the traffic lane from where buses can safely ease back into traffic after picking up passengers. This helps the system keep to its schedule, as opposed to buses waiting for a gap in heavy traffic, causing a bus load of passengers to reach their destinations and workplaces late.
The national guidelines regarding road user priority encourage use of public transport and ways to make this a convenient and preferred method of transport, to decrease the number of vehicles using the roads and limit pollution.
Drivers of other vehicles should always be aware that every bus stop is a potential stopping place for buses. In other words, always keep a safe following distance and expect the bus to stop at the next bus stop. GO GEORGE bus drivers are required to give ample warning by switching on their indicators or using their hazard lights when they plan to stop.
On routes where in-lane stops may be a safety hazard or cause excessive congestion, eg. road speed limits above 60km/h, indented stops have been built. Cost is also a consideration, as indented stops are very expensive and are kept to a minimum, without compromising safety, and to keep the system affordable and flexible. It is also easier and less costly to move an in-lane stop when user patterns indicate the need.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/236221
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{
"dataset": "gair-prox/c4-pro",
"token_count": 264
}
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Some advanced forms may require an internal calculation to take place as part of the form (rather than afterwards during the analysis). This can be done by adding a Calculation, and writing the mathematical expression into the question label field.
This article provides step-by-step instructions on how to add calculations while using the form builder or by downloading and adding it directly to the XLSform.
To view a complete and detailed list of all functions please visit ODK's excellent XPath Functions documentation.
Step 2: Type your calculation formulae where you would typically write your question.
Your calculate question will not be displayed when conducting data entry/collection either on Kobo Collect or Enketo. It will, however, be displayed when looking at the data in the table view or in the downloaded version.
We recommend this approach when working with more advanced calculate functions.
XLS forms allow for use of calculate function on different types of question types.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/236222
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"dataset": "gair-prox/c4-pro",
"token_count": 194
}
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The round, golden-brown pastry of a Chinese mooncake, a traditional delicacy and lunar symbol of the Mid-Autumn Festival. Many platforms feature a design or character imprinted on the crust, and depict a slice cut out to show a brown paste with a duck egg yolk inside. Twitter displays the Chinese character for “fall/autumn” or “harvest” (秋) on top.
Moon Cake was approved as part of Unicode 11.0 in 2018 and added to Emoji 11.0 in 2018.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/236223
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"dataset": "gair-prox/c4-pro",
"token_count": 114
}
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Do you know that accumulation of too much acid forming foods in the body worsens arthritis? It is because too much intake of red meat and alcohols lead to large manufacture of uric acid which is a key to promoting gout that is an proof of arthritis.
These juices are made from green leafy vegetables, which are known to be alkaline foods. Because they have alkaline effect on the human body, these juices dissolve the deposition of deposits around the joints as well as other tissues.
Fresh pineapple juice can be recommended to an arthritic patient because it contains bromelain which lowers swelling and irritation in ostehoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis.
It contains Vitamin B6 which will help handle the condition. Green gram soup and garlic are also other alternatives in order to be considered to be able to cure it. These all are categorized as alkaline diet plan.
We should take half an ounces of water for every pound of body weight every day. This way, all of us will be able to easily and naturally diminish our cravings for junks, sweets and other acid forming meals.
Some of acid forming foods that are not good in order to arthritic person are red meat, dairy products, alcohol, coffee, frizzy drinks, highly processed food and junk foods. Some of the alkaline foods that can be taken in by our body to avoid and cure arthritis are mineral water, green tea, fruits, vegetables, uncooked oils and almonds.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/236225
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{
"dataset": "gair-prox/c4-pro",
"token_count": 302
}
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The Royal Palace was constructed in 1866 and is currently the official royal residence of the King of Cambodia, Norodom Sihamoni.
Norodom Sihamoni is the eldest son of Norodom Sihanouk. Norodom Sihanouk was the King of Cambodia from 1941 to 1955 & 1993 to 2004, after Norodom Sihamoni was appointed as the King of Cambodia in 2004, Norodom Sihanouk was appointed the King Father from 2004 to 2012 until his death.
Norodom Sihanouk had also served as Prime Minister, Head of State and President of Cambodia. In 9th November 1953, he officially declared Cambodia’s Independence from French colonial rule.
On 18 March 1970, Norodom Sihanouk was removed as the Head of State making way for the Khmer Rouge in 1975. Norodom Sihanouk was nominated to the symbolic position as the Head of State for the Khmer Rouge regime after he witnessed the effects of the genocide from the Khmer Rouge, he decided to resign from his position as the head of state.
On 24 September 1993, Norodom Sihanouk was reinstated as the King of Cambodia.
Norodom Sihamoni is the current King of Cambodia.
Is the primary audience hall for the King, for diplomatic and other official meetings.
Serves as a venue for the Royal Dancers, as a tribute for the King to address the crowds and to host state and Royal banquets.
Serves as a Royal rest house and waiting area where the King mounts an elephant for Royal processions. It is currently used to house gifts from foreign heads of state.
Is to house the royal regalia and costumes.
Built for Empress Eugenie of France, wife of Napoleon III. The Pavilion now serves as a small museum housing Royal memorabilia and a photographic exhibition.
Used for Royal reception and meetings.
The Royal Palace was built before the Khmer Rouge, but the country is still trying to recover from the devastation of the Khmer Rouge. You can see the street lights and the surrounding around the Royal Palace to be very well maintained and brightly lighted, but when you travel further away from the Royal Palace, you tend to see a different Cambodia.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/236230
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{
"dataset": "gair-prox/c4-pro",
"token_count": 470
}
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Age Of Egypt - Extensive information on the world of Ancient Egypt, Over 200 Gods and Goddesses, Ancient Cities, the Pharaohs, Pyramids, culture & more!
Long before the birth of Christ, a great nation arose on the banks of the Nile. For 3000 years, Egypt stood at the forefront of human achievement, blending creativity, intellect, art, and mysticism in a culture the likes of which had never been seen before. And for all that time, the fate of the nation rested in the hands of its storied rulers, the Pharaohs.
Egyptian hieroglyphics are in great abundance throughout Egypt, but were essentially indecipherable until 1799 when the trilingual Rosetta Stone was discovered in Alexandria!
Written in the two languages (Greek and Egyptian but three writing systems (hieroglyphics, its cursive form demotic script, and Greek, it provided the key toward the deciphering of hieroglyphic writing.
The inscriptions on it were the benefactions conferred by Ptolemy V Epiphanes (205 - 180 BCE) were written by the priests of Memphis. The translation was primarily due to Thomas Young (1773 - 1829) and Temple at Al Karnak Jean Francois Champollion (1790-1832) (1790-1832), who, very early in his life was inspired to Egyptology by the French mathematician Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier (1768 - 1830).
Champollion completed the work begun by Young and correctly deciphered the complete stone. An Egyptologist of the first rank, he was the first to recognize the signs could be alphabetic, syllabic, or determinative (i.e. standing for complete ideas).
He also established the original language of the Rosetta stone was Greek, and that the the hieroglyphic text was a translation from the Greek.
An unusual aspect of hieroglyphics is that they can be read from left to right, or right to left, or vertically (top to bottom). It is the orientation of the glyphs that gives the clue; the direction of people and animals face toward the beginning of the line.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/236232
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{
"dataset": "gair-prox/c4-pro",
"token_count": 447
}
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Frequently, people will watch a film that impresses them, but then find they lack the ability to fully explain why the film had such an impact.
During this course, we will go beyond the surface and discover the techniques and vocabulary necessary to understand how great films touch the audience. This will include a survey of camera angles, shots, cinematic storytelling techniques, screenwriting, types of cuts, and so on.
We will not only discuss story and imagery, but also go into greater depth on the film as a collaborative art form. This will provide an understanding of the role each participant plays in the production and also include the reasons behind how and why certain movies get financed and produced.
Texts about the movie industry and the various techniques of cinema will be given as weekly reading assignments. Each student will also give two oral presentations based on the course subject matter.
The first part of every class will include class discussion based on the weekly reading assignments and the films seen during class.
The second part of the class will be an opportunity to analyze movies related to the course content. These may include several films about the movie industry itself as well as classic films by famous directors.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/236236
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{
"dataset": "gair-prox/c4-pro",
"token_count": 238
}
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Rosetta Stone revolves around a simple idea: learning a language should be fun, easy and effective.
It approaches language learning using a natural method that teaches new language directly, without translation. That means no more confusing grammar explanations or mind-numbing vocabulary lists to memorise.
Use at the library only. Please ask staff for help.
The library offers the English language course.
Start learning a new language online with Mango Languages.
Mango Languages teaches you everyday conversation skills and cultural insights you need to connect with new people and cultures.
Choose from over 50 languages, learn actual conversations, sound out new words, and compare your pronouciation.
Use from home or in the library.
Lots of information about American Sign Language, including some "teach yourself" lessons.
A website for fairly decent machine translation from or to French, Spanish, German, Italian, Dutch,Portuguese,Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Greek and Russian.
British Broadcasting Corporation offers on-line free courses in Spanish, French, German and Italian called "Discover the Steps". If your computer has Real Media and Flash players, you can take advantage of the sound and video offered. There are also shorter courses in Portuguese, Greek and Chinese, plus "quick fix holiday phrases" in 36 languages.
Provides definitions of English words from a number of different dictionaries and allows you to translate single words into a number of languages from bilingual dictionaries that it offers.
The CERF at the University of Alberta has been accredited by the Paris Chameber of Commerce to administer its internationally recognized language competency test.
Ultralingua is a wonderful site for people wanting translations and more in French, Spanish, German, Italian or Portuguese. It converts numbers to text (e.g. 508,956), conjugates verbs, and has helpful grammar points explained in English for these languages.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/236238
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{
"dataset": "gair-prox/c4-pro",
"token_count": 388
}
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Work out an object design for the above task. You should take advantage of object-oriented concepts such as composition, inheritance, method overriding, abstract classes, interfaces wherever appropriate.
Class hierarchies, relationships and components must be conceptualised in a relevant manner, based on the problem description and special conditions listed in this document. Furthermore, you must be able to explain how your program design will perform in certain scenarios and circumstances.
It may be necessary for your design to provide more functionality (for example, accessors and mutators) than that documented here for the mechanics of your design to work properly.
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Entombment of the dead has a long tradition among Christian people. The burial of the Lord Jesus himself was above-ground when Joseph of Arimathea provided a burial place for his body in a cave tomb near Calvary, the place of his crucifixion (see Matthew 27:57-61, Mark 15:42-47, Luke 23:50-53 and John 19:38-42).
Early Christians created over 300 miles of tunnels beneath Imperial Rome. Here they worshipped in safety and entombed their dead in catacombs, further establishing this practice. Crypts for civic and church leaders in public buildings or churches demonstrate the honorable purpose of entombment.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/236248
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Lucy Calkins has struck a nerve. In her book The Art of Teaching Reading she writes, "If we can keep only one thing in mind-and I fail at this half the time-it is that we are teaching the writer and not the writing. Our decisions must be guided by 'what might help this writer' rather than 'what might help this writing'" (228). Although she is specifically addressing conferencing, this idea is applicable in a much broader sense to the whole endeavor of teaching emerging writers. In an era of state standards and high stakes testing, many teachers are either required or feel compelled to teach to the test. In essence, we are teaching writing for one particular prompt rather than teaching emerging writers. We teach our students over and over to write for this or that prompt rather than teach them to internalize what it means to be a good writer. As teacher and writer Ralph Fletcher points out in his book What a Writer Needs, "The cost runs high when we coerce students (through grades, praise, favoritism), however subtly, to shoehorn their emerging language into the narrow parameters we set for what constitutes 'good writing' in our classrooms" (25). So the question becomes how can teachers merge what seem to be the conflicting pulls of teaching writers and assessing writers? How can we help students come to understand themselves as writers, internalizing their own high standards for writing?
There seems to be is a disconnect between how we assess writing based on standards, whether it be for state testing situations or the high-stakes writing prompts like those found on the AP and SAT exams, versus the way that real writers approach the writing process. Because it is easy, teachers attach numbers and percentages to outlines and drafts, to three page essays with a thesis. But is this valid? Who and what do these numbers assess? Students read the grade at the top of the page and then bury the work at the bottom of the backpack, or worse, the bottom of the trash can. Even on the flip side, when we attempt to use more holistic rubrics like the PA Scoring Guide with its labels like Advanced, Proficient, and Basic, students, parents, tax-payers are more concerned with the numbers of students scoring at a particular level.
How can writing teachers assess the work of student writers in ways that are meaningful, ways that reflect the individual student‘s engagement with the process of writing? How might grading writing for the mastery of skills help emerging writers grow more confident and proficient?
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/236249
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Reports on the total land use in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, and San Diego counties, California as critical habitat for the coastal California gnatcatcher.
Presents information on the habitat characteristics and fitness components of California Gnatcatchers between 1993 to 1995. Information on a study of 41 pairs of gnatcatchers using within-territory vegetation and life history; Reference to the effect grass and forb cover has on the gnatcatchers.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/236251
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Another ingenious creation from Hervé Tullet, this is a fun innovative and interactive series of board books designed to stimulate a young child’s imagination. Children can visit the Finger Circus and have lots of fun. All they need is their finger, a pen to draw two eyes and a mouth and then they have a finger circus performer who can fly through the air, juggle, clown around and be a magician.
The novelty aspect of this book allows them to be used as toys which can be read and played with again and again. Even though these books may appear simple at first glance their unique concept will aid children in the development of reading and literacy.
Others books in the series published by Templar are: - Carnival of Colours, Eye to Eye, and World of Mirrors and in the Phaidon ‘Let’s Play Games’ series are The Game of Let’s Go, The Game of Finger Worms, The Game of Mix and Match, The Game of Mix-up Art and The Game of Mix-up Patterns.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/236252
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Fitness enthusiasts, take note! Exercising on an empty stomach may help burn more body fat and fuel your metabolism, boosting your health in the long run, a new study has found.
Researchers from University of Bath in the UK studied a group of overweight males.
The volunteers walked for 60 minutes at 60 per cent maximum oxygen consumption on an empty stomach, and on another occasion for two hours after consuming a high-calorie carbohydrate-rich breakfast.
The team took multiple blood samples after eating or fasting and after exercising. They also collected adipose tissue samples immediately before and one hour after walking.
Gene expression in the adipose tissue differed significantly in the two trials, researchers said.
They found that the expression of two genes, PDK4 and HSL, increased when the men fasted and exercised, and decreased when they ate before exercising.
The rise in PDK4 likely indicates that stored fat was used to fuel metabolism during exercise instead of carbohydrates from the recent meal, researchers said.
HSL typically increases when adipose tissue uses stored energy to support increased activity, such as during exercise, said Dylan Thompson of University of Bath.
These results reinforce the view that "adipose tissue often faces competing challenges," Thompson said.
After eating, adipose tissue is busy responding to the meal and a bout of exercise at this time will not stimulate the same beneficial changes in adipose tissue, he said.
This means that exercise in an empty stomach might provoke more favourable changes in adipose tissue, and this could be beneficial for health in the long term, he added.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/236253
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The Women’s Studies Institute of China (WSIC) released a report. The results showed that 86.6 percent of female college students had experienced one or multiple types of gender discrimination while job hunting. Of those who had experienced discrimination, 80 percent were engineering majors.
A total of 80.2 percent of female interviewees were able to offer examples of gender discrimination that they had encountered while searching for jobs, including positions described as “reserved for males or with preference for male applicants. Some employers even limited jobs based on the blood types and horoscopes of female applicants.
According to a report released by the National Academy of Development and Strategy, male job hunters encounter 1.42 times the number of opportunities that their female counterparts do, even when experience and educational levels are even.
In addition to explicitly stated discriminatory policies, some implicit limitations are also prevalent. A professor at Hunan University pointed out that although China has regulations in place to prevent gender discrimination, many companies still prefer to hire men because of traditional stereotypes and unequal legal policies.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/236256
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Cheonggyecheon (청계천) is a 10.84 km-long stream that starts here at Cheonggye Plaza, near Gwanghwamun Gate and passes under a total of 22 bridges before flowing into Han River. It was originally a natural stream, but was covered with asphalt and used as roads after the Korean War, as part of the country’s post-war economic development. Then in 2005, it was once again changed into an ecological stream after a restoration that took three years.
Take Seoul Metro Line 5 and get off at Gwanghwamun Station Exit 5. Cross the street and you can see the giant shell.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/236262
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Certainly one of one of the most typical electrical wiring queries is on how to wire a change. Whilst applying switches in your house is quite effortless, wiring a person may not be that simple for everyone. An ON-OFF switch is in fact quite simple to wire. You will discover different kinds of switches, but for this instance, let us say you might be putting in a single-pole toggle switch, an extremely popular switch (plus the simplest).
You can find three hues of wires in a very normal single-pole toggle switch: black, white, and environmentally friendly. Splice the black wire in two and join them around the terminal screws - a single on top rated and the other about the bottom screw on the switch. The white wire serves as a supply of uninterrupted energy and is also commonly linked to your light colored terminal screw (e.g., silver). Link the inexperienced wire to your ground screw of one's switch.
These techniques would generally be ample to generate a normal switch function without a dilemma. On the other hand, in the event you aren't assured that you just can execute the process correctly and safely you greater permit the professionals do it as a substitute. After all, you can find a explanation why this task has become the most frequent electrical wiring questions questioned by the majority of people.
For a few rationale, tips on how to wire a ceiling fan is additionally amongst essentially the most prevalent electrical wiring questions. To simplify this activity, you should utilize one swap for your single ceiling fan. To wire the fan, it is really merely a make a difference of connecting the black wire of your ceiling fan to your black wire from the change. If there is a lightweight, the blue wire really should be related for the black wire in the change too.
You can find motives why these are essentially the most frequently asked electrical wiring concerns. One, lots of consider it truly is basic to perform, and two, these are the prevalent electrical jobs at your home. But then you definately should not place your protection in danger as part of your target to economize. The stakes could even be significantly larger when you try to lower your expenses and do an electrical wiring task devoid of sufficient knowledge or expertise.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/236264
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During WWII, information about the weather played an extremely important role. The Army Air Forces were completely dependent upon intelligence regarding the atmospheric terrain in which they operated. Accurate forecasts could determine whether a bombing target would be obscured by clouds or fog, or whether conditions were favorable enough for aircraft to fly. Weather forecasting detachments were present at nearly every major Allied airbase. Some weathermen even worked as special intelligence with the OSS (Office of Strategic Services), and performed weather information-gathering missions behind enemy lines.
The AAF Weather Service trained approximately 6,200 weather officers during WWII, including many WACs (Women's Army Corps) who were trained as weather observers.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/236265
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This collection of lectures was initiated by the presiding officers of the 10th Republican Parliament of Trinidad and Tobago and took place across the nation between September and December 2011. Drawing on years of research, political activism and mature reflection, eight of the nation’s leading thinkers deliberated on the issues of governance since independence on 31st August 1962.
Independence marked the end of colonial rule that began during the 16th century under the aegis of Spain and had continued when the British captured Trinidad. At the same time, Tobago had its own uneven political history, changing hands from one European power to another. Independence was an improvement on the colonial regime but many of the vestiges of the past have persisted.
However, during the last three decades, these issues have been increasingly addressed and the nation has now reached the point at which detailed information and analysis can be provided by its own national leaders of thought.
With no uniformity of views, and no attempt to harmonise the ideas put forward for change, Evolution of a Nation: Trinidad and Tobago at Fifty will hopefully form the basis of the nation’s ongoing discourse on constitutional reform.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/236266
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#facetherace As someone who is studying film and media in college, I am always interested in how the media affects society. Often times, I look at how people of color are portrayed in the media and my research and experiences have shown me that they are often falsely portrayed. Specifically, these television and film characters are often simplified or stereotyped and made subordinate to white people. The media even has a tendency to leave them out. On a personal note, I couldn't imagine being a little girl and rarely seeing someone like myself on the TV screen. Today, I might not be perusing a career as a news anchor if that was the case because it would make me think that I am not good enough to be that successful. This video explains the importance of including different racial and ethnic groups in the media. It also shows some of the progress that has been made of race mixing in commercials. Although, these efforts to improve this major issue are great, there there is still a lot of work to be done.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/236268
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Australians enjoy a variety of foods. In addition, a new interest in foods gleaned from nature by the earlier native Aborigine populations is gaining ground. Take-a-way foods from various ethnic groups offer variety as well, but several foods remain embedded in the country's cultural cuisine as true food icons of Australia.
Bush Tucker is food from the land and natural rainforest habitat. It is considered the original food of the Australian aboriginal tribes. With mainstays such as lizards or the large larvae of wichetty grubs, most of these foods are not eaten by the non-aboriginal population. However, some more adventuresome Australians enjoy milder versions of bush tucker foods. For example, some restaurants throughout Australia serve crocodile and kangaroo meat now. Other bush tucker foods are widely used, for instance, fruits are used for making jams.
Cyril P Callister, a food technologist created Vegemite in 1922. Developed from yeast remaining after processing beer, Australians eat Vegemite as a spread for bread. In addition, cooks use Vegemite to add flavor to their dishes. Originally, it was a food high in salt. However, the salt content has since been reduced. Now with less salt and full of B vitamins and niacin, it is considered healthy as well as delicious by most Australians.
Lamington cake, or Lemington as it is sometimes called, is a favorite desert of Australians. There are several stories about how the cake came to be. One belief is that Lord Lamington, a former Queensland governor contributed to the name of the cake because they resembled the hats that he wore. Before 1910 the cake was one regular sized cake. Since then bite sized versions are also made. The cake itself consists of a square of sponge cake, covered in chocolate which in turn is covered with coconut. Not only is it a favorite desert, the cake is so well liked that Australians, especially charitable groups celebrate the cake on July 21st each year. Charities use this day named "National Lamington Day" to sell the cakes to raise funds for their charity.
According to the Australian Government Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Australians consume an estimated 260 million meat pies annually. The filled short-crust pie is 15cm in diameter and filled with meats and gravy. Fairs, festivals and any place large crowds gather offer the pies for sale, usually accompanied by ketchup.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/236269
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Because I love ya, I've created a brand-new printable handout for Nutrition Month 2016. I've even copied out the text below, so if you like what you see, scroll to the bottom and grab the PDF to distribute however you'd like!
National Nutrition Month offers a special opportunity to teach vital health lessons, so let's not waste a moment!
Nutrition Month 2016: Savor the flavor of eating right!
The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics advises people to “Develop a mindful eating pattern that includes nutritious and flavorful foods.” Mindful eating happens when you eat food while paying attention to your hunger and the experience of eating, without passing judgement on the food or the fact that you’re eating it.
It’s fun to eat mindfully when you eat healthy foods — take a moment to really enjoy their flavors and textures. You’ll be surprised by what you notice each time. This is also a great way to try new foods!
There’s a lot of information out there about what foods are healthy and what aren’t, and yet not all of it is true. Cut through the murk by relying on science-based, peer-reviewed sources. This will help you separate food news from food misdirection.
If you’re not sure where to start, check out the Dietary Guidelines for Americans at . They’ve got great advice for shifting into a healthy eating pattern that you can both enjoy and sustain.
MyPlate is another great resource that you can use to make healthy decisions. Check out its homepage at , and don’t miss its fantastic portion control resources!
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/236274
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Just over a month into its mission, NASA's Parker Solar Probe has returned first-light data from each of its four instrument suites. These early observations – while not yet examples of the key science observations Parker Solar Probe will take closer to the Sun – show that each of the instruments is working well. The instruments work in tandem to measure the Sun’s electric and magnetic fields, particles from the Sun and the solar wind, and capture images of the environment around the spacecraft.
This image shows the first-light data from Parker Solar Probe's WISPR (Wide-field Imager for Solar Probe) instrument suite. The right side of this image — from WISPR's inner telescope — has a 40-degree field of view, with its right edge 58.5 degrees from the Sun's center. The bright object slightly to the right of the image's center is Jupiter. The left side of the image is from WISPR’s outer telescope, which has a 58-degree field of view and extends to about 160 degrees from the Sun. It shows the Milky Way, looking at the galactic center. There is a parallax of about 13 degrees in the apparent position of the Sun as viewed from Earth and from Parker Solar Probe.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/236275
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The Stress Programme and Board Game builds resilience in young people as they navigate the minefields of exam stress, career choices, cyber bullying, anxiety and mental health issues, and face more pressures than those of any other generation before them.
This programme of structured experiences helps young people understand the nature and causes of stress and develop techniques for managing stress effectively.
Stress is a normal, necessary and inevitable part of everyday life, but as a time of continual change, adolescence can be highly stressful for young people. Stress means different things to different people, and the ability to cope with stress varies from person to person, this programme show young people ways to manage stress and prevent it becoming harmful.
Strategies 4-6 Ways of preventing stress through a healthy lifestyle, assertion and effective time management are explored.
Strategies 7-9 The importance of friends prepared to listen the role of the positive outlook in influencing stress, and some relaxation techniques.
Strategies 10-11 Students identify and categorise the stressors in their own lives, into preventable stress and that which requires management.
Strategy 12 Students establish behaviour goals using a structured plan for behaviour change.
Strategies 13-14 The programme concludes with a board game on stress and an evaluation of the student’s response to the course.
The stress game is a game of chance which is designed as a ‘fun’ way of helping students become aware of stressors and various stress management techniques.
Shay and Margaret McConnon spent 15 years in Special education teaching young people who had emotional and behavioural difficulties. They developed programmes to enhance the self-worth of these students and to improve their social skills. These programmes now form the Your Choice series. These books are best sellers in their field and continue to form the basis for many Personal and Social Education Programmes across the world.
Shay is a founder member of the Professional Speakers Association and he speaks regularly at conferences on people issues. His keynotes are content-rich, providing delegates with practical techniques for creating winning relationships in the workplace. He uses magic to illustrate these in a fun and memorable way.
Margaret specialises in one to one work and couple counselling. She is co-author of a range of workshop materials and trains on people issues within education and the service sectors.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/236281
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Gas powered RC cars are more popular than ever, and for great reasons. When you move to gas (from electric) you’ll notice a huge increase in speed, plus, you’ll be able to run your RC car without having multiple batteries on standby. You’ll go from 15 minutes of racing to hours!
The most popular gas powered RC cars are the Nitros. Nitro cars run on fuel (also called nitro-gas) and are typically faster than their electric counterparts. A nitro car is completely air cooled and can run for long periods of time where an electric cars will need their batteries recharged.
Longer run times and faster speed – so wheres the catch? A Nitro RC car is more likely to get damaged in a collision (they’re going faster after all), and they are typically larger than an electric car – taking more room to run. A Nitro RC will take longer to hit top speed because there’s a very slight delay from the time you hit the gas, and the engine spools up (the same as in a stander automobile). Finally, the last bad point of nitro cars is their noise – while they sound really cool then you gas it, they are far from silent – especially when compared to an electric.
A gasoline car is an RC car that runs on a blend of gas and oil – similar to the gas powered scooters that are popular these days. A Gasoline powered RC car (commonly called a “fuelies” or “gassers”) will eventually save you money over a nitro car – since gasoline is much cheaper than the nitro fuel used by nitro cars. Gas cars are normally larger than nitro cars, but in recent years they are becoming smaller and smaller. They share the same problems as nitros concerning noise and response time, but for most people the increase in speed is worth it.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/236284
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Fragile X can be determined with a blood test which is available in India. The blood test is usually supported with clinical symptoms to arrive at an accurate diagnosis.
The same DNA test used to diagnose Fragile X Syndrome is used to test for FXTAS and POF.
Who should be tested for Fragile X ?
Family history of Fragile X or relatives with undiagnosed MR.
Aged persons having ataxia like features.
Where to be testing for Fragile X ?
Jaslok Hospital and Research Centre.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/236285
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If a PCB being actively supplied with current is connected to another electrical circuit, there is a risk of overvoltages occurring during the charge balancing. This can be prevented by what are known as E-fuse modules, which delimit voltages and currents in the hot-swap mode. Load switches limit the emitted current to a preset value. This then, for instance, prevents an unknown USB device drawing more than the permitted amount of current from a host. The use of these modules increases system safety whenever several active systems are connected to one another.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/236288
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Here you will find one or more explanations in English for the word Alive. Also in the bottom left of the page several parts of wikipedia pages related to the word Alive and, of course, Alive synonyms and on the right images related to the word Alive.
Caliver Cal"i*ver, n. [Corrupted fr. caliber.] An early form of hand gun, variety of the arquebus; originally a gun having a regular size of bore. [Obs.] --Shak.
Cantalever Can"ta*lev`er, n. [Cant an external angle + lever a supporter of the roof timber of a house.] [Written also cantaliver and cantilever.] 1. (Arch.) A bracket to support a balcony, a cornice, or the like. 2. (Engin.) A projecting beam, truss, or bridge unsupported at the outer end; one which overhangs. Cantalever bridge, a bridge in which the principle of the cantalever is applied. It is usually a trussed bridge, composed of two portions reaching out from opposite banks, and supported near the middle of their own length on piers which they overhang, thus forming cantalevers which meet over the space to be spanned or sustain a third portion, to complete the connection.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/236290
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Atherosclerotic vascular disease remains the primary cause of mortality and morbidity. Researchers of the Institute for Cardiovascular Regeneration have identified a novel RNA-based mechanism that regulates pro-inflammatory gene expression in atherosclerotic heart disease. Their findings have been published in the Nature Medicine.
The international research team led by Konstantinos Stellos and Stefanie Dimmeler demonstrated an important role of RNA modifications in the regulation of gene expression and endothelial cell function. By using RNA-sequencing and advanced molecular biology techniques, they showed that adenosine deamination in RNA level by ADAR1, a process called adenosine-to-inosine RNA editing, of the extracellular matrix degradation enzyme cathepsin S, an enzyme with a well-established role in the development and prognosis of cardiovascular and tumor disease, alters the RNA-protein interaction controlling cathepsin S mRNA stability and expression in inflammatory vascular diseases.
Taken together, this study reveals a previously unrecognized role of RNA editing in human atherosclerosis.
Stellos K, Gatsiou A, Stamatelopoulos K, Perisic Matic L, John D, Lunella FF, Jaé N, Rossbach O, Amrhein C, Sigala F, Boon RA, Fürtig B, Manavski Y, You X, Uchida S, Keller T, Boeckel JN, Franco-Cereceda A, Maegdefessel L, Chen W, Schwalbe H, Bindereif A, Eriksson P, Hedin U, Zeiher AM, Dimmeler S. Adenosine-to-inosine RNA editing controls cathepsin S expression in atherosclerosis by enabling HuR-mediated post-transcriptional regulation. Nat Med. 2016 Oct; 22(10):1140-1150.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/236293
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Given a time, figure out what the time would be ___ minutes earlier or later.
Encouraging your child to wear a watch can be very helpful.
Our class has started to read ‘The Twits’, by Road Dahl.
Mr Twit has a beard. We would like to find out about other people who have beards.
Our class worked together to compose these questions. We would love if you could answer the questions on this page, or you may email the answers to our teacher at [email protected]. You may also email a photo of your beard.
Thank you for helping us with our research.
Some of the x7 tables are a bit tricky. I hope these videos will help you to practise and learn them.
Making up your own rhymes can help too, like ‘Multiplying 7 by 7 makes me feel fine, 7 x 7 = 49’. Can you make up one to share with the class?
Here’s a trick that you might enjoy, to find the multiples of 7 (the answers you get when you multiply by 7, or skip count in 7s).
From the rushes there?”, he said.
Brigid told the gospel story to a dying pagan King.
We made St Brigid’s crosses from paper. We were very glad to have help from our visiting teacher, Ms McEllistrim, and Sophie and Éabha, TY students from Holy Faith.
We studied Early Christian Ireland, and found out about monks that lived in Ireland over a thousand years ago.
We learned wonderful words and phrases like vellum, parchment, manuscript, filigree, high cross, refectory, beehive hut and abbot.
Teacher wanted the whole class to get new monk-style haircuts, but nobody wanted to get their head shaved into a tonsure. Instead we did Monastery Drama Bingo to show off what we knew about life in Early Christian Ireland.
We created wonderful monastery art, with round towers, made from recycled kitchen rolls.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/236302
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The best way look after your heart is with a healthy lifestyle. At Leschenault Medical our Doctors can support you to maintain a healthy heart.
Being smoke-free is one of the best things you can do to protect your heart.
It’s important to manage your diabetes to help prevent a heart attack or stroke. For information on managing diabetes.
Maintaining a healthy weight can reduce the risk of heart disease and other health problems. We can help to know your body mass index and waist measurements and what these mean.
Limit alcohol: To a maximum of 2 standard drinks per day.
Look after your mental health: We know that there can be a greater risk of heart disease for people who have depression, are socially isolated or do not have good social support. Having a good social life with family and friends can help.
Depression is more than feeling sad or low. If you feel depressed for more than two weeks, make an appointment and talk to our doctors.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/236307
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Australian companies are not doing enough work to model the risks of climate change and how it will affect their profitability, a new report by a thinktank says.
Progressive thinktank the Centre for Policy Development says that while most companies have committed to considering what climate change and the Paris climate agreement means for their business strategy, too few have begun using scenario analysis techniques to model what its impacts could be and how to respond to it.
Australia’s financial regulator stepped up its warnings last year that climate change posed a risk to the financial system and urged companies to adapt.
The Financial Stability Board’s Taskforce on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures has identified scenario analysis as a critical tool for companies and investors that are serious about responding to climate risks.
CPD policy director Sam Hurley said while many companies had said they will commit to modelling the impacts of climate change and potential responses for their business, few had actually started to undertake that work.
He said Australia was potentially exposed to large risks due to climate change, but there were also opportunities.
“Scenario analysis is going to be a really important driver of better strategies and of better outcomes for businesses that are preparing for these risks and opportunities,” he said.
“Some organisations in Australia have made a start doing that kind of analysis and more have committed to it.
Hurley said, internationally, more organisations had begun considering how major emissions reductions and changes in policy as a result of climate change could affect their business and its profitability.
He said some of Australia’s biggest companies in the financial and resources sector already had sophisticated models in place for thinking about climate change and more needed to follow suit.
Companies that didn’t could expect scrutiny from their shareholders, as well as regulators.
“The period for words on this is over. What we really need to see over the next reporting season is companies walking the walk as well as talking the talk,” he said.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/236309
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What is the number of trailing zeros in (10^10)!!. Note that "!!" is the double factorial function. Please just give me a hint and I will do the homework! Ridiculous question by our teacher. I thank you for any help.
That is a very big number!! But, there is a method to your teacher's madness!! Since you are willing to do the homework, I will give you a hint and you finish the job!.
(10^10) / 5 + (10^10) / 5^2 + (10^10) / 5^3 + ............+ (10^10) / 5^14.
Note: It is very important that you divide them one at a time and take the INTEGER PART ONLY. Disregard the fractional part. Once you calculate them all, then add them up and DIVIDE THE TOTAL BY 2. Again, if there is a fraction, disregard it and keep the integer part only. That should give you a lot of zeros!!. Good Luck.
sumfor(n, 1, 14, int((10^10)/5^n) = 2499999997 / 2 =1,249,999,998 zeros !!!.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/236311
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As Memorial Day approaches and our summer season arrives, it is important for Americans of all ages to learn about safety on the water. During National Safe Boating Week, the U.S. Coast Guard and its Federal, State, and local safe boating partners encourage all boaters to explore and enjoy America’s beautiful waters responsibly.
Safe boating begins with preparation. The Coast Guard estimates that human error accounts for 70 percent of all boating accidents and that life jackets could prevent more than 80 percent of boating fatalities. Through basic boating safety procedures — carrying lifesaving emergency distress and communications equipment, wearing life jackets, attending safe boating courses, participating in free boat safety checks, and staying sober when navigating — we can help ensure boaters on America’s coastal, inland, and offshore waters stay safe throughout the season.
America’s diverse waterways are waiting to be explored. But before enjoying a day on the water, Americans should take time this week to familiarize themselves with safe boating practices so that everyone makes it home unharmed.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim May 21 through May 27, 2017, as National Safe Boating Week. I encourage all Americans who participate in boating activities to observe this occasion by learning more about safe boating practices and taking advantage of boating safety education opportunities. I also encourage the Governors of the States and Territories, and appropriate officials of all units of government, to join me in encouraging boating safety through events and activities.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/236312
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"token_count": 322
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It is widely believed in many cultures of the world that when a mother places a child with another family, she is not fulfilling the duties of being a responsible parent. This is precisely why adoption is a common phenomenon found mostly in developed and western countries. It is not to say that people do not adopt children in other countries, but those adoptions are generally based on the circumstances where a child’s parents are dead or if somebody has abandoned their female child.
Child adoption in some cultures is also considered a social taboo because it is emphasized that a child from other parents cannot be considered equal to a birth child. It is because of this social stigma associated with adoption that many couples remain childless throughout their lives. Even if some people do adopt a child in cultures and countries where adoption is a taboo, the adopted child does not get the same inheritance and legal rights as those given to the birth children.
Adopted children in some situations also face social and familial pressures where they are subjected to unfair treatment on part of friends and relatives of the foster parents; sometimes the foster parents themselves are unable to accept the child wholeheartedly. In situations where the foster parents also have a child of their own by birth and choose to adopt one as well, they are unable to give equal rights and attention to both the children. It is usually observed in such countries that the male parent marries for the second time just to bear children of his own with or without giving up his first marriage.
The need for developing nations to put in place policies that make it convenient for couples wishing to adopt children from their own country is tremendous. Moreover, it is the social stigma associated with adoption that needs to be done away with. It also serves as an aid to those parents who cannot provide a decent life for a child and wish to place them for adoption. This, in turn, will lead to fewer cases of child mortality, child labor and illiteracy in underdeveloped countries with cultures that are not supportive of child adoption.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/236314
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"dataset": "gair-prox/c4-pro",
"token_count": 402
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Weight loss success is directly tied to one's willingness to stay focused on the goal and remain actively involved in the process. It's well established that personal weight loss coaching with a weight loss professional or service is one of the best ways to lose weight and keep it off. It's usually after this support ends that most efforts at weight loss go south.
What's not so well known is that according to the New England Journal of Medicine, in a study published on November 15, 2011, getting that coaching through a website based coach is just as effective as one-on-one coaching. The study was done to determine whether different methods of coaching, intervention and follow-up produced different results.
A controlled trial research study was conducted with 415 obese patients to examine the effects of two behavioral weight loss intervention methods. There were three intervention techniques analyzed. The first was one-on-one personal counseling involving direct contact with the patient. It used extensive phone and written communications, personal contact and routine follow-up.
The second group was provided with a web-based coaching alternative. The website provided educational resources and a format for patients to track their weight, calorie intake and activity levels. There were periodic emails to provide motivation and follow-up assessment. There was a third group that was allowed to monitor their own progress. All three groups were followed for two years and at the end of that time their progress was evaluated to determine what method was most effective.
The researchers found that there was no statistical difference in the weight loss success and long-term maintenance between the two groups that were provided support. The group getting one-on-one coaching maintained 40% of their original weight loss after two years. The group getting the website based coaching and support maintained a weight loss of about 38% of their original weight loss, a statistical dead heat in success. The group that got no coaching was only able to keep about 18% of their weight loss off, less than half that of those who had some kind of support.
This study was supported by grants from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, the Prevention and Control Core of the Baltimore Diabetes Research and Training Center, and the National Center for Research Resources.
This study provides more evidence that having support to help you keep the weight off is extremely important and it doesn't have to cost a fortune. While one-on-one weight loss coaches may cost hundreds if not thousands of dollars, using a website based coaching system can be very inexpensive and as it turns out, just as effective.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/236315
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"dataset": "gair-prox/c4-pro",
"token_count": 512
}
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The country’s disaster prevention, climate change and meteorological observation requirements were boosted following the official handing over of Meteorological equipment worth U.S2.4 million donated by China at an event last week.
Under the project, Namibia received 10 sets of Manned Weather Observation Systems; five sets of Automated Weather systems; one central and work station software; meteorological communication system; FY-3 meteorological satellite data collecting and processing system and the FY3-3 meteorological satellite information processing and application system.
On behalf of Namibia’s Minister of Works and Transport, John Mutorwa, the deputy Minister, James Sankwasa said the donation emanated from China-Africa cooperation which expressed its willingness to strengthen cooperation and build capacity of selected meteorological services in Africa to enable to respond to the growing needs of citizens, especially in the areas of disaster prevention and mitigation, climate change and meteorological observation.
According to Mutorwa, the donated equipment came at the time when it was needed.
“For example, the recent tropical cyclone Dineo, although reached Namibia in a weakened state as a tropical depression was tracked using FY-3 Satellite until it dissipated in the Atlantic ocean,” he noted.
network of the country and will enhance data availability for climate change studies and for other user needs.
“I am confident that most of you have noticed the tremendous improvement in the quality of the television weather broadcast. This achievement is due to the new weather television equipment donated by China,” he added.
Meanwhile, Chinese Ambassador to Namibia, Zhang Yiming said he was happy that Namibia is among the recipients and is proud China is helping enhance the capacity in such a vital public services of Meteorology in Namibia.
According to the minister, the adverse impacts of weather and climate extremes on the mainstream economic activities such as agriculture, health, fisheries, water, transport and food security are a great challenge to the country.
“In this respect the early warning system once operational would enable use to provide timely warning and advisories that could save lives and reduce extensive damage to properties,” he added.
Hence he said that the cooperation between the two countries on this scale in the field meteorological is commendable and needs to be sustained for the benefit of all.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/236316
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"token_count": 481
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Stock photo of the southern wall of the Mezquita (Cathedral-Mosque) at night in the City of Cordoba, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Province of Cordoba, Andalusia (Andalucia), Spain, Europe.
The archways of exterior southern wall of the Mezquita glow in the evening of the city of Cordoba.
This stock photo shows the exterior of the southern wall of the Mezquita (Cathedral-Mosque) at night in the City of Cordoba, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Province of Cordoba, Andalusia, Spain, Europe.
This evening view of the exterior of the southern wall of the Mezquita has two archways with metal railings in front.
The second floor archway is not as curved as the lower floor and has a keystone at the center.
In each corner of the archways lights glow along the floor. In the center of the archways along the wall is a door that has metal iron with a diamond grid pattern.
The first floor above the door has a decorative emblem on the stone wall.
Southern wall of the Mezquita (Cathedral-Mosque) at night in the City of Cordoba, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Province of Cordoba, Andalusia (Andalucia), Spain, Europe.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/236319
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"dataset": "gair-prox/c4-pro",
"token_count": 279
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Toronto council, step away from the chicken coops.
With Toronto considering a pilot project allowing people to keep up to five chickens in their backyards in four Toronto wards — Etobicoke-Lakeshore; Parkdale-High Park; St. Paul’s and Beaches-East York, here are just some of the problems other cities have encountered.
– Chicken killings, because chickens are prey to animals like raccoons (ring a bell, Toronto?), dogs, coyotes, etc.
– Rat infestations, because rats (and mice) are attracted to chicken feed.
– Smell, because unless chicken droppings are regularly gathered and disposed of, the stench can be awful.
– Abandoned chickens, because chickens stop laying eggs years before the end of their natural lifespans, which has led to a rash of unwanted chickens in some cities that have legalized keeping them.
– Dust, because chickens need to bathe themselves in dust in order to rid themselves of lice, mites and other parasites.
– Maggot, worm and fly egg infestations, because chickens can have all three.
– Allergies, because live chickens, like many animals, can provoke reactions in humans.
City dwellers thinking of chickens as an economical source of fresh eggs need to remember that caring for them properly — from providing a safe and secure coop, to properly feeding and cleaning up after them, to paying for veterinary care, to paying for someone responsible to care for their chickens when they’re away on vacation, all adds up.
To the point where they may actually be paying astronomical prices for eggs, compared to buying them in a supermarket.
Chicken coops in Toronto might be a workable idea if every participating residential household had at least one person who was raised on a farm, or who comes from another country where keeping household chickens is common, or who understands the amount of time and expense needed to care for chickens and is prepared to do so on a multi-year basis.
But this is Toronto, where dog owners and non-dog owners are regularly at each other’s throats, so imagine what’s going to happen with chickens.
Finally, since the enforcement of a chicken bylaw would be complaint-based, how many more city staff will have to be hired to handle chicken complaints between neighbours, if this turns into a city-wide program? Anyone?
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/236321
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"dataset": "gair-prox/c4-pro",
"token_count": 499
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Healthy cows are happy cows and we know that their quality of life directly impacts the quality and taste of their milk. The cows that are raised on our family farms have a good life: fine weather and open pasture with plenty of walking area, a diet of fresh grass, hay and grains, and clean bedding when they go to sleep.
In addition to humane feeding and living conditions to sustain health and prevent sickness, our family farms’ cows must not use the growth hormone rBST. This means that our cows lead stress-free lives, naturally producing an abundance of milk that is both healthy and delicious.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/236322
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"token_count": 125
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An integrated geoelectrical and geochemical techniques were used to investigate and delineate different types of groundwater in Kuala Selangor-Batang Berjuntai alluvial aquifer. Previous hydrogeological borehole investigations showed that this aquifer contained several types of groundwater in relation to its salinity. The high salinity of the groundwater in some areas was believed to be due to either saltwater intrusion from the nearby sea or river infiltration during tide season. Both vertical electrical sounding (VES) and 2-D electrical resistivity imaging methods were employed to study and map the subsurface variation of resistivity in the area. For each measurement, a total spread length of 200 m was obtained with vertical depth penetration of about 60 to 100 m. Chemical analysis data of the groundwater samples taken from both shallow and deep boreholes were used in the interpretation of the groundwater interfaces. A total of 45 VES stations were succesfully established along three parallel roads with direction almost perpendicular to the coastal line. The distance between stations vary from 1 - 2 km with a maximum length of about 60 km surveyed line. Results of the vertical electrical soundings and resistivity imaging as well as the chemistry of the groundwater samples showed that groundwater in the study area can be grouped into three types i.e. fresh water (resistivity >100 Ωm.), brackish water (5-100 Ωm.) and salt water (resisitvity <5 Ωm.). The subsurface resistivity sections derived from the VES study suggest that the boundary between fresh and salt water was located between 4 to 8 km from the present coastal line. This result appears to agree well with the groundwater interfaces obtained from the chloride concentration map. Values greater than 300 ppm was considered to be representing zone of brackish water whilst values greater than 800 ppm represents saline water zones.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/236323
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identifies noun-verb violations - Rocks eat!
follows three-step directions - Hang up your jacket, get a book and sit in the reading corner.
Your child's overall social language skills will improve.
He'll use indirect language for requests.
He'll be able to give hints and even tell little jokes!
There may be a speech sound or two that he hasn't quite mastered.
He'll have essentially learned all the rules of the language.
He'll even be able to talk about the language. Vocabulary will continue to expand for years.
He'll continue to learn new and different ways of saying things.
Interested in knowing how far your child has developed his speech skills? Check out any of the earlier stages to compare what she was saying to what she is now!
If you feel that your child’s speech is not where it should be, you might consider talking with a certified speech language pathologist. He or she will be able to help you discern if an assessment and/or speech-language therapy is necessary.
Sometimes discussing your concerns may relieve a bit of your anxiety.
And remember not to wait too long to contact a professional. As time moves forward the language gap between your child and his peers will only continue to get larger.
Help your child gain these skills - because the power of speech lasts a lifetime!
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/236324
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Essentially any water feature is considerd a "Swimming Pool" when it is intended to have people in it. Walking, wading, standing, sitting or swimming in it. (Splash Pad= Swimming Pool, Wading Pool=Swimming Pool) This is also true where a fountain or decorative feature shares the pool water in common, this situation must also use Swimming Pool rated fixtures. Taking this a step further a swimming pool and water feature may physically be separated but connected by their shared water supply via pipe - both areas must use Swimming Pool rated fixtures.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/236328
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"dataset": "gair-prox/c4-pro",
"token_count": 117
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In June, the most recent month for which data are available, personal income in the U.S. increased by half a percentage point to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of nearly $10.3 trillion. Personal spending in June did even better in percentage terms, rising in June to a rate pf $8.7 trillion, eight-tenths of a point higher than in May, the U.S. Commerce Department reported Aug. 2.
Both gains, however, were better than expected. Economists generally expected personal income to rise three-tenths of a percentage point in June and personal consumption expenditures to grow four-tenths of a percent.
The monthly expenditure figure attracts a great deal of attention, since consumer spending accounts for about two-thirds of the $12.2 trillion U.S. economy.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/236329
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"dataset": "gair-prox/c4-pro",
"token_count": 171
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ARAB, Ala. -- Law enforcement officials say gun safety and if you have kids need to go hand in hand.
When Arab Police Assistant Chief Shane Washburn goes home he's got another job: being a dad. He has a son and a small daughter.
Washburn has guns in the home and because of that, when his son was born, he had his share of worries. "What I've done as a parent is I've explained to them about the guns," Washburn said, "I let them know that I lock them up. I let them also know that they are not to touch them. I tell them how dangerous they are."
Chief Ed Ralston says gun-owning parents need to teach that safety to their kids. "The main one is always treat a firearm as it's loaded," Ralston explained, "We see more accidental discharges, I think, in the nation than we should see because parents don't teach kids, and parents don't treat a gun as it's loaded."
"If you've got small kids, you've got to put it away, because curiosity, every time, will get them and they'll want to know what it is, and before you know it you'll have a tragedy on your hands."
Ralston said parents need to keep the gun out of reach, or locked up. "Put it up high, where a child can't climb, in a closet out of the way," Ralston added, "Don't put it in a dresser drawer, don't put it under the bed. Don't leave it laying on the counter. Get it away from that child."
Washburn started teaching his kids about gun safety early on. "You know, this is what Daddy has to use for work. These things are here, secure and locked up, and if you happen to see one around, I would always tell them leave the room and go get an adult."
Ralston said it's important to teach kids a gun shouldn't be pointed at anything you don't want to shoot.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/236332
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"token_count": 429
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The symmetry on the triangular tree(?) is making it look like something artificial. It's better to avoid symmetry with trees like that - trees are only vaguely symmetrical, and they look more natural without symmetry.
The two dithered trees feel rather noisy. Don't forget that black and white are also valid values you can use! Don't be afraid to have solid black and white parts. In those parts where you do mix black and white pixels, I think it might be better to focus on showing clumps of leaves/branches rather than individual leaves. At this scale, tiny details just read like noise.
Pet peeve alert: That's a fir (or maybe a spruce), not a pine. This is a pine.
In any case though, it's still symmetrical. I meant the tree that's not a silhouette, that one was fine. I meant the dithered one that is literally symmetrical, down to the pixel level. The two silhouette trees were fine. Sorry for being unclear before!
Single pixels might sometimes be unavoidable, but noise is always avoidable. If you have pixels that don't read like anything, that's noise, and it doesn't belong. Pixels that read as texture or details are not noise. However, for that to happen, they need context, larger clusters of pixels establishing the context to which those single pixels add texture/detail. If everything is detail, then there's no form, and therefore it doesn't read.
I didn't use any dithering because I feel it's unnecessary at this size, but that's not to say you can't or shouldn't.
I also made that one dithered tree asymmetrical while I was at it.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/236334
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"dataset": "gair-prox/c4-pro",
"token_count": 353
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This study guide provides an introduction to the Buddha's teachings on aging, illness, death, and separation. The passages included here -- all taken from the Pali Canon -- are arranged in five sections.
§ The first section presents medical metaphors for the teaching, showing how the Buddha was like a doctor and how his teaching is like a course of therapy offering a cure for the great dangers in life.
§ The second section diagnoses the problems of aging, illness, death, and separation. This section touches briefly on the Buddha's central teaching, the four noble truths. For more information on this subject, see The Path to Freedom and the study guide, The Four Noble Truths.
§ The third section contains passages that use aging, illness, death, and separation, as reminders for diligence in the practice. The central passage here is a set of five recollections, in which recollection of aging, illness, death, and separation form a background for a fifth recollection: the power of one's actions to shape one's experience. In other words, the first four recollections present the dangers of life; the fifth indicates the way in which those dangers may be overcome, through developing skill in one's own thoughts, words, and deeds. Useful articles to read in conjunction with this section are Affirming the Truths of the Heart, Karma, and The Road to Nirvana is Paved with Skillful Intentions.
§ The fourth section contains passages that give specific advice on how to deal with problems of aging, etc. The Buddha's teachings on kamma provide an important underpinning for how problems of pain and illness are approached in this section. Given the fact that the experience of the present moment is shaped both by past and by present intentions, it is possible that -- if an illness is the result of present intentions -- a change of mind can effect a cure in the illness; but if the illness is the result of past intentions, a change of mind may have no effect on the illness but can at least protect the mind from being adversely affected by it. Thus some of the passages focus how practicing the Dhamma can cure a person of illness, whereas others focus on how the Dhamma can ensure that, even though a person may die from an illness, the illness will make no inroads on the mind.
§ The fifth section gives examples of how the Buddha and his disciples skillfully negotiated the problems of aging, illness, death, and separation.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/236337
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"dataset": "gair-prox/c4-pro",
"token_count": 497
}
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In 'Bearbrass', Robyn Annear resurrects the village that was early Melbourne - from the arrival of white settlers in 1835 until the first gold rushes shook the town - and brings it to life in vivid colour.
Bearbrass was one of the local names by which early Melbourne was known and Annear provides a fascinating living portrait of the street life of this town.
Robyn Annear uses her knowledge of the buildings and streets of Melbourne and a good imagination to weave stories about the early citizens of Port Phillip.
Bearbrass - Imagining Early Melbourne was written following her involvement in an architectural dig in Melbourne. Intrigued by articles unearthed, she began to create stories around actual or imaginary people to create an impression of what it was like to live in those years after 1835.
One of the articles found on the dig was a bag of bottle stoppers. Stretching her imagination, Robyn concocted a story in which she changed the bag into one of the Guernsey type frocks which John Pascoe Fawkner provided for his field workers, and the stoppers she changed into the cat owned by Mary Gilbert, one of the first white women to live in the Port Phillip District. We are invited to imagine that Mary Gilbert's cat had died after a fight with a possum and was buried, wrapped in one of Fawkner's frocks.
Also see Whelan the Wrecker's Melbourne also by Robyn Annear.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/236339
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"token_count": 303
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Have you ever wondered what sunrise looks like from low Earth orbit? Tim Peake has you covered.
The British astronaut uploaded the photo above to Facebook an hour ago with a simple caption: “Morning sunrise from the International Space Station, taken with the 800mm lens”.
That an 800mm lens was used to take the photo is somewhat significant in understanding it. Lenses with longer focal lengths are designed to zoom in on distant objects and provide an alternative perspective to more common lenses (18-200mm) and the human eye (45mm for full frame sensors).
Taking a good sunset photo can be difficult, and I imagine taking one from a craft travelling at 7.66 kilometres per second is extra difficult. But had Peake missed this one, he would only have had to wait 90 minutes to see another.
Peake is an astronaut and test pilot with the European Space Agency, having been selected in 2009. He started his present tour on the ISS in December and will stay in space for six months.
If six months orbiting in a relatively small space sounds extreme, Peake is used to it: in 2012 he spent 12 days in a NASA research habitat 20 metres under the sea.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/236347
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{
"dataset": "gair-prox/c4-pro",
"token_count": 245
}
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Over the past several decades industrialized fishing practices have decimated fish stocks worldwide. Top-down trophic cascades have occurred within many marine ecosystems as top predators are removed. Numerous regions world wide are being designated as marine park “no-take” zones in order to aid in the recovery of these species and with the hope that surplus population will spillover into unprotected zones..
This study aimed to determine if there were significant differences in abundances of three major families of predatory reef fish (Serranidae, Lutjanidae, and Lethrinidae) between fringing reefs located in four bays of various zones around Magnetic Island, QLD. Data were collected by snorkeling over two 50m transects (width determined by turbidity) four times at each bay from April 19, 2015 to April 30, 2015 and recording any fish observed from the aforementioned families.
One-way analyses of variance and Tukey’s Honest Significant Difference test determined that significant differences only occurred between Geoffrey Bay, a no-take zone, and Nelly Bay, a take zone that allows all fishing except trawling. Geoffrey Bay had significantly higher abundances of Lutjanids (F = 3.57; df = 3, 28; p = 0.026453) and fish overall (F = 3.52; df = 3, 28; p = 0.027817) when data for Lutjanus carponotatus was removed. A marginally significant difference was also found for populations of L. carponotatus alone (F = 2.56; df = 3, 28; p = 0.075029). While not significant, there were also definite trends in the no-take zones having the highest abundances while Nelly Bay always had the lowest or was tied for the lowest. Further studies are needed that improve upon this design, though, through timed swims looking at temporal variations in fish stocks between zones to determine if there is a more significant marine park zone effect.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/236350
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"token_count": 412
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The Field Orientation Principle (FOP) constitutes a fundamental concept behind the modern technology of high-performance, vector-controlled drive systems with AC motors. The recent intense interest in these systems has been spawned by the widespread transition from DC to AC drives in industry. Induction motors, industry's traditional workhorses, are particularly well suited for FOP-based vector control.
The Field Orientation Principle in Control of Induction Motors presents the FOP in a simple, easy-to-understand framework based on the space-vector dynamic model of the induction machine. Relationships between the classic phasor equivalent circuits of the motor and their vector counterparts are highlighted. A step-by-step derivation of dynamic equations of the motor provides a formal background for explanation of the basic approaches to vector control. In addition, the author presents scalar control methods for low-performance drives as an intermediate stage between uncontrolled and high-performance drives.
The reader will also find a full chapter devoted to power inverters, which constitute an important component of adjustable speed AC drive systems, and a review of associated issues such as observers of motor variables, parameter estimation, adaptive tuning, and principles of the position and speed control of field-oriented induction motors.
With a wealth of numerical examples and computer simulations illustrating the ideas and techniques discussed and an extensive bibliography, The Field Orientation Principle in Control of Induction Motors is a practical resource and valuable reference for researchers and students interested in motor control, power and industrial electronics, and control theory.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/236351
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"token_count": 310
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Researcher Adrienne C. Scheck, PhD, and her team at the Barrow Neuro-Oncology Research Laboratory in Phoenix Arizona, have uncovered some interesting qualities of the ketogenic diet.
In an article titled, “Fighting Cancer with Fats,” Scheck explains how the production of reactive oxygen species (free radicals) is reduced in tumor tissue when ketone bodies are present, altering the metabolism of the tumor, potentially enhancing the effectiveness of other treatments.
Dr. Scheck explains her team’s findings.
“Reactive oxygen species are created during normal cellular metabolism and are important in the control of many aspects of cell growth—too many or too few are bad for the cell,” says Dr. Scheck. “The metabolism of tumors is higher than that of normal tissue—a feature that may allow them to adapt to increases in reactive oxygen species and contribute to their resistance against chemotherapy.
The results of Dr. Scheck’s latest study also suggest that the diet affects gene expression in tumor cells. “We are seeing that the genetic profile of the tumor cells exposed to ketone bodies is shoved more toward the gene expression of normal cells,” says Dr. Scheck. How the above mechanisms work together to slow cancer growth is not yet clearly defined, but the results of their combined action are reason to take notice. Dr. Scheck’s team reports that a ketogenic diet, combined with traditional therapies such as radiation and chemotherapy, has the potential to slow the growth of living cancer cells and significantly increase survival time.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/236354
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"token_count": 325
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As my new ray tracer is spectral I am rewriting some of the basics from scratch including dielectric code. I figured I could cut and paste some stuff out of ancient "ray tracing news" but ran into some problems with normal vectors. So I am re-deriving this for my own benefit.
All renderers have some convention about which way surface normals point and whether that depends on incoming rays. I am a fan of surfaces being boundaries between materials, and a dielectric has a surface normal N pointing to the side with refractive index n. One thing that means is that in the diagram N might be pointing "down" along the dotted line.
Does that formula still work if N points along the dotted line? Happily, yes-- try substituting -N in there and you get a "-" on the N and the dot product and they cancel. Also, D need not be a unit vector. I rarely require that in my ray tracers so I can use instancing if I want. N however does need to be a unit vector.
We know s'/s = n'/n.
We also know c' = sqrt(1-s'^2) = sqrt(1 - (n/n')^2 (1-c^2) ).
Well isn't that annoying? That sign difference is just sgn(dot(D, N)). I never know how to best code that sort of thing, but when in doubt, be very readable!
Heh, I of course like seeing that the Ray Tracing News is a source for this bit of info. That's both great and sad - I would have hoped by now there would have been some grad student who got possessed by the ray tracing bug and scrawled all these sorts of bits (how to form a camera matrix, what the center of a pixel is labeled, reflection and refraction formulae, etc.) and put them on a nice web page somewhere.
I was surprised Phil Dutre's old document doesn't have this vector formula. Morgan McGuire's Graphics Codex might well have it, , but drat he's making dozens of dollars off it and flying around in his sky-yacht with the earnings.
Shouldn't it be: n/n', because of n*sin(theta) = n'*sin(theta'), sin(theta') = (n/n')sin(theta)?
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/236355
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Edwin Willard Deming (1860 - 1942) was born in Ashland, Ohio. He grew up on the American frontier and became aquatinted with and made friends of Indians at an early age. In 1883 he went to the Art Students League in New York to study. The following year he traveled to Paris and enrolled in the Academie Julian where he studied painting and sculpture. Deming returned to the United States in 1885 and went to the Far West to be among the Indians and to paint them. He and his bride spent their honeymoon camping among the Navaho, Zuni, and Hopi tribes of the South West. This inspired his wife to write eleven books on Indian life and lore. Even though Deming spent most of his life in New York City he would return to visit the Indians of the United States, Mexico, and Canada, so much so that he and his entire family were adopted by the Blackfoot Tribe. Most of Deming's bronze sculpture was done between 1905 and 1910 and were cast by the Roman Bronze Works in New York City.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/236356
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When it comes to depression, most people have an idea of what the condition consists of but do not truly understand what having depression means. By learning the basics of depression, adults can determine if they need to seek a diagnosis or find help for loved ones who may be affected by the condition.
Everyone can feel sad or down and out from time to time. These feelings usually pass. However, for some people, they do not. Depression is a mood disorder that can cause symptoms that affect the way you feel and think as well as how you go about your daily activities. You may have trouble sleeping, eating, working or socializing with others. For depression to be diagnosed, you must have symptoms that are present for more than a two-week time frame and symptoms that take place almost every day for nearly all of the day.
There are several forms of depression, but two common forms that are the most frequently diagnosed. These are Major Depression and Persistent Depressive Disorder. With Major Depression, an individual will have symptoms of depression for most of the day, every day for two weeks or more. Daily activities like sleeping, eating or going to work are affected.
With Persistent Depressive Disorder, symptoms will last for two years or longer. A person diagnosed with this form of depression can have episodes of major depression as well as times when the symptoms are less severe.
When you feel that you might be suffering from depression, it is essential that you understand the signs. Symptoms will vary depending on the individual, but there are common signs that are seen among those diagnosed with some form of depression.
If you have any of these symptoms, it is important to be evaluated by a physician. Once diagnosed, you can begin treatment in order to feel better. With a variety of treatment types available, there are a number of methods you can try to combat depression including counseling, medication, meditation or alternative methods like Clear Mind Neurofeedback or Matrix Regeneration Therapy. Being diagnosed is the first step to relieving feelings of depression.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/236360
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Schweitzer even says it is close to becoming laws of physics; the more moral and social deterioration a community has, the further the fall in renaissance ethics of mutual trust, willingness to sacrifice, and work together.
The analysis examined the time to a first clinically important deterioration which was determined by the occurrence of any of the following events: A decrease in lung function of ?
The point, which was missed, is in the degree of deterioration that the aggressive water causes to plastering mixes compared with balanced water under identical conditions.
On the other hand, a simple blood test indicative of ongoing organic brain damage could be more sensitive than a decrease in Glasgow Coma Score or an increase in intracranial pressure in ventilated patients for early detection of postcraniotomy deterioration of preexisting PTVE or the development of edema or hematoma (as a consequence of surgical trauma).
If left uncorrected, these potential weaknesses may result in deterioration of the repayment prospects for the asset or in the institution's credit position at some future date.
This study will deal both with the well being of the older person and with the prevention of urban deterioration.
Along with the increasing fineness in minimum dimensions of LSI devices, operation failure due to deterioration of signal quality is becoming a critical problem.
Participants were categorized according to whether they reported improvement, deterioration or no change in either of two types of premenstrual mood symptoms-tension and irritability, and moods swings and depression--after they started using the pill.
The remediation only restored value to the property that had existed before the deterioration began.
SOME WHERE AROUND the middle of the winter, "the deterioration of the fundamentals in basketball" became a favorite topic of the gurus of the press and networks.
Repairs in the nature of replacements are capitalized, to the extent that they arrest deterioration and appreciably prolong the life of the property.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/236363
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What is the Learning Specialist Team (LST)?
The purpose of the Learning Specialist Team is to work in concert with teachers and families to maximize student growth and achievement, preparing students to reach their full potential. The Learning Specialist Team supports professional development for new and veteran teachers regarding learning styles and classroom instruction.
One of the most important functions of the Learning Specialist Team is to help teachers provide differentiated instruction within the classroom. The team members and classroom teachers work in small groups on various levels with distinct goals in mind. These goals are established by the teacher and reviewed with the Learning Specialist Team member, keeping in mind the students’ academic abilities and needs. The primary role is to support and enhance the educational process of our students, this can look different year to year contingent upon grade level needs.
Additional individualized instruction is available as recommended for students. This can be during the school day, if necessary and after or before school for tutoring.
provides appropriate accommodations as recommended by a professional.
We have a contracted speech therapist who can provide evaluations and recommended speech therapy.
Tutoring also falls under the umbrella of the Learning Specialist Team. Any requests for tutoring are coordianted with the Director of the Learning Specialist Team.
“St Mark’s commitment to having teachers trained in specialized learning processes has helped my children and many other students at our school. I cannot stress enough how appreciative my husband and I am for having this program available in our school.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/236365
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In the third year of Earth Hour, it was time to turn the symbol of switching off the lights into real action against global warming. In December 2009, world leaders will meet in Copenhagen to determine if policies are made to take action against global warming. We targeted this meeting as a critical opportunity for people of the world to make their voice heard. To unite the world to take action, we transformed the light switch into a vote, and held an election between Earth and Global Warming. Over 4000 cities in 88 countries voted by switching off their lights.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/236366
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July 3, 2013 -- An American doctor arrived in Vietnam carrying an unlikely piece of luggage: the bones of an arm he amputated in 1966.
It had taken a little luck for Axelrad to reunite Hung with his amputated arm. He traveled to Vietnam last summer – partly for vacation, but also to try to find the man.
Hung served Axelrad and his family lunch, shared memories and reflected on all the time that had passed.
xelrad said he was pleased to learn where and how Hung had been living for so many years, and to meet his children and grandchildren.
The Vietnam War was a long, costly armed conflict that pitted the communist regime of North Vietnam and its southern allies, known as the Viet Cong, against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. The war began in 1950 by the French who exited in 1954 (though conflict in the region stretched back to the mid-1940s). After the rise to power of Ho Chi Minh and his communist Viet Minh party in North Vietnam, the fighting continued against the backdrop of an intense Cold War between two global superpowers: the United States and the Soviet Union.
More than 3 million people (including 58,000 Americans) were killed in the Vietnam War; more than half were Vietnamese civilians. By 1969, at the peak of U.S. involvement in the war, more than 500,000 U.S. military personnel were involved in the Vietnam conflict. Growing opposition to the war in the United States led to bitter divisions among Americans, both before and after President Richard Nixon ordered the withdrawal of U.S. forces in 1973. In 1975, communist forces seized control of Saigon, ending the Vietnam War, and the country was unified as the Socialist Republic of Vietnam the following year.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/236369
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The new compound, thiourethane, could soon become the standard filling material for cavities and are expected to be as strong and long-lasting as amalgam.
Dental authorities around the world have quietly dropped amalgam after concerns that dentists could face legal claims from patients who have suffered poor health—or worse—after having the fillings. Dentists were barred from using amalgam on pregnant women, but many critics believe that the vapours from the fillings have the potential to affect anyone.
Researchers at the OHSU School of Dentistry in Oregon have been developing the new compound together with a new, and stronger, adhesive.
The resin compounds that have replaced amalgam last for only between seven to 10 years, and they can crack when people chew.
But what's not known is the safety of thiourethane and its long-term impact on health.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/236375
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W.H. Auden is a Greek poet, at least when it comes to nature. No, I don’t mean that he is all about olive trees and white sand beaches: I mean there is something fundamentally classical in his attitude toward the natural world, something that puts him at odds with the two dominant modes of nature poetry of our time—something that, indeed, casts light on the outlines of those norms.
There are moments in our life, when we dedicate a kind of love and touching respect to nature in its plants, minerals, animals, landscapes . . . not because it is pleasing to our senses, not even because it satisfies our understanding or taste . . . but rather merely because it is nature.Every fine man, who does not altogether lack feeling, experiences this, when he walks in the open, when he lives upon the land . . . in short, when he is surprised in artificial relations and situations with the sight of simple nature.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/236377
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Understanding that fatigue is the major cause of human error and that it takes the body’s biological clock one day to adjust for each time zone traveled, I developed this reference sheet to help professional baseball players and staff transition faster to and from road trips from the Eastern to Western (3-hour difference) and Mountain (2-hour difference) time zones. Practical experience and clinical research indicate that the human body performs best between the 6:00 to 9:00 pm period of its normal biological clock. The following information should help provide faster transitions to new time zones and reduce the risk of mental and physical fatigue during games.
1. Stay up later than normal so your body will sleep in longer (but still get up in time to eat). If you go to bed at mid-night in Pittsburgh, go to bed at mid-night on the West Coast.
2. Take a nap before you go to the ball park.
a. Nap for 15-20 min if you are able to sleep in later than usual.
b. Nap for 90 min if you wake up at your normal EST time.
1. Light: Make room as dark as possible, wear sleep blinders/mask.
2. Noise: Use ear plugs, place a towel under the door, silence your cell phone, and/or use fan/air filter.
3. Temperature: Cooler temperatures (65-68 degrees) are best for sleep. Use a fan for air flow and blankets if you need to get warmer.
4. Bedding: Make sure your room has a comfortable mattress with proper support and travel with your pillow from home.
a. Nap for 2-3 hours after the “red-eye” flight home.
b. Don’t sleep too long or else it will be difficult to sleep later that night.
c. Get exposure to bright light during the day.
d. Plan light activities for the afternoon.
e. Try to go to bed around your normal bedtime.
a. Try to stay awake all day and retire at your normal bedtime.
b. Eat breakfast to provide energy for the day.
c. Avoid both overly strenuous and overly sedentary activities.
d. Minimize driving if you can.
e. Take 10-20 minute naps if you are feeling overly tired during the day.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/236378
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